February 5, 2025 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on LAUSD high school students staging a “walking-out” to protest President Trump’s mass deportation efforts AND State Farm’s talks of increasing customers rates by 22% … PLUS – A look at LA’s plans to add more baby changing stations in public restrooms - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
I am sixty It's later with mo Kelly. I'm live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And the immigrant marches continue.
Yesterday I told you all the things that were going wrong,
all the things that you weren't doing right, and why
this was not going to make any difference in the
grand scheme of things. But the marches have continued on,
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and I think there is an opportunity to help everyone
understand why certain marches have worked in the past and
why some won't ever work. And it's more than just marching,
because because this Day Without Immigrants movement has continued into
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its third day. In fact, marchers were school students, several
hundred from Marshall High School. They marched in the street,
some caring signs or a Mexican flag on their way
to Alvera Street, where they chanted and held a rally.
And I can say, as someone who's a student of
the civil rights movement, that is honorable. But if you
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really want to be an effective protest, if you really
want something to come out of your action, something beyond
just appearing on TV, beyond being seen on KTLA or
k COW and having your thirty seconds of fame where
a microphone is being placed in front of your face.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
If you want something beyond that, let me help you out.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Because we live in an age where we think that
protesting is just marching, just walking down the street with
a sign and a megaphone and being heard, and then
you are doing something. No, you're not really doing a lot.
You're making some noise. But why the civil rights movement
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was successful was far more complicated than just marching. Marching
was just one tool. But this is just for anyone
who wants to plan a protest, anyone who maybe wants
to inspire the government to do something different, wants their
grievances to be heard and changed, to actually be made.
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Please listen to me right now, because I want to
give you something which made the modern civil rights movement
successful that is not being used today. And if you
learn just some of the history, you would be better informed, prepared,
and ultimately more successful. Part of the reason why the
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modern civil rights movement I'm talking about the late nineteen
fifties into the late nineteen sixties. Part of the reason
why that movement was successful, and it was over about
a ten to twelve year period. It wasn't like ten
to twelve days, ten to twelve years, depending on when
you mark the actual start of the civil rights movement.
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But if anything, the modern civil rights movement had a
clearly defined goal, legislative goal. In other words, they were
making sure that all these efforts were pointing toward the
passage of the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four
and the Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That was the goal.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
In other words, the ass what is it you're demanding
of government? That's why doctor King was meeting with then
President Kennedy. That was the ass That was the whole
point of the march on Washington. Okay, Now, what would
the methods use to gain leverage? Just because people in
power governments are not just going to give you something.
The Congress is not just going to sign something because
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you're out there marching, you have to have some means
of leverage. For the civil rights movement, one of those
examples was the Montgomery bus boycott of nineteen fifty five,
where Rosa Parks, I think, on like February fourth of
nineteen fifty five, if I'm not mistaken, decided to not
sit at the back of the bus. That was one
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instance of civil disobedience. But It set off the Montgomery
bus boycott, which lasted more than a year and brought
the bus company to its knees economically and forced them
to address the concerns of black Montgomery residents.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
There was a plan.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
People had to help carpool and they were taking random
strangers to work. People did not have transportation because they
refused to use any of the bus lines for more
than a year. That was the method to gain leverage.
And the last part is how committed are you to
the fight? And that's a part of the method to
gain leverage. Doctor King said, hey, we're not going to
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use violence. We want to be seen on national TV
and seen by the world as not fighting back against
the brutality to gain the moral high ground. That was
the method and also demonstration of commitment to the fight.
How long are you willing to struggle and suffer to
retain your leverage and reach hopefully the legislative goal. And
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let me give you something else out of history, and
this is almost like a parable or fable now in
civil rights history. You might have heard it before, but
from what I'm seeing out on the streets today, people
don't know this.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
So I'm going to share it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
With you back in about I want to say about
nineteen forty one, President FDR sat down with a Philip
Randolph and he was the head of the brotherhood of
Sleeping car porters, the Pullman Porters Association. There's one of
the few jobs in which African Americans could actually unionize.
A Philip Randolph got a meeting, and I'm really condensing
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the story, got a meeting with FDR and explain how
civil rights advancement was not only good for African Americans
but the larger country, and how FDR could and should
use his bully pulpit to make it happen. Because remember,
World War Two is going on, and you have all
these there were issues which were happening in the military.
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They're going to desegregate the military and have these veterans
coming home to an America in which they did not
have full rights as citizens. So they're trying to preempt
other problems which were going to happen in America. In
the event, eventually, world War two it end and FDR,
as a story goes, listen to the presentation of a
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Philip Randolph, and he was moved. He was actually moved,
He was convinced and as the story goes, he said
something to the fact of you have convinced me I
agree with everything you said.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You were right at everything you said. Now a Philip Randolph,
go out and make me do it.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Go out and make me do it. And that is,
then go out and create the social circumstances in which I,
as the president, am compelled compelled to make these changes,
and then use the bully pulput to encourage or be
a molder of consensus and push Congress in the direction
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to pass the adequate legislation. Mind you, that was like
nineteen forty one. That legislation did can't get passed until
twenty four years later. But the whole point is it's
not a one day thing. And if you're going to
create the social environment in which America seems that it
has no choice but to change direction regarding immigration reform,
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that Congress should act and pass some sort of comprehensive
immigration so we can stop these raids by ice. It's
going to take more than students walking out of class
on a given day. It's going to take more than
people amassing on the one on one freeway or various
freeways around the country and having your voice heard as
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are often told or being seen on TV, or writing
cute signs and getting on social media and hashtagging. You
have to be able to demonstrate that there is a
specific legislative end and ask for your local congress person
to follow up on to put in a bill, to
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push Republican leadership to bring to the floor to have
Congress vote on it, and then create the social circumstances
in which a president, any president, this president Donald Trump,
to say I have no choice because of my own
political insecurity or wanting to make sure that I can
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maintain the status quo of this situation, that I have
to concede to the demands because there's a specific legislative
ask if you're out marching today or tomorrow, next week,
and you do not have a clearly defined goal, and
a clearly defined goal is more than stop.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
The raids, then you're wasting your time. You're out there
getting steps on your fitbit.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
If you have not determined a course of action in
which you have leverage which forces America to listen to
you and take your concerns about immigration reform seriously, you're
out there exercising. If you're not committed to this fight
assuming that you care about Abuela or Abuela you know, Madre,
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and I'm not trying to be funny anyone in your
family who is impacted by these raids. If you're not
committed to at least sees this through the midterms, where
you could swing the balance in Congress if you're strategic,
and then create an environment where Congress can then put
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pressure on the president. If you're not willing to work
all the way through the midterms, then you're just wasting
your time because people in power know that you're going
to get tired.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
They're betting on you getting bored.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
They are sure as hell as I'm sitting here that
in two weeks you'll have moved on to something else.
