July 9, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the top 10 “friendliest cities in America” … PLUS – Thoughts on LA Metro’s claim that riders want “improved cleanliness” over “more money spent on policing” AND a woman who last her arm after she was hit by a passing train - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Kaf I am six forty. It's another edition of Later
with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We have a wonderful show.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I know a lot of times we may say that,
but tonight I absolutely mean it. If you're a fan
of Fox News, I know that you heard what the
Five had to say about the new movie Superman and
how it is woke.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
There is a better show in all of talk radio
to address Superman. It's history, both in the comics and
on the silver screen and even the small screen television shows.
I don't know if there's a show which knows Superman
better than this one. So we're going to get into
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the facts and separate it from the fiction of what
that character created back I think in nineteen nineteen thirty eight,
if I'm not mistaken, and it's history and whether Fox
got it right or really really really wrong. And let
me give you a hint, they have no idea what
they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
None. And so before you.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Come at us talking about well, well, well nope, nope, no,
you are not Superman experts like this show. You're just
going to have to take our word for but we'll
have plenty of facts to back up what we have
to say.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We're also going to tell.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You about the friendliest cities in America top ten ranked.
Maybe there's a California entrant in La Metro users, I'm
calling fake news on this. Supposedly after some survey, they
want increased frequency and improve cleanliness and less money spent
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on policing. Wink wink, Yes, I want to clean train
when I get stabbed.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And also a woman loses her arm after a collision
with an oncoming train inventory County. Well, she could have
lost her life, but you know she only lost her arms.
She got off easy. And uh yeah, yeah, it's going
to be going down tonight. And I cannot wait for
this Superman conversation because not often do you have a
(02:29):
story which is just perfect for you.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Twala had put something else in the slot.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I said, no, no, no, no, no no, we're talking about
Superman and we're gonna do it live.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
We're to talk about Superman.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We're even going to involve Mark Runner, who has written
comics before. We have Taualla Sharp has collected comics most
of his life. And there's me, I just know a
lot about Superman. Mark Roner, how many comics you think
you've written in your lifetime.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I actually don't have a count, but lots lots O
you kind of know something about the subject. Oh, I've
been a comic reader long before I was a comic writer,
ever since I was a kid. I mean, those are
what teach you how to read, and you stay with
him your whole life.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I still have all my comics, and I'll be honest
with you.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It took me a while to become a Superman fan
because I was a Batman fan growing up.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
But then you kind of learn to.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Be less uptight as you get older and realized that
Superman is about kindness and decency and their tall tales
and not everything has to be some dark story about
people getting punched in the face.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I was not a Superman quote unquote fan. I liked him,
but I did not gravitate towards a character, if only
because I couldn't identify with him.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I'll give you a perfect example.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I could identify with Spider Man, and that's who I
grew up loving. The nerd who was in high school,
who was afraid to talk to girls. That was closer
to me in my experience than some guy who landed
in Kansas and all all of a sudden, no one
could look at him and realize that he wasn't even
from the planet. I went to school, and I stuck
out because everyone knew I wasn't from the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I was growing up in Harbor City, but going to
school in Torrents. I was one of maybe five black
students in the Torrents Unified School District at the time,
in nineteen seventy three. So I could not relate to Superman,
who could just blend.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
In and you were leaking web fluid everywhere. No, I
wasn't leaking web fluid. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I did try to use my chemistry set growing up.
It was a very rudimentary set to make some web fluid.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
How'd that go? It didn't work. You know, that's the
secret of Marvel. When Marvel came around in the early sixties,
they humanized all their characters and gave him normal people problems,
which DC really didn't have. DC's were much more godlike,
right right, It's hard to relate to Batman because no
one would. For the most part, was extremely wealthy. You
couldn't relate to Wonder Woman because we're Semaskira. You know,
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there were no analogs, if you will, just walking around
or someone you could base that on. And the same
obviously with Superman, it's okay, Kryptonite, that's it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That's it, that's all he has to worry about. Well
and magic.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
But once you get your keys to Superman, it all
makes sense and they're not as ridiculous. And let me
recommend to everybody who's never read it, Grant Morrison's All
Star Superman probably one of the best Superman stories ever written.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So yes, we are going to talk about Superman. You
have James Gunn his movie, which is officially coming out
on the eleventh. They had the world premiere last night,
so it's one of the biggest talkers. As they say
in All Talk Radio, we're definitely going to get into that,
but we're going to save it until our number two
when we come back. We're going to tell you about
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the friendliest cities in America, the top ten according to
somebody who really doesn't matter. But it's fine to talk
about be a California entrant or two. So let's talk
about who's friendly and who's a little bit less than Friendly.
KFI AM six forty, It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're
live on YouTube. You can see me right now. You
can see me on Instagram, Facebook, and you can hear
(06:13):
me on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
KFI AM six forty, It's Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
We're live everywhere on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and the iHeartRadio app.
And friendly is relative. I'll be the first to admit
that what I consider friendly, you may not consider friendly.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And I'll give you a perfect example.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
When you're walking down the street, do you avoid eye
contact with someone? Do you say hello? Do you say
good morning? Do you at least offer a smile? Friendliness
means different things to different people. For the most part,
I'm kind of It depends on the environment. If I'm
walking through an urban center, if I'm in the big city,
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I'm probably not speaking to anyone. I'll make eye contact
because i want you to know that I see you
and I'm aware of you.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
But it may not be a conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But you know, if it's in a I don't know,
a grocery store, you make eye contact with somebody, I'll
say good morning.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Hello, that kind of thing. That's me.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Other people they want no parts of that. They want
no interaction. They don't want to say hello, they don't
want to make eye contact. And you know, I get it,
I get it. Me depends on the moment. But I
live in La. I don't know if LA's on this list.
