Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Km AM sixty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 2: This is Later with mo Kelly and I am Twala
Speaker 2: Sharp filling in for mo Kelly. Happy to be with
Speaker 2: you for the next three hours. The crew is here,
Speaker 2: Foosh is in the building. What it do Ronner t
Speaker 2: any middle fingers today? Not for you, Bear, see here
Speaker 2: we go, Here we go, Here we go. You knows
Speaker 2: sporting of Ronner is going to stay because if you'
Speaker 2: that quick to call you Tola bear? What that's a
Speaker 2: term of affection. It is a term of endearment. Yes,
Speaker 2: that uh. Super producer Kayla, who is producing for me tonight,
Speaker 2: introduced to the building and Ronner just wants to make
Speaker 2: sure that you all know well. I maybe we're unaware
Speaker 2: of the influence she has over me. She's here today.
Speaker 2: She isn't often when we do our show, and I
Speaker 2: think it's because of her, her powerful presence that I
Speaker 2: had to say, Touala Bear.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that, Ronor.
Speaker 2: It's very true.
Speaker 3: I am pretty powerful and Twala is the best mayor
Speaker 3: in the world.
Speaker 2: I understand, best bear in the world. I love it.
Speaker 2: We are off to a fun start. And interestingly enough, Ronner,
Speaker 2: you came in and you were in very good spirits.
Speaker 2: So I take it that your trip in was not
Speaker 2: crazy or insane. No, I don't need to remind you
Speaker 2: that we had the Batan Death Drive there two ago
Speaker 2: and we I had to call and tell Krozer to
Speaker 2: be ready to do seven o'clock because I didn't think
Speaker 2: I was gonna make it. But and you had something similar, No,
Speaker 2: I had the exact similar. I literally thought I was
Speaker 2: going to have to just turn around and go home
Speaker 2: because I thought that there was no way on earth
Speaker 2: I would get here. And I thought the same was
Speaker 2: gonna happen today. I was ready for because not all
Speaker 2: schools are out on spring break yet, but at least
Speaker 2: my school where I work, we are on spring break,
Speaker 2: and I thought maybe there's some more schools that are
Speaker 2: off or not on the LAUSD calendar as well. So
Speaker 2: I was like preparing for spring break madness. But no, no,
Speaker 2: it's just me and it's actually not really a spring break.
Speaker 2: Because when I was thinking about it this morning, because
Speaker 2: I was dropping my daughter off, I said, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, wait a minute. If your spring break
Speaker 2: is not the same as mine. That means all next week,
Speaker 2: while I'm off, I'm still gonna have to be getting
Speaker 2: up early in the morning to drop you off. Lucky
Speaker 2: you love that, don't man?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Look, let me tell you you're an early morning type.
Speaker 2: Not on any planet. There isn't even a planet that
Speaker 2: we know of in our solar system where I would
Speaker 2: get up in the morning. That planet doesn't exist, and
Speaker 2: it's sure enough doesn't exist on this year plan we're on.
Speaker 2: I am not a morning person. I ab whore getting
Speaker 2: up in the morning. I abhor the neighbors roosters that
Speaker 2: go off. What you have neighbors with roosters, I don't
Speaker 2: know where it's at, but you hear it in the distance,
Speaker 2: and it's when it's like real, real quiet out there,
Speaker 2: and you hear that in the distance. I feel like,
Speaker 2: is that on purpose? I don't want to initiate anything
Speaker 2: that's going to get you into trouble, but I'll just say,
Speaker 2: you know, those roosters are some good eating and if
Speaker 2: they if they if they go missing rooster meat, I
Speaker 2: don't know, Yeah, try it, try it with some some
Speaker 2: breading and uh and and and deep trying a nice
Speaker 2: rooster meat sounds well, the neighbors try the neighbors pets,
Speaker 2: is what I'm suggesting. Neighbor does come up missing, we
Speaker 2: all know that it was by way of the suggestion
Speaker 2: and supreme influence of Mark Rona. My hands are clean. Okay,
Speaker 2: talking about the roads, I was looking at a few
Speaker 2: stories on the way in that has to do with
Speaker 2: our drive, our commute, and just being in veal here
Speaker 2: in southern California, because this is not the East Coast
Speaker 2: where you can hop a train and get anywhere you
Speaker 2: want without the use of a car. No. Out here,
Speaker 2: we rely on cars. And it's interesting because in a
Speaker 2: state where at one point our sunsets were beautiful only
Speaker 2: because of the small caused by cars, it seems here
Speaker 2: in California, California's clean air vehicle detail program could soon
Speaker 2: be coming to an end. So my question, first of all,
Speaker 2: is will that mean that people are just no longer
Speaker 2: going to care about clean air vehicles? Who knows, but
Speaker 2: the clock is running out on California's clean air vehicle
Speaker 2: decal program. You may have seen these colorful stickles stickers.
