June 25, 2025 • 28 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – “What’s Up” with regular guest contributor Nick Pagliochini delving into everything the Southland has to offer; from Universal Mega Movie Summer at Universal Studios Hollywood and Knott's Summer Nights at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park; to the ‘Power of the Arts Festival’/‘Ocean Encounter’ at the Discovery Cube and the San Diego County Fair! Want to learn more? Check out Nick on socials @NickPagliochini, @ThisWeekendWithNick and @15MinuteFooodie … PLUS – Tragic FloriDUH news & Final Thoughts - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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We just came back from the hallway having a very
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Okay, let's just pick Okay, Okay, we're not a what
did you come here to talk about.
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I was like, okay, so we're gonna I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
We'll get into it because I know we got we're
a little behind, but I want to start out with
it is officially summer southern California.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
All schools are out.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
You do have kids that are in summer school, but uh,
there's so much happening right now. So I've got big
theme parks. I've got some smaller things if you want
need a place for maybe.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The kids to go.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
But I want to start out with Universal Studios Hollywood.
So last year we celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the
studio tour, and this year we're celebrating sixty years. Last year,
which is wild and so so the theme park itself
is older than that.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
But right I should know. I should take that back.
I remember the.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Jaws, right, So that's at least fifty years And I
was gonna say, so we're celebrating, not to steal Chris's
thunder from earlier, but I'm going to talk about the
fiftieth anniversary of Jaws, which has a huge way of
showing itself. So last year during the sixtieth anniversary, So
the Studio Tour itself has been part of Universal Studios
even before Universal Studios was a theme park, and so
that's why we're kind of playing that game. Somewhere in
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between the sixty of the Studio Tour and the fifty
of Jaws is where this all comes into play. But
what's specific is that last year they had all these
things Jurassic Park, they had Bruce if you know, you know,
but you know, Fast and the Furious, and we're waiting
for the Drift attraction to be opening next year. Yes
really exci Oh yeah, are you are you a passold
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or do you like Universal Universal? I don't have money
for it, No, no, no, I totally get that. And
what's funny is there are a couple of deals going
on right now. So I would highly recommend Costco has
some deals for you. Triple A has some deals for you.
I know both of those are memberships, but there are
opportunities for you to save a few bucks, so you
can always check out this week. I'm a Nick or
Nick Poliochini on social media and I've got all the
details of the Lincoln bio there. I'm looking at the numbers.
(03:02):
Not seeing a lot of people checking out. I'm putting
all the details there for you, So if you're missing something,
let me know.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Hit me up in the DMS.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
But it is Mega Movie Summer this summer at Universal Studios, Hollywood.
It started back on the thirteenth of this month and
it will be going until August tenth, and it is
encompassing everything you can imagine. The tagline is Lights Camera Summer.
We're showing it right now on YouTube and it is
amazing because they are celebrating specifically the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws,
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not that they're not celebrating Drastic Park. Reach is coming
soon with Rebirth the Drastic World. Rebirth is has a
whole thing. They've redone the attraction for Drastic World inside
of Universal Studios. They have made it even more wet
than it was. It's a water ride. You go through
the river ride and attraction with it. But Bruce is
the name of the shark that they use in the
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studio tour. Also, there is a huge statue of it
that used to be in the park. It went backstage.
It was brought back out for the sixtieth anniversary of
the studio Tour. It is now at Universal Plaza on
the upper lot at Universal Studios for you to take
a picture with. But what's even more entertaining is they've
really created a whole new environment with Amity Island, which
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is where Jaws comes from, and you get to meet
characters from the movie live and in person, interact with them.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Did they dig up Robert Shaw?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, you know, I was gonna say, the person that
is the person that is representing these gentlemen. They're pretty good,
they're pretty they're pretty close. But yes, they're not walking cadavers.
That's later with Halloween Horneite Ah got it. I will
be talking about that as well. In fact, tickets are
on sale for that right now. Also, to slide it
in there real quick, Oogie Boogie Bash tickets go on
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sale on Thursday. If you know, you know that's at
Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resortbert Shaw.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Right now, there you go. See I was gonna say,
so that's one of the actors.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
If you're visiting it, you're following us on YouTube, mister
mo Kelly, you can see one of the actors. That
is Bruce the Shark, and that is one of the
actors from Amity Island. So that's going on. Back to
the Future has a huge representation. You've got things going
on with Illuminations, which is the Minions and all that
kind of world from DreamWorks. There's so much happening, So
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that's happening. And then also you've got in six Flags
Magic Mountain not too far away up in Valencia or
Awesome Town on the weekends.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Now through the end of the summer. I'll try to
get you a date on it.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
But you have the DC Heroes and Villains Fest happening
Fridays and Saturdays, some Sundays that'll be happening, So that's
another opportunity for you to go out. Oh through July
twenty six, there we go Fridays and Saturdays from five
pm until close. You're able to at six Flags Magic
Mountain up in Valencia to experience a whole different experience.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So I know we got to go to break and
come back.
