June 28, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the rise in bear sightings in the California Foothills, the upcoming July gas price hikes & the overall success of the Cali plastic bag ban - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Thank that it is Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I am six forty years later with mo Kelly went
live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app. And
I'm here to tell you if someone should give you
the opportunity to drive from Redondo Beach to Burbank on
a Friday in summer, very politely declined the opportunity because.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I tell you I had a great day today. I
had a great day, Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Went out to see some friends from high school, South
Tornes High School class of nineteen eighty seven, Gohot Spartans,
and we were having lunch today at the Rebel Republic
Social House in Redondo Beach. They had a street fair
going on there. Great time, great friends, great conversation. And
I had to walk like a half a mile because
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I couldn't park right next to the restaurant because of.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
The street fair.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So when I left at about one fifty five PM,
had to walk back to my car. So that was
a good fifteen minutes. Then I got in the car
around two tennish. Did not get to the studio and
I came directly from Redonald Beach, did not stop.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It took me two hours.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It took me a good twenty minutes to get to
the four or five freeway, and the four or five
freeway on a Friday is nobody's friend. It's nothing nice.
You don't want to do it, but you know I
do a lot for my friends. Got on the four
h five and it's one of those things where you
just know you have a two hour ride. Because not
that I needed GPS to know where I was going,
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but I just needed to know how long it was
going to take me to get to the studio. It
just said, yeah, most it's gonna be four ten, four
fifteen before you walk in the studio, so just get comfortable.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I say all this to.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Say I have a new favorite station music wise. Music Wise,
shout out to iHeartRadio app. But it's not about you today,
It's all about me. Have you ever listened to yacht
rock on Serious FM, Serious XM very much?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yes? Oh my goodness, magnificent, isn't it? I could have scorn.
I was in a time machine. They got some jams?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do they have jam? And it's just jam? A's to jam.
It's a jam jet. I could not go wrong. And
I know people were looking at me when I was traveling,
like what is up? With this dude, because I'm singing
I got the sun roof O. But I'm yelling at
the top of my lungs, I'm clapping to the beat
and I'm dancing the cart. Why because I have a
two hour ride at yeah, eight miles an hour, so
you know, it's not like I had to worry about anything,
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so I might as well get comfortable and was really
enjoying myself. I have discovered yacht rock on Serious XM.
It is something else and I got serious exit you
mean diehard radio app or no, no, no serious ex.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I got it when I got the car.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
They have like this fee yeah, yeah, and I kept
it for like it's like two dollars a month, so
I was like, okay, I can I can handle that.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And it's like oo and each one.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And what you don't know is when you get in
the car, it'll start like recording from that point. So
if I leave yacht rock and go yach rock and
go to some other station, it's still recording up to
like an hour, so I can come back and I
won't miss into the song.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
But for the radio correct correct that's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And also also there's a function where when you get in.
It always starts wherever the song the new song is,
So if you happen to get in and the song
is only like a minute thirty in, you missed the
first minute thirty it'll automatically start you at the beginning
of the song.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Okay, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, And you can't skip forward to the live stream,
but it's almost like you just always have perfect timing.
It's a really really well thought out experience, and we
have two hours.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
For those that don't know, break down some of the
playlists that's on a yacht rock station.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Oh, I gotta think Little River Band, George Benson Brothers,
Doobie Brothers.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, they played minute by minute. When I was driving out,
it was just there. Christopher Cross, it was just the same. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, Ambrosia, you know, the biggest part of me, that
kind of thing. It just it was it's great music.
It just it made me feel good. Oh no, it
felt great, just completely relaxing music. It was a beautiful day,
great time with friends, great music. It just put me
in the right head space because if you have to
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drive two hours, you think you're gonna be just really
really surly by the time you get out of the car.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That was great. It was just wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Can't recommend the channel enough so you know, yeah, that
was my day coming all right, good night. Can if
I answered forty, we'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh oh, we got a show to do.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh, Mark Ronner, I know you have the Runner Report
coming up tonight. What are we going to be learning about.
We're going to talk about F one tonight.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Hey hey, hey watch them out? What it's the racing movie?
Oh oh, I thought you were Formula one Racing. I'm
excited about this with Brad Pitt. All right, wait what
in the about say? What in the and then the letter?
Are you talking about? That may be pushing though, No, no,
we'll get it sorted out.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I promise I would never do anything that I knowingly
thought was inappropriate on the public's airways. You would never,
not never, So you're not f one ning around with
this movie. No, no, I take this seriously. F one.
It's not like a tornado. I'm not current on my
tornado lingo mo are you yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I am? Okay, that's that's like the smallest powerful tornado,
I say, one.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Oh, thank you for that real quick. Speaking of movies,
did you. I haven't seen it. But do you watch
the Poop Cruise?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I refuse to watch it. You're not gonna watch it?
I'm in between.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't. I'm going on a cruise in August. I
don't want that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Like, for example, there's certain movies I'm not gonna watch
before I get on a plane. I'm not gonna go
watch Airport seventy seven first one. You know I'm not
gonna watch Flight with Denzel Washington.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You know I'm not. There's just some things I'm just
not gonna do. I think I'm tempting the gods or something. No,
you don't want a Poop Cruise?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No? No, there's certain things I don't want to have
to mentally push aside.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I may watch it, but I was really thinking about
it last night.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
When I got home. I think, like, all right, what's
on my DVR? What are some of the other documentaries,
because I really like documentaries. So I'm flipping through the
different apps, and Poop Cruise obviously came up, and it's like, oh,
should I start watching this now?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No, it's probably not gonna be a good idea.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Put it on a double bill with that Jim Jordan
one yeah, but I've already done the Jim Jordan one.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I finished surviving Ohio State. You need a follow up? Then,
that's not except the palate cleanser. Yeah, not late at night.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, a cruise where coopage was oozy out of the doors.
