July 17, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – An in-depth look at the ‘Good Trouble Lives On’ rallies honoring John Lewis, scheduled to take place in Southern California and across the nation on July 17th…PLUS – Thoughts on a warning issued to Uber Eats drivers who have recently become the targets of robberies AND the latest developments in AI robotic delivery technology - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Day. If I am six forty, it's later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app,
and coming soon to TikTok.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We told you yesterday we got to get to a
thousand followers.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
According to daniel Leise, we got to get to a
thousand followers on TikTok at mister mo'kelly, and then we
can stream live on TikTok. Some people prefer TikTok to Instagram,
prefer it to Facebook, or prefer it to YouTube. But
we're trying to give you as many options as possible
to catch the show. So go to TikTok dot com
(00:54):
right now at mister mo kelly is to handle and
you can just sign up and subscribe there. It's all free,
not for any of this, and then you'll be ready
for the live stream when it appears there.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We have a great show tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
There's more protesting which is coming your way here in
southern California. We'll tell you about that in just a moment.
Uber eats drivers and taco stands. Be very careful out there.
In fact, Steph, you need to be careful out there
because it's dangerous out there. They're targeting Uber eats drivers
and taco stands. They're robbing them. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Did you ever do Uber eats?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I thought about it for like a split second, but
I just I couldn't deal with the smell. Whatever you're
gonna bring, it's gonna stay in that car. So it's
like you can't do I was telling Mark, you can't
do both because if you pick someone up after you
just took someone some taco bell, it's gonna smell like
that in the car.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How do you sign up though?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Because you work quote unquote for Uber, is it easier
to then sign up for Uber eats?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You basically just at you add it is an option
to your profile and your a lot, and then you're
given permission to pick up like a McDonald's order or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh okay, not that I'll ever do that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Look, I've used Uber eats maybe three or four times,
and I was out of town, not here in LA.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It was just a necessity.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Like when I was in Chicago a few months ago,
i did Uber East because I didn't know where anything
was as far as food options go. Well, see, that's
why it's nice to have you around stuff and you
can help us out with these small details that I
know nothing about. And also we're going to tell you
how delivery robots now ride the actual subway to restock
(02:41):
seven eleven stores in China. We talked about how seven
eleven is very different depending on where you are in
the world. Here's another example and one more Witches, Spells
and Soulmates. Digital witchcraft is booming business on Etsy, believe
it or not.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So there you go. Mark, I know you're into witchcraft.
I am thank you? Is this? Did I know this? No,
it's just my way of saying good evening, hi to you.
Thank you for that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I was texting with Mark last night because I had
forgotten that he had recommended this movie, or at least
had talked about this movie The Gorge, and I was
watching it last night.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I said, Wow, this is pretty darn good. I was.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Actually I was reaching out to Mark and t Wallas, like, yeah,
it's something you need to see, and I've forgotten that
Marke hat talking talked about it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
So, yeah, were you satisfied when you got to the
end of it.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I was satisfied in the sense of it's free as
part of my Apple TV subscription.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I didn't have to do anything. It's not like I
had to leave my house. It's not like I had
to go get gased. It's not like I had to
dedicate time out of my day. I was multitasking. It
was on in the background. It kept my interest. I
was telling you when we were texting.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It was fine. Yeah, the bar's lower for streaming.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
If I'd paid to go see that at a theater
and drive and park and everything, I would have been
I'm like, eh, But it was perfectly decent for a
trash watch at home.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And I told you it was reminiscent of some other movies.
I don't want to give it away if you haven't
seen it, but it was fine for what it was.
I compartmentalize, I can make a distinction between that which
is streaming and that which is movie cinema quality.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
The one thing that I said to you that doesn't
spoil anything, because this is going to be really vague
in general, is that I get really impatient with movies
whose plot hinges on people doing stupid wrong things that
everybody knows they shouldn't be doing.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But it was nice to see Sigourney Weaver in it.
She made an appearance in it. She's Nerd Royalty. Yeah, no,
I just realized what the movie was. I saw that too. Again,
it was good for a home watch.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That's all you need sometimes, that's so Yeah, and it
was fine also, Anya Taylor Joy not so hard on
the eyes, not at all.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But I can't really say that because my wife is
in the studio. Latmu Hairs here. Oh really, Yeah, today
is our anniversary. We caught some food downstairs at Mortons
Mortin's had some good eats.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, it's been a whole nine years. You're that poor
poor woman. I mean, happy anniversary. You're not helping Mark,
You're not helping. Yes, nine years ago today, Lamu Hair
and I tied the knot. And it's been absolute bliss
ever since, or at least that's what I'm going to
say on the radio while she's standing right behind me.
That's what you're going to say in the deposition. It's
(05:26):
been bliss at least. Yes, I've got her on the
record now, asked an answered bliss.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Something else that's going on in la I want to
start the conversation now and I'll carry it over to
the next segment. The Good Trouble Lives on rallies are
going to be all around southern California starting tomorrow, and
as it seems, more than sixteen hundred different events are
planned all across the country, but a lot of them
(05:53):
are going to be here in southern California, and they're
going to honor the fifth anniversary of the Lake Congressman
John Lewis's death, and they're gonna have rallies, marches, voter
registration drives, And that's the last part which is most important,
the voter registration drives.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
They're billing it.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
As something to show their dislike and distaste of what
the Trump administration is doing. But these are elaborate voter
registration drives so they can get people's names, addresses, contact information,
so they can contact them and browbeat them for donations
leading up to the midterms. And there's nothing wrong with that,
(06:33):
but I think we should recognize it for what it is,
especially if you're gonna get out there and quote unquote march,
if you're gonna protest, if you're gonna show just how
upset you are and what's going on right now in Washington,
just know you're not changing anything.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
They're just getting your information.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
You are getting your exercise in return, and maybe you
might get on TV, maybe you might do an interview
with someone.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But that's about the extent of it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
But when we come back on the other side of
this brick, I'll get into the good trouble lives on rallies,
which you're going to be going on all around southern California.
So if you should see them and you're not participating,
you'll know at least to what they are referring. It's
Later with Mo Kelly, k if I AM six forty.
We live on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Kaf I AM six forty is Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And I was telling you last segment that starting tomorrow,
and it should be only tomorrow, there will be some
sixteen hundred different events of planned all around the country,
a lot of them right here in Southern California. And
then they're going to honor the fifth anniversary of the
passing of Congressman John Lewis. And if you don't know him,
(07:50):
he was a very instrumental figure in the modern civil
rights movement of the late fifties and the nineteen sixties.
