Pro-Palestine Protest Update., Metro Public Emergency & CA’s Middle Class

ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the latest updates regarding the ‘Pro-Palestine’ protest taking place at UCLA, USC and on college campuses across the country…PLUS – Thoughts on LA Metro declaring a public emergency in response to the escalating attacks taking place on busses and trains AND how much you need to earn to be considered “middle class” in California - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

Episode Transcript

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It's good to be back. It'sLater with mo Kelly k IF I am
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadioapp. I'm back from Sacramento. Got
some pictures and video up of thishop keto seminar I was at. You
can check it out at mister moKelly on Instagram at Later with mo Kelly
on Instagram and Facebook. But nowthat I'm back, I'm back in the

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real world. Unfortunately, for aboutforty eight hours, I didn't have to
think about this protest or that demonstration, or this political machination or that so
called trouble. Didn't have to worryabout any of that. Didn't even think
about it. I got away fromthe real world. But now I'm back,
and I'm reminded I'm pretty damn smart. Here's what I mean. Remember

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when I told you, I said, I'm going to watch what happens the
next day. I wanted to seewhether there would be protests at UCLA.
Now there are. I name checkedUC Irvine. I said, I want
to see if its gonna happen atUEE Irvine in schools like cal State LA.
Now there are. Because it wasescalating along a certain trajectory path where

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schools were watching other schools. Theywere probably communicating via social media, and
you see what's done at one schoolis now being done at another school.
Where you have these encampments, youhave these protests. One thing I did
not see, and I did notforesee, unfortunately, the escalation to the
point of physical skirmishes, the vandalismon UCLA and USC's campuses. I'm not

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parsing blame. I don't know whowas responsible for it, but I do
know that I did say before,you have to be very careful who you
allow as part of your protests andinto your protests, who speaks on behalf
of your protests, and who aresome of the loudest voices, because unfortunately,
any act of violence, any actof vandalism, will have a larger

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role in the perception of the seriousnessor the importance of your protests than other
acts. But now here we are, here's my next prediction. There're gonna
be some very very unhappy protesting students. Here's why you've crossed the rubicon,

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as they say, is the pointof no return. You saw what happened
in Columbia earlier today. The ColumbiaUniversity issued at ultimatum saying you had to
remove the encampments by two pm Easterntoday or they would start suspending and even
expelling students. Well, Columbia hasheld out, but they are passing out

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slips indication they've begun the process.I'm a back up with any protest,
anyone. I don't care what itis, I don't care whether I agree
with it or not. I alwayssay I always say. That goes back
to Colin Kaepernick, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, all that with
any protests, if you are okaywith the possible consequences and ramifications of your

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protest. If you're okay with that, then by all means proceed because you
have to protest knowing that there's adistinct possibility that you won't win. Just
because you protest doesn't mean you'll getyour way. Just because you protest,
does it mean that you'll get allthat you're asking for, not even some
of what you're asking for. Youknow what, you might not get any

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of what you're asking for, andyou might get arrested, and you might
get suspended, and you might getexpelled. So discretion requires that you consider
all the consequences before you start protesting, But now you crossed the rubicon.
Now you're at that point of noreturn. Now students are getting suspended,

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students are getting arrested, probably expelledon the other side of this, And
I've yet to hear any situation onany campus where anyone has gotten any of
their demands met. Is that gonnachange tomorrow? Probably not. Is that
gonna change a week from now,Probably not. So Are you committed for
the next year or so? Aremommy and Daddy gonna still keep you in

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school after you've been suspended and ftoff your tuition or your scholarship? Are
you willing to suffer all the consequences? Do you believe that deeply in this
cause I'm not saying that you don't. I'm saying you need to ask yourself
whether you actually are. It's allfunny games and until people start going to
jail, it's all fun and gamesuntil mommy finds out you got kicked out

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of school. Because these are realconsequences. Up until now, universities by
and large have been tolerant of them. USC made a mistake, they made
the wrong choice, and they furtherescalated it, and it blew out a
proportion and they lost control of itrelatively early on the other universities. It's

