August 2, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A hilarious trip to Chuck-E-Cheese with Tawala…PLUS – A look at actor Christian Bale's California housing village AND thoughts the return of the Hard Summer Music Festival, and it’s promise of noise reduction in the City of Inglewood and the surrounding area - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It was just as good as I remembered it, and
I'm thankful that I did not have to risk my
life in order to get it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Mo, what are you talking about? It's later with Mo
Kelly cay If.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I am six forty onelive everywhere the iHeartRadio app and
on YouTube and social media.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm talking about Chuck E Cheese Pizza. To Walla. Sharp
was nice enough, brave enough, dedicated enough to risk his
life to go to Chuck E Cheese.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Pizza on the way in and got the crew, the
later crew pizza.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yes, and it tasted as good as I remembered that.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm serious, I was always partial to Chucky Cheese Pizza,
especially the cheese pizza, and it tastes just as good.
I need him in the outfit, though, don't you No?
I really don't, really no, I'm in the Chucky outfit.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, I don't. I don't you know that.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I was looking for Chuck while I was down there,
and it's all digital. They don't even have anyone walking around.
I asked someone and they said for birthday parties they
will bring someone out in a costume. But it's all digital.
It's all this digital display that they have up there
now they have gotten rid of the band. They got
rid of the band?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Do they still have the games like ski ball and everything?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
They have ski ball, they have you know, the basketball,
they have all the little video games. And I saw
while I was in there all of the reasons why
fights happened. I saw children running around with their snotty
nasty hands, going table to table forgetting where they were
supposed to be at. I saw a bunch of surly
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looking guys almost look like a bar like some dudes
who were in there looking like they were ready to fight,
like they were just geared up for it. I said
to myself, Okay, state at the back, back against the wall,
and if it jumps off, be ready to go.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I was like near some high table. Explain that for
people to don't understand. Why would you make sure there's
a wall behind you?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Because yeah, I'm not gonna get snuck a carter from behind.
One of the first rolls of defense is make sure
that your back is protected. Make sure you can see
any attacker from any angle. If you're back against the wall,
you are best suited to defend yourself. That way, you're
not gonna get choked from behind. Get hit from behind, kick,
slant anything from behind. No, you got a wall behind you,
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that's just defense.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
One on one.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Get your back up against the wall. There were things
near me that I could pick up and use as weapons.
There's a high chair.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
This is a kid's pizza restaurant you're talking about, correct. Yes,
I was ready for it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And I said to myself, I can see why it
goes down here. But the thing that I saw that
was the most awesome, amazingly gross thing that I ever
thought I would see.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Wait, wait, you're just down telling us this after I.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Had you had pizza, okay, because and I want you
all to eat the beets first. I want to make
sure you had pizza first. There was a young lady,
nice young lady. She was refilling the Chuck E Cheese
buffet bar.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
She went to the back and got some I guess
it's like a red colored ambrosia. I don't know if
it's strawberry ambrosia. I don't know what, but it's ambrosia.
First of all, that's kind of like Chuck E Cheese. Yes,
like they have it in a little tray.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I saw her.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
She had a bucket like a little container she popped
the top and for a second, I said to myself.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Is she using a scooper to fill that? And I said, Davin, no,
that's her hand.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
She had on a white plastic glove and she's digging
her hand. She had a glove on, but she's digging
your hand into this scoo. Nothing, no cup, no, no ladle,
no nothing. And she's filled up this and bros. And
I'm like, are you serious right now? And I guess
this is just the way it goes, because everyone in
the front is like, We're just like, yeah, I guess
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this is what we do. I took a picture so
I could get a picture of her hand because I
was like, film this, what are you doing till I
stop laughing and looking discussed? So I just but I
just had just enough time to get her hand covered
in and broken.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Daniels. I'm going to get this to Daniel.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
As I was leaving, someone was parked in a handicapped spot,
but they decided to park their van across like two
spaces and I said, see, you're coming here to start
a fight.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You're obviously here to start a fight. Oh. It was
hilarious at Chuck e Chee. Mark did you get any
of the pizza yet? It's the first time I've had it,
and it's good. Yeah, first time. I've never had any
problem with food, first time after time.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Wow, I don't think I've been inside of Chuck E
Cheese since. I think briefly in high school I had
a girlfriend who worked at one, and I just went
in to mock her.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
They do have it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
They do happen in the state of Washington. Oh yeah, okay, no, no,
this is yeah, you're a life saver. This is you've
brought us life giving pizza on a Friday. Hey, look, man,
pizza on a Friday always wins.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Always. But it was that chea. I was looking for
the fight. Oh was so ready? Well maybe it's just
a little bit later there, so alcohol there, right, yeah,
and it goes till ten. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
So what kid is there?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Did you see any adults there hanging out by themselves?
H No, every adult there, I guess had a kid.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
There's a bunch of guys there, A bunch of guys,
bunch of strollers with no kids, and a bunch of
kids who looked as if they need their pampers change.
A bunch of full pampers walking around that spot, bunch
of full pampers and a bunch of the way.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Just kids and pampers. No no shorts or anything, just.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
No, no, no, no, just just pampers busting off. You
could tell us a parent, you know, when a parent,
I know what you mean. Yeah, you're just like, somebody
changed this kid's pamper. Because I'm thinking, like, wait a minute,
they were walking around justin underwear.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's a health code violation.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
No no, no no.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
But I would say, just that alone, just that full
looking pamper, and you know, you got a ball pit
over there, just for God's sake. But I saw this
one kid walking by and he was constantly rubbing his
nose on his hand, and then he was going to machines.
Didn't have a token to save his life, but just
going to machines, you know, slapping, just touch the stuff.
And I said to myself, Ugh, Jesus, this is COVID
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waiting to happen. A lot of door knob licking going,
a lot of that happened, a lot of kids hanging
on machines, you know, just damn. I'm like, this is
filth city. And you didn't tell this to us until
after we ate the pizza.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Well, yeah, I know. I look, we don't know what's
going on in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's why you bless your food before you eat it,
because you got to hope that it does your body right.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Definitely, you got some of the food, right, I just
got some right now? Okay, I need to we need
to have a pact. We need to watch each other.
The first one of us who turns, okay, promise me,
you'll shoot me if I turn. We all have to
agree the first one who turns all right or goes
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into convulsions like in the thing, to shoot them. That's
the only way we can be sure that we can
eradicate the contagion by turn.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Do you mean possibly sprinting like yousaying bolt to the
men's room? Maybe? Maybe?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Okay, that could be the first sign it could happen.
