May 10, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Reflection on lessons learned from Mom…PLUS – Thoughts on the launch of the new CHP incognito patrol vehicles designed to help “crack down on video game-styled' driving” AND a look at the most dangerous states in America - 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.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Did you ever wake up one morning and just look
outside and it takes you back how gorgeous the weather is?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
This for me was one of those days.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Now as hot as Jesus out here at Burbe, but
waking up and looking outside, not a cloud in the sky.
I could hear the birds chirping, the dog's barking. Of course,
my dogs always spark, But it was a gorgeous beginning
to the day, and I said, this is going to
be Yeah, it's not just like that, It's going to
be a great weekend. I could just feel it. How
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better to acknowledge mothers.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It just seemed like.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It was a sign that this is how we're going
to acknowledge all of our mothers, mother figures, maybe step mothers.
Mothers may who have passed on are no longer with us,
but obviously have left an indelible mark on us.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's a gorgeous day, and.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I think that sets the stage for what I want
to accomplish tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I want to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We're going to be opening up the phones in the
second hour, just to let you know we're going to
shout out our mothers.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
We're going to thank our mothers.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We're going to what they say, big up our mothers
for everything they've done. Because I know, I know if
I was a parent to me, all the things that
I did, all the things that I said, oh, all
the places I went, and somehow my mothers still cared
for me. Somehow my mother still loved me. Somehow, some reason,
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my mothers still pretend. Oh, I don't know if I
could have been a parent to me. I talk all
the time about how I do endorse corporal punishment. You know,
I was a kid who was spanked my mother and father.
They spent my ass left and right, and it kept
me out of jail, and it kept me out of
the morgue because I was one of those kids who
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was let's just say, I was a problem. I I
you know, if if I got caught doing all the
things that I did, I promise you I would have
been in jail or dead or some combination of both
along the way. But my parents, specifically my mother stuck
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with me and we battled. Oh, she'll tell you, she's
probably watching right now on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I hope you're watching right now on YouTube. At mister Kelly.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I had times was a handful because I was a
rebellious child. She doesn't know all the times that I
snuck out of the house at night. She doesn't know that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, she does now, but that was forty years ago,
so it's okay. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
She doesn't know all the wayward things that I did,
and somehow, some way, she still was there to love me.
So in the second hour tonight, I definitely want to
hear from you as we open up the phones, we
are going to be talking about mom our mother figures
those women, specifically women who were there to protect us,
to counsel us, to chastise us, even punish us, sometimes
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even provide an obstacle to us, to make sure we
did not make that wrong move, that wrong step that
we were determined to make. I don't know how many
times my mother said, you're not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
But why is everyone else is doing it?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And she said, no, you're not going to do it,
because you're my responsibility. She knew better. I didn't think
so at the time, but she knew better. And Twalla,
you know my mother, she doesn't play. She says whatever
she thinks. Absolutely, with all the profanity involved with righteous fury. Yes, absolutely,
I didn't appreciate it then, but I know I more
understand it now. I can say thank you, mommy, and
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I still refer to her as mommy. I have no
shame in my game. She'll be mommy until I leave
or she leaves one or the other. She will always
be mommy. And you know, and it's one of those
things where it's hard for some folks. It was hard
for me as you get older to say, oh, she
was right. Oh, she actually did have my best interests
at heart. Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It's like that's one of the worst realizations when you're like,
damn it, she was right.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It's like, damn it, she was right. I knew everything
at the age of twenty one. How is it possible
that I didn't know everything.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
At thirty one or forty one and fifty one. And
it's almost like the older you get, the smarter your
parents get. It's a strange phenomenon. Each year that passes,
I'm reminded of something specifically that my mother or my
father said to me, did for me, or tried to
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protect me from. And it's like, oh, that's what they're
talking about. Oh that's what they mean. Oh, now I
know what she was referring to It's almost like you
don't actively think about it, but then you call back
upon it, like you can just recalls like, oh yeah, yeah,
now I know what she meant. Why she didn't want
me to do this drug or she didn't want me
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to get involved with that crowd or do these things,
because ultimately, she was trying to make sure that I
had a rest of my life. She was trying to
make sure that I had a rest of my life
on my terms as opposed to the states' terms.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Because there's a lot of stuff I was doing.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I think the Statute of Limitations has passed on some
of these things. There are a lot of things that
I was doing that I'm not proud of.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And no, I'm not going to tell y'all what it was.
I'm not going to share everything. People be listening out there.
I don't know who's listening. Think about all the things
that she did that she didn't get caught doing. Think
about that. Where would you be? And who intervened for me?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It was my mother and my father because my father
was a physical disciplinarian. Oh yeah, he lit my ass
up left and right, and a lot of those spanking
stay with me today, and a lot of them had
protected me. I told you about the times that the
only two times that my mother slapped me two times,
and I earned both occasions both times. And I told
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you what one time she slapped me when I was
seventeen years old, getting ready to go to college Georgetown University,
Washington DC. I thought I was a grown I thought
I was a grown ass man at seventeen.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You can't tell me when to come in the house.
I'm grown now. I don't have a curfew. Well, she
gave me one.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You had have come in this house at midnight, and
I said, okay, sure, Mommy and I went out for
the night.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And in my house, I didn't have a key sentenence.
Somebody had to let you in. But I didn't care.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I was even in two days, three thousand miles away.
If I didn't, I wasn't gonna have a curfew when
I was in college. So why do I need to
respect the curfew now I've already packed.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You know where the story is going. I know you do.
I walk in the house. It was after too, it
was after to.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And and since it's a come to Jesus moment, and
we're all telling the truth. Yeah, I had a little
bit to drink that that that's can I tell the
truth to else?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So you added to it to you? I didn't know. No, no, no,
it's true.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And I think that's part of the reason why I
was feeling myself. So I had to do I had
to ring the doorbell, ding dong. Mother comes to the door,
and she just opens it up, didn't say a word.
I walked in the house, walked by here, and you know,
and every parent has said this at one time or another,
did it I tell you whatever? Maybe it's like, didn't
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I tell you to have your your behind in the
butt in the house at midnight? And I said something
to the fact of I don't care, I'm getting ready
to go to colleg what And that was that. But
she was trying to prepare me to be a responsible adult.
