Speaker 1: I am sixty It's later with mo Kelly. I'm live
Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And the immigrant marches continue.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I told you all the things that were going wrong,
Speaker 1: all the things that you weren't doing right, and why
Speaker 1: this was not going to make any difference in the
Speaker 1: grand scheme of things. But the marches have continued on,
Speaker 1: and I think there is an opportunity to help everyone
Speaker 1: understand why certain marches have worked in the past and
Speaker 1: why some won't ever work. And it's more than just marching,
Speaker 1: because because this Day Without Immigrants movement has continued into
Speaker 1: its third day. In fact, marchers were school students, several
Speaker 1: hundred from Marshall High School. They marched in the street,
Speaker 1: some caring signs or a Mexican flag on their way
Speaker 1: to Alvera Street, where they chanted and held a rally.
Speaker 1: And I can say, as someone who's a student of
Speaker 1: the civil rights movement, that is honorable. But if you
Speaker 1: really want to be an effective protest, if you really
Speaker 1: want something to come out of your action, something beyond
Speaker 1: just appearing on TV, beyond being seen on KTLA or
Speaker 1: k COW and having your thirty seconds of fame where
Speaker 1: a microphone is being placed in front of your face.
Speaker 2: If you want something beyond that, let me help you out.
Speaker 1: Because we live in an age where we think that
Speaker 1: protesting is just marching, just walking down the street with
Speaker 1: a sign and a megaphone and being heard, and then
Speaker 1: you are doing something. No, you're not really doing a lot.
Speaker 1: You're making some noise. But why the civil rights movement
Speaker 1: was successful was far more complicated than just marching. Marching
Speaker 1: was just one tool. But this is just for anyone
Speaker 1: who wants to plan a protest, anyone who maybe wants
Speaker 1: to inspire the government to do something different, wants their
Speaker 1: grievances to be heard and changed, to actually be made.
Speaker 1: Please listen to me right now, because I want to
Speaker 1: give you something which made the modern civil rights movement
Speaker 1: successful that is not being used today. And if you
Speaker 1: learn just some of the history, you would be better informed, prepared,
Speaker 1: and ultimately more successful. Part of the reason why the
Speaker 1: modern civil rights movement I'm talking about the late nineteen
Speaker 1: fifties into the late nineteen sixties. Part of the reason
Speaker 1: why that movement was successful, and it was over about
Speaker 1: a ten to twelve year period. It wasn't like ten
Speaker 1: to twelve days, ten to twelve years, depending on when
Speaker 1: you mark the actual start of the civil rights movement.
Speaker 1: But if anything, the modern civil rights movement had a
Speaker 1: clearly defined goal, legislative goal. In other words, they were
Speaker 1: making sure that all these efforts were pointing toward the
Speaker 1: passage of the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four
Speaker 1: and the Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 2: That was the goal.
Speaker 1: In other words, the ass what is it you're demanding
Speaker 1: of government? That's why doctor King was meeting with then
Speaker 1: President Kennedy. That was the ass That was the whole
Speaker 1: point of the march on Washington. Okay, Now, what would
Speaker 1: the methods use to gain leverage? Just because people in
Speaker 1: power governments are not just going to give you something.
Speaker 1: The Congress is not just going to sign something because
Speaker 1: you're out there marching, you have to have some means
Speaker 1: of leverage. For the civil rights movement, one of those
Speaker 1: examples was the Montgomery bus boycott of nineteen fifty five,
Speaker 1: where Rosa Parks, I think, on like February fourth of
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty five, if I'm not mistaken, decided to not
Speaker 1: sit at the back of the bus. That was one
Speaker 1: instance of civil disobedience. But It set off the Montgomery
Speaker 1: bus boycott, which lasted more than a year and brought
Speaker 1: the bus company to its knees economically and forced them
Speaker 1: to address the concerns of black Montgomery residents.
Speaker 2: There was a plan.
Speaker 1: People had to help carpool and they were taking random
Speaker 1: strangers to work. People did not have transportation because they
Speaker 1: refused to use any of the bus lines for more
Speaker 1: than a year. That was the method to gain leverage.
