February 19, 2025 • 30 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the gall of sports television personality, radio host, and journalist Stephen A. Smith flirting with the idea of running for president…PLUS – A look at LA Metro’s instillation of the “tap to exit” system at Union Station AND the odd new “bumper sticker” trend growing in Los Angeles - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Six for It's Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We are alive everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and if
you have been listening to KFI, you already know about
the latest breaking news that Asap Rocky, rapper and also
fashion mogul, was found not guilty on two felony counts
of assault with a semi automatic firearm.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And this was after about a four week trial here
in la and the.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Verdict was reached today after the case was sent to
the jury back on Friday, so for a relatively short
amount of time they deliberated. As the jury did not
deliberate yesterday because it was president And when I was
just casually talking to Tuala and other friends in the business,
we were of the opinion, and I say of the
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opinion that Asap Rocky was probably going to be found guilty.
That's from what I knew of the case, from the
video evidence, from the other things which were contributing to
the perception of the case.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
He was found not guilty.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And I usually talk about this when there is a
verdict that was widely covered, not necessarily controversial, but widely covered.
He was found not guilty, He was not found innocent,
and I think that's important for people to remember that
our justice system isn't necessarily necessarily a search for truth,
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and it's not a definitive judgment on what is true
or whether someone actually did or did not do a crime.
It is about two different presentations. You have the prosecution
and the defense, and if the prosecution does not meet
its burden, regardless of the facts, if it doesn't meet
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it's burden, then the jury must find that person not guilty.
And if you understand what goes into the pre trial
aspect of a court case, you know that it's very
very important about jury selection vadiers as far as who
ends up on that jury, why they have the mandatory
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challenge of the peremptory challenges, and how you can strike
jurors from a potential jury pool, because it only takes
one person possibly to hang a jury, and you need
all twelve to convict. So the jury selection is very
very important. And also venue is important. Whether this trial
is going to be taken place in Los Angeles or
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some other location. You may go back to the oj
Simpson trial, whether it's going to be in La Proper
or somewhere else, that always figures into the jury pool
and the perception of the defendant, and also the case
as it's presented. That's why you have a high priced
lawyer and maybe not someone who's going to do at
pro bono. All these things matter, and all these things
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can impact what that ultimate judgment is going to be.
So I don't ever really get caught up in verdicts.
Asap Rocky was found not guilty, and I think of
it this way, not guilty given those twelve people, given
this particular presentation in la if you had one or
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two different people on that jury, you might have had
a different result. So asap Rocky walks free and we'll
see what he does with this second opportunity. I just know,
for my discussions with people in the industry with kind
of surprise, kind of surprise.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But that's all I got to say about that.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Steven A.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Smith. You probably know him. He is a face of ESPN.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He is flirting publicly, flirting, and I mean flirting because
he's like, oh, I'm not going to run, Oh I
might run, or the Democrat want me to run. He
keeps flirting with the idea of running for president. Does
he have any qualifications or competency? Absolutely not, But who
needs that these days. I'll talk about that in the
next segment, and you know, we cover all things Metro.
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Tap to exit has now hit Union Station downtown, and
that's weird. It's odd because if tap to exit is
I don't know, the silver bullet, maybe I shouldn't use
that term.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
If it was.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The magic pill to help lesson crime on Metro, you
would think that they would do it at every single stop.
Instead they're doing it just a few stops. And here's
something else. If you've ever been to Washington, DC and
taken a ride on their subway. I did back in
the nineteen eighties. They had tap to exit back then.
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It's now twenty twenty five, and now LA is just
trying to catch up to everyone else in the twentieth century.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I had to go to DC last year and that
was my first time ever using their subway, and I
thought it was extremely efficient and was wondering why we
didn't have that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's one of the best in the world, bar none.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It's one of the cleanest, it's one of the safest,
it's one of the most thoughtfully laid out you can
get anywhere in the DMV for the most part, DC,
Maryland Virginia area. By that subway, you really don't need
a car in Washington, DC. This is before Uber and
lyft and ride share. That subway is fantastic. So when
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I see tapped exit and they think like they've discovered something,
So are you?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
When I was in college in the late nineteen eighties,
we had these paper fare cars that we'd have to
use to get on the train or get into the
train area, and we'd have to scan it again to
get off the train area at every single stop. I
don't see why. We'll talk about it later. We'll talk
about it definitely later. And did you know that bumper
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stickers were a thing here in LA But it's different
type of bumper sticker. They're they're much more personalized, they're humorous.
It's not necessarily your political beliefs, it's not necessarily your
religious beliefs. It's about all things under the sun in between.
But when we come back again into the whole Stephen A.
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Smith and his presidential aspirations, if you will. That's next
on Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And of course it's fun to speculate. It's fun to
guess about who might be the nominee for this party
or that party, or who might throw their hat in
the ring. And now, since we're fully engulfed in a
celebrity culture, we almost expect there to be some sort
of celebrity entrant. I mean, of course, it goes back
to Ronald Reagan when he became governor and then president.
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But with Ronald Reagan, he was like head of the
Actors' Union. He was a military man. He had a
degree of service and awareness that is not really required
of politicians today. He was also a celebrity, but he
wasn't only a celebrity, I would say, I think more
it started with maybe Jesse Ventura when he ran for
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governor in Minnesota. I think that was that inflection point
where we just started thinking that, well, okay, if that
person has some seemingly good ideas, yeah, why not why
not let him run for you know, CEO of the state.
What about Al Frankin? He was another one, Al Franklin, Yeah,
senator at Minnesota, best known as a comedian.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And we are in a celebrity culture.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And yes, we have a two time game show host
as president again, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Let's be honest. That was his calling card. That's what
he's best known for.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
If not for The Apprentice, he would have not been
President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Please don't assault anyone's intelligence. Now. Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Smith, if you're not familiar with him, he is the
face of ESPN. He is is a longtime broadcaster and
sports analyst. I don't know him personally, i've met him. Actually,
we debated each other on MSNBC many many, many years ago.
