Speaker 1: Kf I am six forty is later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1: We are live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Another day,
Speaker 1: another plane collision. I'm not saying, but I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: And I say this as someone who honestly does not
Speaker 1: like to fly. I do it because I have to.
Speaker 1: I do it because I want to see the world.
Speaker 1: If there was some other way that I could travel
Speaker 1: to Europe as opposed to getting on a plane, I
Speaker 1: would probably do it if it was comparable in the
Speaker 1: amount of time it would take to travel. Absolutely, I
Speaker 1: don't like flying, and I say that being very realistic
Speaker 1: about the percentages. You think of the thousands and thousands
Speaker 1: of flights which take off and land every single day,
Speaker 1: every single day, without incident. But there is something different
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Now. Of course, we are much more aware.
Speaker 1: We are much more sensitive to anything which may go
Speaker 1: wrong on a flight, take off, landing, near miss, what
Speaker 1: have you. Because of what I would say, started all
Speaker 1: this with the DC mid air collision over the Potomac,
Speaker 1: and you combine that with the Trump administration firings of
Speaker 1: key FAA figures and NTSB and TSA. When you put
Speaker 1: it all together, yes, it's a topic of discussion every
Speaker 1: single day for varying reasons. But there is something different
Speaker 1: in the sense that we've had a number of incidents
Speaker 1: within a three to four weeks, I would say, more
Speaker 1: so than any time in recent history. Now I say
Speaker 1: this as someone and I remind people my older sister
Speaker 1: worked at LAX for I don't know how many years,
Speaker 1: and I would hear about all the things that the
Speaker 1: general public did not hear about. So I know that
Speaker 1: there are things which go on all the time on
Speaker 1: these planes, issues which never see the light of day.
Speaker 1: And yes, if anything happens now, of course the media
Speaker 1: is going to highlight it and people are going to
Speaker 1: run to the media to tell them about it.
Speaker 2: I get all that.
Speaker 1: But in the conversations with the people that I know
Speaker 1: who work at various airports around the country, they will
Speaker 1: tell you that this is different. And part of the
Speaker 1: reason it is different, air quotes is because there is
Speaker 1: a staffing issue.
Speaker 2: There's a staffing concern.
Speaker 1: Put it that way, as far as total number of
Speaker 1: FAA officials which are available, total number of air traffic
Speaker 1: controllers who are available, total number of NTSB and TS say,
Speaker 1: people who are available and not overworked, not understaffed. But
Speaker 1: here is the latest.
Speaker 3: I'll sit you back to that breaking news we've been
Speaker 3: covering this morning as we get you new information on
Speaker 3: a deadly plane crash in southern Arizona. Authorities are telling
Speaker 3: us here at ABC fifteen two people have died after
Speaker 3: two planes collided just before eight thirty this morning.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: It happened at the Marana Regional Airport, about twenty miles
Speaker 3: north of Tucson. A total of four people are involved.
Speaker 3: The FAA says two people were on board both planes.
Speaker 3: They're not specifying just yet who was killed in the
Speaker 3: crash or if the other two people involved or hurt.
Speaker 3: The FAA and the NTSP are sending crews to that
Speaker 3: scene as they work to figure out exactly why it happened.
Speaker 3: Script's news group is there on scene, sharing updates here
Speaker 3: on air and at ABC fifteen dot com.
Speaker 1: Am I going to change my travel arrangements? Probably not?
Speaker 1: Probably not. I know I have to go to Pleasanton
Speaker 1: in July. I got to go to Miami in June.
Speaker 1: I gotta go a few other places. I have to
Speaker 1: go to Miami again next October. I gotta go to
Speaker 1: DC at some point in between. Am I going to
Speaker 1: change my travel and maybe take the train, which is
Speaker 1: going to take another four or five days.
Speaker 2: Probably not. Am I going to stop flying all together? Definitely?
Speaker 4: Not.
Speaker 2: Am I more concern now than ever before.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you can tell me about the stats all day long.
Speaker 1: You can tell me, hey, you know, it's still safer
Speaker 1: than driving a car. Are there more fatalities as far
Speaker 1: as car accidents? I get all that, and maybe maybe
Speaker 1: my concern is somewhat irrational.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it's a phobia.
Speaker 1: I would say I'm more afraid of bees than flying,
Speaker 1: not joking, being very serious, but there is something different.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just the frequency. Sometimes it's the nature of
Speaker 1: what is happening. We've had all sorts of of air issues,
Speaker 1: from private from commercial, you know, the small sess and
Speaker 1: the things that we've not been able to wrap our
Speaker 1: heads around as of yet. We haven't found out everything
Speaker 1: that we need to know with the DC mid air collision.
