It's later with mo Kelly kf I am six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. And sometimes there aren't good answers or solutions for all problems.
Last week we were telling you what was happening at USC. We told
you what was happening at Columbia and Yale. But within the context of the
USC discussion, we said, hey, USC, I understand what you are
trying to prevent. You are trying to stave off, you are trying to
avoid. You did not want an escalation, and the Sea thought the answer
was making sure that the valedictorian did not speak at commencement. That was the
wrong answer. It was well intentioned, I believe it was just the wrong
answer. And now I think Twalla and I we've been born out as being,
i don't know, not like a soothsayer, but we kind of saw
this coming. USC kind of saw it coming as well. They just chose
the wrong door to walk through. USC was worried about whether this was going
to balloon, whether this was going to expand, it was going to turn
into something they could not control, and they were right, but in a
way they helped make it happen. They were right to be concerned about what
could happen at a commencement speech. They were right to be concerned about whether
there will be protests, whether those protests could escalate to some form of violence.
Were right to be concerned about all of their interests. They just chose
the wrong answer. They chose the wrong way to go about it, because
there's no singular right answer, but there are plenty of wrong ones. USC
was worried about what was going to happen in the rest of the world,
and of course you saw what happened. You had the military response from Israel
and the missile shot into Iran. You couldn't have foreseen it, but you
knew that something could happen, a further escalation, and it did happen.
USC didn't necessarily know what the conversation was going to be around the country,
but they knew that it was probably going to intensify. People were going to
become more agitated, and it did. We see what has happened at Columbia,
We've seen what has happened at Yale, and there have been hundreds of
students arrested. And I made mention of this yesterday. None of these universities
want another Kent State type situation. None of them want to be seen on
TV as having students engaging in any type of behavior, or law enforcement engaging
in any type of behavior which would either embarrass the university or tarnish the name
of the university. We get all that, but now we're here in universities.
Colleges from coast to coast, USC on the west coast, Yale and
Columbia on the east coast, and all the colleges in between are going to
have to make adjustments to commencement exercises. Here's why, because these young people
from coast to coast have a way of communicating that we didn't in decades past.
They're already coordinating right now what they plan to do on commencement, during
commencement, leading up to commencement, they're already coordinating and planning. There probably
will be protests, There probably will be demonstrations. How they will play out.
I don't know exactly. I'm not in the no, but I'm sure
that the universities are preparing for this. So and I understand. I'm someone
who's graduated from college. I remember how important that day is, how special
that day is. Not only for the student but for the university, for
friends and family who may be in attendance, it is a huge day.
But this is not a typical year, This is not a typical time in
America, this is not a typical time around the world. And the universities
have to plan in advance, unfortunately, possibly for the worst case scenario.
They have to assume that there will be some level of agitation leading up to
and possibly on graduation day. And if they're going to still have these ceremonies,
and if they're still going to be open to students and family and some
members of the public, depending on how many tickets they give out, they're
going to have to wrap their arms and head around this ready quick fast,
because it is getting worse air quotes, and it's going to get worse before
it gets better, because it is just getting more complicated in nature. And
again, there is no singular right answer, but there are a bunch of
wrong answers, and universities are going to have to get this right in the
moment. And when I say there's no singular right answer, it means that
you're not going to please everyone. Get that out of your mind right now.
You're not going to be able to please students. You're not going to
be able to please those who are pro Palestinian. And I make the distinction
pro Palestinian, not pro Hamas. I hope you don't fall into that trap.
There is a huge distinction between being pro Hamas, pro terrorism, pro
death, pro murder of Israeli citizens and Jewish people more broadly, and being
pro Palestine in terms of supporting a two state solution. Let's not lose our
humanity in this moment. Let's demonstrate that we have more sense than some of
the senselessness going on out there. You're not going to be able to prove
that please everyone. You're not going to be able to make everyone happy.
You can approach a measure of fairness in trying to have your graduation ceremonies.
