May 1, 2025 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the toll the toxic algae bloom along the SoCal coast is having on Lifeguards bearing witness to the tragic loss of marine life, a new study revealing the impact a potential “Monster Quake” could have on SoCal AND a potential “Mileage tax” coming to SoCal - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's time to get another party started. It's late with
mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. As
the sun goes down right behind me, and you can
see it too. Just tune into the live show on
YouTube at mister mo Kelly. We had a time last night.
We're gonna have a time tonight. Let's get this party started.
(00:42):
Let me say good evening to Mark Ronner Gill all
the way sounded to talk to him later. We had
a little bit of a disagreement earlier talking about and Or.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, when you say we had a disagreement, what you
mean is you said some things to me that were wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But go ahead. We had a disagreement. I believe in facts.
He was relying on opinion. Yes, But we'll get into
that maybe a little bit later. I'm quite sure Twalla
Sharp has some thoughts about the last three episodes of
and Or, which dropped last night.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I have not seen it yet.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I will step out of the room while YouTube debate
who is right and who is wrong. Although sight unseen,
without hearing this argument, I tend to believe I'm going
to lean towards Mark's thought because you're way too hard
on and.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Or well you're way too in the pocket of waymow,
but we still let you talk. Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Now you see how you're conflating stories, mixing up facts.
You're on the wrong side of the history. Kind of
a cheap shot. Yeah, I knows, and I had hominem,
but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, we have to talk about LA lifeguards who are
taking a mental health break. Get this, because of the
algae bloom issues. You have dolphins which are dying left
and right. It's one hundred percent mortality rate for dolphins
and it's impacting even the lifeguards who see the happening
(02:00):
in real time.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And you know that monster.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Earthquake which is always out there in the offing going
to destroy California, Well, experts are now saying that it
might sink California altogether. Yep, we might be underwater, literally
under water. That ought to you know, cheer you up
a bit. And here's something that I cannot get with
under any circumstances. There are those in Sacramento who are
(02:25):
considering implementing a mileage tax instead of gas tax, in
other words, charging people by the mile. No way in
hell am I going to go for that. We'll talk
about that at the end of the hour, and so
much more.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's a huge show.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
We have Carnacia who's been through the chat. I will
get into the YouTube chat in just a mode. I've
heard wonderful feedback from all of you about the YouTube stream.
Some people it's like, yeah, now I get to really
see what's going on and how much fun you have
in the studio.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, we have fun every single night, every single night.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And all the jokes which are going back and forth
minor funny Mark Ronners are not. You get just see that.
You get to see that dynamic. Some of us are
born funnier than others. Yeah, exactly. And you get to
see the response of Twalla Sharp when he puts his
head in his head. Yeah, but and something are you
(03:22):
do You guys really dislike each other? No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
we hate each other. There's a difference. Seriously, we're all
going to the movies together. If Mark Ronner keeps up
his end of the bargain this Sunday, we're gonna go
see Thunderbolts Asterisk together.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Mark rons have a choice.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You got to put an asterisk next to my Mark
Ronners ticket has already been purchased.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So Mark, discuss this off the air, discuss and the family.
We're going to lunch and then we're going to the movies.
It's like a date. There's nothing to discuss.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I mean, the lunch has already been set elected, the
menu and the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
The food, I believe me.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No, that's that's a highlight of this potential afternoon. But
I gotta I have some details to sort through, details
details for me. Bring the long suffering one. No, no, no, no,
she wouldn't dream of it. You think you think she
wants to hang out with us? Are you out of
your mind?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
For a free movie and some free eats? Why not?
You can't put a price on it. We've got convinced her.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It's we were doing her a favor by exploding her
getting you out of the house.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, exactly, yes, okay, stefaniely gonna bring anyone? No, just
me and my appetite. All right, Well we're going to
meet that special someone, Tuala. No, don't you have someone
that's been looming in the in the background.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
No, wait what, I don't have a loom.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't have any looms nothing, No, no looms, man,
I don't I.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Don't believe that he tells me from time to time
about this person he loves.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
From time to team say, say time to time, looms
get to you know, blooming but what I'm free?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, look I'm loom free right now. No, not to
the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Nope, I'm on Fushi's plan where I'm I'm solo do
low fancy free, no looms lurking.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No, Well, go go about it the truly bachelor route.
Buy one, get one free. Mm just pay for it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
M No, that was being serious. I wasn't trying to
be fun to me.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That's not cool because then they're looking at you like
you paid for this filthy duff. Whatever Bill Belichick did
Tauwala find out?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, Bill Belichick, his girlfriend is twenty four. We don't
know definitively how and when they met allegedly they met
on the plane.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Well, they seem happy, and that's all I care about.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
All I know is of all the seventy two year
old men in the world, how he happened to be
just the one that she was looking for.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I call bs on that. I believe in love you swine.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I don't. I believe it's a setup. I believe it's
an arrangement.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I am really of the opinion now and not that
this was a factor for mister sharp Shannon. That is
no relation, no relation. There's an emplastam of visit. I
believe to make it very very what makes you we're
all above board here? That to me is a hint
(06:41):
and that have to stay you blank blank blank away
from younger people.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You could just you couldn't date someone materially younger. Just
not Mary, just kick it with for a good five
six months.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I really don't have time to raise a love interest.
I don't have that kind of time, nor do I
have that level of patience. Oh, I didn't say anything
about love. I said nothing about love. I think of
it more as a test drive, not even because then
I have to go through.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Did you see this thing on Twitter?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Oh my god, look at this TikTok thing that's happening
in this ticking and it's talking.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
No, who said you have to spend twenty four hours
of the day together, maybe just hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The hour and a half, the things that you have
to go through to get to the hour and a
half mode, that's what you're not hearing.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I don't know. Okay, I'm fifty five.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, I don't know what conversation I would have with
someone who's twenty four.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
What are we talking about? I have no idea what
we would talk about. I don't know any of the
little or the young rappers. I don't know little this
young that I'll know none of them. I'll listen to
none of that.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
If I'm talking about let's put on some jazz and
they're like, what's that?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You see what I'm saying, We're not talking about the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
If I'm trying to have a conversation about what's happening
in the world and the first thing they references, oh yeah,
I saw them talking about that on the Kardashians. The
cars crashing, I'm going straight into the side of the
row there. These are conversations you have with your friends,
not your girlfriend. You don't need to have all that
on one person to find girlfriend. No, absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It's later with mo Kelly caf I Am six forty
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio AP. I'm going to talk
about the LA lifeguards who need to take a mental
health break due to the dolphins dying.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
When we come back, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
KFI, Mister b Kelly Live on YouTube, and the iHeartRadio app.
Let's go to the Beach. I didn't say going the water.
I said let's go to the beach. You have lifeguards
who are taking mental health breaks because of the toxic algae. No,
not because what the toxic algae is doing to the
lifeguards per se, but what it's doing to animals, like
(09:06):
to sea lions, what's doing to dolphins. And we talked
about this last week, how the toxic algae has been
killing dolphins and making sea lions aggressive and basically go crazy.