Speaker 1: And the last part is how committed are you to
Speaker 1: the fight? And that's a part of the method to
Speaker 1: gain leverage. Doctor King said, hey, we're not going to
Speaker 1: use violence. We want to be seen on national TV
Speaker 1: and seen by the world as not fighting back against
Speaker 1: the brutality to gain the moral high ground. That was
Speaker 1: the method and also demonstration of commitment to the fight.
Speaker 1: How long are you willing to struggle and suffer to
Speaker 1: retain your leverage and reach hopefully the legislative goal. And
Speaker 1: let me give you something else out of history, and
Speaker 1: this is almost like a parable or fable now in
Speaker 1: civil rights history. You might have heard it before, but
Speaker 1: from what I'm seeing out on the streets today, people
Speaker 1: don't know this.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to share it.
Speaker 1: With you back in about I want to say about
Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, President FDR sat down with a Philip
Speaker 1: Randolph and he was the head of the brotherhood of
Speaker 1: Sleeping car porters, the Pullman Porters Association. There's one of
Speaker 1: the few jobs in which African Americans could actually unionize.
Speaker 1: A Philip Randolph got a meeting, and I'm really condensing
Speaker 1: the story, got a meeting with FDR and explain how
Speaker 1: civil rights advancement was not only good for African Americans
Speaker 1: but the larger country, and how FDR could and should
Speaker 1: use his bully pulpit to make it happen. Because remember,
Speaker 1: World War Two is going on, and you have all
Speaker 1: these there were issues which were happening in the military.
Speaker 1: They're going to desegregate the military and have these veterans
Speaker 1: coming home to an America in which they did not
Speaker 1: have full rights as citizens. So they're trying to preempt
Speaker 1: other problems which were going to happen in America. In
Speaker 1: the event, eventually, world War two it end and FDR,
Speaker 1: as a story goes, listen to the presentation of a
Speaker 1: Philip Randolph, and he was moved. He was actually moved,
Speaker 1: He was convinced and as the story goes, he said
Speaker 1: something to the fact of you have convinced me I
Speaker 1: agree with everything you said.
Speaker 2: You were right at everything you said. Now a Philip Randolph,
Speaker 2: go out and make me do it.
Speaker 1: Go out and make me do it. And that is,
Speaker 1: then go out and create the social circumstances in which I,
Speaker 1: as the president, am compelled compelled to make these changes,
Speaker 1: and then use the bully pulput to encourage or be
Speaker 1: a molder of consensus and push Congress in the direction
Speaker 1: to pass the adequate legislation. Mind you, that was like
Speaker 1: nineteen forty one. That legislation did can't get passed until
Speaker 1: twenty four years later. But the whole point is it's
Speaker 1: not a one day thing. And if you're going to
Speaker 1: create the social environment in which America seems that it
Speaker 1: has no choice but to change direction regarding immigration reform,
Speaker 1: that Congress should act and pass some sort of comprehensive
Speaker 1: immigration so we can stop these raids by ice. It's
Speaker 1: going to take more than students walking out of class
Speaker 1: on a given day. It's going to take more than
Speaker 1: people amassing on the one on one freeway or various
Speaker 1: freeways around the country and having your voice heard as
Speaker 1: are often told or being seen on TV, or writing
Speaker 1: cute signs and getting on social media and hashtagging. You
Speaker 1: have to be able to demonstrate that there is a
Speaker 1: specific legislative end and ask for your local congress person
Speaker 1: to follow up on to put in a bill, to
Speaker 1: push Republican leadership to bring to the floor to have
Speaker 1: Congress vote on it, and then create the social circumstances
Speaker 1: in which a president, any president, this president Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: to say I have no choice because of my own
Speaker 1: political insecurity or wanting to make sure that I can
Speaker 1: maintain the status quo of this situation, that I have
Speaker 1: to concede to the demands because there's a specific legislative
Speaker 1: ask if you're out marching today or tomorrow, next week,
Speaker 1: and you do not have a clearly defined goal, and
Speaker 1: a clearly defined goal is more than stop.
Speaker 2: The raids, then you're wasting your time. You're out there
Speaker 2: getting steps on your fitbit.