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Yeah, let's do that later ke Nick Polocchini joins us
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mo Kelly. Let's get back to Nick Pouliokeeia and find
out what's up with him.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
So we covered La County and did Universal Mega Movie
Summer that runs through August tenth, and then also through
the end of July.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's six Magic Mountain Valencia.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
You've got the Heroes and Villains Fest that runs until
July twenty sixth on Fridays and Saturdays.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So heading over to Orange County.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
And unfortunately you cannot be a part of this, but
if you do happen to have signed up for it,
I want to know, so be sure to slide in
my DMS. That's why I'm kind of putting the word
out there. The world's largest swim lesson will be taking
place this Thursday at Soak City at knotts Sooak City
water Park which is part of Knotsbury Farm. So this
Thursday to twenty six at eight am. It will be
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in conjunction with other aquatic centers from around the country
and they're going for a Guinness World Record, so it'll
be this simultaneous swimming lesson.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
But what I do want to talk about at Notsberry
Farm that you can do we're deep in the middle
of summer nights as well as ghost Town Alive, so
both of those are events you can kind of go
day in tonight. Ghost Town Alive is an interactive daytime
family fund experience. It takes you throughout the streets of
Calico so if you don't know much about Knotsberry Farm,
it originally started out as a ghost town for the
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Knots family to be able to draw people in along.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
The original Route sixty six.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And I didn't know that it's wild, right, and so
then they were able to do their jams and their
jellies and everything the Knots family. But that's why they
built the ghost town. So that's if you see the
Criocket Room, if you're familiar with that or anything else.
But what they do is they have an incredible immersive
experience for you that happens during the day and you
get to meet the citizens of Calico. You meet the mayor,
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you meet the Sheri, if you meet outlaws. There's a
lot that goes on, and they've been doing this for
a few years during the summer season and it just
gets better as time has gone by.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
This year is really impressive.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And then at night it kicks over to the summer Nights,
which is a whole other experience where you're able to
do fun night experiences like roasting marshmallows, which is really cool.
They've got some night shows, so it's a good time
and so I think it's well worth it. The reason
I share these with you, you know, I'm a huge
fan of Disneyland, but sometimes that can be a bit
cost prohibitive for folks, especially if your family is larger.
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So I have a good friend, there's five of them
in the family. Not Sperry Farm is their theme park
of choice because it's a lot easier because their highest
pass and not is less than the lowest pass over
at Disneyland. The highest pass is not is the low
is slower in price than the lowest pass at Disneyland.
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So it's a great opportunity if you have a larger family.
I highly encourage Non Sperry Farm. The attractions are great.
You have Camp Snoopy, which it just went through huge referms,
so you get to meet Snoopy and all the other
Peanuts characters, Charlie Brown, Lucy, the whole nine yards.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
So that's going on.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Also, want to talk about something fun that's going on
a little bit more educational. So a lot of times
folks really want to maybe lean into the reading lists
that are given by schools, something to keep the kids
engaged during the summer. The Discovery Cubes, both in Los
Angeles and in Orange County are great opportunities for that.
This weekend is the Power of the Arts Festival at
the Discovery Cube in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
It'll be music, it'll be movement. It was created well.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Create Now was found in nineteen ninety six by Jill
Gurr and initially named Right Now. In ninety eight it
became Create Now and anyway, all of this to say,
it's a great opportunity for you through music and dance
and the arts. This weekend at Discovery Cube in Los
Angeles included with your general admission. It is in Silmar,
so you're gonna be not too far up the five
here from the studio, but it's a great opportunity for you.
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They also do have day camps and a lot of
them have drop in so you don't necessarily need to
have signed up early. So it's a great opportunity for that.
But what is open now at Discovery Cube, Los Angeles
through September first is a Rescue Exhibition exhibition and it's
really impressive for me because you get to go into
a helicopter simulator and we're talking you as an adult,
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or you as a child, or you can take your
family with you. They have experiences of what it's like
to be a firefighter, so you like do the fireman
crawl on the ground. Everything there. They teach you how
to do vertical rescue with like a rock climbing experience.
They teach you how to do water rescues. All this
stuff is going on and it's a great opportunity to
a great time, but also to learn a little something
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and that's always the easiest thing. It's kind of like
you can remember a song easier than you can memorize
lines to something, and so that gives you that opportunity
of play to really be able to enjoy the summer.
Now over to Orange County Discovery Cube, which is just
again off the five, but it's gonna be in Santa
Ana this time. They just premiered Ocean Encounter Explore below
Act above, and it is about learning how to be
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a good steward for the oceans Orange County being ran
along the coastline and that runs through September.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
First.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's a great opportunity occluded with general admission for you
to learn so many things. They've got this massive, massive
blue whale that they have installed for that event, but
us a lot of hands on learning. There's a sea
lab to give you that whole experience of being underwater,
So definitely worth checking out. And then this is cool,
and I wish I wasn't busy this weekend because I'd
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love to do this. Wild Rivers in Irvine, if you
are familiar, closed for a good period of time and
it just as reopened recently. The after Way Wild Rivers
twenty one and over party is this weekend from five
to nine pm, so Saturday, the twenty eighth, and you
can get tickets. It's the first time they've had a
special adults only night and you can drink, you can
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go on all the attractions. Tickets are only forty five
dollars free parking after four thirty pm, and ride share
is encouraged because parking isn't the best, but that is
an opportunity for you to experience something very different, kind
of you know, be a child at heart. And then
my favorite experience, my favorite event that is always happening
at this time is a San Diego County Fair. I
do love the La County Fair, I do love the
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Orange County Fair which is coming up, but San Diego
County Fair in Delmar is my absolute favorite. This year's
theme is Summer Pectacular and that does run through fourth
of July weekend, so through these sixth you can experience
that they have incredible food and the thing that I
love is their concert series is really impressive. It's at
the Delmar Fairgrounds, which you've heard Tim Conway Junior talk
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about here on KFI. But it's a really cool opportunity
for you to go and experience something because the Fairgrounds,
unlike Orange County or LA, are literally on the beach,
so you can actually take the train from Orange County.
You can take the train from LA down to del Mar.
They have a station and they have a shuttle that'll
take you right over to the water and then you
can get off the train there and be able to
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experience everything that the San Diego County fair has to offer.
