May 23, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – The launch of the #Oscar4TomCruise campaign aimed at getting the Academy to acknowledge the acting prowess of Tom Cruise with a ‘Best Actor’ Oscar nomination…PLUS – A breakdown of LA Metro's $9.4 billion spending plan for 2026 with KFI Reporter Michael Monks AND the end of ‘Penny’ production in the U.S. - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
JF I am six forty. It's later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We're live on Instagram, We're live on YouTube, and we're
live everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I gotta tell you, I'm gonna start somewhere different. Tonight.
We have to talk Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Because tonight after the show, Mark Ronner and Tula Sharp
are going to be at the movie. You're damn right,
and the movie doesn't even start until twelve fifty five
in the morning, a little broad day. Well, it's actually
a little bit more than that. It's almost like a
bro vacation, like a bro sleepover, because pretty much if
(01:01):
they see the movie starts at twelve fifty five, the
actual movie past the trailers and Nicole Kidman, we're getting
closer to one thirty, all right, Then you have a
movie which is trending towards three hours, no exaggeration, so
you're looking at closer to four thirty. There might even
be an end credit scene, so they'll probably That's what
(01:21):
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, we'll get out just in time for our paper roots.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I told Mark afterwards we can go and get some
eye hop because it'll be justin powas breakfast.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's gonna be breakfast time. You ought to be hungry
at that point, because we will be hungry. The concession
stand will be closed. It closes around like eleven thirty.
We're not getting anything when we get there. I don't
even think we can get soda at that time. We
can get probably not probably, not well, you can probably.
They don't think they I don't think they turn off. No, no, no,
no no no no no no they do.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I know because I've gone to an AMC at twelve thirty,
the last one to go see Craven. They literally like,
you can buy a bottle of water, sir. I'm like,
I can't even buy a soda to stay up there.
Like no, we shut all the machinery as after towards
the end of the night, all they have open and
available is hot dogs and nachura. They stop making all
the cook stuff. And when you get to the later showings,
(02:12):
why because it's no one in the damn theater, so
why keep that open.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I understand I wasn't mad at them. I paid my tickets,
paid for my tickets. I should get the full service
for those tickets.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
No, when I went, I actually ordered food a head
and get and I got there and they're like, oh, sorry,
they shouldn't have taken that order.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's closed.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
That's why I told Mark we can get like a
coffee from the coffee machine here and get all the
way over there.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I have told you. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
No, Look, the reason I started with this is and
I'm saying this to be completely serious, completely serious. I'm
not trying to be funny. I am not gonna be
able to see the movie tonight, what. I got too
much stuff going on, but I'll probably see it before
this Memorial Day weekend is over.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
What a betrayal this is? Sorry, I mean, where were
you the last time we went out?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Exactly?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh that's when I had a tooth explode in my head? Yeah,
I was the old tooth is Yes, sounds like a
Mission impossible plot. It sounds like a get smart plot. Ah,
the old exploding toothploy.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I can't see the movie with you guys tonight, but
I have been rewatching every single one of them, back
to back to back to back.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I finished number six today.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And of course as you get to the more recent ones,
obviously they're more memorable because you just saw them more recently. Well,
they don't get good until like number five. Right, No,
you're absolutely wrong, and I'm glad you said that.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Mark God, here we go.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Starting from the beginning, and I told to wall of Sharp,
I owed him an apology because he was so high
on the totality of the series, and I said, I
don't know, it's like I've seen it before, watching them
back to back and noticing the overall consistency and quality,
which doesn't drop.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I have problems with some of the plot holes and
devices used along the way in some of the storyteller,
but watching him back to back and also noticing how
certain threads are carried over from movie to movie, or
they might even skip a movie to resurface later, I
have a much greater appreciation for the franchise as a whole.
(04:16):
This is what I want people to take away from
this opening segment, given that Tom Cruise does all of
his stunts, and given that is very much part of
the acting process. Okay, that is part of the performance,
regardless of how bad or how great. This Mission Impossible.
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Final Reckoning is the eighth movie in the franchise. We
should start a campaign for Tom Cruise to be nominated
for an Academy Award, and before you dismiss it out
of hand, if you have someone like Adrian Brody who
wins an Academy Award his second one, and he's not
riding on the side of a plane, if he's not
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up off a motorcycle, jumping off a mountain with a motorcycle,
if he's not jumping from building the building, I have
to think that that is a lesser performance. And I'm
being absolutely serious because it's a part of us believing
that Ethan Hunt is actually an agent for IMF, the
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Impossible Mission Force. Well, they've got a new category for
stunts that starts in twenty twenty eight. Yes, that's all
well and good, all right, you can nominate him for
that as well. It's almost like nominating a great Marvel
movie for best special Effects or something. I think it
is a diminution of the totality of the greatness of
someone's performance. If that stunt person we're also acting, I'm
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quite sure, and that stunt person deserves more credit. If
you're going to relegate Tom Cruise to just his stunt work,
then I think you've undersold his contribution to the movie
or any of the movies.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Because his stunt are him.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's not cgi, it's not the back of his head.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah with some stunt dump.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yes, it's him. That's part of his performance. That's why
we can believe that he can. Let me be specific.
It's him flying the helicopter in a canyon.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
It's him flying the plane.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's him jumping out of a plane, it is him
doing the halo jump.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It is actually him.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Why that's never included in the consideration of Tom Cruise's
acting performances because you got to remember close up of
his face as he's going through the air on all
those things. It's him staying in character even when he
breaks his leg because I looked at that scene against like,
oh damn, he really did break his leg in that
scene when he jumps off. I'm talking about when he's
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on the motorcycle. Yea, yeah, yeah, he does that leap off.
Or they went over that stunt over and over and
over again. They want He wanted the camera in his face.
He wanted people to fill it and go over the
cliff with him. That is beyond method acting. There are
people who will sit in the kitchen and learn how
to cook it. Next you know they're getting nominated for
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some chef movie. Okay, as Best Actor. Guess what you're
talking about? Method acting?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Do that?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
All I'm saying is and Tom Cruise or your agent
you happen to be listening right now. We're starting a
campaign Tom Cruise, even though Mark Roner is not down
with the cause. Tom Cruise Academy Award nominee.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
For This Last Mission Impossible film.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Absolutely yeah, because I mean the motorcycle one was good,
but I saw an interview that he did with the
one where he was on.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That side of the jet or was a plane.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
He had to wear like special contacts because the air
was so strong in order to keep his eyes open.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That's what we had to do, and that's a part
of the acting. You have to see his face. YEA
suck on that Orson Wells. Give him the credit. Give
Tom Cruise his flowers.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
They see Mark's trying to be funny, I being absolutely serious.
