Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Tech Thursday and we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: And when I say Tech Thursday, that means Marcia Collier
Speaker 2: joins me in studio. Good evening, Marsha.
Speaker 3: Oh mo, it's been so long since I've been here.
Speaker 3: I swear you've grown a couple of inches. No.
Speaker 2: I wish that were true, but it is not true.
Speaker 2: In fact, in my age, I start to get shorter
Speaker 2: as my spine gets compacted, as it happens for all
Speaker 2: of us.
Speaker 3: Do you do those stretches, you know, bending over and
Speaker 3: letting your back roll out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I actually had an inversion table at home. I
Speaker 2: don't use it as often as I should.
Speaker 4: Get it's right.
Speaker 5: The blood rushes to my head. It kind of defeats
Speaker 5: a purpose. But yeah, yeah, I know what that's like.
Speaker 5: But you know with it, No, I know, Look, my
Speaker 5: back could be worse than it is. You know, my
Speaker 5: life could be far worse than it is.
Speaker 4: Grateful for everything I am.
Speaker 2: And I was telling our health and wellness expert on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: I would take all my problems throwing into the center
Speaker 2: and look at everyone else's and take mine back exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: The Lord doesn't give you anything you.
Speaker 2: Can handle, no, no, but he can give us a
Speaker 2: lot because sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah there's tests here.
Speaker 3: But you know, speaking of which, so what would you
Speaker 3: you want to talk about water?
Speaker 4: You said you were a tap water guy.
Speaker 2: Yes, I grew up with tap water, and then the
Speaker 2: world changed with the whole idea of bottle water. The
Speaker 2: closest thing I got to bottle water in the eighties
Speaker 2: and nineties actually was the big bottle of water at
Speaker 2: the water cooler. That was it. I didn't carry around water,
Speaker 2: but I drank water all the time because my father,
Speaker 2: That's how I was raised. He didn't let us have
Speaker 2: soda in the sweetened juice. It was just I just
Speaker 2: have water.
Speaker 4: I just had water.
Speaker 3: When I moved to California, I heard of Arrowhead spring water.
Speaker 2: What about sparklets?
Speaker 4: That different? Erahead is spring water?
Speaker 2: No, I'm saying that like the sparkless they had the
Speaker 2: big bottles.
Speaker 4: That right, Remember those beautiful trucks they use. Yes, oh
Speaker 4: my goodness.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And there were some people who had their own
Speaker 2: little water cooler at home. But you did you did that.
Speaker 3: I have had a ceramic where you just put the
Speaker 3: bottle on top of it's not.
Speaker 4: Electric or anything. Because I like room temperature water me too,
Speaker 4: and I like them.
Speaker 3: I've been drinking that spring water since nineteen seventy nine
Speaker 3: solely unless I go to a restaurant, of course that
Speaker 3: but I love that water. And unfortunately here there's bottled water,
Speaker 3: and bottled water.
Speaker 4: Makes plastics in the water.
Speaker 3: And if we don't have enough to freak out about
Speaker 3: in today's world, there's the plastics in everything. Every day
Speaker 3: you seem to go to the internet in there's something.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, there's plastics in semen, there's plan plastics.
Speaker 3: There's plastics everywhere. Yeah, it's all over our bodies. Now,
Speaker 3: I figure we kind of know what our snickel do.
Speaker 3: What about the plastics? So I went deep and I
Speaker 3: looked into what about just tapwater? Because everybody I know
Speaker 3: has a picture at home?
Speaker 4: Do you have a filter picture at home?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: We do.
Speaker 2: Okay, we have a filtered picture. We have a refrigerator
Speaker 2: hooked up to the water with a filter on it.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, we got that going by the way. Okay,
Speaker 3: well that's one of the four. We're going to mention
Speaker 3: the top four.
Speaker 2: But you know.
Speaker 3: So I looked and the La Times did a pace,
Speaker 3: and so I decided to go a little deeper. So
Speaker 3: I went to this website. Don't ask me what it
Speaker 3: stands for, EWG dot org slash tapwater. Okay, you go
Speaker 3: to that website and you put in your zip code.
Speaker 4: All right on it.
Speaker 2: MO, Well, you know I did, and it brings up
Speaker 2: my utility tap.
