Okay, if I am six or forty years later with Mo Kelly, but
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We have a wonderful show coming up for
you tonight. Yes, we're going to get into that bus shooting and it
wasn't on Metro, but I think it goes back to a point I made
a long time ago. If you can't be safe or feel safe on public
transportation, then no one is really safe. It doesn't matter whether if it
was on some foothel bus or it was Metro or it was the Burbank bus
right around the corner from us. If you cannot be safe on public transportation,
than just about nobody is safe. We're definitely going to get into that,
and we're going to get into these new cooling centers which are being launched
at public libraries all around the county. And we have an update on the
Sunday ticket lawsuit where the NFL is having to defend the exorbitant price tag of
Sunday ticket which is about I think like five hundred dollars now something like that
for the season. Something ridiculous, and people are saying, wait a minute,
come on, why is it so high? Are you trying to protect
local showings of NFL games like CBS and Fox. But we'll get into that
a little later. But I wanted to start to show off tonight like I
did last night. Last night, I told you that there was an approaching
or pending vote LAUSD they were going to consider a total ban on student cell
phones. Well, the LA School Board today set in motion to plan to
ban all cell phones all day on all campuses, all year, saying the
devices distract students from learning. I agree, lead to anxiety, I agree,
and allow for cyber bullying. I agree there, but it's not going
to be immediate. The ban would take effect in January of twenty twenty five,
after details are approved in a future meeting by the Board of Education.
Let me just say it like this, when it comes to banning cell phones,
smartphones, rotary phones, touchtne phones, whatever students may have, banning
them is the right thing to do. It's a learning environment. But I
just don't know the right way to do it that makes any sense. I
know there should be some severe restrictions and limitations about students having access to these
phones which are distracting them not only from learning, but developing basic socialization skills.
Have you ever seen how young people seemingly I know this is a generalization,
but I think it's still an accurate one. A lot of young people
just don't know how to act around other people. They don't know to have
how to have conversations, they don't know how to dialogue that sometimes they struggle
to make eye contact. They seemingly are uncomfortable in all basic social situations.
It's something that I've seen as if they're not developing those skills in which to
deal with people on a day to day basis. And you see it,
you hear it, and you see it, you see it, and how
they may react or act with people they don't know the subtle social cues of
what's appropriate, what's inappropriate through language and also what they're doing on phones is
as far as the text language, and I've heard this from many teachers,
many teachers has seeped into how they're writing their papers, how they're trying to
communicate with teachers, how they're trying to learn, as it were, where
you have all this text shorthand. And I saw this post and I know
that's making fun of old people, and they say, you can always find
someone who's like gen X or older because they text and complete sentences. Yes,
I do. And I also managed to graduate high school. I also
managed to be able to write a basic fundamental business letter and English paper.
These are skills that a lot of these kids are not learning because they don't
know the difference or are unable to separate what they do on a phone with
what happens in the real world. I am all for this cell phone,
smartphone, rotary phone, touch tone phone ban for students in the school.
I just don't know the right way to do it. And I know there's
going to be a lot of pushback. Whatever they come out with, there's
going to be a contingent of parents are going to say, no, no,
no, I need to get in touch with my child in an emergency.
And I get that. And I know when I was going to school,
not only did we not have cell phones, we did not have school
shootings. I get that. It's a different animal altogether. The whole school
experience is fundamentally different. The things that parents have to worry about today they
did not have to worry about then. When I was going to school,
he had to worry about the occasional knife, he had to worry about fights,
he had to worry about the occasional gay member coming from off campus or
something. All right, it's not the same thing, And I get parents
have a different level of anxiety, but there has to be some sort of
an arrangement, an agreement or understanding where kids should not have access to that
phone all damn day because it's getting in the way of not only the learning
process, but the teaching process. And from all the people that I hear,
who are teachers, who are educators, who are administrators, that is
probably at the top of the list of the biggest distraction in the school environment.
They are on the phones. Students' kids are on the phone all damn
day. If they're not trying to look at their phone in class, it's
on the way to the class, or they're at lunch. They are completely
mesmerized by whatever's going on that phone, and they're not learning the things that
they need to learn. So again, banning cell phones, smartphones, touchtones,
rotary phones is the right thing to do. I just don't know the
exact right way it needs to be done. And hello, Mark Roner,
how you doing tonight? Mo? I'm I'm glad we didn't have this trouble
when I was in school. Well, if I had a phone back then
it would have been a distraction, without a doubt. Oh got it.
