Speaker 1: Okay, I am six forty. It's mister mo Kelly. Were
Speaker 1: alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: I had a fantastic.
Speaker 1: Weekend and I want to thank Melissa Merritt and also
Speaker 1: Keisha Bryson of Disney. They were kind enough to set
Speaker 1: aside some accommodations for me. I got to stay at
Speaker 1: the Disneyland Grand California Hotel and spend a day at Disneyland,
Speaker 1: spend a day at California Adventure, taking my time going
Speaker 1: through the park, took my wife, two boys.
Speaker 2: Had a great time, great time, and it's different.
Speaker 1: I went last year, but I approached it with a
Speaker 1: different strategy this year. Last year and I think twelve
Speaker 1: you may remember this, I was trying to do everything
Speaker 1: in one day. You can't do it all in one day.
Speaker 1: You end up missing or not thoroughly enjoying everything.
Speaker 2: So I took my time.
Speaker 1: We had a second day, so we had time to
Speaker 1: do everything we wanted. And the things that we did
Speaker 1: do we didn't have to rush through. We waited until
Speaker 1: lines were shorter for certain rides. We didn't have to
Speaker 1: push or rush to get in things at a certain time.
Speaker 1: Oh and also this it is now Halloween time at Disneyland,
Speaker 1: and if you go to my Instagram at mister mom
Speaker 1: Kelly or at Lady with Mokelly, I posted some pictures
Speaker 1: and videos. Disneyland has combined Halloween and the holiday season
Speaker 1: and it started already here in August.
Speaker 2: And it's very cool visually. If you don't look at the.
Speaker 1: Pictures, it's like Nightmare before Christmas, except they've expanded it
Speaker 1: to features and attractions, to fireworks show. If you go
Speaker 1: to the Haunted Mansion, Oh, here's the thing, Swallow. We
Speaker 1: had an exclusive media walkthrough of the Haunted Mansion, the
Speaker 1: updated Haunted Mansion, because they've changed the inner workings of it,
Speaker 1: where all the displays are Halloween stuff, Halloween and holiday stuff.
Speaker 1: They've merged the two holidays. I saw that on your Instagram.
Speaker 2: They've changed. I'll say, the script of the narration is
Speaker 2: completely different.
Speaker 1: Everything is physically the same, but you know, within it
Speaker 1: is completely different.
Speaker 2: And you can see some of that on my Instagram.
Speaker 1: But they gave us this tour of it at six
Speaker 1: fifteen in the morning Sunday morning. Now that was after
Speaker 1: spending the whole day in both parks the day before.
Speaker 1: Talk about tired and sleepy, but it was a great
Speaker 1: great If I were going to get up at five
Speaker 1: in the morning after stay up until like one in
Speaker 1: the morning the night before, I would do it for this,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad I did because it was a great experience.
Speaker 1: You got to we had run of the park at
Speaker 1: seven thirty in the morning when no one else was there,
Speaker 1: nobody really, all of Disneyland, all of California Adventure. And
Speaker 1: now I can say I know what it's like for
Speaker 1: them to actually open the gates to Disneyland and everyone
Speaker 1: coming down Main Street. There was this crush of people
Speaker 1: and we had already been in the park for a
Speaker 1: good two hours.
Speaker 2: Wow. It is weird. Small w to see what.
Speaker 1: Disney Land is like as it's getting ready to open.
Speaker 1: You get to see the magic beginning to happen, the
Speaker 1: food carts and places starting to open up, and it
Speaker 1: comes alive. That's something I've never seen before. I've been
Speaker 1: there obviously as the park was closing. In fact it
Speaker 1: was the night before. Was there till the park close.
Speaker 1: But to see that aspect of it was a different
Speaker 1: way to look at it. And I look at it
Speaker 1: now through adult eyes, so it's not like the wonder
Speaker 1: and azement of a child. It's like, yes, this place
Speaker 1: brings back very fond memories, very fond memories of my
Speaker 1: family up going used to go every single year, back
Speaker 1: when they had the actual tickets to the individual tickets
Speaker 1: for the rides.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this, Mark Runner, but
Speaker 2: first good Evening.
Speaker 1: It used to be when you went to Disneyland, you
Speaker 1: would have a ticket for each ride, and there were
Speaker 1: different classifications for the rise. You have an A ticket,
Speaker 1: a B ticket, a C ticket, D ticket, and the
Speaker 1: best rides with the E ticket rides. So depending on
Speaker 1: how old people are, they may not remember that. And
Speaker 1: it was cost prohibitive back then, and they eventually opened
Speaker 1: it up where no, if you pay me to come
Speaker 1: into park you get to see all the rides. But
Speaker 1: it was just nice to be able to see for example,
Speaker 1: Tom Sawyer Island won last time.