And when you have the lifeguards who are sitting in
the tower, they're seeing these dolphins and sea lions coming
up on the beach and it's taking a human toll,
(09:29):
as they tell it. This is a lifeguard, Spencer Parker,
and he has been an LA County lifeguard for some
twenty years. He started in about two thousand and two
and according to him, only twice had he seen dolphins
and sea lions come ashore before this year, But in
the last two weeks alone, there have been four. According
(09:51):
to Steve Spencer it has bothered him emotionally. Quote, we're
human beings and we have feelings and we care about
marine Life's one of the reasons we chose this profession.
When these dolphins and sea lions come to shore and
they're still alive, we do our best to make them comfortable,
and sometimes it doesn't work out, and that takes a toll.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I've never thought of being a lifeguard.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I know Mark Ronner has been a lifeguard, or at least
in a pool, since I don't know about a beach sence, no,
never to beach.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I was a lifeguard at two big city pools, one
in the really nice part of Spokane, Washington and one
in the really terrible part of Spokane, Washington. So in
one I had to deal with Karen's complaining about ridiculous
things that their kids complained about, and then the other
I had to take knives away from kids.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What is a certification process drastically different assumply would be
for lifeguard as far as ocean versus public.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Pools, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I took the certification at college and started right away
that summer.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I don't know if I would be able to handle
the emotional part of just being a lifeguard. You're you're
always on alert, or you should always be all alert.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
No, that's correct, yeah, because if somebody dies, it's on you.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
And I have a couple of friends who trained to
be lifeguards for the beach and it is what they've
told me.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It's intense.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I mean, it's basically like you're trying to go to
the army because and it makes sense, because I mean
you're watching the ocean, you know, and you have to
presumably drag a human being you know, yeah, maybe larger
than you, Yeah, heavier than you.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, and you practice with that, you drill with that.
But you probably thought mo that it was just sitting
out soaking up the sun and a speedo all day.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
But no, no, it's serious.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Well, I would like to be, you know, back in
the day, I would have liked to have been a
lifeguard for a pool in a bay watch sense.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
But I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't not I don't want to actually do the
ocean stuff. No, no, no, no, no, no, that's not as fun.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Well, I wouldn't want to do the ocean because a
the poop and b real thing everything else in the
ocean can move faster than you except for the poop.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, I don't want anything accidentally brushing against me in
an ocean.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I don't like the whole idea of it, the whole
idea of possibly stepping on a sting ray or a
sand shark.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I don't want any of that, or a jellyfish or
anybody who grew up when Jaws was in pop culture.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
No, no, no, I remember seeing Jaws in the theater
when it came out.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I think was that seventy seven, five seventy five.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I saw it in the theater, and I really maybe
that's why I have no real desire to go into
the ocean even now.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
All you need to know is the little Kintner boy
on the inflatable raft.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, the late Kinner boy. I did go out in
fresh water lakes. I've been in the lakes a lot.
That didn't bother me. But the ocean has always been
one of those places as far as physically swimming past
wait lakes. You must not have watched creep show. I
watched Lake Plastid. I watch creep show. I'm just saying,
but it isn't It didn't impact me the same as
(13:05):
Jaws did, and the open water.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Don't know why they hit me so hard. Okay, that's
a great segment in creep Show.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It is. And Forever Lakes, No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Maybe because I spent some summers up in Clear Lake
in northern California. I have some good memories memories associated
with it. But speaking of memories, getting back to the story,
when we talk about these algae blooms and toxic ones,
if they're impacting sea lions like this, if it's killing
dolphins one mortality like this, it's got to be doing
(13:38):
something to people as well.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It's not highly discussed.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I'm quite sure if it were doing something that was
medically problematic poisoning us on some level, would they tell
us Probably not, Probably not, and just kill California tourism
When it comes to the beach, they tell us, you know,
it's a it's a it's a they'll have like a
toxic watervisory or something like that. You'll you have to
(14:01):
stay out of the water from this tower to this point.
Then you gotta know that you just have to stay
out of the water altogether. How many times are we
going to tell people that there's something toxic in the water,
and you shouldn't be in the water without saying just
stay out of the water.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
It's all the water, all the water. It's not just
in a certain section.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'm ocd okay. I don't even like my food touching,
So we have to assume with the ocean water, all
that stuff is touching. It's not like partitioned off. It's
not like the toxic algae can only go up to
the breakwater. It's not like the toxic algae doesn't touch
you know, people when you're in the water. If it's
killing dolphins, it's probably toxic to you as well. I'm
(14:40):
not a scientist, I'm just playing one on the radio,
but I'm pretty sure that there's probably some sheer toxicity.
Don't have to be I'm not going in the water.
Mark's not going in the water, and he was trained
to go in the water.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
No, we're really not doing a great job with this
whole stewards of the Earth thing when we're killing the
dolphins with the crap we put in the water.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Let's be clear, now we have two different concerns here.
I'm not trying to save the world, Okay, you only
care about you, That's correct. I'm not trying to save
the world, that much is clear. Save the world, Save
the whales, save the dolphins, save the lifeguards.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I got bad news for you. Though we're all connected.
It's all connected. We have to save them. We're all connected.
But it's not my job. Okay, I can't save everyone.
You talk right now is helping to further research to
help save these porss.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So don't tell them that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It'll stop talking about dolphins, all the all the whales
that are being beached, the birds, the damn pelicans and
all that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Why not be the damn pelicans.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Because because because No, because I got pooped on pelicans
food few monkeys, That's true, horrific. Really, seagulls got me,
got me a lot of volume with That's like it.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Was like someone hit me with like an egg. I'll
never forget. No, No, it was like I was man,
I turned around. There was no one to hit because
I came from above. I remember it was during the pandemic,
so it wasn't really driving anywhere. I walked from my
house to food for less. It was about maybe a
half mile each away, so it was a good, nice
bit of exercise.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Middle of the day.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I'm walking in the parking lot and I see all
these seagulls above, and I'm thinking, like, okay, what are
the chances. Let me just take my chance. I walk
halfway into the parking lot. I haven't gotten into food
for less all right. A seagull hits me square in
the head, square in the top.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Of the head. So I'm not quite in the store.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I'm not going to go in the store at that
point because I smell like, you know, seagull stuff, So
I turn around. I have to walk all the way
home smelling like seagull crap, the Walk of Shame, but
from seagulls.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
One of the first things the long Suffering One ever
emailed me was when she got pooped on by a seagull,
and she said the volume was so horrific. It was
like somebody flung a vanilla's shake on hers.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh yeah, it was my only saving saving grace was
to hit me square in the face, I mean on
the head, top of the head, and it didn't slide
down my face.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So it's like the old Gary Larson cartoon when they
see all of us from above with bullseyes on the
tops of our heads.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You would think it would have been one in a
million that a seagull could have accurately on the fly,
on the move, could have dropped and hit me in
the square, in the top of the head. But it
already like perched like high up. Yes, if you go
into the parking lot, you have like those parking lights.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Oh, the parking lot.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So they were perched on top, swirling around and I
don't know where.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
They were coming from.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Maybe Dackwaller Beach that's probably closest.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And uh yeah, it got me rude, but still high
fives on the aim.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I would like to throw this at you, but you're
in a difference, ye say, can I am fortyears Later
with mo Kelly Love Everywhere on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
When we come back, we got to talk about earthquakes,
something else to worry about. California could end up underwater.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
KFI, Mister bo Kelly Live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
Let's go to the Beach. I didn't say going to water.