Tom Cruise deserves on the merit of his performance Oscar
consideration for Best Actor because no one is going to
that extreme to deliver a performance. If Adrian Brody and
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I'm picking on him because he just won the most
recent Best Actor Award if he was the one who's,
you know, flying the helicopters and jumping off cliffs with motorcycles,
I would want him to get the same type of
credit and acknowledgment.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, Brando just stuffed some cotton in his jowels. He
didn't deserve that. True story, True story.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I mean the cotton and the jowls for the Godfather.
But all these stunts are part of the performance because
it's not like he's hiding his face. You're seeing his
facial expressions. Give the man his flowers. The campaign starts now,
Tom Cruise Academy Award nominee for Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning, What.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
About a special Academy Award also for weird running. No, no, no,
he's trying. You're flipping scene is absolutely absurd.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I've been absolutely serious. It's not like it's it wouldn't
be on the merits. Are you saying to me that
someone does a stunt in the movie is not a
part of.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Their performance beyond the beyond it being a stunt, it's
part of the performance. When you see half these actors
who are playing guitar as a musician and they've never
picked up a guitar before and what do they do.
They cut away to someone who's actually.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Whether it be a.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Chef fast cutting some food. I can't remember what the
chef movie was, but they revealed that it wasn't the
guy actually cutting up the vegetables. They had the chef
come in and they cut away to the hands. This
is a major scandal you're uncovering here, Mark, Seriously.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
This is not okay.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Just cut off his mic I mean he can't cut
off Yes, he can, I forget it.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No, no, no, no. Steve McQueen was not driving the car
and bullet. He he was not doing it Tom Cruise,
Actually he was a bit. No, he was driving, but
he was not doing it during that chase.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yes, he was driving the seas where you can see
him go around the corner, or when the war when
the car was up on the flatbed and the cameras
were in the in the cabin with him.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
No, look at the mission Impossible movies again, especially when
he's he is driving all through Paris and he's doing
the stunts in the car as the driver.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Crazy you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Right, Absolutely, you have to say, like gosh, that's a
part of his performance and it's not just the stunts.
It's to be able to act, stay in character, do
the stunts as well. In addition to delivering his lines,
Tom Cruise deserves his flowers. And if you're Tom Cruise
listening right now or his agent, need to get in
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touch with us because we need to get this campaign
rolling despite Mark Ronner. In spite of Mark Ronner, It's
a Later with Mo Kelly KIM six forty. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. When we come back, we
have an update on the Long Beach nurses strike that
we've been discussing for the past couple of weeks. At
the bottom of the hour, will be joined by Michael Monks.
(11:13):
The Metro budget has been approved, and also we have
an Eric Lesardo new bumper for that segment.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yes we do, Yes we do. That's all coming up
in the next two segments.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
KFI. It's a Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We're live on YouTube, We're live on Instagram, when we're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, so you can tune
in and see the show as well as hear the show.
And I'm being very serious, I said last segment before
we move on that I am all for Tom Cruise
winning an Academy Award for his you can call it
a lifetime Achievement award. Butfore all he's done for the
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Mission Impossible franchise, and all the work that he's put
in and the stunts which I firmly believe are part
of the acting performance, he deserves due credit and recognition
for what he does over and above any other typical actor.
But we'll be talking about that, I'm sure over the
coming weeks and months. More locally, we told you about
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what was then the impending Long Beach nurses strike. It
took effect today and it's only for twenty four hours.
The strike began this morning at seven am and it's
scheduled to conclude at seven am tomorrow. And if you're
not up on the story, this is about the Memorial
Care Hospital in Long Beach and nurses there are going
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on strike for this one day, and then there's a
four day lockout by Long Beach Medical Center four days
after today, so there's a five day window in which
they'll be using outside nurses and contract at Long Beach
Memorial to care for patients, to make sure that patient
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health is not in any way negatively impacted. Now, what
happens after the strike is unclear. We don't know beyond
this one day strike which is followed by a four
day lockout, what these nurses plan to do. When we
last spoke to someone who was on the bargaining team
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for the nurses, she said Amy Woke said that there
were no negotiations at that point. Management, according to the union,
had not come to the table to sit down and
hash out any demands, any concerns about the work environment
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and also raises work conditions, things of that nature. If
that still holds true, this might be a protracted fight.
This may go on for quite some time. And we
don't know the impact or the effect of this one
day strike. And we talk about effective protests on this
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show all the time, and one main component of effective
protests is being willing to commit for long periods of time,
long periods of time you might well actually later on
the show, we're going to talk about Target and all
the issues and problems that store is having, that big
box retailer, and some of it has to do with
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people who have been boycotting to Target for the better
part of the year. Not a one day boycott, not
a six week boycott, but a never ending boycott until
the issues as far as Target's concerned relating to DEI
and also how they staff their store and also the
products they sell in their store, until those issues are addressed.
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For the foreseeable future, Target is going to be boycotted
by a number of communities. And Target now get into
it later, has suffered mightily in a financial sense, but
it requires commitment over the long haul, not just a
day or a week. So going back to the Long
Beach Nurses strike, and I understand they don't want to
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have a protracted strike because you're talking about patient care.
The patients are more important to them than anything, but
they also have to balance that with their personal and
professional needs. And a part of a part of patient
care is being able to work in a safe environment,
being able to work in an environment where you're not understaffed,
that you have all the tools available, and that includes
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personnel and support to make sure that you can administer
the best care possible. This is just day one. This
strike was announced back on May eighth, and this is
May twenty second, so they gave about two and a
half week advanced notice. But what happens now we just
don't know. I will call and find out if management
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has moved from there. Position is they've come to the
table and maybe they've started or restarted the negotiation to
see if some sort of movement and progress can be made.
But if management has still not come to the table,
then management obviously is signifying that they don't intend to
come to the table anytime soon, and they're trying to
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break the union.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That's what we'll find out after today.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Even if there are no conversations, you can glean what
management is or is not going to do by how
they respond to this one day strike and subsequent four
day lockout.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The four day lockout, to me, says a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
That says to me that management has no intentions of
coming to the table anytime soon. In fact, they may
even extend the lockout. We'll see who will make the
first move. In other words, do the nurses say that's okay,
we see your lockout, and we raise you another strike
in the future. That's one thing that could happen. Or
management can say you've made your point, let's sit down
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and see if we can come to some sort of
better ununderstanding of what we can or can't do. But
if there's any advice that I would give to the
nurses and their union, you might have to be prepared
for the long haul, because only the long haul protests,
or at least the commitment to it, are the ones
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that turn out to be successful. It's later with mo Kelly.
