April 29, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at Santa Monica residents’ issue with Waymo AND the Los Angeles Union Workers plan to go on a limited strike…PLUS – Thoughts on the rollout of LA Metro’s new weapon screening technology in Norwalk with KFI Reporter Michael Monks - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
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Speaker 2 (01:14):
But here is where I wanted to start the show
this evening. Damn it don't go.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Too far to Walla because I have a bone to
pick with you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Mister monkellty. He won so so this says atuonomous BiH
goos might be on the ball. Moca Tula comes home.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Cleanse your tone, under control, he says. Mo Kelly is wrong.
More thinks he's under payroll.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What do you have a safe yourself? What's happening in
Santa Monica.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Maybe you've seen a WAMO driverless taxi on the road,
makes it even ridden in one, But some neighbors that
live next to this charging station say that a noise
they make is a nuisance. WAMO driverless taxis are now
a part of life in so Cow.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Honestly, it's pretty cool, awesome, like it's a driverless car.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
But some neighbors next to the Waimo charging station at
Euclid and Broadway in Santa Monica say there is a downside.
They can't just gap. That's like, it's the backup noise
the baby every time I wave over.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well, yeah, it's one of the most annoying noises.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Dozens of people have signed a Change organ petition that reads,
in part, the new Waymo station has turned our one
day neighborhood noise pollution an incessant disturbance that hinders both
our tranquility during the day and peace during the night.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
It's irritating.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's irrit irritating.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
How about that irritating?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Hear that voice, it's irritating, irritating.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
You know, this neighborhood has a lot of noise, and
to add one more level to it as well.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Whoa, whoa, whoa. The neighborhood is already noisy. So she's like,
just just one more noise. That's like saying the neighborhood
is crime, so we can I don't want to hear
about it. I don't want hear about because she's literally
just like singling way mind when.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's already irritating noisy. Wow.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
You know what's interesting is right now, way Moo is
literally significantly outperforming all forms of transportation subject it be
it taxi or they are performing eighty five percent higher
than the low fifty seven percent for uh uber left
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or even taxis.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
If you can find one so irritating, they're irritating.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Well, taking way Moore right now, I don't even know
what this lady's complained about. There's a little noise in
our backyard, okay.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Irritating, Okay, what noise? And to add one more level
to it is not fair, I think to this neighborhood
and so I know some people have been kept up
at night and then open up in the middle of
the night.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
The client is kept up at night, and after he protested,
Waymo took legal action.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
My client engaged in justifiable protest and attempted to.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Obtain what's the justifiable protest? It's first Amendment. How are
we to know?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
How are we to know that this individual wasn't justified,
was literally just shy of legal you know, just because
they want to call it.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Charged with a crime.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
My client engaged in justifiable protests, and Waimo attempted to
obtain a restraining order against.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Him, obviously because this nut bag was out there, probably
trying to jump on Waymo's naked. We have no idea
what this individual was doing. You really want to play
that card, you want to play what you want to No, no, no, no,
This isn't a victim. This is someone who went out
and lawlessly went after Weymo.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And that's why this individual now has charges. I hope
they enjoy those charges. Not charges. It was a restraining
order which they were which was denied.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Out the car but not living near the station.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
But it's cool, but it is annoying that it's right there, annoying.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
For these roommates when we live right there the WAYMO backup.
Noise is a consistent part of working from home.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I have to deal with this noise every time I'm
like on a call with someone.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Neighbors in the city that we operate and are committed
to being a positive president on our and ongoing conversation
with the city's Department of Transportation and actively working to
explore and implement mitigations that address neighbors concerns.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They're menacin. And you know what's interesting is I was
driving through.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
I went to go pick my son up, who was
out visiting a friend doing this band thing out near
La X And I took the streets on the way
back for the most part, and from lax all the
way back through I'd say maybe maybe Jefferson and everywhere
they're they're everywhere. And you know what, it's amazing how
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well they drive, how seamlessly they switch lanes, being kind
and courteous. For there was livingly someone who was going
through a crosswalk the way more stop, you know who
didn't stop the car that went around the weymore to
go on through the crosswalk as if the WAYMO was
in the wrong for stopping someone crossing the street.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
This is what I win. You know, it's lawlessness, worse
than homeless people. And you know what I want to
do is I mean, that's what I want. I want
to give them free ventanyl. Do you do you let
me just add one thing here.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Do you remember the old Saturday Night Live routine where
dan Aykroyd played the guy from the dangerous toy company
Irwin main Way.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
This this is Twala right here. A hold on, I'm
not a sister. I mean, you know we'll make it.
Teddy Bear, I got one right here.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You know it's right air.
Speaker 9 (07:40):
It's got a nice little feature here and see and
take a shot of it.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Hold it up here and I recall it.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
Teddy Chan saw Bear, Teddy Chainsaw chan saw Bear, tall Chainsaw.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
He'll defend anything, Sauce.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
I am literally defending an innocent company that is trying
to expand and make California better.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And I mean that's what I want. I want to
give them free fentanyl.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
You defend everything. I do, not defend everything. I'm not
defending the use of fittanyl for the home. Listen, you
might as well. You are the Irwin main Way of KFI.
You people are on the wrong side.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
People, you're on the out side of progress.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
It's Later with mo Kelly k IF I Am six
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Speaker 2 (08:32):
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Speaker 1 (08:32):
We will be giving away two pairs of Renaissance Fair
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Speaker 9 (08:43):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (08:53):
K if I Am six forty. It's Later with mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. No, I'm
a right, Yeah, we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
and YouTube. Still want to let you know we're going
to be giving away tickets to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair.
Probably no, I think we'll do it at the end
of this hour and maybe later in the show. But
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we're gonna be giving away tickets to the Renaissance Pleasure
Fare and the tickets will be good all the way
through May eleventh. Now, let's talk about these thousands of
union workers which actually have gone on strike starting today.
It's a limited strike. You may wonder Is it going
to impact me? Is it going to impact my family?
It's going to impact my kids? Well maybe if you
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were like me when I was out of work. This
was many, many years ago. Before I came to KFI,
I spent most of my days in libraries. LA County
Public libraries. Why because they had free Wi Fi Internet access.
