December 11, 2024 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at some positive news emanating from LA Metro from upcoming schedule improvements to good news for ‘Metro Micro’…PLUS – Thoughts on California’s rank on the list of the “least safe” states in America AND a new California tax hike that could spell trouble for the future of the legal weed industry - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
GFI mo Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Got
another real full show to do tonight, and I know
that there's what it's going to be covering so much,
from politics, to popular culture to entertainment.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We have California.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Well put it this way, We're going to list the
safest and the least safest states in America. California is
on one of those lists. I bet you can guess which.
There's going to be a tax hike next year, which
could be the tipping point for legal weed here in
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California as far as selling it. You know how people
have been struggling as far as selling weed, all the regulations,
all the taxes, Well that's coming to a tipping point.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We'll tell you about that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And Metro, we have a Metro update, and surprisingly it
doesn't have to do with violence. Nobody was stabbed. To
the best of my knowledge, I can't confirm that. I'm
just saying, as far as our update is concerned, it
doesn't have to do with someone being attacked, someone being maimed,
or someone being killed. That is not to say it's
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not happening right now somewhere in the city.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Oh, but let me tell you this before we move on.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
During pastathon, we had a very nice listener come up
to both me and Tuala and I'm not going to
tell you her name, but she did say she used
to work for Metro and now she works for Dash,
the Dash buses, and she was saying that we here
on later with mo Kelly did not do.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
The violence.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Justice, did not do the insanity, the calamity, the ongoing assaults.
Justice in how we discussed it, she said, there are
so many and I'm paraphras and there are so many
incidents which happened on a daily basis that the general
public just does not know about. And that's part of
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the reason why I'm saying right now, hey, our Metro
up to date update may not have anything to do
with violence or an attack, but it doesn't mean that
it's not going on right now. We only tell you
what we happen to learn about in the news. It
makes it to the news and we can report it
to you. But she was saying, oh, they're attacks every
single day, and that's the quote. Every single day metro
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operators are attacked.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We just don't hear about it.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But she was very, very very appreciative that we were
bringing light to the issue and also making sure that
the larger public understood just how dangerous their jobs have
been on a consistent basis. But again, we can only
report that, which makes it either to a police report
or to the news.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Something else that's going on in the news we have
to tell you about.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
We have an update for the Franklin fire in Malibu's
exploded to over twenty eight hundred acres, some homes have
been destroyed, and there was a press conference update earlier today.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Some of the audio is not real good in the beginning.
They have some audio.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Difficulties, but you can still kind of figure out what
was going on, and there is some good information in
here as far as how extensive the fire has been burning,
how many homes have been destroyed, how many structures have
been impacted, and what's going to be happening the rest
of the night.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
The fire has cursed approximately two thousand, eight hundred and
sixty two acres and a zero percent contained. The fire
has grown an additional six hundred acres this morning and
this afternoon. Over fifteen hundred firefighters are currently assigned to
this incident. Today, over thirteen federal, state, and local agency
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aircraft were assigned to the fire and a number of
those aerial resources will remain flying throughout the night. A
small number of homes in the affected area have been
destroyed and damaged. The exact number is currently unknown. We
do have preliminary reports that seven structures are destroyed and
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eight structures are damaged. This was from an aerial view
that we were able to look at damaged Inspection teams
have been assigned to the incident and they will assist
with a more accurate accounting of incident losses tomorrow. The
safety of residents and responders remains our top priority. The
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entire fire area remains under threat as long as the
current red flag conditions persist. Strong winds and low humidities
will continue to challenge firefighters on the line and in
the air as they struggle to contain the stubborn fire.
I would like to end with another acknowledgment and thanks
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to our responding partner agencies, both fire and law enforcement,
for the assistance they provide it in the early morning
hours and throughout today. We are certainly stronger because of
public safety cooperation that we have witnessed during this incident.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So we will be following this throughout the evening. We'll
have updates in KFI twenty four hour newsroom. If any
specific news should break, well there's some sort of other
evacuation information, we'll make sure that we give that to you.
If there is some sort of conflagration or or an
expansion of the fire, we will let you know about that.
So just keep it right here on KFI AM six forty.
(06:05):
We will bring you the latest information. And there's something
else we're going to be covering tonight. It's Later with
mo Kelly KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app and when we come back, we will
have our Metro update that doesn't include death and dismemberment.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Now, they are about a twenty zion fifty eleven changes
to the schedule in Metro. I'm not even going to
try to read them all to you, but the overall
tenor is simple.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Metro is beating its chest because they.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Are now celebrating more trips, as they call it, less
weight and new service changes beginning this Sunday, December fifteenth,
Metro is updating its bus service.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
This is a specifically bus service. What changes to.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Design to improve its bus frequency, make schedules more accurate,
reduce wait times for riders at bus stops, and improve
access to key destinations for writers across the service area
of Los Angeles County. And they're also saying this is
part of their year round excuse me, their round of
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twice yearly service changes. Someone just playing music? Is someone
trying to play Christmas music? I think that was me accidentally.
Sorry about that.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I was trying to find a news story on something
and apparently the AP is now playing unwanted ad music.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
While we do our searches. Sorry about that, Just in
case anyone thought this wasn't live. And in my headphones,
I'm thinking, like, okay, I'm just talking about Metro.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Am I just hearing things. Am I having a stroke?
I mean, what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
I didn't immediately realize what that was myself, and I
thought time to lay off the hard stuff, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Sorry about that?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And they have all sorts of changes going back to
Metro their bus schedules on weekdays Monday through Friday, Saturdays
and Sundays, and they're also making what they call strategic
route changes on a few lines to improve access to
key destinations and improving regional connectivity. They say it also
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includes some lines that will become part of the Pasadena
Transit system and temporary adjustments on other lines due to construction.
That's something I think is at least noteworthy. When they
start connecting to the other municipal lines, you can get
beyond just Metro, which would be helpful. And to accommodate
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additional trips on busy lines to meet the rising demand,
they're adding more trips on multiple lines across.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
All day parts.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And they're still telling us that the new Lax Slash
Metro Transit Center is opening soon. They won't give us
a day, but they're saying it's opening soon and bus
lines will be modified to serve the new station that
will open in early twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Now for me, early is January.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They probably mean October early twenty twenty five, and the
new station will serve the C and K lines as
well as the Lax People Mover When it eventually opens,
the new Lax Metro Transit Center will also replace the
LAX City Bus Center and the Aviation's last lax Station
bus transit center, and all this is nice, don't get
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me wrong. All this is nice to know that the
bus service will be improved to meet your needs starting
December fifteenth. But if I sound like a broken record,
is because I need to sound like a broken record.