And she was trying to even though we disagreed on
the methods and the means and all the i'll say,
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the subtle details of what it meant to become a
responsible adult. I knew now, or I should say I
know now that she knew better for me then, and
I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's just one anecdote.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I have, so tonight, we're gonna make sure that we
celebrate our mothers, whether they're still here or not. We're
gonna say to them collectively, thank you. And I know
that someone listening right now who may call in and
say I didn't have a really good relationship with my mother.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I get that. I respect that, and I understand that.
But see, that's the power.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Of a mother. They can have this lasting impact on
us in such a way that we carry with us
for the rest of our life. And we're going to
make sure that we have space and place for those
callers too. It's Later with mo Kelly, our pre Mother's
Day edition.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's Later with mo Kelly pre Mother's Day celebration. And
I mean that celebration. Some other anecdotes. When I was
growing up, I couldn't wait to drive, and when I
did start driving, I was I can't say was. It's
still kind of true, speed demon. I had a heavier
foot than most. I could admit that. And there was
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a time I'm going to say this was in my twenties,
so this is a long time ago. My friend Paul Hakkimack.
He would fix up cars. He had old Camaros and
other cars, muscle cars, you know, like big block engines,
and we would go out and we would drag race.
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This is long before Fast and Furious. We would drag race,
usually down so Pulvita Boulevard or Torrans Boulevard or Hawthorn
Boulevard in that Torrance area was really really stupid. Let
me just say it was dumb, dumb, dumb, but it
was exhilarating. I understand the point of all this. I
understand why young people, especially young men, feel like they
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have to drive like faster and furious. We even an
in and out of traffic. It's really dangerous. And now
I'm old man, get off my law and it's like
you need to slow down. And I always would wish
that there was someone from law enforcement, be it you know,
LAPD or CHP, depending on where I was driving, who
would intervene. And I'm guess I'm not the only one.
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And there is a new CHP Cruiser which is supposed
to blend in and make it a little bit more
difficult for these speed means and these drivers who are
driving so erratically and so aggressively to identify them. Now hopefully,
hopefully that these incognito CHP cruisers will be more aggressive
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in ticketing and also arresting somebody these drivers, because if
you see some of these drivers, it's just out of control.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It is really scary. At times, I'm thinking, like is
that Mark Runner? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Today, I'm at the ChB Fleet Operations Section in West
Sacramento to announce the newest addition to our fleet, the
twenty twenty four Dodge Duringo, specially March patrol vehicle for
forty years, the ChB is used especially March patrol vehicles
to tackle specific traffic safety challenges. These new patrol units,
distinct from our iconic black and whites, retain the manufacturer's
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paint job, helping officers blend into traffic and catch reckless
drivers in the act. We're deploying one hundred of these
vehicles statewide to confront a growing threat aggressive drivers who
speed excessively, tailgate, split lanes, dangered lives.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Now, if you want to see what these cruisers look like,
we're playing some of the news reports on our YouTube
at mister Mokelly so you can see them.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
They are varying shades of.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Gray and smoke and black, so it's not like their uniform.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You won't be able to just pick them out.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
They look like if they don't have their their lights up,
looks like any other Dodge Durango cruiser. Until they're not.
We'll see what their engagement their policies are.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
When they spot our march units, they often change their
behavior briefly. These new patrol vehicles will help us hold
them accountable. Each Durango features a V eight Hemi engine
police pursuit package, con sealed three hundred and sixty degree
emergency lighting and a version of the HP badge on
the door. Officers in full uniform will operate them primarily
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on multi lane freeways with a clear mission to identify
and stop reckless and dangerous drivers.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Damn right.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Despite advances in VA safety, California still sees over four
thousand traffic deaths annually. Most of these are preventable lock
about a small percentage of aggressive drivers put everyone at risk,
put them in jail.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
For nearly one.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Hundred years, the CHP has worked to keep our roads safe.
Give them, Ronnie, take that mission seriously.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Two Runners.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
These new vehicles are another powerful tool for California's motoring
public and help everyone arrive home safely.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I got to say it's different now than it was
twenty years ago. Yes, I'm older and probably more intolerant
to the aggressive driving, the reckless driving. But there's not
a day now in which I'm driving which you don't
see someone acting like they're crazy, driving eighty five and
a fifty five, weaving in and out of traffic.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
They are making the assumption that no one else is
going to move.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
They're making the.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Assumption that they're the best driver out there and everyone
can see them. All you need is one person not
aware that there's someone driving through their blind spot at
ninety miles an hour, no exaggeration, and all of a
sudden you have a major, major accident.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I personally would love these things to be on the
streets period. I believe that there are way too many
criminals with long distance po PO vision that can see
the police come and know how to hide what they're doing,
break out, get a signal, anything. If you have more
and more unmarked vehicles, I believe more and more criminals
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will be apprehended in the act, even if it's it's
smash and grab robbers who are waiting to see cars
patrolling the area. No, how will unmarked vehicles start rolling
up on some of these cats.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I would at least want them because in the video
that we played. In that audio, they was saying that
the highly marked cruisers the regularly mark cruisers were too
identifiable and people would change their driving habits.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Well, as far as I'm concerned, if you've.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Witnessed them driving erradically or aggressively or dangerously, you can
still cite them.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't know if that should be a deterrent.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You know, I want them to be more aggressive as
far as this dangerous driving, because that impacts all of us,
and I want to see how it's actually.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Going to work out. Are they going to engage more often?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Because if they see as much dangerous driving as I
do on a daily basis, because I'm sitting in traffic
for at least an hour coming to work every single day,
every single day, so it should not be hard to
find these dangerous drivers. It's every single day on just
about every single freeway.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I would venture you.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Have to hope that they are going to do exactly
what you ask, that they are aggressive in the punishment.
It can't be warnings. It can't be just tickets, because
your average driver speeding can get a ticket. These new
cruisers have to have some real judge dread level enforcement
where you could pretend lose your license, lose your car,
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because that's when you're gonna have the shok and otherwise
it's like, well, you're just a regular car. Then if
it doesn't matter if you catch me, if nothing's gonna.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Happen, right if you're just gonna give me a ticket,
then okay, then there's no need to have a different
style cruiser because we already have speeding tickets, we already
have reckless driving tickets. There has to be something more.