Speaker 2: Because that's going away really yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they just announced that last week that Tom
Speaker 1: Sawyer Island is going to be no more. I don't
Speaker 1: know the official date, but some of these older attractions
Speaker 1: that we had discussed are going away as they revamp
Speaker 1: and renew some of these attractions I hadn't been on
Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caribbean and quite some time, so I
Speaker 1: got to see the subtle changes where they've updated it
Speaker 1: to more mirror the movies. Yep, yeah, things of that
Speaker 1: the nature, so it's a different part, yet it's the same.
Speaker 1: It was a great experience. And now they call it
Speaker 1: the Disneyland Resort. It is much more built out the
Speaker 1: campuses from when I was a kid. Now it more
Speaker 1: competes with Epcot. There's just so much more. The Pixar
Speaker 1: Place hotels is great. It's a lot to do and
Speaker 1: you can't do it all in one weekend, even though
Speaker 1: we tried.
Speaker 3: From having enough time this time around to really take
Speaker 3: your time and kind of peruse everything. What was the
Speaker 3: most memorable thing you saw before after the drinks, let's
Speaker 3: say before the drinks. Okay, before the drinks, the most
Speaker 3: memorable thing. Actually, I enjoyed down Town Disney. I didn't
Speaker 3: have the chance to really.
Speaker 1: Okay, when you leave our hotel, ten steps you're in
Speaker 1: downtown Disney.
Speaker 2: That's how close you are. And then you walk a
Speaker 2: little bit of the way.
Speaker 1: They make you walk all through the downtown Disney shops,
Speaker 1: plenty of shopping options, and there's more things for adults
Speaker 1: to do. So, yeah, it's like show me to the bar,
Speaker 1: and then you get in Disney and you see it's
Speaker 1: just well thought out.
Speaker 2: It's well laid out.
Speaker 1: They make it very easy for someone who's staying at
Speaker 1: the resort to go to either both of the theme
Speaker 1: parks and they almost like they say, hey, you, if
Speaker 1: you want to come to Disneyland, we advise that you
Speaker 1: stay on the property. You get the best experience. That's
Speaker 1: what stood out to me. It's not just a hotel.
Speaker 1: You want to be at the resort, and that made
Speaker 1: it even more enjoyable. Yeah, it's a great time, great time.
Speaker 1: I think I'll take Mark next year.
Speaker 2: Oh can't wait.
Speaker 4: So am I understanding that you did some day drinking
Speaker 4: at Disney Well, it wasn't day drinking.
Speaker 2: It was like maybe six thirty ish.
Speaker 4: Were you walking around kind of half in the bag
Speaker 4: looking at all the all the people with the giant
Speaker 4: cartoon heads?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, it wasn't like I was like
Speaker 1: tripping out all I was on acid or anything.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, okay, what did you think?
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm seeking okay, okay.
Speaker 1: And in the Fireworks show, I posted videos of that
Speaker 1: They've revamped it specifically for the Halloween time celebration. So
Speaker 1: if you've not gone to Disneyland or California Adventure in
Speaker 1: the past year or even half a year, it's like
Speaker 1: a different theme park.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, you saw a fireworks show, because the last
Speaker 3: time I went it was a light show.
Speaker 2: They did correct fireworks, So they did.
Speaker 3: They did a light show, which was incredible to watch
Speaker 3: and I loved it, but I wanted to see the
Speaker 3: fireworks and They're like, no, for right now, we're doing
Speaker 3: a light show.
Speaker 2: It was straight up fireworks. Wow, straight up.
Speaker 1: And it reminded me. It's like, wow, do they do
Speaker 1: they do this every single night? It just seems like
Speaker 1: it would be difficult. It was such a sophisticated production
Speaker 1: to do that type of firework show every single night,
Speaker 1: But I guess they pull it off.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's incredible. It's a great time, great time.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I understand, and I always talk about Amy King and
Speaker 1: Nick Poulo Keny you go there so frequently. I can
Speaker 1: understand how you could get to that point because you
Speaker 1: can't do it all in one visit, so you will
Speaker 1: do other things or more of certain things when you
Speaker 1: have more time, And the way you get more time
Speaker 1: is to get like an annual pass, and then you
Speaker 1: can go different seasons, stay later on different occasions.