And I got in fights constantly all through school. Never had to worry about
getting shot, never once. Right, it's just completely different. And hello
Stefan, welcome back this year yesterday? Hello, Hello, how you feeling
much better? Okay? Good to know. Good tonight. Now we can
make fun of you since you fal much better enough. And Twalla sharp,
producer of the show, How you doing? Brother fantastic? And Matt and
oh you're gonna get on the mic because I heard you don't like to get
on the mic. Okay he was told, yeah, okay, there is
no being in here, Matt. You are co producing, associate producing tonight.
How you doing, sir? Wait a minute, it's the other button.
See that's why we watching, and so you learn how radio is there
we go. That is the on button that turns on the microphone. Got
it? Got it? Now that's your first lesson. Welcome, Thank you,
thank you. It's later with Mo Kelly can if I am six forty
When we come back, we'll talk about that passenger who was injured after the
shooting. On the bus near the ten Freeway in Baldwin Park. That's the
next you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
And there's been another bus shooting. And I tell people, and maybe
some people don't believe me, but let me explain it a little bit more.
Whenever there is violence on public transportation, I think it is usually indicative
of a more violent society. More generally, if you cannot be safe on
public transportation, then nobody's safe. And that's one of my formulations. And
here's why. Think about who uses public transportation, children, youths, the
elderly, men, women, cross section of just about everyone in society.
Everyone, And if your grandmother can't be safe on there, if your son
or daughter can't be safe on it, and any given day every age group
will use public transportation. If they can't be safe on it, then nobody
is safe. I remember before I had a car, and I didn't get
my first car until I was twenty two. But I'm not bitter. I
didn't get my first car until I was twenty two, but before then,
and I think Twela knows something about this. The only way we could get
around and this is pre subway. Was the bus that was our only means
of transportation. Oh yeah, I forgot. We're talking to people under the
age of forty. They don't remember a world without subway. They don't remember
a world without uber, they don't remember a world without lyft. They don't
know about the rough, tough and dirty. They don't know nothing about that.
As they say, once upon a time, a long time ago,
in a city far, far far away, people actually had to use public
transportation where they didn't have their own car. If I wanted to go to
Dilamo Mall, it was only six miles straight down Supervita Bolevarc. You know
how I did it. I got on the bus. And that's what most
people did. You got on the bus. But the feeling, the thought
was it was relatively safe. You didn't have to worry about much for the
most part. You didn't have to worry about gunshots breaking out with any regularity,
at least not on my side of town. But the reason I bring
this up is because in Baldwyn Park you've probably heard the story by now.
A one min is still on the loose after an innocent passenger was wounded.
An innocent passenger was wounded in a shooting on a foothill transit bus in Balwen
Park. The suspect and another man began arguing, seemingly they did not know
each other. From what I can tell, they didn't know each other,
leading to the suspect pulling out a gun and opening fire. I wasn't there.
I don't know what happened. I don't know what was said. But
we live in a world where you can get into a verbal confrontation with someone
and say something that will make the other person pull out a gun and shoot
you on a bus. When we go back to what I was saying before,
on a bus with women, with children, all age groups, and
that's exactly what happened. In fact, it said that authority said the bus
driver tried to calm things down before the suspect pulled out a gun. To
no avail, and a woman in her fifties was inadvertently struck and then rushed
to a hospital. Collateral Authorities are still trying to determine if she was actually
struck by a bullet or if she was injured by shrapnel. To Tomato,
Tomato, does it really matter, because without the gun, without the gun,
shot there is no wound, there is no injury, there is no
trip to the hospital, there's nothing to discuss. The second person involved in
a fight reportedly was not injured, and authorities believe the suspect fled to a
nearby neighborhood. For me, it's less about the specifics of this shooting and
more about the bigger picture of society today. I you know, I don't
think well, I can't speak for you Twaala. You have the seventeen turning
eighteen year old son who has written public transportation in recent days, weeks or
months. I know if I had a son that age, it'd be I
would be very uncomfortable. Put it that way. Yeah, putting on my
bus absolutely him getting around and knowing that, you know, come this fall,
he'll have to catch the bus to school when he starts school at Pierce
and it's a short distance away. But between there and the college campus,
anything can happen. And to this story, he could be just someone on
the bus, just catch some shrapnel, just being in this bystander, and
that petrifies me. Well, first, congratulations for your son graduating and matriculating
the college. That's number one years and number two I don't know how you
deal with that uncertainty. I don't want to call it a fear, but
it's something you still have to think about. Yeah, each and every time
that he's not within eyesight of you, and you know that he has to
try public transportation. Oh no, it's like every time, even during his
internship while he was in high school, every time he left the campus.