There has to be something more as far as the
UH the engagement policies, and there has to be something
more as far as the penalty goes. If you're actually
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trying to change driving.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Habits, like if you use your keys and your license
right there, like we will be taking her in the
car right there, right there.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Not not later. You lose it. Now, we are going
to call a tow truck. Right now. You're going in
the back of the cruiser.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
You're getting locked up, and and and we're towing your car,
You're losing your car, you're losing everything.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Look, I'm fine with that. They just have to be
willing to do that. We'll see how it happens, you know,
we'll see. And I want to know. And I didn't
get a chance to say good evening to Mark Runner, Mark,
how are you doing this evening?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Well, I'm pleased that Tuala made a Judge dread reference.
So if you're going to invoke the ww JDD rule,
I'm all for that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
What would Judge Dred do about that? But you and
I are both very sensitive to other people's driving habits.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Well, i'll tell you as a reporter, Well, I a
former reporter. I have covered so many traffic fatalities. Car, car, car, train,
you name it. You don't want to be involved in this.
You may think you're driving like you're driving in a
video game. You don't get to respawn. Okay, I've seen
the aftermath of things that would stop you in your
tracks and curdle your blood, like a car being rolled
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up into a little metal ball with the female driver
inside it trying to beat a train across the tracks.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You don't want any part of that, I promise, how
much do.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You think media plays into this as far as what
they see in movies and TV shows, the car chases,
the live car chases that we see oftentimes on news today.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I'm always really hesitant to blame any human behavior on
any media because people have free will and make their
own choices, and if that's not the case, then life
is utterly meaningless. If you're following me, okay, but you
know I'm human just like anybody else. If I if
I watch bullet, I give myself a little pause before
I get behind the wheel because you want.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
To do that cut a little amped up. Yeah, yeah,
of course, all right. I hate it when we agree, But.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Again, listeners don't like that either. They want us to
mix it up. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
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Speaker 4 (18:44):
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even previous live show video.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Let's talk about the.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Ten most dangerous states in America, and this is according
to the Best States Analysis.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That's what it's called Best States ranking, and the.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
FBI stresses that numerous factors can affect the amount and
type of crime occurring in different areas, including climate, economic conditions,
law enforcement priorities, and population density. Many crimes also go unreported,
as we all know, and are not included in this
type of data. So this is about the ten most
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dangerous states and America according to this FBI data. Oh
and anyone want to make any predictions for number one
before we get started.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I have not seen this list. I'm being honest. It's
got to be somewhere in the South.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Okay, all right, we shall see coming in at number ten,
South Carolina. You might be right, Mark, And of course
my computer is now messing up. Uh oh, yeah, it
does that. We'll just have to guess the rest of them,
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all right, No, no, no, we won't. Here we go
number nine. Hopefully this computer will laptop will stay together.
Nevada strangely enough. Yeah, imagine that. Now I'm thinking, is
it all in Las Vegas or is there something else
which is making Nevada more crime? You know, likely because
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I don't think the state of Nevada as being one
big criminal cesspool.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
No, no, that's surprising. All right. Let's see number eight.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
See if anyone would recognizes this state, good old California.
We're number eight most dangerous states in the Union. A
violent crime rate five hundred and eight per one hundred
thousand and the property crime rate two three hundred and
twenty six per hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Well, you play the odds.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
You know, we're the most populous state almost forty million people,
so that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Number see number seven. You might enjoy this mark Washington,
you shut your filthy mouth. Three hundred and fifty seven
per one hundred thousand, violent crime rate and property crime
rate twenty eight eighty seven per hundred thousand. I'm not
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thinking intellectually that Washington, the state of Washington, would be
in the top ten most dangerous or criminally infested states.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
It's got to be on the eastern side of the
state where all the white supremacist Sorry, I just watched
that The Order movie.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's all those people.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay, if you say so, I mean that's what That's
what you're going with my story, and I'm sticking with it.
Number six of the most dangerous states in America.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Alaska.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I can almost intellectually understand that because after so much
cold and so much darkness, or even so much of
you know, uninterrupted sunlight, you probably go crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Oh come on, everybody in that Palin family has a mugshot?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Violent crime rate seven hundred and twenty six per one
hundred thousand, property crime rate eight hundred and seventy seven
per one hundred thousand. Coming in at number five of
the most dangerous states in America Arkansas. We're back on track, yeah,
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violent crime rate six hundred and twenty per one hundred
thousand and property crime rate twenty two twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
A lot of banjo related assaults? Is that a deliverance reference? Probably? Okay,
squeak squeal like a pig, all right? Number four.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Tennessee six hundred and twenty eight per one hundred thousand,
violent crime rate and property crime rate twenty three hundred
and sixty two per one hundred thousand. The pattern holds
it's going to keep on holding number three of the
most dangerous states in America. Carnesia. You want to do
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the honors. You want to do the honors, then you
have to turn on your mic. You want to do
the honors.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I'm not even surprised. Louisiana. I agree.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Mimid crime rate five hundred and forty eight per one
hundred thousand and property crime rate twenty six hundred and
thirty per one hundred thousand, and coming in at number
two of the most dangerous states in America Colorado. Interestingly enough,
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I would not have foreseen that. I wonder if there's
any connection to the legalization of marijuana. I don't remember
Colorado being that high.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
It's legal in all sorts of places like California and Washington.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Wait wait, wait, wait wait, you walked into that one.
I don't like this. This is a BS list and
the most dangerous state in the Union according to this survey.
Any guesses, anyone? Anyone? Missouri? Okay?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Uh Nikki yar new producer says, Ohio, Okay, let's find
out what it is.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
New Mexico. What there's nobody there?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Oh? But what though they have a one of my
family members is a police officer in one of the cities.
I'm not going to be specific for a number of reasons,
but it's in New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
There's no CSI.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
They have a lot of gang and drug activity, a
lot in New Mexico. I can't quantify it, but it
doesn't surprise me just from what my family member tells
me about what he does in the state of New Mexico.
