August 15, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the Los Angeles Unified School Districts fight to protect students by limiting immigration enforcement AND Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to enact redistricting in California - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
K f I mo Kelly Live everywhere on YouTube and
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's later with mo Kelly. Let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Just got some news thanks to Tulla Sharp, producer of
the show. Guests on the program tomorrow, we'll talk a
little Lilo and Stitch, We'll probably talk a little Wayne's World.
We'll talk a little True Lies with actress Tiya Carrera
just booked. That's coming up tomorrow. We'll let you know
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more as we know more, but we have a huge
show tonight. Gotta let you know.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
L a u s D.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
They're back to school officially today and.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
La USD Superintendent Carvallo made it very clear that they
have a plan to deal with the immigration raids. We'll
hear from what he had to say in just a
little bit. Governor Newsom, he was out there doing the
pre presidential candidacy thing, has announced his redistrict redistricting plan
and how that's supposed to play out in terms of
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an upcoming election, and we can compare and contrast that
to what's going on in Texas. And that actually is
going to be the basis of my final thought tonight.
And it's real simple, but I'll expound upon it later.
Either partisan redistricting is not okay or it's okay. If
it's okay for Texas, that means it must be okay
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for California or any other state. Because redistricting is not
against the law. Jerry Mandering can be against the law,
depend on how it's done.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But you're either four or you're against it.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But you can't have it both ways when it's only
the party you like or don't like. And remember, what
is done now is precedent for what's going to be
done tomorrow. And we can redistrict this year, but what
happens two years from now or in some other state, well,
when there's a different president, all that has to be
taken into consideration, and we'll get into that. That's all
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coming up tonight. It's a huge show we have for you.
And if you were listening earlier to Tim Conway Junior,
congratulations to Tim and his crew for pulling off those
wonderful interviews with both of Stephan's parents and the stepfather,
and also bringing in the heroes who helped save Stephan.
Had them all basically in one room with Stephan on
the phone, and he is on the mend and we
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are pulling for him and his family as they continue
to deal with all this.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh, Mark, I'm meant to.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Ask you, since I talked about my review of Alien
Earth last night, did you get a chance to see
the second episode as of yet?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I went right home and watched it last night and
liked it even better than the first one. I think
they're onto something.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
So I was right, you were saying. I was right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, if you're going to force me to say it,
we're gonna force you. I just would want to encourage you.
Let me just say you weren't completely wrong this time.
Can you live with that?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I guess I'm gonna have Okay, I have no choice?
All right? Good? No.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I hope other people enjoyed
it as well. And if you're a fan of the
original Alien I think you'd be just fine watching this
series because I think it is true to the original
and many respects.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I was gonna do more of an in depth review tomorrow,
but since we've talked it to death, I think no,
you can't. I'm just gonna sit here and breathe into
the mic for seven minutes tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
No, I think you can.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I mean you can definitely play the trailer and also
give some some deep dive information into the history of
Alien and Ridley Scott, the bastardization with the predator insertions,
all those kind of things.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I read Walter Hill script for the original Alien recently
and there's just non nouns of fat on that thing.
And I think this new show is true to it.
And not only that, I'm really excited for whenever Timothy
Oliphant as the white haired Robot kicks into action. You
know he has a role to play in this series.
Something's gonna go down with that physical role.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Uh huh, cannot wait, And I don't want to give
it away, but yes, Timothy Oliphant is in the series,
and he's Timothy. That's the only way I can describe it.
He has this look of him where you're not quite
sure he's a good guy. In fact, you're pretty sure
he's a bad guy. I feel like he's gonna do
some damage somehow. Oh, he's going to do some damage,
but we don't know to what or to whom. That's
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all I'll say. Lots to look forward to. I'm even
cool with the you know, usually children ruin everything in
an action movie, thriller, horror film. But they've got and
I don't want to say why to spoil anything, but
they've got a lot of young people featured in the cast.
Totally okay with it, and it's well done. They're featured,
but they're not the point of it all. They have
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a role to play, but not necessarily the role to play.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And they're not infantilized.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's not like, you know, they're innocent children who can't
defend themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's not like that.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
There's a deeper story to the children than just being children. Yeah,
I will say if there's one frustration I have when
it comes to filmmaking and writing and things like that,
don't stick your face right up to the thing that
you know is going to be problematic. Don't stick your
face right over the big leathery egg that's going to
open up. Don't stick it next to the thing hanging
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from the ceiling. Keep your face away from stuff. Remember
it is a horror TV show to a certain extent,
and people do dumb things in horror movies and horror
television shows. I'm just saying, as a writer, it frustrates
me when you're sitting there shouting you idiot, don't do that.
But I suppose you have to accept that people are
every bit as stupid in real life, so you just
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got to go with it.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
They are.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
We have people doing selfies on cliffs and falling off
and you know, so, yeah, that kind of makes sense.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So somebody would probably if we had the alien face
huggers here on Earth, probably try to take a selfie
with it right up to their face. Oh, I've been
posted on Instagram. Do you have enough time to switch
over and do news or do you need to meet
a vamp for another two three minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I'm a promo. I'm good to go. I'll speak real slowly.
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First day of school la USD And we have a
number of different vantage points for the first day of school.
I know, when I was getting on the freeway today,
I was like, oh gosh, it's all hell gonna break
loose because there are more cars in the freeway people
picking up their kids from School's gonna be more difficult
to get to the freeway. These are all the things
that were going through my mind. And I look at
the Moegles who are chatting on YouTube. Daryl sext and says, oh,
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you know, just the first day of school wreaking havoc
on my commute into and out of downtown la today.