And it used to be where ESPN did not allow
their personalities to delve into politics on their shows or
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even in their work off their shows.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
They have since changed that and allowed.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Their personalities to talk more about politics.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You might have seen Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Smith specifically a few times on Sean Hannity's show, and
he's appeared a few times on MSNBC more recently. Well,
there's been a growing sentiment that he may be positioning
himself to run for office, but he wants to play
do this dancers like.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Oh I think I'm gonna run. No, I'm not gonna run.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh please you know this back and forth like, please
beg me to run. No, I don't want to run
because I'm not a politician. Well, on his podcast yesterday,
and the clip is a little long. I'll see how
much of it I want to play. He goes into first,
he builds them up as if builds some as if
everybody wants me to run, the Democrats specifically want me
to be their nominee. And then he says, I don't
want to do it because I'm not a politician.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
We'll make up your damn mind. Here's what Steven A.
Smith had to say.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Other said, what's the difference between that and an NDA?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Damn it? The man cooked them book. That's the wrong clip. Right,
here we go.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
The Daily Beast last week wrote the headline, is top
dem a lot to like about Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Smith's presidential bid? Huh? That is a House.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Minority speaker Hakeem Jeffries, who I hope will be on
this show in the very near future. Another article came
out this week and by the New Yorker headline Stephen A.
Smith for President New Yorker dot com.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Check it out.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
What I must admit I got on like a lavender
blazer with a lavender shirt and a purple tie. I
was looking pretty fly, if I should say so myself.
I just want to throw that out there. I just
want to throw that out there, Okay, and.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Not the latest. It's courtesy of TMZ.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I saw this one now, mind you US Washington Post USA.
You know, various other publications have written about this as well.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Steven A. Smith, I am not running for US president.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
This is when TMZ caught me coming out of a
Shannon Sharps party in New Orleans during Super Bowl week,
and I guess they ran this recently, and I wanted
to go there because I wanted to make sure that
I put this to bed once in for Roun.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
No, you're not.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I have no intentions of running for the presidency of
the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Okay, that's what he says.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I have no intentions, and then he spends the next
three minutes talking about how he might be persuaded.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I do not believe I am an officionado. I do
not believe that my pockets are deep enough for me
to ignore the financial strain that could potentially have on me,
because obviously I earned more than the president of the
United States. Right now, he makes about fur hundred thousand
dollars a year. That position there is. Senate and congressional
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figures make anywhere from one hundred and seventy two hundred
and seventy thousand a year to say I make more
money than that, and so I'm not really interested on
that level. But here's a reason why, while being honest
about having zero desire whatsoever, zero position, because I consider
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them beggars donors. You know campaign donations, you know sponsors,
and you know political figures, and even when you get
into office, you got to curry favor with politicians to
get legislation pushed through and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He's not wrong, but the whole point is said, he's
not interested at all, And now he keeps trying to
drag out the conversation as to why supposedly he's not interested,
and then all of a sudden he'll come around and say,
but but if they kind of beg me, then I'll run.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I mean, it's just no peace in my life.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Plus, it's given you a license because I'm asking to
legislate the lives of three hundred and fifty plus American citizens.
That gives you a license to get into my personal business.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
That I don't want you.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I think he meant three hundred and fifty million, but
I won't quit. But I think there's more than three
hundred and fifty people in the country I don't want
you in.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That All of that's true, But there's a reason.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
But while there's a reason that while seeing what I've said,
uh oh, here comes and meaning it, I've often said,
even in a half joking way, of the American people
wanted me to be the president of the United States,
and I knew that I had a really, really good
shot to win. I can't deny that it's something I
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would consider.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
There it is.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
He started off saying I have no interest in doing it,
and then spent the next two minutes talking about all
the reasons why it's not attracted to him. And they said, well, well, well,
if you know, if there was, you know, a ground
swell of support and people wanted me to run, then
I would Yeah, I'd probably run.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
In so many words, I have to look at this
as an unserious nation. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
We look at our our cabinet right now, of this
current president, half of them have been TV hosts right right.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Not making that up. That's a fact.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now you have people who are thinking about running or
who have thought about running, like The Rock. And I
know that is real because I talked to some of
his consultants who are conducting focused groups with him as
to whether he was going to run as an independent
or whether he was going to run as a Republican,
what we're going to be a stances, All of that
was real. I'm not saying that he won't run in
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the future, but I do know in the past two
election cycles, Dwayne the Rock Johnson was seriously considering running
for president. Now, why all these fools, then, yes, I
say they're fools. Why all these fools are of the
opinion that they need to start at the top and
have the biggest job in the world, leader the free world.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I have no idea. They have no applicable experience none.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
If you think that you can just roll out of
bed and manage a bureaucracy of two point three million employees,
that you can handle not only foreign policy but the
domestic policy of these United States and also enter into
negotiations and peace treaties with other nations and un send
our troops into war if need be. If you think
that you can roll out a bit and do that
because you hosted a damn TV show or.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
People happen to like your podcast.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I don't know if that says more about you as
a narcissist or about us as a bunch of idiots
for considering it, I'll have more about that my final thought.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It's Later with Mo Kelly KFIM six forty live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app, and we have a Metro update.
Tap to Exit has come to Union Station and it
won't make a bit of damn won't make a bit
of difference.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Damn it got it out.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And we know that crime is an issue, a huge issue,
probably the top issue when it comes to Metro, and
Metro has to deal with the issue of crime not
only on its trains, but its platforms and buses and
just about everywhere in between. One of the solutions or
proposed solutions, which is being implemented is this tap to exit.