You may not know, well, people may remember them. March
on Washington, That's where doctor King gave the famous I
Have a Dream speech. Well, the youngest speaker on that
day at the March on Washington was a twenty three
(08:11):
year old organizer of SNICK, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,
none other than John Lewis. That's when he started becoming
coming into prominence as far as the national stage and
the civil rights movement. And this march is in honor
of his passing five years ago. And I'm a little
(08:31):
bit more of a cynic. I look at marching very
differently today than what it was in the nineteen sixties,
if only because I understood what it was then and
what it was designed to do and what it helped achieve.
Now it's a pale reflection of it. It's not the
(08:52):
same thing. But let me just tell you this. I'll
tell you where these marches and events will be going
on tomorrow, so if you see them, you'll at least
know what's going on and why. From four thirty to
eight pm they will have events at Los Angeles City
Hall six thirty pm to seven thirty pm, only an
hour at Bixby Park Annex in Long Beach, from five
(09:12):
pm to seven thirty pm at Memorial Park in Pasadena,
five thirty to seven pm at the Irvine Civic Center,
and six to eight thirty pm at Riverside Maine Library,
and four to six pm in San Bernardino. No specific
address is listed, but you can go to good Trouble
Lives on dot org for all.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The specific information. But check this out.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Organizers are saying that they're asking people to RSVP on
the website to quote gauge capacity, and because the addresses
for some events will only be provided to those who
registrate ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Did you catch that? That's where it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
All comes down to the gathering of addresses, the gathering
of your information so they can send you stuff and
ask for money later on.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And that's where my cynicism comes out, because.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Back in the day, the marchie was for the greater goal,
which was specific and explicit. And if you know anything
about Congressman John Lewis when he was just a student activist,
he was working specifically towards the passage of the civil
rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. That's not the
case having to do with any of this. This has
(10:27):
to do with public pressure if you will on Washington,
on the Trump administration, trying to let your voices be
heard and say that you're not down with what Donald
Trump is trying to do.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Fine, got it, understand that. But if you're trying to.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I'll say, latch on to the civil rights legacy of
Congressman John Lewis, then you have to be mindful of
the actual lessons which came out of the civil rights movement.
Just having events, it was not what the civil rights
movement was doing. Was not what John Lewis was doing
(11:05):
in the nineteen sixties. They were not just showing up
at certain places and having speeches. No, they were trying
to have a public show of feelings having to do with, yes,
what they want to change to the government, but also
send the larger message to America that certain laws had
(11:25):
to change. In the nineteen sixties, it had to do
with ending segregation or they called it Jim Crow laws.
Today it's not all that specific, it's not all that clear,
and people may show up to the events after signing up,
after registering and They're not actually walking to any specific destination,
not legislatively, not physically. That's where I have a problem
(11:47):
with a lot of these events. They're not organized to
do anything beyond you giving up your information so it
can be used later on during an actual election cycle,
wherein they will ask you later on for you to
donate money, or they'll be able to sell the list
to different political candidates. I know it sounds real cynical,
(12:09):
but I'm just being honest. That's how it actually works.
That's why they want you. They require you to sign
up and register via the website. And here's something else
that you need to understand. This is a thin veneer
of what the Civil rights movement was. The phrase good trouble,
(12:30):
which comes from John Lewis, was about agitation, but agitation
with a purpose. It wasn't about just being seen. It
wasn't about just marching indiscriminately and just being heard and seen. Marching,
at least during the Civil Rights movement, was the public tool,
(12:52):
but it worked in concert with the private pressure put
on members of Congress.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well, why would you put su members of Congress?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Because you would want to have a specific piece of
legislation passed. Now, you have Trump and this big beautiful bill.
Well that's already passed. There's nothing you can do to
undo that. And there's no specific legislation that these marches
and events are centered around where you can actually channel
this type of agitation to something bigger and better. That's
(13:26):
why I am not necessarily against it. I think there
is value on a small level as far as getting
out in marching, but people never learn the bigger lessons
why people march, how the strategy of marching was helpful
for something else.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Marching was never the goal. Marching was never the point
of it all.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Marching was so when you got out there, and back
in the sixties you had television media.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
If someone stuck a microphone in.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Your face, you can say, yes, we are doing this
specific to get passage of the Civil Rights Act or
then the Voting Rights Act. What you will find tomorrow is,
and I bet dollars to donuts, you will hear people
with nonsensical answers who won't be able to tell you
(14:16):
anything specifically that they are asking for. They will tell
you plenty about what they don't like. They will tell
you plenty about what they would like to change. They
will tell you what they're against as far as the
Trump administration. And that's all fine, well and good, but
the purpose of the march will not serve any larger purpose.
And you're welcome to prove me wrong, but think of
(14:37):
it this way. Hey Stefan, I'm gonna use you as
a sounding board here. You know how many people have
reached out to me to ask about maybe coming on
and publicizing the march or making sure people knew what
was going on with the march what they were asking for.
Even though KFI is the number one news talk station
in America, you know how many take.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
A while guess I'm gonna get that's a goose egg
zero Mark Runter.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Does it surprise you that zero reached out.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Because it's not for the purpose of actually change, it's
about expanding a mailing list.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
They have completely ignored the mo factor.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
They've completely ignored the historical factor of how this is done,
the actual reason behind it, the reason and how these methods,
when applied correctly, can be very powerful.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And I talk about doctor King all the time.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
If you think about how did doctor King manage to
get more than hundreds of thousands of people to the
Mall on Washington He didn't have a TV show, he
didn't have a radio show, he didn't have social media.
It was largely word of mouth, and it was largely
what they call the Black News PEP excuse me, Black
Newspaper Association back then. How they spread the word, and
(15:58):
it was through churches and there was other ways in
which people just were telling each other about it. How
did they get everyone to key in and also support
and show up because everyone knew what the larger goal was.
Everyone knew that that was a display specifically for then
President John F.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Kennedy. That was the whole point. That was the whole
point because.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
King was going to meet with JFK when he was
there in Washington, and he wanted to say, see these
hundreds of thousands of people behind me, Now is the
time we need to pass the Civil Rights Act and
then eventually the Voting Rights Act. You don't have any
of that going on now because people largely don't understand
the history, they don't know the context of the history.
