Speaker 1: K f I Am you're listening to Later with Mo
Speaker 1: Kelly on Jamay on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: It is Later with Mo Kelly on KFI AM sixty
Speaker 2: Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Mark Ronner in from
Speaker 2: Mo with Tiffany Hobbs. Thanks for being here with me again, Tiffany.
Speaker 3: Good evening. Thank you for allowing me to share the
Speaker 3: airwaves with.
Speaker 2: You, allowing Moe. We'll be back with Tawala tomorrow. We
Speaker 2: will hear all about their cruise and their assorted adventures.
Speaker 2: Adventures is the word that I can say on the air,
Speaker 2: because I'm excited to find out about all the filth
Speaker 2: they got up to, all the drunkenness, all the key
Speaker 2: swapping parties, whatever else people do on cruises. The only
Speaker 2: thing I know about cruises is from the old Kulshak
Speaker 2: the night Stalker episode where Carl Koleshak has to go
Speaker 2: to a feature on a cruise ship and it turns
Speaker 2: out there's a werewolf on the cruise ship. And I
Speaker 2: don't think that's the experience Mo and Tuala are having.
Speaker 2: Do you know the episode I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: I don't, but I do think that if anyone were
Speaker 3: to have that experience. It would be Mo and Twala
Speaker 3: on a cruise ship.
Speaker 2: Well here's a spoiler if you haven't seen it. There's
Speaker 2: no silver bullets on the ship. So Coleshak has to
Speaker 2: sneak into the cabin's the captain's cabin and cut the
Speaker 2: buttons off his dress uniform and melt them down into bullets.
Speaker 2: But there's no priest aboard to bless them, so he's
Speaker 2: got to get a rabbi to bless them so that
Speaker 2: he can shoot the werewolf. And it still doesn't go
Speaker 2: as planned. So I'm excited to hear how this went
Speaker 2: for Mo and Tuala. We got some good guests tonight.
Speaker 2: We have Jackie Ray, of course, coming in on her
Speaker 2: normal night to talk about sports, which will be funny
Speaker 2: because I don't know anything about sports. Also, a really
Speaker 2: really cool guest one of the first people I thought
Speaker 2: of when I found out we were going to be
Speaker 2: hosting the show, Alison Martino, a vintage LA is going
Speaker 2: to be here at nine o'clock. She seems like a
Speaker 2: terrific person. I'm a terrible judge of people, but she
Speaker 2: seems like a lot of fun and I know we're
Speaker 2: going to have a ton to talk about hope you
Speaker 2: had a relaxing labor day, Tiffany. You said you went
Speaker 2: swimming today.
Speaker 3: I did. I was off today from my day job teaching, thankfully,
Speaker 3: and I was able to go swimming before work. That
Speaker 3: never happened.
Speaker 2: But you didn't grill anything? And did nobody grill anything? Food?
Speaker 2: She grill anything? Nothing? Not today? Nop, Eileen, you don't
Speaker 2: look like a griller. No, she's shaking her head. We've
Speaker 2: got Eileen guns.
Speaker 3: You'd be surprised. I want to be a vegan really badly,
Speaker 3: but I just can't. I like steak too much, and
Speaker 3: I do try.
Speaker 4: I eat vegan most of the time, but I do
Speaker 4: love barbecue and a good steak, I should tell you.
Speaker 2: And I do admire vegans. And I told Mark Thompson
Speaker 2: I would like to get some information about him because
Speaker 2: the couple times I've tried to go vegan in the past,
Speaker 2: I thought I was dying, I had no energy, I
Speaker 2: thought my hair was falling out. But what I strenuously
Speaker 2: object to on vegan foods is the fake grill marks,
Speaker 2: like either do it or don't do it. Don't don't
Speaker 2: try to pretend like you've got some tofu that's secretly
Speaker 2: meet that you've got the grill marks on. I was thinking,
Speaker 2: you know, it's Labor Day, and I don't want to
Speaker 2: spend a ton of time on this. If you're against
Speaker 2: labor unions, I hope you worked today. I hope you
Speaker 2: didn't take the day off like people who don't get
Speaker 2: to celebrate Labor Day. Howard Schultz, I hope you're I
Speaker 2: hope Howard Schultz of Starbucks is working the counter there today.