It is rampant. When you say wild, wild West, they're
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talking about New Mexico without a doubt, mind blowing. If
I didn't have a personal connection to New Mexico, I
wouldn't have believed it either. But since I do, and
my wife is from New Mexico and can also tell
me about what it is, oh.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Yeah, oh yeah, crossing that one off the vacation list.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Oh right. You would think it's got to be idyllic.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's gotta be, you know, so tame and quiet and
serene in New Mexico. Not even a little bit, not
even a little bit surprising to some, just not to me.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
And people wonder why I'm a cynic Oh I don't
wonder why we're both cynical in that regard. Huh.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Joining me in the studio is a new face and
a new voice to the station. We're gonna call our
producer Nicki right now and Daniel bring up her camera.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
NICKI, welcome, Thank you for joining us because you're working
with us tonight. You've been working with other shows and
when I was first introduced to you tonight, because we
met tonight you I stopped just said, wait a minute,
can I ask you where you're from? Because your your
accent was so very one. I liked it, but also
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I couldn't place it. So, Nikki, how did you come
to KFI?
Speaker 7 (27:07):
How did I come here from Australia?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
What part of Austria? Went and lean into that microphone.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
I'm from a place called Bondai Beach in Sydney.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
It's a very famous, beautiful beach.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Now how close is is that to the big restaurant
that we always see?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Or is that an Auckland?
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Which restaurant?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
What was Mark?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You know it's what I'm talking about. I have no
idea what the hell you're talking about the house.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's the opera house.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
How about that gift shop.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
The name of what it is is its title. It's
the Opera House.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Restaurant, right, the Opera House restaurant restaurant.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
I'll tell you a fact about the Opera House.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
My father when it was being built in the seventies,
was a security guard there. When they were building it
in the early seventies or the mid seventies, he got
chased by apossum.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
It's scared if.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You're a security guard. I don't know if you're supposed
to run from a possibles.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
He's tiny, my dad, he's like five foot four.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
So Australian possums must be really fierce.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Very scary.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay, well, I can understand if it was like a
kangaroo because those things are vicious and.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
No they're not. That's the lie they love.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
They're jacked. Have you seen those things are? They are
halfed down, but they're.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Not going to punch you. I mean I've tried chasing them.
They just hop away.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
You would actually approach your cagracy. I would never approach.
I would never approach a kangaroo.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
Yes, kangaroos are great. They're friendly, they don't really care.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Okay, the stuff I see on the Internet and social
media says otherwise, but I will take your word for it.
Nikki from Australia, let me just ask you this, what
brought you them to the United States?
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Oh, a new life, a fabulous life in a wonderful country.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Where did you first learn about the United States? Was
just in school? Did you have maybe a trip over here?
A relative?
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Sesame? Straight? Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
As in like PBS me streets?
Speaker 8 (29:01):
That's my and Greece see my t shirt Greece, Danny
and Sam.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's more like a zombie grease, Yes it is.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
But Sandy, Sandy, Olivia.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And Newton's jobs.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Yes, that's right, my number one hero.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
When did you decide to make that jump and just
come to the States.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
I've been here since twenty and fourteen and I have
not returned.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
Back to Australia for a visit, which is a tragedy.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Do you still have family there?
Speaker 8 (29:27):
I have lots of family and friends there, or my
family is there.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I had a friend who's doing an exchange student program
many years ago, and I think she said the fight
was like thirteen hours direct.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
It's like fourteen hours from California to Sydney.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
It's a long shlip.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, I would never go back either for that.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
No, but I used to live on the East Coast,
so that's like twenty four hours flying, and I lived
in London, which is like thirty hours flying.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
So you have literally lived around the world.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
What is that taught you or what has that shown
you about the world in which we live?
Speaker 8 (30:03):
Lots of different people that I need to be more
patient with. I'm a very impatient person, so I'm all
walks of life.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You're an impatient person, and you're now in Los Angeles
have to deal with this traffic.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Yeah, and I'm going to get arrested for my Tokyo
drift style.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh so we were talking about earlier that that that
applied to you.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
You were talking about me. I'm a menace on the.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
Road, but I've never been pulled over.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, you know, knock on wood. You know, we don't
want anything bad to happen.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
I think I agree.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
You've worked in entertainment.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
For a while, Yes, I had.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Before radio. What were you doing?
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I was a print journalist and I also dabble in
a little bit of acting on the side.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Ooh, do you have any good acting stories? Real quick,
before we go to break I just that you're allowed
to tell.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
I just did a TV series. I don't know how
much I'm allowed to reveal, but I'll give you a hint.
The actress has a similar accent and name to me.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Okay, your first name is Niki. Yes, and I'm thinking
who might have a similar accent to.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
You and a similar name?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Kidman perhaps? Oh yes, Nicole Kidvin. Where is she from?
Speaker 8 (31:14):
She actually, well, she was born in Hawaii, so she's Australian.
But she's American born Australian.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
A fraud. I could not know that, like Barack Obama. Yeah,
I'm kiddy. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
He's American.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, I know. Careful, I know, I gotta be real careful.
You like that one. Nikki, welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
May I politely ask you if your mother's still with us?
Speaker 7 (31:42):
She is. She's in Australia, but she's in New Zealander.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Is Mother's Day a thing in Australia and New Zealand?
Speaker 8 (31:49):
It is, But we celebrated on a different day. I
think we celebrated the same day the UK celebrates it.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You want to narrow that down for because I have
no idea when they do.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
I want to say September. I could be wrong, all right.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Yeah, but I can tell you the best device my
mother ever taught me that stayed with me to this day.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Please do good manners cost nothing?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Good?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I can't say it with your accent, but good manners
cost nothing.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Yes, I like that, good manners, so that you drop
the R off the end.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Of the good good manners.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Good manners, good manners, Yes, good manners.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I'm not going to try to duplicate your accent because
they don't think you're mocking you.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
I love it. Funny.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
She taught me how to say a few thinks.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
First of all, real quick, it's Sunday, March fifteenth, Sunday Martians. Okay,
all right, But she was teaching me how to speak
in Australia. It's really it's really interesting how it works.
You really have to say like American words and you
just say them together and it sounds Australian.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yes, then I'll start practicing. Yeah, will you help me out.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
Sometimes I've got a phrase I can teach you and
you'll be Australian in a second.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Is it like vulgar?
Speaker 7 (32:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Okay, good, But can you teach me something vulgar? Though?