But people are going to be angry, and that's okay, and I mean
that that's okay. People being angry is one thing. People being violent is
something altogether different. And the university's first, first responsibility is making sure that
its campus is safe for everyone, and if that means that there are no
formal graduation ceremonies, even going back to COVID where we didn't have in person
graduation ceremonies. It's kind of the same thing because the first responsibility does not
change, and that is to protect the students, protect the faculty, and
protect the campus. And if that means that there aren't in person graduation ceremonies,
then I say, so be it, because ultimately I would rather there
be a virtual graduation ceremony on any of these campuses or all of them,
than having an in person one and then having the risk of something spiraling out
of control. But on every campus, in every state, all around the
country, they're having the same conversation, and there is going to be no
right answer. There's going to be no really good answer. They're only just
variations of bad ones. But you would rather choose the bad one in which
someone is unhappy than one which leads to someone being hurt. It's later with
Mo Kelly Cafi am SINX forty We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and Twala,
I told you so. I told you with these autonomous cars and taxis
that they are just going to be victims. Okay of society. Did you
see the video, Tala, We want to talk about the video of the
person trashing the waymo car in San Francisco. Yeah, yeah, I saw
it. I saw it. I'm ready for it. Okay, we're gonna
have that conversation next can if I answer is forty Live Everywhere I Heart Radio
app you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
And as we've talked about autonomous vehicles way Mo, Cruse whatever they're named,
driving up and down the street in San Francisco and LA, we've had
the ups and the downs. To Walla Sharp would like to deny the downs,
but here we are once again discussing them. And just to remind people,
I thought that we were not ready for these cars. We being our
society, we can't have nice things, we can't have nice things. And
also the technology is not where it needs to be for this to be successful.
And there were these two stories happening in the same space and place and
time which highlights this fact. There's a video going around of a man in
broad daylight jumping up and down and trying to trash a way Mo vehicle in
broad daylight. And there's video of this which goes back to my point.
You know, these cars are just going to be vandalized left and right.
And I don't blame way Mo for that. I do not, but that
is one aspect of this why I don't believe it will be successful because we're
going to trash these cars. And number two, I don't think that technology
is where it needs to be. As I said, it's not ready for
prime time. And there's another story where a Robotaxi was heading west in the
San Francisco area where it crossed a double solid yellow line onto the eastbound lane
closest to the median as it drove behind a crowd of people riding electric scooters
and unicycles. Let me put it in layman's terms, it was on the
wrong fricking side of the road. To Waller Sharp, what do you have
to say for yourself, I appreciate your your biased reporting on this. I
appreciate my opinion. I appreciate you trying to lay out your opinion with this
one sided manner the same way that San Francisco is because both of the stories
you're referring to are coming from the same city that has launched this single city
attack on way Mo and self driving technology. The individual who was jumping up
and down and trashing a car chances are an out of work Uber driver.
Not to mention Uber attacks, they're not really going down. The other story
about the way more going around the car was literally trying to ensure the safety
of all of these people on these electric scooters. As if, as if
if you were going around or you saw a crowd of people being sick,
lavie or whatever, and we're trying to go around, you wouldn't go around
them if if it was safe to do so. It didn't go It didn't
go into oncoming traffic. It just went into the other lane to get around
these cars. No, no, no, no. The idea that going
into the wrong direction traffic, okay, it's somehow safer than the car just
stopping or pulling over to avoid hitting cyclists. Okay, I'm not buying that.
No, we do not know what the street was like. We don't
know if this is just a two lane street. We do not know.
It could have been a two lane street with women double line in the middle.
