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It's good to be back. It's
Later with mo Kelly k IF I am

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six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app. I'm back from Sacramento. Got

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some pictures and video up of this
hop keto seminar I was at. You

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can check it out at mister mo
Kelly on Instagram at Later with mo Kelly

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on Instagram and Facebook. But now
that I'm back, I'm back in the

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real world. Unfortunately, for about
forty eight hours, I didn't have to

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think about this protest or that demonstration, or this political machination or that so

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called trouble. Didn't have to worry
about any of that. Didn't even think

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about it. I got away from
the real world. But now I'm back,

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and I'm reminded I'm pretty damn smart. Here's what I mean. Remember

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when I told you, I said, I'm going to watch what happens the

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next day. I wanted to see
whether there would be protests at UCLA.

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Now there are. I name checked
UC Irvine. I said, I want

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to see if its gonna happen at
UEE Irvine in schools like cal State LA.

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Now there are. Because it was
escalating along a certain trajectory path where

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schools were watching other schools. They
were probably communicating via social media, and

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you see what's done at one school
is now being done at another school.

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Where you have these encampments, you
have these protests. One thing I did

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not see, and I did not
foresee, unfortunately, the escalation to the

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point of physical skirmishes, the vandalism
on UCLA and USC's campuses. I'm not

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parsing blame. I don't know who
was responsible for it, but I do

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know that I did say before,
you have to be very careful who you

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allow as part of your protests and
into your protests, who speaks on behalf

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of your protests, and who are
some of the loudest voices, because unfortunately,

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any act of violence, any act
of vandalism, will have a larger

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role in the perception of the seriousness
or the importance of your protests than other

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acts. But now here we are, here's my next prediction. There're gonna

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be some very very unhappy protesting students. Here's why you've crossed the rubicon,

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as they say, is the point
of no return. You saw what happened

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in Columbia earlier today. The Columbia
University issued at ultimatum saying you had to

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remove the encampments by two pm Eastern
today or they would start suspending and even

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expelling students. Well, Columbia has
held out, but they are passing out

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slips indication they've begun the process.
I'm a back up with any protest,

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anyone. I don't care what it
is, I don't care whether I agree

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with it or not. I always
say I always say. That goes back

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to Colin Kaepernick, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, all that with

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any protests, if you are okay
with the possible consequences and ramifications of your

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protest. If you're okay with that, then by all means proceed because you

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have to protest knowing that there's a
distinct possibility that you won't win. Just

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because you protest doesn't mean you'll get
your way. Just because you protest,

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does it mean that you'll get all
that you're asking for, not even some

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of what you're asking for. You
know what, you might not get any

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of what you're asking for, and
you might get arrested, and you might

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get suspended, and you might get
expelled. So discretion requires that you consider

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all the consequences before you start protesting, But now you crossed the rubicon.

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Now you're at that point of no
return. Now students are getting suspended,

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students are getting arrested, probably expelled
on the other side of this, And

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I've yet to hear any situation on
any campus where anyone has gotten any of

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their demands met. Is that gonna
change tomorrow? Probably not. Is that

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gonna change a week from now,
Probably not. So Are you committed for

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the next year or so? Are
mommy and Daddy gonna still keep you in

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school after you've been suspended and ft
off your tuition or your scholarship? Are

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you willing to suffer all the consequences? Do you believe that deeply in this

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cause I'm not saying that you don't. I'm saying you need to ask yourself

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whether you actually are. It's all
funny games and until people start going to

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jail, it's all fun and games
until mommy finds out you got kicked out

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of school. Because these are real
consequences. Up until now, universities by

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and large have been tolerant of them. USC made a mistake, they made

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the wrong choice, and they further
escalated it, and it blew out a

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proportion and they lost control of it
relatively early on the other universities. It's

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a case by case based as far
as what they're trying to do. But

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now the longer you stay, the
more intransigent in transigent you get, the

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higher the stakes and the greater the
consequences. And also and also you may

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lose public support because people are reading
headlines about vandalism, they're reading headlines about

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clashes and skirmishes with police. They're
going to you're going to lose control of

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how it's being portrayed in the media. Why Because there isn't any central messaging

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point. And I talk about this
all the time. You don't have someone

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talking competently with a uniform message.
You go to a different campus, you

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get a different answer. Divest from
this. We want that, we want

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to make sure that you don't do
this, and you don't do that.