And to figure out this is for according to Yuzu,
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a dating app, and to figure out which spots will
flash you a smile the fastest, the team asked its
users to rate just how friendly they think their home
city is, including factors like the frequency of positive interactions
with strangers just like I was telling you about, the
likelihood of receiving help when needed, and the overall friendliness
of local residence, all ranking them on a one to
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ten scale. The insights for each factor were combined to
produce each city's final score out of ten, which the
team said blended quote quantifiable data with the lived experiences
of locals close quote. Put another way, here's the top
ten friendliest cities in America, and it means absolutely nothing.
Coming in at number ten, Denver, Colorado, I think I've
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been there twice. Nothing bad to say about Denver, it
was all right.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Number nine.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well, according to this, it says mahaig greetings and a
community minded spirit, keep Denver feeling personal. Number nine Minneapolis,
Saint Paul. I've been there, lakeside serenity and genuine Midwest warmth.
What's not to love? I'll tell you what's not to love.
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The freaking cold weather That mother father is cold. Have
you ever been there in.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Like the winter?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I've been like the Madison, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Minneapolis in the winter,
the Midwest, there's plenty to not love about it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And I know, you know, Mark Runner, Well, people are
friendlier there because they need each other's bodily warmth to survive.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I was in Wisconsin one year and I was staying
with a friend and I went I got up early
in the morning and went to use the restroom, and
she said, hold on, hold on, hold on. She'd been
boiling some water. I thought it was for some coffee
or tea or something. No, no, no, no, no, no, you
have to you have to thaw off the toilet because
right now it's all frozen. And I'm like, you mean
you mean the water in the bowl. She said, yeah,
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if you go in there, it's just gonna be ice. Yeah,
I can't live like that. I never have and I
never will.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Coming here at number eight of the friendliest cities in America, Hey, Stefan,
do you know the way to San Jose, Baby Sunnyvale
and Santa Clara, It says tech optimism some pairs with
friendly neighborhoods, making this innovation hub surprisingly down to Earth.
Coming in in number seven, Boston Cambridge, Newton, Massachusetts. Rich
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in history and neighborhood camaraderie, Bostonians prove that wicked friendly
is a real thing. I've never heard that about Boston
in my life.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Never.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I've never been there, so I can't say firsthand, but
I've never heard that Boston was a friendly city.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
This list is already SUS number six Honolulu, Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The Loha spirit in action island kindness that welcomes with
you with open arms, no matter where you're from. I
actually haven't been to Hawaii either, but I'll believe it.
I'll take it, I'll allow it. That's number six, coming
in at number five of the friendliest cities in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
According to using.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Houston, Texas, Big Hearted Texas Hospitality, world class dining and
a multicultural flair that brings people together. I've been there
a few times. I don't think it was overly friendly,
but they did have a lot of Southern charm when
I went Okay, yeah, I've been there a few times,
jump out of me. Even the rap block Crew. They
were very hospitable. Yeah, you know what they do for
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a living, right, Yes, okay, and that's why I said
they were very hospitable.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yes, we'll tell you about that some other time.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Number four of the friendliest cities in the United States, Miami,
Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach. To just push them all together,
a tropical blend of cultures and colors were friendly waves
and ola ring through the balmy air. I like Miami.
I don't remember it as being friendly, just a great
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place to party.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I think the heat and the humidity would make me
cranky constantly. And I'm not buying this.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Time out there.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yeah, I mean you're you're you're waving and saying hello
to almost everything that walks by.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Hey, Hey, hello, Hey, I see you. I have how
you doing.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, I've never seen more beautiful women in my life.
In one small enclosed area.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Called South Beach, so from a Lechery point of view,
it's an okay place to be very friendly, Oka, very friendly.
It drinks all around, flowing, very friendly.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You can't speak about the rest of the city, but
as far as Ocean and Collins Avenue, it.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Could it could have been nuclear waste.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
When you get deeper into the suburbs, we're not talking
about liberty.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Citing no Ah No coming in No.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Number three of the friendliest cities in the United States, Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I know, desert warmth goes beyond temperature. Residents here bringing
uplifting can do spirit to every encounter.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
That's just a.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Lie, okay, no, no, okay. Point of fact, in Phoenix,
almost every citizen I'm talking eight to eighty is walking
around with the side arm on their hip. So I
think that gives everyone reason to be nice and friendly
and cool that it's.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
The same in Dallas and other places I've been in
the South. It doesn't mean that they're friendly. If anything,
they're less friendly. It's almost like confrontational. How does walking
around armed to the teeth count as friendly? It lets
everyone know, hey, we're all on the same page. I
don't not have to worry about anything. You know, I'll
shoot you, You'll shoot me saying hello, good morning, that
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we have an understanding, so let's all be cool. Let's
all be cool. I just I don't interpret that as
being friendly. A little bit of a stretch. There number
two of the friendliest cities in the United States, according
to Raleigh, North Carolina. I was just there.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, it was fine, nothing special.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's definitely a Southern city, and it says southern comfort
meets cutting edge innovation, where warm hellos are as common
as sweet tea. I wouldn't go that far. I don't
think it's like, you know, top ten. I've been to
a lot of cities. I think I've been to maybe
forty States of the fifty and Puerto Rico, but I
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would not. I would not say Raleigh is top ten.
Definitely not number two. That's just me.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
There's bribery involved in this list. It's crooked and coming
in number one.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
The friendliest city in the United States according to this
app that I've never heard of.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
San Diego, California. Believable.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
No, no, it's not, No, it's not I have I
have yet to go down to a comic con where
I thought the city was anywhere near friendly because because
of the price gouging, the gouging and the overall surliness
of people who just seem to dislike all nerd kind.