I said let's go to the beach. You have lifeguards
who are taking mental health breaks because of the toxic algae. No,
not because of what the toxic algae is doing to
the lifeguards per se, but what it's doing to animals,
(18:35):
like to sea lions, what's doing to dolphins. And we
talked about this last week, how the toxic algae has
been killing dolphins and making sea lions aggressive and basically
go crazy. And when you have the lifeguards who are
sitting in the tower, they're seeing these dolphins and sea
lions coming up on the beach and it's taking a
(18:58):
human toll, as they tell it. This is a lifeguard,
Spencer Parker, and he has been an LA County lifeguard
for some twenty years. He started in about two thousand
and two and according to him, only twice had he
seen dolphins and sea lions come ashore before this year,
but in the last two weeks alone, there have been four.
(19:20):
According to Steve Spencer, it has bothered him emotionally. Quote
where human beings and we have feelings and we care
about marine life. That's one of the reasons we chose
this profession. When these dolphins and sea lions come to
shore and they're still alive, we do our best to
make them comfortable and sometimes it doesn't work out, and
(19:42):
that takes a toll.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I've never thought of being a lifeguard.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I know Mark Ronner has been a lifeguard, or at least
in a pool, since I don't know about a beach.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Since no, never to beach.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I was a lifeguard at two big city pools, one
in the really nice part of Spokane, Washington, and one
in the really terrible part of Spokane, Washington. So in
one I had to deal with Karen's complaining about ridiculous
things that their kids complained about, and then the other
I had to take knives away from kids.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
What is a certification process drastically different? Assume it would
be for lifeguard as far as ocean versus public.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Pools, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I took the certification at college and started right away
that that summer.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I don't know if I would be able to handle
the emotional part of just being a lifeguard. You're you're
always on alert, or you should always be all alert.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
No, that's correct, Yeah, because if somebody dies, it's on you.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
And I have a couple of friends who trained to
be lifeguards for the beach, and it is what they've
told me.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
It's intense.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I mean it's basically like you're trying to go to
the army because and it makes sense because I mean,
you're watching the ocean, you know, and you have to
presumably drag a human being you know, yeah, maybe larger
than you, Yeah, heavier than you.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah, And you practice with that, you drill with that.
But you probably thought mo that it was just sitting
out soaking up the sun and a speedo all day.
But no, no, it's serious.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Well, I would like to be, you know, back in
the day, I would have liked to have been a
lifeguard for a pool in a bay watch sense. But
I don't want to actually do the ocean stuff. No, no, no, no, no, no,
that's not as fun.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Well, I wouldn't want to do the ocean because A
the poop and b it's a real thing. Everything else
in the ocean can move faster than you except for
the poop.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I don't want anything accidentally brushing against me in an ocean.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I don't like the whole idea of it, the whole
idea possibly stepping on a sting ray or a sand shark.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I don't want any of that.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Or a jellyfish or anybody who grew up when Jaws
was in pop culture. No, no, no, I remember seeing
Jaws in the theater when it came out.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I think was that seventy seven five. I saw it
in the theater, and I really maybe that's why I
have no real desire to go into the ocean even now.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
All you need to know is the little kinner boy
on the inflatable raft.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, the late kinner boy. I did go out in
fresh water lakes. I've been in lakes a lot. That
didn't bother me, But the ocean has always been one
of those places. As far as physically swimming past wait lakes.
You must not have watched creep Show. No, I watched
Lake Plastid. I watched creep Show. I'm just saying, but
(22:32):
it it didn't impact me the same as Jaws did.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And the open water I don't know why they hit
me so hard. Okay, that's a great segment in creep Show.
It is. And Forever Lakes, No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Maybe because I spent some summers up in Clear Lake
in northern California. I have some good memories memories associated
with it. But speaking of memories, getting back to the story,
when we talk about these algae blooms and toxic ones.
If they're impacting sea lions like this, if it's killing
dolphins one mortality like this, it's got to be doing
(23:07):
something to people as well.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
It's not highly discussed.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'm quite sure if it were doing something that was
medically problematic poisoning us on some level, would they tell
us Probably not, Probably not, and just kill California tourism.
When it comes to the beach, they tell us, you know,
it's a it's a. It's a they'll have like a
toxic water advisory or something like that. You'll have to
(23:31):
stay out of the water from this tower to this point.
They you gotta know that, you just have to stay
out of the water altogether. How many times are we
going to tell people that there's something toxic in the
water and you shouldn't be in the water without saying
just stay out of the water.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It's all the water, all the water. It's not just
in a certain section. I'm ocd okay.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I don't even like my food touching, So we have
to assume with the ocean water, all that stuff is touching.
It's not like partitioned off. It's not like the toxic
algae can only go up to the breakwater. It's not
like the toxic algae doesn't touch you know, people when
you're in the water. If it's killing dolphins, it's probably
toxic to you as well. I'm not a scientist, I'm
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just playing one on the radio, but I'm pretty sure
that there's probably some sheer toxicity.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Don't have to be I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Not going in the water. Mark's not going in the water,
and he was trained to go in the water.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
No, we're really not doing a great job with this
whole stewards of the Earth thing. When when we're killing
the dolphins with the crap we put in the water.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Let's be clear now, we have two different concerns here.
I'm not trying to save the world. Okay, you only
care about you, that's correct. I'm not trying to save
the world, that much is clear. Save the world, Save
the whales, save the dolphins, save the lifeguards.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I got bad news for you. Though. We're all connected,
it's all connected. We have to save them.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
We're all connected. But it's not my job. Okay, I
can't save everyone.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You talk right now is helping to further research to
help save these porss, so.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Don't tell them that. It'll stop talking to a bottles.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Dolphins, all the all the whales that are being beached,
the birds, the damn pelicans and all that. Why don't
be the damn pelicans because because no, because I got
pooped on pelicans food a few monkeys. That's horrific. Really,
seagulls got me, got me a lot of volume with
(25:24):
That's like it was like someone hit me with like
an egg. I'll never forget. No, no, it was like
I was, I was man.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I turned around. There was no one to hit.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Came from above, I remember during the pandemic, so it
wasn't really driving anywhere.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I walked from my house to Food for Less.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It was about maybe a half mile eachway, so it
was a good, nice bit of exercise.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Middle of the day, I'm walking in.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
The parking lot and I see all these seagulls above,
and I'm thinking, like, okay, what are the chances. Let
me just take my chance. I walk halfway into the
parking lot. I haven't gotten into Food for Less all right,
A seagull hit me square in the head, square in
the top of the head.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
So I'm not quite in the store.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I'm not going to go in the store at that
point because I smell like, you know, seagull stuff, So
I turn around.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I have to walk all the way.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Home smelling like seagull crap, the Walk of Shame, but
from seagulls. One of the first things the long suffering
One ever emailed me was when she got pooped on
by a seagull, and she said the volume was so horrific.
