April 25, 2025 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the SoCal shoreline warnings of toxic algae killing marine animals along the coast, former L.A. Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s bid to head the LA Metro Police Department AND California’s ranking as the fourth-largest economy in the world - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Kf I Am sixty and YouTube It's later with Mo Kelly.
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with you wherever you go. And just before the show started,
(00:43):
the crew was just sitting around talking about Shennon Sharp.
Can't tell you everything we said, but you remember what
we told you about this story before anyone and I'm
gonna save it for my final remarks if you don't
know the latest in a news census. Shennon Sharp, ESPN
personality and also wildly successful podcasting personality who was getting
(01:10):
ready to sign one hundred million dollar deal, stepped away
from ESPN today for an indefinite leave of absence that
he says he chose and it was his decision.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, my final thought will be on that tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And we told you what was coming, and in fact,
it's going to get worse before it gets better. This
was just the first example of consequences for something that
may not have been illegal. I know he's accused of
illegal behavior. But you need not be found guilty of
a crime or liable in a lawsuit for your whole
(01:48):
career and brand to go up and smoke. But that's
later on in the show. Also this hour, though, we're
going to tell you another reason to stay your ass
out of the water.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
How many times have we talked about the poop water?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
How many times have we told you about like the
sea lion who bit the young lady. It's like, these
are hints to stay out of the water. Now, we
got to talk about the toxic algae and how that
is killing mammals.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Oh, by the way, humans mammals. So if it's.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Killing dolphins, whales, there's a good chance when they say
toxic algae, it's toxic to you as well. We will
talk about that next segment. And former La Sheriff and oh,
almost forgot. I always have this habit of mixing up
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via the wava and via ragosa.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You gotta say it right, Yeah, that's how I got No.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
No, I'm just saying I had to slow down because
almost did it again.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But guess who is up for a new job? Anyone? Anyone? Well,
actually both of them are up for a new job.
Because we know.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Via Ragosa is running for governor and Viera I can't do.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I can't do with Viendeueva Vianduevah. He is running for
head of Metro, and we'll talk about that this hour
as well.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
But do you remember when he was sheriff and he
went after Metro and there was some raid they had
on Metro and they were accusing Metro of something that
was connected to corruption. I don't know how you go
to the place that you investigated and say, hey, I
want the job. He wants to be the head of
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the emerging Metro police force. Maybe he's the only one
who can fix it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Ah he and he alone.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah that's how that worked. Yeah, okay, we'll talk about it.
And this last story of this hour, Mark Ronner, is
especially for you. It is only for you. It is
because of you.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Let's see here, California economy now the world's fourth largest.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yes, overtaking Japan.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
We had our information incorrect, We did not have facts together.
We said it was the fifth largest economy and the
fifth largest economy.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
The world couldn't possibly be failing. Now we have to
update it to the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I think that news broke last night and I was
hoping to get on. I didn't have a chance, but
I was hoping to get online and see all the
people complaining about it and trying to explain it away,
all the California haters, because it's got to be caused
some cognitive dissonance to be doing nothing but dumping on
California constantly and then seeing this news.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's popular to do, especially within political circles. And I
don't think this is just me. I don't think people
really understand what an economy is.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I think I see a lot of people from red
states that are the taker, the leech states that and
by when I say that, I mean they take more
than they contribute to the special budget. Yes, California gives
like eighty two billion dollars something like that extra. It's
always funny to me to see somebody from states with
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you know, that rely on essentially it's welfare from the
federal government talking about what a what a crapp ole
California is.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You know, there's a reason we may complain about the
cost of living. Part of it is because people want
to be here. It's very expensive to live here because
real estate is very expensive, and real estate is a
reflection of demand. People want to live here. Now there
are people who may leave. And I'm getting ahead of
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myself because we're going to talk about this in depth
at the end of the hour. People may leave for
various reasons. And yes, California definitely has its issues, be
it homelessness, be a crime if you're in the urban areas.
You know, the California's not one city. You know, you
can go up to Fresno. It's very different from Los Angeles.
San Diego is very different from Redwood or Bakersfield. It's
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a very very diverse state as a whole. But when
you talk about economy, it's not well, my neighbor does
and have a job or I don't have a job,
so therefore the economy is horrible. That's that's not how
an economy works. But we'll get into that near the
end of the hour. And our in house Toys r
US expert to Wallas Sharp, who used to work for
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Toys r US many years ago, tells us that there
is a live action movie in the works.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
How can you have a Toys r RUST live action movie?
It's coming?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Just know Toys r US is coming back even stronger
than ever. That's like making a Walmart movie or a
home depot because yeah, and Toys r Us has so
much more. Damn it not the people who are in Walmart,
it's the memories attached to it. It's it's one of
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the most beloved franchises ever. It only went out because online.
But the story of Toys r Us. Yes, ok is
the giraffe going to be the protagonist? Yes, it's got
to be all about Joffre. Okay, all right, it had
a dame. Yes, Yeah, Jeffrey is Jeffrey or Jeoffrey Jeoffrey,
which is.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Jeffrey is the evil king from a Game of Thrones.
I would watch a movie with the two of them.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I would watch my either.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Look, my old manager started the store manager. He called
him Geoffrey. And he used to say people like to
say Jeffrey, but around here we say what is the
British is British?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
No, he's just like the say schedule or schedule. He
didn't say did he say chocolate? Did he say chocolate?
He did have a weird way of saying what was
the word? Oh there was a word they said it
was Did he say, like about did you say a boot, No, no,
a boot whatever?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
They all stunted like to me. I will get to
the movie at my leisure. It was Later with mo
Kelly when we come back. You gotta tell you to
stay out of the water. Toxic algae. That's next, can't
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us out every single day. Let's get to this story
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about this toxic algae, and I'm going to combine some things.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
We talked about how debris.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Runoff sewage has polluted our oceans. I was being flippant
when I say, you know, you can't keep the sewage
in one place, you might as well not go in
the water at all. That would be the safe thing
to do. Then we talked about the sea line which
attacked the young woman a few weeks ago. There's actually
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a connection between all of this. Listen to this as
far as toxic algae goos for baby.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
It's a heartbreaking scene playing on repeat all along the
southern California coast as dozens of dolphins are dying due
to the toxic algae bloom now stretching from San Diego
to San Luis Obispo.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
It's the worst we've ever seen here in Southern California
on many different fronts, but dolphins strandings, it's unprecedented.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
This is how we love to see the treasured creatures
in massive stampedes. But in the last week, there have
been more than fifty dead and dying dolphins found along
the La County coast, sixteen in San Diego on Sunday alone.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
It has really been consistently severe. I mean the number
of animals coming up on the beaches either with seizures
or dead or dying.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Now, these are mammals.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
If this is happening to mammals, then most likely it's
toxic to you as well.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Has continued at a pretty high rate.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Sea lions are traditionally the main victims of a toxic
algae bloom which can cause them to turn aggressive, attacking beachgoers.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Uh, there it is there. It is sea lion attack
that young lady I think was last week. We talked
about it maybe two weeks ago. There is the connection.
