December 24, 2024 • 38 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at options for taking public transit to the 2025 Rose Parade AND what to do if you win the nearly billion dollar Mega Millions Christmas Eve jackpot…PLUS – Thoughts on the U.S. Census Bureau report that indicates people are actually migrating BACK to California - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Caf I I'm o Kelly, we're getting down to the inn.
Have you finished all of your shopping or or are
you in the midst of it right now? Are you
dealing with that hellscape right now? Are you caught on
the four h five, the one oh five, the one ten,
the ten, the two ten, the two, the two eighteen,
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the one oh one, the one thirty four, the one seventy,
the fifty five, the fifty seven. Are you caught on
one of those freeways like Toawala? Sharp was for a
good hour tonight as he was just trying to get
to work. And if you are on the road right now,
hopefully you are going home. Hopefully you're not trying to
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go to some big box retailer. I hope not, because
it's really really bad out there, and it's gonna get
worse between now and December twenty fifth. And I was
under the impression, I was under the distinct impression that
our weather was going to be fantastic for Christmas. But
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then Mark Ronerd just had to mess it up for everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What is this? What is this? I'm hearing about rain
tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
It's like Annie, it's not even a possibility it's likely
likely how much well, how I think we're up to
in the seventy percent range tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Mow, well, but like an inch to two inches, five inches,
twelve inches.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I can't give you inches, mo. I'm not prepared to
just discuss inches this evening, but.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I'm telling you we're off well. Stop setting me up
like that, all right, stop walking into it. I don't
need to be teed up to talk about it. That Mark, Well,
you've destroyed the evening already, Okay, I try.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
No, it's we're gonna get rained tomorrow, but it should
be sunny and clear for Christmas Day?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Is that enough? Good enough? Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
If I'm going to pay all this money to live
in California, I at least want to have a sunny Christmas.
And speaking of California, how it's supposedly so bad out here.
Before we get to the end of this hour, we'll
tell you how everybody at least numerically has moved back
to California for all the stories that we've heard about
the decreasing population, how people are just running to get
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out of the state, going to Texas, going to Florida,
going to Arizona, going to all these other places which
supposedly just have a better quality of life. Well, the
numbers are moving back in the other direction. And I've
always said I'll get to it later, but i want
to say this now. I have always said, if you
want to go, go, if you want to leave, leave,
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I'd be more than happy to have a little less
traffic on those many freeways that I listed just a
few minutes ago. I'll be more than happy to not
have to elbow anyone when I'm doing my shopping. And yes,
I'm not done with my shopping. There's one or two more. Look,
anyone who's married or has ever been married knows this.
Or you get to call, you get the tax. It's like, honey,
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if you're not busy, or if you have time, can
you please pick up dot dot dot. And it doesn't
matter if it's grocery store or department store. That just
ruin the rest of your afternoon, whatever you plan to do,
because no one is trying to go to a store.
If and when you don't have to, Tomorrow is grocery
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store day. That's the day you want to stay away
from grocery stores. Because anyone who's cooking or preparing any
type of feast. They're gonna get there my last minute
items or whatever they need from the grocery store. Any
grocery store tomorrow, and a lot of them will be
staying open relatively late. Retailers, I think they close around
like six o'clock, but grocery stores might be open, depending
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on the grocer. It's late as eleven o'clock if I'm
not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I usually go to.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Ralphs and they close around one most nights. And I
am convinced that the hookers at my local Ralphs are
going to be super aggressive tonight when I go after work.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
When are they not super aggressive?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, usually they're fairly well behaved, except if one tries
to shop lift something right in front of me while
I'm in line or something. But I just have a
feeling there might be some violence tonight. Wait us towards you, No,
I try to stay out of the way. I don't
want to be in the middle of some hooker altercation.
But you know, they've got a security guard there who
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is a pretty no nonsense cat.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
He doesn't put up with much.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
How old seventy ninety, it's hard to say, kind of
a hard sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Maybe the routes by me.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Sorry rause slash Kroger, but you know you're the closest
grocery store to me. They have this sign out front
which says we close early for your safety.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well I believe that. Yeah, it's like thanks, I can
attest to that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, So if you can avoid a grocery store tomorrow.
I can't speak for the hookers, but if you could
avoid a grocery store tomorrow, please do. If you can
avoid having to go into one of these big box
retailers or a mall. I made the mistake of trying
to go to Dilomo Mall over the weekend. It was
a very bad decision. What's that even like these days,
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it's a completely different experience from what you or me
or Tualla are used to. Let's just say ten years ago.
Now it was packed, but it's the Christmas season. But
I think the way that people shop and because of
the smashing grabs completely different. Like I was just walking by,
walking by K Jewelers and Pandor if you if you
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know how the mall is laid out there directly opposite
each other. Pandora, they have this measured line where they
only let in like maybe ten people in the store
at a time, and they have this like front desk
where you almost like have.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
To sign in.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I'm not being I'm not exaggerating, because they want to
know who's going in the store. In cases some foolishness
should have rupt in. That line was out the store
and down the corridor. It was ridiculous. They had at
least thirty five people and this was Saturday afternoon, thirty
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five people outside the store waiting to get in. Pandora
Jewelers don't give jewelry for Christmas. That's too much.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
No, not for everybody.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh no, there are some people in my family who
are very high maintenance. Let me tell you one is
listening right now. I don't want to get any trouble
at least one. There might be more. And they've made
it clear that's what they want. So I'll give them
a gift card from one or two of those places
and then they go buy whatever they want. And my family,
we're real big gift cards and cash. Here, just go
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get whatever you want. I don't want to have you
go through the trouble of returning something or fake liking something.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Just here, here's the cash.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Go get your hooker. Like Matt Gates. Okay, what just
just go just go buy what you want for Christmas
and hopefully they're of age. Hopefully, Yeah, go for an
adult please, yeah, please please do that. You know, if
you're gonna go down that road, make sure you least
ask for ID.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
They're all over the age in your neighborhood, correct, Mark,
I just want to make sure. Hey, I'm out of circulation.
Leave me out of that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh, out of circulation. That's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I am not the Matt Gate. I promise.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
If so we asked you ten years ago, you might
have known.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Let's just keep moving. Please, Okay, that's what she said.
If you're not gonna buy keep moving, I think I'd
probably check Id's. In any case, it's gonna be one
of those shows tonight with nothing serious too. It's later
with bo Kelly can if I am six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. But we did want
to tell you because we are big fans of proponents
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of seeing the Rose Parade in person. Who're going to
tell you how you can get there. There's some public
transit options that and I would say this on like
Christmas or New Year's Day. Those are the days in
which I think you should go ahead and you know,
risk your life and go on public transit, because those
are the days you'll have the most law enforcement available.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty and.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Over the years, I've told you my experience of going
to the Rose Parade to see it in person. I'm
sure everyone listening right now, like you and your car
on one of those horrible freeways. You've seen it on TV.
We've all seen it on TV. I'm saying you need
to see it in person. If you don't have any
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plans for let's say New Year's Eve slash New Year's Day,
can turn it into an all night affair and stay
into the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I say you should do it at least once. Do
it at least once.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And let's say you're not going to spend the night
out there and you don't want to have any parts
of that. You can get up early and get to
the parade route. And if you're willing to take public transportation,
like for example, the La Metro A line offers multiple
stops along the parade route, and that gives you the
chance to not only ring in the New Year. If
you want to come out for New Year's Eve, but
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you can also get there New Year's Day and not
have to fight with all the crowds. There's a way
that you can do this. When I say fight with
all the crowds, you're not going to find a place
to park.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I'm just letting you know that. In bet To Wala
can tell you better than me.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You are not going to find a place to park
New Year's Day.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Forget about it. That you won't even get off the
free and get close well truly, no, you'll be stuck
on A one ten or the two or wherever four.