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I know some of the basic things
that you're asking for, but I don't

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know if the person on the street
who doesn't follow this story very closely knows

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it and can recite it, and
then it can empathize and also join you

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in this. This is not about
free speech, and I keep hearing that,

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and it can't be further from the
truth. If you should end up

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arrested or detained, it's not for
your speech. It's for the fact that

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you're on a private campus and you
don't have a constitutional right to set up

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a tent and just remain forever on
that campus. And you know this because

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there's a certain day that you have
to be out of the dorms every single

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semester. It's no different. You
are a guest at the school. You

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are there by invitation, you accept
that invitation, and then you have a

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code of conduct as a student that
you signed. I had to sign it.

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You had to sign it. Hell, even Mark Roner had to sign

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it. I don't know if he
actually abided by it, but he had

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to sign it. I signed nothing. You can prove nothing. But the

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point is we all knew that there
were limitations. There are parameters, There

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were boundaries to our conduct. We
didn't get to go to the food hall,

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the dining hall whenever we wanted.
They served lunch and dinner at certain

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times, breakfast too, brunch,
whatever. You had to be in class

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at a certain time. You had
to be in class. He had to

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do perform so well on exams to
get a certain grade. There are expectations

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that you have to beat every step
of the way. There's a day that

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you can check in to your dorm, and there's a day that you have

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to be out of your dorm.
For the winter break, a spring semester

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to pitt on the campus, and
definitely for summer. You do not have

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a right to camp your ass out
on the front lawn of UCLA in front

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of Royce Hall. You're going to
lose this. The question is are you

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willing to sacrifice and still win.
There's an old saying, I'll probably mess

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it up, but it goes something
like this. There are some fights that

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you must fight even if you lose, and there's some fights that aren't worth

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fighting. You should never fight even
if you win. You have to make

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sure that you're on the right side
of that equation. Are you sure that

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this fight, if it's not winnable, it's the fight that you must have.

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Are you willing to sacrifice everything?
If you're not, you're wasting your

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time and you need to get out
now. You're listening to Later with Moe

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Kelly on Demand from KFI AM six
forty. I was on my way up

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to Sacramento on Friday, and then
the news alert came in. I said,

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damn it, damn it, I
need to be in a studio.

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I need to be covering this.
I need to talk about the Metro.

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And I said, okay, I'll
just do it on Monday. But as

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I was traveling up to Sacramento,
literally while I was traveling, a man

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was stabbed near a Metro bus.
Laid us to the string of Metro violence

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stab and it was unclear at the
time. It wasn't clear whether it was

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stabbed on the bus, exiting the
bus, getting on the bus in the

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University Park area of Los Angeles.
We don't know if it was connected in

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any way to the protest, but
it was another act of violence connected to

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Metro and attack was reported around twelve
thirty five PM and officers responded to the

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intersection of Adams and Figure Row,
which is right next to USC right there

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so it can go either way,
and then a little bit further down the

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road ind my trip to Sacramento.
Another story breaks LA Metro board member supervisor

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Catherine Barger says she's afraid and will
not ride Metro by herself. You damn

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skippy, I won't ride Metro by
myself. Hell, I won't even ride

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with Towala. I wouldn't ride with
Mark. I wouldn't ride with anybody.

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Okay, I barely trust them in
the studio. You put them on Metro,

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they might lose their damn mind and
flip out and stab everybody. Hi'm

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Mark, glad to be back.
I missed you so much. And here's

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the serious response to all of this. It's going to keep happening. Why

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because nothing has changed. There's no
reason for it to stop, because there

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is no impediment, there is no
deterrent, there's no reason. Crime doesn't

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necessarily stop on its own. It
doesn't get tired, it doesn't get bored,

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it doesn't just give up. It's
like, what are we gonna do

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today? I don't know. I
crimed yesterday and I don't feel up to

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it today. I think I'll go
to sleep, No, go back out

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and crime some more. When you
have an LA County supervisor saying publicly publicly

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she will not ride Metro alone,
what do you think that she has been

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saying privately for the past six or
seven months. You think she just woke

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up on Friday Supervisor Barker and said, oh my gosh, just last stubbing.

