May 6, 2025 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the impact 4,000 gallons of sewage spilling into the ocean in OC has on SoCal surf life with 3X Emmy nominated TV & Radio News Reporter, Anchor, Host & Surfer Jo Kwon…PLUS – Thoughts on "Luigi: the Musical," the sold-out musical about alleged CEO-killer Luigi Mangione AND where California ranks in a new study revealing the “best & worst states to be a police officer” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
KFI M six forty. It's later with Mo Kelly. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and we're having some
internet issues in the station, so our YouTube show will
be up in just a moment. But that's probably the
reason why you cannot see the show on YouTube at
this moment. But it will be up momentarily. Had a
huge weekend, huge weekend, hung out with Twala and Stephan.
(00:45):
We went to see Thunderbolts me. It was the second time.
I think Twala was the eighth time. Stephan is actually out.
Today we're joined on the board on the ones and
two by the Sex Doctor himself, mister Sam. See how
you doing, brother? Oh great, thank you for having me.
It's good to be back. Absolutely And Talla, how many
times you've seen Thunderbolts since?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It just two? Just two? Okay? I thought it was
more than that.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
No, I'll be seeing it again because I was really
emotionally connected to the film.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I dug it like that, emotionally connected to the Marvel movie.
I don't think I've ever had an emotional connection.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
What you watch these movies and stories and don't make
any emotional connections.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Entertainment entertainment, It wasn't like I was gonna cry when
Tony Stark died or anything like that. Is what the
type of chollage is. Just entertainment, dude. I shed real
tears when Tony died. Oh my goodness, real tears. Well,
we'll talk about Thunderbolts, which did come in as the
number one movie of the week. We'll talk about that
at the top of the third hour. Next segment, I'll
(01:41):
be joined on the show by Joe Kwan of Spectrum News.
There's news that four thousand gallons of sewage has shut
down portions of Orange County beaches. Joe Kwan, we talked
about last week how she serves just about every day,
Matt Buddy Smith serves just about every day in the
Orange County area. I'm curious to find out whether this
(02:03):
sewage spill is going to impact her surfing, whether toxic
algae means anything to her or Matt Money Smith, and
how she navigates no pun intended, these dirty beaches every
single day up and down the California coast. In the film,
there's no exaggeration. It's some of the filthiest coastline in America.
(02:24):
And did you know that not only is there a
new musical about alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangioni. But it's
sold out and it's going to premiere in San Francisco.
What the hell is wrong with this nation? Or maybe
just San Francisco. But there's something wrong with us to
think you should even create a musical that's number one
(02:47):
and number two. It's already popular, so much so that
it sells out. There is something really wrong with us
as Americans. And also we'll find out the best and
the worst state in which to be a law enforcement officer,
the best and the worst states to be a law
enforcement officer. That will close out our one an hour two.
(03:11):
We got to see about this intersection between politics and
sports again. Did you hear? Did you hear? President Trump?
He announced that the twenty twenty seven NFL Draft will
be in Washington, DC on the National Mall. So you
can't extricate politics from sports anymore because he announced it
from the Oval Office. We'll definitely get into that. And
(03:35):
I don't know, Talla, did you hear the remarks from
former Boston Celtics forward and former Inglewood High graduate and
Natesmith Basketball Hall of Famer Paul Pierce talking about marriage. Yeah,
he's the wrong person ever put a microphone in front
of He had a lot to say about marriage, and
none of it is good. There's some people you should
never take advice from. There's some people you should never
(03:58):
take relationship advice from. There's some people you shouldn't take
gardening advice from, or child wearing advice. Paul Pierce fits
all those categories. Don't take any advice from him. But
we have to talk about his outsize influence on people.
You know, his opinion matters inasmuch that everyone's heard it,
(04:18):
everyone's talking about it, everyone is criticizing him for it,
but still outsized influence. Will talk about that. And if
you know me personally, you know I swear by Sketchers,
swear by it. I have at least twelve to thirteen
pairs of Sketchers' shoes in my closet right now, and
(04:39):
when I buy another three or four, they will be Sketchers.
It's Sketchers and Nike, but mostly Sketchers. And you can
laugh at me all you want. I love Sketchers. I'm
wearing Sketchers right now. I was wearing Sketches yesterday, and
I'll be wearing Sketchers tomorrow. I mentioned that because the
company just was purchased, I should say, oh, the stock
was purchased, so it could be a private company going forward.
(05:03):
Really yep, they taking it private, taking it private. So
it'll be interesting to see how that is going to
impact the future of the company, which means it's going
to impact me because I still have at least three
or four gift cards. Are you a.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Sketcher's a member? Oh, I'm a Sketchers member.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah. I just want to make sure that you got
your membership. Oh yeah, okay, yeah. Every time I go
in there to say, oh, do you have a membership? Yes, yes,
I do, so I get discounts and stuff. And I
used to carry my card with me. Really yeah, I
don't care. And for a horoscope, which cat read? Are
you based on your zodiac sign? Now this is very
important because I'm not a cat person, Sam, you're a
(05:40):
cat person, aren't you? No, I'm a dog, thank you,
thank you very much. I threw that out through doing
good well. Marlar would not appreciate me saying that. No.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Marlee and I got Marley and Ziggy, both of them
a right happy and joining us instead of Mark Ronner,
who is tending to some business is Island Guns.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Eileen, it's very nice to finally work with you. I
don't think we worked with work with each other before.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yeah, nice to be here. I think we worked together once.
Did we work together when the fires broke out?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Maybe because we're here for like five six hours at
a time, so there might have been some overlap. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I think that's that's the last time I saw you here.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Since I have you on the mic. Are you a
cat or dog person? I'm both. I have a dog
and a cat. How was that possible?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
And they're best friends?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
They love each other? Is that possible? It's possible? Were
they were? They raised together?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I got them. I got the cat first, and he
was I had him for about two months, and then
I got the dog as a puppy and they.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Okay, so they're Yeah, they don't know life without each other. Yeah,
that's a beautiful story. I'm a I'm a dog guy
all the way through. My cat's name Ziggy. Wait a minute,
we had Wait a minute, Sam, Sam, Wait, Eileen has
a cat named Ziggy and you have a dog named
Ziggy and Marley. Yeah, yeah, but mine is Ziggy. Stardust.
