May 13, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the L.A. Metro’s symposium to allay “uncertainty about riding public transit in LA County”…PLUS - Nedra Gayles, RN ~ ‘Labor & Delivery Nurse, MemorialCare Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach’ joins the program with an in-depth look at the one-day strike announced by Registered Nurses at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center (LBMC) - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's later with mo Kelly. How's your Monday been going?
Hopefully pretty well? Is it a holiday? I know it
was Mother's Day yesterday, but it felt like a holiday.
I got on the freeway, it wasn't too crowded. My
commute was not too long. I got into the garage
and it wasn't too a fill that. I'm thinking, like,
wait a minute, maybe the joke.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Is on me.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Did someone send out a memo and I didn't get it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I pulled in it was everywhere to park. Usually there's
nowhere to park. Today there was everywhere to park. I
had no problem getting to the office. It's almost like
somebody knows something I do not.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Here we are back on a Monday, Mark Ronald, good evening, sir.
How was your weekend? You know it was.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It was way too short, but I got a chance
to take in a movie or two. I went to
a special screening of Karate Kid Legends.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I may tell you about that later. Uh huh huh.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
You know, I I was ruminating about that after we
had just a couple of texts. I'm just kind of
over that. I have had all the nostalgia from that
that I require, and.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I think too much of a good thing. Maybe at
this point. Yeah, you might be right, that's all I'll say.
Oh my god, you might be right. I hope this
is being recorded. We're starting off the week agreed that
that is unsettling. Oh we're off to a horrible start. Serious, Stephan,
Did you uber this weekend?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I did.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Did you make a little bit of money or a
lot of money? I made a pretty good amount of money.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Do they pay you each night?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Well, you have the option to take it out whenever
you want, but if you don't take it out yourself,
it's weekly.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, that's not bad. Yeah, it's pretty cool. O bad
Twillert sharp. Did you go to any concerts with your
daughter this weekend?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You sure? No? No, seriously, slept in pretty much all weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Man, Shockingly, that is sometimes a good weekend, A good weekend,
the best. We got so much to cover locally. Just
want to let you know at the bottom of the hour,
we're going to talk about the Long Beach Memorial Nurses strike,
which has been announced and scheduled for May twenty second.
That could have all sorts of impact and influence on
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your lives, especially if you're in Southern California.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
We'll talk about that at the bottom of the hour.
I have to start off.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
With some local news here, and it's unfortunate, but is
relevant to things we've discussed on this show.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And I say this not as I told you so, but.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
More as let me warn you one more time that
you do not take going to the gas station lightly.
I say that I do not go to the gas
station at night, but whenever I do, which is always
in the daytime, my head is always on a swivel
because I know I am more likely to be victimized
at a gas station than any other time, if only
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because you're there to spend money, presumably your stationary. You
may be distracted, your car door is opened, they know
you have your keys on you. You are more likely
to be victimized or carjacked or something of that. A
seventy eight year old man unfortunately has died when he
was dragged during a violent carjacking at a Norcote gas
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station this afternoon. And this happened around twelve twenty three pm,
and the victim, according to news reports, was cleaning the
backseat of his car when a suspected carjacker got in
and started backing up with the seventy seventy eight year
old man still in the back of the vehicle, partially in,
partially out. And then that's when the suspect allegedly sped
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east on Hidden Valley Parkway, dragging the victim for about
a quarter mile.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm seeing a mile. Oh okay, then they've updated. That's
in my copy. I don't know. I'm sure the story
will shape up throughout the evening.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
No, since it happened earlier today, there may be some
conflicting information. I'm getting this from ABC seven. I can't
speak for you. It's horrifying one way or the other.
The man fell out of the car and was taken
to a hospital where he later died. And there's nothing
we can do about this man, unfortunately. But if I
can impress upon anyone one more time that when you
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are at a gas station, be it man, woman, young adult,
elderly individual, you have to pay attention at all times
because criminals will target people and their cars at a
gas station. I don't know what else to say. And
this story came down, I want to think maybe five minutes.
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I saw this five minutes before we got on the air,
and I said to walaw. We have to make mention
of this because it's real important to what we do.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
No, And interesting enough, I practice gas station safety whenever
I going today on the way in, I had to
stop and get gased, and in dropping off, actually dropping
my son off.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
He didn't understand why I did it.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
But I get out the car and I close the doors,
leave the AC runner and I lock the doors, lock
the doors, and then I go and get my gas.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
He's like, I'm in the car. Why'd you lock there?
I'm like, because of car jackers. He's like, well, Dumbe's
coming around here.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I'm like, that's the type of mentality that you have
when you get jacked. No one's gonna come around here.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It's the false sense of security, believing that because it's
broad daylight. You know, this is twelve twenty three in
the afternoon, that's when we're probably most relaxed. Twelve twenty
three in the afternoon is when I would usually get
my gas, maybe on the way to work, and that's
when something bad could happen. I'm quite sure as a
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seventy eight year old man, he was looked upon. Its
probably an easier target. But again, if you're not paying attention,
you are an easier target, unfortunately, and I would want
everyone to be safe, and safety starts with the decisions
and choices that you make before you find yourself in danger,
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before you get into a situation where someone is trying
to carjack you. And all of us, with exception of
the people who have evs, got to go to the
gas station.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And if you're going to go, don't go at night.