Speaker 3: On that all right, because we don't know every utility
Speaker 3: who delivers water to California. In California, there are almost
Speaker 3: three thousand different community water systems that serve like forty
Speaker 3: million people. Yes, so it's a lot of places. Some
Speaker 3: of it's groundwater, some of it's well, the groundwater, you know,
Speaker 3: has chemicals such as arsenic that comes from bedrock. Who
Speaker 3: knew arsenic came from bedrock? And then we have the
Speaker 3: aqueduct and we have the Mountain springs. And California voted
Speaker 3: in April to finalize a limit for how much hexavalent
Speaker 3: chromium or chrome six, which is a carcinogenic chemical that
Speaker 3: PG and E contaminated residents groundwater with re Aaron Brockovich
Speaker 3: if you out of story, so you know, supposedly I'm
Speaker 3: with DWP as am I.
Speaker 4: And when I went to that page and I scrolled down.
Speaker 2: On my DWP, it says thirty total contaminants, nine exceed
Speaker 2: ewg's health guidelines. Scroll further, it says what to do.
Speaker 2: We can filter contaminants out, contact your local officials.
Speaker 3: It didn't tell you if you do it on a tablet.
Speaker 4: Ok, you're on a mobile device.
Speaker 3: You're on a phone with a small screen. But if
Speaker 3: you do it on a tablet or on a computer,
Speaker 3: it will tell you exactly. And I don't have my
Speaker 3: phone in my hands. Strangely, you know, there there's arsenic,
Speaker 3: there is chromium. There are all of these things in
Speaker 3: our water, which we're not sure now that the government
Speaker 3: says it's acceptable levels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just remember Flat Michigan, right right, Jackson, Mississippi.
Speaker 3: But I'm sorry, no, but this is the point, you know,
Speaker 3: Los Angeles Aqueduct. Think about it that four million people
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles are served by the DWP.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this to the best your knowledge,
Speaker 2: and I know you're making a generalization. Are these contaminants
Speaker 2: things which are being put in the water or is
Speaker 2: it a function of pipes or something else?
Speaker 4: Well, okay, funny you mentioned that.
Speaker 3: Like I said, the hexsavanian chromium comes from rocks and
Speaker 3: things under the I'm just gonna happen.
Speaker 4: There's even uranium.
Speaker 2: It's naturally occurring.
Speaker 3: You're going to see uranium also when you look at
Speaker 3: that on a laptop. It's naturally occurring. But then also
Speaker 3: it goes through the pipes of your house. How old
Speaker 3: are the pipes.
Speaker 2: In your How leaded are they?
Speaker 4: How leaded are they?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and how leaded are the pipes coming from the main,
Speaker 3: the water main to your house that you have no
Speaker 3: control over.
Speaker 2: Right, you have control over the pipes in your house,
Speaker 2: maybe your housing development, but not two blocks away coming in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so scary period.
Speaker 3: If you're obsessive and you have nerd time, you can
Speaker 3: go to home depot and get little test strips. Costs
Speaker 3: about fifteen bucks to test your water and see what
Speaker 3: kind of poison you have. You can filter it the
Speaker 3: way mo does. I filter in my refrigerator also, but
Speaker 3: I like to have a picture in the house, like
Speaker 3: when I get home, if there's any water left in
Speaker 3: this bottle of plastic water, I will pour it into
Speaker 3: the top of mine. So I wanted to tell everybody
Speaker 3: real quickly. Water pictures do work for some reason. Everybody
Speaker 3: has a different one. My daughter and my husband has
Speaker 3: a zero Water. My daughter has a Brita like you.
Speaker 2: We've had.
Speaker 3: There's a brand called Pure Pure, yes that I didn't
Speaker 3: know familiar to that one. And I'm in earthquake mode
Speaker 3: all the time. And I have a thing called a
Speaker 3: life straw, which, oh you don't know if for me,
Speaker 3: your boy scout, you'd know about it. If you're out
Speaker 3: in the wilderness, there's a thing called a life straw.
Speaker 3: You can put it in a nasty looking thing of water.
Speaker 3: It filters out everything and makes water safe to drink.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not familiar with that. I was four aged,
Speaker 2: not boy scouts.
Speaker 3: Okay, I bought after the earthquake. We have life straw
Speaker 3: and I got this big pool got its. It filters
Speaker 3: out the chlorine, it filters out the bacteria. It's amazing
Speaker 3: and it's a straw. But now the number one best
Speaker 3: and when I researched them, is made by life water,
Speaker 3: which is excuse me, and life straw, and it's absolutely
Speaker 3: amazing they make Now everybody makes them in plastic, which
Speaker 3: makes me a little nervous because it's.