Speaker 2: They're on the back of vehicles that are riding in
Speaker 2: the HOV lanes. Well, the program allows vehicles that meet
Speaker 2: specific emission standards to use the car pool lanes regardless
Speaker 2: of occupancy if you have that sticker. Now, it seems
Speaker 2: that with the passing of AB two sixty seven, a
Speaker 2: bill authorized by someone who hates driving and hates cars,
Speaker 2: a similar member, Greg Wallace, who must be from the
Speaker 2: East Coast, they are going to be bringing this program
Speaker 2: to an end. Now, look, it may not be mister
Speaker 2: Wallace's fault all together, but really and truly, this is
Speaker 2: something I think to myself, mister Wallace, if you want
Speaker 2: us to continue to have clean air and really abide
Speaker 2: by these clean air standards that have to be maintained
Speaker 2: by getting those stickers, then you need to keep the
Speaker 2: program going. Good sir, You need to keep the program
Speaker 2: going or it's going to be back to us having
Speaker 2: those beautiful deep red smoggie sunsets. Now, they used to
Speaker 2: be beautiful growing up, they really were. I did not
Speaker 2: know that we were literally breathing in tar. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: And that's gotten better since we started practicing clean emissions
Speaker 2: and all that kind of good stuff. So whatever that
Speaker 2: may be coming to an end, but also also also
Speaker 2: So California is exploring getting rid of the gas tax
Speaker 2: and replacing it with a road charge program. And I know, Mark,
Speaker 2: I saw your eyebrows furrow a little bit. Well, I
Speaker 2: was thinking, have you seen these side by side photographs
Speaker 2: of the sky in La then and now and then?
Speaker 2: How insanely different it is? Yes, yes, I don't want
Speaker 2: to go back to the Then why would anybody? Because
Speaker 2: there are certain people who just they they can't see
Speaker 2: the force for the trees going to be able to
Speaker 2: and you're you're not gonna be able to see the buildings,
Speaker 2: for the cement or the bricks. Because if you get
Speaker 2: rid of these programs and say you want to take
Speaker 2: away all the incentives for car sells and all those things,
Speaker 2: that's going to change and that's going to change the climate.
Speaker 2: When we start exploring ways to get rid of the
Speaker 2: gas tats and instead put charges on roads, making it
Speaker 2: where because we are driving everywhere where. This also is
Speaker 2: going to add to this thing called small and it's
Speaker 2: gonna make it really really hard to drive. But the
Speaker 2: biggest thing, the biggest story that I saw having to
Speaker 2: do with driving, and it's actually more having to do
Speaker 2: with parking. And this is a story. When I saw it,
Speaker 2: I said to myself, big whoop. You deserve it if
Speaker 2: your department goes under. And I'm sorry if you are
Speaker 2: a meter person. But right now in Los Angeles, there
Speaker 2: is a huge issue happening within the meter collection realm okay,
Speaker 2: right now, meter collections are down, and it has a
Speaker 2: lot to do with the COVID programs which said, like, look, man,
Speaker 2: park wherever you need to, We're not going to be
Speaker 2: sending meter people after you. Yes, and a lot of
Speaker 2: money went away. But right now, right now, it seems
Speaker 2: that the collection of parking fines and giving out tickets
Speaker 2: has gone down to the point where now department, the
Speaker 2: department is in danger. There's a lot of meter people
Speaker 2: who are retired, rightfully, so get out of here. Meter people.