Speaker 1: We haven't found out everything we need to know with
Speaker 1: that private jet that went nose down into that Philadelphia neighborhood.
Speaker 1: So were all these incidents, in my mind, are piling up,
Speaker 1: no pun intended, not trying to be funny, piling up
Speaker 1: and we don't have the answers to at least mentally
Speaker 1: and emotionally put ourselves in ease around them. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: rationalization where we can say, well, if this happened because
Speaker 1: of that, or that happened because of this. And I
Speaker 1: know that I'm probably one of millions of what I'll
Speaker 1: call ourselves nervous flyers. Don't like it, don't like it.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm gripping the seat. I am saying
Speaker 1: it's something that's always on my mind. Every time I
Speaker 1: step on a plane. I save my prayer before we
Speaker 1: take off, and I save my prayer and thank you
Speaker 1: after we land every single time.
Speaker 2: Does it help? Hopefully? You know, hopefully.
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you that we won't have another
Speaker 1: incident in the next week or so, but the trajectory
Speaker 1: that we're on suggests that we will. I don't know
Speaker 1: how we get past this moment.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I remember.
Speaker 1: Let me say, first, good evening to Mark Runner. We
Speaker 1: missed you last night. I see you have a really
Speaker 1: really nice haircut.
Speaker 5: I don't ever go from being woozy at the dentist
Speaker 5: to just walking into the barber and saying, hey, can
Speaker 5: I can I have a touchup.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't have an appointment.
Speaker 5: But by the way, you're talking about plane flights, there
Speaker 5: have been I believe thirteen crashes so far in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five. It's February. I wouldn't get on a plane
Speaker 5: right now if you supplied me with xanax in a
Speaker 5: pez dispenser. Okay, I don't I know what the workaround is,
Speaker 5: you know, I don't know what the solution is.
Speaker 1: Is it not having an incident for five months? Is
Speaker 1: that going to make me feel better? I don't know
Speaker 1: what is our employment situation going to be at that point.
Speaker 1: Are there going to be more firing so in dismissals.
Speaker 1: Are we going to have even fewer people working at
Speaker 1: these key agencies to make sure that everything is safe
Speaker 1: and secure. I don't know. It's not about having fewer incidents.
Speaker 1: It's about knowing knowing that we as a country are
Speaker 1: doing everything that we could be and should be doing
Speaker 1: to avert the next disaster. So if we go the
Speaker 1: next six months with nothing bad happening, that doesn't make
Speaker 1: me feel better. If I know that people are still
Speaker 1: overworked and understaffed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not hard to connect the dots here. We
Speaker 5: didn't have a lot of plane crashes prior to this year.
Speaker 5: Now we got a bunch of them right in a row.
Speaker 5: We don't need to call it in Colombo. Just one
Speaker 5: more thing, sir well.
Speaker 1: But to be serious, I was still caution against the
Speaker 1: trying to make a causal relationship.
Speaker 6: But correlation that still matters, that's still important. Yeah, it's
Speaker 6: still too frequent for my comfort. I really would not
Speaker 6: get on a plane right now. You're different than me
Speaker 6: because you're not lazy. You're driven to what's the word
Speaker 6: I'm looking for, Oh, yes, do things. Yeah, I am
Speaker 6: driven to live in that regard. Yes, But when I
Speaker 6: say there's a correlation, in other words, I know that
Speaker 6: fewer people managing this situation.
Speaker 1: Is not a help or a solution to the problem.
Speaker 1: Not fewer people. And it doesn't mean that the hirings
Speaker 1: have caused these incidents. I know though the absence of
Speaker 1: all these key individuals in their key positions, they do
Speaker 1: nothing to help rectify it.
Speaker 2: It's later with mo Kelly Kiff.
Speaker 1: I am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1: And when we come back, we got to tell you
Speaker 1: about the latest scam in southern California, and it has
Speaker 1: to do with towing your car.
Speaker 7: That's next you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
Speaker 7: demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Then if you've ever had your car toad, it sucks.
Speaker 1: Let's say, if you've parked in the Hollywood area, because
Speaker 1: you can park nowhere in Hollywood legally, especially in the neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: you will watch the tow trucks drive up and down
Speaker 1: the streets. They're just looking for you. And I've been
Speaker 1: told once there, it sucks. They tow you to this
Speaker 1: yard and it doesn't matter if you're there thirty minutes later.
Speaker 1: You have to pay like a day's worth of towing
Speaker 1: fees or storage impound fees.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but it racks up
Speaker 2: very quickly.