Speaker 2: Just your purpose. Yeah, you're trading one for the other.
Speaker 3: Not BPA. I get it, but I don't know what
Speaker 3: that means. But pure not pure. Life Straw also makes
Speaker 3: one in borosilicate glass.
Speaker 4: What's that pyrex pyrax?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, except it's a lot thinner than pyrex. Pyrex you
Speaker 3: always know is thick because boris silicate glass breaks reel easily.
Speaker 3: But they have a lovely silicone base to it, so
Speaker 3: you can set it down on something. And so whatever
Speaker 3: your choice is, whatever you go to that website, and
Speaker 3: whatever you're worried about, go to the website of either
Speaker 3: Brita Zero Water, Pure or Life Straw and see if
Speaker 3: what you're freaked about is gonna be filtered out.
Speaker 2: And let's not forget ewg dot org forward slash tapwater.
Speaker 4: Tapwater and do your tapwater too.
Speaker 3: And the reason I picked that LifeStraw one is because
Speaker 3: it filters out micro micro plastics, not the macro.
Speaker 4: Oh the macro is easy. It's the micro you have
Speaker 4: to worry about.
Speaker 2: So when we come back, can you scare us some
Speaker 2: more with the concerns about credit card skimmers.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to scare anybody.
Speaker 3: I just want to tell you, like you should maybe
Speaker 3: you know, think about which water filtered cats.
Speaker 2: Everything's trying to kill us. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2: I'm joined in the studio by Marshall Callier on this
Speaker 2: Tech Thursday.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six.
Speaker 2: Forty Tech Thursday with Marsha Callier. Now, Marshall, you also
Speaker 2: have some other really important recommendations and warnings as it
Speaker 2: comes as it relates to credit card skimmers. We know
Speaker 2: about it, we hear some of the horror stories, but
Speaker 2: what are some of the things that we really need
Speaker 2: to be mindful of.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is positive. This is good stuff for you.
Speaker 3: When you look like gas stations, they creep me out
Speaker 3: really bad. At least maybe an ATM you go to,
Speaker 3: the one at the bank might be a little safer.
Speaker 3: I'm never going to one in a seven eleven.
Speaker 2: Take you, thank you.
Speaker 4: Not going to happen.
Speaker 3: So when you get to a place and you're looking
Speaker 3: for a skimmer, For those who don't know, a skimmer
Speaker 3: is something that has been inserted into where you put
Speaker 3: your card to get your money and to read the information,
Speaker 3: and this is put by someone other than the bank,
Speaker 3: and then the information is sent to the get bad
Speaker 3: guys in the short long story short. So what you
Speaker 3: need to do to protect yourself? First of all, look around.
Speaker 3: If there's more than one credit card reader in the
Speaker 3: same store or place, are they all the same? Does
Speaker 3: that one have tape all over it like this one does?
Speaker 4: Does that?
Speaker 3: Okay, that tape just creeps me out. I don't know
Speaker 3: why it's there, but I don't.
Speaker 2: Know anything which would seem unusual.
Speaker 3: Right, and now they all look unusual. Now there's mo
Speaker 3: you were telling me you do this, and my husband
Speaker 3: does it. Try to remove it, like, grab it, give
Speaker 3: it a good tug. If it comes out in your hand,
Speaker 3: it's probably a skimmer, because those machines are really built.
Speaker 2: And this is something I got to interrupt you there
Speaker 2: because I was told, hey, don't use your ATM or
Speaker 2: credit card at the pump, use it inside. But many
Speaker 2: times the credit card skimmer is inside.
Speaker 4: Yep, it is.
Speaker 3: And also take your fingernail, put it under the keypad
Speaker 3: and try and lift that mm.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is insane. Look for residue.
Speaker 3: If you see maybe a little glop of glue or
Speaker 3: a little something weird around the slot.
Speaker 2: Anything that would live to the ordinary that has been
Speaker 2: jimmied in any way.
Speaker 4: Right, um, and again, check the tape. I don't know
Speaker 4: what the tape is. I see it the tape.
Speaker 3: It hasn't been cut, so I figured that means it's okay.
Speaker 3: I still don't get the tape. Look inside if you can,
Speaker 3: you know, shine a light. I have a little tiny
Speaker 3: flashlight and my purse men carry them in their pockets.
Speaker 4: Shine a light into it. See if you see something
Speaker 4: dangling around in there.
Speaker 3: You never know, right, Just be aware look around you
Speaker 3: when you're going to do this is a financial transaction
Speaker 3: with your bank.