And this has been reinforced by one listener and obviously
some of your notes that you send to me on
social media. None of this really matters. That people do
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not feel safe when they're writing. And I remember, I
think it was Mark you said that recently Metro was
celebrating an increase in ridership or record writership.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Yahd YadA, Yeah, something like that. That's what they say,
something along those lines.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Okay, so more people are writing and that's fine. But
if anything, I think that signifies a greater need and
hopefully they are meeting that need. But it doesn't mean
that people aren't white knuckling yet. It doesn't mean that
they aren't just as concerned today as they were last
year or in previous years. And here's what I would
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want to know, and hit me up on threads at
mister mo kelly, if you have a specific story an
incident or an anecdote about what your day is like
writing Metro. I would love to know, and I will
read it on the air and share your experience, good
or bad. It's not like I'm hunting for bad experiences.
I mean, I can open up the news and eventually
someone's going to get stabbed. Sad but true. I'm not
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going to have to make up something. It will happen
on its own. But I do like to hear from
people who write it every single day, like Michael Monks
in the KFI newsroom, someone who is on the ground
and can really speak to what they see, what they experience,
what they feel, and whether it's changing, whether it's getting better.
And here's something else which is not going to change.
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Metro Micro, it seems, is going to be around for
another few years. The Los Angeles Metro Board of Directors
agreed to shake up, as they say, the business model,
voting to contract out some services, including the drivers and
vehicles now. La Metro relations manager Patrick Chandler told LAist
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that the program metro Micro will continue uninterrupted and the
agency will keep adjusting services to improve performances. Have you
ever seen metro Micro. I've seen maybe one or two
of those vans driving around. They're like, oh, but not.
That's the only way I can describe it. Are they windowless?
Like do they do they shove a black bag over
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your head before you get in. No, the only windowless ones,
or I should say the blacked out windows is like
the sheriff buses. Okay, those are the ones that kind
of make me uncomfortable. When I'm driving down the one
ten freeway. I always see it on the one ten freeway. Yes,
I'm digressing. I'm driving down the one ten freeway and
I see the sheriff bus and I think, at any
moment a scene from con Air is going to break
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out where someone's gonna ride up next to the sheriff
bus start shooting out the windows and try some prison
escape from someone's on the bus. And I'm gonna be
caught there, just wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You should always be ready for that always.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But I see the bus like two or three times
a week. I never now, that's all I'm gonna notice.
I never realized it. I never realized. Yeah, every time
I see it one ten, the one ten, and for
some reason, it's right when I'm in the middle of
downtown La on the freeway and then you know, I
got freeway there, but one ten is where I see it.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You're right, I assume they're going to the men's Central Jail.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But it's the point that it always makes me uneasy
because there are too many movies in which you have
the prison break where they attack the prison busts while
they're doing the prison transfer.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You have to be ready to fly into action at
any moment. Mo, But what can I do? What can
Steph do?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
If someone's going to start a shootout and a prison
break on the one ten freeway, There's not a lot
I can do except duck. Come on, you gotta ask
yourself what would Nick Cage do? And then just do that. Well,
he ducked in a movie, Okay. He tried to stay
out of the way, he tried to stop the fight,
he tried to quell all the violence, and he still
got caught up in it because you know, it's a movie.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
He's a star, so he has to get caught up.
Can we at least agree that he had magnificent hair
in that movie? Yeah, and always thought that those were extensions.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I assumed they were, I mean, because it didn't it
didn't ever look like his hair. It didn't blow, was
it ever? Well, you know there are times where I
can tell those are his hair transplants, follicles.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
That's all I can describe it, this magnificent flowing hair
back in con air.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It just did not look natural in the least.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
But I love the movies, one of those movies which
when it comes on T and T, I'm always gonna
watch it. Oh yeah, I like John Malkovich, I like
Bing Raims, and just I like everything about the movie.
The whole silliness of it, the improbability of it landing
a plane on you know, Las Vegas Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
All of that. It's just silly.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And Steve Bushimi, all the people are in that movie,
and you can't even get that cast back together today.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It would be impossible financially.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I don't even understand why the Criterion Collection hasn't put
out a nice special edition of that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I mean, it's a classic.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'm actually surprised they didn't do some sort of legacy
sequel at this point and find out what happened to.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Nicholas Cage's character.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You know, his daughter's grown up now, she's probably a
stripper in Vegas. Pick up the story there. Well, it'd
be more like elder heir now, wouldn't it. Everybody who
is in the original cast is kind of getting up there. Okay,
there's Nicholas Cage, John Cusack. Sorry about his career. He
just never reached the heights that he was probably thought
he was going to reach. Oh, come on, he was
a big star for a while. He was, but I
thought he was going to be a much bigger star.
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And I think he thought he's going to be a
much bigger star.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
We all have our straight to video phases, don't we
mo Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
John Malkovich, Steve was Shimmy, Danny Trejo. I mean, it's
a hell of a cast. Dave Chappelle, I forgot about.
Dave Schappelle was in it. Well, I don't even remember him.
What's he doing? He was a bit part. It was
a good part. I think he dies. Ving Rams. Rachel Tikotan.
It was like the ex wife of the guy from
CSI Miami and one flew over the Kokoo's nest.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I'm not sure who you mean, but I know the actress.
She was kind of mandatory to be cast in action
films in the eighties, David Caruso. I couldn't think of
his name for a woman. Oh yeah, Oh he hates me.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh okay, So you interviewed him, tell the story real quick.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I just I was quoting somebody and I was sitting
right next to him in one of those round table interviews.
