Speaker 1: Kfi mo Kelly.
Speaker 2: We're live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: It is Monday, but what a glorious Monday it is.
Speaker 2: I can say the traffic wasn't too bad for me.
Speaker 2: I hear it was hell for Mark and Twalliver. That's
Speaker 2: not my problem because, as Mark says, it's always about me.
Speaker 3: So my drive was rather enjoyable, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I have never once said that, Oh it's always about you. Yes,
Speaker 3: oh that I say all the time. Not me, because
Speaker 3: I'm not an insane egomania, but about you.
Speaker 1: I'm only somewhat.
Speaker 2: Slightly, just barely narcissist tendency.
Speaker 3: If you say so, Your highness. Uh no, I don't
Speaker 3: know about your highness. I think that's a little bit much.
Speaker 3: Did you have a good weekend, my Lee? How about
Speaker 3: how about dear Leader?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Actually I did. It's interesting that you mentioned the weekend.
Speaker 2: Saturday morning, I went to work out at Clauding Cooper's
Speaker 2: free public workout.
Speaker 1: You gotta do that in the morning, don't you. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it starts at it's pretty much on time. About nine am.
Speaker 1: Got there and they were.
Speaker 2: About maybe fifty to seventy five people and she's trying
Speaker 2: to kill all of us.
Speaker 1: I don't care what anyone says. She says, you can go.
Speaker 2: At your own pace, don't worry about it, don't try
Speaker 2: to keep up. But you know, being a guy, the
Speaker 2: last thing you want to do is lag behind sixty
Speaker 2: five other people. So I'm killing myself trying to keep
Speaker 2: up and act like I'm not really struggling.
Speaker 1: To keep up. So she really isn't the nice exercise.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. She's polite, but she's
Speaker 1: not nice.
Speaker 2: There's a distinct difference. I mean, a drill instructor can
Speaker 2: be polite at times, all right, not nice. She was
Speaker 2: trying to kill us. I say us because I looked
Speaker 2: over at one point and there was Carnesia, and I
Speaker 2: didn't know that.
Speaker 1: She was coming.
Speaker 2: I didn't know she was going to show up because
Speaker 2: earlier that morning, Daniel had texted me said that he
Speaker 2: couldn't come. So I'm thinking, like, neither Daniel nor Carnesia
Speaker 2: are coming to the free community workout with Claudine Cooper.
Speaker 2: And I saw Carnesia and I won't say the look
Speaker 2: that she had on her face. I'll let her explain
Speaker 2: the hell that I could tell that she was going
Speaker 2: through Carnashia.
Speaker 4: You know, Mo, you did warm me that Friday. You
Speaker 4: said it's going to be hard. You think it's easy,
Speaker 4: but it's going to be hard. And when I got there,
Speaker 4: I was not expecting the intensity that took place. I
Speaker 4: have to say I was sore all weekend.
Speaker 2: I didn't like the fact that there were women thirty
Speaker 2: years older than me am I life, yes, yes, who
Speaker 2: were having less issue, fewer issues with the workout than me.
Speaker 1: They were not struggling. They were yeah.
Speaker 2: Because for me, my hips are hurt and she's doing
Speaker 2: Claudine is notorious for doing squats. Yes, okay, you're like
Speaker 2: sitting in a chair for forty five minutes, except there's
Speaker 2: no chair there. And I see all these people who
Speaker 2: should not be should be struggling more than me, okay,
Speaker 2: and they're not. And so my ego was like, okay,
Speaker 2: we're not gonna make it.
Speaker 1: Carneie.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the guy who was like maybe six
Speaker 2: two or so, had it was a basketball uniform and
Speaker 2: he just said, I quit.
Speaker 1: He quit, he walked, and he hadn't been younger than me,
Speaker 1: he just quit.
Speaker 2: So the struggle was real on Saturday, but it was necessary.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that Claudine did put us through our paces.
Speaker 2: If you have a chance to work out with Claudine
Speaker 2: Cooper by all means see her on Saturdays for her
Speaker 2: free community workouts at nine am.
Speaker 1: But that was Saturday. Sunday.
