September 12, 2025 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the manhunt for the suspected killer that took the life of conservative influencer/political activist Charlie Kirk…PLUS – The rapid resurgence of measles has taken a deadly turn in California with the death of a child that’s succumbed to complications of a measles infection AND Uber & Lyft drivers in California have taken one step closer to being able to unionize - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's later with Mo Kelly Cafi AM sixty. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and we're live on YouTube.
And if you've been listening to KFI, you know that
there was a recent update and press conference. No questions
were taken regarding the status of the manhunt for the
killer of Charlie Kirk. Now, there were some new pictures
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which were released to the public. There was some new
surveillance video released of the what was being termed as
the suspect. Some reports I've seen in person of interests,
some reports I'm seeing as suspect. So I may bounce
back and forth because I've heard both. Now they have
not said anything too specific about who they may think
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it is. They may have a person by name in mind,
but they are still asking the general public, you and me,
if we should see something or know something to forward
it on to the FBI. I don't know if they
are closer than they were yesterday. They are now releasing
more information. They give us a sense of where they
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are an investigation. We know that a rifle, a high
powered bolt action rifle, was found in a wooded area
or an undeveloped area. If I'm not mistaken. We don't
know exactly the ballistics. Mark correct me if I'm wrong.
Do we have any ballistics information about the bullet?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That I don't know? But they did find the gun
in that wooded area that they said the suspect ran
into when he jumped down from the roof.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Now I've looked at a number of pictures and video
and I'm all over the place me personally as far
as what the person looks like, very very slight in build.
I've heard some commentators say, well, it could be a woman.
I don't know. I can't get a good look engage
on the individual, whether the person's male or female. I
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will say that this person is in some sort of
disguise to make that person less recognizable, So anything is possible.
At this point, it seems like a younger person in
their early twenties as best we can discern. But there
is something which did bother me, and it has nothing
to do with the press conference. It has to do
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with certain leaks that I've seen on TMZ and other
places where you have this video. I don't know if
it's coming from a law enforcement source. I get the
sense it is, and that's kind of curious. You know,
if someone on the inside of the investigation is given
away video to TMZ for their own personal gain gain.
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But I just don't see how TMZ is getting the
exclusives on some of these videos.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It's really strange.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But we live in a time where this video can
be very, very profitable. But we're seeing leaks as far
as video and photos coming from the investigation, and I
don't know if that's going to compromise it in some
way more than it's going to help.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
We're also seeing what we've never seen before to my knowledge,
which is the FBI director tweeting in the middle and
the early stages of a live investigation. That is highly unusual.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It is, and I actually talked to some of my
retired FBI friends and they were telling me that customarily
the director of the FBI does not say anything until
the end, and also the FBI director does not travel
to the site of an investigation correct until the end.
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That's what they're telling me. So it's not for me
to say what is improper or proper. I'm just relaying
what was relayed to me. So all of this is strange,
all of this is unusual. I hope they catch the person.
I don't know how close or how far away they
are from catching the person. They are still asking the
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general public for their help to submit any information that
they do have, so that just tells me they're not
necessarily as close as they would hope to be at
this juncture. I don't know how long this manhuunt is
going to last. I don't know where it's going to lead.
And if you know me, that always concerns me because
in this time in between, people like to speculate. People
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want to blame, people want to assume, people want some
sort of revenge, and it makes the situation worse.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And I'm not blaming the FBI.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'm saying this time in between the murder and the capture,
people get antsy, people want information, people want answers, and
I understand that, but human nature oftentimes gets in the
way and makes bad matters worse because we want to
bring this to some sort of conclusion, and some people
with different motivations want to be able to blame someone.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I'll give you a perfect example.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
There was a report by the Wall Street Journal, which
was not confirmed by other sources, that somehow that there
was some transgender ideology connected to the gun that was
found earlier today, and then the Wall Street Journal had
to go back and change their headline in their reporting
because they could no longer confirm it and that there
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was other sources and possibly misinterpreted information in their own report.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, I think it was very significant that Utah's governor,
his name is Spencer Cox, specifically, he went out of
his way to warn people to watch for disinformation on
social media about this case.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I heard that nearly and I was really appreciative of
that fact, because social media will play an outsize role
in this investigation.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It will play an outsize.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Role as far as how we will accept or not
accept the truth when it does come out, when someone
is finally apprehended, whether we'll believe that's the person, or
whether we'll just spiral into other conspiracy theories. So this
was a concerning day because I could see the direction
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where social media was going news reporting, and it was
getting very very loose in certain news reporting. It didn't
I didn't get the sense that they were having double
sources with some of the stuff that they were leading with,
and I was concerned that the FBI was allowing information
to come out which could compromise its own investigation, and
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I could be absolutely wrong, but I usually err on
the side of caution, and there was stuff that was
leaking out that I'm thinking should have never gotten out
prior to the FBI and local law enforcement giving it
to us at a press conference.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
There's no need to be first in this.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
There's absolutely no need to rush this information out, especially
when they're looking for someone that's absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's better to hang back and be correct than stick
your neck out right away and then be wrong and
have egg on your face. And there are repercussions to
being wrong in a situation like this, huge repercussions. But
we will continue to follow this. I don't expect there
to be any other update later on tonight, but if
there should be any information which should come down if
an arrest is made or another person is taken into
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custody for questioning, I'm quite sure the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom will be on it and we'll have that
information for you. So just keep it right here. It's
later with mo Kelly when we come back. You might
have heard Mark Runner talk about just a few minutes
ago about how another child has died from measles, but
it's right here locally.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
We got to talk about that. Next.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
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Speaker 1 (08:10):
KFI Later with mo Kelly, We're live everywhere on YouTube
and the iHeartRadio app. And I get absolutely no joy
in talking about something that I was trying to warn
people about. It's not about being right. It is about
protecting children though. And another child has died from measles.
