September 7, 2024 • 36 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Some crucial, life savings tips to help you understand the difference between “heat exhaustion” and “heat stroke” … PLUS – A look at a new report indicating homicides are slightly down in Los Angeles AND California’s ranking on the list of the best places to work in the U.S. - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yep, it's still hot. Just in case you're wondering, it's
still hot out there. Moe Kelly here k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Just want to give you a show programming note. I
know Tim Conway Junior has talked about it, but I
will be in with him Tuesday before the presidential debate,
maybe thirty five forty five minutes before the presidential debate
begins on Tuesday, So Tim and I and Mark Thompson
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will have some analysis, some contexts, some predictions leading up
to the debate on Tuesday evening. And the reason I
mentioned that off the top is former President Donald Trump
is going to be coming to LA next week for
an evening fundraiser. And the evening fundraiser is going to
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take place two days after the debate, and the event
is billed as evening reception. That's all they're calling it.
They're keeping it under wraps, but it's scheduled for September twelfth.
And this is according to an RSVP page posted by
the Trump forty seven Committee.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But get this, if.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You think that you're going to be attending, well you're
probably not. Here's why. Tickets range from thirty three hundred
dollars to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. If you
can afford it, God bless you. If you can afford
it and want to spend it in that way, hey
knock yourself out. But the deadline to RSVP is Tuesday,
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September tenth, which is the same date as the debate,
so that goes hand in hand. Former President is going
to be out in LA for a fundraising event next Thursday.
How that's going to impact traffic is probably not going
to be good. I don't know if he's going to
do a public rally. He's been known to at least
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have some sort of press gaggles and quasi rallies around his.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Trump forced one. Is that what he calls his plane.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I don't know, but you know, around his Yeah, I
think it's something like that around his private plane when
he usually comes to a city.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So I would expect that.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But there's going to be a huge southern California fundraising event.
I said Los Angeles, but I'm quite sure it'll be
somewhere in Orange County and Los Angeles. He'll probably have
more than one stop. But the fundraising event is going
to be Thursday, September twelfth, obviously two days after the debate,
and who knows what's going to happen in that debate.
(02:55):
I'm actually anxiously awaiting to see what it's going to happen,
how it's going to be managed. A debate on CNN
is going to be very different from a debate on ABC.
I think the moderation is going to be a little
bit more strict, just historically, the broadcast news networks handle
the debates real differently from the cable networks. But we'll
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see all that on Tuesday. And yes, it's still hot
and Mark Ronner, you have some explaining to do. You
may not know this, but I was listening to you.
I was actually paying attention to what you have to say.
Now all I'm serious, I do listen to you on occasion.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You must have been bored.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Now, I wouldn't say that it's just you know, because
this is right before the show starts. And did I
hear you correctly? Because we're going to talk about the
weather in earnest next segment? But did I hear you
correctly when you said that there was.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
A small chance of rain in the Antelope Valley?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, keep your speedo on there chief where there's about
a twenty twenty percent chance of rain in the AV tomorrow,
So I wouldn't put money on it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No, I'm saying that's good news, that's great news. It's
twenty percent of great news. Well i'll put it what rain,
but look, I'll take any rain. The fever is about
to break here in southern California. Yeah, body temperature, rain
feels gross. Well put it this way. Handelote Valley is
nowhere close to anybody, sorry, AV, but your way out there.
So even if it did rain in the AV, I
(04:25):
don't know if I'm going to feel it. But uh,
we'll talk about that next segment, and we'll also we'll
talk about the pictures that we were sharing in our
personal text thread about just how hot it was outside.
And it makes me wonder, what do people do? How
do you plan your weekend when it's this hot. I mean,
you can plan to stay inside, but it's the weekend.
You got to do something. It's insane, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I used to joke around that people just go to
movies for the free air conditioning once they've bought their ticket.
But I went to see a movie yesterday and it
was even hot inside the theater.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I've never had that before. That's unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Was it hot because they didn't have any air conditioning,
or it was just hot because it wasn't well ventilated.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It was hot because we're well out of the range
of most human experience in terms of the temperatures we're
seeing now.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I know that the weather has been rather extreme, but
it felt to me like what it was when I
used to live in the valley. Of course, you wouldn't
know this, but I lived in Studio City from nineteen
ninety eight to two thousand and six, so I was
rather accustomed to really hot summers in the valley.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Of course, but we're seeing all sorts of reports of
records being broken all the time in lots of different places.
And you know, it's funny. I was thinking about the
old Twilight Zone episode where I think it's Loess Nettleton
who's the planet's heating up, and there's a big twist
at the end. Good science fiction kind of tends to
take things just a step or two in the direction
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that we can already see. And so like when I
came out of the house and you got that first
blast of air today, I think I yelled something like,
oh god, I could see a not too distant future
in our lives where we're racing from one air conditioned
environment to another, and like if we don't have the
right clothes, or if the power grid goes down, it's
just a serious life threatening emergency.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You mean like the state of Texas. Yeah, they can't
keep their electrical grid up and running at all. Like
that's not a problem or anything. No, No, they might,
they might want to look into that. I was saying earlier.
You might as well. You could tell something. You could
plant someone in anywhere in la and be like, oh,
you're in Vegas. It feels exactly the same way when
you come out of the AC and like Mark said,
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just it's like it's yes, like someone's blasting a furnace
right in your face.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And it reminds me why when I get old enough
to retire, if I have enough money to retire, it
will never be in Nevada.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It will never be in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know the cost of living is less,
yeah yeah, yeah, I know you can get much more
property out there, But to deal with this type of heat,
and I think it's comparable this type of heat at
least four.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Months out of the year. No, I'm not doing it.
I refuse.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It's insane and you've got to really feel sorry for
any animals or people who are stuck outside in this weather.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
It's miserable.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Well, this is where people and animals die, and we'll
talk about that next segment. As far as the seriousness
of the heat, how you can protect yourself against heat
exhaustion and heat stroke, they're not the same. We'll go
over some of the differences, because this is the time
where we may joke about it. We may laugh about it,
we may talk about how unbearably hot it is, but
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it is very dangerous to be all together serious. So
when we come back, we'll talk about the heat and
how you can better protect yourself and also identify whether
you or a loved one or someone else you may
know may be susceptible or suffering from heat stroke or
heat exhaustion.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Did you ever think to yourself, but I was better
off not knowing. There's sometimes where the accurate information, all
the information probably does not do you any any good?