(16:44):
They're just going to show up tomorrow and say, oh,
we missed Congressman John Lewis.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
He was a wonderful American.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Which is true, which is true, And they will say
phrases like we're getting into good trouble. Yeah, but you
don't know what that is. You don't understand what But
what good trouble really is. It's agitation with a purpose
and a plan. And people will get on TV tomorrow
and not a g damn thing will have changed. It's
(17:11):
Later with Mo Kelly KFI six forty. We're live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app. When we come back, we got
to talk about Uber eats and taco stands and now
they are under attack from people who are trying to
rob them left and right.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
We'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, iHeartRadio app, and we're
having a very spirited conversation amongst the momigos in the
Motown chat on YouTube. They're discussing protests, other civil rights
luminaries and what should be done different today relative to
protests as opposed to you know what is going on
(18:05):
right now, and you know, some of the things I
do agree with, some of the things I don't agree with,
and so I'm going back and forth with them, but
we have a very, very lively discussion. I encourage you
to join us, at least in the chat portion on YouTube.
Some people watch YouTube and they have no desire to
be part of the chat. I completely get that you
don't have to, but I'm saying it's there for you.
My mom when she watches, she watches on TV. She
(18:28):
has no idea what's going on in the chat in
the chat. She has her smart TV. She opens up
the YouTube app, and the way she goes she just
watches the show.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Does she participate in the chat? No? No, no, no, no, no,
no no no. You haven't seen any cussing you No.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
If you see some f bombs and you know ardent,
defensive me, then that's probably my mother.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You don't see that, So get her in there. I
gotta see this.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
She is the most profane person on the face of
the earth. I love it by a lot. You cannot
out cuss k O'Kelly nah.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I need proof of this, Oh, proof in person. You
should have shown up to the Chateau le Mo. You
walked into that one. She was cussing up a storm.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Really, well, bring her in here. No, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
There, No that's the problem because I have brought her
to the studio before, and when I do, she tries
to tell me what to do. When I don't, she
starts cussing, and I'm worried about putting her on the
mic because she's gonna start cussing.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
No downside of that, Foush has the dump button.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
No, there is a downside because we have these video
streams which don't have a dump button, and I don't
need her her very colorful commentary going out on the
video stream.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Right. Well, think about my needs for once, no never never.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Uber East drivers and I talked about this briefly in
the first segment because I know Stephan has a point
of reference as an Uber driver, and I'm gonna rely
on you again, Stephan because and also you Twalller, because
you've driven for Uber. I don't understand Uber East drivers
and taco stands have been targeted, not just in La
County but around the country. LAPD has put out a
(20:07):
particular warning about it, but it's happening all around the country.
What I don't understand is why would Uber Eats drivers
be targeted for robberies. It's not like they're carrying quote
unquote more money than anyone else. They're carrying people's food presumably,
but I don't I don't get what the what the
appeal is.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
That is kind of odd because as far as I know,
they pick up the food and they just delivered to
wherever you know they're going. But I don't know why.
I get the stands unfortunately, because they're just they're in
one they're isolated, they're in one spot.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
We move around.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
So I don't know why they're going after the drivers
themselves because exactly like you said, there's we don't have
any more money than anyone else.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It would be different if they were making some sort
of monetary drop or there's money which is changing hands.
But that's the whole point of Uber and uber eats.
Money does not change hands to swallow when you're driving. I
don't think you carried money on you other than what
you may have needed for your lunch or something.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
No, as an Uber driver, even especially Uber eats, you're
not carrying any money.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Today.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
At the school I work at, three Uber eats orders
came in and there now all they asked for is
the code. There is no exchanging of credit cards or
anything like that. But this goes back to a conversation
that we had years ago when we talked about the
dangers of delivering pizzas in the hood. That's true, that's true,
and it's just anyone can put in an order for
a pizza and then you're just jack.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
No, no, I get that.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
But also usually the people who are delivering pizzas they
have money for change. Back in the day, you know
that there was a financial transaction which was going to
take place, Yes, and that's just dangerous when you're in
the hood.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Like, let me make the comparison.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I intellectually can understand why taco stands would be at
risk because you know that they're financial transactions going on there.
You know there's something of value beyond the food which
is there. But as far as the Uber Eats, it's like,
that's that's your best option.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
No, no, no, good, look hear me out. It goes
beyond the food as an Uber Eats delivery person.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's just you.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
You are getting out of your car, you have your
car keys with you. Anyone looking to jack you can
take damn the food to the car and the car.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
No, that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But when they say robberies, no, Yeah, they didn't say
car jackings.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
That's why it's it's one and the same.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
For the warnings that they're given, it's like they're getting
taken for everything they got, everything in your pockets, everything,
you're getting robbed. And especially in the city like La
where yeah, carjacking is still at it all time high,
it could be just someone who wants to do donuts
for the night at a damn uh the take off, street, takeover,
tree takeover.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
And this is kind of part and parcel what we
talk about being in safe situations. Like I say, if
you don't know, I always say, I don't stop at
gas stations at night. I stopped to get gassed today
because I was not going to stop last night. That's
just something I kind of live by. And I don't
do a lot of driving where I'm accessible to the
(23:15):
public at night.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
The most you get out of me is I'm going
to a grocery store where there are a lot of people, hopefully,
and I'm judicious about which grocery store I'm gonna stop,
Like I'm not going to stop at the routes that
mark shops at. Okay, too many prostitutes, too many other
night and there's a rouse by my house that I
talk about.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's like I don't stop there at night. Hell's no nothing, Yeah,
I think I know. You know.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
No, I said, it's the one on Vermont and one
hundred and twenty. They got armed security in there for
a reason. Now, foosh at it. You haven't done Uber eats.
But being an Uber driver is it still to the
point where all you know of is the person who
has requested the ride. There is still no actual guarantee
(24:01):
that the person that you're going to pick up is
one and the same.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
That's actually funny that you mentioned that they added another layer.
So let's say Moe ordered it for his wife.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
It'll say Mo, but then it'll say the name of
Moe's wife and it'll say, oh, Moe's guest laval hair, Yeah,
Lamo hair. So that's so when I get there, that's
who I'm picking up under your account, right, No.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
No, no, no, under my But you still don't know who
I am, because it's like when I get Rise for
my son, it's like, yes, I'll put in the request
that I put his name in and they know they're
getting him, But.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You don't know me.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
You don't know who you don't know if I'm setting
you up just as an uber driver. Now, just think
as an Uber each driver you've got to get out
of your car. That's one less layer of safety. That's
exactly well, that's not the reason I did it. But yeah,
just dealing with food I didn't want to deal with
that is it's already enough dealing with drunk people.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, I don't know how you do it. Seriously, It's one.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Thing when, especially from what you tell me stuff you
do a lot of work at night. Yes, you're dealing
with the worst portions of people's personalities and their decisions.