Speaker 2: You don't get to take Labor Day off work if
Speaker 2: you're a union buster. I didn't get to grill anything
Speaker 2: today because my car engines light came on and I
Speaker 2: didn't get to go to Costco, which I do most weekends,
Speaker 2: believe it or not, because because I'm a Patriot.
Speaker 3: Bill Handle Bill Handle goes to Costco all the time.
Speaker 2: I believe that's the one thing that we have in common,
Speaker 2: because is there anything more American than Costco? Is there
Speaker 2: anything more American than bolt? Consumerism and no judgment. They
Speaker 2: don't have any judgment. Like here, when I go to Ralph's,
Speaker 2: I always have to explain myself to the checker when
Speaker 2: I have like five packs of cookies to get the
Speaker 2: sale price that's insidious. By the way, you can get
Speaker 2: just one packet of cookies for five bucks like a Schmo.
Speaker 2: Or you can get them for two dollars if you
Speaker 2: buy five of them and you don't want to get
Speaker 2: caught without cookies if we have a pandemic again or
Speaker 2: a zombie apocalypse. So five it is. But I'm always
Speaker 2: explaining to the cashier. I hope you know I'm not
Speaker 2: just driving straight home and eating these five things of
Speaker 2: cookies like a filthy animal. Right, you got to buy
Speaker 2: five to get the sale price, And they're just looking
Speaker 2: at me like, just get through the line, buddy, Just
Speaker 2: or like soup, No, ma'am, I haven't just had my
Speaker 2: jaw wired shut and I can eat other things. But
Speaker 2: to get this soup for one dollar, I had to
Speaker 2: buy eight of them. Otherwise they were four dollars a piece.
Speaker 2: Nice to meet you. By the way, my name's Andy Warhol. Now,
Speaker 2: because I was a bag boy a little while in
Speaker 2: high school, you better believe we used to profile people
Speaker 2: by what they bought. I mean, that's what they all
Speaker 2: do and what they always have do, Like how could
Speaker 2: you not like box of tampons and some ice cream?
Speaker 2: Hope your evening goes okay, many easy, easy, honestly, best
Speaker 2: of luck. I'm not going to get in your face
Speaker 2: about anything. This was before every single person who watches
Speaker 2: network TV knew what an FBI profiler was. People who
Speaker 2: work at grocery stores they should be called in to
Speaker 2: solve crimes because they've been little consumer sherlock homes forever
Speaker 2: and they judge you. I'm not going to say we
Speaker 2: judge you. It's been a while since I did that.
Speaker 2: So let me see champagne, a couple of lobster tails,
Speaker 2: box some magnums, too easy, give me something more challenging.
Speaker 2: They don't do that at Costco, though, is my point.
Speaker 2: I went through the checkout at Costco a few days
Speaker 2: ago with a couple of gigantic bottles of vodka because
Speaker 2: they're dirt cheap there. You're insane about them? Why sure,
Speaker 2: it's an insanely good deal. Why wouldn't you? And then
Speaker 2: I was in the aisle and I saw a killer
Speaker 2: deal on tequila, big gigantic bottle of Hornitos for like
Speaker 2: twenty five bucks, approximately a small barrel of it. When
Speaker 2: twenty five bucks it gets you maybe maybe two shots
Speaker 2: of it at a bar but I'm feeling self conscious
Speaker 2: when I get to the front of the line. Maybe
Speaker 2: they slip a pamphlet into your stuff when they see
Speaker 2: these kinds of purchases, like do you need helps or
Speaker 2: do you have a drinking problem? No, I do not
Speaker 2: need help unless you're going to suggest a mixer for
Speaker 2: all of this. So preemptively, I say to the cashier,
Speaker 2: got a stock up for emergencies. No one wants to
Speaker 2: get short, you know, a month into the purge, you know,
Speaker 2: and I know this might seem like a lot, but
Speaker 2: without hesitation, the cashier is like, nope, we're on the
Speaker 2: same page. Now I may be imagining this, but I
Speaker 2: seriously thought she wanted to high five me. She was
Speaker 2: encouraging me, she was validating me. She saw me, and
Speaker 2: she was not repulsed. Now, all that said, I love Costco,
Speaker 2: but you'd think they could use a PA system. And
Speaker 2: when the store is closing, instead of the cutting edge
Speaker 2: technology that they do use, which consists of a woman
Speaker 2: at the back of the store shouting at people to
Speaker 2: get the hell out of the store, Costco is now
Speaker 2: they heard employees to the front of the store. Have
Speaker 2: you been in a Costco when they're closing.