There are a lot of things that you can do
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at a library that people don't really know about. Let's
say you to get your resume printed out. Let's say
you needed a workspace. Libraries are perfect for that. But
they will be impacted by this strike, this limited union
worker strike, which is going on now through Wednesday.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
We're live out here outside of the Carson Library. This
is one of literally hundreds of places run by La
County that could be impacted by this. So the strike
starts at seven o'clock tonight, goes.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All In other words, it's already started, just now underway.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
So the strike starts at seven o'clock tonight, goes all
the way until six fifty nine on Wednesday night. LA
County says it does anticipate its libraries to operate with
reduced resources, and at some locations it's possible the library
will be closed altogether. That means many families and community
members who use them for Wi Fi and to get
essential social services may not get that help until after
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the strike ends.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I wonder how effective any limited strike could be, especially
when it's closed ended. It starts Monday night, maybe ends
Wednesday night. I don't know how much leverage you can exert.
I know you don't want to disrupt too many things,
and I get that you don't want the public libraries
closed indefinitely. But I do wonder whether you're making your
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strike more ineffective by saying in advance, and we have
talked about this with the school strikes, whether your strike
would be more ineffective by saying, hey, we're only striking
until two days from now.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
Beach and harbor's in La County will be impacted to
and that does include Malibu, where wildfire debris cleanup on
beaches may be paused during the strike. LA County says
beach restrooms may be closed, and maintenance on county beaches
and in Marina del Rey may be stopped too. Now
on your screen are more county services that could be
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shut down Tuesday and Wednesday altogether.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Now this is the real important part, and this probably
impacts more Angelinos than any other location or service.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
Or run on a reduced schedule with less staff. That
includes a lot of different things, from non urgent health
clinics to school based wellness centers at forty seven Middle
in High school's substance use health centers and the Auditor
Controller's office and public works things like issues with trash
or encampments will be delayed as well. Of course, this
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isn't the first time the SCIU union members have walked
off the job and what they call an unfair labor
practice strike in La County. The county does say it's
going to try it's best to maintain essential services, but
so many who live and work here will feel the
ripple effects of this strike over at the next few
days and looking ahead to tomorrow morning, we're told that
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thousands of those workers will march through downtown LA to
make their voices heard.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Okay, make your voices heard? What is what is it
I'm going to say about that? Make your voices heard?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Did you notice through that whole news piece there was
not any information on what SCIU specifically was asking for.
Did you notice that the reason I played the whole
clip to highlight that we'll find out some of the
things which you're going to be closed, which you're going
to be reduced staff, how it may be impacting you.
But there was nothing in it specifically about SCIU. They
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said unfair labor practices.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What does that mean.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I always highlight this because I try to show you
the wrong way and the really wrong way to go
about protesting. They're protesting tomorrow, and I'm not sure you
or me, neither of us knows exactly what SCIU is
asking for, demanding what's needed to be improved. Anything that
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already tells you that the strike is not off to
a good start. You should have someone out front who
was saying or sending out some sort of boilerplate message
to all media, we're going out on strike. This is
what you need to highlight in your news reports. We
want this, we want that, we want the other and
if you don't do it, don't do that, which goes
back to the idea of a whole limited strike. You
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are wasting valuable time saying that you're going to strike
on Monday and Tuesday or Tuesday and Wednesday, and not
hammer everybody with what you want. I'm sitting here on KFI,
the number one news talk station in America, the most
stream station on iHeartRadio. And I have no freaking idea
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in any specificity what SCIU is asking for. And that's
not my fault. That's the fault of the protest planners,
because you have to get the easy ones right. If
you want your protests to actually make a difference, then
you have to actually make sure the news media, the
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general public knows what you're asking for. And why why
is it that this is so actually unfair? Why is
it that you want the greater Los Angeles area to
listen to you, to hear your grievances. Oh, I forgot twalla,
I can't hear their grievances because no one's talking about
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their grievances.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
They should They should have made that okay For.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Those who don't know, and Mark you know about this
the Associated Press, you'll see the same story in about
seven or eight different outlets because they're taking the story
from a wire service, so look almost exactly the same.
Even say probably have like the Associated Press contributed to
this article. As you send out your information about the
protests to the Associated Press or local media, you make
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sure it's included in there. So every single story, be
it in print, on radio, because we're getting a lot
of information from print news media sources, be it city
News service or associated press, whatever, all that information is there.
So when we talk about the story, wait for it,
it's included in everything we do. But I just gave
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you a two minute news story and there was not
a damn thing about what SCIU was waiting for. What
are they ask for?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What is it they need to change? What needs to
be improved?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I desperately want to tell you, but I can't because
it's not there. I know when they're striking, I know
it's going to begin and when it's going to end,
but I can't tell you in between.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Oh, they said they're actually going to be out there
on the picket lines tomorrow morning asking for what.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I would really like to know.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But why is it incumbent upon me to go research
all this information and dig when you want me to
talk about what's wrong in all of these jobs?
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, I can assume it has to do with pay. Yeah,
I know that, But maybe it has to do with vacation.
Maybe it has to do with some sort of benefits.
Maybe it has to do with I don't know number
of hours that you can work in a given week.
I have no idea, because no one has done just
the basic stuff to help a limited protest be successful.
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These are the simple things, because what happens is tomorrow
rulls around and still nobody knows. Nobody knows. I follow
this every single day. In fact, I was watching this
story the whole day. I was wondering, are they going
to put in here the specifics? Are they going to
put in here?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
To ask?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
If I always call it, what is it you're asking
for it's unfair labor practices? Well tell me something specifically,
because if you want the general society to be supportive
and also emotionally on your side, you have to tell
us exactly what it is. You can't show us just
walking in circles holding up a picket sign. You got
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to tell us exactly what it is. That's the whole
point of public protesting, so the general public sees what
you're fighting for, what you're asking for. Mark, do you
know what the protest is about?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
They are protesting the county failing to fairly negotiate a
new labor contract. And we've got the union and accuses
Los A and this is from the wire service that
you just mentioned. The union accuses Los Angeles County management
of refusing to bargain with union members in good faith,
and they alleged retaliation and surveillance of union members.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That's a start. Okay, Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mark,
I just got jumped real quick. I know where you're
going to go ahead.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
I still don't know what they want right like, like
I hear that. And if that's the reason that they're
going out, are you missing the dot dot dot? And
we are going to protest and go on strike to
get this that or the other corrector do we have
anything like that yet?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Uh, here's a little more.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
The union claims the county's proposal was a zero percent
increase for cost of living and alleges to the Los
Angeles County Board of Supervisors was able to spend two
hundred and five million bucks on a downtown skyscraper for
a new office space. We talked about that while maintaining
there's no money for frontline staff. Okay, we're getting a
little more information, because so it's his money we're getting it.