They're probably getting there on their way to doing something stupid,
or they've already done something stupid.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Now they need a ride home from their stupidity.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And I don't think he's watched taxi driver yet either,
heavy foosh, no you yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, Yeah? Has just changed your life, brave?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Has it given you perspective on what you're doing a
little bit more so?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Taxicab confessions? That was good. Give yourself a mohawk and
buy a thirty eight call it a day. Yep. Do
they still do taxicab confessions?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
But they should.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I thoroughly enjoyed that show, and that was at the
beginning of the whole idea of having.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
A camera in your car.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Now every Uber driver basically has now, but back then
it was still it was revolutionary. And people for some reason,
and I've never been that person, but for some reason,
they get in a cab or an uber and I
feel like just telling their life story.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I've been told some secrets. I've been told some drama
because they know they'll never see me again, so they
just feel so comfortable with me. And and my favorite
with Taxi Confessions is what everyone's like, oh, it's fake.
I loved at the end of the episodes, you see
them sign the release yes, so they know it was real.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah yeah, And they don't sign it until the end.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah you know we got you on camera, so and
so yeah, are you ready for to be put out
there like that? So that and I appreciated that because
then that's how it actually goes down exactly. You can't
just have someone in the cab tape them and then
use it for a TV show and not tell them
about it that they've been or not get their permission.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
To actually use it.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Well, I'm still glad that you guys are a lot,
because I don't know how you survive out there with
buber and.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Honestly, it's pretty interesting at night. I'll give you that.
That's brave.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Like I said, I've given something of like twenty thousand rides.
Only one time I felt a little weird, but twenty
thousand rock. But other than that, pretty everyone's been pretty cool.
Just you know, obviously you get some d bags, you
get some princesses every once in a while, but for
the most part, everyone's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So what's your average rating? Like, what is your rating?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Like? Three point seven three and a half stars? No,
I'm four point ninety nine on both Oh what did
you do? What did you do?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I think I missed a turn one time on both.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
It's late with Mokelly ca if I answer forty life
everywhere in the I Heart Radio app and people are
staying like, bring your mom on, No tur her to
go to the chat. No it is no mommy, no, no, yes,
she do not encourage her. She is more immature than
I am at this point, more vulgar than I am.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
She will say things that will embarrass you. The next
time you're out of ten. I'm gonna guest host and
have her as my guest. She's called in before. Okay,
you know, I just don't recommend it. I love her,
but I just don't trust her. KIM six forty Live
everywhere in iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
KFI Later with Mo Kelly Live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio App. I was really over last segment,
so this is going to be quick. But the reason
I was talking about Uber Eats drivers unfortunately being robbed,
it also gives me the opportunity to talk about where
technology is going because not only is a robbery financially
(28:40):
detrimental to the Uber Eats driver, it's also detrimental to
the company Uber and as far as trying to get
people to do those jobs. Then when I tell you
about what's going on in China right now, and much
to the chagrin of Mark Ronner, who's not going to like.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
This, listen, I'm not doctor McCoy. Okay, I'm not just
against any technology.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You're against this technology because on a certain level it
has to include AI. In China, they have these autonomous
delivery robots get this. They are designed to ride elevators,
get on and off subway platforms, board trains, and deliver
goods to stores all around the subway system, as opposed
(29:25):
to having an actual person deliver food or deliver supplies
to a specific location. They now have bots which can
maneuver most of that urban terrain where it's not like
just driving down the street. No, it will go up
(29:45):
on platforms, it will get on subways, it.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Will ride elevators.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It can't do steps, but outside of that, it can
go from A to B as a person would. And
they're using it presently right now to restock seven eleven stores.
So when they have robots which will ride the subway,
(30:13):
think how much money these companies would save without using
actual employees. And this goes back to a larger point
we always make, and actually we're in agreement here as
far as corporate greed. The moment that the technology can
be used to fit the American lifestyle, it will be
here because there's no need to pay someone when you
(30:34):
have the option of paying no one.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Well, the biggest irony here is that in Japan, civilian
gun ownership is almost unheard of, and so you don't
need a robot there. You need the robots for the
seven eleven's here.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
The whole idea of respect and criminality is just different.
It's different when I was in South Korea last June.
As a matter of fact, you saw no graffiti. You
didn't have this year that there was going to be
someone who's going to rob you. I'm quite sure there's
crime on some level, but it's a different social experience
(31:11):
here in America. There is no respect for anyone at all.
There's no respect for anyone's property. You can go to
any neighborhood and find graffiti, you can find homelessness, and yeah,
that's part of the reason why you don't have this
many delivery robots here.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
You'll see them downtown. But you know, we have.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
People here who are vandalizing the way moos. You know,
we can't have nice things. We're not there yet.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I'm not going to shed a lot of tears over
the Weymou vandalism, but no respect thing. People take my
food out of the refrigerator here. It's widespread. The disrespect.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh you didn't know that, well, I found out the
hard way. No.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
When I first started working here at iHeart the first week,
people were like stealing my lunch is it's one of
the those things where you know it's.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Not your lunch.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
No, Americans are filthy animals. You know it's not yours.
Why would you take someone else's food. I never understood
that it's not yours when you it's not like you
brought it from home, and like, oops, I mistook it.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I don't get that.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I remember I was in kindergarten, and I remember these
things like as yesterday and I had a Yogi Bear
lunch bout lunchbox. Oh no, And it turned out someone
else in my kindergarten class also had a Yogi Bear lunchbox.
I inadvertently took that person's lunchbox.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
In other words, you made a boo boo, hello, come on, goodness,
come on foosh blah boo.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Hair actually laughed at that. So you see how about that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Well earned yeah, but see that was an example of
a mistake that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying that I
understand because you and you were a child for one
still am according to soon some people. But it's like, yeah,
that was a mistake. But Mark is just now figuring
out how people get down around here. They will swam
your lunch in a heartbeat. It's just low in a heartbeat,
(33:03):
and it has to be someone we know, because they're
not that many people on this floor, and they're not
that many people who come from the other floor. We
have like vending machine, so people will come down from
other the fifth floor. We're on the fourth floor, and
they'll come and you know, either put stuff in the
refrigerator or they'll get stuff from the vending machines. So
they have a reason to be here. But they're not
that many people. You can come.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
You can probably count on two hands the amount of
people by this point on both floors. So we know
it's one of us. It's one of us, it's somebody
we know. It's like a rotten Agatha Christie story. This
is a building of savages in a nation of savages.