I mean the businesses. Yeah, they were sucking up the money,
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like Hoover's. But I think just in general, I've never
gotten a hey, we love you, Welcome to San Diego.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
It says breezy beach vibes, surf friendly shores. That's not
true because they don't want you on their beaches. They
don't and locals who are as relaxed as the ocean breeze.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
The locals may be, but that's not that's not friendly.
They relax around each other, around each other. Yeah, they
see you. What are you doing here? And I'm mad
that Louisiana is not on this because I swear the
dog in the top three, I would say top three
because hands down the friendliest. I'm talking for I'm talking
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every I'm talking in the hotel, going into every restaurant,
and anywhere I went it was hey, sugar, hey.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Baby, Hey what what you need?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I felt everywhere I was going, like I'm like.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
This, it was like that, Yeah, no, you're right.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
During Marti Graus once I had a strange woman on
the street, just attempt to mount me.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Very nice before or after, kind of throughout, very nice.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It doesn't get much friendlier than that. Yeah, yeah, friendly
and frisky. I got a lot of New Orleans stories
that I just cannot tell on the air. I just
cannot some great stories, and they led to the bane
of my existence. I'm sorry, Carnelia, do not date a
woman from New Orleans especial creole one.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Okay, okay, okay, that's the fact. That's the fact.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
But but but but weren't you lured in by that
sweeter than the honey, nicest of that creole gal.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It looked all good at at the moment.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It was one of those loved first sight things until
I realized it was Damien and three and.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Next thing you knew you would never eat up play
the spaghetti again without without I refuse.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
To go back to New Orleans because of this one
person who shall remain nameless. We're gonna need some details. No,
you could need all you want. Okay, this is LA.
We're not a friendly city. Ky if I am forty,
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. When we come back,
we have a Metro update and they're live. It's another liar, liar.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
k IF. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I never standing across for me?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Next to me? Can't?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I am six forty years later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And I'm telling you right now, it's fake news. It's
not real. Somebody's lying. We've seen press conference after press
conference after press conference, and let me ask you, what
was the number one issue that they discussed at the
press conferences regarding Eli Metro.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Anyone, anyone, Bueller bueller? Safety?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
That's right, that was the number one issue. This was
family few to be number one on the board and
we'd play No One. Yes, we were concerned about cleanliness,
how unsanitary it was, how you might not be able
to get from one place to another, like the airport.
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But everyone knows the top issue has always been safety.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Or lack thereof. LA Metro thinks that we're done. They
want to play us a fool.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
According to responses collected on their annual My Metro Budget,
the interactive online tool. In other words, we asked ourselves
what is most important? And it came back with rider feedback,
wink wink, and it said that LA Metro users want
increased frequency and improved cleanliness and less money spent on.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Policing. Who would say that? Who would say less?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We don't care about money spent or how it's spent.
We want it safe, we want it clean, and we
wanted it in that order, safety more than anything.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
They were not on.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
TV talking about how safe it was, arguing against people
like me by themselves, they felt compelled to respond to
the negative feedback in the criticism I and others were
offering regarding the lack of safety. Every time someone got shanked,
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we told you about it. Every time someone got killed,
we told you about it. Every time something bad physically
happened to a writer on a bus, on a platform,
on a train, we told you about it. How many times, guys,
did we talk about stories about having to do with
cleanliness or infrequency of trains?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Stephan, can you remember a time we ever talked about that?
Not that I can remember, twallet, Can you remember any.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Time when we set time aside to talk about specifically
a story in the news about how Metro was just nasty.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
No, that's never been the focus.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Mark Ronner, do you ever remember talking about a story
in the news break on CAFI which was centered around
the unsanitary nature of Metro.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I feel like I shouldn't answer your questions your honor,
Matt permission to treat this witness. I feel like I'm
being backed into a corner here. Uh, your honor compel
the witness answer. Uh, I'm just going to issue a blanket.
I don't recall. Okay, that's fair enough, don't recall.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
But we're supposed to believe that the people who responded
to their tool that they put up there what they
would want improved on Metro said that they wanted an
increased frequency of trains and cleaner trains, but specifically said
less spent on policing.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I don't believe that.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
You know how how lives sound like this?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Right?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
For instance, right.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
When someone is lying and they know they've committed this
heinous thing that's unforgiven, they will start off with some
lesser things, like if I broke into your house, they
would say something like, uh, you know, Mo, you know
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your your house, you know looks really nice. I mean,
you know your neighborhood is really secure. I would never
break into your house, And you're.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Like, who was talking about that? Who's anything about breaking
to the house?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And you know something else, when you're making suggestions for
a company, Let's say you have like you go to
a hotel and they have the suggestions box.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
You don't make any budget suggestions. You don't do that.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You would say, hey, the lobby needs to be reconfigured,
or you know, we need a better place where we
can hang out or leave our luggage. But you don't say,
I think this hotel should spend less money on housekeeping.
This is what they're trying to say. They're saying that
people who gave their feedback said that Metro should spend
less on policing. No, they didn't know. They didn't. If
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it was not an issue, they wouldn't bring it up.
They wouldn't say, you know that line item for that
Metro police force that mo' kelly's been talking about.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You know, you don't need to spend that much money there.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Even this headline is written like it's in re like
it's being said to you, mo kelly. It's almost like, oh,
you know, hey, mo kelly, you know what it is?
La Metro users want to increase frequency and improve cleanliness,
less spent on policing.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
They're trying to make the brother look bad. That's what
it comes down to.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They want to make it look like I don't know
what the people want. I don't know what's really going
on at Metro. You have Mo Kelly out there on
CAFI talking about we need to have a safer trade,
we need to spend money on a Metro transit authority,
police department, and here he's wrong. We got the proof,
we have the data. People want cleaner trains, not safer trains.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Love excuse me, excuse me, excuse.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Me, fake news, Thank you, Jamie, Jmie Trump, damn you, Steven.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I love it when you refer to yourself in the
third person. By the way, if you could do that
more often, that'd be great. I'm sure Mo Kelly can
Mark Ronner loves it. K if I a six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Will we come back?