Speaker 3: I have not. I try to stay away from things
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just short of turning the hose on people.
Speaker 2: I would almost rather have the hose turned on me.
Speaker 2: And since this labor Day, I did a little googling
Speaker 2: and found out that Costco has something like a ninety
Speaker 2: four percent retention rate with employees. They offer medical dental
Speaker 2: benefits even to part timers, and so I do feel better.
Speaker 2: I feel more patriotic opping at Costco than walmartin I
Speaker 2: don't know why more people don't talk about this and
Speaker 2: don't seem bothered by it. Walmart pays their employees so
Speaker 2: little that it's one of the employers with the most workers,
Speaker 2: along with McDonald's. I think on public benefits, food Stamps, Medicaid,
Speaker 2: and guess who pays for that, US taxpayers, while the
Speaker 2: Walton family keeps getting richer than oil Sultan's. Anyone who
Speaker 2: tells you that that's a right or left issue, I
Speaker 2: think they're gas lating, gaslighting you. It's a getting soaked issue.
Speaker 2: I mean, people right, left and center pay taxes, and
Speaker 2: Walmart and pays its employees so little they got to
Speaker 2: go on public assistance and we have to take up
Speaker 2: the slack for that they can afford to pay better,
Speaker 2: but why should they when they can fleece taxpayers into
Speaker 2: footing the bill For all that seems like the opposite
Speaker 2: of patriotic. I get the feeling that some people aren't
Speaker 2: crazy about hearing that, But you have to explain to
Speaker 2: me why because they sell red, white and blue stuff
Speaker 2: in this story. You got to tell me how you
Speaker 2: can possibly defend that. Something to think about on Labor
Speaker 2: Day when we come back. We are going to stay
Speaker 2: in the mo Kelly Show Later with mo Kelly tradition
Speaker 2: of covering Metro incidents. But let's make it a surprised you're.
Speaker 5: Listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
Speaker 5: AM six.
Speaker 2: Forty, Mark Ronner in for mo Kelly and Tuala with
Speaker 2: Tiffany Hobbs here with me as well. It is a
Speaker 2: day ending in why so, of course there's been another
Speaker 2: Metro incident, but Metro doesn't seem to be the one
Speaker 2: to blame in this one though. Still maybe time for
Speaker 2: the people who run Metro to burn some sage on
Speaker 2: some buses, do an exorcism, start some hazard pay for drivers.
Speaker 2: I'll give you the highlights here three cars attempting to
Speaker 2: start a street takeover crashed into a Metro bus in
Speaker 2: LA's Vermont Vista neighborhood overnight. Video from the scene shows
Speaker 2: the mangled vehicles, including one that had been turned on
Speaker 2: its side in front of the bus, at the crash site,
Speaker 2: located near the intersection of South Figueroa Street and Century Boulevard.
Speaker 2: After the crash, off th drivers fled the scene. The
Speaker 2: Metro spokesman said the bus was stopped at a red
Speaker 2: light when the collision occurred. Here's what happened. A Metro
Speaker 2: Line eighty one bus was waiting at a red traffic
Speaker 2: signal behind a vehicle when a third vehicle attempting to
Speaker 2: make a left turn, collided with the vehicle, pushing it
Speaker 2: in front of the bus. My god, these guys can't
Speaker 2: get a break.
Speaker 3: They can't. And it's really funny that you say. This
Speaker 3: is a story that somewhat atypical. Usually Metro is in
Speaker 3: the victim position, or rather the victimizer position, and in
Speaker 3: this case they are the victim. So we have a
Speaker 3: bit of sympathy for them.
Speaker 2: And sympathy for the drivers. What do these guys say
Speaker 2: to their spouses, men or women when they leave the
Speaker 2: house for work every day, it's Lazarus like, it's been
Speaker 2: a good life. You're the love of my life. No
Speaker 2: matter what happens, never forget that. And if I come home,
Speaker 2: what are we having for dinner tonight?