I don't know what they do in the back. If
there's a young lady filling up a damn trough of
ambrosia with gloved hands, we don't know what happens in
the back.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yes you do. You just don't want to think about it.
Yes you do.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And speaking of nasty ass places to go, we're gonna
talk about Kelly County Beaches.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
When we come back. The warnings are in for the weekend.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Six forties Later with Mo Kelly Happy Friday. We're live
everywhere on social media and the iHeartRadio app. You can
join the momigos in the YouTube Motown Conversation at mister
Mokelly on YouTube Mr m ok E L L Y.
And if you have listened to me for any amount
of time, you probably know that I have never sung
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the praises of southern California beaches. Born and raised here,
lived all my life here. But you'll never tell me, Oh,
you gotta go to a beach in southern California, you know.
Don't worry about Hawaii, don't worry about Miami, don't worry
about somewhere in Europe. You got to go to the
Southern California beaches. I have never said that, and I
never will say that, because there's some of the worst
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in the world. Now they may be I'll say beautiful.
You know, if you're just standing there looking out over
the water from a distance, but don't get too close
to the water because you may catch something. LA Department
of Kelly County, Department of Public Health. They've given us
more advisories for places to not swim, not go on
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the wall, do not serve, do not participate in any
ocean activities whatsoever due to elevated bacteria levels. And when
they say elevated, they don't tell you how elevated. They
just saying that it's higher than what is safe. It
could be like five tops. Like think of it as
like a drunk driving you know, you know the limited
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is point oh eight, But they're not going to tell
you whether you're like two point four or three point seven.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
They're just saying it's elevated. It's not safe. Here.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
The warnings which are currently in effect, Mother's Beach in
Marina del Rey, the entire swim area. Don't even think
about putting a toe in that water, the entire swim area.
Ramirez Creek at Paradise Cove, one hundred yards up and
down the coast from the pier Strand Street extension in
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Santa Monica Beach.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You know they're drinking out there right now. They're drinking.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
They have open container all through Santa Monica one hundred
yards up and down the coast from Lifeguard Tower twenty four,
like anyone cares as opposed to twenty three or twenty
five to stay out of the water. Topanga Canyon Beach
in Malibu, one hundred yards up and one hundred yards
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down the coast from the lagoon.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I don't know where the lagoon is. Does anyone know
where the lagoon is? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I think the lagoon Marie Canyon storm drain at Puerco Beach,
say it with me. One hundred yards up, one hundred
yards down the coast from the public access steps, Santa
Monica piers. Santa Monica is just doing great. One hundred
yards up and down the coast from the pier. And
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there's Castle Rock storm drain at Topega County Beach. And
I think that we get this one every single time
we have one of these reports. Castle Rock storm drain,
hundred yards up and one hundred yards down the coast
from the storm drain. And according to public health officials,
these advisories were issued because recent testing showed bacteria levels
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exceeding state health standards. They don't tell you anything exact.
They don't tell you if it's like was double triple
it could be just slightly elevated above the state health standards,
or it could be ten times the amount. They don't
want to tell you anything specific, but just in case
you missed that list, you can always call eight hundred
five to two five five six six two or visit
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public Heealth dot La County dot gov.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Fords slash beach. I said, b e a c Chi beach.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Public Health dot La County dot gov forward slash beach.
And this is something that I'm not going to worry about.
I don't have to worry about elevated bacteria levels because
I'm not going in the water. Something else that I
don't have to worry about ever getting stung by a stingray.
Why because I'm not going in the water. May not
know that she was on say she got stung by
a s Yes, yes, just the.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Thought, the possibility of being stung by a stingray. That's
like a bee in the water. I don't want to
get stung if I'm in the water flopping around. I
want to be able to enjoy myself.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I don't want to have to do the sand shuffle
on the bottom of the beach so I don't accidentally
step on a stingray. Yes, the stingray is gonna get met.
If someone stepped on me, I'm probably gonna probably gonna
fight back. I don't have a stinger, but I would
do something. And if if someone has stepped on my head, yeah,
I get it. I'd be mad. If you step on
the head of a stingray, they're probably gonna sting you.
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That tells me I shouldn't be in the water. I
really don't want to be there where I might be stung.
I don't want to be stung by a stingray. I
don't want to be stung by jellyfish. You can say, oh, moh,
you're just such a scaredy cat. Yes I am, Yes,
I am. I don't want to deal with any of this.
And as it turns out, be on alert because there's
a sharp increase in stingray injuries. Particularly Let's go to
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Orange County Seal Beach and according to Seal Beach Marine
Safety Chief Joe Bailey, Hey Joe, lifeguards typically treat about
one stingray sting.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Per day per day. If you go to Seal Beach tomorrow,
you might be that one. Don't.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I don't know how people do it. Sometimes they get
as many as twenty reported cases.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
On a given day.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Twenty people could be stung tomorrow. For me, that's enough
to keep me out of the water. But here's something
else I did not know. Do you know how to
treat a stingray?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Adri is like a bee where you have to kind
of like carefully scrape out the stinger and then well.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
That that No, it's the exact opposite. You have to
put scalding hot water or as hot water as you
can find. Really, yeah, hot water.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I thought it would have been cold like a bee
sting the exact opposite. The water should be as hot
as the individual can safely tallerate, and the wound should
be monitored for signs of infection or complications. Lifeguards continue
to urge the public to remain aware and take simple
stafety precautions to avoid painful encounters with stingrays. You know what,
the most simple and the most guaranteed safety precaution that
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you can take is to stay your ass out of
the water. I am not gonna get stung by a
stingray this weekend. I can absolutely guarantee it. I cannot
guarantee that I will not get stung by a bee
and that is really messing me up.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What was the last time you went into water, swaller,
I've had it been when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
As an adult and are someone who could like make
my own decisions.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Nah. Never.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Last time I've been in the water, I think was
twenty eighteen. Went on a cruise US Virgin Islands. You know.
I went out to like my chest, beautiful water, those
Megan's Bay. You can see the bottom, and then I
could see things swimming past me.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Was done. Wait what what I don't like they water
swimming by you?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yes? Yes, because I'm a good I want to say
maybe twenty five thirty feet out from from you know,
the beach itself. It's not that far, but you know,
it was like it wasn't like an immediate shelf that
was going to drop off. So I was I was fine,
and I know how to swim. I was fine coming
up to my chest and it was gorgeous blue water,
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something out of a catalog or a commercial.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It's the ice blue colored.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You can see everything, and then you realize that you're
not the only thing living that's out there, and it
started to freak me out, and I didn't see a
sting ray. Yes, I was shuffling my feet in the
sand like they tell you how to do that. But
then it's just got to be too much. It's too much.