We're gonna go from train to another train. But this, unfortunately,
is about a woman who lost her arm after a
collision with an oncoming train.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
If that's the worst that happened, she got off easy.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (24:38):
Kelly six Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
I've always lived close to train tracks, both commercial and industrial. Commercial, like,
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you'll see the Amtrak go by the industrial. You'll see
the different cars go by the they're obviously transporting goods
and that kind of thing. You can tell about how
fast they do or don't go. Amtrak is usually faster,
so I will say that, but you can always see
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them coming. There is a crossing. You know they're not
gonna sneak up on you. You have to go out
of your way to do something stupid to be hit
by train, you really do. A woman was hit and
seriously injured yesterday by an Amtrak train Monday evening in
Ventura and it severed her arm. It happened around five
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twenty five pm yesterday, So we're saying broad daylight. It's
not even close to the sun going down. There's no
way the Amtrak should sneak up on anybody. And it
happened at a railroad over crossing Okay Seaward Avenue. Twenty
four year old woman was believed to be carrying a
bicycle in one arm as she crossed the train tracks
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near an oncoming southbound train. Great visibility from what I understand,
holding a bicycle. Why she chose not to ride the
bike across the tracks, which would have been faster, I
don't know why she chose to cross the tracks.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
At all with an oncoming train. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
There probably was a signal that had already been lit,
because that's what traffic signals do. They let you know
that a train is coming, and there's usually like a
bell ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding, you know,
train coming. I don't know why all that was likely ignored.
Quote the train struck the bicycle while it was still
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in her gap a grasp, resulting in the traumatic injury.
It appears the bicycle may have become stuck on the
tracks just before the collision occurred.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well, you're gonna have to let that bike go. You
have to let the bike go if it's stuck.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It almost like something out of a movie, like you're
trying to run across the tracks Jason or I don't know,
Freddy is chasing you and your foot gets caught in
the tracks. Gotta leave that person behind. Look, you have
to choose your battles. Are you going to try to
save the bike or you're gonna try to save yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I would try to save myself. If Mark fell down.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
If Stefan got his foot caught in the tracks, I
don't know. It just might be, you know, survival of
the fittest, and that would be you the fittest. Well,
if you're the one who got stuck and I didn't,
that's probably how it played out.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I see, Well, that's heartwarming. Thank you for that. Well,
at least I'm honest.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I'll let you know up front if in the event
that we find ourselves in a similar situation where you
are stuck in a railroad track and there's an oncoming train,
don't look to me to extricate you.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
No, Listen, I've got the fear of God in me
from my very first newspaper job, having covered lots of
train accidents, car train, human train. If this woman only
lost an arm and wasn't reduced to raspberry preserves, she
got off lucky. Like you said, I've covered lots of
these things. As young cub reporter.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Mark. We're doing third person again.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
And they're horrifying, and they mostly are a result of
people being impatient, right and not wanting to wait, thinking
they can race across, not sometimes realizing they're two coming
from opposite directions. These things are horrifying.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I have never in my life, and I can honestly say,
I have never in my life even thought about racing
a train or beating a train at a crossing, not walking,
not driving, not bicycling. And I say that because growing
up in Torrents there is a train track which runs
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almost like diagonal through the city of Torrents. It's like
Supulvida and Western and you get caught by the same
train two or three different times. There were always opportunities
for me to put that to the test, either riding
my bike or driving a car.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Never ever have I done it.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And then when I was riding the subway, I would
say there are three or four instances in which either
there was a car or a person on the tracks
who had gotten hit and then delayed my train for
an hour or two.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
It's something I just can't understand.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Why would you even put yourself on the tracks at
any time there is a signal, and if you're walking
at a place where there isn't a signal.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Well, well, damn, I can't help you. It doesn't take a.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Genius to figure out that you probably shouldn't be in
the way of a train. And the thing is, there
are movies like I don't know to Live and Die
in La or Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry where people
do race train, but in real life the train always wins.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Every single time. And this is something I do hear
from people. They expect a train to either be able
to slow down or stop. No, that's impossible. They're not
even gonna try and risk a derailment. I'd like to
introduce you to physics. It doesn't work, and object in
motion tends to stay in motion, especially if it's I
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don't know, are four hundred and fifty tons or however
much it weighs traveling at sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, a locomotive with multiple, multiple heavy.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Cars it's pulling. It doesn't stop like your Honda.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Okay, no it doesn't, and you're gonna lose every single time.
I've never I've done some stupid stuff in my life,
and I've done I mean a lot. There are things
which yes, could have gotten me killed, Yes, would have
put me in jail. But trains is something I never
mess with, maybe because they were ever present in the
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South Bay, and they were ever present in other places
that I live, like in West LA.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
So there are always these opportunities.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
To see in a real sense how fast and how
quickly the train will approach. After the arm comes down.
You may think you have time to beat it, but
you really don't. And that's not a game you want
to play. That's not a game of chicken you ever
want to play. No, you don't want to make that bad.
There's nothing that you're doing that is so urgent that
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you can't wait for the train just to go, no
matter how long the train is right, and I know
sometimes the train can you could be stuck in a
light I know this one at Supulvida and Western in Torrents.
You could be stuck there for literally thirty minutes. Thirty minutes.
