May 17, 2025 • 37 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the L.A. County Medical Debt Relief Program erasing more that $183 million of debt throughout the county AND the addition of ‘Smart’ public restrooms throughout the city of Long Beach…PLUS – A look at the latest Health Department “ocean water warnings” in SoCal - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
K if I. It's later with bo Kelly. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, We're live on YouTube, and
we're live on Instagram. It's Friday. Thank you, Thank you. Jesus.
Didn't know if I was gonna make it to Friday
or not. It was a long week. Some weeks are
longer than others. I can't exactly articulate why. I don't know.
It just felt longer. But we're here. It's Friday. That
(00:43):
means we're gonna have some fun. We're gonna kick off
the weekend. We're gonna play the name of that movie
called Classic, and we're playing for prizes, not just for fun.
I don't know what the prizes are. That could be.
I don't even want to speculate, Okay, I just know
we're playing for prizes, all right. Talla said we're for prizes.
That means we're playing for prizes. There is no theme
(01:03):
in the game tonight, So it's not like we're gonna
do something that has to do with May or Memorial
Day weekend which is approaching next week. Nothing like that.
It's just regular old game, regular old prizes. And I
want to remind you, speaking of prizes, Tuesday. Tuesday on
the show, we're gonna be giving away Harry Potter and
(01:26):
the Cursed Child tickets so you can see it at
the Hollywood Pantagious Theater. We're giving away not one, not two,
but three different pairs of tickets to Harry Potter and
the Cursed Child that's going to be on Tuesday, So
you may want to mark your calendar. Now I sound
(01:47):
like whimpy. I'm glad they pay you tuesday for hamburger today.
Oh yeah, order some hamburgers.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Speaking of food, who is responsible for ordering the food tonight?
For the crew? We need to be in Ta Walla? Okay,
you sure? Yeah, because when I walked in tonight, Carnesia
and Daniel were already eating pizza, and I almost got offended,
like wait, what what are you? I'm very serious, one
hundred percent serious. They were already eating pizza, and I
(02:13):
felt offended because I thought, wait a minute, did they
already order pizza? And no one told me before you
got here, even no Susan. When I walked down the hall,
I want to say, it's maybe six o'clock or so, okay,
And I walked down and I see Daniel with folded
pizza in his hand and I smelled it. It's like
and then I looked around the back of the cubicle
and I saw a box of pizza and Carneesia was eating.
(02:35):
It's like, wait a minute, who ordered the pizza? Didn't
tell me they walked in with this pizza.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
They were.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
They were coming up the driveway walking into the building
with pizza. And I'm like, so, what's happening right now?
Now I know what's happening. There's no exaggeration that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That's the first point of business that Moe asked me
to take care of. Did make sure we get on
the line for pizza so that we don't have it
at the end of the show? Show I had breakfast today,
that's it?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, me too, So I'm ready to eat all right, Okay,
look damn it, I'm I'm go put in the pizza, right.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, our priorities are straight. But on the show, you know,
let's get back to the show. We do have the
runner report coming up in hour two, Mark, what are
you going to be reviewing tonight?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I endured Final Destination Bloodlines for the listeners.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
How many movies does that? For? The really? Six?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
There's six six of them, and there's other stuff too.
There's a whole franchise. I've only seen I think two
of them. You are missing out on a whole Final
Destination Empire. Is it final Final?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Can you tell us that? Is it final Final? Or
is it leave it open for a next Destination? Oh?
Who the hell knows? It's like, Michael, what is it?
Mike Myers? Yeah, it never ends. Look, I know with
each Final Destination movie, and you don't have to tell
me if I'm right, because I know I'm right. With
each Final Destination movie. They're all going to die. It's
just how they're gonna die. You die, and I no.
(04:01):
So for me, it takes all the fun out of
the movie because in the first would at least it
looked like for a moment maybe one of them.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Would have survived. Death will not be cheated. Death demands
his his lives.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You can't it. What's the point talking about watching the
movie because you know they're all gonna die.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, we're gonna get into that. And also it's got
a weirdly high rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Really it's the
last time I looked, it was somewhere around ninety three
percent and I'm going to try and break that down
for you later on tonight.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
No, that can't be real, can't be no bunch of hacks.
Also on the show tonight, we got to talk about
the one hundred and thirty four thousand residents who are
going to receive notices of medical debt relief from an
LA County nonprofit. We want to tell you about that.
And Longbeach has added new smart public restrooms across the city.
(04:51):
We got to look into that. I'm scared what we
might find. And also public Health has issued an ocean
water warning for two LA County beaches. Why don't we
just say all the LA County beaches, So, why don't
we just assume all of them are crawling with sewage?
Why don't we start there and then work our way back,
because just about every single week it's either sewage and
(05:14):
or debris every single week. And also in our two,
we'll find out which is the favorite superhero for each
state and you might be surprised which one it is
corresponding to most states in the Union. And name that
movie called Classic. In our three, as I said, there
(05:37):
are there are no theme, there are no hiccups to
worry about. Unless you you know, you're on to Walla's
list and you're not allowed to call it anymore. We
had to excommunicate some folks. Oh no for what, oh random,
all sorts of random and not so random behavior. Some
people have been getting a little they're doing a little
(05:58):
too much, doing a little too much. They're lying about
the names. They're trying to disguise their voice because they
want to win other prizes. And Twala has a technique
and I don't want to give away his secret to
know who the actual person is calling.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
He can find the tear in the punch bowl. Correct, Okay,
He's a wizard when it comes to them.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He knows. I listen to it all the time, and
he'll let the person finish. And it's like, come on, dude,
stop stop, come on, I'm gonna let you finish, right right, Taylor,
I'm gonna let you finish. But you know, some people
go overboard with trying to win the prizes. They want
to win not every prize, but every prize twice, especially
if it's a mo mug and we have one mow mug. Yes,
(06:39):
we have some KFI T shirts, I believe, some later
T shirts and some other things. We have some Kfi pins.
It's an assortment, Missmash. I don't know Schmorgasbord, Gulash. It's
all sorts of stuff which is kind of throwing together,
but they are considered prizes. Oh and Mark, why have
you on the microphone? I know you have other things
(07:00):
to do, but I'm curious because I've heard that there
might be some precipitation this weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Oh yeah, thanks for that. You're gonna get moist this weekend.
Mo You're almost guaranteed of it. We're gonna have some
drizzle tonight and into the morning, and then there's a
twenty percent chance of rain tomorrow. But I'm an optimist.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That's okay. I don't have big plans for the weekend.
I have to teach some hop keito classes work out tomorrow,
and then Sunday should be relatively open, So if it
should rain, it's all right. I don't have any big
plans schedule for this weekend. But next weekend, Memorial Day weekend,
I can't have it raining. Cannot What would happen if
it did? It really pissed me off and possibly impact
(07:44):
my event that I'm throwing to negatively impact it would
it negatively? Yes, Yes, Southern California Hot Keto Invitational, which
is going to be in Torrents on May twenty fourth.
There is mostly inside, but we have fire marshall requires
and so not everyone can be in the building at
the same time. There's a courtyard that we have where
(08:05):
we were selling food, and so you know, rain would
really put a damper on that. I see.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So as martial artists, would you say hot keto students
are a more delicate and more easily damaged by rain.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
No, no, no, I'm talking about the event, not the students.