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If you have, like a ride share excuse me, a
fair card, you'd have to tap your fare card to
enter one of the stations. And this is assuming it's
not an outside platform. So when you have a fully
enclosed station, you'd have to tap your card to enter
the station for the turnstile to open, you go down
the stairs or get to where the trains actually are.
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And then when you finish your ride, in this case
Union Station, if you're maybe going to transfer trains or
leave the station, you're going to have to tap your
card again to let yourself out. The thinking being that
if you limit the amount of fair jumpers, you are
also limiting the amount of crime.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Let's say that's the case.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Let's say that you've already done your study Metro and
you think that this is the way to go. Why
the hell has this not also been implemented at the
other stations which are fully enclosed.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
That's question number one, and question number two is actually
the first question I asked at the beginning of the show.
If you go to other subways systems around the country,
and dare I say, around the world, I'm more familiar
with the ones here in America. I can't remember what
it was like when I did the Tube in London,
what have you? I just don't remember Korea we had
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to tap to exit. I can speak about Korea, but
if you don't have it everywhere, what's the point? What
is the point? And you know that the other subway
stations around the country, for the most part, definitely Washington DC,
they've had a tap to exit for at least thirty
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five years, at least thirty five years. And if it
works there, then why wasn't it already here? And if
you started doing it here, why haven't you done it
everywhere here on this line? It just nothing Metro does
makes any damn sense. And I'm not even so sure
that tap to exit is going to be a legitimate
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deterrent to people committing crime. It's not that hard to
jump a turnstyle, Okay, that's number one. And number two,
someone who's intent on committing crime is not going to
care whether they have a fair card or not. Have
you not taken a ride on La Metro. People just
get on and off the train whenever they want. And
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if people want to hop a turnstyle, there's not that
much security is going You think they're going to just
run after a fair jumper. Honestly, do you think one
of the Metro security is going to chase down ten
juveniles jumping on a turnstyle, then jumping on a train
or when they get off a train, just gonna I'm saying, literally,
just jump over the train stop. Now, they may have
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some turnstiles where they have that full plastic wall and
you can't jump over it, but most of them are
just regular turnstiles.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You just it's not that difficult. I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I don't get it while we're doing these half measures,
half ass half stepping and not actually leaning into this.
If you thought that this was good because they originally
did it, I think it was a North Hollywood stop.
If it was good enough for North Hollywood, and now
you're adding it to Union Station, why haven't you added
it everywhere? Why what are we waiting for twenty twenty
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six in the World Cup to try another two stations.
This is not sophisticated technology. This is not like you
have to build out some wall of security. It's not
that damn difficult.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
What I'm curious about is beyond the tap to exit,
which I guess is some form of stop gap, you know,
say hey, maybe it's more preventative for individuals say well, hey,
I'm not gonna get on if I can't get out.
They haven't said what happens if you have not paid
to get on? Are they going to come and arrest you?
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Are they going to come and give you what a citation?
Give you a ticket for not paying to exit or
paying to get on? Those things are not clear. But
I don't see. I don't see how any of this
curbs the violence on these metro trains.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yes, I was going to stab Andrew Caravella in his neck,
but since I have to tap to exit, I'm gonna
decide not to.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Would it be the first one? I would love to.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You know, rob Tuwala of all his money, But since
I have to tap to exit, I'm gonna give that
a second thought.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Oh that's not how it works. That's not how the
criminal mind works.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
The criminal mind isn't thinking to themselves, Oh this hurdle
is that that's gonna stop me from committing a crime.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And let me be clear, I think, yes, you should
have tapped to exit at every station. Okay, I think
that's just better for the overall experience, and yes, it
probably would deter some from fair jumping. But I think
it's an illogical reach and a false connection when you
say that this will have a measurable impact on decreasing crime,
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will it stop? That would be I don't know, high
schooler from fair jumping.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
But the homeless person hypothetically speaking, who wants to ride
on the train didn't pay a fair to get on,
and he's not paying a fair.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
To get off, see what I mean. So anything that.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Happens in between, it's not gonna have anything to do
with the fair. So we're not having the right conversation.
I get. I think we all agree we want to
decrease crime. I get we all want to decrease fair jumping,
but I don't get that there is a causal relationship
between fair jumping and crime. In other words, if you
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eliminate fair jumping, you also eliminate crime.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I don't see that connection.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And if that were there, then why is it it's
only at now three stations three three the tap to
Exit program has already been successfully deployed. Air quotes successfully
deployed at the North Hollywood station along the B line
and the downtown Santa Monica station along the E line.
This is number three three. If it's that important, and
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it's that essential as far as curving fair jumpers and
decreasing crime, why is it not at like ten?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Now? What what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It's later with Mo Kelly, kfi AM Sin's forty Live Everywhere,
the iHeartRadio app and bumper stickers Believe it or not,
not that they ever left, but they're back in a
big way and a different way right here in La Too.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from kfi AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Okay, quick question, got to go around the room. I
I'll go first. I have never put a bumper sticker
on my car in my life. It's just strange to me.
I think it's like defacing my car. I don't put
slogans on my car. I don't put pictures on my car.
And it's not because I'm afraid of letting people know
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what I think I work on talk radio. It's just
that I think it's dumb to mess up your car
like that. You know, Harris Walls twenty four, Well, what
happens in the year twenty twenty five and the election
is over, win or lose, A dumb.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Ass sticker is still sitting on your car. I just
I don't get it. I've never put one on my car.
Twelve have you never?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Not?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Even your child has made the honor road. I'm sorry. No,
I have put some tape in my back window and
put that kind of in my window where I could
peel it away. But no, deface my car with a
bumper sticker.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Never.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
And here's the not now that I'm older, not ever
in my life, ever, ever, ever, Stephan.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
And the more you guys talk about it, the more
it kind of reminds me of It's like the tattoo
version on a car, because if you put that sticker on,
it is not coming out. They're gonna have remnants left
on it. The only people actually, even in my life
that I know that even did that were well, I
mean I've seen them on luxury vehicles, which shame on you.