Speaker 7 (32:56):
I CANNOTFA all right, well, I wouldn't want you to do.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Nikki, welcome, well, thank you, thank you for coming on
with us as well. It's late with Mokelly.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Your vaccine for stupidity. Hey f I and the K
O S T HD two Los Angeles
It's later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Did you ever wake up one morning and just look
outside and it takes you back how gorgeous the weather is?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
This for me was one of those days.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Now as hot as Jesus out here at Burbe, but
waking up and looking outside, not a cloud in the sky.
I could hear the birds chirping, the dog's barking. Of course,
my dogs always spark, But it was a gorgeous beginning
to the day, and I said, this is going to
be Yeah, it's not just like that, It's going to
be a great weekend. I could just feel it. How
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better to acknowledge mothers.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It just seemed like.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It was a sign that this is how we're going
to acknowledge all of our mothers, mother figures, maybe step mothers.
Mothers may who have passed on are no longer with us,
but obviously have left an indelible mark on us.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's a gorgeous day, and.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I think that sets the stage for what I want
to accomplish tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I want to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We're going to be opening up the phones in the
second hour, just to let you know we're going to
shout out our mothers.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
We're going to thank our mothers.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We're going to what they say, big up our mothers
for everything they've done. Because I know, I know if
I was a parent to me, all the things that
I did, all the things that I said, oh, all
the places I went, and somehow my mothers still cared
for me. Somehow my mother still loved me. Somehow, some reason,
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my mothers still pretend. Oh, I don't know if I
could have been a parent to me. I talk all
the time about how I do endorse corporal punishment. You know,
I was a kid who was spanked my mother and father.
They spent my ass left and right, and it kept
me out of jail, and it kept me out of
the morgue because I was one of those kids who
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was let's just say, I was a problem. I I
you know, if if I got caught doing all the
things that I did, I promise you I would have
been in jail or dead or some combination of both
along the way. But my parents, specifically my mother stuck
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with me and we battled. Oh, she'll tell you, she's
probably watching right now on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I hope you're watching right now on YouTube. At mister Kelly.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I had times was a handful because I was a
rebellious child. She doesn't know all the times that I
snuck out of the house at night. She doesn't know that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, she does now, but that was forty years ago,
so it's okay. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
She doesn't know all the wayward things that I did,
and somehow, some way, she still was there to love me.
So in the second hour tonight, I definitely want to
hear from you as we open up the phones, we
are going to be talking about mom our mother figures
those women, specifically women who were there to protect us,
to counsel us, to chastise us, even punish us, sometimes
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even provide an obstacle to us, to make sure we
did not make that wrong move, that wrong step that
we were determined to make. I don't know how many
times my mother said, you're not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
But why is everyone else is doing it?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And she said, no, you're not going to do it,
because you're my responsibility. She knew better. I didn't think
so at the time, but she knew better. And Twalla,
you know my mother, she doesn't play. She says whatever
she thinks. Absolutely, with all the profanity involved with righteous fury. Yes, absolutely,
I didn't appreciate it then, but I know I more
understand it now. I can say thank you, mommy, and
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I still refer to her as mommy. I have no
shame in my game. She'll be mommy until I leave
or she leaves one or the other. She will always
be mommy. And you know, and it's one of those
things where it's hard for some folks. It was hard
for me as you get older to say, oh, she
was right. Oh, she actually did have my best interests
at heart. Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It's like that's one of the worst realizations when you're like,
damn it, she was right.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It's like, damn it, she was right. I knew everything
at the age of twenty one. How is it possible
that I didn't know everything.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
At thirty one or forty one and fifty one. And
it's almost like the older you get, the smarter your
parents get. It's a strange phenomenon. Each year that passes,
I'm reminded of something specifically that my mother or my
father said to me, did for me, or tried to
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protect me from. And it's like, oh, that's what they're
talking about. Oh that's what they mean. Oh, now I
know what she was referring to It's almost like you
don't actively think about it, but then you call back
upon it, like you can just recalls like, oh yeah, yeah,
now I know what she meant. Why she didn't want
me to do this drug or she didn't want me
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to get involved with that crowd or do these things,
because ultimately, she was trying to make sure that I
had a rest of my life. She was trying to
make sure that I had a rest of my life
on my terms as opposed to the states' terms.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Because there's a lot of stuff I was doing.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I think the Statute of Limitations has passed on some
of these things. There are a lot of things that
I was doing that I'm not proud of.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And no, I'm not going to tell y'all what it was.
I'm not going to share everything. People be listening out there.
I don't know who's listening. Think about all the things
that she did that she didn't get caught doing. Think
about that. Where would you be? And who intervened for me?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It was my mother and my father because my father
was a physical disciplinarian. Oh yeah, he lit my ass
up left and right, and a lot of those spanking
stay with me today, and a lot of them had
protected me. I told you about the times that the
only two times that my mother slapped me two times,
and I earned both occasions both times. And I told
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you what one time she slapped me when I was
seventeen years old, getting ready to go to college Georgetown University,
Washington DC. I thought I was a grown I thought
I was a grown ass man at seventeen.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You can't tell me when to come in the house.
I'm grown now. I don't have a curfew. Well, she
gave me one.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You had have come in this house at midnight, and
I said, okay, sure, Mommy and I went out for
the night.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And in my house, I didn't have a key sentenence.
Somebody had to let you in. But I didn't care.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I was even in two days, three thousand miles away.
If I didn't, I wasn't gonna have a curfew when
I was in college. So why do I need to
respect the curfew now I've already packed.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You know where the story is going. I know you do.
I walk in the house. It was after too, it
was after to.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And and since it's a come to Jesus moment, and
we're all telling the truth. Yeah, I had a little
bit to drink that that that's can I tell the
truth to else?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So you added to it to you? I didn't know. No, no, no,
it's true.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And I think that's part of the reason why I
was feeling myself. So I had to do I had
to ring the doorbell, ding dong. Mother comes to the door,
and she just opens it up, didn't say a word.
I walked in the house, walked by here, and you know,
and every parent has said this at one time or another,
did it I tell you whatever? Maybe it's like, didn't
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I tell you to have your your behind in the
butt in the house at midnight? And I said something
to the fact of I don't care, I'm getting ready
to go to colleg what And that was that. But
she was trying to prepare me to be a responsible adult.