(06:58):
It's another ziggy. Uh Mine is named after obviously, Bob Martin.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Martin Marley's Okay, they had dreadlocks when we first got him.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
They were they We've got that. You could explain that one. Yeah, No,
they were They were a rescue dog.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Marley was a rescue dog and he was matted, completely dirty.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
He was.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
This was back when they had the kill shelters. This
was his last day. We rescued him and we thought
he had like a different actual like his his fur
color was different. We washed him and it was like, oh,
gray and white. But we had already named him Marley.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Oh nice. He thought it was a black dog, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Well yeah, yeah, but we washed him up, gave him
a haircut, and he's still Marley.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He loves that name. Oh that is a wonderful, wonderful story.
We have that and so much more. In our number three,
we have to talk about jury selection in the Diddy case,
which begun today. And also Lady Gaga, did you hear
the story about there was this I'll say, not attempted bombing,
but there was a plan bombing of one of her concerts.
And I think we have some insight because in producing concerts,
(08:08):
there are always those concerns and maybe we can give
you some behind the scenes of what goes into planning
some of those large scale concerts. It's lady, excuse me.
It's Later with Mo Kelly CAFI A six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. When we come back, we'll
be checking in with Joe Kwan and talking about this
four thousand gallon sewage spill which is shut down portions
(08:28):
of Orange County beaches.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Six forty KFI AM six forty. It's a Later with
Mo Kelly Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, and we'll
still working on the YouTube feed. It will be up
in just a moment, just like you're accustomed to seeing it.
But joining me right now is Joe Kwan. You know
her of course from KFI but also Spectrum News. Joe
(08:56):
Kwan is great to talk to you. How are you.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'm good, just you know, planning my surf for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You are planning your surf for tomorrow, and that's part
of the reason why I wanted to reach out to
you last week. I was asking you informally on text message.
Did the toxic algae bloom impact you in any way
or at least your decision making? You told me privately, No,
you're going to be out there surfing well tonight. We
know about this four thousand gallon sewage spill which has
(09:27):
shut down portions of Huntington Beach and Newport Beach and
it's been closed since Saturday. Do these headlines impact you
personally or are surfing wise.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Anything, No, they don't impact my decision. Like I go
every morning at dawn patrol, which is when the sun
is rising, and you go and you know, it's a
little bit less crowded, and sometimes I mean that is
close issh to some of the spots that I like
(09:58):
to go to. But anytime it rains, anytime you know
that it's a little bit of sprinkles. You know, they
tell you don't go in the water for seventy two hours,
but I know I don't really heed those warnings. If
the water noticeably looks a little brown gray, I perhaps
might wait a day, but typically not really. And sewage spills, sure,
(10:24):
obviously the beaches are closed, and you know when it's
at the end of a river, Jaty, So the I
guess you would say the most southern edge of that
sewage spill at least, you know, however they do that
when it goes out and the water floats out is
at the end of also a river jetty, which is
(10:44):
not where I typically surf because that's where runoff also goes.
And yeah, I mean if it's in a spot that
I go to every morning, then I might think about
perhaps picking another spot.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I don't surf, And they're people who may not surf
or know some of the ins and outs you made
mention of if it rains you may wait a certain
amount of time.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Why is that they tell you to wait seventy two
hours because the runoff can bring in chemicals, gas, you know,
just stuff on the street into the ocean. I know
I've gone surfing before after it rains. There's a particular
spot in Seal Beach where it just looks like a
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landfill after it rained. The San Gray Briol River brings in.
I mean, there was one day, and I have to
say that sometimes surfers are a stupid species, but we
just go because we love it and we ignore all
the other things. But there's there were bowling balls, mattresses, shoes,
just a trash pile in the water we were. I
(11:47):
didn't know that bowling ball float until that day. So,
you know, you just kind of when you catch a wave,
you sort of maneuver around the things in the water.
It just brings a lot junk in the world. Water,
plastic bags, straws, bottle caps. One time I found high
heels of a Yeah, I got what you would call
(12:08):
a stripper here. Clear that was one of the most
interesting things I've seen in the water. Yeah, So after
it range, you typically don't because it can bring in
some stuff that can get in your ears and your
nose and give you some bad stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
You're not only part of the surfer species, You're a
part of the news species. And I say that because
not only are you aware of the news. You're covering
the news. You cover the news about toxicology, you cover
the news about these sewage spills. You've covered the news
about the domoic acid as well. How does that figure
into maybe what you tell other surfers or how you
(12:48):
conduct yourself way listen a.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Lot of times with let's say, for example, you I'm
sure have heard about the demoic acid poisonings, a lot
of felines stranding on the beaches, dolphins dying, birds dying
getting sick. I ask questions and do stories, and ask
researchers and venarians. You know, a researcher down in scripts
Institution of Oceanography is looking at demoic acid and kind
(13:14):
of hoping to find different molecular clues in the water
to say a bloom is about to happen before it
actually happens. And of course the number one question, as
just a normal person, you have to be a reporter,
you don't have to be a surfer. You see it
on the beaches that we enjoy. Can it affect us?
She said, it's very rare. So it's this thing called nizche.
(13:38):
It is an algal bloom that produces the neurotoxin that's
getting all these sea animals sick. And she said the
only way a human can get sick is if you
eat one of the shellfish that is filled with the
pseudonischa stuff. And you know, immediately after bloom they do
give out warnings of don't eat the shellfish, you know,
(14:01):
the muscles and all those things in the water. So
knowing that, I guess they go in armed with information
just by the nature of my being a reporter, but
and also just being naturally curious and asking those questions.
And if it was bad where they said, yeah, you
could get YadA. Yet I might think about not going,
(14:21):
but it hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Joe kwand you are an early riser. I am not
for those that just tuning in. Joe Kuan of Spectrum
News and also KFI joins us as we talk about toxicology,
the recent of four thousand gallons of sewage spill up
and down portions of the Orange County beaches. Joe, would
you get up in the morning? What time are we
talking about?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Typically I'm up about five thirty in the morning. I
try to get out of the house by just before
six or right around six, and in the water by
about six thirty am. But they're early risers. I know.
