WEBVTT 1 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:24.199 Kf I am six forty is later with Mo Kelly. 2 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:28.280 We are live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Another day, 3 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:34.479 another plane collision. I'm not saying, but I'm just saying. 4 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:38.600 And I say this as someone who honestly does not 5 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:42.159 like to fly. I do it because I have to. 6 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:44.799 I do it because I want to see the world. 7 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:47.039 If there was some other way that I could travel 8 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:50.079 to Europe as opposed to getting on a plane, I 9 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:53.000 would probably do it if it was comparable in the 10 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:56.000 amount of time it would take to travel. Absolutely, I 11 00:00:56.039 --> 00:01:00.399 don't like flying, and I say that being very realistic 12 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:05.280 about the percentages. You think of the thousands and thousands 13 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:08.879 of flights which take off and land every single day, 14 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:16.400 every single day, without incident. But there is something different 15 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:16.840 right now. 16 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:20.519 Now. Of course, we are much more aware. 17 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:24.040 We are much more sensitive to anything which may go 18 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:27.560 wrong on a flight, take off, landing, near miss, what 19 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.760 have you. Because of what I would say, started all 20 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:34.799 this with the DC mid air collision over the Potomac, 21 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:40.480 and you combine that with the Trump administration firings of 22 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:46.280 key FAA figures and NTSB and TSA. When you put 23 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:49.640 it all together, yes, it's a topic of discussion every 24 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:55.400 single day for varying reasons. But there is something different 25 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:58.480 in the sense that we've had a number of incidents 26 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:02.200 within a three to four weeks, I would say, more 27 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:05.840 so than any time in recent history. Now I say 28 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:09.240 this as someone and I remind people my older sister 29 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.680 worked at LAX for I don't know how many years, 30 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:13.599 and I would hear about all the things that the 31 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:17.039 general public did not hear about. So I know that 32 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:19.400 there are things which go on all the time on 33 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.879 these planes, issues which never see the light of day. 34 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:25.800 And yes, if anything happens now, of course the media 35 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.680 is going to highlight it and people are going to 36 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.759 run to the media to tell them about it. 37 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:32.919 I get all that. 38 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:35.879 But in the conversations with the people that I know 39 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.879 who work at various airports around the country, they will 40 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:41.919 tell you that this is different. And part of the 41 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:46.439 reason it is different, air quotes is because there is 42 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:47.680 a staffing issue. 43 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:49.120 There's a staffing concern. 44 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:51.159 Put it that way, as far as total number of 45 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:55.719 FAA officials which are available, total number of air traffic 46 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:00.319 controllers who are available, total number of NTSB and TS say, 47 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:06.599 people who are available and not overworked, not understaffed. But 48 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:08.000 here is the latest. 49 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:11.199 I'll sit you back to that breaking news we've been 50 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:13.520 covering this morning as we get you new information on 51 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:17.000 a deadly plane crash in southern Arizona. Authorities are telling 52 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:20.080 us here at ABC fifteen two people have died after 53 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:23.560 two planes collided just before eight thirty this morning. 54 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:23.680 Now. 55 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.919 It happened at the Marana Regional Airport, about twenty miles 56 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:30.000 north of Tucson. A total of four people are involved. 57 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:33.199 The FAA says two people were on board both planes. 58 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:36.120 They're not specifying just yet who was killed in the 59 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:39.039 crash or if the other two people involved or hurt. 60 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.879 The FAA and the NTSP are sending crews to that 61 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:45.039 scene as they work to figure out exactly why it happened. 62 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:48.319 Script's news group is there on scene, sharing updates here 63 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:51.520 on air and at ABC fifteen dot com. 64 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:55.919 Am I going to change my travel arrangements? Probably not? 65 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:58.400 Probably not. I know I have to go to Pleasanton 66 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:02.879 in July. I got to go to Miami in June. 67 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:05.159 I gotta go a few other places. I have to 68 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:08.439 go to Miami again next October. I gotta go to 69 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:10.879 DC at some point in between. Am I going to 70 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:15.360 change my travel and maybe take the train, which is 71 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:17.000 going to take another four or five days. 72 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:21.839 Probably not. Am I going to stop flying all together? Definitely? 