And no, I mean you get that's not No, that's
that's not a palate cleanser. That's not something that I
want to end my day with. Can you can you
give me another recommendation?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
No documentaries, but there's really nothing on streaming right now.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Oh the Old Guard comes out? What is that next week? Week? Well,
did you see the first one of those?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And like it was fine streaming? Yeah, it's five for
I don't have to leave my house. I'm without paying money.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It's like, you know, it's rated in for Netflix mark
it's part of the subscription.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And I couldn't lean on the first one. We've said
it before. You got to check out Black Mirror, Mo, okay,
I think you'll get addicted. Oh you've never seen Black Mirror.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
No I haven't. Oh, put that at the top of
your list. It's really good, all right.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
If you don't want to watch, it's not a pelic Clenser,
I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Is it but it's not poop related? Is it episodic
where I have to start season? Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
It's an anthology and after the first season they're a
little bit hit and miss, but everyone is still worth
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Let me tell you something. The very first episode is
a whopper bosh. Do you remember the first ye?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Okay, it's it was like it's almost like a It's
almost like an X rated Twilight Zone. It involves a
British politician being blackmailed into doing something fairly gross that
you would maybe find on one but in general solid show.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Okay, you've almost told me.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
All right, it's later with Mokeli if I am since
forty live everywhere in the Iheartradiot.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Oh I forgot before before we go to break uh.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yesterday on the show, we were talking about the cities
which had canceled their Independous Day solebrations and some of
you were very angry at the idea. It's like, no,
they should have the July fourth celebration. One of those
cities was Huntington Park. Did you see the ice rate
in Huntington Park today? With a literally blue the door
off a house with explosives to get a woman out
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of the house. Now, you tell me if you haven't
seen anything. I think it's at NBC for Los Angeles.
I'll even put the link in the chat at the
Motown chat. If that isn't reason enough to possibly not
have a large celebration where you could have complete chaos
and bedlam, I don't know what to tell you. And
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that was in Huntington Park, one of the cities which
said no, we're not going to do that public celebration.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It's just not safe.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's Later with mo Kelly Kefi I am SINX forty
live everywhere on social media and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty KFI.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
It's Later with mo Kelly Live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio app. I want to say thank you
for the shout out and call back to Lucy Hill
in traffic. Yes, yacht Rock is something you need to
be listening to if you don't already. It's changed my
life in just a few days, changed all of it.
Something else I wanted to talk about tonight. I didn't
have a chance to preview it. But we often talk
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about animals in the neighborhood. I talk about the problems
that I have with coyotes and concerns that I have
with coyotes. I don't know what I would do if
I lived in let's say, Sierra Madre or some of
the communities in which they're dealing with bears. I don't
know what I would do if I'd walk into my
backyard and it was a bear in it.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Coyote is a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I'll hit that thing over the head with a stick,
you know, whatever, you know, But what are you gonna
do with a bear other than run?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And they can run like thirty miles an hour? Yeah,
what do want to do? Climb a tree? They can
climb trees.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
They can open doors to cars. They're like velociraptors, just furry.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
When I saw this story, I was reminded two and
a half weeks ago or so, one of my neighbors
who has fully moved back into his house on our block,
there's not many people there right now. Late at night,
and actually, actually you know what't even late may be
around eight o'clock, bears plural were knocking over his trash
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can and trying to see what's what now because there's
nothing in the way, and all of Altadiya is basically
nature now with a few plots here and there.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Every animal's coming down the hill.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
We're talking about the number of bear sightings, specifically in
La County's Foot Hill communities have increased dramatically, probably directly
and indirectly due to the fires. The geography and topography
has changed, to your point, to all, there's nothing inhibiting them,
and it's probably changed their food.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
You know where they're looking for food, the frequency.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I know part of the reason why we have coyotes
in our neighborhood is they know when trash day is
so that food source is out there and they're usually
rummaging in and around the trash cans. To your point,
bears are probably doing the same thing. But I can
mentally and emotionally wrap my head around a coyote. I
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see these videos if you go to our YouTube channel,
you see the bears. They understand windows and doors, they
understand how to open doors. When I see the video
of the bear checking the door and pull it on
the lock, It's like, I don't know what you do
with that you know, because you could be literally at
the wrong place and wrong time and happen upon a
bear and her cub, and then that's your ass.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Every time.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I'm in Altadena for the past few weeks, pretty much
there until it starts getting close to dusk, and that
is when you just see packs of.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Coyotes just running around.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
And I'm thinking to myself, Okay, coyotes, got it. This
bear sighting. That's my next door neighbor. That's not down
the street, around the corner. There's our house, there's their house.
Bears in his driveway. That's like right next door house.
I'm thinking to myself, I pull up in that neighborhood
at night and I see a mama bear in some cubs,
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or if.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You don't see them, you may not be aware of them.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
The California Department of Fishing Wildlife has said that they've
received fifteen reports of bear sightings or encounters just this
month alone. Okay, fifteen sightings and this is June twenty seventh,
so it's not even it's better than one every other
day on average.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
On average. I don't know what's worse.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The bears are the bees, because I'm running from the
bees and I'm running from the bears.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm not running from the coyotes. I just what are
you supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
What is it you're supposed to, like, obviously, stay absolutely still,
But how do you stay still when a bear is
walking to you.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I thought you're supposed to make yourself as tall as
you possibly can, and you're supposed to like make noise
as much noise as you can and try to make
yourself bigger.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And does that make does it make it attack you? No? No, no, no,
it seemed like a thread or something.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
No, we need to look that up because I don't
know if that's a I don't know if that's a
good idea, because me, I'm not saying anything. I am
frozen statue. No, I'm not trying to run. I'm not
trying to do anything. And if it takes a swipe
at me, I'll just have to play dead. That's all
I can do.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, it is true. You do have to make yourself
big and loud.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You raise your arms or jacket to look larger, and
you shout or make noise yello, clap, bang pots.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
You tell the bear to leave you alone. Talk to
the bear as calmly.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
And in theory maybe, But if you have a five
hundred pound bear in front of you, it's counterintuitive to
me to try to agitate it and and get more
of its attention. I want less of its attention. I
don't want the bear to think this mother father is
trying to raise up on me. Oh no, the last
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thing I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Do is try to get the bears attention.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Don't mode if a African American bear approaches you.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
What about the south Land that was dangel?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Okay, so this is specifically for African American bears, not
Latino bears or Caucasian bears, not.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Brown bears, not not caucas bears, African American bears aka
black bears. Stand your ground, back away only when the
bear stops its approach. See that's why that's specifically for
African American bears. They wouldn't say that for polar bears.
Make yourself look bigger. I don't like the fact that
the youth bigger. I don't like that it's too close.
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Make yourself look bigger by raising your arms and jacket
and standing on a rock or a stump if you
find one, like in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yell, hey, bear, loudly. I kid you not. I kid
you not? Hey bear? Oh that's what I'm telling you.
Tell me the truth, Tell me the truth. Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
If you should happen to see a bear walking, let's
say in your general direction down the street, let's say
it's Elsa Gundo Boulevard, just hypothetically, yeah, are you comfortable
with raising your arms up and making noise in the
hopes of it's going to be scared away? Well, the
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way before you answer reminds you that it knows how
to use doors, so it really is like a veloc
around it.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's rather intelligent. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Well, after wedding myself, I would probably run as fast
as I could.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That's all I would do. Now for foods, No, you
do not run down I know, but I have to.