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That's the last straw. I've had
enough. I am now afraid to

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ride Metro because of this sixth stabbing
in two weeks. If we're just five,

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I would have been okay, but
the sixth gone too far. I'm

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now afraid. No, no,
no, no, no, let's use

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common sense. She's just now verbalizing
it publicly. And I don't know tall.

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I think I sent the message to
nice young lady. I assumed she

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was nice, and I assume she
was young, definitely. The lady sent

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me this message on Instagram asking,
and I'm paraphrasing, asking, why was

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I picking on Mayor Bass? Moe, don't you know that she's the mayor

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of Los Angeles and Metro is a
county agency. Fair question, but if

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you've actually been paying attention to what
has been going on Karen Bass. Mayor

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Bass is the chair of the Metro
Board of Directors, and she has been

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the chair of the Metro Board of
Directors since July twenty twenty three. She

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is, lily the person in charge. He is literally the person to direct

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all of my frustration, all of
my vitriol, all of my anger,

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all of my disbelief, I don't
pick on politicians or elected officials just for

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the hell of it, for just
to have fun, to entertain myself or

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to entertain you. I try to
make it very clear, I'm very serious

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and very sincere about this particular issue. Yes, I may laugh and joke

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about others, but when it comes
to Metro again, I take it very

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personally because it was something that I
used to do every single day, and

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so I couldn't stand it anymore.
I couldn't take it anymore. So yes,

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I've done my homework, and the
person who I direct my comments and

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commentary too is La Mayor Karen Bass, the head of the Metro Board of

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Directors of that La County agency.
My civics are clear. Yes, I

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still believe that there is a power
in shaming, the power full. And

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yes, I do believe that all
this public shaming of Metro has led to

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the change in the public behavior of
Supervisor Barger, which will also impact what

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Mayor Bass will do going forward.
I believe it's all connected. I believe

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that better informing the general populace like
you listening right now, you may not

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have known of all these incidents which
were happening on Ellie Metro on just about

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a daily basis. You may not
have known, but since you've been listening

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to a Lady with mo Kelly,
since you've been listening to KFI, you

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are better informed and you now know
that this is a problem which must be

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addressed. Because once again I say, if you're not if you don't feel

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safe on public transportation, then you
can't feel safe anywhere in the city.

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I believe that you're constantly bringing this
to the airwaves, You're constantly shaming those

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in charge. Is actually what led
to the declaration of emergency. Yes,

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they declared a public safety emergency because
of this latest incident. That's not my

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opinion, that's not sensationalism. That
is Metro bowing to not only public pressure

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but also internal pressure like Supervisor Barger
making it clear that we cannot turn a

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blind eye to this anymore. We
cannot disregard, try to diminish or delegitimize

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the seriousness of people dying dying on
public transportation. And we always want to

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talk about the statistics. We want
to say crime is down. Tell that

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to the family of the woman who
just was murdered last week. The statistics

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do not matter when it impacts you
personally. The statistics never are more important

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than the specifics of what's going on
and who wants to you roll the dice.

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Now, let me put it another
way, who wants to roll the

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dice and put their mother in that
situation? I have no problem if I

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want to accept the risk and danger
of a situation. Why, because then

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I've made an affirmative choice to do
X, Y or Z. If I

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stop at a gas station late at
night, I have made a choice to

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possibly put myself in more danger than
I necessarily would have been if I stopped

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in the daytime. But I'm doing
so knowingly. I should not have to

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have that conversation with myself in the
sense of putting my mother, my mother,

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or my wife or my child on
Metro knowing what I know, Nacie,

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that's the difference. I know better. You know better because we've been

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talking about this just about every freaking
day. You know that someone is getting

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harmed every single day. Let me
look at my watch. Yes, someone's

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getting stabbed right now somewhere on Metro. We'll probably hear about it. We'll

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have the news report late tonight,
and I'll say, damn, I wish

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I was on the air because I
could talk about it. But then maybe

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Mark Ron will be able to do
it overnight and the late night newscasts,

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and I have to wait all the
way till the next day. But the

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point is we know better. And
if you get on Metro right now and

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you're listening to me, or you
have been listening to me, you know

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that you're getting on Metro and you
cannot you cannot play ignorant. You're too

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smart to play dumb at this point. You do so knowing that it's more

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dangerous than just getting in an uber
with Stephan Okay, I know he looks

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kind of shady, but it's more
dangerous than that, far more dangerous.