That's what I thought when Stephan sent me a picture
of his dashboard in his car as he just pulled
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up to work and I was just getting ready to
get in the car. You know, on your car it
has the temperature, the outside temperature. And he sent me
the picture in the group text, and I said, you
know what I could have been. I would have been
okay if I didn't know that it was one hundred
and seventeen degrees outside his car, because I was getting
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ready to get in my car. See, he was getting
ready to go into an air conditioned environment. Me I
was getting ready to deal with the elements. Then Twallach
decided to send his picture it was one hundred and sixteen.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
That didn't help.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I would have rather not known. Mark Ronner didn't send anything.
I think he was still asleep at the time. He
doesn't get up until like maybe four thirty five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, it was important to save all my energy for
the show. Oh, I hope you appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I do, And when I got in the car it
got to one hundred and fourteen degrees, but it's real.
I don't know if I appreciated knowing that it's real
and it could be very dangerous. I mean, yes, you
can put the proverbial egg out on the sidewalk and
it probably would have cooked. But there is some real
danger out there for you me pets. Definitely, I kept
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my mini Schnauzers in the house outside of making them
go to the bathroom real early in the morning and
keeping them inside after that. And sometimes you hear terms
like heat stroke or heat exhaustion, they're not the same.
I'm not a doctor, but I did sleep at a
holiday in Express one night, so I can figure this out.
(10:00):
This is something we do need to know the difference
because you may notice it in a relative. Maybe you
have an aging parent, Maybe you yourself are of a
certain age and you need to be aware of any
changes in your own body. So this is something that
you should take to heart heat exhaustion.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Here are the symptoms of heat exhaustion.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Faint or dizzy, excessive sweating, cool pale, clammy, skin nausea, vomiting,
rapid weak pulse, and muscle cramps.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's heat exhaustion.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And as far as treating it, you can move to
a cooler location, you can drink water, you can take
a cool shower or use use a cold compress first
thing to note is that with heat exhaustion, you can
treat it where you are in the moment. That's very
different from heat stroke, and the heat stroke symptoms are
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very different from heat exhaustion as well. Heat stroke symptoms
include throbbing, headache, no sweating. Remember, heat exhaustion had excessive sweating.
Heat stroke is no sweating, body temperature above one hundred
and three. But like heat exhaustion, it has nausea and vomiting.
It has a rapid, strong pulse associated with it, and
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worse than that, someone may lose consciousness. When I said
heat exhaustion, you said, We said that you can treat
it on the spot with cooler location or drinking water,
taking a cool shower. That's heat exhaustion. But for heat
stroke you need to get emergency help. You need to
get that person to the hospital. It's not about moving
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them to a cooler location. We're talking about severe possible
brain damage and other bodily functions harmed. So that's the
difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. And sometimes we
take for granted just because we may feel okay on
a summer day that it couldn't happen to us. And
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I remember I made the mistake and I do mean
the mistake of having a couple of beers on a
summer day out the blazing sun, and I thought I
was going to just pass out.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It's just one of those things where it can sneak
up on you. And that's the point. It can sneak
upon you very very quickly. It's not anything to play with.
And I know when I was a younger guy, I
thought I was invincible and I made some poor choices.
But I'm not a younger guy anymore. I'm almost as
old as Mark. By the way, alcohol will dehydrate you,
Yes it will. And that's another great point. Anything that
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will dehydrate you, and it doesn't have to be alcohol.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
There are a number of things, I mean, just not
drinking enough water.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You can easily get dehydrated over the course of the day,
especially if you're staying out in the sun direct sunlight
for a couple of hours or something. And I know
you may think, hey, this is a good time to
do some work in the yard.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No it is not. No, it is not.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You may think that, well, you know what, it's four
or five o'clock. It's cool enough now where I can
do something. No, it probably is not. When I got
in the car today, I should should say when I
got out of the car today at four o'clock, my
temperature gauge was registering one hundred and fourteen degrees. That's
getting out of the car at four o'clock after the
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main heat of the day. And you think it's cooling
down by four, Well it was cooling down relative to
one hundred and seventeen an our previous in Stephan's car.
So this is something we should all take very seriously.
If your pet lover like I am, you have to
protect the pets from themselves. They may not know any better,
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So just keep them inside.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
And even last night because I thought about you, Moo,
because you're always oh yeah, when you walk out, it's
like perfectly you know, warm, it's got that nice feel.
And last night Pitch Black, it's ten I walk out
the door about ten fifteen, it's ninety three degrees. Yeah,
so yeah, you've gotta really just got to you gotta
be aware of your surroundings.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Let's work our way back.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
If it's ninety three degrees at ten fifteen, it's more
than one hundred at seven or eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It can be deceiving.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We may think, well, look, the sun is almost down,
how hot can it be. Well, it can be very hot,
and it can be deceptively hot because we're thinking that, well,
the heat of the day is over.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yes, it is the heat of the day, but it's
not a normal day.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's a day where it will be one hundred degrees
well into the night after the sun has gone down,
and that's how people can get in trouble. Or you
may think that, well, okay, it's after five or six o'clock,
let me have a few drinks, as people are known
to do. Then all of a sudden they're looking at
dehydration and they think, well, it can't be heat exhaustion
or heat stroke because it's seven or eight o'clock at night. Well,
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yes it can, because you've dehydrated yourself and it's still
over one hundred degrees out side. So it's just something
to think about before you find yourself in a situation
where you have a medical emergency, or someone you love
may experience a medical emergency, and we definitely don't want that.
Now the Anlot Valley, maybe they'll get some rain tomorrow,
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but I wouldn't count on it. I don't know if
we can trust Mark with the weather.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, you've got a twenty percent chance, So if you're
a betting man, that's one in five. Excuse me bad.
And by the way, this heat can catch up on you.