Speaker 2: I didn't do anything except stay in the house and
Speaker 2: watch TV and recuperate because, like Carnacia, I was really sore,
Speaker 2: and after a certain point you're not expecting to be
Speaker 2: that sore where it makes it difficult to walk up
Speaker 2: and down the stairs. And so I said, let me
Speaker 2: just stay downstairs, watch some TV. And that's what I
Speaker 2: did for Sunday. And here we are Monday. We are
Speaker 2: back at it. We have so much to cover today
Speaker 2: and this week it's day five, Day five of waiting
Speaker 2: for Eddie. As in waiting for Eddie Murphy. Nothing has
Speaker 2: happened yet, no declination, no type of regrets as far
Speaker 2: as coming on the show. So as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 2: we are still in the mix. For those who don't know,
Speaker 2: let me reset. We sent out a request to Eddie
Speaker 2: Murphy and to Amazon Prime. We have connections over there.
Speaker 2: We've done things with Amazon Prime Prime Video before to
Speaker 2: get Eddie Murphy on the show.
Speaker 1: I said, it is my one must have.
Speaker 2: If there's any person that I want to interview more
Speaker 2: than anyone in the world, it's Eddie Murphy. And there's
Speaker 2: been this ongoing joke about his personal publicist, Arnold Robinson
Speaker 2: over at.
Speaker 1: Rogers and Rogers in Cown, who keeps shutting me down.
Speaker 2: Every single year I send a request, he'll send a
Speaker 2: decline like thirty minutes later. Can you at least consider it?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's it's you know, it's considerate that
Speaker 2: you sent me a response, But can you at least
Speaker 2: consider her my requests? And we've always hit a brick
Speaker 2: wall within minutes this time not so much so far.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: It could be that he thinks even less of me
Speaker 2: now and has no intentions of responding.
Speaker 5: No, hush your mouth. We must keep our eyes on
Speaker 5: the prize. He is thinking about it, He is considering it.
Speaker 5: He is saying to himself, you know, Moe has always
Speaker 5: been respectful, been humble in this request. He has always
Speaker 5: afforded me plenty of time, you know, on this film,
Speaker 5: on this one.
Speaker 2: Let me take this request more serious. Well, see, we
Speaker 2: shall see. There are a number of people. Hopefully they
Speaker 2: are listening right now, watching right now on YouTube to
Speaker 2: get a better sense, to better assess this show and
Speaker 2: the fit for Eddie. And I understand that if only
Speaker 2: because of working in entertainment, you always have to protect
Speaker 2: the talent. In their case, it's Eddie Murphy. You're not
Speaker 2: gonna put him in a situation where they feel that
Speaker 2: he's gonna get embarrassed or it's not going to be
Speaker 2: a good fit to get to generate good content. I
Speaker 2: completely get that. In other words, they're gonna vet me
Speaker 2: through and.
Speaker 5: Through, and it's important to note and of course you
Speaker 5: the listener can't see the email and most sim but
Speaker 5: did a little bit of name dropping sure in the email,
Speaker 5: just to kind of highlight some comparable talent that has
Speaker 5: been on the show, the likes of of Delroy Lindo
Speaker 5: and all Alfrey Woodard and and a lot.
Speaker 1: Of other communities at Anthony Anderson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people I remembered and did not
Speaker 2: put in the email, like I forgot. I literally forgot
Speaker 2: to put George Wallace, Jay Leno, I mean others we
Speaker 2: had Centric the entertainer.
Speaker 1: I put that in there just so you can see.
Speaker 2: Look reputable comedians have been on this show.
Speaker 1: You led with Shatner. That's not going to be a
Speaker 1: List's not going to be a draw for Oh, I
Speaker 1: think it will be. Yeah, he's on the list. I
Speaker 1: can't tell him.
Speaker 2: You know which names are going to be most important
Speaker 2: to them, But William Shatner is on the list.
Speaker 3: Now. A little point of clarification, Mo, when you were younger,
Speaker 3: did you take getting ghosted by a girl as a
Speaker 3: more positive sign than just a break up?
Speaker 2: When I was younger, there was no such thing as
Speaker 2: being ghosted. What did happen to me is that I
Speaker 2: would get a fake number. You go to the club,
Speaker 2: you talk to the woman and da da da da da,
Speaker 2: and you dance a few times and say, so, you know,
Speaker 2: how can I get in touch with you? This is
Speaker 2: pre email, so it was just the phone number. It
Speaker 2: may not have even been a cell phone, depending on
Speaker 2: the year. So you just ask for the number. And
Speaker 2: there were times I know that the woman would give
Speaker 2: me a fake number and you run into that woman,
Speaker 2: you know, next time at the club.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's all a part of the game. Mark,
Speaker 5: you play the numbers game just to get the number
Speaker 5: one with your boys, you get as many numbers as possible.