I think it was at the the Sears Tower in Chicago,
and I believe it was for William Friedkin's Jade movie,
which has been kind of unfairly forgotten. He was the
first actor to show real ask nudity on Network TV,
and I asked him a question about his pasty white ass.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Are you sure he's the first? Was he the who's
the one who did NYPD Blue?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh? Yeah, that was that's him.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
That was him. Okay, okay, that's him. So I just
asked him a question about his pasty white ass. And
I believe the pasty white part was a quote from
somebody at the time. And boy did he not like that? Well, look,
intensely did not like or not? It depends on how
you phrased it. Did you say offensively phrased? Okay, poorly?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, Because if you said, mister Cruso, I read somewhere
that you had a pasty white ass, which you should
to millions of yours for the first time.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
On broadcast television. Tell me about that.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
We've all seen your best profile for the first time
now and it's pasty white ass. Well, you know you
have a way of just rubbing people the wrong way. Mark, No, no, no,
he just took it. He was a poor sport, that's
all it was. If I asked you a question, not
that you have a pasty white ass. If I asked
you a similar question, I'm sure you would be in
the spirit of it and respond properly and not just
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lose your mind and wonder, make me wonder if you're
going to be violent.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
If my literal black ass had been on TV, broadcast TV,
and you asked about it because it was on TV,
I don't think I would be come offended because it's
something that would have been a part of my television
you know history.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Yeah, and we've got the bigger TVs now, so you'd
be fine.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Oh I heard Tawalla laugh from down the hall. From
down the fricking hall. Okay, I guess Stefan, you can
give him a rim shot. Since Walla co signed it
from down the hall, what now you got to sign
off on every rim shot. Now, No, I'm not signing off.
I was helping you because Stephen was out to lunch.
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He wasn't paying attention. In other words, Tuesday Tuesday, Yeah,
literal Tuesday. It's laid with mo Kelly k IF I
am six forty five everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A six.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Who lives in the most dangerous state in the United States?
Who lives in the safest state? Well, they are all
sorts of studies, but this new study by wallet hub
ranked the safest states in America and also the least safest,
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or put another way, the most dangerous states in America.
Let's get into this right now, and we know that
we're in California, and if I'm talking about this list,
then probably California is somewhere to be found. Let's start
with the safest states in America and uh, Mark, do
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you have any predictions as far as if they're any generalities, commonalities,
regional uh predictions.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I feel like we've kind of keyed in on this
pattern before, don't you. Yes, I'm guessing like my radar
is kind of pointing towards the South, for the for.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The for the most say, for the safest.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
States or the least safest, the least safest. Okay, let's
start with the safest.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Oh well, but.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Definitely the north and the places with no population like Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, coming in at number ten of the safest states
in America, Mark Ronner, you smart, mother, father, Wyoming is
number ten.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I don't believe it. What do I win?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Absolutely not A damn thing. Getting shot in the face
is what I win. Yeah, you and Dick Cheney's friend.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Uh huh. Number nine.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Rhode Island, Northeast, Number eight of the safest states in
America according to wallet hub.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Minnesota. That's interesting. That's too cold to do anything there.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Maybe maybe, but there are other cold states which aren't
so safe.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Number seven Connecticut, Okay, I'm in there. Number six Hawaii.
I could see that. I could see that. Number five.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Utah is the fifth safest state in America, according to
wallet hub. Makes perfect sense, kind of kind of not.
I have my theories, but I won't share them. They
can be repressed sometimes. As I said, I will not
share them.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yes. Number four Mark, Massachusetts, spell it go. Let's see
m A S S that's a c h eu.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I always get lost about it halfway through because I
started to start at.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
M A S S A c h eu. Nope, I'm wrong,
and I almost dropped a dirty word on the air. There.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Just stand by that dumb button, please food. I always
get tripped up on this. This is like asking a
computer in Star Trek a logic question and watching it
smoke and explode.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
See.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's why I could never do well in spelling bees
because I need to write it out and they will
not allow you to write out a word. They will
not even allow you to have paper, or at least
when I was doing, have paper and use your finger
as a seeming pen and write it out there your finger.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Okay, well he wrote this out. Let me let me
see if this is correct and I did not cheat
and look it up. M A S S A c
h U S S e t t s.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Korong damn it, k damn it. You were almost correct.
You did it last time too. That's funny, all right,
m A S S A c h U S singular
e t t S extra s. So you're almost right.
So I had to say you're korong. No, No, you're
either right or you're wrong. There's no middle ground. And
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it's funny mot you talk about like how you think
they don't give you paper and all that kind of stuff.
And there's that one clip. I don't even know what
which year it was, but this kid just kept asking
for all use it in a sentence, use it in this,
use it in that. He was just stalling so that
he could try to think of what to do. And
that was the only way, like the loophole. Oh, you
got to work the system. Yeah, you have to, all right.
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That is number four.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Number three.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Maine, the third safest state in America according to wallet Hub.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Maine.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
They have the King, they need, no real world physical violence.
No one is going to Maine to steal anything. Okay, Nah,
you have everything when you get to Maine.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
New Hampshire, Yes, the northeast seems relatively safe. And number
one the safest state in America according to wallet Hub, is.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Bernie Sanders House in Vermont. Safest place in America. Why not?
Why not? I'm quite sure it's beautiful. I just don't
have any desire to go there. But this does.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
That's going to make sense because it's like half of them.
We're just the most plain nothing going on. It is
not that like how many bars, Yeah, are you going
to go to in Vermont and get into a bar fight?
I mean, how many places are you gonna go get
you know, carjacked in Vermont?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah, Wheremarnie's favorite dive bar to get in trouble in
And like Mark said it get once you get to
the winner, you can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Can't do anything. Well, you can do something, It just
has to be adored. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
And one of the safe places was Providence. You're not
going to start anything where HP Lovecraft grew up. You
don't know what you'll be invoking. Look Cthulhu or something Cthulhu.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yes, uh.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Number forty one, in other words, the most dangerous states
in America. Number forty one is South Carolina. Let's see
if there's a pattern. Number forty two. Is there a
girl's gone wild thread here? Quite possibly? Okay, And if
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you've seen the documentary you know exactly what Mark is
talking about. Number forty two of the least safest states
in America, according to wallet Hub Georgia. On my mind,
of course, Number forty three Colorado must be all the weed,
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all the weeds. Oh, weed doesn't make people violent. That's
wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I'm just saying that just to say it. Weed makes
people nice and wanting to snack. That's it. That's all
it does. I the iss to crack, then, okay, crack.
Number forty four, he's some of that Colorado crack a
love Mamma. Keith Jack said, fum more flumba, fum more escape. Okay,
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all my predictions are coming true now.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Number forty five of the least safe states in America.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
The home where the wind comes sweeping down the plane
and the weaving wheat can sure smells sweet. Number forty
six Florida. Absolutely. I think they just mean Liberty City.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
The rest of the state is okay, But Liberty City,
Florida should have its own category, and Florida man should
have its own. Number forty seven of the least safest
states in America. People, I should say, women who wearing
skirts at Bill Clinton's house at Arkansas, pardon me Arkansas.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Okay, What's Clinton got to do with anything?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Just because I like to throw Clinton in there, and
if stephan were paying attention, I would have gotten like
my Hillary clip, Shame on you. But he's asleep today.