Speaker 4: Be aware. Be aware who's around you.
Speaker 3: Be aware if there are cameras around you, maybe.
Speaker 4: A can, right, maybe a camera that doesn't belong.
Speaker 3: Cover the keypad with your hand boo boo boo, and press.
Speaker 4: The buttons underneath.
Speaker 3: And if possible, at all times, go contactless. And that
Speaker 3: means tapping your card with that little boat. Yes, that's
Speaker 3: the safest way. But I wanted to finish up real
Speaker 3: quick because I wanted to talk to you at the Olympics,
Speaker 3: because I so love the Olympics. Okay, okay, it has
Speaker 3: a tech theme here or it does. Yes, opening ceremonies
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles tomorrow are at four thirty pm.
Speaker 2: Not you mean time to air.
Speaker 4: Okay, they air LA for thirty pm.
Speaker 3: And I love it because all the countries come out,
Speaker 3: they have their uniforms, they're all proud, they're waving the flags.
Speaker 3: It's just makes my heart feel good. Well, this year
Speaker 3: making it different. I was told instead of walking into
Speaker 3: a building, they're going to be on the sand River
Speaker 3: in Paris.
Speaker 2: That's going to be cool.
Speaker 3: And each country is going to have a boat or
Speaker 3: a couple of boats, but you know those sand river boats,
Speaker 3: so just perfect. They're going to have their flags, they're
Speaker 3: going to wear their uniforms, and Samsung has put Samsung
Speaker 3: phones for their cameras on the different boats so that
Speaker 3: the players and the athletes can also take a part
Speaker 3: in the opening ceremonies by saying something or pointing pictures
Speaker 3: at certain things as they go by. So it'll make
Speaker 3: it a much better I think multimedia performance.
Speaker 2: See that was always my question. There was a news
Speaker 2: report that Mark Runner did earlier about the waning television
Speaker 2: that's just say viewership of the Olympics, and a lot
Speaker 2: of this is all tied together. You have to give
Speaker 2: the younger generation a reason to tune in. Exactly, the
Speaker 2: Olympics for us is our generation is not these folks generation,
Speaker 2: and you have you can't present it the same way
Speaker 2: as they did in nineteen eighty four, nineteen eighty.
Speaker 4: Eight, right right.
Speaker 3: It's a new world. So I think that's why they're
Speaker 3: getting all the celebrities involved. I mean, Flavor flav is
Speaker 3: going to be at the Olympics.
Speaker 4: Snoop, I love Snoop. I'm just sorry.
Speaker 2: He's hilarious to me and Flavor flav is, please.
Speaker 4: And hear what the shot put in flav a five.
Speaker 3: You know, this is going to be kind of interesting,
Speaker 3: but it's going to be something to watch and it's
Speaker 3: going to hopefully amuse as well as educate everybody to
Speaker 3: these sports.
Speaker 4: And you can pull out your Olympic Barbie.
Speaker 2: I gotta say, I am tickled that you know who
Speaker 2: Flavor flav is. I am really tickled.
Speaker 4: I love him. How many clocks does.
Speaker 2: He have a bunch that goes back to when he
Speaker 2: was a part of Public Enemy and that was part
Speaker 2: of his his get up. He's worn at for at
Speaker 2: least forty years that I know of.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's amazing.
Speaker 3: I think I met him once in an airport and
Speaker 3: I didn't walk up to him or anything, but I
Speaker 3: saw a guy with a clock.
Speaker 2: You know, he's kind of recognizable and identifiable. Ye, he was.
Speaker 3: I saw Sammy Davis Junior in an airport. Wants to
Speaker 3: very man wore more jewelry. He couldn't hold his head up.
Speaker 2: He's a tiny man, wasn't he.
Speaker 3: He was really really five foot uh huh, five foot one,
Speaker 3: five foot two. But he was very old when I
Speaker 3: saw him. He was at Burbank Airport, and he had
Speaker 3: so much goal jewelry. I'm surprised he could stand.
Speaker 2: It was a different time, you know, people wore jewelry,
Speaker 2: they wore gold back what you could. That's true, you
Speaker 2: could again a different time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not afraid of having your arm chopped off for
Speaker 3: your watch, which you know. We live in a strange time.
Speaker 3: And I really don't like wearing a fitbit. You know,
Speaker 3: I want to wear a watch. I want to wear
Speaker 3: a pretty piece of jewelry.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't wear any jewelry in part for that reason.