It was not pretty going through downtown. It was very
much reminiscent of typical you know, school year traffic. Twala,
you are within the matrix of LAUSD, so you know
a little something about this. Has your life been turned
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upside down? Because it's now the first day of school
officially for la USD.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Absolutely not only the My daughter went to back to
school last week. We are back went back to school
this week. All the valley is coming back. So it's
like all of a sudden, all that free rolling and
just riding to and fro without a care, all that
went to pot today.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I was ready to go ham on the freeway.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Earlier this week, we talked about what LAUSD was going
to do in preparation for the immigration race, which don't
necessarily directly connect to the schools, but there's a consideration
and concern for parents picking up children, the disruptions which
may happen outside of schools and how LAUSD was going
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to handle it and superintended. Carvallo was giving interviews early
today and he had a lot to say on the subject.
Here's just a little bit of what he had to
say to KTLA really quickly. Can you touch on the
changes that you're kind of pushing this year amid those
immigration rates?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Look.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Number one, we have parimeters safety around schools. We have
reached out to over eleven thousand families who lived in fear.
We expanded transportation routes provide convenient, protective routes for kids.
We also have partnerships with community based organizations as well
as cities to protect our kids every single day.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
We're also spreading joy. It's a big part of this
school year. We don't want to take away from that
because it makes a difference for students.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Right.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
We have mental health supports for kids, we have smiling teachers,
We have enrichment activities with arts and music programs, robotics, chests.
There's something for everyone. Schools are safe, joyful places for
every kid, and I promise this is going to be our.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Best year yet.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Today we are reawakening this giant that is called LUSD
from its summer nap with five hundred and forty thousand
happy kids.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
There are two sides to this.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
There's the one side of Okay, LAUSD is going to
do what it thinks it needs to do to protect
the children and the integrity of the learning environment. If
kids are afraid to come to school, or parents are
afraid to come to school, or if there's a disruption outside,
that's going to impact the learning environment. I think everyone
would agree with that. There's also what ICE may plan
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to do. You may have seen that the governor was
having a speech on redistricting today. We'll talk about that
in the next segment. But ICE made a show and
display right outside of that, So there's a there's a
lot of posturing going on right now. There's a I
would call it intimidation to a certain degree, because you're
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trying to show a demonstrate, a show a force. I
don't know how that's going to play out, but I
expect it is going to play out at some point
near one or some or many of these la USD campuses.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Absolutely, and I think that there is just cause for it.
I don't think that these parents who are afraid to
come and pick up their children, or are afraid to
send their children to school for fear that they will
be followed home and used as bait to get parents outside.
That's a great point, all types of ways where children
are being used. They're being put right in the crossfire
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to further ICE's goals. And again, look, I'm not slamming ICE.
I know ICE has a job. They have been tasked
with a job, and love them or hate them, they
are doing their job. They have been directed by the
president who go out and do this. We may not
like it, but hey, we also voted for this, so
you get what you get. Bottom line is here in
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la I wonder, I just wholeheartedly wonder is this going
to be enough?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Would you say enough on a part of the preparations
for ICE.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
On the preparations is there can la USD actually stand
in the way of a federal.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Unit doing their job. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
See, we don't know because all this is hypothetical until
it becomes actual. But for example, if ICE shows up
across the street from the parking lot of a school
and you have cars of parents lining up to pick
up their kids. In theory they're on public property, They're
not on the school's private property. LAUSD has said they're
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going to make sure that ICE does not come on
to the private property of the schools. But you know,
if they're right across the street, they can still reap
the same type of havoc and create the same level
of disruption, and they can go and snatch cars right
out of that pickup line. Yes they can, Yes they can,
And I assume that that's probably going to happen at
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some point.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I don't know how children are going to respond to that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I don't know how parents are going to respond to that,
and I don't know how school employees are going to
respond to that. You know, where does the boundary begin
and end as far as what ICE is allowable to
do by law and what type of gray area is
there where ICE may flaunt that Because there's been a
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big question of whether ICE has been observing due process
in the administration of these raids, and if due process
is in doubt, I have to assume that it's going
to continue to be in doubt with the these raids
in and around schools. I don't think that ICE is
going to miss the opportunity, my word, for enacting these
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raids where they think undocumented people are going to be
whether their children are caught up as casualties or not,
because they have not shown any real concern they being
ICE have not shown any real concern for optics in
the sense of protecting people. They've been heavy handed at times,
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and they've been relatively indifferent to the idea of separation
of families in this particular context. They've shown up the
schools before, so we have to assume that it's going
to show up again. It's nice that the superintendent Carvallo
has this idea of what they're going to do with
the new bus routes and everything, and they'll probably have
the buses pulled right up on campus as opposed to
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stop it outside. You know, you can do things like that,
but there's going to be some push pull, and I
assume that there's going to be and a type of
response from ICE which is going to take everything that
la Usd's intended tactics into account.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, So it's just a matter of when, not if,
and whether we are ready to stomach what we are
going to see because we didn't like it when they
were jumping out of Penske trucks and U haul trucks
and running down gardeners and day laborers. I can assume
there's gonna be more of the same when it comes
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to school and their parents. It's Later with Mokelly kfi
AM six forty. When we come back, we have to
talk about Governor Newsom and his what he's alleging is
a response to what's going on in Texas and registricting.
And I said in the first segment it's real simple.
Either you're okay with it or you're not. And if
you're okay with it, then it's got to apply to
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every state everywhere. Can't be just well, I don't like
it here, but it's okay in Texas. Doesn't work that way.
We'll get into that next.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
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Speaker 1 (15:27):
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And let me just say this as a refresher the
Tenth Amendment, those as follows quote. The powers not delegated
to the United States by the Constitution, or prohibited by
it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively
or to the people.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Put another way, states rights. That's the tenth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
We live in a constitutional republic, which is a form
of democracy. It is a representative democracy, and in that
we elect our leaders, and those leaders make decisions on
our behalf, whether we are in the minority and our
chosen candidate did not win, or whether we're in the
majority in our chosen candidate did win. Our elected leaders
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get to make decisions on our behalf. That's why we
have a mayor. That's why we have a federal congressional representative.