I don't worry about the people who are competing. No, no, no,
It's about the families who may want to watch, and
not everyone can be inside at the same time. Okay, clarification,
thank you for that. That's all. I understand your dig
No no, and that insult and that slight. I was
aware of it. I was conscious of it, and I
recognize that I am oozing with respect for you and
(08:36):
everything you do. I don't have any idea what you're
talking about between oozing and moist. I need you to
better choose your words. In the show place. It's a
family show, and everybody's an editor around here. It's Later
with Mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube, We're live on
the iHeartRadio app. We're live on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's later with more with Kelly. I want said Later
with Morris Kelly. I almost let my government name slip out.
It sounded like you were trying to say, it's later
with Mark Ronner. That's fine, that's that's what I kind
of thought that you were going to say, Mark too. Yeah,
really yeah, it sounded like now I was getting ready
to say more. Okay, why don't we all right play
the bumper again. Let's start all the way over because
I want to disabuse Mark of that notion. It's later
(09:29):
with Moe Kelly. Can't buy No, No, okay, let's try
it again. Do it again. We'll do it with Mark Runner.
See what sounds better. It's later with Mark double Runner.
Yeah to sabotage. Now, let's do it one more time
(09:50):
and Mark you'll bring us in. Do it again. It
is later with Mark Ronner. Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Moe's out sick tonight. That's somebody else laughing there. You
can't talk tonight.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
All right, Stephen, one more time, your turn, lock yourself
in my turn? Oh god, you want to do yours?
Your show now? Alright, let me try Okay, it's later
with seven masis Okay, life everywhere in iHeart radio. I
(10:32):
love that. I don't know, I kind of like it.
I do too, I do too, Dan, Ryan, I want
to try this. Carnecie you want okay, Carneesian wants. Well,
it's your show. You can name it whatever you want.
All right, make sure you can pull that mica a
little closer to you and turn on your mic. All right,
let's go, all right, we go. It flated with Carneesia
(11:02):
and we're here in La with the hot girl, hottie,
hot girl, Heidi. That's all I can think of. Oh
my gosh, you just Southern accent, Nolan's accent. Nice. Okay
to the business at hand. More than one hundred and
thirty four thousand La County residents and I'm one of them.
(11:24):
But I don't know if I'll get an envelope in
the mail, but you may if you live in LA County,
receive an envelope in the mail sometime in a near future,
which will say medical debt on it. You may not
know this, but we did talk about this when it
was approved by the La County Board of Supervisors. La
County Board of Supervisors approved this action which would wipe
(11:48):
out a lot of people's medical debt. In fact, the
first one hundred and eighty three million dollars of it.
Excuse me more than yeah, the first of the one
hundred and eighty three million in this first round has
already been sent out, and you'll receive notification that your
medical debt has been wiped away. And according to La
County Supervisor Holly Mitchell, you don't have to take any action.
(12:11):
It's just a notification that the county is taking care
of your medical debt. And you may think, like, well,
why would they do that. Most people either end up
homeless or in financial ruin, which could lead to homelessness
just because of medical debt. I have had any number
(12:32):
of conversations with Tawalla Sharp on this show and privately
about the cost of simple procedures, the cost of a
blood test, having blood being drawn, the cost of staying
overnight in a hospital, saying nothing of staying multiple days,
and for example, you could stay multiple days in the
(12:53):
hospital have great insurance and still have a bill of
thousands and thousands of dollars on the other side of it.
And I don't know about you. Not a lot of
people that I know can survive a major medical emergency
or major health issue. Let's say you were diagnosed with cancer, unfortunately,
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and I know a lot of us know someone who
is diagnosed with cancer. You may be in the hospital
for any indeterminate amount of time, and that has nothing
to do with the various procedures which may be conducted
along the way. But I am a novice when it
comes to this. To walla sharp you, unfortunately, I say, respectfully,
(13:39):
unfortunately know a lot about this. What would you say
to clear people's minds about the reality of how just
simple procedures cost so much.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'm gonna tell you a story, and I don't think
we've talked about this. I was here late one night,
oh maybe last month, and when I was leaving, I
felt this pain in my arm. It was real sharp,
and it was going down my arm and my fingertips
were tingling. And I said to myself, am I having
(14:12):
a heart attack? And I said, okay, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm fine. I'm going home. I said no, no, no, damn that,
because that's what most black men do. They said, they
passed off, said it's nothing, it'll pass. I said no.
I went around the corner to burb It to the
Burban Hospital over here, to the emergency isel. I'm gonna
drive myself over there. I'm check myself in and make
(14:33):
sure everything's okay. They did it, EKG. They ran some
blood and they gave me a shot of nitrogen just
to kind of calm my heart down. Everything came back
find They were like, we don't know what's happening, sir.
Maybe you're stressed out, maybe it's a pan attack. And
I'm like, I'm cool. They say, you're not cool. We
just have to give you some nitrogen, so you're not cool.
Whatever the case may be. My insurance for what it
(14:56):
took care of still still just for those three things,
still left me with a thirty five hundred dollars bill.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And you were there hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I wouldn't even say it was our half, wouldn't even
say it was an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And I'm like, EKG, blood drawn, nitrogen, YEP, thirty five
hundred dollars an after insurance after insurance for them to
tell you we can't find anything.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Follow up with your doctor, follow up with your regular doctor.
You're okay, that's just urgent care. That's just urgent care.
That's just urgent care. I remember the first time I
saw a bill for how much my dialysis treatment was.
When I was on dialysis, each and every treatment, each
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and everyone that insurance was taken care of, was some
seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But you were going like three times a week, yes
I was, mom, Yes, seventy five thousand dollars for each one. Okay,
help me with the math here. That's a quarter of
a million dollars. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Seventy five okay, five hundred Okay, that's not other better still,
seventy five hundred dollars. That's still seventy five hundred dollars.
That's twenty two grand a week, a week, a week.
And I was on the houses for six and a
half years. That's with insurance.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
With insurance, if you happen to be not even low income,
just say moderate income, and don't have full coverage or
the correct coverage you could have, you could be bankrupt
in a year. If you should have easy kidney issues.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Right now, I think the most outrageous bills that I
have that I'm just constantly just paying. Yeah, give me
another one, get another bill, give me another one, because
I'm still even after my trash run, I'm still going
in at least every two months to see my doctor
for a full panel, a full work up. All of
that that still costs thousands upon thousands of dollars. Every
(17:03):
time I get a bill, I'm like, yep, let's added
to the stack, because I'm be paying off on this
stuff forever forever. I'm hoping I open up the mail
and get one of these letters because I'm like, right now, yeah, man, yeah,
I'm I'm in deep with the medical debt because that's
just how much is. And I think to myself, thank
God for the fact that I have insurance, because with
(17:25):
deep with insurance, I think about those who have no insurance,
those who just say, you know what, No, I cannot
get a transfer. I can't afford a transplant because I
don't have full coverage.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Let me ask you this, it's best you can remember.
You may not remember you got a double transplant, yes,
kidney pancreas, yep, Okay, do you know what that costs
without insurance.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Without insurance, I believe it's a mill five This was
fourteen years ago, so it's just about a mill five million.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, otherwise you die.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Otherwise I'd be on diosas for the rest of my life,
and diocese is not for the rest.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you die, because you were
telling us how you saw a person die in the
middle of dialogs.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
On the middle of the procedure right this and across
from me, right there, and I had to come back
the two days later, like ooh, So it's not like
you could say, nah, I'm not coming back. I've seen
people say I'm not coming back when I asked what
happened to them?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh, oh yeah, we're sor oh yeah they passed. They passed.
And how long is the dialysis treatment? It's like four
hours all together, about four and a half five hours.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Just didn't put you on the machine and the process
and it's yeah, you're look, I will say this, it
is better. Dialysis is a lot better than the alternative,
the alternative being death. Okay, a lot better than that.