You haven't heard a peep out of Donald Trump because
there's no need for him to address it, because there's
social circumstances as such, there is no reason for him
to change course. If you want to imitate what happened
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in the nineteen fifties and sixties with these protests, because
that's the model you're using. If you want to imitate
that model and also imitate the results it yielded, then
you have to take all the lessons of the civil
rights movement. You're going to have to find to find
that goal in a clear sense. You're going to have
to have a clear method to gain leverage, which makes
the world. The country, then the state take notice of
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what you do over a long period of time, not
just marching. You have to be committed to it in
the way that the modern Civil rights movement people were
committed for years. If you don't do all three, you
will get nothing. It's Later with Mo Kelly KFI AM
six forty We're Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
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State Farm like a neighbor, State Farm is there, Except
there's gonna be a much more expensive neighbor in the
near future.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
With y.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
F We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Like a
good neighbor, State Farm is there. I don't know about you,
but my concept of a good namelabor when it comes
to home ownership is someone who will look out for
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my house when I'm not there. I think of a
good neighbor as someone who I don't need to worry about.
They're not going to break into my house, and they
will look out for my house, especially if if I'm
not home, if my pets get out, they'll give me
a call or do something, make sure my pets get
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put back in the backyard. That to me is what
a good neighbor does. That is how State Farm bills itself,
no pun intended. State Farm General is California's largest insurance provider,
and did you know State Farm has requested an emergency
interim rate rate hike averaging twenty two percent for each
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and every homeowner twenty two percent averaging in other words,
it could be twenty one twenty percent for some and
twenty three, twenty four, twenty five percent for others. We're
talking about, in average, twenty two cents more on every
dollar of your premium. In a letter to California's Commissioner
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of Insurance, Ricardo Lara, State Farm said it has already
received more than eighty seven hundred claims and paid over
a billion dollars to customers in the wake of the wildfires.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
First, I don't believe that. I don't believe that's truthful.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Why because they have been accused of not paying off claims,
They've been accused of dropping people and their policies. So
if they say, excuse me, Mark Ronner, this might be
a little cumbersome phrase.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It strange credulity.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You know, there might be some minor flaw inherent in
a business model that requires not paying people out for success,
and something about it that just doesn't sit right with me.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And I think it's a reasonable assumption. Since wildfires don't
happen every day.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
For the I would say most of the.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Time they are receiving premium payments, not paying out for
the most part. And also, if you listen to this
show yesterday, I was speaking to Jackie Ray and I
highlighted them how State Farm's advertising budget. That's why I
keep saying, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there,
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like a good neighbor, we want more cash. And they
spent a billion dollars fiscal year twenty twenty four on
just those commercials and ads that we've all seen and know.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The ad budget.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Alone, from what we know publicly, can make Southern Californians whole.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, next thing, you're gonna have the nerve to suggest
that our healthcare system is whack too.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
There is a connection when you talk about insurance premiums
it's the same.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Dare I say, should they call it the scam racket?
Perhaps scam racket scheme synonyms tomato tomato, potato fall, the same.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
California homeowners, we know this. We already faced some of
the highest insurance premiums in the country, and insurers have
deemed California a risk because of wildfires.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
According to the company State Farms.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Generals, surplus available to pay out claims has been depleted,
in part due to claims paid out as a result
of natural disasters. Wait a minute, wait, wait, Assuming State
Farm Generals telling the truth, and I don't believe them,
but for the sake of argument and radio commentary, let's
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say they're telling the truth. They're saying that they had
been depleted prior to these fires.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
It wasn't depleted enough to stop them from paying their
CEO twenty four and a half million a year.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It wasn't depleted enough for them to spend again one
billion dollars in the past year on commercials. Don't get
me wrong, I really did like the commercial let's have
billion dollars get you there. I mean that that would
be involving tattooing the insides of your eyelids A billion dollars.
A billion dollars just on advertisements alone.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Commercials.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Are they carving something into the moon's surface?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I don't know. They are funny.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Whoever, the ad agency is getting paid out the ass
okay a billion dollars because they only probably have one
ad agency. They probably have different market campaigns, but it's
a billion dollars. If for example, and just for argument's sake,
State Farm said, you know what, we are so committed
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and such a good neighbor to use their phraseology that
we're going to not advertise for the next year to
make sure that all Southern Californians are made whole. We're
going to use that billion dollars that we would have
spent on advertising because they spend it every year.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It's not like that broke.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
They have that money to spend every year, which means
they have it for twenty twenty five. Maybe they have
to do some funny accounting and move some of the
advertising budget over to the people budget, to the insurance side,
and say we're going to spend this billion dollars in
twenty twenty five on the people of Southern California because
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they are more important than commercials, and if anything we
think as a business model that we're to mouth advertising
would mean more than any commercial with Oh my gosh,
Pat Mahomes or Andy Reid or the actor Kevin Miles
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who plays Jake. I think people would appreciate that and
would speak of the goodwill and the good neighbor policy
behavior of State Farm in a way that no commercial could.