And when you do go, you have to remain attentive
at all times, because that's when you are more susceptible
than other times. I see this all the time.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
I'm sorry, Mark, I see this all the time where
I see some people go through a gas station car
wash and right at the end they'll go apart right
there out the exit and they start vacuuming, cleaning out
the back of their car. And every single time I
see people just nose in in the car back to
the world with their door open.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I'm like, you are looking like a victim. You're looking
like a victim right now. Be safe out there. It's
later with Kelly when we come back.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
We have a Metro update, and interestingly enough, it has
to do with safety and the elderly that's next.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I gotta tell you, just in case you didn't know,
we're still live on YouTube at mister mo Kelly m
R M O K E L L Y. I gotta
tell you. I'm getting offended again for another occasion. Metro
is doing something and not including me. How are you
gonna have the ninth annual Older Adult Transportation Expo, which
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is put on by La Metro at that Pasadena convention
Center happened.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Last Friday and not invite me.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I'm like doubly offended because they were talking about taking
seniors fifty five years and older. First, that's fed up.
I'm fifty five and they're considering me a senior. All right,
that's number one and number two. You didn't at least
give me the respect of inviting me to the event
because I might have had something to add.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Well, maybe they're working on something else, like naming a
new mo Kelly HEMO stat for people who have been injured.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I would like to know, though they're not including me
in the conversation. You at least could have hosted the seminar.
Wouldn't I have been great for that. Yes, it would
have been a great community event, and it could have
built bridges. It could have improved their media outreach and
their coverage. But now they just completely ignored me. But anyhow,
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it was the ninth annual Older Adult Transportation Expo. Happened
Friday at the Pasadena Convention Center and it was attended
by get this, six hundred and forty senior citizens.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
It's like built in KFI six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Six hundred and forty senior citizens did that on purpose.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
That's not a mistake. It rights itself.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
They're playing in my face, I tell you, I tell you,
and they were supposedly. Met was focused on teaching older
adults how to use the metro system, successfully loading and
using a tap card for entering trains and buses, and
also listening to their concerns. You know what their number
one concern was, anyone, anyone feeler the new security fairgates,
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no safety getting killed, shot, stabbed, I don't know, abducted.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
A lot of older people are afraid to travel on
trains and buses because they don't think it is safe
that's Marilyn Peters and La Metro travel buddy for eight
years down in the Crenshaw District. Okay, this is what
Maryland does before she starts an outing with a new group.
She emails them safety precautions. Bring a small purse, keep
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your cell phone inside your purse, Have your TAP card
ready so you're not rummaging for it. Always be alert,
don't wear a lot of jewelry. All great advice, great advice,
but still the underlying concern is safety. That's not because
they're all listening to this station or they're watching me
on YouTube. That's because it's a real thing. It's not
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just their imagination. And I appreciate to Metro's credit having
an event like this annually to help explain how to
use to tap fair cards, to explain what type of
safety and security measures are in place. But if you
look at the story, they had a number of people
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speak up about what they as writers saw firsthand. Assaults, harassment,
all sorts of concerns that you and I have talked
about any number of times on this show. It's not new,
but La Metro still wants us to know as far
as stats go. Quote La Metro Violent crime rates drop
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fifteen percent from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four.
And that's according to a report cited by Metros Operations,
Safety and Custom Experience Committee. Stats don't make you safer.
You can't walk out of the house. And I've said
this before, you can't walk out and feel like, well,
I feel fifteen percent safer as according to the stats
in front of me. You know, I feel like I'm
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thirty five percent less likely to get shaped.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
It doesn't work that way. It's not the numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's the environment that you create and can sustain consistently,
which makes one feel safer.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Maybe they need new slogan, like Metro it's not just
for apex predators.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I don't know if that's going to be good enough.
I don't know, Mark.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
You might be onto something you think, well, part of
it is so numbers aren't supposed to make us feel better.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
No, I don't think so. Oh okay, no, no, no, no,
not not in a vacuum. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You know, if you were to walk up to me
and say, hey, mo, zero percent of people were stabbed today,
does that make me feel any better? Not really, because
someone can get stabbed tomorrow and we have the totality
of the information and the stats to know that there
is still a distinct possibility that something is going to
happen and it could be violent. Why because there's still
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no security component and safety component to the way, or
to the degree which protects most passengers on buses, on trains,
on platforms.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Why we don't have that Metro security force.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You don't have that individual who's on every bus or
every train or at every platform.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
But maybe since they have hired a new Metro police chief,
that is probably first on his docket.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Well I'm so yeah, I'm sure that is, and they
will be hiring people. But that's not tomorrow, that's not
next week, that's not next month. I honestly, you don't
even think it's next year. I think it's more like
twenty twenty seven, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so whatever
they're telling these elderly folks. And still I'm mad that
they think fifty five is elderly, okay, man, but it is.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I'm looking forward to that. No, no, no, I know five,
you've crossed the rubica.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I would like to think that I am still able
bodied enough where I don't need physical assistance to get
on a freaking bus. Okay, but did you get an
AARP card. No, they sent me an aa RP card.
I didn't ask for one. They started sending me that
information when I turned like forty five. And that's like, hey,
slow down fast, AARP. I don't know you like that.
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We're not in a relationship.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Okay. It's like they want to just consummate the relationship
on the first day. It's like, look, I don't even
know you. Can we sit down and talk.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Oh, don't be so quick to reject it. Maybe there's
some good deals in there for a man of your age.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
There are, there are.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And that was the only problem with it, because I
was willing to sit down and listen to them. You
can't say no because they actually do give good deals.
They are so I was looking at them. I might
go to Denny's tonight. Too much good stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
There were some deals in there. It's like, okay, well,
maybe I should just think about this for a while.
It's good story.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, it's my pride keeps getting in the well. Dismiss
it now, don't dismiss it. I was in the hallway.