The reason I am such a big proponent and champion
for trans plantation because that was for me. That was
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six and a half years of the worst years of
my life. There was never a point in time where
I ever felt good for six and a half years
being on dialysis. There you're on the machine and you're
getting worn out. You have a day off and you're
trying to you know, catch up, get your body back
on point, and then you're back on the machine right after.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I don't think people understand in that time where you're
trying to recuperate, you can't really have any liquids. No, no, yeah,
there was you can't have soup. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I was on I think at one point early on,
before I started really paying attention to my darts and listening,
I was on relegated to sixteen ounces of liquid a
day because I was just that heavy that far.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Ofteen ounces of liquid. Tell me about the icequ soup,
you know, ice cream in anything that's that they have
to pull off of the machine, liquid, period, anything. So
don't mess around and you start chopping down some crackers
and just thinking, well, I'm just gonna chew on you
know a cup of ice, oh are you? Oh? Yeah,
(20:06):
that couple ice that counts towards the liquid.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And if you should go over what happens. Oh yeah,
you're you're you're gonna get it. You're gonna feel it
when you go on to that machine and they look
at how far overweight you are when you come in
and they just shake their head look at you. They're
just like, ooh, let's give it. Let's give him a tray,
cause you're sir, you're going to be sick today. I
still think about the blessing of having medical Medicare and
(20:34):
how that is the only reason I was able to
get a transplant because, knock on wood, God blessed. I
am now fifteen years in on this double transplant, still
going strong, still going strong.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
God is good. And that is just with insurance.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I think about all the people who can't because of
how expensive this is. This here, this thing that the
La City Council and the City of a Angels has
done is a miracle.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
County Border Supervisors, oh sorry sorry, counts a city so yes,
County Border Supervirus.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
The thing, this thing that they have done is a miracle.
It is you get one of these in the mail,
get on your knees and praise God because this is
not something that has to be done.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty, Live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, YouTube, and Instagram. When we
come back, we will go to Long Beach and use
the restroom, a smart restroom. What's that about? We'll tell
you about it. Just a moment.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
It's Later with mo Kelly. Happy Friday. Let's kick off
this weekend. We're live everywhere on YouTube, the iHeartRadio app,
and Instagram. Long Beach has now added some smart what
they call smart public restrooms all across the city and
they're blowing white. They're about the size of I would say,
just judging like three porta potties in size. They're free
(22:07):
to use. They're cleaned four times a day. And this
is the worst part, Mark, I think you would agree
with this. They have a ten minute time limit. What
are you supposed to get any reading? That's my point.
There's certain things you just can't rush. Please ten minutes.
You need our alone time, and they have I guess
(22:28):
there are about two dozen others across La County and
this part of a four month pilot program. This is cool,
you know, it's like, yes, they're smart restaurants, but if
you've done any traveling, and I'm not trying to brag
or anything, I'm just saying, as a matter of fact,
if you've done any traveling, this is not special. In fact,
it's actually still behind Europe and Asia when they have
(22:50):
these public self cleaning toilets that I've seen in France
and South Korea, for example, they clean after, they self
clean after use. It's not like they're cleaned by a
person four times a day. I like that.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
That's like living in the future. Have you used one
of those terrifying looking squat toilets and the Asia, Yeah,
that you have to stand over?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yes, yes I have. They're more common in Japan and
China than Korea, South Korea almost they're conventional toilets just
about everywhere. But but you also have the benefit of
a bidet just about everywhere, even in public toilets.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I guess that helps, But I'll avoid a whole country
to avoid using one of those other kinds of toilets.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, for those who may not know, there are some
places where you almost like you stand on these not bricks,
but they're like they're kind of like footpads like corrugated footpaths. Yeah,
and then you squat over basically an opening.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Like you're standing and I don't know what the proper
form is thees bent what do you do these bent
You're you're like you're like catcher position.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It's horrifying. Yeah, and it's almost like I've never had
to really aim like this before. No, no, but but
it's from what I'm told, it's a better physical position
for the body to you know, give push out. Yes, yes,
I don't know what the correct word is. You know
that FCC safe. But when we're going back to Long
(24:21):
Beach and they have these smooth, new smart public restrooms, Yeah,
they should be all around the city, but they're not
as advanced as people may want to make them out
to be. I'm saying. When they have to be cleaned
by people and they're only cleaned four times a day,
it's almost like the guy who works at Ditties that
has to walk around and then go in the bathroom
(24:41):
and and check off the time he checked the bathroom
and he cleaned up the bathroom. The rest of the world,
they're self cleaned after every use. That seems quite civilized.
Some Yeah, somehow the rest of the world has figured out.
And also I mean just in general, when you go
around the world, they're ahead of us when it comes
(25:02):
to these basic technological inventions. Go to Asia and see
what they have in like the hotels for the bathrooms
and also the toilets, miles ahead of anything we have here.
Are they gold? No, No, they're just great. They are great.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
So between bathroom tech and healthcare, we're really not on
top of the heap pain.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well or education. I mean South Korea. I always use
it as an example that one of the top countries
when it comes to education. I'm saying all this smartness
permeates the society in how it's run, the technological advances,
from the transportation and the bullet trains which actually go somewhere,
all of that, I mean, there are miles ahead of
(25:46):
the United States. And for as much as we talk about,
you know, and I said it last night, American exceptionalism.
Travel you'll see how far we're behind. From bathroom technology
to actual train technology. Most people must be miserable. Look,
and I again, when I was in South Korea, not
a hint of graffiti anywhere, not a hint of homelessness,
(26:09):
now they may have had it. I never saw it.
It wasn't a part of society. It was not a thing.
And everyone was so very respectful. It's a respectful society.
You know, there's some correlations here, there's some correlations.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Well, why would they have homelessness when they're not the
richest country in the history of the world than we are.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
There you go trying to make sense again, I know,
those are great questions. Those are really great questions. You know,
if you think about education, you think about homelessness, and
you think about the I'll say the quality of living,
it's all connected. It's all connected. But as far as
Long Beach and their new smart public restrooms, I'm not
(26:54):
trying to poop poo it no pun intended. Oh boy,
I'm just saying I'm not sure. He wasn't even paying attention.
I know, I know, I don't get any credit from anyway.
He ignores the completely. He doesn't like we gotta put
a camera on him right now, see me, just ignore us.
Go ahead, Danny put a camera on. Good. That was like,
what what what's that going on here? He said? Now
(27:18):
he puts the headphones on. Hey, welcome back step and
we're talking bad about you. Oh that sounds very nice.
We have to hire a new intern to do the
rim shots. The job. We were just giving jokes left
and right, puns, metaphors, similes, nothing, absolutely nothing of you.
Now these are bacups. Those are pity ones. Okay, those
(27:38):
are mercy rim shots. Well he's got one, now maybe
I deserve three. See, it doesn't quite have the same
value if I just tell you to give me one. No,
but that was a joke though, that's funny, I see works.
(28:00):
Nothing matters nothing. I said that. That's not too nothing
matters anymore. Nothing. It's Friday, guys, come on, Yeah, where's
the pizza? By the way, I think t Walla's ordering it?
Now you think, well, I'll check, okay, because extra olives please?
And you were kidding. I went outside to tell Daniel
something and I saw the box of pizza. I'm like,
oh sweet, the pizzas here, and I'm like, oh, that's
(28:21):
the pizza. Then, No, they didn't share. They didn't offer
any to anyone, I know. Can you hear Carnacia? Yeah,
she came in with a box of pizza and didn't
even think. Yeah, that's real funny, isn't it. You know
how we get food. We always make sure they eat right.