And so that's why we're going to move a billion
dollars of our ad budget to the people of southern California.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
It's almost as if you're suggesting that an actual good
neighbor wouldn't clean you out when the chips are down.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And also leave.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh yes, you know, an actual good neighbor would say, hey,
you know there's a there's a disaster coming, but I
got you Okay, I'm going to hose down your house.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I want to make sure that your house is as
safe as possible.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
You're getting hosed, alrighty, oh yes, you're getting thoroughly hosed, and.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
They're going to charge you twenty two percent more for
that same hose. It's later with mo Kelly if I
am six forty one five everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
and some things should be just like.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Duh, right, just like common sense.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Right, Yeah, if you're going to talk about baby changing
stations and public restrooms, it shouldn't be a controversy for
the city to add more baby changing stations and public restrooms.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
There's no opposition to that, right, right, we'll find out.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
You're listening to later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty And I asked.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
The question before the break this there's not like two
sides to this. There's no opposition to this.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
LA's trying to add more baby changing stations in public restrooms.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Can we like touching degree? Have ever been to church?
Touch a degree? And then you have some statement where
everyone just agrees.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Can we just just agree that this is good, good
for La?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You've never had children?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
No, no, no, But I'm saying that this is good
and I want you to verify this or disagree with me.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Hold on.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Ok La City Council approved the motion last Friday calling
for more baby changing stations than city owned bathrooms and
to explore requiring businesses open to the public to do
the same.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Twelve zero vote.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
There was no opposition on city council and they're going
to conduct a feasibility just report about the cost of
installing more baby changing stations for infants and toddlers. They're
going to consider adding such stations to bathrooms located at
recreation centers, parks, libraries, and transit hubs. Also examine whether
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they can update building codes for restaurants, shopping centers, and
entertainment venues.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeada yah, yahah blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yes. The amount of times that I have seen fathers
with infants yep.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And they go into the men's bathroom as they should
in this twenty first century where men shouldn't be going
to nah, And I know that there's no baby changing
station in that men's bathroom more times than not.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
That has to be a burden on that father. It
is a humongous burden. You know what else is a
burden the fact that rules be damned because all these venues,
movie theaters and all the like are supposed to keep
their bathrooms up to snuff. But you know what, I
walk into it. I walk into our AMC. I walk
into a bathroom that has urine near the floor where
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the baby changing station is to begin with. Businesses and
parks do not keep their bathrooms clean enough for you
to be installing more tables for infants. You're supposed to
keep infants clean and wholesome and away from.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Pissing all that all over.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
No, that's a no.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That's a no.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Okay, okay, So you're more against the idea of a
bathroom which is just unclear if they clean excuse me,
if they clean the bathrooms as they should.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You walk you mentioned AMC. I'll just say a movie theater.
I'm not trying to bust them out.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You walk into a movie theater and you see on
the backside of the door that's usually that list of
the times that the bathroom was supposedly clean.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You know, Arthur came in at four point.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Thirty and John came in at five thirty, and you
can see this toilet paper and feces everywhere. It's like,
no one's cleaning this bathroom. I think that is a
related but separate issue. If that movie theater is not
cleaning its bathroom, I don't know if that's an argument
against having the basic facilities available. It's almost like that
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we're not going to have urinals in there because people
will get urine everywhere.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
It's a bathroom you provide the facility. But you know
what they started doing. They said, let's just have a
trough so that we can avoid it.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh, they don't do that anymore. They've gone the other direction.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
They have they have flushless ur urinals where they doesn't
have water.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
It just hits the hits the ground. Yeah, yes, I
got you. What I'm saying is when my children were young,
I would not let them go into a park, much
less me go in there. And I don't care if
I see the sanitation crew coming out and cleaning it
right then and there. This is a waste of taxpayer money.
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How do I know? Because no one is going to
use this. If you're trying to do something, then maybe
make or increase the number of family only restrooms. You
can do that, But you cannot put baby changing stations
in bathrooms that are used by everybody. You just can't.
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You just can't. That is a waste of our taxpayer dollars.
If they do that, just make some more family only restrooms.
Do that, and then maybe.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Well that's Steeve's like an added expense.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Regardless you're saying, not only are we not going to
put this in the restrooms, exist we have to then
create a family only restroom in a Starbucks, in a grocery.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Store, or what have you.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Please show me a park, a business, Show me one,
Show me one where the baby changing station is adequately
up to part because there are plenty, plenty of businesses,
plenty of supermarkets, plenty of every place that has them.
They're all over the place now and none of them
are kept up. I get that we wanted, but saying
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that this is some big initiative, this is just a
lot of pomp and circumstance.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You're saying that you are the opposition.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We can't even agree on baby changing stations. He's for
Waymo and against baby changing stations.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
What the hell is going on with this country.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I just assumed Tola would be in the pocket of
big baby change.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I thought that he would be on the side of yes.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Make it easier for me as a father, because I
struggled when I had my young daughter as an infant
and I had no place to change her when I
was going to I don't know.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Denny's, when I went anywhere. You know what I carry
with me in my diaper bag a mobile changing station.
They even had a little stand and you pull out
the mat on it, all of that, so I could
keep her elevated and away from the scum of the
counters and the villainy of the changing table. Those things
are horrific. When you walk in there as a parent
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and you smell the smell and you see that table
sitting over there, right next to the stalls, it's not I.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Did not say put your child on the actual baby
changing put down some towels a plate.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
You know, they oftentimes they don't even really have that.