73 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:21.959 Not. 74 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:25.800 Am I more concern now than ever before. 75 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:30.439 Absolutely, you can tell me about the stats all day long. 76 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:33.120 You can tell me, hey, you know, it's still safer 77 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:36.160 than driving a car. Are there more fatalities as far 78 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:41.079 as car accidents? I get all that, and maybe maybe 79 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:43.720 my concern is somewhat irrational. 80 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:45.279 I wouldn't say it's a phobia. 81 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:47.279 I would say I'm more afraid of bees than flying, 82 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:52.759 not joking, being very serious, but there is something different. 83 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:57.120 Sometimes it's just the frequency. Sometimes it's the nature of 84 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:01.879 what is happening. We've had all sorts of of air issues, 85 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:08.360 from private from commercial, you know, the small sess and 86 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:11.680 the things that we've not been able to wrap our 87 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.959 heads around as of yet. We haven't found out everything 88 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.399 that we need to know with the DC mid air collision. 89 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:20.839 We haven't found out everything we need to know with 90 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:25.319 that private jet that went nose down into that Philadelphia neighborhood. 91 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:29.000 So were all these incidents, in my mind, are piling up, 92 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:32.000 no pun intended, not trying to be funny, piling up 93 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:36.000 and we don't have the answers to at least mentally 94 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:40.120 and emotionally put ourselves in ease around them. Maybe it's 95 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:43.079 rationalization where we can say, well, if this happened because 96 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.040 of that, or that happened because of this. And I 97 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.480 know that I'm probably one of millions of what I'll 98 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:54.000 call ourselves nervous flyers. Don't like it, don't like it. 99 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.199 I'm not saying I'm gripping the seat. I am saying 100 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.600 it's something that's always on my mind. Every time I 101 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:03.600 step on a plane. I save my prayer before we 102 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:06.759 take off, and I save my prayer and thank you 103 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:08.680 after we land every single time. 104 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:13.120 Does it help? Hopefully? You know, hopefully. 105 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:17.759 And I can't tell you that we won't have another 106 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:22.279 incident in the next week or so, but the trajectory 107 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:26.360 that we're on suggests that we will. I don't know 108 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:27.800 how we get past this moment. 109 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:29.480 I don't know. I remember. 110 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:32.360 Let me say, first, good evening to Mark Runner. We 111 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:34.439 missed you last night. I see you have a really 112 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:35.480 really nice haircut. 113 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:38.680 I don't ever go from being woozy at the dentist 114 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:41.480 to just walking into the barber and saying, hey, can 115 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:42.839 I can I have a touchup. 116 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:44.279 Sorry, I don't have an appointment. 117 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:47.800 But by the way, you're talking about plane flights, there 118 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.839 have been I believe thirteen crashes so far in twenty 119 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:54.879 twenty five. It's February. I wouldn't get on a plane 120 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.800 right now if you supplied me with xanax in a 121 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:01.439 pez dispenser. Okay, I don't I know what the workaround is, 122 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:03.000 you know, I don't know what the solution is. 123 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:05.839 Is it not having an incident for five months? Is 124 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:07.639 that going to make me feel better? I don't know 125 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:10.079 what is our employment situation going to be at that point. 126 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.319 Are there going to be more firing so in dismissals. 127 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:15.920 Are we going to have even fewer people working at 128 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:19.399 these key agencies to make sure that everything is safe 129 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:24.959 and secure. I don't know. It's not about having fewer incidents. 130 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:29.160 It's about knowing knowing that we as a country are 131 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:31.399 doing everything that we could be and should be doing 132 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:35.160 to avert the next disaster. So if we go the 133 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:37.879 next six months with nothing bad happening, that doesn't make 134 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:40.959 me feel better. If I know that people are still 135 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:42.480 overworked and understaffed. 