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Okay, if I am six or
forty years later with Mo Kelly, but

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live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
We have a wonderful show coming up for

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you tonight. Yes, we're going
to get into that bus shooting and it

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wasn't on Metro, but I think
it goes back to a point I made

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a long time ago. If you
can't be safe or feel safe on public

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transportation, then no one is really
safe. It doesn't matter whether if it

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was on some foothel bus or it
was Metro or it was the Burbank bus

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right around the corner from us.
If you cannot be safe on public transportation,

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than just about nobody is safe.
We're definitely going to get into that,

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and we're going to get into these
new cooling centers which are being launched

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at public libraries all around the county. And we have an update on the

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Sunday ticket lawsuit where the NFL is
having to defend the exorbitant price tag of

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Sunday ticket which is about I think
like five hundred dollars now something like that

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for the season. Something ridiculous,
and people are saying, wait a minute,

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come on, why is it so
high? Are you trying to protect

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local showings of NFL games like CBS
and Fox. But we'll get into that

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a little later. But I wanted
to start to show off tonight like I

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did last night. Last night,
I told you that there was an approaching

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or pending vote LAUSD they were going
to consider a total ban on student cell

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phones. Well, the LA School
Board today set in motion to plan to

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ban all cell phones all day on
all campuses, all year, saying the

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devices distract students from learning. I
agree, lead to anxiety, I agree,

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and allow for cyber bullying. I
agree there, but it's not going

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to be immediate. The ban would
take effect in January of twenty twenty five,

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after details are approved in a future
meeting by the Board of Education.

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Let me just say it like this, when it comes to banning cell phones,

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smartphones, rotary phones, touchtne phones, whatever students may have, banning

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them is the right thing to do. It's a learning environment. But I

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just don't know the right way to
do it that makes any sense. I

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know there should be some severe restrictions
and limitations about students having access to these

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phones which are distracting them not only
from learning, but developing basic socialization skills.

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Have you ever seen how young people
seemingly I know this is a generalization,

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but I think it's still an accurate
one. A lot of young people

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just don't know how to act around
other people. They don't know to have

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how to have conversations, they don't
know how to dialogue that sometimes they struggle

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to make eye contact. They seemingly
are uncomfortable in all basic social situations.

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It's something that I've seen as if
they're not developing those skills in which to

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deal with people on a day to
day basis. And you see it,

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you hear it, and you see
it, you see it, and how

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they may react or act with people
they don't know the subtle social cues of

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what's appropriate, what's inappropriate through language
and also what they're doing on phones is

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as far as the text language,
and I've heard this from many teachers,

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many teachers has seeped into how they're
writing their papers, how they're trying to

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communicate with teachers, how they're trying
to learn, as it were, where

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you have all this text shorthand.
And I saw this post and I know

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that's making fun of old people,
and they say, you can always find

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someone who's like gen X or older
because they text and complete sentences. Yes,

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I do. And I also managed
to graduate high school. I also

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managed to be able to write a
basic fundamental business letter and English paper.

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These are skills that a lot of
these kids are not learning because they don't

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know the difference or are unable to
separate what they do on a phone with

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what happens in the real world.
I am all for this cell phone,

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smartphone, rotary phone, touch tone
phone ban for students in the school.

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I just don't know the right way
to do it. And I know there's

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going to be a lot of pushback. Whatever they come out with, there's

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going to be a contingent of parents
are going to say, no, no,

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no, I need to get in
touch with my child in an emergency.

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And I get that. And I
know when I was going to school,

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not only did we not have cell
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shootings. I get that. It's
a different animal altogether. The whole school

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experience is fundamentally different. The things
that parents have to worry about today they

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did not have to worry about then. When I was going to school,

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he had to worry about the occasional
knife, he had to worry about fights,

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he had to worry about the occasional
gay member coming from off campus or

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something. All right, it's not
the same thing, And I get parents

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have a different level of anxiety,
but there has to be some sort of

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an arrangement, an agreement or understanding
where kids should not have access to that

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phone all damn day because it's getting
in the way of not only the learning

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process, but the teaching process.
And from all the people that I hear,

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who are teachers, who are educators, who are administrators, that is

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probably at the top of the list
of the biggest distraction in the school environment.