I don't accept it.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
You ought to fit in real well, then okay, k
if I am six forty, we're live everywhere.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I Heart Radio app k
Speaker 4 (33:44):
BY and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County more
stimulating talk
Day. If I am six forty, it's later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app,
and coming soon to TikTok.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We told you yesterday we got to get to a
thousand followers.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
According to daniel Leise, we got to get to a
thousand followers on TikTok at mister mo'kelly, and then we
can stream live on TikTok. Some people prefer TikTok to Instagram,
prefer it to Facebook, or prefer it to YouTube. But
we're trying to give you as many options as possible
to catch the show. So go to TikTok dot com
(00:54):
right now at mister mo kelly is to handle and
you can just sign up and subscribe there. It's all free,
not for any of this, and then you'll be ready
for the live stream when it appears there.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We have a great show tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
There's more protesting which is coming your way here in
southern California. We'll tell you about that in just a moment.
Uber eats drivers and taco stands. Be very careful out there.
In fact, Steph, you need to be careful out there
because it's dangerous out there. They're targeting Uber eats drivers
and taco stands. They're robbing them. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Did you ever do Uber eats?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I thought about it for like a split second, but
I just I couldn't deal with the smell. Whatever you're
gonna bring, it's gonna stay in that car. So it's
like you can't do I was telling Mark, you can't
do both because if you pick someone up after you
just took someone some taco bell, it's gonna smell like
that in the car.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How do you sign up though?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Because you work quote unquote for Uber, is it easier
to then sign up for Uber eats?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You basically just at you add it is an option
to your profile and your a lot, and then you're
given permission to pick up like a McDonald's order or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh okay, not that I'll ever do that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Look, I've used Uber eats maybe three or four times,
and I was out of town, not here in LA.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It was just a necessity.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Like when I was in Chicago a few months ago,
i did Uber East because I didn't know where anything
was as far as food options go. Well, see, that's
why it's nice to have you around stuff and you
can help us out with these small details that I
know nothing about. And also we're going to tell you
how delivery robots now ride the actual subway to restock
(02:41):
seven eleven stores in China. We talked about how seven
eleven is very different depending on where you are in
the world. Here's another example and one more Witches, Spells
and Soulmates. Digital witchcraft is booming business on Etsy, believe
it or not.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So there you go. Mark, I know you're into witchcraft.
I am thank you? Is this? Did I know this? No,
it's just my way of saying good evening, hi to you.
Thank you for that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I was texting with Mark last night because I had
forgotten that he had recommended this movie, or at least
had talked about this movie The Gorge, and I was
watching it last night.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I said, Wow, this is pretty darn good. I was.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Actually I was reaching out to Mark and t Wallas, like, yeah,
it's something you need to see, and I've forgotten that
Marke hat talking talked about it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
So, yeah, were you satisfied when you got to the
end of it.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I was satisfied in the sense of it's free as
part of my Apple TV subscription.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I didn't have to do anything. It's not like I
had to leave my house. It's not like I had
to go get gased. It's not like I had to
dedicate time out of my day. I was multitasking. It
was on in the background. It kept my interest. I
was telling you when we were texting.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It was fine. Yeah, the bar's lower for streaming.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
If I'd paid to go see that at a theater
and drive and park and everything, I would have been
I'm like, eh, But it was perfectly decent for a
trash watch at home.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And I told you it was reminiscent of some other movies.
I don't want to give it away if you haven't
seen it, but it was fine for what it was.
I compartmentalize, I can make a distinction between that which
is streaming and that which is movie cinema quality.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
The one thing that I said to you that doesn't
spoil anything, because this is going to be really vague
in general, is that I get really impatient with movies
whose plot hinges on people doing stupid wrong things that
everybody knows they shouldn't be doing.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But it was nice to see Sigourney Weaver in it.
She made an appearance in it. She's Nerd Royalty. Yeah, no,
I just realized what the movie was. I saw that too. Again,
it was good for a home watch.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That's all you need sometimes, that's so Yeah, and it
was fine also, Anya Taylor Joy not so hard on
the eyes, not at all.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But I can't really say that because my wife is
in the studio. Latmu Hairs here. Oh really, Yeah, today
is our anniversary. We caught some food downstairs at Mortons
Mortin's had some good eats.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, it's been a whole nine years. You're that poor
poor woman. I mean, happy anniversary. You're not helping Mark,
You're not helping. Yes, nine years ago today, Lamu Hair
and I tied the knot. And it's been absolute bliss
ever since, or at least that's what I'm going to
say on the radio while she's standing right behind me.
That's what you're going to say in the deposition. It's
(05:26):
been bliss at least. Yes, I've got her on the
record now, asked an answered bliss.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Something else that's going on in la I want to
start the conversation now and I'll carry it over to
the next segment. The Good Trouble Lives on rallies are
going to be all around southern California starting tomorrow, and
as it seems, more than sixteen hundred different events are
planned all across the country, but a lot of them
(05:53):
are going to be here in southern California, and they're
going to honor the fifth anniversary of the Lake Congressman
John Lewis's death, and they're gonna have rallies, marches, voter
registration drives, And that's the last part which is most important,
the voter registration drives.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
They're billing it.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
As something to show their dislike and distaste of what
the Trump administration is doing. But these are elaborate voter
registration drives so they can get people's names, addresses, contact information,
so they can contact them and browbeat them for donations
leading up to the midterms. And there's nothing wrong with that,
(06:33):
but I think we should recognize it for what it is,
especially if you're gonna get out there and quote unquote march,
if you're gonna protest, if you're gonna show just how
upset you are and what's going on right now in Washington,
just know you're not changing anything.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
They're just getting your information.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
You are getting your exercise in return, and maybe you
might get on TV, maybe you might do an interview
with someone.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But that's about the extent of it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
But when we come back on the other side of
this brick, I'll get into the good trouble lives on rallies,
which you're going to be going on all around southern California.
So if you should see them and you're not participating,
you'll know at least to what they are referring. It's
Later with Mo Kelly, k if I AM six forty.
We live on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Kaf I AM six forty is Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And I was telling you last segment that starting tomorrow,
and it should be only tomorrow, there will be some
sixteen hundred different events of planned all around the country,
a lot of them right here in Southern California. And
then they're going to honor the fifth anniversary of the
passing of Congressman John Lewis. And if you don't know him,
(07:50):
he was a very instrumental figure in the modern civil
rights movement of the late fifties and the nineteen sixties.