And Megan's Bay where I was, it's kind of like
a an alcove where you're not just straight ocean. It's
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it's kind of like a water cool de sact. That's
the only way I can describe it. So not everything
is coming in there. But you know, I always think
about it. It's not even at the back of my mind.
It's the front of my mind. I have these neuro seas.
Sometimes I'm like Mark Ronner, Mark Runner. Doesn't want to
go anywhere, not on your best day.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Are you like me?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, I'm better than you. Keep trying, but I'm better
than you. I want to say that I was just
trying to be polite.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That's what everybody. Everybody could tell that. Please continue, Okay,
But you have places that you don't go. There are
things that you don't do.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Period. That's the end of the discussion. You're not open
to any type of debate. Well, give me an example.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I like Chateau for the Fourth of July. Cruises, movies
with a lot of people stop me when I'm wrong. Well,
I don't want to step on any sting rays at chateau.
Well okay, but it's a dangerous, dangerous environment. The analogy
does work. There are certain things, there's certain places that
you avoid and will not go out of concern for
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your health and safety.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Walk around your place. Who knows?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
What's looking at me?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Is food?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Come on?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Food?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Ton't? You don't even take hand with a response. I
know it's come on, Mark? What is it you think
we eat the What is this like Cincinnati, Ohio? We
eat the pets? Is what are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Massacre? Yeah? Yeah, don't try the chili. Avoid the chili.
We're eating the cats, eating the dogs. Try the ribs.
Okay if I aim six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We're gonna talk about housing in California and an actor
who's doing his part to help change some things.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Mark Runner. I'm so disappointed, so disappointed. I was wrong.
I'm not like you in any way at all. Are
you done? No, not at all?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Please be done soon, Mark Runner with just hit it, foosh,
wait for it. Thank god, you're the worst news.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
With Fu.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Live everywhere, on the iHeartRadio at and on social media
video simulcast. And I've always said that Christian Bale is
my favorite Batman bar none, no disrespect to the late
Adam West, no disrespect to anyone like George Clooney or
the late Val Kilmer, or even Pattinson who is playing
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Batman now, or even Ben Affleck. Christian Bale is my
favorite Batman on screen. Then you find out some other
things that he's been doing and he's even more so
my favorite Batman now. He co founded a project called
Together California. And mind you, he's from the UK. He's
an English actor. It's not like he was born and
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raised in Southern California. It's not like he has some
sort of long term ties to Southern California. This is
something that he chose to do when he co founded
this project called Together California to build a housing complex
for foster youth here in Los Angeles County. It's in
Palmdale's four point seven acres and it will contain twelve
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homes almost completed, a seven thousand square foot community center,
and open space for gardens and recreational areas. I don't
know if I talked about this on the air, but
my wife and I were looking for a new house
we're looking to buy in Palmdale, and went up there
a few times.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Palmdale is an undiscovered gym as far as I'm concerned. Really,
it's getting to be more and more developed.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
There are portions of Palmdale which are underdeveloped, but you
can get a reasonably priced home three to five rooms
for under seven hundred thousand dollars in some quatch of this.
Wo Yeah, it's just a it's Palmdale. It's a little
bit of a drive. So if you can center your
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life out there or work remotely, by all means, Palmdale
is is a is a good place to be.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But at this age, what do you need to go
into La Proper for? Like, is there anything that you
can't because I'm sure in Palmdale they have movie theaters.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I already know that they have a four D X
and I am Imax screen out there, you know. I mean,
what do you go into La Proper for? I mean,
you're not going to like Charger games every week, so
I would be going to Burbeck.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
That's the only thing that would be I would be
coming to the studio because they have not yet told
me that I can use my home studio to broadcast
every single day. Right outside of that, Yes, we could
have feasibly put our whole lives out there in Palmdale.
And the only reason I'm mentioning that is going back
to the story. I can see why Palmdale was chosen.
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It's developed enough. It is i'll say suburban enough, and
it's a great place to raise kids, and we're talking
about foster children. As I said before, twelve homes, seven
thousand square foot community center, an open space for gardens
and recreational areas. And since Palmdale is still underdeveloped to
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a certain degree, when you have seven thousand square foot
community center, they're obviously working with enough land that they
can expand because I know it's not going to be
just twelve homes.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Ultimately. You may not know this.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
They broke round just last year, but they've been working
on this since pre pandemic. It has taken more than
seven years just to get to this point because obviously
the pandemic gotten away and threw a lot of things off.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
But you didn't hear a lot about this.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yes, you might have seen a story here or there,
But Christian Bale was not someone who seemingly was trying
to talk this up. He wasn't someone who was trying
to say, Hey, I need a pat on the back
for doing this as something that he felt personally connected to.
His daughter was three years old, and at that time
he was beginning to wonder what happened to kids who
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didn't have parents to care for them. He did some research,
as the story goes on, specifically the foster care system
and how seventy five percent of foster children are taken
away from their siblings when they're putting a foster care
and Bail said, we have to devise some way, at
least on a small level, to keep families together, to
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keep siblings together, and this is his first step in
that direction. They chose Palmdale back in twenty twenty two.
They got some funding from both Palmdale and the La
County Board of Supervisors. They broke ground in February twenty
twenty four, even though this has been planned since prior
to the pandemic. And Bail also says, the community center
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that I told you about won't just belong to the village.
It'll be open to the entire community of Palm Dell.
For as much as we bad mouth actors or entertainers
or we don't want to hear about their personal politics,
you have to give them equal credit as well as
just criticism. It's easy to criticize. It's easy to say, oh,
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these actors don't know what they're talking about. They should
not worry themselves about anything beyond acting. And then you
see something like this, you have to give credit where
credit is due. This is not something that he had
to do. This is not even something that Christian Bale
had to do in southern California. He could have done
it in any number of places, but he chose to
do it here. And it wasn't something that was easy
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to do. It wasn't like he's just write a check
and walk away and say stick my name on it, please,
and just let me get the credit, just let me
know when to show up for the ribbon cutting or
anything like that. He had to persevere and working with
not only do the city of all excuse me, the
County of Los Angeles, but the city of Almdale to
get at least this far and hopefully we can see
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more of this, not necessarily only from him, but from
other people who feel compelled to put their money where
their mouth is and to also make a positive impact
fright the community where they live.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I love this because Christian Bell and said, when you
look at some of the things he said, he said
he thought that he would just originally be able to
go in and hey, I'm Christian Bell, let's do this.