Speaker 2: I just don't. I don't live in a way that suggests, oh,
Speaker 2: he might be a good target.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's sad.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I don't even use my good purses anymore either, do Why?
Speaker 4: And you looked so good in them?
Speaker 2: Oh, I had a burk in bag. It was to
Speaker 2: die for.
Speaker 4: I'm sweetie, I love it.
Speaker 3: But now it's Louis No Mo, it's great to be
Speaker 3: here this week. Thank you so much. I promise to
Speaker 3: try and come up with a happier story next.
Speaker 2: We just talk about the news that's in front of us.
Speaker 2: That's all we can do. Tech we love and we'll
Speaker 2: do it again next week.
Speaker 4: Bye bye, everybody. See you next week.
Speaker 2: It's Later with Mo Kelly. I Am six forty live
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: Hey, Mark Ronner, I know you're busy it, but I
Speaker 2: need to interrupt you. First. You didn't say thank you
Speaker 2: like you were supposed to earlier for the Shia. Well, no, no,
Speaker 2: thank you for the pizza. I'm enjoying it right now.
Speaker 2: I'm not eating pizza tonight. Know what I am, and
Speaker 2: I want you to know how much I appreciate it. Okay,
Speaker 2: let me take you behind the scenes. Usually we'll get
Speaker 2: food on a Friday, but we're doing it on a Thursday.
Speaker 2: And I say, if you want food, you decide, I'll
Speaker 2: pay to Wallip paid, I'll pay him back. But tonight
Speaker 2: they got pizza. I'm not happy any of it because
Speaker 2: I'm go to cleanse and diet. You know, I'm working
Speaker 2: my way up to my semiannual physical.
Speaker 6: You really need to start taking better care of yourself. Yes,
Speaker 6: he said this with a mouthful pizza that I am.
Speaker 2: And I literally walked by Air Mix, which is the
Speaker 2: studio next to the main studio that Stephan and Lindsay
Speaker 2: are in, and I said, have you guys finished the
Speaker 2: pizza because I need you to hurry up and finish
Speaker 2: it so I will not be uh drawn to it.
Speaker 2: You know, I have been very good with my and
Speaker 2: I don't want to call it a diet. I would
Speaker 2: want to. I want to say it's a life change.
Speaker 2: It's been low calorie, low sodium, low sugar, low cholesterol,
Speaker 2: low taste, low enjoyment.
Speaker 6: That's basically what it's been. If you don't want to
Speaker 6: be pear shaped anymore, you got to have the willpower. Well,
Speaker 6: not only not do I not want to be pear shaped?
Speaker 2: I got to just make sure my numbers are in
Speaker 2: a better place when I do see my doctor. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's watch those numbers. Yeah yeah, think you know your
Speaker 2: time is coming. Okay, but yes, that's as you guys
Speaker 2: much on pizza. I'm trying not to think about it.
Speaker 2: But the reason I did call you on the mic
Speaker 2: is I know you're a quasi sports fan to a
Speaker 2: certain degree. You had an interest in sports as an athlete.
Speaker 6: Well, but in the unpopular ones like did you ever
Speaker 6: see the Breakfast Club?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 6: Okay, so I'm the guy who had to explain I
Speaker 6: wore the required singless.
Speaker 2: Singless Yes, yeah, unless you understand anything about wrestling, you
Speaker 2: have no idea what a singlet is, and you're fur
Speaker 2: the better for it. You know, that was a sport
Speaker 2: which is really big at my high school, but I
Speaker 2: never had any desire to get into. I think it
Speaker 2: kept me out of prison. It's a hell of an outlet.
Speaker 2: It's good. Oh that was your release, one of it? Well,
Speaker 2: that in martial arts. Yeah, did you ever consider any
Speaker 2: other sports? There's a reason for this. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what you mean. No, I've said, did you ever consider
Speaker 2: playing football or something like that? I did track and field.
Speaker 2: Who was your event? I did a number of things.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 6: Long distance. I did the mile, I did the four hundred,
Speaker 6: I did the three hundred meters low hurdles.
Speaker 2: Now, see, I didn't know that. I'm still learning new
Speaker 2: things about you. I thought you would have been more
Speaker 2: into like pole vault or shot put.
Speaker 7: You're gonna make something dirty out of those. No, I
Speaker 7: feel like you're going No, you make it weird. I'm
Speaker 7: just making an observation. Okay, No, No, I was a
Speaker 7: halfway decent runner. It wasn't anywhere near the best.
