December 10, 2024 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the Adam Schiff, being sworn in to fill Dianne Feinstein’s California's Senate seat AND New LA City Council members Adrin Nazarian & Ysabel Jurado…PLUS – A look at Mo’s heated Threads argument - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's Monday, mister Mokelly here k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
I gotta tell you tonight show is just gonna be
straight up fire. I have so much to say, we
have so much to cover. I'm gonna be right all
night long. Y'all are going to be wrong and mad
at me all night long. I'm calling my shot. I
am Babe Ruth, pointing out to the center field fence. Yeah,
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we're gonna talk about some Yankees and Juan Soto. We're
gonna talk about the new California Senator who has sworn
in today, Adam Schiff, and that showdown which is going
to happen on Capitol Hill. We have two new LA
City councilmen I'm birth sworn in today. We'll talk about
them and whether it will make any difference. And before
we finish the hour, I'm going to let you know that. Well,
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let me just let me set it up right now,
Mark Ronnie, first, good evening. You would have loved, loved
to have been a part of this conversation. You said
you missed me on Twitter slash x. Well, I had
an afternoon long, almost all day long fight I've been
against some seventy five hundred people over child rearing. Oh, yes,
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about how I am of the opinion that, yes, I
am a okay with people spanking their kids. Some people
don't know spanking is legal, child abuse is not. I
am aokay with people spanking their kids. And let me
just set this up now, so y'all can get mad
at me now, so when we really get into the conversation,
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you'll know why you're mad at me.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh, tee it up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
A couple weeks ago when I went to Ford for
the postathon and how you know, we're getting ready for postathon,
and there were a lot of listeners out there, and
it was every time I go out or I even
get on social media, someone wants to tell me my politics.
They always want to say, oh my gosh, I listened
to KFI, you're a liberal fresh air.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What are you talking about? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I had a listener walk up to me and said, mo,
I appreciate you being the liberal voice of reason. Okay,
I'm not madga, but if you knew my politics and
my beliefs across the wide expanse of issues, you wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'm all over the damn place.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
If someone calls you the Alan Colmes of KFI, punch
him right in the face.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's what it feels like, you know what I mean
exactly like they say, oh, hando, he's so liberal, and
and Gary.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Shannon, they try to play it right down the middle.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I know they are, and they go down the whole
lineup and they say, but at least you you know,
we know where you stand.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's like, clearly you don't.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I'm not mad, but me and the reason I'm talking
about this when it comes to child rearing and child
expectations and how I would treat children, I can say definitively,
with no exaggeration, I'm probably the most conservative person here
on this station. Barn up when it comes to child
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rearing and what do I expect of children and how
they should be treated. I'm not like the Handmaid's Tale.
I'm not saying I want Bibles and schools or anything
like that. But when it comes to child rearing, yes,
I am all for spanking children, spare the rod, spoil
the child, all of that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I will go deep on that. Had a long ass argument.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
With all you liberals out there talking about whoh you
can't touch the child.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That's child abuse. How dare you can't raise a.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Child without leg your hands on this?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yes, I can't.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's legal, and I advocate it because you know what,
I was gonna talk about this in the bottomly hour,
but I'm here now.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I am tired of your badass kids.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I am tired of your stak ass kids and the
smashing grabs and e looting and you're going into the
seven elevens and your street takeovers. And every time I
see a little fifteen, sixteen, seventeen year old kid involved
in that, I said, that's another mother father who never
got his ass what growing up because they never learned consequences, boundaries,
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parameters prior to that moment. They didn't know that there
were consequences. They thought that they could do whatever they want,
and they have been doing whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Have you been in a public school lately? How they
talk to teachers?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Have you heard them? I know Toawala? Has these these
kids talk however they want to teachers? Well, however they
want to adults. And I wish I wish a mother
father would talk that way to me as a teacher.
I wish because I might go to jail.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You'd sit them right down and show them a copy
of two Sir with Life, and that'd be the end
of it.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I will say this, I will say this, and this
is a function of growing up in martial arts. It's
the closest thing we have to what I would want.
In schools today, everything is yes sir, no sir. If
you want to disagree, or you can disagree on the
other side of the mat doing twenty pushups or you're
doing duck walks. There are consequences for you acting like
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an ass. You are a child. You're not an instructor.
You don't have a say. You're given instructions, you follow instructions. Yeah,
I'm being one hundred percent serious about that, and we'll
get into at the bottom of the hour. I don't
want to give it all the way, but I went
ham on threads today at mister mo Kelly. You can
see it there. I said what I said, and I
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meant what I said. If you don't like it, well
I got the microphone. I'm not going to lose I
got electricity. I'm not going out of business anytime soon.
But you know, if you've been really listening to the show,
you might have noticed I have not talked about the
a lled UHC United Healthcare shooter suspect, And that was
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very intentional. It was intentional because even though we live
in a twenty four to seven news cycle, I feel
I have a responsibility to not rush to cover everything.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The guy was on the loose.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We didn't know if it was the person, We didn't
know any supposed motive. We don't We didn't know whether,
at least at that time, whether Brian Thompson, the CEO
of United Healthcare, when he was gunned down, was it
related to his.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Business or his personal life. We knew nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And I would say, by and large, the news media,
and I'm a part of the news media. I don't
do news, but I'm a part of the news media.
You listen to KFI, it's a news talk station. We
have personalities and we deal with the news and you know,
through our own lens. But I'm not delivering the news.
And I think I have a responsibility to be responsible.
And I wasn't going to speculate about who was the
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shooter or why you had all sorts of speculation about
whether it wasn't actually a guy, or whether it was
a woman, whether it was having to do with health care,
whether they had to do.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
With some sort of affairs. No, No, you don't have
to do that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You don't have to have all the answers or speculate
all the possible scenarios from from day one through day five.
You can say, we're monitoring, we're watching it, we're aware,
and when we have someone in custody, we'll know more.
We can go from there. Now there's someone in custody.
Now there's even an alleged manifesto. Now we have some
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actual information which is corroborated by evidence, which would suggest
some sort of motive that this guy would ties to California,
ties to Santa Monica and Stanford. Luigi Mangioni, twenty six
years old, did this possibly, You're still alleged because of
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his hatred.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Of the health care system.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
My words, he's angry at the healthcare system, and he
said he had to do this, paraphrasing in so many words.
And we'll know more about him. We will know whether
he developed these views while he was at Stanford, whether
he was you know, when he was working elsewhere, whether
he was radicalized by some outside influence when he was
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working at True Car full disclosure.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I used to endorse true car. We don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
We are going to find out in the next few days.