You may not know, well, people may remember them. March
on Washington, That's where doctor King gave the famous I
Have a Dream speech. Well, the youngest speaker on that
day at the March on Washington was a twenty three
(08:11):
year old organizer of SNICK, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,
none other than John Lewis. That's when he started becoming
coming into prominence as far as the national stage and
the civil rights movement. And this march is in honor
of his passing five years ago. And I'm a little
(08:31):
bit more of a cynic. I look at marching very
differently today than what it was in the nineteen sixties,
if only because I understood what it was then and
what it was designed to do and what it helped achieve.
Now it's a pale reflection of it. It's not the
(08:52):
same thing. But let me just tell you this. I'll
tell you where these marches and events will be going
on tomorrow, so if you see them, you'll at least
know what's going on and why. From four thirty to
eight pm they will have events at Los Angeles City
Hall six thirty pm to seven thirty pm, only an
hour at Bixby Park Annex in Long Beach, from five
(09:12):
pm to seven thirty pm at Memorial Park in Pasadena,
five thirty to seven pm at the Irvine Civic Center,
and six to eight thirty pm at Riverside Maine Library,
and four to six pm in San Bernardino. No specific
address is listed, but you can go to good Trouble
Lives on dot org for all.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The specific information. But check this out.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Organizers are saying that they're asking people to RSVP on
the website to quote gauge capacity, and because the addresses
for some events will only be provided to those who
registrate ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Did you catch that? That's where it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
All comes down to the gathering of addresses, the gathering
of your information so they can send you stuff and
ask for money later on.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And that's where my cynicism comes out, because.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Back in the day, the marchie was for the greater goal,
which was specific and explicit. And if you know anything
about Congressman John Lewis when he was just a student activist,
he was working specifically towards the passage of the civil
rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. That's not the
case having to do with any of this. This has
(10:27):
to do with public pressure if you will on Washington,
on the Trump administration, trying to let your voices be
heard and say that you're not down with what Donald
Trump is trying to do.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Fine, got it, understand that. But if you're trying to.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I'll say, latch on to the civil rights legacy of
Congressman John Lewis, then you have to be mindful of
the actual lessons which came out of the civil rights movement.
Just having events, it was not what the civil rights
movement was doing. Was not what John Lewis was doing
(11:05):
in the nineteen sixties. They were not just showing up
at certain places and having speeches. No, they were trying
to have a public show of feelings having to do with, yes,
what they want to change to the government, but also
send the larger message to America that certain laws had
(11:25):
to change. In the nineteen sixties, it had to do
with ending segregation or they called it Jim Crow laws.
Today it's not all that specific, it's not all that clear,
and people may show up to the events after signing up,
after registering and They're not actually walking to any specific destination,
not legislatively, not physically. That's where I have a problem
(11:47):
with a lot of these events. They're not organized to
do anything beyond you giving up your information so it
can be used later on during an actual election cycle,
wherein they will ask you later on for you to
donate money, or they'll be able to sell the list
to different political candidates. I know it sounds real cynical,
(12:09):
but I'm just being honest. That's how it actually works.
That's why they want you. They require you to sign
up and register via the website. And here's something else
that you need to understand. This is a thin veneer
of what the Civil rights movement was. The phrase good trouble,
(12:30):
which comes from John Lewis, was about agitation, but agitation
with a purpose. It wasn't about just being seen. It
wasn't about just marching indiscriminately and just being heard and seen. Marching,
at least during the Civil Rights movement, was the public tool,
(12:52):
but it worked in concert with the private pressure put
on members of Congress.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well, why would you put su members of Congress?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Because you would want to have a specific piece of
legislation passed. Now, you have Trump and this big beautiful bill.
Well that's already passed. There's nothing you can do to
undo that. And there's no specific legislation that these marches
and events are centered around where you can actually channel
this type of agitation to something bigger and better. That's
(13:26):
why I am not necessarily against it. I think there
is value on a small level as far as getting
out in marching, but people never learn the bigger lessons
why people march, how the strategy of marching was helpful
for something else.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Marching was never the goal. Marching was never the point
of it all.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Marching was so when you got out there, and back
in the sixties you had television media.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
If someone stuck a microphone in.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Your face, you can say, yes, we are doing this
specific to get passage of the Civil Rights Act or
then the Voting Rights Act. What you will find tomorrow is,
and I bet dollars to donuts, you will hear people
with nonsensical answers who won't be able to tell you
(14:16):
anything specifically that they are asking for. They will tell
you plenty about what they don't like. They will tell
you plenty about what they would like to change. They
will tell you what they're against as far as the
Trump administration. And that's all fine, well and good, but
the purpose of the march will not serve any larger purpose.
And you're welcome to prove me wrong, but think of
(14:37):
it this way. Hey Stefan, I'm gonna use you as
a sounding board here. You know how many people have
reached out to me to ask about maybe coming on
and publicizing the march or making sure people knew what
was going on with the march what they were asking for.
Even though KFI is the number one news talk station
in America, you know how many take.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
A while guess I'm gonna get that's a goose egg
zero Mark Runter.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Does it surprise you that zero reached out.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Because it's not for the purpose of actually change, it's
about expanding a mailing list.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
They have completely ignored the mo factor.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
They've completely ignored the historical factor of how this is done,
the actual reason behind it, the reason and how these methods,
when applied correctly, can be very powerful.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And I talk about doctor King all the time.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
If you think about how did doctor King manage to
get more than hundreds of thousands of people to the
Mall on Washington He didn't have a TV show, he
didn't have a radio show, he didn't have social media.
It was largely word of mouth, and it was largely
what they call the Black News PEP excuse me, Black
Newspaper Association back then. How they spread the word, and
(15:58):
it was through churches and there was other ways in
which people just were telling each other about it. How
did they get everyone to key in and also support
and show up because everyone knew what the larger goal was.
Everyone knew that that was a display specifically for then
President John F.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Kennedy. That was the whole point. That was the whole
point because.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
King was going to meet with JFK when he was
there in Washington, and he wanted to say, see these
hundreds of thousands of people behind me, Now is the
time we need to pass the Civil Rights Act and
then eventually the Voting Rights Act. You don't have any
of that going on now because people largely don't understand
the history, they don't know the context of the history.