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But this has to do or I should say meazels complication.
But this has to do with La County, not in Texas,
not somewhere else. This is right in our backyard. The
child identified only as school age, which is very vague,
but was originally infected with measles as an infant before
they were eligible to receive the measles vaccine, which is
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routinely recommended to be administered between twelve and fifteen months.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And let me stop right there.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Do you remember when either you were a child, or
you had a younger sibling, or maybe you are a parent,
and you remember you had a newborn infant and you,
for the most part, shielded your child from encountering a
lot of people, if only because you wanted to make
sure that the child with almost no immune system at
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that point, wasn't unnecessarily exposed to different diseases. It's almost
like one of those things where when you have a newborn,
all the adults know, for the most part, to stay away. Well,
this is one of those reasons why you want to
keep adults away from very very young infants. One, they
don't have the immimmune system built up, and in many
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cases they haven't had their vaccine schedule. But you have
a child here who developed measles and recovered from the
initial infection of measles, but then the child developed and
ultimately died from measles complications. And I don't even know
if I can even pronounce it, but it was subacute
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sclerosing pancephalitis SSPE.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Thought to be rare but universally fatal complication that can
occur in individuals who have measles early in life. And
this goes back to our larger vaccination discussion. If you're
not going to get vaccinated and you should have children,
or your children are not vaccinated, they're at a larger
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likelihood of exposure to measles. Catching measles and measles is
one of the most transmissible diseases in the world. There's
a high likelihood that you will get measles if exposed
to measles, especially if you're not vaccinated, and if you're
very young, there's a good chance that you will have
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complications from it. We talked about the stats, we talked
about the figures, the likelihood of being hospitalized, and although rare,
I'm not talking about the mortality rate. I'm not saying
that it's high, but I'm saying that this was a
child who died, and I would have to assume that
since the child had measles, was obviously exposed to someone
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had measles, most likely who was not vaccinated, because measles,
say it with me had been eradicated. So there's no
reason to believe that this child should have been exposed
to measles in the first place.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Now, think of it this way.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
What if I told you that this same child, this
same child I wish I could see right now, because
I know your eyebrows are getting ready to go up.
What if I told you that same child was killed
by an undocumented immigrant. I'm quite sure your response to
be altogether different, completely different. The whole concept of right
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and wrong. We would need to do something about this.
Or if I told you this child was killed on
a train in North Carolina like that Ukrainian woman, I'm
quite sure your thought about it would be considerably different.
And I'm saying, this is something we can control now.
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We can't necessarily prevent all crime, we can't even prevent
all disease, but we damn sure can prevent the.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Measles we have.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's almost like the six million dollar ban. We have
the technology, we can do it. We have done it.
This child did not need to die from measles. And
we talked about this. I don't know, Mark was about
maybe three or four months ago. We were talking about
the Texas outbreak and the two children that had died there,
and I'm saying, we said there would be more, and
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lo and behold, there is more, and it's right in
our backyard.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You're not really sticking your neck out to predict there's
going to be more when people are vaccinating less and
less and consuming more and more anti VAX's information, frankly,
including from our own health secretary, who's a notorious anti vaxer.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I never knew, I never knew who was. Yes, pop
your head up.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'm being completely facetious, like these are the things we
want to say, like, hey, you know we want to
make America healthy again.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well, right here you go.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
This is a perfect example of how you can make
America healthy again, getting the basic vaccines so you don't
have children dying unnecessarily. And if we don't rally to
protect children, then what's the freaking point.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I see some people on Twitter, which you are smart
to avoid these days, talking about how how they're not
getting their children vaccinated, and I always have to stop myself,
like the guy holding his hand back in the Fly movie,
do not tweet at this person. They're your responsibility, not
your property. There are going to be more children who
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are going to die from measles.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Why because we're on a trajectory of to Mark's point,
fewer people getting vaccinated, more people getting exposed to measles,
more people dying from beaesels.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's how it works.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
It's preventable, unless we're just too stupid to prevent it.
It's later with mo Kelly kf I Am six forty
were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and when we
come back, we got to talk about Uber and Lyft
they're almost maybe getting close to unionizing after this crucial vote.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
We'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
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Speaker 3 (14:56):
Mister mo Kelly, it's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We're live everywhere on YouTube, any iHeartRadio app and we
often talk about uber Lyft, ride share, robo taxis, and
the future of the industry. And this is a real
important moment. I hope everyone is paying attention because if
you're not a ride share driver, you're probably a passenger.