But my friends that have, like you know, the beater
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cars that they're just it's right, and I get that
that's fine, but I mean, if it's like a decent
looking car and keep it in good shape, yeah, you're
just essentially you are defacing it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Andrew, I know you have ten tach bumper sticks on
your car. I got a bunch of tramp stamps. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Uh so my first two years of being a legal driver,
I did just like Tawala said, uh, just like a
little stick on the window, because I didn't want to
have to peel that off for the same reasons you
said it would have been easier to do it on
a window. So we won't say how long I've been driving,
but I've never ever have done anything after those first
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two years.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Well check this out. So if you've been.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Driving around to LA and quietly chuckling to yourself, dude
to some weird or esoteric bumper stickers, you are not alone.
The La Times with a big article today about the
rise of the uber specific LA bumper sticker. We're not
talking about a Coexist or a Bob Dole ninety six
sticker of your This is a quote new wave of
stickers more concerned with cracking self deprecating jokes or aligning
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with a niche fandom. But they will follow the old
similar formats of bumper stickers from the past with the
new weird twist and the more obscure the better. It's
a trend that apparently has captivated the Silver Lake and
Echo Park area, with local artists and businesses getting in
on the action. You might see this one that says
keep honking, my dog is driving. You can buy that
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for eight bucks from a local apparel collective called New Work,
or maybe this one that says my other day is
of them. It's a non binary play on the my
other car is a blank. That's from artists Ash and Chess.
Even local businesses are getting into it. The lesbian bar
in Silver Lake called the Ruby Fruit sells one that says,
keep honking. I'm listening to the Indigo girls. This one
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caution I'm holding space, probably from your therapist.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Was that supposed to be funny? I'm so confused that
this is what people are putting on their car. I
don't get Let me listen to this again. Maybe I
missed something.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
You might see this one that says, keep honking my
dog is driving.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You can buy that for eight.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Keep honking my dog is driving. Where's the punchline in that?
I'm being serious. Where's the punch doesn't even connect? Yeah,
keep honking my dog is I don't know what's that
supposed to mean.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
You might see this one that says, keep honking my
dog is driving. You can buy that for eight bucks.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I want to know who they are. How is that fake?
Laughing in the background? A laugh? Also eight dollars, right, right,
you know, with the tariffs.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
You might see this one that says, keep honking my
dog is driving. You can buy that for eight bucks
from a local apparel collective called No.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
You can print that off the internet for free. Onesome like, uh,
what is this sticky paper? What is it called adhesive?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And he's a paper.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Yes, you might see this one that says, keep honking
my dog is driving. You can buy that for eight
bucks from a local apparel collective called new Works. Or
maybe this one that says my other day is them.
It's a non binary play on my other car is
a blank. That's from artists Ash and Chess.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Ash and Chess.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
They must have paid money to be featured in this segment.
They must have paid money. That is so obscure and
so specific.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Thick, even local businesses are getting into it. The lesbian
bar in silver Light called the Ruby Fruit sells one
that says, keep honking. I'm listening to the Indigo girls.
This one caution I'm holding space, probably from your therapist.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I don't really use my horn now. Mark Ronner is
not here tonight. We have Andrew Caravella who's in for Mark.
But Mark will usually have the single finger salute, which
we now call the runner. But the only time I
use my horn, let's say red light it turns green,
I will count in my head because I know you're
on your phone on thousand and one, thousand and two
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thousand and three. If I get to three, I'm doing
a very quick you know, just a light one. The
shirt horn, from what I understand, is like, hey, wake up,
the long one. Is you a whole? Okay, ma, you
a hole? I'm just saying, please wake up, pay attention.
You're at the front. You have one job.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
By the way, I have a theater background and I
know how to project, so I buy pass the horn
with my window down. If I'm in an intersection and
I say certain things that we can't say here on
the air, and that usually gets the people to move
out of the way. And then I notice that they're
of a certain age, and then I feel slightly bad
what I did, but they can hear me.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I try not to do that because with a honk,
especially if you're making a left turn, it could be
anyone in that line who could be honky so and
the person is more concerned about just trying to make
the left turn than find out who's honky. I'm not
trying to escalate because I don't know how much of
an idiot is in front of me. And even though
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I would be in the right and it was true
that that person wantsn't paying attention, I don't want that
person to either ram me or pull a gun on
me or something like that. I'm trying to get where
I'm going, and anything which slows that down or prevents
that is a loss for me.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Well, it depends which neighborhood you're in, whether you're gonna
project your voice or not.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
No, no, no.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Go ahead to no, no, no, we are way past that.
I'm in the wrong part of town to be honking.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
No.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Psychos with guns are all throughout southern California.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
It's a limit now, yeah, Oh it's it's it's not
territorial anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
No, it's not.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
There are individuals who are literally pulling out weapons, as
you were reported on in the news. What was it
last year where well, not even the Tesla maniac, but
the but the young man who shot into the woman's
car because he's cut off and killed her. I was
not in the wrong part of town. The Tesla maniac
jumping out of cars. Smashing windows of female drivers with
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the horn could be enough to set somebody out. It could,
that's the whole point. So you have to be very judicious.
You have to be mindful that you're not trying to escalate.