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They are on the phones. Students'
kids are on the phone all damn

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day. If they're not trying to
look at their phone in class, it's

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on the way to the class,
or they're at lunch. They are completely

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mesmerized by whatever's going on that phone, and they're not learning the things that

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they need to learn. So again, banning cell phones, smartphones, touchtones,

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rotary phones is the right thing to
do. I just don't know the

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exact right way it needs to be
done. And hello, Mark Roner,

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how you doing tonight? Mo?
I'm I'm glad we didn't have this trouble

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when I was in school. Well, if I had a phone back then

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it would have been a distraction,
without a doubt. Oh got it.

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And I got in fights constantly all
through school. Never had to worry about

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getting shot, never once. Right, it's just completely different. And hello

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Stefan, welcome back this year yesterday? Hello, Hello, how you feeling

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much better? Okay? Good to
know. Good tonight. Now we can

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make fun of you since you fal
much better enough. And Twalla sharp,

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producer of the show, How you
doing? Brother fantastic? And Matt and

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oh you're gonna get on the mic
because I heard you don't like to get

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on the mic. Okay he was
told, yeah, okay, there is

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no being in here, Matt.
You are co producing, associate producing tonight.

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How you doing, sir? Wait
a minute, it's the other button.

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See that's why we watching, and
so you learn how radio is there

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we go. That is the on
button that turns on the microphone. Got

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it? Got it? Now that's
your first lesson. Welcome, Thank you,

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thank you. It's later with Mo
Kelly can if I am six forty

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When we come back, we'll talk
about that passenger who was injured after the

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shooting. On the bus near the
ten Freeway in Baldwin Park. That's the

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next you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.

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And there's been another bus shooting.
And I tell people, and maybe

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some people don't believe me, but
let me explain it a little bit more.

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Whenever there is violence on public transportation, I think it is usually indicative

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of a more violent society. More
generally, if you cannot be safe on

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public transportation, then nobody's safe.
And that's one of my formulations. And

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here's why. Think about who uses
public transportation, children, youths, the

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elderly, men, women, cross
section of just about everyone in society.

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Everyone, And if your grandmother can't
be safe on there, if your son

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or daughter can't be safe on it, and any given day every age group

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will use public transportation. If they
can't be safe on it, then nobody

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is safe. I remember before I
had a car, and I didn't get

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my first car until I was twenty
two. But I'm not bitter. I

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didn't get my first car until I
was twenty two, but before then,

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and I think Twela knows something about
this. The only way we could get

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around and this is pre subway.
Was the bus that was our only means

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of transportation. Oh yeah, I
forgot. We're talking to people under the

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age of forty. They don't remember
a world without subway. They don't remember

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a world without uber, they don't
remember a world without lyft. They don't

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know about the rough, tough and
dirty. They don't know nothing about that.

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As they say, once upon a
time, a long time ago,

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in a city far, far far
away, people actually had to use public

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transportation where they didn't have their own
car. If I wanted to go to

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Dilamo Mall, it was only six
miles straight down Supervita Bolevarc. You know

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how I did it. I got
on the bus. And that's what most

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people did. You got on the
bus. But the feeling, the thought

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was it was relatively safe. You
didn't have to worry about much for the

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most part. You didn't have to
worry about gunshots breaking out with any regularity,

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at least not on my side of
town. But the reason I bring

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this up is because in Baldwyn Park
you've probably heard the story by now.

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A one min is still on the
loose after an innocent passenger was wounded.

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An innocent passenger was wounded in a
shooting on a foothill transit bus in Balwen

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Park. The suspect and another man
began arguing, seemingly they did not know

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each other. From what I can
tell, they didn't know each other,

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leading to the suspect pulling out a
gun and opening fire. I wasn't there.

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I don't know what happened. I
don't know what was said. But

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we live in a world where you
can get into a verbal confrontation with someone

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and say something that will make the
other person pull out a gun and shoot

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you on a bus. When we
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on a bus with women, with
children, all age groups, and

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that's exactly what happened. In fact, it said that authority said the bus

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driver tried to calm things down before
the suspect pulled out a gun. To

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no avail, and a woman in
her fifties was inadvertently struck and then rushed

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to a hospital. Collateral Authorities are
still trying to determine if she was actually

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struck by a bullet or if she
was injured by shrapnel. To Tomato,

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Tomato, does it really matter,
because without the gun, without the gun,

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shot there is no wound, there
is no injury, there is no

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trip to the hospital, there's nothing
to discuss. The second person involved in

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a fight reportedly was not injured,
and authorities believe the suspect fled to a

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nearby neighborhood. For me, it's
less about the specifics of this shooting and

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more about the bigger picture of society
today. I you know, I don't

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think well, I can't speak for
you Twaala. You have the seventeen turning

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eighteen year old son who has written
public transportation in recent days, weeks or