We're at the point where everyone, no, not you, Tony,
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you don't do right share at all. You don't even
ride in them. Wow, I don't know they still made you.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
No, nah, No, I get that. I was a late adopter.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I did not feel real comfortable about getting in someone's
personal vehicle. With these contractors which we're getting ready to
talk about. They're not actual employees, and the vetting process
was pretty pretty thin in the beginning. It's gotten better,
so I understand where you're coming from. I'm just surprised
that you still haven't crossed over yet to the dark side. Okay, well,
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look I'm not I'm that way with these robotaxis, you know,
like way Mo and I'm not getting so we're halfway
the same. But my point is ride share is a
huge part of our economy. Now, it's a part of
the gig economy. It's a part of the money which
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flows back into the economy large and it's very important.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
In business in many ways.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
If I travel, if I'm going to another city, I'm
using Uber. Even when I was international, we were in Italy,
we use Uber oftentimes to get around the city or
get to our hotel. So it is, it is firmly
entrenched in society. The question is internally Uber and Lyft,
what's going to happen to it's employees. There's been a
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long push to designate those independent contractors as employees. That
failed here in California, but drivers still wanted to at
least unionize, and there is one step closer. There's a
bill specifically here in California, the Assembly Bill thirteen forty,
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which has already been sent to Governor Gavin Newsom, and
it's merely a formality in many ways, but it's tied
to an insurance bill surrounding how much insurance ride share
providers need to have for these independent contractors, it's most
likely going to pass and be pushed through. What happens
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is you will have all these independent contractors who will
be able to come together and unionize and either fight
for wages or other protections or other benefits as ride
share drivers. But this is something that I don't think
people have been talking about. We have here on later
with Mo Kelly and it's Tech Thursday, and since we
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have been talking about robotaxis and way Mow and automated vehicles,
don't you know that the ride share industry as we
know it is only a couple years away from being
fully automated. I mean I'm talking about two or three years.
We know that Elon Musk is doing his thing with
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his robotaxis. We know Uber has a deal with Weimo
in certain cities. I understand the need for workers to unionize.
I just wonder whether these jobs, air quotes, whether these
gigs of this gig economy will even be around in
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two to three years.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Now. This is something all jokes aside.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Now I may joke with Twalla and say, you know, yes,
I'm not going to get into Wimo, and we have
fun with that, but I also say certain technological advances
are here or are on the way here, and there's
not much we can do about it.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Mark will argue with me talking about AI, saying no, no,
nobody wants it.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I'm not going to accept it. I'm going to fight
it to my very last breath. I get that.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
But when it comes to robotaxis and automation that is coming,
that is going to destroy a lot of jobs. And
we're going to see it in transportation. We're going to
see it in the serface economy. You're going to go
to all sorts of fast food restaurants, You're going to
realize there are fewer and fewer people working there.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, but you got to take into account MOE, the
law of throwing everything against the wall and seeing what sticks.
A lot of people aren't going to patronize it that
if you don't have an option, it's let me put
it this way. There was a time in which there
were elevator operators. There were time time in which we
had traffic light operators, we had long distance operators, and
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then those jobs went a wait because technology move forward,
and I know a lot of people lost jobs, and
there was this uncomfortable period in which our economy had
to find some other way to employ these people. I
think we're going to go through that time once again
with a lot of these service jobs.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I please don't judge me. I went and got some
food from Popeyes today. Please don't judge me, of course. Okay,
I had a taste for it. Yeah, and it was
buyer's remorse because I tasted it was like, ugh, it
tasted really bad.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Did you experience this remorse while seated?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
No? No, no, no, while I was eating and seated, but
not that seated.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, I'm just saying like I had a taste of
the biscuits, and the biscuits were rock hard.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
They were smaller. The red beans and rice was smaller.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
That shrink flation, the whole meal was just unappetizing. My
point is when I walked into the place, there were
only two people working. They had the automated marquee. You know,
we had to go up and just input your order
and then you just go to red in the handle
your food. The whole need to have a fully stocked
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fast food restaurant is just about gone.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Let me invite you to travel back in time with
me to oh, yeah, a couple months or so ago.
Remember that thing called doge where they absolutely purged as
many government employees as they possibly could, and then they realized, oh,
we need some of those We got to hire a
lot of them back.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
But you're talking about something that was done over the
course of three months, and I'm talking about the incremental
change of our economy over let's say, three four years.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Well, there's a couple of things going on at once.
I think that corporations are going to try and get
rid of as many humans as possible so they don't
pay them a living wage, healthcare blah blah blah, blah blah.
And we're going to find out as it shakes out
what they really need and what they can really do without,
and what people will patronize. And we're all finding that
out right now. Nothing's set yet.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, in as much that we have choice. But if
let's say all of the fast food industry moves down
this path where they have just the these automated you know,
self checkout kiosks, those jobs are just not coming back.
I mean, gone into Popeyes, seen it, gone into California
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Fish Grill, same thing, gone into McDonald's, same thing. They
have these automated kiosks that I'm saying that's at least
one or two jobs.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I think we can all have some effect on that,
depending on what we decide to do. I mean, I
don't really want to go into a place where I'm
not interacting with anybody.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Did you see that documentary that came out a couple
of years ago called The Automat about these places where
people would go for lunch. It's kind of like a
cafeteria and you just opened a little door and picked.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Your food out of it. I did not see it.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You should look it up. It's worth watching, and there's
some charm to that. But this thing of going into
a place and never interacting with humans, they're taking our
lives away from us.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I don't want that. Have you been to a car
wash lately? Have you seen my car? But my point
is if you.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Go to a car wash, note out of ten of
them are fully automated at this point. You know, there's
the gas station car wash, the little one, and the
big car washes, which you usually have ten or twelve
workers who are actually, you know, physically drying your car.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Those are all but gone. Now.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, there's another reason for that too, that we don't
really need to get into it.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
And I'm talking about the technological aspect, not the ice
immigration aspect. But I hear you, I hear you. I'm
saying that jobs are gone, not the people themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I think that it's some will stay gone as things
move forward. I mean, you know, we don't have whale
oil anymore either, but some's gonna come back. People are
going to dictate what they want, not everything is put
down on us by our corporate overlords, and we're required
to accept it in perpetuity.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But there's a degree of collusion, especially within the industry.