We're gonna find out what's going on with the Metro.
Rumor has it they've had a budget approved And Michael
Monks kfi's own Michael Monks will join us next to
give us the latest.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
You're listening to. Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I remember standing across from me.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
When smilling.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Mind.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I remember an old man next to met Eric Cassardo
did it again, KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yes Later with mo Kelly, We're live on YouTube, the
iHeartRadio app and Instagram, and Michael Monks kfi's own Michael
Monks joins me right now to give us an update
on Metro.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Michael, how are you doing this evening?
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I'm better now that I've heard that little bock glade
leading into this pace.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It slaps, doesn't it? It slaps it kind of does.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
All jokes aside, Metro is a serious issue on this show.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
We know that a budget was approved today. What do
we know about what's in the budget?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Well, let me ask you, if you don't mind me
turning the tables a little bit here. I know you've
been a pretty staunch critic of Metro, and rightfully so
in many many ways. If I told you Mo Kelly
on later you got nine point four billion dollars with Metro.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
What are your top three priorities? Uh, safety number one,
all jokes, safety number one.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
When I say cleanliness, I'm talking about make it less unsanitary.
That is a health issue as well for everyone. And
I would say, as an extension of that, homelessness.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
No, absolutely, It's almost as if you wrote the memo yourself.
And the La Metro Board of Directors today approved a
nine point four billion dollars spending plan for the new
fiscal year, which starts on July first.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
That's two percent more one.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Hundred and eighty point nine million dollars more than they
budgeted for this year. And some of the areas that
are seeing more money this time around are in fact
public safety, cleanliness, but also of course, extending the lines.
I was talking to Towala before I left the building
and headed back down here to the KFI Worldwide headquarters
downtown that he was miserable sitting in traffic for a
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couple of hours. Yes, we're all miserable sitting in traffic
in Los Angeles. And it's like, you know, if only
the system we're a little cleaner, felt little safer, and
reached more parts of the city, we'd be in business.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh not only would we be in business, I would
be on it. And I would gladly write it because
I know the potential of the system. But if you
can't help me feel better about safety or lack thereof,
if you can't somehow guarantee me, and I know it
could be done, because I see the subway system in Washington, DC,
for example.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
If you can't keep it.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Clean, free of homelessness, and also somewhat safer, then I
can't get on. But I know other cities have done it,
far more important cities than Los Angeles, so I know
they can do it absolutely.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
And it seems as though in a way these Metro
board members are getting the message, but they won't come
out and say it the way you, or even somebody
who's I don't know, nicer about the criticism. Perhaps I'm
not saying that you're wrong, but you know, if you
were approaching them in person and just gave them some
honest feedback, constructive criticism, there's getting the message, but they're
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not saying exactly what the problems are. They tend to
talk in what I would call activists speak right. They
talk about care first, and that is I hear the
term care first at a lot of government meetings in
southern California, but especially at Metro, the La County Board
of Supervisors, the City Council in Los Angeles, and I
don't know what that means. I mean, I know there's
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a definition for but I don't think the public generally
cares about that term. But that's what you hear when
it comes to dealing with some of these vagrants, as
we heard in the song Booping on the Metro, that
it care first. Yeah, don't just kick them off and
kick them out of the station and ban them for life.
It's make sure that they're being connected to services and
all that, and it's all very righteous, but at the
same time, how many resources, how many dollars go towards
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addressing that issue rather than preventing it in the first place.
And so we are seeing with this budget and increase
in public safety funding while keeping in mind that this
is an agency that has hired its police chief now,
or it's director of public safety as they might call him,
but he's a police chief of this new internal police
force that's supposed to be stood up by twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
But they're starting to do that.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
But in addition to that planning, they're expanding a lot
of these additional safety measures they put in place. They're
putting up taller faregates in places, they're doing weapons detection,
they're trying to keep the bad guys off. They've also
upped the money for clinic cleaning. There's going to be
about ten million dollars spent this fiscal year on sprucing
up various train stations because some of them are just
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dank and kind of scary to go it. And if
you don't want to poop on the Metro, they're gonna
put some bathrooms in some of these places.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It's about time on board because I remember when I
was riding the Metro, there was no place to go
to the bathroom, but it wasn't like now in I
use Washington, DC as an example because I rode the
subway there for many many years, and I go back
to DC every year, so I have a point of comparison.
Most of the station and have a bathroom, and I
know that's an added expense because you have to have
it cleaned and so forth. But La Metro, there are
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no bathrooms, and you're just kind of sol no pun intended,
if you have to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
And I'm not surprised that you don't, that you don't have.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Actually more homeless people defecating and urinating all over the place.
But let me ask you this that would be a fear.
Let me ask you a very very serious question. You've
seen this budget and all the line items. Was there
anything in there which would give you the indication that
there is money set aside for a statue of me?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
They offered the public an opportunity over the previous months
to submit some feedback on what you'd like to see,
and I would like you to know that again. On
KFI letterhead, huh I submitted a request for this very
line item and suggested that the studio city location would
be the best spot for you, whether we're across to
the theme park or heading down. I know you had
some wild times in Studio City and you when you
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were sowing your wild but it did not make the cut.
I'm afraid to say this time, but we'll keep lobbing.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
This is the thing which really really girds my loins.
As they say, with Metro, we try to reach out
to them. We try to have them on the show
so they can explain their side of their incompetency. We
try to bridge this gap of lack of communication. We
try to ask them about what they're doing beyond what
I think they're doing, so we can present a more
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complete picture of Metro and what may be going on
behind the scenes that I don't know. I don't profess
to know everything, but I try to offer a space
where they have a voice here.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And this is the thanks that I get.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Absolutely nothing, not a statue, not a shout out, not
an interview, nothing not even.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
If you can't get a callback, you're definitely not gonna
get a statue yet. But one of the things we've
talked about this MOA. I mean, you rode the Metro
back in the day. I'm a user of it currently
as frequently as I can. In spite of itself. It's
frustrating because on paper it's mostly good. I mean, this
is a city known for its car It's not as
good as it could be and maybe will be someday.
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Doesn't go to as many places as we need it to.
But where it goes now, on paper, it's a decent system.