You know Matt money Smith. I pretty much see him
every morning we serve together.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Okay, it took my next question, go ahead, and.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He's out there at before six often, so we call
that vampire patrol because it's dark.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
What type of workout is it for you? I see
you often post like maybe how many hours you're out there,
how many calories you've burned. What's the physicality of it.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It depends, you know, if you're paddling hard and you're
getting longer waves, of course you're paddling back to what's
called the lineup, so it's past that sort of whitewashed
sort of area a little bit further out. So every
time you catch one in, you got to paddle back out.
So it really depends on how how soft the waves are,
then you got to paddle really hard to get into them.
(15:44):
If they're a little bit steeper, then you don't have
to paddle as hard to get into them, but you
have to paddle hard to get out back to the lineup.
And you know, in an hour, I'm doing at least
an hour every morning, and it ranges for my four
hundred five hundred calories. It just depends on how hard
you're working out and sometimes you know, the waves are
small and they're few and far between, and it's just
(16:06):
about being out in the water, in the cold water
and hanging out and you yeah, you know, it's three
hundred four hundred calories.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Jo quant My last question. I often talk about how
I try to stay my ass out of the water
as I get older, because I don't want things touching me.
I don't want things brushing up against me. I don't
want things biting me. I don't want things stinging me.
So tell me. Number one, have you encountered a shark? Ever?
That's number one? And number two, have you ever stepped
(16:36):
on a sting ray? You've been stung by jellyfish? Tell
me all the horror stories.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yes, yes, yes, so yes to shark I've seen sharks
Southern California is again just because of the stories I do,
which are a lot of beach environment type of stories.
You know, I'm talking Chris Lowe at the shark lab
at cal State Long Beach. You know, this is an
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area where juvenile white sharks, the babies are growing up.
This is a nursing area. Yes, and then there's some
nurse sharks or lepard charts. I'm not exactly sure up
in Venice Beach that I've seen by my foot. You
know I'm not too worried about that, Okay, because I'm
(17:24):
already freaking you out. But Joy, I was stung by
something one time last summer. I don't know what it was.
Doctor suspected it was some sort of sting ray family.
And yes, sting rays are. It's kind of like street
cred for surfers. I guess I've been stung twice on
(17:46):
the right foot, same foot, different times. You just there's
an area in Feel Beach at the jetty with that
is full of sting rays. I mean, I remember last summer.
The waves are good, you just go, doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Go.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You're sharing with hundreds of stingrays, and as you're riding
a wave, you can see the little wings of the
stingray going along with you. A ton of them. I'm
not talking about one or two. There would be maybe
ten fifteen surrounding you. You just learn how to land,
either on your board at the end of the waves,
(18:24):
or you do you make your body like a starfish
and you spread out so you sort of splash on
top of the water and not touch the ground. So
there are precautions you can take to avoid getting stung,
but it happens. Jokwan, I'm not helping the case for
you to get in.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The wall ever. Jellyfish, stingray and sharks, Oh my, that's
what you're telling me.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Indeed, indeed, Jokwan, thank you for making sure therefore it
you're not touching those things, so all right.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
But it doesn't matter. You already told me you've seen sharks,
you've been stung by jellyfish and stingrays. Thank you, you
just sealed the deal. Chokwan Spectrum News. Thank you for
all your expertise and coming on under short notice. And
I will say you and Matt Mohney Smith beat very
safe out there because I'm not coming to save you.
Well by Jo Kwan. It's Later with mo Kelly. Our
(19:14):
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You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (19:23):
Forty KFI Later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube. Let me tell you
about this musical. It's sold out and it's crazy sounding,
but if you look deeper, you see what they're trying
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to do. I don't know if they're going to be successful.
You know, some things are are just too wild to consider,
but check this out. Luigi the Musical as in the
alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangioni. Luigi the Musical will Repay.
Premiere on Friday the thirteenth in San Francisco, June thirteenth,
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that is, And according to the musicals creators, all five
scheduled shows at the Taylor Street Theater have already been
sold out. Now I don't know how large the Taylor
Street Theater is, but it is worth mentioning. We're talking
about shows which are more than a month away and
they're already sold out. The story, as it reads is
(20:30):
about Luigi Mangioni, Sam Bankman Freed, and Sean Diddy Combs
allegedly sharing a prison cell. Okay, but here is where
it gets interesting. When I say interesting, you see what
they're trying to do. If you didn't know, all three
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were incarcerated at the same facility at one time. I
don't know if it was simultaneous or or they happened
to come through the facility but at different times, but
they were at the same prison facility or at least
passed through. And the three main characters, according to the creators,
represent major industries in society, healthcare, tech, and Hollywood. I
(21:19):
get where they're going with this. I don't know if
they should go there. I just don't know the idea of.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Making a killer a murderer, someone who merged alleged alleged Yes,
because he played in this and even though alleged allegedly
he walked up right behind this man in allegedly shot
a man video edge name of whatever righteous indignation he's
(21:50):
going through in his mind. Sure, you cannot turn these
individuals into stars.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I agree you cannot do.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
You cannot make ri you cannot make the idea of
this guilty or not turning it into a sold out
play makes a hero out of someone like this, Well,
let's be fair, he was already considered a hero by
some prior to now. Now you're just profiting all that.
(22:22):
I don't know the legality behind this. I don't know
if you can use Luigi Mangioni.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
He's not quote unquote a public figure in the way
that Diddy Combs is.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Well, this isn't from all accounts and reading what it's about,
this isn't satirical. So it's not a satire. And they
are using elements of the alleged account of what happened
to tell this story. So there has to be some
buy in from Mangioni or at least his family, I believe,
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probably for men because when you listen to some of
the things that he has put out there, he's embracing
this celebrity.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Oh, he's definitely embracing it. I just don't know if
legally all the eyes have been dotted in the teas
have been cross Here's the backstory, just in case you
may not remember. Mangioni twenty six year old college student,
and he was charged with murder first degree murder and
the death of Brian Thompson, then CEO of United Healthcare
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and Sam Bankman. Freed was a founder of FTX, the
cryptocurrency exchange platform. Last year, he was sentenced to twenty
five years in prison for fraud stealing over eleven billion
dollars and Sean P. Diddycombs. We've covered him and we'll
talk about him later on tonight is the jury is
(23:48):
starting being selected in his trial. He's facing federal sex
trafficking and racketeering charges after he allegedly physically and sexually
abused victims for over a decade. I think this would
be a better documentary more than anything, as opposed to
a play, a satirical, farcical whatever they're trying to do
(24:10):
and selling tickets to it and make a profit over it. It
just feels dirty. That's the only way I can describe it.