Speaker 2: You can't call you meter maids anymore. No, they're meter people,
Speaker 2: meter humans. They're meter humans. They are no longer maids
Speaker 2: because they are not serving us unless they are serving
Speaker 2: us a healthy dose of blank. You you blank, and
Speaker 2: meter person, let me tell you not stand Look. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: look meater people, I'm just telling you that you have
Speaker 2: quite possibly the most hated position on planet Earth. You
Speaker 2: are exactly right You've got to have some healthy self
Speaker 2: esteem to go into the meter human profession, because is
Speaker 2: there anybody on earth that people are less happy to
Speaker 2: see when you show up. Apart from like a dentist
Speaker 2: or a process server, nobody's happy to see you. They
Speaker 2: are awful people.
Speaker 3: I was leaving Target actually yesterday, and a guy was
Speaker 3: scanning my license plate and I said, I'm leaving.
Speaker 2: I'm leaving. He's like, I'm not stop you. You're going
Speaker 2: to get a.
Speaker 3: Ticket in the mail.
Speaker 2: You. This is why when I read that they are
Speaker 2: are are suffering financially and that you know the meter
Speaker 2: department is under danger. Look you know what, Take the
Speaker 2: whole building and demolish it. Okay, take all those little
Speaker 2: white cars and put self driving taxi signs on the
Speaker 2: top of them, and let's get more cars on the
Speaker 2: road taking us to and fro and maybe won't have
Speaker 2: to park. Because I promise you this. The very next
Speaker 2: time I hear someone tell me I'm sorry, I'm already
Speaker 2: in the process of writing it. The tickets got to go.
Speaker 2: I won't lose my mind. I do. I cannot stand
Speaker 2: the meter profession. I don't even know why they created
Speaker 2: other than to piss us off here in southern California,
Speaker 2: because I don't know anywhere else in the country where
Speaker 2: anyone faces this level of meter harassment. You have to
Speaker 2: wonder about the psychological profile that they look for in
Speaker 2: meter patrol people, because you know, with like Delta Force
Speaker 2: or CIA or something. They you know, they look for
Speaker 2: orphans that kind of thing. What kind of person becomes
Speaker 2: a meter human. They probably look for people who have
Speaker 2: on their resume. I'm okay with kicking puppies. You're so,
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: This is Later with Moe Kelly. I'm twilet sharp in
Speaker 2: for bo Kelly. And if you think Mo has an
Speaker 2: issue with beaches and the water and whatnot, hold my
Speaker 2: beer because Mo is someone who would get out on
Speaker 2: a cruise over the open water. Me, up until going
Speaker 2: on my first cruise with Moe and his family, I
Speaker 2: would not get out over dark water for anything. I
Speaker 2: don't even like getting into a swimming pool and looking
Speaker 2: down at the deep end. I don't know if it
Speaker 2: was a traumatic Jaws watching when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: I have no idea where it came from. But I
Speaker 2: don't like deep dark water. I don't like deep water period. Okay,
Speaker 2: And no, I can't swim, so that could have like
Speaker 2: some sway in my feelings. But even still here in
Speaker 2: southern California, the notion of getting in this poop filled
Speaker 2: water is next to insanity. Okay, next to insanity when
Speaker 2: you are dealing with poop tides and all the filth
Speaker 2: that is in our water here. The water here in
Speaker 2: southern California is not brown because it's dirty. It's brown
Speaker 2: because of what's going down, all the wasted bacteria that
Speaker 2: just flows into our ocean. How do we know, because
Speaker 2: once again, this is almost every weekend where health officials
Speaker 2: are warning us against ocean water at several beaches across
Speaker 2: southern California, Los Angeles, Orange County. All that you might
Speaker 2: as well just say stay out of the water. Don't
Speaker 2: say this beach and that beach, but this beach over
Speaker 2: here is okay, No, just stay out of the water, okay,
Speaker 2: Believe it or not, The ocean water isn't supposed to
Speaker 2: be a dark, opaque, filthy color. Okay. I've been to
Speaker 2: Miami and I've seen the blue green beaches. I've been
Speaker 2: to islands in Puerto Rico and Jamaica where the water
Speaker 2: is clear you can see down to the sand all
Speaker 2: the way through, and it's like, that's what ocean water's
Speaker 2: supposed to look like, nothing floating in it? Is that
Speaker 2: the official Noah term for it. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Speaker 2: Administration poop tides, poop tides. Yeah, poop tides. Okay, they
Speaker 2: have adopted poop tides. And it's not seaweed that's catching
Speaker 2: your leg concern. It's the filthy poop beach. Okay. The
Speaker 2: La County Department of Health has issued warnings for beaches
Speaker 2: from Mother's Beach of Marina del Rey all the way
Speaker 2: over to Los Floria State Beach is Santa Monica. Look,
Speaker 2: just all of the beaches. Stay out of the water.