It can sneak up on you really really quickly. A
couple of weeks ago, when it wasn't quite as hot
as it was now, I decided this is a good
day to move furniture. Ooh, bad idea, because even a
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task that you think is going to be just a
few minutes, it can hit.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You hard fast.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It can hit you hard, and your body is going
to exert more energy. You're going to lose more water,
and you'll find yourself more quickly dehydrated doing menial tasks,
the things that we would normally do. Because the excessive heat,
the oppressive heat, and yeah, it's not anything to play with.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
No, I wouldn't risk it. I wouldn't go running in
this weather. I mean, we can't tell people what to do,
but I'm my personal experience, being in reasonable condition is
that I have just been destroyed. Like starting an activity
that I think this will just take a couple of
minutes and at the end of it I could barely
sit up straight.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Well, like, for example, I'm teaching my hop keto martial
arts class tomorrow at nine am, ten am, and eleven am,
and we've already that's assuming anyone shows up for class.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
We've already moderated what we'll be doing. There won't be
any real exertion.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
They won't be you know, running and kicking and punching
and doing those things that we would wouldn't think twice
about on a normal day. But at ten in the
morning it might be ninety degrees. Oh yeah, so this
is a good stretching day for Marshall Art. It'll be
a stretching day exactly. We will be stretching meditation, might
be theory, we'll talk history, things of that nature. You'll
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you'll you'll have a full class, but we don't want
anyone to fall out. So from us to you be
smart when you make your choices, not only today but tomorrow.
It's later with mo Kelly, we have some good news
and kind of sort of good news when we come back.
LA homicides are down so far in twenty twenty four.
But that's not exactly good news. It just means that
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we're killing fewer people this year so far.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Maybe you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Let's talk about the homicide rate and as we think
of crime here in Los Angeles, the city, crime here
in Los Angeles, the county, and Orange County. I know
it probably means different things to different people depending on
where you are. If you live in the City of
Los Angeles, like I do, you probably feel more closely impacted.
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In fact, I know I am, And if you are
in Orange County, you may talk about it from a distance,
like crime in a general sense, but for me, it's
very specific. So when I come across homicide numbers for
the City of Los Angeles, I take that to heart.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And although we can make heads.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Or tails of statistics, we can make them seem like
they are far more important than they are. They do
give us some insight, and there is some insight here.
And the takeaway is the homicide rate has dropped in
the city of Los Angeles. Does that mean that overall
violent crime has dropped? I don't think so, and I'm
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not sure it would make a difference to me if
it did, I don't feel and safety is is more
about feeling than anything. I don't feel safer this year
than last year, just because there are fewer so far.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Let me put that in there.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
So far, there are fewer homicides in the city of
La Let's talk specifics. The city's murder rate has dipped
from last year twenty twenty three, down six point two percent.
There have been one hundred and ninety eight homicides that
took place within LAPD jurisdiction from January first through August
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thirty first, and the year is not over.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
But this is the murder rate, as they say. But
also it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Represents a twenty eight point three percent decline from the
two hundred and seventy six murders at this same time
in the year back.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
In twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
If there is any good news in this, you can
say that there is a pattern, a downward pattern at
least in the city of Los Angeles from twenty twenty
two to twenty twenty four, where up to this point
in the year we are down twenty eight point three
percent in homicides.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Now, if we were to look at the.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Stats for property crime, probably not if we were to
look at sexual assault, probably not. So this is just homicide.
It's one of those things where you can take it
or leave it. And of course, just because we're down
in homicides, it doesn't mean that that's good in and
of itself. Unless we're at zero, then it's way too many.
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But if this current pace continues, La could finish the
year with fewer than three hundred homicides, and that has
not happened in the past four years. More context in
twenty twenty three, there were three hundred and twenty seven
total murders in the city of La. In twenty nineteen,
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which was the highest of the past four years, there
were four hundred and two. So yes, it's a downward progression.
If it keeps up like this, yes that's positive. But
let me go back to the feeling aspect. I don't
know if you could find someone in the city of
La who did not know this information, who would tell
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you that they he she, they may feel safer on
a day to day basis in the city, and I
know we were bombarded with If it leaves, it leaves,
I know I'm a person He'll tell you about.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
The people who were killed on metro.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So I know that I am figuring into that equation,
but I also know it's a reasonable feeling to have
that we feel less safe in this city now than
we did, let's say two three years ago. It doesn't
matter if fewer people are being murdered. I know that
more people are being assaulted. I know that more people
are dealing with property crimes. I know that they're more
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street takeovers. I know that they are more robberies connected
to the street takeovers. I mean, crime is an amorphous thing.
It's not something you can really put your mind around.
You can wrap your mind around it, but you know
that the city today is different. And I would say
more crime than two three years ago. And I don't
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believe that all crime is reported. Murder is a little
bit different. It's kind of hard to to skate around that.
But I don't believe that all property crime is reported.
So there is some degree of uncertainty at least person
when I read some of these crime stats.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
But yes, it is positive.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That murders homicide rate is down in the city of
Los Angeles. But I don't know if I could find
someone who could tell you whether they know these stats
or not, whether they feel safer in the city of
Los Angeles today in twenty twenty four as opposed to
twenty twenty one or twenty twenty, which was actually during
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the pandemic. You know, I felt very safe in my house,
not going anywhere, with the exception of maybe the grocery store.
I mean, that was my pandemic experience. We were largely
working from home and I wasn't going to anywhere except
for the grocery store. I can't speak for anyone else
in the studio, but I personally felt safer during the pandemic,
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regardless of.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What the numbers may have said.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
I don't know if I felt necessarily safer during the pandemic.
I did feel more isolated, and when I would read
the stories of how people were slowly but surely losing
their mind, I said to myself, even before it started happening,
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I said to myself, this has changed people's perception, This
has changed people's behavior, and it made me.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Not afraid.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
But it did have it constant in my mind that
when we get back out, we're going to lose our
collective minds.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And we do feel we have we did, there's no doubt,
And I remember thinking like we have forgotten how to
coexist with each other. We lost all of our socialization skills. Now,
for kids, it showed up in their work as far
as being able to excel and school retain information. For adults,
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we didn't know how to act at all, be it
public transit, be it at the movies. I know Mark
was getting ready to kill some people at the movies.