You have to stand your ground food. It even says
if the bear can he used to follow you. After
you stand your ground and say, hey bear, go away.
It says, prepare to fight or use bear spray? How
are you gonna prepare to fight a belt? It says
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if the African American bear keeps approaching, get ready to
squab there to fight? What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Kick?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
It, punch it. What what am I supposed to do
with a bear? Get a pan and knock it up?
Walking down the street. I'm walking down the street. I
don't have take your belt off.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And discipline it, reprimand you could. If you can take
the bear in this nose with your buckle, you can. Okay,
let's let's be clear. You have one shot with your
belt buckles, so.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
You fetter him, right, I'm thinking if anything, even if
you do get that off, you're gonna just piss it off.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
That's what I was thinking. Well, whatever you do, don't run.
And if the black bear I'm sorry, African American bear
makes contact with you, do not play dead. Don't do that.
So everything I'm thinking it's just wrong. Yes, everything. Don't
just don't try to stand there and not move. Don't
try to run.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
If the bear makes contact with you, fight back with
anything a hand, sticks, rocks, binocular, backpack, or by kicking.
So if it just bumps into me, if it makes
contact with you, it's not bumping into you. It's biting,
it's swiping, it's coming at you. They don't just like
give you a pound, like what's up.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
They don't. That's not how they make contact.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
If the bear makes contact with me, let's say, with
bad intentions, it doesn't matter what I do.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Over it does. Do not play dead, stand your round.
Who do you know is fought off a bear? And
you know this because this is something you practice in
your dojong. Do not turn your back to the bear. Ever, No,
I get to hate the bear, and you back away
from the bear, and if it approaches, we go. That's
when you're supposed to take action.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, I get that, all right. No, I would never
turn my back on a bear. Never. But I'm definitely
not gonna I'm wearing a belt right now. I Am
not going to take off my.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Belt and take a swipe at it, because does that
like put the disadvantge because you're holding your pants and swipe.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well, not only that, it's like you have in other words,
it's almost like if I were to walk up on
Tawalle and hit him in the face. Maybe he wasn't
trying to start a fight, but as soon as I
hit him in.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The face, the fight is on. The fight has begune.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Also, you don't want to go to meet your maker
with your pants falling down.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Nothing. I don't think it really makes any difference at
that point, wear pants down. It really doesn't matter. It's interesting. Yeah,
you're done.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (19:52):
If I am six forty, it's Later with mo Kelly
lied everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Twala, Are you going
anywhere for this holiday? I mean not holiday, the summer
driving anywhere. I'm trying not to let me see Mark,
Are you going anywhere this holidays? Not a holiday but
summer season? Driving anywhere?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Talking about it, but haven't ironed out any plans yet.
Have you got some recommendations?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Wait, no, damn comic go on, don't try to drive
out there? Maybe? Uh?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Oh wait yo, Actually, Tawala, you mentioned us going to
a casino for something. You have to try to see
if we could get a hold of that Superman that
they're advertising given away at at Morongo.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I think don't tell everyone about it.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Oh, I'm sorry, but they advertised, they've advertised it on
the station.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Oh crap, Okay, I forget when that is. But that'd
be a fun road trip.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You might have to take into account the price of gas,
because in July prices are expected to rise because of
the state sales tax hike and stricter rules on refineries
to encourage them to create lower carbon fuels, which could
boost the price nearly seventy cents per gallon. Right now,
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the current average for the state is four dollars and
sixty four cents per gallon. And if you're wondering, last
year at this time, it was four dollars and eighty
one cents. So we are down, yeah, down seventeen cents
since last year at this time, but it may jump
up again. It's not uncommon for prices to rise during
the summer because summer, bland, winter, blend, all that kind
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of stuff. You were going to commonly pay more during
the summer, but you're going to pay a lot more
this summer, which is why I asked where you might
be going and whether you have to actually think about
gas as a byproduct of going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm still mad at Stefan because he didn't tell me
how great it was to have a hybrid until after
I had a hybrid.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You realize, oh, you have a hybrid.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh yeah, And I said, I'm getting five hundred miles
to the tank and Stephan Is like, yeah, I was like.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, why didn't you tell me this?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
It's so funny because when the Prius became like a thing,
all anyone did was talk about the look of it.
But when I research the technology behind it, I'm like,
why would you not want to get one? And I
wanted one for so long and now I do ubers.
Obviously it helps with that, but I will never go
back to a fully unless they become like a millionaire.
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I will never go back to a fully combustible engine.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
My hybrid is not a plug in where I put
gas in it and it recharges the battery generative breaking.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I'm sorry, regenerative breaking. Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I don't have to do anything other than put gas
in it, but I still get an extra two hundred
miles to each quote unquote tank love it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
If I had someone walk me through the process of
the pluses and minuses of a hybrid, I would have
had a hybrid a long time ago, long time ago.
Still not to the point of ev because I still
have range anxiety and it as much driving as I do,
like today, I was today, for example, I was in
the car for two hours, just one way one way,
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and that I.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Think that came out to maybe I want to say
fifty miles. About how often are you filling up? Once
every week and a half or so almost two weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
It depends on what's happening during the week, because if
I'm going to my mother's house, that's a little bit
of ways away or from you know, going to see
my sister and she lives in the Long Beach area.
But just as far as I'm just going to work,
it's probably once every two weeks.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I was gonna say, before Uber, it was once every
two weeks would I fill up?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It was beast in my car before this, I had
to every six days at the most, and it was
a thirteen gallon tank. I think Honda Civic might have
been fewer gallons. But yeah, I couldn't go a whole week.
No way, no way. But you're gonna be paying more,
That's the whole point of this. You're gonna be paying
possibly seventy cents more in the next month. And I
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don't know if you moderate or modify you're driving relatives
to gas.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I just kind of, or at least in the past,
I've always just sort of dealt with it, and you
moan and you complain, you say, oh my gosh, just now,
let's say five dollars and twenty cents or something. But
that's a part of living in California. And we were
talking about this at lunch today and I'm saying, like, yeah,
for the things we do put up with. It was
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seventy degrees and I was on the right on the
beach having lunch outdoors in the middle of summer. That's
a part of why we live here in California. Yes,
things are more expensive, including gas, including the general cost
of living, including rent, or the.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Cost of a real estate.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But when I was in my car for two hours
with the sun roof open, listening to yacht rock, yeah,
I like, Yes, this is why I'm here. This is
why I'm here as opposed to I don't know, Oklahoma.