So I understand the urge and the desire, but it
is not worth killing you and possibly someone else if
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you bounce off the train and Koreene into someone else's car.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Now that's thirty minutes longer you get to live. It's
a good way to look at it. It's later with
Mo Kelly k if I AM six forty. We're live
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Speaker 4 (32:01):
I and kost H D two, Los Angeles, Orange County
more stimulating talk
Kaf I am six forty. It's another edition of Later
with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We have a wonderful show.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I know a lot of times we may say that,
but tonight I absolutely mean it. If you're a fan
of Fox News, I know that you heard what the
Five had to say about the new movie Superman and
how it is woke.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
There is a better show in all of talk radio
to address Superman. It's history, both in the comics and
on the silver screen and even the small screen television shows.
I don't know if there's a show which knows Superman
better than this one. So we're going to get into
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the facts and separate it from the fiction of what
that character created back I think in nineteen nineteen thirty eight,
if I'm not mistaken, and it's history and whether Fox
got it right or really really really wrong. And let
me give you a hint, they have no idea what
they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
None. And so before you.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Come at us talking about well, well, well nope, nope, no,
you are not Superman experts like this show. You're just
going to have to take our word for but we'll
have plenty of facts to back up what we have
to say.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We're also going to tell.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You about the friendliest cities in America top ten ranked.
Maybe there's a California entrant in La Metro users, I'm
calling fake news on this. Supposedly after some survey, they
want increased frequency and improve cleanliness and less money spent
(01:58):
on policing. Wink wink, Yes, I want to clean train
when I get stabbed.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And also a woman loses her arm after a collision
with an oncoming train inventory County. Well, she could have
lost her life, but you know she only lost her arms.
She got off easy. And uh yeah, yeah, it's going
to be going down tonight. And I cannot wait for
this Superman conversation because not often do you have a
(02:29):
story which is just perfect for you.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Twala had put something else in the slot.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I said, no, no, no, no, no no, we're talking about
Superman and we're gonna do it live.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
We're to talk about Superman.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We're even going to involve Mark Runner, who has written
comics before. We have Taualla Sharp has collected comics most
of his life. And there's me, I just know a
lot about Superman. Mark Roner, how many comics you think
you've written in your lifetime.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I actually don't have a count, but lots lots O
you kind of know something about the subject. Oh, I've
been a comic reader long before I was a comic writer,
ever since I was a kid. I mean, those are
what teach you how to read, and you stay with
him your whole life.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I still have all my comics, and I'll be honest
with you.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It took me a while to become a Superman fan
because I was a Batman fan growing up.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
But then you kind of learn to.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Be less uptight as you get older and realized that
Superman is about kindness and decency and their tall tales
and not everything has to be some dark story about
people getting punched in the face.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I was not a Superman quote unquote fan. I liked him,
but I did not gravitate towards a character, if only
because I couldn't identify with him.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I'll give you a perfect example.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I could identify with Spider Man, and that's who I
grew up loving. The nerd who was in high school,
who was afraid to talk to girls. That was closer
to me in my experience than some guy who landed
in Kansas and all all of a sudden, no one
could look at him and realize that he wasn't even
from the planet. I went to school, and I stuck
out because everyone knew I wasn't from the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I was growing up in Harbor City, but going to
school in Torrents. I was one of maybe five black
students in the Torrents Unified School District at the time,
in nineteen seventy three. So I could not relate to Superman,
who could just blend.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
In and you were leaking web fluid everywhere. No, I
wasn't leaking web fluid. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I did try to use my chemistry set growing up.
It was a very rudimentary set to make some web fluid.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
How'd that go? It didn't work. You know, that's the
secret of Marvel. When Marvel came around in the early sixties,
they humanized all their characters and gave him normal people problems,
which DC really didn't have. DC's were much more godlike,
right right, It's hard to relate to Batman because no
one would. For the most part, was extremely wealthy. You
couldn't relate to Wonder Woman because we're Semaskira. You know,
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there were no analogs, if you will, just walking around
or someone you could base that on. And the same
obviously with Superman, it's okay, Kryptonite, that's it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That's it, that's all he has to worry about. Well
and magic.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
But once you get your keys to Superman, it all
makes sense and they're not as ridiculous. And let me
recommend to everybody who's never read it, Grant Morrison's All
Star Superman probably one of the best Superman stories ever written.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So yes, we are going to talk about Superman. You
have James Gunn his movie, which is officially coming out
on the eleventh. They had the world premiere last night,
so it's one of the biggest talkers. As they say
in All Talk Radio, we're definitely going to get into that,
but we're going to save it until our number two
when we come back. We're going to tell you about
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the friendliest cities in America, the top ten according to
somebody who really doesn't matter. But it's fine to talk
about be a California entrant or two. So let's talk
about who's friendly and who's a little bit less than Friendly.
KFI AM six forty, It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're
live on YouTube. You can see me right now. You
can see me on Instagram, Facebook, and you can hear
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me on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
KFI AM six forty, It's Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
We're live everywhere on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and the iHeartRadio app.
And friendly is relative. I'll be the first to admit
that what I consider friendly, you may not consider friendly.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And I'll give you a perfect example.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
When you're walking down the street, do you avoid eye
contact with someone? Do you say hello? Do you say
good morning? Do you at least offer a smile? Friendliness
means different things to different people. For the most part,
I'm kind of It depends on the environment. If I'm
walking through an urban center, if I'm in the big city,
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I'm probably not speaking to anyone. I'll make eye contact
because i want you to know that I see you
and I'm aware of you.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
But it may not be a conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But you know, if it's in a I don't know,
a grocery store, you make eye contact with somebody, I'll
say good morning.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Hello, that kind of thing. That's me.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Other people they want no parts of that. They want
no interaction. They don't want to say hello, they don't
want to make eye contact. And you know, I get it,
I get it. Me depends on the moment. But I
live in La. I don't know if LA's on this list.