Speaker 2: Now for me and my beach water conspiratorial mind, that
Speaker 2: there may be something else going on in the water
Speaker 2: because these blue green waters that people are like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, the water is blue and it's green and
Speaker 2: it's glowing, glowing, beach water is not a good thing.
Speaker 2: I know. People say, no, it's it's the it's when
Speaker 2: the algae and the after effect of the water. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: keep your scientific reasoning out of here. I don't want
Speaker 2: to hear it. If you want to go out and
Speaker 2: get in that blue green algae water that's obviously obviously
Speaker 2: having a connection with all these seals and sea lions
Speaker 2: that are coming up on the shores and just see
Speaker 2: and literally they're staring at the water. Okay, when you
Speaker 2: have sea creatures on a beach and they would rather
Speaker 2: sit on the beach rather than go back in the water,
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear your rational because you know what,
Speaker 2: if you don't speak actual seal, all you're doing is guessing. Okay,
Speaker 2: these are guesses and a hypothesis of why the seals
Speaker 2: and all these creatures along the beaches right now are
Speaker 2: staying out of the water and we're having all these
Speaker 2: deep fish, deep water fish floating up and all this
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. Welles getting beach because they're choking on
Speaker 2: the filth in the water out here, and they don't
Speaker 2: like it. It is grotesque. Okay, they still don't even
Speaker 2: know what to do with all these beech seal lions
Speaker 2: and mountains or sea lions and seals that are Huntington
Speaker 2: Beach and Manhattan Be's. They're all over in the beaches
Speaker 2: over in Orange County. It's where they're all hanging out,
Speaker 2: and they're looking at the water and they're barking saying
Speaker 2: hell no, you hear they're saying, hell no, that's what
Speaker 2: they're saying about the water. Okay, but imagine this. Imagine
Speaker 2: this here in southern California with our water where the
Speaker 2: bacteria levels pure bacteria, which is way too high for
Speaker 2: any human to go into. Imagine that water coming at
Speaker 2: you one hundred plus miles an hour. Imagine a tsunami
Speaker 2: of poop. Keep your mouth closed, keep your mouth closed,
Speaker 2: and your cheeks tight, because when a tsunami hit Southern California,
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be poop tis. It's gonna be a
Speaker 2: poop nami. A poop nami. Yes. Right now, officials are
Speaker 2: cautioning residents to check whether they live in a tsunami
Speaker 2: zone ahead of Tsunami Preparedness Week. Yes, there's actually a
Speaker 2: week starting tomorrow all the way through next week is
Speaker 2: Tsunami Preparedness Week here in southern California. And yes, the
Speaker 2: chances of a tsunami hitting us anytime soon are probably,
Speaker 2: you know, next to zero. But but but all these
Speaker 2: little mini earthquakes that we've been having that everyone wants
Speaker 2: to laugh at, Oh twalla, the earthquakes. What if we
Speaker 2: have one in the water that we just can't feel,
Speaker 2: all right, our little meters don't go off, and that
Speaker 2: water sets off the tsunami, okay, and sends that poop
Speaker 2: coming at you one hundred plus miles an hour, a
Speaker 2: liquid code brown. Nobody wants this. Nobody wants it. Mark,
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no way you're gonna want to clean
Speaker 2: up the beaches. California will be done if we get
Speaker 2: hit with the tsunami. And it's interesting that they say,
Speaker 2: you know, make sure you are monitoring and checking if
Speaker 2: you live in a tsunami area, because what are you
Speaker 2: gonna do. What are you gonna do for tsunami week?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna pack up and move somewhere? No, No,
Speaker 2: go inland the beaches.
Speaker 3: You see the waves going the opposite way, You get
Speaker 3: in your car, you head to the there there's.