It feels like, you know what, we shouldn't be doing this.
It's not like we're talking about let's say, Charles Manson
and The night Stalker and one other controversial killer or
some Ted Bundy.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Even then, those characters and what came in the wake
of their infamy is still it still reels with us.
Now you and I are still within the generation of
the night Stalker, and those stories still haunt us. I
get that they're saying that this is not to glorify
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any sort of act or of violence, or to pass
judgment on the legal case, nor is it to condone
sexual assault or pedophilly in any form. But they you know,
but you are profiting off of it, And they say
it's to ask societal questions like why Manzioni has become
a kind of folk hero in certain corners of the internet.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's an editorial on a print website. That's not a
sould I'll play. It's not a musical, you know. And
then I think you are diminishing the severity of the
alleged crimes when you're putting it to music. It makes
it very difficult for me to take it seriously on
any level, because you have diminished the value in my
(25:34):
estimation of Brian Thompson's life, and you've diminished the severity
of the crimes. When you're setting it to music. You're
just not even a dramatization.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Not only that, I have not read a single thread
of evidence that shows any of the profits of this
goes to victims of murder, sexual assault, or pedophilia, that
this is them just profiting, no money going to any
just cause that stands against what these individuals are accused of.
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So that also is weird.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
When we come back, we're going to go to the
other side of the legal ledger. We're going to talk
about being a law enforcement officer here in America. You
may wonder, or at least I did, what would be
some of the better states or worse states for law
enforcement officers. We have a list. We'll see if you agree,
we'll find out and also Carnesia is monitoring the chat.
We'll find out what you think about this list in
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just a moment. It's later with mo Kelly caf I
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Speaker 1 (26:49):
F We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and we're
live on YouTube right now. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Wallet Hub compared the fifty states and the District of
Columbia across three key indicators of police friendliness, and the
dataset ranges from the median income for law enforcement officers,
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to police deaths per one thousand officers to state and
local police protection expenses per capita. We're talking about the
best states and the worst states for Leo's law enforcement officers.
Some states make protecting and serving the public in a
law enforcement career more appealing than others. The best states
for police officers, according to the wallet hub, offer competitive
(27:33):
compensation supplemented by solid training that helps minimize the chances
of deadly violence between officers and civilians. So this is
according to wallet Hub. We're going to give you the
ten worst locations according to their data, and then we
will do the ten best locations. So now we're just
going to read very quickly, and they're fifty one options
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here because it's the fifty six plus Washington DC. So
coming in at number forty Mississippi. No surprise there. There's
nothing good going on in Mississippi. Number forty one, Kansas,
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number forty two, Vermont number forty three, Montana sounds about right.
Moving our way down the list. Number forty four, Oregon. Yeah,
(28:46):
probably number forty five. You're gonna see a trend from
here on out. Number forty five is West Virginia. Number
forty six. I love Mama, Keith Jackson, Foma, number forty seven, Louisiana.
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So West Virginia forty five, Alabama forty six, Louisiana forty seven.
Let's Seeho's number forty eight, Panter, Arkansas. How about number
forty nine. Oh, we went out West Nevada. And that's
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probably all because of Las Vegas. Just Las Vegas. That's it.
Number fifty. Now this might surprise you. Hawaii among the
worst states for law enforcement. That surprise. The surprised me.
And the worst state in all the nation for law enforcement, Alaska.
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That's your surprise, nobody, All that light are in the
bottom half. Oh yeah, you can come to your own
conclusion all right now here the best states to be
a law enforcement officer, according to walle Hub compensation, protection
of officers, that kind of stuff. Number ten, Ohio, number nine,
(30:37):
the state of Washington, number eight, Tennessee. Number seven. Yeah,
that's an outlier. Yeah, Minnesota, Derek Chauvin. Notwithstanding number six,
(31:05):
Colorado moving out west. Number five Maryland, I can see that.
I can see that. Yeah. Number four the District of Columbia. Now,
(31:29):
I don't know if that contains the Capitol police and
also DC Metro have to investigate, but that's at least
including DC Metro. Number three Illinois. Again, this is, according
to wallet hub, the best states for law enforcement. In
(31:52):
other words, you're gonna work in law enforcement. This is
a ranking of the best states according to wallet hub,
and number two of the top fifty states plus Washington,
DC are the best places for law enforcement to work. Connecticut.
(32:12):
I'm seeing a trend here. I won't say it out loud,
but I'm seeing the trend and the number one state
for a law enforcement according to wallet hub. Any guesses, anyone, anyone,
feeler heeler number one, number one, Florida. That's right. We
have not heard from Florida yet.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, Florida, maybe Florida number one.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Haven't heard from Texas yet either.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
I would not pick Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I'm from Texas. Oh okay, all right, so we got
a guess of Florida. We have a guess of Texas.
Let's see. The number one state for law enforcement to
work as a career in law enforcement is California. Here
(33:07):
I come, no, right back where I started from. The
best date, open your golden gates. Yeah, according to wallet hub,
not according to you, Not according to me. They say,
compensation packages, solid training that helps minimize the chances of
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deadly violence between officers and civilians, state level policies like
red flag laws and blue alerts, and opportunity and competition
rank California ranks number eleven, law enforcement training requirements rank
California ranks number two, and job hazards and Protection of
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law enforcement officers ranks number twelve. But overall it's the best,
according to wallet hub. Take it for what it's worth.
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I mean, when you hear all the things that everyone
has to say about California.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, I'll put this way. I will ask my friends
in law enforcement to see what they say. Now. My
friends who are in the La County Sheriff's Department, they
say now they would never do it again. You know
there was. I have a friend who's with Lenox and
he's been a share for almost thirty years, and he
said it's completely changed. He would never do it now,
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but that's his assessment of the job itself. I don't
know if he would be able to rank California versus
the other states, but I do know since the worst
states were most of them down south, I'm inclined to
believe every one of those states was open caerry. And
they're law enforcement, They're dealing with a lot of armed
people more so than in California in general. That's just
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my read between the lines.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Compensation seems to be a big thing in that one too.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I kind of feeling that.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
They pay people out here a lot more than they
would in the South.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I just know Manhattan Beach, Southgate and Redondo Beach. Don't
ask me how I know. I just know they pay well,
and Torance as well. K IF I am six forty
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T two Los Angeles, Orange County everywhere on the radio
KFI M six forty. It's later with Mo Kelly. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and we're having some
internet issues in the station, so our YouTube show will
be up in just a moment. But that's probably the
reason why you cannot see the show on YouTube at
this moment. But it will be up momentarily. Had a
huge weekend, huge weekend, hung out with Twala and Stephan.