These chaining tables have graffiti on them, lots of times
they're broken. So I hear you, I hear you. We
want this to happen, and I'm sure this is.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Oh yes, because I went into a place and I
couldn't change my baby.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
And now I'm.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Bringing into legislation. You are wasting our time, that's what
you are doing with this.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Why don't we just take out bathrooms all together, Just
have everyone of the holds no, no, no, start digging
some holes, go back to outhouses, take a step back
to the scouts.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Bury it deep so the bears don't get it. Have
you ever used an outhouse?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I have?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
They're terrified. Don't you don't want that? No?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
No, no, because outhouses are literally right on par with the damn.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Port is better than an outhouse, I promise you it's
a mobile outhouse.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Okay, yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
I guess all I'm saying is, I don't care if
it's a wood toilet seed and this, that or the
other in your outhouse, a porta potty. All types of
ungodliness happens in porta potti's. Why are there needles in
the bottom of the damn porta potty?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Look, my father, God rest his soul, grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia,
Deep South projects poor. His family had an outhouse going
out to visit him. Growing up. His family was still
very poor. He my father was the quote unquote richest
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person in his Familyaily California middle class. When we go
visit his side of the family in the summer, we
would use the outhouse on occasion. There is nothing scarier
than using an outhouse in the woods of Lynchburg, Virginia
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at night. You got fireflies, you got mosquitoes, you got
the ku Klux Klan, anything could bite you. It's called
Lynchburg for a reason.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
No, I would have much rather used a porta potty.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You don't want that.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I can't speak to a baby changing station table. I
can speak to an outhouse. Give me a porter potty
seven days a week, twice on Tuesday, five times on
Friday than because I'm very regular.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Now I'm trying to think maybe in summer camp, I
had to go out to the Yeah, because in the
summer camp, I remember they had like little wooden almost
like it looked like little phone boosts. I had little
seats to them. Yeah, but the seats where at least plastic.
It was still a bigger wood door. You go, you
open them door, but there's a toilet seat. They had
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to know. The outhouse is a hole.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
It's a hole and you sit down on this wooden
like bench and it was small enough where they could
move it every week or so and they fill in
the hole like yeah, okay, okay, So that's what they
had the summer camp.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Yeah yeah, but no baby changing station. That's where you
draw the line. Looked I was summer camping. I was
uh traumatized after that. But baby changing I think that
this is just something to get on later with the
mo kelly. But it's definitely not something worth investing any time.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Only. We can't agree on anything in this country. Baby
changing stations are now controversial. Now it's about where are
my tax dollars going. I'm not going to use my
tax dollars for a baby changing station. Them kids. Put
those kids to work. KFIM six forty we're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio. I am so disappointed in Twila Sharp.
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I thought he was going to come in here and
actually back me up on this and say, yes, this
is what fathers and young mothers need. They should not
have to worry about where they're going to change their
baby when they're out.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Instead, so disappointed.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Let's talk about the lottery when we come back, and
if you want to talk about waste of money, California
Lottery has raised two billion dollars for schools for the
third straight year, and for the third straight year, our
schools are still trash.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
What is going on? What is going on?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Time to go to school. Let's talk about public school.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I remember, I remember when it was first broach the
idea that California was going to have a lottery and
that lottery was going to help support public schools. I
remember it because I was in high school South Torn's
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High School. This was nineteen eighty five, so depending on
when in the year, I was, maybe a sophomore in
high school. My parents both public education teachers for all
the career. They thought it was going to be a
great idea. You would think on paper, when you have
people basically participating in a legalized form of gambling to
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the tune of millions and eventually billions, and that would
be discretionary for schools to add to their budget. That
California's educational system, the public educational system back in eighty five,
thought that that was going to be the magic pill
to improve our public schools. In twenty twenty four, California
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ranked fortieth in education public school education fortieth, only ten
states worse, probably Mississippi, Louisiana and five other states down south.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I'm not kidding. That's what it usually turns out to be.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
But California, with a lottery and billions for schools, is
still in the bottom third. California lottery officials announced Monday
that the lotto games have raised over two billion dollars
for public education for the third year in a row. Quote,
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total sales once again exceeded nine billion, resulting in contributions
of more than two point two eight seven billion for
public education programs statewide, from kindergarten to the community college,
California State University, and University of California systems. This is
according to lottery officials. Quote, I want to thank our players,
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retail partners, and employees for their decades long commitment to
our mission. That's California Lottery Director Hargener k srgil Chima
long ass name. It is that commitment to providing supplemental
funding to California public education that sustains our work across
the state and allows us to perform year after year
for all of California.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Close.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Well, I am not blaming the lottery. They are providing
the funds. I am blaming the State of California educational system.
If the State of California had zero money for all
of its schools, I'm quite sure two billion plus might
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be able to do it. You definitely wouldn't have everything.
I'm not that naive, But two plus billion dollars and we're.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Still in the bottom third.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
We've raised more than two billion dollars for the past
three years and we're still in the bottom third. And
I say, this is probably the biggest proponent of education
you'll ever meet. I am all about education, all about
it bottom third, and it's not getting any better. It's
not like we just now ended up in the bottom third.
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Oh maybe a year or two ago. I talk about
this every single year, and ever since I been on KFI,
we have been in the bottom third. And ever since
I've been on KFI, in twenty seven years before that,
we had the California lottery. So what does that mean.
It means that it's not a money issue. It's not
a lack of funds. It is obviously how they're being
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used or not being used, how our students are not
being adequately educated. Because clearly it's not a facilities issue.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
It's not a books issue.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I know, depending on certain schools, some schools have more
than others. I get all that, but big picture, collectively,
California is not educating as kids and it's not because
of lack of resources. It's not that I'm not saying
that someone must be stealing money. I am saying we're
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not utilizing the money in a fashion which is actually
educating our kids, because if there were, we would not
be fortieth out of fifty. Because the other forty nine
states don't have two point three billion dollars on average
annually to supplement their educational budget, it doesn't make any sense.
