WEBVTT 1 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:24.280 Mister bo Kelly here k if I am six forty, 2 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:26.600 We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:30.320 Strange day. It was a really, really strange day. I 4 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:33.280 woke up, it was sunny, it was hot. 5 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:37.679 And then it started cooling off, and the clouds started 6 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:47.960 rolling in, and then all of a sudden, it started raining. 7 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:51.920 It straight started raining on the way in. 8 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:52.439 Now. 9 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:55.439 If I were in Washington, DC, or Miami, Florida, or 10 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:59.119 somewhere in the Midwest, I would be I wouldn't be, 11 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:04.920 you know, by any humidity and rain to kick off August. 12 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:10.200 But in Los Angeles, California, rather strange. And Mark Ronner 13 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:13.120 owes me an explanation because he did not warn us 14 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:15.799 about this last night. Oh, I wouldn't tolerate this if 15 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:18.200 I were you. Did it wreck your hair? It did 16 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:22.079 wreck my hair, and I just washed my car, and 17 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:25.640 I tend to think that my newly washed car had 18 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:30.040 to deal with the rain in August in California. 19 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:33.799 What the hell is going on? Did it wrinkle your dress, ma'am? Yes, 20 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:36.879 it did. Yes. Nobody consulted me about this. I was 21 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:39.560 glad to wear linen and then it started raining. 22 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:43.799 Yeah, the linens are especially problematic in weather like this. No, 23 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:45.439 I didn't know anything about this until I showed up 24 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:47.760 today and I saw that tonight we have a twenty 25 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:51.200 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. I thought we were 26 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:54.280 just hunkering down in the miserable heat for the duration. 27 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:56.079 But no, get a little bit of moisture. How about 28 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:05.319 Shawn some gratitude for once. Okay, I'll show some thank 29 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:05.840 you for that. 30 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:06.480 That felt good. 31 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:11.919 The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plane, my 32 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:16.319 fair lady. Yes, oh Kelly, I just want to make yeah, 33 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:19.599 thank you for that. Okay, some serious business we have 34 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.479 to get to. There was another metro stabbing yesterday. We'll 35 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:26.159 tell you about that next segment. And there are new 36 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:30.039 rent hike limits which are going into place this week. 37 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:32.719 And they call them rent hike limits, but they're not 38 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:34.800 really limits. It just means that they can't. 39 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:37.840 Gouge you to death. But you know, we'll get into 40 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:38.360 that as well. 41 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:41.599 Did you know we have a new measles infection right 42 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:50.840 here in La You gotta feel proud. But here is 43 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.439 where I wanted to start the show tonight. We've talked 44 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:59.080 at length about the minimum wage increase for fast food workers. 45 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:02.240 It went from sixteen to twenty dollars an hour. There 46 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:05.360 was a lot of controversy about how that would impact 47 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:12.159 our economy, how that would impact prices for McDonald's, Wendy's, 48 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:16.639 Burger King, Subway, all those places had, and how many 49 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:19.240 people they would employ. Would they have to decrease their 50 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:22.199 hours for their employees, would they have to fire employees. 51 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:23.439 That was the discussion. 52 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.840 We've gone back and forth about the pros and cons, 53 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:29.400 the pluses and minuses, but they got Those workers got 54 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:30.919 twenty dollars an hour. 55 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:33.120 Check this out. 56 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:38.639 In a memo sent to KTLA Channel five News, SEIU, 57 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:45.039 the union which covers fast food workers, is asking that 58 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.759 the minimum wage for fast food workers, which just went 59 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:52.400 from sixteen dollars to twenty dollars an hour, be raised 60 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:57.120 again to twenty dollars and seventy cents per hour by 61 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:02.680 January first, twenty twenty five. We're talking about I don't know, 62 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:07.080 six months or so from sixteen dollars to twenty dollars 63 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:09.360 and then they're gonna raise it again, or at least 64 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:12.280 they're asking for it to twenty dollars and seventy cents 65 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:13.240 per hour. 66 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:15.879 Wait wait, wait, wait, there is more The. 67 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:20.240 Union is also demanding more stable schedules, broader oversight of 68 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:25.120 backpay ode to employees, and an investigation into what the 69 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:31.519 union says are pervasive abuses in the industry, such as 70 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:35.920 wage theft, harassment, discrimination, and unsafe conditions. Remember when you 71 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:37.959 were a kid from Mark RONNERD I know is a 72 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:39.000 longer time ago than me. 73 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:41.079 Oh, let's just calm down with that stuff. 