And she was trying to even though we disagreed on
the methods and the means and all the i'll say,
(08:15):
the subtle details of what it meant to become a
responsible adult. I knew now, or I should say I
know now that she knew better for me then, and
I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's just one anecdote.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I have, so tonight, we're gonna make sure that we
celebrate our mothers, whether they're still here or not. We're
gonna say to them collectively, thank you. And I know
that someone listening right now who may call in and
say I didn't have a really good relationship with my mother.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I get that. I respect that, and I understand that.
But see, that's the power.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Of a mother. They can have this lasting impact on
us in such a way that we carry with us
for the rest of our life. And we're going to
make sure that we have space and place for those
callers too. It's Later with mo Kelly, our pre Mother's
Day edition.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's Later with mo Kelly pre Mother's Day celebration. And
I mean that celebration. Some other anecdotes. When I was
growing up, I couldn't wait to drive, and when I
did start driving, I was I can't say was. It's
still kind of true, speed demon. I had a heavier
foot than most. I could admit that. And there was
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a time I'm going to say this was in my twenties,
so this is a long time ago. My friend Paul Hakkimack.
He would fix up cars. He had old Camaros and
other cars, muscle cars, you know, like big block engines,
and we would go out and we would drag race.
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This is long before Fast and Furious. We would drag race,
usually down so Pulvita Boulevard or Torrans Boulevard or Hawthorn
Boulevard in that Torrance area was really really stupid. Let
me just say it was dumb, dumb, dumb, but it
was exhilarating. I understand the point of all this. I
understand why young people, especially young men, feel like they
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have to drive like faster and furious. We even an
in and out of traffic. It's really dangerous. And now
I'm old man, get off my law and it's like
you need to slow down. And I always would wish
that there was someone from law enforcement, be it you know,
LAPD or CHP, depending on where I was driving, who
would intervene. And I'm guess I'm not the only one.
(10:49):
And there is a new CHP Cruiser which is supposed
to blend in and make it a little bit more
difficult for these speed means and these drivers who are
driving so erratically and so aggressively to identify them. Now hopefully,
hopefully that these incognito CHP cruisers will be more aggressive
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in ticketing and also arresting somebody these drivers, because if
you see some of these drivers, it's just out of control.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It is really scary. At times, I'm thinking, like is
that Mark Runner? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Today, I'm at the ChB Fleet Operations Section in West
Sacramento to announce the newest addition to our fleet, the
twenty twenty four Dodge Duringo, specially March patrol vehicle for
forty years, the ChB is used especially March patrol vehicles
to tackle specific traffic safety challenges. These new patrol units,
distinct from our iconic black and whites, retain the manufacturer's
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paint job, helping officers blend into traffic and catch reckless
drivers in the act. We're deploying one hundred of these
vehicles statewide to confront a growing threat aggressive drivers who
speed excessively, tailgate, split lanes, dangered lives.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Now, if you want to see what these cruisers look like,
we're playing some of the news reports on our YouTube
at mister Mokelly so you can see them.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
They are varying shades of.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Gray and smoke and black, so it's not like their uniform.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You won't be able to just pick them out.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
They look like if they don't have their their lights up,
looks like any other Dodge Durango cruiser. Until they're not.
We'll see what their engagement their policies are.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
When they spot our march units, they often change their
behavior briefly. These new patrol vehicles will help us hold
them accountable. Each Durango features a V eight Hemi engine
police pursuit package, con sealed three hundred and sixty degree
emergency lighting and a version of the HP badge on
the door. Officers in full uniform will operate them primarily
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on multi lane freeways with a clear mission to identify
and stop reckless and dangerous drivers.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Damn right.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Despite advances in VA safety, California still sees over four
thousand traffic deaths annually. Most of these are preventable lock
about a small percentage of aggressive drivers put everyone at risk,
put them in jail.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
For nearly one.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Hundred years, the CHP has worked to keep our roads safe.
Give them, Ronnie, take that mission seriously.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Two Runners.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
These new vehicles are another powerful tool for California's motoring
public and help everyone arrive home safely.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I got to say it's different now than it was
twenty years ago. Yes, I'm older and probably more intolerant
to the aggressive driving, the reckless driving. But there's not
a day now in which I'm driving which you don't
see someone acting like they're crazy, driving eighty five and
a fifty five, weaving in and out of traffic.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
They are making the assumption that no one else is
going to move.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
They're making the.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Assumption that they're the best driver out there and everyone
can see them. All you need is one person not
aware that there's someone driving through their blind spot at
ninety miles an hour, no exaggeration, and all of a
sudden you have a major, major accident.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I personally would love these things to be on the
streets period. I believe that there are way too many
criminals with long distance po PO vision that can see
the police come and know how to hide what they're doing,
break out, get a signal, anything. If you have more
and more unmarked vehicles, I believe more and more criminals
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will be apprehended in the act, even if it's it's
smash and grab robbers who are waiting to see cars
patrolling the area. No, how will unmarked vehicles start rolling
up on some of these cats.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I would at least want them because in the video
that we played. In that audio, they was saying that
the highly marked cruisers the regularly mark cruisers were too
identifiable and people would change their driving habits.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Well, as far as I'm concerned, if you've.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Witnessed them driving erradically or aggressively or dangerously, you can
still cite them.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't know if that should be a deterrent.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You know, I want them to be more aggressive as
far as this dangerous driving, because that impacts all of us,
and I want to see how it's actually.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Going to work out. Are they going to engage more often?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Because if they see as much dangerous driving as I
do on a daily basis, because I'm sitting in traffic
for at least an hour coming to work every single day,
every single day, so it should not be hard to
find these dangerous drivers. It's every single day on just
about every single freeway.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I would venture you.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Have to hope that they are going to do exactly
what you ask, that they are aggressive in the punishment.
It can't be warnings. It can't be just tickets, because
your average driver speeding can get a ticket. These new
cruisers have to have some real judge dread level enforcement
where you could pretend lose your license, lose your car,
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because that's when you're gonna have the shok and otherwise
it's like, well, you're just a regular car. Then if
it doesn't matter if you catch me, if nothing's gonna.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Happen, right if you're just gonna give me a ticket,
then okay, then there's no need to have a different
style cruiser because we already have speeding tickets, we already
have reckless driving tickets. There has to be something more.