So it's money or do they always money, always follow
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the money?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, but do they want.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Space in the new office tower. I'm trying to figure
out what do they want? Are they like you guys
got this new off is tower. We have no office space.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
What do they want?
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Because if they want money, they should put an ask
out there so we as the public can say, hey,
that's not that.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
In other words, we want forty five dollars an hour
for this, that, and the other positions. But we're being
told by the unions there's no money because of that
downtown skyscraper. I know that they're against the Downtown skyscraper.
I remember we covered that story, but I don't know
exactly what they're asking for. And if we have to
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between the three of us, dig through all this media
and hopefully to get some semblance of what they're asking for,
then they're not protesting correctly.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
It really should be something that could fit on a
protest sign.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Make it simple.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Yes, I mean, I hate to agree with you, but
it should be something that you can make into a
slogan that's easily repeatable. Preferably the rhymes right, yeah, twenty
five dollars an hour.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Now that doesn't rhyme It doesn't rhyme, but it's just
a sign. Yeah, stop them, stop the tower. Twenty five
dollars an hour. There it is, bust the deal and
face the wheel.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
That's that's Matt Max Beyond thunder Doubs. Limericks are good too.
You could get a limerick on it sign.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I'd like that then once with a man from Nantucky,
not that one. It's lighted with Mo Kelly. Can't buy
AM six forty live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app and YouTube.
When we come back, we have a metro update and
KFI Zone Michael Munks will join us.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
With Mo Kelly onk.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
AM six Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We have
some metro updates. One very concerning one possibly promising and
joining us to help sort it out is kfi's own
Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Michael is good to talk to you. How you doing
this evening. I'm doing well, Mo.
Speaker 11 (20:56):
Always a pleasure to join you.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I have to wonder. Let's start with the I will
say the somewhat good news. LA Metro is going to
roll out concealed weapons screening in Norwalk. What do you
know from your conversations with the people at Metro because
they won't talk to me and I'll give you my
thoughts about it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Well, here's what we know.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
They started this weapons detection pilot program last year in
the wake of all of that violence, including a murder
that took place on the system.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
They started it.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
At Union Station and also at the APU Citrus station
in Azusa on the A Line. They say it's been
very successful that it has detected just about every single
weapon that it could possibly try to make its way
through any of those screening devices that they've put up there.
So the idea now is that they will expand the program.
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It has now gotten to Norwalk on the C line,
and that's where Metro officials were today to celebrate the
expansion of this program.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Now it is a slow rollout.
Speaker 11 (21:59):
They are going to add this set other key targeted
strategic high traffic stations, but we don't know when or
where yet. Right now, we basically have tried it at
Union Station in ASUSA and now in Norwalk.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Why is it that it needs to be rolled out?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I think of this as like a metal detector of
sorts you can you can find out if someone's carrying
a weapon.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Let's just kind of run with this, you know, rolling
in out one.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Station at the time seems counterintuitive when we're talking about safety.
It doesn't seem like it's overly high tech. It seems
like a you know, just a metal detector. Why do
slow rollout it?
Speaker 11 (22:36):
It is an expensive endeavor, and it's one that they
wanted to test to make sure that it works before
they put it across the system. But I know from
covering local government in Los Angeles, whether it be the
city council, the Board of Supervisors, or Metro or others,
things move really slowly here. I talk about this a
lot when I'm on shows like yours, is that there
just seems to be a lack of urgency with all
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of the problems. And goodness knows, we face a lot
of problems here, the fiscal crises at the city building
or the county building, and the safety concerns on Metro.
It just takes too long to do anything around here.
The irony, and I think you were hinting at some
bad news, is they were celebrating the expansion of this
program a day after a woman was sexually assaulted at
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knife point on a Metro bus, and.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
That is I mean, that's irony, tragic, but also irony.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
There's something this and I was hoping you could explain
it for me because this alleged sexual assault in some
published reports I'm reading happened April twelfth, but we're only
hearing about it near the end of the month. Number One,
that says to me that there's a lot probably happening
at Metro on buses, on platforms, on subway cars that
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is not being immediately reported, which that concerns me. And
also that this investigation wasn't disclosed to the public in
a timely fashion.
Speaker 11 (24:06):
That's right, and you're right, I misspoke. This act took
place on April twelfth, the alleged act. The LAPD put
out the news release about it today with images of
the suspect. This is a guy who apparently got on
a bus and sat down next to a woman and
you know, started to talk her up, apparently, according to
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the police, and then pulled a knife and sexually assaulted her.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
No details on what.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
Exactly went down, and I only referenced that because we
don't know how many people were.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
On the bus, what was going on.
Speaker 11 (24:37):
Was it was there like some behind the chair groping,
which is of course a crime. Or was the bus
empty and the bus driver didn't stop or do anything
and something more elaborate was taking place.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
It was a pretty shocking release from.
Speaker 11 (24:52):
The LAPD, especially the fact that it came out hours
after the news conference announcing this expanded weapons detection program
in Norwalk, because that weapons detection program is not available
on the buses at all.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And that's basically leading me to my next question.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The weapons detection is fine, but it seems to be
rather limited because you and I, since we've ridden Metro,
we know that the weapons detection system I saw a
picture of it on KTLA doesn't seem feasible for buses
the way it's presently constructed, doesn't seem feasible for many
of the open air platforms, which are common with Metro.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
What say you, I say that you're correct.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
It's the weapons detection sensors that they've placed at Norwalk
are like pillars that maybe go up to your elbow
or your shoulders, depending on your height, and you walk
through those and they'll beep, and there's you know, security there.
Really what you have to have at all of the stations,
on all of the trains and on all of the buses, unfortunately,
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is some security figure, thank you. And that's the only
thing it's going to work right now. We just what
we can't solve in Los Angeles today is just the vibes,
and they're bad. You know, you've got to have somebody
on there whose presence will discourage the anti social behavior
or the criminality that takes place on the system. And
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what irritates me so much about this mo, not just
as a news guy, but as a resident of this
city in this county, is sitting in traffic and knowing
that we've got a pretty good alternative.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I mean, Metro is a pretty good I say this
to you a lot. It's good on paper, isn't it.
It's on paper. It's a good thing.
Speaker 11 (26:35):
I can get up to that station where you are
right now, when I'm coming into work in about forty minutes,
and not have to worry about the traffic while I'm
doing it.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
If only, if only you.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
Could guarantee that it was going to be a relatively
pleasant experience, I wouldn't mind standing. Yeah, I wouldn't mind
a stranger even talking to me. A little bit, But
to have somebody doing drugs or smoking cigarettes or playing
loud music, those are the best of the worst things
that happened on the on the bus of the train.