I mean, you can I'm downtown right now. It could
go to Long Beach, I could go up to a Zuside,
can go to Santa Monica, I can go to Pasadena,
you know, and not have to worry about driving or
parking and traffic and all of that.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It's much better than ten years ago. Michael, you are
not here in Southern California ten years ago. It's much
better now as far as stations in places that it
offers to take you than ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
But it's gonna get better.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
I mean, yeah, there's a lot of allocations in this
new budget. They are going to be continuing their expansion,
and they've budgeted for some of the work that's already
in progress the lax Metro transit system. There's going to
be a light rail plan in the San Fernando Valley,
that's got a lot of money budgeted for it, I
mean trying it. And we know the D line is
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closed right now. It's the old Purple line that would
run from downtown to Koreatown. It's closed until July because
they're expanding it. I mean, within a couple of years
we're gonna be able to get on that thing and
go all the way to Westwood from Union Station. That's
good stuff, it is, But you really need these folks
on the board to stop using that activist speak and
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come out and tell people who are hesitant or have
had a bad experience on it and say they'll never
get on it again, and say we've got a zero
tolerance for the bad stuff that's been happening on this train.
Forget the violence, you know, it's the unquantifiable stuff. These
sitting next to you know, somebody who's having a breakdown,
next to somebody doing drugs, next to somebody who's just
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generally making you scared, not because you're a racist or
because you're an elitist, but because they're making strange noises
and they're looking at you wrong. And until you can
have a sense of security across this system, people are
not going to get on it. And what's what sucks
about that is it is our best answer right now
that we have to combat this awful traffic.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I would like Metro and I know that they're listening
because they listen to the show every single night, evidently
because they've internalized everything I've said. I would like Metro
to know that I'm the customer that they should be
speaking to. What I mean is someone who wants to
use Metro, who would benefit from using Metro, who is
willing ostensibly to get on Metro, but because of the
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perception of the crime, the homelessness, and the unsanitary conditions,
I won't, but I would want to, and I'm willing to.
But they're not speaking to writers like me or potential
writers like me as it were. And I think if
they can change how they present themselves to your point,
the language that they use, the priorities that they state
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and acknowledge, the truths that we all can see plain
a day, the perception of Metro, I think would be
considerably better.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
A lot of these folks need to confront their own biases.
They've been biased towards a lot of that activist language
and until they can say that maybe these approaches haven't worked,
even if it's just superficial.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It's not.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
But even if it is, even if it's just perception,
their strategy has not worked. Now the ridership has rebounded
almost entirely from pre pandemic, but the track is better
since then. I mean, it should be growing substantially again.
It's our best answer right now to this not awful
traffic we deal with. And why they don't champion it
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as such is just something I can't understand.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
There is a Metro stop park and ride less than
a mile from my house. It would be in my
best interest to ride Metro, and when I was living
in Harbor City, I would take the Blue line to
the Red line and get off at Universal City and
catch to one fifty eight bus a one to fifty
five bus from Universal City and stop right in front
of KFI and iHeartMedia Studios. If they could ever clear
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that up, I would. I would love to do it
again because I'm even closer now. Just take the Green
line to the Red line.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I would do it.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
You can take it all the way to airport now
just about.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Hello, I'm telling you, Michael. If they get that statue
up from me, I will go hard for Metro or
the worldmine Michael Monks KFI, thanks so much, always a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
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Speaker 2 (29:28):
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And the cool thing about watching.
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The show such as on YouTube or Instagram, we give
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You get to see Mark Ronner and everything about him.
His fan club is really funny. I'd like to tease him.
Oh boy, it it's true though, his fan club cannot
get enough of him.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Mark Ronner is a sex symbol. It is so true.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Okay, moving on, but actually, you know who else is
getting a fan club?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Eric Lisardo, Eric Losarto is and also Carnesia Carneeshia showed
herself that she has on occasion. But yesterday, you know,
there a while, Yeah, they were like, whoa, who's this
black dying piece? And I quote and I quote it
was borderline disrespectful, but we allowed it.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, reallowed it. It came from a good place, hopefully
above the ways.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Hopefully Lisardo definitely deserves whatever worship he gets here.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
That new song of his almost made me cry laughing.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Oh and from what I hear, he has another one
which is debuting in the nine o'clock hour. Okay, sam
Zia the sex Doctor is in, so just cross your fingers.
I don't know what's going to happen before we close
out this hour. I don't know about you, but I
don't use cash money for the most part. I keep
someone on hand and even then it's only paper. I'm
(31:35):
not using change. I have a big jar of change
that I need to take to the supermarket and put
it in that machine and get like seven cents on
the dollars dollar. Yeah, because the chief's charging more and more.
But you know, I don't use change for anything. I
barely use money for anything. We're moving towards this world
of digital currency, and the first step is here. The
(31:58):
US Treasury is reportedly gear up to stop printing new pennies,
stop putting them in circulation as early as next year.
The Treasury made its final order of penny blanks. They're
blanks that they use, and the final order was made
this month. This is going to happen and the Treasury,
(32:18):
the mint will only produce pennies until it runs out
of these blanks, which means business is going to have
to make a decision. Their prices are either going to
have to round up a round down to the nearest
five cent denomination.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Look, we know businesses are never going to round down. Yeah,
I'm like round up, that shouldn't be part of your equation.
But I just want to know how quickly all the
pennies that I have, like the collector pennies.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
My week penis all those pennies are going to go
up in value. Maybe it depends on what they're made with.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Like if you have a quarter before nineteen sixty three,
it has a level of silver in it, which is valuable.
I don't know about pennies as far as the level
of oper in them.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
At this point. I'm quite sure there's some you know,
curracyos back there.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I need to go because I have I actually have
a not a stellar coin collection, but I've got a
coin collection I love like I have all of the
fifty State quarters.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I just love. I love coins.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Canada ditched this penny back into twenty tens, so there
is precedent for this in North America, where again on
the Lake freight doing things after everyone else. So if
you have pennies, it doesn't seem like they're probably be
worth much of anything. You won't be able to use them.
I don't know if you can use them as a
collector's item, but they're going away soon.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
And if you're like me, you're on the digital currency front. Hey,
that world is here.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
I'm trying to think if I remember correctly, there was
not much use for pennies while we were living in Eerie,
because there was no sales tax and so everything was
kind of it's four dollars, five dollars. There was no
you know, plus tax. It was just it's five dollars,
and this is what it is.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I wish the price was the price, but unfortunately it's
never that way, especially not in California. KFI AM six
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
I gotta tell you, I'm gonna start somewhere different. Tonight.