We don't have to put all the dots together just
because he's now in custody. They are combing law enforcement,
they are combing his social media, they are talking to
his neighbors, they're talking to his family. Will know more
probably at the next press conference. And they're still not
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going to tell us everything because they're building a case
against him. They're going to charge them on probably some
weapons charge, not charging with murder yet because they're still
building the case. And that's probably why haven't they charged
it with murder, because their case is not strong enough yet.
They have not placed him at the scene. They have
not placed him at the scene with the with the weapon.
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There may be some other information which ties him directly
to Brian Thompson. It may have been an email exchange. Well,
hear about all that in the coming days. That's why
I did not say anything about Brian Thompson and Luigi
until today.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Now we can talk about it. Now we can talk
about something that's tangible, something that's real.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Now we know that this guy most like he probably
maybe was the one who did it and why?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And did you watch what was happening on social media?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh my goodness, the amount of people who were condoning murder.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
They're something, Eh, I'm okay with this murder.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
If someone needs to die, let it be one of
those healthcare CEOs. I'm not mad in fact that there
were actual stories about how internet sleuths were refusing to help.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
That's a six society in which we live at. That
is absolutely sick.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I don't care whether you hate healthcare or you hate
the health care providers, if you hate the whole healthcare system.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
That we have, in fact I do. I do.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Doesn't mean I want anyone killed mean I want someone murdered.
And regardless of whether I agree with the person or
disagree with the person, that's still someone's father, someone's son,
someone's brother, Somebody loved him, someone cared about him, someone
is grieving right now. The last thing I would want
is that person murdered. I don't care who that is.
You can put anyone in that blank. I don't wish
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murder on anyone, but I think the murder of Brian
Thompson said far more about us than the guy they
have in custody.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Adam Schiff, Like him or loathe him. He is now
the junior senator for the state of California, so he's
going back to Washington, and you're wondering, probably will he
be the foil in a congressional sense to Donald Trump.
Yes and no, Yes and no.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And I talked about this on Spectrum today as part
of my weekly segment o Kelly Monday's. He will be
a part of the loyal opposition, as they call it.
He will be a part of the Democratic Party and
any resistant small r to the sitting president and his party.
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That's not any different than any other time in history.
It's not special in any way. But I will say
that there will come a time in which Adam Schiff
and President Elect Donald Trump he will be president, eventually
will butt heads. They will come to some sort of
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entanglement in a political sense. Why because Adam Shiff, as
he is part of the loyal opposition, he will probably
be part He will probably be one of the louder
voices of the loyal opposition. One because he is a
senator from California and Governor Newsom and other California politicians
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have made a very clear claim as far as how
California is going to play a role in either putting
an obstacle in front of President Trump, future President Trump,
or somehow being the antithesis to whatever Donald Trump wants
to do. So there will be some sort of fight
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along the way eventually. But I don't think Adam Schiff
as a senator is going to be the same he
was as a congressman. He's not going to lead any
impeachment proceeding, but he will be a louder voice one
because he's just a junior senator. And if you know
how politics works and you know how seniority works, he
has none. So it's not like he's going to be
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placed on the committees where he will have any influence.
One the Democrats will be the minority party, so they
will not have any.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Chairs of any committees.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
And also he will have no seniority, so he's not
going to be placed on let's say, an intelligence committee.
He's not going to be placed on any of the
powerful committees like the Armed Services Committee. He probably won't
have any meaningful committee assignments, and he won't have any
stature on those committees, so his relevance and power will
be limited at best. I expect Adam Schiff to keep
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his powder dry, as they say, for maybe the next
year or so, because there's gonna be plenty of things
if you want to be the opposition to Donald Trump,
plenty of things and opportunities to do that. Yes, Donald
Trump will probably part in the January sixth.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Contingent. He probably will.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
He probably will place people in place like Cashouttel who
will investigate Donald Trump's enemies. Yes, but don't expect Adam
Schiff to be leading the way on anything, especially not
in the early going.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You would have to probably look elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
There will be other opportunities if you support the Democrats
to somehow meant amounts of defense against anything that Donald
Trump is doing. But Adam shift was sworn in today
and today is real early in the process. But I
wouldn't expect any fireworks for at least a year or so.
Could be wrong, It's not often, but could be wrong.
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But I wouldn't expect anything in the near future because
the Democrats, with no real power, have to be judicious
in how they use their social capital when they're going
to try to come together as a party and line
up against let's say a nominee, or let's say they're
trying to stop a policy and they want to sway
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a couple of Democratic senators. Excuse me, Lolican senators. Then
you may see Adam Schiff step more to the forefront.
But as far as seniority goes, no, no, no, you won't
be seeing as much of him as you have in
previous years. More locally, a lot of discussion about the
La City Council getting not one but two new members
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Isabelle Gradro and Idrin in this area. Also, both of
them were sworn in today and they are representing the
second and fourteenth districts respectively. And something I was asked
on Spectrum today is like does this matter?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Does this meany?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
They?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What do you make of it? And I said, you
know what, not a lot. And here's why. Here's why.
Now I'm quite sure that people in their districts who
voted for him are happy that the person that they
voted for one.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
But here's the truth. You know, when you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Talk about the La City Council, you can talk about
Jose Huizard, you can talk about Mitch england Er, you
can talk about Mark Ridley Thomas, you can talk about
current prices. Just because you have a different city Council member,
it doesn't mean that La City Council is any different.
It doesn't mean that someone else isn't going to get
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indicted next week. It doesn't mean that just because Kevin
dally On is gone, it doesn't mean that there won't
be some other scandal enveloping the whole City Council in
the coming weeks, months, or years. It doesn't mean that.
It just means we have two new city council members.
And how do I know this Because once upon a time,
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Jose Huizar was a new City Council member and Mitch
Englander was a new City Council member, and they had
the same charge, you know, going to put a different
face on city Hall. They were going to clean up
what was happening on the La City Council. They were
to make sure that the body would be more respected.
And then you know, you get someone like Mark Ridley Thomas,
who came from LA politics. He was a former LA
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County supervisor and he was well respected in various communities.
And then we saw how all that turned out. And
that's still being adjudicated. I mean, he was convicted, but
he's trying to get a you know, this conviction over
time penny appeal. So what happens with the La City
Council I can't tell you. Is there another investigation going
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on that we just don't know about. Probably probably because
after so many investigations of La City Hall, it probably
spiraled into other investigations. And you won't know because usually
when they are federal investigations, in fact, always when they're
federal investigations, you won't know unless an indictment is being
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brought against a member or multiple members. They're investigated all
the time, and we the general public won't know because
I know this from sitting on a federal grand jury.