In other words, what one in fast food will do,
most of them will do, what one in grocery, and
you know retail will do the most will do. And
i'm you will find some similarities. And take it back
to the story talking about Uber and Lyft, and Uber
already has a deal with Waimo. I suspect that Weimo
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is not going to be content with just some of
Uber's business. They'll want all of Uber's business and all
of Lift's business. And going back to having these employees
quote unquote unionizing, it would be in the financial interests
of Uber to go straight Waimo straight automated robotaxi as
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opposed to sharing any money with human drivers.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, of course if you vaporize them all, that's all
the more profits you get to keep.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
But you always talk about, you know, corporate greed. Yeah,
this is like Taylor made for corporate greed. Oh, there's
no question about it.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But I can't I'm not a lot, but I can't
be the only person who's like, I'm not getting into that.
I want a human driver, Tony, for you, is it
about a human driver? Since she said you don't do
right share at.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
All, I just don't like right sharing. I just don't
like it at all.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
See, I prefer human driver, but I also know they
will come a time there will not be a human driver.
I've asked some real bad the few times I've done
Uber with friends like they it was not a good
experience with those drivers.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Look, I've had drunk taxi cab drivers. I've had bad
Uber drivers. It's almost like pick your poison. And I
don't know what.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The best answer is. But I'm more forecasting what corporate
America will do.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Look, I don't like everybody like. In fact, I'm a
little like you, and I hate to admit this. I
don't like most people, but I also don't want to
be shielded from most people. I don't like their cologne,
I don't like their music. I don't like the talk
stations they have on. When I'm in the taxi or
the ride share. I don't really want to have a
huge conversation with them. I just want them to take
me where I'm going. But I also don't need to
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be insulated from the rest of humanity for the efficiency
and profit of some corporations. These are people you want
to run into, because that's life. You make a great
distinction for me.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I can be, for the most part, either gregarious or
anti social, but I want to be able to decide.
In other words, if I'm getting in a cab, I
may not want conversation, and I get that, but the
larger society doesn't care about me. The larger society is
going to move in a way which is much more
efficient and much less expensive for the corporate overlords that
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you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Regulated, rage against it. That's my advice. It's later with
mo Kelly. Don't listen to Mark. He doesn't know what
he's talking about. K I am six forty. We live
Everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
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Speaker 1 (26:55):
Mister mo Kelly is Later with mo Kelly Live Everywhere
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Speaker 3 (27:00):
And let me just say this.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I know that it's hard for a lot of us
out there. The rent's too damn high, eggs are too high,
or you might be struggling trying to get a job,
or you might not be making enough money in the
job that you have. I completely get that, But the
economy is not anecdotal. And what I mean by that
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is I can go to my house and talk to
my neighbors and say, Hey, John, do you have a
job and he says no, I don't have a job.
And I go two houses down, I talk to Lisa, Lisa,
what's your employment status?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And Lisa says no, I don't have a job either.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Mo And I go three houses down and talk to
Ronnie and Ronnie says no, out of a job either.
And I could say, Wow, the economy must be bad
because three people on my block don't have a job.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That's anecdotal. That's not the economy.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But sometimes we think just because of our personal experiences.
The economy's good or bad, but there are it's some indicators,
some economic indicators to give us a better sense, big picture,
where our economy is going. In other words, things that
we all have to deal with that we all can measure.
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And us inflation worse than last month. The cost of gas,
the cost of food, and the cost of airfare all
have jumped. Consumer prices increase two point nine percent in
August from a year earlier, and that's up from two
point seven percent the previous month, and it's the biggest
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increase since January. And UH food is up three point
one percent the same time since July.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
And here's something else we have to consider.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
We don't know what the FED is going to do,
if the FED is going to reduce interest rates or they're.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Going to hold them.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
All those things make it more of an economic squeak
on you and me. And we had this robust debate.
I seem to remember that the economy was supposedly horrible,
at least in our public discussion back around October November
of twenty twenty four. I think it was right around
then that the economy was horrible. Now we look like
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a year later or so, messed around and found out
what a bad economy actually feels like. You know, the
cost of eggs, there are a whole lot more now
than they were a year ago. I think that's fair
to say, cost of gas a lot more than.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Let's say, a year ago. Stock market it's about where
it was a year ago.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
But I think big picture, I think we should all
be able to agree that economically it's more difficult today
than maybe three four months ago.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Isn't that fair? I think that's fair.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
All the economic information, all the statistics out there suggest
the things are not as good today as they were
maybe five six months ago. And that's not a political statement.
That's just an economic indicator statement. Not trying to get
anyone elected. There's no election on the horizon. But I
do talk about the economy because the economy impacts every
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single one of us. It even impacts Daniel who's in
here messing with the cameras. It impacts Tony who refuses
to get in a ride share. It impacts Mark Ronner,
who's a miser and who doesn't spend any money ever
under any circumstances.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I have noticed everything is more expensive at the grocery store,
the prostitute Ralphs I go to after work, late at night.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Even the prostitute is more expensive. I bet they've raised
their prices too.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That's the way it is. Okay, prostitute's got to eat too, So.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I hear.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Not firsthand you have. Okay, I'm going to ask you
the question Mark Rono. No, no, no, no voked the prostitutes.
I'm gonna ask you. Have you ever no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I got to ask the question first. Have you ever
in your life paid for companionship?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Look at me? Do you think I need to No? No, no, no,
don't do Donald Trump on me. Don't do that. Don't
do that.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The answer is no. You sure I think i'd know. No,
I think you'd know. But I think you'd lie about
it too.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
No, it saves time not to lie. No, I have never. Okay, Tony,
oh he has for sure.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
When I think of nine to eleven, I think said
remember it and ultimately.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Unifying our country for supporting a city that unfortunately tragically fell.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Asked by and kost h D two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
More stimulating talk
It's later with Mo Kelly Cafi AM sixty. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and we're live on YouTube.