All we are saying is this is this is double line. You said,
across the double line, across double lines? As if this is like,
oh, would you rather be reporting on the way more running the people
over? What are we doing. This is not actually this is not a
bad side. No no, no, no. I would rather the car
be able to understand that going to the other side of the of the double
line. In other words, the opposing lane of traffic poses more of a
danger than the car slowly either driving behind the cyclist or pulling over that sort
of thing. They can't figure out what to do with the myriad of obstacles
and choices that it has to deal with, or you know, people running
out in front of it, or codes be putting the street. It's not
ready. No mo. I literally saw someone do that this morning to get
around the crowd of parents dropping off their kids. They went around into the
oncoming traffic lane because the light was red and they decided to go around so
they could get around us trying to make a left into the school parking lot.
They went around the wrong side to go all the way around so they
could get into a turn lane. That was one of the most illegal displays
of driving I've seen, and it was done by a person. It wasn't
autonomous vol that happened, but if there were a cop there, that person
would have been cited. It feeled dangerous, you know, if if well,
if there was someone in the street, they would have been run down
today if if nothing happened the way mood just went around, and San Francisco,
with their one city crusade, is quick to report this. I just
I don't see how we're not saying this. I wish your Twitter was still
active, because right now people will be saying, yeah, Mo, you're
not really You're not really making a case against Wayne. Oh yes I am.
You can't use the absence of a tragedy to justify a behavior or an
action which was inherently dangerous. Going back to our story last night about the
people who are allowed to come up into the the cockpit and sitting in the
captain seat. Just because the plane didn't fall out of the sky doesn't mean
that the behavior wasn't inherently dangerous. What I'm saying is drivers do that all
the time. That doesn't mean the driver's speed all the time. It doesn't
mean that. It's like, I get that, I get that. But
what you're talking about is something that's almost an everyday occurrence, I assure you,
not the same as someone going sitting on the captain's chair during a flight.
That's not the same thing, Stephanie, it's are you going to allow
this man to align your profession as an uber driver? Are you just gonna
sit on the foods? Sitting on the car trying to smash the windows?
Don't know what he leaves here? Here's probably like it's because of you.
It wasn't. It wasn't foosh. I could tell it was. It was
a younger guy. It was a skinnier guy. It wasn't foods. Hey,
now we're talking about fus age. Now what do we do fush to
take this side? It looks like some guy in his late twenties. Okay,
stephan are you in your late twenties? Yes? Or no? No?
No, that's all I'm saying. Okay, see I'm not saying he
looks old. I'm to say that guy look younger and dumber. Okay.
All we're doing is getting away from the point that there is no point.
What I'm saying is this is still one city one. San Francisco is not
even opening one. He's constantly got something bad to say about Waymo. We
still have no bad stories in LA about any self driving cars, not a
one. And they've been in business now for over a month, two months
now two months and one story roll out. It's not like you have autonomous
self driving taxis as many on the road as you do just regular cars on
the four or five. If we had a four or five full of these
cars, that we have plenty accidents to talk about. Now, that's not
true because it's limited in San Francisco. It's not every other car. That's
my point. I'm saying he has such a small sample size. You want
to say, oh, there are no accidents, okay, for the twelve
cars are out there. Whoop do you do? We've got We've got two
stories out of San Francisco, and all of a sudden, it's like pull
the plug. Huh. This is an important question, Taula. When big
autonomous vehicle cuts you a check, do they fill in the little registerrary on
the lower left It tell us what it's for you? You blanket blank blank
you dirty beep. The crowds on my side, so ill just admit it.
You're in the bag. Oh no, I just do not like the
level of reporting this coming out of all of these rags that are reporting this.
Uh. The San Francisco Chronicle Rag literal rag probably probably in the pocket
of these protesters and these uh lobbyists who are trying to do away with it.
This is this is a lobby written piece here. Okay, So KTLA,
that's a rag. Look. Kt LA reported just on what they saw
from the San Francisco They said, Hey, look at the sting. That's
the San Francisco chronicles. I believe don't believe our lying eyes with the video.
Look, no, no, no, no, no, You're right
about that about us not deserving nice things because that that was on the car.
You were absolutely right about that. But that's not a self driving car
thing. That's I know. I did not blame way Mo for that.