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a case by case based as faras what they're trying to do. But
now the longer you stay, themore intransigent in transigent you get, the
higher the stakes and the greater theconsequences. And also and also you may
lose public support because people are readingheadlines about vandalism, they're reading headlines about

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clashes and skirmishes with police. They'regoing to you're going to lose control of
how it's being portrayed in the media. Why Because there isn't any central messaging
point. And I talk about thisall the time. You don't have someone
talking competently with a uniform message.You go to a different campus, you
get a different answer. Divest fromthis. We want that, we want

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to make sure that you don't dothis, and you don't do that.
I know some of the basic thingsthat you're asking for, but I don't
know if the person on the streetwho doesn't follow this story very closely knows
it and can recite it, andthen it can empathize and also join you
in this. This is not aboutfree speech, and I keep hearing that,
and it can't be further from thetruth. If you should end up

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arrested or detained, it's not foryour speech. It's for the fact that
you're on a private campus and youdon't have a constitutional right to set up
a tent and just remain forever onthat campus. And you know this because
there's a certain day that you haveto be out of the dorms every single
semester. It's no different. Youare a guest at the school. You

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are there by invitation, you acceptthat invitation, and then you have a
code of conduct as a student thatyou signed. I had to sign it.
You had to sign it. Hell, even Mark Roner had to sign
it. I don't know if heactually abided by it, but he had
to sign it. I signed nothing. You can prove nothing. But the
point is we all knew that therewere limitations. There are parameters, There

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were boundaries to our conduct. Wedidn't get to go to the food hall,
the dining hall whenever we wanted.They served lunch and dinner at certain
times, breakfast too, brunch,whatever. You had to be in class
at a certain time. You hadto be in class. He had to
do perform so well on exams toget a certain grade. There are expectations

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that you have to beat every stepof the way. There's a day that
you can check in to your dorm, and there's a day that you have
to be out of your dorm.For the winter break, a spring semester
to pitt on the campus, anddefinitely for summer. You do not have
a right to camp your ass outon the front lawn of UCLA in front
of Royce Hall. You're going tolose this. The question is are you

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willing to sacrifice and still win.There's an old saying, I'll probably mess
it up, but it goes somethinglike this. There are some fights that
you must fight even if you lose, and there's some fights that aren't worth
fighting. You should never fight evenif you win. You have to make
sure that you're on the right sideof that equation. Are you sure that

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this fight, if it's not winnable, it's the fight that you must have.
Are you willing to sacrifice everything?If you're not, you're wasting your
time and you need to get outnow. You're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on Demand from KFI AM sixforty. I was on my way up
to Sacramento on Friday, and thenthe news alert came in. I said,

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damn it, damn it, Ineed to be in a studio.
I need to be covering this.I need to talk about the Metro.
And I said, okay, I'lljust do it on Monday. But as
I was traveling up to Sacramento,literally while I was traveling, a man
was stabbed near a Metro bus.Laid us to the string of Metro violence

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stab and it was unclear at thetime. It wasn't clear whether it was
stabbed on the bus, exiting thebus, getting on the bus in the
University Park area of Los Angeles.We don't know if it was connected in
any way to the protest, butit was another act of violence connected to
Metro and attack was reported around twelvethirty five PM and officers responded to the
intersection of Adams and Figure Row,which is right next to USC right there

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so it can go either way,and then a little bit further down the
road ind my trip to Sacramento.Another story breaks LA Metro board member supervisor
Catherine Barger says she's afraid and willnot ride Metro by herself. You damn
skippy, I won't ride Metro bymyself. Hell, I won't even ride

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with Towala. I wouldn't ride withMark. I wouldn't ride with anybody.
Okay, I barely trust them inthe studio. You put them on Metro,
they might lose their damn mind andflip out and stab everybody. Hi'm
Mark, glad to be back.I missed you so much. And here's
the serious response to all of this. It's going to keep happening. Why

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because nothing has changed. There's noreason for it to stop, because there
is no impediment, there is nodeterrent, there's no reason. Crime doesn't
necessarily stop on its own. Itdoesn't get tired, it doesn't get bored,
it doesn't just give up. It'slike, what are we gonna do
today? I don't know. Icrimed yesterday and I don't feel up to