There has to be something more as far as the
UH the engagement policies, and there has to be something
more as far as the penalty goes. If you're actually
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trying to change driving.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Habits, like if you use your keys and your license
right there, like we will be taking her in the
car right there, right there.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Not not later. You lose it. Now, we are going
to call a tow truck. Right now. You're going in
the back of the cruiser.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
You're getting locked up, and and and we're towing your car,
You're losing your car, you're losing everything.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Look, I'm fine with that. They just have to be
willing to do that. We'll see how it happens, you know,
we'll see. And I want to know. And I didn't
get a chance to say good evening to Mark Runner, Mark,
how are you doing this evening?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Well, I'm pleased that Tuala made a Judge dread reference.
So if you're going to invoke the ww JDD rule,
I'm all for that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
What would Judge Dred do about that? But you and
I are both very sensitive to other people's driving habits.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Well, i'll tell you as a reporter, Well, I a
former reporter. I have covered so many traffic fatalities. Car, car, car, train,
you name it. You don't want to be involved in this.
You may think you're driving like you're driving in a
video game. You don't get to respawn. Okay, I've seen
the aftermath of things that would stop you in your
tracks and curdle your blood, like a car being rolled
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up into a little metal ball with the female driver
inside it trying to beat a train across the tracks.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You don't want any part of that, I promise, how
much do.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You think media plays into this as far as what
they see in movies and TV shows, the car chases,
the live car chases that we see oftentimes on news today.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I'm always really hesitant to blame any human behavior on
any media because people have free will and make their
own choices, and if that's not the case, then life
is utterly meaningless. If you're following me, okay, but you
know I'm human just like anybody else. If I if
I watch bullet, I give myself a little pause before
I get behind the wheel because you want.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
To do that cut a little amped up. Yeah, yeah,
of course, all right. I hate it when we agree, But.
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Speaker 1 (19:16):
Let's talk about the.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Ten most dangerous states in America, and this is according
to the Best States Analysis.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That's what it's called Best States ranking, and the.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
FBI stresses that numerous factors can affect the amount and
type of crime occurring in different areas, including climate, economic conditions,
law enforcement priorities, and population density. Many crimes also go unreported,
as we all know, and are not included in this
type of data. So this is about the ten most
(19:47):
dangerous states and America according to this FBI data. Oh
and anyone want to make any predictions for number one
before we get started.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I have not seen this list. I'm being honest. It's
got to be somewhere in the South.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Okay, all right, we shall see coming in at number ten,
South Carolina. You might be right, Mark, And of course
my computer is now messing up. Uh oh, yeah, it
does that. We'll just have to guess the rest of them,
(20:21):
all right, No, no, no, we won't. Here we go
number nine. Hopefully this computer will laptop will stay together.
Nevada strangely enough. Yeah, imagine that. Now I'm thinking, is
it all in Las Vegas or is there something else
which is making Nevada more crime? You know, likely because
(20:47):
I don't think the state of Nevada as being one
big criminal cesspool.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
No, no, that's surprising. All right. Let's see number eight.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
See if anyone would recognizes this state, good old California.
We're number eight most dangerous states in the Union. A
violent crime rate five hundred and eight per one hundred
thousand and the property crime rate two three hundred and
twenty six per hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Well, you play the odds.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
You know, we're the most populous state almost forty million people,
so that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Number see number seven. You might enjoy this mark Washington,
you shut your filthy mouth. Three hundred and fifty seven
per one hundred thousand, violent crime rate and property crime
rate twenty eight eighty seven per hundred thousand. I'm not
(21:47):
thinking intellectually that Washington, the state of Washington, would be
in the top ten most dangerous or criminally infested states.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
It's got to be on the eastern side of the
state where all the white supremacist Sorry, I just watched
that The Order movie.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's all those people.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay, if you say so, I mean that's what That's
what you're going with my story, and I'm sticking with it.
Number six of the most dangerous states in America.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Alaska.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I can almost intellectually understand that because after so much
cold and so much darkness, or even so much of
you know, uninterrupted sunlight, you probably go crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Oh come on, everybody in that Palin family has a mugshot?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Violent crime rate seven hundred and twenty six per one
hundred thousand, property crime rate eight hundred and seventy seven
per one hundred thousand. Coming in at number five of
the most dangerous states in America Arkansas. We're back on track, yeah,
(22:51):
violent crime rate six hundred and twenty per one hundred
thousand and property crime rate twenty two twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
A lot of banjo related assaults? Is that a deliverance reference? Probably? Okay,
squeak squeal like a pig, all right? Number four.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Tennessee six hundred and twenty eight per one hundred thousand,
violent crime rate and property crime rate twenty three hundred
and sixty two per one hundred thousand. The pattern holds
it's going to keep on holding number three of the
most dangerous states in America. Carnesia. You want to do
(23:38):
the honors. You want to do the honors, then you
have to turn on your mic. You want to do
the honors.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I'm not even surprised. Louisiana. I agree.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Mimid crime rate five hundred and forty eight per one
hundred thousand and property crime rate twenty six hundred and
thirty per one hundred thousand, and coming in at number
two of the most dangerous states in America Colorado. Interestingly enough,
(24:11):
I would not have foreseen that. I wonder if there's
any connection to the legalization of marijuana. I don't remember
Colorado being that high.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
It's legal in all sorts of places like California and Washington.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Wait wait, wait, wait wait, you walked into that one.
I don't like this. This is a BS list and
the most dangerous state in the Union according to this survey.
Any guesses, anyone? Anyone? Missouri? Okay?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Uh Nikki yar new producer says, Ohio, Okay, let's find
out what it is.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
New Mexico. What there's nobody there?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Oh? But what though they have a one of my
family members is a police officer in one of the cities.
I'm not going to be specific for a number of reasons,
but it's in New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
There's no CSI.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
They have a lot of gang and drug activity, a
lot in New Mexico. I can't quantify it, but it
doesn't surprise me just from what my family member tells
me about what he does in the state of New Mexico.