Speaker 3: The interesting thing about this story, too, Mark, is that,
Speaker 3: and we were speaking about this off air, typically Labor Day,
Speaker 3: Memorial Day, these weekend long weekends are synchronous when it
Speaker 3: comes to the volume of high traffic incidents, DUIs, things
Speaker 3: like that, and there were no shortage of these incidents.
Speaker 3: There was another one that has kind of flown under
Speaker 3: the radar at this point, it hasn't been picked up
Speaker 3: by the local TV outlets, but it is all over
Speaker 3: kind of these social media local blogs that follow crime
Speaker 3: and also report to the TV stations. And what happened
Speaker 3: was there was an incident in downtown LA's Santi Village.
Speaker 3: And if you're familiar with that part of downtown LA,
Speaker 3: there are lots of old factories that have since been
Speaker 3: converted into lofts and it's a very trendy area if
Speaker 3: you will. Eighth and Los Angeles Street right there, and
Speaker 3: there's this little area that houses multiple develops and they
Speaker 3: share this parking garage. I say all of this to
Speaker 3: say there were YouTubers there filming, because the area itself
Speaker 3: is very picturesque. They've used it for lots of movie
Speaker 3: backdrops and whatnot. And these YouTubers where they're getting content,
Speaker 3: and they got content. Oh did they? They were able
Speaker 3: to somehow catch a crime in action? And I say
Speaker 3: somehow kind of ingest because it's LA and you can
Speaker 3: probably catch crime if you just look out of any window.
Speaker 3: There's probably crime happening right outside of our studio right now. Well,
Speaker 3: LA one can hope. Well they did, and they were
Speaker 3: able to catch this person driving erratically and this person
Speaker 3: was on Eighth Street, crashes into this gate of this
Speaker 3: apartment complex, these multi development area, knocks down, this gate, reverses,
Speaker 3: goes backwards down the street, the makings of everything you
Speaker 3: could imagine good newscasts might include. Except these are YouTubers
Speaker 3: catching this all on their cell phones.
Speaker 2: Well they catch everything. Listen. If you had had these
Speaker 2: YouTubers with the camera phones back like when The Fugitive
Speaker 2: was on TV, Richard Kimball would have been busted after
Speaker 2: one season. He wasn't gonna make it multiple seasons because
Speaker 2: they see everything it's like the CCTVs and that old
Speaker 2: five show. We have no privacy anymore. Anything you do
Speaker 2: is going to get filmed, right, So.
Speaker 3: They film this guy and this guy again is driving backwards.
Speaker 3: Then the person goes forward hits a fire department truck
Speaker 3: which is in pursuit of whatever. So there's all this happening,
Speaker 3: this huge kind of cacophonists just crime center right there,
Speaker 3: involving this one person who is clearly drunk. So that's
Speaker 3: where the dui thing comes in or in some way intoxicated. Well,
Speaker 3: they pursue, these YouTubers pursue this guy. They get in
Speaker 3: their cars, they follow them, they call the police, and
Speaker 3: in the interim they decide that they're going to corner
Speaker 3: this person, who then gets out of the car, runs
Speaker 3: runs into another parking lot. They find him with his
Speaker 3: little legs sticking out from behind a car, trying to hide.
Speaker 3: And you know, if you've ever had too much to drink,
Speaker 3: your ever rationalization is always off. He probably thought he
Speaker 3: was really well hidden. No, and this is all on
Speaker 3: video so you can see it. But they catch him
Speaker 3: and they use a cell phone charger, a portable charger,
Speaker 3: and they hold it and kind of conceal it to
Speaker 3: make it look like it's a weapon of some sort.
Speaker 3: And this is a YouTuber who then approaches this guy
Speaker 3: and makes a full on citizen's arrest.
Speaker 2: So this is the twenty first century equivalent of holding
Speaker 2: your index finger in the pocket of your coat and
Speaker 2: pretending like you got to hear around there.
Speaker 3: Yet absolutely except now we're using digital devices. And so
Speaker 3: they hold this person there, they put the person's arm
Speaker 3: behind their back, and the police do show up and
Speaker 3: they hand off this person to the police who this
Speaker 3: person was in booked for dui and causing all of
Speaker 3: these things. And again this has flown under the radar,
Speaker 3: but it really speaks to kind of the chaos that
Speaker 3: happens over these three day weekends, including the situation with
Speaker 3: the Metro and this attempted street takeover with these cars
Speaker 3: crashing into a bus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I haven't seen all the Fast and
Speaker 2: Furious movies. Is there one of the more Vin Diesel
Speaker 2: gets taken out by a Metro bus.