Speaker 2: Yet I more now get it.
Speaker 3: I have a friend that I work with at the
Speaker 3: school that has an annual past and he literally goes
Speaker 3: every weekend. And we were asking him a few weeks ago,
Speaker 3: like what do you get out of going every weekend?
Speaker 3: And he says, every week I go, I experience something different,
Speaker 3: he says, I will actually go and spend an entire
Speaker 3: day in one land, or half a day or whatever,
Speaker 3: exploring different restaurants, trying different foods, getting making sure I
Speaker 3: enjoy every ride, everything there is to do there, he says.
Speaker 3: And because of an annual pass, I don't have to rush.
Speaker 3: That is the beauty of having the past.
Speaker 2: You reminded me. I enjoyed the food more now as
Speaker 2: an adult.
Speaker 1: I'm like, for example, I was not gonna get on
Speaker 1: Guardians of the Galaxy, No, sir, I'm not a ride enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: Whole idea of just dropping straight that doesn't do anything
Speaker 1: for me. Now, you know, I let them, the youngsters
Speaker 1: go do that. I was happy, just kind of oh,
Speaker 1: because they also give you a gift card.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm telling too much, but they also give you
Speaker 2: a gift card of like one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we were had good time, good food, good eats,
Speaker 1: good drinks.
Speaker 2: Good night. There it is, slept well for those three
Speaker 2: and a half hours. Let me tell you.
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Speaker 1: Eleven one robbed. This one ransacked by a large group
Speaker 1: of thieves Saturday, basically Friday night, early Saturday morning. LA
Speaker 1: City Councilman Tim McCosker is calling for the city to
Speaker 1: provide more police officers and other safety resources in the
Speaker 1: wake of this robbery.
Speaker 2: Happened at one forty am.
Speaker 1: Police received several calls of a possible street takeover and
Speaker 1: a disturbance inside a nearby seven eleven in the San
Speaker 1: Pedro area, which is a gaffe in first streets.
Speaker 2: I know exactly what that is at the end of
Speaker 2: the one ten freeway. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Each week we talk about seven eleven being robbed each
Speaker 1: week that in Metro. But when we talk about seven
Speaker 1: to eleven, it's a consistent refrain which says to me,
Speaker 1: and I might be wrong, but I doubt it. But
Speaker 1: criminals clearly have identified something, and I don't know what
Speaker 1: that thing is is, but they've identified something which suggests
Speaker 1: that seven eleven is an easier target. This is not
Speaker 1: by happenstance. This is not random. This was a street
Speaker 1: takeover which was planned, and then it evolved into ransacking
Speaker 1: of seven to eleven, which probably was planned as well.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about these these robberies for the better
Speaker 1: part of a couple of months, and I've yet to
Speaker 1: see any convenience store robbed.
Speaker 2: With the exception of seven to eleven.
Speaker 1: There is something specific to seven eleven which either makes
Speaker 1: it more conducive or more attractive of a target to rob.
Speaker 2: And I'm not blaming yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Blame the victim, but the victim's doing something wrong here,
Speaker 1: you know. It's it's maybe unfair to find fault with
Speaker 1: seven eleven and not necessarily are they doing anything wrong
Speaker 1: to bring this about. I want to make that distinction.
Speaker 1: But clearly there is a preference, there is a choice
Speaker 1: being made by these criminals and they are targeting and
Speaker 1: they are seeking out seven to eleven. Now me, I've
Speaker 1: always thought that it had to do with the layout,
Speaker 1: because most seven elevens their easy access. You usually have
Speaker 1: the counter in the center, and it's easy to if
Speaker 1: you're trying to rob the place, probably easier to get
Speaker 1: to the register and get out than other convenience stores.
Speaker 1: But some of these are not even full fledged robberies
Speaker 1: in a sense of trying to get money from the register.
Speaker 1: This case, they just ransacked the place, took items, took food,
Speaker 1: took things which were reachable within arms reach, and then
Speaker 1: ran off or fled on bicycles or in cars, that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. It was a coordinated effort, but it
Speaker 1: really wasn't all that coordinated. Where obviously they were trying
Speaker 1: to ransack the seven to eleven, but it didn't see
Speaker 1: like they had a real sophisticated plan.
Speaker 2: What if in the middle of a robbery, you just
Speaker 2: feel like a slurpee.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm quite sure there was someone who stopped to
Speaker 1: get a slurpee during the robbery. I don't know this
Speaker 1: for a fact, but I'm pretty sure someone was brazen
Speaker 1: enough during the two minutes or however long the robbery
Speaker 1: to stop to get a cup and fill themselves up
Speaker 1: a slurpy.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's thirsty work in the middle of the summer.