That's why we have a governor. That's why we have
a president, and governors are CEOs of their respective states.
Here's where I'm going with this. Greg Abbott, the governor
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in Texas, has made it very clear that after a
phone call with President Trump in which the President asked
for Governor Abbott to get him five congressional seats, and
the only way that he could do that is through redistricting,
and customarily redistricting is done every ten years after the census.
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Last time we did that, obviously then was twenty twenty.
We had a census, we had our redistricting relative to
those numbers, and then you move forward come twenty twenty five.
President Trump wants to change the rules and ask for
Governor Abbott to find him five seats, and that's how
they're going to do it through redistricting. The Democrats in
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the state of Texas have left the state so that
the state legislature could not vote on it. They were
unable because they did not have a quorum. In other words,
you have to have enough members president to even conduct
a vote. So there was not enough Democrats or state
representatives in the legislature to conduct a vote, so that
redistricting effort has been put on hold. In California, Governor
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Newsom Hath said in so many words, they're going to
fight fire with fire because of what Texas is doing,
we here in California are going to do it as well.
The way our state constitutions are set up is different.
In Texas, Governor Abbott has the autonomy and power to
make it so without consulting the legislature. Here in California,
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our state constitution is we're supposed to have an independent
redistricting body do it in accordance to the census every
ten years. But there is a caveat where the governor
can call for a special election and then let the
people decide whether the state legislature and by extension of
the governor will be granted the power to redistrict on
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their own. So there's an extra step that we have
to do here in California. But at the end of
it all, the governor knows that the Democrats have a
super majority in the state legislature, and he's in a
blue state, and he should have enough votes to get
it passed the special election, and then the state legislature
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will as it sees fit. And I only hear one
real argument in the discussion of this. You know whether
California should or should not do this, and I think
you can't. You can't think of it that way because
it's not just California we're talking about. We're also talking
about Texas. We're also talking about the state of New York.
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We're also talking about Illinois. In other words, Newsom has said,
if Texas does this, then the California will do that,
and New York said that if Texas does this, in
California does this, then New York is going to do that.
And there is a domino effect here, not just here
and now leading up to the midterms. This is something
in theory which could happen after every election unless there
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is a national referendum or some sort of amendment which
is passed, or you know, we go back to the
old system where you don't redistrict, with the exception of
every ten years after the census.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Here's what Governor Newsom had to say today.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
We're here with our state of mind, with the clarity
of our purpose and conviction to recognize that we need
to reconcile the world we're living, and we do have agency.
We are not bystandards in this world. We can shape
the future, and that's what we intend to do today.
We're here because Donald Trump on January sixth tried to
light democracy on fire, tried to wreck this country, tried
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to steal an election, as Alex just said, by trying
to dial in for eleven almost twelve thousand votes. And
here we are an open and plain sight before one
vote is cast in the twenty twenty six midterm election.
And here he is once again trying to rig the system.
He doesn't play by a different set of rules, he
doesn't believe in the rules, and.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
As a consequence, we need.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
To disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done.
It's not good enough to just hold hands, have a
candlelight vigil and talk about the way the world should be.
We have got to recognize the cards that have been built,
and we have got to meet fire with fire, and we've.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Got to be held to a higher level of accountability.
So that's what this is about. It's not complicated.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
We're doing this in reaction to a president of the
United States that called a sitting governor of the state
of Texas and said find me five seats. We're doing
it in reaction to that act. And so I'm grateful
to all of the remarkable leaders that have stepped up
this unifying effort here in the state of California, and
we'll be asking for the people on November fourth, the
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special election, coinciding with a lot of local municipal elections,
to provide a temporary pathway for congressional maps. We will
affirm our commitment to the state independent redistricting after the
twenty thirty census, but we're asking the voters for their
consent to do mid term redistricting in twenty twenty six,
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twenty twenty eight, in twenty thirty for the congressional maps
to respond to what's happening in Texas. To respond what
Trump is trying to excite.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Remember when I started the segment talking about the tenth
Amendment States rights.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
This is the plus minus of states rights.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Oftentimes people say states rights and they forget some of
the unintended consequences of states rights. When there is a
governor that you may not like, or when the party
is in control that you do not support, states rights
don't less apply during those times in the way that
the Republicans have a supermajority in Texas and states rights
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are being applied there. California and its democratic supermajority are
applying states rights here.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
And I'm going to ask this question time again.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Are you against redistricting or or are you only against
redistricting when it's the party you don't like who is
doing the redistricting. Because heretofore, we did it every ten years,
that was agreed upon, that was understood, and there were
laws against jerry mandering when it had to do with
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when the disenfranchise of protected communities such as race and gender.
This is not that this is redistricting for purely partisan purposes.
And I'm not going to say, well he did it,
so I get to do it. I'm just asking the
question either it's right and allowable or it's not, because
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what is being done in Texas is not illegal, and
what Governor Newsom has attempting to do, like him or
hate him, is not illegal.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
In fact, it's not even improper.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He is following the state constitution by putting it up
to a vote.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
This is not some legal gamesmanship.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
We may not even like it, but he is following
the state constitution, as is Governor Greg Abbott in Texas
following the state constitution. And you may not like what
is happening in Texas, but it's within the parameters and
boundaries of the law. And what's happening or possibly going
to happen in California with the special election, is within
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the boundaries of the law. So my question is very simple,
very basic, but it's always based on consistency. Are you
against redistricting or are you only against it when you
don't like the party which is trying to do it.
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Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Later with Mo Kelly Live everywhere on social media and
the iHeartRadio app, and I just gotta quickly remind you
some had asked in the past few days in the
Momigo's chat and also messages I received on Instagram. It's like,
when are we going to get back to hopketo in
the hallway where I go out in the hallway and.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Demonstrate some stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And I haven't done it lately because Carnesia, who usually
runs a chad, has not been here, so Daniel's been
doing double duty with the videos. It's a lot going on,
so I haven't had as many hallway discussions as normal,
but we will be bringing it back in the future.