You will get anywhere close to it. And parade attendees
can board the A line anywhere from Long Bea Each
to pass Adena. Okay, you've got six stops in the
city of Pasadena. Both the del Mar and Memorial Park
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stations are directly adjacent to the parade route. Make it
easy on yourself. And maybe you didn't have any specific
plans for New Year's Day other than to watch the parade,
consider seeing it in person. And you can take metro
trains or buses to La Union station and then hop
on on the A line for an easy transit experience.
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And I think all these are all the lines are
free for Metro on New Year's Day. And if you're
further out, let's say you're out and I don't know
Rancho Cucamonga or something, because we have some employees who
worked out there, lived out there. Metro LAK is always
an optional option. And the Regional Passenger Rail System is
adding early morning trains on ins Ventura County, Orange County
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and ninety one slash Paris Valley lines, and this adjusting
service on the Antelope Valley and Bernardino lines. Those adjusted
schedules will allow trains to arrive at Union Station between
seven and seven thirty am.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Again, you're gonna have to get up early, but there
is an option even though you may not be close.
I don't want you to drive all the way from
Orange County thinking that you're gonna get a place to
park your car, even if you get within two or
three miles of the parade route.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You don't want to have to walk.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That both ways trying to get to the parade route
and get back from the parade route to your car.
It's better to just use good sense and get on
public transportation. I don't know now see it, probably someone
is thinking about rideshare. I don't know how close a
vehicle can get to the actual parade route, so don't
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I don't know what the recommendation.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Is on any given side of Colorado Street. Are the
blocks adjacent to Colorado on both sides are blocked off?
You can't really get to those with the vehicle further up.
I would say maybe maybe if you get closer to Mountain.
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I'm trying to think of what the first street is
above Colorado where you may be able to park and
walk down. But I promise you this, there isn't going
to be a lot open. Most of these lots have
been selling passes, and I've seen I've driven around just
kind of just because I like to go and see
the floats being put up and things like that. And
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a lot of the lots that are even close have
already been selling passes for parking. If you have a
friend who's got a yard that you could park in,
god bless you, but that's probably gonna be taken up
and hard to get to. It is a nightmare. Anytime
my family has gone down, we have gone down, it
has been like you get there before the light comes up.
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You're getting there like five thorough dark, so that you
can get even too. Because last year the family went,
and they went and they parked maybe around five thirty
so that they could get to their seats by like
six fifteen to walk up and get to their seats.
It was it was a treck, but it was worth
it to get there that early. Now, the nightmare of
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getting back to the car, that's where it really set in.
Especially ride share.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You know, it's one thing to get right here to
what might get you semi close, but then to hail
a ride share leaving I don't know if that's even
an option.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
And then plus you have the game, so there's a lot.
Ride share is going to be jam packed. It's going
to be hard to do it, period. And I know
because I've driven previously when I was doing Uber. I
did drive one New Year's Eve, and there's something I
would never do again because it's impossible. Even the directions
to try to probably get somebody, it's hard to do.
So no, I'm telling you take it. Take most advice.
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Take the train.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You make a great point, because I'd forgotten. Yeah, there
is still the Rose Bowl, which is gonna be going on,
and you'll be dealing with the traffic of people coming
to the Rose Bowl as well as the traffic leady
leaving the Rose Parade. So the easiest way to do it,
and we want you to do it because we want
you to experience it is public transportation. Yes, I've been
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railing against no pun intended against Meshell, but these are
the days you will see accession, I will say excessive
law enforcement presence.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
They will be everywhere.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Absolutely one thing that Pasadena Police has promised for not
just the parade, but for the game and for Metro
along the train stops and everything they have promised and
enhance police presidence. There will be no Shenanis. This is
the first parade really and fully truly back after the pandemic.
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You know there's a trial run, but this is it.
This is like we're back, baby, and we've got a
lot riding on this. We're not going to mess this up.
Can promise you this, and just the number of crowds
of people on the train. It's not like normal muggy stabbing,
rape and killing, pillaging metro rides.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And it's a good time if you're going to go
somewhere on Metro. If you're going to go at let's
say five point thirty six in the morning, that that's
the time to go. Especially most of the idiots have
been out all night partying hopefully, and they're still hungover
and not going to do anything. But this is the
time to ride Metro. And one day we got i
should say one year, we got to get Mark Roner
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out there so you can see the parade in person.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I actually have a pro tip for people watch the
parade on television.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
How are you trying to undermine everything we're doing.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yeah, that's not what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
You don't have to drive, you don't have to park,
you don't have to worry about getting shot or stabbed
or having to wear one of those pit diapers all
day because there's no place to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
With the parade watch it on down. That's a real hater. No, no, no,
I'm trying to help you.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We weren't saying yes, everyone has seen it before. I'm
saying it's like a trip where you have to do
at least once in your life. You got to go
see the Rose Parade at least once in person.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I've done it.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I'm not going to do it again anytime soon, but
I can say that I've done it. It was a
wonderful experience, and I'm glad to say that I have
that experience as part of my memories.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
And I'm glad for you. No, market, you're not in person,
No you do. You have to see in person. Yeah, Look,
it's one thing we can.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
When you're on TV and you see one or two floats,
one or two bands, but to be on the route
and see a string of nine or ten floats at
a time, and you can get the best pictures you
could ever imagine, as opposed to just looking at it
on TV and feeling the energy of the crowd and
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the moment.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It's a good way to kick off your year. Yeah,
and you only have to leave when it's still dark outside.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, sounds perfect, Hey, Scrooge, Christmas will have been over
for like six seven days at that point.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Maybe if we're able to get an RV and park
it on the side of the road and watch it
from that. But I just I don't see what's wrong
with TV natural God given TV.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The RV planning mark. The RV takes a lot of
plan to be able to rent the RV, rent a
space and have it so that your RV is facing
the street. It does. There are people who plan out
next year's attendance. Now, now, there are a few hotels
that are on the route that if we book far
enough advanced, we could get.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
A room and pay enough.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
You got to pay a lot where where your room
is facing Colorado.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
A lot of people do that.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh yeah, there's got to be someplace with, say a
bar with a balcony on it.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Now we're talking, right, but that.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Still presumes planning and if something would be worth it
if you plan ahead.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I'm still getting the idea that the two of you
like to do everything the hard way.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I'm pretty easy way.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Now we're telling you there are ways to do this.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
None of them involves staying at home in my underwear
with a drink.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You can do that if you want to have a
drink at seven in the morning, self out.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'm just saying that's the holidays, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But hopefully there are people who listening who are not
as jaded as you. Jaded, yes, and are willing to
put in a little effort and a little bit of planning,
even at this late date, seeming late day, for a
once in a lifetime experience. I would encourage it for anyone,
especially if you have children who are old enough to
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appreciate the floats. To see them up close, it's one
thing to watch. And to your point, Mark Ronner, you
can't really appreciate the complexity of the floats on TV.