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You have to make a decision,
La. You have to make a decision.

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Mayor Bass. Now that you've declared
this public safety emergency, what is

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your decision to actually address it?
Because last week you said everything was fine.

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I remember I played the damn audio
from your budget press conference. He

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said everything is fine in so many
words. Remember, I said, you're

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doing everything you could do. I
ken't playing the audio, Gein, I

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said, no, you're not.
You're lying. You're lying, You're not

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doing everything you can because there are
other things that you could have done that

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you still haven't done, and until
you have done those things, you can't

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honestly say, sincerely say that you're
doing everything you can because you hadn't even

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declared the public safety emergency. Ah, I see what I mean. There's

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still more things that you can do, and until you do them, well,

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I'll be here complaining. It's later
with mo Kelly if I Am six

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forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
and on the other side of this break,

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are you earning enough to be considered
middle class here in California? Well,

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I got bad news for a lot
of you, really bad news.

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You're listening too. Later with Moe
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Pop Quiz Everyone, Pop Quiz.
Stephan. Let's start with you.

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What does it mean to you to
be middle class? What does that middle

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class lifestyle mean to you? I
would say being able to just work,

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well, I guess if you're a
couple, but being able to own a

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house at this point, okay,
I think, all right, Mark Ronner,

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a house. Huh, you're aiming
high. I think middle class is

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maybe not breaking into a flop sweat
when you check your balance after you pay

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for dinner, or also not thinking
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I'm actually a combination of both home
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single thing you pay for. Every
bill you pay isn't going to put you

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on the street. Yeah, I'm
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whole idea of home ownership in today's
world is not like when my parents middle

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class bought a house in the mid
nineteen seventies, the house that my mother

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still lives and they bought in nineteen
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theory that could could have been paid
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Today two is often not enough,
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shifted over the years. And with
health care, if you put that in

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mind, middle class means that your
one health diagnosis away from bankruptcy. So

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let's put it in quantifiable terms now. And this is coming from a new

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report from personal finance site smart asset, and it reviewed data from the US

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Census Bureau as well as the Pew
Research Center to determine what does it take

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financially at least on paper to be
considered middle class in all fifty states and

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three hundred and forty five of the
nation's largest cities. We won't go that

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deep, but will but we will
talk about California. In California from a

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salary, you're considered middle class for
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a household salary of sixty one thousand
dollars to one hundred and eighty three

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thousand dollars. There is no way
in the world a household salary of sixty

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one thousand dollars can be middle class. When I say household, I'm not

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assuming kids. I'll just say two
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dollars, by no means Is that
middle class, by no means not in

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California. No. One hundred and
eighty three thousand. Maybe maybe, depends

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on how many kids you have.
Maybe middle class and a student loan and

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right a number of other classes,
all those things. If you're one hundred

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eighty three thousand dollars and you're not
in debt, possibly possibly, I don't

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know what your situation was before that
one hundred eighty three thousand. You may

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have been in debt you know,
may have student loans for example, you

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may have had a bankruptcy. There's
no way to tell. But if you

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have any of those, you're not
middle class in California. You're digging yourself

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out of that hole. I know
because I live through it. In the

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Bay Area northwest of San Jose,
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at least one hundred and thirteen thousand
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And if you want to be considered
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that determined that you would need a
salary of at least three hundred and thirty

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nine thousand, and I still think
that's kind of low given for real estate.

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For real right, Yeah, you're
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forty thousand dollars. I'm not saying
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I'm saying you're not fancy, footloose
and fancy free. Every house towards that

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area is a million to start,
So that's why I'm like this three hundred

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and thirty three that's and I'm still
stuck on household. If if you have

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two adults and two kids, and
let's say both parents are contributing. Both

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parents are making one hundred and sixty
seven one thousand, five hundred dollars each

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per year. Maybe they could be
civil servants or something, or attorneys or

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something like that, and they have
two kids. They're still watching their money.

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If they're in that million dollar house, which is not a big deal

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in that particular area, Yeah,
she'd be middle class. But I guess

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the larger point is in California,
you can go from middle class to the

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poverty line in a heartbeat. Yeah, it's a lot easier, I believe,

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to suffer in California as opposed to
other states where you might be a

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give me a comparison point mark in
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And I know it's getting more expensive
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But is the housing as expensive the
real estate is expensive as down here?