I'm saying that highlight at the point that this is going to lead to other
issues. Second, no, absolutely absolutely there will be more people trying to
trying to vandalize way but they will say, you know what I heard the
other day on Later with Mo Kelly, someone took it into their own hands
to show these cars whose boss whatever that means, and then they're gonna want
to spray paint them, smash the window, try to steal them, whatever,
but they're gonna try to jump in the driver's seat and see if they
can drive. Hopefully they all go to prison. We can only hope you're
listening to later with Mo Kelly on Demand from KFI Am six forty. Yesterday,
Mayor Bass shared her proposed budget. It's kind of like the financial end
to the state of the city, And for me, it's kind of like,
not exactly, but kind of like the the Union or any other major
speech in which an elected official would give. People don't remember the words of
the speeches. They rarely remember the promises, even in the age of the
internet, and unless we play them back, most people have no reference point.
I follow this every single day. I couldn't tell you what Governor k
Newsom said last year in the State of the State, or what Mayor bas
said last year in the State of the City, or what Joe Biden said
in the State of the Union. Most people don't remember. Most people don't
care. People don't remember the words you say, but they'll remember how various
administrations made you feel. And if we look out over the landscape, be
it on a city, county, or state level, we can look out.
We can see the homelessness we have a feeling about the homelessness. We
can see the trash we unfortunately are experiencing the violence that impacts how we feel.
That means far more than any speech, that is going to stay with
us, far longer than anything said in a budget proposal. But nonetheless we
should still listen. We should hold our elected to leaders to account. We
should be aware of at least what they're planning to do and maybe, if
possible, move our city, our state, and our country forward. But
this is what Mayor Bass had to say as far as how she was planning
to spend the money in the coffers for La budget equips the city to continue
moving with urgency and smartly invest in housing solutions to bring more people inside from
tents, cars, and RV encampments. This includes building an interim and permanent
housing infrastructure to save lives, promote stability, and create pathways to well being.
The budget also invests in work to prevent people from falling into homelessness in
the first place. We're seeing a record number of applicants to the Police Academy.
This budget focuses on recruitment and retention of officers, and it also maintains
our staffing goals for the department, allowing full Police Academy classes. We are
continuing our expanded approach to supporting the safety of our communities by focusing on preventing
crime and interrupting the cycles of violence. The budget maintains the current levels of
investments, which have strengthened gang prevention and community violence intervention programs. We are
funding the hiring of firefighters. The vast majority of calls to the fire department
are medical in nature, so the budget continues the Emergency Appointment Paramedic program to
high paramedics to respond to these urgent calls and resources to help accelerate response times.
The budget maintains core city services to further improve the delivery of services.
The budget will invest in modernization of the my LA three to one one system
to better meet the needs of Angelinas. By investing in system enhancements, departments
will be better able to respond to calls for service and residents will be better
informed about wind services will be delivered. We're building a greener LA by continuing
investments in fighting climate change, including transportation, electrification, water resilience, and
organics recycling. A new Climate Cabinet is being formed that will help guide new
required climate plans at key city departments. Stakeholder engagement and action on climate justice
our work continues to make La a one clean energy city by twenty thirty five.
I would rather La be a one hundred percent safe city by twenty thirty
five. But that's just me. That's just me personally, and I'm very
cynical. I don't believe necessarily that if Rick Caruso were mayor right now,
that the city will look all together different in nature. I don't think the
crime would be that different. And I know people probably disagree with me because
but I fundamentally know the limitations of politicians as far as how policy can change
cities in a short amount of time. But I'm not a hater. I
would like to think I'm not a hater. I would like to think that
if all that Mayor Bass has promised and proposed were to come to pass,
and she were able to hire more police officers as she said she wanted to
increase hiring, hire more firefighters, focus on violence prevention not just violence,
stopping violence after the fact, and arrest. If all of that worked out,
I would be happier than just about anyone, because, unlike a lot
of people, I actually live in the city of Los Angeles. I have
a vested interest. I have skin in the game. I want my elected
official, whether I voted for him, her or them, whether I voted
for them or not, I want them to be successful. Now, we
can disagree on the best mode of action, the course of action, but
we shouldn't disagree on what we want for the city. And you know what,
three hundred and sixty five days from now, nobody's gonna remember anything that
Mayor Bass said. But I bet three hundred and sixty five days from now
we will be very clear on whether our city has improved or not. You're
listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM sixty and I love
pizza, I really do. It's one of those foods. Have you ever
thought about if and when you're gone from this earth some of the things that
you would miss. Pizza is one of those things. Pizza is something I
think about often. And I'm not a foodie by any measure. It's not
like the Folk Report is ever ever gonna ask me about anything related to food.