True story, and I'm glad none of you saw this.
But I was in the hallway doing push ups because
I was having an internal struggles like, wait, man, I
can't be at that age where I'm going to be
considered a senior. I just know I reject it. I
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rebuke thee get behind these state satan. I know, I
know I'm not I'm not too old.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
For this ish. I refuse.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
So you're doing push ups in the hallway like Jack
Palance doing them at the oscars, just to prove something
to people.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I can still do one arm push ups. By the way, Yeah,
I'm just throwing that out there. Okay, strong light bull.
Everybody wants to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Very virile. Hey, you know we can we can't.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Can't.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I heard that. I am not. I'm not playing agaful.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
These cameras are here for a reason. I think you
kind of have to do it. No, I really don't
have to do it. Just no, no, we have to get
to the card.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
So no, no, no pull up.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
How many people want to see MO do one push up?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Just one? Just one me one? Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
When we come back, we're going to talk about Long
Beach Memorial and how the nurses there have announced a
one day strike for patient safety.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Coming up on May twenty second.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We'll talk about some of the issues surrounding that and
what it may actually be like for those nurses who
are working at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
That's next you're listening to Later with mo Kelly on
Demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
When mo Kelly on k.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Six registered nurses at Memorial Care Long Beach Medical Center
gave notice to their employer back on May eighth that
they will hold a one day strike starting at seven
am on May twenty second, to protest the hospital's refusal
to what they call a dishonest engagement in good faith
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negotiations over needed improvements to patient care, nurse working conditions
and staffing. Joining us right now on Later with mo
Kelly is registered nurse Nedrah Gails to give us some
sense or at least on the side of nurses, what
is going on both inside the hospital and outside of
it as far as negotiations. Gails is nice to have
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you on the show tonight. How are you?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Thank you, Mo? I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
How should I describe how desperate or I should say
how concerned nurses are at the working conditions at Long
Beach Memorial.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well. The primary reason for the nurses going on strike
is for the sake of our patients and also for ourselves,
you know, our our protests is it's towards the management
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for their refusal to just address the concerns that the
nurses have regarding safe patient care, staffing, workplace violence protections,
and you know, just the overall wellbeing of the patient
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population that we care for at Memorial and other children.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Do I have this correct?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That there was a negotiation which was planned for late
last week and instead of the negotiation they handed out
pink slips to various nurses.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
The negotiation was set for last Friday and our management
team decided did not to appear. Our nurse negotiation team
did it follow through and we were present at the
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table ready to meet and discuss and hopefully come together
with a contract that was fair and equitable. But again
the management of the hospital decided that they would not come.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Tell me about what's it like on an average day
in Long Beach Memorial because of these issues.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Are nurses being overworked?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Are they not getting the type of support and support
staff that they need? What are some of the central
issues which is having nurses speak out and also protest
picket and eventually go on strike May twenty second.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So Mo, what we are asking for regarding the safe
staffing is, you know, we want to be able to
take care of our patients the best way we can,
and when we have units that are not fully staffed,
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patients are waiting for long periods of time for care
in our emergency departments. Those kinds of situations are concerning
to the nurses and to the community.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Now that you are shorter staffed, because I know there
have been layoffs, what is the concern In other words,
are there going to be any gaps in patient help
or patient care between now and the twenty second because
of these recent layoffs.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So because of one of the things that we're asking
for with regards to our pro tests, it does have
to do with services being cut to the community. An
example is our outpatient children's clinics. Because of these layoffs
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that you mentioned of, some of those services are quite
possibly not going to continue the way that the community
has known them. A prime example is the closing of
the outpatient Children's Village Pharmacy, where a lot of the
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children that are seen in those clinics, they are having
to get their medications from outside pharmacies that they're not
familiar with, and some of the specialized medications are harder to.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Attain if you're just tuning in.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
My guess right now is Nedra Gails, who is a
registered nurse working at Long Beach Memorial Or talking about
how nurses have given notice to their employer that on
May twenty second, they plan to go on a one
day strike starting at seven am on May twenty second,
to bring more light to negotiations with it, which at
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this point have been stalled over needed improvements to patient care,
working conditions, and staffing. And Netie, let me pick up
there on May twenty second, if things progress as they
seem to be progressing, what does that one day strike
look like? And how many nurses are we talking about?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Everyone? How does.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The hospital continue to function without your work.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
So well? One of the big deals about this strike.
We proposed a one day strike starting on May twenty
second and ending night of May twenty second. The management
of the hospital has elected to lock us out until
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well for four days, so it'll be a toll of
five days that you know we will be away from
the bedside.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Does that let me jump in there?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Does that mean that patients will be lacking for care
or will they be bringing in other nurses from other
locations or other physicians assistance if you will, to cover
the gap while you are not working there during that time.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So, during the time that we are out on strike,
the hospital management has made the decision to bring in replacement,
and it comes on that decision comes on the heels
of the approximately nurses that have been laid off, and
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it gives kind of a mixed what's the word like?
It gives us Yeah, because the hospital is investing in
outside workforce when there have been nurses that have been
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laid off from their jobs and then we were willing
and are willing to come back to work after our protests. No,
it's it doesn't really like balance. Now.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I don't want to get to a far ahead of
what your union is proposing to do, but in a
general sense, if we continue on this path and management
at Long Beach Memorial is reluctant to negotiate or does
not start restart negotiations, or or does not meet your
demands prior to the strike at this point is listed
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as one day, but could this then be extended for
an indeterminate amount of time and just go on into
in perpetuity until your demands have been met.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
The more you know again, our negotiations team is willing
and wanting to reach an agreement before any type of
decision like that is made, because the nurses really want
to take care of our patients. That's what we really
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want to do.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Let me ask you this, what is morale like among
many of the nurses that you work with, those who
you speak with. I have some friends full disclosure who
do work at Long Beach Memorial, and I know what
they say to me about their level of frustration. What
is it you hear beyond what you experience.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
The nurses that I have experienced. The feeling is we
all want the same things. We want staff thing to improve.