It impacted us in a variety of ways. People have
always been rooted movies. Now, I'll tell you one thing
that was a mistake for me during the pandemic is
having the next Door app on my phone because next Door,
if you aren't familiar with this, it's nothing but reports
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about home invasions in your neighborhood. People complaining about just
ridiculous stuff that normally an adult wouldn't take up their
time with. I'm guessing the aggregate IQ if the posters
on next door is not in the triple digits. But
it'll make you paranoid because it's lots and lots of
reports of home break ins. It does because I made
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the mistake of getting on my ring app, and they'll
tell you about the crime, at least what people think
is happening. They'll say, and they'll post videos of this
is someone who just ran through my backyard or someone
who stole a bicycle off off my porch, and it
starts to affect you because you know it's real and
you know it's close in proximity.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, it may be anecdotal, but it's still what's in
front of your eyeballs, and that leaves an impression. It's like,
you know, it makes me think of the time that
I was writing scripts for House MD, the you know,
the old medical show the Games. You may realize intellectually
that you've got a very slim to zero chance of
catching disease X, Y or Z, but if you're exposed
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to information about it, it's going to be at the
top of your mind.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Well, let's change this from homicides to homelessness. Now, someone
can tell me that homelessness may be down in LA
and I'm quite sure there's stats to back that up
because of the increased efforts to address it.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
But anecdotally, if.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I step outside house, no, it isn't from just what
I see in my very small window of community when
I'm driving to work. You know, when I'm leaving my
house and going down the Street. As far as I'm concerned,
homelessness has not changed. It has not decreased. If anything,
it's increased. Does that mesh with the actual stats.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
But a lot of times we are prisoners of our
immediate environment, and if we feel, going back to homicides,
that we live in a more violent community or society. Now,
I don't care about how many stats that you show me.
You can this. This report could have come out and
said there were only twelve homicides this year. I don't
think it would have changed how I felt one way.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Or the other.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Well, and it's also not you know, the variation from
one year to the next is not giant. I constantly
see these charts showing how huge an outlier the United
States is for gun deaths compared to every other developed nation.
We're still way way up there.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Well, not only that, going back to what I was
saying last night about gas Stationsice, the homicide rate could
be zero in La. I'm still not stopping my black
ass at a gas station at.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Ten o'clock at night. I mean me, neither mine. You're
a half black one.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yes, Look, I don't care if the homicide rate was
down to twelve. My first thought is, man, I could
have been one of those twelve, right.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That's all right. Thing, That's all I heard was I
could have been one of those twelve.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
But because the people who were murdered for whatever reasons,
do not care and their families do not care about
a decrease in the homicide rate, not one bit. Right,
It's Later with Moe Kelly on the other side. We
have a little bit of good news. We're going to
tell you about this the best places to work in
the country. And you know, California must be in there
(27:44):
somewhere if we're talking about it. So for all the
bad news we have about California, maybe there's some good
news when it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
We'll find out in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
There's a new study by ox Fans America and it
ranked the states based on wage policies, worker protections, and
employees' rights to organize to decide which state is the
best place to work in the country. And this latest
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report gathered data from all US states, districts, and territories,
including Puerto Rico and Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
DC.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
So with that, let's get into it. The best places
to work in America according to OXFAM America. Number ten Colorado,
I guess, nice place to visit. Wouldn't want to live
there or work there. Number nine Connecticut, number eight, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Number seven Illinois. I'm sensing a theme here. Number six.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
New Jersey. I wouldn't want to live there, much less
work there. There's nothing in New Jersey, not a damn thing.
Number five the great state of Mark Ronner, Washington. Number
four New York.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
To wait, they're talking about to work.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
The best places for employees in the country according to
their criteria, Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Number three.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Oregon really okay, Oh it's nice and they've got Powell's
books there.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Number two the Golden State California.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Number two. I don't know, I don't know. Let me
go back to the top.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It says the nonprofit organization rank all the states based
on wage policies, worker protections, and employees' rights to organize.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Well, yeah, with that criteria.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, when you got fast food workers making twenty dollars
an hour and didn't, yeah, California's got to be on
the lift.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Calf is the number one if that's the criteria. Okay.
Coming in at number.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
One of the best places for employees to make money
or whatever in the country, Washington, DC. That's that's accurate
given their criteria. That's accurate. Okay, the criteria of it, yes, Okay,
(31:15):
I'm going to couch it that way, all right. Given
the criteria talking about wage policies, worker protections, and employees'
rights to organize. I would say, put another way, the
most pro union places in the country. New Jersey isn't higher. Well,
(31:36):
you know, Jersey was the home of the union number
six according to this list. You know, I'm kind of curious.
What are the worst states? I want to make any predictions?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
All the South, going to put it out there, that
would be my guess. That would be my guess.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Coming in at number ten as far as the worst
states to work given the criteria which was used, Kentucky
and we're off a number nine. A little wrinkle Wyoming
(32:17):
not the South, but south Ish, south Ish Midwest in
mentality not geography. Number eight, Utah, number seven, Texas definitely,
(32:42):
I know a lot of folks.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Number six.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Tennessee and this is according to Oxfam America relative to
wage policies, worker protections, employees' rights to organize the so
called quote unquote worst states to work in the United States.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Number five South Carolina. Why don't we just go through
the whole SEC Football Conference? Number four.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Football FABA falls. I'm Kate Jackson. Number three.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Georgia. I don't sense the theme anymore. I see a
pattern shocking coming in at number two Mississippi. And my
only surprise is, how in the heck is Mississippi not
number one?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
They are the worst in everything.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
How are they not the worst place for employees in
the United States?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
How's that possible?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, they're competitive. Well, they came in at number two.
Here is number.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
One, North Carolina. I'm actually surprised.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I didn't think North Carolina would even be in the
top ten according to this criteria. I got family in
North Carolina, so I kind of know how they get down.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Yeah, I have friends out there, and then they would
definitely not agree with it.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, they would not agree with this.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I mean, put it this way, it cannot be worse
than Mississippi. Nothing is worse than Mississippi. You can't tell
me it is worse for people who work in the
state of North Carolina than the state of Mississippi. Real quick, up,
tell tell me about the the minimum wages in Mississippi Versusina.
Let's just start there and I'll do the minimum wage
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in North Carolina minimum wage No Carolina seven an hour
in North Carolina seven twenty five in Mississippi. Okay, so
they're comparable. They're comparable, but Mississippi is also in Mississippi.
So right, that's why it is probably worse. Yes, now,
(35:30):
I think a lot of these states on your worst
list are also right to work states as well.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Yes they are.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
No, seriously, Yeah that's that's I was soft peddling it,
but yeah, that's probably the thru line.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
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Speaker 4 (35:46):
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Speaker 1 (35:51):
We're bringing it back.