If no true bill is reached, no indictment is reached,
then the investigation goes away and they don't make a
public announcement. Yeah, we investigated these city Council members and
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we didn't come up with enough or anything which was
prosecutable or any enough evidence where they could secure a conviction.
We won't know, But the only thing I would bet
on is that there are multiple investigations even still, even
still so the La City Council may not be out
of the woods.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
We may not know what lies beneath.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
So my takeaway is this, Yes, we have two new
La City Council members for the second and fourteenth districts. No, no,
I have no idea whether that will change anything, whether
that means that there will be better governance, whether that
will be a better partnership with the mayor, Karen Bass.
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I have no idea whether that means that our city
will be more efficient.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
It just means we have two new people.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yes, I am a firm supporter of corporal punishment. Spankings
are legal here in California, child abuse is not. If
you can conflate the two or assume that they are
the same, then you're just being dishonest. I don't care
about your feelings. I'm only talking about the facts. Okay.
If you consider spanking the same as I don't know,
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punching a child in the throat or upper cutting them
to their gut, well you're just being dishonest.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I'm not talking about that.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
But here's what started on threads at mister Monkelly on
threads Mr m ok E L L Y. And this
is reminiscent of some of the battles that I got
into with people on Twitter that Mark Runner says he
loves so much. Well, got a good dose of it today.
On threads there was a post by this person named
Rihanna now Paul or something, and her post was unpopular opinion,
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beating your kids is domestic violence. I don't know how
that's unpopular, but yes, if you're beating your kids, yes,
that would be a form of domestic violence.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I don't think anyone would really disagree with that.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
But my response had a little bit more nuance in it,
and to the point I said, quote, I am aoka
with spanking spanking and always will be. Anyone who disagrees
is welcome to raise their kids however they want.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But here's what I from.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We believe that children are not to be rationalized with
as they are emotionally incapable of fully understanding the world.
They are to be taught consequences and boundaries before the
world does in the form of prison and or the morgue.
And we wonder why kids are out of control today
with no respect for people, police, or boundaries.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Stay out of my house close. Quote.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Y'all can be mad, y'all can be angry, y'all can
be emotional, you can be irrational. But I was raised
in a house in which you didn't talk back, You
did not have an opinion, You didn't have a discussion
or a debate with an adult.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'll give you an example.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
My mother told me maybe while I was maybe four
years old, there was around four or five, She told me,
do not run in the street.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Okay. It wasn't a conversation about.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
The dangers of a car careening around the corner, which
may run you down and you may not be able
to see the car, or the car may not be
able to see you because of your low stature, which
may be below the horizon of the driver's dashboard. It
wasn't that it will stay your ass out of the
street or you're gonna get a boat whooping. And I
got maybe five or six or so, because I remember
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we had just moved into the house that my mother
lives in to this day, and it was light outside
I think it was in the summer. I had a
little time to myself on supervised For some reason, they
probably called my mother a bad mother today and I
looked left and looked right, and I didn't see the
cars coming. My ball had gone on the street. Why
would I not chase after my ball? I didn't know
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my mother was watching me from the window. And then
I ran out into the street, got my ball, got back,
everything was fine. No cars came around the corner. My
mother tore out the house and tore my ass up.
Why because I disobeyed her. It wasn't about whether I
could make a case and debate about whether I was
mature enough to go out into the street. She didn't
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have time to try to explain to me how I
put myself in danger and could have gotten myself killed
because a car often came around that corner because it
was a blind corner, way too fast and wouldn't have
been able to stop if I happened to be out there.
She gave me an order. She gave me a directive.
It was not a topic for discussion, and since I
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disobeyed that order, she whooped my ass. Why because she
knew as a young child, I could better understand wanting
to avoid the whooping as opposed to understanding the fullness
of the danger of a car coming around the corner.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And my parents. Both of them understood it.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Was okay for me to fear them, a healthy fear,
healthy fear because my healthy fear of them was carried
with me when I went to school. It carried with me,
so I didn't there was a limit to the things
I would do out there because I couldn't fundamentally understand
what it would mean to get arrested or go to juvie,
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or do something that was so stupid that it might
get me killed. And I'll give you something else. And
there's a cultural difference here I want to drill down on.
It's culturally different from many African American families and many
non black families, especially in the nineteen seventies. I was
growing up with a parent, my father, who grew up
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in segregated Virginia. My mother less so in integrated Detroit.
But my father was very conscious of making sure I
didn't put myself in a situation where I would have
been treated differently and I would have lost control of
my own autonomy. I had a gun pull on me
by a police officer when I was thirteen years old.
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I don't know how many people listening can say the same.
And they were trying to protect me from a world
which may have seen me and reacted to me differently.
The foolishness that you see going on now, I definitely
could not have participated in back then. Why because I
probably would have been shot. And my parents didn't have
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time or the inclination to explain all the possible scenarios
of how I could have done something and then put
in the situation where I would have lost my freedom
or lost my life, and it was easier for them
to say, if you do this on a whoop your ass,
and many times they did. And because they did, they
protected me from prison, and they protected me from the more.
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And if they didn't, I promise you, I would have
been one of them out there smashing and grabbing. I
promise you I would have been one of them out
there in a street takeover. I would have been doing
all the things that you supposedly can't stand and complain
about on social media. You're probably some of the same
people who are reposting and resharing that little girl who
was acting up and losing her damn mind in a
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grocery store. You know why that never happened with me,
because I knew my parents would beat my ass if
I did, and they did for less, not because they
were abusing me, but they were protecting me because when
the police went around, I knew that my parents were
watching or my neighbors were watching, and if I acted
up in front of my neighbors, my neighbors would tell
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my parents and they would still have consequences waiting for me.
The reason I'm talking about this I am so tired
of this permissive society. And I talked in the first
segment about how I would say as far as child
rearing goes, I'm probably the most conservative person on this station,
bar none, because I have these conversations with the other
hosts and I know where they stand on certain things.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Certain things are just not gonna fly with me. Ever.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Ever, the reason I wear an undershirt to this day
and wear a belt is because my parents drilled it
into me. Right now, I'm wearing a white undershirt and
I'm wearing a belt because there was expectations as far
as how I was going to carry myself outside the
house so I would not be mistaken for a hoodlum,
for a thug, or someone who might be engaging in
criminal behavior. These are all the things talking about the
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cultural differences that African Americans often have to worry about
or also have to instill in kids that other parents
do not. It's a different ballgame. So if you don't
spank your kids, God bless you. I hope they turn
out to be wonderful. I hope they're great. I hope
they're very respectful. I hope they're quiet in class. I
hope they don't smash and grab. I hope they don't
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rob anyone. I hope they don't get involved in a
knockout game. But that doesn't work for all of them.