Speaker 1: Or if you get into a car accident and you
Speaker 1: have to have your car toad, you weren't planning to
Speaker 1: have that accident, and your car may be towed somewhere
Speaker 1: you don't know where the towing lot, or could be
Speaker 1: twenty miles from your mechanic, or you don't know exactly
Speaker 1: how much that's going to cost you. Well, there are
Speaker 1: some criminals or would be criminals out there who are
Speaker 1: taking advantage of that, and according to the California Department
Speaker 1: of Insurance, it is rampant where these towing companies are
Speaker 1: committee what they're calling vehicle hostage scams involving tow truck
Speaker 1: companies targeting motorists involved in traffic accidents.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: This is directly from the California Department of Insurance.
Speaker 4: The California Department of Insurance is warning drivers about scams
Speaker 4: involving tow trucks and body shops targeting accident victims. The
Speaker 4: scam involves a tow truck showing up immediately after a
Speaker 4: collision and offers to help by towing your vehicle to
Speaker 4: a body shop. They tell you which body shop they
Speaker 4: are taking your vehicle to before you have time to
Speaker 4: check with your insurance company, and they ask you to
Speaker 4: sign documents or tell you someone will call you. Then
Speaker 4: the body shop holds your vehicle hostage, forcing you to
Speaker 4: pay a large amount of money, typically not covered by
Speaker 4: your insurance, in order to get back your vehicle. Make
Speaker 4: sure you don't victim of fraud. If you're in an
Speaker 4: accident on the highway, verify with HP or your insurance
Speaker 4: company who is towing your vehicle and where, and never
Speaker 4: sign any documents without understanding what the agreement is. For
Speaker 4: more information on how to protect yourself from this and
Speaker 4: other scams, visit Insurance dot CA dot gov or call
Speaker 4: us at eight hundred nine two seven four three five seven.
Speaker 2: That's basically it.
Speaker 1: You get in an accident, tow truck shows up, you
Speaker 1: sign some paperwork, and they'll tow your car to a
Speaker 1: quote unquote legitimate facility, but it may be like a
Speaker 1: two day minimum that you have to pay for or
Speaker 1: all these hidden fees that you have to pay to
Speaker 1: get your car out of tow. And I'm not even
Speaker 1: sure that that guarantees that it will be taken to
Speaker 1: the body shop or the next place that it needs
Speaker 1: to go. And then all of a sudden, you're out
Speaker 1: of hundreds of hundreds of dollars because let's say it
Speaker 1: sits at the towing location for three or four days.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. You don't want your car to
Speaker 1: sit anywhere for any length of time other than the
Speaker 1: body shop. And one time I remember when I got
Speaker 1: into an accident. Of course I was much younger, I
Speaker 1: didn't know any better. They towed my car to the
Speaker 1: this body shop that my insurance company would not cover.
Speaker 1: They didn't have that relationship with that body shop. So
Speaker 1: then I had to pay to have my car towed
Speaker 1: again to another location. And that stuff adds up very
Speaker 1: very quickly. And yes, if you have ever had your
Speaker 1: car toad, you know what a pain in the ass
Speaker 1: it is going to be and most likely how expensive
Speaker 1: it's going to be.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been told Stephan Oh, I got a story.
Speaker 1: Okay, wait, okay, all the kids are sitting around the campfire,
Speaker 1: Go ahead, go. So when I used to live in Torrents,
Speaker 1: I lived right next to, like almost next door to
Speaker 1: a Rite Aid and then the building manager himself sad.
Speaker 2: Way, I know we talk.
Speaker 1: We're talking about okay, okay, uh so he even he
Speaker 1: he said, he goes, I'm kind of like, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I'm gonna just say, I'm just saying, he goes,
Speaker 1: you can park your extra cars there, but I'm not
Speaker 1: technically telling you you're allowed to do that. So every
Speaker 1: single resident did that. So for the better part of
Speaker 1: a year, I parked because I had the Uber car,
Speaker 1: I parked there. And one day I'm going to work
Speaker 1: it's about five in the morning. I go there, it's gone.
Speaker 1: I assumed it was stolen, and which is possible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I found out that, oh they're breaking They're
Speaker 1: cracking down on people parking in the in the in
Speaker 1: that parking lot. And I was one of the examples
Speaker 1: that got that got towed. Was it explicit saying no
Speaker 1: parking or you will be toad No, it was just
Speaker 1: like it was one of those typical generic signs that
Speaker 1: says for towing, call an h towing number one, eight
Speaker 1: hundred whatever, and that's all it had. And then I
Speaker 1: guess they just decided, oh, going to start towing people.
Speaker 1: And I was one of the people that got was
Speaker 1: the examples. And then they started putting it up in
Speaker 1: our apartment building that said you cannot park there anymore
Speaker 1: because you will get towed. I got towed. I had
Speaker 1: to pay. Oh man, I don't even.