So there's a lot of stuff going on throughout the
south Land. Be sure to check out all the details
of the Lincoln Bio at Nick Pouli o' keino this
Weekme and Nick Instagram's the easiest, but you can see TikTok,
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dms if you've got questions.
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I'm more than happy to help you out. Do you
use Loomi in the DMS? I know I use Mando
in the DMS welt loom me. Thanks Stuffan. Also, we
have a request. They want to know what your shirt says. Nick.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Oh, it's funny. This is from Target. A good day
for a good day. It's a good day for a
good day. Thank you, Stefan. Look at see you're getting
the move action. And if you don't know what that
mean me.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Rub your mamory glands like that, sir, these are pectoral muscles.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I implore you. I am not. I have raised many
a child. I have not nursed any of them. I
have had no Have you ever had that?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Well no, because you have kids, did you ever have
that experience? I know this is completely not They were
teenagers when we got married. Okay, got it, God, because
I was gonna say so with my nieces specifically, uh no,
nephews that are old, that were young enough. But there
were many times when I would be feeding them and
they would latch on like I was summertime and with
you know, a shirt off, they'd latch.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Way too much.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Okay, if you if you know you know, if you're
a parent or you have taken care of small children,
and especially if you're a dad and you have done
the three o'clock feeding, you know this has happened. The
kids just are used to it and they see nipple
and they latch on. So we're gonna finish it. We
finished things here.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Later with mo Kelly. We don't leave things hanging, so
to speak. But six forty.
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This Later with mo Kelly live everywhere on social media
and the iHeartRadio app. And if you've ever been to Florida,
especially this time of the year, I say, late spring,
summer months, even into early fall, you know that it
can start raining. It just about any moment. Or if
you've gone anywhere down south, it may be hot as
but Jesus, and all of a sudden, it just opens
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up and rains. That's what it does down South. Florida
is no different than that. But there's some rules that
you're supposed to follow. Get your ass inside when it
starts thundering and lightning, okay, because a lightning strike, more
times than not, will probably kill you and common sense,
which is not all that common, should dictate that if
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there's a thunderstorm approaching, you get out of the water.
Why because water conducts electricity. It's a sad story, but
it didn't have to be. The Valucia County Beach Safety
confirmed to local authorities that a twenty nine year old
man who was visiting from Colorado with his new bride
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on their honeymoon was struck by lightning this past Friday
while he was standing in ankle deep water. The victim
was taken to a local hospital and critical cognition, where
he later died from his injuries. Now we're told that
the storm was still miles away from the beach, saying
that the lightning strike was quote an extremely rare occurrence
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close quote. But here's the thing about electricity. It travels
through water really, really well. And if you see a
storm coming in Florida, and maybe just from being from Colorado,
he didn't know that it could open up and thunder
and lightning like that in Florida. But when you go
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to Florida, there are two things you have to watch
out for, lightning storms and alligators. And I'm not even
sure that's the right order because you will encounter an
alligator before a lightning storm usually, but you don't stand
in the water. You don't ever stand in the water
when you know that there is a thunderstorm approaching. Usually
it's like maybe you have ten to fifteen minutes. The
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sky will open it up, it will get dark, and
you realize it might start raining. Now, when you're in
La it can be overcast and never even get close
to raining. But when you're down south, and I know
Carnesia knows this as well as anyone, when it looks
like it's going to rain, it's going to rain. And
in the summer, there is an added likelihood that it
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will probably be an electrical storm. I don't know why
it is. I'm not real good on meteorology barometric pressure,
but we don't get them much here in southern California,
but definitely down south. And let me just ask you, Carnesia,
what were you taught grow going up with electrical storms?
To dos and don'ts?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Just to stay inside. We can not go outside, no, right,
but the streets of like the streets so quickly get flooded.
And yeah, just stay inside, you stay inside.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I remember my both my grandmothers would tell us, you know,
don't go near the toilet, don't don't turn on the water.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Accurate that was back then, but we were we were
specifically told stay away from the toilet in an electrical storm.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Maybe that was just as as they say, an old
wives tale, but that was something I remember. My mother's
mother got very angry at me Detroit, Michigan. It was
in the middle of summer, and I remember her teaching
me about lightning and thunder County to see how far
the lightning was away relative to the thunder clap. We
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know all know about that. You have the lightning strike
on thousand and one, thousand and two thousand and three, okay,
thunder and you have another lightning strike, and if you
can count longer, it's going away. If she counts shorter,
it gets closer. But she also said, don't go to
the bathroom, stay away from water. But you would think,
you know, if you're in the ocean, that would probably
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tell you you're more susceptible to a lightning strike.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I want to be sympathetic. I'm trying to be sympathetic.
It was on their honeymoon. I wouldn't wish ill on anyone, but.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You gotta know, you gotta know, you gotta know, don't
go into the water when there is a possibility of
a thunderstorm, a lightning And also you got to know,
actually you should stay away from small bodies of water
wind in Florida because you might get eaten by an alligator.
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And you have to stay away from large bodies of
water because you know, with the humidity there's a greater
chance of a lightning storm. It doesn't matter if it's
maybe you know, five or ten miles away, because why
you're in the ocean, water, electricity dead. It's a very
very sad story. They just got married, they were on
their honeymoon, very very sad.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Kind of.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It's Later with Mo Kelly k if I AM six
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Speaker 3 (20:16):
When we're gonna come back.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
My final thought it has to do with the upcoming
mayoral race here in Los Angeles less than a year away.
Karen Bass Is she gonna be re elected? I'll tell
you definitively when we come back.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (20:37):
If you did not hear me earlier in the show,
I said that tonight's final word was going to be
about Karen Bass and the mayoral race. But before we
do that last segment, I want to make mention of
we're talking about the stories of being told of what
to do and what not to do during an electrical storm.