We have to talk Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Because tonight after the show, Mark Ronner and Tula Sharp
are going to be at the movie. You're damn right,
and the movie doesn't even start until twelve fifty five
in the morning, a little broad day. Well, it's actually
a little bit more than that. It's almost like a
bro vacation, like a bro sleepover, because pretty much if
(01:01):
they see the movie starts at twelve fifty five, the
actual movie past the trailers and Nicole Kidman, we're getting
closer to one thirty, all right, Then you have a
movie which is trending towards three hours, no exaggeration, so
you're looking at closer to four thirty. There might even
be an end credit scene, so they'll probably That's what
(01:21):
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, we'll get out just in time for our paper roots.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I told Mark afterwards we can go and get some
eye hop because it'll be justin powas breakfast.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's gonna be breakfast time. You ought to be hungry
at that point, because we will be hungry. The concession
stand will be closed. It closes around like eleven thirty.
We're not getting anything when we get there. I don't
even think we can get soda at that time. We
can get probably not probably, not well, you can probably.
They don't think they I don't think they turn off. No, no, no,
no no no no no no they do.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I know because I've gone to an AMC at twelve thirty,
the last one to go see Craven. They literally like,
you can buy a bottle of water, sir. I'm like,
I can't even buy a soda to stay up there.
Like no, we shut all the machinery as after towards
the end of the night, all they have open and
available is hot dogs and nachura. They stop making all
the cook stuff. And when you get to the later showings,
(02:12):
why because it's no one in the damn theater, so
why keep that open.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I understand I wasn't mad at them. I paid my tickets,
paid for my tickets. I should get the full service
for those tickets.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
No, when I went, I actually ordered food a head
and get and I got there and they're like, oh, sorry,
they shouldn't have taken that order.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's closed.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
That's why I told Mark we can get like a
coffee from the coffee machine here and get all the
way over there.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I have told you. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
No, Look, the reason I started with this is and
I'm saying this to be completely serious, completely serious. I'm
not trying to be funny. I am not gonna be
able to see the movie tonight, what. I got too
much stuff going on, but I'll probably see it before
this Memorial Day weekend is over.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
What a betrayal this is? Sorry, I mean, where were
you the last time we went out?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Exactly?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh that's when I had a tooth explode in my head? Yeah,
I was the old tooth is Yes, sounds like a
Mission impossible plot. It sounds like a get smart plot. Ah,
the old exploding toothploy.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I can't see the movie with you guys tonight, but
I have been rewatching every single one of them, back
to back to back to back.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I finished number six today.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And of course as you get to the more recent ones,
obviously they're more memorable because you just saw them more recently. Well,
they don't get good until like number five. Right, No,
you're absolutely wrong, and I'm glad you said that.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Mark God, here we go.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Starting from the beginning, and I told to wall of Sharp,
I owed him an apology because he was so high
on the totality of the series, and I said, I
don't know, it's like I've seen it before, watching them
back to back and noticing the overall consistency and quality,
which doesn't drop.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I have problems with some of the plot holes and
devices used along the way in some of the storyteller,
but watching him back to back and also noticing how
certain threads are carried over from movie to movie, or
they might even skip a movie to resurface later, I
have a much greater appreciation for the franchise as a whole.
(04:16):
This is what I want people to take away from
this opening segment, given that Tom Cruise does all of
his stunts, and given that is very much part of
the acting process. Okay, that is part of the performance,
regardless of how bad or how great. This Mission Impossible.
(04:38):
Final Reckoning is the eighth movie in the franchise. We
should start a campaign for Tom Cruise to be nominated
for an Academy Award, and before you dismiss it out
of hand, if you have someone like Adrian Brody who
wins an Academy Award his second one, and he's not
riding on the side of a plane, if he's not
(05:00):
up off a motorcycle, jumping off a mountain with a motorcycle,
if he's not jumping from building the building, I have
to think that that is a lesser performance. And I'm
being absolutely serious because it's a part of us believing
that Ethan Hunt is actually an agent for IMF, the
(05:20):
Impossible Mission Force. Well, they've got a new category for
stunts that starts in twenty twenty eight. Yes, that's all
well and good, all right, you can nominate him for
that as well. It's almost like nominating a great Marvel
movie for best special Effects or something. I think it
is a diminution of the totality of the greatness of
someone's performance. If that stunt person we're also acting, I'm
(05:45):
quite sure, and that stunt person deserves more credit. If
you're going to relegate Tom Cruise to just his stunt work,
then I think you've undersold his contribution to the movie
or any of the movies.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Because his stunt are him.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's not cgi, it's not the back of his head.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah with some stunt dump.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yes, it's him. That's part of his performance. That's why
we can believe that he can. Let me be specific.
It's him flying the helicopter in a canyon.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
It's him flying the plane.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's him jumping out of a plane, it is him
doing the halo jump.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It is actually him.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Why that's never included in the consideration of Tom Cruise's
acting performances because you got to remember close up of
his face as he's going through the air on all
those things. It's him staying in character even when he
breaks his leg because I looked at that scene against like,
oh damn, he really did break his leg in that
scene when he jumps off. I'm talking about when he's
(06:47):
on the motorcycle. Yea, yeah, yeah, he does that leap off.
Or they went over that stunt over and over and
over again. They want He wanted the camera in his face.
He wanted people to fill it and go over the
cliff with him. That is beyond method acting. There are
people who will sit in the kitchen and learn how
to cook it. Next you know they're getting nominated for
(07:07):
some chef movie. Okay, as Best Actor. Guess what you're
talking about? Method acting?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Do that?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
All I'm saying is and Tom Cruise or your agent
you happen to be listening right now. We're starting a
campaign Tom Cruise, even though Mark Roner is not down
with the cause. Tom Cruise Academy Award nominee.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
For This Last Mission Impossible film.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Absolutely yeah, because I mean the motorcycle one was good,
but I saw an interview that he did with the
one where he was on.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That side of the jet or was a plane.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
He had to wear like special contacts because the air
was so strong in order to keep his eyes open.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That's what we had to do, and that's a part
of the acting. You have to see his face. YEA
suck on that Orson Wells. Give him the credit. Give
Tom Cruise his flowers.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
They see Mark's trying to be funny, I being absolutely serious.