Speaker 2: Know what it was. I would say, what, how many
Speaker 2: days was it was it there?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: Well I parked there every day. No, no, no.
Speaker 1: After I was told how long it was it was
Speaker 1: there for one day, I say at least three hundred
Speaker 1: dollars pretty close, three eighty five.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's almost four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so my ex at the time drove me
Speaker 1: to the place, which, like you said, I'm in Torrance.
Speaker 1: I think it was in like not it was almost
Speaker 1: West Hollywood, but not there, but we had to go
Speaker 1: all the way out there to get it and drive
Speaker 1: it back. I was so mad, and even the guy
Speaker 1: I felt I felt kind of bad because even the guy,
Speaker 1: when I went to pay him, he goes, Yo, this
Speaker 1: isn't on me. The company made us toe it. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to toe anybody. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it, man, it's not on you. But at
Speaker 1: least he wasn't like rude about it. But I was
Speaker 1: just so depressed and so angry. And I had to
Speaker 1: pay all that money and I didn't make any money
Speaker 1: that day because I didn't go do uber.
Speaker 2: I was so mad. I just went home. That was
Speaker 2: a double loss. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it sucks, Ronner. I know you got towed
Speaker 5: at some point. Well before I moved here, I lived
Speaker 5: in Seattle, and one of the landmarks in Seattle is
Speaker 5: a thing called the tow truck, and it's a pink
Speaker 5: truck up on a pedestal with a giant shape like
Speaker 5: a giant foot with a huge big toe on it.
Speaker 5: And I gotta I really empathize with foush because there's
Speaker 5: nothing more horrifying than coming out to where you think
Speaker 5: your car is and the car's just gone. You don't
Speaker 5: know if it's been towed, it could have been stolen,
Speaker 5: or anything could have happened to it.
Speaker 2: And so you got to start with.
Speaker 5: Like calling whoever might be at home, calling the cops,
Speaker 5: and then finally you follow the trail of evidence to
Speaker 5: realize that, oh, I have to make the walk or
Speaker 5: cab of shame to pick up my towed car. And
Speaker 5: it's always preposterously sanely like like third world bribe, expensive,
Speaker 5: like yes, you can't believe that this is a thing
Speaker 5: that's allowed to take place in the United States in
Speaker 5: the twenty first century.
Speaker 2: But you got to do it. There's nothing you can
Speaker 2: do to WELLA, I know you've been towed. I have.
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 9: And actually it was after an accident on the freeway.
Speaker 9: I was rear ended and thrown into another car and
Speaker 9: we were off to the side, and before I knew
Speaker 9: what was happening, a tow truck pulled up out of nowhere.
Speaker 9: A guy ran up when we said, hey, I'm here
Speaker 9: to tow your car. He was talking fast, gave me
Speaker 9: his car, gave him some paperwork designed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, we're taking it over to the lot.
Speaker 2: Now your claims Addrester will.
Speaker 9: Call blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 9: I'm shook, you know, still spinning because of the accident.
Speaker 9: Couldn't find out that this guy took our car halfway
Speaker 9: across the city at a place that when we got to.
Speaker 9: When I finally got to the car, it had been ran.
Speaker 9: They're like, oh, it came like this, there's nothing in it.
Speaker 9: One of those situations, and had to pay to get
Speaker 9: it out, and then also had to pay, like you said,
Speaker 9: to get it to the actual tow yard that was
Speaker 9: going to take care of because by my insurance company
Speaker 9: was like, we don't know who that is. That individual
Speaker 9: does not represent us. We don't know why you are
Speaker 9: California Higher Patrol anyone allowed this individual to come up
Speaker 9: and take your car like well, I thought he was
Speaker 9: sent out by the city or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: And that's what they prey upon, you know, the first time.
Speaker 1: You just don't know the first time. Now they won't
Speaker 1: ever get you again never, but they're looking for the
Speaker 1: person to get the first time. And look, these are
Speaker 1: lessons learned. I hopefully this is free wisdom. These horror
Speaker 1: stories that we've told and shared with you will hopefully
Speaker 1: protect you and prepare you so you don't necessarily have
Speaker 1: to go through these same nightmares.
Speaker 2: Free wisdom, unless you want to pay for it. That's
Speaker 2: up to you.
Speaker 1: It's Later with mo Kelly CAF We are live everywhere
Speaker 1: in the iHeartRadio app and when we come back, I
Speaker 1: have to tell you about a Bonker's City council meeting
Speaker 1: in the city of Huntington Beach discussing a MAGA sign
Speaker 1: to be added to the library. Mind you, let me
Speaker 1: set it up like this, mind you, Huntington Beach is
Speaker 1: the city that voted upon where you could not have
Speaker 1: any flags other than the American and state flag to
Speaker 1: be displayed on any city or government property. Well, we
Speaker 1: have audio from the city council meeting and it's a doozy.