Speaker 2: But some No, I did not know that you did
Speaker 2: sprints and long in distance. Yeah, both completely different skills.
Speaker 2: The only reason I asked that is because this LA,
Speaker 2: for the most part, is the sports town. Dodgers lifelong
Speaker 2: fan Clayton Kershaw came back tonight from one understand, and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers did beat the Giants. They won like seven
Speaker 2: out of the last eight games, And I was wondering,
Speaker 2: do you follow baseball at all? No?
Speaker 6: I just see the headlines. And when most sports headlines
Speaker 6: come across the wire and they're important enough for me
Speaker 6: to report, I just report them like I'm I'm reading
Speaker 6: a foreign language phonetically, so I don't.
Speaker 2: Mess it up. It doesn't mean anything to you at all,
Speaker 2: not so much. Okay, growing up, did it matter at
Speaker 2: all what the Mariners did or the Seahawks or anything.
Speaker 2: I mean, you go to a game.
Speaker 6: I used to really enjoy going to games at Wrigley
Speaker 6: Field in Chicago because a Chicago has the best drunks
Speaker 6: on earth. They're fun drunks. They're not particularly violent drunks.
Speaker 6: And Wrigley Field is just a beautiful facility. But it
Speaker 6: could be anybody playing, you know. It's like an onion headline.
Speaker 6: You know, regional area man supports regional team.
Speaker 2: You know. I would like to go to Wrigley Field.
Speaker 2: That's one of the few ballparks of the old bar
Speaker 2: ballparks which is still around that I haven't been able
Speaker 2: to get to. I've never been to Boston, so then
Speaker 2: I've never been to Finway Park. Camden Yards is a
Speaker 2: great ballpark in Baltimore, great especially.
Speaker 6: For the Baltimore but not there. I went to a
Speaker 6: great like old Art Deco movie theater with a crying
Speaker 6: room for kids in baltim More. Every theater should have
Speaker 6: one of those.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'd like to when I usually go to
Speaker 2: a new city, I try to get a sports piece
Speaker 2: of paraphernalia, could be a jersey or something T shirt
Speaker 2: from one of the home teams, and add to my
Speaker 2: collection whenever I go to a different city. So how
Speaker 2: much stuff you got? A lot? A lot of it.
Speaker 2: I don't even wear anymore because my whole wardrobe has
Speaker 2: changed and I don't have enough reasons to wear all
Speaker 2: that stuff. Like I have a Saint Louis Ozzie Smith jersey.
Speaker 2: When am I gonna wear that in a Dodger Town?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I'm not gonna wear it
Speaker 2: to work. It's We're in the same building as the
Speaker 2: Dodger station. It just be weird and awkward and people
Speaker 2: would look at me like I'm crazy. Would it ever
Speaker 2: be enough to provoke a fistfight? No, because it's no
Speaker 2: it's Saint Louis. It would be odd, but it wouldn't
Speaker 2: anger people. If I walked in a Padres jersey or
Speaker 2: a San Francisco Giants jersey jersey like Gary Hoffman does,
Speaker 2: that might wrinkle some nerves.
Speaker 6: I love it when sports people talk crap to each
Speaker 6: other and get up in it, Like when you and
Speaker 6: tuala argue about any sporting event whatsoever. It tickles me
Speaker 6: to death because it's like, you don't understand that. You
Speaker 6: sound like Charlie Brown's teachers. To people who were used
Speaker 6: to being marginalized for being nerds and arguing about like
Speaker 6: movies and comics and superheroes and stuff. You sound the
Speaker 6: same way. I was a nerd, I was a band geek.
Speaker 2: I was marginalized, but I still liked sports talking about
Speaker 2: professional sports. I agree with.
Speaker 6: That, and I think if you and I had known
Speaker 6: each other when we were kids, we would have been
Speaker 6: just inseparable nerds because we like all the same stuff.
Speaker 6: You have the sports angle covered, and I absolutely do not.
Speaker 2: I think it was more a function of my dad,
Speaker 2: because he was the one who introduced me to the Lakers.
Speaker 2: He introduced me to the Dodgers. He was the one
Speaker 2: who told me how football works, what four downs was.
Speaker 2: He took me to Hollywood Park and sent a Nita
Speaker 2: and explain to me how to read a racing form.