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Oh not even close, not even
close. So what's the average for

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a house here? It's just under
seven hundred thousands. Nothing's closer to eight,

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is it? Okay? So yeah, for that, you could get

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your own mansion Inokan, not in
Seattle. Seattle's pretty close to the way

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it is here. M h and
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of California, if you would go
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of living, yes, is much
less than San Jose, Los Angeles,

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San Francisco. But by and large, when they say that sixty one thousand

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is the low end of the middle
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just a single person living by yourself, which you mean middle class, on

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sixty one thousand, it's the way
low end, just rent alone. Maybe

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in Lancaster, like you're moving up
towards Lancaster, Barstow, you're having way

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out of la Orange County, Victorville, Victorville, Yeah, sixty one thousand,

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Victorville, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Last week there there was a

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study that came out showing a handful
of places in the California area where you

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didn't have to essentially sell your kidney
to afford a house. But they were

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all places that were so remote nobody
wants to live there. Right. There

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was a time and before Palmdale blew
up to what it is now. I

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want to say this is maybe about
two thousand and one, two thousand and

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two, I was thinking about buying
a house out there, and the houses

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were new house, new build,
it's about two hundred and forty two to

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three hundred thousand. That would be
a steal in today's well, but now

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it's so over developed out there,
it's like eight to nine hundred thousand,

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and that is a good forty five
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on the outside of Los Angeles,
because I was trying to drive it to

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see if I was willing to drive
it. When I was working in Sherman

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Oaks for Ryan Seacrest at the time, that would have been my drive.

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There's nowhere you can live in the
Los Angeles area on sixty one thousand dollars

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a year household income and be considered
middle class. There's no way unless your

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household is of one person, and
even then you are really really stretching it.

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Now say yes. In Lancaster right
now, meeting income for a single

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adult is forty two thousand or actually
uh, and that's switched from the not

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looking at the national figure, So
now it's down to thirty eight thousand for

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a meeting income for singles, So
two adults sixty plus thousand. Yeah,

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they must be talking about Lancaster,
but that's deep in Lancaster. That's deep.

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I've driven out there because we're one
of our school cats where bodies are

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buried. Yeah, there's a place
in Lancaster where they leave dogs, right,

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God's sake, right, So everyone
all cheered up. Now, God

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the dog thing did it? Thank
you? You're listening to Later with Moe

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Kelly on demand from KFI AM six
forty. We'd love giving away free stuff.

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The Coast makes a return of Disney's
Aladdin opens May seventh at sac or

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Some Center for the Arts for a
limited engagement of one week. Just one

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week through May twelfth. Aladdin will
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Saturday at two and seven thirty pm, and Sunday at one pm and

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six thirty pm. Aladdin, the
hit musical based on the Academy Award winning

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animated film, opened on Broadway at
the New Amsterdam Theater to critical acclaim ten

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years ago on March twenty, twenty
fourteen, and quickly established itself as one

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of the biggest new blockbusters in recent
years. Having played over three thousand performances,

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the New York production is among the
top twenty longest runs in Broadway history,

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but it's back now in Coast to
Mesa and later with Moe Kelly,

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will be giving away a pair of
tickets to opening night on May seventh.

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Tomorrow, We're gonna give away the
tickets tomorrow to opening night. We're gonna

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do it tomorrow is part of our
conversation with actor performer Marcus Martin, who

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will be starring in the Coast to
Mason return of Disney's Aladdin. He'll be

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starring as Genie, So tomorrow night
we will be giving away a pair of

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tickets to Opening Night to Aladdin at
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don't know if there's anybody cooler than
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Aladdin real quick. I have not
seen the Broadway stage show. I didn't

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get a chance to see it when
it was laughed out in southern California.

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Oh, man, I hope you
do get to go see this one.