Another reason stay out the water.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Sea lions are traditionally the main victims of a toxic
algae bloom, which can cause them to turn aggressive, attacking
beach goers. But now it's moving further up the food chain.
Researchers say the minky whale found in the Port of
Long Beach and a young gray whale in Huntington Beach
both died due to demoic acid toxicity.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
It is a natural phenomenon that happens because of offshore winds,
cold water upwelling, but it can be fed and sort
of put on steroids by the things that we're doing.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Debris from the wildfires what what what do they say,
debris from the wildfires?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Do you debree from the wildfires?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So we have sewage that's our doing.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Debris from the wildfires, that's our doing, and the effects
of it. You have sea lions attacking people, you have
dolphins dying. From what I read here, it is one
hundred percent fatal for dolphins one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No chance, no chance of survival.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And if it's no chance of survival for dolphins and
sea lions and whales, all of them have to be mammals.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And what do you think is going to do for humans?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, we may not be in the water as much
obviously as there's sea living mammals, but still it would
have to be toxic to humans.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
And when we give these beach going warnings, I don't
know why people say things like, well, just go shower off.
I don't know if you've seen these, but I go
and take a shower, this, that, and the other. I'm
not swimming in it all day, and I'm like, it's
getting in your orifice, is getting you know, in your nose,
getting in your eyes, in your ear, mouth, and your mouth.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
If you've ever been in the ocean, you're gonna give
some in your mouth.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
All of that is going in you, and it's affecting
you in ways that you may not know. We may
not be one hundred percent linked to dolphins and mink
wells and sea lions, but I promise you mammal is mammal.
It affects us in some ways somehow.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
We don't know what it's doing to our minds, our brains.
We don't know what's happening. If it's affecting sea lions
and beaching wells, beaching dolphins, what is it doing to
our minds?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Well, you might be onto something to all it, because
the number of animals coming up on the beach either
with seizures, so there is a neurological component to all this.
Seizures are deaths, and dying has continued at a pretty
high rate. Sea lions are traditionally the main victims of
the toxic algae. We've talked about how it can cause
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them to turn aggressive, and there's a food chain portion
to this. Debris from the wildfires and fertilizer or runoff
are helping fuel the toxic algae, which are eaten by
small fish, which are then eaten by marina of mammals
and birds. I'm quite sure is then in part of
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our food supply. That would be the reasonable assumption.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
There's also been lots of pelicans and lots of seabirds
along the southern California coast have also been dying, So
there's that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I mean That's why I've made any jokes about this,
because this is actually very serious.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
You can start connecting these dots.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, we talked about how dirty from the raw sewage
our oceans are, or at least our coastline is.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's more of a normal occurrence.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We go through that just about every year, and for
whatever reasons, we don't want to listen to that. Then
we had the fires. We told you about the debris
which was also running into the ocean and all the
toxic chemicals and which is in the debris. Now you
have the naturally occurring toxic allergy, which is made worse
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by the sewage, made worse by the debris and the runoff. Yeah,
this is going to be a major issue, and I
think it's being not necessarily downplay. But I don't know
if it's been given the due focus that it should.
Because what month is this, Okay, we're almost in May.
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That's beach season. We gonna have more people than ever
on a day to day basis on the beaches in
the water. And they said, from what San Lui, Abispo
to San Diego, you might as well just say the
whole coastline from here to there, from La to San Diego,
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are gonna be in this water not safe at all.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Debris from the wildfires and fertilizer runoff helping to fuel
the toxic algae which is eaten by small fish, which
are then eaten by marine mails, causing a potentially deadly
toxic overdose.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I said that, I don't know why she always always
repeats what I said, just steals my thunder. Now we're
gonna have to come back to the story because it
will happen again, and you'll have people who will be
getting sick, more dolphins which will be dying, more wales
which will be dying, and we'll say, oh my gosh,
what is going on? Is there some connection all this? Yes,
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it's all connected. That's why they call it an ecosystem.
It's Later with mo Kelly CAFI AM six forty Live
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we're gonna give you an alex Via NWAVA update and
also a Metro Triple update.
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Mister mo Kelly, It's Later with mo Kelly Live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. Joined the video show
on YouTube at mister mo Kelly, let's talk a little
bit about Metro. We have a three pet if you will,
story after story after story. Here's the first one. You
may not know the name of Stephanie Wiggins. She is
the CEO of Metro. She just got a pay raise.
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Her compensation last year was four hundred thousand dollars in
about yeah, it's almost exactly four hundred thousand dollars. But
in a twelve to zero vote today, the La County
excuse me, Metro Board of Directors extended Wiggans contract for
an additional four years, which will take us through the Olympics,
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with an option of one year renewal after discretion of
the Board of County Board of Supervisors. Twell, you want
to guess what her salary will be going forward?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
One hundred and five thousand a year or presently her
salary is four hundred grander.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
They're going to reduce, right because of all of the
budget cuts that we were just told about, so is
going down to about one hundred and five.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Well, here's the thing, this is La County, not La City.
Even though Karen Bass may.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Sit on I thought she was because she was part
of the metro board, that it would somehow.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It's a county. Don't tell me it's going up. Mark,
you want to take a guess?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I I think I knew the number from a story
that we had earlier in the evening.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Stephan, do you want to take a guess? Half a million?
Ding ding ding ding ding? Really?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah? No way, yes? I thought, actually, you're a little low.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's five hundred and ten thousand dollars per it's merit based.