136 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:45.240 Yeah, it's not hard to connect the dots here. We 137 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:48.480 didn't have a lot of plane crashes prior to this year. 138 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:50.720 Now we got a bunch of them right in a row. 139 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:55.160 We don't need to call it in Colombo. Just one 140 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:56.560 more thing, sir well. 141 00:07:56.839 --> 00:07:59.639 But to be serious, I was still caution against the 142 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:02.560 trying to make a causal relationship. 143 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:07.360 But correlation that still matters, that's still important. Yeah, it's 144 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:10.800 still too frequent for my comfort. I really would not 145 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:12.600 get on a plane right now. You're different than me 146 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.879 because you're not lazy. You're driven to what's the word 147 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:19.920 I'm looking for, Oh, yes, do things. Yeah, I am 148 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.040 driven to live in that regard. Yes, But when I 149 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:27.079 say there's a correlation, in other words, I know that 150 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:30.519 fewer people managing this situation. 151 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.559 Is not a help or a solution to the problem. 152 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:40.440 Not fewer people. And it doesn't mean that the hirings 153 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:45.200 have caused these incidents. I know though the absence of 154 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:49.840 all these key individuals in their key positions, they do 155 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.240 nothing to help rectify it. 156 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:54.600 It's later with mo Kelly Kiff. 157 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:57.240 I am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app 158 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:58.519 And when we come back, we got to tell you 159 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:02.200 about the latest scam in southern California, and it has 160 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:03.799 to do with towing your car. 161 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:08.000 That's next you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on 162 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:10.600 demand from KFI AM six forty. 163 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:14.279 Then if you've ever had your car toad, it sucks. 164 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:18.759 Let's say, if you've parked in the Hollywood area, because 165 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:23.200 you can park nowhere in Hollywood legally, especially in the neighborhoods, 166 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:26.720 you will watch the tow trucks drive up and down 167 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.000 the streets. They're just looking for you. And I've been 168 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.720 told once there, it sucks. They tow you to this 169 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.519 yard and it doesn't matter if you're there thirty minutes later. 170 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:36.519 You have to pay like a day's worth of towing 171 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.159 fees or storage impound fees. 172 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.320 I don't know what it is, but it racks up 173 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:42.000 very quickly. 174 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:44.240 Or if you get into a car accident and you 175 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:46.480 have to have your car toad, you weren't planning to 176 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:49.000 have that accident, and your car may be towed somewhere 177 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:53.320 you don't know where the towing lot, or could be 178 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:56.720 twenty miles from your mechanic, or you don't know exactly 179 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:59.759 how much that's going to cost you. Well, there are 180 00:09:59.799 --> 00:10:03.480 some criminals or would be criminals out there who are 181 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:08.200 taking advantage of that, and according to the California Department 182 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:14.120 of Insurance, it is rampant where these towing companies are 183 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:19.720 committee what they're calling vehicle hostage scams involving tow truck 184 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:23.080 companies targeting motorists involved in traffic accidents. 185 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:24.159 Here we go. 186 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:27.960 This is directly from the California Department of Insurance. 187 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:31.480 The California Department of Insurance is warning drivers about scams 188 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.200 involving tow trucks and body shops targeting accident victims. The 189 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.960 scam involves a tow truck showing up immediately after a 190 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:40.360 collision and offers to help by towing your vehicle to 191 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:43.039 a body shop. They tell you which body shop they 192 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.200 are taking your vehicle to before you have time to 193 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:48.000 check with your insurance company, and they ask you to 194 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.000 sign documents or tell you someone will call you. Then 195 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.600 the body shop holds your vehicle hostage, forcing you to 196 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.519 pay a large amount of money, typically not covered by 197 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:59.440 your insurance, in order to get back your vehicle. Make 198 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:01.759 sure you don't victim of fraud. If you're in an 199 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.600 accident on the highway, verify with HP or your insurance 200 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:08.440 company who is towing your vehicle and where, and never 201 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:12.200 sign any documents without understanding what the agreement is. For 202 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.559 more information on how to protect yourself from this and 203 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:18.679 other scams, visit Insurance dot CA dot gov or call 204 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:21.799 us at eight hundred nine two seven four three five seven. 