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Yep, it's still hot. Just in case you're wondering, it's
still hot out there. Moe Kelly here k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Just want to give you a show programming note. I
know Tim Conway Junior has talked about it, but I
will be in with him Tuesday before the presidential debate,
maybe thirty five forty five minutes before the presidential debate
begins on Tuesday, So Tim and I and Mark Thompson
(00:51):
will have some analysis, some contexts, some predictions leading up
to the debate on Tuesday evening. And the reason I
mentioned that off the top is former President Donald Trump
is going to be coming to LA next week for
an evening fundraiser. And the evening fundraiser is going to
(01:12):
take place two days after the debate, and the event
is billed as evening reception. That's all they're calling it.
They're keeping it under wraps, but it's scheduled for September twelfth.
And this is according to an RSVP page posted by
the Trump forty seven Committee.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But get this, if.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You think that you're going to be attending, well you're
probably not. Here's why. Tickets range from thirty three hundred
dollars to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. If you
can afford it, God bless you. If you can afford
it and want to spend it in that way, hey
knock yourself out. But the deadline to RSVP is Tuesday,
(01:53):
September tenth, which is the same date as the debate,
so that goes hand in hand. Former President is going
to be out in LA for a fundraising event next Thursday.
How that's going to impact traffic is probably not going
to be good. I don't know if he's going to
do a public rally. He's been known to at least
(02:13):
have some sort of press gaggles and quasi rallies around his.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Trump forced one. Is that what he calls his plane.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I don't know, but you know, around his Yeah, I
think it's something like that around his private plane when
he usually comes to a city.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So I would expect that.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But there's going to be a huge southern California fundraising event.
I said Los Angeles, but I'm quite sure it'll be
somewhere in Orange County and Los Angeles. He'll probably have
more than one stop. But the fundraising event is going
to be Thursday, September twelfth, obviously two days after the debate,
and who knows what's going to happen in that debate.
(02:55):
I'm actually anxiously awaiting to see what it's going to happen,
how it's going to be managed. A debate on CNN
is going to be very different from a debate on ABC.
I think the moderation is going to be a little
bit more strict, just historically, the broadcast news networks handle
the debates real differently from the cable networks. But we'll
(03:17):
see all that on Tuesday. And yes, it's still hot
and Mark Ronner, you have some explaining to do. You
may not know this, but I was listening to you.
I was actually paying attention to what you have to say.
Now all I'm serious, I do listen to you on occasion.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You must have been bored.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Now, I wouldn't say that it's just you know, because
this is right before the show starts. And did I
hear you correctly? Because we're going to talk about the
weather in earnest next segment? But did I hear you
correctly when you said that there was.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
A small chance of rain in the Antelope Valley?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, keep your speedo on there chief where there's about
a twenty twenty percent chance of rain in the AV tomorrow,
So I wouldn't put money on it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No, I'm saying that's good news, that's great news. It's
twenty percent of great news. Well i'll put it what rain,
but look, I'll take any rain. The fever is about
to break here in southern California. Yeah, body temperature, rain
feels gross. Well put it this way. Handelote Valley is
nowhere close to anybody, sorry, AV, but your way out there.
So even if it did rain in the AV, I
(04:25):
don't know if I'm going to feel it. But uh,
we'll talk about that next segment, and we'll also we'll
talk about the pictures that we were sharing in our
personal text thread about just how hot it was outside.
And it makes me wonder, what do people do? How
do you plan your weekend when it's this hot. I mean,
you can plan to stay inside, but it's the weekend.
You got to do something. It's insane, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I used to joke around that people just go to
movies for the free air conditioning once they've bought their ticket.
But I went to see a movie yesterday and it
was even hot inside the theater.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I've never had that before. That's unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Was it hot because they didn't have any air conditioning,
or it was just hot because it wasn't well ventilated.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It was hot because we're well out of the range
of most human experience in terms of the temperatures we're
seeing now.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I know that the weather has been rather extreme, but
it felt to me like what it was when I
used to live in the valley. Of course, you wouldn't
know this, but I lived in Studio City from nineteen
ninety eight to two thousand and six, so I was
rather accustomed to really hot summers in the valley.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Of course, but we're seeing all sorts of reports of
records being broken all the time in lots of different places.
And you know, it's funny. I was thinking about the
old Twilight Zone episode where I think it's Loess Nettleton
who's the planet's heating up, and there's a big twist
at the end. Good science fiction kind of tends to
take things just a step or two in the direction
(05:52):
that we can already see. And so like when I
came out of the house and you got that first
blast of air today, I think I yelled something like,
oh god, I could see a not too distant future
in our lives where we're racing from one air conditioned
environment to another, and like if we don't have the
right clothes, or if the power grid goes down, it's
just a serious life threatening emergency.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You mean like the state of Texas. Yeah, they can't
keep their electrical grid up and running at all. Like
that's not a problem or anything. No, No, they might,
they might want to look into that. I was saying earlier.
You might as well. You could tell something. You could
plant someone in anywhere in la and be like, oh,
you're in Vegas. It feels exactly the same way when
you come out of the AC and like Mark said,
(06:35):
just it's like it's yes, like someone's blasting a furnace
right in your face.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And it reminds me why when I get old enough
to retire, if I have enough money to retire, it
will never be in Nevada.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It will never be in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know the cost of living is less,
yeah yeah, yeah, I know you can get much more
property out there, But to deal with this type of heat,
and I think it's comparable this type of heat at
least four.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Months out of the year. No, I'm not doing it.
I refuse.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It's insane and you've got to really feel sorry for
any animals or people who are stuck outside in this weather.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
It's miserable.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Well, this is where people and animals die, and we'll
talk about that next segment. As far as the seriousness
of the heat, how you can protect yourself against heat
exhaustion and heat stroke, they're not the same. We'll go
over some of the differences, because this is the time
where we may joke about it. We may laugh about it,
we may talk about how unbearably hot it is, but
(07:34):
it is very dangerous to be all together serious. So
when we come back, we'll talk about the heat and
how you can better protect yourself and also identify whether
you or a loved one or someone else you may
know may be susceptible or suffering from heat stroke or
heat exhaustion.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Did you ever think to yourself, but I was better
off not knowing. There's sometimes where the accurate information, all
the information probably does not do you any any good?