Speaker 3: If it hasn't happened already, it's probably in the works.
Speaker 2: I just can't imagine. Like when I was say, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Charlie Brown, age eight nine ten years old.
Speaker 2: I went everywhere on city buses, and I went alone,
Speaker 2: and nobody cared. Nothing ever happened. But could you imagine
Speaker 2: letting your kids do that at this point?
Speaker 3: It for some it's a necessity, and it does not
Speaker 3: come without that paranoia and that anxiety. It's very volatile,
Speaker 3: it's very unpredictable. I think what you can predict is
Speaker 3: that there likely will be something to happen surrounding and
Speaker 3: in this case, they are the innocent ones.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean we as long as we were home
Speaker 2: in time for dinner. Nobody cared where we went because
Speaker 2: it just this kind of stuff never happened before. So
Speaker 2: like I would imagine a kid today coming home and
Speaker 2: the parents like, so, anything happened today's son? Oh, just
Speaker 2: an attack on the driver and oh a street takeover crash.
Speaker 2: Oh is that all? Let's pass the meat loaf.
Speaker 3: I that's kind of where it's going.
Speaker 2: I just can't like there. You could make an argument
Speaker 2: now for sending your kid everywhere in an uber, driving
Speaker 2: them yourself, and having them chipped like a pet until
Speaker 2: they're at least eighteen years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think you have to.
Speaker 2: I like to end on a dystopian positive note like that.
Speaker 2: So when we come back, we're going to talk a
Speaker 2: little bit about the landslide in Rancho Palace Verdes. It
Speaker 2: is getting worse fast and people are in a pretty
Speaker 2: serious position, not sure what they can do.
Speaker 5: You're listening too Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Mo and Twala will be back tomorrow and they'll tell
Speaker 2: you all about their ordeal, I mean, their fun cruise.
Speaker 2: We have some actual news to talk about tonight, and
Speaker 2: it seems like a situation in Rancho Palace Verdes is
Speaker 2: getting more and more dire. Give you a little information here,
Speaker 2: then go to a news report on it and additional
Speaker 2: one hundred and five residents is will lose electricity today
Speaker 2: as Southern California Edison continues implementing safeguards amid worsening landslides
Speaker 2: threatening areas of Rancho Palace vertis Fush will you played
Speaker 2: the news clip please?
Speaker 4: Gas power generators are now the main source of power
Speaker 4: for nearly one hundred and forty homes in the Portuguese
Speaker 4: ben community of Rancho Palace Verdes after Southern California Edison
Speaker 4: shut off the electricity due to safety concerns with the
Speaker 4: shifting land.
Speaker 6: We got the one day notice just this weekend, during
Speaker 6: a holiday weekend about Electric City, that that has been
Speaker 6: just unreal, to be quite honest with you.
Speaker 4: Kevin Cross rushed out to buy a generator Saturday night.
Speaker 4: He says, it's been frustrating to be given less than
Speaker 4: twenty four hours to prepare.
Speaker 6: It's crazy just driving all over the place. Still a
Speaker 6: lot of unknowns. I have no idea how long the
Speaker 6: generator works with a tank of gas. I'm trying to
Speaker 6: feel that out.
Speaker 4: This power shut off comes one month after the gas
Speaker 4: was shut off. As the landslides in Rancho Palace Verdes
Speaker 4: continue to worsen. It has been shifting since the nineteen fifties,
Speaker 4: but it's now moving at an accelerated rate of more
Speaker 4: than a foot a week in certain areas. The increase
Speaker 4: in heavy rains last year sped up the movement, damaging
Speaker 4: homes and roads.
Speaker 6: Just did this just to reinforce it. Didn't want the
Speaker 6: garage coming down here.
Speaker 4: CHROs has been making adjustments to protect the foundation since
Speaker 4: purchasing the property to deal with the crisis, which he
Speaker 4: says is manageable but feels continuously running. The loud generator
Speaker 4: is not an ideal salution and moving forward like.
Speaker 6: This cannot be long term, Like I'm already losing my mind.