The worst things are really terrifying, and they're the types
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of things that will keep people away from the system permanently.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Michael Monks, thank you as always. Please give my regards
to Metro. They seem like they don't want to talk
to me. I've asked them to come on the show,
but for whatever reasons, they're not accepting the invitation.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
So maybe you could, maybe you could wrap one of
the buses, you know, we could, we could do the
mo line. We could get some Mo Kelly promotion on
the side of one of these buses, and once you're
a paying customer, they might like you a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Hell's no, Hell's no. Talk to you soon, Michael. You
got it.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six fortyfis.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Kelly Live everywhere in iHeartRadio, app and YouTube. If I
remember correctly, Beyonce was not here as in Inglewood, LA
not too long ago. I thought that that was like
the Renaissance tour where tickets are like two thousand dollars
or something something ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And now she's back. She's performing presumably right now. I
don't know if there's anyone open for her, but.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
The concert was supposed to start, so fi no, we
got the concert up and running right now on the
YouTube stream.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Oh wow, live feed from the content. Oh wow, what
are those empty seats? Hey? Oh no, no, no, because
I heard as of five o'content. Now, I wasn't a joke.
I'm being serious. I'm looking at what I'm looking.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
At, and I was under the impression that there were
still seats available, which was going to my original point
that maybe Beyonce has had a bit of overexposure in
LA because she's been doing so much here in the city,
like put its Way. If you spent thousands of dollars
like you and your family did Twalla for your daughter
(28:53):
to see the Renaissance tour and she's back in the year,
are you gonna spend the same amount of money?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Well, oh okay, look, okay, look, my daughter is going okay,
but Thursday is her birthday and she really wants to see,
you know, the Cowboy Carter tour.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Is there anything you tell her.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
No.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Look man, look she's only gonna be you know, our
daughter and our baby for the rest life.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
You know.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Look hey, look man, look she she she deserves it.
She is a very very very very good child.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
Judgment.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying she's an expensive child.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
She is.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
But but but she doesn't ask for like anything else
in between. Oh, you're one of those parents like all right,
if I get you this, don't ask me for anything else.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That's the way.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Now, look, Beyonce just happened to come at the time.
It's like right on the show, was right on top
of her birthday. Now that does not count her going
to go and see Billie Eilish this summer. That's that's
where is she going to see Billy ISILs That's in London.
That's in London. Okay, so she's going she's going to
Look here, y'all watching this on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
His daughter is going to see went to see Beyonce renaissance.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Saw Taylor Swift, Yes, Taylor once right, Uh no, just
a'll Taylor said that just that one time.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Because let's take this for way way too expense.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Okay, way more money is going clearly okay, because because
he can't afford this on a radio salary and a
teaching salary.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Look look, look, look there there are sacrifices that are
made by you, not her.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Look well, okay, you know look man, she loves these people. Okay, well, okay,
I missed my point.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
She went to see Renaissance to her, Yes, he saw
Taylor Swift Arrows.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yep. Okay, she went to both of their movies, right
she did, Yes, of course. Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
She's going to see Billie Eilish in London, in London,
and I've been in London.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I don't know when.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Okay, And now she's going to see Beyonce Thursday at
so far, at so fine.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
When was the last time he told her no to
something like this? Oh, to something like this? I don't know.
But just the other day she asked her she could
do something.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
I said, no, there's something oh no, no, because last
night she wanted to go and see Sinners again and
I was like, nop, it's not gonna be able to
happen because I've been driving no to a movie for
the third No, no, because i'd been driving around too much.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That's too much drive. That's the line, y'all, that's the
Bridge movie. Can I can I go to London to
watch Billyage?
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Can I see Beyonce? Cowboy Carter?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
What about Sinners for the third time? Hell no, hell no, Daddy?
Can I have a Faberge Egg? Yeah, but I'm not
driving you.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
To the movie. Let's throw on trees. It does it?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
It was.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
It was a long drive. I couldn't do it. Okay,
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
But but I'm very happy that she is able to
see Beyonce and that tickets are for this show reasonably priced.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I mean, we're seeing the arena right now and it's
not as crowded.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
And I think this is something that anyone tore right now,
especially if you're coming to southern California.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
You gotta be aware of a couple of things. We
just had.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Coach Coachella and stage coach and stage coach. You know,
Wango Tangle's about to happen in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
That's it.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
That's about all people got money for in La Coachella,
Stage Coach, Wango Tangle.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
There's no other summer concerts happening.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
And I get it.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
You dip it into the same pockets of the same people,
presumable presumably all anyone who is a fan of Beyonce
is a fan of the multitude of artists that are
at all these other concerts. And look, this is gonna
be hell on my drive home, I tell you, because
they have a concert going on at the end to
It Dome, which is two one hundred feet away from
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so far on the other side of the street. Inglewood
is going to be difficult to get you.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So I don't know. I might as well just stay
here over there, I tell you, Lucky. There isn't a
Laker and a Dodger game tonight.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
No, this is a dodge game right now, right there,
that's going on right now. Oh yeah, you should get
the blood bed and just busy night, and oh it
is it is, Steph and I don't know when we're
getting home.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Well, see foods can leave here and go and catch
some uber money on his way home. Just get a
little extra you could, would you, though? Would you?
Speaker 12 (33:15):
After a long day working, I've noticed I can't handle that.
That's my limit. I can't go after a shift here,
I have to say it. For the weekends. Yeah, it's
a lot. Well how about this let's add to everyone else.
This weekend, we said that we're going to give away
two pairs of tickets to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
In irwin Dale. Why don't we give away one pair
of tickets right now? If you don't know about the
Renaissance Pleasure Fair. Since its inception, more than five million
people from around the world have visited Southern California's Renaissance
Pleasure Fair, averaging approximately twenty thousand visitors each weekend. And
the tickets were given out tonight are good through May eleventh.
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So don't feel you gotta go, like right now or anything,
but let's give away tickets to Collar number.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Six.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Caller number six, You and the guests will be going
to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair in irwin Dale.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
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Speaker 2 (34:16):
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I am six forty yes later with Mo Kelly. We're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube. As
a matter of fact, I got to turn on my
ring light over here, so I'm not as dark. It's
like it's the sun going down. But you have to
check out our YouTube channel, which is on hit. You
have to check out the chat. There are all sorts
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of conversations going on in there. It is high comedy.