Everyone gets you know, when Nick comes in the studio
with food, she gets sure, she gets Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
But she did not feel like Sharon ah none for us,
didn't even offer I'll remember that.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I'm petty like that. I have a long memory. Petty Cracker. No, no, no,
you can't. You can't undo this this. You've already had
pizza in the studio. You can't give it back. Yeah,
you hate it. If Moe was a race car driver,
he'd be Richard Petty. So you're not getting out of this,
that's right, Petty Crocker, Baby, Petty Crocker. Twala uh, you're
(29:08):
coming in to tell.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Us that you ordered the pizza, right, I am only
coming in to tell you that pizza has been delivered.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Thank you, Jesus. I did. I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I don't want us to have to, you know, languish
in that smell of delicious pizza out in the hallway
that we were not invited to.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
No, no, no, no no. You knew you knew you
were eating pizza when you walked into place.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
She had such a happy look on her face, like
I can't wait to sit.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Down and eat, no shame, no place at no turn
off Cardnacia's mind. She's gonna have to say either. The
rest of the show, pizza was in a car. I
ate my pizza in a car. Okay, well you brought
up the pizza box though that was not my decision.
I asked Daniel, I said, do you want to bring
this in the studio to wait?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
So the box was just rub it in our face?
Pizza is there just a box? I'm say less because
the more you say, the worse it gets.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I will make this up to y'all. Y'all, y'all. That's
It's Later with bo Kelly can if I Am six
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Thank goodness our pizzas on the way.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
It's Later with bo Kelly can if I Answers forty
We'll live on YouTube, Instagram and the iHeartRadio app. And
if you're thinking about going to the beach this weekend,
you know what I'm gonna tell you. You know what I'm
gonna tell you. I'm gonna say, stay out of the water.
Be safe. But just in case you don't want to
listen to me, health officials are warning residents to avoid swimming, surfing. Hey,
(30:48):
that's you, Joe Kwan and you Matt money Smith. Avoid swimming, surfing,
and playing in the ocean at two La County beaches.
And if they say two, that's probably like eight because
the bacteria levels there exceed state health standards. The affected
areas include the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, and
(31:09):
they always have these arbitrary distances one hundred yards up
and down the coast from the pier in Acabrio Beach
in San Pedro. The entire sweb area that is more accurate,
that is being honest now warnings, according to the La
County Department of Public Health, warnings have been lifted for
(31:32):
Avalon Beach at Catalina Island, where water quality there had
improved according to the official listing and residents. If you
need to get more information, you can always visit La
County Public Health website or just listen to me in
my recommendation to stay out of the water. I get it,
I get it. You live in California, you probably have
(31:54):
some affinity for the beaches. Just like your southern California.
Why would you not get into water. I don't know,
it's just maybe working in news, not as an anchor,
but just working in news, you see everything, everything which
comes across the wire. We have like City News Service
and AP Associated Press. We see everything just in the
(32:15):
determination of what we're going to talk about on the show.
So it's very difficult for us to just ignore bad
news when it comes to beach water. And sure enough
twelve and I were just talking, uh riffing, and this
came over the news wire. I want to say, not
too long before the show's Yeah, like littally, I was
like maybe twenty minutes. Look, just just looked at the
(32:37):
TV said up, got thatta add that? And it seems
like it's maybe I'm exaggerating, but it seems like it's
every single week, regardless of time of year, one, two, seven,
eight beaches you have all sorts of sewage concerns, and
then you have fire debris concerns and toxicity from that.
(32:58):
It's like the just down the water. And I was
I was kidding with Joe Kwan and also a bat
Money Smith when I name checked them. But I talked
to Joquan enough to know she's out there every single day.
And I asked her, uh, privately and publicly, It's like, hey,
does this ever give you any concern? Ever? She said, no,
I'm out there just about every day.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Me.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I couldn't do it because outside remember when we had
her on, It's like, outside of just the sewage and
the debris concerns, depending on where you are, you're still
dealing with the jellyfish and the sting rays. I just know,
I don't know how people do it. Maybe maybe it's
just because I'm a black man and we don't get
into this stuff. No, it's not just you, as you
(33:42):
as well. So half.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, I only go halfway in the water. Yeah, the
non black half it goes in the water. The lower
half stays out. Damn it, don't you Stephan? Okay, I
was listening. But on the on the beaches where there's
one hundred yard limits, so the filth just stops precisely
(34:06):
at thirty yards.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
That has always been my argument. Have you ever put
something in the water, just see a drift downstream.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
And then just like there's an invisible wall and it
just stopped right. It's not like there's a breakwater, all right,
No number two.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It's not like you go to Hermosa Beach and then
you go to Manhattan Beach like, oh, okay, we're done here.
Have you ever gone out in the ocean I'm being
serious now, gone out in the ocean and then you
realize like you're maybe four towers down from where you
started when you originally went in the water.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
No, that's terrifying though, just kind of drift. A friend
of mine almost drowned and had to be rescued when
that happened to him.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, that's why I stay out of the water. I
remember that because I remember like I would see my
mom and my and my my cousins, and you'd see
them when you when you go into the ocean and
then you're just kind of playing in the water and they,
you know, it's they're like ten twenty feet to the
left of where you were. But think about it, it's
(35:03):
probably more than a hundred yards since you've drifted. I'm
assuming this is not scientific. I'm just gonna make some
assumptions here. I'm assuming that sewage can travel more than
a hundred yards. I'm I'm just gonna make that assumption.
If there's if someone had pooped in the water one
hundred yards away. Okay, this football field coach ish floats, yeah, Okay,
(35:28):
it kind of just makes its way whatever the tide
is gonna take it. I don't get it right. Well,
we have to think if two weeks ago, some.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Four thousand, as we reported, four thousand gallons of raw
sewage spilled into the ocean waters as opposed here sewage,
as opposed to be cooked ready to go hot sewage.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I don't know. Just raw.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Raw means it hasn't been treated. Raw means it hasn't
been broken down enough to maybe filter through to the
sewage plans. It means it's still chunky. Okay. That means
it's still thick. If it touches you, it's gonna feel
like seaweed or something stronger, maybe a stick. Okay, I'm
just saying, excuse when it hits you, it's gonna be rough.
(36:14):
That's raw sewage, no treatment, Okay, fresh out the can,
all right, that's what's in the water. And I don't
have any reports. I've been searching. There are no reports
that this four thousand gallons of raw suits has.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Been called up. It just you know, filters to the bottom,
or it goes to Baja California, one of the two,
one of the two. It just it moves away, it
moves further away.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Obviously not because here we are two weeks later and
it's back.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I guess. I guess the tides brought it back in.
I just have to assume that there's always a high
level of raw sewage out there and they just don't
tell us. I just have to assume that it's more
than two beaches which are affected and they just don't
tell us. Maybe I'm being too cynical. Maybe I'm being
irre possible by saying that on the air. I'm just
letting you know how I approach it, how I think
(37:05):
about it, and the assumptions that I have to make.
If you tell me it's two, it's probably four. If
you say it's a one hundred yards, it's probably five
hundred yards. Why Because I don't think it's going to
stay in that small, confined area. But you got to
tell us something, right, Gotta tell us just a little something.