That's why it's the short boop as opposed to.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
The long U A hole horn. So they have one of.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
These stupid bumber stickers, chances are you can take them right.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
They're not packing, they're not carrying. Now that's stereotyping. I know,
I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
You might see this one that says keep honking my
dog is driving.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
You can buy that. No, they don't. They don't have
a forty five. No they don't. They don't. If you
have a.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Bumper bumper sticker saying keep honking my dog is driving,
I will take my chances.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
You might see this one that says keep honking my
dog is driving. You can buy that for eight bucks
from a local apparel collective called new Works.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
It's later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
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Speaker 4 (30:32):
A lot of misinformation out there, man, none of it
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Speaker 2 (30:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
We are alive everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and if
you have been listening to KFI, you already know about
the latest breaking news that Asap Rocky, rapper and also
fashion mogul, was found not guilty on two felony counts
of assault with a semi automatic firearm.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And this was after about a four week trial here
in la and the.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Verdict was reached today after the case was sent to
the jury back on Friday, so for a relatively short
amount of time they deliberated. As the jury did not
deliberate yesterday because it was president And when I was
just casually talking to Tuala and other friends in the business,
we were of the opinion, and I say of the
(01:07):
opinion that Asap Rocky was probably going to be found guilty.
That's from what I knew of the case, from the
video evidence, from the other things which were contributing to
the perception of the case.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
He was found not guilty.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And I usually talk about this when there is a
verdict that was widely covered, not necessarily controversial, but widely covered.
He was found not guilty, He was not found innocent,
and I think that's important for people to remember that
our justice system isn't necessarily necessarily a search for truth,
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and it's not a definitive judgment on what is true
or whether someone actually did or did not do a crime.
It is about two different presentations. You have the prosecution
and the defense, and if the prosecution does not meet
its burden, regardless of the facts, if it doesn't meet
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it's burden, then the jury must find that person not guilty.
And if you understand what goes into the pre trial
aspect of a court case, you know that it's very
very important about jury selection vadiers as far as who
ends up on that jury, why they have the mandatory
(02:23):
challenge of the peremptory challenges, and how you can strike
jurors from a potential jury pool, because it only takes
one person possibly to hang a jury, and you need
all twelve to convict. So the jury selection is very
very important. And also venue is important. Whether this trial
is going to be taken place in Los Angeles or
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some other location. You may go back to the oj
Simpson trial, whether it's going to be in La Proper
or somewhere else, that always figures into the jury pool
and the perception of the defendant, and also the case
as it's presented. That's why you have a high priced
lawyer and maybe not someone who's going to do at
pro bono. All these things matter, and all these things
(03:09):
can impact what that ultimate judgment is going to be.
So I don't ever really get caught up in verdicts.
Asap Rocky was found not guilty, and I think of
it this way, not guilty given those twelve people, given
this particular presentation in la if you had one or
(03:29):
two different people on that jury, you might have had
a different result. So asap Rocky walks free and we'll
see what he does with this second opportunity. I just know,
for my discussions with people in the industry with kind
of surprise, kind of surprise.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But that's all I got to say about that.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Steven A.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Smith. You probably know him. He is a face of ESPN.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He is flirting publicly, flirting, and I mean flirting because
he's like, oh, I'm not going to run, Oh I
might run, or the Democrat want me to run. He
keeps flirting with the idea of running for president. Does
he have any qualifications or competency? Absolutely not, But who
needs that these days. I'll talk about that in the
next segment, and you know, we cover all things Metro.
(04:15):
Tap to exit has now hit Union Station downtown, and
that's weird. It's odd because if tap to exit is
I don't know, the silver bullet, maybe I shouldn't use
that term.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
If it was.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The magic pill to help lesson crime on Metro, you
would think that they would do it at every single stop.
Instead they're doing it just a few stops. And here's
something else. If you've ever been to Washington, DC and
taken a ride on their subway. I did back in
the nineteen eighties. They had tap to exit back then.
(04:50):
It's now twenty twenty five, and now LA is just
trying to catch up to everyone else in the twentieth century.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I had to go to DC last year and that
was my first time ever using their subway, and I
thought it was extremely efficient and was wondering why we
didn't have that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's one of the best in the world, bar none.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It's one of the cleanest, it's one of the safest,
it's one of the most thoughtfully laid out you can
get anywhere in the DMV for the most part, DC,
Maryland Virginia area. By that subway, you really don't need
a car in Washington, DC. This is before Uber and
lyft and ride share. That subway is fantastic. So when
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I see tapped exit and they think like they've discovered something,
So are you?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
When I was in college in the late nineteen eighties,
we had these paper fare cars that we'd have to
use to get on the train or get into the
train area, and we'd have to scan it again to
get off the train area at every single stop. I
don't see why. We'll talk about it later. We'll talk
about it definitely later. And did you know that bumper
(05:55):
stickers were a thing here in LA But it's different
type of bumper sticker. They're they're much more personalized, they're humorous.
It's not necessarily your political beliefs, it's not necessarily your
religious beliefs. It's about all things under the sun in between.
But when we come back again into the whole Stephen A.
(06:17):
Smith and his presidential aspirations, if you will. That's next
on Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And of course it's fun to speculate. It's fun to
guess about who might be the nominee for this party
or that party, or who might throw their hat in
the ring. And now, since we're fully engulfed in a
celebrity culture, we almost expect there to be some sort
of celebrity entrant. I mean, of course, it goes back
to Ronald Reagan when he became governor and then president.
(06:53):
But with Ronald Reagan, he was like head of the
Actors' Union. He was a military man. He had a
degree of service and awareness that is not really required
of politicians today. He was also a celebrity, but he
wasn't only a celebrity, I would say, I think more
it started with maybe Jesse Ventura when he ran for
(07:15):
governor in Minnesota. I think that was that inflection point
where we just started thinking that, well, okay, if that
person has some seemingly good ideas, yeah, why not why
not let him run for you know, CEO of the state.
What about Al Frankin? He was another one, Al Franklin, Yeah,
senator at Minnesota, best known as a comedian.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And we are in a celebrity culture.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And yes, we have a two time game show host
as president again, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Let's be honest. That was his calling card. That's what
he's best known for.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
If not for The Apprentice, he would have not been
President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Please don't assault anyone's intelligence. Now. Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Smith, if you're not familiar with him, he is the
face of ESPN. He is is a longtime broadcaster and
sports analyst. I don't know him personally, i've met him. Actually,
we debated each other on MSNBC many many, many years ago.