And also he was closest to the retail price without
going over. But what wait, what is up with our
I thought we were broke.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I thought this.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
County is broke. No, that's broke in. That's not the
same thing as broke. Okay, So Stephie Wiggins will have
a raise of one hundred and ten thousand dollars per
year and the contract will take effect June first, twelve
zero vote. Here the people who voted for it. Supervisor
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Jennas Han, Supervisor Catherine Barker, Supervisor Lindsay Horvat, Supervisor Hilda Salase,
Supervisor Mitchell was not president for the vote. Mayor Karen
Bass did vote for it. City council members Katie Yaroslavsky
and Emelda Padilla, Inglewood Mayor James Buttz, Pomona Mayor Tim Sandoval,
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Wittier City Councilman Fernando Dutra, and Jacqueline Dupot Walker, the
founding president of the Ward Economic Development Corporation, all voted
in favor of the rays. Now, this is what the
Metro release as a statement, quote, CEO Wiggins has led
Metro through challenging circumstances and awake of violent crimes.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
She has worked with our board to prioritize safety.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
No, they did not say that prioritize safety, install barriers
on our entire bus fleet to protect our bus operators,
expand a successful tap to exit program and pilot technology
to keep weapons off our system. Under her leadership, ridership
has grown for twenty eight straight months.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Do you suppose that all the people who voted for
the rays actually take the Metro?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh? I suspect none of them do not.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Interesting, I can't confirm that, but I suspect that. But
here's what bothers me the most. We know that Metro
was very slow to acknowledge the crime problem it had.
We know that Metro was very slow to address the
crime in terms of public acknowledgment and also systems put
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in place. We were haranguing on this because what did
they do. They gave us ambassadors, They gave us classical
music on platforms to say no, it's the.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Crime, stupid, that's the real issue.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So for you now to have this revisionist history and
tell us that CEO Wiggins was responsive and did this,
that and the other. Hell, I should get some of
that one hundred thousand dollars I put it into work.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well, don't minimize the classical music. It is much more
pleasant to get stabbed to Mozart at WC.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I mean, well, those ambassadors, I mean that was one
of the things they rolled out. It's like, see, this
is what we're doing to a the rest the issue
of crime and safety on our metro system. We were
the ones who were talking about the bus drivers who
are getting routinely attacked, and they wanted to say no, no, no, no,
it's safe. We were talking to Michael Munks. Metro was
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mad at me because what I was talking about, but
they wouldn't come on the show. And now they have
the dirty nerve to give Stephanie Wiggins an extra hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
They owe me money to write the letter, come on
the show. Sure did well.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
We have to make sure that we are covering all
aspects of this because I do believe that former guest
of this program, YEP Sheriff Alex Vanueva, is possibly possibly
running for seed on Metro, because he does listen to
the show and he's like, you know what, I'm gonna
take mo up on this.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
He's trying to be head of the forthcoming Metro Police
Authority Department whatever. So from what I understand, if I
had this correctly, it's a straight up job application.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He wouldn't have a seat on the board.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
He's just going to be chief of Police of Metro,
and it would be rather odd and uncomfortable given the
acrimony between Vianueva and also Metro, because when he was
sheriff he had Metro investigated for corruption. Now, as we
talk about the salary of Stephanie Higgins, he may look
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at that a little bit differently now. But the way
he went about it earned him no friends at Metro,
earned him no friends with the Ellie County Board of Supervisors.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Because still he would be.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Under the direction of the Eli County Board of Supervisors.
We just showed you in the way that Stephanie Wiggins
was under the board.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
He too would be onder the board.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I don't know how in the world he would get
the job, but maybe we need to ask him to
come back on the show so we can talk about
it get some insight. I don't know, because it's just
one of those things that you after you leave a job,
you burn some bridges and you know you better not
need anything from them. You just don't want to cross
that bridge again because why you burned it. I think
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it's fair to say that he burned his I was
getting ready something else. He burned the bridge with the
Elli County Board of Supervisors, who obviously would have tremendous
pull and influence. As far as who's going to be
the first Metro Chief of Police, I don't think it's
going to be alex Vin Away. But I don't think
that they're going to open up that can of worms again.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But there is some good news.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I said that I had like a three peter a
trifecta of Metro news. Finally, and I do mean finally,
they will have a Metro line, which is going to
actually go to the airport.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I don't know how many years it is taken.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I want to say maybe forty five years, no exaggeration,
I'm being serious. It's actually going to go to the airport,
and it's going to open on June six. We're going
to have Metro Transit Center opening on June six and
it will actually connect the Metro to the airport. This
is different from people Bover that's also coming, but that's
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also not here either. So June sixth, there will be
a connection to the airport. And it only took it
almost half a century.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Will you be using this?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I've actually thought about it, and I'll tell you why.
I live close enough to a Metro stop where it
would be pretty easy for me, and I think you'd
know this stepan as well. It's right at the end
of like Aviation is where I know where I turn off.
But well for me, I'm going another direction. I'm talking
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about one down by Figaroa, Yes, yeah, Figaroa, And it's
about maybe Imperial Highway. There's a big parking ride there
where I could feasibly in theory park my car there,
go to the airport and I can come back and
get my car. But I wouldn't want to leave my
car on that parking ride for more than twenty minutes
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because is gonna get broken in.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
They yeah, and they they already cleared out like a
parking lot for where. Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I'm guessing Uber and Left are going to be able
to drop and pick people up. Yeah, so I'd probably
just stick with an Uber and lyft. I'm not doing
a Way a Mole that's out after yesterday. That happened.
What happened? How dare you bring waymo back into They
took two women hostage.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I mean that's a that's terrorist. That's literally not the story.
That's what happened. They were taking hostage. Could they get
out of the car when they wanted to? Yes? Or no?
You know what, We don't know where they were at.
They were on the freeway. We don't know what was
going on. There was there's video and there's audio.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
They said no, no, no, no, there's only video of them
inside the car. We don't know what was really going
on before after. We don't know why they had full video. Yeah,
come on, this is this you're giving us half a
story here. The two ladies were trapped.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
What were they doing?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Before they were trapped. They were probably acting a rating.
There you go, blaming, blaming the victim. They probably locked
themselves into the car. Damn straight. I tell you, when
you're on the take, money must be good money.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I tell you.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's Later with mo Kelly KFI six forty Live everywhere
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have a shout out for Mark Ronner when we come back.
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Speaker 2 (25:21):
Kelly six.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. And this
is something that we were informally discussing over the past
few weeks. Mark Roner was talking about California and how
at that time it was the fifth largest economy in
the world. If, in other words, if California were its
own country, it would have the fifth largest economy, and
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that is measured by GDP Gross domestic Product. Well, now
we know with the latest economic numbers at California if
it were its own country, would rank as the fourth
largest economy in the world. Any wonder well, who's one, two,
and three? Well, the United States is first at twenty
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nine point eighteen trillion dollars China at eighteen point seven
to four trillion, and then Germany at four point six
y five trillion. We are four point one trillion, meaning
Germany at four point sixty five trillion is relatively speaking
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in reach. We're coming for Germany next, yep, yep. And
you may say, well, I don't like California. California has
so many problems. Well, this is about math. This is
about a measurement which is consistent for all countries in
terms of how it's measured. And GDP quantifies the total
market value of all final goods and services produced within
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the borders of the country or in this case, the
state of California during a specific time period. Things like cars, houses,
Those are goods, and you have services like haircuts and
as well as medical care and education all put together
that total amount gross domestic product. California fourth largest economy
(27:16):
in the world. And I use that to say when
you have a growing GDP, that's usually an indicator of
a healthy economy. There's not such a thing as a
perfect economy. It is a healthy economy. It doesn't mean
that everyone you know and everyone you love will have
a job. It doesn't mean that the price of eggs
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will be what you want. It does not mean that
you will be able to afford your rent next month.