Speaker 1: We'll have it next.
Speaker 7: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 7: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: We all have slogans, we have banners, flags, we have
Speaker 1: signs that we put on our lawns.
Speaker 2: We have signs that will put on our car.
Speaker 1: We talked about bumper stickers yesterday, and obviously whenever we
Speaker 1: have a sign, it says something about us and where
Speaker 1: we place. It says something about the place that it
Speaker 1: is set. If you were driving by someone's house and
Speaker 1: they have a BLM flag flying over their house, it
Speaker 1: says something about who is there.
Speaker 2: Now, whether that's positive or negative, that's up to you.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying, once you put that sign, once you
Speaker 1: put that banner up, you're sending a message and people
Speaker 1: will receive it however they receive it. The City of
Speaker 1: Huntington Beach, they've had a very spirited debate, That's how
Speaker 1: I'll phrase it. The Huntington Beach Central Library is celebrating
Speaker 1: its fiftieth anniversary, and the city council, like many city councils,
Speaker 1: is quote unquote nonpartisan, meaning when you vote on the
Speaker 1: city council, there's not a D or an R next
Speaker 1: to his or her name. You're just voting on the person,
Speaker 1: regardless of whether you know that they happen to be
Speaker 1: a registered Democrat or Republican. You're not specifically and explicitly
Speaker 1: voting for that libraries, city government offices. They they are
Speaker 1: not explicitly political. I think we can all agree on that.
Speaker 1: The issue here is the Huntington Beach Central Library, because
Speaker 1: of us unanimous city council vote, is going to install
Speaker 1: a plaque at the Century Library on Talbert Avenue in
Speaker 1: celebration of this fiftieth anniversary. And it says MAGA, magical, alluring, galvanizing, adventurous.
Speaker 1: Let's not insult anyone's intelligence. Okay, it may say magical, alluring, galvanizing, adventurous,
Speaker 1: but that's not the message that is trying to convey.
Speaker 1: If we went to a different city and they want
Speaker 1: to install a BLM plaque, and that's an easy comparison.
Speaker 1: Instead of putting Black Lives Matter, they put I don't know, believing, loving,
Speaker 1: and magical on it. You're not fooling anyone, right, same
Speaker 1: things here. And if you've never been to your own
Speaker 1: city council meeting, you know for your city, I encourage
Speaker 1: you to go. There's a lot of good information there
Speaker 1: that you should know about and you won't be surprised
Speaker 1: by certain things. You are given a platform to be
Speaker 1: heard by the city council. You get your voice heard
Speaker 1: and you get to enter in these debates. Now, this
Speaker 1: particular city council meeting in Huntington Beach happened last night,
Speaker 1: and there was a large contingent of people who came
Speaker 1: out specifically to protest this plaque. Not everyone there at
Speaker 1: the city council meeting was there in opposition of the plaque.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying most of the people who were organized
Speaker 1: to come out they wanted to give voice as an opposition.
Speaker 1: I just want to play two of the voices, one
Speaker 1: four and one against. You get an idea of what
Speaker 1: happened and what was happening in the chamber in which
Speaker 1: you could hear going on behind the speaker. This was
Speaker 1: someone who came up to the microphone and he's wearing
Speaker 1: a Make America Great Again hat.
Speaker 2: So if anything to.
Speaker 1: Him, the plaque is consistent with what he's wearing, He's
Speaker 1: not making any bones about it. That's what he reads
Speaker 1: when he sees that plaque, even though it may say magical, alluring, galvanizing, adventurous.
Speaker 10: My name is Russell Neil, and I live in Huntington Beach. Look,
Speaker 10: I'm fine with this library plaque, but I am also
Speaker 10: amused at the expressions of dismay over its political content
Speaker 10: from people for whom everything is political. As to the petitions,
Speaker 10: while pretending to be about threats of book banning and
Speaker 10: library privatization, neither of which exists, we all know the
Speaker 10: actual motive behind these two disingenuous petitions is a strange
Speaker 10: obsession with using our library to push adult sexual material
Speaker 10: on minors.
Speaker 2: Please let him speak. We all know. I commend this.
Speaker 10: Council for its defense of our children and urge you
Speaker 10: not to.
Speaker 2: But to fight them to the nail.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Next speaker, place, next speaker place.