Speaker 2: No places to stay right now, right now, those of
Speaker 2: us who've been impacted by eating in the palisades. Were
Speaker 2: already staying everywhere, so there's no order for people to go. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's fair. Well, remember when you were a child and
Speaker 2: you would make fun of relatives who kept the plastic
Speaker 2: covering on counches. Ye, leave it on, Just leave it
Speaker 2: on if you're if you're in the area, if you're
Speaker 2: in one of these areas. Yeah, yeah, but now you
Speaker 2: can go on and check. I did not grab the website,
Speaker 2: but you can go on and check if you do
Speaker 2: live in one of these tsunami areas. I believe it's
Speaker 2: not tsunami dot Com. It's not. It's not our uh producer, Kayla,
Speaker 2: it's not. I thought it was, and I think I
Speaker 2: accidentally deleted it where you could go and check. I'm
Speaker 2: talking and stalling so I can give you time to
Speaker 2: look it up. If you didn't know that, Kayla, Yes,
Speaker 2: I know you're taching it. Did somebody rush right in
Speaker 2: and hog tsunami dot Com so that the legit people
Speaker 2: couldn't have it? Maybe? Maybe because it's If Kala says
Speaker 2: that is tsunami dot Com, I will fall out. Got
Speaker 2: this great idea for a restaurant. Guess what we're gonna
Speaker 2: call it.
Speaker 3: It is conservation dot c a dot gov slash CGS
Speaker 3: slash unami slash maps. Boom bam, that's kind of a
Speaker 3: mouthful tsunami dot com.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure I'll take you there as well. Love
Speaker 2: it camfi AM six forty. We are live everywhere on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. And yesterday we talked about possibly moving
Speaker 2: to Disney's Villa in the Coachella area and no, none
Speaker 2: of us can afford it. But but but thanks to
Speaker 2: Fanny May, we may actually be able to get ourselves
Speaker 2: into a condo right now. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong,
Speaker 2: but with the way I'm looking at this where it
Speaker 2: says that Fanny May's blacklist has four hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: eight California communities with availabilities, I'm thinking that we may
Speaker 2: have something. So we'll look into that.
Speaker 1: On the other side, you're listening to Later with Moe
Speaker 1: Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
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Speaker 2: Tawala Sharp filling in for Mo Kelly. Mark, I know
Speaker 2: that you are are in the market for a place. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm kind of looking in when the right place comes
Speaker 2: along that I can afford and live indoors, and then
Speaker 2: I'll jump yeah, super producer, Kayla, are you still looking?
Speaker 2: Are you comfortable where you're at?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, I love my place. I'm very comfortable for now. Yeah.
Speaker 2: What about you, Foosh? You comfortable yet comfortable? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you see that that response was a little uncomfortable, that
Speaker 2: I'm comfortable, a bit lackluster. Yes, in fact, he's lying.
Speaker 2: I'm declaring in the hostile witness that that was not
Speaker 2: a comfortable response, like to get I'd like to be
Speaker 2: a homeowner. But okay, comfortable, Okay, okay, okay, cool, cool.
Speaker 2: I figure that you and I know hell Uh, being
Speaker 2: from and growing up in and and living in the
Speaker 2: Pasadena altad the area, I can tell you this, every
Speaker 2: single person that I know growing up UH is looking
Speaker 2: for a place right. There are many who would like
Speaker 2: they would love the opportunity to stay in Altadena. And
Speaker 2: there are so many different initiatives, so many different groups
Speaker 2: working within the Altadena area to help rebuild the city,
Speaker 2: to help people stay in their homes with everyone who
Speaker 2: wants to that can I mean, I went to a
Speaker 2: kind of a town hall so to speak put on
Speaker 2: by none other than Beyonce. Beyonce and her mother they
Speaker 2: have an organization that they have started called be Good,
Speaker 2: and this organization right now, they have been doing God's
Speaker 2: work here in southern California. And while acknowledging the need
Speaker 2: in Palisades, what touched Beyonce and her mother the most
Speaker 2: is the destruction of Altadena and the history of Alta
Speaker 2: Dina and it's relevance in southern California for black home
Speaker 2: ownership and the like. And neither of them are from Pasadena. Yes,
Speaker 2: they're in Texas, and there is a Pasadena, Texas, but
Speaker 2: neither of them are from the city. All right. But
Speaker 2: when they saw the destruction and they saw what was happening,
Speaker 2: they came together and they said, we are going to
Speaker 2: put our own money. We are going to use our pool.