And he said, slowly but surely he found out, Hey,
that's great that you're Christian Bell. But it takes more
than a notion to do this. And he said, to
your point, he didn't want to just put his name on.
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He said, okay, so let me buckle down and figure
this out. And he said, step by step. It's way
more than writing a check. It's way more than show
him to me. He said, there's a lot that goes
into planning this, and he's been there every step of
the way. Because when you look at at his method actor,
when you look at how dedicated he is to a
role and what he puts into it, he put the
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same into making sure that this project came to fruition.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It's like, you got to salute that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
That's a great point. I didn't even think about that
He is an actor's actor. He takes his acting, his
craft so very seriously. If you know anything about his
method acting or how he throws himself into these various roles,
you can see that if something is important to him,
he's going to approach it in the exact same way.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
And I think that is the truest testament to one sincerity.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
There are a lot of folks out there who will
write a check and walk away, but not Christian Bale.
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Speaker 1 (26:07):
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Were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and social media.
Check out the video portion to the show. And you
may remember about a year ago there was this music
festival at Sofi Stadium called the Hard Summer Music Festival,
and it was so loud. You remember Stephan, Okay, you
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could hear it as far as like Manhattan Beach, Guardina
make different.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
It still blows my mind because that's not close, not.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Close at all, and police departments were getting nine one
one calls. I actually thought someone was having a house
party in my neighborhood. It was so freaking loud, and
I could tell us like, oh, I know that song,
or I know that song. I didn't know there was
three point seven miles away. I can only imagine how
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loud it was for people who lived closer than me
to Sofi Stadium. And they are all sorts of complaints.
They are all sorts of suggestions and questions about how
could this happen? Why did they allow it to happen?
It was over two days and they still didn't rectify it.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
The Heart Summer Music Festival returns to Englewood this weekend.
Two day festival Saturday and Sunday at Hollywood Park adjacent
to Sofi Stadium. They'll have acts like Kate Trenada, Do
you know what that is? Stefan I do He's chilled. Okay,
I like Kigo, I'll take your word for it. What
about dom Dalla, I know him, but I don't know
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his music.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I know who Buster Rhymes is. I know that and
Juvenile I know he is back Wi Yeah, and it
runs from two to ten pm. I don't I don't
expect to be home much of Saturday, so I won't
hear it. My wife and dog they'll probably hear it,
but I don't think i'll be home. But Sunday I'll
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probably be home most of the day, so that'll be
the true test for me. And my neighborhood is relatively quiet,
so if I'm hearing music, I know it's coming from
outside my housing development.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And I'm thinking, like, it's too down loud. It's too
down loud.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But I remember thinking that this has to be somewhere
close right, right, it's like a neighbor from down the street, right,
someone knew who.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Moved in right. No, it was three point seven miles away.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I thought someone was having a barbecue and I was like, oh,
they're just going late. No one out there. He was like,
where's this music coming from? I could have sworn it's
like over there. Yeah, that's what I thought, Like, I
go next door. Yeah, I walked outside my house. I'm
looking like to the right and to the left.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I go into my backyard and looking around, it's like, well,
it's not the usual suspects. There's a house which is
cat corner to my backyard, and you've been in my backyard,
so you know that there's a field behind it. And
I'm thinking, like, okay, it's the folks over there sometimes
they play music. No, it wasn't them, And I thought
maybe was La Southwest College, which is close to me.
It's like, no, it's not La Southwest College. And then
I saw the news. It was so far statement, I said,
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that's impossible. They would be blowing out people's ear drums
the people who were closer. I know, sound carries, but
we're showing video of it right now on our YouTube channel.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
It was.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It was incredible how far the sound was traveling and
the amount of speakers that they were using that were
turned out into the community, not like inward on itself
for the crowd right there where it should be, where
it should be. And it's like you always have someone
who's on a motorcycle with the music too loud, for
everyone else to hear, not hear it on the motorcycle, okay.
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Or you have someone who's blasting the music in his
lower truck with the speakers in the back. It's like, okay,
you want me to hear your music, what you like
and how much money you spent on your sound system.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
It's not for you. It's that's what I thought it was.
I couldn't have been more wrong. It was almost four miles.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Away, and it's and I could sing along to all
the songs that I knew, at least I didn't know
them all.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It was like I don't know that song, I don't
know that song, Well, I know that song.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
And I was listening for like ti fifteen minutes. I'm
playing on my computer, bobbing my head some music.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Thinking that, hey, okay, so and so is happing a party.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
No, I was in disbelief. So that they're saying saying,
we'll find out whether it's true. Festival organizers and local
officials said they figured out what caused the excessive noise
last year.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh, they had to have conduct an investigation.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
They didn't know that if you just turned the ish
down or turned the speakers in a different direction.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
This is not complicated, y'all.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
When the police come to your door and say, hey,
the party's a little out of hand, do you mind
turning it down?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's not a bit. There's nothing to figure out.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You turn it down, turn it down from volume eleven
to four or something like that. But they say they
know what the problem was last year, and it will
be remedied ahead of time, as in now because the
festival is tomorrow. This is what they say was the issue.
This is Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts, and I'm kind
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of fond of so I'm not making making a whole
lot of fun about him. I like what he's done
in Inglewood, with some reservations about other things. But it's like,
come on, Mayor Butts. He said, quote the speakers were
pointed to the west and they were elevated even off
the plaza.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
And what did that do?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
It allowed the base frequencies to escape into the atmosphere
close quote Come on, dude.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
It's just a volume thing.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yes, the speakers might have been turned in a wrong direction,
but there's no way that just elevating them was going
to make the sound transfer and travel four plus miles.
They were hearing it on the water at Manhattan Beach.
And you may not know all the geographical the designs
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of the area, but if you are in that area,
there's a lot of real estate in between Inglewood and
Manhattan Beach down on the water, a lot. You're passing
over a lot of houses, two freeways, the one oh
five and the four oh five, just to get to
Manhattan Beach, and then you've got another few miles before
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you can get to the water. And people were calling
their local police departments complaining, thinking like me, it was
somewhere close when they should have been calling SOFI or Inglewood.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
There was nothing going on in Manhattan Beach.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I know they had a police calls to Guardina, Manhattan Beach, Inglewood,
LA County Sheriff's Department, which is in my neighborhood, and
also LAPD another for a fact, How that festival managed
to go two days with those noise complaints, I have
no idea, but they say it's remed we'll find out.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I'll give you a report. I'll probably go live from
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It was just as good as I remembered it, and
I'm thankful that I did not have to risk my
life in order to get it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Mo, what are you talking about? It's later with Mo
Kelly cay If.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
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on YouTube and social media.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm talking about Chuck E Cheese Pizza. To Walla. Sharp
was nice enough, brave enough, dedicated enough to risk his
life to go to Chuck E Cheese.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Pizza on the way in and got the crew, the
later crew pizza.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yes, and it tasted as good as I remembered that.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm serious, I was always partial to Chucky Cheese Pizza,
especially the cheese pizza, and it tastes just as good.