This is why I'm here, as opposed to Tennessee. This
is why I'm here as opposed to Idaho or Nebraska.
You really can't beat California at its best. Does it
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have a bunch of issues, of course, of course, But
when California is at its best, no place comes close.
And that's why I probably would never leave here. You know,
there are a couple of cities. I think we can
get rid of them. I'm gonna piss anybody off.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
But.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
California the state.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Absolutely And it's funny that you say that because it
never fails. Every time around the holidays, when I'm taking
people to the airport, they're like, man, I gotta go
back to XYZ. I don't want to leave here because
they got to go to winter and cold and snow
and it's freezing. And they're like, man, it's seventy degrees
here and I gotta go to like negative ten.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And as I get older, I have no tolerance for cold.
When I went out to Chicago earlier this year and
also the year before, so fun it's just been a
couple of days, like I'm not built for that anymore.
I went to school and somewhat cold weather in Washington, DC.
But no, I like nice eighty five percent of the year.
And when it's bad here, it's only like one hundred
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and two. And I say only one hundred and two
because we don't have the humidity. It's hot in the valley,
but it's not human hot. It's not like New Orleans
in the summer. It's not like Erie Pennsylvania in the summer.
Not at all, not at all. So I mean looks,
it's fun, and it's kind of it's kind of almost
like pass a to rip on California. It's almost a
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sport you get on social media, so like you want
to bash California. That's a new sport.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And I get it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You know, there's a political tie in, there's a social
tie in, and California is such a huge state economically
and also literally. It's a very easy punching bag. But
if you're in California, do you think about any other state? Honestly,
I don't, not at all, not at all. I don't
know who honestly thinks about Texas other than people in Texas.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
No. I think about going home every night and then.
But that's visiting, yes, that's not that's not living. I
don't think of any other place to live.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I would rather deal with California's problems than other states problems.
And the people who are most belligerate about their complaints
about California are people who are living in California and
aren't leaving. So you know, it's fun to complain, but
you know, as good as I do you're not going
in all barking nobody.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
That's right. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You know, when you want to leave, you just leave.
You don't announce your departure like it's a damn airport.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
You just leave.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It's Later with Mo Kelly IM six forty Live everywhere
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Speaker 5 (27:37):
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Speaker 1 (27:49):
KFI.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Mister Kelly, It's Later with Mo Kelly Live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And I'm a fan of plastic bags.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Sorry, I know it's not popular, but here in California
they've had a soft band for the better part of
ten years. Where most grocery stores and various outlets they
will not offer plastic bags. If you go to Whole Foods,
for example, Mark spends a lot of time over there.
Whole Foods got just the paper bags, that's it. If
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you go to a place like Vonds, they'll have plastic bags.
And I like them, if only because I can use
them around the house. I use them as trash can liners,
I use them to pick up the dog poop. They
have all sorts of uses, but they're not popular with
this ecology. You know the plastic waste, But there's now
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data out from more than forty five thousand coastal cleanups
which long story short from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty three.
They were able to notice measurable differences of plastic bag
waste before and after the passage of these laws.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Like the ones here in California and other states. Quote.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Our research design allowed us to control for the share
of plastic bag litter in shoreline cleanups before and after
each policy's implementation, as well as plastic bag litter trends
from places that do not have a policy, and we
find that plastic bag policies led to a twenty five
to forty seven percent decrease in plastic bags as a
(29:26):
share of total items collected relative to areas without policies. Yeah,
I'm sure you would find fewer plastic bags. If you
are using fewer plastic bags. That doesn't surprise me at all.
What does surprise me is there has not been a
better alternative to use at grocery stores. I use Whole
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Foods as an example. They don't even want you to
bring your own bags anymore. They want you to use
their plastic bags. And I know my wife when she
goes to cost so she has all these tote bags
that she's using for all of her food and everything.
I like the actual plastic bags. Damn the environment.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I need this.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Look Mark wants to clown me about this, but it's true.
It's all about me, and I need those single use
plastic bags because I can use in four or five
places around the house. They have not come up with
an adequate substitute for those plastic bags. And I've said
this before and I'll say it again. Why is it
we're only concerned with the plastic bags. When I can
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walk into any grocery store and walk up and down
the aisles, and I'll see the two liter bottles of
soda or any type of drink. There's plastic and just
about all of these products. But we're concerned about the
plastic bags only. That's what I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Well, plastic bags, more often than not, are the things
that are damaging the environment the most, especially animals, because
those are things that get out into the ocean. Wells
or swad f won them. You cannot f one the
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plastic bag theory.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
No, f one the sea lions and the dolphins and
the sea turtles.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
That's not my problem.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
My favorite was they switched to paper straws, but the plastics.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Right, Well, now here's the thing to to help everyone
understand what is happening with the advancements here in our
plastics here in California. We are coming up with better
bio degradable options as far as plastic bags within this
ten year period. This is what we've been doing here
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in California.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Hopefully, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I mean, we didn't use any plastic bags tonight, but
I got a plastic dish from our food.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
We got plastic.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
This is a recyclable thing. This is this is plastic.
It's made from recyclable plastic.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Listening, that's plastic. That's not pepper, that's plastic.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
But this is this used to be like uh, paper
plastic cup or something.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
This used to be a bunch of straws. I don't
care if they reused the plastic. It's still plastic. It's
not one of those recyclable material uh uh, grocery bags
that you'll see.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Look, Carnesia would not bring us any non bio degradable plastics.
This plastic that we have here with our delicious spinach
artitop jyp dip and you call it roto what is it?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
It is called rotail dip.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Rotail dip. Oh with with the with the pepper, the tomato. Yeah,
that's all you got, a little, just a little thing.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Eric Lesarto on the Motown Chat says, true. We reuse
them as in plastic bags all the time. I use
them to line the small trash cans around the house, bathrooms,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yes, I do. I do.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
It's better than buying a whole bag of plastic bags.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Like not buying plastic bags. The cat litter goes in
those bags. You want me to, like you said, buy
a bag for the cat litter.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
No, I'm saying, I reuse these bags to pick up
the dog poop.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I don't buy doggie bags that you know, what what
what to me?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You supposed to buy a little doggie bags?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You when I'm when I'm walking around like the you know,
when I'm walking somewhere out the house, but in the backyard,
I use those grocery bags because they're they're.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Let them have it, carnesian.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Well, no, no, leave my poop alone.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
O O.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
We got to go to break any health. Yeah, excuse me,
can't I exse forty live every morny in I heart
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Speaker 5 (33:48):
Up as buy and KOs T HD two, Los Angeles,
Orange County more stimulating talk
Thank that it is Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I am six forty years later with mo Kelly went
live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app. And
I'm here to tell you if someone should give you
the opportunity to drive from Redondo Beach to Burbank on
a Friday in summer, very politely declined the opportunity because.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I tell you I had a great day today. I
had a great day, Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Went out to see some friends from high school, South
Tornes High School class of nineteen eighty seven, Gohot Spartans,
and we were having lunch today at the Rebel Republic
Social House in Redondo Beach. They had a street fair
going on there. Great time, great friends, great conversation. And
I had to walk like a half a mile because
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I couldn't park right next to the restaurant because of.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
The street fair.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So when I left at about one fifty five PM,
had to walk back to my car. So that was
a good fifteen minutes. Then I got in the car
around two tennish. Did not get to the studio and
I came directly from Redonald Beach, did not stop.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It took me two hours.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It took me a good twenty minutes to get to
the four or five freeway, and the four or five
freeway on a Friday is nobody's friend. It's nothing nice.