It is a statement about the health of the totality
of the economy. And what frustrates me Mark and you
know this is people think their immediate circumstances and the
people on their street is indicative of the economy. And
(27:59):
I hear from people in my neighborhood it's like, hey,
I can't find a job.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No one I know has a job. And it's like, well,
I'm sorry to hear that, but that doesn't be the
economy's bad.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, that's why anecdotal information doesn't really count toward the
big picture. Also, I gotta tell you, it seems like
an article of faith that Newsom is a terrible governor.
And I'm sure i'd be escorted out of the building
by security if I suggested otherwise. But this upward movement
of California's economy would seem to suggest he's not doing
absolutely everything wrong. I get it if you don't like
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him or his voice or his hair, or he's never
going to live down the French laundry thing. But this
is objectively positive data that I have to figure into
my view of things. It goes against my DNA as
a journalist to defend any politician ever for anything. But
it's also in my DNA to accept information if it
adds up, whether I like it or not.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
We don't have nuanced discussions, we don't have factual discussions.
We can disagree with the policies and the ideology of
this government, and there are a lot of things that
I severely disagree with him. I vehemently disagree with him on.
But the GDP is the GDP. It's not a political number.
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It's like the job numbers from the labors. The numbers
are what the numbers are.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And so if you're like from Idaho and you're complaining
about what a whole California is, get back to me
when you're contributing more than you're taking.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Explain that mark.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
For those who don't know about the federal system and
how we pay into it and help subsidize I don't
know fifteen states or however many.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Together, there are giver states and taker states. California I think,
contributes eighty two billion at least the most recent time
to the federal government. Other states take more from the
federal government than they pay in.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
When I'm on social media, and of course that's anecdotal,
and a lot of social media is not real to
begin with. I'm talking about bots and people who are
there specifically to mislead and misinform other people. But what
I'm mister Kelly, Yes, when I'm on social media, I
see an incessant barrage of I hate California or New
(30:08):
York is better than California. Florida's better than California. Texas
is better than California. And my thing is, if you
want to leave, leave, I don't care about people leaving
the state. I just think we're being dishonest about how
quote unquote bad California is. It does have a problem
with crime in certain quadrants. It does have a problem
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with homelessness in certain quadrants. It does have a problem.
When I say problem, there is the reality of cost
of living. It's expensive to live here. Why because there's
high demand to live here. There are a lot of
worse places to live. I've lived in some of them,
or at least are driven through some of them, and
I don't want to stay there. And honestly, for as
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many complaints as we have, about California. We've got probably
the best weather in the country. We have the best
amenities if you want to call the house, we have
the best amenities.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
We literally have.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You can go skiing and surfing the same damn day
if you're willing to put in the drive. You know,
you can go to the amusement parks. You can go
to a national park the same day. So as much
as we want to complain about California, put it in
this proper perspective. You can say that you would rather
(31:24):
live in Texas. I've been to Texas. I've I've spent
a lot of time in Texas. It's not all that great. Yeah,
And if you're saying that go to Texas, please leave.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I'm not going. I'm fine with it. Now. Can we
do things better in the state? Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Were there things that Governor Gavin Newsom? Are there things
that Governor Gavin Newsom could have done, should have done better?
Maybe more in alignment with your political ideology and preference,
of course, absolutely. But that doesn't make California a healthscape. Sorry,
it just doesn't.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
When I am just functioning in the world as a human,
I try to cut through the tribalism and the propaganda
to just get down to what the facts are. And
this is an objective fact that you have to figure
into how you view things.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
And this is not an endorsement of Gavin Newsom. No,
it's just the GDP is the GDP. The larger the GDP,
the healthier the body. Because it's not a country, so
it's a state. So the GDP is increasing, the health
of the economy, and the importance of the California economy
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more importantly is increasing. If it were decreasing, then we
need to have a conversation. Then you got to say,
wait a minute, we're really moving in the wrong direction.
Something may be wrong.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, California just tends to become sort of the boogeyman
for you know, tribalism and media attacks when this sort
of flies in the face of that, at at least
in certain facets. Well, I mean, I'm not tickled about
the fact that I can't so much as a forward
a postage stamp of land to live on.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
But that's just one thing.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
But that's part of the reason why we have a
high GDP. You know, the exchange of goods and services
contribute to that, and that's why even though there are
some industries which may be leaving.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
The state of California.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
It's not affecting or impacting the overall health of the
economy of California.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
And that's what I think is lost in the larger discussion.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
If we could say, well, we're losing movie industry and
we're moving losing a lot of productions, and then you
would see our GDP reflect that, then that's a different
conversation to have.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
But we're not moving in that direction.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Well, next we'll talk about your filthy, woke California values.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well, yeah, that is a different discussion. I hear it
all the time in my notes. Just your woke liberal,
we don't want you on KFI. KFI is not for liberals.
It's like, okay, thanks for listening. I don't know if
you saw us real quick, I know we're out of time.
I had this complaint from this listener. I'm not gonna
even say her name. She was complaining she didn't even
(34:06):
listen to the show. She was complaining about a promo
she heard, which one.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I don't know. She didn't even tell me. She sent
the complaint to you. Yes, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I heard your She said something to the fact I
heard your promo on CAFI and CAFI is not for liberals.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
You need to go. Oh, so it's just the fact
that you're being promoted period. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I wish people actually took time to listen before you complained,
learn about my politics, my personal politics, which I rarely
discussed before you complained.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, seriously, I think you're kind of a fascist.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Actually, well, it's really funny the things that come to
me and they swear that's what I believe, and they
can't tell me at any time I've ever said anything
which would confirm that I would believe X, Y and Z,
from voter ID to immigration to taxes, all that kind
(35:03):
of stuff. Terrorists figure. It's kind of funny. It's almost
like they're making a snap judgment for something having nothing
to do whatever I say. It's like you're almost getting
it something there. KFI AM six forty we're live everywhere
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the crew was just sitting around talking about Shennon Sharp.