Speaker 4: You got to stop for a slurpe. Now you need
Speaker 4: to have more respect for the victim. I'm not blaming
Speaker 4: the victa. I was actually looking up most dangerous occupations
Speaker 4: in the United States. Weirdly, convenience store clerk is not
Speaker 4: on there. How is that even possible? You got logging workers,
Speaker 4: fishing and hunting workers, and the roofers, aircraft pilots and
Speaker 4: flight engineers. No, no convenience store clerk anywhere.
Speaker 1: I guess if you want to break it down to
Speaker 1: type of danger, whereas you may die any given day, yeah, okay, engineer,
Speaker 1: aircraft engineer. But when it comes down to the danger
Speaker 1: of getting assaulted each and every day, it's got to
Speaker 1: be either a metro bus driver or seven eleven cashier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or taxi driver or something like that. But it's
Speaker 4: just not on the list. That's really confusing.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, again, what was the most recent information that you
Speaker 1: looked at, because at the by the end of this year,
Speaker 1: they may make the list.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the twenty twenty five list. They may be right
Speaker 4: up front and center. This was This is from Forbes.
Speaker 4: It looks like last summer, but all the lists say
Speaker 4: the same thing.
Speaker 2: It'll be updated though.
Speaker 1: Look, I don't know what they're paying at seven to eleven,
Speaker 1: but it's not enough. There's not enough. You're telling me.
Speaker 1: There's not some other place that you can work as
Speaker 1: a convenience store attendant, as a cashier, as a floor mopper.
Speaker 1: There's no other place that you can work other than
Speaker 1: dangerous seven to eleven. I would think at this point
Speaker 1: that if you're not already on your way out the door,
Speaker 1: that you will be by the end of the month,
Speaker 1: only like a few days away. But still, I mean, like,
Speaker 1: what would make you want to go back to that job.
Speaker 1: It can't be the money. It can't be that. Do
Speaker 1: they get the new twenty dollars minimum wage?
Speaker 2: That's a great question. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they qualify as quote unquote fast
Speaker 1: food though, yeah, because if they.
Speaker 4: Don't even get that, then I especially would get the
Speaker 4: hell out of there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look, maybe because they're twenty four hours, there's more flexibility
Speaker 1: with the scheduling, which may be attractive to some people,
Speaker 1: but you know, under threat of death would probably be
Speaker 1: one of those drawbacks. You know, you have this paper
Speaker 1: and you put your pluses and minuses on one side,
Speaker 1: you put the pros okay, flexible hours.
Speaker 2: On the other side, you put the cons might get shot.
Speaker 1: On the other side, you put the pros like, well,
Speaker 1: they have a you know, they'll help pay for my
Speaker 1: college tuition or something. And then on the other side
Speaker 1: is like, might get stabbed. I don't know what what
Speaker 1: makes you say, let me choose to work at seven
Speaker 1: to eleven at this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hmm, might get a black bag shoved over my
Speaker 4: head and thrown into the back of a van. That's
Speaker 4: that's in the negatives, right, And I wonder what the
Speaker 4: training is.
Speaker 1: I'm quite sure they're told not to engage if they're
Speaker 1: being robbed.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make that assumption. Oh yeah, that's that's the thing.
Speaker 4: It's not your money, don't put your life at risk
Speaker 4: for it. Let them take whatever they want, right.
Speaker 1: But we all know that they don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of money in the drawer or the safe, right don't
Speaker 1: we I mean it's posted everywhere. I'm quite sure after
Speaker 1: all these robberies, they're not going to keep a lot
Speaker 1: of money in the stores, especially, yeah, especially now.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just don't know what the upside if you're gonna
Speaker 1: steal some candy bars, you're gonna steal some drinks. Maybe
Speaker 1: they sell alcohol there, right, I don't know because I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't go there, I believe so.
Speaker 4: I haven't been to seven eleven in years, so I
Speaker 4: would hope they do. Yeah, let's assume they do.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get a lot, So I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is more about mischief when you're ransacking this
Speaker 1: store as opposed to actually robbing it and trying to
Speaker 1: get some money. Down the other robberies we heard they
Speaker 1: were to get money and they were strong arming the
Speaker 1: cashier and so forth and threatening with guns. But this
Speaker 1: just seems to be a ransack, not to minimize it,
Speaker 1: but just to differentiate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe it's as simple as they just happened to
Speaker 4: be open when most other places are closed.