(16:44):
They're just going to show up tomorrow and say, oh,
we missed Congressman John Lewis.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
He was a wonderful American.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Which is true, which is true, And they will say
phrases like we're getting into good trouble. Yeah, but you
don't know what that is. You don't understand what But
what good trouble really is. It's agitation with a purpose
and a plan. And people will get on TV tomorrow
and not a g damn thing will have changed. It's
(17:11):
Later with Mo Kelly KFI six forty. We're live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app. When we come back, we got
to talk about Uber eats and taco stands and now
they are under attack from people who are trying to
rob them left and right.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
We'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, iHeartRadio app, and we're
having a very spirited conversation amongst the momigos in the
Motown chat on YouTube. They're discussing protests, other civil rights
luminaries and what should be done different today relative to
protests as opposed to you know what is going on
(18:05):
right now, and you know, some of the things I
do agree with, some of the things I don't agree with,
and so I'm going back and forth with them, but
we have a very, very lively discussion. I encourage you
to join us, at least in the chat portion on YouTube.
Some people watch YouTube and they have no desire to
be part of the chat. I completely get that you
don't have to, but I'm saying it's there for you.
My mom when she watches, she watches on TV. She
(18:28):
has no idea what's going on in the chat in
the chat. She has her smart TV. She opens up
the YouTube app, and the way she goes she just
watches the show.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Does she participate in the chat? No? No, no, no, no, no,
no no no. You haven't seen any cussing you No.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
If you see some f bombs and you know ardent,
defensive me, then that's probably my mother.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You don't see that, So get her in there. I
gotta see this.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
She is the most profane person on the face of
the earth. I love it by a lot. You cannot
out cuss k O'Kelly nah.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I need proof of this, Oh, proof in person. You
should have shown up to the Chateau le Mo. You
walked into that one. She was cussing up a storm.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Really, well, bring her in here. No, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
There, No that's the problem because I have brought her
to the studio before, and when I do, she tries
to tell me what to do. When I don't, she
starts cussing, and I'm worried about putting her on the
mic because she's gonna start cussing.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
No downside of that, Foush has the dump button.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
No, there is a downside because we have these video
streams which don't have a dump button, and I don't
need her her very colorful commentary going out on the
video stream.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Right. Well, think about my needs for once, no never never.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Uber East drivers and I talked about this briefly in
the first segment because I know Stephan has a point
of reference as an Uber driver, and I'm gonna rely
on you again, Stephan because and also you Twalller, because
you've driven for Uber. I don't understand Uber East drivers
and taco stands have been targeted, not just in La
County but around the country. LAPD has put out a
(20:07):
particular warning about it, but it's happening all around the country.
What I don't understand is why would Uber Eats drivers
be targeted for robberies. It's not like they're carrying quote
unquote more money than anyone else. They're carrying people's food presumably,
but I don't I don't get what the what the
appeal is.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
That is kind of odd because as far as I know,
they pick up the food and they just delivered to
wherever you know they're going. But I don't know why.
I get the stands unfortunately, because they're just they're in
one they're isolated, they're in one spot.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
We move around.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
So I don't know why they're going after the drivers
themselves because exactly like you said, there's we don't have
any more money than anyone else.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It would be different if they were making some sort
of monetary drop or there's money which is changing hands.
But that's the whole point of Uber and uber eats.
Money does not change hands to swallow when you're driving. I
don't think you carried money on you other than what
you may have needed for your lunch or something.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
No, as an Uber driver, even especially Uber eats, you're
not carrying any money.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Today.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
At the school I work at, three Uber eats orders
came in and there now all they asked for is
the code. There is no exchanging of credit cards or
anything like that. But this goes back to a conversation
that we had years ago when we talked about the
dangers of delivering pizzas in the hood. That's true, that's true,
and it's just anyone can put in an order for
a pizza and then you're just jack.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
No, no, I get that.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
But also usually the people who are delivering pizzas they
have money for change. Back in the day, you know
that there was a financial transaction which was going to
take place, Yes, and that's just dangerous when you're in
the hood.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Like, let me make the comparison.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I intellectually can understand why taco stands would be at
risk because you know that they're financial transactions going on there.
You know there's something of value beyond the food which
is there. But as far as the Uber Eats, it's like,
that's that's your best option.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
No, no, no, good, look hear me out. It goes
beyond the food as an Uber Eats delivery person.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's just you.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
You are getting out of your car, you have your
car keys with you. Anyone looking to jack you can
take damn the food to the car and the car.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
No, that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But when they say robberies, no, Yeah, they didn't say
car jackings.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
That's why it's it's one and the same.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
For the warnings that they're given, it's like they're getting
taken for everything they got, everything in your pockets, everything,
you're getting robbed. And especially in the city like La
where yeah, carjacking is still at it all time high,
it could be just someone who wants to do donuts
for the night at a damn uh the take off, street, takeover,
tree takeover.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
And this is kind of part and parcel what we
talk about being in safe situations. Like I say, if
you don't know, I always say, I don't stop at
gas stations at night. I stopped to get gassed today
because I was not going to stop last night. That's
just something I kind of live by. And I don't
do a lot of driving where I'm accessible to the
(23:15):
public at night.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
The most you get out of me is I'm going
to a grocery store where there are a lot of people, hopefully,
and I'm judicious about which grocery store I'm gonna stop,
Like I'm not going to stop at the routes that
mark shops at. Okay, too many prostitutes, too many other
night and there's a rouse by my house that I
talk about.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's like I don't stop there at night. Hell's no nothing, Yeah,
I think I know. You know.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
No, I said, it's the one on Vermont and one
hundred and twenty. They got armed security in there for
a reason. Now, foosh at it. You haven't done Uber eats.
But being an Uber driver is it still to the
point where all you know of is the person who
has requested the ride. There is still no actual guarantee
(24:01):
that the person that you're going to pick up is
one and the same.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
That's actually funny that you mentioned that they added another layer.
So let's say Moe ordered it for his wife.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
It'll say Mo, but then it'll say the name of
Moe's wife and it'll say, oh, Moe's guest laval hair, Yeah,
Lamo hair. So that's so when I get there, that's
who I'm picking up under your account, right, No.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
No, no, no, under my But you still don't know who
I am, because it's like when I get Rise for
my son, it's like, yes, I'll put in the request
that I put his name in and they know they're
getting him, But.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You don't know me.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
You don't know who you don't know if I'm setting
you up just as an uber driver. Now, just think
as an Uber each driver you've got to get out
of your car. That's one less layer of safety. That's
exactly well, that's not the reason I did it. But yeah,
just dealing with food I didn't want to deal with
that is it's already enough dealing with drunk people.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, I don't know how you do it. Seriously, It's one.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Thing when, especially from what you tell me stuff you
do a lot of work at night. Yes, you're dealing
with the worst portions of people's personalities and their decisions.