As a matter of fact. Connected to the YouTube channel,
We're giving away two pairs of tickets to the Renaissance
Pleasure Fair in irwin Dale tonight. Since its inception, more
than five million people from around the world have visited
Southern California. Is Renaissance Pleasure Fair, averaging approximately twenty thousand
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people each weekend. And the tickets were going to be
giving out tonight are good through May eleventh. So keep
on listening and watching as we'll have two sets of
winners tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But here is where I wanted to start the show
this evening. Damn it don't go.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Too far to Walla because I have a bone to
pick with you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Mister monkellty. He won so so this says atuonomous BiH
goos might be on the ball. Moca Tula comes home.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Cleanse your tone, under control, he says. Mo Kelly is wrong.
More thinks he's under payroll.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What do you have a safe yourself? What's happening in
Santa Monica.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Maybe you've seen a WAMO driverless taxi on the road,
makes it even ridden in one, But some neighbors that
live next to this charging station say that a noise
they make is a nuisance. WAMO driverless taxis are now
a part of life in so Cow.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Honestly, it's pretty cool, awesome, like it's a driverless car.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
But some neighbors next to the Waimo charging station at
Euclid and Broadway in Santa Monica say there is a downside.
They can't just gap. That's like, it's the backup noise
the baby every time I wave over.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well, yeah, it's one of the most annoying noises.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Dozens of people have signed a Change organ petition that reads,
in part, the new Waymo station has turned our one
day neighborhood noise pollution an incessant disturbance that hinders both
our tranquility during the day and peace during the night.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
It's irritating.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's irrit irritating.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
How about that irritating?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Hear that voice, it's irritating, irritating.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
You know, this neighborhood has a lot of noise, and
to add one more level to it as well.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Whoa, whoa, whoa. The neighborhood is already noisy. So she's like,
just just one more noise. That's like saying the neighborhood
is crime, so we can I don't want to hear
about it. I don't want hear about because she's literally
just like singling way mind when.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's already irritating noisy. Wow.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
You know what's interesting is right now, way Moo is
literally significantly outperforming all forms of transportation subject it be
it taxi or they are performing eighty five percent higher
than the low fifty seven percent for uh uber left
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or even taxis.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
If you can find one so irritating, they're irritating.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Well, taking way Moore right now, I don't even know
what this lady's complained about. There's a little noise in
our backyard, okay.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Irritating, Okay, what noise? And to add one more level
to it is not fair, I think to this neighborhood
and so I know some people have been kept up
at night and then open up in the middle of
the night.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
The client is kept up at night, and after he protested,
Waymo took legal action.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
My client engaged in justifiable protest and attempted to.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Obtain what's the justifiable protest? It's first Amendment. How are
we to know?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
How are we to know that this individual wasn't justified,
was literally just shy of legal you know, just because
they want to call it.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Charged with a crime.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
My client engaged in justifiable protests, and Waimo attempted to
obtain a restraining order against.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Him, obviously because this nut bag was out there, probably
trying to jump on Waymo's naked. We have no idea
what this individual was doing. You really want to play
that card, you want to play what you want to No, no, no, no,
This isn't a victim. This is someone who went out
and lawlessly went after Weymo.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And that's why this individual now has charges. I hope
they enjoy those charges. Not charges. It was a restraining
order which they were which was denied.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Out the car but not living near the station.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
But it's cool, but it is annoying that it's right there, annoying.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
For these roommates when we live right there the WAYMO backup.
Noise is a consistent part of working from home.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I have to deal with this noise every time I'm
like on a call with someone.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Neighbors in the city that we operate and are committed
to being a positive president on our and ongoing conversation
with the city's Department of Transportation and actively working to
explore and implement mitigations that address neighbors concerns.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They're menacin. And you know what's interesting is I was
driving through.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
I went to go pick my son up, who was
out visiting a friend doing this band thing out near
La X And I took the streets on the way
back for the most part, and from lax all the
way back through I'd say maybe maybe Jefferson and everywhere
they're they're everywhere. And you know what, it's amazing how
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well they drive, how seamlessly they switch lanes, being kind
and courteous. For there was livingly someone who was going
through a crosswalk the way more stop, you know who
didn't stop the car that went around the weymore to
go on through the crosswalk as if the WAYMO was
in the wrong for stopping someone crossing the street.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
This is what I win. You know, it's lawlessness, worse
than homeless people. And you know what I want to
do is I mean, that's what I want. I want
to give them free ventanyl. Do you do you let
me just add one thing here.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Do you remember the old Saturday Night Live routine where
dan Aykroyd played the guy from the dangerous toy company
Irwin main Way.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
This this is Twala right here. A hold on, I'm
not a sister. I mean, you know we'll make it.
Teddy Bear, I got one right here.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You know it's right air.
Speaker 9 (07:40):
It's got a nice little feature here and see and
take a shot of it.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Hold it up here and I recall it.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
Teddy Chan saw Bear, Teddy Chainsaw chan saw Bear, tall Chainsaw.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
He'll defend anything, Sauce.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
I am literally defending an innocent company that is trying
to expand and make California better.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And I mean that's what I want. I want to
give them free fentanyl.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
You defend everything. I do, not defend everything. I'm not
defending the use of fittanyl for the home. Listen, you
might as well. You are the Irwin main Way of KFI.
You people are on the wrong side.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
People, you're on the out side of progress.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
It's Later with mo Kelly k IF I Am six
forty Live everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
We will be giving away two pairs of Renaissance Fair
Renaissance Pleasure Fair tickets tonight, So you better watch our
YouTube stream at mister mo Kelly.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
K if I Am six forty. It's Later with mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. No, I'm
a right, Yeah, we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
and YouTube. Still want to let you know we're going
to be giving away tickets to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair.
Probably no, I think we'll do it at the end
of this hour and maybe later in the show. But
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we're gonna be giving away tickets to the Renaissance Pleasure
Fare and the tickets will be good all the way
through May eleventh. Now, let's talk about these thousands of
union workers which actually have gone on strike starting today.
It's a limited strike. You may wonder Is it going
to impact me? Is it going to impact my family?
It's going to impact my kids? Well maybe if you
(09:36):
were like me when I was out of work. This
was many, many years ago. Before I came to KFI,
I spent most of my days in libraries. LA County
Public libraries. Why because they had free Wi Fi Internet access.