Speaker 5: That one number that you may not even been thought
Speaker 5: about turns out to be a real one, and now
Speaker 5: you and your your boys are like, ah, man.
Speaker 3: I feel like you're not really responding to the spirit
Speaker 3: of my question, though, which is, if you get blown off,
Speaker 3: does that still leave a remnant of hope with you
Speaker 3: as opposed to just being told to get lost?
Speaker 2: I would look, I would think that I've been blown
Speaker 2: off respectfully by Arnold Robinson for the past fifteen years.
Speaker 2: It's this didn't ghost me, but you know he was polite,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't a yes. But here I am still,
Speaker 2: you know, asking for the number, asking for the date,
Speaker 2: want to take take her out?
Speaker 3: As they say, I want you to know I'm going
Speaker 3: to be here for you. Like Ducky Mark when you're
Speaker 3: let down. Mark, Look, we are not dealing.
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty in pink. I think Ducky was
Speaker 1: a coward.
Speaker 3: That was not.
Speaker 5: I've never been afraid to approach any any kool aid
Speaker 5: that's you gotta shoot you shot I have.
Speaker 1: I can honestly say I think you've shot it.
Speaker 2: I've never been apprehensive about approaching a girl.
Speaker 1: If I were was a boy at the age at
Speaker 1: that time.
Speaker 2: Or a woman. I was okay with being turned down.
Speaker 2: I would more be upset with myself if I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I would rather know there was It's not about thinking
Speaker 1: that there's no woman out of my link.
Speaker 2: It wasn't that. It's just I knew at a very
Speaker 2: young age I had the gift of gab. Look at
Speaker 2: me now. But it it it? Uh, how should I
Speaker 2: say this? It brought a lot of good things into
Speaker 2: my life in the dating world.
Speaker 1: Because you say, like, yeah, it's like they said, I,
Speaker 1: how did you end up with her?
Speaker 3: I don't know. It must be something I said. And
Speaker 3: you think that's going to translate to Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 2: No, I think it is applicable to all facets of
Speaker 2: one's life.
Speaker 3: I see, you ever read a book called don Quixote?
Speaker 1: I'm not chasing windmills? Okay, I see, So does that
Speaker 1: answer your question?
Speaker 5: Wait? Mark, aren't you the one that was literally talking
Speaker 5: about we need to focus on the secret?
Speaker 1: Last week? I forget you know, I know it was
Speaker 1: a long time. No, No, that's okay.
Speaker 5: We got to go to the water that said, Moe,
Speaker 5: you must practice the secret, the art of calling it
Speaker 5: into your life, putting it out into the universe. He
Speaker 5: didn't manifesting it as if it was going to happen.
Speaker 1: No matter what. I have such a stellar bomby the
Speaker 1: far right box.
Speaker 3: He did say that it's it's been so long, I
Speaker 3: barely remember saying that.
Speaker 1: But I don't.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying is that I'm not sure the secret
Speaker 3: worked out for you. I don't think it works for everyone.
Speaker 1: That's not how the secret works.
Speaker 2: Don't yet to be seen. Okay, But no one's rendered
Speaker 2: judgment yet. We haven't gotten a no yet, you haven't
Speaker 2: gotten anything that's right.
Speaker 1: It's inconclusive.
Speaker 2: Don't put that into existence, right, that's the answer that
Speaker 2: is so negative.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, you misunderstand. I am one hundred percent
Speaker 3: on your side. I just I just don't. I don't
Speaker 3: want you to just decompensate and be a puddle of
Speaker 3: tears when it doesn't happen. I'm not fragile like you.
Speaker 3: I said, Well, nobody is, okay if I am six sport.
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Speaker 1: We're just broadening the empire.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 6: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: I remember standing right across me. When I remember.
Speaker 2: Next to me, kfis Later with Kelly. We're live on YouTube,
Speaker 2: Instagram and the iHeartRadio app. The headline will read Metro
Speaker 2: security guard shoot suspect who stabbed him as in the
Speaker 2: Metro security guard in North Hollywood. Three hospitalized in stabbing
Speaker 2: shooting outside North Hollywood Metro station. If you've been listening
Speaker 2: to the show, we've talked at length about the North
Speaker 2: Hollywood Metro station, how Metro was using that as a
Speaker 2: prime example of how they've lowered crime, how they've cleaned
Speaker 2: up one of the most high profile stations.