I don't care if your TV's four K. You to
see the flowers in the ornate arrangements. When I was
in four h we would as an annual occurrence, we
would go down and help put flowers.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
On the floats. I believe that about you.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It's almost sincere, not quite, but almost sincere.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
No, No, you seem like that kind of guy to me,
it's really disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yes, miss, he is Scrooge.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I tell you, Christmas spirit, I am gushing with the
milk of human kindness and the holiday spirit and all
that stuff. I just maybe someday we'll have like a
KFI guy trip down there, you me, Tuala Foush, and
and we'll leave what we got to wake up at
like three in the morning. What do we gotta do?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
No, you just won't go to sleep because that's the
time that you're up anyway, Well, we just keep compounding
the fun.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You don't go to sleep with your schedule.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You don't want to go to sleep at three in
the morning because you won't wake up for the parade.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
It starts relatively early. Okay, looking forward to this. I tried,
I tried.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty j Kelly.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's Christmas Eve Eve, It's the eve of Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's Christmas Eve's eve, Winter's Eve. Mega Millions.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The jackpot is near one billion dollars and it might
even hit a billion if people stop shopping for a
moment and go to their local liquor store. The drawing
tomorrow is for an estimated nine hundred and seventy million,
but it'll probably bumped up to a billion because why
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it'll be Christmas Eve, and wouldn't that be the perfect
Christmas gift?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I think you should stop doing the show right now,
go down to the nearest convenience mark not seven to
eleven for your own safety, and buy me about one
hundred scratchers or you know, mega million something.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Just win me some money. You might be onto something
with this. What would you do if you won? Oh,
like I said before, I wouldn't tell you. I wouldn't
tell anyone.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You'd tell me. You'd have to tell me.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I would not change my lifestyle at all, and I
would do everything in my power not to have my
name publicly released. It's like if you're going to a bank,
you don't change your routine. You don't let anyone know
that anything has changed in your life. You're not going
to know that I've come into a billion dollars. And
I would continue working. You have to keep the rules going.
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And then at some later date I would put in
my two weeks or you know, have him buy out
my contract, and that would be that, and I go
on and do other things, probably philanthropic in nature, probably probably, Yeah,
I don't know. Or I could go to matt Gates
route and get hookers and coke.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Who knows we got all that money. No one needs
to go to the Mattie Gates route. Okay, that's that's
a bridge too far.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
No, No, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Here's the serious point? Since I mentioned matt Gates, why
not because there aren't any consequences. It's not like he's
going to be prosecuted. The DOJ declined to pursue charges.
It doesn't mean he's innocent. A declination just means they're
not sure that they could get a conviction. And if
you're going to go after who was then a sitting
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member of Congress, you damn sure, Betta be clear that
you can get a conviction.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I feel that. But even with your billion dollar win,
you don't need underage hookers. You can get of age hookers.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Oh well yeah, let me be clear. Yeah, I'm gonna
go on to Matt Gates route. I'm only talking about
the adult age hookers. Just kid hookers that are young
enough to be your daughter, your granddaughter. Well, see's how
I'm fifty five. Now, that's not too hard, so he'd
be like thirty five, my dad. I mean, see if
be past her hooking prime. This is a Christmas show.
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Oh yeah, make a million. Yeah, that's what we were
talking about. The drawing Tomorrow's for an estimated nine hundred
and seventy million translates to about four hundred and forty
million in cash. And I'm very big on give me
all my money now so I can invest it, put
it in accounts a crue interest because you're not. If
I'm not mistaken, you get that nine hundred and seventy million.
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It's not accruing interest. You just get that annuity each
year equally like nine hundred and seventy million. If I'm
not mistaken, I want the money now so I can
start having accruing interest, even though it's only quote unquote
only four hundred and forty million. I want that money now.
I could put it in a savings account, not that
I would financial experts. I'm just saying hypothetically, I know
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it's a low yield other ways to invest. I could
hear the judgmental financial planners out there. Why would you
put it in a savings account? I'm saying I could
put it in a money market account. I could put it,
I don't know, IRA or something, a wroth account, and
it would still accrue interest and I would not have
to ever touch the principle. That's the point. That's what
I would do, Mark Ronner, Since you're all in my business.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I really am a fan of the Jeff Bezos plan
of spending an enormous amount of money on yourself for
something unnecessary while you walk over homeless people on the
way to and from the office.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And then you have someone like his ex wife, Mackenzie Scott,
who donates billions of dollars left and right. It's like,
how in the hell did you two ever fall in love?
You seem like you have nothing in common.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
She seems like one righteous chick. And I say that
because there was some story that I think it was
Elon Musk who had criticized her for donating so much
to a charity, and in response, she doubled the amount
she donated.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Yeah. Yeah, she's really really dope. What she's done for
small business, for minority business, for women in business, for
business periods. Yeah, the investments that she has put into
America writ large are astounding. But what would you do
if you won Mark? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I would First of all, you only need so much
for one lifetime. You get by well, okay, in California.
You know it'll take you a million dollars to put
a down payment on a house. But let's say you
need ten million dollars to satisfy every urge you could
ever have in your life on this planet.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Help people with the rest.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I am right there. I would love to have money
to just give away. I would love if I were
to here's this really serious answer. If you gave me
a billion dollars today, with that four hundred and forty
million in cash, I would be giving away money to
universities and schools, building parks and playgrounds every single day
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of the rest of my life. Would and you, and
please don't name them after me. I'm just saying, well,
I know for a fact that you would. You would
want buildings named after you. No, don't even pretend one.
Only one at my alma mater. That's that's the only
one I would want. But anything else I would be
giving away left and right.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
If I had a billion dollars, Look, I don't I'm not.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Ever gonna want to even live in a twenty five
million dollar house. And we know the guy who won,
like the two billion mega millions of Superlatto, Edwin Whober's
name was, who's been, you know, going crazy with the money.
I would never do that, never, and I know I would.
I mean because I don't need that type of headache.
I don't want that type of gluttony.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We people go nuts when they have that much. And
if since we're being serious, if you look at what
Bezos and Patrick soon Shan have done it literally destroying
the papers they bought. I would do something to get
some publicly funded form of journalism that I started and
created a trust for that with with my money.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, and I look at someone like Elon Musk, I
wish I knew who had his ear.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
He's worth like four hundred and seventy seven billion right now.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
He could get even more of what he wants to
do in his personal self aggrandizement if he had someone
who was in his ear and say here, just do
this over here, do that over there, you know, drop
ten million here to the blind sisters of Mery Way
or whatever. Had that be a part of your legacy
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as opposed to just Space, star Link and Tesla, not
always trying to accrue more money, but showing that you
are changing the world in a way that only you
can because of the financial tools which are available to you.
And you would see almost instantaneously whether you would believe
it was sincere or not. The overriding perception of him
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would change for more positive and less political if he
wasn't only known for that with what he's doing with
his money.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
That is some science fiction, right, not right there? Based
on what we know about Musk what just doesn't have
that in him? No he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But I'm saying I wish I knew who had his ear,
because you can do both, You really can do both.
When you have four hundred and seven he have a billion.