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it today. I think I'll goto sleep, No, go back out
and crime some more. When youhave an LA County supervisor saying publicly publicly
she will not ride Metro alone,what do you think that she has been
saying privately for the past six orseven months. You think she just woke

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up on Friday Supervisor Barker and said, oh my gosh, just last stubbing.
That's the last straw. I've hadenough. I am now afraid to
ride Metro because of this sixth stabbingin two weeks. If we're just five,
I would have been okay, butthe sixth gone too far. I'm

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now afraid. No, no,no, no, no, let's use
common sense. She's just now verbalizingit publicly. And I don't know tall.
I think I sent the message tonice young lady. I assumed she
was nice, and I assume shewas young, definitely. The lady sent
me this message on Instagram asking,and I'm paraphrasing, asking, why was

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I picking on Mayor Bass? Moe, don't you know that she's the mayor
of Los Angeles and Metro is acounty agency. Fair question, but if
you've actually been paying attention to whathas been going on Karen Bass. Mayor
Bass is the chair of the MetroBoard of Directors, and she has been

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the chair of the Metro Board ofDirectors since July twenty twenty three. She
is, lily the person in charge. He is literally the person to direct
all of my frustration, all ofmy vitriol, all of my anger,
all of my disbelief, I don'tpick on politicians or elected officials just for

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the hell of it, for justto have fun, to entertain myself or
to entertain you. I try tomake it very clear, I'm very serious
and very sincere about this particular issue. Yes, I may laugh and joke
about others, but when it comesto Metro again, I take it very
personally because it was something that Iused to do every single day, and

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so I couldn't stand it anymore.I couldn't take it anymore. So yes,
I've done my homework, and theperson who I direct my comments and
commentary too is La Mayor Karen Bass, the head of the Metro Board of
Directors of that La County agency.My civics are clear. Yes, I

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still believe that there is a powerin shaming, the power full. And
yes, I do believe that allthis public shaming of Metro has led to
the change in the public behavior ofSupervisor Barger, which will also impact what
Mayor Bass will do going forward.I believe it's all connected. I believe

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that better informing the general populace likeyou listening right now, you may not
have known of all these incidents whichwere happening on Ellie Metro on just about
a daily basis. You may nothave known, but since you've been listening
to a Lady with mo Kelly,since you've been listening to KFI, you
are better informed and you now knowthat this is a problem which must be

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addressed. Because once again I say, if you're not if you don't feel
safe on public transportation, then youcan't feel safe anywhere in the city.
I believe that you're constantly bringing thisto the airwaves, You're constantly shaming those
in charge. Is actually what ledto the declaration of emergency. Yes,

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they declared a public safety emergency becauseof this latest incident. That's not my
opinion, that's not sensationalism. Thatis Metro bowing to not only public pressure
but also internal pressure like Supervisor Bargermaking it clear that we cannot turn a
blind eye to this anymore. Wecannot disregard, try to diminish or delegitimize

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the seriousness of people dying dying onpublic transportation. And we always want to
talk about the statistics. We wantto say crime is down. Tell that
to the family of the woman whojust was murdered last week. The statistics
do not matter when it impacts youpersonally. The statistics never are more important

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than the specifics of what's going onand who wants to you roll the dice.
Now, let me put it anotherway, who wants to roll the
dice and put their mother in thatsituation? I have no problem if I
want to accept the risk and dangerof a situation. Why, because then

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I've made an affirmative choice to doX, Y or Z. If I
stop at a gas station late atnight, I have made a choice to
possibly put myself in more danger thanI necessarily would have been if I stopped
in the daytime. But I'm doingso knowingly. I should not have to
have that conversation with myself in thesense of putting my mother, my mother,

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or my wife or my child onMetro knowing what I know, Nacie,
that's the difference. I know better. You know better because we've been
talking about this just about every freakingday. You know that someone is getting
harmed every single day. Let melook at my watch. Yes, someone's
getting stabbed right now somewhere on Metro. We'll probably hear about it. We'll
have the news report late tonight,and I'll say, damn, I wish