74 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:46.000 A long time ago, A very long time ago. When 75 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.480 you and I were kids, Remember you would go maybe 76 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.079 to the store, and you would say, Mommy, mommy, mommy, 77 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:52.959 or Daddy, Daddy, I really want that? 78 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:56.319 Can I get that toy? Can I please get that toy? 79 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:58.759 Can I get that game? Can I get that t shirt? 80 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:00.759 Can I get the whatever? I think? 81 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.000 We had vastly different childhoods. But please proceed. But you asked, 82 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:04.879 didn't you? 83 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:07.000 Sure? Okay, wish in one hand? Right? 84 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.160 Okay, Well you asked for it, and maybe, well maybe 85 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:12.920 it happened with Steph. Maybe Stephan knows what this is like. 86 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:16.560 And you ask and you get to be obnoxious, and 87 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.399 then your parents finally say, okay, just shut up. If 88 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:24.000 I get you this, what do they say, don't ask 89 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:28.959 for another thing? And you get the stuffed animal, you 90 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:34.480 get the video game, you get the toy, and you're happy, happy, happy, 91 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:36.600 and then on the ride home you say, hey, can 92 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:38.199 I get some McDonald's You want to. 93 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:40.519 Get something else. Wait a minute, I just told. 94 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:43.439 You when you asked for this and I gave it 95 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.040 to you, don't ask for another mumbling thing. 96 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:47.639 That's what I feel like. 97 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.439 This is are you comparing that to people asking for 98 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:52.160 a living wage for work? No? 99 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:52.560 No, no no. 100 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:54.720 I thought to twenty dollars an hour was a living wage. 101 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:57.560 I thought that was it, because you know why, that's 102 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:00.600 what they asked for. That's specifically the amount they asked for. 103 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.360 That's not what they negotiated. They said we want twenty 104 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:05.120 dollars an hour. If it wasn't like they said we 105 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:07.360 want twenty three dollars an hour, and then then they 106 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:10.360 met in the middle and said, okay, we will agree 107 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:13.040 to twenty dollars an hour. So they say, go big upfront. 108 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.439 It's not what you're supposed to do. You're always supposed 109 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:20.240 to ask for either too much, so you can come 110 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:21.399 back to what you really want. 111 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:22.920 I mean, that's often my model. 112 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:24.839 I mean, the worst that can happen to you is 113 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:27.279 a slap in the face, although the my situation might 114 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:28.639 be slightly different. 115 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:30.839 From the one you're talking about. But I see what 116 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:31.240 you're saying. 117 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:32.800 But why are you going to ask for twenty dollars 118 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:35.720 an hour just to ask for twenty dollars and seventy 119 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:36.720 five cents. 120 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:38.319 Less than a year later? 121 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:42.959 Do you actually think that you have any traction, that 122 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:47.160 you have any momentum or leverage to ask for another 123 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:49.279 raise less than a year later when you just got 124 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:51.160 a four dollar raise in March. 125 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:51.680 If I'm not. 126 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:54.759 Mistaken, I think maybe you're having issues with the framing. 127 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:57.879 Think of it MO as more of an icebreaker. Ask 128 00:06:57.959 --> 00:06:58.199 for the. 129 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.879 First one, and then you know, you soften people up 130 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:03.240 for subsequent. 131 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:06.600 Ass No, no, no, that's not a good negotiating technique. Okay, 132 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:10.279 if you need the twenty let's just call it twenty 133 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:12.360 one dollars an hour, huh. If you need the twenty 134 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:14.759 one dollars an hour, then damn it, asks for twenty two. 135 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:17.240 And then you can think, or at least make the 136 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:19.839 opposition think that, Okay, you're not getting everything that you 137 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:21.639 ask for and you end up with twenty one, But 138 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:22.879 to ask for twenty going. 