205 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:22.879 That's basically it. 206 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:26.240 You get in an accident, tow truck shows up, you 207 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:29.080 sign some paperwork, and they'll tow your car to a 208 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:33.000 quote unquote legitimate facility, but it may be like a 209 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:35.559 two day minimum that you have to pay for or 210 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.240 all these hidden fees that you have to pay to 211 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:41.600 get your car out of tow. And I'm not even 212 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:43.799 sure that that guarantees that it will be taken to 213 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:46.559 the body shop or the next place that it needs 214 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:48.879 to go. And then all of a sudden, you're out 215 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:51.679 of hundreds of hundreds of dollars because let's say it 216 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:55.480 sits at the towing location for three or four days. 217 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:57.200 That's what I'm saying. You don't want your car to 218 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:00.639 sit anywhere for any length of time other than the 219 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:03.240 body shop. And one time I remember when I got 220 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:06.519 into an accident. Of course I was much younger, I 221 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.240 didn't know any better. They towed my car to the 222 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:13.720 this body shop that my insurance company would not cover. 223 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:16.919 They didn't have that relationship with that body shop. So 224 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:18.799 then I had to pay to have my car towed 225 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.720 again to another location. And that stuff adds up very 226 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:26.200 very quickly. And yes, if you have ever had your 227 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:30.639 car toad, you know what a pain in the ass 228 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.559 it is going to be and most likely how expensive 229 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:34.240 it's going to be. 230 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:38.799 Have you ever been told Stephan Oh, I got a story. 231 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:43.000 Okay, wait, okay, all the kids are sitting around the campfire, 232 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:47.399 Go ahead, go. So when I used to live in Torrents, 233 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.720 I lived right next to, like almost next door to 234 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.240 a Rite Aid and then the building manager himself sad. 235 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:56.360 Way, I know we talk. 236 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:00.039 We're talking about okay, okay, uh so he even he 237 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:02.639 he said, he goes, I'm kind of like, I'm not 238 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:05.440 saying I'm gonna just say, I'm just saying, he goes, 239 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.200 you can park your extra cars there, but I'm not 240 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:11.840 technically telling you you're allowed to do that. So every 241 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:15.240 single resident did that. So for the better part of 242 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.120 a year, I parked because I had the Uber car, 243 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.679 I parked there. And one day I'm going to work 244 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:26.639 it's about five in the morning. I go there, it's gone. 245 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:31.960 I assumed it was stolen, and which is possible. Yeah, 246 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:35.440 and then I found out that, oh they're breaking They're 247 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:38.159 cracking down on people parking in the in the in 248 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:40.679 that parking lot. And I was one of the examples 249 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:44.639 that got that got towed. Was it explicit saying no 250 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:47.600 parking or you will be toad No, it was just 251 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:50.679 like it was one of those typical generic signs that 252 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:55.679 says for towing, call an h towing number one, eight 253 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:58.480 hundred whatever, and that's all it had. And then I 254 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:00.919 guess they just decided, oh, going to start towing people. 255 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:02.440 And I was one of the people that got was 256 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:04.759 the examples. And then they started putting it up in 257 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:08.120 our apartment building that said you cannot park there anymore 258 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:11.440 because you will get towed. I got towed. I had 259 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:14.240 to pay. Oh man, I don't even. 260 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.759 Know what it was. I would say, what, how many 261 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:18.000 days was it was it there? 262 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:19.559 Oh? 263 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:21.159 Well I parked there every day. No, no, no. 264 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:23.440 After I was told how long it was it was 265 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.080 there for one day, I say at least three hundred 266 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:28.639 dollars pretty close, three eighty five. 267 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:29.799 Okay, that's almost four. 268 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.080 Yeah, and so my ex at the time drove me 269 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.200 to the place, which, like you said, I'm in Torrance. 