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I was on the air because Icould talk about it. But then maybe
Mark Ron will be able to doit overnight and the late night newscasts,
and I have to wait all theway till the next day. But the
point is we know better. Andif you get on Metro right now and
you're listening to me, or youhave been listening to me, you know
that you're getting on Metro and youcannot you cannot play ignorant. You're too

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smart to play dumb at this point. You do so knowing that it's more
dangerous than just getting in an uberwith Stephan Okay, I know he looks
kind of shady, but it's moredangerous than that, far more dangerous.
You have to make a decision,La. You have to make a decision.
Mayor Bass. Now that you've declaredthis public safety emergency, what is

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your decision to actually address it?Because last week you said everything was fine.
I remember I played the damn audiofrom your budget press conference. He
said everything is fine in so manywords. Remember, I said, you're
doing everything you could do. Iken't playing the audio, Gein, I
said, no, you're not.You're lying. You're lying, You're not
doing everything you can because there areother things that you could have done that
you still haven't done, and untilyou have done those things, you can't

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honestly say, sincerely say that you'redoing everything you can because you hadn't even
declared the public safety emergency. Ah, I see what I mean. There's
still more things that you can do, and until you do them, well,
I'll be here complaining. It's laterwith mo Kelly if I Am six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appand on the other side of this break,

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are you earning enough to be consideredmiddle class here in California? Well,
I got bad news for a lotof you, really bad news.
You're listening too. Later with MoeKelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Pop Quiz Everyone, Pop Quiz.Stephan. Let's start with you.
What does it mean to you tobe middle class? What does that middle

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class lifestyle mean to you? Iwould say being able to just work,
well, I guess if you're acouple, but being able to own a
house at this point, okay,I think, all right, Mark Ronner,
a house. Huh, you're aiminghigh. I think middle class is

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maybe not breaking into a flop sweatwhen you check your balance after you pay
for dinner, or also not thinkingyou have to check your balance twelve sharp.
I'm actually a combination of both homeownership and not having to sweat every
single thing you pay for. Everybill you pay isn't going to put you

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on the street. Yeah, I'msomewhere in the middle of that. The
whole idea of home ownership in today'sworld is not like when my parents middle
class bought a house in the midnineteen seventies, the house that my mother
still lives and they bought in nineteenseventy five for fifty four thousand dollars In

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theory that could could have been paidfor or qualified for by one household income.
Today two is often not enough,So the idea of middle class has
shifted over the years. And withhealth care, if you put that in
mind, middle class means that yourone health diagnosis away from bankruptcy. So

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let's put it in quantifiable terms now. And this is coming from a new
report from personal finance site smart asset, and it reviewed data from the US
Census Bureau as well as the PewResearch Center to determine what does it take
financially at least on paper to beconsidered middle class in all fifty states and
three hundred and forty five of thenation's largest cities. We won't go that

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deep, but will but we willtalk about California. In California from a
salary, you're considered middle class fora household salary. Going to Stephan's point,
a household salary of sixty one thousanddollars to one hundred and eighty three
thousand dollars. There is no wayin the world a household salary of sixty

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one thousand dollars can be middle class. When I say household, I'm not
assuming kids. I'll just say twopeople living in an apartment sixty one thousand
dollars, by no means Is thatmiddle class, by no means not in
California. No. One hundred andeighty three thousand. Maybe maybe, depends

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on how many kids you have.Maybe middle class and a student loan and
right a number of other classes,all those things. If you're one hundred
eighty three thousand dollars and you're notin debt, possibly possibly, I don't
know what your situation was before thatone hundred eighty three thousand. You may
have been in debt you know,may have student loans for example, you

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may have had a bankruptcy. There'sno way to tell. But if you
have any of those, you're notmiddle class in California. You're digging yourself
out of that hole. I knowbecause I live through it. In the
Bay Area northwest of San Jose,you need to have a household salary of
at least one hundred and thirteen thousanddollars to be quote unquote middle income.