Speaker 1: And I said, mmm, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: And I also said, if you remember that safety is
Speaker 2: about perception. You feel safe like they can put out
Speaker 2: the stats and you think it's that crime is down
Speaker 2: six percent. You can't feel that. You can't feel do
Speaker 2: I feel six percent safe? For no, of course not.
Speaker 2: You either feel safe or you feel unsafe. And I
Speaker 2: said one of the largest variables in the equation of
Speaker 2: feeling safe armed Metro was to have that visible police presence.
Speaker 2: Metro does have armed security on a limited level. But
Speaker 2: if I tell you that armed security was stabbed after
Speaker 2: stabbing a writer or a passer by, then I ought to.
Speaker 1: Tell you how dangerous it is.
Speaker 2: If they're willing to stab the guy with the gun,
Speaker 2: what do you think they'll do to your child? What
Speaker 2: do you think they'll do to your wife? What do
Speaker 2: you think they'll do to an average joe like you
Speaker 2: or me? This is not for effect or hyperbole. Is
Speaker 2: this happened at six seventeen pm on Saturday? What does
Speaker 2: that mean? The sun is still outside it right now
Speaker 2: and we're an hour later. The sun is out on
Speaker 2: a Saturday, so there are probably people everywhere in North Hollywood. No,
Speaker 2: it wasn't rush hour, but it's a Saturday, in other words,
Speaker 2: during a high traffic period, and you had someone out
Speaker 2: there who stabbed two different people, including an armed Metro security.
Speaker 1: So they had to wind up shooting the guy.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad that there was armed security there to
Speaker 2: handle it. Imagine if that person, that security officer was
Speaker 2: not there, probably more people would be harmed.
Speaker 1: But there are a number of things in this story.
Speaker 2: I think that we need to take note of okay,
Speaker 2: one broad daylight, not in the middle of the day,
Speaker 2: in the evening, but it's early enough where you can't say, well,
Speaker 2: it was late at night. You know, it could have
Speaker 2: happened anytime, because that's what happens late at night. Can't
Speaker 2: say that, can't say that we had armed security and
Speaker 2: that wasn't deterrent enough. If they're willing to shoot police,
Speaker 2: are on security, stab armed security. I'm sure they willing
Speaker 2: to stab you and me. That should not be at
Speaker 2: the forefront of our minds when we're using Metro.
Speaker 1: On a Saturday. We're not talking about midnight.
Speaker 2: We're not talking about at a time where there's a
Speaker 2: likelihood that there's going to be trouble or a.
Speaker 1: Homeless person is just no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: We're talking about a Saturday in which people probably could
Speaker 2: have been going to I don't know, Universal City, which
Speaker 2: is only one stop away going shopping. North Hollywood has
Speaker 2: been known for shopping. It's not one of those high
Speaker 2: crime areas in and of itself where you can say, well, damn,
Speaker 2: you know, it is obviously that part of town, so
Speaker 2: you should, you know, be on the lookout for that. No,
Speaker 2: it's not that, but that is what our Metro represents now.
Speaker 2: It represents crime and lack of safety. And it's not
Speaker 2: because I said it. I'm just reading you the headlines.
Speaker 2: We don't need to really get into the story, but
Speaker 2: we can if we want. Two people were hospitalized after
Speaker 2: one of them was shot, that was the Metro security guard,
Speaker 2: and the other was stabbed at a Metro station in
Speaker 2: North Hollywood. That's the whole damn story. That's all you
Speaker 2: really need to know. According to the LAPD, the suspect
Speaker 2: had an approached a Metro security guard regarding a parking citation.
Speaker 2: So this is not a random homeless person. This is
Speaker 2: a person who actually drove there and parked his car.
Speaker 2: At one point, the suspect took out a knife and
Speaker 2: stabbed the security guard. So what is the security guard
Speaker 2: supposed to do? He's got a gun. Well, if you're
Speaker 2: not going to use it, then you're probably not ever
Speaker 2: gonna use it. The security guard then pulled out a
Speaker 2: gun and shot the suspect twice. Yes, yes, that is
Speaker 2: the correct response when someone shanks you. If someone shanks
Speaker 2: you and you got a gun, yes shoot them. Both
Speaker 2: were taken to a local hospital and are expected to survive.