270 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:40.440 I think it was in like not it was almost 271 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:42.879 West Hollywood, but not there, but we had to go 272 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.480 all the way out there to get it and drive 273 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:49.639 it back. I was so mad, and even the guy 274 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.080 I felt I felt kind of bad because even the guy, 275 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.799 when I went to pay him, he goes, Yo, this 276 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:57.320 isn't on me. The company made us toe it. I 277 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.960 didn't want to toe anybody. And I was like, yeah, 278 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:01.840 I get it, man, it's not on you. But at 279 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:04.639 least he wasn't like rude about it. But I was 280 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.159 just so depressed and so angry. And I had to 281 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:08.840 pay all that money and I didn't make any money 282 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:09.960 that day because I didn't go do uber. 283 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:11.279 I was so mad. I just went home. That was 284 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:12.519 a double loss. Yeah. 285 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:15.200 So yeah, it sucks, Ronner. I know you got towed 286 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:17.639 at some point. Well before I moved here, I lived 287 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:20.600 in Seattle, and one of the landmarks in Seattle is 288 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:24.000 a thing called the tow truck, and it's a pink 289 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:27.159 truck up on a pedestal with a giant shape like 290 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:29.360 a giant foot with a huge big toe on it. 291 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:33.200 And I gotta I really empathize with foush because there's 292 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:35.840 nothing more horrifying than coming out to where you think 293 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:37.919 your car is and the car's just gone. You don't 294 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:40.000 know if it's been towed, it could have been stolen, 295 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:41.759 or anything could have happened to it. 296 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.200 And so you got to start with. 297 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.960 Like calling whoever might be at home, calling the cops, 298 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:50.679 and then finally you follow the trail of evidence to 299 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:53.799 realize that, oh, I have to make the walk or 300 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.559 cab of shame to pick up my towed car. And 301 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:03.440 it's always preposterously sanely like like third world bribe, expensive, 302 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:06.120 like yes, you can't believe that this is a thing 303 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:09.080 that's allowed to take place in the United States in 304 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:10.279 the twenty first century. 305 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:11.759 But you got to do it. There's nothing you can 306 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:15.200 do to WELLA, I know you've been towed. I have. 307 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:15.919 I have. 308 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:18.559 And actually it was after an accident on the freeway. 309 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:24.639 I was rear ended and thrown into another car and 310 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.200 we were off to the side, and before I knew 311 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:31.519 what was happening, a tow truck pulled up out of nowhere. 312 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:33.879 A guy ran up when we said, hey, I'm here 313 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:37.080 to tow your car. He was talking fast, gave me 314 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:39.519 his car, gave him some paperwork designed. 315 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:41.200 Yeah, no, no, we're taking it over to the lot. 316 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:43.360 Now your claims Addrester will. 317 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:46.200 Call blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. 318 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:50.639 I'm shook, you know, still spinning because of the accident. 319 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:55.039 Couldn't find out that this guy took our car halfway 320 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:57.720 across the city at a place that when we got to. 321 00:16:57.759 --> 00:16:59.919 When I finally got to the car, it had been ran. 322 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:03.320 They're like, oh, it came like this, there's nothing in it. 323 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:06.200 One of those situations, and had to pay to get 324 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:08.480 it out, and then also had to pay, like you said, 325 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.200 to get it to the actual tow yard that was 326 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:13.440 going to take care of because by my insurance company 327 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:16.079 was like, we don't know who that is. That individual 328 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:20.000 does not represent us. We don't know why you are 329 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.960 California Higher Patrol anyone allowed this individual to come up 330 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:25.279 and take your car like well, I thought he was 331 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.720 sent out by the city or something. 332 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:28.160 I don't know. 333 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:33.000 And that's what they prey upon, you know, the first time. 334 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:35.000 You just don't know the first time. Now they won't 335 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:38.000 ever get you again never, but they're looking for the 336 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:41.519 person to get the first time. And look, these are 337 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:44.799 lessons learned. I hopefully this is free wisdom. These horror 338 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:48.480 stories that we've told and shared with you will hopefully 339 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.000 protect you and prepare you so you don't necessarily have 340 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:54.160 to go through these same nightmares. 