You don't want to do it, but you know I
do a lot for my friends. Got on the four
h five and it's one of those things where you
just know you have a two hour ride. Because not
that I needed GPS to know where I was going,
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but I just needed to know how long it was
going to take me to get to the studio. It
just said, yeah, most it's gonna be four ten, four
fifteen before you walk in the studio, so just get comfortable.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I say all this to.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Say I have a new favorite station music wise. Music Wise,
shout out to iHeartRadio app. But it's not about you today,
It's all about me. Have you ever listened to yacht
rock on Serious FM, Serious XM very much?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yes? Oh my goodness, magnificent, isn't it? I could have scorn.
I was in a time machine. They got some jams?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do they have jam? And it's just jam? A's to jam.
It's a jam jet. I could not go wrong. And
I know people were looking at me when I was traveling,
like what is up? With this dude, because I'm singing
I got the sun roof O. But I'm yelling at
the top of my lungs, I'm clapping to the beat
and I'm dancing the cart. Why because I have a
two hour ride at yeah, eight miles an hour, so
you know, it's not like I had to worry about anything,
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so I might as well get comfortable and was really
enjoying myself. I have discovered yacht rock on Serious XM.
It is something else and I got serious exit you
mean diehard radio app or no, no, no serious ex.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I got it when I got the car.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
They have like this fee yeah, yeah, and I kept
it for like it's like two dollars a month, so
I was like, okay, I can I can handle that.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And it's like oo and each one.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And what you don't know is when you get in
the car, it'll start like recording from that point. So
if I leave yacht rock and go yach rock and
go to some other station, it's still recording up to
like an hour, so I can come back and I
won't miss into the song.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
But for the radio correct correct that's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And also also there's a function where when you get in.
It always starts wherever the song the new song is,
So if you happen to get in and the song
is only like a minute thirty in, you missed the
first minute thirty it'll automatically start you at the beginning
of the song.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Okay, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, And you can't skip forward to the live stream,
but it's almost like you just always have perfect timing.
It's a really really well thought out experience, and we
have two hours.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
For those that don't know, break down some of the
playlists that's on a yacht rock station.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Oh, I gotta think Little River Band, George Benson Brothers,
Doobie Brothers.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, they played minute by minute. When I was driving out,
it was just there. Christopher Cross, it was just the same. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, Ambrosia, you know, the biggest part of me, that
kind of thing. It just it was it's great music.
It just it made me feel good. Oh no, it
felt great, just completely relaxing music. It was a beautiful day,
great time with friends, great music. It just put me
in the right head space because if you have to
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drive two hours, you think you're gonna be just really
really surly by the time you get out of the car.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That was great. It was just wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Can't recommend the channel enough so you know, yeah, that
was my day coming all right, good night. Can if
I answered forty, we'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh oh, we got a show to do.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh, Mark Ronner, I know you have the Runner Report
coming up tonight. What are we going to be learning about.
We're going to talk about F one tonight.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Hey hey, hey watch them out? What it's the racing movie?
Oh oh, I thought you were Formula one Racing. I'm
excited about this with Brad Pitt. All right, wait what
in the about say? What in the and then the letter?
Are you talking about? That may be pushing though, No, no,
we'll get it sorted out.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I promise I would never do anything that I knowingly
thought was inappropriate on the public's airways. You would never,
not never, So you're not f one ning around with
this movie. No, no, I take this seriously. F one.
It's not like a tornado. I'm not current on my
tornado lingo mo are you yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I am? Okay, that's that's like the smallest powerful tornado,
I say, one.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Oh, thank you for that real quick. Speaking of movies,
did you. I haven't seen it. But do you watch
the Poop Cruise?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I refuse to watch it. You're not gonna watch it?
I'm in between.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't. I'm going on a cruise in August. I
don't want that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Like, for example, there's certain movies I'm not gonna watch
before I get on a plane. I'm not gonna go
watch Airport seventy seven first one. You know I'm not
gonna watch Flight with Denzel Washington.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You know I'm not. There's just some things I'm just
not gonna do. I think I'm tempting the gods or something. No,
you don't want a Poop Cruise?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No? No, there's certain things I don't want to have
to mentally push aside.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I may watch it, but I was really thinking about
it last night.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
When I got home. I think, like, all right, what's
on my DVR? What are some of the other documentaries,
because I really like documentaries. So I'm flipping through the
different apps, and Poop Cruise obviously came up, and it's like, oh,
should I start watching this now?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No, it's probably not gonna be a good idea.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Put it on a double bill with that Jim Jordan
one yeah, but I've already done the Jim Jordan one.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I finished surviving Ohio State. You need a follow up? Then,
that's not except the palate cleanser. Yeah, not late at night.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, a cruise where coopage was oozy out of the doors.