(00:45):
We went to see Thunderbolts me. It was the second time.
I think Twala was the eighth time. Stephan is actually out.
Today we're joined on the board on the ones and
two by the Sex Doctor himself, mister Sam. See how
you doing, brother? Oh great, thank you for having me.
It's good to be back. Absolutely And Talla, how many
times you've seen Thunderbolts since?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It just two? Just two? Okay? I thought it was
more than that.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
No, I'll be seeing it again because I was really
emotionally connected to the film.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I dug it like that, emotionally connected to the Marvel movie.
I don't think I've ever had an emotional connection.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
What you watch these movies and stories and don't make
any emotional connections.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Entertainment entertainment, It wasn't like I was gonna cry when
Tony Stark died or anything like that. Is what the
type of chollage is. Just entertainment, dude. I shed real
tears when Tony died. Oh my goodness, real tears. Well,
we'll talk about Thunderbolts, which did come in as the
number one movie of the week. We'll talk about that
at the top of the third hour. Next segment, I'll
(01:41):
be joined on the show by Joe Kwan of Spectrum News.
There's news that four thousand gallons of sewage has shut
down portions of Orange County beaches. Joe Kwan, we talked
about last week how she serves just about every day,
Matt Buddy Smith serves just about every day in the
Orange County area. I'm curious to find out whether this
(02:03):
sewage spill is going to impact her surfing, whether toxic
algae means anything to her or Matt Money Smith, and
how she navigates no pun intended, these dirty beaches every
single day up and down the California coast. In the film,
there's no exaggeration. It's some of the filthiest coastline in America.
(02:24):
And did you know that not only is there a
new musical about alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangioni. But it's
sold out and it's going to premiere in San Francisco.
What the hell is wrong with this nation? Or maybe
just San Francisco. But there's something wrong with us to
think you should even create a musical that's number one
(02:47):
and number two. It's already popular, so much so that
it sells out. There is something really wrong with us
as Americans. And also we'll find out the best and
the worst state in which to be a law enforcement officer,
the best and the worst states to be a law
enforcement officer. That will close out our one an hour two.
(03:11):
We got to see about this intersection between politics and
sports again. Did you hear? Did you hear? President Trump?
He announced that the twenty twenty seven NFL Draft will
be in Washington, DC on the National Mall. So you
can't extricate politics from sports anymore because he announced it
from the Oval Office. We'll definitely get into that. And
(03:35):
I don't know, Talla, did you hear the remarks from
former Boston Celtics forward and former Inglewood High graduate and
Natesmith Basketball Hall of Famer Paul Pierce talking about marriage. Yeah,
he's the wrong person ever put a microphone in front
of He had a lot to say about marriage, and
none of it is good. There's some people you should
never take advice from. There's some people you should never
(03:58):
take relationship advice from. There's some people you shouldn't take
gardening advice from, or child wearing advice. Paul Pierce fits
all those categories. Don't take any advice from him. But
we have to talk about his outsize influence on people.
You know, his opinion matters inasmuch that everyone's heard it,
(04:18):
everyone's talking about it, everyone is criticizing him for it,
but still outsized influence. Will talk about that. And if
you know me personally, you know I swear by Sketchers,
swear by it. I have at least twelve to thirteen
pairs of Sketchers' shoes in my closet right now, and
(04:39):
when I buy another three or four, they will be Sketchers.
It's Sketchers and Nike, but mostly Sketchers. And you can
laugh at me all you want. I love Sketchers. I'm
wearing Sketchers right now. I was wearing Sketches yesterday, and
I'll be wearing Sketchers tomorrow. I mentioned that because the
company just was purchased, I should say, oh, the stock
was purchased, so it could be a private company going forward.
(05:03):
Really yep, they taking it private, taking it private. So
it'll be interesting to see how that is going to
impact the future of the company, which means it's going
to impact me because I still have at least three
or four gift cards. Are you a.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Sketcher's a member? Oh, I'm a Sketchers member.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah. I just want to make sure that you got
your membership. Oh yeah, okay, yeah. Every time I go
in there to say, oh, do you have a membership? Yes, yes,
I do, so I get discounts and stuff. And I
used to carry my card with me. Really yeah, I
don't care. And for a horoscope, which cat read? Are
you based on your zodiac sign? Now this is very
important because I'm not a cat person, Sam, you're a
(05:40):
cat person, aren't you? No, I'm a dog, thank you,
thank you very much. I threw that out through doing
good well. Marlar would not appreciate me saying that. No.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Marlee and I got Marley and Ziggy, both of them
a right happy and joining us instead of Mark Ronner,
who is tending to some business is Island Guns.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Eileen, it's very nice to finally work with you. I
don't think we worked with work with each other before.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yeah, nice to be here. I think we worked together once.
Did we work together when the fires broke out?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Maybe because we're here for like five six hours at
a time, so there might have been some overlap. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I think that's that's the last time I saw you here.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Since I have you on the mic. Are you a
cat or dog person? I'm both. I have a dog
and a cat. How was that possible?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
And they're best friends?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
They love each other? Is that possible? It's possible? Were
they were? They raised together?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I got them. I got the cat first, and he
was I had him for about two months, and then
I got the dog as a puppy and they.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Okay, so they're Yeah, they don't know life without each other. Yeah,
that's a beautiful story. I'm a I'm a dog guy
all the way through. My cat's name Ziggy. Wait a minute,
we had Wait a minute, Sam, Sam, Wait, Eileen has
a cat named Ziggy and you have a dog named
Ziggy and Marley. Yeah, yeah, but mine is Ziggy. Stardust.