We want our paces to be taken care of in
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a safe manner, and we want to provide a safe
place for the patients and for the nurses.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
At the end of the day, before I let you go,
Nedric Gail's, I wonder have you found any solidarity or
support from the other staff at the hospital? I mean
from doctors, I don't know, radiologists, anyone else who may
work alongside by side with you in the hospital. Long
Beach Memorial. What have they been saying? Are they willing
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to stand with you on any level?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I can say more that there is a grit great
deal of solidarity for this particular action and for the
want that our nurses have put forth.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
She is Netra Gails, registered nurse at Long Beach Memorial,
and I would say a representative of the fight to
improve nursing conditions at Long Beach Medical Center.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Metre Gails.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I have been following this issue from AFAR, but now
I'm a little bit more closely involved and associated and
watching it evolve. Can we have you back on the
future in the future so we can further follow up.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
On this, Mo, if you would call me, I would
come absolutely.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
We'll have you again. It's Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and also on
YouTube at mister Kelly, m R M O K E
L L Y.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
It's Later with Moe Kelly. We're live on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
And I'd mentioned that being live on YouTube because some
people have asked for this. I did not ask for it,
but some people have asked for it. Earlier in the show,
I made the point that I was doing some pushups
in the hallway, because if you don't know me, before
the show, I'm usually getting my steps in. I'm walking around,
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getting my heart racing, get my blood going, because when
you do a three hour show, you can't come in
like you've just been sitting down for the past two hours.
You know, if you sound tired. I should say, if
you are tired, you're gonna sound tired, and you can't
let your energy diminish over the course of a show.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
So I will do some light exercising.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
If you've seen a CAFI, we have a basketball goal,
a mini basketball goals, so I'll shoot some baskets on
occasion whatever, just try to get some exercise in. And
I don't know who decided to say I think it's
probably Mark Ronner something about doing push ups, and I
made just a response, Yeah, I could even do a
one arm push up, and then it's.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Like, oh, here we go, he's got to do this
with one arm push ups.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
So to that end, I said I would do one
one arm push up, and if Daniel should bring in
the camera, I'll do it one huh.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
That's impressive. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Look, no expectations, you know, and no expectations, no disappointments.
So if I were to do two, it's.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Like, wow, he did not.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Only what he did two, But if I say, yeah,
I can do thirty oo, No, I can't do thirty
one on them push ups. But the true story is
I had started doing them way way back in the
day when I first saw who do It?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Rocky? When Rocky was training and did the one I
push ups, Like, I wonder if I could do that?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Did you punch some meat too? No, I chased some
chicken stuff. I'm kidding. I didn't do any of that stuff.
That was just the one arm push up. That meat punching,
don't sell that short. That'll catch you in shape fast.
Do you know that punching slabs of meat will probably
break your hand? I mean those are actual bones you're
hitting for. The moms say that those are like really strong.
Without wraps, you can't punch. But even with a wrap,
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you're not really protecting your hand because even a boxing
bag is solid.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
So I can't imagine actual meat.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And not only that, if you don't hit something, be
it a bag or a bag of meat, correctly. You
can easily break your wrists, break your knuckles.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
It's all bad.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Certain things you should not do just because you saw
them in the movies.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
What's that you got in your hand? Carnaesia, Turn on
your mic. Turn on Carnacio's mic. This is the camera
to watch you do your one arm push up. Oh
you want me to do it now? You ready? Probably? Not?
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Let me turn this off here and you can follow
me around.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Foush. I think you need to narrate this.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Yeah, so he's coming around, he's getting ready to go.
We're about to uh.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Around yep. Oh, three, four, five, six, seven? Are you ready?
With the heart paddles food?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Eight?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
He's doing pretty well. Actually, what do you do? Like
a dozen of them? I think it was, Oh he
got eleven? Wow, eleven, I'll take it. I was that
was impressive. He did it pretty falllessly.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I was pleased to see that you were able to
get back up. Well done, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
And honestly, I haven't done him in a while, so
I wasn't like sure where I would fall in the spectrum,
but I knew I could get one.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah. I thought it was brave of you to do
that without one of those life alert bracelets. Brave. You
know you're not you know you're not exactly younger than me.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Right, I don't know what you're talking about, and you
should be careful what you say on the air.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Now, the YouTube feed, I have it like a set
a little bit behind me, so I get to watch
it now.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
I did pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah, if I do say so myself. All right, I
won't be break dancing tonight either. I am tired. Wow,
all right, what are we going to talk about for
the next two minutes?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
I think you did a spectacular job for a man
of your stature and condition, and you should be applauded.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Can I get some applause?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I mean metaphorically, I want, I actually want applause. You know, hercules, hercules, hercules.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
So she got some canned applause in there that would
be appropriate for you. I'll take an air horn. I'll
take an air horn. Isn't that kind of alarming for you? Though? No,
not at all. Doesn't that raise your blood pressure? No?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Are you sure what the push ups probably did? Yeah?
That's like lifting weights. All right, we'll go tell you
very much. We're going to break early because I need
a nap, Get him some oxygen.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Remember when you used to have to have a radio
to listen to gaf.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I K s I M K O S T HD two,
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It's later with mo Kelly. How's your Monday been going?