There are a lot of things that you can do
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at a library that people don't really know about. Let's
say you to get your resume printed out. Let's say
you needed a workspace. Libraries are perfect for that. But
they will be impacted by this strike, this limited union
worker strike, which is going on now through Wednesday.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
We're live out here outside of the Carson Library. This
is one of literally hundreds of places run by La
County that could be impacted by this. So the strike
starts at seven o'clock tonight, goes.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All In other words, it's already started, just now underway.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
So the strike starts at seven o'clock tonight, goes all
the way until six fifty nine on Wednesday night. LA
County says it does anticipate its libraries to operate with
reduced resources, and at some locations it's possible the library
will be closed altogether. That means many families and community
members who use them for Wi Fi and to get
essential social services may not get that help until after
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the strike ends.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I wonder how effective any limited strike could be, especially
when it's closed ended. It starts Monday night, maybe ends
Wednesday night. I don't know how much leverage you can exert.
I know you don't want to disrupt too many things,
and I get that you don't want the public libraries
closed indefinitely. But I do wonder whether you're making your
(11:14):
strike more ineffective by saying in advance, and we have
talked about this with the school strikes, whether your strike
would be more ineffective by saying, hey, we're only striking
until two days from now.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
Beach and harbor's in La County will be impacted to
and that does include Malibu, where wildfire debris cleanup on
beaches may be paused during the strike. LA County says
beach restrooms may be closed, and maintenance on county beaches
and in Marina del Rey may be stopped too. Now
on your screen are more county services that could be
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shut down Tuesday and Wednesday altogether.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Now this is the real important part, and this probably
impacts more Angelinos than any other location or service.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
Or run on a reduced schedule with less staff. That
includes a lot of different things, from non urgent health
clinics to school based wellness centers at forty seven Middle
in High school's substance use health centers and the Auditor
Controller's office and public works things like issues with trash
or encampments will be delayed as well. Of course, this
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isn't the first time the SCIU union members have walked
off the job and what they call an unfair labor
practice strike in La County. The county does say it's
going to try it's best to maintain essential services, but
so many who live and work here will feel the
ripple effects of this strike over at the next few
days and looking ahead to tomorrow morning, we're told that
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thousands of those workers will march through downtown LA to
make their voices heard.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Okay, make your voices heard? What is what is it
I'm going to say about that? Make your voices heard?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Did you notice through that whole news piece there was
not any information on what SCIU specifically was asking for.
Did you notice that the reason I played the whole
clip to highlight that we'll find out some of the
things which you're going to be closed, which you're going
to be reduced staff, how it may be impacting you.
But there was nothing in it specifically about SCIU. They
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said unfair labor practices.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What does that mean.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I always highlight this because I try to show you
the wrong way and the really wrong way to go
about protesting. They're protesting tomorrow, and I'm not sure you
or me, neither of us knows exactly what SCIU is
asking for, demanding what's needed to be improved. Anything that
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already tells you that the strike is not off to
a good start. You should have someone out front who
was saying or sending out some sort of boilerplate message
to all media, we're going out on strike. This is
what you need to highlight in your news reports. We
want this, we want that, we want the other and
if you don't do it, don't do that, which goes
back to the idea of a whole limited strike. You
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are wasting valuable time saying that you're going to strike
on Monday and Tuesday or Tuesday and Wednesday, and not
hammer everybody with what you want. I'm sitting here on KFI,
the number one news talk station in America, the most
stream station on iHeartRadio. And I have no freaking idea
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in any specificity what SCIU is asking for. And that's
not my fault. That's the fault of the protest planners,
because you have to get the easy ones right. If
you want your protests to actually make a difference, then
you have to actually make sure the news media, the
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general public knows what you're asking for. And why why
is it that this is so actually unfair? Why is
it that you want the greater Los Angeles area to
listen to you, to hear your grievances. Oh, I forgot twalla,
I can't hear their grievances because no one's talking about
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their grievances.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
They should They should have made that okay For.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Those who don't know, and Mark you know about this
the Associated Press, you'll see the same story in about
seven or eight different outlets because they're taking the story
from a wire service, so look almost exactly the same.
Even say probably have like the Associated Press contributed to
this article. As you send out your information about the
protests to the Associated Press or local media, you make
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sure it's included in there. So every single story, be
it in print, on radio, because we're getting a lot
of information from print news media sources, be it city
News service or associated press, whatever, all that information is there.
So when we talk about the story, wait for it,
it's included in everything we do. But I just gave
(15:51):
you a two minute news story and there was not
a damn thing about what SCIU was waiting for. What
are they ask for?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What is it they need to change? What needs to
be improved?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I desperately want to tell you, but I can't because
it's not there. I know when they're striking, I know
it's going to begin and when it's going to end,
but I can't tell you in between.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Oh, they said they're actually going to be out there
on the picket lines tomorrow morning asking for what.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I would really like to know.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But why is it incumbent upon me to go research
all this information and dig when you want me to
talk about what's wrong in all of these jobs?
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, I can assume it has to do with pay. Yeah,
I know that, But maybe it has to do with vacation.
Maybe it has to do with some sort of benefits.
Maybe it has to do with I don't know number
of hours that you can work in a given week.
I have no idea, because no one has done just
the basic stuff to help a limited protest be successful.
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These are the simple things, because what happens is tomorrow
rulls around and still nobody knows. Nobody knows. I follow
this every single day. In fact, I was watching this
story the whole day. I was wondering, are they going
to put in here the specifics? Are they going to
put in here?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
To ask?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
If I always call it, what is it you're asking
for it's unfair labor practices? Well tell me something specifically,
because if you want the general society to be supportive
and also emotionally on your side, you have to tell
us exactly what it is. You can't show us just
walking in circles holding up a picket sign. You got
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to tell us exactly what it is. That's the whole
point of public protesting, so the general public sees what
you're fighting for, what you're asking for. Mark, do you
know what the protest is about?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
They are protesting the county failing to fairly negotiate a
new labor contract. And we've got the union and accuses
Los A and this is from the wire service that
you just mentioned. The union accuses Los Angeles County management
of refusing to bargain with union members in good faith,
and they alleged retaliation and surveillance of union members.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That's a start. Okay, Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mark,
I just got jumped real quick. I know where you're
going to go ahead.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
I still don't know what they want right like, like
I hear that. And if that's the reason that they're
going out, are you missing the dot dot dot? And
we are going to protest and go on strike to
get this that or the other corrector do we have
anything like that yet?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Uh, here's a little more.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
The union claims the county's proposal was a zero percent
increase for cost of living and alleges to the Los
Angeles County Board of Supervisors was able to spend two
hundred and five million bucks on a downtown skyscraper for
a new office space. We talked about that while maintaining
there's no money for frontline staff. Okay, we're getting a
little more information, because so it's his money we're getting it.