He's focused on his next job.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I'm working.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm working real hard here, stephan I'm using something of
my best material, and it's falling flat.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
It really is his best, Stephanie. Take his word for
shame on you. Oh there she is high, Hillary, Oh,
latent stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Number forty eight of the fifty states the least safest
states in the nation.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Number forty eight. Everything's bigger in Texas. Even the crime.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
People are leaving California for Texas and Florida, where it's
less safe. You know, And you would hear all the
time about how a violent and dangerous California is, but
comparatively speaking, not so much. Number forty nine of the
least safest states in America.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yes, I know we got to go to break Stephenson. Mississippi.
I knew one of the m states had to be
in there.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Mississippi is always hovering at the bottom. If it's not
in the drain, it's circling the drain. It's right around
the drain. It's like the speed of light. You can
always count on it's always going to be the same
one hundred and eighty six thousand miles per second, exactly.
Thank you for that number fifty the least safest state
in the Union, or should I say the least safe
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state in a confederacy because it's Louisiana. To absolutely no
one's shock, I actually thought it was gonna be Mississippi,
it was gonna be fifty. I thought it was gonna
pull it out and just take the bottom. As always,
that sounds wrong. No, no, no, it's a real trash
photo finish there.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
And there you have it.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh, California was number thirty seven, number thirty seven, so
it's not exactly upper tier safe, but it's not the
worst of the worst according to wallet hub. For whatever
it's worse worth Congratulations. Kf IM six forty Live everywhere
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Speaker 4 (28:49):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kfi AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
But I'm not so sure how I feel about this
deck story. And if you don't know, I'm not a
big proponent of the legalization of marijuana.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Just never have ment. If it's your thing, then it's
your thing. It's not my thing.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
It's not anything that I've fought for, it's not anything
that i've supported, it's not anything that i've voted for
I was in support of decriminalization, but not legalization, and
I think we're seeing some of the effects of that
as far as how it's impacted society. But there's also
a business aspect to it. And the people that I've
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talked to who are in the hemp business, who are
in the cannabis business, they have struggled mightily for the
most part, because it's an industry which is so heavily taxed,
more so than other products and other goods and services
where and also the entry price and I'm hearing like
it's like more than half a million dollars just to
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be able to get in legally. No one should be
supp that there is still a substantial black market weed
aspect to all this, and even those who have been
legit are considering possibly to, you know, go back over
to the dark side and be a little less than legit.
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And here's why the state's cannabis tax rate is expected
to increase from fifteen percent to nineteen percent this coming July.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
That's a lot, And if you look at the industry,
you can see a number of examples of how the
high taxes previous to now have already driven many consumers.
I'm not in that group, but I'm just saying people,
if you happen to partake, well, if you know that
the legal businesses are being taxed more, that means their
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prices are higher because they're going to pass that on
to you, and that means what you're paying for your
edible for any of your products is going to be higher.
Then you're probably of the opinion, well, why would I
go into a legal dispensary. If it's legal, why do
I need to go to a legal dispensary. I'll just
go to you know, Dode down on the corner. He
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has some good stuff and it doesn't cost as much. Yeah,
it's not legal, but who's actually gonna police that now,
because it's legal everywhere else. I mean, I'm driving down
the street any given day and a car will pull
up next to me, a car, any car, any day,
any street, and you can just smell the weed coming
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out of the car.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Smell it. That's not legal.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
You can't drive under the influence. You can't drive down
the street smelling like a ganja house. You can't do
that legally, but people still do it anyway because they
know they're not going to get stopped. Going back to
the permissive society of yesterday that I was talking about.
When it comes to legal cannabis distribution, you have to
ask you the question, well, what's the upside if I
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am a legal dispensary.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
What's the upside?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Why am I playing by the rules and being taxed
more and more every year when the people who are
not playing by the rules are not getting taxed at all,
and they're selling basically the same products for less and
taking my consumers because I can't compete with the illegal
portion of the business.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
The issue that I have with what California is looking
to do as far as the taxation of these businesses,
and these aren't businesses that I support, but I am
in support of fairness, and I do recognize how for
the longest time this was possession of marijuana was punished severely.
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You know, if you had, you know, more than a
dimebag on you, you will had intent to sell, and
there were individuals going to jail. Then all of a
sudden they start to work on legalizing it, but then
they make it so expensive to do so it's out
of reach for those minority investors or want to be
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business owners to even get in. And now what you're
saying is, we're going to make it impossible for all
of the minority business owners who have successfully opened up
a plus sign store on every corner in every city
here in the Southland. You're going to make it to
the point where the only individuals that can sell legal
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marijuana will be those who have the money to afford it.
And that's a problem for me because you are literally
preventing those who could benefit from it and have been
punished for owning it or selling it the most.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I have a problem with that.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
It's a contradiction in terms because most dispensaries are quote
unquote small businesses, and I can't think of many small
businesses or mom and pop shops air quotes who require
or which require a half a million dollar entrance fee.
I can buy a subway sandwich shop for less than
a half a million dollars. I can go get my
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own franchise location for just about anything and any other
business for less than half a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I'm pretty sure I'm right on that. But to get
into the weed business a half a million.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Dollars and I'm going to be taxed higher than fast
food joints in other places, which are other forms of
small business. I don't know what the State of California
is hoping to accomplish by increasing these tax rates and
making it cost prohibitive to stay in the business legally
and also encourage people to use legal outlets in which
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to purchase and consume. I just know that if it
continues in this trajectory, the whole industry is going to
fold in on itself. But hey, it's not my problem.
It's all something that you do. It's not my thing.
You know, it's not my thing. I'm just letting you know.
I'm I'm sympathetic. I just don't care.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I think can I be both? Can you?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I am sympathetic to businesses because I'm sympathetic to what
businesses are trying to do. They're trying to play by
the rules, and they keep changing the rules and making
it more difficult to play by the rules. I you know,
but as far as the industry is concerned, I just
don't care. Okay, that expensive It's later with mo Kelly
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Speaker 4 (35:23):
I don't know what you're thinking, and I kind of
like that, Keep it fun.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
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Speaker 2 (35:34):
Everywhere on the radio,
GFI mo Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Got
another real full show to do tonight, and I know
that there's what it's going to be covering so much,
from politics, to popular culture to entertainment.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We have California.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Well put it this way, We're going to list the
safest and the least safest states in America. California is
on one of those lists. I bet you can guess which.