And if you've been listening to KFI, you know that
there was a recent update and press conference. No questions
were taken regarding the status of the manhunt for the
killer of Charlie Kirk. Now, there were some new pictures
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which were released to the public. There was some new
surveillance video released of the what was being termed as
the suspect. Some reports I've seen in person of interests,
some reports I'm seeing as suspect. So I may bounce
back and forth because I've heard both. Now they have
not said anything too specific about who they may think
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it is. They may have a person by name in mind,
but they are still asking the general public, you and me,
if we should see something or know something to forward
it on to the FBI. I don't know if they
are closer than they were yesterday. They are now releasing
more information. They give us a sense of where they
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are an investigation. We know that a rifle, a high
powered bolt action rifle, was found in a wooded area
or an undeveloped area. If I'm not mistaken. We don't
know exactly the ballistics. Mark correct me if I'm wrong.
Do we have any ballistics information about the bullet?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That I don't know? But they did find the gun
in that wooded area that they said the suspect ran
into when he jumped down from the roof.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Now I've looked at a number of pictures and video
and I'm all over the place me personally as far
as what the person looks like, very very slight in build.
I've heard some commentators say, well, it could be a woman.
I don't know. I can't get a good look engage
on the individual, whether the person's male or female. I
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will say that this person is in some sort of
disguise to make that person less recognizable, So anything is possible.
At this point, it seems like a younger person in
their early twenties as best we can discern. But there
is something which did bother me, and it has nothing
to do with the press conference. It has to do
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with certain leaks that I've seen on TMZ and other
places where you have this video. I don't know if
it's coming from a law enforcement source. I get the
sense it is, and that's kind of curious. You know,
if someone on the inside of the investigation is given
away video to TMZ for their own personal gain gain.
(03:04):
But I just don't see how TMZ is getting the
exclusives on some of these videos.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It's really strange.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But we live in a time where this video can
be very, very profitable. But we're seeing leaks as far
as video and photos coming from the investigation, and I
don't know if that's going to compromise it in some
way more than it's going to help.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
We're also seeing what we've never seen before to my knowledge,
which is the FBI director tweeting in the middle and
the early stages of a live investigation. That is highly unusual.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It is, and I actually talked to some of my
retired FBI friends and they were telling me that customarily
the director of the FBI does not say anything until
the end, and also the FBI director does not travel
to the site of an investigation correct until the end.
(03:59):
That's what they're telling me. So it's not for me
to say what is improper or proper. I'm just relaying
what was relayed to me. So all of this is strange,
all of this is unusual. I hope they catch the person.
I don't know how close or how far away they
are from catching the person. They are still asking the
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general public for their help to submit any information that
they do have, so that just tells me they're not
necessarily as close as they would hope to be at
this juncture. I don't know how long this manhuunt is
going to last. I don't know where it's going to lead.
And if you know me, that always concerns me because
in this time in between, people like to speculate. People
(04:43):
want to blame, people want to assume, people want some
sort of revenge, and it makes the situation worse.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And I'm not blaming the FBI.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'm saying this time in between the murder and the capture,
people get antsy, people want information, people want answers, and
I understand that, but human nature oftentimes gets in the
way and makes bad matters worse because we want to
bring this to some sort of conclusion, and some people
with different motivations want to be able to blame someone.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I'll give you a perfect example.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
There was a report by the Wall Street Journal, which
was not confirmed by other sources, that somehow that there
was some transgender ideology connected to the gun that was
found earlier today, and then the Wall Street Journal had
to go back and change their headline in their reporting
because they could no longer confirm it and that there
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was other sources and possibly misinterpreted information in their own report.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, I think it was very significant that Utah's governor,
his name is Spencer Cox, specifically, he went out of
his way to warn people to watch for disinformation on
social media about this case.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I heard that nearly and I was really appreciative of
that fact, because social media will play an outsize role
in this investigation.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It will play an outsize.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Role as far as how we will accept or not
accept the truth when it does come out, when someone
is finally apprehended, whether we'll believe that's the person, or
whether we'll just spiral into other conspiracy theories. So this
was a concerning day because I could see the direction
(06:29):
where social media was going news reporting, and it was
getting very very loose in certain news reporting. It didn't
I didn't get the sense that they were having double
sources with some of the stuff that they were leading with,
and I was concerned that the FBI was allowing information
to come out which could compromise its own investigation, and
(06:50):
I could be absolutely wrong, but I usually err on
the side of caution, and there was stuff that was
leaking out that I'm thinking should have never gotten out
prior to the FBI and local law enforcement giving it
to us at a press conference.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
There's no need to be first in this.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
There's absolutely no need to rush this information out, especially
when they're looking for someone that's absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's better to hang back and be correct than stick
your neck out right away and then be wrong and
have egg on your face. And there are repercussions to
being wrong in a situation like this, huge repercussions. But
we will continue to follow this. I don't expect there
to be any other update later on tonight, but if
there should be any information which should come down if
an arrest is made or another person is taken into
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custody for questioning, I'm quite sure the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom will be on it and we'll have that
information for you. So just keep it right here. It's
later with mo Kelly when we come back. You might
have heard Mark Runner talk about just a few minutes
ago about how another child has died from measles, but
it's right here locally.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
We got to talk about that. Next.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
a six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
KFI Later with mo Kelly, We're live everywhere on YouTube
and the iHeartRadio app. And I get absolutely no joy
in talking about something that I was trying to warn
people about. It's not about being right. It is about
protecting children though. And another child has died from measles.