Speaker 2: No one is telling Beyonce no. Okay, they may tell Twalao,
Speaker 2: but no one is telling Beyonce no. So Beyonce's gonna
Speaker 2: go out and get the money. She's gonna go out
Speaker 2: and get the money. She's gonna go out and get
Speaker 2: the resources, and she's gonna have people coming together and
Speaker 2: we are going to help this city. Every which way
Speaker 2: that we can. And what I saw them do just
Speaker 2: for this town hall and for everyone that was in
Speaker 2: there was nothing short of miraculous. Okay, I've seen a
Speaker 2: lot of politicians on the West Coast talk about what
Speaker 2: they're going to do for whether it be Eaten or
Speaker 2: the Palisades, and I've seen little to nothing happen. The
Speaker 2: movement has been slow as far as what it should
Speaker 2: be in my estimation. But to see someone like Beyonce
Speaker 2: and her mother come out and say, here's what we're doing.
Speaker 2: We are going to keep our word and we are
Speaker 2: going to take care of all of you. What I
Speaker 2: saw again in there was nothing short of amazing. And
Speaker 2: I've met Beyonce. I don't know how many times Microraft
Speaker 2: had her on concerts, had it on shows and off air.
Speaker 2: I'll even tell you a funny personal Beyonce story. But yes,
Speaker 2: I can never say anything bad about Beyonce, not because
Speaker 2: of what she did for my family. And this is
Speaker 2: non sponsorship, this is not getting paid to say anything
Speaker 2: good about beyond just just hit my mind. As I'm
Speaker 2: looking at the availability of condos by way of Fanning
Speaker 2: made it just hit me about what Beyonce has done
Speaker 2: for or us in the Altadta area and what she's
Speaker 2: doing here in southern California. I'm like, she doesn't know
Speaker 2: any of us, She doesn't know any of us, doesn't
Speaker 2: have to do anything, but still it's stepping up to
Speaker 2: do so. So I never had anything bad to say
Speaker 2: about Beyonce, but you will never hear a crossword come
Speaker 2: out of my mouth ever about her or her mother,
Speaker 2: because they are about it. And they didn't have cameras there,
Speaker 2: They didn't have, you know, a bunch of press there.
Speaker 2: You know that Tina knows. She came out, she said, hey, look,
Speaker 2: Yonce wants to be here, but she is preparing for
Speaker 2: a tour where she is. But here's what we're doing
Speaker 2: right now. And it was like one of those like man,
Speaker 2: everyone in there was crying because of what they did.
Speaker 2: And So when I think about that, and I think
Speaker 2: about how how hard it is right now for just
Speaker 2: those of us here in southern California to even fathom
Speaker 2: owning a home, it's almost as if this this state
Speaker 2: is set up for us to not own a home.
Speaker 2: It's almost set up for us to stay in an
Speaker 2: apartment forever, because apartments, most every apartment is on a
Speaker 2: monthly basis, it's costing you what you could be putting
Speaker 2: towards a house, but none of us can get together
Speaker 2: enough to put down on the house to get out
Speaker 2: of the apartment in the first place. So it's like
Speaker 2: this rat race that we're in this this situation where
Speaker 2: it's just it is rubbing two nickels together. Here in
Speaker 2: southern California is rough, And I get it. I know,
Speaker 2: I know cost of living is a lot cheaper elsewhere.