But you're not gonna tell us everything. I'm not some
government conspiracy theorists. I'm just saying that use some common
(37:27):
sense play around in your bathtub and see if nothing
moves around. That came out wrong, That came out wrong,
I admit that. Let's just go to break six forty
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Speaker 4 (37:42):
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Speaker 1 (37:50):
Two Los Angeles, Orange County lives everywhere on the DA
K if I. It's later with bo Kelly. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, We're live on YouTube, and
we're live on Instagram. It's Friday. Thank you, Thank you. Jesus.
Didn't know if I was gonna make it to Friday
or not. It was a long week. Some weeks are
longer than others. I can't exactly articulate why. I don't know.
It just felt longer. But we're here. It's Friday. That
(00:43):
means we're gonna have some fun. We're gonna kick off
the weekend. We're gonna play the name of that movie
called Classic, and we're playing for prizes, not just for fun.
I don't know what the prizes are. That could be.
I don't even want to speculate, Okay, I just know
we're playing for prizes, all right. Talla said we're for prizes.
That means we're playing for prizes. There is no theme
(01:03):
in the game tonight, So it's not like we're gonna
do something that has to do with May or Memorial
Day weekend which is approaching next week. Nothing like that.
It's just regular old game, regular old prizes. And I
want to remind you, speaking of prizes, Tuesday. Tuesday on
the show, we're gonna be giving away Harry Potter and
(01:26):
the Cursed Child tickets so you can see it at
the Hollywood Pantagious Theater. We're giving away not one, not two,
but three different pairs of tickets to Harry Potter and
the Cursed Child that's going to be on Tuesday, So
you may want to mark your calendar. Now I sound
(01:47):
like whimpy. I'm glad they pay you tuesday for hamburger today.
Oh yeah, order some hamburgers.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Speaking of food, who is responsible for ordering the food tonight?
For the crew? We need to be in Ta Walla? Okay,
you sure? Yeah, because when I walked in tonight, Carnesia
and Daniel were already eating pizza, and I almost got offended,
like wait, what what are you? I'm very serious, one
hundred percent serious. They were already eating pizza, and I
(02:13):
felt offended because I thought, wait a minute, did they
already order pizza? And no one told me before you
got here, even no Susan. When I walked down the hall,
I want to say, it's maybe six o'clock or so, okay,
And I walked down and I see Daniel with folded
pizza in his hand and I smelled it. It's like
and then I looked around the back of the cubicle
and I saw a box of pizza and Carneesia was eating.
(02:35):
It's like, wait a minute, who ordered the pizza? Didn't
tell me they walked in with this pizza.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
They were.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
They were coming up the driveway walking into the building
with pizza. And I'm like, so, what's happening right now?
Now I know what's happening. There's no exaggeration that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That's the first point of business that Moe asked me
to take care of. Did make sure we get on
the line for pizza so that we don't have it
at the end of the show? Show I had breakfast today,
that's it?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, me too, So I'm ready to eat all right, Okay,
look damn it, I'm I'm go put in the pizza, right.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, our priorities are straight. But on the show, you know,
let's get back to the show. We do have the
runner report coming up in hour two, Mark, what are
you going to be reviewing tonight?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I endured Final Destination Bloodlines for the listeners.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
How many movies does that? For? The really? Six?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
There's six six of them, and there's other stuff too.
There's a whole franchise. I've only seen I think two
of them. You are missing out on a whole Final
Destination Empire. Is it final Final?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Can you tell us that? Is it final Final? Or
is it leave it open for a next Destination? Oh?
Who the hell knows? It's like, Michael, what is it?
Mike Myers? Yeah, it never ends. Look, I know with
each Final Destination movie, and you don't have to tell
me if I'm right, because I know I'm right. With
each Final Destination movie. They're all going to die. It's
just how they're gonna die. You die, and I no.
(04:01):
So for me, it takes all the fun out of
the movie because in the first would at least it
looked like for a moment maybe one of them.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Would have survived. Death will not be cheated. Death demands
his his lives.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You can't it. What's the point talking about watching the
movie because you know they're all gonna die.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, we're gonna get into that. And also it's got
a weirdly high rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Really it's the
last time I looked, it was somewhere around ninety three
percent and I'm going to try and break that down
for you later on tonight.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
No, that can't be real, can't be no bunch of hacks.
Also on the show tonight, we got to talk about
the one hundred and thirty four thousand residents who are
going to receive notices of medical debt relief from an
LA County nonprofit. We want to tell you about that.
And Longbeach has added new smart public restrooms across the city.
(04:51):
We got to look into that. I'm scared what we
might find. And also public Health has issued an ocean
water warning for two LA County beaches. Why don't we
just say all the LA County beaches, So, why don't
we just assume all of them are crawling with sewage?
Why don't we start there and then work our way back,
because just about every single week it's either sewage and
(05:14):
or debris every single week. And also in our two,
we'll find out which is the favorite superhero for each
state and you might be surprised which one it is
corresponding to most states in the Union. And name that
movie called Classic. In our three, as I said, there
(05:37):
are there are no theme, there are no hiccups to
worry about. Unless you you know, you're on to Walla's
list and you're not allowed to call it anymore. We
had to excommunicate some folks. Oh no for what, oh random,
all sorts of random and not so random behavior. Some
people have been getting a little they're doing a little
(05:58):
too much, doing a little too much. They're lying about
the names. They're trying to disguise their voice because they
want to win other prizes. And Twala has a technique
and I don't want to give away his secret to
know who the actual person is calling.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
He can find the tear in the punch bowl. Correct, Okay,
He's a wizard when it comes to them.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He knows. I listen to it all the time, and
he'll let the person finish. And it's like, come on, dude,
stop stop, come on, I'm gonna let you finish, right right, Taylor,
I'm gonna let you finish. But you know, some people
go overboard with trying to win the prizes. They want
to win not every prize, but every prize twice, especially
if it's a mo mug and we have one mow mug. Yes,
(06:39):
we have some KFI T shirts, I believe, some later
T shirts and some other things. We have some Kfi pins.
It's an assortment, Missmash. I don't know Schmorgasbord, Gulash. It's
all sorts of stuff which is kind of throwing together,
but they are considered prizes. Oh and Mark, why have
you on the microphone? I know you have other things
(07:00):
to do, but I'm curious because I've heard that there
might be some precipitation this weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Oh yeah, thanks for that. You're gonna get moist this weekend.
Mo You're almost guaranteed of it. We're gonna have some
drizzle tonight and into the morning, and then there's a
twenty percent chance of rain tomorrow. But I'm an optimist.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That's okay. I don't have big plans for the weekend.
I have to teach some hop keito classes work out tomorrow,
and then Sunday should be relatively open, So if it
should rain, it's all right. I don't have any big
plans schedule for this weekend. But next weekend, Memorial Day weekend,
I can't have it raining. Cannot What would happen if
it did? It really pissed me off and possibly impact
(07:44):
my event that I'm throwing to negatively impact it would
it negatively? Yes, Yes, Southern California Hot Keto Invitational, which
is going to be in Torrents on May twenty fourth.
There is mostly inside, but we have fire marshall requires
and so not everyone can be in the building at
the same time. There's a courtyard that we have where
(08:05):
we were selling food, and so you know, rain would
really put a damper on that. I see.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So as martial artists, would you say hot keto students
are a more delicate and more easily damaged by rain.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
No, no, no, I'm talking about the event, not the students.
I don't worry about the people who are competing. No, no, no,
It's about the families who may want to watch, and
not everyone can be inside at the same time. Okay, clarification,
thank you for that. That's all. I understand your dig
No no, and that insult and that slight. I was
aware of it. I was conscious of it, and I
recognize that I am oozing with respect for you and
(08:36):
everything you do. I don't have any idea what you're
talking about between oozing and moist. I need you to
better choose your words. In the show place. It's a
family show, and everybody's an editor around here. It's Later
with Mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube, We're live on
the iHeartRadio app. We're live on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's later with more with Kelly. I want said Later
with Morris Kelly. I almost let my government name slip out.