Speaker 2: They're open.
Speaker 1: They're brightly lit, and it's like it's like bugs to
Speaker 1: a light. Well that's part of it. But you know
Speaker 1: Denny's doesn't get robbed like that.
Speaker 2: Now you don't hear that, do you? No?
Speaker 4: Not yet at least just have a grand slam and
Speaker 4: go about your business and don't bother anybody.
Speaker 2: Quick question, have you ever dined and ditched from Dennis?
Speaker 4: I was with my wrestling team in high school and
Speaker 4: they tried to ditch me when the bill was and
Speaker 4: leave you the only ones sitting at the table. And
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm not paying for everybody. So then
Speaker 4: I ran out after him, and to this day I
Speaker 4: feel bad about it.
Speaker 2: I did only once in my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think one day I'm going to go
Speaker 1: back to that Denny's and just put a twenty on
Speaker 1: the table.
Speaker 2: Just walk.
Speaker 1: I think we both should actually square our karma. You no, No,
Speaker 1: it's a true story. I want to say this. This
Speaker 1: is my club going day. So this is maybe ninety
Speaker 1: two ninety three, and we went to the Dennies by
Speaker 1: Dilomo Mall and it's still there to this day. And
Speaker 1: I went there and it was hundreds of people coming
Speaker 1: from the Red Onion in Redondo Beach. I know we
Speaker 1: were coming from Rednald Beach.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: We got to go to break very quickly. Well this
Speaker 1: is important, yeah it is. And we went up to
Speaker 1: the counter to pay the bill and there were so
Speaker 1: many people from the club. They only had like maybe
Speaker 1: one or two on the weight staff, so there was
Speaker 1: no way that they could accommodate everyone. And we're probably
Speaker 1: as a group, all fifty of us from the club,
Speaker 1: being obnoxious and loud, and they were doing their best
Speaker 1: to accommodate us and serve us, but they couldn't take
Speaker 1: our bills quick enough.
Speaker 2: And I had back then I was more of an
Speaker 2: a hole than I am.
Speaker 1: Now your time was valuable, right, And I said, if
Speaker 1: they don't take my money inside of two minutes, they've
Speaker 1: lost the right.
Speaker 2: To ask for it. That's right, It's on them.
Speaker 1: So I was justifying it to myself, and I remember
Speaker 1: I got like a French slam and something else. So
Speaker 1: and we waited and we waited, And what was really
Speaker 1: dumb is because Torrance Police they would always patrol that Dennis.
Speaker 1: For some reason, we decided to throw caution to the
Speaker 1: wind and we ran out after two minutes again did
Speaker 1: get in two minutes. We ran to the car. I'm
Speaker 1: a man of my word. We ran to the car,
Speaker 1: and I remember the waitress she ran out after us.
Speaker 1: Now what she was going to do if and when
Speaker 1: she caught us I have no idea. Maybe she was
Speaker 1: trying to get our license plate. But one day I'm
Speaker 1: going to go to that Denny's in Torrance and just
Speaker 1: put twenty dollars on the counter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we both have some amends to make. I think
Speaker 4: what number step is this? I don't know, but I
Speaker 4: we're both going to spend some time in purgatory because
Speaker 4: of what we've done to Denny's, even even though we
Speaker 4: were kind of kids at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, we're trying to get better as we get older.
Speaker 1: It's Later with Mokelly. Let's talk potholes when we come back. Hey,
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Speaker 1: And I think everyone hates potholes. They will ruin your car,
Speaker 1: and they they're like a virus. They're like herpes. They
Speaker 1: keep coming back. You think you get rid of them,
Speaker 1: don't look at me like that, Mark Ryer. If you
Speaker 1: say so, we'll all have to take your word for it.
Speaker 1: They keep coming back. Okay, I walked into that one.
Speaker 1: Come on, no no.
Speaker 2: No, no no no no no no no no Okay,
Speaker 2: give it to Look at his face, he's wrestling to it. No, No,
Speaker 2: go ahead, give it to him. Okay.
Speaker 1: The potholes keep coming back. It does not matter if
Speaker 1: they fill them. And when they fill them. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this before. It's usually a shoddy job, or at
Speaker 1: least in my neighborhood. And I say that because I
Speaker 1: live in Los Angeles. Stephan lives somewhat close to me.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say where he lives. But we're
Speaker 1: both LA County, and we, being in LA County, have
Speaker 1: to deal with I would say, not scant resources. It's
Speaker 1: more of a problem of them covering the terrain. The
Speaker 1: LA is just so physically massive to expect that they're
Speaker 1: going to get to all those potholes in any reasonable
Speaker 1: amount of time.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: So they fill some of them, they do a shoddy job,
Speaker 1: and then they're back in three months, three weeks or
Speaker 1: something like that. Here's something which I think is pretty
Speaker 1: significant and a different strategy which is being applied.