Speaker 1: If you have not determined a course of action in
Speaker 1: which you have leverage which forces America to listen to
Speaker 1: you and take your concerns about immigration reform seriously, you're
Speaker 1: out there exercising. If you're not committed to this fight
Speaker 1: assuming that you care about Abuela or Abuela you know, Madre,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to be funny anyone in your
Speaker 1: family who is impacted by these raids. If you're not
Speaker 1: committed to at least sees this through the midterms, where
Speaker 1: you could swing the balance in Congress if you're strategic,
Speaker 1: and then create an environment where Congress can then put
Speaker 1: pressure on the president. If you're not willing to work
Speaker 1: all the way through the midterms, then you're just wasting
Speaker 1: your time because people in power know that you're going
Speaker 1: to get tired.
Speaker 2: They're betting on you getting bored.
Speaker 1: They are sure as hell as I'm sitting here that
Speaker 1: in two weeks you'll have moved on to something else.
Speaker 1: You haven't heard a peep out of Donald Trump because
Speaker 1: there's no need for him to address it, because there's
Speaker 1: social circumstances as such, there is no reason for him
Speaker 1: to change course. If you want to imitate what happened
Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties and sixties with these protests, because
Speaker 1: that's the model you're using. If you want to imitate
Speaker 1: that model and also imitate the results it yielded, then
Speaker 1: you have to take all the lessons of the civil
Speaker 1: rights movement. You're going to have to find to find
Speaker 1: that goal in a clear sense. You're going to have
Speaker 1: to have a clear method to gain leverage, which makes
Speaker 1: the world. The country, then the state take notice of
Speaker 1: what you do over a long period of time, not
Speaker 1: just marching. You have to be committed to it in
Speaker 1: the way that the modern Civil rights movement people were
Speaker 1: committed for years. If you don't do all three, you
Speaker 1: will get nothing. It's Later with Mo Kelly KFI AM
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Speaker 1: State Farm like a neighbor, State Farm is there, Except
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a much more expensive neighbor in the
Speaker 1: near future.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: With y.
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Speaker 1: good neighbor, State Farm is there. I don't know about you,
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Speaker 1: received more than eighty seven hundred claims and paid over
Speaker 1: a billion dollars to customers in the wake of the wildfires.
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Speaker 1: Why because they have been accused of not paying off claims,
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Speaker 1: a little cumbersome phrase.
Speaker 2: It strange credulity.
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Speaker 1: happen every day.
Speaker 2: For the I would say most of the.
Speaker 1: Time they are receiving premium payments, not paying out for
Speaker 1: the most part. And also, if you listen to this
Speaker 1: show yesterday, I was speaking to Jackie Ray and I
Speaker 1: highlighted them how State Farm's advertising budget. That's why I
Speaker 1: keep saying, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there,
Speaker 1: like a good neighbor, we want more cash. And they
Speaker 1: spent a billion dollars fiscal year twenty twenty four on
Speaker 1: just those commercials and ads that we've all seen and know.
Speaker 2: The ad budget.
Speaker 1: Alone, from what we know publicly, can make Southern Californians whole.
Speaker 4: Well, next thing, you're gonna have the nerve to suggest
Speaker 4: that our healthcare system is whack too.
Speaker 1: There is a connection when you talk about insurance premiums
Speaker 1: it's the same.
Speaker 5: Dare I say, should they call it the scam racket?
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Speaker 1: California homeowners, we know this. We already faced some of
Speaker 1: the highest insurance premiums in the country, and insurers have
Speaker 1: deemed California a risk because of wildfires.
Speaker 2: According to the company State Farms.
Speaker 1: Generals, surplus available to pay out claims has been depleted,
Speaker 1: in part due to claims paid out as a result
Speaker 1: of natural disasters. Wait a minute, wait, wait, Assuming State
Speaker 1: Farm Generals telling the truth, and I don't believe them,
Speaker 1: but for the sake of argument and radio commentary, let's
Speaker 1: say they're telling the truth. They're saying that they had
Speaker 1: been depleted prior to these fires.
Speaker 4: It wasn't depleted enough to stop them from paying their
Speaker 4: CEO twenty four and a half million a year.
Speaker 1: It wasn't depleted enough for them to spend again one
Speaker 1: billion dollars in the past year on commercials. Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, I really did like the commercial let's have
Speaker 1: billion dollars get you there. I mean that that would
Speaker 1: be involving tattooing the insides of your eyelids A billion dollars.
Speaker 1: A billion dollars just on advertisements alone.
Speaker 2: Commercials.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. They are funny.