It's let us know when you leave the campus, let's know when you get
on the bus, let's know when you get to your destination. These are
the things that if you want us to trust this process of releasing our tight
grip, you know, and letting you become who you want to be and
become the man you're gonna be, then yeah, you got to show us
that you've got to be ready. You are not me, you're not your
mother. You did not grow up in the streets learning about life. You
grew up very sheltered, very protected, and this is a different world.
But I don't blame him for not knowing. But he can do everything perfectly.
He can. Let you know, Dad, I'm leaving school, Dad,
I'm at the bus stop. Dad, I'm getting on the bus.
And then some knucklehead having nothing to do with him not even speaking to him.
Not even talking to him has then created a situation in which your son
can be victimized. Very true. And this is also why, and this
is something you talk about all the time as it relates to martial arts,
which is why I got him in martial arts at a very young age.
Which is why I kept him in boxing and all types of combat sports,
not because I wanted him to fight, because I wanted him to be able
to keep his head on the swivel and be aware and be looking out at
all times, be suspicious of everyone around you. Any single person can go
just absolutely loony and come after you. You don't know, you cannot crazy
doesn't look like anything. Anyone can be quote unquote crazy and lose it.
You have to be aware, and even that won't help you if the wrong
situation presents itself in front of you, especially if it starts unfolding on a
bus. There's only so much look a bus, let's say, during rush
hour. I know what that's like because I used to ride a Metro and
part of that was the bus. On occasion, if the trains were down,
or someone that unfortunately taking their own life on the track or something.
You get on the bus during rush hour, you're standing, there's no way
for you to move. There's nothing you can do. I say that to
say if someone were to have pulled out a gun in that situation, there's
absolutely nothing I can do. If I'm not even in a seat, I
may be a person who's standing holding on to a bar. There's not a
room. There's not even enough room for you to duck. That is true.
That's the unfortunate reality. And again, if public transportation can't have a
modicum of safety, then nobody's safe anywhere. You're listening to later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. There's this bill, and I
would say it's somewhat controversial. It may be well intended, but I don't
think it addresses any real issues that need addressing. I'm talking about automatic registration.
This coalition of dozens of organizations which are backing this bill to automatically register
people to vote at the DMV. This is not new, but this is
an ongoing discussion. Sidney Fang, policy director at the advocacy group of AAPI
Dash Force, says, quote, we must ensure that every eligible citizen can
exercise our rights to vote with as few barriers as possible. Close quote.
I'm real big on voting. If you've ever listened to me, I'm very
big on voting. But let's not be dishonest in the characterization of what's most
important and where barriers to voting lie. There are barriers in certain states,
certain obstacles are in place to keep people from voting, but that's not the
case in California. It's something I follow very very carefully and very closely.
The problem we have in California is not voter registration. Have never had a
problem trying to register to vote. The problem we have is apathy, voter
indifference, people actually wanting to vote and then exercising their right to vote.
How many conversations have we had after I don't know how many elections. About
eighteen percent came out for the mayoral race, or only twenty two percent came
out for the primaries, and that's twenty two percent of eligible registered voters.