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months. I know if I had
a son that age, it'd be I

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would be very uncomfortable. Put it
that way. Yeah, putting on my

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bus absolutely him getting around and knowing
that, you know, come this fall,

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he'll have to catch the bus to
school when he starts school at Pierce

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and it's a short distance away.
But between there and the college campus,

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anything can happen. And to this
story, he could be just someone on

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the bus, just catch some shrapnel, just being in this bystander, and

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that petrifies me. Well, first, congratulations for your son graduating and matriculating

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the college. That's number one years
and number two I don't know how you

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deal with that uncertainty. I don't
want to call it a fear, but

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it's something you still have to think
about. Yeah, each and every time

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that he's not within eyesight of you, and you know that he has to

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try public transportation. Oh no,
it's like every time, even during his

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internship while he was in high school, every time he left the campus.

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It's let us know when you leave
the campus, let's know when you get

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on the bus, let's know when
you get to your destination. These are

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the things that if you want us
to trust this process of releasing our tight

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grip, you know, and letting
you become who you want to be and

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become the man you're gonna be,
then yeah, you got to show us

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that you've got to be ready.
You are not me, you're not your

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mother. You did not grow up
in the streets learning about life. You

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grew up very sheltered, very protected, and this is a different world.

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But I don't blame him for not
knowing. But he can do everything perfectly.

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He can. Let you know,
Dad, I'm leaving school, Dad,

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I'm at the bus stop. Dad, I'm getting on the bus.

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And then some knucklehead having nothing to
do with him not even speaking to him.

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Not even talking to him has then
created a situation in which your son

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can be victimized. Very true.
And this is also why, and this

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is something you talk about all the
time as it relates to martial arts,

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which is why I got him in
martial arts at a very young age.

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Which is why I kept him in
boxing and all types of combat sports,

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not because I wanted him to fight, because I wanted him to be able

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to keep his head on the swivel
and be aware and be looking out at

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all times, be suspicious of everyone
around you. Any single person can go

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just absolutely loony and come after you. You don't know, you cannot crazy

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doesn't look like anything. Anyone can
be quote unquote crazy and lose it.

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You have to be aware, and
even that won't help you if the wrong

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situation presents itself in front of you, especially if it starts unfolding on a

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bus. There's only so much look
a bus, let's say, during rush

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hour. I know what that's like
because I used to ride a Metro and

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part of that was the bus.
On occasion, if the trains were down,

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or someone that unfortunately taking their own
life on the track or something.

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You get on the bus during rush
hour, you're standing, there's no way

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for you to move. There's nothing
you can do. I say that to

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say if someone were to have pulled
out a gun in that situation, there's

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absolutely nothing I can do. If
I'm not even in a seat, I

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may be a person who's standing holding
on to a bar. There's not a

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room. There's not even enough room
for you to duck. That is true.

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That's the unfortunate reality. And again, if public transportation can't have a

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modicum of safety, then nobody's safe
anywhere. You're listening to later with Moe

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Kelly on demand from KFI AM six
forty. There's this bill, and I

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would say it's somewhat controversial. It
may be well intended, but I don't

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think it addresses any real issues that
need addressing. I'm talking about automatic registration.

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This coalition of dozens of organizations which
are backing this bill to automatically register

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people to vote at the DMV.
This is not new, but this is

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an ongoing discussion. Sidney Fang,
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Dash Force, says, quote,
we must ensure that every eligible citizen can

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exercise our rights to vote with as
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I'm real big on voting. If
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big on voting. But let's not
be dishonest in the characterization of what's most

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important and where barriers to voting lie. There are barriers in certain states,

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certain obstacles are in place to keep
people from voting, but that's not the

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case in California. It's something I
follow very very carefully and very closely.

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The problem we have in California is
not voter registration. Have never had a

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problem trying to register to vote.
The problem we have is apathy, voter

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indifference, people actually wanting to vote
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How many conversations have we had after
I don't know how many elections. About

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eighteen percent came out for the mayoral
race, or only twenty two percent came

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out for the primaries, and that's
twenty two percent of eligible registered voters.