Speaker 1: Whoever, the ad agency is getting paid out the ass
Speaker 1: okay a billion dollars because they only probably have one
Speaker 1: ad agency. They probably have different market campaigns, but it's
Speaker 1: a billion dollars. If for example, and just for argument's sake,
Speaker 1: State Farm said, you know what, we are so committed
Speaker 1: and such a good neighbor to use their phraseology that
Speaker 1: we're going to not advertise for the next year to
Speaker 1: make sure that all Southern Californians are made whole. We're
Speaker 1: going to use that billion dollars that we would have
Speaker 1: spent on advertising because they spend it every year.
Speaker 2: It's not like that broke.
Speaker 1: They have that money to spend every year, which means
Speaker 1: they have it for twenty twenty five. Maybe they have
Speaker 1: to do some funny accounting and move some of the
Speaker 1: advertising budget over to the people budget, to the insurance side,
Speaker 1: and say we're going to spend this billion dollars in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five on the people of Southern California because
Speaker 1: they are more important than commercials, and if anything we
Speaker 1: think as a business model that we're to mouth advertising
Speaker 1: would mean more than any commercial with Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes or Andy Reid or the actor Kevin Miles
Speaker 1: who plays Jake. I think people would appreciate that and
Speaker 1: would speak of the goodwill and the good neighbor policy
Speaker 1: behavior of State Farm in a way that no commercial could.
Speaker 1: And so that's why we're going to move a billion
Speaker 1: dollars of our ad budget to the people of southern California.
Speaker 4: It's almost as if you're suggesting that an actual good
Speaker 4: neighbor wouldn't clean you out when the chips are down.
Speaker 2: And also leave.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, you know, an actual good neighbor would say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know there's a there's a disaster coming, but I
Speaker 1: got you Okay, I'm going to hose down your house.
Speaker 2: I want to make sure that your house is as
Speaker 2: safe as possible.
Speaker 4: You're getting hosed, alrighty, oh yes, you're getting thoroughly hosed, and.
Speaker 1: They're going to charge you twenty two percent more for
Speaker 1: that same hose. It's later with mo Kelly if I
Speaker 1: am six forty one five everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1: and some things should be just like.
Speaker 2: Duh, right, just like common sense.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, if you're going to talk about baby changing
Speaker 1: stations and public restrooms, it shouldn't be a controversy for
Speaker 1: the city to add more baby changing stations and public restrooms.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: There's no opposition to that, right, right, we'll find out.
Speaker 3: You're listening to later with Mo Kelly on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI Am six forty And I asked.
Speaker 1: The question before the break this there's not like two
Speaker 1: sides to this. There's no opposition to this.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: LA's trying to add more baby changing stations in public restrooms.
Speaker 2: Can we like touching degree? Have ever been to church?
Speaker 2: Touch a degree? And then you have some statement where
Speaker 2: everyone just agrees.
Speaker 1: Can we just just agree that this is good, good
Speaker 1: for La?
Speaker 2: You've never had children?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, But I'm saying that this is good
Speaker 1: and I want you to verify this or disagree with me.
Speaker 2: Hold on.
Speaker 1: Ok La City Council approved the motion last Friday calling
Speaker 1: for more baby changing stations than city owned bathrooms and
Speaker 1: to explore requiring businesses open to the public to do
Speaker 1: the same.
Speaker 2: Twelve zero vote.
Speaker 1: There was no opposition on city council and they're going
Speaker 1: to conduct a feasibility just report about the cost of
Speaker 1: installing more baby changing stations for infants and toddlers. They're
Speaker 1: going to consider adding such stations to bathrooms located at
Speaker 1: recreation centers, parks, libraries, and transit hubs. Also examine whether
Speaker 1: they can update building codes for restaurants, shopping centers, and
Speaker 1: entertainment venues.
Speaker 2: Yeada yah, yahah blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes. The amount of times that I have seen fathers
Speaker 2: with infants yep.
Speaker 1: And they go into the men's bathroom as they should
Speaker 1: in this twenty first century where men shouldn't be going
Speaker 1: to nah, And I know that there's no baby changing
Speaker 1: station in that men's bathroom more times than not.