It's not a problem of people getting registered. It's just people don't give a
whatever and don't go to the polls. It's two different conversations, two different
issues, and we shouldn't conflate the two. And there's this This is part
cynicism, but it's also fact. Know that whatever party or I would say
representatives of a coalition which is closely aligned to a party, know that when
they come out in support or against a measure, nine times out of ten
it's going to benefit a specific party. If you notice that people are trying
to back a bill which would limit people having access to water like the was
it case in Georgia, or people would have to wait in line for eight
hours to limit the access to voting. The only time people do that is
because they know that it will favor their preferred side. And we're talking in
this respect about supposedly getting more people, a more diverse group of people to
vote, when it has nothing to do with voting. It has to do
a voter registration. Well, mo, what's the difference. Ay, here's
the key difference. When you sign up at the DMV and you declare a
party, you immediately go on the voter rolls and then you will be bombarded
by that particular party for donations or whoever's running. You will end up on
everybody's list, everybody's list. I am registered as an independent and for some
reason. Everybody has my email, everybody has one of my phone numbers,
and I never gave it to anybody. And then I said, aha,
aha, when I register to vote, say it with me at the DMV.
So I know this intimately and personally, and so it gives politicians the
ability to fundraise more thoroughly across certain communities because if you are mandating or making
it where anyone who goes to the DMV and gets a new driver license or
updates the registration, then they are registered to vote. Then you're getting all
their information and that's used in the voter roles, and that's used for fundraising
and all the political things that we really find distasteful. That is the reason
that I am not for this. I am all for making sure that people
have access to a voteam. But if you're trying to tell me that mandatory
automatic voter registration is going to encourage more people to vote, that's simply not
true and the evidence is not there to support that. I'm quite sure,
with the exception of a presidential election, which is always high turnout, for
the most part, people don't care. People don't care about exercising their vote.
Oh they'll vote for president, because that's the one office that everyone knows
about and everyone argues on social media. But they're not running out there to
vote for comptroller. They're not rushing to vote for assembly person, they're not
trying to vote for state senator. They have no idea who the judges are
on the ballot, and I'd be willing to bet they'd leave a lot of
those just blank, or or they're just randomly filling in boxes that little circle
like they have no idea. People don't care. The issue is not,
at least in California, being able to vote, and I should say it's
about the desire to vote. That's the issue, not access to voting,
not automatic voter registration. It is a solution in search of a problem which
does not exist. It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to talk about cooling centers in
the library. When we come back. You're listening to Later with mo Kelly
on demand from KFI AM six forty. And we know we've been inundated with
a lot of heat. We have a heat wave coming this way all around
the country. But in anticipation of that, and also as we go deeper
into summer, LA is launching cool eating centers as part of a pilot program
at libraries. And I am a big proponent of the La County Library system.
I've told a story before, I'll tell it again very quickly. When
I was out of work, I used the LA Library as my office,
as a place I could come do some work, send out resumes. There
were resources which were available to me, always helpful staff. The LA Public
Libraries very very important. Not only do people like me, but also those
in the community didn't have resources available to them to do similar things just like
me, looking for a job, place to study, place to hang out
and use find books or even DBDs. It's a great resource wherever you are
in the county and now LA's launching this cooling center pilot program at libraries.
Locations will be the West Valley Regional Library and Resita Exposition Park, Doctor Mary
maclaud Bethune Regional Library, the San Pedro Regional Library, the Pokuoima Branch Library,
and Chinatown Branch Library. At why these locations, the city's Climate Emergency
Mobilization Office used city and UCLA data to map heat risk in different communities.
The data brings together a variety of risk points including socioeconomic status, pollution burden,
access to green space and shade, and numbers of heat related emergency room
visits to identify what areas have the most people at risk for heat related illness.
I'm all for this, now, I know that there are some out
there who would not be for this, and two of those people would be
Tucker Carlson and Fabio. You may remember that Fabio is against LA libraries because
allegedly they're having sex in the library. So to give you mark, you
don't know this, Okay, let me just reset this. Fabio, who
is an expert on everything he reads, He's an expert on everything. Of
course, he came on with Tucker Carlson and there's a brain trust for you,
and they were breaking down the problems in LA and it also got to
the library. So let me just reset this very quickly. The Golden State
has lost its glow. Obviously. California now has more poverty than any state.
Homelessness is completely out of control. State officials are still focused on protecting
illegal immigrants from deportation rather than any of the problems the state faces, including
the flight of its introremental class. It's a sad picture. One man who
sees it clearly is who's been there a long time after Model Fabio. He's
an immigrant to the state, but not one of those state officials care about
Fabio joins us tonight. So Fabia, thanks for coming on. I want
to read. I don't believe there anymore, but I read about California every
day. Here are two headlines. Tell me if they sum up what it's
like now. This is just from the other day. Orange County homeless camp
clear up. Four hundred tons of debris, fourteen thousand needles, five thousand
pounds of human waste. Here's a second. California lowers the penalty for knowingly
exposing someone to HIV. It sounds chaotic and dirty. Is that your experience?