But pizza is one of my guilty pleasures and usually we have it in
the studio Friday nights. I say, guys and gals, go ahead and
order something. I'll pay for it, and more times than not, Tauala
will say we're getting pizza. I said, I'm in the problem is I'm
trying to do better with my diet. It's an ongoing fight, and I'm
trying to continue to lose a little bit more weight. I want to get
down to like one seventy, just one more time in life, one more
time. And the pizza keeps getting in the way. So Tuala, who's
always working against me, sends me the story about the Pizza City Fest,
which is returning for its second an annual festival this weekend, and it's all
you can eat pizza with the price of admission. If you like pizza,
and who doesn't, you might want to head to La Live next weekend for
Pizza City Fest, Los Angeles, and we have a preview today. Forty
southern California pizza makers will be there, and that means lots of different pizzas
to sample. Got all these great pizzas baking live on enormous commercial ovens and
lac Jackson woodburning. You're gonna see all pizzas baked live in front of you.
Yeah, different styles as well, not just Neapolitan, but Sicilian.
Enrollment and style. You get to see everything made in front of you.
It's unlimited pizza for the ticket price. I'm limited so good. Tickets start
at one hundred and twenty five dollars and you can get them at la live
dot com wave it. They say, one hundred and twenty five dollars.
Wait, what you can eat pizza? Yeah? Possibly eat if you go
in the morning and stay till evening. That's breakfast, lunch and dinna.
Okay, let's let's say it's fifteen dollars a slice. Okay, that's like
thirteen piece is yeah, I'm waiting. Yeah, I can have twenty five
pieces. I look, as much as I love pizza, there's just not
enough room in my stomach. I'm bringing yeah, right, are you going
to get it to go box? Okay? Man, I don't think it
works that way. And if Moe has that much pizza, he's gonna be
looking even more Raphaelite than he already is. Here. I can't ever enjoy
anything. Oh no, that's a compliment. It's a It's an art term
for full figured women in paintings like ribbonesque. Sure, why not. I'm
just gonna I'm just gonna leave out here for a moment, So you just
go ahead and have your conversation without me. No no, no, no,
no no no no, go ahead, get it all out, get
it all out. Any more pear shaped jokes. Come on, it wasn't
it wasn't a joke, No, it was it was a COMPLI I think
he really appreciates your figure, that's why. Yeah, yeah, some people
are into that. Yes, men have curves too, Yes, I know.
Yeah. I think you look splendid and you should eat all the pizza
you feel. But the one I got includes alcohol too, so that's gonna
be a oh wait wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait what what
there's one that includes alcohol too. There's one hundred and twenty five dollars based
I think it's I think it's more, but no, but I'm saying it's
one hundred twenty five dollars if you just want to eat pizza. Is that
correct? Yes? And now you have everybody's attention, right you go,
so I can get liquored up too. There you go, boom. I
want to know if it's going to be another one hundred and twenty five dollars.
No, you see, then let's find out. Right now, let's
get to the bottom of this, because I gotta travel Friday Saturday, but
I'll be back on Sunday. Oh so you definitely need some pizza in your
life. No, no, no, I'm serious. When I get back
into La on Sunday, I'll I'll get I'll stop by on my way home.