It is rampant. When you say wild, wild West, they're
(25:43):
talking about New Mexico without a doubt, mind blowing. If
I didn't have a personal connection to New Mexico, I
wouldn't have believed it either. But since I do, and
my wife is from New Mexico and can also tell
me about what it is, oh.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Yeah, oh yeah, crossing that one off the vacation list.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Oh right. You would think it's got to be idyllic.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's gotta be, you know, so tame and quiet and
serene in New Mexico. Not even a little bit, not
even a little bit surprising to some, just not to me.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
And people wonder why I'm a cynic Oh I don't
wonder why we're both cynical in that regard. Huh.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Joining me in the studio is a new face and
a new voice to the station. We're gonna call our
producer Nicki right now and Daniel bring up her camera.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
NICKI, welcome, Thank you for joining us because you're working
with us tonight. You've been working with other shows and
when I was first introduced to you tonight, because we
met tonight you I stopped just said, wait a minute,
can I ask you where you're from? Because your your
accent was so very one. I liked it, but also
(27:03):
I couldn't place it. So, Nikki, how did you come
to KFI?
Speaker 7 (27:07):
How did I come here from Australia?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
What part of Austria? Went and lean into that microphone.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
I'm from a place called Bondai Beach in Sydney.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
It's a very famous, beautiful beach.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Now how close is is that to the big restaurant
that we always see?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Or is that an Auckland?
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Which restaurant?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
What was Mark?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You know it's what I'm talking about. I have no
idea what the hell you're talking about the house.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's the opera house.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
How about that gift shop.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
The name of what it is is its title. It's
the Opera House.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Restaurant, right, the Opera House restaurant restaurant.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
I'll tell you a fact about the Opera House.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
My father when it was being built in the seventies,
was a security guard there. When they were building it
in the early seventies or the mid seventies, he got
chased by apossum.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
It's scared if.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You're a security guard. I don't know if you're supposed
to run from a possibles.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
He's tiny, my dad, he's like five foot four.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
So Australian possums must be really fierce.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Very scary.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay, well, I can understand if it was like a
kangaroo because those things are vicious and.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
No they're not. That's the lie they love.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
They're jacked. Have you seen those things are? They are
halfed down, but they're.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Not going to punch you. I mean I've tried chasing them.
They just hop away.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
You would actually approach your cagracy. I would never approach.
I would never approach a kangaroo.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
Yes, kangaroos are great. They're friendly, they don't really care.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Okay, the stuff I see on the Internet and social
media says otherwise, but I will take your word for it.
Nikki from Australia, let me just ask you this, what
brought you them to the United States?
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Oh, a new life, a fabulous life in a wonderful country.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Where did you first learn about the United States? Was
just in school? Did you have maybe a trip over here?
A relative?
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Sesame? Straight? Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
As in like PBS me streets?
Speaker 8 (29:01):
That's my and Greece see my t shirt Greece, Danny
and Sam.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's more like a zombie grease, Yes it is.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
But Sandy, Sandy, Olivia.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And Newton's jobs.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Yes, that's right, my number one hero.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
When did you decide to make that jump and just
come to the States.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
I've been here since twenty and fourteen and I have
not returned.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
Back to Australia for a visit, which is a tragedy.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Do you still have family there?
Speaker 8 (29:27):
I have lots of family and friends there, or my
family is there.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I had a friend who's doing an exchange student program
many years ago, and I think she said the fight
was like thirteen hours direct.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
It's like fourteen hours from California to Sydney.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
It's a long shlip.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, I would never go back either for that.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
No, but I used to live on the East Coast,
so that's like twenty four hours flying, and I lived
in London, which is like thirty hours flying.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
So you have literally lived around the world.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
What is that taught you or what has that shown
you about the world in which we live?
Speaker 8 (30:03):
Lots of different people that I need to be more
patient with. I'm a very impatient person, so I'm all
walks of life.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You're an impatient person, and you're now in Los Angeles
have to deal with this traffic.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Yeah, and I'm going to get arrested for my Tokyo
drift style.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh so we were talking about earlier that that that
applied to you.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
You were talking about me. I'm a menace on the.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
Road, but I've never been pulled over.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, you know, knock on wood. You know, we don't
want anything bad to happen.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
I think I agree.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
You've worked in entertainment.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
For a while, Yes, I had.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Before radio. What were you doing?
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I was a print journalist and I also dabble in
a little bit of acting on the side.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Ooh, do you have any good acting stories? Real quick,
before we go to break I just that you're allowed
to tell.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
I just did a TV series. I don't know how
much I'm allowed to reveal, but I'll give you a hint.
The actress has a similar accent and name to me.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Okay, your first name is Niki. Yes, and I'm thinking
who might have a similar accent to.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
You and a similar name?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Kidman perhaps? Oh yes, Nicole Kidvin. Where is she from?
Speaker 8 (31:14):
She actually, well, she was born in Hawaii, so she's Australian.
But she's American born Australian.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
A fraud. I could not know that, like Barack Obama. Yeah,
I'm kiddy. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
He's American.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, I know. Careful, I know, I gotta be real careful.
You like that one. Nikki, welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
May I politely ask you if your mother's still with us?
Speaker 7 (31:42):
She is. She's in Australia, but she's in New Zealander.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Is Mother's Day a thing in Australia and New Zealand?
Speaker 8 (31:49):
It is, But we celebrated on a different day. I
think we celebrated the same day the UK celebrates it.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You want to narrow that down for because I have
no idea when they do.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
I want to say September. I could be wrong, all right.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Yeah, but I can tell you the best device my
mother ever taught me that stayed with me to this day.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Please do good manners cost nothing?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Good?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I can't say it with your accent, but good manners
cost nothing.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Yes, I like that, good manners, so that you drop
the R off the end.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Of the good good manners.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Good manners, good manners, Yes, good manners.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I'm not going to try to duplicate your accent because
they don't think you're mocking you.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
I love it. Funny.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
She taught me how to say a few thinks.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
First of all, real quick, it's Sunday, March fifteenth, Sunday Martians. Okay,
all right, But she was teaching me how to speak
in Australia. It's really it's really interesting how it works.
You really have to say like American words and you
just say them together and it sounds Australian.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yes, then I'll start practicing. Yeah, will you help me out.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
Sometimes I've got a phrase I can teach you and
you'll be Australian in a second.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Is it like vulgar?
Speaker 7 (32:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Okay, good, But can you teach me something vulgar? Though?
Speaker 7 (32:56):
I CANNOTFA all right, well, I wouldn't want you to do.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Nikki, welcome, well, thank you, thank you for coming on
with us as well. It's late with Mokelly.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Your vaccine for stupidity. Hey f I and the K
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