So it's money or do they always money, always follow
(18:54):
the money?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, but do they want.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Space in the new office tower. I'm trying to figure
out what do they want? Are they like you guys
got this new off is tower. We have no office space.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
What do they want?
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Because if they want money, they should put an ask
out there so we as the public can say, hey,
that's not that.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
In other words, we want forty five dollars an hour
for this, that, and the other positions. But we're being
told by the unions there's no money because of that
downtown skyscraper. I know that they're against the Downtown skyscraper.
I remember we covered that story, but I don't know
exactly what they're asking for. And if we have to
(19:28):
between the three of us, dig through all this media
and hopefully to get some semblance of what they're asking for,
then they're not protesting correctly.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
It really should be something that could fit on a
protest sign.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Make it simple.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Yes, I mean, I hate to agree with you, but
it should be something that you can make into a
slogan that's easily repeatable. Preferably the rhymes right, yeah, twenty
five dollars an hour.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Now that doesn't rhyme It doesn't rhyme, but it's just
a sign. Yeah, stop them, stop the tower. Twenty five
dollars an hour. There it is, bust the deal and
face the wheel.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
That's that's Matt Max Beyond thunder Doubs. Limericks are good too.
You could get a limerick on it sign.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I'd like that then once with a man from Nantucky,
not that one. It's lighted with Mo Kelly. Can't buy
AM six forty live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app and YouTube.
When we come back, we have a metro update and
KFI Zone Michael Munks will join us.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
With Mo Kelly onk.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
AM six Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We have
some metro updates. One very concerning one possibly promising and
joining us to help sort it out is kfi's own
Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Michael is good to talk to you. How you doing
this evening. I'm doing well, Mo.
Speaker 11 (20:56):
Always a pleasure to join you.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I have to wonder. Let's start with the I will
say the somewhat good news. LA Metro is going to
roll out concealed weapons screening in Norwalk. What do you
know from your conversations with the people at Metro because
they won't talk to me and I'll give you my
thoughts about it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Well, here's what we know.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
They started this weapons detection pilot program last year in
the wake of all of that violence, including a murder
that took place on the system.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
They started it.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
At Union Station and also at the APU Citrus station
in Azusa on the A Line. They say it's been
very successful that it has detected just about every single
weapon that it could possibly try to make its way
through any of those screening devices that they've put up there.
So the idea now is that they will expand the program.
(21:46):
It has now gotten to Norwalk on the C line,
and that's where Metro officials were today to celebrate the
expansion of this program.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Now it is a slow rollout.
Speaker 11 (21:59):
They are going to add this set other key targeted
strategic high traffic stations, but we don't know when or
where yet. Right now, we basically have tried it at
Union Station in ASUSA and now in Norwalk.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Why is it that it needs to be rolled out?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I think of this as like a metal detector of
sorts you can you can find out if someone's carrying
a weapon.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Let's just kind of run with this, you know, rolling
in out one.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Station at the time seems counterintuitive when we're talking about safety.
It doesn't seem like it's overly high tech. It seems
like a you know, just a metal detector. Why do
slow rollout it?
Speaker 11 (22:36):
It is an expensive endeavor, and it's one that they
wanted to test to make sure that it works before
they put it across the system. But I know from
covering local government in Los Angeles, whether it be the
city council, the Board of Supervisors, or Metro or others,
things move really slowly here. I talk about this a
lot when I'm on shows like yours, is that there
just seems to be a lack of urgency with all
(23:00):
of the problems. And goodness knows, we face a lot
of problems here, the fiscal crises at the city building
or the county building, and the safety concerns on Metro.
It just takes too long to do anything around here.
The irony, and I think you were hinting at some
bad news, is they were celebrating the expansion of this
program a day after a woman was sexually assaulted at
(23:24):
knife point on a Metro bus, and.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
That is I mean, that's irony, tragic, but also irony.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
There's something this and I was hoping you could explain
it for me because this alleged sexual assault in some
published reports I'm reading happened April twelfth, but we're only
hearing about it near the end of the month. Number One,
that says to me that there's a lot probably happening
at Metro on buses, on platforms, on subway cars that
(23:53):
is not being immediately reported, which that concerns me. And
also that this investigation wasn't disclosed to the public in
a timely fashion.
Speaker 11 (24:06):
That's right, and you're right, I misspoke. This act took
place on April twelfth, the alleged act. The LAPD put
out the news release about it today with images of
the suspect. This is a guy who apparently got on
a bus and sat down next to a woman and
you know, started to talk her up, apparently, according to
(24:26):
the police, and then pulled a knife and sexually assaulted her.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
No details on what.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
Exactly went down, and I only referenced that because we
don't know how many people were.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
On the bus, what was going on.
Speaker 11 (24:37):
Was it was there like some behind the chair groping,
which is of course a crime. Or was the bus
empty and the bus driver didn't stop or do anything
and something more elaborate was taking place.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
It was a pretty shocking release from.
Speaker 11 (24:52):
The LAPD, especially the fact that it came out hours
after the news conference announcing this expanded weapons detection program
in Norwalk, because that weapons detection program is not available
on the buses at all.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And that's basically leading me to my next question.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The weapons detection is fine, but it seems to be
rather limited because you and I, since we've ridden Metro,
we know that the weapons detection system I saw a
picture of it on KTLA doesn't seem feasible for buses
the way it's presently constructed, doesn't seem feasible for many
of the open air platforms, which are common with Metro.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
What say you, I say that you're correct.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
It's the weapons detection sensors that they've placed at Norwalk
are like pillars that maybe go up to your elbow
or your shoulders, depending on your height, and you walk
through those and they'll beep, and there's you know, security there.
Really what you have to have at all of the stations,
on all of the trains and on all of the buses, unfortunately,
(25:56):
is some security figure, thank you. And that's the only
thing it's going to work right now. We just what
we can't solve in Los Angeles today is just the vibes,
and they're bad. You know, you've got to have somebody
on there whose presence will discourage the anti social behavior
or the criminality that takes place on the system. And
(26:17):
what irritates me so much about this mo, not just
as a news guy, but as a resident of this
city in this county, is sitting in traffic and knowing
that we've got a pretty good alternative.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I mean, Metro is a pretty good I say this
to you a lot. It's good on paper, isn't it.
It's on paper. It's a good thing.