(08:31):
But this has to do or I should say meazels complication.
But this has to do with La County, not in Texas,
not somewhere else. This is right in our backyard. The
child identified only as school age, which is very vague,
but was originally infected with measles as an infant before
they were eligible to receive the measles vaccine, which is
(08:55):
routinely recommended to be administered between twelve and fifteen months.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And let me stop right there.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Do you remember when either you were a child, or
you had a younger sibling, or maybe you are a parent,
and you remember you had a newborn infant and you,
for the most part, shielded your child from encountering a
lot of people, if only because you wanted to make
sure that the child with almost no immune system at
(09:21):
that point, wasn't unnecessarily exposed to different diseases. It's almost
like one of those things where when you have a newborn,
all the adults know, for the most part, to stay away. Well,
this is one of those reasons why you want to
keep adults away from very very young infants. One, they
don't have the immimmune system built up, and in many
(09:43):
cases they haven't had their vaccine schedule. But you have
a child here who developed measles and recovered from the
initial infection of measles, but then the child developed and
ultimately died from measles complications. And I don't even know
if I can even pronounce it, but it was subacute
(10:05):
sclerosing pancephalitis SSPE.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Thought to be rare but universally fatal complication that can
occur in individuals who have measles early in life. And
this goes back to our larger vaccination discussion. If you're
not going to get vaccinated and you should have children,
or your children are not vaccinated, they're at a larger
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likelihood of exposure to measles. Catching measles and measles is
one of the most transmissible diseases in the world. There's
a high likelihood that you will get measles if exposed
to measles, especially if you're not vaccinated, and if you're
very young, there's a good chance that you will have
(10:56):
complications from it. We talked about the stats, we talked
about the figures, the likelihood of being hospitalized, and although rare,
I'm not talking about the mortality rate. I'm not saying
that it's high, but I'm saying that this was a
child who died, and I would have to assume that
since the child had measles, was obviously exposed to someone
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had measles, most likely who was not vaccinated, because measles,
say it with me had been eradicated. So there's no
reason to believe that this child should have been exposed
to measles in the first place.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Now, think of it this way.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
What if I told you that this same child, this
same child I wish I could see right now, because
I know your eyebrows are getting ready to go up.
What if I told you that same child was killed
by an undocumented immigrant. I'm quite sure your response to
be altogether different, completely different. The whole concept of right
(12:01):
and wrong. We would need to do something about this.
Or if I told you this child was killed on
a train in North Carolina like that Ukrainian woman, I'm
quite sure your thought about it would be considerably different.
And I'm saying, this is something we can control now.
(12:22):
We can't necessarily prevent all crime, we can't even prevent
all disease, but we damn sure can prevent the.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Measles we have.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's almost like the six million dollar ban. We have
the technology, we can do it. We have done it.
This child did not need to die from measles. And
we talked about this. I don't know, Mark was about
maybe three or four months ago. We were talking about
the Texas outbreak and the two children that had died there,
and I'm saying, we said there would be more, and
(12:51):
lo and behold, there is more, and it's right in
our backyard.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You're not really sticking your neck out to predict there's
going to be more when people are vaccinating less and
less and consuming more and more anti VAX's information, frankly,
including from our own health secretary, who's a notorious anti vaxer.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I never knew, I never knew who was. Yes, pop
your head up.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'm being completely facetious, like these are the things we
want to say, like, hey, you know we want to
make America healthy again.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well, right here you go.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
This is a perfect example of how you can make
America healthy again, getting the basic vaccines so you don't
have children dying unnecessarily. And if we don't rally to
protect children, then what's the freaking point.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I see some people on Twitter, which you are smart
to avoid these days, talking about how how they're not
getting their children vaccinated, and I always have to stop myself,
like the guy holding his hand back in the Fly movie,
do not tweet at this person. They're your responsibility, not
your property. There are going to be more children who
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are going to die from measles.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Why because we're on a trajectory of to Mark's point,
fewer people getting vaccinated, more people getting exposed to measles,
more people dying from beaesels.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's how it works.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
It's preventable, unless we're just too stupid to prevent it.
It's later with mo Kelly kf I Am six forty
were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and when we
come back, we got to talk about Uber and Lyft
they're almost maybe getting close to unionizing after this crucial vote.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
We'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six FORTYFI.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Mister mo Kelly, it's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We're live everywhere on YouTube, any iHeartRadio app and we
often talk about uber Lyft, ride share, robo taxis, and
the future of the industry. And this is a real
important moment. I hope everyone is paying attention because if
you're not a ride share driver, you're probably a passenger.
We're at the point where everyone, no, not you, Tony,
(15:20):
you don't do right share at all. You don't even
ride in them. Wow, I don't know they still made you.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
No, nah, No, I get that. I was a late adopter.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I did not feel real comfortable about getting in someone's
personal vehicle. With these contractors which we're getting ready to
talk about. They're not actual employees, and the vetting process
was pretty pretty thin in the beginning. It's gotten better,
so I understand where you're coming from. I'm just surprised
that you still haven't crossed over yet to the dark side. Okay, well,
(15:55):
look I'm not I'm that way with these robotaxis, you know,
like way Mo and I'm not getting so we're halfway
the same. But my point is ride share is a
huge part of our economy. Now, it's a part of
the gig economy. It's a part of the money which
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flows back into the economy large and it's very important.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
In business in many ways.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
If I travel, if I'm going to another city, I'm
using Uber. Even when I was international, we were in Italy,
we use Uber oftentimes to get around the city or
get to our hotel. So it is, it is firmly
entrenched in society. The question is internally Uber and Lyft,
what's going to happen to it's employees. There's been a
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long push to designate those independent contractors as employees. That
failed here in California, but drivers still wanted to at
least unionize, and there is one step closer. There's a
bill specifically here in California, the Assembly Bill thirteen forty,
(17:09):
which has already been sent to Governor Gavin Newsom, and
it's merely a formality in many ways, but it's tied
to an insurance bill surrounding how much insurance ride share
providers need to have for these independent contractors, it's most
likely going to pass and be pushed through. What happens
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is you will have all these independent contractors who will
be able to come together and unionize and either fight
for wages or other protections or other benefits as ride
share drivers. But this is something that I don't think
people have been talking about. We have here on later
with Mo Kelly and it's Tech Thursday, and since we
(17:55):
have been talking about robotaxis and way Mow and automated vehicles,
don't you know that the ride share industry as we
know it is only a couple years away from being
fully automated. I mean I'm talking about two or three years.