Speaker 2: When when I was in Eerie and they were charging
Speaker 2: US nine hundred and fifty dollars a month for a
Speaker 2: palatial estate, it was like one of those like every
Speaker 2: time I pay this year, I was like, I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm gonna get in trouble, Like the police are
Speaker 2: gonna come and say you've been living in a drugg
Speaker 2: den and you know this house is being uh they're
Speaker 2: using this to funnel money through. I just I said
Speaker 2: to myself, this is crazy how much it costs to
Speaker 2: buy a house in southern California. And yes, Fannie May,
Speaker 2: they have this blacklist where where good news there is
Speaker 2: an inventory of available properties for sale, and that inventory
Speaker 2: list has grown. The bad news again is that these
Speaker 2: properties are still touting their highest prices ever with the
Speaker 2: highest interest rates ever in heavy buyer competition, because land's
Speaker 2: is finite here in southern California, all the deserts are
Speaker 2: not build it out there. They're just building up in
Speaker 2: areas like that. So yes, fat he may have more
Speaker 2: places in and they may have places available. But Mark,
Speaker 2: if you had the opportunity right now to move into
Speaker 2: a place that could cost you some six seven thousand
Speaker 2: a month, are you doing that tomorrow? Or I'd be
Speaker 2: living in my car. And in fact, do you remember
Speaker 2: when we spoke last night off the air, I told
Speaker 2: you that I'd been looking into people living in their cars,
Speaker 2: and more and more people who are working full time
Speaker 2: are forced to live in their cars because of how
Speaker 2: insanely expensive how and you can't rule out the factor
Speaker 2: of a private equity buying up real estate and houses.
Speaker 2: In LA nearly twenty thousand people are living in their
Speaker 2: cars right now, right now, right now, people who have
Speaker 2: full time jobs, well that's not all full time job,
Speaker 2: but it's nearly forty percent of the homeless. There are
Speaker 2: people living in their cars in LA. Cars. I'm telling
Speaker 2: you that there are people that I personally know who
Speaker 2: have full time jobs. Okay, these are not you know,
Speaker 2: don't hear what we're saying and think, well, they got
Speaker 2: to do better than working at McDonald's. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: no no. I know people who are working within the
Speaker 2: high fives and the low to mid sixes and they
Speaker 2: have decided to just tough it out, live in their car. Yeah,
Speaker 2: membership and that's what it's going to be. And there
Speaker 2: are no accidents. This is not a thing that just
Speaker 2: happened by accident. Going ahead. I just I'm reading multiple
Speaker 2: things at the same time here, Yeah, trying to wrap
Speaker 2: my head around this. But the fact that you work
Speaker 2: a full time job and you can't live in a
Speaker 2: house seems absolutely through the looking glass insane to me. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's like when I saw this list of condo availabilities,
Speaker 2: you know, published by La Daily News and the reporting
Speaker 2: on what Fannie May's organization is put out, and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: this is great, this is great, but this information is
Speaker 2: literally it's not even worth the paper that is printed
Speaker 2: on because not a single one of us who all
Speaker 2: work full time jobs. I work two full time jobs,
Speaker 2: and it's one of those things where still here in
Speaker 2: southern California. We cannot go out and buy a house. Well,
Speaker 2: here's the thing. We know that roughly sixty five percent
Speaker 2: of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, which in and of
Speaker 2: itself is a little hard to swallow, not that I
Speaker 2: don't believe it, but that it shouldn't be. And so
Speaker 2: you get into this trap where let's say you have
Speaker 2: to move into a place where the average rent here
Speaker 2: is three grand a month. That doesn't leave a lot
Speaker 2: of working people a lot of money left over to
Speaker 2: save and put away. And then when you factor in
Speaker 2: that a huge percentage of Americans don't have an extra
Speaker 2: thousand dollars for an emergency expense. You're not buying a house.
Speaker 2: You're not buying a house. And if you do, then
Speaker 2: that's all you have. You don't have anything in that house.
Speaker 2: You're no longer driving your car. You are walking to
Speaker 2: work because every dime you make is going into the house.
Speaker 2: And and n you talking about a small house three
Speaker 2: thousand a month, you're talking about a very very small house.
Speaker 2: And most apartments right now like they're looking at like
Speaker 2: thirty five hundred force for a one bedroom, one bath.
Speaker 2: I'm like the ooh, almost made me curse, all right,
Speaker 2: don't do that. No KFI AM six before I gotta go.
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Speaker 2: have you and me together for the next couple hours intimate, yes,
Speaker 2: touch your radio yourself all right, look and talking about
Speaker 2: housing and the situation. Now to Dina. I almost forgot that.
Speaker 2: There are a couple of things I did want to
Speaker 2: make sure you were aware of. One is that FEMA
Speaker 2: has extended the deadline to apply for wildfire disaster assistance
Speaker 2: up until Monday the thirty first. All right, Monday, March
Speaker 2: thirty first is the absolute ind date deadline to apply
Speaker 2: for FEMA assistance. To apply for an SBA loan, find
Speaker 2: yourself a FEMA help center and make sure you apply.