And to figure out this is for according to Yuzu,
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a dating app, and to figure out which spots will
flash you a smile the fastest, the team asked its
users to rate just how friendly they think their home
city is, including factors like the frequency of positive interactions
with strangers just like I was telling you about, the
likelihood of receiving help when needed, and the overall friendliness
of local residence, all ranking them on a one to
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ten scale. The insights for each factor were combined to
produce each city's final score out of ten, which the
team said blended quote quantifiable data with the lived experiences
of locals close quote. Put another way, here's the top
ten friendliest cities in America, and it means absolutely nothing.
Coming in at number ten, Denver, Colorado, I think I've
(08:30):
been there twice. Nothing bad to say about Denver, it
was all right.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Number nine.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well, according to this, it says mahaig greetings and a
community minded spirit, keep Denver feeling personal. Number nine Minneapolis,
Saint Paul. I've been there, lakeside serenity and genuine Midwest warmth.
What's not to love? I'll tell you what's not to love.
(08:59):
The freaking cold weather That mother father is cold. Have
you ever been there in.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Like the winter?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I've been like the Madison, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Minneapolis in the winter,
the Midwest, there's plenty to not love about it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And I know, you know, Mark Runner, Well, people are
friendlier there because they need each other's bodily warmth to survive.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I was in Wisconsin one year and I was staying
with a friend and I went I got up early
in the morning and went to use the restroom, and
she said, hold on, hold on, hold on. She'd been
boiling some water. I thought it was for some coffee
or tea or something. No, no, no, no, no, no, you
have to you have to thaw off the toilet because
right now it's all frozen. And I'm like, you mean
you mean the water in the bowl. She said, yeah,
(09:39):
if you go in there, it's just gonna be ice. Yeah,
I can't live like that. I never have and I
never will.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Coming here at number eight of the friendliest cities in America, Hey, Stefan,
do you know the way to San Jose, Baby Sunnyvale
and Santa Clara, It says tech optimism some pairs with
friendly neighborhoods, making this innovation hub surprisingly down to Earth.
Coming in in number seven, Boston Cambridge, Newton, Massachusetts. Rich
(10:17):
in history and neighborhood camaraderie, Bostonians prove that wicked friendly
is a real thing. I've never heard that about Boston
in my life.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Never.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I've never been there, so I can't say firsthand, but
I've never heard that Boston was a friendly city.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
This list is already SUS number six Honolulu, Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The Loha spirit in action island kindness that welcomes with
you with open arms, no matter where you're from. I
actually haven't been to Hawaii either, but I'll believe it.
I'll take it, I'll allow it. That's number six, coming
in at number five of the friendliest cities in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
According to using.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Houston, Texas, Big Hearted Texas Hospitality, world class dining and
a multicultural flair that brings people together. I've been there
a few times. I don't think it was overly friendly,
but they did have a lot of Southern charm when
I went Okay, yeah, I've been there a few times,
jump out of me. Even the rap block Crew. They
were very hospitable. Yeah, you know what they do for
(11:28):
a living, right, Yes, okay, and that's why I said
they were very hospitable.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yes, we'll tell you about that some other time.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Number four of the friendliest cities in the United States, Miami,
Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach. To just push them all together,
a tropical blend of cultures and colors were friendly waves
and ola ring through the balmy air. I like Miami.
I don't remember it as being friendly, just a great
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place to party.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I think the heat and the humidity would make me
cranky constantly. And I'm not buying this.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Time out there.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yeah, I mean you're you're you're waving and saying hello
to almost everything that walks by.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Hey, Hey, hello, Hey, I see you. I have how
you doing.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, I've never seen more beautiful women in my life.
In one small enclosed area.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Called South Beach, so from a Lechery point of view,
it's an okay place to be very friendly, Oka, very friendly.
It drinks all around, flowing, very friendly.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You can't speak about the rest of the city, but
as far as Ocean and Collins Avenue, it.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Could it could have been nuclear waste.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
When you get deeper into the suburbs, we're not talking
about liberty.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Citing no Ah No coming in No.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Number three of the friendliest cities in the United States, Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I know, desert warmth goes beyond temperature. Residents here bringing
uplifting can do spirit to every encounter.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
That's just a.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Lie, okay, no, no, okay. Point of fact, in Phoenix,
almost every citizen I'm talking eight to eighty is walking
around with the side arm on their hip. So I
think that gives everyone reason to be nice and friendly
and cool that it's.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
The same in Dallas and other places I've been in
the South. It doesn't mean that they're friendly. If anything,
they're less friendly. It's almost like confrontational. How does walking
around armed to the teeth count as friendly? It lets
everyone know, hey, we're all on the same page. I
don't not have to worry about anything. You know, I'll
shoot you, You'll shoot me saying hello, good morning, that
(13:46):
we have an understanding, so let's all be cool. Let's
all be cool. I just I don't interpret that as
being friendly. A little bit of a stretch. There number
two of the friendliest cities in the United States, according
to Raleigh, North Carolina. I was just there.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, it was fine, nothing special.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's definitely a Southern city, and it says southern comfort
meets cutting edge innovation, where warm hellos are as common
as sweet tea. I wouldn't go that far. I don't
think it's like, you know, top ten. I've been to
a lot of cities. I think I've been to maybe
forty States of the fifty and Puerto Rico, but I
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would not. I would not say Raleigh is top ten.
Definitely not number two. That's just me.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
There's bribery involved in this list. It's crooked and coming
in number one.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
The friendliest city in the United States according to this
app that I've never heard of.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
San Diego, California. Believable.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
No, no, it's not, No, it's not I have I
have yet to go down to a comic con where
I thought the city was anywhere near friendly because because
of the price gouging, the gouging and the overall surliness
of people who just seem to dislike all nerd kind.