And I go to grocery stores and I see these
kids cussing out their parents. Don't tell me. I'm the
only one who sees this. I see these kids yelling
at their parents, calling them all names of the book.
Come here, timmy, no at you, no, come in, No, I.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Don't want to.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
The first I would have gotten out of my mouth.
My mother would have slapped the taste out of my mouth.
Oh that's child abuse.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
But you're the same folks complain about what you don't
like what you see, and you say we need to
have tougher laws. No, we need to have more.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Discipline because you can't instill discipline by the time they
get to be fourteen or fifteen.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
He has to be four or five.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I can tell you about some of the butt weapons
I got fifty years ago, which stay with me today
and tell me and remind me why I'm not.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Supposed to do certain things.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Why are my ass is not supposed to be in
certain places after certain hours, because not only did it
protect me as a child.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That protect me as a grown ass man. Discipline. We
don't want to talk about discipline because spanking is this
violentist town abuse. I remember that the next time you
complain about someone breaking in your house. I got more.
I got more to say.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It's Later, mo Kelly can if I am six forty
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Speaker 4 (27:48):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I'm not done. I got more to say. I got
more to say about your bad ass kids. I'm tired
of them. I'm tired of hearing them, I'm tired of
looking at them. I'm tired of them talking back to you.
You don't understand. I mean, this is not an act,
this is sincere. I see these kids talking back. I
see these kids calling their parents by their first name.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
It's really strange. It's really strange.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And whenever my blended does, whenever they would go out,
I told them there's a certain way you can and
there a certain way you cannot dress. There's a certain
way you can address adults, and there's a certain way
you cannot address adults. When you come up here, if
you're gonna be representing me, you're gonna be in a
collar chirt. You're not come up here in a T
shirt in shorts. Why Because you're gonna present yourself a
certain way. And when you get to be an adult,
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then you can do whatever you want. But until that time,
you're gonna do it my way. That's the way it is,
That's the way I was raised. You won't find me
buy and large in a T shirt, not at work,
not at work, because that's the way I carry myself
into something that was passed down to me and it
will always stay with me.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I'm a strict adherent to discipline.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Now, I can't beat the kids, can't spect the kids
in martial arts, but I can make them do twenty pushups.
I can make them do duckwalks. I can make them
do bear crawls all around the mat. There has to
be some sort of consequences that we have for kids.
I don't believe in reasoning with children because they're not
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responsible for anything. They're not emotionally developed enough to make
any life decisions. I give you a perfect example. Here
we go, Twalla, mister liberal mo Kelly. I am firmly
against kids, whether they are trans or not, changing their
name or their pronouns while they are minors.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
They can't legally change their name until they're eighteen.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
So if you're and I'm not trying to be disrespectful
or funny, but if you're twelve or thirteen and you
want to tage your name from Tom to Tina, I
got a problem with that, and I don't support that
because you're not older, you're not even past puberty, and
you want to make some life decision, and me, as
the adult, I'm supposed to respond to that. It's like
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being in love with someone. You're in love with someone
this week, it may be someone next week. Now you
may go through the change, and you may adhere to
it for the rest of your life. God bless you,
and I mean that sincerely. God bless you. But as
a child, there's certain decisions you just don't get to make.
You don't why, because you're not responsible for anything that
you do, and I am not subject to the whims
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of a child. And Twala, you said it, and I
gotta give you credit for it. We live in a
society where we have everyone's getting a damp participation trophy.
No one wants to see a child cry. Ever, because
you know it's unfair. It's unfair at fair fairs for
five year olds.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I think you said, yeah, fais for five year olds,
fairs for children. I cannot stand the leniency upon which
a lot of parents ascribe to their children. Parents ascribing
almost adulthood to the children is quite possibly one of
my most pet of peas. It is so annoying when
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I see it happen, when I see the disrespect. And
it's interesting because my mother took my children with her
to an event. Actually, they went to a couple of
different places this weekend, and when she came back, she remarked, oh,
my goodness, the kids are so good. They are so sweet,
they're so kind, they're just quiet, they're just so polite,
(31:41):
just kind. And you know, I said well, thank you
very much. And it's because I know for a fact
that my children have seen both me and their mother
go left in public, not when we got home, not
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later in that moment.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
It's like my house.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
If you mess up in public, you get your budy
beating public in public. And they have seen how quickly
we can go from zero to sixty while they were younger,
so that now they know better. They know better and
not out of fear. We have taught a healthy, healthy
sense of respect by way of putting pause on them.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
You can't do that, this child abuse. You should never
have to use violence to raise your children. You're a
bad parent. You're a bad parent. I've called a child
protected services on.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
You, and you know it. And you and your child
can get a trophy for losing. You're the losers. You
are losers, and that is a loser mentality. There's something else.
You can't be a friend to a child. You can't
raise a child and be their best friend.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I see more and more. Oh, my my daughter's my
best friend. She shouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
You can't discipline someone and be their buddy. There's a
time when you both become adults. You can become friends,
but you're going to have to be the parent and
steer them away from wrong so they don't end up
in jail or pregnant or some life decision that only
adults should make and suffering from those decisions because they
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were ill prepared to deal with the consequences. I talked
to all three of eye Blended boys about sex, hopefully
before they lost their virginity, okay, and I was very
in depth about what it means to go into that
doctor's office and have that knitting pin put up your
member because I wanted them to know the consequences of
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making adult decisions. I couldn't be their friend, I couldn't
be their buddy. My job was their protector to make
sure they didn't end up dead or in jail or
some sort of combination of both. And I wish more
people saw the world as I do. And I know
you don't, and I know you're mad. Oh, you're just
a bad parent. You should go to jail. The whole
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point is I'm trying to keep some people from going
to jail and breaking into your house. We can't keep
going in this direction where kids get to decide whatever
they want, they get to tell us what they want.
They get to decide if they're going to go to school,
they get to decide if they're going to go to work,
they get to decide if they're going to respect you
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on a given day, and you allow it.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And I think there.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Is a correlation, a causal relationship with how we've been
derelict and neglecting how our responsibility, we've abrogated our responsibility
as far as putting foot in ass and making sure
that these kids at ages five, six and seven no
consequences so the world or some other child doesn't have
to teach them when they're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And I want you to remember this the next time
you see a.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Smash and grab or a street takeover, or someone mouthing
off to you, maybe it's your child or mouthing off
to some other parent.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
There is a connection.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I knew if I mouthed off to my parents parents,
there were consequences and the police couldn't save me from them.