Hopefully pretty well? Is it a holiday? I know it
was Mother's Day yesterday, but it felt like a holiday.
I got on the freeway, it wasn't too crowded. My
commute was not too long. I got into the garage
and it wasn't too a fill that. I'm thinking, like,
wait a minute, maybe the joke.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Is on me.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Did someone send out a memo and I didn't get it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I pulled in it was everywhere to park. Usually there's
nowhere to park. Today there was everywhere to park. I
had no problem getting to the office. It's almost like
somebody knows something I do not.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Here we are back on a Monday, Mark Ronald, good evening, sir.
How was your weekend? You know it was.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It was way too short, but I got a chance
to take in a movie or two. I went to
a special screening of Karate Kid Legends.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I may tell you about that later. Uh huh huh.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
You know, I I was ruminating about that after we
had just a couple of texts. I'm just kind of
over that. I have had all the nostalgia from that
that I require, and.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I think too much of a good thing. Maybe at
this point. Yeah, you might be right, that's all I'll say.
Oh my god, you might be right. I hope this
is being recorded. We're starting off the week agreed that
that is unsettling. Oh we're off to a horrible start. Serious, Stephan,
Did you uber this weekend?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I did.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Did you make a little bit of money or a
lot of money? I made a pretty good amount of money.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Do they pay you each night?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Well, you have the option to take it out whenever
you want, but if you don't take it out yourself,
it's weekly.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, that's not bad. Yeah, it's pretty cool. O bad
Twillert sharp. Did you go to any concerts with your
daughter this weekend?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You sure? No? No, seriously, slept in pretty much all weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Man, Shockingly, that is sometimes a good weekend, A good weekend,
the best. We got so much to cover locally. Just
want to let you know at the bottom of the hour,
we're going to talk about the Long Beach Memorial Nurses strike,
which has been announced and scheduled for May twenty second.
That could have all sorts of impact and influence on
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your lives, especially if you're in Southern California.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
We'll talk about that at the bottom of the hour.
I have to start off.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
With some local news here, and it's unfortunate, but is
relevant to things we've discussed on this show.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And I say this not as I told you so, but.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
More as let me warn you one more time that
you do not take going to the gas station lightly.
I say that I do not go to the gas
station at night, but whenever I do, which is always
in the daytime, my head is always on a swivel
because I know I am more likely to be victimized
at a gas station than any other time, if only
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because you're there to spend money, presumably your stationary. You
may be distracted, your car door is opened, they know
you have your keys on you. You are more likely
to be victimized or carjacked or something of that. A
seventy eight year old man unfortunately has died when he
was dragged during a violent carjacking at a Norcote gas
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station this afternoon. And this happened around twelve twenty three pm,
and the victim, according to news reports, was cleaning the
backseat of his car when a suspected carjacker got in
and started backing up with the seventy seventy eight year
old man still in the back of the vehicle, partially in,
partially out. And then that's when the suspect allegedly sped
(03:52):
east on Hidden Valley Parkway, dragging the victim for about
a quarter mile.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm seeing a mile. Oh okay, then they've updated. That's
in my copy. I don't know. I'm sure the story
will shape up throughout the evening.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
No, since it happened earlier today, there may be some
conflicting information. I'm getting this from ABC seven. I can't
speak for you. It's horrifying one way or the other.
The man fell out of the car and was taken
to a hospital where he later died. And there's nothing
we can do about this man, unfortunately. But if I
can impress upon anyone one more time that when you
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are at a gas station, be it man, woman, young adult,
elderly individual, you have to pay attention at all times
because criminals will target people and their cars at a
gas station. I don't know what else to say. And
this story came down, I want to think maybe five minutes.
(04:46):
I saw this five minutes before we got on the air,
and I said to walaw. We have to make mention
of this because it's real important to what we do.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
No, And interesting enough, I practice gas station safety whenever
I going today on the way in, I had to
stop and get gased, and in dropping off, actually dropping
my son off.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
He didn't understand why I did it.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
But I get out the car and I close the doors,
leave the AC runner and I lock the doors, lock
the doors, and then I go and get my gas.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
He's like, I'm in the car. Why'd you lock there?
I'm like, because of car jackers. He's like, well, Dumbe's
coming around here.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I'm like, that's the type of mentality that you have
when you get jacked. No one's gonna come around here.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It's the false sense of security, believing that because it's
broad daylight. You know, this is twelve twenty three in
the afternoon, that's when we're probably most relaxed. Twelve twenty
three in the afternoon is when I would usually get
my gas, maybe on the way to work, and that's
when something bad could happen. I'm quite sure as a
(05:52):
seventy eight year old man, he was looked upon. Its
probably an easier target. But again, if you're not paying attention,
you are an easier target, unfortunately, and I would want
everyone to be safe, and safety starts with the decisions
and choices that you make before you find yourself in danger,
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before you get into a situation where someone is trying
to carjack you. And all of us, with exception of
the people who have evs, got to go to the
gas station.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And if you're going to go, don't go at night.