It was like somebody flung a vanilla's shake on her.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh yeah, it was slimmy.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
My only saving grace was to hit me square in
the face, I mean on the head, top of the head,
and it didn't slide down my face.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So it's like the old Gary Larson cartoon when they
see all of us from above with bull's eyes on
the tops of our heads.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You would think it would have been one in a
million that a seagull could have accurately, on the fly,
on the move, could have dropped and hit me in
the square in the top of the head.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
But it already like perched like high up.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yes, if you go into the parking lot, you have
like those parking lights, oh the parking lot. So they
were perched on top swirling around and I don't know
where they were coming from.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Maybe Dackwaller Beach.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
That's probably closest with and uh yeah it got me rude,
but still high fives on the aim.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I would like to throw this at you, but you're
in a difference to stay in your room. Can forties
Later with mo Kelly Love Everywhere on YouTube and the
iHeartRadio app. When we come back, we got to talk
about earthquakes, something else to worry about.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
California could end up underwater.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Can't I Mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube right now.
The chat is just as funny as ever. Just what
I think that they can't get any funner, funnier, They
are getting much funnier.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
So you have to see it for yourself.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Log on a YouTube, check out app mister Bill Kelly,
the live feed of the show, and of course we're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Now, there's certain things
I'm not going to pay for. I am not going
to pay for certain things. One of those is mileage.
I am not going to pay by the mile in
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which I drive.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I'll pay for gas.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yes, you can tax the gas, but living in California,
I have to drive everywhere. Okay, I'm not going to
pay by the mile, but there's some crazy people here
in California who have been floating this idea as an
alternative to the gas tax.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Currently, about eighty percent of California's road and highway repairs
are funded through the say fifty nine cent a gallon
gas tax, the highest in the nation, but with more
drivers now switching to electric vehicles, the state is getting
less and less funding for those repairs now, leading to
this possible mileage jacks for all drivers.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
That's not my problem.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
If the state's running out of money because the gas
tax is not doing this job, that's not my problem.
Do not penalize me because I have a longer commute
than other people, and.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Not surprisingly, not all drivers are on board.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
They mean me. I'm not on board. That's all it matters.
It's about me, No, not for it. Sorry, I'm a
hard knowing everything. I gotta save my money where I.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
Can Shandyegan Gael Hoffelina wants to put the brakes on
any possible per mile road charge for drivers, an idea
the state's now exploring, as explained in this video released
by caltrans it's.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
An innovative way to collect funding for roads and highways.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
No, it isn't. It's not innovative. It's crass. It's it's
just capitalism at its worse.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It's almost like you see the movie Total Recall they're
charging for air.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Okay, we're almost there.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
You're gonna charge people by the mile that they drive
in California. Why don't you charge them for like having
their dome light on? It might as well be that
if you're just going to charge for everything.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Funding for roads and highways based on how many miles
you drive instead of how many gallons of gas you buy.
Because as we move toward a zero emission future, the
gas tax won't last forever.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, I better get that flying car because I'm not
paid by the mile.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
The gas tax won't last forever.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
That's a u problem to og. That has nothing to
do with me.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
The gas tax won't last forever.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Col Trends just completed a pilot program to test out
a road charge system, including a flat per mile fee
of two point eight cents a mile, as well as
an individualized fee based on a vehicle's fuel economy. The
pilot also tested different ways of reporting mileage, including odometer
readings or a special plugin device.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
The purchasing power of the fuel tax.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Could you imagine that a plugin device where people are monitoring,
actively monitoring how far you drive, which means where you
drive beyond obviously the location in GPS, But you would
be reporting that directly to the state government and they
would be charging you for it.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Well, it's not like we still have a Fourth Amendment
left anyway.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I know it's just a suggestion.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah, I mean, you're splitting errors at this point, being
secure in your person and your papers and stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Ah, I don't know how I would respond. I actually
would have to sit down with my bosses and say,
you know what, because of this mileage tax, I got
to do the show from home. I'm not going to
be taxed and penalized because I happen to be further
away from my job than other people. I'm twenty two
miles each way.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh yeah, bosses are notorious for being sympathetic to people
who want to work at home.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Well, let me know how that goes.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Look, it wouldn't be easy, but it's going to be
a negotiating sticky point, I'm just not going to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You think you got the juice to make them let
you work at home.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Well, here's the thing. Working in radio, which just means audio.
There are other things that I can do in a
remote situation. I'm not gonna pay by the mile. I'm not.
You're gonna penalize me because I want to drive to
Las Vegas.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
It kind of reminds me too, when they were getting
honest about saving water and then we did such a
good job that they had to charge us more because
we did so good at saving the water.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yes, yeah, yes, I don't believe in penalizing people just
for living, just for living. I'm sorry you can't drain
more blood out of this turnip by way of the
gas tax. I'm sorry that you didn't think of a
better way or a more creative way to tax us.
But I'm not paying for the mile that I drive.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Not, I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I'll walk my ass to work. Okay, it'll take me
a long time, but it's cheaper than driving. Now, Mark,
he can pay for it, He'll do his part.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Sure, I want to even notice the money's missing. Of course.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Now, hopefully if this puts, if there's like a referendum
on this, and it is put to a vote.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
This no way would pass, So I don't have to
worry about that.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
There's no way people, hopefully in their right mind, would
choose to pay the state of California by the mile
that they drive instead of the gas tax. Or here's
something else think about this. Are you gonna pay by
the mile and also have the gas tax because we're
(33:25):
not going to have a state of only evs.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Well, the problem is that it seems like it might
be a really regressive thing because the less money you have,
the further away from the center of town you have
to live, right.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yes, because it costs to live in urban Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, so if somebody doesn't make that much and they've
got to live out I don't know a pick a
place that's like an hour hour and a half away,
you're gonna hurt dail. Okay, yeah, that's up north. I've
looked at maps, haven't been there.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
It's about an hour outside of Law Angels. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yeah, So somebody who doesn't make enough to live in
La proper, you're gonna charge them extra because there's so
worth they've got to commute that distance.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
That doesn't make a ton of sense.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Right, and you're gonna put it on our backs to
help keep the roads up. Mind you you have all
of these, uh these pay for lays, high occupancy layers
like fast Track that are charged.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Do you use fast Track seven? Since you I do? Yeah?
Can you do you write it off at the end
of the year. I can? Yeah, because of uber Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
It's Look, it's not like they're trying to solve the
traffic problem. I know, we gotta go break. It's not
like they're trying to solve the traffic problem. They're just
trying to give us more reasons to pay money to
drive on the quote unquote free ways.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Well, they should be more judicious about who they're gonna soak,
is all.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Why why why would they do that?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
There are more people who are poor or middle class
than there are those who are upper class. You want
to charge the poor people and middle class people they're
more of us.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
No, I think that if you have to charge somebody,
you should charge the people who can afford it more easily.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
You're talking about being fair and sensible and logical. We
won't have any of that. Well, it had crossed my
mind it's KFI AM six forty and YouTube later with
Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
If there's news I's things shift, if they stay the same,
things change.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
For better or worse. Regardless of what's happening, you're going
to hear in here. It's what we do. K f
I and the KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange join
live everywhere on the Younger radio
It's time to get another party started. It's late with
mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. As
the sun goes down right behind me, and you can
see it too. Just tune into the live show on
YouTube at mister mo Kelly. We had a time last night.