139 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:27.040 From sixteen dollars an hour, that is a considerable increase. 140 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.279 And then you turn around, let's say four months letters 141 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:31.959 say you know what, I need a little bit more money. 142 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:35.319 You're gonna have people with master's degrees going to McDonald's 143 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:37.680 and Del Taco at some point. No, you won't. And 144 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:39.399 here's why, and this is how I'm going to end 145 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:40.079 the segment. 146 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:44.879 These jobs won't exist that much longer because of automation 147 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:48.800 or what have you. These jobs are not going to 148 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:52.959 exist long term. And if you are fighting for twenty 149 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:56.519 one dollars an hour for the person who is handling 150 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:59.560 the fries or mopping the floor. Sorry to sound dismissive, 151 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:02.279 but that is what we're talking about. Just know that 152 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:06.720 these jobs have already been in large part replaced by rumba. 153 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:11.439 I'm sorry, never mind. KFI six forty we're live everywhere 154 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:12.439 in the iHeartRadio app. 155 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:16.560 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 156 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:18.199 KFI AM six forty. 157 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:24.680 Stabbing Metro Wednesday morning in the Florence neighborhood of South LA. 158 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:28.000 The attack was reported at eight thirty five am at 159 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:32.960 the Slawson station. The suspected attacker only described described as 160 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:36.279 a Hispanic man about thirty years old, attacked another person, 161 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:42.039 and this is according to the LAPD. The attacker was 162 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:46.320 last seen wearing a white painter's suit. Hear me out, 163 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:52.159 I'm beginning to suspect that people are viewing Metro like 164 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:58.159 they do seven elevens easy targets because of where you are. 165 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:04.080 Seven eleven obviously presents itself as an easier target than 166 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:10.960 a MPM circle, k RCO whatever. And it seems that 167 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:15.039 people who are at Metro or on a bus or 168 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:19.919 on a train are presenting themselves as easier to be 169 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:25.519 attacked because the attackers clearly know to go after someone 170 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:29.120 at a Metro station, on a Metro bus, or a 171 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:32.559 Metro train. The saddest part about all of this is 172 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:36.159 all this would go away if they just had tap 173 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:41.440 out there and they forced people to never mind. Okay, well, 174 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.360 what's funnier in my head? When I said it tap out? 175 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:46.480 You know, like you have to tap to exit? 176 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:49.279 Uh huh, Well, fush need to feel a little quicker 177 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:50.399 on the rim shot? 178 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.519 I guess no, it just it just seemed fat funnier 179 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:53.919 when I when I was saying it in my head, 180 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:55.399 it didn't It didn't come out that way. 181 00:09:55.200 --> 00:10:02.919 But it doesn't everything honestly as foul foul just between 182 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:08.519 you and me and nobody's listening. Where's Nancy Bass when 183 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:09.000 you need her? 184 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.759 Seriously? Can you get her in here? Okay, I'll call 185 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:15.360 for day anyhow. 186 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:17.600 Can I just let me say something since you're talking 187 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:19.840 about Metro, the weird thing that we talk about this 188 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:22.240 all the time. Last night I was on a Reddit 189 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:25.600 thread about best kept secrets in La, like life hacks 190 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:28.919 for living in LA, and Metro was one of. 191 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:32.559 Those, as in a better way to get around the city. Yeah, 192 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:33.279 believe it or not. 193 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.320 Yeah, that was probably written by someone who doesn't actually 194 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:39.399 live here or has never written Metro. 195 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:41.559 I mean, you can't tell if people on Reddit are 196 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:45.360 sane or insane, well generally, but I say you can 197 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.440 tell they're insane on Reddit. But these seemed like fairly 198 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:51.879 rational people pointing out how easy it made their lives. 199 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:55.240 Apart from the old getting stabbed in the chest thing. 200 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:59.159 It would make your life easier, It would make your 201 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:03.960 commute if you didn't have to also deal with the 202 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:08.159 other unintended consequences of having to you know, fit in 203 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:09.240 for your life. 204 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.120 Yeah, they might have omitted some key details. 