Tom Cruise deserves on the merit of his performance Oscar
consideration for Best Actor because no one is going to
that extreme to deliver a performance. If Adrian Brody and
(08:22):
I'm picking on him because he just won the most
recent Best Actor Award if he was the one who's,
you know, flying the helicopters and jumping off cliffs with motorcycles,
I would want him to get the same type of
credit and acknowledgment.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, Brando just stuffed some cotton in his jowels. He
didn't deserve that. True story, True story.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I mean the cotton and the jowls for the Godfather.
But all these stunts are part of the performance because
it's not like he's hiding his face. You're seeing his
facial expressions. Give the man his flowers. The campaign starts now,
Tom Cruise Academy Award nominee for Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning, What.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
About a special Academy Award also for weird running. No, no, no,
he's trying. You're flipping scene is absolutely absurd.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I've been absolutely serious. It's not like it's it wouldn't
be on the merits. Are you saying to me that
someone does a stunt in the movie is not a
part of.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Their performance beyond the beyond it being a stunt, it's
part of the performance. When you see half these actors
who are playing guitar as a musician and they've never
picked up a guitar before and what do they do.
They cut away to someone who's actually.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Whether it be a.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Chef fast cutting some food. I can't remember what the
chef movie was, but they revealed that it wasn't the
guy actually cutting up the vegetables. They had the chef
come in and they cut away to the hands. This
is a major scandal you're uncovering here, Mark, Seriously.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
This is not okay.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Just cut off his mic I mean he can't cut
off Yes, he can, I forget it.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No, no, no, no. Steve McQueen was not driving the car
and bullet. He he was not doing it Tom Cruise,
Actually he was a bit. No, he was driving, but
he was not doing it during that chase.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yes, he was driving the seas where you can see
him go around the corner, or when the war when
the car was up on the flatbed and the cameras
were in the in the cabin with him.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
No, look at the mission Impossible movies again, especially when
he's he is driving all through Paris and he's doing
the stunts in the car as the driver.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Crazy you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Right, Absolutely, you have to say, like gosh, that's a
part of his performance and it's not just the stunts.
It's to be able to act, stay in character, do
the stunts as well. In addition to delivering his lines,
Tom Cruise deserves his flowers. And if you're Tom Cruise
listening right now or his agent, need to get in
(10:53):
touch with us because we need to get this campaign
rolling despite Mark Ronner. In spite of Mark Ronner, It's
a Later with Mo Kelly KIM six forty. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. When we come back, we
have an update on the Long Beach nurses strike that
we've been discussing for the past couple of weeks. At
the bottom of the hour, will be joined by Michael Monks.
(11:13):
The Metro budget has been approved, and also we have
an Eric Lesardo new bumper for that segment.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yes we do, Yes we do. That's all coming up
in the next two segments.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (11:32):
KFI. It's a Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We're live on YouTube, We're live on Instagram, when we're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, so you can tune
in and see the show as well as hear the show.
And I'm being very serious, I said last segment before
we move on that I am all for Tom Cruise
winning an Academy Award for his you can call it
a lifetime Achievement award. Butfore all he's done for the
(11:54):
Mission Impossible franchise, and all the work that he's put
in and the stunts which I firmly believe are part
of the acting performance, he deserves due credit and recognition
for what he does over and above any other typical actor.
But we'll be talking about that, I'm sure over the
coming weeks and months. More locally, we told you about
(12:20):
what was then the impending Long Beach nurses strike. It
took effect today and it's only for twenty four hours.
The strike began this morning at seven am and it's
scheduled to conclude at seven am tomorrow. And if you're
not up on the story, this is about the Memorial
Care Hospital in Long Beach and nurses there are going
(12:45):
on strike for this one day, and then there's a
four day lockout by Long Beach Medical Center four days
after today, so there's a five day window in which
they'll be using outside nurses and contract at Long Beach
Memorial to care for patients, to make sure that patient
(13:07):
health is not in any way negatively impacted. Now, what
happens after the strike is unclear. We don't know beyond
this one day strike which is followed by a four
day lockout, what these nurses plan to do. When we
last spoke to someone who was on the bargaining team
(13:27):
for the nurses, she said Amy Woke said that there
were no negotiations at that point. Management, according to the union,
had not come to the table to sit down and
hash out any demands, any concerns about the work environment
(13:47):
and also raises work conditions, things of that nature. If
that still holds true, this might be a protracted fight.
This may go on for quite some time. And we
don't know the impact or the effect of this one
day strike. And we talk about effective protests on this
(14:09):
show all the time, and one main component of effective
protests is being willing to commit for long periods of time,
long periods of time you might well actually later on
the show, we're going to talk about Target and all
the issues and problems that store is having, that big
box retailer, and some of it has to do with
(14:29):
people who have been boycotting to Target for the better
part of the year. Not a one day boycott, not
a six week boycott, but a never ending boycott until
the issues as far as Target's concerned relating to DEI
and also how they staff their store and also the
products they sell in their store, until those issues are addressed.
(14:52):
For the foreseeable future, Target is going to be boycotted
by a number of communities. And Target now get into
it later, has suffered mightily in a financial sense, but
it requires commitment over the long haul, not just a
day or a week. So going back to the Long
Beach Nurses strike, and I understand they don't want to
(15:14):
have a protracted strike because you're talking about patient care.
The patients are more important to them than anything, but
they also have to balance that with their personal and
professional needs. And a part of a part of patient
care is being able to work in a safe environment,
being able to work in an environment where you're not understaffed,
that you have all the tools available, and that includes
(15:36):
personnel and support to make sure that you can administer
the best care possible. This is just day one. This
strike was announced back on May eighth, and this is
May twenty second, so they gave about two and a
half week advanced notice. But what happens now we just
don't know. I will call and find out if management
(15:58):
has moved from there. Position is they've come to the
table and maybe they've started or restarted the negotiation to
see if some sort of movement and progress can be made.
But if management has still not come to the table,
then management obviously is signifying that they don't intend to
come to the table anytime soon, and they're trying to
(16:19):
break the union.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That's what we'll find out after today.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Even if there are no conversations, you can glean what
management is or is not going to do by how
they respond to this one day strike and subsequent four
day lockout.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The four day lockout, to me, says a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
That says to me that management has no intentions of
coming to the table anytime soon. In fact, they may
even extend the lockout. We'll see who will make the
first move. In other words, do the nurses say that's okay,
we see your lockout, and we raise you another strike
in the future. That's one thing that could happen. Or
management can say you've made your point, let's sit down
(16:57):
and see if we can come to some sort of
better ununderstanding of what we can or can't do. But
if there's any advice that I would give to the
nurses and their union, you might have to be prepared
for the long haul, because only the long haul protests,
or at least the commitment to it, are the ones
(17:17):
that turn out to be successful. It's later with mo Kelly.