Speaker 1: What has garnered the most attention is a particular speaker
Speaker 1: in opposition of the plaque. His name is Chris Kleuey,
Speaker 1: former NFL punter, played with the Seattle Seahawks and a
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings that I can remember off the top of
Speaker 1: my head. And he went there with the express intent
Speaker 1: of being heard and also participating in civil disobedience where
Speaker 1: he had what he had to say. Then he approached
Speaker 1: the city council members who are sitting like an Assindi circle.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen like a traditional tribunal? How they
Speaker 1: were sitting seated next to each other, And there's this
Speaker 1: big open area. I'm painting the picture for you so
Speaker 1: you'll know it when you hear it. And he sits
Speaker 1: down in the middle of the floor and basically begs
Speaker 1: the police officers. And if you go to any city
Speaker 1: council meeting, there's always tremendous police there. They were even
Speaker 1: more because this was a hot button issue, and you
Speaker 1: would see four or five I think Huntington Beach police
Speaker 1: officers arrest him and they carry him out because he's
Speaker 1: like passively resisting. He's not trying to help at all.
Speaker 1: He's laying down and he's taken out and arrested. But
Speaker 1: this is what Chris Kluey had to say prior to
Speaker 1: being arrested.
Speaker 8: Hi, my name's Chris Kluey, a fifteen year HB resident.
Speaker 8: I'm here to speak out against both the plaque and
Speaker 8: the current city council as a community. Make clear at
Speaker 8: the Libry Commission meeting last Tuesday, everyone is in favor
Speaker 8: of a plaque to celebrate the library, but the vast,
Speaker 8: vast majority are against, including a maga acrosstick. Okay, Unfortunately,
Speaker 8: it's clear that this council does not listen. So instead
Speaker 8: I'm going to take my time to say what MAGA
Speaker 8: has stood for these past three weeks. Magastans for trying
Speaker 8: to erase trans people from existence. Magastans for resegregation and racism.
Speaker 8: Stands for censorship and book bands. Magastans for firing air
Speaker 8: traffic controllers while planes are crashing. Magastans for firing the
Speaker 8: people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. Magastans for firing military veterans
Speaker 8: and those serving them at the VA, including canceling and
Speaker 8: research on veterans suicide. Magastans for cutting funds to education,
Speaker 8: including for disabled children. MEGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti democracy,
Speaker 8: and most importantly, MEGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You
Speaker 8: may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but
Speaker 8: that is what it is. I will now engage in
Speaker 8: the time honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience.
Speaker 1: Heck, get out.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: Police have sworn the stage. Hey, we're gonna take a
Speaker 2: five minute recess.
Speaker 1: And so that was the Huntington Beach City Council meeting
Speaker 1: last night, probably a little bit more eventful than usual.
Speaker 1: I don't know if anything will be changed. As far
Speaker 1: as I know that plaque is still going up and
Speaker 1: it's going to still say magical, alluring, galvanizing, adventurous.
Speaker 5: I think he lost at least half the crowd by
Speaker 5: using the fancy word acrostic.
Speaker 2: Look that went over to hit a lot of people's heads.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got it, but it's like, just use the
Speaker 1: five dollar word, not the twenty five thousand dollar word.
Speaker 5: No, that'll really separate the wheat from the chaff if
Speaker 5: you got somebody scratching themselves and looking around blankly, like
Speaker 5: what did you just say?
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know the demographics of Huntington Beach as far
Speaker 1: as all of their politics.
Speaker 2: I know that during.
Speaker 1: COVID we remember the protests in the streets regarding the vaccine.
Speaker 1: It's largely conservative, but at this particular meeting, the most
Speaker 1: vocal people who came out were in opposition to it.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if it changes anything, But I
Speaker 1: guess the takeaway is, you know, go to your city
Speaker 1: council meetings because there's a lot going on. This is
Speaker 1: a perfect example that you may not agree with or
Speaker 1: you may want more support for, And that's a perfect
Speaker 1: example of how your voice can be heard. We always
Speaker 1: talk about effective protesting. It starts on a very basic
Speaker 1: local level, not in the streets, but in the chambers
Speaker 1: where the people are, and you can not only get heard,
Speaker 1: but you're on the record, on the record, and then
Speaker 1: quite possibly you might get city council to change. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's going to be the case in
Speaker 1: this instance, but you might have microphones.
Speaker 9: I have been to a city council meeting and have
Speaker 9: fought for change. I've fought alongside my colleagues to keep
Speaker 9: the car camping from taking place on our school campus
Speaker 9: because we were seeing the results in the fallout of
Speaker 9: that when it was unchecked and unpoliced, the drug abuse,
Speaker 9: the violence and things like that, and we saw the
Speaker 9: Chatsworth City Council shut it down. So I've seen firsthand
Speaker 9: the effectiveness. I've seen what that process is firsthand, how
Speaker 9: it works, how they govern, how they go about doing it.