It sounded like you were trying to say, it's later
with Mark Ronner. That's fine, that's that's what I kind
of thought that you were going to say, Mark too. Yeah,
really yeah, it sounded like now I was getting ready
to say more. Okay, why don't we all right play
the bumper again. Let's start all the way over because
I want to disabuse Mark of that notion. It's later
(09:29):
with Moe Kelly. Can't buy No, No, okay, let's try
it again. Do it again. We'll do it with Mark Runner.
See what sounds better. It's later with Mark double Runner.
Yeah to sabotage. Now, let's do it one more time
(09:50):
and Mark you'll bring us in. Do it again. It
is later with Mark Ronner. Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Moe's out sick tonight. That's somebody else laughing there. You
can't talk tonight.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
All right, Stephen, one more time, your turn, lock yourself
in my turn? Oh god, you want to do yours?
Your show now? Alright, let me try Okay, it's later
with seven masis Okay, life everywhere in iHeart radio. I
(10:32):
love that. I don't know, I kind of like it.
I do too, I do too, Dan, Ryan, I want
to try this. Carnecie you want okay, Carneesian wants. Well,
it's your show. You can name it whatever you want.
All right, make sure you can pull that mica a
little closer to you and turn on your mic. All right,
let's go, all right, we go. It flated with Carneesia
(11:02):
and we're here in La with the hot girl, hottie,
hot girl, Heidi. That's all I can think of. Oh
my gosh, you just Southern accent, Nolan's accent. Nice. Okay
to the business at hand. More than one hundred and
thirty four thousand La County residents and I'm one of them.
(11:24):
But I don't know if I'll get an envelope in
the mail, but you may if you live in LA County,
receive an envelope in the mail sometime in a near future,
which will say medical debt on it. You may not
know this, but we did talk about this when it
was approved by the La County Board of Supervisors. La
County Board of Supervisors approved this action which would wipe
(11:48):
out a lot of people's medical debt. In fact, the
first one hundred and eighty three million dollars of it.
Excuse me more than yeah, the first of the one
hundred and eighty three million in this first round has
already been sent out, and you'll receive notification that your
medical debt has been wiped away. And according to La
County Supervisor Holly Mitchell, you don't have to take any action.
(12:11):
It's just a notification that the county is taking care
of your medical debt. And you may think, like, well,
why would they do that. Most people either end up
homeless or in financial ruin, which could lead to homelessness
just because of medical debt. I have had any number
(12:32):
of conversations with Tawalla Sharp on this show and privately
about the cost of simple procedures, the cost of a
blood test, having blood being drawn, the cost of staying
overnight in a hospital, saying nothing of staying multiple days,
and for example, you could stay multiple days in the
(12:53):
hospital have great insurance and still have a bill of
thousands and thousands of dollars on the other side of it.
And I don't know about you. Not a lot of
people that I know can survive a major medical emergency
or major health issue. Let's say you were diagnosed with cancer, unfortunately,
(13:16):
and I know a lot of us know someone who
is diagnosed with cancer. You may be in the hospital
for any indeterminate amount of time, and that has nothing
to do with the various procedures which may be conducted
along the way. But I am a novice when it
comes to this. To walla sharp you, unfortunately, I say, respectfully,
(13:39):
unfortunately know a lot about this. What would you say
to clear people's minds about the reality of how just
simple procedures cost so much.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'm gonna tell you a story, and I don't think
we've talked about this. I was here late one night,
oh maybe last month, and when I was leaving, I
felt this pain in my arm. It was real sharp,
and it was going down my arm and my fingertips
were tingling. And I said to myself, am I having
(14:12):
a heart attack? And I said, okay, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm fine. I'm going home. I said no, no, no, damn that,
because that's what most black men do. They said, they
passed off, said it's nothing, it'll pass. I said no.
I went around the corner to burb It to the
Burban Hospital over here, to the emergency isel. I'm gonna
drive myself over there. I'm check myself in and make
(14:33):
sure everything's okay. They did it, EKG. They ran some
blood and they gave me a shot of nitrogen just
to kind of calm my heart down. Everything came back
find They were like, we don't know what's happening, sir.
Maybe you're stressed out, maybe it's a pan attack. And
I'm like, I'm cool. They say, you're not cool. We
just have to give you some nitrogen, so you're not cool.
Whatever the case may be. My insurance for what it
(14:56):
took care of still still just for those three things,
still left me with a thirty five hundred dollars bill.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And you were there hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I wouldn't even say it was our half, wouldn't even
say it was an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And I'm like, EKG, blood drawn, nitrogen, YEP, thirty five
hundred dollars an after insurance after insurance for them to
tell you we can't find anything.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Follow up with your doctor, follow up with your regular doctor.
You're okay, that's just urgent care. That's just urgent care.
That's just urgent care. I remember the first time I
saw a bill for how much my dialysis treatment was.
When I was on dialysis, each and every treatment, each
(15:46):
and everyone that insurance was taken care of, was some
seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But you were going like three times a week, yes
I was, mom, Yes, seventy five thousand dollars for each one. Okay,
help me with the math here. That's a quarter of
a million dollars. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Seventy five okay, five hundred Okay, that's not other better still,
seventy five hundred dollars. That's still seventy five hundred dollars.
That's twenty two grand a week, a week, a week.
And I was on the houses for six and a
half years. That's with insurance.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
With insurance, if you happen to be not even low income,
just say moderate income, and don't have full coverage or
the correct coverage you could have, you could be bankrupt
in a year. If you should have easy kidney issues.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Right now, I think the most outrageous bills that I
have that I'm just constantly just paying. Yeah, give me
another one, get another bill, give me another one, because
I'm still even after my trash run, I'm still going
in at least every two months to see my doctor
for a full panel, a full work up. All of
that that still costs thousands upon thousands of dollars. Every
(17:03):
time I get a bill, I'm like, yep, let's added
to the stack, because I'm be paying off on this
stuff forever forever. I'm hoping I open up the mail
and get one of these letters because I'm like, right now, yeah, man, yeah,
I'm I'm in deep with the medical debt because that's
just how much is. And I think to myself, thank
God for the fact that I have insurance, because with
(17:25):
deep with insurance, I think about those who have no insurance,
those who just say, you know what, No, I cannot
get a transfer. I can't afford a transplant because I
don't have full coverage.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Let me ask you this, it's best you can remember.
You may not remember you got a double transplant, yes,
kidney pancreas, yep, Okay, do you know what that costs
without insurance.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Without insurance, I believe it's a mill five This was
fourteen years ago, so it's just about a mill five million.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, otherwise you die.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Otherwise I'd be on diosas for the rest of my life,
and diocese is not for the rest.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you die, because you were
telling us how you saw a person die in the
middle of dialogs.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
On the middle of the procedure right this and across
from me, right there, and I had to come back
the two days later, like ooh, So it's not like
you could say, nah, I'm not coming back. I've seen
people say I'm not coming back when I asked what
happened to them?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh, oh yeah, we're sor oh yeah they passed. They passed.
And how long is the dialysis treatment? It's like four
hours all together, about four and a half five hours.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Just didn't put you on the machine and the process
and it's yeah, you're look, I will say this, it
is better. Dialysis is a lot better than the alternative,
the alternative being death. Okay, a lot better than that.