I mean the businesses. Yeah, they were sucking up the money,
(15:27):
like Hoover's. But I think just in general, I've never
gotten a hey, we love you, Welcome to San Diego.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
It says breezy beach vibes, surf friendly shores. That's not
true because they don't want you on their beaches. They
don't and locals who are as relaxed as the ocean breeze.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
The locals may be, but that's not that's not friendly.
They relax around each other, around each other. Yeah, they
see you. What are you doing here? And I'm mad
that Louisiana is not on this because I swear the
dog in the top three, I would say top three
because hands down the friendliest. I'm talking for I'm talking
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every I'm talking in the hotel, going into every restaurant,
and anywhere I went it was hey, sugar, hey.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Baby, Hey what what you need?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I felt everywhere I was going, like I'm like.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
This, it was like that, Yeah, no, you're right.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
During Marti Graus once I had a strange woman on
the street, just attempt to mount me.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Very nice before or after, kind of throughout, very nice.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It doesn't get much friendlier than that. Yeah, yeah, friendly
and frisky. I got a lot of New Orleans stories
that I just cannot tell on the air. I just
cannot some great stories, and they led to the bane
of my existence. I'm sorry, Carnelia, do not date a
woman from New Orleans especial creole one.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Okay, okay, okay, that's the fact. That's the fact.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
But but but but weren't you lured in by that
sweeter than the honey, nicest of that creole gal.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It looked all good at at the moment.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It was one of those loved first sight things until
I realized it was Damien and three and.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Next thing you knew you would never eat up play
the spaghetti again without without I refuse.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
To go back to New Orleans because of this one
person who shall remain nameless. We're gonna need some details. No,
you could need all you want. Okay, this is LA.
We're not a friendly city. Ky if I am forty,
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. When we come back,
we have a Metro update and they're live. It's another liar, liar.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
k IF. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I never standing across for me?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Next to me? Can't?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I am six forty years later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And I'm telling you right now, it's fake news. It's
not real. Somebody's lying. We've seen press conference after press
conference after press conference, and let me ask you, what
was the number one issue that they discussed at the
press conferences regarding Eli Metro.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Anyone, anyone, Bueller bueller? Safety?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
That's right, that was the number one issue. This was
family few to be number one on the board and
we'd play No One. Yes, we were concerned about cleanliness,
how unsanitary it was, how you might not be able
to get from one place to another, like the airport.
(19:01):
But everyone knows the top issue has always been safety.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Or lack thereof. LA Metro thinks that we're done. They
want to play us a fool.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
According to responses collected on their annual My Metro Budget,
the interactive online tool. In other words, we asked ourselves
what is most important? And it came back with rider feedback,
wink wink, and it said that LA Metro users want
increased frequency and improved cleanliness and less money spent on.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Policing. Who would say that? Who would say less?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We don't care about money spent or how it's spent.
We want it safe, we want it clean, and we
wanted it in that order, safety more than anything.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
They were not on.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
TV talking about how safe it was, arguing against people
like me by themselves, they felt compelled to respond to
the negative feedback in the criticism I and others were
offering regarding the lack of safety. Every time someone got shanked,
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we told you about it. Every time someone got killed,
we told you about it. Every time something bad physically
happened to a writer on a bus, on a platform,
on a train, we told you about it. How many times, guys,
did we talk about stories about having to do with
cleanliness or infrequency of trains?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Stephan, can you remember a time we ever talked about that?
Not that I can remember, twallet, Can you remember any.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Time when we set time aside to talk about specifically
a story in the news about how Metro was just nasty.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
No, that's never been the focus.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Mark Ronner, do you ever remember talking about a story
in the news break on CAFI which was centered around
the unsanitary nature of Metro.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I feel like I shouldn't answer your questions your honor,
Matt permission to treat this witness. I feel like I'm
being backed into a corner here. Uh, your honor compel
the witness answer. Uh, I'm just going to issue a blanket.
I don't recall. Okay, that's fair enough, don't recall.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
But we're supposed to believe that the people who responded
to their tool that they put up there what they
would want improved on Metro said that they wanted an
increased frequency of trains and cleaner trains, but specifically said
less spent on policing.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I don't believe that.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
You know how how lives sound like this?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Right?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
For instance, right.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
When someone is lying and they know they've committed this
heinous thing that's unforgiven, they will start off with some
lesser things, like if I broke into your house, they
would say something like, uh, you know, Mo, you know
(22:12):
your your house, you know looks really nice. I mean,
you know your neighborhood is really secure. I would never
break into your house, And you're.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Like, who was talking about that? Who's anything about breaking
to the house?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And you know something else, when you're making suggestions for
a company, Let's say you have like you go to
a hotel and they have the suggestions box.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
You don't make any budget suggestions. You don't do that.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You would say, hey, the lobby needs to be reconfigured,
or you know, we need a better place where we
can hang out or leave our luggage. But you don't say,
I think this hotel should spend less money on housekeeping.
This is what they're trying to say. They're saying that
people who gave their feedback said that Metro should spend
less on policing. No, they didn't know. They didn't. If
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it was not an issue, they wouldn't bring it up.
They wouldn't say, you know that line item for that
Metro police force that mo' kelly's been talking about.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You know, you don't need to spend that much money there.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Even this headline is written like it's in re like
it's being said to you, mo kelly. It's almost like, oh,
you know, hey, mo kelly, you know what it is?
La Metro users want to increase frequency and improve cleanliness,
less spent on policing.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
They're trying to make the brother look bad. That's what
it comes down to.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They want to make it look like I don't know
what the people want. I don't know what's really going
on at Metro. You have Mo Kelly out there on
CAFI talking about we need to have a safer trade,
we need to spend money on a Metro transit authority,
police department, and here he's wrong. We got the proof,
we have the data. People want cleaner trains, not safer trains.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Love excuse me, excuse me, excuse.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Me, fake news, Thank you, Jamie, Jmie Trump, damn you, Steven.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I love it when you refer to yourself in the
third person. By the way, if you could do that
more often, that'd be great. I'm sure Mo Kelly can
Mark Ronner loves it. K if I a six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Will we come back?