Speaker 2: No other details were immediately known. And there's something else
Speaker 2: we talk about the craziness of the world we live in.
Speaker 2: This happened over a parking citation. I don't know what
Speaker 2: the Metro security guard said to this person who was
Speaker 2: mad about the parking citation. But this goes back to
Speaker 2: why I talk about Mark Runner. I wanted him to
Speaker 2: live to see tomorrow. Thank you.
Speaker 1: You just don't excuse me.
Speaker 2: You just don't know how crazy someone may be. This
Speaker 2: is over a parking citation, if we believe the story
Speaker 2: as it's presented.
Speaker 3: No, you're right about this, and I hate to admit it.
Speaker 3: I led the seven o'clock with a story about a
Speaker 3: shooting that was over a parking spot. This stuff's getting intense, and.
Speaker 2: It's going to get worse, if only because it seems
Speaker 2: like when people start believing that it's normal and it
Speaker 2: does not have the same impact emotional impact, then there
Speaker 2: will be more of it. You get numb to it.
Speaker 2: You're not necessarily outraged. You're just less and less surprised. Oh,
Speaker 2: someone got stabbed on a Metro. Is anyone surprised about
Speaker 2: that anymore? I hope not. I hope not. Because it
Speaker 2: happens frequently enough where nobody should be surprised. And unfortunately,
Speaker 2: altercations over a parking space or a parking citation are
Speaker 2: less and less unusual as well, which says to me
Speaker 2: we'll probably have more of them. But before I get
Speaker 2: too far afield, this is just more evidence that, for
Speaker 2: whatever reasons, La Metro is a magnet to crime and
Speaker 2: is unsafe. And it's not because I say so, is
Speaker 2: I'm quite sure Metro would like to have you believe.
Speaker 2: It's the media, is how we are positioning it is
Speaker 2: how we're presenting it. We have a bias against Metro.
Speaker 2: It's not what we're saying. I am pointing to stabbings,
Speaker 2: I'm pointing to shootings. I am poorting two different random
Speaker 2: acts of violence on the trains, on the platforms, on
Speaker 2: the buses. And it's not going to change until there's
Speaker 2: a change at Metro, and not before. Its later with
Speaker 2: mo Kelly, we're live on YouTube, we're live on Instagram,
Speaker 2: we're live on the iHeartRadio app. And when we come back, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: it's a little bit more bad news to start off
Speaker 2: this week than good news. I don't want to talk
Speaker 2: about what happened in Colorado. We know what happened in Colorado.
Speaker 2: I do want to talk about how we here in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles always have to be mindful given what happened
Speaker 2: in Colorado.
Speaker 1: We'll do that next.
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Speaker 1: Kelly on.
Speaker 2: And six live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, YouTube, and Instagram.
Speaker 2: And we usually don't necessarily talk about terror attacks on
Speaker 2: this show for a number of reasons, but there is
Speaker 2: something to be learned by what happened in Colorado over
Speaker 2: the weekend. By now you should have heard about how
Speaker 2: four women and four men between in the ages of
Speaker 2: fifty two and eighty eight were taking to hospitals in
Speaker 2: Denver for treatment Sunday yesterday, after a suspect used a
Speaker 2: makeshift flamethrower and threw an incendiary device into a crowd
Speaker 2: walking in a weekly event to call for the return
Speaker 2: of the remaining hostages taken by Hamas militants on October
Speaker 2: seventh of twenty twenty three. This is not about that,
Speaker 2: but there's a lesson which can be learned from that.
Speaker 1: And here's what I mean.
Speaker 2: Although that attack with the flamethrower happened in Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 2: There are lessons that we can learn from it. I'm
Speaker 2: talking about you who may live in Los Angeles. I'm
Speaker 2: talking about you who may live in Orange County, San
Speaker 2: Diego County. You may think, well, that was in Colorado.
Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about that. Well, that has
Speaker 2: to do with Israel and Hamas. I don't have to
Speaker 2: worry about that. No, No, you actually do have to
Speaker 2: worry about it. And the difference between America as a
Speaker 2: country and other countries. It comes down to, and this
Speaker 2: is to sound very cliche, but it's true, it comes
Speaker 2: down to freedom. And because we do have a certain
Speaker 2: amount of freedom. We don't have unlimited freedom. But because
Speaker 2: we do have freedom, there is more of a possibility
Speaker 2: and arguably more of a likelihood that a terrorist attack
Speaker 2: is going to happen. You don't have these types of
Speaker 2: terrorist attacks in say Russia, China, North Korea. That's not
Speaker 2: by coincidence, that's by design. People don't have actual freedom.