There's going to be a tax hike next year, which
could be the tipping point for legal weed here in
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California as far as selling it. You know how people
have been struggling as far as selling weed, all the regulations,
all the taxes, Well that's coming to a tipping point.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We'll tell you about that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And Metro, we have a Metro update, and surprisingly it
doesn't have to do with violence. Nobody was stabbed. To
the best of my knowledge, I can't confirm that. I'm
just saying, as far as our update is concerned, it
doesn't have to do with someone being attacked, someone being maimed,
or someone being killed. That is not to say it's
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not happening right now somewhere in the city.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Oh, but let me tell you this before we move on.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
During pastathon, we had a very nice listener come up
to both me and Tuala and I'm not going to
tell you her name, but she did say she used
to work for Metro and now she works for Dash,
the Dash buses, and she was saying that we here
on later with mo Kelly did not do.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
The violence.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Justice, did not do the insanity, the calamity, the ongoing assaults.
Justice in how we discussed it, she said, there are
so many and I'm paraphras and there are so many
incidents which happened on a daily basis that the general
public just does not know about. And that's part of
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the reason why I'm saying right now, hey, our Metro
up to date update may not have anything to do
with violence or an attack, but it doesn't mean that
it's not going on right now. We only tell you
what we happen to learn about in the news. It
makes it to the news and we can report it
to you. But she was saying, oh, they're attacks every
single day, and that's the quote. Every single day metro
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operators are attacked.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We just don't hear about it.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But she was very, very very appreciative that we were
bringing light to the issue and also making sure that
the larger public understood just how dangerous their jobs have
been on a consistent basis. But again, we can only
report that, which makes it either to a police report
or to the news.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Something else that's going on in the news we have
to tell you about.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
We have an update for the Franklin fire in Malibu's
exploded to over twenty eight hundred acres, some homes have
been destroyed, and there was a press conference update earlier today.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Some of the audio is not real good in the beginning.
They have some audio.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Difficulties, but you can still kind of figure out what
was going on, and there is some good information in
here as far as how extensive the fire has been burning,
how many homes have been destroyed, how many structures have
been impacted, and what's going to be happening the rest
of the night.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
The fire has cursed approximately two thousand, eight hundred and
sixty two acres and a zero percent contained. The fire
has grown an additional six hundred acres this morning and
this afternoon. Over fifteen hundred firefighters are currently assigned to
this incident. Today, over thirteen federal, state, and local agency
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aircraft were assigned to the fire and a number of
those aerial resources will remain flying throughout the night. A
small number of homes in the affected area have been
destroyed and damaged. The exact number is currently unknown. We
do have preliminary reports that seven structures are destroyed and
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eight structures are damaged. This was from an aerial view
that we were able to look at damaged Inspection teams
have been assigned to the incident and they will assist
with a more accurate accounting of incident losses tomorrow. The
safety of residents and responders remains our top priority. The
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entire fire area remains under threat as long as the
current red flag conditions persist. Strong winds and low humidities
will continue to challenge firefighters on the line and in
the air as they struggle to contain the stubborn fire.
I would like to end with another acknowledgment and thanks
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to our responding partner agencies, both fire and law enforcement,
for the assistance they provide it in the early morning
hours and throughout today. We are certainly stronger because of
public safety cooperation that we have witnessed during this incident.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So we will be following this throughout the evening. We'll
have updates in KFI twenty four hour newsroom. If any
specific news should break, well there's some sort of other
evacuation information, we'll make sure that we give that to you.
If there is some sort of conflagration or or an
expansion of the fire, we will let you know about that.
So just keep it right here on KFI AM six forty.
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We will bring you the latest information. And there's something
else we're going to be covering tonight. It's Later with
mo Kelly KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app and when we come back, we will
have our Metro update that doesn't include death and dismemberment.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Now, they are about a twenty zion fifty eleven changes
to the schedule in Metro. I'm not even going to
try to read them all to you, but the overall
tenor is simple.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Metro is beating its chest because they.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Are now celebrating more trips, as they call it, less
weight and new service changes beginning this Sunday, December fifteenth,
Metro is updating its bus service.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
This is a specifically bus service. What changes to.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Design to improve its bus frequency, make schedules more accurate,
reduce wait times for riders at bus stops, and improve
access to key destinations for writers across the service area
of Los Angeles County. And they're also saying this is
part of their year round excuse me, their round of
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twice yearly service changes. Someone just playing music? Is someone
trying to play Christmas music? I think that was me accidentally.
Sorry about that.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I was trying to find a news story on something
and apparently the AP is now playing unwanted ad music.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
While we do our searches. Sorry about that, Just in
case anyone thought this wasn't live. And in my headphones,
I'm thinking, like, okay, I'm just talking about Metro.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Am I just hearing things. Am I having a stroke?
I mean, what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
I didn't immediately realize what that was myself, and I
thought time to lay off the hard stuff, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Sorry about that?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And they have all sorts of changes going back to
Metro their bus schedules on weekdays Monday through Friday, Saturdays
and Sundays, and they're also making what they call strategic
route changes on a few lines to improve access to
key destinations and improving regional connectivity. They say it also
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includes some lines that will become part of the Pasadena
Transit system and temporary adjustments on other lines due to construction.
That's something I think is at least noteworthy. When they
start connecting to the other municipal lines, you can get
beyond just Metro, which would be helpful. And to accommodate
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additional trips on busy lines to meet the rising demand,
they're adding more trips on multiple lines across.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
All day parts.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And they're still telling us that the new Lax Slash
Metro Transit Center is opening soon. They won't give us
a day, but they're saying it's opening soon and bus
lines will be modified to serve the new station that
will open in early twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Now for me, early is January.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They probably mean October early twenty twenty five, and the
new station will serve the C and K lines as
well as the Lax People Mover When it eventually opens,
the new Lax Metro Transit Center will also replace the
LAX City Bus Center and the Aviation's last lax Station
bus transit center, and all this is nice, don't get
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me wrong. All this is nice to know that the
bus service will be improved to meet your needs starting
December fifteenth. But if I sound like a broken record,
is because I need to sound like a broken record.