Speaker 11 (26:35):
I can get up to that station where you are
right now, when I'm coming into work in about forty minutes,
and not have to worry about the traffic while I'm
doing it.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
If only, if only you.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
Could guarantee that it was going to be a relatively
pleasant experience, I wouldn't mind standing. Yeah, I wouldn't mind
a stranger even talking to me. A little bit, But
to have somebody doing drugs or smoking cigarettes or playing
loud music, those are the best of the worst things
that happened on the on the bus of the train.
The worst things are really terrifying, and they're the types
(27:08):
of things that will keep people away from the system permanently.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Michael Monks, thank you as always. Please give my regards
to Metro. They seem like they don't want to talk
to me. I've asked them to come on the show,
but for whatever reasons, they're not accepting the invitation.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
So maybe you could, maybe you could wrap one of
the buses, you know, we could, we could do the
mo line. We could get some Mo Kelly promotion on
the side of one of these buses, and once you're
a paying customer, they might like you a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Hell's no, Hell's no. Talk to you soon, Michael. You
got it.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six fortyfis.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Kelly Live everywhere in iHeartRadio, app and YouTube. If I
remember correctly, Beyonce was not here as in Inglewood, LA
not too long ago. I thought that that was like
the Renaissance tour where tickets are like two thousand dollars
or something something ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And now she's back. She's performing presumably right now. I
don't know if there's anyone open for her, but.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
The concert was supposed to start, so fi no, we
got the concert up and running right now on the
YouTube stream.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Oh wow, live feed from the content. Oh wow, what
are those empty seats? Hey? Oh no, no, no, because
I heard as of five o'content. Now, I wasn't a joke.
I'm being serious. I'm looking at what I'm looking.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
At, and I was under the impression that there were
still seats available, which was going to my original point
that maybe Beyonce has had a bit of overexposure in
LA because she's been doing so much here in the city,
like put its Way. If you spent thousands of dollars
like you and your family did Twalla for your daughter
(28:53):
to see the Renaissance tour and she's back in the year,
are you gonna spend the same amount of money?
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Well, oh okay, look, okay, look, my daughter is going okay,
but Thursday is her birthday and she really wants to see,
you know, the Cowboy Carter tour.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Is there anything you tell her.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
No.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Look man, look she's only gonna be you know, our
daughter and our baby for the rest life.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
You know.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Look hey, look man, look she she she deserves it.
She is a very very very very good child.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
Judgment.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying she's an expensive child.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
She is.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
But but but she doesn't ask for like anything else
in between. Oh, you're one of those parents like all right,
if I get you this, don't ask me for anything else.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That's the way.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Now, look, Beyonce just happened to come at the time.
It's like right on the show, was right on top
of her birthday. Now that does not count her going
to go and see Billie Eilish this summer. That's that's
where is she going to see Billy ISILs That's in London.
That's in London. Okay, so she's going she's going to
Look here, y'all watching this on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
His daughter is going to see went to see Beyonce renaissance.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Saw Taylor Swift, Yes, Taylor once right, Uh no, just
a'll Taylor said that just that one time.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Because let's take this for way way too expense.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Okay, way more money is going clearly okay, because because
he can't afford this on a radio salary and a
teaching salary.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Look look, look, look there there are sacrifices that are
made by you, not her.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Look well, okay, you know look man, she loves these people. Okay, well, okay,
I missed my point.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
She went to see Renaissance to her, Yes, he saw
Taylor Swift Arrows.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yep. Okay, she went to both of their movies, right
she did, Yes, of course. Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
She's going to see Billie Eilish in London, in London,
and I've been in London.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I don't know when.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Okay, And now she's going to see Beyonce Thursday at
so far, at so fine.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
When was the last time he told her no to
something like this? Oh, to something like this? I don't know.
But just the other day she asked her she could
do something.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
I said, no, there's something oh no, no, because last
night she wanted to go and see Sinners again and
I was like, nop, it's not gonna be able to
happen because I've been driving no to a movie for
the third No, no, because i'd been driving around too much.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That's too much drive. That's the line, y'all, that's the
Bridge movie. Can I can I go to London to
watch Billyage?
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Can I see Beyonce? Cowboy Carter?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
What about Sinners for the third time? Hell no, hell no, Daddy?
Can I have a Faberge Egg? Yeah, but I'm not
driving you.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
To the movie. Let's throw on trees. It does it?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
It was.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
It was a long drive. I couldn't do it. Okay,
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
But but I'm very happy that she is able to
see Beyonce and that tickets are for this show reasonably priced.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I mean, we're seeing the arena right now and it's
not as crowded.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
And I think this is something that anyone tore right now,
especially if you're coming to southern California.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
You gotta be aware of a couple of things. We
just had.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Coach Coachella and stage coach and stage coach. You know,
Wango Tangle's about to happen in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
That's it.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
That's about all people got money for in La Coachella,
Stage Coach, Wango Tangle.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
There's no other summer concerts happening.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
And I get it.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
You dip it into the same pockets of the same people,
presumable presumably all anyone who is a fan of Beyonce
is a fan of the multitude of artists that are
at all these other concerts. And look, this is gonna
be hell on my drive home, I tell you, because
they have a concert going on at the end to
It Dome, which is two one hundred feet away from
(32:43):
so far on the other side of the street. Inglewood
is going to be difficult to get you.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So I don't know. I might as well just stay
here over there, I tell you, Lucky. There isn't a
Laker and a Dodger game tonight.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
No, this is a dodge game right now, right there,
that's going on right now. Oh yeah, you should get
the blood bed and just busy night, and oh it
is it is, Steph and I don't know when we're
getting home.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Well, see foods can leave here and go and catch
some uber money on his way home. Just get a
little extra you could, would you, though? Would you?
Speaker 12 (33:15):
After a long day working, I've noticed I can't handle that.
That's my limit. I can't go after a shift here,
I have to say it. For the weekends. Yeah, it's
a lot. Well how about this let's add to everyone else.
This weekend, we said that we're going to give away
two pairs of tickets to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
In irwin Dale. Why don't we give away one pair
of tickets right now? If you don't know about the
Renaissance Pleasure Fair. Since its inception, more than five million
people from around the world have visited Southern California's Renaissance
Pleasure Fair, averaging approximately twenty thousand visitors each weekend. And
the tickets were given out tonight are good through May eleventh.
(33:53):
So don't feel you gotta go, like right now or anything,
but let's give away tickets to Collar number.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Six.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Caller number six, You and the guests will be going
to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair in irwin Dale.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
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Speaker 2 (34:16):
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