And it used to be where ESPN did not allow
their personalities to delve into politics on their shows or
(08:18):
even in their work off their shows.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
They have since changed that and allowed.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Their personalities to talk more about politics.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You might have seen Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Smith specifically a few times on Sean Hannity's show, and
he's appeared a few times on MSNBC more recently. Well,
there's been a growing sentiment that he may be positioning
himself to run for office, but he wants to play
do this dancers like.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Oh I think I'm gonna run. No, I'm not gonna run.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh please you know this back and forth like, please
beg me to run. No, I don't want to run
because I'm not a politician. Well, on his podcast yesterday,
and the clip is a little long. I'll see how
much of it I want to play. He goes into first,
he builds them up as if builds some as if
everybody wants me to run, the Democrats specifically want me
to be their nominee. And then he says, I don't
want to do it because I'm not a politician.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
We'll make up your damn mind. Here's what Steven A.
Smith had to say.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Other said, what's the difference between that and an NDA?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Damn it? The man cooked them book. That's the wrong clip. Right,
here we go.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
The Daily Beast last week wrote the headline, is top
dem a lot to like about Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Smith's presidential bid? Huh? That is a House.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Minority speaker Hakeem Jeffries, who I hope will be on
this show in the very near future. Another article came
out this week and by the New Yorker headline Stephen A.
Smith for President New Yorker dot com.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Check it out.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
What I must admit I got on like a lavender
blazer with a lavender shirt and a purple tie. I
was looking pretty fly, if I should say so myself.
I just want to throw that out there. I just
want to throw that out there, Okay, and.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Not the latest. It's courtesy of TMZ.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I saw this one now, mind you US Washington Post USA.
You know, various other publications have written about this as well.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Steven A. Smith, I am not running for US president.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
This is when TMZ caught me coming out of a
Shannon Sharps party in New Orleans during Super Bowl week,
and I guess they ran this recently, and I wanted
to go there because I wanted to make sure that
I put this to bed once in for Roun.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
No, you're not.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I have no intentions of running for the presidency of
the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Okay, that's what he says.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I have no intentions, and then he spends the next
three minutes talking about how he might be persuaded.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I do not believe I am an officionado. I do
not believe that my pockets are deep enough for me
to ignore the financial strain that could potentially have on me,
because obviously I earned more than the president of the
United States. Right now, he makes about fur hundred thousand
dollars a year. That position there is. Senate and congressional
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figures make anywhere from one hundred and seventy two hundred
and seventy thousand a year to say I make more
money than that, and so I'm not really interested on
that level. But here's a reason why, while being honest
about having zero desire whatsoever, zero position, because I consider
(11:16):
them beggars donors. You know campaign donations, you know sponsors,
and you know political figures, and even when you get
into office, you got to curry favor with politicians to
get legislation pushed through and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He's not wrong, but the whole point is said, he's
not interested at all, And now he keeps trying to
drag out the conversation as to why supposedly he's not interested,
and then all of a sudden he'll come around and say,
but but if they kind of beg me, then I'll run.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I mean, it's just no peace in my life.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Plus, it's given you a license because I'm asking to
legislate the lives of three hundred and fifty plus American citizens.
That gives you a license to get into my personal business.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
That I don't want you.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I think he meant three hundred and fifty million, but
I won't quit. But I think there's more than three
hundred and fifty people in the country I don't want
you in.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That All of that's true, But there's a reason.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
But while there's a reason that while seeing what I've said,
uh oh, here comes and meaning it, I've often said,
even in a half joking way, of the American people
wanted me to be the president of the United States,
and I knew that I had a really, really good
shot to win. I can't deny that it's something I
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would consider.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
There it is.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
He started off saying I have no interest in doing it,
and then spent the next two minutes talking about all
the reasons why it's not attracted to him. And they said, well, well, well,
if you know, if there was, you know, a ground
swell of support and people wanted me to run, then
I would Yeah, I'd probably run.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
In so many words, I have to look at this
as an unserious nation. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
We look at our our cabinet right now, of this
current president, half of them have been TV hosts right right.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Not making that up. That's a fact.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now you have people who are thinking about running or
who have thought about running, like The Rock. And I
know that is real because I talked to some of
his consultants who are conducting focused groups with him as
to whether he was going to run as an independent
or whether he was going to run as a Republican,
what we're going to be a stances, All of that
was real. I'm not saying that he won't run in
(13:29):
the future, but I do know in the past two
election cycles, Dwayne the Rock Johnson was seriously considering running
for president. Now, why all these fools, then, yes, I
say they're fools. Why all these fools are of the
opinion that they need to start at the top and
have the biggest job in the world, leader the free world.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I have no idea. They have no applicable experience none.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
If you think that you can just roll out of
bed and manage a bureaucracy of two point three million employees,
that you can handle not only foreign policy but the
domestic policy of these United States and also enter into
negotiations and peace treaties with other nations and un send
our troops into war if need be. If you think
that you can roll out a bit and do that
because you hosted a damn TV show or.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
People happen to like your podcast.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I don't know if that says more about you as
a narcissist or about us as a bunch of idiots
for considering it, I'll have more about that my final thought.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It's Later with Mo Kelly KFIM six forty live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app, and we have a Metro update.
Tap to Exit has come to Union Station and it
won't make a bit of damn won't make a bit
of difference.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Damn it got it out.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And we know that crime is an issue, a huge issue,
probably the top issue when it comes to Metro, and
Metro has to deal with the issue of crime not
only on its trains, but its platforms and buses and
just about everywhere in between. One of the solutions or
proposed solutions, which is being implemented is this tap to exit.
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If you have, like a ride share excuse me, a
fair card, you'd have to tap your fare card to
enter one of the stations. And this is assuming it's
not an outside platform. So when you have a fully
enclosed station, you'd have to tap your card to enter
the station for the turnstile to open, you go down
the stairs or get to where the trains actually are.