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I am sixty It's later with mo Kelly. I'm live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And the immigrant marches continue.
Yesterday I told you all the things that were going wrong,
all the things that you weren't doing right, and why
this was not going to make any difference in the
grand scheme of things. But the marches have continued on,
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and I think there is an opportunity to help everyone
understand why certain marches have worked in the past and
why some won't ever work. And it's more than just marching,
because because this Day Without Immigrants movement has continued into
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its third day. In fact, marchers were school students, several
hundred from Marshall High School. They marched in the street,
some caring signs or a Mexican flag on their way
to Alvera Street, where they chanted and held a rally.
And I can say, as someone who's a student of
the civil rights movement, that is honorable. But if you
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really want to be an effective protest, if you really
want something to come out of your action, something beyond
just appearing on TV, beyond being seen on KTLA or
k COW and having your thirty seconds of fame where
a microphone is being placed in front of your face.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
If you want something beyond that, let me help you out.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Because we live in an age where we think that
protesting is just marching, just walking down the street with
a sign and a megaphone and being heard, and then
you are doing something. No, you're not really doing a lot.
You're making some noise. But why the civil rights movement
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was successful was far more complicated than just marching. Marching
was just one tool. But this is just for anyone
who wants to plan a protest, anyone who maybe wants
to inspire the government to do something different, wants their
grievances to be heard and changed, to actually be made.
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Please listen to me right now, because I want to
give you something which made the modern civil rights movement
successful that is not being used today. And if you
learn just some of the history, you would be better informed, prepared,
and ultimately more successful. Part of the reason why the
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modern civil rights movement I'm talking about the late nineteen
fifties into the late nineteen sixties. Part of the reason
why that movement was successful, and it was over about
a ten to twelve year period. It wasn't like ten
to twelve days, ten to twelve years, depending on when
you mark the actual start of the civil rights movement.
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But if anything, the modern civil rights movement had a
clearly defined goal, legislative goal. In other words, they were
making sure that all these efforts were pointing toward the
passage of the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four
and the Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That was the goal.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
In other words, the ass what is it you're demanding
of government? That's why doctor King was meeting with then
President Kennedy. That was the ass That was the whole
point of the march on Washington. Okay, Now, what would
the methods use to gain leverage? Just because people in
power governments are not just going to give you something.
The Congress is not just going to sign something because
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you're out there marching, you have to have some means
of leverage. For the civil rights movement, one of those
examples was the Montgomery bus boycott of nineteen fifty five,
where Rosa Parks, I think, on like February fourth of
nineteen fifty five, if I'm not mistaken, decided to not
sit at the back of the bus. That was one
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instance of civil disobedience. But It set off the Montgomery
bus boycott, which lasted more than a year and brought
the bus company to its knees economically and forced them
to address the concerns of black Montgomery residents.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
There was a plan.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
People had to help carpool and they were taking random
strangers to work. People did not have transportation because they
refused to use any of the bus lines for more
than a year. That was the method to gain leverage.
And the last part is how committed are you to
the fight? And that's a part of the method to
gain leverage. Doctor King said, hey, we're not going to
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use violence. We want to be seen on national TV
and seen by the world as not fighting back against
the brutality to gain the moral high ground. That was
the method and also demonstration of commitment to the fight.
How long are you willing to struggle and suffer to
retain your leverage and reach hopefully the legislative goal. And
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let me give you something else out of history, and
this is almost like a parable or fable now in
civil rights history. You might have heard it before, but
from what I'm seeing out on the streets today, people
don't know this.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
So I'm going to share it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
With you back in about I want to say about
nineteen forty one, President FDR sat down with a Philip
Randolph and he was the head of the brotherhood of
Sleeping car porters, the Pullman Porters Association. There's one of
the few jobs in which African Americans could actually unionize.
A Philip Randolph got a meeting, and I'm really condensing
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the story, got a meeting with FDR and explain how
civil rights advancement was not only good for African Americans
but the larger country, and how FDR could and should
use his bully pulpit to make it happen. Because remember,
World War Two is going on, and you have all
these there were issues which were happening in the military.
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They're going to desegregate the military and have these veterans
coming home to an America in which they did not
have full rights as citizens. So they're trying to preempt
other problems which were going to happen in America. In
the event, eventually, world War two it end and FDR,
as a story goes, listen to the presentation of a
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Philip Randolph, and he was moved. He was actually moved,
He was convinced and as the story goes, he said
something to the fact of you have convinced me I
agree with everything you said.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You were right at everything you said. Now a Philip Randolph,
go out and make me do it.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Go out and make me do it. And that is,
then go out and create the social circumstances in which I,
as the president, am compelled compelled to make these changes,
and then use the bully pulput to encourage or be
a molder of consensus and push Congress in the direction
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to pass the adequate legislation. Mind you, that was like
nineteen forty one. That legislation did can't get passed until
twenty four years later. But the whole point is it's
not a one day thing. And if you're going to
create the social environment in which America seems that it
has no choice but to change direction regarding immigration reform,
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that Congress should act and pass some sort of comprehensive
immigration so we can stop these raids by ice. It's
going to take more than students walking out of class
on a given day. It's going to take more than
people amassing on the one on one freeway or various
freeways around the country and having your voice heard as
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are often told or being seen on TV, or writing
cute signs and getting on social media and hashtagging. You
have to be able to demonstrate that there is a
specific legislative end and ask for your local congress person
to follow up on to put in a bill, to
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push Republican leadership to bring to the floor to have
Congress vote on it, and then create the social circumstances
in which a president, any president, this president Donald Trump,
to say I have no choice because of my own
political insecurity or wanting to make sure that I can
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maintain the status quo of this situation, that I have
to concede to the demands because there's a specific legislative
ask if you're out marching today or tomorrow, next week,
and you do not have a clearly defined goal, and
a clearly defined goal is more than stop.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
The raids, then you're wasting your time. You're out there
getting steps on your fitbit.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
If you have not determined a course of action in
which you have leverage which forces America to listen to
you and take your concerns about immigration reform seriously, you're
out there exercising. If you're not committed to this fight
assuming that you care about Abuela or Abuela you know, Madre,
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and I'm not trying to be funny anyone in your
family who is impacted by these raids. If you're not
committed to at least sees this through the midterms, where
you could swing the balance in Congress if you're strategic,
and then create an environment where Congress can then put
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pressure on the president. If you're not willing to work
all the way through the midterms, then you're just wasting
your time because people in power know that you're going
to get tired.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
They're betting on you getting bored.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
They are sure as hell as I'm sitting here that
in two weeks you'll have moved on to something else.