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And speaking of hopkeito, while I'm thinking about it, I'll
be teaching all morning into the afternoon at my dojeon
which is Korean for studio or jim Songs hapketo from
nine am to noon. So if you want to come
by and say hello, or if you want to come
by and see what it may do on the mat
or how hopkito is a wonderful martial art, a traditional
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martial art to learn, feel free to come by where
at four three five four subpulvida Boulevard in Culver City.
It seems like there's a way Mo car on every
corner in Culver City, and I still refuse to get
in one of them. But I digress. I'll be teaching
from nine to noon and can come out say hello,
can sit in and just watch one of the classes,
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or if you want, you could even come by and
sign up you and one of your children. We have
a children's class I'll be doing at nine o'clock, an
intermediate class at ten am, and then you have the
adults and black belts at eleven am. So you just
get a high just a complete idea as far as
how comprehensive and good a martial art hop keto is.
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And I love it and it's one of the best
decisions I've ever made with my life. And I mean
that sincerely, and hopefully maybe I can get Mark Roner
to come by one.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Of these days. Yeah, I want to see you do
the splits.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
You know I have never been able to do the
full splits in my life.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I was pretty close in my late twenties early thirties
when I first tested for my first don black belt,
but as you get older, and I need not tell
you know, you lose flexibility as you get older. It's
a fight every single day. This is what I hear.
I mean, I don't know it personally, but I've heard it.
Let me tell you, youngster. Yes, yes, we all get
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stiffer as we age. And to that point, I'm actually
glad you said that. I do make it a point,
and I've said it to Clauding and Cooper the nice
exercise lady that I stretch every single day.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's not necessarily dynamic stretching where I'm trying to go
Jean Claude van Dam and put two feet on two
chairs and opposite sides of a room and just balance myself. No,
but I try to extend my flexibility as best I can.
And it's disappointing and depressing when I go on there
and you have.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
The little kids.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
They just fall in the splits and they can't appreciate them.
They don't have the leg strength to really do anything
with that flexibility. But yet use it while you can,
and as best you can try to maintain it. And
it helps me just to my general day to day life.
Because if you see, like an older person try to
run the real short strides, they can't really open up.
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That's your your body tightens as you get older, and
some of your muscles just start to calcify on your bone.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
You just don't have that ability anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
But it's something that you can slow the decline and uh,
you know, the the generation of your muscles.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
What is it that makes old people toot when they
run too? Probably diet? Oh okay, you know, yeah, I
wouldn't know, wink wink. Oh well, if you say so,
and I take your word for everything because I trust you.
You seem trustworthy. Robin, how old are you? You like
twenty eight, twenty nine and thirty?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
When I met you then you're probably twenty twenty nine,
ye're thirty and twala is he's twenty seven. We're just
gonna go ahead and lie here. Mark is really lie
he's yeah, he's like twelve hard thirty five. No, But
I embraced my age. I deal with it. I embrace it.
(28:51):
Fifty five. There are a lot of folks who didn't
get to fifty five. And I didn't get to fifty
five any quicker than anyone else. I didn't get cheated.
It wasn't like, you know, I just woke up and
my life started at thirty two.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I didn't have any memory of the first thirty two years.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
But I've been much better shape than most people my age,
So you know I'm doing something right. But you're upright.
That's a plus, isn't that. My father used to say.
You know, it's better to be seen than viewed.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
It's weird to find out about people that you graduated
with who are incapacitated or who have died early. I
just found out somebody I went to high school with
as dementia and is in a facility now, and like, what, Okay,
it's just musical chairs at this point. Yeah, we are
at that age to be very serious. We are at
that age where things start falling apart. When I was
(29:40):
a kid, I thought, oh, yeah, you're young, you feel great,
and then by the time you get to eighty, then
you start to feel it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
No, no, no, it's long before eighty. You know, a
lot of stuff has changed in the past ten years.
I think when I hit my fifties my body started
changing the most. Where you would feel it from year
to year, you would see it in the mirror from
month to month. So I just stopped looking in mirrors.
I don't even look at the camera here. What I'm
doing the YouTube show.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Well, I can't blame you, but you should start taking
my concoction of bone broth, lemon juice and ginger.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
You'll feel terrific.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'm a little scared for when I get older because
I tore two ligaments in my ankle and they said
once I get older, I'm gonna really feel that you will,
it'll tighten up. And all I can recommend is like
I stretch my achilles and my lower tendons every single
day to lessen the likelihood of injuries. But the injuries
(30:37):
I did a mass over the years, Like I tore
my left hamstring on my black belt test which was
which was nine twenty seven ninety seven, and I feel
that to this day. And I know that the arthritis
I'm dealing with is part rheumatoid part osteoarthritis in my hips.
You know, I'm feeling that, Yes, you will feel a
(30:57):
lot of these injuries later on in life, and it's
just away getting around it. And there's Mark who never
did anything athletics, so he's not gonna kill You're right, yeah,
but you're gonna fill your wrestling injuries, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Oh I still do.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I've still got a little touch of cauliflower ear. For
God's sakes, I and all my joints have been just
abused unconscionably.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And you think it's going to be fine.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
When you're in your twenties and thirties, you don't feel it.
You just a little sore, and all of a sudden
you wake up and you're sore every damn day.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh no.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You see me limping in the hallway sometimes, and that's
from torking it from taekwondo and particularly these kind of
jumping kicks that we would do. And yes, I keep thinking, well,
I didn't know at the time this was going to happen,
But what was I not going to do that? It
was fun and well not only that, you don't think
your body is ever going to rebel against you until
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it does.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, that's how.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And then it's just another hop, skip and a shuffle beforeward,
like these old people who fall and break their hip
on one.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Fall, one fall, one fall that you know I'm trying
to avoid that. Tell you all that to say, come
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Just got some news thanks to Tulla Sharp, producer of
the show. Guests on the program tomorrow, we'll talk a
little Lilo and Stitch, We'll probably talk a little Wayne's World.