Can't tell you everything we said, but you remember what
we told you about this story before anyone and I'm
gonna save it for my final remarks if you don't
know the latest in a news census. Shennon Sharp, ESPN
personality and also wildly successful podcasting personality who was getting
(01:10):
ready to sign one hundred million dollar deal, stepped away
from ESPN today for an indefinite leave of absence that
he says he chose and it was his decision.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, my final thought will be on that tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And we told you what was coming, and in fact,
it's going to get worse before it gets better. This
was just the first example of consequences for something that
may not have been illegal. I know he's accused of
illegal behavior. But you need not be found guilty of
a crime or liable in a lawsuit for your whole
(01:48):
career and brand to go up and smoke. But that's
later on in the show. Also this hour, though, we're
going to tell you another reason to stay your ass
out of the water.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
How many times have we talked about the poop water?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
How many times have we told you about like the
sea lion who bit the young lady. It's like, these
are hints to stay out of the water. Now, we
got to talk about the toxic algae and how that
is killing mammals.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Oh, by the way, humans mammals. So if it's.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Killing dolphins, whales, there's a good chance when they say
toxic algae, it's toxic to you as well. We will
talk about that next segment. And former La Sheriff and oh,
almost forgot. I always have this habit of mixing up
(02:40):
via the wava and via ragosa.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You gotta say it right, Yeah, that's how I got No.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
No, I'm just saying I had to slow down because
almost did it again.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But guess who is up for a new job? Anyone? Anyone? Well,
actually both of them are up for a new job.
Because we know.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Via Ragosa is running for governor and Viera I can't do.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I can't do with Viendeueva Vianduevah. He is running for
head of Metro, and we'll talk about that this hour
as well.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
But do you remember when he was sheriff and he
went after Metro and there was some raid they had
on Metro and they were accusing Metro of something that
was connected to corruption. I don't know how you go
to the place that you investigated and say, hey, I
want the job. He wants to be the head of
(03:28):
the emerging Metro police force. Maybe he's the only one
who can fix it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Ah he and he alone.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah that's how that worked. Yeah, okay, we'll talk about it.
And this last story of this hour, Mark Ronner, is
especially for you. It is only for you. It is
because of you.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Let's see here, California economy now the world's fourth largest.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yes, overtaking Japan.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
We had our information incorrect, We did not have facts together.
We said it was the fifth largest economy and the
fifth largest economy.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
The world couldn't possibly be failing. Now we have to
update it to the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I think that news broke last night and I was
hoping to get on. I didn't have a chance, but
I was hoping to get online and see all the
people complaining about it and trying to explain it away,
all the California haters, because it's got to be caused
some cognitive dissonance to be doing nothing but dumping on
California constantly and then seeing this news.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's popular to do, especially within political circles. And I
don't think this is just me. I don't think people
really understand what an economy is.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I think I see a lot of people from red
states that are the taker, the leech states that and
by when I say that, I mean they take more
than they contribute to the special budget. Yes, California gives
like eighty two billion dollars something like that extra. It's
always funny to me to see somebody from states with
(05:01):
you know, that rely on essentially it's welfare from the
federal government talking about what a what a crapp ole
California is.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You know, there's a reason we may complain about the
cost of living. Part of it is because people want
to be here. It's very expensive to live here because
real estate is very expensive, and real estate is a
reflection of demand. People want to live here. Now there
are people who may leave. And I'm getting ahead of
(05:29):
myself because we're going to talk about this in depth
at the end of the hour. People may leave for
various reasons. And yes, California definitely has its issues, be
it homelessness, be a crime if you're in the urban areas.
You know, the California's not one city. You know, you
can go up to Fresno. It's very different from Los Angeles.
San Diego is very different from Redwood or Bakersfield. It's
(05:52):
a very very diverse state as a whole. But when
you talk about economy, it's not well, my neighbor does
and have a job or I don't have a job,
so therefore the economy is horrible. That's that's not how
an economy works. But we'll get into that near the
end of the hour. And our in house Toys r
US expert to Wallas Sharp, who used to work for
(06:14):
Toys r US many years ago, tells us that there
is a live action movie in the works.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
How can you have a Toys r RUST live action movie?
It's coming?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Just know Toys r US is coming back even stronger
than ever. That's like making a Walmart movie or a
home depot because yeah, and Toys r Us has so
much more. Damn it not the people who are in Walmart,
it's the memories attached to it. It's it's one of
(06:44):
the most beloved franchises ever. It only went out because online.
But the story of Toys r Us. Yes, ok is
the giraffe going to be the protagonist? Yes, it's got
to be all about Joffre. Okay, all right, it had
a dame. Yes, Yeah, Jeffrey is Jeffrey or Jeoffrey Jeoffrey,
which is.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Jeffrey is the evil king from a Game of Thrones.
I would watch a movie with the two of them.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I would watch my either.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Look, my old manager started the store manager. He called
him Geoffrey. And he used to say people like to
say Jeffrey, but around here we say what is the
British is British?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
No, he's just like the say schedule or schedule. He
didn't say did he say chocolate? Did he say chocolate?
He did have a weird way of saying what was
the word? Oh there was a word they said it
was Did he say, like about did you say a boot, No, no,
a boot whatever?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
They all stunted like to me. I will get to
the movie at my leisure. It was Later with mo
Kelly when we come back. You gotta tell you to
stay out of the water. Toxic algae. That's next, can't
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(08:27):
about this toxic algae, and I'm going to combine some things.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
We talked about how debris.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Runoff sewage has polluted our oceans. I was being flippant
when I say, you know, you can't keep the sewage
in one place, you might as well not go in
the water at all. That would be the safe thing
to do. Then we talked about the sea line which
attacked the young woman a few weeks ago. There's actually
(08:53):
a connection between all of this. Listen to this as
far as toxic algae goos for baby.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
It's a heartbreaking scene playing on repeat all along the
southern California coast as dozens of dolphins are dying due
to the toxic algae bloom now stretching from San Diego
to San Luis Obispo.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
It's the worst we've ever seen here in Southern California
on many different fronts, but dolphins strandings, it's unprecedented.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
This is how we love to see the treasured creatures
in massive stampedes. But in the last week, there have
been more than fifty dead and dying dolphins found along
the La County coast, sixteen in San Diego on Sunday alone.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
It has really been consistently severe. I mean the number
of animals coming up on the beaches either with seizures
or dead or dying.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Now, these are mammals.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
If this is happening to mammals, then most likely it's
toxic to you as well.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Has continued at a pretty high rate.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Sea lions are traditionally the main victims of a toxic
algae bloom which can cause them to turn aggressive, attacking beachgoers.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Uh, there it is there. It is sea lion attack
that young lady I think was last week. We talked
about it maybe two weeks ago. There is the connection.