Speaker 2: So anything that sports related came from him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, bonding with your dad over sports has to be
Speaker 6: one of the best things in the world. And I
Speaker 6: grew up without a dad. My Grandpa admonished me and
Speaker 6: despised me for not getting into basketball like he maybe
Speaker 6: saw like one wrestling match of mine. So I am
Speaker 6: deeply envious that you had that with your dad. Do
Speaker 6: you remember what a weight class you wrestled in? One
Speaker 6: fifty eight and one sixty eight?
Speaker 2: How many years ago was that the last time you
Speaker 2: saw one fifty eight or one sixty eight? None of
Speaker 2: your damn disess.
Speaker 4: No, it's funny.
Speaker 2: When I graduated high school, I remember I weighed one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty three pounds, A one hundred and thirty three, Well,
Speaker 2: one of your legs. One hundred and thirty three pounds,
Speaker 2: totally okay. And I gained fifteen pounds my freshman year
Speaker 2: in college, the freshman fifteen, Well that happens, It really happened,
Speaker 2: and I weighed a robust one forty eight.
Speaker 6: Now we got the pandemic twenty two that I'm still
Speaker 6: trying to do.
Speaker 2: Look, I will never see one forty eight again in
Speaker 2: my life unless I'm on my deathbed getting ready to
Speaker 2: lead up out of here. There's no way I'll ever
Speaker 2: get down to one forty eight, not without an amputation.
Speaker 2: And even then, you know that I'm not going to lose.
Speaker 2: I'm one seventy five right now, right now, one seventy five.
Speaker 6: No, it feels great to just settle, just settle like
Speaker 6: an old person. Yeah, oh yeah, those might as well
Speaker 6: throw those pants away again. No.
Speaker 2: I went through a whole period of that. I had
Speaker 2: all these clothes in my closet from years ago. Whatever.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know that doesn't fit right. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: on the get there one day, you know that doesn't
Speaker 2: fit right, and it's out of style, and it doesn't
Speaker 2: fit right, go ahead and throw it away. So I've
Speaker 2: been doing a lot of spring and summer cleaning, just
Speaker 2: kind of owning up to certain things I don't need
Speaker 2: to wear again, certain things I won't wear again, and
Speaker 2: I'll and what got me on this kick, This is
Speaker 2: a true story. I bought a suit online Men's Warehouse,
Speaker 2: and I know my measurements, but for some reason, I
Speaker 2: hit the wrong button. I was supposed to order a
Speaker 2: forty two regular jacket, and I ended up ordering a
Speaker 2: forty regular jacket. Send it to me, and I realized, oh,
Speaker 2: this is kind of tight. And I said, well, I
Speaker 2: have two options. I can go return it and get
Speaker 2: another jacket. They can't like tailor, it going up, they
Speaker 2: can go down right, Yeah, But so I said, well
Speaker 2: I can lose weight, get in better shape and fit
Speaker 2: the forty regular, or well I could go through the
Speaker 2: other trouble of you know, trying to get the correct
Speaker 2: size at the time sent out. In other words, the
Speaker 2: one that's possible. But I'm proud to announce I fit
Speaker 2: that forty regular comfortably. Really yeah, I'm down to one
Speaker 2: seventy five sexy as coming back.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm hopefully by this cruise. When I get on
Speaker 2: with Twala, I'll have some shirtsaft photos just one last time.
Speaker 2: Oh no, don't do that. We don't need that. I
Speaker 2: don't need that when we come back. When I talk
Speaker 2: about Uber Lyft and Stefan whether any of this matters
Speaker 2: to him as a I don't know, former president Uber driver.
Speaker 2: Which is it seven in between right now? Okay, that's
Speaker 2: what I thought.
Speaker 1: You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: California Supreme Court today upheld a voter approved law that
Speaker 2: allows Uber and other app makers to treat their drivers
Speaker 2: and delivery workers as independent contractors instead of employees. And
Speaker 2: you may remember here in the state. The decision on
Speaker 2: Proposition twenty two was just about unanimous, approved by fifty
Speaker 2: eight percent of California voters back in twenty twenty and
Speaker 2: enacted that same year. Prop twenty two gave app based
Speaker 2: gig workers some benefits, but not full worker protections because
Speaker 2: the ballot initiative, which ensures they are not considered employees.
Speaker 2: Did you know that more than one point four million
Speaker 2: Californians are APT based gig workers? Talking about the people
Speaker 2: who work for Uber, work for Lyft or maybe door
Speaker 2: Dash or instacar, that's a part of that gig economy.