Well that's what I'm saying. He could donate a billion
a year to various causes, and he would be looked
at like the Pied Piper the Second Coming. And I
don't mean to Blackspeed, but I'm just saying he would
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be looked in that way as someone who's trans transformative
as opposed to transactional.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
He would prefer to absolutely just torch throw away billions
and billions of dollars in a stupid attempt to go
to Mars, than say, help homeless people.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But I can at least make the argument that science
and space exploration has given a lot back to society.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I'm not going to dismiss that.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
But but.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Spending forty four billion on Twitter, I just can't understand.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Well, he spent more on Twitter than he spent on
the election. But my point is, if you think it's
a better use of money to spend so much as
one dollar to send people to live on Mars as
opposed to saving the earth. You're insane and there's no
talking to you.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
The only problem with what you're saying is I think
it's a false choice.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I think when you have half a trillion dollars what
we're really talking about, you can actually do both.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
But you're still just torturing the money for Mars. It'll
never be livable. But ever that may be.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
But my point is it's not an either or proposition.
He can do both. He can have transformational impact on
an issue like hunger.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
And what does it say about him that right now
he has that ability and he'd rather screw with the
election in Germany.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Well, look that all these megalomaniac billionaires, for the most part,
they're all kind of wired the same way. Now we
get to see more of Elon Musk's personality because he
puts himself out there, because he has his own social
media network. I don't think that Mark Zuckerberg is all
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that different. I don't think Jeff Bezos is all that different. No,
I don't think I can say Bill Gates is a
little bit different. And he's a perfect example because his philanthropy,
you really can't argue he has done far more with
what he's had over the time that he's had it
than these other billionaires. And I'm not saying that they
need to solve all the world's problems, and I'm not
saying that they need to donate all their money. I'm
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saying they could donate so money that they would never
even touch it from just the interest alone that they
make on the money's just sitting there.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Imagine having billions of times more money than you could
ever possibly need in one lifetime and not using a
significant portion of that to.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Make the world better. And I just can't relate to
that at all, not even your lifetime.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I'm talking about the musk generational wealth could be ten
generations right now if he stopped right now, right now,
So it's not even just about one person. Yeah, I
think this is an appropriate conversation to have two days
before Christmas exactly. You know, if we're going to talk
about Christmas and not talk about what's staring us in
the face.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
And I think we have made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
But you know, give the money to me, I will
make the world a better place. Call me Santa Mo.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, you'll just skim a little off the top and
the rest will go to good c Well, at least
the good causes will be acknowledged.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And for all the complaints about CEE, California sucks, everyone's leaving.
It can't be a good state of everyone's leaving. First,
I don't agree with that. I don't believe that. In fact,
I welcome that if we could get people like Mark
Ronner out of the state, the fewer, the merrier. I
am just fine with not dealing with as many people
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on the freeways in the stores as I'm shopping. I
don't have to worry about getting angry and being frustrated
and pushed to road rage.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I like fewer people just as a general rule.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
So each and every story that I saw that people
were leaving California, it's like, yes, yes, go think of
it this way. Think wherever you live. I don't care
if you live in an apartment, I don't care if
you live in a house. You can live in a
small neighborhood, live in an urban area, live in a suburb.
If I told you that more people were moving where
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you live right now, what would you say, Yeah, you
probably wouldn't like it. And if I told you that
people are moving out of your neighborhood or moving out
of your enclave, your development, or your suburbs subdivision, what
would you say. You probably say, thank you very much.
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You would welcome it with open arms. Well, California is
growing again and we're almost back to where we were
pre pandemic. In fact, California's population grew by almost a
quarter of a million residents this year. And this is
according to the US Census Bureau. And I'm not happy
about it.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
It's more evidence of what I was saying. You know,
California can't be all that horrible. People are now rushing
back to get here. Maybe they did leave and they realize, okay,
so bad. California's population gain of two hundred and thirty
two thousand, five hundred and seventy people from July first,
twenty twenty three to July first, twenty twenty four represents
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the largest numeric population increase in the nation's West, though
behind Texas, which expanded its population by five hundred and
sixty three thousand. People go ahead, run to Texas. They
have great electricity there. So I'm told, oh, you can
go to Florida, which grew by four hundred and sixty
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seven thousand people.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
They have great hurricanes there.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I'm told California's zero point six percent population increase fell
short of the national average and was significantly outpaced by DC, Florida,
and Texas. But hey, you're of the opinion that people
leaving California's bad. I don't know if Florida and Texas
are cool with all these people moving there. I don't
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think so. I mean, when I talk to my neighbors
and my excuse me, my family in Florida, they're not
overjoyed at the prospect of people moving there.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
They're just not I have a friend in Texas who
lets me know that there is a new saying in Texas,
in San Antonio where she stays, where there's a growing
sentiment that says, don't California My Texas. People in Texas
who are like, hey, hey, hey, we understand you're from California,
but that's not how we do things here in Texas.
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Don't California my Texas. That might be where people are
coming back.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Maybe California is still the nation's most populous state with
almost forty million residents thirty nine million, four hundred and
thirty two hundred and sixty three residents, give or take
five or ten. Do you think anyone living in California
is upset about losing I don't know a couple million. Look,
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if we lost five million people, I'm okay with it.
I don't want anyone to die. I'm just saying, if
five million people were to leave the state, okay, I'm
good with it. I Am not going to lose a
wink of sleep, and I would welcome it. In fact,
take a cool fifteen million with you. Let's get back
down to like twenty four million. Back when there was
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no real rush hour, we didn't have this crush of people,
or at least have the people move out to the
more rural areas of California.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
It's all about me. Mark, you were right about that.
It's all about me.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I don't understand what people mean when they say, don't
California my Texas. Do they mean don't bring us a
functional electrical grid or don't give us a booming economy.
That's one of the top ones in the world. What
are they whining about?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
They're whining about, of course, Mark, the political implications of
people with the California mentality moving to a very very
very red Texas or red Florida or red Florida.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Yeah, okay, I think we got it pretty good here.
You could do a lot worse than to live like
people live in California. There's an old saying, Mark, the
grass ain't greener. In fact, I saw something over the weekend.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders had put something out about what a
terrific place Arkansas was, and she just got absolutely owned
by everybody presenting her with facts about how low Arkansas
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was for education and whatnot, and how I say California
was for or rather how low California was for say
a number of fatal shootings compared to the other states.
I think we're in the upper fortieth percentile for low shootings.
You can dump on California just because on principle you
don't like the attitudes of people here or the perceived
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politics up here. But California is a powerhouse state. I
don't get it.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I like California and it has nothing to do with
the politics of Sacramento or it being run by democrats.
I like it because it's my home and my feelings
about home are not going to change relative to whoever's
in the governor's office. I was here for Reagan, I
was here for Pete Wilson and Governor Brown and Arnold Schwarzenega.
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It doesn't matter. That doesn't mean anything to me. Home
is home. I love California and that includes all of
its wards. Do we have issues and problems, Absolutely absolutely,
But I wouldn't trade it for Texas.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
No states perfect, but California is one of those states
that pays far more than it takes in federal money.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I would say.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
You look at the big picture before you start slinging
crap about California.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Some people have to find out on their own.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Sometimes people have to leave and realize that, oh the
grass is not greener, Oh there are no hurricanes here.
Oh there's no failure of electrical grid here. To your point, market,
They're gonna have to find out on their own. I'm
not leaving. I want to be right here until I retire,
and then I'll retire. I don't know. After winning the
lottery tomorrow or something, we'll see. I may end up
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in Majorca, Spain or something like that.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
You're gonna buy us a nice bit the duplex mansion
for both of us.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Oh yeah, I would, but I would charge you Hella rent.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Though that's not very nice look at the time.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
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heart radio.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
A Christmasty.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
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Speaker 4 (38:16):
T h D two Los Angeles, Orange County lives everywhere
on the radio.