Another reason stay out the water.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Sea lions are traditionally the main victims of a toxic
algae bloom, which can cause them to turn aggressive, attacking
beach goers. But now it's moving further up the food chain.
Researchers say the minky whale found in the Port of
Long Beach and a young gray whale in Huntington Beach
both died due to demoic acid toxicity.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
It is a natural phenomenon that happens because of offshore winds,
cold water upwelling, but it can be fed and sort
of put on steroids by the things that we're doing.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Debris from the wildfires what what what do they say,
debris from the wildfires?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Do you debree from the wildfires?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So we have sewage that's our doing.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Debris from the wildfires, that's our doing, and the effects
of it. You have sea lions attacking people, you have
dolphins dying. From what I read here, it is one
hundred percent fatal for dolphins one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No chance, no chance of survival.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And if it's no chance of survival for dolphins and
sea lions and whales, all of them have to be mammals.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And what do you think is going to do for humans?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, we may not be in the water as much
obviously as there's sea living mammals, but still it would
have to be toxic to humans.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
And when we give these beach going warnings, I don't
know why people say things like, well, just go shower off.
I don't know if you've seen these, but I go
and take a shower, this, that, and the other. I'm
not swimming in it all day, and I'm like, it's
getting in your orifice, is getting you know, in your nose,
getting in your eyes, in your ear, mouth, and your mouth.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
If you've ever been in the ocean, you're gonna give
some in your mouth.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
All of that is going in you, and it's affecting
you in ways that you may not know. We may
not be one hundred percent linked to dolphins and mink
wells and sea lions, but I promise you mammal is mammal.
It affects us in some ways somehow.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
We don't know what it's doing to our minds, our brains.
We don't know what's happening. If it's affecting sea lions
and beaching wells, beaching dolphins, what is it doing to
our minds?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Well, you might be onto something to all it, because
the number of animals coming up on the beach either
with seizures, so there is a neurological component to all this.
Seizures are deaths, and dying has continued at a pretty
high rate. Sea lions are traditionally the main victims of
the toxic algae. We've talked about how it can cause
(12:41):
them to turn aggressive, and there's a food chain portion
to this. Debris from the wildfires and fertilizer or runoff
are helping fuel the toxic algae, which are eaten by
small fish, which are then eaten by marina of mammals
and birds. I'm quite sure is then in part of
(13:02):
our food supply. That would be the reasonable assumption.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
There's also been lots of pelicans and lots of seabirds
along the southern California coast have also been dying, So
there's that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I mean That's why I've made any jokes about this,
because this is actually very serious.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
You can start connecting these dots.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, we talked about how dirty from the raw sewage
our oceans are, or at least our coastline is.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's more of a normal occurrence.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We go through that just about every year, and for
whatever reasons, we don't want to listen to that. Then
we had the fires. We told you about the debris
which was also running into the ocean and all the
toxic chemicals and which is in the debris. Now you
have the naturally occurring toxic allergy, which is made worse
(13:52):
by the sewage, made worse by the debris and the runoff. Yeah,
this is going to be a major issue, and I
think it's being not necessarily downplay. But I don't know
if it's been given the due focus that it should.
Because what month is this, Okay, we're almost in May.
(14:13):
That's beach season. We gonna have more people than ever
on a day to day basis on the beaches in
the water. And they said, from what San Lui, Abispo
to San Diego, you might as well just say the
whole coastline from here to there, from La to San Diego,
(14:33):
are gonna be in this water not safe at all.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Debris from the wildfires and fertilizer runoff helping to fuel
the toxic algae which is eaten by small fish, which
are then eaten by marine mails, causing a potentially deadly
toxic overdose.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I said that, I don't know why she always always
repeats what I said, just steals my thunder. Now we're
gonna have to come back to the story because it
will happen again, and you'll have people who will be
getting sick, more dolphins which will be dying, more wales
which will be dying, and we'll say, oh my gosh,
what is going on? Is there some connection all this? Yes,
(15:09):
it's all connected. That's why they call it an ecosystem.
It's Later with mo Kelly CAFI AM six forty Live
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we're gonna give you an alex Via NWAVA update and
also a Metro Triple update.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (15:32):
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Speaker 1 (15:32):
Mister mo Kelly, It's Later with mo Kelly Live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. Joined the video show
on YouTube at mister mo Kelly, let's talk a little
bit about Metro. We have a three pet if you will,
story after story after story. Here's the first one. You
may not know the name of Stephanie Wiggins. She is
the CEO of Metro. She just got a pay raise.
(15:58):
Her compensation last year was four hundred thousand dollars in
about yeah, it's almost exactly four hundred thousand dollars. But
in a twelve to zero vote today, the La County
excuse me, Metro Board of Directors extended Wiggans contract for
an additional four years, which will take us through the Olympics,
(16:18):
with an option of one year renewal after discretion of
the Board of County Board of Supervisors. Twell, you want
to guess what her salary will be going forward?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
One hundred and five thousand a year or presently her
salary is four hundred grander.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
They're going to reduce, right because of all of the
budget cuts that we were just told about, so is
going down to about one hundred and five.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Well, here's the thing, this is La County, not La City.
Even though Karen Bass may.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Sit on I thought she was because she was part
of the metro board, that it would somehow.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It's a county. Don't tell me it's going up. Mark,
you want to take a guess?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I I think I knew the number from a story
that we had earlier in the evening.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Stephan, do you want to take a guess? Half a million?
Ding ding ding ding ding? Really?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah? No way, yes? I thought, actually, you're a little low.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's five hundred and ten thousand dollars per it's merit based.
And also he was closest to the retail price without
going over. But what wait, what is up with our
I thought we were broke.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I thought this.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
County is broke. No, that's broke in. That's not the
same thing as broke. Okay, So Stephie Wiggins will have
a raise of one hundred and ten thousand dollars per
year and the contract will take effect June first, twelve
zero vote. Here the people who voted for it. Supervisor
(17:49):
Jennas Han, Supervisor Catherine Barker, Supervisor Lindsay Horvat, Supervisor Hilda Salase,
Supervisor Mitchell was not president for the vote. Mayor Karen
Bass did vote for it. City council members Katie Yaroslavsky
and Emelda Padilla, Inglewood Mayor James Buttz, Pomona Mayor Tim Sandoval,
(18:12):
Wittier City Councilman Fernando Dutra, and Jacqueline Dupot Walker, the
founding president of the Ward Economic Development Corporation, all voted
in favor of the rays. Now, this is what the
Metro release as a statement, quote, CEO Wiggins has led
Metro through challenging circumstances and awake of violent crimes.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
She has worked with our board to prioritize safety.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
No, they did not say that prioritize safety, install barriers
on our entire bus fleet to protect our bus operators,
expand a successful tap to exit program and pilot technology
to keep weapons off our system. Under her leadership, ridership
has grown for twenty eight straight months.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Do you suppose that all the people who voted for
the rays actually take the Metro?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh? I suspect none of them do not.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Interesting, I can't confirm that, but I suspect that. But
here's what bothers me the most. We know that Metro
was very slow to acknowledge the crime problem it had.