Speaker 2: Maybe you have more than one job, more than one
Speaker 2: stream of income. I know, I do. I know it's
Speaker 2: pretty commonplace now. You can't necessarily depend on just one job.
Speaker 2: And part I would say of the gig economy is
Speaker 2: the freedom and flexibility it affords. The whole point, or
Speaker 2: I should say the whole allure of driving for Uber
Speaker 2: is you can work when you want, basically wherever you want,
Speaker 2: and if you have a car, you are never without
Speaker 2: money coming in. Now there's a question of whether it's
Speaker 2: financially as meaningful and helpful as it once was when
Speaker 2: Uber first started, but still some money is better than
Speaker 2: no money, especially if you need to depend on that.
Speaker 2: And Stephan, I know we don't have a lot of
Speaker 2: time in this segment, and I know you said you
Speaker 2: were kind of in between. Yes, no, still driving for Uber.
Speaker 2: But in the past year or so, how has it
Speaker 2: changed for the better or for worse for drivers?
Speaker 8: I mean, nothing's really changed for the most part, because
Speaker 8: what they've really done is just add what they call
Speaker 8: quest bonuses, And if you do a certain amount of trips,
Speaker 8: you get a bonus on top of what you make.
Speaker 8: So if you make let's say, two hundred dollars in
Speaker 8: any given week and you did thirty trips, they might
Speaker 8: throw an extra one hundred dollars or fifty dollars, depending
Speaker 8: on how far you go. But now that I'm here
Speaker 8: and I'm kind of like taking care of my dad
Speaker 8: a little bit more, I can't really do it as much,
Speaker 8: so I'm going to try to go back. It'll be
Speaker 8: Fridays and Saturdays. And that's what I always told people.
Speaker 8: If you want to do part time, that's the time
Speaker 8: to do it, because that's when you're going to make
Speaker 8: the most money.
Speaker 2: If someone was out of work, someone who had no
Speaker 2: employment but they have a reliable car, and if they
Speaker 2: were willing to drive let's say ten eleven hours a day,
Speaker 2: it's best you could guesstimate how much money could they
Speaker 2: conceivably be making a.
Speaker 8: Week if they Because mine was Monday through Saturday, I
Speaker 8: always took Sunday off, and depending on if there's a
Speaker 8: holiday or not. But average, I would say I made
Speaker 8: somewhere around between one thoy thirteen hundred a week. I
Speaker 8: because I did most, I did a lot of hours,
Speaker 8: and plus Friday and Saturday nights, I stay out really late.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's just say if you lose your drop
Speaker 2: job and you're willing to commit to uber, you could
Speaker 2: bring home gross at least four thousand a month, yeah,
Speaker 2: give or take. Yeah, And of course I know there's
Speaker 2: cost of gas, there's a cost of maintenance. But you
Speaker 2: could survive, yeah, in.
Speaker 8: Most instances, especially because if you have a really fueled
Speaker 8: like it was a good car and gas, like a
Speaker 8: Prius or just a four door sedan that'll go far
Speaker 8: and doing it, especially because if you're waiting around for trips,
Speaker 8: you don't have to worry about shutting the engine off
Speaker 8: all the time.
Speaker 2: Stuff like that. How many miles did you drive on
Speaker 2: an average day?
Speaker 8: Monday through Thursday was about a one hundred and fifty,
Speaker 8: and then Fridays and Saturdays was like three to three fifty.
Speaker 2: Okay, so if you had the electric vehicle, conceivably you
Speaker 2: could do it. Oh yeah, you could do it.
Speaker 8: The only thing that held me back from that was
Speaker 8: it's especially on Fridays and Saturdays. I've worked so long
Speaker 8: that I'd have to stop to get gas halfway through.
Speaker 8: So if you'd have an electric cart, it takes longer
Speaker 8: to charge it. Right, just filling up quick in ten
Speaker 8: minutes and you're off.
Speaker 2: So let me just ask you this, given this story
Speaker 2: that y'all are going to remain as independent contractors instead
Speaker 2: of employees plus or minus, is that good or not
Speaker 2: so good? I would think it's better for drivers. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it's one hundred percent better. They they kind of try
Speaker 2: to brainwash some of those people into thinking that it
Speaker 2: should be hourly pay, But people don't realize they're gonna
Speaker 2: cut half of the workforce there. You're not gonna be
Speaker 2: able to work when you want.
Speaker 8: You're gonna have caps, you're gonna have a schedule, and
Speaker 8: that defeats the purpose there you have it.
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