We'll talk a little True Lies with actress Tiya Carrera
just booked. That's coming up tomorrow. We'll let you know
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more as we know more, but we have a huge
show tonight. Gotta let you know.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
L a u s D.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
They're back to school officially today and.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
La USD Superintendent Carvallo made it very clear that they
have a plan to deal with the immigration raids. We'll
hear from what he had to say in just a
little bit. Governor Newsom, he was out there doing the
pre presidential candidacy thing, has announced his redistrict redistricting plan
and how that's supposed to play out in terms of
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an upcoming election, and we can compare and contrast that
to what's going on in Texas. And that actually is
going to be the basis of my final thought tonight.
And it's real simple, but I'll expound upon it later.
Either partisan redistricting is not okay or it's okay. If
it's okay for Texas, that means it must be okay
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for California or any other state. Because redistricting is not
against the law. Jerry Mandering can be against the law,
depend on how it's done.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But you're either four or you're against it.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But you can't have it both ways when it's only
the party you like or don't like. And remember, what
is done now is precedent for what's going to be
done tomorrow. And we can redistrict this year, but what
happens two years from now or in some other state, well,
when there's a different president, all that has to be
taken into consideration, and we'll get into that. That's all
(02:26):
coming up tonight. It's a huge show we have for you.
And if you were listening earlier to Tim Conway Junior,
congratulations to Tim and his crew for pulling off those
wonderful interviews with both of Stephan's parents and the stepfather,
and also bringing in the heroes who helped save Stephan.
Had them all basically in one room with Stephan on
the phone, and he is on the mend and we
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are pulling for him and his family as they continue
to deal with all this.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh, Mark, I'm meant to.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Ask you, since I talked about my review of Alien
Earth last night, did you get a chance to see
the second episode as of yet?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I went right home and watched it last night and
liked it even better than the first one. I think
they're onto something.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
So I was right, you were saying. I was right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, if you're going to force me to say it,
we're gonna force you. I just would want to encourage you.
Let me just say you weren't completely wrong this time.
Can you live with that?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I guess I'm gonna have Okay, I have no choice?
All right? Good? No.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I hope other people enjoyed
it as well. And if you're a fan of the
original Alien I think you'd be just fine watching this
series because I think it is true to the original
and many respects.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I was gonna do more of an in depth review tomorrow,
but since we've talked it to death, I think no,
you can't. I'm just gonna sit here and breathe into
the mic for seven minutes tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
No, I think you can.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I mean you can definitely play the trailer and also
give some some deep dive information into the history of
Alien and Ridley Scott, the bastardization with the predator insertions,
all those kind of things.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I read Walter Hill script for the original Alien recently
and there's just non nouns of fat on that thing.
And I think this new show is true to it.
And not only that, I'm really excited for whenever Timothy
Oliphant as the white haired Robot kicks into action. You
know he has a role to play in this series.
Something's gonna go down with that physical role.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Uh huh, cannot wait, And I don't want to give
it away, but yes, Timothy Oliphant is in the series,
and he's Timothy. That's the only way I can describe it.
He has this look of him where you're not quite
sure he's a good guy. In fact, you're pretty sure
he's a bad guy. I feel like he's gonna do
some damage somehow. Oh, he's going to do some damage,
but we don't know to what or to whom. That's
(04:40):
all I'll say. Lots to look forward to. I'm even
cool with the you know, usually children ruin everything in
an action movie, thriller, horror film. But they've got and
I don't want to say why to spoil anything, but
they've got a lot of young people featured in the cast.
Totally okay with it, and it's well done. They're featured,
but they're not the point of it all. They have
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a role to play, but not necessarily the role to play.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And they're not infantilized.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's not like, you know, they're innocent children who can't
defend themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's not like that.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
There's a deeper story to the children than just being children. Yeah,
I will say if there's one frustration I have when
it comes to filmmaking and writing and things like that,
don't stick your face right up to the thing that
you know is going to be problematic. Don't stick your
face right over the big leathery egg that's going to
open up. Don't stick it next to the thing hanging
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from the ceiling. Keep your face away from stuff. Remember
it is a horror TV show to a certain extent,
and people do dumb things in horror movies and horror
television shows. I'm just saying, as a writer, it frustrates
me when you're sitting there shouting you idiot, don't do that.
But I suppose you have to accept that people are
every bit as stupid in real life, so you just
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got to go with it.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
They are.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
We have people doing selfies on cliffs and falling off
and you know, so, yeah, that kind of makes sense.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So somebody would probably if we had the alien face
huggers here on Earth, probably try to take a selfie
with it right up to their face. Oh, I've been
posted on Instagram. Do you have enough time to switch
over and do news or do you need to meet
a vamp for another two three minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I'm a promo. I'm good to go. I'll speak real slowly.
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First day of school la USD And we have a
number of different vantage points for the first day of school.
I know, when I was getting on the freeway today,
I was like, oh gosh, it's all hell gonna break
loose because there are more cars in the freeway people
picking up their kids from School's gonna be more difficult
to get to the freeway. These are all the things
that were going through my mind. And I look at
the Moegles who are chatting on YouTube. Daryl sext and says, oh,
(07:14):
you know, just the first day of school wreaking havoc
on my commute into and out of downtown la today.
It was not pretty going through downtown. It was very
much reminiscent of typical you know, school year traffic. Twala,
you are within the matrix of LAUSD, so you know
a little something about this. Has your life been turned
(07:37):
upside down? Because it's now the first day of school
officially for la USD.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Absolutely not only the My daughter went to back to
school last week. We are back went back to school
this week. All the valley is coming back. So it's
like all of a sudden, all that free rolling and
just riding to and fro without a care, all that
went to pot today.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I was ready to go ham on the freeway.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Earlier this week, we talked about what LAUSD was going
to do in preparation for the immigration race, which don't
necessarily directly connect to the schools, but there's a consideration
and concern for parents picking up children, the disruptions which
may happen outside of schools and how LAUSD was going
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to handle it and superintended. Carvallo was giving interviews early
today and he had a lot to say on the subject.