We're gonna have a time tonight. Let's get this party started.
(00:42):
Let me say good evening to Mark Ronner Gill all
the way sounded to talk to him later. We had
a little bit of a disagreement earlier talking about and Or.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, when you say we had a disagreement, what you
mean is you said some things to me that were wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But go ahead. We had a disagreement. I believe in facts.
He was relying on opinion. Yes, But we'll get into
that maybe a little bit later. I'm quite sure Twalla
Sharp has some thoughts about the last three episodes of
and Or, which dropped last night.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I have not seen it yet.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I will step out of the room while YouTube debate
who is right and who is wrong. Although sight unseen,
without hearing this argument, I tend to believe I'm going
to lean towards Mark's thought because you're way too hard
on and.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Or well you're way too in the pocket of waymow,
but we still let you talk. Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Now you see how you're conflating stories, mixing up facts.
You're on the wrong side of the history. Kind of
a cheap shot. Yeah, I knows, and I had hominem,
but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, we have to talk about LA lifeguards who are
taking a mental health break. Get this, because of the
algae bloom issues. You have dolphins which are dying left
and right. It's one hundred percent mortality rate for dolphins
and it's impacting even the lifeguards who see the happening
(02:00):
in real time.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And you know that monster.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Earthquake which is always out there in the offing going
to destroy California, Well, experts are now saying that it
might sink California altogether. Yep, we might be underwater, literally
under water. That ought to you know, cheer you up
a bit. And here's something that I cannot get with
under any circumstances. There are those in Sacramento who are
(02:25):
considering implementing a mileage tax instead of gas tax, in
other words, charging people by the mile. No way in
hell am I going to go for that. We'll talk
about that at the end of the hour, and so
much more.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's a huge show.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
We have Carnacia who's been through the chat. I will
get into the YouTube chat in just a mode. I've
heard wonderful feedback from all of you about the YouTube stream.
Some people it's like, yeah, now I get to really
see what's going on and how much fun you have
in the studio.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, we have fun every single night, every single night.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And all the jokes which are going back and forth
minor funny Mark Ronners are not. You get just see that.
You get to see that dynamic. Some of us are
born funnier than others. Yeah, exactly. And you get to
see the response of Twalla Sharp when he puts his
head in his head. Yeah, but and something are you
(03:22):
do You guys really dislike each other? No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
we hate each other. There's a difference. Seriously, we're all
going to the movies together. If Mark Ronner keeps up
his end of the bargain this Sunday, we're gonna go
see Thunderbolts Asterisk together.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Mark rons have a choice.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You got to put an asterisk next to my Mark
Ronners ticket has already been purchased.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So Mark, discuss this off the air, discuss and the family.
We're going to lunch and then we're going to the movies.
It's like a date. There's nothing to discuss.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I mean, the lunch has already been set elected, the
menu and the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
The food, I believe me.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No, that's that's a highlight of this potential afternoon. But
I gotta I have some details to sort through, details
details for me. Bring the long suffering one. No, no, no, no,
she wouldn't dream of it. You think you think she
wants to hang out with us? Are you out of
your mind?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
For a free movie and some free eats? Why not?
You can't put a price on it. We've got convinced her.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It's we were doing her a favor by exploding her
getting you out of the house.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, exactly, yes, okay, stefaniely gonna bring anyone? No, just
me and my appetite. All right, Well we're going to
meet that special someone, Tuala. No, don't you have someone
that's been looming in the in the background.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
No, wait what, I don't have a loom.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't have any looms nothing, No, no looms, man,
I don't I.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Don't believe that he tells me from time to time
about this person he loves.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
From time to team say, say time to time, looms
get to you know, blooming but what I'm free?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, look I'm loom free right now. No, not to
the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Nope, I'm on Fushi's plan where I'm I'm solo do
low fancy free, no looms lurking.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No, Well, go go about it the truly bachelor route.
Buy one, get one free. Mm just pay for it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
M No, that was being serious. I wasn't trying to
be fun to me.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That's not cool because then they're looking at you like
you paid for this filthy duff. Whatever Bill Belichick did
Tauwala find out?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, Bill Belichick, his girlfriend is twenty four. We don't
know definitively how and when they met allegedly they met
on the plane.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Well, they seem happy, and that's all I care about.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
All I know is of all the seventy two year
old men in the world, how he happened to be
just the one that she was looking for.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I call bs on that. I believe in love you swine.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I don't. I believe it's a setup. I believe it's
an arrangement.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I am really of the opinion now and not that
this was a factor for mister sharp Shannon. That is
no relation, no relation. There's an emplastam of visit. I
believe to make it very very what makes you we're
all above board here? That to me is a hint
(06:41):
and that have to stay you blank blank blank away
from younger people.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You could just you couldn't date someone materially younger. Just
not Mary, just kick it with for a good five
six months.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I really don't have time to raise a love interest.
I don't have that kind of time, nor do I
have that level of patience. Oh, I didn't say anything
about love. I said nothing about love. I think of
it more as a test drive, not even because then
I have to go through.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Did you see this thing on Twitter?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Oh my god, look at this TikTok thing that's happening
in this ticking and it's talking.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
No, who said you have to spend twenty four hours
of the day together, maybe just hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The hour and a half, the things that you have
to go through to get to the hour and a
half mode, that's what you're not hearing.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I don't know. Okay, I'm fifty five.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, I don't know what conversation I would have with
someone who's twenty four.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
What are we talking about? I have no idea what
we would talk about. I don't know any of the
little or the young rappers. I don't know little this
young that I'll know none of them. I'll listen to
none of that.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
If I'm talking about let's put on some jazz and
they're like, what's that?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You see what I'm saying, We're not talking about the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
If I'm trying to have a conversation about what's happening
in the world and the first thing they references, oh yeah,
I saw them talking about that on the Kardashians. The
cars crashing, I'm going straight into the side of the
row there. These are conversations you have with your friends,
not your girlfriend. You don't need to have all that
on one person to find girlfriend. No, absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It's later with mo Kelly caf I Am six forty
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio AP. I'm going to talk
about the LA lifeguards who need to take a mental
health break due to the dolphins dying.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
When we come back, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
KFI, Mister b Kelly Live on YouTube, and the iHeartRadio app.
Let's go to the Beach. I didn't say going the water.
I said let's go to the beach. You have lifeguards
who are taking mental health breaks because of the toxic algae. No,
not because what the toxic algae is doing to the
lifeguards per se, but what it's doing to animals, like
(09:06):
to sea lions, what's doing to dolphins. And we talked
about this last week, how the toxic algae has been
killing dolphins and making sea lions aggressive and basically go crazy.