And when you do go, you have to remain attentive
at all times, because that's when you are more susceptible
than other times. I see this all the time.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
I'm sorry, Mark, I see this all the time where
I see some people go through a gas station car
wash and right at the end they'll go apart right
there out the exit and they start vacuuming, cleaning out
the back of their car. And every single time I
see people just nose in in the car back to
the world with their door open.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I'm like, you are looking like a victim. You're looking
like a victim right now. Be safe out there. It's
later with Kelly when we come back.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
We have a Metro update, and interestingly enough, it has
to do with safety and the elderly that's next.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I gotta tell you, just in case you didn't know,
we're still live on YouTube at mister mo Kelly m
R M O K E L L Y. I gotta
tell you. I'm getting offended again for another occasion. Metro
is doing something and not including me. How are you
gonna have the ninth annual Older Adult Transportation Expo, which
(07:42):
is put on by La Metro at that Pasadena convention
Center happened.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Last Friday and not invite me.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I'm like doubly offended because they were talking about taking
seniors fifty five years and older. First, that's fed up.
I'm fifty five and they're considering me a senior. All right,
that's number one and number two. You didn't at least
give me the respect of inviting me to the event
because I might have had something to add.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Well, maybe they're working on something else, like naming a
new mo Kelly HEMO stat for people who have been injured.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I would like to know, though they're not including me
in the conversation. You at least could have hosted the seminar.
Wouldn't I have been great for that. Yes, it would
have been a great community event, and it could have
built bridges. It could have improved their media outreach and
their coverage. But now they just completely ignored me. But anyhow,
(08:35):
it was the ninth annual Older Adult Transportation Expo. Happened
Friday at the Pasadena Convention Center and it was attended
by get this, six hundred and forty senior citizens.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
It's like built in KFI six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Six hundred and forty senior citizens did that on purpose.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
That's not a mistake. It rights itself.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
They're playing in my face, I tell you, I tell you,
and they were supposedly. Met was focused on teaching older
adults how to use the metro system, successfully loading and
using a tap card for entering trains and buses, and
also listening to their concerns. You know what their number
one concern was, anyone, anyone feeler the new security fairgates,
(09:17):
no safety getting killed, shot, stabbed, I don't know, abducted.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
A lot of older people are afraid to travel on
trains and buses because they don't think it is safe
that's Marilyn Peters and La Metro travel buddy for eight
years down in the Crenshaw District. Okay, this is what
Maryland does before she starts an outing with a new group.
She emails them safety precautions. Bring a small purse, keep
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your cell phone inside your purse, Have your TAP card
ready so you're not rummaging for it. Always be alert,
don't wear a lot of jewelry. All great advice, great advice,
but still the underlying concern is safety. That's not because
they're all listening to this station or they're watching me
on YouTube. That's because it's a real thing. It's not
(10:09):
just their imagination. And I appreciate to Metro's credit having
an event like this annually to help explain how to
use to tap fair cards, to explain what type of
safety and security measures are in place. But if you
look at the story, they had a number of people
(10:29):
speak up about what they as writers saw firsthand. Assaults, harassment,
all sorts of concerns that you and I have talked
about any number of times on this show. It's not new,
but La Metro still wants us to know as far
as stats go. Quote La Metro Violent crime rates drop
(10:52):
fifteen percent from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four.
And that's according to a report cited by Metros Operations,
Safety and Custom Experience Committee. Stats don't make you safer.
You can't walk out of the house. And I've said
this before, you can't walk out and feel like, well,
I feel fifteen percent safer as according to the stats
in front of me. You know, I feel like I'm
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thirty five percent less likely to get shaped.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
It doesn't work that way. It's not the numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's the environment that you create and can sustain consistently,
which makes one feel safer.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Maybe they need new slogan, like Metro it's not just
for apex predators.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I don't know if that's going to be good enough.
I don't know, Mark.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
You might be onto something you think, well, part of
it is so numbers aren't supposed to make us feel better.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
No, I don't think so. Oh okay, no, no, no, no,
not not in a vacuum. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You know, if you were to walk up to me
and say, hey, mo, zero percent of people were stabbed today,
does that make me feel any better? Not really, because
someone can get stabbed tomorrow and we have the totality
of the information and the stats to know that there
is still a distinct possibility that something is going to
happen and it could be violent. Why because there's still
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no security component and safety component to the way, or
to the degree which protects most passengers on buses, on trains,
on platforms.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Why we don't have that Metro security force.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You don't have that individual who's on every bus or
every train or at every platform.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
But maybe since they have hired a new Metro police chief,
that is probably first on his docket.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Well I'm so yeah, I'm sure that is, and they
will be hiring people. But that's not tomorrow, that's not
next week, that's not next month. I honestly, you don't
even think it's next year. I think it's more like
twenty twenty seven, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so whatever
they're telling these elderly folks. And still I'm mad that
they think fifty five is elderly, okay, man, but it is.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I'm looking forward to that. No, no, no, I know five,
you've crossed the rubica.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I would like to think that I am still able
bodied enough where I don't need physical assistance to get
on a freaking bus. Okay, but did you get an
AARP card. No, they sent me an aa RP card.
I didn't ask for one. They started sending me that
information when I turned like forty five. And that's like, hey,
slow down fast, AARP. I don't know you like that.
(13:28):
We're not in a relationship.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Okay. It's like they want to just consummate the relationship
on the first day. It's like, look, I don't even
know you. Can we sit down and talk.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Oh, don't be so quick to reject it. Maybe there's
some good deals in there for a man of your age.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
There are, there are.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And that was the only problem with it, because I
was willing to sit down and listen to them. You
can't say no because they actually do give good deals.
They are so I was looking at them. I might
go to Denny's tonight. Too much good stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
There were some deals in there. It's like, okay, well,
maybe I should just think about this for a while.
It's good story.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, it's my pride keeps getting in the well. Dismiss
it now, don't dismiss it. I was in the hallway.
True story, and I'm glad none of you saw this.
