It's later with Moe Kelly KF I am six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. And I don't know about you. It's beginning to look
a lot like summer out there. It's hot, hot, hot hot.
I think it was like ninety five hundred degrees today or something approaching that.
It was real close to it. It was real hot. But this is
the best part of the year. This is the best time of the year.
I like it like this. I can deal with this instead of that
fifty five sixty degrees. I have to deal with Mark Ronner and have to
check in with him to see if it's going to rain on a given weekend.
I don't have to do that this weekend. You should know. And
I'm telling you this is an ex cops beat reporter. The heat makes people
a little crankier, a lot more domestics in this heat. No, no,
no, no, The crime does go up. I mean there's all
sorts of history and evidence to support that serial killers will come out during the
summer. Yeah. Right, what I'm saying is tread lightley, but it's
look, this is La. They had a guy who's just walking down the
street shooting indiscriminately at people. I have an alibi. No, but I'm
saying you can't worry about certain things. Can't worry about it. Oh I
like this attitude. No, no, no, no, I mean I
mean this. There are things that I think we can control as far as
where we go. There are places which are more dangerous than others. There
are things that we can do which is more dangerous in terms of behavior.
But then there's just some random stuff out there we just can't control. We
can't control the actions of other people. And if you just happen to be
wrong place at the wrong time, and that could be any of us,
then oh, this is a far more philosophical approach, which than I expected
from you. Well, part of it is because Tuala once again tried to
unload these earthquake stories on me. All these earthquakes which have been happening under
the number of two point five under Richter scale, don't waste time on I
think. Look, he is counter programming the show. He's determined to pull
the show in the direction of idiocy. Who cares about a two point six
earthquake that struck Newport Beach on Wednesday afternoon? Who cares Newport Beach doesn't even
care. I don't think they even know. I think they didn't even know
until I said it right then it's two point six. I would have slept
through that. I don't think I would have even I don't think I would
have even turned over. I don't get it. I don't get it.
But here is the news that Tuala is foisting upon everyone. A magnitude two
point six earthquake struck Newport Beach Wednesday afternoon. The epicenter of the quake,
just southeast of Coasta, Mesa, was underneath Mariners Park. It is the
fifth quake to hit southern California in the past five days, of which I
felt none of them, of which nobody was injured, of which nothing sustained
damage of which nobody even cares. Did I get it all? Twalla?
Did I cover all the bases with eight? Yeah? You spank a lot
of hate in there. I can't. I can't worry about earthquakes which are
two point six. Is it two point even enough to knock over any of
the action figures onto Walla's shelf? No, I don't think so. I
don't think so. If there wasn't a Richter scale, we wouldn't know about
it. We would not know about it, and we still don't care about
it. Five in a week. Wait, this is how it's reported in
Santa Ana. One person felt the earthquake as starting with the slowest of rumbles,
then a quick jolt that made the news in Santa Ana. Thousands of
people. One person felt they talked to. They were talking to one person.
That's the man on the street. They had to reach out and see
who felt at first look. You should know well enough that when you ask
someone did you feel it? Everyone says they feel it. We stick a
microphone in their face. They want to be quoted, They want to be
in the news, They want to be on TV. Nobody cares about this
earthquake, not even you. The Newport Inglewood Fault has long been considered one
of Southern California's top seismic danger zones because it runs under some of the region's
most densely populated areas, from the west side of Los Angeles to the Orange
County Coast. The last major quake on that fault occurred in nineteen thirty three.
The magnitude six point four. See that is one to be concerned about.
Six point four that's worth discussing. But I can't it's two point six.
I'd rather talk about the weather, which is not happening. Mark,
tell me about the rain which is not coming. Oh no, I have
nothing to add, but that was very satisfying. Thank you, really man.
We don't have any similar sound effect for earthquakes, do we No,
we don't, because earthquake is a sizzle effect. Why what's that for?