And when you have the lifeguards who are sitting in
the tower, they're seeing these dolphins and sea lions coming
up on the beach and it's taking a human toll,
(09:29):
as they tell it. This is a lifeguard, Spencer Parker,
and he has been an LA County lifeguard for some
twenty years. He started in about two thousand and two
and according to him, only twice had he seen dolphins
and sea lions come ashore before this year, But in
the last two weeks alone, there have been four. According
(09:51):
to Steve Spencer it has bothered him emotionally. Quote, we're
human beings and we have feelings and we care about
marine Life's one of the reasons we chose this profession.
When these dolphins and sea lions come to shore and
they're still alive, we do our best to make them comfortable,
and sometimes it doesn't work out, and that takes a toll.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I've never thought of being a lifeguard.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I know Mark Ronner has been a lifeguard, or at least
in a pool, since I don't know about a beach sence, no,
never to beach.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I was a lifeguard at two big city pools, one
in the really nice part of Spokane, Washington and one
in the really terrible part of Spokane, Washington. So in
one I had to deal with Karen's complaining about ridiculous
things that their kids complained about, and then the other
I had to take knives away from kids.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What is a certification process drastically different assumply would be
for lifeguard as far as ocean versus public.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Pools, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I took the certification at college and started right away
that summer.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I don't know if I would be able to handle
the emotional part of just being a lifeguard. You're you're
always on alert, or you should always be all alert.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
No, that's correct, yeah, because if somebody dies, it's on you.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
And I have a couple of friends who trained to
be lifeguards for the beach and it is what they've
told me.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It's intense.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I mean, it's basically like you're trying to go to
the army because and it makes sense, because I mean
you're watching the ocean, you know, and you have to
presumably drag a human being you know, yeah, maybe larger
than you, Yeah, heavier than you.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, and you practice with that, you drill with that.
But you probably thought mo that it was just sitting
out soaking up the sun and a speedo all day.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
But no, no, it's serious.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Well, I would like to be, you know, back in
the day, I would have liked to have been a
lifeguard for a pool in a bay watch sense.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
But I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't not I don't want to actually do the
ocean stuff. No, no, no, no, no, no, that's not as fun.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Well, I wouldn't want to do the ocean because a
the poop and b real thing everything else in the
ocean can move faster than you except for the poop.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, I don't want anything accidentally brushing against me in
an ocean.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I don't like the whole idea of it, the whole
idea of possibly stepping on a sting ray or a
sand shark.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I don't want any of that, or a jellyfish or
anybody who grew up when Jaws was in pop culture.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
No, no, no, I remember seeing Jaws in the theater
when it came out.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I think was that seventy seven, five seventy five.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I saw it in the theater, and I really maybe
that's why I have no real desire to go into
the ocean even now.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
All you need to know is the little Kintner boy
on the inflatable raft.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, the late Kinner boy. I did go out in
fresh water lakes. I've been in the lakes a lot.
That didn't bother me. But the ocean has always been
one of those places as far as physically swimming past
wait lakes. You must not have watched creep show. I
watched Lake Plastid. I watch creep show. I'm just saying,
but it isn't It didn't impact me the same as
(13:05):
Jaws did, and the open water.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Don't know why they hit me so hard. Okay, that's
a great segment in creep Show.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It is. And Forever Lakes, No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Maybe because I spent some summers up in Clear Lake
in northern California. I have some good memories memories associated
with it. But speaking of memories, getting back to the story,
when we talk about these algae blooms and toxic ones,
if they're impacting sea lions like this, if it's killing
dolphins one mortality like this, it's got to be doing
(13:38):
something to people as well.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It's not highly discussed.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I'm quite sure if it were doing something that was
medically problematic poisoning us on some level, would they tell
us Probably not, Probably not, and just kill California tourism
When it comes to the beach, they tell us, you know,
it's a it's a it's a they'll have like a
toxic watervisory or something like that. You'll you have to
(14:01):
stay out of the water from this tower to this point.
Then you gotta know that you just have to stay
out of the water altogether. How many times are we
going to tell people that there's something toxic in the water,
and you shouldn't be in the water without saying just
stay out of the water.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
It's all the water, all the water. It's not just
in a certain section.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'm ocd okay. I don't even like my food touching,
So we have to assume with the ocean water, all
that stuff is touching. It's not like partitioned off. It's
not like the toxic algae can only go up to
the breakwater. It's not like the toxic algae doesn't touch
you know, people when you're in the water. If it's
killing dolphins, it's probably toxic to you as well. I'm
(14:40):
not a scientist, I'm just playing one on the radio,
but I'm pretty sure that there's probably some sheer toxicity.
Don't have to be I'm not going in the water.
Mark's not going in the water, and he was trained
to go in the water.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
No, we're really not doing a great job with this
whole stewards of the Earth thing when we're killing the
dolphins with the crap we put in the water.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Let's be clear, now we have two different concerns here.
I'm not trying to save the world, Okay, you only
care about you, That's correct. I'm not trying to save
the world, that much is clear. Save the world, Save
the whales, save the dolphins, save the lifeguards.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I got bad news for you. Though we're all connected.
It's all connected. We have to save them. We're all connected.
But it's not my job. Okay, I can't save everyone.
You talk right now is helping to further research to
help save these porss.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So don't tell them that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It'll stop talking about dolphins, all the all the whales
that are being beached, the birds, the damn pelicans and
all that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Why not be the damn pelicans.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Because because because No, because I got pooped on pelicans
food few monkeys, That's true, horrific. Really, seagulls got me,
got me a lot of volume with That's like it.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Was like someone hit me with like an egg. I'll
never forget. No, No, it was like I was man,
I turned around. There was no one to hit because
I came from above. I remember it was during the pandemic,
so it wasn't really driving anywhere. I walked from my
house to food for less. It was about maybe a
half mile each away, so it was a good, nice
bit of exercise.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Middle of the day.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I'm walking in the parking lot and I see all
these seagulls above, and I'm thinking, like, okay, what are
the chances. Let me just take my chance. I walk
halfway into the parking lot. I haven't gotten into food
for less all right. A seagull hits me square in
the head, square in the top.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Of the head. So I'm not quite in the store.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I'm not going to go in the store at that
point because I smell like, you know, seagull stuff, So
I turn around. I have to walk all the way
home smelling like seagull crap, the Walk of Shame, but
from seagulls.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
One of the first things the long Suffering One ever
emailed me was when she got pooped on by a seagull,
and she said the volume was so horrific. It was
like somebody flung a vanilla's shake on hers.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh yeah, it was my only saving saving grace was
to hit me square in the face, I mean on
the head, top of the head, and it didn't slide
down my face.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So it's like the old Gary Larson cartoon when they
see all of us from above with bullseyes on the
tops of our heads.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You would think it would have been one in a
million that a seagull could have accurately on the fly,
on the move, could have dropped and hit me in
the square, in the top of the head. But it
already like perched like high up. Yes, if you go
into the parking lot, you have like those parking lights.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Oh, the parking lot.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So they were perched on top, swirling around and I
don't know where.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
They were coming from.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Maybe Dackwaller Beach that's probably closest.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And uh yeah, it got me rude, but still high
fives on the aim.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I would like to throw this at you, but you're
in a difference, ye say, can I am fortyears Later
with mo Kelly Love Everywhere on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
When we come back, we got to talk about earthquakes,
something else to worry about. California could end up underwater.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
KFI, Mister bo Kelly Live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
Let's go to the Beach. I didn't say going to water.