Speaker 2: But in the city of Long Beach.
Speaker 1: Long Beach is trying to curb its pothole problem entirely,
Speaker 1: not fix some of them, not fix most of them
Speaker 1: fix every single one that they have knowledge of in
Speaker 1: the City of Long Beach. But not just fix potholes,
Speaker 1: but fill in and level out every questionable bit of
Speaker 1: road across the city's more than fifty square miles. Would
Speaker 1: be realistic for the City of La or the County
Speaker 1: of La absolutely not. But Long Beach is going to
Speaker 1: be very ambitious and they're going to try to fix
Speaker 1: all of the roads in the City of Long Beach.
Speaker 1: And so far the city has filled about twenty eight
Speaker 1: thousand of the potholes, that's according to the Mayor's office,
Speaker 1: twenty eight thousand. In fact, they're having people from the
Speaker 1: Public Works department works six days a week. They talked
Speaker 1: about homelessness last week, cleaning up the parks. Now they're
Speaker 1: trying to fill up the potholes and fix the roads
Speaker 1: in the City of Long Beach.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: This is according to Bob haas Haus who said, quote,
Speaker 1: whenever it rains and of caltrans, whenever it rains and
Speaker 1: a rain water accumulates on the road, tires from the
Speaker 1: road actually squeeze the water into the pavement. So that
Speaker 1: repeated squeezing into the asphalt and into the concrete causes
Speaker 1: the cracking.
Speaker 2: Now I was today years old.
Speaker 1: I know that they always said that, you know, rain
Speaker 1: caused potholes, But if you ask me, if you pin
Speaker 1: me down, you put me on jeopardy, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to answer you and tell you specifically the science
Speaker 1: behind rain and potholes.
Speaker 4: Now I'm still trying to figure out how far your
Speaker 4: herpes metaphor extends, and I'm not really getting it, so
Speaker 4: to speak.
Speaker 1: Please precede, though long term, no pun intended. The mayor
Speaker 1: says that there's a need to do more concrete work
Speaker 1: and flood control, but this is all a part of
Speaker 1: their elevate twenty eight. They have a five year, multimillion
Speaker 1: dollar plan to repair public facilities, parks like I was
Speaker 1: telling you about last week, beaches and waterways throughout the
Speaker 1: city because of course twenty eight is the Olympics, and
Speaker 1: Long Beach is going to play a sizable role in
Speaker 1: the Olympics. They have the aquatics and some other events
Speaker 1: which are going to be in the city, and the
Speaker 1: last thing they want is to have a city that
Speaker 1: doesn't seem ready, and they want to get out in
Speaker 1: front as many pothole repairs as possible. The real question
Speaker 1: is okay, so you fit. It's almost like it's almost
Speaker 1: like housework. It's not like something you ever finish. You
Speaker 1: can do the dishes, but they're still gonna get dirty again.
Speaker 1: You know, the next night. You could fill the potholes,
Speaker 1: all twenty eight thousand of them, but how many are
Speaker 1: gonna be back the next time it rains?
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I understand they want to get out in front of
Speaker 1: it and at least get as many done as possible,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if you really ever get ahead
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 4: The question seems to me like, for this big cleanup
Speaker 4: for the Olympics, is it like doing a full scrub
Speaker 4: down or your whole house or is it just like
Speaker 4: shoving some stuff under the bed? How serious is that?
Speaker 4: I think it's both.
Speaker 1: I think it's both because you always clean the areas
Speaker 1: which can be seen, like if you have like a
Speaker 1: family room, a living room, an open area, you're gonna
Speaker 1: make sure that spot is immaculate. But some of the
Speaker 1: other bedrooms, yes, you may probably throw stuff in there,
Speaker 1: don't it. It's probably a little bit of both. And
Speaker 1: also you probably push people to the areas that you
Speaker 1: want them to see.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: If all of Long Beach is gonna be spectacular and sparkling,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I know Long Beach pretty well. There's a lot of
Speaker 4: damn clean up they would have to do. Don't go
Speaker 4: in the cellar, there might be some bodies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some streets that you probably should not drive down,
Speaker 1: even today in Long Beach.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna call them out, but they're everywhere.