That's what I thought when Stephan sent me a picture
of his dashboard in his car as he just pulled
(08:21):
up to work and I was just getting ready to
get in the car. You know, on your car it
has the temperature, the outside temperature. And he sent me
the picture in the group text, and I said, you
know what I could have been. I would have been
okay if I didn't know that it was one hundred
and seventeen degrees outside his car, because I was getting
(08:42):
ready to get in my car. See, he was getting
ready to go into an air conditioned environment. Me I
was getting ready to deal with the elements. Then Twallach
decided to send his picture it was one hundred and sixteen.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
That didn't help.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I would have rather not known. Mark Ronner didn't send anything.
I think he was still asleep at the time. He
doesn't get up until like maybe four thirty five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, it was important to save all my energy for
the show. Oh, I hope you appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I do, And when I got in the car it
got to one hundred and fourteen degrees, but it's real.
I don't know if I appreciated knowing that it's real
and it could be very dangerous. I mean, yes, you
can put the proverbial egg out on the sidewalk and
it probably would have cooked. But there is some real
danger out there for you me pets. Definitely, I kept
(09:37):
my mini Schnauzers in the house outside of making them
go to the bathroom real early in the morning and
keeping them inside after that. And sometimes you hear terms
like heat stroke or heat exhaustion, they're not the same.
I'm not a doctor, but I did sleep at a
holiday in Express one night, so I can figure this out.
(10:00):
This is something we do need to know the difference
because you may notice it in a relative. Maybe you
have an aging parent, Maybe you yourself are of a
certain age and you need to be aware of any
changes in your own body. So this is something that
you should take to heart heat exhaustion.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Here are the symptoms of heat exhaustion.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Faint or dizzy, excessive sweating, cool pale, clammy, skin nausea, vomiting,
rapid weak pulse, and muscle cramps.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's heat exhaustion.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And as far as treating it, you can move to
a cooler location, you can drink water, you can take
a cool shower or use use a cold compress first
thing to note is that with heat exhaustion, you can
treat it where you are in the moment. That's very
different from heat stroke, and the heat stroke symptoms are
(10:57):
very different from heat exhaustion as well. Heat stroke symptoms
include throbbing, headache, no sweating. Remember, heat exhaustion had excessive sweating.
Heat stroke is no sweating, body temperature above one hundred
and three. But like heat exhaustion, it has nausea and vomiting.
It has a rapid, strong pulse associated with it, and
(11:22):
worse than that, someone may lose consciousness. When I said
heat exhaustion, you said, We said that you can treat
it on the spot with cooler location or drinking water,
taking a cool shower. That's heat exhaustion. But for heat
stroke you need to get emergency help. You need to
get that person to the hospital. It's not about moving
(11:43):
them to a cooler location. We're talking about severe possible
brain damage and other bodily functions harmed. So that's the
difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. And sometimes we
take for granted just because we may feel okay on
a summer day that it couldn't happen to us. And
(12:04):
I remember I made the mistake and I do mean
the mistake of having a couple of beers on a
summer day out the blazing sun, and I thought I
was going to just pass out.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It's just one of those things where it can sneak
up on you. And that's the point. It can sneak
upon you very very quickly. It's not anything to play with.
And I know when I was a younger guy, I
thought I was invincible and I made some poor choices.
But I'm not a younger guy anymore. I'm almost as
old as Mark. By the way, alcohol will dehydrate you,
Yes it will. And that's another great point. Anything that
(12:38):
will dehydrate you, and it doesn't have to be alcohol.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
There are a number of things, I mean, just not
drinking enough water.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You can easily get dehydrated over the course of the day,
especially if you're staying out in the sun direct sunlight
for a couple of hours or something. And I know
you may think, hey, this is a good time to
do some work in the yard.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No it is not. No, it is not.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You may think that, well, you know what, it's four
or five o'clock. It's cool enough now where I can
do something. No, it probably is not. When I got
in the car today, I should should say when I
got out of the car today at four o'clock, my
temperature gauge was registering one hundred and fourteen degrees. That's
getting out of the car at four o'clock after the
(13:21):
main heat of the day. And you think it's cooling
down by four, Well it was cooling down relative to
one hundred and seventeen an our previous in Stephan's car.
So this is something we should all take very seriously.
If your pet lover like I am, you have to
protect the pets from themselves. They may not know any better,
(13:42):
So just keep them inside.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
And even last night because I thought about you, Moo,
because you're always oh yeah, when you walk out, it's
like perfectly you know, warm, it's got that nice feel.
And last night Pitch Black, it's ten I walk out
the door about ten fifteen, it's ninety three degrees. Yeah,
so yeah, you've gotta really just got to you gotta
be aware of your surroundings.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Let's work our way back.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
If it's ninety three degrees at ten fifteen, it's more
than one hundred at seven or eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It can be deceiving.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We may think, well, look, the sun is almost down,
how hot can it be. Well, it can be very hot,
and it can be deceptively hot because we're thinking that, well,
the heat of the day is over.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yes, it is the heat of the day, but it's
not a normal day.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's a day where it will be one hundred degrees
well into the night after the sun has gone down,
and that's how people can get in trouble. Or you
may think that, well, okay, it's after five or six o'clock,
let me have a few drinks, as people are known
to do. Then all of a sudden they're looking at
dehydration and they think, well, it can't be heat exhaustion
or heat stroke because it's seven or eight o'clock at night. Well,
(14:55):
yes it can, because you've dehydrated yourself and it's still
over one hundred degrees out side. So it's just something
to think about before you find yourself in a situation
where you have a medical emergency, or someone you love
may experience a medical emergency, and we definitely don't want that.
Now the Anlot Valley, maybe they'll get some rain tomorrow,
(15:16):
but I wouldn't count on it. I don't know if
we can trust Mark with the weather.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, you've got a twenty percent chance, So if you're
a betting man, that's one in five. Excuse me bad.
And by the way, this heat can catch up on you.