And this has been reinforced by one listener and obviously
some of your notes that you send to me on
social media. None of this really matters. That people do
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not feel safe when they're writing. And I remember, I
think it was Mark you said that recently Metro was
celebrating an increase in ridership or record writership.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Yahd YadA, Yeah, something like that. That's what they say,
something along those lines.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Okay, so more people are writing and that's fine. But
if anything, I think that signifies a greater need and
hopefully they are meeting that need. But it doesn't mean
that people aren't white knuckling yet. It doesn't mean that
they aren't just as concerned today as they were last
year or in previous years. And here's what I would
(10:39):
want to know, and hit me up on threads at
mister mo kelly, if you have a specific story an
incident or an anecdote about what your day is like
writing Metro. I would love to know, and I will
read it on the air and share your experience, good
or bad. It's not like I'm hunting for bad experiences.
I mean, I can open up the news and eventually
someone's going to get stabbed. Sad but true. I'm not
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going to have to make up something. It will happen
on its own. But I do like to hear from
people who write it every single day, like Michael Monks
in the KFI newsroom, someone who is on the ground
and can really speak to what they see, what they experience,
what they feel, and whether it's changing, whether it's getting better.
And here's something else which is not going to change.
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Metro Micro, it seems, is going to be around for
another few years. The Los Angeles Metro Board of Directors
agreed to shake up, as they say, the business model,
voting to contract out some services, including the drivers and
vehicles now. La Metro relations manager Patrick Chandler told LAist
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that the program metro Micro will continue uninterrupted and the
agency will keep adjusting services to improve performances. Have you
ever seen metro Micro. I've seen maybe one or two
of those vans driving around. They're like, oh, but not.
That's the only way I can describe it. Are they windowless?
Like do they do they shove a black bag over
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your head before you get in. No, the only windowless ones,
or I should say the blacked out windows is like
the sheriff buses. Okay, those are the ones that kind
of make me uncomfortable. When I'm driving down the one
ten freeway. I always see it on the one ten freeway. Yes,
I'm digressing. I'm driving down the one ten freeway and
I see the sheriff bus and I think, at any
moment a scene from con Air is going to break
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out where someone's gonna ride up next to the sheriff
bus start shooting out the windows and try some prison
escape from someone's on the bus. And I'm gonna be
caught there, just wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You should always be ready for that always.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But I see the bus like two or three times
a week. I never now, that's all I'm gonna notice.
I never realized it. I never realized. Yeah, every time
I see it one ten, the one ten, and for
some reason, it's right when I'm in the middle of
downtown La on the freeway and then you know, I
got freeway there, but one ten is where I see it.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You're right, I assume they're going to the men's Central Jail.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But it's the point that it always makes me uneasy
because there are too many movies in which you have
the prison break where they attack the prison busts while
they're doing the prison transfer.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You have to be ready to fly into action at
any moment. Mo, But what can I do? What can
Steph do?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
If someone's going to start a shootout and a prison
break on the one ten freeway, There's not a lot
I can do except duck. Come on, you gotta ask
yourself what would Nick Cage do? And then just do that. Well,
he ducked in a movie, Okay. He tried to stay
out of the way, he tried to stop the fight,
he tried to quell all the violence, and he still
got caught up in it because you know, it's a movie.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
He's a star, so he has to get caught up.
Can we at least agree that he had magnificent hair
in that movie? Yeah, and always thought that those were extensions.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I assumed they were, I mean, because it didn't it
didn't ever look like his hair. It didn't blow, was
it ever? Well, you know there are times where I
can tell those are his hair transplants, follicles.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
That's all I can describe it, this magnificent flowing hair
back in con air.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It just did not look natural in the least.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
But I love the movies, one of those movies which
when it comes on T and T, I'm always gonna
watch it. Oh yeah, I like John Malkovich, I like
Bing Raims, and just I like everything about the movie.
The whole silliness of it, the improbability of it landing
a plane on you know, Las Vegas Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
All of that. It's just silly.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And Steve Bushimi, all the people are in that movie,
and you can't even get that cast back together today.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It would be impossible financially.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I don't even understand why the Criterion Collection hasn't put
out a nice special edition of that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I mean, it's a classic.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'm actually surprised they didn't do some sort of legacy
sequel at this point and find out what happened to.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Nicholas Cage's character.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You know, his daughter's grown up now, she's probably a
stripper in Vegas. Pick up the story there. Well, it'd
be more like elder heir now, wouldn't it. Everybody who
is in the original cast is kind of getting up there. Okay,
there's Nicholas Cage, John Cusack. Sorry about his career. He
just never reached the heights that he was probably thought
he was going to reach. Oh, come on, he was
a big star for a while. He was, but I
thought he was going to be a much bigger star.
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And I think he thought he's going to be a
much bigger star.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
We all have our straight to video phases, don't we
mo Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
John Malkovich, Steve was Shimmy, Danny Trejo. I mean, it's
a hell of a cast. Dave Chappelle, I forgot about.
Dave Schappelle was in it. Well, I don't even remember him.
What's he doing? He was a bit part. It was
a good part. I think he dies. Ving Rams. Rachel Tikotan.
It was like the ex wife of the guy from
CSI Miami and one flew over the Kokoo's nest.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I'm not sure who you mean, but I know the actress.
She was kind of mandatory to be cast in action
films in the eighties, David Caruso. I couldn't think of
his name for a woman. Oh yeah, Oh he hates me.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh okay, So you interviewed him, tell the story real quick.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I just I was quoting somebody and I was sitting
right next to him in one of those round table interviews.