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Man, I know you like plays, and I plays musicals, live theater,

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love all that. I saw the
Aladdin production the mini play at California

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Adventure and it's amazing. I can
only imagine what this a full on play

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is like, taking it to the
next level. Wow. I love all

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that stuff and it was instilled in
me as a we lad. But my

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parents say would take me to see
shows and musical theater, and I've just

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always grown up with that love and
affinity for live performances. And if you're

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like me, you'll definitely want to
try to win the tickets. When just

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gonna give away one pair of tomorrow
night. But it's to opening night,

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opening night, May seventh, So
if you should call in, know that

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you have to be available to attend
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If I'm not mistaken, I believe. So have you been to the second

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Yeah? I saw Wicked there.
Okay, okay, what is the house

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like? Is it like ever see
the good seat? What house? The

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staging all that it is? Acoustically
it's fantastic, like if you walk in

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and you can you can hear the
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beautiful. It's it's it's newer than
The Pantagious. Obviously, I'm not trying

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to make a direct comparison, but
a seg Storm is it's kind of asymmetrical.

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The way that the theater is laid
out. It's hard to it's hard

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to describe. But it's a fabulous, fabulous theater experience. It's very intimate.

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I have no complaints about it.
But when I saw a wake it

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there, it was just great.
I've seen some other things there, but

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we could I think it was the
most recent one. Okay, okay,

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yeah, I was curious about just
the theater, Like I haven't gone,

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but I know, like my my
family they talk about like the Pantagious all

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the time, like the Papantageous.
I'm like, and I know that the

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Sega Storm gets such rave reviews.
I was just wondering, as a comparison

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point like what what does each theater
offer amenity wise as far as like for

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sound, for sight stuff like that. The sight lines I I think are

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better at seg from. It's only
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The pantages is the pantago is because
you just have the awesome history which

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is yeah, so attached to it. But you know, if you're in

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Orange County and you're not drive all
the way to LA you should do that.

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Yeah. Remember when we had Clifton
Davis on? Yes, that was

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why. That's when I end up
going to see Wicked. Oh yeah yeah

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yeah, nice Mark? Are you
a theater guy? Let me just dropped

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his microphone. No, no,
sorry, I had been doing something else

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and I had to switch the board
back. You just mentioned Clifton Davis.

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You mean the guy from the seventy
sitcoms. Yes, amen and all that.

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Yeah, deep cut, Yes,
well I'm jealous. Yeah, it

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was a couple of years ago.
A couple years ago. Absolutely, Wow,

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that would have been cool. I
completely forgot about your other question because

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I was focused on that theater.
Are you fan? You know? Ever

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since a freshly out of the closet
friend, all that a bunch of Andrew

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Lloyd Weber plays in New York City. I've avoided them because I think I

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still have PTSD. It's okay,
does it? That's what they say.

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I probably did for him, but
I've still got the scars. You didn't

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see Cats, did you? Unfortunately? Yes? I did? You saw

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Cats? YEA horrible. It's a
war crime. It's people. People responsible

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for Cats need to go to the
Hague. I will never understand why anyone

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like Cats. I don't get it, because I've even followed a couple of

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people that are like hardcore musical theater
nerds, and they're like, why is

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this so big? They do?
No one gets it. The only thing

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worse than Cats the Musical was Cats
the movie. I kind of wanted to

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see that just because of knowing going
in and it's going to be terrible to

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see cat Woman with Hally Barry.
But here this is an important question.

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Did you see the version with the
cats tailpipes digitally removed or were they still

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there? I don't think I paid
that close of the old you know,

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when I saw it. Unfortunately,
when it came out it was with tailpipes

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inlet. It was very weird.
It was a very where I was like,

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I've got to go. I'm doing
way too much sitting in this theater.

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I really despised myself for being in
here right now, just myself.

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I felt bad for myself watching this
movie. I didn't understand. I said

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to myself, See, this is
why people say bad things about Broadway.

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If this is their first experience,
my first experience going in to see anything

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related. Bro, if it's cats, that would be my last experience.

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Fortunately that was not Yeah and adding
insults to entry. Wasn't James Cordon also

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in that Yeah? Yes, oh
god. No, I didn't like Phantom

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of the Opera. I know people
say, how could you not like it?

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No, you're correct. I saw
that. I endured that I didn't

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like forty second Street, and I
didn't like Chicago. But by and large

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the plays or the movies the place. No, no, not not the

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movies. I will say the Sunset
Boulevard is tolerable. But if you have

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the choice, just sit it all
out, all of it. Oh goodness,

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that's why I would love to go. Look, we gotta go.

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Look at the clock k if I
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