We know that Metro was very slow to address the
crime in terms of public acknowledgment and also systems put
(19:25):
in place. We were haranguing on this because what did
they do. They gave us ambassadors, They gave us classical
music on platforms to say no, it's the.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Crime, stupid, that's the real issue.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So for you now to have this revisionist history and
tell us that CEO Wiggins was responsive and did this,
that and the other. Hell, I should get some of
that one hundred thousand dollars I put it into work.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well, don't minimize the classical music. It is much more
pleasant to get stabbed to Mozart at WC.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I mean, well, those ambassadors, I mean that was one
of the things they rolled out. It's like, see, this
is what we're doing to a the rest the issue
of crime and safety on our metro system. We were
the ones who were talking about the bus drivers who
are getting routinely attacked, and they wanted to say no, no, no, no,
it's safe. We were talking to Michael Munks. Metro was
(20:14):
mad at me because what I was talking about, but
they wouldn't come on the show. And now they have
the dirty nerve to give Stephanie Wiggins an extra hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
They owe me money to write the letter, come on
the show. Sure did well.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
We have to make sure that we are covering all
aspects of this because I do believe that former guest
of this program, YEP Sheriff Alex Vanueva, is possibly possibly
running for seed on Metro, because he does listen to
the show and he's like, you know what, I'm gonna
take mo up on this.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
He's trying to be head of the forthcoming Metro Police
Authority Department whatever. So from what I understand, if I
had this correctly, it's a straight up job application.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He wouldn't have a seat on the board.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
He's just going to be chief of Police of Metro,
and it would be rather odd and uncomfortable given the
acrimony between Vianueva and also Metro, because when he was
sheriff he had Metro investigated for corruption. Now, as we
talk about the salary of Stephanie Higgins, he may look
(21:23):
at that a little bit differently now. But the way
he went about it earned him no friends at Metro,
earned him no friends with the Ellie County Board of Supervisors.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Because still he would be.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Under the direction of the Eli County Board of Supervisors.
We just showed you in the way that Stephanie Wiggins
was under the board.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
He too would be onder the board.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I don't know how in the world he would get
the job, but maybe we need to ask him to
come back on the show so we can talk about
it get some insight. I don't know, because it's just
one of those things that you after you leave a job,
you burn some bridges and you know you better not
need anything from them. You just don't want to cross
that bridge again because why you burned it. I think
(22:05):
it's fair to say that he burned his I was
getting ready something else. He burned the bridge with the
Elli County Board of Supervisors, who obviously would have tremendous
pull and influence. As far as who's going to be
the first Metro Chief of Police, I don't think it's
going to be alex Vin Away. But I don't think
that they're going to open up that can of worms again.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But there is some good news.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I said that I had like a three peter a
trifecta of Metro news. Finally, and I do mean finally,
they will have a Metro line, which is going to
actually go to the airport.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I don't know how many years it is taken.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I want to say maybe forty five years, no exaggeration,
I'm being serious. It's actually going to go to the airport,
and it's going to open on June six. We're going
to have Metro Transit Center opening on June six and
it will actually connect the Metro to the airport. This
is different from people Bover that's also coming, but that's
(23:08):
also not here either. So June sixth, there will be
a connection to the airport. And it only took it
almost half a century.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Will you be using this?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I've actually thought about it, and I'll tell you why.
I live close enough to a Metro stop where it
would be pretty easy for me, and I think you'd
know this stepan as well. It's right at the end
of like Aviation is where I know where I turn off.
But well for me, I'm going another direction. I'm talking
(23:38):
about one down by Figaroa, Yes, yeah, Figaroa, And it's
about maybe Imperial Highway. There's a big parking ride there
where I could feasibly in theory park my car there,
go to the airport and I can come back and
get my car. But I wouldn't want to leave my
car on that parking ride for more than twenty minutes
(23:59):
because is gonna get broken in.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
They yeah, and they they already cleared out like a
parking lot for where. Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I'm guessing Uber and Left are going to be able
to drop and pick people up. Yeah, so I'd probably
just stick with an Uber and lyft. I'm not doing
a Way a Mole that's out after yesterday. That happened.
What happened? How dare you bring waymo back into They
took two women hostage.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I mean that's a that's terrorist. That's literally not the story.
That's what happened. They were taking hostage. Could they get
out of the car when they wanted to? Yes? Or no?
You know what, We don't know where they were at.
They were on the freeway. We don't know what was
going on. There was there's video and there's audio.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
They said no, no, no, no, there's only video of them
inside the car. We don't know what was really going
on before after. We don't know why they had full video. Yeah,
come on, this is this you're giving us half a
story here. The two ladies were trapped.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
What were they doing?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Before they were trapped. They were probably acting a rating.
There you go, blaming, blaming the victim. They probably locked
themselves into the car. Damn straight. I tell you, when
you're on the take, money must be good money.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I tell you.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's Later with mo Kelly KFI six forty Live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. And I'm going to
have a shout out for Mark Ronner when we come back.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Kelly six.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. And this
is something that we were informally discussing over the past
few weeks. Mark Roner was talking about California and how
at that time it was the fifth largest economy in
the world. If, in other words, if California were its
own country, it would have the fifth largest economy, and
(25:49):
that is measured by GDP Gross domestic Product. Well, now
we know with the latest economic numbers at California if
it were its own country, would rank as the fourth
largest economy in the world. Any wonder well, who's one, two,
and three? Well, the United States is first at twenty
(26:10):
nine point eighteen trillion dollars China at eighteen point seven
to four trillion, and then Germany at four point six
y five trillion. We are four point one trillion, meaning
Germany at four point sixty five trillion is relatively speaking
(26:30):
in reach. We're coming for Germany next, yep, yep. And
you may say, well, I don't like California. California has
so many problems. Well, this is about math. This is
about a measurement which is consistent for all countries in
terms of how it's measured. And GDP quantifies the total
market value of all final goods and services produced within
(26:54):
the borders of the country or in this case, the
state of California during a specific time period. Things like cars, houses,
Those are goods, and you have services like haircuts and
as well as medical care and education all put together
that total amount gross domestic product. California fourth largest economy
(27:16):
in the world. And I use that to say when
you have a growing GDP, that's usually an indicator of
a healthy economy. There's not such a thing as a
perfect economy. It is a healthy economy. It doesn't mean
that everyone you know and everyone you love will have
a job. It doesn't mean that the price of eggs
(27:38):
will be what you want. It does not mean that
you will be able to afford your rent next month.