I said let's go to the beach. You have lifeguards
who are taking mental health breaks because of the toxic algae. No,
not because of what the toxic algae is doing to
the lifeguards per se, but what it's doing to animals,
(18:35):
like to sea lions, what's doing to dolphins. And we
talked about this last week, how the toxic algae has
been killing dolphins and making sea lions aggressive and basically
go crazy. And when you have the lifeguards who are
sitting in the tower, they're seeing these dolphins and sea
lions coming up on the beach and it's taking a
(18:58):
human toll, as they tell it. This is a lifeguard,
Spencer Parker, and he has been an LA County lifeguard
for some twenty years. He started in about two thousand
and two and according to him, only twice had he
seen dolphins and sea lions come ashore before this year,
but in the last two weeks alone, there have been four.
(19:20):
According to Steve Spencer, it has bothered him emotionally. Quote
where human beings and we have feelings and we care
about marine life. That's one of the reasons we chose
this profession. When these dolphins and sea lions come to
shore and they're still alive, we do our best to
make them comfortable and sometimes it doesn't work out, and
(19:42):
that takes a toll.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I've never thought of being a lifeguard.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I know Mark Ronner has been a lifeguard, or at least
in a pool, since I don't know about a beach.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Since no, never to beach.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I was a lifeguard at two big city pools, one
in the really nice part of Spokane, Washington, and one
in the really terrible part of Spokane, Washington. So in
one I had to deal with Karen's complaining about ridiculous
things that their kids complained about, and then the other
I had to take knives away from kids.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
What is a certification process drastically different? Assume it would
be for lifeguard as far as ocean versus public.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Pools, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I took the certification at college and started right away
that that summer.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I don't know if I would be able to handle
the emotional part of just being a lifeguard. You're you're
always on alert, or you should always be all alert.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
No, that's correct, Yeah, because if somebody dies, it's on you.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
And I have a couple of friends who trained to
be lifeguards for the beach, and it is what they've
told me.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
It's intense.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I mean it's basically like you're trying to go to
the army because and it makes sense because I mean,
you're watching the ocean, you know, and you have to
presumably drag a human being you know, yeah, maybe larger
than you, Yeah, heavier than you.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah, And you practice with that, you drill with that.
But you probably thought mo that it was just sitting
out soaking up the sun and a speedo all day.
But no, no, it's serious.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Well, I would like to be, you know, back in
the day, I would have liked to have been a
lifeguard for a pool in a bay watch sense. But
I don't want to actually do the ocean stuff. No, no, no, no, no, no,
that's not as fun.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Well, I wouldn't want to do the ocean because A
the poop and b it's a real thing. Everything else
in the ocean can move faster than you except for
the poop.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I don't want anything accidentally brushing against me in an ocean.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I don't like the whole idea of it, the whole
idea possibly stepping on a sting ray or a sand shark.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I don't want any of that.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Or a jellyfish or anybody who grew up when Jaws
was in pop culture. No, no, no, I remember seeing
Jaws in the theater when it came out.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I think was that seventy seven five. I saw it
in the theater, and I really maybe that's why I
have no real desire to go into the ocean even now.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
All you need to know is the little kinner boy
on the inflatable raft.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, the late kinner boy. I did go out in
fresh water lakes. I've been in lakes a lot. That
didn't bother me, But the ocean has always been one
of those places. As far as physically swimming past wait lakes.
You must not have watched creep Show. No, I watched
Lake Plastid. I watched creep Show. I'm just saying, but
(22:32):
it it didn't impact me the same as Jaws did.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And the open water I don't know why they hit
me so hard. Okay, that's a great segment in creep Show.
It is. And Forever Lakes, No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Maybe because I spent some summers up in Clear Lake
in northern California. I have some good memories memories associated
with it. But speaking of memories, getting back to the story,
when we talk about these algae blooms and toxic ones.
If they're impacting sea lions like this, if it's killing
dolphins one mortality like this, it's got to be doing
(23:07):
something to people as well.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
It's not highly discussed.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'm quite sure if it were doing something that was
medically problematic poisoning us on some level, would they tell
us Probably not, Probably not, and just kill California tourism.
When it comes to the beach, they tell us, you know,
it's a it's a. It's a they'll have like a
toxic water advisory or something like that. You'll have to
(23:31):
stay out of the water from this tower to this point.
They you gotta know that, you just have to stay
out of the water altogether. How many times are we
going to tell people that there's something toxic in the
water and you shouldn't be in the water without saying
just stay out of the water.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It's all the water, all the water. It's not just
in a certain section. I'm ocd okay.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I don't even like my food touching, So we have
to assume with the ocean water, all that stuff is touching.
It's not like partitioned off. It's not like the toxic
algae can only go up to the breakwater. It's not
like the toxic algae doesn't touch you know, people when
you're in the water. If it's killing dolphins, it's probably
toxic to you as well. I'm not a scientist, I'm
(24:11):
just playing one on the radio, but I'm pretty sure
that there's probably some sheer toxicity.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Don't have to be I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Not going in the water. Mark's not going in the water,
and he was trained to go in the water.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
No, we're really not doing a great job with this
whole stewards of the Earth thing. When when we're killing
the dolphins with the crap we put in the water.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Let's be clear now, we have two different concerns here.
I'm not trying to save the world. Okay, you only
care about you, that's correct. I'm not trying to save
the world, that much is clear. Save the world, Save
the whales, save the dolphins, save the lifeguards.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I got bad news for you. Though. We're all connected,
it's all connected. We have to save them.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
We're all connected. But it's not my job. Okay, I
can't save everyone.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You talk right now is helping to further research to
help save these porss, so.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Don't tell them that. It'll stop talking to a bottles.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Dolphins, all the all the whales that are being beached,
the birds, the damn pelicans and all that. Why don't
be the damn pelicans because because no, because I got
pooped on pelicans food a few monkeys. That's horrific. Really,
seagulls got me, got me a lot of volume with
(25:24):
That's like it was like someone hit me with like
an egg. I'll never forget. No, no, it was like
I was, I was man.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I turned around. There was no one to hit.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Came from above, I remember during the pandemic, so it
wasn't really driving anywhere.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I walked from my house to Food for Less.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It was about maybe a half mile eachway, so it
was a good, nice bit of exercise.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Middle of the day, I'm walking in.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
The parking lot and I see all these seagulls above,
and I'm thinking, like, okay, what are the chances. Let
me just take my chance. I walk halfway into the
parking lot. I haven't gotten into Food for Less all right,
A seagull hit me square in the head, square in
the top of the head.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
So I'm not quite in the store.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I'm not going to go in the store at that
point because I smell like, you know, seagull stuff, So
I turn around.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I have to walk all the way.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Home smelling like seagull crap, the Walk of Shame, but
from seagulls. One of the first things the long suffering
One ever emailed me was when she got pooped on
by a seagull, and she said the volume was so horrific.