We know that Elon Musk is doing his thing with
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his robotaxis. We know Uber has a deal with Weimo
in certain cities. I understand the need for workers to unionize.
I just wonder whether these jobs, air quotes, whether these
gigs of this gig economy will even be around in
(18:37):
two to three years.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Now. This is something all jokes aside.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Now I may joke with Twalla and say, you know, yes,
I'm not going to get into Wimo, and we have
fun with that, but I also say certain technological advances
are here or are on the way here, and there's
not much we can do about it.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Mark will argue with me talking about AI, saying no, no,
nobody wants it.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I'm not going to accept it. I'm going to fight
it to my very last breath. I get that.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
But when it comes to robotaxis and automation that is coming,
that is going to destroy a lot of jobs. And
we're going to see it in transportation. We're going to
see it in the serface economy. You're going to go
to all sorts of fast food restaurants, You're going to
realize there are fewer and fewer people working there.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, but you got to take into account MOE, the
law of throwing everything against the wall and seeing what sticks.
A lot of people aren't going to patronize it that
if you don't have an option, it's let me put
it this way. There was a time in which there
were elevator operators. There were time time in which we
had traffic light operators, we had long distance operators, and
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then those jobs went a wait because technology move forward,
and I know a lot of people lost jobs, and
there was this uncomfortable period in which our economy had
to find some other way to employ these people. I
think we're going to go through that time once again
with a lot of these service jobs.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I please don't judge me. I went and got some
food from Popeyes today. Please don't judge me, of course. Okay,
I had a taste for it. Yeah, and it was
buyer's remorse because I tasted it was like, ugh, it
tasted really bad.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Did you experience this remorse while seated?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
No? No, no, no, while I was eating and seated, but
not that seated.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, I'm just saying like I had a taste of
the biscuits, and the biscuits were rock hard.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
They were smaller. The red beans and rice was smaller.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
That shrink flation, the whole meal was just unappetizing. My
point is when I walked into the place, there were
only two people working. They had the automated marquee. You know,
we had to go up and just input your order
and then you just go to red in the handle
your food. The whole need to have a fully stocked
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fast food restaurant is just about gone.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Let me invite you to travel back in time with
me to oh, yeah, a couple months or so ago.
Remember that thing called doge where they absolutely purged as
many government employees as they possibly could, and then they realized, oh,
we need some of those We got to hire a
lot of them back.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
But you're talking about something that was done over the
course of three months, and I'm talking about the incremental
change of our economy over let's say, three four years.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Well, there's a couple of things going on at once.
I think that corporations are going to try and get
rid of as many humans as possible so they don't
pay them a living wage, healthcare blah blah blah, blah blah.
And we're going to find out as it shakes out
what they really need and what they can really do without,
and what people will patronize. And we're all finding that
out right now. Nothing's set yet.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, in as much that we have choice. But if
let's say all of the fast food industry moves down
this path where they have just the these automated you know,
self checkout kiosks, those jobs are just not coming back.
I mean, gone into Popeyes, seen it, gone into California
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Fish Grill, same thing, gone into McDonald's, same thing. They
have these automated kiosks that I'm saying that's at least
one or two jobs.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I think we can all have some effect on that,
depending on what we decide to do. I mean, I
don't really want to go into a place where I'm
not interacting with anybody.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Did you see that documentary that came out a couple
of years ago called The Automat about these places where
people would go for lunch. It's kind of like a
cafeteria and you just opened a little door and picked.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Your food out of it. I did not see it.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You should look it up. It's worth watching, and there's
some charm to that. But this thing of going into
a place and never interacting with humans, they're taking our
lives away from us.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I don't want that. Have you been to a car
wash lately? Have you seen my car? But my point
is if you.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Go to a car wash, note out of ten of
them are fully automated at this point. You know, there's
the gas station car wash, the little one, and the
big car washes, which you usually have ten or twelve
workers who are actually, you know, physically drying your car.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Those are all but gone. Now.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, there's another reason for that too, that we don't
really need to get into it.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
And I'm talking about the technological aspect, not the ice
immigration aspect. But I hear you, I hear you. I'm
saying that jobs are gone, not the people themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I think that it's some will stay gone as things
move forward. I mean, you know, we don't have whale
oil anymore either, but some's gonna come back. People are
going to dictate what they want, not everything is put
down on us by our corporate overlords, and we're required
to accept it in perpetuity.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But there's a degree of collusion, especially within the industry.