I need him in the outfit, though, don't you No?
I really don't, really no, I'm in the Chucky outfit.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, I don't. I don't you know that.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I was looking for Chuck while I was down there,
and it's all digital. They don't even have anyone walking around.
I asked someone and they said for birthday parties they
will bring someone out in a costume. But it's all digital.
It's all this digital display that they have up there
now they have gotten rid of the band. They got
rid of the band?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Do they still have the games like ski ball and everything?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
They have ski ball, they have you know, the basketball,
they have all the little video games. And I saw
while I was in there all of the reasons why
fights happened. I saw children running around with their snotty
nasty hands, going table to table forgetting where they were
supposed to be at. I saw a bunch of surly
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looking guys almost look like a bar like some dudes
who were in there looking like they were ready to fight,
like they were just geared up for it. I said
to myself, Okay, state at the back, back against the wall,
and if it jumps off, be ready to go.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I was like near some high table. Explain that for
people to don't understand. Why would you make sure there's
a wall behind you?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Because yeah, I'm not gonna get snuck a carter from behind.
One of the first rolls of defense is make sure
that your back is protected. Make sure you can see
any attacker from any angle. If you're back against the wall,
you are best suited to defend yourself. That way, you're
not gonna get choked from behind. Get hit from behind, kick,
slant anything from behind. No, you got a wall behind you,
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that's just defense.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
One on one.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Get your back up against the wall. There were things
near me that I could pick up and use as weapons.
There's a high chair.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
This is a kid's pizza restaurant you're talking about, correct. Yes,
I was ready for it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And I said to myself, I can see why it
goes down here. But the thing that I saw that
was the most awesome, amazingly gross thing that I ever
thought I would see.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Wait, wait, you're just down telling us this after I.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Had you had pizza, okay, because and I want you
all to eat the beets first. I want to make
sure you had pizza first. There was a young lady,
nice young lady. She was refilling the Chuck E Cheese
buffet bar.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
She went to the back and got some I guess
it's like a red colored ambrosia. I don't know if
it's strawberry ambrosia. I don't know what, but it's ambrosia.
First of all, that's kind of like Chuck E Cheese. Yes,
like they have it in a little tray.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I saw her.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
She had a bucket like a little container she popped
the top and for a second, I said to myself.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Is she using a scooper to fill that? And I said, Davin, no,
that's her hand.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
She had on a white plastic glove and she's digging
her hand. She had a glove on, but she's digging
your hand into this scoo. Nothing, no cup, no, no ladle,
no nothing. And she's filled up this and bros. And
I'm like, are you serious right now? And I guess
this is just the way it goes, because everyone in
the front is like, We're just like, yeah, I guess
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this is what we do. I took a picture so
I could get a picture of her hand because I
was like, film this, what are you doing till I
stop laughing and looking discussed? So I just but I
just had just enough time to get her hand covered
in and broken.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Daniels. I'm going to get this to Daniel.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
As I was leaving, someone was parked in a handicapped spot,
but they decided to park their van across like two
spaces and I said, see, you're coming here to start
a fight.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You're obviously here to start a fight. Oh. It was
hilarious at Chuck e Chee. Mark did you get any
of the pizza yet? It's the first time I've had it,
and it's good. Yeah, first time. I've never had any
problem with food, first time after time.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Wow, I don't think I've been inside of Chuck E
Cheese since. I think briefly in high school I had
a girlfriend who worked at one, and I just went
in to mock her.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
They do have it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
They do happen in the state of Washington. Oh yeah, okay, no, no,
this is yeah, you're a life saver. This is you've
brought us life giving pizza on a Friday. Hey, look, man,
pizza on a Friday always wins.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Always. But it was that chea. I was looking for
the fight. Oh was so ready? Well maybe it's just
a little bit later there, so alcohol there, right, yeah,
and it goes till ten. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
So what kid is there?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Did you see any adults there hanging out by themselves?
H No, every adult there, I guess had a kid.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
There's a bunch of guys there, A bunch of guys,
bunch of strollers with no kids, and a bunch of
kids who looked as if they need their pampers change.
A bunch of full pampers walking around that spot, bunch
of full pampers and a bunch of the way.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Just kids and pampers. No no shorts or anything, just.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
No, no, no, no, just just pampers busting off. You
could tell us a parent, you know, when a parent,
I know what you mean. Yeah, you're just like, somebody
changed this kid's pamper. Because I'm thinking, like, wait a minute,
they were walking around justin underwear.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's a health code violation.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
No no, no no.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
But I would say, just that alone, just that full
looking pamper, and you know, you got a ball pit
over there, just for God's sake. But I saw this
one kid walking by and he was constantly rubbing his
nose on his hand, and then he was going to machines.
Didn't have a token to save his life, but just
going to machines, you know, slapping, just touch the stuff.
And I said to myself, Ugh, Jesus, this is COVID
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waiting to happen. A lot of door knob licking going,
a lot of that happened, a lot of kids hanging
on machines, you know, just damn. I'm like, this is
filth city. And you didn't tell this to us until
after we ate the pizza.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Well, yeah, I know. I look, we don't know what's
going on in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's why you bless your food before you eat it,
because you got to hope that it does your body right.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Definitely, you got some of the food, right, I just
got some right now? Okay, I need to we need
to have a pact. We need to watch each other.
The first one of us who turns, okay, promise me,
you'll shoot me if I turn. We all have to
agree the first one who turns all right or goes
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into convulsions like in the thing, to shoot them. That's
the only way we can be sure that we can
eradicate the contagion by turn.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Do you mean possibly sprinting like yousaying bolt to the
men's room? Maybe? Maybe?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Okay, that could be the first sign it could happen.
I don't know what they do in the back. If
there's a young lady filling up a damn trough of
ambrosia with gloved hands, we don't know what happens in
the back.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yes you do. You just don't want to think about it.