Speaker 6: It's been a couple of days. I'm making constant adjustments.
Speaker 6: I don't want to run the generators really loud at night,
Speaker 6: so I have to turn it off, and there's no
Speaker 6: power in the mouse, you know, I got to decide,
Speaker 6: you know, when it's ready for time to go to bed.
Speaker 6: I really don't need that much power. But if an
Speaker 6: emergency happened and I need, you know, now, I need
Speaker 6: to have lanterns, flashlights, I need to have all these
Speaker 6: things prepared.
Speaker 7: And it's also expensive. Crow says. A generator of this
Speaker 7: size to run a home that's about four thousand square
Speaker 7: feet costs around twenty five hundred dollars and about seventy
Speaker 7: five dollars a day worth of gas just to fill
Speaker 7: it up. I did reach out to the city to
Speaker 7: see if there's any plans to reimburse or to help
Speaker 7: with paying off the generators are paying for gas.
Speaker 4: I still not heard back.
Speaker 2: What on nightmare and running a generator indefinitely indefinitely is
Speaker 2: no plan at all. So the latest shut off was
Speaker 2: scheduled for seven to night in the Seaview area. That
Speaker 2: comes a day after residents and one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: homes and the Portuguese ben community lost their electricity. They're
Speaker 2: under an evacuation warning some other highlights, although that's not
Speaker 2: really the word you want here. Forty seven homes without
Speaker 2: power for twenty four hours, forty properties without power for
Speaker 2: one to three weeks, twenty properties without power indefinitely. They've
Speaker 2: got vehicles, community care vehicles set up throughout the day
Speaker 2: to give people some help. I don't know what they
Speaker 2: can do though. Without gas electricity service, many residents may
Speaker 2: choose to seek alternative housing arrangements for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2: The cities identifying hotels and other accommodations that can offer
Speaker 2: discounted rates for residents. Again, a hotel, how long can
Speaker 2: you stay in a hotel?
Speaker 3: It assumes that people have this sort of emergency fund
Speaker 3: to be able to furnish this sort of disaster relief.
Speaker 3: And I know janis Han supervisor. Han is asking for age.
Speaker 3: He's appealing to Governor Newsom to try and get somewhere
Speaker 3: upwards of one billion in aid. But until that happens,
Speaker 3: people are going to be footing the bill individually, and
Speaker 3: again these are this is a community that is not
Speaker 3: necessarily wealthy. They have really expensive homes, and yes, there
Speaker 3: are people there who are wealthy or do have a
Speaker 3: lot of money, But then there are other people who
Speaker 3: got in a long time ago, lot of seniors who
Speaker 3: are living right at their means, and this is their home.
Speaker 3: This is their home, this is their savings, this is
Speaker 3: their retirement. And now all of this is in peril
Speaker 3: and they're saying indefinitely how the open endedness of this
Speaker 3: is insane, and right at the beginning of a heat wave,
Speaker 3: and at the coast at Portuguese Been, which I'm very
Speaker 3: familiar with. Yes, it is typically cooler than inland, but
Speaker 3: it can get really warm, and when you're dealing with
Speaker 3: all of this, it's just adding insult to injury.
Speaker 2: I see here the land movement in Rancho Palas Verdes
Speaker 2: has accelerated across six hundred and eighty acres following heavy
Speaker 2: rains in the spring of twenty twenty three, which caused
Speaker 2: more damage to homes and roads and utilities. So I
Speaker 2: guess there's a climate change component to this, but there's
Speaker 2: more to it than that. Oh and by the way,
Speaker 2: the fear of looters. For God's sakes, can you imagine
Speaker 2: a lower life form than somebody looting a home that
Speaker 2: people have had to skid daddle out of because they're
Speaker 2: afraid it's going to slide into the ocean.
Speaker 3: And it happened before, which is why they're issuing these
Speaker 3: warnings to residents and to the local law enforcement. Because
Speaker 3: back in May, back in March, back in these other
Speaker 3: you know, in the past previous months where they've been
Speaker 3: dealing with these evacuations, they absolutely had looting activity.