205 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.320 I happen to believe those lists are just for I 206 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.519 think they're plants people who want to encourage use of 207 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:24.360 the Metro or give them some more positive shine. Because 208 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:28.679 anyone who's lived in LA, anyone who's aware of what's 209 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:30.960 been happening in LA for the better part of a 210 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:33.879 year and a half at least, would know that. Anyone 211 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:36.080 who would say that, hey, you ought to go ride 212 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:40.879 Metro or something, what is the only response to that 213 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:41.200 that's it? 214 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:44.120 Yeah, or I'm scared for my life. Just a second, 215 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:46.240 Hold up here. You are trying to suggest, though, that 216 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:51.080 Metro has like a sleeper cell spreading pro Metro propaganda 217 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:52.039 on Reddit or No. 218 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:57.799 I believe that most major corporations they will plant positive reviews. 219 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.000 I know that they pay for stories. I'm saying companies 220 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.320 will pay for stories. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, that's not 221 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.399 new at all. Who has anything good to say about Metro? 222 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:10.480 I would love to meet that person just so I 223 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:13.600 could tell them that's I'm sure. 224 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:16.159 They'd be happy to drive here and park so that 225 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:17.399 you could give that to them. 226 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:22.279 Remember how switching gears very quickly. Remember how earlier in 227 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:24.120 the week, or maybe it was last week, maybe earlier 228 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:27.000 in the week, we were talking about the possible expansion 229 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:29.759 of Metro to the Hollywood Bowl. 230 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:31.879 Right, and it's going to take a really long time. 231 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.919 Yeah, they won't even start until twenty forty one. Here's 232 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.720 another example I think of planning positive stories. Now, there's 233 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:42.559 a story out there that there's a plan to connect 234 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:45.519 the San Fernando Valley with the west Side. If it 235 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:49.159 took until twenty forty one, presumably to put in a 236 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:52.759 Metro stop at the Hollywood Bowl, how long do you 237 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:55.559 think it would take to connect the San Fernando Valley 238 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:56.440 to the west side. 239 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:59.320 Silkeel Freeway has one of the worst reputations for having 240 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.240 horrendous try traffic, especially as you get closer to the 241 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:05.559 Sepulvida Pass. It's the four or five Freeway and drivers 242 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:07.320 have nicknamed it for its bad rep. 243 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:13.879 Well, hey, did I say for its bad breath? Bad breath? 244 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.399 For its bad rep? Well it's greatlock. 245 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:19.279 You know that story where they say the four or 246 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:23.879 five is the world's biggest parking lot. That's the fillion I'm. 247 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:26.440 Getting During the holidays, it turns into candy Cane Lane 248 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:29.320 because of the ribbon of non stump red and white lines. 249 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.960 This daily four or five commuter says driving through the 250 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:34.679 Sepulveda Pass is probably one of the worst parts of 251 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:35.080 her day. 252 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:40.960 Exactly what's the freeways a living And it's a nightmare, 253 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:42.440 It's a true nightmare. 254 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:45.360 Well, there's a proposal to ease the traffic headache. The 255 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:48.840 Planets have built a fully automated rapid transit line to 256 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:50.600 connect the San Fernando Valley to. 257 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:51.360 The west side. 258 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:55.000 The line would also connect with Metro's current and future stops, 259 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:58.240 including a stop in the heart of UCLA's campus. It 260 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:00.519 would go as fast as seventy miles per hour. 261 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:02.799 That would connect Van Nuys all the way down to 262 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:04.480 the Expo line in twenty minutes. 263 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:06.759 Oh so they're going to talk about a bus with 264 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:10.600 its own lane basically now, that may not take twenty 265 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:11.480 five years to build. 266 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:14.320 I think the plus aspect of all of this is 267 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:16.279 that it'll all be ready by the time you and 268 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:18.360 I are no longer allowed or able to drive. 