Caf I I'm o Kelly, we're getting down to the inn.
Have you finished all of your shopping or or are
you in the midst of it right now? Are you
dealing with that hellscape right now? Are you caught on
the four h five, the one oh five, the one ten,
the ten, the two ten, the two, the two eighteen,
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the one oh one, the one thirty four, the one seventy,
the fifty five, the fifty seven. Are you caught on
one of those freeways like Toawala? Sharp was for a
good hour tonight as he was just trying to get
to work. And if you are on the road right now,
hopefully you are going home. Hopefully you're not trying to
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go to some big box retailer. I hope not, because
it's really really bad out there, and it's gonna get
worse between now and December twenty fifth. And I was
under the impression, I was under the distinct impression that
our weather was going to be fantastic for Christmas. But
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then Mark Ronerd just had to mess it up for everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What is this? What is this? I'm hearing about rain
tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
It's like Annie, it's not even a possibility it's likely
likely how much well, how I think we're up to
in the seventy percent range tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Mow, well, but like an inch to two inches, five inches,
twelve inches.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I can't give you inches, mo. I'm not prepared to
just discuss inches this evening, but.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I'm telling you we're off well. Stop setting me up
like that, all right, stop walking into it. I don't
need to be teed up to talk about it. That Mark, Well,
you've destroyed the evening already, Okay, I try.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
No, it's we're gonna get rained tomorrow, but it should
be sunny and clear for Christmas Day?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Is that enough? Good enough? Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
If I'm going to pay all this money to live
in California, I at least want to have a sunny Christmas.
And speaking of California, how it's supposedly so bad out here.
Before we get to the end of this hour, we'll
tell you how everybody at least numerically has moved back
to California for all the stories that we've heard about
the decreasing population, how people are just running to get
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out of the state, going to Texas, going to Florida,
going to Arizona, going to all these other places which
supposedly just have a better quality of life. Well, the
numbers are moving back in the other direction. And I've
always said I'll get to it later, but i want
to say this now. I have always said, if you
want to go, go, if you want to leave, leave,
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I'd be more than happy to have a little less
traffic on those many freeways that I listed just a
few minutes ago. I'll be more than happy to not
have to elbow anyone when I'm doing my shopping. And yes,
I'm not done with my shopping. There's one or two more. Look,
anyone who's married or has ever been married knows this.
Or you get to call, you get the tax. It's like, honey,
(03:31):
if you're not busy, or if you have time, can
you please pick up dot dot dot. And it doesn't
matter if it's grocery store or department store. That just
ruin the rest of your afternoon, whatever you plan to do,
because no one is trying to go to a store.
If and when you don't have to, Tomorrow is grocery
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store day. That's the day you want to stay away
from grocery stores. Because anyone who's cooking or preparing any
type of feast. They're gonna get there my last minute
items or whatever they need from the grocery store. Any
grocery store tomorrow, and a lot of them will be
staying open relatively late. Retailers, I think they close around
like six o'clock, but grocery stores might be open, depending
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on the grocer. It's late as eleven o'clock if I'm
not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I usually go to.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Ralphs and they close around one most nights. And I
am convinced that the hookers at my local Ralphs are
going to be super aggressive tonight when I go after work.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
When are they not super aggressive?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, usually they're fairly well behaved, except if one tries
to shop lift something right in front of me while
I'm in line or something. But I just have a
feeling there might be some violence tonight. Wait us towards you, No,
I try to stay out of the way. I don't
want to be in the middle of some hooker altercation.
But you know, they've got a security guard there who
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is a pretty no nonsense cat.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
He doesn't put up with much.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
How old seventy ninety, it's hard to say, kind of
a hard sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Maybe the routes by me.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Sorry rause slash Kroger, but you know you're the closest
grocery store to me. They have this sign out front
which says we close early for your safety.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well I believe that. Yeah, it's like thanks, I can
attest to that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, So if you can avoid a grocery store tomorrow.
I can't speak for the hookers, but if you could
avoid a grocery store tomorrow, please do. If you can
avoid having to go into one of these big box
retailers or a mall. I made the mistake of trying
to go to Dilomo Mall over the weekend. It was
a very bad decision. What's that even like these days,
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it's a completely different experience from what you or me
or Tualla are used to. Let's just say ten years ago.
Now it was packed, but it's the Christmas season. But
I think the way that people shop and because of
the smashing grabs completely different. Like I was just walking by,
walking by K Jewelers and Pandor if you if you
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know how the mall is laid out there directly opposite
each other. Pandora, they have this measured line where they
only let in like maybe ten people in the store
at a time, and they have this like front desk
where you almost like have.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
To sign in.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I'm not being I'm not exaggerating, because they want to
know who's going in the store. In cases some foolishness
should have rupt in. That line was out the store
and down the corridor. It was ridiculous. They had at
least thirty five people and this was Saturday afternoon, thirty
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five people outside the store waiting to get in. Pandora
Jewelers don't give jewelry for Christmas. That's too much.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
No, not for everybody.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh no, there are some people in my family who
are very high maintenance. Let me tell you one is
listening right now. I don't want to get any trouble
at least one. There might be more. And they've made
it clear that's what they want. So I'll give them
a gift card from one or two of those places
and then they go buy whatever they want. And my family,
we're real big gift cards and cash. Here, just go
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get whatever you want. I don't want to have you
go through the trouble of returning something or fake liking something.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Just here, here's the cash.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Go get your hooker. Like Matt Gates. Okay, what just
just go just go buy what you want for Christmas
and hopefully they're of age. Hopefully, Yeah, go for an
adult please, yeah, please please do that. You know, if
you're gonna go down that road, make sure you least
ask for ID.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
They're all over the age in your neighborhood, correct, Mark,
I just want to make sure. Hey, I'm out of circulation.
Leave me out of that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh, out of circulation. That's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I am not the Matt Gate. I promise.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
If so we asked you ten years ago, you might
have known.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Let's just keep moving. Please, Okay, that's what she said.
If you're not gonna buy keep moving, I think I'd
probably check Id's. In any case, it's gonna be one
of those shows tonight with nothing serious too. It's later
with bo Kelly can if I am six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. But we did want
to tell you because we are big fans of proponents
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of seeing the Rose Parade in person. Who're going to
tell you how you can get there. There's some public
transit options that and I would say this on like
Christmas or New Year's Day. Those are the days in
which I think you should go ahead and you know,
risk your life and go on public transit, because those
are the days you'll have the most law enforcement available.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty and.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Over the years, I've told you my experience of going
to the Rose Parade to see it in person. I'm
sure everyone listening right now, like you and your car
on one of those horrible freeways. You've seen it on TV.
We've all seen it on TV. I'm saying you need
to see it in person. If you don't have any
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plans for let's say New Year's Eve slash New Year's Day,
can turn it into an all night affair and stay
into the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I say you should do it at least once. Do
it at least once.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And let's say you're not going to spend the night
out there and you don't want to have any parts
of that. You can get up early and get to
the parade route. And if you're willing to take public transportation,
like for example, the La Metro A line offers multiple
stops along the parade route, and that gives you the
chance to not only ring in the New Year. If
you want to come out for New Year's Eve, but
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you can also get there New Year's Day and not
have to fight with all the crowds. There's a way
that you can do this. When I say fight with
all the crowds, you're not going to find a place
to park.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I'm just letting you know that. In bet To Wala
can tell you better than me.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You are not going to find a place to park
New Year's Day.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Forget about it. That you won't even get off the
free and get close well truly, no, you'll be stuck
on A one ten or the two or wherever four.