We're gonna find out what's going on with the Metro.
Rumor has it they've had a budget approved And Michael
Monks kfi's own Michael Monks will join us next to
give us the latest.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
You're listening to. Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I remember standing across from me.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
When smilling.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Mind.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I remember an old man next to met Eric Cassardo
did it again, KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yes Later with mo Kelly, We're live on YouTube, the
iHeartRadio app and Instagram, and Michael Monks kfi's own Michael
Monks joins me right now to give us an update
on Metro.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Michael, how are you doing this evening?
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I'm better now that I've heard that little bock glade
leading into this pace.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It slaps, doesn't it? It slaps it kind of does.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
All jokes aside, Metro is a serious issue on this show.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
We know that a budget was approved today. What do
we know about what's in the budget?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Well, let me ask you, if you don't mind me
turning the tables a little bit here. I know you've
been a pretty staunch critic of Metro, and rightfully so
in many many ways. If I told you Mo Kelly
on later you got nine point four billion dollars with Metro.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
What are your top three priorities? Uh, safety number one,
all jokes, safety number one.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
When I say cleanliness, I'm talking about make it less unsanitary.
That is a health issue as well for everyone. And
I would say, as an extension of that, homelessness.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
No, absolutely, It's almost as if you wrote the memo yourself.
And the La Metro Board of Directors today approved a
nine point four billion dollars spending plan for the new
fiscal year, which starts on July first.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
That's two percent more one.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Hundred and eighty point nine million dollars more than they
budgeted for this year. And some of the areas that
are seeing more money this time around are in fact
public safety, cleanliness, but also of course, extending the lines.
I was talking to Towala before I left the building
and headed back down here to the KFI Worldwide headquarters
downtown that he was miserable sitting in traffic for a
(19:52):
couple of hours. Yes, we're all miserable sitting in traffic
in Los Angeles. And it's like, you know, if only
the system we're a little cleaner, felt little safer, and
reached more parts of the city, we'd be in business.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh not only would we be in business, I would
be on it. And I would gladly write it because
I know the potential of the system. But if you
can't help me feel better about safety or lack thereof,
if you can't somehow guarantee me, and I know it
could be done, because I see the subway system in Washington, DC,
for example.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
If you can't keep it.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Clean, free of homelessness, and also somewhat safer, then I
can't get on. But I know other cities have done it,
far more important cities than Los Angeles, so I know
they can do it absolutely.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
And it seems as though in a way these Metro
board members are getting the message, but they won't come
out and say it the way you, or even somebody
who's I don't know, nicer about the criticism. Perhaps I'm
not saying that you're wrong, but you know, if you
were approaching them in person and just gave them some
honest feedback, constructive criticism, there's getting the message, but they're
(21:04):
not saying exactly what the problems are. They tend to
talk in what I would call activists speak right. They
talk about care first, and that is I hear the
term care first at a lot of government meetings in
southern California, but especially at Metro, the La County Board
of Supervisors, the City Council in Los Angeles, and I
don't know what that means. I mean, I know there's
(21:25):
a definition for but I don't think the public generally
cares about that term. But that's what you hear when
it comes to dealing with some of these vagrants, as
we heard in the song Booping on the Metro, that
it care first. Yeah, don't just kick them off and
kick them out of the station and ban them for life.
It's make sure that they're being connected to services and
all that, and it's all very righteous, but at the
same time, how many resources, how many dollars go towards
(21:49):
addressing that issue rather than preventing it in the first place.
And so we are seeing with this budget and increase
in public safety funding while keeping in mind that this
is an agency that has hired its police chief now,
or it's director of public safety as they might call him,
but he's a police chief of this new internal police
force that's supposed to be stood up by twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
But they're starting to do that.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
But in addition to that planning, they're expanding a lot
of these additional safety measures they put in place. They're
putting up taller faregates in places, they're doing weapons detection,
they're trying to keep the bad guys off. They've also
upped the money for clinic cleaning. There's going to be
about ten million dollars spent this fiscal year on sprucing
up various train stations because some of them are just
(22:33):
dank and kind of scary to go it. And if
you don't want to poop on the Metro, they're gonna
put some bathrooms in some of these places.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It's about time on board because I remember when I
was riding the Metro, there was no place to go
to the bathroom, but it wasn't like now in I
use Washington, DC as an example because I rode the
subway there for many many years, and I go back
to DC every year, so I have a point of comparison.
Most of the station and have a bathroom, and I
know that's an added expense because you have to have
it cleaned and so forth. But La Metro, there are
(23:07):
no bathrooms, and you're just kind of sol no pun intended,
if you have to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
And I'm not surprised that you don't, that you don't have.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Actually more homeless people defecating and urinating all over the place.
But let me ask you this that would be a fear.
Let me ask you a very very serious question. You've
seen this budget and all the line items. Was there
anything in there which would give you the indication that
there is money set aside for a statue of me?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
They offered the public an opportunity over the previous months
to submit some feedback on what you'd like to see,
and I would like you to know that again. On
KFI letterhead, huh I submitted a request for this very
line item and suggested that the studio city location would
be the best spot for you, whether we're across to
the theme park or heading down. I know you had
some wild times in Studio City and you when you
(23:58):
were sowing your wild but it did not make the cut.
I'm afraid to say this time, but we'll keep lobbing.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
This is the thing which really really girds my loins.
As they say, with Metro, we try to reach out
to them. We try to have them on the show
so they can explain their side of their incompetency. We
try to bridge this gap of lack of communication. We
try to ask them about what they're doing beyond what
I think they're doing, so we can present a more
(24:27):
complete picture of Metro and what may be going on
behind the scenes that I don't know. I don't profess
to know everything, but I try to offer a space
where they have a voice here.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And this is the thanks that I get.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Absolutely nothing, not a statue, not a shout out, not
an interview, nothing not even.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
If you can't get a callback, you're definitely not gonna
get a statue yet. But one of the things we've
talked about this MOA. I mean, you rode the Metro
back in the day. I'm a user of it currently
as frequently as I can. In spite of itself. It's
frustrating because on paper it's mostly good. I mean, this
is a city known for its car It's not as
good as it could be and maybe will be someday.
(25:11):
Doesn't go to as many places as we need it to.
But where it goes now, on paper, it's a decent system.