They're probably getting there on their way to doing something stupid,
or they've already done something stupid.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Now they need a ride home from their stupidity.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And I don't think he's watched taxi driver yet either,
heavy foosh, no you yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, Yeah? Has just changed your life, brave?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Has it given you perspective on what you're doing a
little bit more so?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Taxicab confessions? That was good. Give yourself a mohawk and
buy a thirty eight call it a day. Yep. Do
they still do taxicab confessions?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
But they should.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I thoroughly enjoyed that show, and that was at the
beginning of the whole idea of having.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
A camera in your car.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Now every Uber driver basically has now, but back then
it was still it was revolutionary. And people for some reason,
and I've never been that person, but for some reason,
they get in a cab or an uber and I
feel like just telling their life story.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I've been told some secrets. I've been told some drama
because they know they'll never see me again, so they
just feel so comfortable with me. And and my favorite
with Taxi Confessions is what everyone's like, oh, it's fake.
I loved at the end of the episodes, you see
them sign the release yes, so they know it was real.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah yeah, And they don't sign it until the end.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah you know we got you on camera, so and
so yeah, are you ready for to be put out
there like that? So that and I appreciated that because
then that's how it actually goes down exactly. You can't
just have someone in the cab tape them and then
use it for a TV show and not tell them
about it that they've been or not get their permission.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
To actually use it.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Well, I'm still glad that you guys are a lot,
because I don't know how you survive out there with
buber and.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Honestly, it's pretty interesting at night. I'll give you that.
That's brave.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Like I said, I've given something of like twenty thousand rides.
Only one time I felt a little weird, but twenty
thousand rock. But other than that, pretty everyone's been pretty cool.
Just you know, obviously you get some d bags, you
get some princesses every once in a while, but for
the most part, everyone's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So what's your average rating? Like, what is your rating?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Like? Three point seven three and a half stars? No,
I'm four point ninety nine on both Oh what did
you do? What did you do?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I think I missed a turn one time on both.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
It's late with Mokelly ca if I answer forty life
everywhere in the I Heart Radio app and people are
staying like, bring your mom on, No tur her to
go to the chat. No it is no mommy, no, no, yes,
she do not encourage her. She is more immature than
I am at this point, more vulgar than I am.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
She will say things that will embarrass you. The next
time you're out of ten. I'm gonna guest host and
have her as my guest. She's called in before. Okay,
you know, I just don't recommend it. I love her,
but I just don't trust her. KIM six forty Live
everywhere in iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
KFI Later with Mo Kelly Live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio App. I was really over last segment,
so this is going to be quick. But the reason
I was talking about Uber Eats drivers unfortunately being robbed,
it also gives me the opportunity to talk about where
technology is going because not only is a robbery financially
(28:40):
detrimental to the Uber Eats driver, it's also detrimental to
the company Uber and as far as trying to get
people to do those jobs. Then when I tell you
about what's going on in China right now, and much
to the chagrin of Mark Ronner, who's not going to like.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
This, listen, I'm not doctor McCoy. Okay, I'm not just
against any technology.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You're against this technology because on a certain level it
has to include AI. In China, they have these autonomous
delivery robots get this. They are designed to ride elevators,
get on and off subway platforms, board trains, and deliver
goods to stores all around the subway system, as opposed
(29:25):
to having an actual person deliver food or deliver supplies
to a specific location. They now have bots which can
maneuver most of that urban terrain where it's not like
just driving down the street. No, it will go up
(29:45):
on platforms, it will get on subways, it.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Will ride elevators.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It can't do steps, but outside of that, it can
go from A to B as a person would. And
they're using it presently right now to restock seven eleven stores.
So when they have robots which will ride the subway,
(30:13):
think how much money these companies would save without using
actual employees. And this goes back to a larger point
we always make, and actually we're in agreement here as
far as corporate greed. The moment that the technology can
be used to fit the American lifestyle, it will be
here because there's no need to pay someone when you
(30:34):
have the option of paying no one.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Well, the biggest irony here is that in Japan, civilian
gun ownership is almost unheard of, and so you don't
need a robot there. You need the robots for the
seven eleven's here.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
The whole idea of respect and criminality is just different.
It's different when I was in South Korea last June.
As a matter of fact, you saw no graffiti. You
didn't have this year that there was going to be
someone who's going to rob you. I'm quite sure there's
crime on some level, but it's a different social experience
(31:11):
here in America. There is no respect for anyone at all.
There's no respect for anyone's property. You can go to
any neighborhood and find graffiti, you can find homelessness, and yeah,
that's part of the reason why you don't have this
many delivery robots here.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
You'll see them downtown. But you know, we have.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
People here who are vandalizing the way moos. You know,
we can't have nice things. We're not there yet.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I'm not going to shed a lot of tears over
the Weymou vandalism, but no respect thing. People take my
food out of the refrigerator here. It's widespread. The disrespect.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh you didn't know that, well, I found out the
hard way. No.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
When I first started working here at iHeart the first week,
people were like stealing my lunch is it's one of
the those things where you know it's.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Not your lunch.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
No, Americans are filthy animals. You know it's not yours.
Why would you take someone else's food. I never understood
that it's not yours when you it's not like you
brought it from home, and like, oops, I mistook it.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I don't get that.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I remember I was in kindergarten, and I remember these
things like as yesterday and I had a Yogi Bear
lunch bout lunchbox. Oh no, And it turned out someone
else in my kindergarten class also had a Yogi Bear lunchbox.
I inadvertently took that person's lunchbox.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
In other words, you made a boo boo, hello, come on, goodness,
come on foosh blah boo.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Hair actually laughed at that. So you see how about that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Well earned yeah, but see that was an example of
a mistake that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying that I
understand because you and you were a child for one
still am according to soon some people. But it's like, yeah,
that was a mistake. But Mark is just now figuring
out how people get down around here. They will swam
your lunch in a heartbeat. It's just low in a heartbeat,
(33:03):
and it has to be someone we know, because they're
not that many people on this floor, and they're not
that many people who come from the other floor. We
have like vending machine, so people will come down from
other the fifth floor. We're on the fourth floor, and
they'll come and you know, either put stuff in the
refrigerator or they'll get stuff from the vending machines. So
they have a reason to be here. But they're not
that many people. You can come.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
You can probably count on two hands the amount of
people by this point on both floors. So we know
it's one of us. It's one of us, it's somebody
we know. It's like a rotten Agatha Christie story. This
is a building of savages in a nation of savages.
I don't accept it.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
You ought to fit in real well, then okay, k
if I am six forty, we're live everywhere.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I Heart Radio app k
Speaker 4 (33:44):
BY and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County more
stimulating talk
Later, with Mo'Kelly News
Popular Podcasts
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.