Here's just a little bit of what he had to
say to KTLA really quickly. Can you touch on the
changes that you're kind of pushing this year amid those
immigration rates?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Look.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Number one, we have parimeters safety around schools. We have
reached out to over eleven thousand families who lived in fear.
We expanded transportation routes provide convenient, protective routes for kids.
We also have partnerships with community based organizations as well
as cities to protect our kids every single day.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
We're also spreading joy. It's a big part of this
school year. We don't want to take away from that
because it makes a difference for students.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Right.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
We have mental health supports for kids, we have smiling teachers,
We have enrichment activities with arts and music programs, robotics, chests.
There's something for everyone. Schools are safe, joyful places for
every kid, and I promise this is going to be our.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Best year yet.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Today we are reawakening this giant that is called LUSD
from its summer nap with five hundred and forty thousand
happy kids.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
There are two sides to this.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
There's the one side of Okay, LAUSD is going to
do what it thinks it needs to do to protect
the children and the integrity of the learning environment. If
kids are afraid to come to school, or parents are
afraid to come to school, or if there's a disruption outside,
that's going to impact the learning environment. I think everyone
would agree with that. There's also what ICE may plan
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to do. You may have seen that the governor was
having a speech on redistricting today. We'll talk about that
in the next segment. But ICE made a show and
display right outside of that, So there's a there's a
lot of posturing going on right now. There's a I
would call it intimidation to a certain degree, because you're
(10:18):
trying to show a demonstrate, a show a force. I
don't know how that's going to play out, but I
expect it is going to play out at some point
near one or some or many of these la USD campuses.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Absolutely, and I think that there is just cause for it.
I don't think that these parents who are afraid to
come and pick up their children, or are afraid to
send their children to school for fear that they will
be followed home and used as bait to get parents outside.
That's a great point, all types of ways where children
are being used. They're being put right in the crossfire
(10:54):
to further ICE's goals. And again, look, I'm not slamming ICE.
I know ICE has a job. They have been tasked
with a job, and love them or hate them, they
are doing their job. They have been directed by the
president who go out and do this. We may not
like it, but hey, we also voted for this, so
you get what you get. Bottom line is here in
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la I wonder, I just wholeheartedly wonder is this going
to be enough?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Would you say enough on a part of the preparations
for ICE.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
On the preparations is there can la USD actually stand
in the way of a federal.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Unit doing their job. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
See, we don't know because all this is hypothetical until
it becomes actual. But for example, if ICE shows up
across the street from the parking lot of a school
and you have cars of parents lining up to pick
up their kids. In theory they're on public property, They're
not on the school's private property. LAUSD has said they're
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going to make sure that ICE does not come on
to the private property of the schools. But you know,
if they're right across the street, they can still reap
the same type of havoc and create the same level
of disruption, and they can go and snatch cars right
out of that pickup line. Yes they can, Yes they can,
And I assume that that's probably going to happen at
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some point.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I don't know how children are going to respond to that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I don't know how parents are going to respond to that,
and I don't know how school employees are going to
respond to that. You know, where does the boundary begin
and end as far as what ICE is allowable to
do by law and what type of gray area is
there where ICE may flaunt that Because there's been a
(12:45):
big question of whether ICE has been observing due process
in the administration of these raids, and if due process
is in doubt, I have to assume that it's going
to continue to be in doubt with the these raids
in and around schools. I don't think that ICE is
going to miss the opportunity, my word, for enacting these
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raids where they think undocumented people are going to be
whether their children are caught up as casualties or not,
because they have not shown any real concern they being
ICE have not shown any real concern for optics in
the sense of protecting people. They've been heavy handed at times,
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and they've been relatively indifferent to the idea of separation
of families in this particular context. They've shown up the
schools before, so we have to assume that it's going
to show up again. It's nice that the superintendent Carvallo
has this idea of what they're going to do with
the new bus routes and everything, and they'll probably have
the buses pulled right up on campus as opposed to
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stop it outside. You know, you can do things like that,
but there's going to be some push pull, and I
assume that there's going to be and a type of
response from ICE which is going to take everything that
la Usd's intended tactics into account.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, So it's just a matter of when, not if,
and whether we are ready to stomach what we are
going to see because we didn't like it when they
were jumping out of Penske trucks and U haul trucks
and running down gardeners and day laborers. I can assume
there's gonna be more of the same when it comes
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to school and their parents. It's Later with Mokelly kfi
AM six forty. When we come back, we have to
talk about Governor Newsom and his what he's alleging is
a response to what's going on in Texas and registricting.
And I said in the first segment it's real simple.
Either you're okay with it or you're not. And if
you're okay with it, then it's got to apply to
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every state everywhere. Can't be just well, I don't like
it here, but it's okay in Texas. Doesn't work that way.
We'll get into that next.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kfi AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Cam I o' kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And let me just say this as a refresher the
Tenth Amendment, those as follows quote. The powers not delegated
to the United States by the Constitution, or prohibited by
it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively
or to the people.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Put another way, states rights. That's the tenth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
We live in a constitutional republic, which is a form
of democracy. It is a representative democracy, and in that
we elect our leaders, and those leaders make decisions on
our behalf, whether we are in the minority and our
chosen candidate did not win, or whether we're in the
majority in our chosen candidate did win. Our elected leaders
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get to make decisions on our behalf. That's why we
have a mayor. That's why we have a federal congressional representative.
That's why we have a governor. That's why we have
a president, and governors are CEOs of their respective states.