It's later with Mo Kelly KFI AM six forty. We're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Well, at least you've decided to listen to KFI. See
you're making progress.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
KFI and the kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Live everywhere on the art Radio app
It's Monday, mister Mokelly here k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
I gotta tell you tonight show is just gonna be
straight up fire. I have so much to say, we
have so much to cover. I'm gonna be right all
night long. Y'all are going to be wrong and mad
at me all night long. I'm calling my shot. I
am Babe Ruth, pointing out to the center field fence. Yeah,
(00:45):
we're gonna talk about some Yankees and Juan Soto. We're
gonna talk about the new California Senator who has sworn
in today, Adam Schiff, and that showdown which is going
to happen on Capitol Hill. We have two new LA
City councilmen I'm birth sworn in today. We'll talk about
them and whether it will make any difference. And before
we finish the hour, I'm going to let you know that. Well,
(01:09):
let me just let me set it up right now,
Mark Ronnie, first, good evening. You would have loved, loved
to have been a part of this conversation. You said
you missed me on Twitter slash x. Well, I had
an afternoon long, almost all day long fight I've been
against some seventy five hundred people over child rearing. Oh, yes,
(01:30):
about how I am of the opinion that, yes, I
am a okay with people spanking their kids. Some people
don't know spanking is legal, child abuse is not. I
am aokay with people spanking their kids. And let me
just set this up now, so y'all can get mad
at me now, so when we really get into the conversation,
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you'll know why you're mad at me.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh, tee it up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
A couple weeks ago when I went to Ford for
the postathon and how you know, we're getting ready for postathon,
and there were a lot of listeners out there, and
it was every time I go out or I even
get on social media, someone wants to tell me my politics.
They always want to say, oh my gosh, I listened
to KFI, you're a liberal fresh air.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What are you talking about? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I had a listener walk up to me and said, mo,
I appreciate you being the liberal voice of reason. Okay,
I'm not madga, but if you knew my politics and
my beliefs across the wide expanse of issues, you wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'm all over the damn place.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
If someone calls you the Alan Colmes of KFI, punch
him right in the face.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's what it feels like, you know what I mean
exactly like they say, oh, hando, he's so liberal, and
and Gary.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Shannon, they try to play it right down the middle.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I know they are, and they go down the whole
lineup and they say, but at least you you know,
we know where you stand.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's like, clearly you don't.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I'm not mad, but me and the reason I'm talking
about this when it comes to child rearing and child
expectations and how I would treat children, I can say definitively,
with no exaggeration, I'm probably the most conservative person here
on this station. Barn up when it comes to child
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rearing and what do I expect of children and how
they should be treated. I'm not like the Handmaid's Tale.
I'm not saying I want Bibles and schools or anything
like that. But when it comes to child rearing, yes,
I am all for spanking children, spare the rod, spoil
the child, all of that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I will go deep on that. Had a long ass argument.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
With all you liberals out there talking about whoh you
can't touch the child.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That's child abuse. How dare you can't raise a.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Child without leg your hands on this?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yes, I can't.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's legal, and I advocate it because you know what,
I was gonna talk about this in the bottomly hour,
but I'm here now.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I am tired of your badass kids.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I am tired of your stak ass kids and the
smashing grabs and e looting and you're going into the
seven elevens and your street takeovers. And every time I
see a little fifteen, sixteen, seventeen year old kid involved
in that, I said, that's another mother father who never
got his ass what growing up because they never learned consequences, boundaries,
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parameters prior to that moment. They didn't know that there
were consequences. They thought that they could do whatever they want,
and they have been doing whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Have you been in a public school lately? How they
talk to teachers?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Have you heard them? I know Toawala? Has these these
kids talk however they want to teachers? Well, however they
want to adults. And I wish I wish a mother
father would talk that way to me as a teacher.
I wish because I might go to jail.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You'd sit them right down and show them a copy
of two Sir with Life, and that'd be the end
of it.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I will say this, I will say this, and this
is a function of growing up in martial arts. It's
the closest thing we have to what I would want.
In schools today, everything is yes sir, no sir. If
you want to disagree, or you can disagree on the
other side of the mat doing twenty pushups or you're
doing duck walks. There are consequences for you acting like
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an ass. You are a child. You're not an instructor.
You don't have a say. You're given instructions, you follow instructions. Yeah,
I'm being one hundred percent serious about that, and we'll
get into at the bottom of the hour. I don't
want to give it all the way, but I went
ham on threads today at mister mo Kelly. You can
see it there. I said what I said, and I
(05:44):
meant what I said. If you don't like it, well
I got the microphone. I'm not going to lose I
got electricity. I'm not going out of business anytime soon.
But you know, if you've been really listening to the show,
you might have noticed I have not talked about the
a lled UHC United Healthcare shooter suspect, And that was
(06:05):
very intentional. It was intentional because even though we live
in a twenty four to seven news cycle, I feel
I have a responsibility to not rush to cover everything.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The guy was on the loose.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We didn't know if it was the person, We didn't
know any supposed motive. We don't We didn't know whether,
at least at that time, whether Brian Thompson, the CEO
of United Healthcare, when he was gunned down, was it
related to his.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Business or his personal life. We knew nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And I would say, by and large, the news media,
and I'm a part of the news media. I don't
do news, but I'm a part of the news media.
You listen to KFI, it's a news talk station. We
have personalities and we deal with the news and you know,
through our own lens. But I'm not delivering the news.
And I think I have a responsibility to be responsible.
And I wasn't going to speculate about who was the
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shooter or why you had all sorts of speculation about
whether it wasn't actually a guy, or whether it was
a woman, whether it was having to do with health care,
whether they had to do.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
With some sort of affairs. No, No, you don't have
to do that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You don't have to have all the answers or speculate
all the possible scenarios from from day one through day five.
You can say, we're monitoring, we're watching it, we're aware,
and when we have someone in custody, we'll know more.
We can go from there. Now there's someone in custody.
Now there's even an alleged manifesto. Now we have some
(07:36):
actual information which is corroborated by evidence, which would suggest
some sort of motive that this guy would ties to California,
ties to Santa Monica and Stanford. Luigi Mangioni, twenty six
years old, did this possibly, You're still alleged because of
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his hatred.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Of the health care system.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
My words, he's angry at the healthcare system, and he
said he had to do this, paraphrasing in so many words.
And we'll know more about him. We will know whether
he developed these views while he was at Stanford, whether
he was you know, when he was working elsewhere, whether
he was radicalized by some outside influence when he was
(08:21):
working at True Car full disclosure.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I used to endorse true car. We don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
We are going to find out in the next few days.
We don't have to put all the dots together just
because he's now in custody. They are combing law enforcement,
they are combing his social media, they are talking to
his neighbors, they're talking to his family. Will know more
probably at the next press conference. And they're still not
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going to tell us everything because they're building a case
against him. They're going to charge them on probably some
weapons charge, not charging with murder yet because they're still
building the case. And that's probably why haven't they charged
it with murder, because their case is not strong enough yet.