For how hot it's gonna be? Yeah, maybe get get Foosh to like
crumple up some tinfoil into a mic and shriek. So, yeah, it
sounds like somebody burning alive. Two point six? Is that? Is that
all you got? We had? Like, we had a three point four
in Pasadena and a two point six in Newport. Those are the two larger
earthquakes of the past five Did I have miss anything to you? This is
not relieving pressure. These are increasing. These earth earthquakes are increasing, and
that is why I want to make sure that they are voiced here on later
with more Kelly, okay and Mark. That brings me back to how we
started the show. There's certain things you can't worry about if an eight point
five earthquake hit Heaven, forbid, Heaven forbid, if it did hit these
five before it, talking about it, not talking about it will not make
any bit of difference. But it sounds like Toalla is suggesting that something bigger
is behind all this, like it's building to something. Let's say it is.
Let's say hypothetically that the crazy theory is real. Okay, let's just
say that it's You know that the zombie apocalypse is going to be upon us,
but it's called an earthquake. You're kind of front loading it with the
word crazy. Yes, I'm saying, let's just say, but let's say
it's real. And I'm the one who's got it wrong. If the eight
point five hits tomorrow, heaven forbid, Well, first, thank goodness,
I'll be out of the state. But if it does hit tomorrow, what
difference does it mean? There's nothing you can do about it. I've got
my little earthquake kick kit in the car. There's nothing that it's going to
do to help me or you or anyone else. You're kind of a knolist,
aren't you. No, I'm a realist. Did you say, but
what's in the kit? What do you got? Like some candy bars or
something? You know, I got some medicines first aid. I'm thinking perceptives.
Those are legal um or will be a change, two changes of clothes,
just nickknacks, Bottles of water, like five bottles of water. You
know what else am I supposed to happen there? Uh? Some alcohol?
Got some rubbing alcohol? No, no, I mean like some Jack Daniels.
No, no, no, no, you're gonna need that if there's
an earthquake, I promise you. Well, look, if an eight point
five hit, I can just walk into any store I want. No,
it's gonna stop me. Yeah, okay, is it open season on retail
establishments if there's a quake. If there's an eight point five, civilization as
you know it in La will crumble pun intended and eight point five. Oh
yeah, there's no one coming to save you or me. That's gonna look
like no mass Land. Right. So, I mean, we can talk
about the two point six, we can talk about the three point four and
say it's a harborager of the eight point five. But if the harborager,
if it's true that it's the eight point five, is coming s Levy.
But see this is all leading into this new report, and there is a
new faster measurement tool to predict earthquakes coming. Okay, we'll talk about that
in the next segment, and how that too, will not do anything to
save us or help us. It's Letter with Mo Kelly k if I AM
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You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty
There is a faster alert for California megaquakes we're talking about, you know,
if the big one were to hit. Last segment, I was highlighting how
there were five earthquakes recently to hit southern California, all small like threes and
below. And I was being flippant, as I'm known to be about earthquakes.
Don't talk about them, don't worry about them until they at least hit
five. But megaquake something that could do real damage. Well, there is
this faster alert early warning system that's received a major upgrade. California's earthquake early
warning system is getting this what they call a seismic upgrade pun intended one that
will allow residents to receive more timely alerts about shaking from an incoming megaquake.
The upgrade, also available in Oregon and Washington, will provide features important for
warnings about the so called Big One. The improvements could mean depending on where
they are and where the quake begins. Californians would see even earlier an accurate
estimate of magnitude before the earth starts shaking, say, if there's a magnitude
seven point eight quake that begins on the San Andreas Fault near the Mexican border
and rupture's default toward Los Angeles County. The upgrade would also improve warnings for
the Pacific Northwest in California's North coast YadA, Yeah, yeah, blah,
blah blah. Here's my thing. Let's say, and we tried, like
the local Earthquake Warning System app and number one, you had to have your
location services on at all times, And like, I don't get it.