341 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:57.799 Free wisdom, unless you want to pay for it. That's 342 00:17:57.880 --> 00:17:58.279 up to you. 343 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:02.119 It's Later with mo Kelly CAF We are live everywhere 344 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.720 in the iHeartRadio app and when we come back, I 345 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:09.079 have to tell you about a Bonker's City council meeting 346 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:15.319 in the city of Huntington Beach discussing a MAGA sign 347 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:19.359 to be added to the library. Mind you, let me 348 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:22.039 set it up like this, mind you, Huntington Beach is 349 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:24.559 the city that voted upon where you could not have 350 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:28.200 any flags other than the American and state flag to 351 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:32.039 be displayed on any city or government property. Well, we 352 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:35.319 have audio from the city council meeting and it's a doozy. 353 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:36.559 We'll have it next. 354 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:40.599 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 355 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:42.279 KFI AM six forty. 356 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:45.640 We all have slogans, we have banners, flags, we have 357 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:47.440 signs that we put on our lawns. 358 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:49.759 We have signs that will put on our car. 359 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:53.799 We talked about bumper stickers yesterday, and obviously whenever we 360 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:58.400 have a sign, it says something about us and where 361 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:03.440 we place. It says something about the place that it 362 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:07.000 is set. If you were driving by someone's house and 363 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:09.400 they have a BLM flag flying over their house, it 364 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:12.599 says something about who is there. 365 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:15.039 Now, whether that's positive or negative, that's up to you. 366 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:17.680 But I'm saying, once you put that sign, once you 367 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:21.799 put that banner up, you're sending a message and people 368 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:25.359 will receive it however they receive it. The City of 369 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:29.119 Huntington Beach, they've had a very spirited debate, That's how 370 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:33.200 I'll phrase it. The Huntington Beach Central Library is celebrating 371 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:38.039 its fiftieth anniversary, and the city council, like many city councils, 372 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:42.200 is quote unquote nonpartisan, meaning when you vote on the 373 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:45.400 city council, there's not a D or an R next 374 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:47.680 to his or her name. You're just voting on the person, 375 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:49.880 regardless of whether you know that they happen to be 376 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:54.119 a registered Democrat or Republican. You're not specifically and explicitly 377 00:19:54.519 --> 00:20:00.240 voting for that libraries, city government offices. They they are 378 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:04.039 not explicitly political. I think we can all agree on that. 379 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:09.279 The issue here is the Huntington Beach Central Library, because 380 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:13.680 of us unanimous city council vote, is going to install 381 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:17.960 a plaque at the Century Library on Talbert Avenue in 382 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:26.880 celebration of this fiftieth anniversary. And it says MAGA, magical, alluring, galvanizing, adventurous. 383 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:35.559 Let's not insult anyone's intelligence. Okay, it may say magical, alluring, galvanizing, adventurous, 384 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:39.240 but that's not the message that is trying to convey. 385 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:42.200 If we went to a different city and they want 386 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:46.079 to install a BLM plaque, and that's an easy comparison. 387 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:51.480 Instead of putting Black Lives Matter, they put I don't know, believing, loving, 388 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:56.039 and magical on it. You're not fooling anyone, right, same 389 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:58.839 things here. And if you've never been to your own 390 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:02.160 city council meeting, you know for your city, I encourage 391 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:04.400 you to go. There's a lot of good information there 392 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:06.920 that you should know about and you won't be surprised 393 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:10.400 by certain things. You are given a platform to be 394 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:13.799 heard by the city council. You get your voice heard 395 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:16.839 and you get to enter in these debates. Now, this 396 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:19.960 particular city council meeting in Huntington Beach happened last night, 397 00:21:20.680 --> 00:21:23.559 and there was a large contingent of people who came 398 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:29.440 out specifically to protest this plaque. Not everyone there at 399 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:33.000 the city council meeting was there in opposition of the plaque. 400 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:35.839 But I'm saying most of the people who were organized 401 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:38.920