I think it was at the the Sears Tower in Chicago,
and I believe it was for William Friedkin's Jade movie,
which has been kind of unfairly forgotten. He was the
first actor to show real ask nudity on Network TV,
and I asked him a question about his pasty white ass.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Are you sure he's the first? Was he the who's
the one who did NYPD Blue?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh? Yeah, that was that's him.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
That was him. Okay, okay, that's him. So I just
asked him a question about his pasty white ass. And
I believe the pasty white part was a quote from
somebody at the time. And boy did he not like that? Well, look,
intensely did not like or not? It depends on how
you phrased it. Did you say offensively phrased? Okay, poorly?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, Because if you said, mister Cruso, I read somewhere
that you had a pasty white ass, which you should
to millions of yours for the first time.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
On broadcast television. Tell me about that.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
We've all seen your best profile for the first time
now and it's pasty white ass. Well, you know you
have a way of just rubbing people the wrong way. Mark, No, no, no,
he just took it. He was a poor sport, that's
all it was. If I asked you a question, not
that you have a pasty white ass. If I asked
you a similar question, I'm sure you would be in
the spirit of it and respond properly and not just
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lose your mind and wonder, make me wonder if you're
going to be violent.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
If my literal black ass had been on TV, broadcast TV,
and you asked about it because it was on TV,
I don't think I would be come offended because it's
something that would have been a part of my television
you know history.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Yeah, and we've got the bigger TVs now, so you'd
be fine.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Oh I heard Tawalla laugh from down the hall. From
down the fricking hall. Okay, I guess Stefan, you can
give him a rim shot. Since Walla co signed it
from down the hall, what now you got to sign
off on every rim shot. Now, No, I'm not signing off.
I was helping you because Stephen was out to lunch.
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He wasn't paying attention. In other words, Tuesday Tuesday, Yeah,
literal Tuesday. It's laid with mo Kelly k IF I
am six forty five everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A six.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Who lives in the most dangerous state in the United States?
Who lives in the safest state? Well, they are all
sorts of studies, but this new study by wallet hub
ranked the safest states in America and also the least safest,
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or put another way, the most dangerous states in America.
Let's get into this right now, and we know that
we're in California, and if I'm talking about this list,
then probably California is somewhere to be found. Let's start
with the safest states in America and uh, Mark, do
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you have any predictions as far as if they're any generalities, commonalities,
regional uh predictions.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I feel like we've kind of keyed in on this
pattern before, don't you. Yes, I'm guessing like my radar
is kind of pointing towards the South, for the for.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The for the most say, for the safest.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
States or the least safest, the least safest. Okay, let's
start with the safest.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Oh well, but.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Definitely the north and the places with no population like Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, coming in at number ten of the safest states
in America, Mark Ronner, you smart, mother, father, Wyoming is
number ten.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I don't believe it. What do I win?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Absolutely not A damn thing. Getting shot in the face
is what I win. Yeah, you and Dick Cheney's friend.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Uh huh. Number nine.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Rhode Island, Northeast, Number eight of the safest states in
America according to wallet hub.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Minnesota. That's interesting. That's too cold to do anything there.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Maybe maybe, but there are other cold states which aren't
so safe.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Number seven Connecticut, Okay, I'm in there. Number six Hawaii.
I could see that. I could see that. Number five.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Utah is the fifth safest state in America, according to
wallet hub. Makes perfect sense, kind of kind of not.
I have my theories, but I won't share them. They
can be repressed sometimes. As I said, I will not
share them.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yes. Number four Mark, Massachusetts, spell it go. Let's see
m A S S that's a c h eu.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I always get lost about it halfway through because I
started to start at.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
M A S S A c h eu. Nope, I'm wrong,
and I almost dropped a dirty word on the air. There.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Just stand by that dumb button, please food. I always
get tripped up on this. This is like asking a
computer in Star Trek a logic question and watching it
smoke and explode.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
See.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's why I could never do well in spelling bees
because I need to write it out and they will
not allow you to write out a word. They will
not even allow you to have paper, or at least
when I was doing, have paper and use your finger
as a seeming pen and write it out there your finger.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Okay, well he wrote this out. Let me let me
see if this is correct and I did not cheat
and look it up. M A S S A c
h U S S e t t s.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Korong damn it, k damn it. You were almost correct.
You did it last time too. That's funny, all right,
m A S S A c h U S singular
e t t S extra s. So you're almost right.
So I had to say you're korong. No, No, you're
either right or you're wrong. There's no middle ground. And
(22:36):
it's funny mot you talk about like how you think
they don't give you paper and all that kind of stuff.
And there's that one clip. I don't even know what
which year it was, but this kid just kept asking
for all use it in a sentence, use it in this,
use it in that. He was just stalling so that
he could try to think of what to do. And
that was the only way, like the loophole. Oh, you
got to work the system. Yeah, you have to, all right.
(22:57):
That is number four.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Number three.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Maine, the third safest state in America according to wallet Hub.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Maine.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
They have the King, they need, no real world physical violence.
No one is going to Maine to steal anything. Okay, Nah,
you have everything when you get to Maine.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
New Hampshire, Yes, the northeast seems relatively safe. And number
one the safest state in America according to wallet Hub, is.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Bernie Sanders House in Vermont. Safest place in America. Why not?
Why not? I'm quite sure it's beautiful. I just don't
have any desire to go there. But this does.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
That's going to make sense because it's like half of them.
We're just the most plain nothing going on. It is
not that like how many bars, Yeah, are you going
to go to in Vermont and get into a bar fight?
I mean, how many places are you gonna go get
you know, carjacked in Vermont?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah, Wheremarnie's favorite dive bar to get in trouble in
And like Mark said it get once you get to
the winner, you can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Can't do anything. Well, you can do something, It just
has to be adored. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
And one of the safe places was Providence. You're not
going to start anything where HP Lovecraft grew up. You
don't know what you'll be invoking. Look Cthulhu or something Cthulhu.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yes, uh.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Number forty one, in other words, the most dangerous states
in America. Number forty one is South Carolina. Let's see
if there's a pattern. Number forty two. Is there a
girl's gone wild thread here? Quite possibly? Okay, And if
(24:51):
you've seen the documentary you know exactly what Mark is
talking about. Number forty two of the least safest states
in America, according to wallet Hub Georgia. On my mind,
of course, Number forty three Colorado must be all the weed,
(25:16):
all the weeds. Oh, weed doesn't make people violent. That's
wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I'm just saying that just to say it. Weed makes
people nice and wanting to snack. That's it. That's all
it does. I the iss to crack, then, okay, crack.
Number forty four, he's some of that Colorado crack a
love Mamma. Keith Jack said, fum more flumba, fum more escape. Okay,
(25:39):
all my predictions are coming true now.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Number forty five of the least safe states in America.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
The home where the wind comes sweeping down the plane
and the weaving wheat can sure smells sweet. Number forty
six Florida. Absolutely. I think they just mean Liberty City.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
The rest of the state is okay, But Liberty City,
Florida should have its own category, and Florida man should
have its own. Number forty seven of the least safest
states in America. People, I should say, women who wearing
skirts at Bill Clinton's house at Arkansas, pardon me Arkansas.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Okay, What's Clinton got to do with anything?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Just because I like to throw Clinton in there, and
if stephan were paying attention, I would have gotten like
my Hillary clip, Shame on you. But he's asleep today.