But I was in the hallway doing push ups because
I was having an internal struggles like, wait, man, I
can't be at that age where I'm going to be
considered a senior. I just know I reject it. I
(14:22):
rebuke thee get behind these state satan. I know, I
know I'm not I'm not too old.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
For this ish. I refuse.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
So you're doing push ups in the hallway like Jack
Palance doing them at the oscars, just to prove something
to people.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I can still do one arm push ups. By the way, Yeah,
I'm just throwing that out there. Okay, strong light bull.
Everybody wants to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Very virile. Hey, you know we can we can't.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Can't.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I heard that. I am not. I'm not playing agaful.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
These cameras are here for a reason. I think you
kind of have to do it. No, I really don't
have to do it. Just no, no, we have to get
to the card.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
So no, no, no pull up.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
How many people want to see MO do one push up?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Just one? Just one me one? Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
When we come back, we're going to talk about Long
Beach Memorial and how the nurses there have announced a
one day strike for patient safety.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Coming up on May twenty second.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We'll talk about some of the issues surrounding that and
what it may actually be like for those nurses who
are working at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
That's next you're listening to Later with mo Kelly on
Demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
When mo Kelly on k.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Six registered nurses at Memorial Care Long Beach Medical Center
gave notice to their employer back on May eighth that
they will hold a one day strike starting at seven
am on May twenty second, to protest the hospital's refusal
to what they call a dishonest engagement in good faith
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negotiations over needed improvements to patient care, nurse working conditions
and staffing. Joining us right now on Later with mo
Kelly is registered nurse Nedrah Gails to give us some
sense or at least on the side of nurses, what
is going on both inside the hospital and outside of
it as far as negotiations. Gails is nice to have
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you on the show tonight. How are you?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Thank you, Mo? I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
How should I describe how desperate or I should say
how concerned nurses are at the working conditions at Long
Beach Memorial.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well. The primary reason for the nurses going on strike
is for the sake of our patients and also for ourselves,
you know, our our protests is it's towards the management
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for their refusal to just address the concerns that the
nurses have regarding safe patient care, staffing, workplace violence protections,
and you know, just the overall wellbeing of the patient
(17:31):
population that we care for at Memorial and other children.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Do I have this correct?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That there was a negotiation which was planned for late
last week and instead of the negotiation they handed out
pink slips to various nurses.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
The negotiation was set for last Friday and our management
team decided did not to appear. Our nurse negotiation team
did it follow through and we were present at the
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table ready to meet and discuss and hopefully come together
with a contract that was fair and equitable. But again
the management of the hospital decided that they would not come.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Tell me about what's it like on an average day
in Long Beach Memorial because of these issues.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Are nurses being overworked?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Are they not getting the type of support and support
staff that they need? What are some of the central
issues which is having nurses speak out and also protest
picket and eventually go on strike May twenty second.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So Mo, what we are asking for regarding the safe
staffing is, you know, we want to be able to
take care of our patients the best way we can,
and when we have units that are not fully staffed,
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patients are waiting for long periods of time for care
in our emergency departments. Those kinds of situations are concerning
to the nurses and to the community.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Now that you are shorter staffed, because I know there
have been layoffs, what is the concern In other words,
are there going to be any gaps in patient help
or patient care between now and the twenty second because
of these recent layoffs.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So because of one of the things that we're asking
for with regards to our pro tests, it does have
to do with services being cut to the community. An
example is our outpatient children's clinics. Because of these layoffs
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that you mentioned of, some of those services are quite
possibly not going to continue the way that the community
has known them. A prime example is the closing of
the outpatient Children's Village Pharmacy, where a lot of the
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children that are seen in those clinics, they are having
to get their medications from outside pharmacies that they're not
familiar with, and some of the specialized medications are harder to.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Attain if you're just tuning in.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
My guess right now is Nedra Gails, who is a
registered nurse working at Long Beach Memorial Or talking about
how nurses have given notice to their employer that on
May twenty second, they plan to go on a one
day strike starting at seven am on May twenty second,
to bring more light to negotiations with it, which at
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this point have been stalled over needed improvements to patient care,
working conditions, and staffing. And Netie, let me pick up
there on May twenty second, if things progress as they
seem to be progressing, what does that one day strike
look like? And how many nurses are we talking about?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Everyone? How does.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The hospital continue to function without your work.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
So well? One of the big deals about this strike.
We proposed a one day strike starting on May twenty
second and ending night of May twenty second. The management
of the hospital has elected to lock us out until
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well for four days, so it'll be a toll of
five days that you know we will be away from
the bedside.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Does that let me jump in there?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Does that mean that patients will be lacking for care
or will they be bringing in other nurses from other
locations or other physicians assistance if you will, to cover
the gap while you are not working there during that time.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So, during the time that we are out on strike,
the hospital management has made the decision to bring in replacement,
and it comes on that decision comes on the heels
of the approximately nurses that have been laid off, and
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it gives kind of a mixed what's the word like?
It gives us Yeah, because the hospital is investing in
outside workforce when there have been nurses that have been
(23:27):
laid off from their jobs and then we were willing
and are willing to come back to work after our protests. No,
it's it doesn't really like balance. Now.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I don't want to get to a far ahead of
what your union is proposing to do, but in a
general sense, if we continue on this path and management
at Long Beach Memorial is reluctant to negotiate or does
not start restart negotiations, or or does not meet your
demands prior to the strike at this point is listed
(24:03):
as one day, but could this then be extended for
an indeterminate amount of time and just go on into
in perpetuity until your demands have been met.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
The more you know again, our negotiations team is willing
and wanting to reach an agreement before any type of
decision like that is made, because the nurses really want
to take care of our patients. That's what we really
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want to do.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Let me ask you this, what is morale like among
many of the nurses that you work with, those who
you speak with. I have some friends full disclosure who
do work at Long Beach Memorial, and I know what
they say to me about their level of frustration. What
is it you hear beyond what you experience.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
The nurses that I have experienced. The feeling is we
all want the same things. We want staff thing to improve.