Speaker 2: If you are a victim from either the Palisades or
Speaker 2: Eaten wildfire, or any of the wildfires that ran through
Speaker 2: southern California in January, please please please apply. You can
Speaker 2: go online and at Disaster Assistance dot gov, which is
Speaker 2: the fastest option. You can use the FEMA app available
Speaker 2: at the App Store or at Google Play. You can
Speaker 2: call the female helpline at eight hundred six two one
Speaker 2: three three six two. Once again, the FEMA helpline is
Speaker 2: eight hundred six two one three three six two. Or
Speaker 2: you can visit a Disaster Recovery center and for locations,
Speaker 2: you can visit DRC location or DRC locator. I would
Speaker 2: say visit the Disaster Recovery center in person so you
Speaker 2: can have someone help you navigate the process because it
Speaker 2: is a lot. There's a lot of red tape, a
Speaker 2: lot of bureaucracy, and if you don't have someone on
Speaker 2: the inside helping you find your way out, it can
Speaker 2: be daunting. Also, one more deadline before we end this hour.
Speaker 2: The deadline is approaching for fire victims to choose debre
Speaker 2: removal methods. A residence impacted by the Palisades and eat
Speaker 2: wildfire have until the same FEMA date, March thirty first,
Speaker 2: to decide how they will remove debried from their properties. Now,
Speaker 2: our Mayor Karen Bass is urging all homeowners impacted by
Speaker 2: the Palisades fire to opt into debris removal through the
Speaker 2: US Army Corps of Engineers, which is free. Bass is
Speaker 2: also announcing a new emergency Executive Order to help expedite
Speaker 2: the rebuilding process and to protect against future disasters. And
Speaker 2: that's great. Whatever you do, make sure you choose a
Speaker 2: method now. We do not want you to be stuck
Speaker 2: trying to take care of that yourself. I promise you
Speaker 2: it is. It is insane. And I am happy to
Speaker 2: announce that I was recently in in my neighborhood. The
Speaker 2: other day. We were going about and trying to help,
Speaker 2: not help, but we were going through our place and
Speaker 2: cleaning out stuff or really throwing away a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: Had to go through that kitchen, and god, that was
Speaker 2: a task. And that's just the first room, going through
Speaker 2: and clean out that fridge with all that stuff that
Speaker 2: had spoiled, all the stuff, and it was it was horrible.
Speaker 2: And so that was a thing. But while there, I
Speaker 2: saw trucks moving NonStop. These big trucks were hauling debris
Speaker 2: up and down the street, and it was really amazing
Speaker 2: to see. And there was construction crews around the corner
Speaker 2: from but I can see, I can see all the
Speaker 2: way around the corner, and now I can see all
Speaker 2: the way onto the next block over them excavating and
Speaker 2: digging out the debris and getting rid of it. And
Speaker 2: I believe right now on our block, I believe there's
Speaker 2: what four maybe five houses that have been cleared away.
Speaker 2: And seeing that and seeing these places just stripped away,
Speaker 2: I wish I had just had a time lapsed camera
Speaker 2: that could just put in just sitting and it could
Speaker 2: just record all of the taking away and then you know,
Speaker 2: eventually the rebuilding. But it is an amazing thing to
Speaker 2: see just make sure you're not the one paying for
Speaker 2: a debris removal. Contact the US Army Corps of Engineers
Speaker 2: and set your date to have them come and help
Speaker 2: you with that remove or not help you, but get
Speaker 2: rid of it because you don't want to do it yourself.
Speaker 2: I promise you that I'll have some information on that
Speaker 2: in the newscast at the top of the hour. Is
Speaker 2: it true in your observation that things are going faster
Speaker 2: than predicted? Yes, absolutely, absolutely, shockingly shock The first I
Speaker 2: thought it was going to go super slow, just looking
Speaker 2: at the landscape and what they had to do. But
Speaker 2: seeing how quickly they've gotten through these houses, even just
Speaker 2: r street, it is amazing. It is amazing how quickly
Speaker 2: they are moving. That's impressive and a little scrutiny will
Speaker 2: tend to light a fire under your seat. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: right under your ass. Thank you, Thank you for that.
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