You will get anywhere close to it. And parade attendees
can board the A line anywhere from Long Bea Each
to pass Adena. Okay, you've got six stops in the
city of Pasadena. Both the del Mar and Memorial Park
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stations are directly adjacent to the parade route. Make it
easy on yourself. And maybe you didn't have any specific
plans for New Year's Day other than to watch the parade,
consider seeing it in person. And you can take metro
trains or buses to La Union station and then hop
on on the A line for an easy transit experience.
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And I think all these are all the lines are
free for Metro on New Year's Day. And if you're
further out, let's say you're out and I don't know
Rancho Cucamonga or something, because we have some employees who
worked out there, lived out there. Metro LAK is always
an optional option. And the Regional Passenger Rail System is
adding early morning trains on ins Ventura County, Orange County
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and ninety one slash Paris Valley lines, and this adjusting
service on the Antelope Valley and Bernardino lines. Those adjusted
schedules will allow trains to arrive at Union Station between
seven and seven thirty am.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Again, you're gonna have to get up early, but there
is an option even though you may not be close.
I don't want you to drive all the way from
Orange County thinking that you're gonna get a place to
park your car, even if you get within two or
three miles of the parade route.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You don't want to have to walk.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That both ways trying to get to the parade route
and get back from the parade route to your car.
It's better to just use good sense and get on
public transportation. I don't know now see it, probably someone
is thinking about rideshare. I don't know how close a
vehicle can get to the actual parade route, so don't
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I don't know what the recommendation.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Is on any given side of Colorado Street. Are the
blocks adjacent to Colorado on both sides are blocked off?
You can't really get to those with the vehicle further up.
I would say maybe maybe if you get closer to Mountain.
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I'm trying to think of what the first street is
above Colorado where you may be able to park and
walk down. But I promise you this, there isn't going
to be a lot open. Most of these lots have
been selling passes, and I've seen I've driven around just
kind of just because I like to go and see
the floats being put up and things like that. And
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a lot of the lots that are even close have
already been selling passes for parking. If you have a
friend who's got a yard that you could park in,
god bless you, but that's probably gonna be taken up
and hard to get to. It is a nightmare. Anytime
my family has gone down, we have gone down, it
has been like you get there before the light comes up.
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You're getting there like five thorough dark, so that you
can get even too. Because last year the family went,
and they went and they parked maybe around five thirty
so that they could get to their seats by like
six fifteen to walk up and get to their seats.
It was it was a treck, but it was worth
it to get there that early. Now, the nightmare of
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getting back to the car, that's where it really set in.
Especially ride share.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You know, it's one thing to get right here to
what might get you semi close, but then to hail
a ride share leaving I don't know if that's even
an option.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
And then plus you have the game, so there's a lot.
Ride share is going to be jam packed. It's going
to be hard to do it, period. And I know
because I've driven previously when I was doing Uber. I
did drive one New Year's Eve, and there's something I
would never do again because it's impossible. Even the directions
to try to probably get somebody, it's hard to do.
So no, I'm telling you take it. Take most advice.
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Take the train.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You make a great point, because I'd forgotten. Yeah, there
is still the Rose Bowl, which is gonna be going on,
and you'll be dealing with the traffic of people coming
to the Rose Bowl as well as the traffic leady
leaving the Rose Parade. So the easiest way to do it,
and we want you to do it because we want
you to experience it is public transportation. Yes, I've been
(14:11):
railing against no pun intended against Meshell, but these are
the days you will see accession, I will say excessive
law enforcement presence.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
They will be everywhere.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Absolutely one thing that Pasadena Police has promised for not
just the parade, but for the game and for Metro
along the train stops and everything they have promised and
enhance police presidence. There will be no Shenanis. This is
the first parade really and fully truly back after the pandemic.
(14:42):
You know there's a trial run, but this is it.
This is like we're back, baby, and we've got a
lot riding on this. We're not going to mess this up.
Can promise you this, and just the number of crowds
of people on the train. It's not like normal muggy stabbing,
rape and killing, pillaging metro rides.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And it's a good time if you're going to go
somewhere on Metro. If you're going to go at let's
say five point thirty six in the morning, that that's
the time to go. Especially most of the idiots have
been out all night partying hopefully, and they're still hungover
and not going to do anything. But this is the
time to ride Metro. And one day we got i
should say one year, we got to get Mark Roner
(15:22):
out there so you can see the parade in person.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I actually have a pro tip for people watch the
parade on television.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
How are you trying to undermine everything we're doing.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yeah, that's not what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
You don't have to drive, you don't have to park,
you don't have to worry about getting shot or stabbed
or having to wear one of those pit diapers all
day because there's no place to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
With the parade watch it on down. That's a real hater. No, no, no,
I'm trying to help you.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We weren't saying yes, everyone has seen it before. I'm
saying it's like a trip where you have to do
at least once in your life. You got to go
see the Rose Parade at least once in person.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I've done it.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I'm not going to do it again anytime soon, but
I can say that I've done it. It was a
wonderful experience, and I'm glad to say that I have
that experience as part of my memories.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
And I'm glad for you. No, market, you're not in person,
No you do. You have to see in person. Yeah, Look,
it's one thing we can.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
When you're on TV and you see one or two floats,
one or two bands, but to be on the route
and see a string of nine or ten floats at
a time, and you can get the best pictures you
could ever imagine, as opposed to just looking at it
on TV and feeling the energy of the crowd and
(16:36):
the moment.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It's a good way to kick off your year. Yeah,
and you only have to leave when it's still dark outside.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, sounds perfect, Hey, Scrooge, Christmas will have been over
for like six seven days at that point.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Maybe if we're able to get an RV and park
it on the side of the road and watch it
from that. But I just I don't see what's wrong
with TV natural God given TV.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The RV planning mark. The RV takes a lot of
plan to be able to rent the RV, rent a
space and have it so that your RV is facing
the street. It does. There are people who plan out
next year's attendance. Now, now, there are a few hotels
that are on the route that if we book far
enough advanced, we could get.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
A room and pay enough.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
You got to pay a lot where where your room
is facing Colorado.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
A lot of people do that.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh yeah, there's got to be someplace with, say a
bar with a balcony on it.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Now we're talking, right, but that.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Still presumes planning and if something would be worth it
if you plan ahead.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I'm still getting the idea that the two of you
like to do everything the hard way.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I'm pretty easy way.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Now we're telling you there are ways to do this.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
None of them involves staying at home in my underwear
with a drink.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You can do that if you want to have a
drink at seven in the morning, self out.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'm just saying that's the holidays, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But hopefully there are people who listening who are not
as jaded as you. Jaded, yes, and are willing to
put in a little effort and a little bit of planning,
even at this late date, seeming late day, for a
once in a lifetime experience. I would encourage it for anyone,
especially if you have children who are old enough to
(18:24):
appreciate the floats. To see them up close, it's one
thing to watch. And to your point, Mark Ronner, you
can't really appreciate the complexity of the floats on TV.