If there's a quake in Los Angeles, just tell me. Why do you
need to know where I am to give me the like for example, when
there's a tragedy, unfortunate tragedy, it just appears in the news. It
doesn't need to know where I am to let me know that a tragedy has
occurred. So if there's going to be an earthquake, or an earthquake has
happened, just tell me. That was my problem with the original earthquake warning
system. And also it depended on where you were relative that location whether you
would get a notification at all. If I happen to be in San Diego,
hypothetic with my location services on. Remember this Twilet, we had talked
about it, and the quake was in Los Angeles, I may not get
a notification even though I lived in Los Angeles. And maybe one would like
to know if my house still exists. I wouldn't get a notification because why
I was physically in San Diego. But this one, I guess, will
let you know from the top to the bottom of the state. Twilet and
I were talking during the break, and here's my thing. Just because you
give me twenty seconds warning, I'm just as an arbitrary number, twenty seconds
warning before an eight point five earthquake order hit. What the hell am I
supposed to do with that? I have an answer? Okay, there was
an earthquake that hit in Seattle. I had been up late working. I
think I was covering some sort of riot or something, and I was up
at my computer. I just started checking my emails, and I was still
in my underpants. If i'd had twenty seconds warning, I could have put
on some pants and run outside. I dig that. I dig that,
though, Yeah, rather than be pantsless. See, the thing is,
with an eight something earthquake, that's probably not a smart thing to do.
You have falling power lines and other hazards depending on your living situation. If
you're on the second floor or fifth floor of an apartment building, that's different.
I'm just saying, let's see you're on the ground four. Well,
can we agree though that in general it's better to be wearing pants than not.
I don't know. I don't know if the eight point five hit,
I'm just gonna be coming out swinging France Fancy for that, right. If
it's about survival, it's about survival. I can't survive swing and fancy.
For you this way, if there's a fire in the house and you don't
have any clothes, you're gonna do what you need to do to survive.
You're not gonna say, oh my gosh, I need to find a towel,
I need to fight some draws before I go outside. No, you're
just gonna run outside. There is some latent exhibitionism at work here though.
Yeah, clearly no, those days are over. I'm just saying mode.
You don't grab pants, you're just like forget it. Here's a true story.
We had an arsonist freshman year in our dorm. No one knew who
it was and no, it was not me, and they were setting trash
can fires. We had trash cans in the dorm on each floor. He
was setting trash can fires, and so it was a legitimate fire, real
smoke alarms, And there were times where we woke up in the middle of
the night with pitch black smoke in the hallways. Most of the dorm was
cinderblock, but within the center blocks everything was flammable. So there were times
where we had to run downstairs and whatever we had on, and there were
some people who got caught and they're underwear. No one came out nude.
But I know what it's like to wake up and you're in a panic in
a fire situation. You're not thinking about clothes. I can say that firsthand.
You go if you feel that there's real danger there. And all I'm
saying is, you know, if if the big one should hit and I
happen to be on the John, or if I happen to be asleep,
it's gonna be what's gonna be? That is, if I'm trying to live
now, if I know that it's gonna be like an eight point five,
I may just stop at the door and just say ef it. Oh well,
oh well yeah, now, because when we're talking about an eight point
five, we're not talking about a tembler. We're not talking about somebody with
some shaky We're talking about buildings falling in on top of you. Yeah,
that's in serious territory. And Seattle. You mentioned Seattle, they are due
for a nine point zero at some point anytime, and that I worked with
a woman who wrote a book about that at the Times, Seattle Times,
and that is said to be likely to just liquify all the land between the
shore and several miles inland. Liquefy it right, And if she's correct,
there's nowhere to run. No, not in that case, there's no earthquake
kit to worry about. There's no communication earlier or not to save you.
You are going to your reward in a nine point zero. Twell, And
I also we're talking about if we were on the plane, and I say
this knowing good and well, I'm getting on a plane tomorrow. That's part
of the reason. When the if it when the mask come down, would
we put them on if we knew the plane was going down? Well,
if you know it's going down, what's the point that exactly? That was
the point of conversation exactly, And I was I was positive, Well,
if you knew the plane was going down, might it be better to pass
out from lack of oxygen? In the meantime lack of oxygen? Raid the
drink cart. You got about two minutes in the descent. Okay, you
don't have time to raid the drink car. They're slow, they're slow bringing
the drinks. I mean, I'm quite sure the drink cart is careening down
the aisle tumbly end over end. Yeah, that's not such a great plan.