You haven't heard a peep out of Donald Trump because
there's no need for him to address it, because there's
social circumstances as such, there is no reason for him
to change course. If you want to imitate what happened
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in the nineteen fifties and sixties with these protests, because
that's the model you're using. If you want to imitate
that model and also imitate the results it yielded, then
you have to take all the lessons of the civil
rights movement. You're going to have to find to find
that goal in a clear sense. You're going to have
to have a clear method to gain leverage, which makes
the world. The country, then the state take notice of
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what you do over a long period of time, not
just marching. You have to be committed to it in
the way that the modern Civil rights movement people were
committed for years. If you don't do all three, you
will get nothing. It's Later with Mo Kelly KFI AM
six forty We're Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
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State Farm like a neighbor, State Farm is there, Except
there's gonna be a much more expensive neighbor in the
near future.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
With y.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
F We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Like a
good neighbor, State Farm is there. I don't know about you,
but my concept of a good namelabor when it comes
to home ownership is someone who will look out for
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my house when I'm not there. I think of a
good neighbor as someone who I don't need to worry about.
They're not going to break into my house, and they
will look out for my house, especially if if I'm
not home, if my pets get out, they'll give me
a call or do something, make sure my pets get
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put back in the backyard. That to me is what
a good neighbor does. That is how State Farm bills itself,
no pun intended. State Farm General is California's largest insurance provider,
and did you know State Farm has requested an emergency
interim rate rate hike averaging twenty two percent for each
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and every homeowner twenty two percent averaging in other words,
it could be twenty one twenty percent for some and
twenty three, twenty four, twenty five percent for others. We're
talking about, in average, twenty two cents more on every
dollar of your premium. In a letter to California's Commissioner
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of Insurance, Ricardo Lara, State Farm said it has already
received more than eighty seven hundred claims and paid over
a billion dollars to customers in the wake of the wildfires.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
First, I don't believe that. I don't believe that's truthful.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Why because they have been accused of not paying off claims,
They've been accused of dropping people and their policies. So
if they say, excuse me, Mark Ronner, this might be
a little cumbersome phrase.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It strange credulity.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
You know, there might be some minor flaw inherent in
a business model that requires not paying people out for success,
and something about it that just doesn't sit right with me.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And I think it's a reasonable assumption. Since wildfires don't
happen every day.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
For the I would say most of the.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Time they are receiving premium payments, not paying out for
the most part. And also, if you listen to this
show yesterday, I was speaking to Jackie Ray and I
highlighted them how State Farm's advertising budget. That's why I
keep saying, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there,
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like a good neighbor, we want more cash. And they
spent a billion dollars fiscal year twenty twenty four on
just those commercials and ads that we've all seen and know.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The ad budget.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Alone, from what we know publicly, can make Southern Californians whole.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, next thing, you're gonna have the nerve to suggest
that our healthcare system is whack too.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
There is a connection when you talk about insurance premiums
it's the same.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Dare I say, should they call it the scam racket?
Perhaps scam racket scheme synonyms tomato tomato, potato fall, the same.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
California homeowners, we know this. We already faced some of
the highest insurance premiums in the country, and insurers have
deemed California a risk because of wildfires.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
According to the company State Farms.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Generals, surplus available to pay out claims has been depleted,
in part due to claims paid out as a result
of natural disasters. Wait a minute, wait, wait, Assuming State
Farm Generals telling the truth, and I don't believe them,
but for the sake of argument and radio commentary, let's
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say they're telling the truth. They're saying that they had
been depleted prior to these fires.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
It wasn't depleted enough to stop them from paying their
CEO twenty four and a half million a year.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It wasn't depleted enough for them to spend again one
billion dollars in the past year on commercials. Don't get
me wrong, I really did like the commercial let's have
billion dollars get you there. I mean that that would
be involving tattooing the insides of your eyelids A billion dollars.
A billion dollars just on advertisements alone.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Commercials.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Are they carving something into the moon's surface?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I don't know. They are funny.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Whoever, the ad agency is getting paid out the ass
okay a billion dollars because they only probably have one
ad agency. They probably have different market campaigns, but it's
a billion dollars. If for example, and just for argument's sake,
State Farm said, you know what, we are so committed
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and such a good neighbor to use their phraseology that
we're going to not advertise for the next year to
make sure that all Southern Californians are made whole. We're
going to use that billion dollars that we would have
spent on advertising because they spend it every year.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It's not like that broke.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
They have that money to spend every year, which means
they have it for twenty twenty five. Maybe they have
to do some funny accounting and move some of the
advertising budget over to the people budget, to the insurance side,
and say we're going to spend this billion dollars in
twenty twenty five on the people of Southern California because
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they are more important than commercials, and if anything we
think as a business model that we're to mouth advertising
would mean more than any commercial with Oh my gosh,
Pat Mahomes or Andy Reid or the actor Kevin Miles
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who plays Jake. I think people would appreciate that and
would speak of the goodwill and the good neighbor policy
behavior of State Farm in a way that no commercial could.