And no, I mean you get that's not No, that's
that's not a palate cleanser. That's not something that I
want to end my day with. Can you can you
give me another recommendation?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
No documentaries, but there's really nothing on streaming right now.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Oh the Old Guard comes out? What is that next week? Week? Well,
did you see the first one of those?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And like it was fine streaming? Yeah, it's five for
I don't have to leave my house. I'm without paying money.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It's like, you know, it's rated in for Netflix mark
it's part of the subscription.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And I couldn't lean on the first one. We've said
it before. You got to check out Black Mirror, Mo, okay,
I think you'll get addicted. Oh you've never seen Black Mirror.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
No I haven't. Oh, put that at the top of
your list. It's really good, all right.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
If you don't want to watch, it's not a pelic Clenser,
I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Is it but it's not poop related? Is it episodic
where I have to start season? Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
It's an anthology and after the first season they're a
little bit hit and miss, but everyone is still worth
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Let me tell you something. The very first episode is
a whopper bosh. Do you remember the first ye?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Okay, it's it was like it's almost like a It's
almost like an X rated Twilight Zone. It involves a
British politician being blackmailed into doing something fairly gross that
you would maybe find on one but in general solid show.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Okay, you've almost told me.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
All right, it's later with Mokeli if I am since
forty live everywhere in the Iheartradiot.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Oh I forgot before before we go to break uh.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yesterday on the show, we were talking about the cities
which had canceled their Independous Day solebrations and some of
you were very angry at the idea. It's like, no,
they should have the July fourth celebration. One of those
cities was Huntington Park. Did you see the ice rate
in Huntington Park today? With a literally blue the door
off a house with explosives to get a woman out
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of the house. Now, you tell me if you haven't
seen anything. I think it's at NBC for Los Angeles.
I'll even put the link in the chat at the
Motown chat. If that isn't reason enough to possibly not
have a large celebration where you could have complete chaos
and bedlam, I don't know what to tell you. And
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that was in Huntington Park, one of the cities which
said no, we're not going to do that public celebration.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It's just not safe.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's Later with mo Kelly Kefi I am SINX forty
live everywhere on social media and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty KFI.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
It's Later with mo Kelly Live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio app. I want to say thank you
for the shout out and call back to Lucy Hill
in traffic. Yes, yacht Rock is something you need to
be listening to if you don't already. It's changed my
life in just a few days, changed all of it.
Something else I wanted to talk about tonight. I didn't
have a chance to preview it. But we often talk
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about animals in the neighborhood. I talk about the problems
that I have with coyotes and concerns that I have
with coyotes. I don't know what I would do if
I lived in let's say, Sierra Madre or some of
the communities in which they're dealing with bears. I don't
know what I would do if I'd walk into my
backyard and it was a bear in it.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Coyote is a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I'll hit that thing over the head with a stick,
you know, whatever, you know, But what are you gonna
do with a bear other than run?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And they can run like thirty miles an hour? Yeah,
what do want to do? Climb a tree? They can
climb trees.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
They can open doors to cars. They're like velociraptors, just furry.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
When I saw this story, I was reminded two and
a half weeks ago or so, one of my neighbors
who has fully moved back into his house on our block,
there's not many people there right now. Late at night,
and actually, actually you know what't even late may be
around eight o'clock, bears plural were knocking over his trash
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can and trying to see what's what now because there's
nothing in the way, and all of Altadiya is basically
nature now with a few plots here and there.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Every animal's coming down the hill.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
We're talking about the number of bear sightings, specifically in
La County's Foot Hill communities have increased dramatically, probably directly
and indirectly due to the fires. The geography and topography
has changed, to your point, to all, there's nothing inhibiting them,
and it's probably changed their food.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
You know where they're looking for food, the frequency.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I know part of the reason why we have coyotes
in our neighborhood is they know when trash day is
so that food source is out there and they're usually
rummaging in and around the trash cans. To your point,
bears are probably doing the same thing. But I can
mentally and emotionally wrap my head around a coyote. I
(12:27):
see these videos if you go to our YouTube channel,
you see the bears. They understand windows and doors, they
understand how to open doors. When I see the video
of the bear checking the door and pull it on
the lock, It's like, I don't know what you do
with that you know, because you could be literally at
the wrong place and wrong time and happen upon a
bear and her cub, and then that's your ass.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Every time.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I'm in Altadena for the past few weeks, pretty much
there until it starts getting close to dusk, and that
is when you just see packs of.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Coyotes just running around.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
And I'm thinking to myself, Okay, coyotes, got it. This
bear sighting. That's my next door neighbor. That's not down
the street, around the corner. There's our house, there's their house.
Bears in his driveway. That's like right next door house.
I'm thinking to myself, I pull up in that neighborhood
at night and I see a mama bear in some cubs,
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or if.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You don't see them, you may not be aware of them.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
The California Department of Fishing Wildlife has said that they've
received fifteen reports of bear sightings or encounters just this
month alone. Okay, fifteen sightings and this is June twenty seventh,
so it's not even it's better than one every other
day on average.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
On average. I don't know what's worse.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The bears are the bees, because I'm running from the
bees and I'm running from the bears.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm not running from the coyotes. I just what are
you supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
What is it you're supposed to, like, obviously, stay absolutely still,
But how do you stay still when a bear is
walking to you.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I thought you're supposed to make yourself as tall as
you possibly can, and you're supposed to like make noise
as much noise as you can and try to make
yourself bigger.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And does that make does it make it attack you? No? No, no, no,
it seemed like a thread or something.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
No, we need to look that up because I don't
know if that's a I don't know if that's a
good idea, because me, I'm not saying anything. I am
frozen statue. No, I'm not trying to run. I'm not
trying to do anything. And if it takes a swipe
at me, I'll just have to play dead. That's all
I can do.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, it is true. You do have to make yourself
big and loud.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You raise your arms or jacket to look larger, and
you shout or make noise yello, clap, bang pots.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
You tell the bear to leave you alone. Talk to
the bear as calmly.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
And in theory maybe, But if you have a five
hundred pound bear in front of you, it's counterintuitive to
me to try to agitate it and and get more
of its attention. I want less of its attention. I
don't want the bear to think this mother father is
trying to raise up on me. Oh no, the last
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thing I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Do is try to get the bears attention.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Don't mode if a African American bear approaches you.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
What about the south Land that was dangel?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Okay, so this is specifically for African American bears, not
Latino bears or Caucasian bears, not.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Brown bears, not not caucas bears, African American bears aka
black bears. Stand your ground, back away only when the
bear stops its approach. See that's why that's specifically for
African American bears. They wouldn't say that for polar bears.
Make yourself look bigger. I don't like the fact that
the youth bigger. I don't like that it's too close.
(15:54):
Make yourself look bigger by raising your arms and jacket
and standing on a rock or a stump if you
find one, like in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yell, hey, bear, loudly. I kid you not. I kid
you not? Hey bear? Oh that's what I'm telling you.
Tell me the truth, Tell me the truth. Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
If you should happen to see a bear walking, let's
say in your general direction down the street, let's say
it's Elsa Gundo Boulevard, just hypothetically, yeah, are you comfortable
with raising your arms up and making noise in the
hopes of it's going to be scared away? Well, the
(16:35):
way before you answer reminds you that it knows how
to use doors, so it really is like a veloc
around it.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's rather intelligent. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Well, after wedding myself, I would probably run as fast
as I could.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That's all I would do. Now for foods, No, you
do not run down I know, but I have to.