So would you put on the mask? Well, since you put it
like that, I guess not. I don't know if I would. I
mean instinct is to put on the mask. But like, if the plane
is already starting to break apart, what are we talking about, put your
mask on first before you assist someone else. No, because the mask they
drug you right. That kind of gets you all loopy. So when it
goes down, you're like more ap pliable or you pass out because you know,
it's almost like a sleeping death. Yeah, well, yeah, that's
what I'm saying. I'd rather not know. If I know it's going down,
then you can keep the mask. I thought about this long and hard.
I can tell. Yeah, man, I'm cynical today. Enjoy the
flight tomorrow. Oh I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be gripping the seat as
I always do. Yeah, I do that too. It's later with mo
Kelly if I am six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And speaking of falling things, did you know that the rent is falling here
in La? Is that possible? We'll tell you about it in just a
moment. You're listening later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
And of all the bad news that we have been reporting on, here's
just a little bit, just a tiny tiny bit of I wouldn't call it
good news. I would say is it's better news. It's better than what
we're accustomed to getting. Rent prices have fallen here in La, and it's
climbed elsewhere around the country. Rents in LA have dropped three percent over the
past year, and it marks the sharpest decline of any major city in California.
And this is according to a report from the nonprofit news outlet Crosstown,
LA. Take it for what it's worth. The median rent for a one
bedroom apartment in LA. The median is currently eighteen hundred and seventy two dollars
per month. One bedroom eighteen hundred and seventy two dollars, two bedrooms two
thy three hundred and eighty eight dollars. The median Okay, that's like average.
If you want to live in a decent neighborhood, let's say three thousand
and up. That's like the old George Carlin joke about average intelligence. Half
the people are dumber than that. Well played. Well played. Now,
if you want to compare La to the rest of the country, the median
rent nationwide is twelve hundred and thirty three dollars for a one bedroom and thirteen
hundred and eighty nine for a two bedroom unit. When I lived in Studio
City, I was so lucky to get in this rent controlled building right off
the corner of Ventura Boulevard and Coldwater Canyon. It was This was maybe two
thousand and fourish and rent controlled one bedroom. Think of that location if you
know Studio City, right next to the Sportsman's Lodge, and if you know
Ventor and Coldwater Canyon, there's a firehouse right there. It's directly next to
it. Of building I was in. My rent was six hundred and eighty
dollars when I moved in. No, I moved in in nineteen ninety eight.
I moved out in two thousand and six. I moved in, it
was six hundred and eighty dollars. When I moved out in two thousand and
six, it was eight hundred dollars. Now I feel sorry for the person
who moved in after me, because it probably went up to like sixteen hundred
then. But but I will say this, because it was rent controlled,
it was a whole building. I wasn't like Section eight or anything. So
I know y'all thinking, No, it had nothing to do with that.
Because it was rent controlled, it allowed me to save enough money to buy
a place. If you're not spending two and three grand for a one bedroom,
believe it or not, those individuals who wish to buy a location property
will have at least the possibility doing so. That is the dilemma with Rendells.
They have working people kind of over the barrel because the second you commit
to a monthly rent of two or three grand, there goes all your saving.