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It's not a problem of people getting
registered. It's just people don't give a

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whatever and don't go to the polls. It's two different conversations, two different

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issues, and we shouldn't conflate the
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cynicism, but it's also fact.
Know that whatever party or I would say

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representatives of a coalition which is closely
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they come out in support or against
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it's going to benefit a specific party. If you notice that people are trying

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to back a bill which would limit
people having access to water like the was

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it case in Georgia, or people
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hours to limit the access to voting. The only time people do that is

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because they know that it will favor
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this respect about supposedly getting more people, a more diverse group of people to

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vote, when it has nothing to
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a voter registration. Well, mo, what's the difference. Ay, here's

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the key difference. When you sign
up at the DMV and you declare a

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party, you immediately go on the
voter rolls and then you will be bombarded

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by that particular party for donations or
whoever's running. You will end up on

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everybody's list, everybody's list. I
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reason. Everybody has my email,
everybody has one of my phone numbers,

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and I never gave it to anybody. And then I said, aha,

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aha, when I register to vote, say it with me at the DMV.

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So I know this intimately and personally, and so it gives politicians the

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ability to fundraise more thoroughly across certain
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it where anyone who goes to the
DMV and gets a new driver license or

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updates the registration, then they are
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their information and that's used in the
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and all the political things that we
really find distasteful. That is the reason

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that I am not for this.
I am all for making sure that people

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have access to a voteam. But
if you're trying to tell me that mandatory

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automatic voter registration is going to encourage
more people to vote, that's simply not

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true and the evidence is not there
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with the exception of a presidential election, which is always high turnout, for

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the most part, people don't care. People don't care about exercising their vote.

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Oh they'll vote for president, because
that's the one office that everyone knows

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about and everyone argues on social media. But they're not running out there to

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vote for comptroller. They're not rushing
to vote for assembly person, they're not

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trying to vote for state senator.
They have no idea who the judges are

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on the ballot, and I'd be
willing to bet they'd leave a lot of

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those just blank, or or they're
just randomly filling in boxes that little circle

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like they have no idea. People
don't care. The issue is not,

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at least in California, being able
to vote, and I should say it's

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about the desire to vote. That's
the issue, not access to voting,

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not automatic voter registration. It is
a solution in search of a problem which

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does not exist. It's Later with
mo Kelly KFI AM six forty. We're

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live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
We're going to talk about cooling centers in

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the library. When we come back. You're listening to Later with mo Kelly

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on demand from KFI AM six forty. And we know we've been inundated with

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a lot of heat. We have
a heat wave coming this way all around

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the country. But in anticipation of
that, and also as we go deeper

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into summer, LA is launching cool
eating centers as part of a pilot program

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at libraries. And I am a
big proponent of the La County Library system.

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I've told a story before, I'll
tell it again very quickly. When

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I was out of work, I
used the LA Library as my office,

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as a place I could come do
some work, send out resumes. There

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were resources which were available to me, always helpful staff. The LA Public

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Libraries very very important. Not only
do people like me, but also those

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in the community didn't have resources available
to them to do similar things just like

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me, looking for a job,
place to study, place to hang out

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and use find books or even DBDs. It's a great resource wherever you are

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in the county and now LA's launching
this cooling center pilot program at libraries.

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Locations will be the West Valley Regional
Library and Resita Exposition Park, Doctor Mary

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maclaud Bethune Regional Library, the San
Pedro Regional Library, the Pokuoima Branch Library,

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and Chinatown Branch Library. At why
these locations, the city's Climate Emergency

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Mobilization Office used city and UCLA data
to map heat risk in different communities.

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The data brings together a variety of
risk points including socioeconomic status, pollution burden,

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access to green space and shade,
and numbers of heat related emergency room

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visits to identify what areas have the
most people at risk for heat related illness.

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I'm all for this, now,
I know that there are some out

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there who would not be for this, and two of those people would be

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Tucker Carlson and Fabio. You may
remember that Fabio is against LA libraries because

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allegedly they're having sex in the library. So to give you mark, you

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don't know this, Okay, let
me just reset this. Fabio, who

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is an expert on everything he reads, He's an expert on everything. Of

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course, he came on with Tucker
Carlson and there's a brain trust for you,

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and they were breaking down the problems
in LA and it also got to

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the library. So let me just
reset this very quickly. The Golden State

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has lost its glow. Obviously.
California now has more poverty than any state.

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Homelessness is completely out of control.
State officials are still focused on protecting

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illegal immigrants from deportation rather than any
of the problems the state faces, including

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the flight of its introremental class.
It's a sad picture. One man who

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sees it clearly is who's been there
a long time after Model Fabio. He's

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an immigrant to the state, but
not one of those state officials care about

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Fabio joins us tonight. So Fabia, thanks for coming on. I want

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to read. I don't believe there
anymore, but I read about California every

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day. Here are two headlines.
Tell me if they sum up what it's

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like now. This is just from
the other day. Orange County homeless camp

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clear up. Four hundred tons of
debris, fourteen thousand needles, five thousand

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pounds of human waste. Here's a
second. California lowers the penalty for knowingly

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exposing someone to HIV. It sounds
chaotic and dirty. Is that your experience?