We want our paces to be taken care of in
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a safe manner, and we want to provide a safe
place for the patients and for the nurses.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
At the end of the day, before I let you go,
Nedric Gail's, I wonder have you found any solidarity or
support from the other staff at the hospital? I mean
from doctors, I don't know, radiologists, anyone else who may
work alongside by side with you in the hospital. Long
Beach Memorial. What have they been saying? Are they willing
(25:53):
to stand with you on any level?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I can say more that there is a grit great
deal of solidarity for this particular action and for the
want that our nurses have put forth.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
She is Netra Gails, registered nurse at Long Beach Memorial,
and I would say a representative of the fight to
improve nursing conditions at Long Beach Medical Center.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Metre Gails.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I have been following this issue from AFAR, but now
I'm a little bit more closely involved and associated and
watching it evolve. Can we have you back on the
future in the future so we can further follow up.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
On this, Mo, if you would call me, I would
come absolutely.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
We'll have you again. It's Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and also on
YouTube at mister Kelly, m R M O K E
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Speaker 8 (26:51):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
It's Later with Moe Kelly. We're live on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
And I'd mentioned that being live on YouTube because some
people have asked for this. I did not ask for it,
but some people have asked for it. Earlier in the show,
I made the point that I was doing some pushups
in the hallway, because if you don't know me, before
the show, I'm usually getting my steps in. I'm walking around,
(27:27):
getting my heart racing, get my blood going, because when
you do a three hour show, you can't come in
like you've just been sitting down for the past two hours.
You know, if you sound tired. I should say, if
you are tired, you're gonna sound tired, and you can't
let your energy diminish over the course of a show.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
So I will do some light exercising.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
If you've seen a CAFI, we have a basketball goal,
a mini basketball goals, so I'll shoot some baskets on
occasion whatever, just try to get some exercise in. And
I don't know who decided to say I think it's
probably Mark Ronner something about doing push ups, and I
made just a response, Yeah, I could even do a
one arm push up, and then it's.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Like, oh, here we go, he's got to do this
with one arm push ups.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
So to that end, I said I would do one
one arm push up, and if Daniel should bring in
the camera, I'll do it one huh.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
That's impressive. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Look, no expectations, you know, and no expectations, no disappointments.
So if I were to do two, it's.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Like, wow, he did not.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Only what he did two, But if I say, yeah,
I can do thirty oo, No, I can't do thirty
one on them push ups. But the true story is
I had started doing them way way back in the
day when I first saw who do It?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Rocky? When Rocky was training and did the one I
push ups, Like, I wonder if I could do that?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Did you punch some meat too? No, I chased some
chicken stuff. I'm kidding. I didn't do any of that stuff.
That was just the one arm push up. That meat punching,
don't sell that short. That'll catch you in shape fast.
Do you know that punching slabs of meat will probably
break your hand? I mean those are actual bones you're
hitting for. The moms say that those are like really strong.
Without wraps, you can't punch. But even with a wrap,
(29:17):
you're not really protecting your hand because even a boxing
bag is solid.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
So I can't imagine actual meat.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And not only that, if you don't hit something, be
it a bag or a bag of meat, correctly. You
can easily break your wrists, break your knuckles.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
It's all bad.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Certain things you should not do just because you saw
them in the movies.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
What's that you got in your hand? Carnaesia, Turn on
your mic. Turn on Carnacio's mic. This is the camera
to watch you do your one arm push up. Oh
you want me to do it now? You ready? Probably? Not?
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Let me turn this off here and you can follow
me around.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Foush. I think you need to narrate this.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Yeah, so he's coming around, he's getting ready to go.
We're about to uh.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Around yep. Oh, three, four, five, six, seven? Are you ready?
With the heart paddles food?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Eight?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
He's doing pretty well. Actually, what do you do? Like
a dozen of them? I think it was, Oh he
got eleven? Wow, eleven, I'll take it. I was that
was impressive. He did it pretty falllessly.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I was pleased to see that you were able to
get back up. Well done, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
And honestly, I haven't done him in a while, so
I wasn't like sure where I would fall in the spectrum,
but I knew I could get one.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah. I thought it was brave of you to do
that without one of those life alert bracelets. Brave. You
know you're not you know you're not exactly younger than me.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Right, I don't know what you're talking about, and you
should be careful what you say on the air.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Now, the YouTube feed, I have it like a set
a little bit behind me, so I get to watch
it now.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
I did pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah, if I do say so myself. All right, I
won't be break dancing tonight either. I am tired. Wow,
all right, what are we going to talk about for
the next two minutes?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
I think you did a spectacular job for a man
of your stature and condition, and you should be applauded.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Can I get some applause?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I mean metaphorically, I want, I actually want applause. You know, hercules, hercules, hercules.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
So she got some canned applause in there that would
be appropriate for you. I'll take an air horn. I'll
take an air horn. Isn't that kind of alarming for you? Though? No,
not at all. Doesn't that raise your blood pressure? No?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Are you sure what the push ups probably did? Yeah?
That's like lifting weights. All right, we'll go tell you
very much. We're going to break early because I need
a nap, Get him some oxygen.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Remember when you used to have to have a radio
to listen to gaf.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
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