(06:58):
It's another ziggy. Uh Mine is named after obviously, Bob Martin.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Martin Marley's Okay, they had dreadlocks when we first got him.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
They were they We've got that. You could explain that one. Yeah, No,
they were They were a rescue dog.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Marley was a rescue dog and he was matted, completely dirty.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
He was.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
This was back when they had the kill shelters. This
was his last day. We rescued him and we thought
he had like a different actual like his his fur
color was different. We washed him and it was like, oh,
gray and white. But we had already named him Marley.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Oh nice. He thought it was a black dog, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Well yeah, yeah, but we washed him up, gave him
a haircut, and he's still Marley.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He loves that name. Oh that is a wonderful, wonderful story.
We have that and so much more. In our number three,
we have to talk about jury selection in the Diddy case,
which begun today. And also Lady Gaga, did you hear
the story about there was this I'll say, not attempted bombing,
but there was a plan bombing of one of her concerts.
And I think we have some insight because in producing concerts,
(08:08):
there are always those concerns and maybe we can give
you some behind the scenes of what goes into planning
some of those large scale concerts. It's lady, excuse me.
It's Later with Mo Kelly CAFI A six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. When we come back, we'll
be checking in with Joe Kwan and talking about this
four thousand gallon sewage spill which is shut down portions
(08:28):
of Orange County beaches.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (08:35):
Six forty KFI AM six forty. It's a Later with
Mo Kelly Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, and we'll
still working on the YouTube feed. It will be up
in just a moment, just like you're accustomed to seeing it.
But joining me right now is Joe Kwan. You know
her of course from KFI but also Spectrum News. Joe
(08:56):
Kwan is great to talk to you. How are you.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'm good, just you know, planning my surf for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You are planning your surf for tomorrow, and that's part
of the reason why I wanted to reach out to
you last week. I was asking you informally on text message.
Did the toxic algae bloom impact you in any way
or at least your decision making? You told me privately, No,
you're going to be out there surfing well tonight. We
know about this four thousand gallon sewage spill which has
(09:27):
shut down portions of Huntington Beach and Newport Beach and
it's been closed since Saturday. Do these headlines impact you
personally or are surfing wise.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Anything, No, they don't impact my decision. Like I go
every morning at dawn patrol, which is when the sun
is rising, and you go and you know, it's a
little bit less crowded, and sometimes I mean that is
close issh to some of the spots that I like
(09:58):
to go to. But anytime it rains, anytime you know
that it's a little bit of sprinkles. You know, they
tell you don't go in the water for seventy two hours,
but I know I don't really heed those warnings. If
the water noticeably looks a little brown gray, I perhaps
might wait a day, but typically not really. And sewage spills, sure,
(10:24):
obviously the beaches are closed, and you know when it's
at the end of a river, Jaty, So the I
guess you would say the most southern edge of that
sewage spill at least, you know, however they do that
when it goes out and the water floats out is
at the end of also a river jetty, which is
(10:44):
not where I typically surf because that's where runoff also goes.
And yeah, I mean if it's in a spot that
I go to every morning, then I might think about
perhaps picking another spot.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I don't surf, And they're people who may not surf
or know some of the ins and outs you made
mention of if it rains you may wait a certain
amount of time.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Why is that they tell you to wait seventy two
hours because the runoff can bring in chemicals, gas, you know,
just stuff on the street into the ocean. I know
I've gone surfing before after it rains. There's a particular
spot in Seal Beach where it just looks like a
(11:27):
landfill after it rained. The San Gray Briol River brings in.
I mean, there was one day, and I have to
say that sometimes surfers are a stupid species, but we
just go because we love it and we ignore all
the other things. But there's there were bowling balls, mattresses, shoes,
just a trash pile in the water we were. I
(11:47):
didn't know that bowling ball float until that day. So,
you know, you just kind of when you catch a wave,
you sort of maneuver around the things in the water.
It just brings a lot junk in the world. Water,
plastic bags, straws, bottle caps. One time I found high
heels of a Yeah, I got what you would call
(12:08):
a stripper here. Clear that was one of the most
interesting things I've seen in the water. Yeah, So after
it range, you typically don't because it can bring in
some stuff that can get in your ears and your
nose and give you some bad stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
You're not only part of the surfer species, You're a
part of the news species. And I say that because
not only are you aware of the news. You're covering
the news. You cover the news about toxicology, you cover
the news about these sewage spills. You've covered the news
about the domoic acid as well. How does that figure
into maybe what you tell other surfers or how you
(12:48):
conduct yourself way listen a.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Lot of times with let's say, for example, you I'm
sure have heard about the demoic acid poisonings, a lot
of felines stranding on the beaches, dolphins dying, birds dying
getting sick. I ask questions and do stories, and ask
researchers and venarians. You know, a researcher down in scripts
Institution of Oceanography is looking at demoic acid and kind
(13:14):
of hoping to find different molecular clues in the water
to say a bloom is about to happen before it
actually happens. And of course the number one question, as
just a normal person, you have to be a reporter,
you don't have to be a surfer. You see it
on the beaches that we enjoy. Can it affect us?
She said, it's very rare. So it's this thing called nizche.
(13:38):
It is an algal bloom that produces the neurotoxin that's
getting all these sea animals sick. And she said the
only way a human can get sick is if you
eat one of the shellfish that is filled with the
pseudonischa stuff. And you know, immediately after bloom they do
give out warnings of don't eat the shellfish, you know,
(14:01):
the muscles and all those things in the water. So
knowing that, I guess they go in armed with information
just by the nature of my being a reporter, but
and also just being naturally curious and asking those questions.
And if it was bad where they said, yeah, you
could get YadA. Yet I might think about not going,
(14:21):
but it hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Joe kwand you are an early riser. I am not
for those that just tuning in. Joe Kuan of Spectrum
News and also KFI joins us as we talk about toxicology,
the recent of four thousand gallons of sewage spill up
and down portions of the Orange County beaches. Joe, would
you get up in the morning? What time are we
talking about?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Typically I'm up about five thirty in the morning. I
try to get out of the house by just before
six or right around six, and in the water by
about six thirty am. But they're early risers. I know.
You know Matt money Smith. I pretty much see him
every morning we serve together.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Okay, it took my next question, go ahead, and.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He's out there at before six often, so we call
that vampire patrol because it's dark.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
What type of workout is it for you? I see
you often post like maybe how many hours you're out there,
how many calories you've burned. What's the physicality of it.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It depends, you know, if you're paddling hard and you're
getting longer waves, of course you're paddling back to what's
called the lineup, so it's past that sort of whitewashed
sort of area a little bit further out. So every
time you catch one in, you got to paddle back out.