I don't care if your TV's four K. You to
see the flowers in the ornate arrangements. When I was
in four h we would as an annual occurrence, we
would go down and help put flowers.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
On the floats. I believe that about you.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It's almost sincere, not quite, but almost sincere.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
No, No, you seem like that kind of guy to me,
it's really disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yes, miss, he is Scrooge.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I tell you, Christmas spirit, I am gushing with the
milk of human kindness and the holiday spirit and all
that stuff. I just maybe someday we'll have like a
KFI guy trip down there, you me, Tuala Foush, and
and we'll leave what we got to wake up at
like three in the morning. What do we gotta do?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
No, you just won't go to sleep because that's the
time that you're up anyway, Well, we just keep compounding
the fun.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You don't go to sleep with your schedule.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You don't want to go to sleep at three in
the morning because you won't wake up for the parade.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
It starts relatively early. Okay, looking forward to this. I tried,
I tried.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty j Kelly.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's Christmas Eve Eve, It's the eve of Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's Christmas Eve's eve, Winter's Eve. Mega Millions.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The jackpot is near one billion dollars and it might
even hit a billion if people stop shopping for a
moment and go to their local liquor store. The drawing
tomorrow is for an estimated nine hundred and seventy million,
but it'll probably bumped up to a billion because why
(20:22):
it'll be Christmas Eve, and wouldn't that be the perfect
Christmas gift?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I think you should stop doing the show right now,
go down to the nearest convenience mark not seven to
eleven for your own safety, and buy me about one
hundred scratchers or you know, mega million something.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Just win me some money. You might be onto something
with this. What would you do if you won? Oh,
like I said before, I wouldn't tell you. I wouldn't
tell anyone.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You'd tell me. You'd have to tell me.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I would not change my lifestyle at all, and I
would do everything in my power not to have my
name publicly released. It's like if you're going to a bank,
you don't change your routine. You don't let anyone know
that anything has changed in your life. You're not going
to know that I've come into a billion dollars. And
I would continue working. You have to keep the rules going.
(21:15):
And then at some later date I would put in
my two weeks or you know, have him buy out
my contract, and that would be that, and I go
on and do other things, probably philanthropic in nature, probably probably, Yeah,
I don't know. Or I could go to matt Gates
route and get hookers and coke.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Who knows we got all that money. No one needs
to go to the Mattie Gates route. Okay, that's that's
a bridge too far.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
No, No, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Here's the serious point? Since I mentioned matt Gates, why
not because there aren't any consequences. It's not like he's
going to be prosecuted. The DOJ declined to pursue charges.
It doesn't mean he's innocent. A declination just means they're
not sure that they could get a conviction. And if
you're going to go after who was then a sitting
(22:03):
member of Congress, you damn sure, Betta be clear that
you can get a conviction.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I feel that. But even with your billion dollar win,
you don't need underage hookers. You can get of age hookers.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Oh well yeah, let me be clear. Yeah, I'm gonna
go on to Matt Gates route. I'm only talking about
the adult age hookers. Just kid hookers that are young
enough to be your daughter, your granddaughter. Well, see's how
I'm fifty five. Now, that's not too hard, so he'd
be like thirty five, my dad. I mean, see if
be past her hooking prime. This is a Christmas show.
(22:40):
Oh yeah, make a million. Yeah, that's what we were
talking about. The drawing Tomorrow's for an estimated nine hundred
and seventy million translates to about four hundred and forty
million in cash. And I'm very big on give me
all my money now so I can invest it, put
it in accounts a crue interest because you're not. If
I'm not mistaken, you get that nine hundred and seventy million.
(23:03):
It's not accruing interest. You just get that annuity each
year equally like nine hundred and seventy million. If I'm
not mistaken, I want the money now so I can
start having accruing interest, even though it's only quote unquote
only four hundred and forty million. I want that money now.
I could put it in a savings account, not that
I would financial experts. I'm just saying hypothetically, I know
(23:23):
it's a low yield other ways to invest. I could
hear the judgmental financial planners out there. Why would you
put it in a savings account? I'm saying I could
put it in a money market account. I could put it,
I don't know, IRA or something, a wroth account, and
it would still accrue interest and I would not have
to ever touch the principle. That's the point. That's what
I would do, Mark Ronner, Since you're all in my business.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I really am a fan of the Jeff Bezos plan
of spending an enormous amount of money on yourself for
something unnecessary while you walk over homeless people on the
way to and from the office.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And then you have someone like his ex wife, Mackenzie Scott,
who donates billions of dollars left and right. It's like,
how in the hell did you two ever fall in love?
You seem like you have nothing in common.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
She seems like one righteous chick. And I say that
because there was some story that I think it was
Elon Musk who had criticized her for donating so much
to a charity, and in response, she doubled the amount
she donated.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Yeah. Yeah, she's really really dope. What she's done for
small business, for minority business, for women in business, for
business periods. Yeah, the investments that she has put into
America writ large are astounding. But what would you do
if you won Mark? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I would First of all, you only need so much
for one lifetime. You get by well, okay, in California.
You know it'll take you a million dollars to put
a down payment on a house. But let's say you
need ten million dollars to satisfy every urge you could
ever have in your life on this planet.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Help people with the rest.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I am right there. I would love to have money
to just give away. I would love if I were
to here's this really serious answer. If you gave me
a billion dollars today, with that four hundred and forty
million in cash, I would be giving away money to
universities and schools, building parks and playgrounds every single day
(25:25):
of the rest of my life. Would and you, and
please don't name them after me. I'm just saying, well,
I know for a fact that you would. You would
want buildings named after you. No, don't even pretend one.
Only one at my alma mater. That's that's the only
one I would want. But anything else I would be
giving away left and right.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
If I had a billion dollars, Look, I don't I'm not.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Ever gonna want to even live in a twenty five
million dollar house. And we know the guy who won,
like the two billion mega millions of Superlatto, Edwin Whober's
name was, who's been, you know, going crazy with the money.
I would never do that, never, and I know I would.
I mean because I don't need that type of headache.
I don't want that type of gluttony.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We people go nuts when they have that much. And
if since we're being serious, if you look at what
Bezos and Patrick soon Shan have done it literally destroying
the papers they bought. I would do something to get
some publicly funded form of journalism that I started and
created a trust for that with with my money.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, and I look at someone like Elon Musk, I
wish I knew who had his ear.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
He's worth like four hundred and seventy seven billion right now.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
He could get even more of what he wants to
do in his personal self aggrandizement if he had someone
who was in his ear and say here, just do
this over here, do that over there, you know, drop
ten million here to the blind sisters of Mery Way
or whatever. Had that be a part of your legacy
(26:58):
as opposed to just Space, star Link and Tesla, not
always trying to accrue more money, but showing that you
are changing the world in a way that only you
can because of the financial tools which are available to you.
And you would see almost instantaneously whether you would believe
it was sincere or not. The overriding perception of him
(27:23):
would change for more positive and less political if he
wasn't only known for that with what he's doing with
his money.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
That is some science fiction, right, not right there? Based
on what we know about Musk what just doesn't have
that in him? No he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But I'm saying I wish I knew who had his ear,
because you can do both, You really can do both.
When you have four hundred and seven he have a billion.
Well that's what I'm saying. He could donate a billion
a year to various causes, and he would be looked
at like the Pied Piper the Second Coming. And I
don't mean to Blackspeed, but I'm just saying he would
(27:59):
be looked in that way as someone who's trans transformative
as opposed to transactional.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
He would prefer to absolutely just torch throw away billions
and billions of dollars in a stupid attempt to go
to Mars, than say, help homeless people.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But I can at least make the argument that science
and space exploration has given a lot back to society.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I'm not going to dismiss that.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
But but.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Spending forty four billion on Twitter, I just can't understand.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Well, he spent more on Twitter than he spent on
the election. But my point is, if you think it's
a better use of money to spend so much as
one dollar to send people to live on Mars as
opposed to saving the earth. You're insane and there's no
talking to you.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
The only problem with what you're saying is I think
it's a false choice.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I think when you have half a trillion dollars what
we're really talking about, you can actually do both.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
But you're still just torturing the money for Mars. It'll
never be livable. But ever that may be.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
But my point is it's not an either or proposition.