Speaker 6: That has to be a burden on that father. It
Speaker 6: is a humongous burden. You know what else is a
Speaker 6: burden the fact that rules be damned because all these venues,
Speaker 6: movie theaters and all the like are supposed to keep
Speaker 6: their bathrooms up to snuff. But you know what, I
Speaker 6: walk into it. I walk into our AMC. I walk
Speaker 6: into a bathroom that has urine near the floor where
Speaker 6: the baby changing station is to begin with. Businesses and
Speaker 6: parks do not keep their bathrooms clean enough for you
Speaker 6: to be installing more tables for infants. You're supposed to
Speaker 6: keep infants clean and wholesome and away from.
Speaker 2: Pissing all that all over.
Speaker 4: No, that's a no.
Speaker 2: That's a no.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So you're more against the idea of a
Speaker 1: bathroom which is just unclear if they clean excuse me,
Speaker 1: if they clean the bathrooms as they should.
Speaker 2: You walk you mentioned AMC. I'll just say a movie theater.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to bust them out.
Speaker 1: You walk into a movie theater and you see on
Speaker 1: the backside of the door that's usually that list of
Speaker 1: the times that the bathroom was supposedly clean.
Speaker 2: You know, Arthur came in at four point.
Speaker 1: Thirty and John came in at five thirty, and you
Speaker 1: can see this toilet paper and feces everywhere. It's like,
Speaker 1: no one's cleaning this bathroom. I think that is a
Speaker 1: related but separate issue. If that movie theater is not
Speaker 1: cleaning its bathroom, I don't know if that's an argument
Speaker 1: against having the basic facilities available. It's almost like that
Speaker 1: we're not going to have urinals in there because people
Speaker 1: will get urine everywhere.
Speaker 6: It's a bathroom you provide the facility. But you know
Speaker 6: what they started doing. They said, let's just have a
Speaker 6: trough so that we can avoid it.
Speaker 2: Oh, they don't do that anymore. They've gone the other direction.
Speaker 1: They have they have flushless ur urinals where they doesn't
Speaker 1: have water.
Speaker 6: It just hits the hits the ground. Yeah, yes, I
Speaker 6: got you. What I'm saying is when my children were young,
Speaker 6: I would not let them go into a park, much
Speaker 6: less me go in there. And I don't care if
Speaker 6: I see the sanitation crew coming out and cleaning it
Speaker 6: right then and there. This is a waste of taxpayer money.
Speaker 6: How do I know? Because no one is going to
Speaker 6: use this. If you're trying to do something, then maybe
Speaker 6: make or increase the number of family only restrooms. You
Speaker 6: can do that, But you cannot put baby changing stations
Speaker 6: in bathrooms that are used by everybody. You just can't.
Speaker 6: You just can't. That is a waste of our taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 6: If they do that, just make some more family only restrooms.
Speaker 6: Do that, and then maybe.
Speaker 2: Well that's Steeve's like an added expense.
Speaker 1: Regardless you're saying, not only are we not going to
Speaker 1: put this in the restrooms, exist we have to then
Speaker 1: create a family only restroom in a Starbucks, in a grocery.
Speaker 2: Store, or what have you.
Speaker 6: Please show me a park, a business, Show me one,
Speaker 6: Show me one where the baby changing station is adequately
Speaker 6: up to part because there are plenty, plenty of businesses,
Speaker 6: plenty of supermarkets, plenty of every place that has them.
Speaker 6: They're all over the place now and none of them
Speaker 6: are kept up. I get that we wanted, but saying
Speaker 6: that this is some big initiative, this is just a
Speaker 6: lot of pomp and circumstance.
Speaker 2: You're saying that you are the opposition.
Speaker 1: We can't even agree on baby changing stations. He's for
Speaker 1: Waymo and against baby changing stations.
Speaker 2: What the hell is going on with this country.
Speaker 4: I just assumed Tola would be in the pocket of
Speaker 4: big baby change.
Speaker 2: I thought that he would be on the side of yes.
Speaker 1: Make it easier for me as a father, because I
Speaker 1: struggled when I had my young daughter as an infant
Speaker 1: and I had no place to change her when I
Speaker 1: was going to I don't know.
Speaker 6: Denny's, when I went anywhere. You know what I carry
Speaker 6: with me in my diaper bag a mobile changing station.