So it really depends on how how soft the waves are,
then you got to paddle really hard to get into them.
(15:44):
If they're a little bit steeper, then you don't have
to paddle as hard to get into them, but you
have to paddle hard to get out back to the lineup.
And you know, in an hour, I'm doing at least
an hour every morning, and it ranges for my four
hundred five hundred calories. It just depends on how hard
you're working out and sometimes you know, the waves are
small and they're few and far between, and it's just
(16:06):
about being out in the water, in the cold water
and hanging out and you yeah, you know, it's three
hundred four hundred calories.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Jo quant My last question. I often talk about how
I try to stay my ass out of the water
as I get older, because I don't want things touching me.
I don't want things brushing up against me. I don't
want things biting me. I don't want things stinging me.
So tell me. Number one, have you encountered a shark? Ever?
That's number one? And number two, have you ever stepped
(16:36):
on a sting ray? You've been stung by jellyfish? Tell
me all the horror stories.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yes, yes, yes, so yes to shark I've seen sharks
Southern California is again just because of the stories I do,
which are a lot of beach environment type of stories.
You know, I'm talking Chris Lowe at the shark lab
at cal State Long Beach. You know, this is an
(17:01):
area where juvenile white sharks, the babies are growing up.
This is a nursing area. Yes, and then there's some
nurse sharks or lepard charts. I'm not exactly sure up
in Venice Beach that I've seen by my foot. You
know I'm not too worried about that, Okay, because I'm
(17:24):
already freaking you out. But Joy, I was stung by
something one time last summer. I don't know what it was.
Doctor suspected it was some sort of sting ray family.
And yes, sting rays are. It's kind of like street
cred for surfers. I guess I've been stung twice on
(17:46):
the right foot, same foot, different times. You just there's
an area in Feel Beach at the jetty with that
is full of sting rays. I mean, I remember last summer.
The waves are good, you just go, doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Go.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You're sharing with hundreds of stingrays, and as you're riding
a wave, you can see the little wings of the
stingray going along with you. A ton of them. I'm
not talking about one or two. There would be maybe
ten fifteen surrounding you. You just learn how to land,
either on your board at the end of the waves,
(18:24):
or you do you make your body like a starfish
and you spread out so you sort of splash on
top of the water and not touch the ground. So
there are precautions you can take to avoid getting stung,
but it happens. Jokwan, I'm not helping the case for
you to get in.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The wall ever. Jellyfish, stingray and sharks, Oh my, that's
what you're telling me.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Indeed, indeed, Jokwan, thank you for making sure therefore it
you're not touching those things, so all right.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
But it doesn't matter. You already told me you've seen sharks,
you've been stung by jellyfish and stingrays. Thank you, you
just sealed the deal. Chokwan Spectrum News. Thank you for
all your expertise and coming on under short notice. And
I will say you and Matt Mohney Smith beat very
safe out there because I'm not coming to save you.
Well by Jo Kwan. It's Later with mo Kelly. Our
(19:14):
YouTube show is up and running right now. We're live
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Speaker 6 (19:18):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Forty KFI Later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube. Let me tell you
about this musical. It's sold out and it's crazy sounding,
but if you look deeper, you see what they're trying
(19:45):
to do. I don't know if they're going to be successful.
You know, some things are are just too wild to consider,
but check this out. Luigi the Musical as in the
alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangioni. Luigi the Musical will Repay.
Premiere on Friday the thirteenth in San Francisco, June thirteenth,
(20:08):
that is, And according to the musicals creators, all five
scheduled shows at the Taylor Street Theater have already been
sold out. Now I don't know how large the Taylor
Street Theater is, but it is worth mentioning. We're talking
about shows which are more than a month away and
they're already sold out. The story, as it reads is
(20:30):
about Luigi Mangioni, Sam Bankman Freed, and Sean Diddy Combs
allegedly sharing a prison cell. Okay, but here is where
it gets interesting. When I say interesting, you see what
they're trying to do. If you didn't know, all three
(20:53):
were incarcerated at the same facility at one time. I
don't know if it was simultaneous or or they happened
to come through the facility but at different times, but
they were at the same prison facility or at least
passed through. And the three main characters, according to the creators,
represent major industries in society, healthcare, tech, and Hollywood. I
(21:19):
get where they're going with this. I don't know if
they should go there. I just don't know the idea of.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Making a killer a murderer, someone who merged alleged alleged Yes,
because he played in this and even though alleged allegedly
he walked up right behind this man in allegedly shot
a man video edge name of whatever righteous indignation he's
(21:50):
going through in his mind. Sure, you cannot turn these
individuals into stars.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I agree you cannot do.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
You cannot make ri you cannot make the idea of
this guilty or not turning it into a sold out
play makes a hero out of someone like this, Well,
let's be fair, he was already considered a hero by
some prior to now. Now you're just profiting all that.
(22:22):
I don't know the legality behind this. I don't know
if you can use Luigi Mangioni.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
He's not quote unquote a public figure in the way
that Diddy Combs is.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Well, this isn't from all accounts and reading what it's about,
this isn't satirical. So it's not a satire. And they
are using elements of the alleged account of what happened
to tell this story. So there has to be some
buy in from Mangioni or at least his family, I believe,
(23:00):
probably for men because when you listen to some of
the things that he has put out there, he's embracing
this celebrity.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Oh, he's definitely embracing it. I just don't know if
legally all the eyes have been dotted in the teas
have been cross Here's the backstory, just in case you
may not remember. Mangioni twenty six year old college student,
and he was charged with murder first degree murder and
the death of Brian Thompson, then CEO of United Healthcare
(23:27):
and Sam Bankman. Freed was a founder of FTX, the
cryptocurrency exchange platform. Last year, he was sentenced to twenty
five years in prison for fraud stealing over eleven billion
dollars and Sean P. Diddycombs. We've covered him and we'll
talk about him later on tonight is the jury is
(23:48):
starting being selected in his trial. He's facing federal sex
trafficking and racketeering charges after he allegedly physically and sexually
abused victims for over a decade. I think this would
be a better documentary more than anything, as opposed to
a play, a satirical, farcical whatever they're trying to do
(24:10):
and selling tickets to it and make a profit over it. It
just feels dirty. That's the only way I can describe it.