It was like somebody flung a vanilla's shake on her.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh yeah, it was slimmy.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
My only saving grace was to hit me square in
the face, I mean on the head, top of the head,
and it didn't slide down my face.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So it's like the old Gary Larson cartoon when they
see all of us from above with bull's eyes on
the tops of our heads.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You would think it would have been one in a
million that a seagull could have accurately, on the fly,
on the move, could have dropped and hit me in
the square in the top of the head.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
But it already like perched like high up.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yes, if you go into the parking lot, you have
like those parking lights, oh the parking lot. So they
were perched on top swirling around and I don't know
where they were coming from.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Maybe Dackwaller Beach.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
That's probably closest with and uh yeah it got me rude,
but still high fives on the aim.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I would like to throw this at you, but you're
in a difference to stay in your room. Can forties
Later with mo Kelly Love Everywhere on YouTube and the
iHeartRadio app. When we come back, we got to talk
about earthquakes, something else to worry about.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
California could end up underwater.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Can't I Mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube right now.
The chat is just as funny as ever. Just what
I think that they can't get any funner, funnier, They
are getting much funnier.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
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Log on a YouTube, check out app mister Bill Kelly,
the live feed of the show, and of course we're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Now, there's certain things
I'm not going to pay for. I am not going
to pay for certain things. One of those is mileage.
I am not going to pay by the mile in
(28:23):
which I drive.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I'll pay for gas.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yes, you can tax the gas, but living in California,
I have to drive everywhere. Okay, I'm not going to
pay by the mile, but there's some crazy people here
in California who have been floating this idea as an
alternative to the gas tax.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Currently, about eighty percent of California's road and highway repairs
are funded through the say fifty nine cent a gallon
gas tax, the highest in the nation, but with more
drivers now switching to electric vehicles, the state is getting
less and less funding for those repairs now, leading to
this possible mileage jacks for all drivers.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
That's not my problem.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
If the state's running out of money because the gas
tax is not doing this job, that's not my problem.
Do not penalize me because I have a longer commute
than other people, and.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Not surprisingly, not all drivers are on board.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
They mean me. I'm not on board. That's all it matters.
It's about me, No, not for it. Sorry, I'm a
hard knowing everything. I gotta save my money where I.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
Can Shandyegan Gael Hoffelina wants to put the brakes on
any possible per mile road charge for drivers, an idea
the state's now exploring, as explained in this video released
by caltrans it's.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
An innovative way to collect funding for roads and highways.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
No, it isn't. It's not innovative. It's crass. It's it's
just capitalism at its worse.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It's almost like you see the movie Total Recall they're
charging for air.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Okay, we're almost there.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
You're gonna charge people by the mile that they drive
in California. Why don't you charge them for like having
their dome light on? It might as well be that
if you're just going to charge for everything.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Funding for roads and highways based on how many miles
you drive instead of how many gallons of gas you buy.
Because as we move toward a zero emission future, the
gas tax won't last forever.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, I better get that flying car because I'm not
paid by the mile.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
The gas tax won't last forever.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
That's a u problem to og. That has nothing to
do with me.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
The gas tax won't last forever.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Col Trends just completed a pilot program to test out
a road charge system, including a flat per mile fee
of two point eight cents a mile, as well as
an individualized fee based on a vehicle's fuel economy. The
pilot also tested different ways of reporting mileage, including odometer
readings or a special plugin device.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
The purchasing power of the fuel tax.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Could you imagine that a plugin device where people are monitoring,
actively monitoring how far you drive, which means where you
drive beyond obviously the location in GPS, But you would
be reporting that directly to the state government and they
would be charging you for it.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Well, it's not like we still have a Fourth Amendment
left anyway.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I know it's just a suggestion.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah, I mean, you're splitting errors at this point, being
secure in your person and your papers and stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Ah, I don't know how I would respond. I actually
would have to sit down with my bosses and say,
you know what, because of this mileage tax, I got
to do the show from home. I'm not going to
be taxed and penalized because I happen to be further
away from my job than other people. I'm twenty two
miles each way.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh yeah, bosses are notorious for being sympathetic to people
who want to work at home.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Well, let me know how that goes.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Look, it wouldn't be easy, but it's going to be
a negotiating sticky point, I'm just not going to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You think you got the juice to make them let
you work at home.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Well, here's the thing. Working in radio, which just means audio.
There are other things that I can do in a
remote situation. I'm not gonna pay by the mile. I'm not.
You're gonna penalize me because I want to drive to
Las Vegas.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
It kind of reminds me too, when they were getting
honest about saving water and then we did such a
good job that they had to charge us more because
we did so good at saving the water.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yes, yeah, yes, I don't believe in penalizing people just
for living, just for living. I'm sorry you can't drain
more blood out of this turnip by way of the
gas tax. I'm sorry that you didn't think of a
better way or a more creative way to tax us.
But I'm not paying for the mile that I drive.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Not, I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I'll walk my ass to work. Okay, it'll take me
a long time, but it's cheaper than driving. Now, Mark,
he can pay for it, He'll do his part.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Sure, I want to even notice the money's missing. Of course.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Now, hopefully if this puts, if there's like a referendum
on this, and it is put to a vote.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
This no way would pass, So I don't have to
worry about that.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
There's no way people, hopefully in their right mind, would
choose to pay the state of California by the mile
that they drive instead of the gas tax. Or here's
something else think about this. Are you gonna pay by
the mile and also have the gas tax because we're
(33:25):
not going to have a state of only evs.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Well, the problem is that it seems like it might
be a really regressive thing because the less money you have,
the further away from the center of town you have
to live, right.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yes, because it costs to live in urban Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, so if somebody doesn't make that much and they've
got to live out I don't know a pick a
place that's like an hour hour and a half away,
you're gonna hurt dail. Okay, yeah, that's up north. I've
looked at maps, haven't been there.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
It's about an hour outside of Law Angels. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yeah, So somebody who doesn't make enough to live in
La proper, you're gonna charge them extra because there's so
worth they've got to commute that distance.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
That doesn't make a ton of sense.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Right, and you're gonna put it on our backs to
help keep the roads up. Mind you you have all
of these, uh these pay for lays, high occupancy layers
like fast Track that are charged.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Do you use fast Track seven? Since you I do? Yeah?
Can you do you write it off at the end
of the year. I can? Yeah, because of uber Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
It's Look, it's not like they're trying to solve the
traffic problem. I know, we gotta go break. It's not
like they're trying to solve the traffic problem. They're just
trying to give us more reasons to pay money to
drive on the quote unquote free ways.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Well, they should be more judicious about who they're gonna soak,
is all.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Why why why would they do that?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
There are more people who are poor or middle class
than there are those who are upper class. You want
to charge the poor people and middle class people they're
more of us.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
No, I think that if you have to charge somebody,
you should charge the people who can afford it more easily.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
You're talking about being fair and sensible and logical. We
won't have any of that. Well, it had crossed my
mind it's KFI AM six forty and YouTube later with
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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!