Speaker 4: I don't know how often this happens to you, but
Speaker 4: just this weekend we were driving and we go over
Speaker 4: one of those where it's like a giant cuthump that
Speaker 4: you think, well, that had to cause major structural damage
Speaker 4: to the car. That can't be good. And our options
Speaker 4: are pretty much zero here right here.
Speaker 1: For me, I like to drive in the same lane
Speaker 1: on the same roads, of the same highways if I'm
Speaker 1: getting on the one tin or whatever every single day.
Speaker 1: Why because I know for the most part where the
Speaker 1: potholes are and are not. If I, for example, if
Speaker 1: I go down Elsa Gundo Boulevard, that's like Dodge craters,
Speaker 1: you know the roads that well like that, like the
Speaker 1: Riverboat Captain and life on the Mississippi, you can just
Speaker 1: steer around that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yes, if you drive the same lanes each day.
Speaker 1: Like when I get on the five Freeway, there's a
Speaker 1: certain lane I always drive in because I know the potholes,
Speaker 1: the ones they haven't filled up where they are, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about accidentally hitting one for
Speaker 1: the most part until it rains again.
Speaker 2: Well that's not absolutely serious.
Speaker 4: It's impressive, and it's sad that you have to know
Speaker 4: all that too, Stephan, help me out here.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't be the only one.
Speaker 1: Like, for example, driving down Elsa Gundo Boulevard and you
Speaker 1: it's like a slalom course.
Speaker 6: Yeah, kind of like that's probably the best way to
Speaker 6: describe it, because you know we're to move and I
Speaker 6: think we said before it's like I get worried if
Speaker 6: the cops behind because I want them thinking I'm like drinking.
Speaker 6: I'm just trying to avoid the potholes. I don't want to, like,
Speaker 6: you know, mess up the car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they are really bad, really really bad on Imperial Highway.
Speaker 1: And definitely Elsa Gundo Century has gotten better, if only
Speaker 1: because they always want Sentry Boulevard to look better and
Speaker 1: feel better because it's going to the new stadium, new
Speaker 1: arena that kind of thing, so they put more money
Speaker 1: into Century Boulevard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but my all, my roots are.
Speaker 1: Pretty consistent for that reason, so I don't hit an
Speaker 1: unexpected pothole as best as possible.
Speaker 4: I got to get one of those monster trucks with
Speaker 4: the huge tires, otherwise I'm cooked.
Speaker 1: Where would you park it? The neighbor's front yard? I
Speaker 1: know your neighbors just love you. Oh, we love each other.
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Speaker 1: On this National Dog Day. And if you know me,
Speaker 1: I love my two furry family members. They're both mini Schnauzers,
Speaker 1: Benson who's six, and Riley, who was bigger than Benson
Speaker 1: but only four years old.
Speaker 2: He's fat. That'll put him on a diet. He's fat,
Speaker 2: fat eaten too well, that Rea. Do you like the
Speaker 2: little dogs? Are you afraid of a larger dog?
Speaker 1: No, not at all, but I'll tell you one because
Speaker 1: my wife prefers little dogs.
Speaker 2: And there's some science to this.
Speaker 1: Smaller dogs usually yield smaller piles.
Speaker 2: Of poop to clean up. Enough said right there, so they're.
Speaker 1: Easier to manage in that way, and also we have
Speaker 1: a smaller doggy door, which in these look. I've had
Speaker 1: dogs for a lot of my life, these two are
Speaker 1: probably some of the best ever, without a doubt.
Speaker 2: They don't make any mistakes, they don't mess up.
Speaker 1: They are so well behaved with exceptional ridle likes to
Speaker 1: bark itt whoever walks by, but that's more out of
Speaker 1: protection and love. It's like, who are you get away?
Speaker 1: I was like, what are you gonna do other than
Speaker 1: get your ass kicked? Riley, You're not that big.
Speaker 4: No. You had me with the poop argument, because when
Speaker 4: you're cleaning that stuff up, nobody wants to feel like
Speaker 4: they're wrestling a Scottish caber off the ground.
Speaker 2: And you know they are.
Speaker 1: Really they always go in the backyard, even though we
Speaker 1: may be gone for hours at a time.
Speaker 2: They're just such great companions.
Speaker 1: But just in case you didn't know, from rover dot
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Speaker 1: teamed up with ancestry to find out which dog breeds
Speaker 1: are the most popular across the country and what their
Speaker 1: personalities are like. The most popular kinds of dogs are
Speaker 1: and This is according to Rover. Labrador Retrievers no surprise,
Speaker 1: they're best dogs.