It feels like, you know what, we shouldn't be doing this.
It's not like we're talking about let's say, Charles Manson
and The night Stalker and one other controversial killer or
some Ted Bundy.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Even then, those characters and what came in the wake
of their infamy is still it still reels with us.
Now you and I are still within the generation of
the night Stalker, and those stories still haunt us. I
get that they're saying that this is not to glorify
(24:52):
any sort of act or of violence, or to pass
judgment on the legal case, nor is it to condone
sexual assault or pedophilly in any form. But they you know,
but you are profiting off of it, And they say
it's to ask societal questions like why Manzioni has become
a kind of folk hero in certain corners of the internet.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's an editorial on a print website. That's not a
sould I'll play. It's not a musical, you know. And
then I think you are diminishing the severity of the
alleged crimes when you're putting it to music. It makes
it very difficult for me to take it seriously on
any level, because you have diminished the value in my
(25:34):
estimation of Brian Thompson's life, and you've diminished the severity
of the crimes. When you're setting it to music. You're
just not even a dramatization.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Not only that, I have not read a single thread
of evidence that shows any of the profits of this
goes to victims of murder, sexual assault, or pedophilia, that
this is them just profiting, no money going to any
just cause that stands against what these individuals are accused of.
(26:06):
So that also is weird.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
When we come back, we're going to go to the
other side of the legal ledger. We're going to talk
about being a law enforcement officer here in America. You
may wonder, or at least I did, what would be
some of the better states or worse states for law
enforcement officers. We have a list. We'll see if you agree,
we'll find out and also Carnesia is monitoring the chat.
We'll find out what you think about this list in
(26:29):
just a moment. It's later with mo Kelly caf I
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Wallet Hub compared the fifty states and the District of
Columbia across three key indicators of police friendliness, and the
dataset ranges from the median income for law enforcement officers,
(27:11):
to police deaths per one thousand officers to state and
local police protection expenses per capita. We're talking about the
best states and the worst states for Leo's law enforcement officers.
Some states make protecting and serving the public in a
law enforcement career more appealing than others. The best states
for police officers, according to the wallet hub, offer competitive
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compensation supplemented by solid training that helps minimize the chances
of deadly violence between officers and civilians. So this is
according to wallet Hub. We're going to give you the
ten worst locations according to their data, and then we
will do the ten best locations. So now we're just
going to read very quickly, and they're fifty one options
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here because it's the fifty six plus Washington DC. So
coming in at number forty Mississippi. No surprise there. There's
nothing good going on in Mississippi. Number forty one, Kansas,
(28:19):
number forty two, Vermont number forty three, Montana sounds about right.
Moving our way down the list. Number forty four, Oregon. Yeah,
(28:46):
probably number forty five. You're gonna see a trend from
here on out. Number forty five is West Virginia. Number
forty six. I love Mama, Keith Jackson, Foma, number forty seven, Louisiana.
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So West Virginia forty five, Alabama forty six, Louisiana forty seven.
Let's Seeho's number forty eight, Panter, Arkansas. How about number
forty nine. Oh, we went out West Nevada. And that's
(29:36):
probably all because of Las Vegas. Just Las Vegas. That's it.
Number fifty. Now this might surprise you. Hawaii among the
worst states for law enforcement. That surprise. The surprised me.
And the worst state in all the nation for law enforcement, Alaska.
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That's your surprise, nobody, All that light are in the
bottom half. Oh yeah, you can come to your own
conclusion all right now here the best states to be
a law enforcement officer, according to walle Hub compensation, protection
of officers, that kind of stuff. Number ten, Ohio, number nine,
(30:37):
the state of Washington, number eight, Tennessee. Number seven. Yeah,
that's an outlier. Yeah, Minnesota, Derek Chauvin. Notwithstanding number six,
(31:05):
Colorado moving out west. Number five Maryland, I can see that.
I can see that. Yeah. Number four the District of Columbia. Now,
(31:29):
I don't know if that contains the Capitol police and
also DC Metro have to investigate, but that's at least
including DC Metro. Number three Illinois. Again, this is, according
to wallet hub, the best states for law enforcement. In
(31:52):
other words, you're gonna work in law enforcement. This is
a ranking of the best states according to wallet hub,
and number two of the top fifty states plus Washington,
DC are the best places for law enforcement to work. Connecticut.
(32:12):
I'm seeing a trend here. I won't say it out loud,
but I'm seeing the trend and the number one state
for a law enforcement according to wallet hub. Any guesses, anyone, anyone,
feeler heeler number one, number one, Florida. That's right. We
have not heard from Florida yet.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, Florida, maybe Florida number one.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Haven't heard from Texas yet either.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
I would not pick Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I'm from Texas. Oh okay, all right, so we got
a guess of Florida. We have a guess of Texas.
Let's see. The number one state for law enforcement to
work as a career in law enforcement is California. Here
(33:07):
I come, no, right back where I started from. The
best date, open your golden gates. Yeah, according to wallet hub,
not according to you, Not according to me. They say,
compensation packages, solid training that helps minimize the chances of
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deadly violence between officers and civilians, state level policies like
red flag laws and blue alerts, and opportunity and competition
rank California ranks number eleven, law enforcement training requirements rank
California ranks number two, and job hazards and Protection of
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law enforcement officers ranks number twelve. But overall it's the best,
according to wallet hub. Take it for what it's worth.
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I mean, when you hear all the things that everyone
has to say about California.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, I'll put this way. I will ask my friends
in law enforcement to see what they say. Now. My
friends who are in the La County Sheriff's Department, they
say now they would never do it again. You know
there was. I have a friend who's with Lenox and
he's been a share for almost thirty years, and he
said it's completely changed. He would never do it now,
(34:23):
but that's his assessment of the job itself. I don't
know if he would be able to rank California versus
the other states, but I do know since the worst
states were most of them down south, I'm inclined to
believe every one of those states was open caerry. And
they're law enforcement, They're dealing with a lot of armed
people more so than in California in general. That's just
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my read between the lines.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Compensation seems to be a big thing in that one too.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I kind of feeling that.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
They pay people out here a lot more than they
would in the South.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I just know Manhattan Beach, Southgate and Redondo Beach. Don't
ask me how I know. I just know they pay well,
and Torance as well. K IF I am six forty
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