It is a statement about the health of the totality
of the economy. And what frustrates me Mark and you
know this is people think their immediate circumstances and the
people on their street is indicative of the economy. And
(27:59):
I hear from people in my neighborhood it's like, hey,
I can't find a job.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No one I know has a job. And it's like, well,
I'm sorry to hear that, but that doesn't be the
economy's bad.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, that's why anecdotal information doesn't really count toward the
big picture. Also, I gotta tell you, it seems like
an article of faith that Newsom is a terrible governor.
And I'm sure i'd be escorted out of the building
by security if I suggested otherwise. But this upward movement
of California's economy would seem to suggest he's not doing
absolutely everything wrong. I get it if you don't like
(28:29):
him or his voice or his hair, or he's never
going to live down the French laundry thing. But this
is objectively positive data that I have to figure into
my view of things. It goes against my DNA as
a journalist to defend any politician ever for anything. But
it's also in my DNA to accept information if it
adds up, whether I like it or not.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
We don't have nuanced discussions, we don't have factual discussions.
We can disagree with the policies and the ideology of
this government, and there are a lot of things that
I severely disagree with him. I vehemently disagree with him on.
But the GDP is the GDP. It's not a political number.
(29:09):
It's like the job numbers from the labors. The numbers
are what the numbers are.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And so if you're like from Idaho and you're complaining
about what a whole California is, get back to me
when you're contributing more than you're taking.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Explain that mark.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
For those who don't know about the federal system and
how we pay into it and help subsidize I don't
know fifteen states or however many.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Together, there are giver states and taker states. California I think,
contributes eighty two billion at least the most recent time
to the federal government. Other states take more from the
federal government than they pay in.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
When I'm on social media, and of course that's anecdotal,
and a lot of social media is not real to
begin with. I'm talking about bots and people who are
there specifically to mislead and misinform other people. But what
I'm mister Kelly, Yes, when I'm on social media, I
see an incessant barrage of I hate California or New
(30:08):
York is better than California. Florida's better than California. Texas
is better than California. And my thing is, if you
want to leave, leave, I don't care about people leaving
the state. I just think we're being dishonest about how
quote unquote bad California is. It does have a problem
with crime in certain quadrants. It does have a problem
(30:31):
with homelessness in certain quadrants. It does have a problem.
When I say problem, there is the reality of cost
of living. It's expensive to live here. Why because there's
high demand to live here. There are a lot of
worse places to live. I've lived in some of them,
or at least are driven through some of them, and
I don't want to stay there. And honestly, for as
(30:52):
many complaints as we have, about California. We've got probably
the best weather in the country. We have the best
amenities if you want to call the house, we have
the best amenities.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
We literally have.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You can go skiing and surfing the same damn day
if you're willing to put in the drive. You know,
you can go to the amusement parks. You can go
to a national park the same day. So as much
as we want to complain about California, put it in
this proper perspective. You can say that you would rather
(31:24):
live in Texas. I've been to Texas. I've I've spent
a lot of time in Texas. It's not all that great. Yeah,
And if you're saying that go to Texas, please leave.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I'm not going. I'm fine with it. Now. Can we
do things better in the state? Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Were there things that Governor Gavin Newsom? Are there things
that Governor Gavin Newsom could have done, should have done better?
Maybe more in alignment with your political ideology and preference,
of course, absolutely. But that doesn't make California a healthscape. Sorry,
it just doesn't.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
When I am just functioning in the world as a human,
I try to cut through the tribalism and the propaganda
to just get down to what the facts are. And
this is an objective fact that you have to figure
into how you view things.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
And this is not an endorsement of Gavin Newsom. No,
it's just the GDP is the GDP. The larger the GDP,
the healthier the body. Because it's not a country, so
it's a state. So the GDP is increasing, the health
of the economy, and the importance of the California economy
(32:32):
more importantly is increasing. If it were decreasing, then we
need to have a conversation. Then you got to say,
wait a minute, we're really moving in the wrong direction.
Something may be wrong.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, California just tends to become sort of the boogeyman
for you know, tribalism and media attacks when this sort
of flies in the face of that, at at least
in certain facets. Well, I mean, I'm not tickled about
the fact that I can't so much as a forward
a postage stamp of land to live on.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
But that's just one thing.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
But that's part of the reason why we have a
high GDP. You know, the exchange of goods and services
contribute to that, and that's why even though there are
some industries which may be leaving.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
The state of California.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
It's not affecting or impacting the overall health of the
economy of California.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
And that's what I think is lost in the larger discussion.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
If we could say, well, we're losing movie industry and
we're moving losing a lot of productions, and then you
would see our GDP reflect that, then that's a different
conversation to have.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
But we're not moving in that direction.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Well, next we'll talk about your filthy, woke California values.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well, yeah, that is a different discussion. I hear it
all the time in my notes. Just your woke liberal,
we don't want you on KFI. KFI is not for liberals.
It's like, okay, thanks for listening. I don't know if
you saw us real quick, I know we're out of time.
I had this complaint from this listener. I'm not gonna
even say her name. She was complaining she didn't even
(34:06):
listen to the show. She was complaining about a promo
she heard, which one.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I don't know. She didn't even tell me. She sent
the complaint to you. Yes, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I heard your She said something to the fact I
heard your promo on CAFI and CAFI is not for liberals.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
You need to go. Oh, so it's just the fact
that you're being promoted period. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I wish people actually took time to listen before you complained,
learn about my politics, my personal politics, which I rarely
discussed before you complained.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, seriously, I think you're kind of a fascist.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Actually, well, it's really funny the things that come to
me and they swear that's what I believe, and they
can't tell me at any time I've ever said anything
which would confirm that I would believe X, Y and Z,
from voter ID to immigration to taxes, all that kind
(35:03):
of stuff. Terrorists figure. It's kind of funny. It's almost
like they're making a snap judgment for something having nothing
to do whatever I say. It's like you're almost getting
it something there. KFI AM six forty we're live everywhere
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