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And then when you finish your ride, in this case
Union Station, if you're maybe going to transfer trains or
leave the station, you're going to have to tap your
card again to let yourself out. The thinking being that
if you limit the amount of fair jumpers, you are
also limiting the amount of crime.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Let's say that's the case.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Let's say that you've already done your study Metro and
you think that this is the way to go. Why
the hell has this not also been implemented at the
other stations which are fully enclosed.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
That's question number one, and question number two is actually
the first question I asked at the beginning of the show.
If you go to other subways systems around the country,
and dare I say, around the world, I'm more familiar
with the ones here in America. I can't remember what
it was like when I did the Tube in London,
what have you? I just don't remember Korea we had
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to tap to exit. I can speak about Korea, but
if you don't have it everywhere, what's the point? What
is the point? And you know that the other subway
stations around the country, for the most part, definitely Washington DC,
they've had a tap to exit for at least thirty
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five years, at least thirty five years. And if it
works there, then why wasn't it already here? And if
you started doing it here, why haven't you done it
everywhere here on this line? It just nothing Metro does
makes any damn sense. And I'm not even so sure
that tap to exit is going to be a legitimate
(17:23):
deterrent to people committing crime. It's not that hard to
jump a turnstyle, Okay, that's number one. And number two,
someone who's intent on committing crime is not going to
care whether they have a fair card or not. Have
you not taken a ride on La Metro. People just
get on and off the train whenever they want. And
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if people want to hop a turnstyle, there's not that
much security is going You think they're going to just
run after a fair jumper. Honestly, do you think one
of the Metro security is going to chase down ten
juveniles jumping on a turnstyle, then jumping on a train
or when they get off a train, just gonna I'm saying, literally,
just jump over the train stop. Now, they may have
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some turnstiles where they have that full plastic wall and
you can't jump over it, but most of them are
just regular turnstiles.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You just it's not that difficult. I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I don't get it while we're doing these half measures,
half ass half stepping and not actually leaning into this.
If you thought that this was good because they originally
did it, I think it was a North Hollywood stop.
If it was good enough for North Hollywood, and now
you're adding it to Union Station, why haven't you added
it everywhere? Why what are we waiting for twenty twenty
(18:39):
six in the World Cup to try another two stations.
This is not sophisticated technology. This is not like you
have to build out some wall of security. It's not
that damn difficult.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
What I'm curious about is beyond the tap to exit,
which I guess is some form of stop gap, you know,
say hey, maybe it's more preventative for individuals say well, hey,
I'm not gonna get on if I can't get out.
They haven't said what happens if you have not paid
to get on? Are they going to come and arrest you?
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Are they going to come and give you what a citation?
Give you a ticket for not paying to exit or
paying to get on? Those things are not clear. But
I don't see. I don't see how any of this
curbs the violence on these metro trains.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yes, I was going to stab Andrew Caravella in his neck,
but since I have to tap to exit, I'm gonna
decide not to.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Would it be the first one? I would love to.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You know, rob Tuwala of all his money, But since
I have to tap to exit, I'm gonna give that
a second thought.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Oh that's not how it works. That's not how the
criminal mind works.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
The criminal mind isn't thinking to themselves, Oh this hurdle
is that that's gonna stop me from committing a crime.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And let me be clear, I think, yes, you should
have tapped to exit at every station. Okay, I think
that's just better for the overall experience, and yes, it
probably would deter some from fair jumping. But I think
it's an illogical reach and a false connection when you
say that this will have a measurable impact on decreasing crime,
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will it stop? That would be I don't know, high
schooler from fair jumping.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
But the homeless person hypothetically speaking, who wants to ride
on the train didn't pay a fair to get on,
and he's not paying a fair.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
To get off, see what I mean. So anything that.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Happens in between, it's not gonna have anything to do
with the fair. So we're not having the right conversation.
I get. I think we all agree we want to
decrease crime. I get we all want to decrease fair jumping,
but I don't get that there is a causal relationship
between fair jumping and crime. In other words, if you
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eliminate fair jumping, you also eliminate crime.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I don't see that connection.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And if that were there, then why is it it's
only at now three stations three three the tap to
Exit program has already been successfully deployed. Air quotes successfully
deployed at the North Hollywood station along the B line
and the downtown Santa Monica station along the E line.
This is number three three. If it's that important, and
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it's that essential as far as curving fair jumpers and
decreasing crime, why is it not at like ten?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Now? What what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
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Speaker 2 (22:05):
Okay, quick question, got to go around the room. I
I'll go first. I have never put a bumper sticker
on my car in my life. It's just strange to me.
I think it's like defacing my car. I don't put
slogans on my car. I don't put pictures on my car.
And it's not because I'm afraid of letting people know
(22:27):
what I think I work on talk radio. It's just
that I think it's dumb to mess up your car
like that. You know, Harris Walls twenty four, Well, what
happens in the year twenty twenty five and the election
is over, win or lose, A dumb.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Ass sticker is still sitting on your car. I just
I don't get it. I've never put one on my car.
Twelve have you never?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Not?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Even your child has made the honor road. I'm sorry. No,
I have put some tape in my back window and
put that kind of in my window where I could
peel it away. But no, deface my car with a
bumper sticker.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Never.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
And here's the not now that I'm older, not ever
in my life, ever, ever, ever, Stephan.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
And the more you guys talk about it, the more
it kind of reminds me of It's like the tattoo
version on a car, because if you put that sticker on,
it is not coming out. They're gonna have remnants left
on it. The only people actually, even in my life
that I know that even did that were well, I
mean I've seen them on luxury vehicles, which shame on you.