You have to stand your ground food. It even says
if the bear can he used to follow you. After
you stand your ground and say, hey bear, go away.
It says, prepare to fight or use bear spray? How
are you gonna prepare to fight a belt? It says
(17:11):
if the African American bear keeps approaching, get ready to
squab there to fight? What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Kick?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
It, punch it. What what am I supposed to do
with a bear? Get a pan and knock it up?
Walking down the street. I'm walking down the street. I
don't have take your belt off.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And discipline it, reprimand you could. If you can take
the bear in this nose with your buckle, you can. Okay,
let's let's be clear. You have one shot with your
belt buckles, so.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
You fetter him, right, I'm thinking if anything, even if
you do get that off, you're gonna just piss it off.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
That's what I was thinking. Well, whatever you do, don't run.
And if the black bear I'm sorry, African American bear
makes contact with you, do not play dead. Don't do that.
So everything I'm thinking it's just wrong. Yes, everything. Don't
just don't try to stand there and not move. Don't
try to run.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Nope.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
If the bear makes contact with you, fight back with
anything a hand, sticks, rocks, binocular, backpack, or by kicking.
So if it just bumps into me, if it makes
contact with you, it's not bumping into you. It's biting,
it's swiping, it's coming at you. They don't just like
give you a pound, like what's up.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
They don't. That's not how they make contact.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
If the bear makes contact with me, let's say, with
bad intentions, it doesn't matter what I do.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Over it does. Do not play dead, stand your round.
Who do you know is fought off a bear? And
you know this because this is something you practice in
your dojong. Do not turn your back to the bear. Ever, No,
I get to hate the bear, and you back away
from the bear, and if it approaches, we go. That's
when you're supposed to take action.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, I get that, all right. No, I would never
turn my back on a bear. Never. But I'm definitely
not gonna I'm wearing a belt right now. I Am
not going to take off my.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Belt and take a swipe at it, because does that
like put the disadvantge because you're holding your pants and swipe.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well, not only that, it's like you have in other words,
it's almost like if I were to walk up on
Tawalle and hit him in the face. Maybe he wasn't
trying to start a fight, but as soon as I
hit him in.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The face, the fight is on. The fight has begune.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Also, you don't want to go to meet your maker
with your pants falling down.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Nothing. I don't think it really makes any difference at
that point, wear pants down. It really doesn't matter. It's interesting. Yeah,
you're done.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
If I am six forty, it's Later with mo Kelly
lied everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Twala, Are you going
anywhere for this holiday? I mean not holiday, the summer
driving anywhere. I'm trying not to let me see Mark,
Are you going anywhere this holidays? Not a holiday but
summer season? Driving anywhere?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Talking about it, but haven't ironed out any plans yet.
Have you got some recommendations?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Wait, no, damn comic go on, don't try to drive
out there? Maybe? Uh?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Oh wait yo, Actually, Tawala, you mentioned us going to
a casino for something. You have to try to see
if we could get a hold of that Superman that
they're advertising given away at at Morongo.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I think don't tell everyone about it.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Oh, I'm sorry, but they advertised, they've advertised it on
the station.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Oh crap, Okay, I forget when that is. But that'd
be a fun road trip.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You might have to take into account the price of gas,
because in July prices are expected to rise because of
the state sales tax hike and stricter rules on refineries
to encourage them to create lower carbon fuels, which could
boost the price nearly seventy cents per gallon. Right now,
(21:02):
the current average for the state is four dollars and
sixty four cents per gallon. And if you're wondering, last
year at this time, it was four dollars and eighty
one cents. So we are down, yeah, down seventeen cents
since last year at this time, but it may jump
up again. It's not uncommon for prices to rise during
the summer because summer, bland, winter, blend, all that kind
(21:24):
of stuff. You were going to commonly pay more during
the summer, but you're going to pay a lot more
this summer, which is why I asked where you might
be going and whether you have to actually think about
gas as a byproduct of going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm still mad at Stefan because he didn't tell me
how great it was to have a hybrid until after
I had a hybrid.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You realize, oh, you have a hybrid.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh yeah, And I said, I'm getting five hundred miles
to the tank and Stephan Is like, yeah, I was like.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, why didn't you tell me this?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
It's so funny because when the Prius became like a thing,
all anyone did was talk about the look of it.
But when I research the technology behind it, I'm like,
why would you not want to get one? And I
wanted one for so long and now I do ubers.
Obviously it helps with that, but I will never go
back to a fully unless they become like a millionaire.
(22:21):
I will never go back to a fully combustible engine.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
My hybrid is not a plug in where I put
gas in it and it recharges the battery generative breaking.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I'm sorry, regenerative breaking. Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I don't have to do anything other than put gas
in it, but I still get an extra two hundred
miles to each quote unquote tank love it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
If I had someone walk me through the process of
the pluses and minuses of a hybrid, I would have
had a hybrid a long time ago, long time ago.
Still not to the point of ev because I still
have range anxiety and it as much driving as I do,
like today, I was today, for example, I was in
the car for two hours, just one way one way,
(23:04):
and that I.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Think that came out to maybe I want to say
fifty miles. About how often are you filling up? Once
every week and a half or so almost two weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
It depends on what's happening during the week, because if
I'm going to my mother's house, that's a little bit
of ways away or from you know, going to see
my sister and she lives in the Long Beach area.
But just as far as I'm just going to work,
it's probably once every two weeks.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I was gonna say, before Uber, it was once every
two weeks would I fill up?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It was beast in my car before this, I had
to every six days at the most, and it was
a thirteen gallon tank. I think Honda Civic might have
been fewer gallons. But yeah, I couldn't go a whole week.
No way, no way. But you're gonna be paying more,
That's the whole point of this. You're gonna be paying
possibly seventy cents more in the next month. And I
(23:57):
don't know if you moderate or modify you're driving relatives
to gas.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I just kind of, or at least in the past,
I've always just sort of dealt with it, and you
moan and you complain, you say, oh my gosh, just now,
let's say five dollars and twenty cents or something. But
that's a part of living in California. And we were
talking about this at lunch today and I'm saying, like, yeah,
for the things we do put up with. It was
(24:23):
seventy degrees and I was on the right on the
beach having lunch outdoors in the middle of summer. That's
a part of why we live here in California. Yes,
things are more expensive, including gas, including the general cost
of living, including rent, or the.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Cost of a real estate.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But when I was in my car for two hours
with the sun roof open, listening to yacht rock, yeah,
I like, Yes, this is why I'm here. This is
why I'm here as opposed to I don't know, Oklahoma.