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And I was remarking how when I was growing up,
I was told to stay away from the bathtub either
guy couldn't take a bath, couldn't take a shower, or
stay away from the toilet anything that had water in it.
And I didn't know whether that was scientifically sound. And
I'm hearing from the momigos and they're sharing their similar
admonitions in the chat, and you Carneesi, we were talking
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about what you were told to do and not to do.
It's like, no, this is something that was a real thing.
You didn't go near water. Some people were told don't
turn on electrical appliances during an electrical storm. And yeah,
and if you're from the Midwest or the South, you
know exactly what I'm talking about. This is not exclusive
to me, but you know, definitely want to hear your
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stories and thoughts in the chat on YouTube, Instagram or Facebook.
Tell us about some of the admonitions and warnings that
you were told growing up. We'd love to hear from you.
And for my final thought this evening talking about the
mayoral race, there are about eleven and a half months
between now and the next mayoral election here, and if
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you just listen to CAFI, you'd think everyone hates Karen
Bass as a politician and as a person. I'm not exaggerating.
If you just listen to CAFI, you think everyone is
of the same mind. But here's the reality. Despite her
public issues, she still has a solid base of support.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Rightly or wrongly.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Sometimes we get into these echo chamber silos and think
that because the media we listen to the media we watch, well,
everybody must think the same way.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
CAFI is real strong at Orange County. I don't need
to tell you that.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You know that it's real strong in the county of
Los Angeles, but it's not necessarily the loudest voice in
the city of Los Angeles. Don't get me wrong, the
station definitely has a sizable footprint, but if you live
in the city of Los Angeles and talk to Los
Angeles voters, it's just a different vantage point, different viewpoint.
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There's watching LA on TV like the protests, there's hearing
coverage of LA on the radio like the protests, but
that's not the same as having the presence inside its
borders on a day to day basis, walking the neighborhoods,
driving the neighborhoods, talking to people who live there. And
as I said at the top, they're about eleven and
a half months between now and the next mayoral election
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June two, twenty twenty six, and no doubt, Mayor Bass
catches hell in a media sense every single day, a
lot of it, deservedly so in my estimation. But if
the two elections of Donald Trump should have taught you
and me anything, don't confuse media coverage and polls with
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what people on the ground, actual voters value. And there's this,
she's still as of this moment, and I confirmed it
with Tawala earlier in the show. She's still at this
moment the only real cadate running in the election eleven
and a half months out. You can't replace someone, you
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can't kick out the Democrats. If there's no alternative, you
don't get to call the voters for LA. Mayor which
most people listening are not. You don't get to call
the voters for La mayor dumb or stupid when there's
no alternative. And I'm going to keep banging this drum
even still there is no Republican in the race. You
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can't hope for people to vote for a different direction,
a different person, and a different party, a Republican when
the party is neither putting forth a candidate nor developing
one right now. You can't just jump in the race
and nobody knows who that person is if to develop candidates.
Here's a comparison point. Rick Caruso got in the race
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nine months out back in twenty twenty two, got in
in February, the election was in November.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
He almost won, so it's not too late in a
calendar sense. We're more than nine months out.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
But still he's not a Republican in terms of party
registration or fidelity, and he's still not in the race. Yes,
Rick Caruso used to be a Republican and runs to
the right of Karen Bass politically, but he'll never be
viewed as a true Democrat no more. Let me use
this as a comparison point, No more than Gavin Newsom
(25:24):
would be reviewed as a Republican if he changed his
party affiliation and ran for president, no more than former
Sheriff Alex Vanueva, who was previously a Democrat while sheriff,
but was not perceived as one for his politics.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Perception matters.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Van Auela, as a matter of fact, did recently change
his affiliation to Republican, and it probably better suits him
and his perception. But Rick Caruso tried to change his
party affiliation specifically to run for mayor.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
He did so probably for a lot of reason.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
He did so knowing that the majority of voters in
LA are registered Democrats, and a Democratic candidate would have
an easier path than a Republican. No one would dispute that,
But the flip side is that a newly minted dem
doesn't get state party support, and yes, parties play favorites.
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Rick Crusoe spent one hundred and four million dollars of
his own money in the hopes of making up for
his late party switch. Still wasn't enough. So just having
the D next to your name is not enough. Sometimes
it's just evident that complaining about LA is a lot
more fun than anything. Most people don't live in the city,
don't have any real connection to the city and aren't
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doing anything for the city.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I know I'm not talking to you, I'm talking about
the other folks.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
But if the Republican Party were serious, and I don't
think they are, but if they were serious, they would
have been developing candidates to run in the race for mayor.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Karen Bass has never been more vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
There would be names on the tip of our tongue
right now that would be getting in the race right
about now. Not one, not one Republican is presently even
waiting in the wings. If this holds true, Bass, regardless
of what you may think of her record, whatever, she
will become mayor again. And maybe, just maybe that's what
you want, because it makes more fun for you and
me to complain, complain about stuff having nothing to do
(27:22):
with you, specifically, I'm going to keep beating this dead
horse until it turns to glue. I get it. Complaining
is fun, not productive, but as sure as hell fun.
I like complaining too. I'm not gonna be hypocritical. Sometimes
it's better to just complain and point. But also, I've
lived in the city of Los Angeles for the bulk
of my life, I'm pretty sure I can say I
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know the city from end to end as well as anyone.
That's what fifty five years has earned me. I've come
by it honestly, from Bradley to reared end han Via Ragosa,
excuse me, Vera, to Garcetti and now to Bass.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I know the city topped the bottom.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
But if the goal, if the goal is better or
different leadership, then there has to be competition. And you're
not going to get that from inside the Democratic Party
against an incumbent mayor.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
You never will.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
If you don't field a candidate Republicans, you don't get
to claim your serious.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
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So thank you for tuning in.