I mean, you can I'm downtown right now. It could
go to Long Beach, I could go up to a Zuside,
can go to Santa Monica, I can go to Pasadena,
you know, and not have to worry about driving or
parking and traffic and all of that.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It's much better than ten years ago. Michael, you are
not here in Southern California ten years ago. It's much
better now as far as stations in places that it
offers to take you than ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
But it's gonna get better.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
I mean, yeah, there's a lot of allocations in this
new budget. They are going to be continuing their expansion,
and they've budgeted for some of the work that's already
in progress the lax Metro transit system. There's going to
be a light rail plan in the San Fernando Valley,
that's got a lot of money budgeted for it, I
mean trying it. And we know the D line is
(26:01):
closed right now. It's the old Purple line that would
run from downtown to Koreatown. It's closed until July because
they're expanding it. I mean, within a couple of years
we're gonna be able to get on that thing and
go all the way to Westwood from Union Station. That's
good stuff, it is, But you really need these folks
on the board to stop using that activist speak and
(26:21):
come out and tell people who are hesitant or have
had a bad experience on it and say they'll never
get on it again, and say we've got a zero
tolerance for the bad stuff that's been happening on this train.
Forget the violence, you know, it's the unquantifiable stuff. These
sitting next to you know, somebody who's having a breakdown,
next to somebody doing drugs, next to somebody who's just
(26:44):
generally making you scared, not because you're a racist or
because you're an elitist, but because they're making strange noises
and they're looking at you wrong. And until you can
have a sense of security across this system, people are
not going to get on it. And what's what sucks
about that is it is our best answer right now
that we have to combat this awful traffic.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I would like Metro and I know that they're listening
because they listen to the show every single night, evidently
because they've internalized everything I've said. I would like Metro
to know that I'm the customer that they should be
speaking to. What I mean is someone who wants to
use Metro, who would benefit from using Metro, who is
willing ostensibly to get on Metro, but because of the
(27:32):
perception of the crime, the homelessness, and the unsanitary conditions,
I won't, but I would want to, and I'm willing to.
But they're not speaking to writers like me or potential
writers like me as it were. And I think if
they can change how they present themselves to your point,
the language that they use, the priorities that they state
(27:53):
and acknowledge, the truths that we all can see plain
a day, the perception of Metro, I think would be
considerably better.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
A lot of these folks need to confront their own biases.
They've been biased towards a lot of that activist language
and until they can say that maybe these approaches haven't worked,
even if it's just superficial.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It's not.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
But even if it is, even if it's just perception,
their strategy has not worked. Now the ridership has rebounded
almost entirely from pre pandemic, but the track is better
since then. I mean, it should be growing substantially again.
It's our best answer right now to this not awful
traffic we deal with. And why they don't champion it
(28:33):
as such is just something I can't understand.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
There is a Metro stop park and ride less than
a mile from my house. It would be in my
best interest to ride Metro, and when I was living
in Harbor City, I would take the Blue line to
the Red line and get off at Universal City and
catch to one fifty eight bus a one to fifty
five bus from Universal City and stop right in front
of KFI and iHeartMedia Studios. If they could ever clear
(28:59):
that up, I would. I would love to do it
again because I'm even closer now. Just take the Green
line to the Red line.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I would do it.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
You can take it all the way to airport now
just about.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Hello, I'm telling you, Michael. If they get that statue
up from me, I will go hard for Metro or
the worldmine Michael Monks KFI, thanks so much, always a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
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You get to see Mark Ronner and everything about him.
His fan club is really funny. I'd like to tease him.
Oh boy, it it's true though, his fan club cannot
get enough of him.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Mark Ronner is a sex symbol. It is so true.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Okay, moving on, but actually, you know who else is
getting a fan club?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Eric Lisardo, Eric Losarto is and also Carnesia Carneeshia showed
herself that she has on occasion. But yesterday, you know,
there a while, Yeah, they were like, whoa, who's this
black dying piece? And I quote and I quote it
was borderline disrespectful, but we allowed it.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, reallowed it. It came from a good place, hopefully
above the ways.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Hopefully Lisardo definitely deserves whatever worship he gets here.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
That new song of his almost made me cry laughing.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Oh and from what I hear, he has another one
which is debuting in the nine o'clock hour. Okay, sam
Zia the sex Doctor is in, so just cross your fingers.
I don't know what's going to happen before we close
out this hour. I don't know about you, but I
don't use cash money for the most part. I keep
someone on hand and even then it's only paper. I'm
(31:35):
not using change. I have a big jar of change
that I need to take to the supermarket and put
it in that machine and get like seven cents on
the dollars dollar. Yeah, because the chief's charging more and more.
But you know, I don't use change for anything. I
barely use money for anything. We're moving towards this world
of digital currency, and the first step is here. The
(31:58):
US Treasury is reportedly gear up to stop printing new pennies,
stop putting them in circulation as early as next year.
The Treasury made its final order of penny blanks. They're
blanks that they use, and the final order was made
this month. This is going to happen and the Treasury,
(32:18):
the mint will only produce pennies until it runs out
of these blanks, which means business is going to have
to make a decision. Their prices are either going to
have to round up a round down to the nearest
five cent denomination.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Look, we know businesses are never going to round down. Yeah,
I'm like round up, that shouldn't be part of your equation.
But I just want to know how quickly all the
pennies that I have, like the collector pennies.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
My week penis all those pennies are going to go
up in value. Maybe it depends on what they're made with.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Like if you have a quarter before nineteen sixty three,
it has a level of silver in it, which is valuable.
I don't know about pennies as far as the level
of oper in them.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
At this point. I'm quite sure there's some you know,
curracyos back there.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I need to go because I have I actually have
a not a stellar coin collection, but I've got a
coin collection I love like I have all of the
fifty State quarters.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I just love. I love coins.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Canada ditched this penny back into twenty tens, so there
is precedent for this in North America, where again on
the Lake freight doing things after everyone else. So if
you have pennies, it doesn't seem like they're probably be
worth much of anything. You won't be able to use them.
I don't know if you can use them as a
collector's item, but they're going away soon.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
And if you're like me, you're on the digital currency front. Hey,
that world is here.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
I'm trying to think if I remember correctly, there was
not much use for pennies while we were living in Eerie,
because there was no sales tax and so everything was
kind of it's four dollars, five dollars. There was no
you know, plus tax. It was just it's five dollars,
and this is what it is.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I wish the price was the price, but unfortunately it's
never that way, especially not in California. KFI AM six
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