In other words, what one in fast food will do,
most of them will do, what one in grocery, and
you know retail will do the most will do. And
i'm you will find some similarities. And take it back
to the story talking about Uber and Lyft, and Uber
already has a deal with Waimo. I suspect that Weimo
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is not going to be content with just some of
Uber's business. They'll want all of Uber's business and all
of Lift's business. And going back to having these employees
quote unquote unionizing, it would be in the financial interests
of Uber to go straight Waimo straight automated robotaxi as
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opposed to sharing any money with human drivers.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, of course if you vaporize them all, that's all
the more profits you get to keep.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
But you always talk about, you know, corporate greed. Yeah,
this is like Taylor made for corporate greed. Oh, there's
no question about it.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But I can't I'm not a lot, but I can't
be the only person who's like, I'm not getting into that.
I want a human driver, Tony, for you, is it
about a human driver? Since she said you don't do
right share at.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
All, I just don't like right sharing. I just don't
like it at all.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
See, I prefer human driver, but I also know they
will come a time there will not be a human driver.
I've asked some real bad the few times I've done
Uber with friends like they it was not a good
experience with those drivers.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Look, I've had drunk taxi cab drivers. I've had bad
Uber drivers. It's almost like pick your poison. And I
don't know what.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The best answer is. But I'm more forecasting what corporate
America will do.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Look, I don't like everybody like. In fact, I'm a
little like you, and I hate to admit this. I
don't like most people, but I also don't want to
be shielded from most people. I don't like their cologne,
I don't like their music. I don't like the talk
stations they have on. When I'm in the taxi or
the ride share. I don't really want to have a
huge conversation with them. I just want them to take
me where I'm going. But I also don't need to
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be insulated from the rest of humanity for the efficiency
and profit of some corporations. These are people you want
to run into, because that's life. You make a great
distinction for me.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I can be, for the most part, either gregarious or
anti social, but I want to be able to decide.
In other words, if I'm getting in a cab, I
may not want conversation, and I get that, but the
larger society doesn't care about me. The larger society is
going to move in a way which is much more
efficient and much less expensive for the corporate overlords that
(26:34):
you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Regulated, rage against it. That's my advice. It's later with
mo Kelly. Don't listen to Mark. He doesn't know what
he's talking about. K I am six forty. We live
Everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Mister mo Kelly is Later with mo Kelly Live Everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app on this Tech Thursday.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
And let me just say this.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I know that it's hard for a lot of us
out there. The rent's too damn high, eggs are too high,
or you might be struggling trying to get a job,
or you might not be making enough money in the
job that you have. I completely get that, But the
economy is not anecdotal. And what I mean by that
(27:24):
is I can go to my house and talk to
my neighbors and say, Hey, John, do you have a
job and he says no, I don't have a job.
And I go two houses down, I talk to Lisa, Lisa,
what's your employment status?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And Lisa says no, I don't have a job either.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Mo And I go three houses down and talk to
Ronnie and Ronnie says no, out of a job either.
And I could say, Wow, the economy must be bad
because three people on my block don't have a job.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That's anecdotal. That's not the economy.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But sometimes we think just because of our personal experiences.
The economy's good or bad, but there are it's some indicators,
some economic indicators to give us a better sense, big picture,
where our economy is going. In other words, things that
we all have to deal with that we all can measure.
(28:13):
And us inflation worse than last month. The cost of gas,
the cost of food, and the cost of airfare all
have jumped. Consumer prices increase two point nine percent in
August from a year earlier, and that's up from two
point seven percent the previous month, and it's the biggest
(28:34):
increase since January. And UH food is up three point
one percent the same time since July.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
And here's something else we have to consider.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
We don't know what the FED is going to do,
if the FED is going to reduce interest rates or they're.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Going to hold them.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
All those things make it more of an economic squeak
on you and me. And we had this robust debate.
I seem to remember that the economy was supposedly horrible,
at least in our public discussion back around October November
of twenty twenty four. I think it was right around
then that the economy was horrible. Now we look like
(29:19):
a year later or so, messed around and found out
what a bad economy actually feels like. You know, the
cost of eggs, there are a whole lot more now
than they were a year ago. I think that's fair
to say, cost of gas a lot more than.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Let's say, a year ago. Stock market it's about where
it was a year ago.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
But I think big picture, I think we should all
be able to agree that economically it's more difficult today
than maybe three four months ago.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Isn't that fair? I think that's fair.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
All the economic information, all the statistics out there suggest
the things are not as good today as they were
maybe five six months ago. And that's not a political statement.
That's just an economic indicator statement. Not trying to get
anyone elected. There's no election on the horizon. But I
do talk about the economy because the economy impacts every
(30:18):
single one of us. It even impacts Daniel who's in
here messing with the cameras. It impacts Tony who refuses
to get in a ride share. It impacts Mark Ronner,
who's a miser and who doesn't spend any money ever
under any circumstances.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I have noticed everything is more expensive at the grocery store,
the prostitute Ralphs I go to after work, late at night.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Even the prostitute is more expensive. I bet they've raised
their prices too.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That's the way it is. Okay, prostitute's got to eat too, So.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I hear.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Not firsthand you have. Okay, I'm going to ask you
the question Mark Rono. No, no, no, no voked the prostitutes.
I'm gonna ask you. Have you ever no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I got to ask the question first. Have you ever
in your life paid for companionship?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Look at me? Do you think I need to No? No, no, no,
don't do Donald Trump on me. Don't do that. Don't
do that.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The answer is no. You sure I think i'd know. No,
I think you'd know. But I think you'd lie about
it too.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
No, it saves time not to lie. No, I have never. Okay, Tony,
oh he has for sure.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
When I think of nine to eleven, I think said
remember it and ultimately.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Unifying our country for supporting a city that unfortunately tragically fell.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Asked by and kost h D two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
More stimulating talk
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