Oh yeah, definitely out choose some tickets. Yeah, who's gonna sponsor
me? Mark? Let me tell you what I make off the air pass
the hat. Yeah, call some friends. I mean they say I want
to start at sixty two. So I'm thinking it might be the whole hundred
plus for general emission from fifty eight dollars each, that's just general emission up
to one hundred and eighty two. See, okay, so go ahead.
Now, I was just wonder if general admission does that mean you get to
walk in and just smell the pizza. You just can't have it. No,
no, no, no, no general emission. It's they give you
a bunch of tickets, all right. So every once you pay, it's
almost like going to a fair. And you know it's like if you go
to a fair lots of times, instead of going around with cash, you
will have to go and purchase tickets for rides or anything, and you just
pay using tickets. And they even do that with concessions, with prize and
games and stuff like that. They're like, no, we don't want cash,
we don't want cars, we won't want to deal with that. You
go and you buy a book of tickets and then you come round and pay
with this is the same thing you buy looks like a book of tickets,
and then you go and you know to something you get. So I think
general mission of fifty eight dollars is what looks like it's around eight tickets.
Let me see what you get here? Yeah, uh few one result.
Hey look if I get four pieces of pizza and four drinks, no,
that's unlimited, no matter what. But then if you get the VIP at
the twelve pm entry, you get in earlier. And then I don't know
what panels they have, but it's as preferred seating at panels. I don't
want to talk to anyone. I don't want to listen to anyone. I
just want to eat. Just yeah, you just get the basic one.
Does this cost include a place to lie down If we're gonna be eating like
that, where we're gonna have to light out, we have to go to
sleep. Yeah right, I mean, yeah, we have anap area.
And that's what I'm gonna say too, is that, like you probably will
get full, but you're walking around, so you're gonna burn that pizza off,
you know. It's like a basically a workout for the day. I
would love to sample pizza all day. I don't need to have, you
know, a full piece of Chicago or Detroit style, just just sample.
I would like to taste all the different pizzas of the United States and around
the world. Yeah, one of those Chicago manhole cover pieces of pizza put
you away right away. Yes, I've had those in Chicago. They are
no joke, no, no. See. The problem with the all you
can eat joints is most people, most humans, can eat exactly one plate
of food. So it's it's ridiculous. Most well, I can put away
some pizza. I can put away least seven eight pizzas pieces of pizza.
I had no idea. So today we learned Stefan can put away about what
would you say, eighty of a bottle of booze? Yeah, yeah,
I heard it too. He could drink a fifth, did you say that?
Well, I split it with my friend. He can drink four Yeah,
your invisible friend. Sure you have no friend? His girlfriend from out
of state. Yes, Georgia Glass. No, it was funny. I
was listening because Tim Conway Junior was on before me, and I was listening
to stuff and talk about how much he's not a beer drinker. He can't
handle beer, but he can put away bourbon. It's like, that's strange.
Yeah. No, It's like I had an ex who was like,
really, the breweries we'd go and I'd be the designated driver because after one,
I'm so full, I can't have anymore. It's just it fills you
up so much. This is true. I do have light beer. Well
yeah, but if you get like those I pas, it was really heavy
one, it's like a meal. I'm messed with you because I'm a bourbon
and whiskey man, so you know that I just stayed with the brown liquor.
Nice, that's just me. Well, do we have a bezza plan
then, because I feel like we have to resolve this before we go to
a break. Oh no, yeah we do. I'm going y'all aren't so
much. I'm not paying for y'all. Remember, Mark, you don't make
any money. I'll ask you off air, so I'm not That's not the
resolution I was hoping for. Well, you should have been nicer to me
in the past six minutes, but no, I remember everything you said.
Everything's transactional with you, isn't it. Yes, it is. And now
I'm gonna go cry because you hurt my feelings. You cry, I might
cry, so cut it out. It's later with Mo Kelly k IF I
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