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I was like, okay, so we're gonna I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
We'll get into it because I know we got we're
a little behind, but I want to start out with
it is officially summer southern California.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
All schools are out.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
You do have kids that are in summer school, but uh,
there's so much happening right now. So I've got big
theme parks. I've got some smaller things if you want
need a place for maybe.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The kids to go.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
But I want to start out with Universal Studios Hollywood.
So last year we celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the
studio tour, and this year we're celebrating sixty years. Last year,
which is wild and so so the theme park itself
is older than that.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
But right I should know. I should take that back.
I remember the.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Jaws, right, So that's at least fifty years And I
was gonna say, so we're celebrating, not to steal Chris's
thunder from earlier, but I'm going to talk about the
fiftieth anniversary of Jaws, which has a huge way of
showing itself. So last year during the sixtieth anniversary, So
the Studio Tour itself has been part of Universal Studios
even before Universal Studios was a theme park, and so
that's why we're kind of playing that game. Somewhere in
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between the sixty of the Studio Tour and the fifty
of Jaws is where this all comes into play. But
what's specific is that last year they had all these
things Jurassic Park, they had Bruce if you know, you know,
but you know, Fast and the Furious, and we're waiting
for the Drift attraction to be opening next year. Yes
really exci Oh yeah, are you are you a passold
(02:40):
or do you like Universal Universal? I don't have money
for it, No, no, no, I totally get that. And
what's funny is there are a couple of deals going
on right now. So I would highly recommend Costco has
some deals for you. Triple A has some deals for you.
I know both of those are memberships, but there are
opportunities for you to save a few bucks, so you
can always check out this week. I'm a Nick or
Nick Poliochini on social media and I've got all the
details of the Lincoln bio there. I'm looking at the numbers.
(03:02):
Not seeing a lot of people checking out. I'm putting
all the details there for you, So if you're missing something,
let me know.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Hit me up in the DMS.
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But it is Mega Movie Summer this summer at Universal Studios, Hollywood.
It started back on the thirteenth of this month and
it will be going until August tenth, and it is
encompassing everything you can imagine. The tagline is Lights Camera Summer.
We're showing it right now on YouTube and it is
amazing because they are celebrating specifically the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws,
(03:30):
not that they're not celebrating Drastic Park. Reach is coming
soon with Rebirth the Drastic World. Rebirth is has a
whole thing. They've redone the attraction for Drastic World inside
of Universal Studios. They have made it even more wet
than it was. It's a water ride. You go through
the river ride and attraction with it. But Bruce is
the name of the shark that they use in the
(03:51):
studio tour. Also, there is a huge statue of it
that used to be in the park. It went backstage.
It was brought back out for the sixtieth anniversary of
the studio Tour. It is now at Universal Plaza on
the upper lot at Universal Studios for you to take
a picture with. But what's even more entertaining is they've
really created a whole new environment with Amity Island, which
(04:12):
is where Jaws comes from, and you get to meet
characters from the movie live and in person, interact with them.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Did they dig up Robert Shaw?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, you know, I was gonna say, the person that
is the person that is representing these gentlemen. They're pretty good,
they're pretty they're pretty close. But yes, they're not walking cadavers.
That's later with Halloween Horneite Ah got it. I will
be talking about that as well. In fact, tickets are
on sale for that right now. Also, to slide it
in there real quick, Oogie Boogie Bash tickets go on
(04:42):
sale on Thursday. If you know, you know that's at
Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resortbert Shaw.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Right now, there you go. See I was gonna say,
so that's one of the actors.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
If you're visiting it, you're following us on YouTube, mister
mo Kelly, you can see one of the actors. That
is Bruce the Shark, and that is one of the
actors from Amity Island. So that's going on. Back to
the Future has a huge representation. You've got things going
on with Illuminations, which is the Minions and all that
kind of world from DreamWorks. There's so much happening, So
(05:12):
that's happening. And then also you've got in six Flags
Magic Mountain not too far away up in Valencia or
Awesome Town on the weekends.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Now through the end of the summer. I'll try to
get you a date on it.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
But you have the DC Heroes and Villains Fest happening
Fridays and Saturdays, some Sundays that'll be happening, So that's
another opportunity for you to go out. Oh through July
twenty six, there we go Fridays and Saturdays from five
pm until close. You're able to at six Flags Magic
Mountain up in Valencia to experience a whole different experience.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So I know we got to go to break and
come back.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, let's do that later ke Nick Polocchini joins us
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Speaker 4 (06:53):
So we covered La County and did Universal Mega Movie
Summer that runs through August tenth, and then also through
the end of July.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's six Magic Mountain Valencia.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
You've got the Heroes and Villains Fest that runs until
July twenty sixth on Fridays and Saturdays.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So heading over to Orange County.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
And unfortunately you cannot be a part of this, but
if you do happen to have signed up for it,
I want to know, so be sure to slide in
my DMS. That's why I'm kind of putting the word
out there. The world's largest swim lesson will be taking
place this Thursday at Soak City at knotts Sooak City
water Park which is part of Knotsbury Farm. So this
Thursday to twenty six at eight am. It will be
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in conjunction with other aquatic centers from around the country
and they're going for a Guinness World Record, so it'll
be this simultaneous swimming lesson.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
But what I do want to talk about at Notsberry
Farm that you can do we're deep in the middle
of summer nights as well as ghost Town Alive, so
both of those are events you can kind of go
day in tonight. Ghost Town Alive is an interactive daytime
family fund experience. It takes you throughout the streets of
Calico so if you don't know much about Knotsberry Farm,
it originally started out as a ghost town for the
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Knots family to be able to draw people in along.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
The original Route sixty six.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And I didn't know that it's wild, right, and so
then they were able to do their jams and their
jellies and everything the Knots family. But that's why they
built the ghost town. So that's if you see the
Criocket Room, if you're familiar with that or anything else.