Well, not only that, you probably have to commit to a year
lease. Yeah, it's not like you know month to month. No,
because they want to know that they have you on a hook for the foreseeable
future. And that's saying nothing of first and last or security deposit. Yeah,
it was a trip when I was doing uber regularly. I picked up
this one guy who probably lived two blocks from the beach, and we just
started talking and he's like, oh, yeah, i'd pay like a seven
hundred because I moved here in like nineteen seventy four, right, And he's
like, I'm not going anywhere because no, in that location. I mean
it for what he even for what he had, cause he's like, he
said, it's pretty small. It think cost like twenty five hundred at least
easily. Yeah, and my one bedroom was really it wasn't small, but
it wasn't spacious, but it was the low It was studio city right next
to then the Sportsman's Lodge and Penn's Bowling Alley. It was a prime location,
a little bit run down. They've since remodeled it because they knew what
they had. The amount of money they probably were making just in the equity
was insane, but that was back then. In two thousand and six,
moved out eight hundred dollars rent. Let me get back to the story.
LA's decline in rent of three percent, it outpaces San Diego and San Francisco,
but their rents did fall two point five percent and two percent respectively over
the past year. But if you go to the other side of the country,
or at least in the Midwest, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia,
those cities have all seen their rent increase. So when I say this
is better news, it's not good news great news, but it's still better
news, and it's better compared to other cities around the country. There's a
guy who does online videos. He goes around cities like New York and just
approaches people on the street and ask them what they pay for rent, and
then looks at their places. It's mind blowing the amount of people pay for
you know, like a broom closet, but I was never a person who
needed to have a lot of space. If they ever brought those micro houses
here to LA and if I were a young guy and they had micro houses
out here, I would get one of those in a heartbeat. In a
heartbeat. If I were twenty five or something and I wanted to own basically
a broom closet or you know, a shed, and I could buy one
for let's say one hundred and forty thousand arbitrary number, I would do that.
It could be four hundred feet or whatever, room for a small refrigerator,
almost like a dorm room size. I would do that because I never
needed a lot. I just needed just the bare essentials. Okay, so
you and I just watched Tokyo Wece and we saw how small the protagonist apartment
was in that. Also in Japan they have these like sleeping sarcopha guy.
Yeah, would you do that if I were in my twenties, Yes,
yes, sheep. You just go in there and it's just the size of
a coffin. You go in there and sleep, and you leave in the
morning. It is like a hotel room. It provides the bare necessities.
I didn't need all the creature comforts back then, and I really don't now.
It's just that my life has changed, my station in life has changed,
so they're just other things which are more important to me. But if
I were only concerned about myself, yeah, I would be in that little
broom closet. No problem with that at all. Now. It probably would
have cramped my dating life, but there's always a trade off. How much
room do you really need for that? Not much, but that's why they
You can always run a hotel room shacking up in a hotel, that's right.
Do what you gotta do. Look, you got to spend your money
somewhere. Why spend it on an apartment? You know? Never mind,
never mind, No, I keep going, please no, I mean we've
all wasted money over the years. Let me tell you, oh boy,
good times. It's later with mo Kelly can't buy AM six forty. We
are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and when we come back. There is
some etiquette we have to remind you of when it comes to texting, what
you're supposed to do, when you're supposed to call, when you're not supposed
to call, all of that, because some of you still don't know the
basic rules, and we're going to review them. You're listening to Later with
Moe Kelly on Demand from KFI. AM six forty AM, I the only
one who has rules when it comes to calling me. Am. I the
only one who has rules as it relates to texting me. I can't be
the only one, but it feels like I'm the only one because a lot
of you don't respect boundaries. You don't respect the unwritten rules as it relates
to communication. Damn it. We live in a world of rules and laws,
and I need you to follow them all. For example, if you
should text me, don't just say hey MO, coma and leave it at
that. If you're going to text me, make a statement, make it
clear why you're communicating with me, like, Hey MO, do you have
that thing? Or MO, did you see Hey Mo? You're an a
hole. At least let me be clear on what you're trying to convey.
If you don't, I will not respond. If someone says, hey MO,
what's up now? Got nothing for you, dog, got nothing for
you? That's a llure. You're trying to bait me into a conversation and
then when I respond, then you hit me with the real reason why you're
communicating with me, and then I'm locked into the conversation and I don't want
to be locked in all the time. Or or oh, here's another one.