And so that's why we're going to move a billion
dollars of our ad budget to the people of southern California.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
It's almost as if you're suggesting that an actual good
neighbor wouldn't clean you out when the chips are down.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And also leave.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh yes, you know, an actual good neighbor would say, hey,
you know there's a there's a disaster coming, but I
got you Okay, I'm going to hose down your house.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I want to make sure that your house is as
safe as possible.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
You're getting hosed, alrighty, oh yes, you're getting thoroughly hosed, and.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
They're going to charge you twenty two percent more for
that same hose. It's later with mo Kelly if I
am six forty one five everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
and some things should be just like.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Duh, right, just like common sense.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Right, Yeah, if you're going to talk about baby changing
stations and public restrooms, it shouldn't be a controversy for
the city to add more baby changing stations and public restrooms.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
There's no opposition to that, right, right, we'll find out.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
You're listening to later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty And I asked.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
The question before the break this there's not like two
sides to this. There's no opposition to this.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
LA's trying to add more baby changing stations in public restrooms.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Can we like touching degree? Have ever been to church?
Touch a degree? And then you have some statement where
everyone just agrees.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Can we just just agree that this is good, good
for La?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You've never had children?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
No, no, no, But I'm saying that this is good
and I want you to verify this or disagree with me.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Hold on.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Ok La City Council approved the motion last Friday calling
for more baby changing stations than city owned bathrooms and
to explore requiring businesses open to the public to do
the same.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Twelve zero vote.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
There was no opposition on city council and they're going
to conduct a feasibility just report about the cost of
installing more baby changing stations for infants and toddlers. They're
going to consider adding such stations to bathrooms located at
recreation centers, parks, libraries, and transit hubs. Also examine whether
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they can update building codes for restaurants, shopping centers, and
entertainment venues.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeada yah, yahah blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yes. The amount of times that I have seen fathers
with infants yep.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And they go into the men's bathroom as they should
in this twenty first century where men shouldn't be going
to nah, And I know that there's no baby changing
station in that men's bathroom more times than not.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
That has to be a burden on that father. It
is a humongous burden. You know what else is a
burden the fact that rules be damned because all these venues,
movie theaters and all the like are supposed to keep
their bathrooms up to snuff. But you know what, I
walk into it. I walk into our AMC. I walk
into a bathroom that has urine near the floor where
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the baby changing station is to begin with. Businesses and
parks do not keep their bathrooms clean enough for you
to be installing more tables for infants. You're supposed to
keep infants clean and wholesome and away from.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Pissing all that all over.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
No, that's a no.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That's a no.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Okay, okay, So you're more against the idea of a
bathroom which is just unclear if they clean excuse me,
if they clean the bathrooms as they should.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You walk you mentioned AMC. I'll just say a movie theater.
I'm not trying to bust them out.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You walk into a movie theater and you see on
the backside of the door that's usually that list of
the times that the bathroom was supposedly clean.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You know, Arthur came in at four point.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Thirty and John came in at five thirty, and you
can see this toilet paper and feces everywhere. It's like,
no one's cleaning this bathroom. I think that is a
related but separate issue. If that movie theater is not
cleaning its bathroom, I don't know if that's an argument
against having the basic facilities available. It's almost like that
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we're not going to have urinals in there because people
will get urine everywhere.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
It's a bathroom you provide the facility. But you know
what they started doing. They said, let's just have a
trough so that we can avoid it.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh, they don't do that anymore. They've gone the other direction.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
They have they have flushless ur urinals where they doesn't
have water.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
It just hits the hits the ground. Yeah, yes, I
got you. What I'm saying is when my children were young,
I would not let them go into a park, much
less me go in there. And I don't care if
I see the sanitation crew coming out and cleaning it
right then and there. This is a waste of taxpayer money.
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How do I know? Because no one is going to
use this. If you're trying to do something, then maybe
make or increase the number of family only restrooms. You
can do that, But you cannot put baby changing stations
in bathrooms that are used by everybody. You just can't.
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You just can't. That is a waste of our taxpayer dollars.
If they do that, just make some more family only restrooms.
Do that, and then maybe.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Well that's Steeve's like an added expense.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Regardless you're saying, not only are we not going to
put this in the restrooms, exist we have to then
create a family only restroom in a Starbucks, in a grocery.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Store, or what have you.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Please show me a park, a business, Show me one,
Show me one where the baby changing station is adequately
up to part because there are plenty, plenty of businesses,
plenty of supermarkets, plenty of every place that has them.
They're all over the place now and none of them
are kept up. I get that we wanted, but saying
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that this is some big initiative, this is just a
lot of pomp and circumstance.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You're saying that you are the opposition.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We can't even agree on baby changing stations. He's for
Waymo and against baby changing stations.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
What the hell is going on with this country.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I just assumed Tola would be in the pocket of
big baby change.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I thought that he would be on the side of yes.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Make it easier for me as a father, because I
struggled when I had my young daughter as an infant
and I had no place to change her when I
was going to I don't know.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Denny's, when I went anywhere. You know what I carry
with me in my diaper bag a mobile changing station.
They even had a little stand and you pull out
the mat on it, all of that, so I could
keep her elevated and away from the scum of the
counters and the villainy of the changing table. Those things
are horrific. When you walk in there as a parent
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and you smell the smell and you see that table
sitting over there, right next to the stalls, it's not I.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Did not say put your child on the actual baby
changing put down some towels a plate.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
You know, they oftentimes they don't even really have that.