Speaker 2: In fact, even when I was in South Korea, the
Speaker 2: amount of surveillance in that country severely limits the options
Speaker 2: of people to do as they please. On one hand,
Speaker 2: it prevents certain acts of violence or mass murder, but
Speaker 2: you know there's a cost to it. You are limited
Speaker 2: as far as where you can go, You're limited in
Speaker 2: terms of your privacy. You're aware that you're being served,
Speaker 2: veiled at all times. I mean that's just in South Korea.
Speaker 2: We don't have that here. Yes, there are cameras everywhere,
Speaker 2: but it's just not the same. And if you've traveled
Speaker 2: to like's say, Korea or China or even Russia, you
Speaker 2: know it's different. It's different. We don't have that here
Speaker 2: in the United States. But since we do have this
Speaker 2: freedom and also with it a greater danger, I would
Speaker 2: say there's a larger responsibility for you and for me
Speaker 2: to take active roles in our own safety. There's nothing
Speaker 2: which really could have prevented what happened in Denver from
Speaker 2: what I understand and bolder, I don't know exactly what
Speaker 2: law could have been on the books or what type
Speaker 2: of surveillance which could have stopped what happened and seemed
Speaker 2: to be low tech and very little preparation. Now it
Speaker 2: could have been planned for quite some time, but the
Speaker 2: ingredients in it, I don't know. I there's much we
Speaker 2: could have done about it, And as far as I know,
Speaker 2: Mark correct me if I'm wrong. Flamethrowers or their approximations
Speaker 2: are still legal in most states.
Speaker 1: I'm making furious no, no, no.
Speaker 3: I wish I could give you a definitive answer on
Speaker 3: the legality of flamethrowers nationwide, but I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: look that one up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty sure because I've had similar debates and
Speaker 2: discussions with other people about what is legal or isn't legal.
Speaker 2: Like you can't have your own tank that you can
Speaker 2: drive down the street, and you know that you can armor.
Speaker 2: There's certain weapons and vehicles you just can't have legally.
Speaker 2: But if I'm not mistaken, you can't have a flame
Speaker 2: thrower in most places. You can't use it however you want, obviously,
Speaker 2: but it's not illegal to possess. My point is, I
Speaker 2: don't know how much we can actually prevent here in
Speaker 2: this country.
Speaker 1: But all the question, the conversations we have.
Speaker 2: About not stopping at gas stations at night, or I
Speaker 2: may have kidding, say, you know, I don't go to
Speaker 2: seven to eleven, It's all about this one singular idea.
Speaker 1: We have to be aware of our.
Speaker 2: Surroundings and the people who are around us at all times.
Speaker 2: That's about all we can control. We have to be
Speaker 2: aware of what may be a target where you're in
Speaker 2: a space where maybe something could happen. And there's not
Speaker 2: a day in which I do not go out. I'm
Speaker 2: talking about if I'm going to work, if I'm going
Speaker 2: to the movies, if I'm going to an amusement park,
Speaker 2: I'm always conscious of something major and disastrous possibly happening.
Speaker 3: I have an answer for you, by the way, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Flamethrowers are broadly legal to own personally, except in Maryland,
Speaker 3: where they're banned, but here in California they require a
Speaker 3: permit Maryland skipping ahead. California modifies units to reduce their
Speaker 3: range to less than ten feet. And this is from
Speaker 3: a site called throwflame dot com. There's a site devoted
Speaker 3: to this.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: We can't prevent everything, we can't stop everything, but we
Speaker 2: can be a way aware of as much as possible
Speaker 2: before we even walk into those situations. I am never
Speaker 2: on a higher alert than when I'm like in a
Speaker 2: mall or in an open space. I don't really go
Speaker 2: to concerts anymore, but large gatherings of people because that's
Speaker 2: the world we live in now. And if there's a
Speaker 2: lesson which can be learned from what happened in Colorado,
Speaker 2: regardless of who the intended targets may have been, if
Speaker 2: you've lived in the city long enough that there is
Speaker 2: such a thing as wrong place, wrong time. There is
Speaker 2: such a thing as a stray bullet. There is such
Speaker 2: a thing as the unintended consequences. There is such a
Speaker 2: thing that something was not meant for you, but unfortunately
Speaker 2: it ended up including you. The takeaway with what happened
Speaker 2: in Colorado politics, aside the specifics acide, is that we
Speaker 2: always have to be vigilant. We always have to be
Speaker 2: first and foremost aware of our surroundings, concern with our
Speaker 2: own personal safety, our own group safety, and then we
Speaker 2: stand a better chance if and when something could happen.