Speaker 2: And arrest too. So I see that Sheriff Luna has
Speaker 2: authorized drones to help guard against possible criminal activity. But
Speaker 2: what good is a drone going to do if somebody
Speaker 2: just gets in and out? I mean, I guess maybe
Speaker 2: help identifying them there. But there's more to the situation
Speaker 2: than the rain. Though. This is pretty interesting. It was
Speaker 2: ancient landslide that goes back thousands of years, which was
Speaker 2: activated by more recent tunneling involving a section of Crenshaw Boulevard.
Speaker 2: You get that some of this or some unspecified portion
Speaker 2: of a percentage of this awful landslide that's inconveniencing displacing,
Speaker 2: losing the homes possibly of countless people. This was from
Speaker 2: something that could have been avoided. So tunneling through something
Speaker 2: that really got this going. Who is responsible for this?
Speaker 2: Who pays? And I gotta tell you, this is so
Speaker 2: dire that it sounds to me like something out of
Speaker 2: one of those seventies disaster movies? Are you too young
Speaker 2: for these? The ones in sense around that shook the
Speaker 2: seats like you would have Charles Charlton Heston warning somebody
Speaker 2: you can't do this, or X Y and Z is
Speaker 2: going to happening, going to happen, and this is the
Speaker 2: X Y and Z. So it seems to me like
Speaker 2: if this is true that it's at least partially the
Speaker 2: result of tunneling, somebody's got to answer for this. Somebody's
Speaker 2: got to pay, somebody's going to make these people whole again.
Speaker 2: Like I don't really understand engineering at all. Of all
Speaker 2: the stuff I try to school myself on, engineering baffles
Speaker 2: me more than almost anything. So, Like there's sometimes late
Speaker 2: at night I'll have a nightcap and I'll turn on
Speaker 2: YouTube and watch documentaries about these skyscrapers in New York
Speaker 2: and it gives me anxiety attacks. I'm not kidding y,
Speaker 2: So the prospect of building in an area like this
Speaker 2: that might be a little dicey to begin with, and
Speaker 2: then just kind of doing the whole gopher routine in
Speaker 2: networks that destabilize all the ground underneath. That seems insane
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 3: It's a huge part of the city of this region
Speaker 3: that is going away and forcibly violently, some might say
Speaker 3: it really kind of We thought peeked with Wayfarer's chapel
Speaker 3: back in.
Speaker 2: May remind people what happened with that. If you can recall.
Speaker 3: The details, maybe we can do that when we come back.
Speaker 2: Oh is it time to break? Now, let's move on,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna stay on top of this story at KFI,
Speaker 2: so stay tuned. When we come back from the break,
Speaker 2: we are going to talk about sports fans getting cut
Speaker 2: right off and the weekend box office and after that
Speaker 2: Jackie Ray, Allison Martino Full Night Ahead. Stay tuned.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Mark Ronner in from the newsroom from O Kelly, who
Speaker 2: is off on a cruise with Tuala Tiffany Hobbs here
Speaker 2: making sure I don't burst into tears or stuff for
Speaker 2: about of incontinence here in the host with different share
Speaker 2: but same cru you got Foosh in the air mix.
Speaker 2: We've got okay, not fully the same crew. We've got Eileen,
Speaker 2: who is new in the news department. Welcome aboard, Eileen.
Speaker 2: I you know what did I say to you the
Speaker 2: first time I trained you? You don't remember? You said
Speaker 2: run okay. Apart from that, I said, your learning curve
Speaker 2: is frightening me, and you're going to have my job.
Speaker 2: I just didn't think it was going to be quite
Speaker 2: this fast. We've got Keana, and I think we're good
Speaker 2: to go. The story that we're going to do right
Speaker 2: now is hilarious because playing the sports theme before I
Speaker 2: talk is about the most inappropriate thing in the world.