They have not placed him at the scene. They have
not placed him at the scene with the with the weapon.
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There may be some other information which ties him directly
to Brian Thompson. It may have been an email exchange. Well,
hear about all that in the coming days. That's why
I did not say anything about Brian Thompson and Luigi
until today.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Now we can talk about it. Now we can talk
about something that's tangible, something that's real.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Now we know that this guy most like he probably
maybe was the one who did it and why?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And did you watch what was happening on social media?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh my goodness, the amount of people who were condoning murder.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
They're something, Eh, I'm okay with this murder.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
If someone needs to die, let it be one of
those healthcare CEOs. I'm not mad in fact that there
were actual stories about how internet sleuths were refusing to help.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
That's a six society in which we live at. That
is absolutely sick.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I don't care whether you hate healthcare or you hate
the health care providers, if you hate the whole healthcare system.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
That we have, in fact I do. I do.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Doesn't mean I want anyone killed mean I want someone murdered.
And regardless of whether I agree with the person or
disagree with the person, that's still someone's father, someone's son,
someone's brother, Somebody loved him, someone cared about him, someone
is grieving right now. The last thing I would want
is that person murdered. I don't care who that is.
You can put anyone in that blank. I don't wish
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murder on anyone, but I think the murder of Brian
Thompson said far more about us than the guy they
have in custody.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Adam Schiff, Like him or loathe him. He is now
the junior senator for the state of California, so he's
going back to Washington, and you're wondering, probably will he
be the foil in a congressional sense to Donald Trump.
Yes and no, Yes and no.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And I talked about this on Spectrum today as part
of my weekly segment o Kelly Monday's. He will be
a part of the loyal opposition, as they call it.
He will be a part of the Democratic Party and
any resistant small r to the sitting president and his party.
(11:34):
That's not any different than any other time in history.
It's not special in any way. But I will say
that there will come a time in which Adam Schiff
and President Elect Donald Trump he will be president, eventually
will butt heads. They will come to some sort of
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entanglement in a political sense. Why because Adam Shiff, as
he is part of the loyal opposition, he will probably
be part He will probably be one of the louder
voices of the loyal opposition. One because he is a
senator from California and Governor Newsom and other California politicians
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have made a very clear claim as far as how
California is going to play a role in either putting
an obstacle in front of President Trump, future President Trump,
or somehow being the antithesis to whatever Donald Trump wants
to do. So there will be some sort of fight
(12:37):
along the way eventually. But I don't think Adam Schiff
as a senator is going to be the same he
was as a congressman. He's not going to lead any
impeachment proceeding, but he will be a louder voice one
because he's just a junior senator. And if you know
how politics works and you know how seniority works, he
has none. So it's not like he's going to be
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placed on the committees where he will have any influence.
One the Democrats will be the minority party, so they
will not have any.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Chairs of any committees.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
And also he will have no seniority, so he's not
going to be placed on let's say, an intelligence committee.
He's not going to be placed on any of the
powerful committees like the Armed Services Committee. He probably won't
have any meaningful committee assignments, and he won't have any
stature on those committees, so his relevance and power will
be limited at best. I expect Adam Schiff to keep
(13:36):
his powder dry, as they say, for maybe the next
year or so, because there's gonna be plenty of things
if you want to be the opposition to Donald Trump,
plenty of things and opportunities to do that. Yes, Donald
Trump will probably part in the January sixth.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Contingent. He probably will.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
He probably will place people in place like Cashouttel who
will investigate Donald Trump's enemies. Yes, but don't expect Adam
Schiff to be leading the way on anything, especially not
in the early going.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You would have to probably look elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
There will be other opportunities if you support the Democrats
to somehow meant amounts of defense against anything that Donald
Trump is doing. But Adam shift was sworn in today
and today is real early in the process. But I
wouldn't expect any fireworks for at least a year or so.
Could be wrong, It's not often, but could be wrong.
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But I wouldn't expect anything in the near future because
the Democrats, with no real power, have to be judicious
in how they use their social capital when they're going
to try to come together as a party and line
up against let's say a nominee, or let's say they're
trying to stop a policy and they want to sway
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a couple of Democratic senators. Excuse me, Lolican senators. Then
you may see Adam Schiff step more to the forefront.
But as far as seniority goes, no, no, no, you won't
be seeing as much of him as you have in
previous years. More locally, a lot of discussion about the
La City Council getting not one but two new members
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Isabelle Gradro and Idrin in this area. Also, both of
them were sworn in today and they are representing the
second and fourteenth districts respectively. And something I was asked
on Spectrum today is like does this matter?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Does this meany?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
They?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What do you make of it? And I said, you
know what, not a lot. And here's why. Here's why.
Now I'm quite sure that people in their districts who
voted for him are happy that the person that they
voted for one.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
But here's the truth. You know, when you.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Talk about the La City Council, you can talk about
Jose Huizard, you can talk about Mitch england Er, you
can talk about Mark Ridley Thomas, you can talk about
current prices. Just because you have a different city Council member,
it doesn't mean that La City Council is any different.
It doesn't mean that someone else isn't going to get
(16:03):
indicted next week. It doesn't mean that just because Kevin
dally On is gone, it doesn't mean that there won't
be some other scandal enveloping the whole City Council in
the coming weeks, months, or years. It doesn't mean that.
It just means we have two new city council members.
And how do I know this Because once upon a time,
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Jose Huizar was a new City Council member and Mitch
Englander was a new City Council member, and they had
the same charge, you know, going to put a different
face on city Hall. They were going to clean up
what was happening on the La City Council. They were
to make sure that the body would be more respected.
And then you know, you get someone like Mark Ridley Thomas,
who came from LA politics. He was a former LA
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County supervisor and he was well respected in various communities.
And then we saw how all that turned out. And
that's still being adjudicated. I mean, he was convicted, but
he's trying to get a you know, this conviction over
time penny appeal. So what happens with the La City
Council I can't tell you. Is there another investigation going
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on that we just don't know about. Probably probably because
after so many investigations of La City Hall, it probably
spiraled into other investigations. And you won't know because usually
when they are federal investigations, in fact, always when they're
federal investigations, you won't know unless an indictment is being
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brought against a member or multiple members. They're investigated all
the time, and we the general public won't know because
I know this from sitting on a federal grand jury.
If no true bill is reached, no indictment is reached,
then the investigation goes away and they don't make a
public announcement. Yeah, we investigated these city Council members and
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we didn't come up with enough or anything which was
prosecutable or any enough evidence where they could secure a conviction.