Speaker 2: I've never been in a quote unquote mass shooting, but
Speaker 2: I have been in situations a number of times in
Speaker 2: which shots have rung out, and you have to actively
Speaker 2: think in advance what you're going to do before it happens,
Speaker 2: not after it happens. You have to actively imagine. You
Speaker 2: have to have a healthy enough imagination to see the
Speaker 2: worst of a situation before it happens, and That's something
Speaker 2: that we talk about in self defense and martial arts
Speaker 2: all the time. Most of the time self defense comes
Speaker 2: down to the decisions that you plan to make in
Speaker 2: advance before something happens, so if it does, you can
Speaker 2: just react, as opposed to freezing and not knowing what
Speaker 2: to do or where to go or.
Speaker 1: How you're going to contact someone.
Speaker 2: And that's what I would want people to take away
Speaker 2: from this, to be as safe as possible humanly possible,
Speaker 2: because you can't control what some idiot is going to do.
Speaker 2: You can't control what some crazy person is going to do.
Speaker 2: You can't control what someone has an agenda or has
Speaker 2: hate in their heart and going to attack.
Speaker 1: A particular group of people. I not.
Speaker 2: It's like to be sitting on the corner and have
Speaker 2: people drive by in a car and throw rocks and
Speaker 2: drinks and stuff at me just because I was black,
Speaker 2: and I know it was because of that, because of
Speaker 2: what they called me as they were driving by. Now
Speaker 2: today it could be someone who's going to start shooting.
Speaker 2: They could throw a Molotov cocktail. But my point is
Speaker 2: you have to be ready in advance and know in
Speaker 2: advance that wherever you are, you could be in a
Speaker 2: movie theater, you could be in a mall, you could
Speaker 2: be in a church service, you could be in a synagogue.
Speaker 2: All these places have been flash points for violence against
Speaker 2: a group of people. The only thing that you can
Speaker 2: do in this free society to bring it all together
Speaker 2: is take your own life into your own hands and
Speaker 2: make sure that it's the most important thing and on
Speaker 2: your mind each and every time you walk out that door.
Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 2: It's Later with Mo Kelly Live on YouTube, Instagram and
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. And this has to be unfortunate news
Speaker 2: given that Disney is just starting its seventy year celebration. Well,
Speaker 2: Disney also has announced it has cut hundreds of employees.
Speaker 2: And let's not forget this is the latest round of layoffs.
Speaker 2: So this is another deep round of cuts. People close
Speaker 2: to the Bourbank office confirmed the cuts, which are hitting
Speaker 2: film and television marketing teams, television publicity, casting and development,
Speaker 2: as well as corporate financial operations. And this is just
Speaker 2: three months after you may remember, Disney gave the acts
Speaker 2: to two hundred employees, including at ABC News in New
Speaker 2: York and Disney owned entertainment networks. And this is what
Speaker 2: I think people should remember. When we say Disney, it
Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily mean the company Disney.
Speaker 1: It could be its subsidiaries.
Speaker 2: It could be ABC, it could be ESPN, and it
Speaker 2: could be the amusement parks, it could be the movies,
Speaker 2: it could be television. And there's so many facets to
Speaker 2: the Disney corporation. But still, when you're laying off hundreds
Speaker 2: of people, that is never good news, especially against the
Speaker 2: backdrop of the seventy year celebration of Disneyland. This is
Speaker 2: the fourth round of layoffs in less than the year.
Speaker 2: We knew that when former CEO Bob Eiger came back
Speaker 2: to the company to reassume the role of CEO that
Speaker 2: they were going to be a lot of changes. His predecessor,
Speaker 2: Bob Japek, took the company in a lot of weird directions.
Speaker 2: Was over I thought, overcharging people at the amusement parks.
Speaker 2: He was making a lot of changes which were unpopular
Speaker 2: for supporters of the company and the brand and also
Speaker 2: I think turned off people to the brand. So there
Speaker 2: were some financial issues. And then Bob Iger is trying
Speaker 2: to write the ship at least financially, and that's different
Speaker 2: from the vision of the company going forward.