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And if you want to be consideredupper class in Sunny Vale, smart ass
that determined that you would need asalary of at least three hundred and thirty
nine thousand, and I still thinkthat's kind of low given for real estate.
For real right, Yeah, you'renot care free at three hundred and
forty thousand dollars. I'm not sayingthat that's you know, chicken scratch.
I'm saying you're not fancy, footlooseand fancy free. Every house towards that

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area is a million to start,So that's why I'm like this three hundred
and thirty three that's and I'm stillstuck on household. If if you have
two adults and two kids, andlet's say both parents are contributing. Both
parents are making one hundred and sixtyseven one thousand, five hundred dollars each
per year. Maybe they could becivil servants or something, or attorneys or

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something like that, and they havetwo kids. They're still watching their money.
If they're in that million dollar house, which is not a big deal
in that particular area, Yeah,she'd be middle class. But I guess
the larger point is in California,you can go from middle class to the
poverty line in a heartbeat. Yeah, it's a lot easier, I believe,

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to suffer in California as opposed toother states where you might be a
give me a comparison point mark inSpokane three hundred and thirty nine thousand dollars.
And I know it's getting more expensivein the state of Washington all across.
But is the housing as expensive thereal estate is expensive as down here?
Oh not even close, not evenclose. So what's the average for

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a house here? It's just underseven hundred thousands. Nothing's closer to eight,
is it? Okay? So yeah, for that, you could get
your own mansion Inokan, not inSeattle. Seattle's pretty close to the way
it is here. M h andI guess if you go to certain parts
of California, if you would goto Baker or even Sacramento, the cost
of living, yes, is muchless than San Jose, Los Angeles,

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San Francisco. But by and large, when they say that sixty one thousand
is the low end of the middleclass, I don't know if you were
just a single person living by yourself, which you mean middle class, on
sixty one thousand, it's the waylow end, just rent alone. Maybe
in Lancaster, like you're moving uptowards Lancaster, Barstow, you're having way

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out of la Orange County, Victorville, Victorville, Yeah, sixty one thousand,
Victorville, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Last week there there was a
study that came out showing a handfulof places in the California area where you
didn't have to essentially sell your kidneyto afford a house. But they were
all places that were so remote nobodywants to live there. Right. There
was a time and before Palmdale blewup to what it is now. I

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want to say this is maybe abouttwo thousand and one, two thousand and
two, I was thinking about buyinga house out there, and the houses
were new house, new build,it's about two hundred and forty two to
three hundred thousand. That would bea steal in today's well, but now
it's so over developed out there,it's like eight to nine hundred thousand,
and that is a good forty fiveminutes to an hour at best at best

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on the outside of Los Angeles,because I was trying to drive it to
see if I was willing to driveit. When I was working in Sherman
Oaks for Ryan Seacrest at the time, that would have been my drive.
There's nowhere you can live in theLos Angeles area on sixty one thousand dollars
a year household income and be consideredmiddle class. There's no way unless your

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household is of one person, andeven then you are really really stretching it.
Now say yes. In Lancaster rightnow, meeting income for a single
adult is forty two thousand or actuallyuh, and that's switched from the not
looking at the national figure, Sonow it's down to thirty eight thousand for

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a meeting income for singles, Sotwo adults sixty plus thousand. Yeah,
they must be talking about Lancaster,but that's deep in Lancaster. That's deep.
I've driven out there because we're oneof our school cats where bodies are
buried. Yeah, there's a placein Lancaster where they leave dogs, right,
God's sake, right, So everyoneall cheered up. Now, God

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the dog thing did it? Thankyou? You're listening to Later with Moe
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will be giving away a pair oftickets to opening night on May seventh.

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Tomorrow, We're gonna give away thetickets tomorrow to opening night. We're gonna
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get a chance to see it whenit was laughed out in southern California.
Oh, man, I hope youdo get to go see this one.
Man, I know you like plays, and I plays musicals, live theater,
love all that. I saw theAladdin production the mini play at California
Adventure and it's amazing. I canonly imagine what this a full on play

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is like, taking it to thenext level. Wow. I love all
that stuff and it was instilled inme as a we lad. But my
parents say would take me to seeshows and musical theater, and I've just
always grown up with that love andaffinity for live performances. And if you're
like me, you'll definitely want totry to win the tickets. When just