It can sneak up on you really really quickly. A
couple of weeks ago, when it wasn't quite as hot
as it was now, I decided this is a good
day to move furniture. Ooh, bad idea, because even a
(15:40):
task that you think is going to be just a
few minutes, it can hit.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You hard fast.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It can hit you hard, and your body is going
to exert more energy. You're going to lose more water,
and you'll find yourself more quickly dehydrated doing menial tasks,
the things that we would normally do. Because the excessive heat,
the oppressive heat, and yeah, it's not anything to play with.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
No, I wouldn't risk it. I wouldn't go running in
this weather. I mean, we can't tell people what to do,
but I'm my personal experience, being in reasonable condition is
that I have just been destroyed. Like starting an activity
that I think this will just take a couple of
minutes and at the end of it I could barely
sit up straight.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Well, like, for example, I'm teaching my hop keto martial
arts class tomorrow at nine am, ten am, and eleven am,
and we've already that's assuming anyone shows up for class.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
We've already moderated what we'll be doing. There won't be
any real exertion.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
They won't be you know, running and kicking and punching
and doing those things that we would wouldn't think twice
about on a normal day. But at ten in the
morning it might be ninety degrees. Oh yeah, so this
is a good stretching day for Marshall Art. It'll be
a stretching day exactly. We will be stretching meditation, might
be theory, we'll talk history, things of that nature. You'll
(16:59):
you'll you'll have a full class, but we don't want
anyone to fall out. So from us to you be
smart when you make your choices, not only today but tomorrow.
It's later with mo Kelly, we have some good news
and kind of sort of good news when we come back.
LA homicides are down so far in twenty twenty four.
But that's not exactly good news. It just means that
(17:19):
we're killing fewer people this year so far.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Maybe you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Let's talk about the homicide rate and as we think
of crime here in Los Angeles, the city, crime here
in Los Angeles, the county, and Orange County. I know
it probably means different things to different people depending on
where you are. If you live in the City of
Los Angeles, like I do, you probably feel more closely impacted.
(17:53):
In fact, I know I am, And if you are
in Orange County, you may talk about it from a distance,
like crime in a general sense, but for me, it's
very specific. So when I come across homicide numbers for
the City of Los Angeles, I take that to heart.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And although we can make heads.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Or tails of statistics, we can make them seem like
they are far more important than they are. They do
give us some insight, and there is some insight here.
And the takeaway is the homicide rate has dropped in
the city of Los Angeles. Does that mean that overall
violent crime has dropped? I don't think so, and I'm
(18:39):
not sure it would make a difference to me if
it did, I don't feel and safety is is more
about feeling than anything. I don't feel safer this year
than last year, just because there are fewer so far.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Let me put that in there.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
So far, there are fewer homicides in the city of
La Let's talk specifics. The city's murder rate has dipped
from last year twenty twenty three, down six point two percent.
There have been one hundred and ninety eight homicides that
took place within LAPD jurisdiction from January first through August
(19:19):
thirty first, and the year is not over.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
But this is the murder rate, as they say. But
also it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Represents a twenty eight point three percent decline from the
two hundred and seventy six murders at this same time
in the year back.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
In twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
If there is any good news in this, you can
say that there is a pattern, a downward pattern at
least in the city of Los Angeles from twenty twenty
two to twenty twenty four, where up to this point
in the year we are down twenty eight point three
percent in homicides.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Now, if we were to look at the.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Stats for property crime, probably not if we were to
look at sexual assault, probably not. So this is just homicide.
It's one of those things where you can take it
or leave it. And of course, just because we're down
in homicides, it doesn't mean that that's good in and
of itself. Unless we're at zero, then it's way too many.
(20:18):
But if this current pace continues, La could finish the
year with fewer than three hundred homicides, and that has
not happened in the past four years. More context in
twenty twenty three, there were three hundred and twenty seven
total murders in the city of La. In twenty nineteen,
(20:41):
which was the highest of the past four years, there
were four hundred and two. So yes, it's a downward progression.
If it keeps up like this, yes that's positive. But
let me go back to the feeling aspect. I don't
know if you could find someone in the city of
La who did not know this information, who would tell
(21:02):
you that they he she, they may feel safer on
a day to day basis in the city, and I
know we were bombarded with If it leaves, it leaves,
I know I'm a person He'll tell you about.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
The people who were killed on metro.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So I know that I am figuring into that equation,
but I also know it's a reasonable feeling to have
that we feel less safe in this city now than
we did, let's say two three years ago. It doesn't
matter if fewer people are being murdered. I know that
more people are being assaulted. I know that more people
are dealing with property crimes. I know that they're more
(21:40):
street takeovers. I know that they are more robberies connected
to the street takeovers. I mean, crime is an amorphous thing.
It's not something you can really put your mind around.
You can wrap your mind around it, but you know
that the city today is different. And I would say
more crime than two three years ago. And I don't
(22:03):
believe that all crime is reported. Murder is a little
bit different. It's kind of hard to to skate around that.
But I don't believe that all property crime is reported.
So there is some degree of uncertainty at least person
when I read some of these crime stats.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
But yes, it is positive.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That murders homicide rate is down in the city of
Los Angeles. But I don't know if I could find
someone who could tell you whether they know these stats
or not, whether they feel safer in the city of
Los Angeles today in twenty twenty four as opposed to
twenty twenty one or twenty twenty, which was actually during
(22:44):
the pandemic. You know, I felt very safe in my house,
not going anywhere, with the exception of maybe the grocery store.
I mean, that was my pandemic experience. We were largely
working from home and I wasn't going to anywhere except
for the grocery store. I can't speak for anyone else
in the studio, but I personally felt safer during the pandemic,
(23:09):
regardless of.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What the numbers may have said.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
I don't know if I felt necessarily safer during the pandemic.
I did feel more isolated, and when I would read
the stories of how people were slowly but surely losing
their mind, I said to myself, even before it started happening,
(23:33):
I said to myself, this has changed people's perception, This
has changed people's behavior, and it made me.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Not afraid.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
But it did have it constant in my mind that
when we get back out, we're going to lose our
collective minds.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And we do feel we have we did, there's no doubt,
And I remember thinking like we have forgotten how to
coexist with each other. We lost all of our socialization skills. Now,
for kids, it showed up in their work as far
as being able to excel and school retain information. For adults,
(24:12):
we didn't know how to act at all, be it
public transit, be it at the movies. I know Mark
was getting ready to kill some people at the movies.