Yes you do.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And speaking of nasty ass places to go, we're gonna
talk about Kelly County Beaches.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
When we come back. The warnings are in for the weekend.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Six forties Later with Mo Kelly Happy Friday. We're live
everywhere on social media and the iHeartRadio app. You can
join the momigos in the YouTube Motown Conversation at mister
Mokelly on YouTube Mr m ok E L L Y.
And if you have listened to me for any amount
of time, you probably know that I have never sung
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the praises of southern California beaches. Born and raised here,
lived all my life here. But you'll never tell me, Oh,
you gotta go to a beach in southern California, you know.
Don't worry about Hawaii, don't worry about Miami, don't worry
about somewhere in Europe. You got to go to the
Southern California beaches. I have never said that, and I
never will say that, because there's some of the worst
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in the world. Now they may be I'll say beautiful.
You know, if you're just standing there looking out over
the water from a distance, but don't get too close
to the water because you may catch something. LA Department
of Kelly County, Department of Public Health. They've given us
more advisories for places to not swim, not go on
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the wall, do not serve, do not participate in any
ocean activities whatsoever due to elevated bacteria levels. And when
they say elevated, they don't tell you how elevated. They
just saying that it's higher than what is safe. It
could be like five tops. Like think of it as
like a drunk driving you know, you know the limited
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is point oh eight, But they're not going to tell
you whether you're like two point four or three point seven.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
They're just saying it's elevated. It's not safe. Here.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
The warnings which are currently in effect, Mother's Beach in
Marina del Rey, the entire swim area. Don't even think
about putting a toe in that water, the entire swim area.
Ramirez Creek at Paradise Cove, one hundred yards up and
down the coast from the pier Strand Street extension in
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Santa Monica Beach.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You know they're drinking out there right now. They're drinking.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
They have open container all through Santa Monica one hundred
yards up and down the coast from Lifeguard Tower twenty four,
like anyone cares as opposed to twenty three or twenty
five to stay out of the water. Topanga Canyon Beach
in Malibu, one hundred yards up and one hundred yards
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down the coast from the lagoon.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I don't know where the lagoon is. Does anyone know
where the lagoon is? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I think the lagoon Marie Canyon storm drain at Puerco Beach,
say it with me. One hundred yards up, one hundred
yards down the coast from the public access steps, Santa
Monica piers. Santa Monica is just doing great. One hundred
yards up and down the coast from the pier. And
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there's Castle Rock storm drain at Topega County Beach. And
I think that we get this one every single time
we have one of these reports. Castle Rock storm drain,
hundred yards up and one hundred yards down the coast
from the storm drain. And according to public health officials,
these advisories were issued because recent testing showed bacteria levels
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exceeding state health standards. They don't tell you anything exact.
They don't tell you if it's like was double triple
it could be just slightly elevated above the state health standards,
or it could be ten times the amount. They don't
want to tell you anything specific, but just in case
you missed that list, you can always call eight hundred
five to two five five six six two or visit
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public Heealth dot La County dot gov.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Fords slash beach. I said, b e a c Chi beach.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Public Health dot La County dot gov forward slash beach.
And this is something that I'm not going to worry about.
I don't have to worry about elevated bacteria levels because
I'm not going in the water. Something else that I
don't have to worry about ever getting stung by a stingray.
Why because I'm not going in the water. May not
know that she was on say she got stung by
a s Yes, yes, just the.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Thought, the possibility of being stung by a stingray. That's
like a bee in the water. I don't want to
get stung if I'm in the water flopping around. I
want to be able to enjoy myself.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I don't want to have to do the sand shuffle
on the bottom of the beach so I don't accidentally
step on a stingray. Yes, the stingray is gonna get met.
If someone stepped on me, I'm probably gonna probably gonna
fight back. I don't have a stinger, but I would
do something. And if if someone has stepped on my head, yeah,
I get it. I'd be mad. If you step on
the head of a stingray, they're probably gonna sting you.
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That tells me I shouldn't be in the water. I
really don't want to be there where I might be stung.
I don't want to be stung by a stingray. I
don't want to be stung by jellyfish. You can say, oh, moh,
you're just such a scaredy cat. Yes I am, Yes,
I am. I don't want to deal with any of this.
And as it turns out, be on alert because there's
a sharp increase in stingray injuries. Particularly Let's go to
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Orange County Seal Beach and according to Seal Beach Marine
Safety Chief Joe Bailey, Hey Joe, lifeguards typically treat about
one stingray sting.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Per day per day. If you go to Seal Beach tomorrow,
you might be that one. Don't.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I don't know how people do it. Sometimes they get
as many as twenty reported cases.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
On a given day.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Twenty people could be stung tomorrow. For me, that's enough
to keep me out of the water. But here's something
else I did not know. Do you know how to
treat a stingray?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Adri is like a bee where you have to kind
of like carefully scrape out the stinger and then well.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
That that No, it's the exact opposite. You have to
put scalding hot water or as hot water as you
can find. Really, yeah, hot water.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I thought it would have been cold like a bee
sting the exact opposite. The water should be as hot
as the individual can safely tallerate, and the wound should
be monitored for signs of infection or complications. Lifeguards continue
to urge the public to remain aware and take simple
stafety precautions to avoid painful encounters with stingrays. You know what,
the most simple and the most guaranteed safety precaution that
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you can take is to stay your ass out of
the water. I am not gonna get stung by a
stingray this weekend. I can absolutely guarantee it. I cannot
guarantee that I will not get stung by a bee
and that is really messing me up.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What was the last time you went into water, swaller,
I've had it been when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
As an adult and are someone who could like make
my own decisions.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Nah. Never.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Last time I've been in the water, I think was
twenty eighteen. Went on a cruise US Virgin Islands. You know.
I went out to like my chest, beautiful water, those
Megan's Bay. You can see the bottom, and then I
could see things swimming past me.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Was done. Wait what what I don't like they water
swimming by you?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yes? Yes, because I'm a good I want to say
maybe twenty five thirty feet out from from you know,
the beach itself. It's not that far, but you know,
it was like it wasn't like an immediate shelf that
was going to drop off. So I was I was fine,
and I know how to swim. I was fine coming
up to my chest and it was gorgeous blue water,
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something out of a catalog or a commercial.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It's the ice blue colored.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You can see everything, and then you realize that you're
not the only thing living that's out there, and it
started to freak me out, and I didn't see a
sting ray. Yes, I was shuffling my feet in the
sand like they tell you how to do that. But
then it's just got to be too much. It's too much.
And Megan's Bay where I was, it's kind of like
a an alcove where you're not just straight ocean. It's
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it's kind of like a water cool de sact. That's
the only way I can describe it. So not everything
is coming in there. But you know, I always think
about it. It's not even at the back of my mind.