We won't know, But the only thing I would bet
on is that there are multiple investigations even still, even
still so the La City Council may not be out
of the woods.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
We may not know what lies beneath.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
So my takeaway is this, Yes, we have two new
La City Council members for the second and fourteenth districts. No, no,
I have no idea whether that will change anything, whether
that means that there will be better governance, whether that
will be a better partnership with the mayor, Karen Bass.
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I have no idea whether that means that our city
will be more efficient.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
It just means we have two new people.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yes, I am a firm supporter of corporal punishment. Spankings
are legal here in California, child abuse is not. If
you can conflate the two or assume that they are
the same, then you're just being dishonest. I don't care
about your feelings. I'm only talking about the facts. Okay.
If you consider spanking the same as I don't know,
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punching a child in the throat or upper cutting them
to their gut, well you're just being dishonest.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I'm not talking about that.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
But here's what started on threads at mister Monkelly on
threads Mr m ok E L L Y. And this
is reminiscent of some of the battles that I got
into with people on Twitter that Mark Runner says he
loves so much. Well, got a good dose of it today.
On threads there was a post by this person named
Rihanna now Paul or something, and her post was unpopular opinion,
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beating your kids is domestic violence. I don't know how
that's unpopular, but yes, if you're beating your kids, yes,
that would be a form of domestic violence.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I don't think anyone would really disagree with that.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
But my response had a little bit more nuance in it,
and to the point I said, quote, I am aoka
with spanking spanking and always will be. Anyone who disagrees
is welcome to raise their kids however they want.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But here's what I from.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We believe that children are not to be rationalized with
as they are emotionally incapable of fully understanding the world.
They are to be taught consequences and boundaries before the
world does in the form of prison and or the morgue.
And we wonder why kids are out of control today
with no respect for people, police, or boundaries.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Stay out of my house close. Quote.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Y'all can be mad, y'all can be angry, y'all can
be emotional, you can be irrational. But I was raised
in a house in which you didn't talk back, You
did not have an opinion, You didn't have a discussion
or a debate with an adult.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'll give you an example.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
My mother told me maybe while I was maybe four
years old, there was around four or five, She told me,
do not run in the street.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Okay. It wasn't a conversation about.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
The dangers of a car careening around the corner, which
may run you down and you may not be able
to see the car, or the car may not be
able to see you because of your low stature, which
may be below the horizon of the driver's dashboard. It
wasn't that it will stay your ass out of the
street or you're gonna get a boat whooping. And I
got maybe five or six or so, because I remember
(21:21):
we had just moved into the house that my mother
lives in to this day, and it was light outside
I think it was in the summer. I had a
little time to myself on supervised For some reason, they
probably called my mother a bad mother today and I
looked left and looked right, and I didn't see the
cars coming. My ball had gone on the street. Why
would I not chase after my ball? I didn't know
(21:44):
my mother was watching me from the window. And then
I ran out into the street, got my ball, got back,
everything was fine. No cars came around the corner. My
mother tore out the house and tore my ass up.
Why because I disobeyed her. It wasn't about whether I
could make a case and debate about whether I was
mature enough to go out into the street. She didn't
(22:05):
have time to try to explain to me how I
put myself in danger and could have gotten myself killed
because a car often came around that corner because it
was a blind corner, way too fast and wouldn't have
been able to stop if I happened to be out there.
She gave me an order. She gave me a directive.
It was not a topic for discussion, and since I
(22:26):
disobeyed that order, she whooped my ass. Why because she
knew as a young child, I could better understand wanting
to avoid the whooping as opposed to understanding the fullness
of the danger of a car coming around the corner.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And my parents. Both of them understood it.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Was okay for me to fear them, a healthy fear,
healthy fear because my healthy fear of them was carried
with me when I went to school. It carried with me,
so I didn't there was a limit to the things
I would do out there because I couldn't fundamentally understand
what it would mean to get arrested or go to juvie,
(23:10):
or do something that was so stupid that it might
get me killed. And I'll give you something else. And
there's a cultural difference here I want to drill down on.
It's culturally different from many African American families and many
non black families, especially in the nineteen seventies. I was
growing up with a parent, my father, who grew up
(23:30):
in segregated Virginia. My mother less so in integrated Detroit.
But my father was very conscious of making sure I
didn't put myself in a situation where I would have
been treated differently and I would have lost control of
my own autonomy. I had a gun pull on me
by a police officer when I was thirteen years old.
(23:52):
I don't know how many people listening can say the same.
And they were trying to protect me from a world
which may have seen me and reacted to me differently.
The foolishness that you see going on now, I definitely
could not have participated in back then. Why because I
probably would have been shot. And my parents didn't have
(24:12):
time or the inclination to explain all the possible scenarios
of how I could have done something and then put
in the situation where I would have lost my freedom
or lost my life, and it was easier for them
to say, if you do this on a whoop your ass,
and many times they did. And because they did, they
protected me from prison, and they protected me from the more.
(24:33):
And if they didn't, I promise you, I would have
been one of them out there smashing and grabbing. I
promise you I would have been one of them out
there in a street takeover. I would have been doing
all the things that you supposedly can't stand and complain
about on social media. You're probably some of the same
people who are reposting and resharing that little girl who
was acting up and losing her damn mind in a
(24:55):
grocery store. You know why that never happened with me,
because I knew my parents would beat my ass if
I did, and they did for less, not because they
were abusing me, but they were protecting me because when
the police went around, I knew that my parents were
watching or my neighbors were watching, and if I acted
up in front of my neighbors, my neighbors would tell
(25:17):
my parents and they would still have consequences waiting for me.
The reason I'm talking about this I am so tired
of this permissive society. And I talked in the first
segment about how I would say as far as child
rearing goes, I'm probably the most conservative person on this station,
bar none, because I have these conversations with the other
hosts and I know where they stand on certain things.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Certain things are just not gonna fly with me. Ever.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Ever, the reason I wear an undershirt to this day
and wear a belt is because my parents drilled it
into me. Right now, I'm wearing a white undershirt and
I'm wearing a belt because there was expectations as far
as how I was going to carry myself outside the
house so I would not be mistaken for a hoodlum,
for a thug, or someone who might be engaging in
criminal behavior. These are all the things talking about the
(26:02):
cultural differences that African Americans often have to worry about
or also have to instill in kids that other parents
do not. It's a different ballgame. So if you don't
spank your kids, God bless you. I hope they turn
out to be wonderful. I hope they're great. I hope
they're very respectful. I hope they're quiet in class. I
hope they don't smash and grab. I hope they don't
(26:23):
rob anyone. I hope they don't get involved in a
knockout game. But that doesn't work for all of them.