Speaker 6: They even had a little stand and you pull out
Speaker 6: the mat on it, all of that, so I could
Speaker 6: keep her elevated and away from the scum of the
Speaker 6: counters and the villainy of the changing table. Those things
Speaker 6: are horrific. When you walk in there as a parent
Speaker 6: and you smell the smell and you see that table
Speaker 6: sitting over there, right next to the stalls, it's not I.
Speaker 1: Did not say put your child on the actual baby
Speaker 1: changing put down some towels a plate.
Speaker 6: You know, they oftentimes they don't even really have that.
Speaker 6: These chaining tables have graffiti on them, lots of times
Speaker 6: they're broken. So I hear you, I hear you. We
Speaker 6: want this to happen, and I'm sure this is.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, because I went into a place and I
Speaker 1: couldn't change my baby.
Speaker 4: And now I'm.
Speaker 6: Bringing into legislation. You are wasting our time, that's what
Speaker 6: you are doing with this.
Speaker 1: Why don't we just take out bathrooms all together, Just
Speaker 1: have everyone of the holds no, no, no, start digging
Speaker 1: some holes, go back to outhouses, take a step back
Speaker 1: to the scouts.
Speaker 6: Bury it deep so the bears don't get it. Have
Speaker 6: you ever used an outhouse?
Speaker 2: I have?
Speaker 4: They're terrified. Don't you don't want that? No?
Speaker 6: No, no, because outhouses are literally right on par with the damn.
Speaker 1: Port is better than an outhouse, I promise you it's
Speaker 1: a mobile outhouse.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 6: I guess all I'm saying is, I don't care if
Speaker 6: it's a wood toilet seed and this, that or the
Speaker 6: other in your outhouse, a porta potty. All types of
Speaker 6: ungodliness happens in porta potti's. Why are there needles in
Speaker 6: the bottom of the damn porta potty?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
Speaker 1: Look, my father, God rest his soul, grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia,
Speaker 1: Deep South projects poor. His family had an outhouse going
Speaker 1: out to visit him. Growing up. His family was still
Speaker 1: very poor. He my father was the quote unquote richest
Speaker 1: person in his Familyaily California middle class. When we go
Speaker 1: visit his side of the family in the summer, we
Speaker 1: would use the outhouse on occasion. There is nothing scarier
Speaker 1: than using an outhouse in the woods of Lynchburg, Virginia
Speaker 1: at night. You got fireflies, you got mosquitoes, you got
Speaker 1: the ku Klux Klan, anything could bite you. It's called
Speaker 1: Lynchburg for a reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: No, I would have much rather used a porta potty.
Speaker 2: You don't want that.
Speaker 1: I can't speak to a baby changing station table. I
Speaker 1: can speak to an outhouse. Give me a porter potty
Speaker 1: seven days a week, twice on Tuesday, five times on
Speaker 1: Friday than because I'm very regular.
Speaker 6: Now I'm trying to think maybe in summer camp, I
Speaker 6: had to go out to the Yeah, because in the
Speaker 6: summer camp, I remember they had like little wooden almost
Speaker 6: like it looked like little phone boosts. I had little
Speaker 6: seats to them. Yeah, but the seats where at least plastic.
Speaker 6: It was still a bigger wood door. You go, you
Speaker 6: open them door, but there's a toilet seat. They had
Speaker 6: to know. The outhouse is a hole.
Speaker 1: It's a hole and you sit down on this wooden
Speaker 1: like bench and it was small enough where they could
Speaker 1: move it every week or so and they fill in
Speaker 1: the hole like yeah, okay, okay, So that's what they
Speaker 1: had the summer camp.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, but no baby changing station. That's where you
Speaker 6: draw the line. Looked I was summer camping. I was
Speaker 6: uh traumatized after that. But baby changing I think that
Speaker 6: this is just something to get on later with the
Speaker 6: mo kelly. But it's definitely not something worth investing any time.
Speaker 1: Only. We can't agree on anything in this country. Baby
Speaker 1: changing stations are now controversial. Now it's about where are
Speaker 1: my tax dollars going. I'm not going to use my
Speaker 1: tax dollars for a baby changing station. Them kids. Put
Speaker 1: those kids to work. KFIM six forty we're live everywhere
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio. I am so disappointed in Twila Sharp.
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to come in here and
Speaker 1: actually back me up on this and say, yes, this
Speaker 1: is what fathers and young mothers need. They should not
Speaker 1: have to worry about where they're going to change their
Speaker 1: baby when they're out.