Yeah, well, let me tell you something right now about California.
It look like a wild wild West. And don't look farther than the leaders
of California. Jerry Brown, Levy, the mayor of Auckland, you know,
Jerry Brown, with proposition forty seven fifty seven Bill one on nine,
it to totally the side of the criminals. Is when on a criminal side
totly turn his back on a law enforcement And you know the leaders of California
the acting criminals. They acting like criminals. So will you expect the rest
of the people are going to do. Then you have the mayor of Auckland
will totally tell all the criminal to run away because ice is coming over.
So I had to do over nine android the arrest they only arrest about I
think one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty people. Then you have you know,
the homeless, the homeless. If you look, if you go downtown
Los Angeles, I'm Tallian attacker, it's like it's like I've been around the
world. I remember being thirty years ago in Africa. Africa doesn't look like
that in a in a in a it's unbelievable. Know either throw walk country
thirty years ago ago look like California right now. Like downtown. You know,
you go down to the library, it's like southom man Gamara. I
mean it's like sex. The library is like Sodom Ngamorra. I gotta go
to the library more often. How far down on your guest list you have
to go to decide that Fabio is the expert you want to come is an
expert on everything. You know, you go down to the like the library,
it's like sodom man Gamora. I mean, it's like sex, sex,
rugs and rock and rolls a library, though it's in the library.
In the library. Well, I knew the LA library system was good,
but I didn't know it was that good. Look, I've been missing out.
So they're going to put cooling centers in a place where it's sex,
drugs and rock and roll. It's sodom and Gomorrah and cooling centers where in
the library. That's where you can find it. You didn't know they should
advertise that. Look, they would get a lot more people of taking out
books, checking out books. Oh my patronship of the library would increase at
least twofold. So you know, five libraries cooling centers to help people.
And that's if you can get past the homeless and the sex, drugs and
rock and roll, and you can only find it where in the library in
Los Angeles. The last time I had this discussion, I had people saying,
Mo, you don't know what you're talking about. Homeless people are having
sex in the library. Well stop them. I don't know what to say
honestly, who doesn't. When you're in college, it was always going on
in the stacks at the college library. Homeless people are no different than anybody
else. They have needs. Look, I didn't have sex in the library.
I had sex in the music room. I see. Well, and
people may not know what a music room is. Music room is where they
have the instruments and they have like practice rooms. They'll have a piano in
there, or you have a space where you can practice your own instrument and
there's nothing in there and at night. Never mind, it wasn't It wasn't
like the library though. Matt stopped laughing at me. Okay, it was
a different time, well, a different person. You gotta be quiet about
it in the library as all. Well, that's why you go to the
music room because you have all these other sounds. You just kind of blend
in there. When someone's practicing the suzophone, they don't notice it's not quite
the same. Is that a trombone in the library. So that's where that
comes from. All right, Hopefully it's better now than the homeless are not
having as much sex in the library anymore. In the library. What are
they supposed to do outside the library? Of course it's inside the library.
In the library, it's free, the door's open. Look, I wanted
it, she wanted it. We're consenting adults. Why not? Why not?
If no? What? Let me just put it this way. If
you had the opportunity to have sex with someone who wanted to have sex with
you and nobody stopped you, wouldn't you If a hot librarian comes up to
you and says, sir, I believe you have a very thick volume,
what are you gonna do? Also, what the irony of the guy known
primarily for being a model for romance book covers. He's against sex people getting
it on? What has the world come to? He was the literbo cover
boy for sex and and books, well, and butter, don't forget the
butter. Well, that's true. And if you want to make a last
Tango in Paris joke, that's totally on you. I'm out of it.
Didn't he get hit in the head by like a seagull or something on on
a ride or something he did that his nose may have affected, it may
have some long term damage. Well I'm not going to say that. You
know it was karma, but you know, just leave the homeless people alone
having sex. You don't have to worry about that. It's later with mokel
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