The reason I am such a big proponent and champion
for trans plantation because that was for me. That was
(19:05):
six and a half years of the worst years of
my life. There was never a point in time where
I ever felt good for six and a half years
being on dialysis. There you're on the machine and you're
getting worn out. You have a day off and you're
trying to you know, catch up, get your body back
on point, and then you're back on the machine right after.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I don't think people understand in that time where you're
trying to recuperate, you can't really have any liquids. No, no, yeah,
there was you can't have soup. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I was on I think at one point early on,
before I started really paying attention to my darts and listening,
I was on relegated to sixteen ounces of liquid a
day because I was just that heavy that far.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Ofteen ounces of liquid. Tell me about the icequ soup,
you know, ice cream in anything that's that they have
to pull off of the machine, liquid, period, anything. So
don't mess around and you start chopping down some crackers
and just thinking, well, I'm just gonna chew on you
know a cup of ice, oh are you? Oh? Yeah,
(20:06):
that couple ice that counts towards the liquid.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And if you should go over what happens. Oh yeah,
you're you're you're gonna get it. You're gonna feel it
when you go on to that machine and they look
at how far overweight you are when you come in
and they just shake their head look at you. They're
just like, ooh, let's give it. Let's give him a tray,
cause you're sir, you're going to be sick today. I
still think about the blessing of having medical Medicare and
(20:34):
how that is the only reason I was able to
get a transplant because, knock on wood, God blessed. I
am now fifteen years in on this double transplant, still
going strong, still going strong.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
God is good. And that is just with insurance.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I think about all the people who can't because of
how expensive this is. This here, this thing that the
La City Council and the City of a Angels has
done is a miracle.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
County Border Supervisors, oh sorry sorry, counts a city so yes,
County Border Supervirus.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
The thing, this thing that they have done is a miracle.
It is you get one of these in the mail,
get on your knees and praise God because this is
not something that has to be done.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty, Live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, YouTube, and Instagram. When we
come back, we will go to Long Beach and use
the restroom, a smart restroom. What's that about? We'll tell
you about it. Just a moment.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
It's Later with mo Kelly. Happy Friday. Let's kick off
this weekend. We're live everywhere on YouTube, the iHeartRadio app,
and Instagram. Long Beach has now added some smart what
they call smart public restrooms all across the city and
they're blowing white. They're about the size of I would say,
just judging like three porta potties in size. They're free
(22:07):
to use. They're cleaned four times a day. And this
is the worst part, Mark, I think you would agree
with this. They have a ten minute time limit. What
are you supposed to get any reading? That's my point.
There's certain things you just can't rush. Please ten minutes.
You need our alone time, and they have I guess
(22:28):
there are about two dozen others across La County and
this part of a four month pilot program. This is cool,
you know, it's like, yes, they're smart restaurants, but if
you've done any traveling, and I'm not trying to brag
or anything, I'm just saying, as a matter of fact,
if you've done any traveling, this is not special. In fact,
it's actually still behind Europe and Asia when they have
(22:50):
these public self cleaning toilets that I've seen in France
and South Korea, for example, they clean after, they self
clean after use. It's not like they're cleaned by a
person four times a day. I like that.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
That's like living in the future. Have you used one
of those terrifying looking squat toilets and the Asia, Yeah,
that you have to stand over?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yes, yes I have. They're more common in Japan and
China than Korea, South Korea almost they're conventional toilets just
about everywhere. But but you also have the benefit of
a bidet just about everywhere, even in public toilets.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I guess that helps, But I'll avoid a whole country
to avoid using one of those other kinds of toilets.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, for those who may not know, there are some
places where you almost like you stand on these not bricks,
but they're like they're kind of like footpads like corrugated footpaths. Yeah,
and then you squat over basically an opening.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Like you're standing and I don't know what the proper
form is thees bent what do you do these bent
You're you're like you're like catcher position.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It's horrifying. Yeah, and it's almost like I've never had
to really aim like this before. No, no, but but
it's from what I'm told, it's a better physical position
for the body to you know, give push out. Yes, yes,
I don't know what the correct word is. You know
that FCC safe. But when we're going back to Long
(24:21):
Beach and they have these smooth, new smart public restrooms, Yeah,
they should be all around the city, but they're not
as advanced as people may want to make them out
to be. I'm saying. When they have to be cleaned
by people and they're only cleaned four times a day,
it's almost like the guy who works at Ditties that
has to walk around and then go in the bathroom
(24:41):
and and check off the time he checked the bathroom
and he cleaned up the bathroom. The rest of the world,
they're self cleaned after every use. That seems quite civilized.
Some Yeah, somehow the rest of the world has figured out.
And also I mean just in general, when you go
around the world, they're ahead of us when it comes
(25:02):
to these basic technological inventions. Go to Asia and see
what they have in like the hotels for the bathrooms
and also the toilets, miles ahead of anything we have here.
Are they gold? No, No, they're just great. They are great.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
So between bathroom tech and healthcare, we're really not on
top of the heap pain.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well or education. I mean South Korea. I always use
it as an example that one of the top countries
when it comes to education. I'm saying all this smartness
permeates the society in how it's run, the technological advances,
from the transportation and the bullet trains which actually go somewhere,
all of that, I mean, there are miles ahead of
(25:46):
the United States. And for as much as we talk about,
you know, and I said it last night, American exceptionalism.
Travel you'll see how far we're behind. From bathroom technology
to actual train technology. Most people must be miserable. Look,
and I again, when I was in South Korea, not
a hint of graffiti anywhere, not a hint of homelessness,
(26:09):
now they may have had it. I never saw it.
It wasn't a part of society. It was not a thing.
And everyone was so very respectful. It's a respectful society.
You know, there's some correlations here, there's some correlations.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Well, why would they have homelessness when they're not the
richest country in the history of the world than we are.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
There you go trying to make sense again, I know,
those are great questions. Those are really great questions. You know,
if you think about education, you think about homelessness, and
you think about the I'll say the quality of living,
it's all connected. It's all connected. But as far as
Long Beach and their new smart public restrooms, I'm not
(26:54):
trying to poop poo it no pun intended. Oh boy,
I'm just saying I'm not sure. He wasn't even paying attention.
I know, I know, I don't get any credit from anyway.
He ignores the completely. He doesn't like we gotta put
a camera on him right now, see me, just ignore us.
Go ahead, Danny put a camera on. Good. That was like,
what what what's that going on here? He said? Now
(27:18):
he puts the headphones on. Hey, welcome back step and
we're talking bad about you. Oh that sounds very nice.
We have to hire a new intern to do the
rim shots. The job. We were just giving jokes left
and right, puns, metaphors, similes, nothing, absolutely nothing of you.
Now these are bacups. Those are pity ones. Okay, those
(27:38):
are mercy rim shots. Well he's got one, now maybe
I deserve three. See, it doesn't quite have the same
value if I just tell you to give me one. No,
but that was a joke though, that's funny, I see works.
(28:00):
Nothing matters nothing. I said that. That's not too nothing
matters anymore. Nothing. It's Friday, guys, come on, Yeah, where's
the pizza? By the way, I think t Walla's ordering it?
Now you think, well, I'll check, okay, because extra olives please?
And you were kidding. I went outside to tell Daniel
something and I saw the box of pizza. I'm like,
oh sweet, the pizzas here, and I'm like, oh, that's
(28:21):
the pizza. Then, No, they didn't share. They didn't offer
any to anyone, I know. Can you hear Carnacia? Yeah,
she came in with a box of pizza and didn't
even think. Yeah, that's real funny, isn't it. You know
how we get food. We always make sure they eat right.