Speaker 2: In the world.
Speaker 1: Goldendoodle, Golden Retriever, German Shepherd, no surprise there, Chihuahua surprise.
Speaker 2: French bulldog.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the trendy thing right now. And docsund
Speaker 1: I think are our boss has a dosun. I think
Speaker 1: Robin has a dosin. I might be wrong. I think so.
Speaker 1: Those Frenchies kind of grow on you. They're cute.
Speaker 2: Oh you had a French bulldog?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, No.
Speaker 4: I know people who have, though, and they're just kind
Speaker 4: of fun, little alien looking creatures to have around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my wife used to have a lot of pugs.
Speaker 1: I've never had a pug, but I've always because of her.
Speaker 1: Her brother had Mini Schnauzer and so we just kind
Speaker 1: of started falling in love with minny Schnauzers. They're very smart,
Speaker 1: they're very they're full of personality. They can be stubborn
Speaker 1: as can be, but they are extremely affectionate and kind.
Speaker 2: They are pretty loyal, stubborn but loyal.
Speaker 4: Big fan of the of the labs, especially the yellow ones,
Speaker 4: because they can work their eyebrows like Leonard Nimoy. They're good,
Speaker 4: they have facial express they have human facial expressions. You
Speaker 4: ascribe to them intelligence that maybe they don't have. But
Speaker 4: they are pretty smart.
Speaker 1: I've had a few dogs over the years, as I
Speaker 1: was saying, and one of the first dogs I had
Speaker 1: was a mix of a German shepherd and Doberman pincher.
Speaker 1: But as nice as could, just could not be any nicer.
Speaker 1: Her name was pound Cake. My dad named her. Don't
Speaker 1: ask me why she was named pound cake, but they
Speaker 1: named her pound Cake.
Speaker 2: It's stuck and she was.
Speaker 1: An average intelligence, didn't learn any tricks or anything, but
Speaker 1: just was very loving. Now, Benson and Riley, my wife
Speaker 1: and I made a concerted effort to always speak to
Speaker 1: them in complete sentences. The Queen's English, of course, yeah,
Speaker 1: but they respond to say. Look, we say go lay
Speaker 1: down or go downstairs. They correct you, it's go lie down.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Well, it doesn't matter, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: They respond to the commandit I see. We didn't say
Speaker 1: Queen's English, we didn't say grammatically correct. Okay, and we'll
Speaker 1: tell them go upstairs. They'll do that. We have any
Speaker 1: number of commands, but we always speak to them in
Speaker 1: complete sentences, so they see or interpret the command across
Speaker 1: the whole sentence, and.
Speaker 4: They like, they make sure that they don't want to
Speaker 4: hear you ending a sentence in a preposition. They are
Speaker 4: they particular about it.
Speaker 1: No, they haven't complained because I'll say, Benson, where you're at.
Speaker 1: It's a complete sentence that they're not correcting for grammar,
Speaker 1: but they understand they are. There are a few tricks
Speaker 1: that they can do. I can have Benson open a
Speaker 1: gate with his paw. He knows how to open a
Speaker 1: swinging gate from either direction. Really, Yeah, does he think
Speaker 1: there's food on the other side.
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Not usually, No, He'll just like, I'll go to one
Speaker 1: side of the gate and I'll say Benson opened the gate,
Speaker 1: and he'll open the gate and come through and I'll
Speaker 1: do it from both sides. That's impressive. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: some video of it somewhere. I'll post it again. But
Speaker 1: he can do it. And also Benson will sing. A
Speaker 1: lot of Schnauzers will how when there's a fire engine
Speaker 1: or emergency vehicle coming by. If it's loud enough, he
Speaker 1: will howl at the engines.
Speaker 4: Okay, I got the best dog trick in the world.
Speaker 4: I had a yellow lab once name was Leo and
Speaker 4: I taught him to sing with the saber dam you know,
Speaker 4: the saber dance.
Speaker 2: And the dog.
Speaker 4: When it went down there, the dog would go out.
Speaker 2: He would do it every time I played it.
Speaker 1: Well, I can't get Vincent to sing with any rhythm
Speaker 1: or any type of melody, but he will howl anytime
Speaker 1: he hears me singing, when my wife singing, or he
Speaker 1: hears like an emergency vehicle. So when I get home tonight,
Speaker 1: I'll have him do that again so people can practice
Speaker 1: with the saber dance. They'll catch on. I'll do that
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