Here's where I'm going with this. Greg Abbott, the governor
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in Texas, has made it very clear that after a
phone call with President Trump in which the President asked
for Governor Abbott to get him five congressional seats, and
the only way that he could do that is through redistricting,
and customarily redistricting is done every ten years after the census.
(17:00):
Last time we did that, obviously then was twenty twenty.
We had a census, we had our redistricting relative to
those numbers, and then you move forward come twenty twenty five.
President Trump wants to change the rules and ask for
Governor Abbott to find him five seats, and that's how
they're going to do it through redistricting. The Democrats in
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the state of Texas have left the state so that
the state legislature could not vote on it. They were
unable because they did not have a quorum. In other words,
you have to have enough members president to even conduct
a vote. So there was not enough Democrats or state
representatives in the legislature to conduct a vote, so that
redistricting effort has been put on hold. In California, Governor
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Newsom Hath said in so many words, they're going to
fight fire with fire because of what Texas is doing,
we here in California are going to do it as well.
The way our state constitutions are set up is different.
In Texas, Governor Abbott has the autonomy and power to
make it so without consulting the legislature. Here in California,
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our state constitution is we're supposed to have an independent
redistricting body do it in accordance to the census every
ten years. But there is a caveat where the governor
can call for a special election and then let the
people decide whether the state legislature and by extension of
the governor will be granted the power to redistrict on
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their own. So there's an extra step that we have
to do here in California. But at the end of
it all, the governor knows that the Democrats have a
super majority in the state legislature, and he's in a
blue state, and he should have enough votes to get
it passed the special election, and then the state legislature
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will as it sees fit. And I only hear one
real argument in the discussion of this. You know whether
California should or should not do this, and I think
you can't. You can't think of it that way because
it's not just California we're talking about. We're also talking
about Texas. We're also talking about the state of New York.
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We're also talking about Illinois. In other words, Newsom has said,
if Texas does this, then the California will do that,
and New York said that if Texas does this, in
California does this, then New York is going to do that.
And there is a domino effect here, not just here
and now leading up to the midterms. This is something
in theory which could happen after every election unless there
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is a national referendum or some sort of amendment which
is passed, or you know, we go back to the
old system where you don't redistrict, with the exception of
every ten years after the census.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Here's what Governor Newsom had to say today.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
We're here with our state of mind, with the clarity
of our purpose and conviction to recognize that we need
to reconcile the world we're living, and we do have agency.
We are not bystandards in this world. We can shape
the future, and that's what we intend to do today.
We're here because Donald Trump on January sixth tried to
light democracy on fire, tried to wreck this country, tried
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to steal an election, as Alex just said, by trying
to dial in for eleven almost twelve thousand votes. And
here we are an open and plain sight before one
vote is cast in the twenty twenty six midterm election.
And here he is once again trying to rig the system.
He doesn't play by a different set of rules, he
doesn't believe in the rules, and.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
As a consequence, we need.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
To disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done.
It's not good enough to just hold hands, have a
candlelight vigil and talk about the way the world should be.
We have got to recognize the cards that have been built,
and we have got to meet fire with fire, and we've.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Got to be held to a higher level of accountability.
So that's what this is about. It's not complicated.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
We're doing this in reaction to a president of the
United States that called a sitting governor of the state
of Texas and said find me five seats. We're doing
it in reaction to that act. And so I'm grateful
to all of the remarkable leaders that have stepped up
this unifying effort here in the state of California, and
we'll be asking for the people on November fourth, the
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special election, coinciding with a lot of local municipal elections,
to provide a temporary pathway for congressional maps. We will
affirm our commitment to the state independent redistricting after the
twenty thirty census, but we're asking the voters for their
consent to do mid term redistricting in twenty twenty six,
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twenty twenty eight, in twenty thirty for the congressional maps
to respond to what's happening in Texas. To respond what
Trump is trying to excite.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Remember when I started the segment talking about the tenth
Amendment States rights.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
This is the plus minus of states rights.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Oftentimes people say states rights and they forget some of
the unintended consequences of states rights. When there is a
governor that you may not like, or when the party
is in control that you do not support, states rights
don't less apply during those times in the way that
the Republicans have a supermajority in Texas and states rights
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are being applied there. California and its democratic supermajority are
applying states rights here.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
And I'm going to ask this question time again.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Are you against redistricting or or are you only against
redistricting when it's the party you don't like who is
doing the redistricting. Because heretofore, we did it every ten years,
that was agreed upon, that was understood, and there were
laws against jerry mandering when it had to do with
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when the disenfranchise of protected communities such as race and gender.
This is not that this is redistricting for purely partisan purposes.
And I'm not going to say, well he did it,
so I get to do it. I'm just asking the
question either it's right and allowable or it's not, because
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what is being done in Texas is not illegal, and
what Governor Newsom has attempting to do, like him or
hate him, is not illegal.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
In fact, it's not even improper.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He is following the state constitution by putting it up
to a vote.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
This is not some legal gamesmanship.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
We may not even like it, but he is following
the state constitution, as is Governor Greg Abbott in Texas
following the state constitution. And you may not like what
is happening in Texas, but it's within the parameters and
boundaries of the law. And what's happening or possibly going
to happen in California with the special election, is within
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the boundaries of the law. So my question is very simple,
very basic, but it's always based on consistency. Are you
against redistricting or are you only against it when you
don't like the party which is trying to do it.
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Speaker 1 (24:39):
Later with Mo Kelly Live everywhere on social media and
the iHeartRadio app, and I just gotta quickly remind you
some had asked in the past few days in the
Momigo's chat and also messages I received on Instagram. It's like,
when are we going to get back to hopketo in
the hallway where I go out in the hallway and.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Demonstrate some stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And I haven't done it lately because Carnesia, who usually
runs a chad, has not been here, so Daniel's been
doing double duty with the videos. It's a lot going on,
so I haven't had as many hallway discussions as normal,
but we will be bringing it back in the future.