Everyone gets you know, when Nick comes in the studio
with food, she gets sure, she gets Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
But she did not feel like Sharon ah none for us,
didn't even offer I'll remember that.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I'm petty like that. I have a long memory. Petty Cracker. No, no, no,
you can't. You can't undo this this. You've already had
pizza in the studio. You can't give it back. Yeah,
you hate it. If Moe was a race car driver,
he'd be Richard Petty. So you're not getting out of this,
that's right, Petty Crocker, Baby, Petty Crocker. Twala uh, you're
(29:08):
coming in to tell.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Us that you ordered the pizza, right, I am only
coming in to tell you that pizza has been delivered.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Thank you, Jesus. I did. I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I don't want us to have to, you know, languish
in that smell of delicious pizza out in the hallway
that we were not invited to.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
No, no, no, no no. You knew you knew you
were eating pizza when you walked into place.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
She had such a happy look on her face, like
I can't wait to sit.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Down and eat, no shame, no place at no turn
off Cardnacia's mind. She's gonna have to say either. The
rest of the show, pizza was in a car. I
ate my pizza in a car. Okay, well you brought
up the pizza box though that was not my decision.
I asked Daniel, I said, do you want to bring
this in the studio to wait?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
So the box was just rub it in our face?
Pizza is there just a box? I'm say less because
the more you say, the worse it gets.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I will make this up to y'all. Y'all, y'all. That's
It's Later with bo Kelly can if I Am six
forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, YouTube, and Instagram.
Thank goodness our pizzas on the way.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
It's Later with bo Kelly can if I Answers forty
We'll live on YouTube, Instagram and the iHeartRadio app. And
if you're thinking about going to the beach this weekend,
you know what I'm gonna tell you. You know what I'm
gonna tell you. I'm gonna say, stay out of the water.
Be safe. But just in case you don't want to
listen to me, health officials are warning residents to avoid swimming, surfing. Hey,
(30:48):
that's you, Joe Kwan and you Matt money Smith. Avoid swimming, surfing,
and playing in the ocean at two La County beaches.
And if they say two, that's probably like eight because
the bacteria levels there exceed state health standards. The affected
areas include the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, and
(31:09):
they always have these arbitrary distances one hundred yards up
and down the coast from the pier in Acabrio Beach
in San Pedro. The entire sweb area that is more accurate,
that is being honest now warnings, according to the La
County Department of Public Health, warnings have been lifted for
(31:32):
Avalon Beach at Catalina Island, where water quality there had
improved according to the official listing and residents. If you
need to get more information, you can always visit La
County Public Health website or just listen to me in
my recommendation to stay out of the water. I get it,
I get it. You live in California, you probably have
(31:54):
some affinity for the beaches. Just like your southern California.
Why would you not get into water. I don't know,
it's just maybe working in news, not as an anchor,
but just working in news, you see everything, everything which
comes across the wire. We have like City News Service
and AP Associated Press. We see everything just in the
(32:15):
determination of what we're going to talk about on the show.
So it's very difficult for us to just ignore bad
news when it comes to beach water. And sure enough
twelve and I were just talking, uh riffing, and this
came over the news wire. I want to say, not
too long before the show's Yeah, like littally, I was
like maybe twenty minutes. Look, just just looked at the
(32:37):
TV said up, got thatta add that? And it seems
like it's maybe I'm exaggerating, but it seems like it's
every single week, regardless of time of year, one, two, seven,
eight beaches you have all sorts of sewage concerns, and
then you have fire debris concerns and toxicity from that.
(32:58):
It's like the just down the water. And I was
I was kidding with Joe Kwan and also a bat
Money Smith when I name checked them. But I talked
to Joquan enough to know she's out there every single day.
And I asked her, uh, privately and publicly, It's like, hey,
does this ever give you any concern? Ever? She said, no,
I'm out there just about every day.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Me.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I couldn't do it because outside remember when we had
her on, It's like, outside of just the sewage and
the debris concerns, depending on where you are, you're still
dealing with the jellyfish and the sting rays. I just know,
I don't know how people do it. Maybe maybe it's
just because I'm a black man and we don't get
into this stuff. No, it's not just you, as you
(33:42):
as well. So half.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, I only go halfway in the water. Yeah, the
non black half it goes in the water. The lower
half stays out. Damn it, don't you Stephan? Okay, I
was listening. But on the on the beaches where there's
one hundred yard limits, so the filth just stops precisely
(34:06):
at thirty yards.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
That has always been my argument. Have you ever put
something in the water, just see a drift downstream.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
And then just like there's an invisible wall and it
just stopped right. It's not like there's a breakwater, all right,
No number two.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It's not like you go to Hermosa Beach and then
you go to Manhattan Beach like, oh, okay, we're done here.
Have you ever gone out in the ocean I'm being
serious now, gone out in the ocean and then you
realize like you're maybe four towers down from where you
started when you originally went in the water.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
No, that's terrifying though, just kind of drift. A friend
of mine almost drowned and had to be rescued when
that happened to him.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, that's why I stay out of the water. I
remember that because I remember like I would see my
mom and my and my my cousins, and you'd see
them when you when you go into the ocean and
then you're just kind of playing in the water and they,
you know, it's they're like ten twenty feet to the
left of where you were. But think about it, it's
(35:03):
probably more than a hundred yards since you've drifted. I'm
assuming this is not scientific. I'm just gonna make some
assumptions here. I'm assuming that sewage can travel more than
a hundred yards. I'm I'm just gonna make that assumption.
If there's if someone had pooped in the water one
hundred yards away. Okay, this football field coach ish floats, yeah, Okay,
(35:28):
it kind of just makes its way whatever the tide
is gonna take it. I don't get it right. Well,
we have to think if two weeks ago, some.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Four thousand, as we reported, four thousand gallons of raw
sewage spilled into the ocean waters as opposed here sewage,
as opposed to be cooked ready to go hot sewage.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I don't know. Just raw.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Raw means it hasn't been treated. Raw means it hasn't
been broken down enough to maybe filter through to the
sewage plans. It means it's still chunky. Okay. That means
it's still thick. If it touches you, it's gonna feel
like seaweed or something stronger, maybe a stick. Okay, I'm
just saying, excuse when it hits you, it's gonna be rough.
(36:14):
That's raw sewage, no treatment, Okay, fresh out the can,
all right, that's what's in the water. And I don't
have any reports. I've been searching. There are no reports
that this four thousand gallons of raw suits has.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Been called up. It just you know, filters to the bottom,
or it goes to Baja California, one of the two,
one of the two. It just it moves away, it
moves further away.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Obviously not because here we are two weeks later and
it's back.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I guess. I guess the tides brought it back in.
I just have to assume that there's always a high
level of raw sewage out there and they just don't
tell us. I just have to assume that it's more
than two beaches which are affected and they just don't
tell us. Maybe I'm being too cynical. Maybe I'm being
irre possible by saying that on the air. I'm just
letting you know how I approach it, how I think
(37:05):
about it, and the assumptions that I have to make.
If you tell me it's two, it's probably four. If
you say it's a one hundred yards, it's probably five
hundred yards. Why Because I don't think it's going to
stay in that small, confined area. But you got to
tell us something, right, Gotta tell us just a little something.
But you're not gonna tell us everything. I'm not some
government conspiracy theorists. I'm just saying that use some common
(37:27):
sense play around in your bathtub and see if nothing
moves around. That came out wrong, That came out wrong,
I admit that. Let's just go to break six forty
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Speaker 4 (37:42):
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