It's the front of my mind. I have these neuro seas.
Sometimes I'm like Mark Ronner, Mark Runner. Doesn't want to
go anywhere, not on your best day.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Are you like me?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, I'm better than you. Keep trying, but I'm better
than you. I want to say that I was just
trying to be polite.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That's what everybody. Everybody could tell that. Please continue, Okay,
But you have places that you don't go. There are
things that you don't do.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Period. That's the end of the discussion. You're not open
to any type of debate. Well, give me an example.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I like Chateau for the Fourth of July. Cruises, movies
with a lot of people stop me when I'm wrong. Well,
I don't want to step on any sting rays at chateau.
Well okay, but it's a dangerous, dangerous environment. The analogy
does work. There are certain things, there's certain places that
you avoid and will not go out of concern for
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your health and safety.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Walk around your place. Who knows?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
What's looking at me?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Is food?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Come on?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Food?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Ton't? You don't even take hand with a response. I
know it's come on, Mark? What is it you think
we eat the What is this like Cincinnati, Ohio? We
eat the pets? Is what are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Massacre? Yeah? Yeah, don't try the chili. Avoid the chili.
We're eating the cats, eating the dogs. Try the ribs.
Okay if I aim six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We're gonna talk about housing in California and an actor
who's doing his part to help change some things.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Mark Runner. I'm so disappointed, so disappointed. I was wrong.
I'm not like you in any way at all. Are
you done? No, not at all?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Please be done soon, Mark Runner with just hit it, foosh,
wait for it. Thank god, you're the worst news.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
With Fu.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Live everywhere, on the iHeartRadio at and on social media
video simulcast. And I've always said that Christian Bale is
my favorite Batman bar none, no disrespect to the late
Adam West, no disrespect to anyone like George Clooney or
the late Val Kilmer, or even Pattinson who is playing
(18:42):
Batman now, or even Ben Affleck. Christian Bale is my
favorite Batman on screen. Then you find out some other
things that he's been doing and he's even more so
my favorite Batman now. He co founded a project called
Together California. And mind you, he's from the UK. He's
an English actor. It's not like he was born and
(19:04):
raised in Southern California. It's not like he has some
sort of long term ties to Southern California. This is
something that he chose to do when he co founded
this project called Together California to build a housing complex
for foster youth here in Los Angeles County. It's in
Palmdale's four point seven acres and it will contain twelve
(19:26):
homes almost completed, a seven thousand square foot community center,
and open space for gardens and recreational areas. I don't
know if I talked about this on the air, but
my wife and I were looking for a new house
we're looking to buy in Palmdale, and went up there
a few times.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Palmdale is an undiscovered gym as far as I'm concerned. Really,
it's getting to be more and more developed.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
There are portions of Palmdale which are underdeveloped, but you
can get a reasonably priced home three to five rooms
for under seven hundred thousand dollars in some quatch of this.
Wo Yeah, it's just a it's Palmdale. It's a little
bit of a drive. So if you can center your
(20:10):
life out there or work remotely, by all means, Palmdale
is is a is a good place to be.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But at this age, what do you need to go
into La Proper for? Like, is there anything that you
can't because I'm sure in Palmdale they have movie theaters.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I already know that they have a four D X
and I am Imax screen out there, you know. I mean,
what do you go into La Proper for? I mean,
you're not going to like Charger games every week, so
I would be going to Burbeck.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
That's the only thing that would be I would be
coming to the studio because they have not yet told
me that I can use my home studio to broadcast
every single day. Right outside of that, Yes, we could
have feasibly put our whole lives out there in Palmdale.
And the only reason I'm mentioning that is going back
to the story. I can see why Palmdale was chosen.
(21:03):
It's developed enough. It is i'll say suburban enough, and
it's a great place to raise kids, and we're talking
about foster children. As I said before, twelve homes, seven
thousand square foot community center, an open space for gardens
and recreational areas. And since Palmdale is still underdeveloped to
(21:25):
a certain degree, when you have seven thousand square foot
community center, they're obviously working with enough land that they
can expand because I know it's not going to be
just twelve homes.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Ultimately. You may not know this.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
They broke round just last year, but they've been working
on this since pre pandemic. It has taken more than
seven years just to get to this point because obviously
the pandemic gotten away and threw a lot of things off.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
But you didn't hear a lot about this.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yes, you might have seen a story here or there,
But Christian Bale was not someone who seemingly was trying
to talk this up. He wasn't someone who was trying
to say, Hey, I need a pat on the back
for doing this as something that he felt personally connected to.
His daughter was three years old, and at that time
he was beginning to wonder what happened to kids who
(22:17):
didn't have parents to care for them. He did some research,
as the story goes on, specifically the foster care system
and how seventy five percent of foster children are taken
away from their siblings when they're putting a foster care
and Bail said, we have to devise some way, at
least on a small level, to keep families together, to
(22:40):
keep siblings together, and this is his first step in
that direction. They chose Palmdale back in twenty twenty two.
They got some funding from both Palmdale and the La
County Board of Supervisors. They broke ground in February twenty
twenty four, even though this has been planned since prior
to the pandemic. And Bail also says, the community center
(23:03):
that I told you about won't just belong to the village.
It'll be open to the entire community of Palm Dell.
For as much as we bad mouth actors or entertainers
or we don't want to hear about their personal politics,
you have to give them equal credit as well as
just criticism. It's easy to criticize. It's easy to say, oh,
(23:25):
these actors don't know what they're talking about. They should
not worry themselves about anything beyond acting. And then you
see something like this, you have to give credit where
credit is due. This is not something that he had
to do. This is not even something that Christian Bale
had to do in southern California. He could have done
it in any number of places, but he chose to
do it here. And it wasn't something that was easy
(23:46):
to do. It wasn't like he's just write a check
and walk away and say stick my name on it, please,
and just let me get the credit, just let me
know when to show up for the ribbon cutting or
anything like that. He had to persevere and working with
not only do the city of all excuse me, the
County of Los Angeles, but the city of Almdale to
get at least this far and hopefully we can see
(24:08):
more of this, not necessarily only from him, but from
other people who feel compelled to put their money where
their mouth is and to also make a positive impact
fright the community where they live.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I love this because Christian Bell and said, when you
look at some of the things he said, he said
he thought that he would just originally be able to
go in and hey, I'm Christian Bell, let's do this.
And he said, slowly but surely he found out, Hey,
that's great that you're Christian Bell. But it takes more
than a notion to do this. And he said, to
your point, he didn't want to just put his name on.