Speaker 9: I am absolutely thrilled to have been able to listen
Speaker 9: to this playback from this meeting because I thought that
Speaker 9: the foreign against more the against, which is absolutely thrilling.
Speaker 9: I love it.
Speaker 2: Hey, I've gone to city council meetings. I've gone to.
Speaker 1: County supervisor gatherings as well. Because if you live in
Speaker 1: an unincorporated portion of La City Council. You don't have
Speaker 1: a representative city council member, so you have to go
Speaker 1: to the county supervisor meetings.
Speaker 2: And yes they are effective.
Speaker 1: Yes, I went for actually something similar to you with
Speaker 1: the RVs which are parking in the neighborhood and just
Speaker 1: for weeks on end and dumping.
Speaker 2: Their septic tanks and everything in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: That was something like, no, we can't have that, and
Speaker 1: because of public pressure, they changed the zoning and they
Speaker 1: enforced the news zoning. So I highly recommend, regardless of
Speaker 1: your views, make sure that you are active in your
Speaker 1: local government. We always want to talk about what the
Speaker 1: president is doing. You need to talk about what's happening
Speaker 1: right where you are, right around your corner. It's later
Speaker 1: with Mo Kelly KFI AM six forty Live everywhere in
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app when we come back Kamala Harris, the
Speaker 1: former VP. She signed with an agent in fact at CAA.
Speaker 1: You think what is going on here? I'll tell you
Speaker 1: why and how. It's not all that different, but it
Speaker 1: is different. What do you mean, Moo, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: the moment.
Speaker 7: You're listening to. Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1: One of the big entertainment stories is also one of
Speaker 1: the larger political stories. And there's there's a reason for that.
Speaker 1: Former Vice President Kamala Harris has signed with CAA, arguably
Speaker 1: the biggest talent agency in Hollywood. And people would say,
Speaker 1: what I mean is she is she trying to monetize
Speaker 1: her her political career. Yeah, every former president in every
Speaker 1: former vice president, That's exactly what they do. Here's the
Speaker 1: way it used to be, and I'll show you how
Speaker 1: this is slightly different, but it's the same it used
Speaker 1: to be. You'd have someone leave office, and it is
Speaker 1: true for governors and senators, but on a much smaller level,
Speaker 1: but definitely with presidents and vice presidents. He or she
Speaker 1: would leave office and then they would go on the
Speaker 1: speaking circuit, or they would write a book a memoir
Speaker 1: of their time in the office of president or vice president,
Speaker 1: and they go on the speaking circuit and they would
Speaker 1: command I think like George W. Bush was commanding anywhere
Speaker 1: between thirty and thirty five thousand dollars per speech, if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly.
Speaker 2: It's not uncommon.
Speaker 1: And they would go to your kid's college graduation or
Speaker 1: they would speak at the opening of this building or whatever.
Speaker 2: But they would have three or four speaking gigs a.
Speaker 1: Month and they could easily pull in half million to
Speaker 1: a million dollars.
Speaker 2: So it's lucrative.
Speaker 1: It's a way that most former politicians right off into
Speaker 1: the sunset and they retain a degree of celebrity.
Speaker 2: That's the way it used to be.
Speaker 1: But back then you would have a speaker's bureau that
Speaker 1: you'd sign up with, and that speaker's bureau would pitch
Speaker 1: you out to various universities and events to have the
Speaker 1: former president come speak.
Speaker 2: You would write a book, your memoir.
Speaker 1: Then you would have a publicist or a publishing house
Speaker 1: go out and promote this book, and they would send
Speaker 1: you out on different events. Now, since there's really no
Speaker 1: line of separation between politics and entertainment, where you have
Speaker 1: and I talked about this yesterday, you have these folks
Speaker 1: who are basically entertainers who then become politicians. Well, they're
Speaker 1: looked at in an entertainment context. We know the Obamas,
Speaker 1: they left the White House and they had their Netflix deal.
Speaker 1: This is the way it's being done now because we
Speaker 1: know that where there is a book or memoir, they're
Speaker 1: also television rights attached, which will immediately be turned into
Speaker 1: some sort of documentary or TV show. And this already
Speaker 1: happened in the music industry. They call them three sixty deals.
Speaker 1: Now you're finding politicians, they have their own kind of
Speaker 1: three sixty deal where they will leave office and then
Speaker 1: you have an agency like CAA Creative Artists Agency. Whether
Speaker 1: they say, okay, Kamala Harris, you don't need to have
Speaker 1: a speaker's bureau, we'll take care of that.