He can do both. He can have transformational impact on
an issue like hunger.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
And what does it say about him that right now
he has that ability and he'd rather screw with the
election in Germany.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Well, look that all these megalomaniac billionaires, for the most part,
they're all kind of wired the same way. Now we
get to see more of Elon Musk's personality because he
puts himself out there, because he has his own social
media network. I don't think that Mark Zuckerberg is all
(29:44):
that different. I don't think Jeff Bezos is all that different. No,
I don't think I can say Bill Gates is a
little bit different. And he's a perfect example because his philanthropy,
you really can't argue he has done far more with
what he's had over the time that he's had it
than these other billionaires. And I'm not saying that they
need to solve all the world's problems, and I'm not
saying that they need to donate all their money. I'm
(30:06):
saying they could donate so money that they would never
even touch it from just the interest alone that they
make on the money's just sitting there.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Imagine having billions of times more money than you could
ever possibly need in one lifetime and not using a
significant portion of that to.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Make the world better. And I just can't relate to
that at all, not even your lifetime.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I'm talking about the musk generational wealth could be ten
generations right now if he stopped right now, right now,
So it's not even just about one person. Yeah, I
think this is an appropriate conversation to have two days
before Christmas exactly. You know, if we're going to talk
about Christmas and not talk about what's staring us in
the face.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
And I think we have made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
But you know, give the money to me, I will
make the world a better place. Call me Santa Mo.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, you'll just skim a little off the top and
the rest will go to good c Well, at least
the good causes will be acknowledged.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And for all the complaints about CEE, California sucks, everyone's leaving.
It can't be a good state of everyone's leaving. First,
I don't agree with that. I don't believe that. In fact,
I welcome that if we could get people like Mark
Ronner out of the state, the fewer, the merrier. I
am just fine with not dealing with as many people
(31:32):
on the freeways in the stores as I'm shopping. I
don't have to worry about getting angry and being frustrated
and pushed to road rage.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I like fewer people just as a general rule.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
So each and every story that I saw that people
were leaving California, it's like, yes, yes, go think of
it this way. Think wherever you live. I don't care
if you live in an apartment, I don't care if
you live in a house. You can live in a
small neighborhood, live in an urban area, live in a suburb.
If I told you that more people were moving where
(32:08):
you live right now, what would you say, Yeah, you
probably wouldn't like it. And if I told you that
people are moving out of your neighborhood or moving out
of your enclave, your development, or your suburbs subdivision, what
would you say. You probably say, thank you very much.
(32:28):
You would welcome it with open arms. Well, California is
growing again and we're almost back to where we were
pre pandemic. In fact, California's population grew by almost a
quarter of a million residents this year. And this is
according to the US Census Bureau. And I'm not happy
about it.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
It's more evidence of what I was saying. You know,
California can't be all that horrible. People are now rushing
back to get here. Maybe they did leave and they realize, okay,
so bad. California's population gain of two hundred and thirty
two thousand, five hundred and seventy people from July first,
twenty twenty three to July first, twenty twenty four represents
(33:12):
the largest numeric population increase in the nation's West, though
behind Texas, which expanded its population by five hundred and
sixty three thousand. People go ahead, run to Texas. They
have great electricity there. So I'm told, oh, you can
go to Florida, which grew by four hundred and sixty
(33:32):
seven thousand people.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
They have great hurricanes there.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I'm told California's zero point six percent population increase fell
short of the national average and was significantly outpaced by DC, Florida,
and Texas. But hey, you're of the opinion that people
leaving California's bad. I don't know if Florida and Texas
are cool with all these people moving there. I don't
(33:58):
think so. I mean, when I talk to my neighbors
and my excuse me, my family in Florida, they're not
overjoyed at the prospect of people moving there.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
They're just not I have a friend in Texas who
lets me know that there is a new saying in Texas,
in San Antonio where she stays, where there's a growing
sentiment that says, don't California My Texas. People in Texas
who are like, hey, hey, hey, we understand you're from California,
but that's not how we do things here in Texas.
(34:28):
Don't California my Texas. That might be where people are
coming back.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Maybe California is still the nation's most populous state with
almost forty million residents thirty nine million, four hundred and
thirty two hundred and sixty three residents, give or take
five or ten. Do you think anyone living in California
is upset about losing I don't know a couple million. Look,
(34:54):
if we lost five million people, I'm okay with it.
I don't want anyone to die. I'm just saying, if
five million people were to leave the state, okay, I'm
good with it. I Am not going to lose a
wink of sleep, and I would welcome it. In fact,
take a cool fifteen million with you. Let's get back
down to like twenty four million. Back when there was
(35:16):
no real rush hour, we didn't have this crush of people,
or at least have the people move out to the
more rural areas of California.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
It's all about me. Mark, you were right about that.
It's all about me.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I don't understand what people mean when they say, don't
California my Texas. Do they mean don't bring us a
functional electrical grid or don't give us a booming economy.
That's one of the top ones in the world. What
are they whining about?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
They're whining about, of course, Mark, the political implications of
people with the California mentality moving to a very very
very red Texas or red Florida or red Florida.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Yeah, okay, I think we got it pretty good here.
You could do a lot worse than to live like
people live in California. There's an old saying, Mark, the
grass ain't greener. In fact, I saw something over the weekend.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders had put something out about what a
terrific place Arkansas was, and she just got absolutely owned
by everybody presenting her with facts about how low Arkansas
(36:18):
was for education and whatnot, and how I say California
was for or rather how low California was for say
a number of fatal shootings compared to the other states.
I think we're in the upper fortieth percentile for low shootings.
You can dump on California just because on principle you
don't like the attitudes of people here or the perceived
(36:40):
politics up here. But California is a powerhouse state. I
don't get it.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I like California and it has nothing to do with
the politics of Sacramento or it being run by democrats.
I like it because it's my home and my feelings
about home are not going to change relative to whoever's
in the governor's office. I was here for Reagan, I
was here for Pete Wilson and Governor Brown and Arnold Schwarzenega.
(37:05):
It doesn't matter. That doesn't mean anything to me. Home
is home. I love California and that includes all of
its wards. Do we have issues and problems, Absolutely absolutely,
But I wouldn't trade it for Texas.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
No states perfect, but California is one of those states
that pays far more than it takes in federal money.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I would say.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
You look at the big picture before you start slinging
crap about California.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Some people have to find out on their own.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Sometimes people have to leave and realize that, oh the
grass is not greener, Oh there are no hurricanes here.
Oh there's no failure of electrical grid here. To your point, market,
They're gonna have to find out on their own. I'm
not leaving. I want to be right here until I retire,
and then I'll retire. I don't know. After winning the
lottery tomorrow or something, we'll see. I may end up
(37:56):
in Majorca, Spain or something like that.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
You're gonna buy us a nice bit the duplex mansion
for both of us.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Oh yeah, I would, but I would charge you Hella rent.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Though that's not very nice look at the time.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
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heart radio.
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