It impacted us in a variety of ways. People have
always been rooted movies. Now, I'll tell you one thing
that was a mistake for me during the pandemic is
having the next Door app on my phone because next Door,
if you aren't familiar with this, it's nothing but reports
(24:35):
about home invasions in your neighborhood. People complaining about just
ridiculous stuff that normally an adult wouldn't take up their
time with. I'm guessing the aggregate IQ if the posters
on next door is not in the triple digits. But
it'll make you paranoid because it's lots and lots of
reports of home break ins. It does because I made
(24:57):
the mistake of getting on my ring app, and they'll
tell you about the crime, at least what people think
is happening. They'll say, and they'll post videos of this
is someone who just ran through my backyard or someone
who stole a bicycle off off my porch, and it
starts to affect you because you know it's real and
you know it's close in proximity.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, it may be anecdotal, but it's still what's in
front of your eyeballs, and that leaves an impression. It's like,
you know, it makes me think of the time that
I was writing scripts for House MD, the you know,
the old medical show the Games. You may realize intellectually
that you've got a very slim to zero chance of
catching disease X, Y or Z, but if you're exposed
(25:40):
to information about it, it's going to be at the
top of your mind.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Well, let's change this from homicides to homelessness. Now, someone
can tell me that homelessness may be down in LA
and I'm quite sure there's stats to back that up
because of the increased efforts to address it.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
But anecdotally, if.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I step outside house, no, it isn't from just what
I see in my very small window of community when
I'm driving to work. You know, when I'm leaving my
house and going down the Street. As far as I'm concerned,
homelessness has not changed. It has not decreased. If anything,
it's increased. Does that mesh with the actual stats.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
But a lot of times we are prisoners of our
immediate environment, and if we feel, going back to homicides,
that we live in a more violent community or society. Now,
I don't care about how many stats that you show me.
You can this. This report could have come out and
said there were only twelve homicides this year. I don't
think it would have changed how I felt one way.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Or the other.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Well, and it's also not you know, the variation from
one year to the next is not giant. I constantly
see these charts showing how huge an outlier the United
States is for gun deaths compared to every other developed nation.
We're still way way up there.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Well, not only that, going back to what I was
saying last night about gas Stationsice, the homicide rate could
be zero in La. I'm still not stopping my black
ass at a gas station at.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Ten o'clock at night. I mean me, neither mine. You're
a half black one.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yes, Look, I don't care if the homicide rate was
down to twelve. My first thought is, man, I could
have been one of those twelve, right.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That's all right. Thing, That's all I heard was I
could have been one of those twelve.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
But because the people who were murdered for whatever reasons,
do not care and their families do not care about
a decrease in the homicide rate, not one bit. Right,
It's Later with Moe Kelly on the other side. We
have a little bit of good news. We're going to
tell you about this the best places to work in
the country. And you know, California must be in there
(27:44):
somewhere if we're talking about it. So for all the
bad news we have about California, maybe there's some good
news when it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
We'll find out in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
There's a new study by ox Fans America and it
ranked the states based on wage policies, worker protections, and
employees' rights to organize to decide which state is the
best place to work in the country. And this latest
(28:18):
report gathered data from all US states, districts, and territories,
including Puerto Rico and Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
DC.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
So with that, let's get into it. The best places
to work in America according to OXFAM America. Number ten Colorado,
I guess, nice place to visit. Wouldn't want to live
there or work there. Number nine Connecticut, number eight, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Number seven Illinois. I'm sensing a theme here. Number six.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
New Jersey. I wouldn't want to live there, much less
work there. There's nothing in New Jersey, not a damn thing.
Number five the great state of Mark Ronner, Washington. Number
four New York.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
To wait, they're talking about to work.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
The best places for employees in the country according to
their criteria, Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Number three.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Oregon really okay, Oh it's nice and they've got Powell's
books there.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Number two the Golden State California.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Number two. I don't know, I don't know. Let me
go back to the top.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It says the nonprofit organization rank all the states based
on wage policies, worker protections, and employees' rights to organize.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Well, yeah, with that criteria.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, when you got fast food workers making twenty dollars
an hour and didn't, yeah, California's got to be on
the lift.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Calf is the number one if that's the criteria. Okay.
Coming in at number.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
One of the best places for employees to make money
or whatever in the country, Washington, DC. That's that's accurate
given their criteria. That's accurate. Okay, the criteria of it, yes, Okay,
(31:15):
I'm going to couch it that way, all right. Given
the criteria talking about wage policies, worker protections, and employees'
rights to organize. I would say, put another way, the
most pro union places in the country. New Jersey isn't higher. Well,
(31:36):
you know, Jersey was the home of the union number
six according to this list. You know, I'm kind of curious.
What are the worst states? I want to make any predictions?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
All the South, going to put it out there, that
would be my guess. That would be my guess.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Coming in at number ten as far as the worst
states to work given the criteria which was used, Kentucky
and we're off a number nine. A little wrinkle Wyoming
(32:17):
not the South, but south Ish, south Ish Midwest in
mentality not geography. Number eight, Utah, number seven, Texas definitely,
(32:42):
I know a lot of folks.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Number six.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Tennessee and this is according to Oxfam America relative to
wage policies, worker protections, employees' rights to organize the so
called quote unquote worst states to work in the United States.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Number five South Carolina. Why don't we just go through
the whole SEC Football Conference? Number four.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Football FABA falls. I'm Kate Jackson. Number three.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Georgia. I don't sense the theme anymore. I see a
pattern shocking coming in at number two Mississippi. And my
only surprise is, how in the heck is Mississippi not
number one?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
They are the worst in everything.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
How are they not the worst place for employees in
the United States?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
How's that possible?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, they're competitive. Well, they came in at number two.
Here is number.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
One, North Carolina. I'm actually surprised.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I didn't think North Carolina would even be in the
top ten according to this criteria. I got family in
North Carolina, so I kind of know how they get down.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Yeah, I have friends out there, and then they would
definitely not agree with it.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, they would not agree with this.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I mean, put it this way, it cannot be worse
than Mississippi. Nothing is worse than Mississippi. You can't tell
me it is worse for people who work in the
state of North Carolina than the state of Mississippi. Real quick, up,
tell tell me about the the minimum wages in Mississippi Versusina.
Let's just start there and I'll do the minimum wage
(35:05):
in North Carolina minimum wage No Carolina seven an hour
in North Carolina seven twenty five in Mississippi. Okay, so
they're comparable. They're comparable, but Mississippi is also in Mississippi.
So right, that's why it is probably worse. Yes, now,
(35:30):
I think a lot of these states on your worst
list are also right to work states as well.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Yes they are.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
No, seriously, Yeah that's that's I was soft peddling it,
but yeah, that's probably the thru line.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
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Speaker 1 (35:51):
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