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Yeah, well, let me tell
you something right now about California.

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It look like a wild wild West. And don't look farther than the leaders

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of California. Jerry Brown, Levy, the mayor of Auckland, you know,

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Jerry Brown, with proposition forty seven
fifty seven Bill one on nine,

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it to totally the side of the
criminals. Is when on a criminal side

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totly turn his back on a law
enforcement And you know the leaders of California

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the acting criminals. They acting like
criminals. So will you expect the rest

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of the people are going to do. Then you have the mayor of Auckland

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will totally tell all the criminal to
run away because ice is coming over.

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So I had to do over nine
android the arrest they only arrest about I

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think one hundred and twenty hundred and
thirty people. Then you have you know,

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the homeless, the homeless. If
you look, if you go downtown

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Los Angeles, I'm Tallian attacker,
it's like it's like I've been around the

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world. I remember being thirty years
ago in Africa. Africa doesn't look like

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that in a in a in a
it's unbelievable. Know either throw walk country

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thirty years ago ago look like California
right now. Like downtown. You know,

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you go down to the library,
it's like southom man Gamara. I

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mean it's like sex. The library
is like Sodom Ngamorra. I gotta go

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to the library more often. How
far down on your guest list you have

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to go to decide that Fabio is
the expert you want to come is an

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expert on everything. You know,
you go down to the like the library,

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it's like sodom man Gamora. I
mean, it's like sex, sex,

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rugs and rock and rolls a library, though it's in the library.

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In the library. Well, I
knew the LA library system was good,

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but I didn't know it was that
good. Look, I've been missing out.

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So they're going to put cooling centers
in a place where it's sex,

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drugs and rock and roll. It's
sodom and Gomorrah and cooling centers where in

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the library. That's where you can
find it. You didn't know they should

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advertise that. Look, they would
get a lot more people of taking out

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books, checking out books. Oh
my patronship of the library would increase at

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least twofold. So you know,
five libraries cooling centers to help people.

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And that's if you can get past
the homeless and the sex, drugs and

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rock and roll, and you can
only find it where in the library in

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Los Angeles. The last time I
had this discussion, I had people saying,

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Mo, you don't know what you're
talking about. Homeless people are having

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sex in the library. Well stop
them. I don't know what to say

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honestly, who doesn't. When you're
in college, it was always going on

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in the stacks at the college library. Homeless people are no different than anybody

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else. They have needs. Look, I didn't have sex in the library.

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I had sex in the music room. I see. Well, and

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people may not know what a music
room is. Music room is where they

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have the instruments and they have like
practice rooms. They'll have a piano in

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there, or you have a space
where you can practice your own instrument and

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there's nothing in there and at night. Never mind, it wasn't It wasn't

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like the library though. Matt stopped
laughing at me. Okay, it was

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a different time, well, a
different person. You gotta be quiet about

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it in the library as all.
Well, that's why you go to the

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music room because you have all these
other sounds. You just kind of blend

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in there. When someone's practicing the
suzophone, they don't notice it's not quite

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the same. Is that a trombone
in the library. So that's where that

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comes from. All right, Hopefully
it's better now than the homeless are not

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having as much sex in the library
anymore. In the library. What are

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they supposed to do outside the library? Of course it's inside the library.

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In the library, it's free,
the door's open. Look, I wanted

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it, she wanted it. We're
consenting adults. Why not? Why not?

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If no? What? Let me
just put it this way. If

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you had the opportunity to have sex
with someone who wanted to have sex with

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you and nobody stopped you, wouldn't
you If a hot librarian comes up to

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you and says, sir, I
believe you have a very thick volume,

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what are you gonna do? Also, what the irony of the guy known

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primarily for being a model for romance
book covers. He's against sex people getting

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it on? What has the world
come to? He was the literbo cover

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boy for sex and and books,
well, and butter, don't forget the

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butter. Well, that's true.
And if you want to make a last

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Tango in Paris joke, that's totally
on you. I'm out of it.

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Didn't he get hit in the head
by like a seagull or something on on

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a ride or something he did that
his nose may have affected, it may

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have some long term damage. Well
I'm not going to say that. You

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know it was karma, but you
know, just leave the homeless people alone

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having sex. You don't have to
worry about that. It's later with mokel

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