But what they do is they have an incredible immersive
experience for you that happens during the day and you
get to meet the citizens of Calico. You meet the mayor,
(08:27):
you meet the Sheri, if you meet outlaws. There's a
lot that goes on, and they've been doing this for
a few years during the summer season and it just
gets better as time has gone by.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
This year is really impressive.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And then at night it kicks over to the summer Nights,
which is a whole other experience where you're able to
do fun night experiences like roasting marshmallows, which is really cool.
They've got some night shows, so it's a good time
and so I think it's well worth it. The reason
I share these with you, you know, I'm a huge
fan of Disneyland, but sometimes that can be a bit
cost prohibitive for folks, especially if your family is larger.
(08:59):
So I have a good friend, there's five of them
in the family. Not Sperry Farm is their theme park
of choice because it's a lot easier because their highest
pass and not is less than the lowest pass over
at Disneyland. The highest pass is not is the low
is slower in price than the lowest pass at Disneyland.
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So it's a great opportunity if you have a larger family.
I highly encourage Non Sperry Farm. The attractions are great.
You have Camp Snoopy, which it just went through huge referms,
so you get to meet Snoopy and all the other
Peanuts characters, Charlie Brown, Lucy, the whole nine yards.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
So that's going on.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Also, want to talk about something fun that's going on
a little bit more educational. So a lot of times
folks really want to maybe lean into the reading lists
that are given by schools, something to keep the kids
engaged during the summer. The Discovery Cubes, both in Los
Angeles and in Orange County are great opportunities for that.
This weekend is the Power of the Arts Festival at
the Discovery Cube in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
It'll be music, it'll be movement. It was created well.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Create Now was found in nineteen ninety six by Jill
Gurr and initially named Right Now. In ninety eight it
became Create Now and anyway, all of this to say,
it's a great opportunity for you through music and dance
and the arts. This weekend at Discovery Cube in Los
Angeles included with your general admission. It is in Silmar,
so you're gonna be not too far up the five
here from the studio, but it's a great opportunity for you.
(10:21):
They also do have day camps and a lot of
them have drop in so you don't necessarily need to
have signed up early. So it's a great opportunity for that.
But what is open now at Discovery Cube, Los Angeles
through September first is a Rescue Exhibition exhibition and it's
really impressive for me because you get to go into
a helicopter simulator and we're talking you as an adult,
(10:42):
or you as a child, or you can take your
family with you. They have experiences of what it's like
to be a firefighter, so you like do the fireman
crawl on the ground. Everything there. They teach you how
to do vertical rescue with like a rock climbing experience.
They teach you how to do water rescues. All this
stuff is going on and it's a great opportunity to
a great time, but also to learn a little something
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and that's always the easiest thing. It's kind of like
you can remember a song easier than you can memorize
lines to something, and so that gives you that opportunity
of play to really be able to enjoy the summer.
Now over to Orange County Discovery Cube, which is just
again off the five, but it's gonna be in Santa
Ana this time. They just premiered Ocean Encounter Explore below
Act above, and it is about learning how to be
(11:25):
a good steward for the oceans Orange County being ran
along the coastline and that runs through September.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
First.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's a great opportunity occluded with general admission for you
to learn so many things. They've got this massive, massive
blue whale that they have installed for that event, but
us a lot of hands on learning. There's a sea
lab to give you that whole experience of being underwater,
So definitely worth checking out. And then this is cool,
and I wish I wasn't busy this weekend because I'd
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love to do this. Wild Rivers in Irvine, if you
are familiar, closed for a good period of time and
it just as reopened recently. The after Way Wild Rivers
twenty one and over party is this weekend from five
to nine pm, so Saturday, the twenty eighth, and you
can get tickets. It's the first time they've had a
special adults only night and you can drink, you can
(12:13):
go on all the attractions. Tickets are only forty five
dollars free parking after four thirty pm, and ride share
is encouraged because parking isn't the best, but that is
an opportunity for you to experience something very different, kind
of you know, be a child at heart. And then
my favorite experience, my favorite event that is always happening
at this time is a San Diego County Fair. I
do love the La County Fair, I do love the
(12:35):
Orange County Fair which is coming up, but San Diego
County Fair in Delmar is my absolute favorite. This year's
theme is Summer Pectacular and that does run through fourth
of July weekend, so through these sixth you can experience
that they have incredible food and the thing that I
love is their concert series is really impressive. It's at
the Delmar Fairgrounds, which you've heard Tim Conway Junior talk
(12:56):
about here on KFI. But it's a really cool opportunity
for you to go and experience something because the Fairgrounds,
unlike Orange County or LA, are literally on the beach,
so you can actually take the train from Orange County.
You can take the train from LA down to del Mar.
They have a station and they have a shuttle that'll
take you right over to the water and then you
can get off the train there and be able to
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experience everything that the San Diego County fair has to offer.
So there's a lot of stuff going on throughout the
south Land. Be sure to check out all the details
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Weekme and Nick Instagram's the easiest, but you can see TikTok,
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I'm more than happy to help you out. Do you
use Loomi in the DMS? I know I use Mando
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have a request. They want to know what your shirt says. Nick.