But my friends that have, like you know, the beater
(23:37):
cars that they're just it's right, and I get that
that's fine, but I mean, if it's like a decent
looking car and keep it in good shape, yeah, you're
just essentially you are defacing it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Andrew, I know you have ten tach bumper sticks on
your car. I got a bunch of tramp stamps. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Uh so my first two years of being a legal driver,
I did just like Tawala said, uh, just like a
little stick on the window, because I didn't want to
have to peel that off for the same reasons you
said it would have been easier to do it on
a window. So we won't say how long I've been driving,
but I've never ever have done anything after those first
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two years.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Well check this out. So if you've been.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Driving around to LA and quietly chuckling to yourself, dude
to some weird or esoteric bumper stickers, you are not alone.
The La Times with a big article today about the
rise of the uber specific LA bumper sticker. We're not
talking about a Coexist or a Bob Dole ninety six
sticker of your This is a quote new wave of
stickers more concerned with cracking self deprecating jokes or aligning
(24:37):
with a niche fandom. But they will follow the old
similar formats of bumper stickers from the past with the
new weird twist and the more obscure the better. It's
a trend that apparently has captivated the Silver Lake and
Echo Park area, with local artists and businesses getting in
on the action. You might see this one that says
keep honking, my dog is driving. You can buy that
(24:57):
for eight bucks from a local apparel collective called New Work,
or maybe this one that says my other day is
of them. It's a non binary play on the my
other car is a blank. That's from artists Ash and Chess.
Even local businesses are getting into it. The lesbian bar
in Silver Lake called the Ruby Fruit sells one that says,
keep honking. I'm listening to the Indigo girls. This one
(25:18):
caution I'm holding space, probably from your therapist.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Was that supposed to be funny? I'm so confused that
this is what people are putting on their car. I
don't get Let me listen to this again. Maybe I
missed something.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
You might see this one that says, keep honking my
dog is driving.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You can buy that for eight.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Keep honking my dog is driving. Where's the punchline in that?
I'm being serious. Where's the punch doesn't even connect? Yeah,
keep honking my dog is I don't know what's that
supposed to mean.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
You might see this one that says, keep honking my
dog is driving. You can buy that for eight bucks.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I want to know who they are. How is that fake?
Laughing in the background? A laugh? Also eight dollars, right, right,
you know, with the tariffs.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
You might see this one that says, keep honking my
dog is driving. You can buy that for eight bucks
from a local apparel collective called No.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
You can print that off the internet for free. Onesome like, uh,
what is this sticky paper? What is it called adhesive?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And he's a paper.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Yes, you might see this one that says, keep honking
my dog is driving. You can buy that for eight
bucks from a local apparel collective called new Works. Or
maybe this one that says my other day is them.
It's a non binary play on my other car is
a blank. That's from artists Ash and Chess.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Ash and Chess.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
They must have paid money to be featured in this segment.
They must have paid money. That is so obscure and
so specific.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Thick, even local businesses are getting into it. The lesbian
bar in silver Light called the Ruby Fruit sells one
that says, keep honking. I'm listening to the Indigo girls.
This one caution I'm holding space, probably from your therapist.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I don't really use my horn now. Mark Ronner is
not here tonight. We have Andrew Caravella who's in for Mark.
But Mark will usually have the single finger salute, which
we now call the runner. But the only time I
use my horn, let's say red light it turns green,
I will count in my head because I know you're
on your phone on thousand and one, thousand and two
(27:36):
thousand and three. If I get to three, I'm doing
a very quick you know, just a light one. The
shirt horn, from what I understand, is like, hey, wake up,
the long one. Is you a whole? Okay, ma, you
a hole? I'm just saying, please wake up, pay attention.
You're at the front. You have one job.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
By the way, I have a theater background and I
know how to project, so I buy pass the horn
with my window down. If I'm in an intersection and
I say certain things that we can't say here on
the air, and that usually gets the people to move
out of the way. And then I notice that they're
of a certain age, and then I feel slightly bad
what I did, but they can hear me.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I try not to do that because with a honk,
especially if you're making a left turn, it could be
anyone in that line who could be honky so and
the person is more concerned about just trying to make
the left turn than find out who's honky. I'm not
trying to escalate because I don't know how much of
an idiot is in front of me. And even though
(28:36):
I would be in the right and it was true
that that person wantsn't paying attention, I don't want that
person to either ram me or pull a gun on
me or something like that. I'm trying to get where
I'm going, and anything which slows that down or prevents
that is a loss for me.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Well, it depends which neighborhood you're in, whether you're gonna
project your voice or not.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
No, no, no.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Go ahead to no, no, no, we are way past that.
I'm in the wrong part of town to be honking.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
No.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Psychos with guns are all throughout southern California.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
It's a limit now, yeah, Oh it's it's it's not
territorial anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
No, it's not.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
There are individuals who are literally pulling out weapons, as
you were reported on in the news. What was it
last year where well, not even the Tesla maniac, but
the but the young man who shot into the woman's
car because he's cut off and killed her. I was
not in the wrong part of town. The Tesla maniac
jumping out of cars. Smashing windows of female drivers with
(29:36):
the horn could be enough to set somebody out. It could,
that's the whole point. So you have to be very judicious.
You have to be mindful that you're not trying to escalate.
That's why it's the short boop as opposed to.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
The long U A hole horn. So they have one of.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
These stupid bumber stickers, chances are you can take them right.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
They're not packing, they're not carrying. Now that's stereotyping. I know,
I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
You might see this one that says keep honking my
dog is driving.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
You can buy that. No, they don't. They don't have
a forty five. No they don't. They don't. If you
have a.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Bumper bumper sticker saying keep honking my dog is driving,
I will take my chances.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
You might see this one that says keep honking my
dog is driving. You can buy that for eight bucks
from a local apparel collective called new Works.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
It's later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, if I am six forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio
app There's.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
A lot of misinformation out there, man, none of it
is allowed here.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
K s I'm kost HD two los Angeles, Orange County
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