He's focused on his next job.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I'm working.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm working real hard here, stephan I'm using something of
my best material, and it's falling flat.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
It really is his best, Stephanie. Take his word for
shame on you. Oh there she is high, Hillary, Oh,
latent stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Number forty eight of the fifty states the least safest
states in the nation.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Number forty eight. Everything's bigger in Texas. Even the crime.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
People are leaving California for Texas and Florida, where it's
less safe. You know, And you would hear all the
time about how a violent and dangerous California is, but
comparatively speaking, not so much. Number forty nine of the
least safest states in America.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yes, I know we got to go to break Stephenson. Mississippi.
I knew one of the m states had to be
in there.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Mississippi is always hovering at the bottom. If it's not
in the drain, it's circling the drain. It's right around
the drain. It's like the speed of light. You can
always count on it's always going to be the same
one hundred and eighty six thousand miles per second, exactly.
Thank you for that number fifty the least safest state
in the Union, or should I say the least safe
(28:14):
state in a confederacy because it's Louisiana. To absolutely no
one's shock, I actually thought it was gonna be Mississippi,
it was gonna be fifty. I thought it was gonna
pull it out and just take the bottom. As always,
that sounds wrong. No, no, no, it's a real trash
photo finish there.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
And there you have it.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh, California was number thirty seven, number thirty seven, so
it's not exactly upper tier safe, but it's not the
worst of the worst according to wallet hub. For whatever
it's worse worth Congratulations. Kf IM six forty Live everywhere
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Speaker 4 (28:49):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kfi AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
But I'm not so sure how I feel about this
deck story. And if you don't know, I'm not a
big proponent of the legalization of marijuana.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Just never have ment. If it's your thing, then it's
your thing. It's not my thing.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
It's not anything that I've fought for, it's not anything
that i've supported, it's not anything that i've voted for
I was in support of decriminalization, but not legalization, and
I think we're seeing some of the effects of that
as far as how it's impacted society. But there's also
a business aspect to it. And the people that I've
(29:33):
talked to who are in the hemp business, who are
in the cannabis business, they have struggled mightily for the
most part, because it's an industry which is so heavily taxed,
more so than other products and other goods and services
where and also the entry price and I'm hearing like
it's like more than half a million dollars just to
(29:55):
be able to get in legally. No one should be
supp that there is still a substantial black market weed
aspect to all this, and even those who have been
legit are considering possibly to, you know, go back over
to the dark side and be a little less than legit.
(30:17):
And here's why the state's cannabis tax rate is expected
to increase from fifteen percent to nineteen percent this coming July.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
That's a lot, And if you look at the industry,
you can see a number of examples of how the
high taxes previous to now have already driven many consumers.
I'm not in that group, but I'm just saying people,
if you happen to partake, well, if you know that
the legal businesses are being taxed more, that means their
(30:54):
prices are higher because they're going to pass that on
to you, and that means what you're paying for your
edible for any of your products is going to be higher.
Then you're probably of the opinion, well, why would I
go into a legal dispensary. If it's legal, why do
I need to go to a legal dispensary. I'll just
go to you know, Dode down on the corner. He
(31:15):
has some good stuff and it doesn't cost as much. Yeah,
it's not legal, but who's actually gonna police that now,
because it's legal everywhere else. I mean, I'm driving down
the street any given day and a car will pull
up next to me, a car, any car, any day,
any street, and you can just smell the weed coming
(31:35):
out of the car.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Smell it. That's not legal.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
You can't drive under the influence. You can't drive down
the street smelling like a ganja house. You can't do
that legally, but people still do it anyway because they
know they're not going to get stopped. Going back to
the permissive society of yesterday that I was talking about.
When it comes to legal cannabis distribution, you have to
ask you the question, well, what's the upside if I
(32:01):
am a legal dispensary.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
What's the upside?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Why am I playing by the rules and being taxed
more and more every year when the people who are
not playing by the rules are not getting taxed at all,
and they're selling basically the same products for less and
taking my consumers because I can't compete with the illegal
portion of the business.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
The issue that I have with what California is looking
to do as far as the taxation of these businesses,
and these aren't businesses that I support, but I am
in support of fairness, and I do recognize how for
the longest time this was possession of marijuana was punished severely.
(32:48):
You know, if you had, you know, more than a
dimebag on you, you will had intent to sell, and
there were individuals going to jail. Then all of a
sudden they start to work on legalizing it, but then
they make it so expensive to do so it's out
of reach for those minority investors or want to be
(33:09):
business owners to even get in. And now what you're
saying is, we're going to make it impossible for all
of the minority business owners who have successfully opened up
a plus sign store on every corner in every city
here in the Southland. You're going to make it to
the point where the only individuals that can sell legal
(33:31):
marijuana will be those who have the money to afford it.
And that's a problem for me because you are literally
preventing those who could benefit from it and have been
punished for owning it or selling it the most.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I have a problem with that.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
It's a contradiction in terms because most dispensaries are quote
unquote small businesses, and I can't think of many small
businesses or mom and pop shops air quotes who require
or which require a half a million dollar entrance fee.
I can buy a subway sandwich shop for less than
a half a million dollars. I can go get my
(34:11):
own franchise location for just about anything and any other
business for less than half a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I'm pretty sure I'm right on that. But to get
into the weed business a half a million.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Dollars and I'm going to be taxed higher than fast
food joints in other places, which are other forms of
small business. I don't know what the State of California
is hoping to accomplish by increasing these tax rates and
making it cost prohibitive to stay in the business legally
and also encourage people to use legal outlets in which
(34:44):
to purchase and consume. I just know that if it
continues in this trajectory, the whole industry is going to
fold in on itself. But hey, it's not my problem.
It's all something that you do. It's not my thing.
You know, it's not my thing. I'm just letting you know.
I'm I'm sympathetic. I just don't care.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I think can I be both? Can you?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I am sympathetic to businesses because I'm sympathetic to what
businesses are trying to do. They're trying to play by
the rules, and they keep changing the rules and making
it more difficult to play by the rules. I you know,
but as far as the industry is concerned, I just
don't care. Okay, that expensive It's later with mo Kelly
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