And I go to grocery stores and I see these
kids cussing out their parents. Don't tell me. I'm the
only one who sees this. I see these kids yelling
at their parents, calling them all names of the book.
Come here, timmy, no at you, no, come in, No, I.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Don't want to.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
The first I would have gotten out of my mouth.
My mother would have slapped the taste out of my mouth.
Oh that's child abuse.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
But you're the same folks complain about what you don't
like what you see, and you say we need to
have tougher laws. No, we need to have more.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Discipline because you can't instill discipline by the time they
get to be fourteen or fifteen.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
He has to be four or five.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I can tell you about some of the butt weapons
I got fifty years ago, which stay with me today
and tell me and remind me why I'm not.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Supposed to do certain things.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Why are my ass is not supposed to be in
certain places after certain hours, because not only did it
protect me as a child.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That protect me as a grown ass man. Discipline. We
don't want to talk about discipline because spanking is this
violentist town abuse. I remember that the next time you
complain about someone breaking in your house. I got more.
I got more to say.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It's Later, mo Kelly can if I am six forty
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Speaker 4 (27:48):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (27:54):
I'm not done. I got more to say. I got
more to say about your bad ass kids. I'm tired
of them. I'm tired of hearing them, I'm tired of
looking at them. I'm tired of them talking back to you.
You don't understand. I mean, this is not an act,
this is sincere. I see these kids talking back. I
see these kids calling their parents by their first name.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
It's really strange. It's really strange.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And whenever my blended does, whenever they would go out,
I told them there's a certain way you can and
there a certain way you cannot dress. There's a certain
way you can address adults, and there's a certain way
you cannot address adults. When you come up here, if
you're gonna be representing me, you're gonna be in a
collar chirt. You're not come up here in a T
shirt in shorts. Why Because you're gonna present yourself a
certain way. And when you get to be an adult,
(28:39):
then you can do whatever you want. But until that time,
you're gonna do it my way. That's the way it is,
That's the way I was raised. You won't find me
buy and large in a T shirt, not at work,
not at work, because that's the way I carry myself
into something that was passed down to me and it
will always stay with me.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I'm a strict adherent to discipline.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Now, I can't beat the kids, can't spect the kids
in martial arts, but I can make them do twenty pushups.
I can make them do duckwalks. I can make them
do bear crawls all around the mat. There has to
be some sort of consequences that we have for kids.
I don't believe in reasoning with children because they're not
(29:21):
responsible for anything. They're not emotionally developed enough to make
any life decisions. I give you a perfect example. Here
we go, Twalla, mister liberal mo Kelly. I am firmly
against kids, whether they are trans or not, changing their
name or their pronouns while they are minors.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
They can't legally change their name until they're eighteen.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
So if you're and I'm not trying to be disrespectful
or funny, but if you're twelve or thirteen and you
want to tage your name from Tom to Tina, I
got a problem with that, and I don't support that
because you're not older, you're not even past puberty, and
you want to make some life decision, and me, as
the adult, I'm supposed to respond to that. It's like
(30:11):
being in love with someone. You're in love with someone
this week, it may be someone next week. Now you
may go through the change, and you may adhere to
it for the rest of your life. God bless you,
and I mean that sincerely. God bless you. But as
a child, there's certain decisions you just don't get to make.
You don't why, because you're not responsible for anything that
you do, and I am not subject to the whims
(30:36):
of a child. And Twala, you said it, and I
gotta give you credit for it. We live in a
society where we have everyone's getting a damp participation trophy.
No one wants to see a child cry. Ever, because
you know it's unfair. It's unfair at fair fairs for
five year olds.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I think you said, yeah, fais for five year olds,
fairs for children. I cannot stand the leniency upon which
a lot of parents ascribe to their children. Parents ascribing
almost adulthood to the children is quite possibly one of
my most pet of peas. It is so annoying when
(31:20):
I see it happen, when I see the disrespect. And
it's interesting because my mother took my children with her
to an event. Actually, they went to a couple of
different places this weekend, and when she came back, she remarked, oh,
my goodness, the kids are so good. They are so sweet,
they're so kind, they're just quiet, they're just so polite,
(31:41):
just kind. And you know, I said well, thank you
very much. And it's because I know for a fact
that my children have seen both me and their mother
go left in public, not when we got home, not
(32:01):
later in that moment.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
It's like my house.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
If you mess up in public, you get your budy
beating public in public. And they have seen how quickly
we can go from zero to sixty while they were younger,
so that now they know better. They know better and
not out of fear. We have taught a healthy, healthy
sense of respect by way of putting pause on them.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
You can't do that, this child abuse. You should never
have to use violence to raise your children. You're a
bad parent. You're a bad parent. I've called a child
protected services on.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
You, and you know it. And you and your child
can get a trophy for losing. You're the losers. You
are losers, and that is a loser mentality. There's something else.
You can't be a friend to a child. You can't
raise a child and be their best friend.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I see more and more. Oh, my my daughter's my
best friend. She shouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
You can't discipline someone and be their buddy. There's a
time when you both become adults. You can become friends,
but you're going to have to be the parent and
steer them away from wrong so they don't end up
in jail or pregnant or some life decision that only
adults should make and suffering from those decisions because they
(33:15):
were ill prepared to deal with the consequences. I talked
to all three of eye Blended boys about sex, hopefully
before they lost their virginity, okay, and I was very
in depth about what it means to go into that
doctor's office and have that knitting pin put up your
member because I wanted them to know the consequences of
(33:37):
making adult decisions. I couldn't be their friend, I couldn't
be their buddy. My job was their protector to make
sure they didn't end up dead or in jail or
some sort of combination of both. And I wish more
people saw the world as I do. And I know
you don't, and I know you're mad. Oh, you're just
a bad parent. You should go to jail. The whole
(33:58):
point is I'm trying to keep some people from going
to jail and breaking into your house. We can't keep
going in this direction where kids get to decide whatever
they want, they get to tell us what they want.
They get to decide if they're going to go to school,
they get to decide if they're going to go to work,
they get to decide if they're going to respect you
(34:19):
on a given day, and you allow it.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And I think there.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Is a correlation, a causal relationship with how we've been
derelict and neglecting how our responsibility, we've abrogated our responsibility
as far as putting foot in ass and making sure
that these kids at ages five, six and seven no
consequences so the world or some other child doesn't have
to teach them when they're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And I want you to remember this the next time
you see a.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Smash and grab or a street takeover, or someone mouthing
off to you, maybe it's your child or mouthing off
to some other parent.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
There is a connection.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I knew if I mouthed off to my parents parents,
there were consequences and the police couldn't save me from them.
It's later with Mo Kelly KFI AM six forty. We're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
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you're making progress.
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