Do you get it where someone will call you out of the blue and
if you can't pick up, they don't leave a message. That's like not
calling at all. If you don't leave a message when you call, whether
I want to talk to you or not, you are not getting a return
phone call. Ever. Ever, the least you can do is leave a
message. Why so when I do call, and I have every intention to
call you back, I'm not a complete ahole. I'm just a mostly a
hole. But when I do call you back, at least I know what
is it you need and I can give you what you need. For example,
if Mark were to call me, he leaves a message Moe, do
you have that audio? Do you know what we did? That? D
D D D da da da, And then when I call him back,
yes, I know, you can find it in this location on the directory.
It's in the M drive, it's in the G drive. Okay,
then that's that's an economy of conversation and a maximization of my time. But
if Mark instead just rings, my phone doesn't leave a message, I think,
oh, but dial, but dial, no need for me to call
back, I say, by now, you know that we've known each other
by three years. Yeah, Have I ever called you? No? No,
No. That's why I'm saying. That's why I can use you as
an example, because but there's been a time, one or two times when
I've said, hey, can we talk about ex or Y or Z,
And we've scheduled a call to talk about a specific thing and then hung up
promptly. I wonder sometimes if if because we're kind of busy and because of
our specific occupations, we've been sort of case hardened. Because last week Fush
came in here and just sat down, and I was so rattled by it.
I actually said to him, state your purpose? Can we get to
this? Because I need to move on to the next thing. And there
are people who know what I do for a living in my circle of friends
and family. They know that, and those same people are determined to have
a phone conversation with me. Don't you know that I might be in the
studio, I might be on the air, I might be doing something for
a spectrum. I do something with them, you know, once or twice
a week. I might be working on audio at home. I might be
in a situation where I can't have a conversation or or I don't want to
talk to you. Tell me what you need so I can make you go
away. Last night, you were going around the horn asking people if they've
done anything embarrassing with regard to meeting girls or however you put it, and
it made me think of the time when we were very young that people just
called each other to talk, like you call up a girl to talk to
her. I can't imagine doing that now for me, I have an expiration.
You got thirty seconds. I need you to get to it, because
if you have me on the phone, that means it's something that we can't
handle via text. We cannot some things necessitate a conversation. Not just that
too. Well, but Tall and I will talk on the phone maybe two
or three times a week, but most of our communication is either through text
or through a shared document. Yeah not exaggerating, Yeah, yeah, that's
efficient and normal. I want to text before somebody calls me, though.
Yes, I don't want to call out of the blue from anybody for any
reason. Well, but see, that's why, because they call out of
the blue. It may be for something that's not worth your time at that
point, but if you pick up the damn phone, you're committed. It's
almost like walking into a room in which everyone turns around and looks at you.
You're in it. You can't just like turn around and walk out.
So that's why you know, you had to let me know in advance,
email me, text me, and then I can make the internal decision where
I'm whether I'm going to speak to you. So that's why this story is
actually so Wall Street Journals. Wall Street Journal, this is major, says,
don't you dare call me without texting first? Yes, let me give
you some real information. Preference for text messages is highest among those eighteen to
twenty four, followed by those twenty five to thirty four. And this is
according to a December survey from you gov. Among two thousand white collar professionals
surveyed by recruiting firm Robert Walters in March, just sixteen percent of those who
are gen Z those born between ninety seven and twenty twelve fought the phone was
a productive form of a professional communication. Only sixteen percent Mercy Grace thirty nine
an investor from San Francisco finds unannounced calls intrusive. Yes, she would just
as soon not receive unscheduled calls or calls of any kind unless there is a
specific reason. I agree, preach, And I'm not even part of the
gen Z crowd. I'm just saying I don't like people. I don't want
to talk to you. I'll text you. I don't want to talk to
you because people are annoying. Just and you said it best mark state your
business. That's all it is, state your business. I can go on
about my way in retrospect. It seems like I was maybe a little harsh,
but oh no, it kind of sums up the time we're in right
now. No, not at all. Oh and before we go for this
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