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gonna give away one pair of tomorrownight. But it's to opening night,
opening night, May seventh, Soif you should call in, know that
you have to be available to attendMay seventh, which is Friday night.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe. So have you been to the second
Yeah? I saw Wicked there.Okay, okay, what is the house

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like? Is it like ever seethe good seat? What house? The
staging all that it is? Acousticallyit's fantastic, like if you walk in
and you can you can hear theperformance with little amplification acoustically, it's it's
beautiful. It's it's it's newer thanThe Pantagious. Obviously, I'm not trying

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to make a direct comparison, buta seg Storm is it's kind of asymmetrical.
The way that the theater is laidout. It's hard to it's hard
to describe. But it's a fabulous, fabulous theater experience. It's very intimate.
I have no complaints about it.But when I saw a wake it
there, it was just great.I've seen some other things there, but

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we could I think it was themost recent one. Okay, okay,
yeah, I was curious about justthe theater, Like I haven't gone,
but I know, like my myfamily they talk about like the Pantagious all
the time, like the Papantageous.I'm like, and I know that the
Sega Storm gets such rave reviews.I was just wondering, as a comparison
point like what what does each theateroffer amenity wise as far as like for

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sound, for sight stuff like that. The sight lines I I think are
better at seg from. It's onlybecause it's a it's a newer theater obviously.
The pantages is the pantago is becauseyou just have the awesome history which
is yeah, so attached to it. But you know, if you're in
Orange County and you're not drive allthe way to LA you should do that.
Yeah. Remember when we had CliftonDavis on? Yes, that was

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why. That's when I end upgoing to see Wicked. Oh yeah yeah
yeah, nice Mark? Are youa theater guy? Let me just dropped
his microphone. No, no,sorry, I had been doing something else
and I had to switch the boardback. You just mentioned Clifton Davis.
You mean the guy from the seventysitcoms. Yes, amen and all that.
Yeah, deep cut, Yes,well I'm jealous. Yeah, it

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was a couple of years ago.A couple years ago. Absolutely, Wow,
that would have been cool. Icompletely forgot about your other question because
I was focused on that theater.Are you fan? You know? Ever
since a freshly out of the closetfriend, all that a bunch of Andrew
Lloyd Weber plays in New York City. I've avoided them because I think I
still have PTSD. It's okay,does it? That's what they say.

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I probably did for him, butI've still got the scars. You didn't
see Cats, did you? Unfortunately? Yes? I did? You saw
Cats? YEA horrible. It's awar crime. It's people. People responsible
for Cats need to go to theHague. I will never understand why anyone
like Cats. I don't get it, because I've even followed a couple of
people that are like hardcore musical theaternerds, and they're like, why is

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this so big? They do?No one gets it. The only thing
worse than Cats the Musical was Catsthe movie. I kind of wanted to
see that just because of knowing goingin and it's going to be terrible to
see cat Woman with Hally Barry.But here this is an important question.
Did you see the version with thecats tailpipes digitally removed or were they still

(31:57):
there? I don't think I paidthat close of the old you know,
when I saw it. Unfortunately,when it came out it was with tailpipes
inlet. It was very weird.It was a very where I was like,
I've got to go. I'm doingway too much sitting in this theater.
I really despised myself for being inhere right now, just myself.

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I felt bad for myself watching thismovie. I didn't understand. I said
to myself, See, this iswhy people say bad things about Broadway.
If this is their first experience,my first experience going in to see anything
related. Bro, if it's cats, that would be my last experience.
Fortunately that was not Yeah and addinginsults to entry. Wasn't James Cordon also

(32:42):
in that Yeah? Yes, ohgod. No, I didn't like Phantom
of the Opera. I know peoplesay, how could you not like it?
No, you're correct. I sawthat. I endured that I didn't
like forty second Street, and Ididn't like Chicago. But by and large
the plays or the movies the place. No, no, not not the
movies. I will say the SunsetBoulevard is tolerable. But if you have

(33:07):
the choice, just sit it allout, all of it. Oh goodness,
that's why I would love to go. Look, we gotta go.
Look at the clock k if Iage at forty five. Everywhere in the
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