Speaker 1: But the fourth.
Speaker 2: Round of layoffs in less than a year, I don't
Speaker 2: know how anyone could work at Disney on I'll just
Speaker 2: say just an employee level or even a senior man
Speaker 2: management level and feel comfortable about their future given the
Speaker 2: number of layoffs in just the past twelve months. Now,
Speaker 2: some would say, and including Bob Iger, has said that
Speaker 2: Disney slash Walt Disney has been pumping out too many
Speaker 2: shows in movies, some thinking to keep up with Netflix.
Speaker 2: There were a lot of series on Disney Plus are
Speaker 2: like I don't know, And there are some movies that
Speaker 2: were both in theaters and also on Disney Plus like
Speaker 2: I don't know, and yes, and maybe they need to
Speaker 2: be more judicious with how they spend their money. And
Speaker 2: also the landscape has changed. Now you put something in
Speaker 2: the theater now, it's less likely to succeed. Why because
Speaker 2: people have other alternatives. It's not just Disney in the
Speaker 2: movies or Disney Plus at home. They're competing against streaming
Speaker 2: and all other platforms. It's not just a sum you know,
Speaker 2: it's not just a.
Speaker 1: Zero sum game where it's going to be this or that.
Speaker 2: Well, if I don't go to movies on a stay
Speaker 2: home and stream Disney Plus, no, you might be streaming Netflix,
Speaker 2: you might be streaming Peacock, you might be streaming I
Speaker 2: don't know, Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1: Pluto, TV, Hulu.
Speaker 2: There are so many competing outlets and platforms for what
Speaker 2: was just that Disney Eye.
Speaker 1: And now if you make a mistake, it's magnified.
Speaker 2: When a movie bombs like snow White, for example, that
Speaker 2: sets a corporation back, and it also changed the trajectory
Speaker 2: of what a corporation is going to do.
Speaker 1: Now you have Lelo and Stitch. That's fine, that's great.
Speaker 2: Didn't save any of these jobs. Certain things just cannot
Speaker 2: be undone. But all companies to a certain degree have
Speaker 2: this i'll say rebalancing, trying to find their equilibrium, trying
Speaker 2: to find a way forward and get their stride that
Speaker 2: they once had. But it's been a difficult i would
Speaker 2: say two years or so, because remember Disney was feeling
Speaker 2: all sorts of pressure after promising investors that it's direct
Speaker 2: to consumer services. That's Disney Plus, that's Hulu and ESPN
Speaker 2: Plus was going to achieve profitability.
Speaker 1: Last year people forgot Disney.
Speaker 2: Plus and those other streaming platforms with the set, so
Speaker 2: maybe Netflix, they were not turning a profit, and it
Speaker 2: was such a bargain. When Disney Plus first came out.
Speaker 2: I got it for like six ninety nine.
Speaker 1: It's like, wow, all this content, six ninety nine, Sure,
Speaker 1: sign me up.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden they realized that wasn't
Speaker 2: really financially feasible as a revenue generating source, and so
Speaker 2: Disney tried to pump out all these extra series and
Speaker 2: movies to inspire people to sign up and stay longer
Speaker 2: with the streaming service. In that marketing strategy has not worked,
Speaker 2: and so now they had to retrench, had to reorganize.
Speaker 1: People have been laid off.
Speaker 2: The company lost billions of dollars over several years during
Speaker 2: this strategic shift to streaming. But this last fall it's
Speaker 2: finally started to turn around and it's turned a profit.
Speaker 2: But a lot of people had to lose their jobs
Speaker 2: in the meantime, and it's not a guarantee that people
Speaker 2: who sign up for Disney Plus are going to stay
Speaker 2: with Disney Plus. It's almost like, once you get on
Speaker 2: the horse, you got to make sure this it's an
Speaker 2: enjoyable ride, or people will what, get off the horse
Speaker 2: and go somewhere else. So this is going to be
Speaker 2: painful for Disney in the foreseeable future because they still
Speaker 2: have not gotten back to where they were. How can
Speaker 2: they do that? Well, some hit movies wouldn't hurt, you know,
Speaker 2: some great turnout this summer at theme parks wouldn't hurt.
Speaker 2: People signing up for Hulu and ESPN Plus wouldn't hurt
Speaker 2: some of those things. Maybe all those things. KFI AM
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