Speaker 2: Instead, so disappointed.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the lottery when we come back, and
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about waste of money, California
Speaker 1: Lottery has raised two billion dollars for schools for the
Speaker 1: third straight year, and for the third straight year, our
Speaker 1: schools are still trash.
Speaker 2: What is going on? What is going on?
Speaker 3: You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Time to go to school. Let's talk about public school.
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember when it was first broach the
Speaker 1: idea that California was going to have a lottery and
Speaker 1: that lottery was going to help support public schools. I
Speaker 1: remember it because I was in high school South Torn's
Speaker 1: High School. This was nineteen eighty five, so depending on
Speaker 1: when in the year, I was, maybe a sophomore in
Speaker 1: high school. My parents both public education teachers for all
Speaker 1: the career. They thought it was going to be a
Speaker 1: great idea. You would think on paper, when you have
Speaker 1: people basically participating in a legalized form of gambling to
Speaker 1: the tune of millions and eventually billions, and that would
Speaker 1: be discretionary for schools to add to their budget. That
Speaker 1: California's educational system, the public educational system back in eighty five,
Speaker 1: thought that that was going to be the magic pill
Speaker 1: to improve our public schools. In twenty twenty four, California
Speaker 1: ranked fortieth in education public school education fortieth, only ten
Speaker 1: states worse, probably Mississippi, Louisiana and five other states down south.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. That's what it usually turns out to be.
Speaker 1: But California, with a lottery and billions for schools, is
Speaker 1: still in the bottom third. California lottery officials announced Monday
Speaker 1: that the lotto games have raised over two billion dollars
Speaker 1: for public education for the third year in a row. Quote,
Speaker 1: total sales once again exceeded nine billion, resulting in contributions
Speaker 1: of more than two point two eight seven billion for
Speaker 1: public education programs statewide, from kindergarten to the community college,
Speaker 1: California State University, and University of California systems. This is
Speaker 1: according to lottery officials. Quote, I want to thank our players,
Speaker 1: retail partners, and employees for their decades long commitment to
Speaker 1: our mission. That's California Lottery Director Hargener k srgil Chima
Speaker 1: long ass name. It is that commitment to providing supplemental
Speaker 1: funding to California public education that sustains our work across
Speaker 1: the state and allows us to perform year after year
Speaker 1: for all of California.
Speaker 2: Close.
Speaker 1: Well, I am not blaming the lottery. They are providing
Speaker 1: the funds. I am blaming the State of California educational system.
Speaker 1: If the State of California had zero money for all
Speaker 1: of its schools, I'm quite sure two billion plus might
Speaker 1: be able to do it. You definitely wouldn't have everything.
Speaker 1: I'm not that naive, But two plus billion dollars and we're.
Speaker 2: Still in the bottom third.
Speaker 1: We've raised more than two billion dollars for the past
Speaker 1: three years and we're still in the bottom third. And
Speaker 1: I say, this is probably the biggest proponent of education
Speaker 1: you'll ever meet. I am all about education, all about
Speaker 1: it bottom third, and it's not getting any better. It's
Speaker 1: not like we just now ended up in the bottom third.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe a year or two ago. I talk about
Speaker 1: this every single year, and ever since I been on KFI,
Speaker 1: we have been in the bottom third. And ever since
Speaker 1: I've been on KFI, in twenty seven years before that,
Speaker 1: we had the California lottery. So what does that mean.
Speaker 1: It means that it's not a money issue. It's not
Speaker 1: a lack of funds. It is obviously how they're being
Speaker 1: used or not being used, how our students are not
Speaker 1: being adequately educated. Because clearly it's not a facilities issue.
Speaker 2: It's not a books issue.
Speaker 1: I know, depending on certain schools, some schools have more
Speaker 1: than others. I get all that, but big picture, collectively,
Speaker 1: California is not educating as kids and it's not because
Speaker 1: of lack of resources. It's not that I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that someone must be stealing money. I am saying we're
Speaker 1: not utilizing the money in a fashion which is actually
Speaker 1: educating our kids, because if there were, we would not
Speaker 1: be fortieth out of fifty. Because the other forty nine
Speaker 1: states don't have two point three billion dollars on average
Speaker 1: annually to supplement their educational budget, it doesn't make any sense.
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