(24:39):
He said, okay, so let me buckle down and figure
this out. And he said, step by step. It's way
more than writing a check. It's way more than show
him to me. He said, there's a lot that goes
into planning this, and he's been there every step of
the way. Because when you look at at his method actor,
when you look at how dedicated he is to a
role and what he puts into it, he put the
(25:00):
same into making sure that this project came to fruition.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It's like, you got to salute that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
That's a great point. I didn't even think about that
He is an actor's actor. He takes his acting, his
craft so very seriously. If you know anything about his
method acting or how he throws himself into these various roles,
you can see that if something is important to him,
he's going to approach it in the exact same way.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
And I think that is the truest testament to one sincerity.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
There are a lot of folks out there who will
write a check and walk away, but not Christian Bale.
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Speaker 1 (26:07):
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Were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and social media.
Check out the video portion to the show. And you
may remember about a year ago there was this music
festival at Sofi Stadium called the Hard Summer Music Festival,
and it was so loud. You remember Stephan, Okay, you
(26:30):
could hear it as far as like Manhattan Beach, Guardina
make different.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
It still blows my mind because that's not close, not.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Close at all, and police departments were getting nine one
one calls. I actually thought someone was having a house
party in my neighborhood. It was so freaking loud, and
I could tell us like, oh, I know that song,
or I know that song. I didn't know there was
three point seven miles away. I can only imagine how
(27:00):
loud it was for people who lived closer than me
to Sofi Stadium. And they are all sorts of complaints.
They are all sorts of suggestions and questions about how
could this happen? Why did they allow it to happen?
It was over two days and they still didn't rectify it.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
The Heart Summer Music Festival returns to Englewood this weekend.
Two day festival Saturday and Sunday at Hollywood Park adjacent
to Sofi Stadium. They'll have acts like Kate Trenada, Do
you know what that is? Stefan I do He's chilled. Okay,
I like Kigo, I'll take your word for it. What
about dom Dalla, I know him, but I don't know
(27:41):
his music.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I know who Buster Rhymes is. I know that and
Juvenile I know he is back Wi Yeah, and it
runs from two to ten pm. I don't I don't
expect to be home much of Saturday, so I won't
hear it. My wife and dog they'll probably hear it,
but I don't think i'll be home. But Sunday I'll
(28:04):
probably be home most of the day, so that'll be
the true test for me. And my neighborhood is relatively quiet,
so if I'm hearing music, I know it's coming from
outside my housing development.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And I'm thinking, like, it's too down loud. It's too
down loud.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But I remember thinking that this has to be somewhere
close right, right, it's like a neighbor from down the street, right,
someone knew who.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Moved in right. No, it was three point seven miles away.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I thought someone was having a barbecue and I was like, oh,
they're just going late. No one out there. He was like,
where's this music coming from? I could have sworn it's
like over there. Yeah, that's what I thought, Like, I
go next door. Yeah, I walked outside my house. I'm
looking like to the right and to the left.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I go into my backyard and looking around, it's like, well,
it's not the usual suspects. There's a house which is
cat corner to my backyard, and you've been in my backyard,
so you know that there's a field behind it. And
I'm thinking, like, okay, it's the folks over there sometimes
they play music. No, it wasn't them, And I thought
maybe was La Southwest College, which is close to me.
It's like, no, it's not La Southwest College. And then
I saw the news. It was so far statement, I said,
(29:08):
that's impossible. They would be blowing out people's ear drums
the people who were closer. I know, sound carries, but
we're showing video of it right now on our YouTube channel.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
It was.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It was incredible how far the sound was traveling and
the amount of speakers that they were using that were
turned out into the community, not like inward on itself
for the crowd right there where it should be, where
it should be. And it's like you always have someone
who's on a motorcycle with the music too loud, for
everyone else to hear, not hear it on the motorcycle, okay.
(29:44):
Or you have someone who's blasting the music in his
lower truck with the speakers in the back. It's like, okay,
you want me to hear your music, what you like
and how much money you spent on your sound system.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
It's not for you. It's that's what I thought it was.
I couldn't have been more wrong. It was almost four miles.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Away, and it's and I could sing along to all
the songs that I knew, at least I didn't know
them all.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It was like I don't know that song, I don't
know that song, Well, I know that song.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
And I was listening for like ti fifteen minutes. I'm
playing on my computer, bobbing my head some music.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Thinking that, hey, okay, so and so is happing a party.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
No, I was in disbelief. So that they're saying saying,
we'll find out whether it's true. Festival organizers and local
officials said they figured out what caused the excessive noise
last year.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh, they had to have conduct an investigation.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
They didn't know that if you just turned the ish
down or turned the speakers in a different direction.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
This is not complicated, y'all.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
When the police come to your door and say, hey,
the party's a little out of hand, do you mind
turning it down?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's not a bit. There's nothing to figure out.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You turn it down, turn it down from volume eleven
to four or something like that. But they say they
know what the problem was last year, and it will
be remedied ahead of time, as in now because the
festival is tomorrow. This is what they say was the issue.
This is Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts, and I'm kind
(31:18):
of fond of so I'm not making making a whole
lot of fun about him. I like what he's done
in Inglewood, with some reservations about other things. But it's like,
come on, Mayor Butts. He said, quote the speakers were
pointed to the west and they were elevated even off
the plaza.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
And what did that do?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
It allowed the base frequencies to escape into the atmosphere
close quote Come on, dude.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
It's just a volume thing.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yes, the speakers might have been turned in a wrong direction,
but there's no way that just elevating them was going
to make the sound transfer and travel four plus miles.
They were hearing it on the water at Manhattan Beach.
And you may not know all the geographical the designs
(32:07):
of the area, but if you are in that area,
there's a lot of real estate in between Inglewood and
Manhattan Beach down on the water, a lot. You're passing
over a lot of houses, two freeways, the one oh
five and the four oh five, just to get to
Manhattan Beach, and then you've got another few miles before
(32:28):
you can get to the water. And people were calling
their local police departments complaining, thinking like me, it was
somewhere close when they should have been calling SOFI or Inglewood.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
There was nothing going on in Manhattan Beach.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I know they had a police calls to Guardina, Manhattan Beach, Inglewood,
LA County Sheriff's Department, which is in my neighborhood, and
also LAPD another for a fact, How that festival managed
to go two days with those noise complaints, I have
no idea, but they say it's remed we'll find out.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I'll give you a report. I'll probably go live from
my backyard. Kf I AM six forty were live everywhere
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