269 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:21.159 Well, just perfect time. But you didn't live out here. 270 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:23.519 I don't think I know Stephan would remember this. Remember 271 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:27.120 when they were widening the four or five freeway, Oh yes, 272 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:27.679 I do. 273 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:31.039 And it took four freaking ever was it candy cane lane. 274 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.440 Then no, no, no, it was worse because they're trying to 275 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:35.399 do construction while people were still driving. 276 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.559 That doesn't sound as festive as candy cane lane. 277 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:40.120 And it got to a point where I thought that 278 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:42.600 was going to be our our that's like, that's what 279 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:43.639 it was going to be forever. 280 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:44.240 Yeah. 281 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:45.879 I really thought that it was going to make a 282 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.799 difference because they were cutting out portions of hillsides, yeah, 283 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:55.399 to add lanes, and it made absolutely no difference at all. 284 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:58.039 Well, it's like the diffusion of gas in a space. 285 00:14:58.039 --> 00:14:59.639 It's going to take up all the space, no matter 286 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:01.960 how much there is. Well, I've lived. 287 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.960 Here long enough to see every iteration of this is 288 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.960 going to be the magic bullet for traffic. I remember 289 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:09.720 when they were doing the one oh five freeway and 290 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:11.440 they said that's gonna make it. 291 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:13.320 It's gonna be a game changer. It's gonna take away 292 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:14.960 all the traffic. It didn't happen. 293 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.120 They widened the four or five freeway, they did all 294 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:20.240 that construction on the five freeway far south. 295 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.120 None of it has helped at all. 296 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:24.360 We've had people lead the state of California talk about 297 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.240 people are leaving left and right hasn't helped. 298 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:29.519 It's still real bad. Oh yeah, there's no magic bullet, 299 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:30.840 just road rage bullets. 300 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:35.440 I'm on Fosi. Don't be stingy with me, Foosi. No, 301 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:36.639 that's that's inappropriate. 302 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:40.600 Well, that's a good time to start worrying about that 303 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:42.240 a couple of years in. 304 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:46.320 You know me, I'm all about boundaries. Oh yeah, timeliness too. 305 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:51.159 Look at the time, it's Later with Mokelly if I 306 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.759 Am six forty were lived everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 307 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:55.480 And the rent is too damn high. 308 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:57.639 But we're gonna tell you what is being done to 309 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:00.240 maybe limit it from going higher. 310 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:04.440 We'll see you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on 311 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:07.320 demand from KFI AM six forty. 312 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:17.120 With FU. 313 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:24.559 Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 314 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:29.279 We often complain about how expensive it is to live 315 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:35.440 in California, especially southern California. We complain about the cost 316 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:39.200 of living and how the groceries cost so much, or 317 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:41.919 how much fast food may cost. And Mark Ronner and 318 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.960 I we have this ongoing conversation. We go back and forth. 319 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.919 We talk about part of this is self inflicted, part 320 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:52.039 of it is what we've asked for, and I've said 321 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:57.600 time and time again, we had multiple chances to vote 322 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:02.360 in some form of legitimate rent control. We said no 323 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:07.400 both times, and now we are complaining about the rent 324 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:11.839 being too damn high. Let me give you an example 325 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:15.000 of just some of the things which have been passed 326 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:18.880 or have been implemented in how ineffective they actually are. 327 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:24.799 As of today, there is a new limit on rent 328 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:29.319 increases which has gone into effect in both LA and Orange. 329 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:31.279 Counties starting today. 330 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:35.000 The maximum rent increase for both LA and Orange County 331 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:39.599 is eight point nine percent, which is a slight increase 332 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:43.119 from last year's eight point eight percent. Okay, rent control 333 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:48.599 less effective than last year. What is eight point nine percent? Okay, 334 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:51.960 Let's say you're paying twenty five hundred a month in rent, 335 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:54.119 which is nominal in LA. 336 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:55.559 Twenty five hundred a month. 