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Oh, it's funny. This is from Target. A good day
for a good day. It's a good day for a
good day. Thank you, Stefan. Look at see you're getting
the move action. And if you don't know what that
mean me.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Rub your mamory glands like that, sir, these are pectoral muscles.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I implore you. I am not. I have raised many
a child. I have not nursed any of them. I
have had no Have you ever had that?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Well no, because you have kids, did you ever have
that experience? I know this is completely not They were
teenagers when we got married. Okay, got it, God, because
I was gonna say so with my nieces specifically, uh no,
nephews that are old, that were young enough. But there
were many times when I would be feeding them and
they would latch on like I was summertime and with
you know, a shirt off, they'd latch.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Way too much.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Okay, if you if you know you know, if you're
a parent or you have taken care of small children,
and especially if you're a dad and you have done
the three o'clock feeding, you know this has happened. The
kids just are used to it and they see nipple
and they latch on. So we're gonna finish it. We
finished things here.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Later with mo Kelly. We don't leave things hanging, so
to speak. But six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
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Speaker 2 (15:10):
This Later with mo Kelly live everywhere on social media
and the iHeartRadio app. And if you've ever been to Florida,
especially this time of the year, I say, late spring,
summer months, even into early fall, you know that it
can start raining. It just about any moment. Or if
you've gone anywhere down south, it may be hot as
but Jesus, and all of a sudden, it just opens
(15:31):
up and rains. That's what it does down South. Florida
is no different than that. But there's some rules that
you're supposed to follow. Get your ass inside when it
starts thundering and lightning, okay, because a lightning strike, more
times than not, will probably kill you and common sense,
which is not all that common, should dictate that if
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there's a thunderstorm approaching, you get out of the water.
Why because water conducts electricity. It's a sad story, but
it didn't have to be. The Valucia County Beach Safety
confirmed to local authorities that a twenty nine year old
man who was visiting from Colorado with his new bride
(16:16):
on their honeymoon was struck by lightning this past Friday
while he was standing in ankle deep water. The victim
was taken to a local hospital and critical cognition, where
he later died from his injuries. Now we're told that
the storm was still miles away from the beach, saying
that the lightning strike was quote an extremely rare occurrence
(16:39):
close quote. But here's the thing about electricity. It travels
through water really, really well. And if you see a
storm coming in Florida, and maybe just from being from Colorado,
he didn't know that it could open up and thunder
and lightning like that in Florida. But when you go
(17:00):
to Florida, there are two things you have to watch
out for, lightning storms and alligators. And I'm not even
sure that's the right order because you will encounter an
alligator before a lightning storm usually, but you don't stand
in the water. You don't ever stand in the water
when you know that there is a thunderstorm approaching. Usually
it's like maybe you have ten to fifteen minutes. The
(17:22):
sky will open it up, it will get dark, and
you realize it might start raining. Now, when you're in
La it can be overcast and never even get close
to raining. But when you're down south, and I know
Carnesia knows this as well as anyone, when it looks
like it's going to rain, it's going to rain. And
in the summer, there is an added likelihood that it
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will probably be an electrical storm. I don't know why
it is. I'm not real good on meteorology barometric pressure,
but we don't get them much here in southern California,
but definitely down south. And let me just ask you, Carnesia,
what were you taught grow going up with electrical storms?
To dos and don'ts?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Just to stay inside. We can not go outside, no, right,
but the streets of like the streets so quickly get flooded.
And yeah, just stay inside, you stay inside.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I remember my both my grandmothers would tell us, you know,
don't go near the toilet, don't don't turn on the water.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Accurate that was back then, but we were we were
specifically told stay away from the toilet in an electrical storm.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Maybe that was just as as they say, an old
wives tale, but that was something I remember. My mother's
mother got very angry at me Detroit, Michigan. It was
in the middle of summer, and I remember her teaching
me about lightning and thunder County to see how far
the lightning was away relative to the thunder clap. We
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know all know about that. You have the lightning strike
on thousand and one, thousand and two thousand and three, okay,
thunder and you have another lightning strike, and if you
can count longer, it's going away. If she counts shorter,
it gets closer. But she also said, don't go to
the bathroom, stay away from water. But you would think,
you know, if you're in the ocean, that would probably
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tell you you're more susceptible to a lightning strike.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I want to be sympathetic. I'm trying to be sympathetic.
It was on their honeymoon. I wouldn't wish ill on anyone, but.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You gotta know, you gotta know, you gotta know, don't
go into the water when there is a possibility of
a thunderstorm, a lightning And also you got to know,
actually you should stay away from small bodies of water
wind in Florida because you might get eaten by an alligator.
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And you have to stay away from large bodies of
water because you know, with the humidity there's a greater
chance of a lightning storm. It doesn't matter if it's
maybe you know, five or ten miles away, because why
you're in the ocean, water, electricity dead. It's a very
very sad story. They just got married, they were on
their honeymoon, very very sad.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Kind of.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It's Later with Mo Kelly k if I AM six
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Speaker 3 (20:16):
When we're gonna come back.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
My final thought it has to do with the upcoming
mayoral race here in Los Angeles less than a year away.
Karen Bass Is she gonna be re elected? I'll tell
you definitively when we come back.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
If you did not hear me earlier in the show,
I said that tonight's final word was going to be
about Karen Bass and the mayoral race. But before we
do that last segment, I want to make mention of
we're talking about the stories of being told of what
to do and what not to do during an electrical storm.
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And I was remarking how when I was growing up,
I was told to stay away from the bathtub either
guy couldn't take a bath, couldn't take a shower, or
stay away from the toilet anything that had water in it.
And I didn't know whether that was scientifically sound. And
I'm hearing from the momigos and they're sharing their similar
admonitions in the chat, and you Carneesi, we were talking
(21:18):
about what you were told to do and not to do.