(25:18):
And speaking of hopkeito, while I'm thinking about it, I'll
be teaching all morning into the afternoon at my dojeon
which is Korean for studio or jim Songs hapketo from
nine am to noon. So if you want to come
by and say hello, or if you want to come
by and see what it may do on the mat
or how hopkito is a wonderful martial art, a traditional
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martial art to learn, feel free to come by where
at four three five four subpulvida Boulevard in Culver City.
It seems like there's a way Mo car on every
corner in Culver City, and I still refuse to get
in one of them. But I digress. I'll be teaching
from nine to noon and can come out say hello,
can sit in and just watch one of the classes,
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or if you want, you could even come by and
sign up you and one of your children. We have
a children's class I'll be doing at nine o'clock, an
intermediate class at ten am, and then you have the
adults and black belts at eleven am. So you just
get a high just a complete idea as far as
how comprehensive and good a martial art hop keto is.
(26:23):
And I love it and it's one of the best
decisions I've ever made with my life. And I mean
that sincerely, and hopefully maybe I can get Mark Roner
to come by one.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Of these days. Yeah, I want to see you do
the splits.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
You know I have never been able to do the
full splits in my life.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I was pretty close in my late twenties early thirties
when I first tested for my first don black belt,
but as you get older, and I need not tell
you know, you lose flexibility as you get older. It's
a fight every single day. This is what I hear.
I mean, I don't know it personally, but I've heard it.
Let me tell you, youngster. Yes, yes, we all get
(26:59):
stiffer as we age. And to that point, I'm actually
glad you said that. I do make it a point,
and I've said it to Clauding and Cooper the nice
exercise lady that I stretch every single day.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's not necessarily dynamic stretching where I'm trying to go
Jean Claude van Dam and put two feet on two
chairs and opposite sides of a room and just balance myself. No,
but I try to extend my flexibility as best I can.
And it's disappointing and depressing when I go on there
and you have.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
The little kids.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
They just fall in the splits and they can't appreciate them.
They don't have the leg strength to really do anything
with that flexibility. But yet use it while you can,
and as best you can try to maintain it. And
it helps me just to my general day to day life.
Because if you see, like an older person try to
run the real short strides, they can't really open up.
(27:49):
That's your your body tightens as you get older, and
some of your muscles just start to calcify on your bone.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
You just don't have that ability anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
But it's something that you can slow the decline and uh,
you know, the the generation of your muscles.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
What is it that makes old people toot when they
run too? Probably diet? Oh okay, you know, yeah, I
wouldn't know, wink wink. Oh well, if you say so,
and I take your word for everything because I trust you.
You seem trustworthy. Robin, how old are you? You like
twenty eight, twenty nine and thirty?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
When I met you then you're probably twenty twenty nine,
ye're thirty and twala is he's twenty seven. We're just
gonna go ahead and lie here. Mark is really lie
he's yeah, he's like twelve hard thirty five. No, But
I embraced my age. I deal with it. I embrace it.
(28:51):
Fifty five. There are a lot of folks who didn't
get to fifty five. And I didn't get to fifty
five any quicker than anyone else. I didn't get cheated.
It wasn't like, you know, I just woke up and
my life started at thirty two.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I didn't have any memory of the first thirty two years.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
But I've been much better shape than most people my age,
So you know I'm doing something right. But you're upright.
That's a plus, isn't that. My father used to say.
You know, it's better to be seen than viewed.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
It's weird to find out about people that you graduated
with who are incapacitated or who have died early. I
just found out somebody I went to high school with
as dementia and is in a facility now, and like, what, Okay,
it's just musical chairs at this point. Yeah, we are
at that age to be very serious. We are at
that age where things start falling apart. When I was
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a kid, I thought, oh, yeah, you're young, you feel great,
and then by the time you get to eighty, then
you start to feel it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
No, no, no, it's long before eighty. You know, a
lot of stuff has changed in the past ten years.
I think when I hit my fifties my body started
changing the most. Where you would feel it from year
to year, you would see it in the mirror from
month to month. So I just stopped looking in mirrors.
I don't even look at the camera here. What I'm
doing the YouTube show.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Well, I can't blame you, but you should start taking
my concoction of bone broth, lemon juice and ginger.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
You'll feel terrific.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'm a little scared for when I get older because
I tore two ligaments in my ankle and they said
once I get older, I'm gonna really feel that you will,
it'll tighten up. And all I can recommend is like
I stretch my achilles and my lower tendons every single
day to lessen the likelihood of injuries. But the injuries
(30:37):
I did a mass over the years, Like I tore
my left hamstring on my black belt test which was
which was nine twenty seven ninety seven, and I feel
that to this day. And I know that the arthritis
I'm dealing with is part rheumatoid part osteoarthritis in my hips.
You know, I'm feeling that, Yes, you will feel a
(30:57):
lot of these injuries later on in life, and it's
just away getting around it. And there's Mark who never
did anything athletics, so he's not gonna kill You're right, yeah,
but you're gonna fill your wrestling injuries, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Oh I still do.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I've still got a little touch of cauliflower ear. For
God's sakes, I and all my joints have been just
abused unconscionably.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And you think it's going to be fine.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
When you're in your twenties and thirties, you don't feel it.
You just a little sore, and all of a sudden
you wake up and you're sore every damn day.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh no.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You see me limping in the hallway sometimes, and that's
from torking it from taekwondo and particularly these kind of
jumping kicks that we would do. And yes, I keep thinking, well,
I didn't know at the time this was going to happen,
But what was I not going to do that? It
was fun and well not only that, you don't think
your body is ever going to rebel against you until
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it does.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, that's how.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And then it's just another hop, skip and a shuffle beforeward,
like these old people who fall and break their hip
on one.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Fall, one fall, one fall that you know I'm trying
to avoid that. Tell you all that to say, come
see me. Songs up keetled Saturday four three five four
Supperbledo Boulevard in Culver City.
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