This is why I'm here, as opposed to Tennessee. This
is why I'm here as opposed to Idaho or Nebraska.
You really can't beat California at its best. Does it
(25:05):
have a bunch of issues, of course, of course, But
when California is at its best, no place comes close.
And that's why I probably would never leave here. You know,
there are a couple of cities. I think we can
get rid of them. I'm gonna piss anybody off.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
But.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
California the state.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Absolutely And it's funny that you say that because it
never fails. Every time around the holidays, when I'm taking
people to the airport, they're like, man, I gotta go
back to XYZ. I don't want to leave here because
they got to go to winter and cold and snow
and it's freezing. And they're like, man, it's seventy degrees
here and I gotta go to like negative ten.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And as I get older, I have no tolerance for cold.
When I went out to Chicago earlier this year and
also the year before, so fun it's just been a
couple of days, like I'm not built for that anymore.
I went to school and somewhat cold weather in Washington, DC.
But no, I like nice eighty five percent of the year.
And when it's bad here, it's only like one hundred
(26:04):
and two. And I say only one hundred and two
because we don't have the humidity. It's hot in the valley,
but it's not human hot. It's not like New Orleans
in the summer. It's not like Erie Pennsylvania in the summer.
Not at all, not at all. So I mean looks,
it's fun, and it's kind of it's kind of almost
like pass a to rip on California. It's almost a
(26:26):
sport you get on social media, so like you want
to bash California. That's a new sport.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And I get it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You know, there's a political tie in, there's a social
tie in, and California is such a huge state economically
and also literally. It's a very easy punching bag. But
if you're in California, do you think about any other state? Honestly,
I don't, not at all, not at all. I don't
know who honestly thinks about Texas other than people in Texas.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
No. I think about going home every night and then.
But that's visiting, yes, that's not that's not living. I
don't think of any other place to live.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I would rather deal with California's problems than other states problems.
And the people who are most belligerate about their complaints
about California are people who are living in California and
aren't leaving. So you know, it's fun to complain, but
you know, as good as I do you're not going
in all barking nobody.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
That's right. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You know, when you want to leave, you just leave.
You don't announce your departure like it's a damn airport.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
You just leave.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
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Speaker 5 (27:37):
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Speaker 1 (27:49):
KFI.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
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Speaker 1 (27:57):
And I'm a fan of plastic bags.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Sorry, I know it's not popular, but here in California
they've had a soft band for the better part of
ten years. Where most grocery stores and various outlets they
will not offer plastic bags. If you go to Whole Foods,
for example, Mark spends a lot of time over there.
Whole Foods got just the paper bags, that's it. If
(28:19):
you go to a place like Vonds, they'll have plastic bags.
And I like them, if only because I can use
them around the house. I use them as trash can liners,
I use them to pick up the dog poop. They
have all sorts of uses, but they're not popular with
this ecology. You know the plastic waste, But there's now
(28:42):
data out from more than forty five thousand coastal cleanups
which long story short from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty three.
They were able to notice measurable differences of plastic bag
waste before and after the passage of these laws.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Like the ones here in California and other states. Quote.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Our research design allowed us to control for the share
of plastic bag litter in shoreline cleanups before and after
each policy's implementation, as well as plastic bag litter trends
from places that do not have a policy, and we
find that plastic bag policies led to a twenty five
to forty seven percent decrease in plastic bags as a
(29:26):
share of total items collected relative to areas without policies. Yeah,
I'm sure you would find fewer plastic bags. If you
are using fewer plastic bags. That doesn't surprise me at all.
What does surprise me is there has not been a
better alternative to use at grocery stores. I use Whole
(29:50):
Foods as an example. They don't even want you to
bring your own bags anymore. They want you to use
their plastic bags. And I know my wife when she
goes to cost so she has all these tote bags
that she's using for all of her food and everything.
I like the actual plastic bags. Damn the environment.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I need this.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Look Mark wants to clown me about this, but it's true.
It's all about me, and I need those single use
plastic bags because I can use in four or five
places around the house. They have not come up with
an adequate substitute for those plastic bags. And I've said
this before and I'll say it again. Why is it
we're only concerned with the plastic bags. When I can
(30:33):
walk into any grocery store and walk up and down
the aisles, and I'll see the two liter bottles of
soda or any type of drink. There's plastic and just
about all of these products. But we're concerned about the
plastic bags only. That's what I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Well, plastic bags, more often than not, are the things
that are damaging the environment the most, especially animals, because
those are things that get out into the ocean. Wells
or swad f won them. You cannot f one the
(31:10):
plastic bag theory.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
No, f one the sea lions and the dolphins and
the sea turtles.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
That's not my problem.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
My favorite was they switched to paper straws, but the plastics.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Right, Well, now here's the thing to to help everyone
understand what is happening with the advancements here in our
plastics here in California. We are coming up with better
bio degradable options as far as plastic bags within this
ten year period. This is what we've been doing here
(31:44):
in California.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Hopefully, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I mean, we didn't use any plastic bags tonight, but
I got a plastic dish from our food.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
We got plastic.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
This is a recyclable thing. This is this is plastic.
It's made from recyclable plastic.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Listening, that's plastic. That's not pepper, that's plastic.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
But this is this used to be like uh, paper
plastic cup or something.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
This used to be a bunch of straws. I don't
care if they reused the plastic. It's still plastic. It's
not one of those recyclable material uh uh, grocery bags
that you'll see.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Look, Carnesia would not bring us any non bio degradable plastics.
This plastic that we have here with our delicious spinach
artitop jyp dip and you call it roto what is it?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
It is called rotail dip.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Rotail dip. Oh with with the with the pepper, the tomato. Yeah,
that's all you got, a little, just a little thing.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Eric Lesarto on the Motown Chat says, true. We reuse
them as in plastic bags all the time. I use
them to line the small trash cans around the house, bathrooms,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yes, I do. I do.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
It's better than buying a whole bag of plastic bags.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Like not buying plastic bags. The cat litter goes in
those bags. You want me to, like you said, buy
a bag for the cat litter.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
No, I'm saying, I reuse these bags to pick up
the dog poop.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I don't buy doggie bags that you know, what what
what to me?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You supposed to buy a little doggie bags?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You when I'm when I'm walking around like the you know,
when I'm walking somewhere out the house, but in the backyard,
I use those grocery bags because they're they're.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Let them have it, carnesian.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Well, no, no, leave my poop alone.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
O O.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
We got to go to break any health. Yeah, excuse me,
can't I exse forty live every morny in I heart
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Speaker 5 (33:48):
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