It's like, no, this is something that was a real thing.
You didn't go near water. Some people were told don't
turn on electrical appliances during an electrical storm. And yeah,
and if you're from the Midwest or the South, you
know exactly what I'm talking about. This is not exclusive
to me, but you know, definitely want to hear your
(21:39):
stories and thoughts in the chat on YouTube, Instagram or Facebook.
Tell us about some of the admonitions and warnings that
you were told growing up. We'd love to hear from you.
And for my final thought this evening talking about the
mayoral race, there are about eleven and a half months
between now and the next mayoral election here, and if
(22:03):
you just listen to CAFI, you'd think everyone hates Karen
Bass as a politician and as a person. I'm not exaggerating.
If you just listen to CAFI, you think everyone is
of the same mind. But here's the reality. Despite her
public issues, she still has a solid base of support.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Rightly or wrongly.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Sometimes we get into these echo chamber silos and think
that because the media we listen to the media we watch, well,
everybody must think the same way.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
CAFI is real strong at Orange County. I don't need
to tell you that.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You know that it's real strong in the county of
Los Angeles, but it's not necessarily the loudest voice in
the city of Los Angeles. Don't get me wrong, the
station definitely has a sizable footprint, but if you live
in the city of Los Angeles and talk to Los
Angeles voters, it's just a different vantage point, different viewpoint.
(23:04):
There's watching LA on TV like the protests, there's hearing
coverage of LA on the radio like the protests, but
that's not the same as having the presence inside its
borders on a day to day basis, walking the neighborhoods,
driving the neighborhoods, talking to people who live there. And
as I said at the top, they're about eleven and
a half months between now and the next mayoral election
(23:27):
June two, twenty twenty six, and no doubt, Mayor Bass
catches hell in a media sense every single day, a
lot of it, deservedly so in my estimation. But if
the two elections of Donald Trump should have taught you
and me anything, don't confuse media coverage and polls with
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what people on the ground, actual voters value. And there's this,
she's still as of this moment, and I confirmed it
with Tawala earlier in the show. She's still at this
moment the only real cadate running in the election eleven
and a half months out. You can't replace someone, you
(24:08):
can't kick out the Democrats. If there's no alternative, you
don't get to call the voters for LA. Mayor which
most people listening are not. You don't get to call
the voters for La mayor dumb or stupid when there's
no alternative. And I'm going to keep banging this drum
even still there is no Republican in the race. You
(24:30):
can't hope for people to vote for a different direction,
a different person, and a different party, a Republican when
the party is neither putting forth a candidate nor developing
one right now. You can't just jump in the race
and nobody knows who that person is if to develop candidates.
Here's a comparison point. Rick Caruso got in the race
(24:52):
nine months out back in twenty twenty two, got in
in February, the election was in November.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
He almost won, so it's not too late in a
calendar sense. We're more than nine months out.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
But still he's not a Republican in terms of party
registration or fidelity, and he's still not in the race. Yes,
Rick Caruso used to be a Republican and runs to
the right of Karen Bass politically, but he'll never be
viewed as a true Democrat no more. Let me use
this as a comparison point, No more than Gavin Newsom
(25:24):
would be reviewed as a Republican if he changed his
party affiliation and ran for president, no more than former
Sheriff Alex Vanueva, who was previously a Democrat while sheriff,
but was not perceived as one for his politics.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Perception matters.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Van Auela, as a matter of fact, did recently change
his affiliation to Republican, and it probably better suits him
and his perception. But Rick Caruso tried to change his
party affiliation specifically to run for mayor.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
He did so probably for a lot of reason.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
He did so knowing that the majority of voters in
LA are registered Democrats, and a Democratic candidate would have
an easier path than a Republican. No one would dispute that,
But the flip side is that a newly minted dem
doesn't get state party support, and yes, parties play favorites.
(26:20):
Rick Crusoe spent one hundred and four million dollars of
his own money in the hopes of making up for
his late party switch. Still wasn't enough. So just having
the D next to your name is not enough. Sometimes
it's just evident that complaining about LA is a lot
more fun than anything. Most people don't live in the city,
don't have any real connection to the city and aren't
(26:42):
doing anything for the city.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I know I'm not talking to you, I'm talking about
the other folks.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
But if the Republican Party were serious, and I don't
think they are, but if they were serious, they would
have been developing candidates to run in the race for mayor.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Karen Bass has never been more vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
There would be names on the tip of our tongue
right now that would be getting in the race right
about now. Not one, not one Republican is presently even
waiting in the wings. If this holds true, Bass, regardless
of what you may think of her record, whatever, she
will become mayor again. And maybe, just maybe that's what
you want, because it makes more fun for you and
me to complain, complain about stuff having nothing to do
(27:22):
with you, specifically, I'm going to keep beating this dead
horse until it turns to glue. I get it. Complaining
is fun, not productive, but as sure as hell fun.
I like complaining too. I'm not gonna be hypocritical. Sometimes
it's better to just complain and point. But also, I've
lived in the city of Los Angeles for the bulk
of my life, I'm pretty sure I can say I
(27:44):
know the city from end to end as well as anyone.
That's what fifty five years has earned me. I've come
by it honestly, from Bradley to reared end han Via Ragosa,
excuse me, Vera, to Garcetti and now to Bass.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I know the city topped the bottom.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
But if the goal, if the goal is better or
different leadership, then there has to be competition. And you're
not going to get that from inside the Democratic Party
against an incumbent mayor.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
You never will.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
If you don't field a candidate Republicans, you don't get
to claim your serious.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Okay, if I am six forty, I'm mo Kelly, k
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Speaker 1 (28:32):
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