We're gonna go from train to another train. But this, unfortunately,
is about a woman who lost her arm after a
collision with an oncoming train.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
If that's the worst that happened, she got off easy.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (24:38):
Kelly six Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
I've always lived close to train tracks, both commercial and industrial. Commercial, like,
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you'll see the Amtrak go by the industrial. You'll see
the different cars go by the they're obviously transporting goods
and that kind of thing. You can tell about how
fast they do or don't go. Amtrak is usually faster,
so I will say that, but you can always see
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them coming. There is a crossing. You know they're not
gonna sneak up on you. You have to go out
of your way to do something stupid to be hit
by train, you really do. A woman was hit and
seriously injured yesterday by an Amtrak train Monday evening in
Ventura and it severed her arm. It happened around five
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twenty five pm yesterday, So we're saying broad daylight. It's
not even close to the sun going down. There's no
way the Amtrak should sneak up on anybody. And it
happened at a railroad over crossing Okay Seaward Avenue. Twenty
four year old woman was believed to be carrying a
bicycle in one arm as she crossed the train tracks
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near an oncoming southbound train. Great visibility from what I understand,
holding a bicycle. Why she chose not to ride the
bike across the tracks, which would have been faster, I
don't know why she chose to cross the tracks.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
At all with an oncoming train. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
There probably was a signal that had already been lit,
because that's what traffic signals do. They let you know
that a train is coming, and there's usually like a
bell ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding, you know,
train coming. I don't know why all that was likely ignored.
Quote the train struck the bicycle while it was still
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in her gap a grasp, resulting in the traumatic injury.
It appears the bicycle may have become stuck on the
tracks just before the collision occurred.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well, you're gonna have to let that bike go. You
have to let the bike go if it's stuck.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It almost like something out of a movie, like you're
trying to run across the tracks Jason or I don't know,
Freddy is chasing you and your foot gets caught in
the tracks. Gotta leave that person behind. Look, you have
to choose your battles. Are you going to try to
save the bike or you're gonna try to save yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I would try to save myself. If Mark fell down.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
If Stefan got his foot caught in the tracks, I
don't know. It just might be, you know, survival of
the fittest, and that would be you the fittest. Well,
if you're the one who got stuck and I didn't,
that's probably how it played out.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I see, Well, that's heartwarming. Thank you for that. Well,
at least I'm honest.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I'll let you know up front if in the event
that we find ourselves in a similar situation where you
are stuck in a railroad track and there's an oncoming train,
don't look to me to extricate you.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
No, Listen, I've got the fear of God in me
from my very first newspaper job, having covered lots of
train accidents, car train, human train. If this woman only
lost an arm and wasn't reduced to raspberry preserves, she
got off lucky. Like you said, I've covered lots of
these things. As young cub reporter.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Mark. We're doing third person again.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
And they're horrifying, and they mostly are a result of
people being impatient, right and not wanting to wait, thinking
they can race across, not sometimes realizing they're two coming
from opposite directions. These things are horrifying.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I have never in my life, and I can honestly say,
I have never in my life even thought about racing
a train or beating a train at a crossing, not walking,
not driving, not bicycling. And I say that because growing
up in Torrents there is a train track which runs
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almost like diagonal through the city of Torrents. It's like
Supulvida and Western and you get caught by the same
train two or three different times. There were always opportunities
for me to put that to the test, either riding
my bike or driving a car.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Never ever have I done it.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And then when I was riding the subway, I would
say there are three or four instances in which either
there was a car or a person on the tracks
who had gotten hit and then delayed my train for
an hour or two.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
It's something I just can't understand.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Why would you even put yourself on the tracks at
any time there is a signal, and if you're walking
at a place where there isn't a signal.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Well, well, damn, I can't help you. It doesn't take a.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Genius to figure out that you probably shouldn't be in
the way of a train. And the thing is, there
are movies like I don't know to Live and Die
in La or Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry where people
do race train, but in real life the train always wins.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Every single time. And this is something I do hear
from people. They expect a train to either be able
to slow down or stop. No, that's impossible. They're not
even gonna try and risk a derailment. I'd like to
introduce you to physics. It doesn't work, and object in
motion tends to stay in motion, especially if it's I
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don't know, are four hundred and fifty tons or however
much it weighs traveling at sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, a locomotive with multiple, multiple heavy.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Cars it's pulling. It doesn't stop like your Honda.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Okay, no it doesn't, and you're gonna lose every single time.
I've never I've done some stupid stuff in my life,
and I've done I mean a lot. There are things
which yes, could have gotten me killed, Yes, would have
put me in jail. But trains is something I never
mess with, maybe because they were ever present in the
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South Bay, and they were ever present in other places
that I live, like in West LA.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
So there are always these opportunities.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
To see in a real sense how fast and how
quickly the train will approach. After the arm comes down.
You may think you have time to beat it, but
you really don't. And that's not a game you want
to play. That's not a game of chicken you ever
want to play. No, you don't want to make that bad.
There's nothing that you're doing that is so urgent that
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you can't wait for the train just to go, no
matter how long the train is right, and I know
sometimes the train can you could be stuck in a
light I know this one at Supulvida and Western in Torrents.
You could be stuck there for literally thirty minutes. Thirty minutes.
So I understand the urge and the desire, but it
is not worth killing you and possibly someone else if
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you bounce off the train and Koreene into someone else's car.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Now that's thirty minutes longer you get to live. It's
a good way to look at it. It's later with
Mo Kelly k if I AM six forty. We're live
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