These chaining tables have graffiti on them, lots of times
they're broken. So I hear you, I hear you. We
want this to happen, and I'm sure this is.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Oh yes, because I went into a place and I
couldn't change my baby.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
And now I'm.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Bringing into legislation. You are wasting our time, that's what
you are doing with this.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Why don't we just take out bathrooms all together, Just
have everyone of the holds no, no, no, start digging
some holes, go back to outhouses, take a step back
to the scouts.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Bury it deep so the bears don't get it. Have
you ever used an outhouse?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I have?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
They're terrified. Don't you don't want that? No?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
No, no, because outhouses are literally right on par with the damn.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Port is better than an outhouse, I promise you it's
a mobile outhouse.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Okay, yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
I guess all I'm saying is, I don't care if
it's a wood toilet seed and this, that or the
other in your outhouse, a porta potty. All types of
ungodliness happens in porta potti's. Why are there needles in
the bottom of the damn porta potty?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Look, my father, God rest his soul, grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia,
Deep South projects poor. His family had an outhouse going
out to visit him. Growing up. His family was still
very poor. He my father was the quote unquote richest
(26:58):
person in his Familyaily California middle class. When we go
visit his side of the family in the summer, we
would use the outhouse on occasion. There is nothing scarier
than using an outhouse in the woods of Lynchburg, Virginia
(27:19):
at night. You got fireflies, you got mosquitoes, you got
the ku Klux Klan, anything could bite you. It's called
Lynchburg for a reason.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
No, I would have much rather used a porta potty.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You don't want that.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I can't speak to a baby changing station table. I
can speak to an outhouse. Give me a porter potty
seven days a week, twice on Tuesday, five times on
Friday than because I'm very regular.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Now I'm trying to think maybe in summer camp, I
had to go out to the Yeah, because in the
summer camp, I remember they had like little wooden almost
like it looked like little phone boosts. I had little
seats to them. Yeah, but the seats where at least plastic.
It was still a bigger wood door. You go, you
open them door, but there's a toilet seat. They had
(28:14):
to know. The outhouse is a hole.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
It's a hole and you sit down on this wooden
like bench and it was small enough where they could
move it every week or so and they fill in
the hole like yeah, okay, okay, So that's what they
had the summer camp.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Yeah yeah, but no baby changing station. That's where you
draw the line. Looked I was summer camping. I was
uh traumatized after that. But baby changing I think that
this is just something to get on later with the
mo kelly. But it's definitely not something worth investing any time.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Only. We can't agree on anything in this country. Baby
changing stations are now controversial. Now it's about where are
my tax dollars going. I'm not going to use my
tax dollars for a baby changing station. Them kids. Put
those kids to work. KFIM six forty we're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio. I am so disappointed in Twila Sharp.
(29:06):
I thought he was going to come in here and
actually back me up on this and say, yes, this
is what fathers and young mothers need. They should not
have to worry about where they're going to change their
baby when they're out.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Instead, so disappointed.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Let's talk about the lottery when we come back, and
if you want to talk about waste of money, California
Lottery has raised two billion dollars for schools for the
third straight year, and for the third straight year, our
schools are still trash.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
What is going on? What is going on?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Time to go to school. Let's talk about public school.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I remember, I remember when it was first broach the
idea that California was going to have a lottery and
that lottery was going to help support public schools. I
remember it because I was in high school South Torn's
(30:10):
High School. This was nineteen eighty five, so depending on
when in the year, I was, maybe a sophomore in
high school. My parents both public education teachers for all
the career. They thought it was going to be a
great idea. You would think on paper, when you have
people basically participating in a legalized form of gambling to
(30:35):
the tune of millions and eventually billions, and that would
be discretionary for schools to add to their budget. That
California's educational system, the public educational system back in eighty five,
thought that that was going to be the magic pill
to improve our public schools. In twenty twenty four, California
(31:01):
ranked fortieth in education public school education fortieth, only ten
states worse, probably Mississippi, Louisiana and five other states down south.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I'm not kidding. That's what it usually turns out to be.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
But California, with a lottery and billions for schools, is
still in the bottom third. California lottery officials announced Monday
that the lotto games have raised over two billion dollars
for public education for the third year in a row. Quote,
(31:43):
total sales once again exceeded nine billion, resulting in contributions
of more than two point two eight seven billion for
public education programs statewide, from kindergarten to the community college,
California State University, and University of California systems. This is
according to lottery officials. Quote, I want to thank our players,
(32:05):
retail partners, and employees for their decades long commitment to
our mission. That's California Lottery Director Hargener k srgil Chima
long ass name. It is that commitment to providing supplemental
funding to California public education that sustains our work across
the state and allows us to perform year after year
for all of California.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Close.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Well, I am not blaming the lottery. They are providing
the funds. I am blaming the State of California educational system.
If the State of California had zero money for all
of its schools, I'm quite sure two billion plus might
(32:47):
be able to do it. You definitely wouldn't have everything.
I'm not that naive, But two plus billion dollars and we're.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Still in the bottom third.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
We've raised more than two billion dollars for the past
three years and we're still in the bottom third. And
I say, this is probably the biggest proponent of education
you'll ever meet. I am all about education, all about
it bottom third, and it's not getting any better. It's
not like we just now ended up in the bottom third.
(33:23):
Oh maybe a year or two ago. I talk about
this every single year, and ever since I been on KFI,
we have been in the bottom third. And ever since
I've been on KFI, in twenty seven years before that,
we had the California lottery. So what does that mean.
It means that it's not a money issue. It's not
a lack of funds. It is obviously how they're being
(33:45):
used or not being used, how our students are not
being adequately educated. Because clearly it's not a facilities issue.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
It's not a books issue.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I know, depending on certain schools, some schools have more
than others. I get all that, but big picture, collectively,
California is not educating as kids and it's not because
of lack of resources. It's not that I'm not saying
that someone must be stealing money. I am saying we're
(34:17):
not utilizing the money in a fashion which is actually
educating our kids, because if there were, we would not
be fortieth out of fifty. Because the other forty nine
states don't have two point three billion dollars on average
annually to supplement their educational budget, it doesn't make any sense.
(34:44):
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Speaker 1 (34:55):
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