337 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:00.319 That just means that it can be upped another two 338 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:05.960 hundred and twenty two dollars next year, which means you'll 339 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:11.160 be paying about another twenty six hundred dollars over the 340 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:12.720 course of a year. 341 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:16.039 And that would be within the law. 342 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:19.000 That has nothing to do with who's president, That has 343 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:21.839 nothing to do with whose governor, that has nothing to 344 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:25.920 do with I'll say, the cost of living. It just 345 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:30.839 has to do with unfettered capitalism. There are more renters 346 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:36.839 than landlords. Okay, you're voting against your own interests. I wish, 347 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:42.000 I wish that there was such a guaranteed return on 348 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:47.200 investment as real estate elsewhere. Let's just say you own 349 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:50.720 a building and you know that you can guarantee yourself 350 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:55.720 an eight point nine percent increase on your return and 351 00:18:55.880 --> 00:19:00.559 investment every single year, and that's within the law. Wait 352 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.960 a minute, and that's not like everyone is acting within 353 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:05.119 the law. 354 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:08.480 See, that's just LA and Orange County. 355 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:13.519 Wider California is governed by the California Tenant Protection Act, 356 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:16.519 and under the Tenant Protection Act, the total increase for 357 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:19.599 the year cannot top ten percent. So if you live 358 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:22.039 outside of LA and Orange County, I don't know, like 359 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.720 Ventura County or San Diego County, San Bernardino County. So forth, 360 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:30.359 you get the idea they can legally raise your rent 361 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:35.519 ten percent, and oftentimes people don't know that that is 362 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:41.119 the stated maximum, and mini landlords operate outside that and 363 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:44.960 they will raise someone's rent more than ten percent. No, MO, 364 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:46.920 they wouldn't do that, Yes they would. They did it 365 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:49.920 in Inglewood. When they were building Sofi Stadium, they had 366 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:53.200 people who had their rents doubled overnight, and people did 367 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:55.680 not know the law and they were forced out and 368 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:58.240 they didn't have the money to fight it in court. 369 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:01.960 This isn't new. This is just how we choose to 370 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.279 live here in California. We don't want rent control, but 371 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:07.680 we sure have a lot of energy to complain about 372 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.119 the rent being too damn high when we were the 373 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:13.519 ones who had the opportunity to do something about it. 374 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:16.640 And you know, it's almost like the line from Independence 375 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:17.880 Day and you did nothing. 376 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:20.599 You do then, and you did nothing. 377 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:25.799 You had a chance to keep your rent from going 378 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:30.519 sky high every single year. And the best you can 379 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:34.440 hope for is your landlord is a good person, a 380 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:38.559 decent person, and doesn't try to raise your rent eight 381 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:44.000 point nine percent each year. Let's say you're in a 382 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.400 six month lease. You know they may do it at 383 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:51.000 the end of the six months. This is something within 384 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:54.640 our control, and we chose not to control it. We 385 00:20:54.759 --> 00:20:57.880 complained about the number of people who are homeless. There's 386 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:02.400 a connection here. Plain about the cost of living, there's 387 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:06.000 a connection here. All these things are connected. And if 388 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:08.440 you want to say like, well, it's because of Governor 389 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:10.799 Gavin Newsom, it's because of Joe Biden. 390 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:11.880 I got news for you. 391 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:14.440 Whoever's going to be our next governor and whoever's going 392 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:16.839 to be our next president is not going to impact 393 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:20.880 this at all because landlords are still going to raise 394 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:25.559 the rent. Why because they've been illegally empowered to do 395 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:29.960 so in LA and Orange County eight point nine percent 396 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:32.079 every year. And I'm just saying, let's say your rent 397 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:36.200 is twenty five hundred, and that's nominal here in southern California, 398 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:38.160 you're doing well. If you got to let's say a 399 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:40.400 two bedroom for twenty five hundred. I don't know where, 400 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:44.079 but let's say that's the case. It's going to go 401 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:46.079