Speaker 2: You know, if you go to write a book, we'll
Speaker 2: publish it.
Speaker 1: And make sure that we publicize it for you and
Speaker 1: make sure we'll set up all the interviews and stuff
Speaker 1: that you do.
Speaker 2: CAA would do all that.
Speaker 1: In other words, the substitute Kamala Harris for Tom Hanks
Speaker 1: is the exact same thing. They would handle all of
Speaker 1: the media appearances. They would handle all of the products
Speaker 1: or whatever they're selling, if it's a book, or it's
Speaker 1: a movie or a documentary or a script that they've pitched,
Speaker 1: all of that because there is money to be made
Speaker 1: because politicians are now celebrities, So having the customary book
Speaker 1: publisher or the speaker's bureau. CIA said no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we can do all of that, and we can do
Speaker 1: it better than Random House. Sorry, but you know, but
Speaker 1: everyone knows Random House. No, no, no, we can do it
Speaker 1: better than so and so Speaker's Bureau because why we're CAAA.
Speaker 2: We have all the relationships. Oh you have a.
Speaker 1: Book now, Kamala Harris, you know what, why don't we
Speaker 1: take it over to Warner Brothers Studios and get that
Speaker 1: place so they'll probably play it on Max. We'll actually
Speaker 1: develop the show talking about your life. We'll turn it
Speaker 1: into a biopic and CAAA will just handle that. Why
Speaker 1: because they have all the relationships. It's mutually beneficial and
Speaker 1: you will find this for every single major politician going forward.
Speaker 2: This shouldn't surprise you. But this is why.
Speaker 1: It's happening, because now entertainment and politics have coalesced in
Speaker 1: such a way there's really no line of separation. It's
Speaker 1: part of the reason why entertainers feel that they can
Speaker 1: be politicians. Going back to my discussion of Steven A.
Speaker 1: Smith and how politicians know that it's very easy to
Speaker 1: then move into entertainment. I mean, let's not forget you
Speaker 1: had President Trump sho showing up at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: You had President Trump showing up at the Daytona five hundred.
Speaker 1: And if anybody understands this, well, it's Donald Trump coming
Speaker 1: from an inner tament background and then using that as
Speaker 1: a springboard for politics. And when he leaves office, assuming
Speaker 1: he does, if he ever does, he will do the
Speaker 1: exact same thing, exact same thing in the way that
Speaker 1: he's already monetized it. He has his cryptomean coin right now.
Speaker 1: He'll just do it in some other way, but he'll
Speaker 1: do it after he leaves office. And it's the conventional
Speaker 1: way of former presidents and vice presidents spending their time
Speaker 1: and generating income after the leave office.
Speaker 2: It's just now very different.
Speaker 1: They're more opportunities which are afforded to him or her
Speaker 1: or them where they're not relegated to just writing a
Speaker 1: book and just speaking at universities. When I was at Georgetown,
Speaker 1: I think we had then President Reagan spoke at one
Speaker 1: of the graduations or one of the speaker series on campus.
Speaker 1: I know we had George H. W. Bush, Senator Bill
Speaker 1: Bradley spoke at my graduation. That's what they do. They
Speaker 1: go on to speaking circuit and they end up at
Speaker 1: different colleges and universities. But now there's so much more
Speaker 1: available to them. Where you might see them in a commercial,
Speaker 1: you might see them show up in a cameo role
Speaker 1: in a TV show.
Speaker 2: That's what you should expect.
Speaker 5: Doesn't It kind of make you wish that they had
Speaker 5: all this stuff when we were kids, Like I would
Speaker 5: have loved to see Nixon on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1: If if the media was then like it is now,
Speaker 1: Richard Nixon one would have never resigned Number one.
Speaker 2: Well, that's true too.
Speaker 1: He never would have resigned, And even if he did resign,
Speaker 1: he would not have lived a life of a reclusivity.
Speaker 1: He probably would have been out there and been a
Speaker 1: celebrity in just a different way. Oh, he would have
Speaker 1: had his own podcast right away, right He wouldn't have
Speaker 1: needed David Frost. He would have had a podcast, and
Speaker 1: he would have been able to monetize that, and he
Speaker 1: would have been able to have all sorts of sponsors.
Speaker 2: Look Hillary Clay and.
Speaker 1: She has her podcast which was doing very well, and
Speaker 1: prior to her, I don't think there wasn't anyone her
Speaker 1: on her level, on a political level who tried to
Speaker 1: enter the political of the podcast space. Gavin Newsom has
Speaker 1: his own podcast that's how all of this is moving
Speaker 1: in that one particular direction of blending entertainment and politics.
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