Speaker 2: Not only do I not follow sports or know anything
Speaker 2: about most sports that people watch. I did all the
Speaker 2: crappy ones that nobody likes like. I wrestled, and I
Speaker 2: had to wear the singlet, which honestly rather unflattering no
Speaker 2: matter what kind of shape you think you're in the singlet,
Speaker 2: I ran, I did kickboxing, and these are not real
Speaker 2: crowd pleasers of sports. But I'm gonna start off with
Speaker 2: a story here and then you're gonna understand why this
Speaker 2: is interesting to me. The statute of limitations has run
Speaker 2: out on this. It's been decades one time, and I
Speaker 2: really wasn't into sports. One time, when I was living
Speaker 2: in Indiana working at my first newspaper and not barely
Speaker 2: making enough to make rent and have a nightcap after
Speaker 2: my police beach shift. At the end of the night,
Speaker 2: I had no money whatsoever, dirt poor. I heard there
Speaker 2: was going to be a Wild Wild West TV show
Speaker 2: marathon on one of the cable channels. I didn't have cable,
Speaker 2: so what did I do. I got a ladder out
Speaker 2: of the landlord's garage and I started hacking into my neighbor,
Speaker 2: Hippie Jim's cable. And I had a splitter that I
Speaker 2: bought for like a buck and a half at the store.
Speaker 2: And I'm up on the ladder. I've cut it in half.
Speaker 2: I've got half of it in my mouth and the
Speaker 2: knife in the other hand, and I look down and
Speaker 2: I see Hippie Jim and his wife standing there looking
Speaker 2: up at me like they're going to kill me, like
Speaker 2: it's one of those standiard ground states. Because apparently I
Speaker 2: had cut off their cable right in the middle of
Speaker 2: an important sports game. They're watching to watch the Wild
Speaker 2: Wild West. They were within their rights to take my
Speaker 2: life at this time. And so what's that I got
Speaker 2: to do with this is that ESPN's gone off the
Speaker 2: air on a major carrier for the second straight year
Speaker 2: during the US Open Tennis tournament and in the midst
Speaker 2: of the first full weekend to college football. Disney entertainment
Speaker 2: channels went dark on Direct TV Sunday night after the
Speaker 2: sides were unable to reach a new carriage agreement. The
Speaker 2: move angered some sports fans. You think, I bet seismologists
Speaker 2: here at the university probably picked up the tremor from
Speaker 2: people yelling that one word that starts to see.
Speaker 3: You know, who was playing yesterday when this happened.
Speaker 2: Football wise, college your side, don't who? Who?
Speaker 3: USC my alma mater and LSU, which was a hugely
Speaker 3: anticipated game watched by so many people, and it was
Speaker 3: held in Las Vegas, and there was a lot of
Speaker 3: interest because this is kind of the foray into SC
Speaker 3: being a part of a whole new division. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: we won, but it was interrupted in the very beginning
Speaker 3: by this.
Speaker 2: This it's not funny, I don't know, but on the
Speaker 2: Ski one to ten of just absolute outrages that would
Speaker 2: make you want to get on somebody with a baseball bat.
Speaker 2: What is this with eight, ten, eleven?
Speaker 3: This is a thirteen. Really, when you're watching the game
Speaker 3: now that we're calm, it's a one. It's a two
Speaker 3: because you're looking at these two huge conglomerates arguing about money.
Speaker 3: But during your game, during the you know, the US Open,
Speaker 3: during college football's first weekend. No one wants to you
Speaker 3: wait all year for these things.
Speaker 2: No, And apparently this is the result of unresolved negotiations
Speaker 2: between DirecTV and Disney, resulting in the loss of access
Speaker 2: to ESPN ABC owned stations in La San Francisco Bay Area, Fresno,
Speaker 2: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Raleigh. They also got cut
Speaker 2: off last year. Disney and Spectrum, which is the nation's
Speaker 2: second largest cable TV provider, we're involved in a nearly
Speaker 2: twelve day m pass until coming to an agreement hours
Speaker 2: before the first Monday night NFL game of the season.
Speaker 2: Like there's a white knuckle finish for you. DirecTV says
Speaker 2: Disney offered an extension to keep the channels on the
Speaker 2: air and exchange for listen to this direct TV having
Speaker 2: to waive all future legal claims that its behavior is
Speaker 2: anti competitive. And even if I don't know much about sports,
Speaker 2: I can tell you waving all future legal claims tends
Speaker 2: to be a bit of a red flag, wouldn't you think?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so I can understand DirecTV not wanting to
Speaker 3: enter into that type of agreement.
Speaker 2: What's extra funny is that the Direct TV people are
Speaker 2: getting into some smack talk here against old Uncle Walt.
Speaker 2: Here's the chief content Officer, Rob thoone of DirecTV, the
Speaker 2: Walt Disney companies, once again refusing any accountability to consumers,
Speaker 2: distribution partners, and now the American judicial system. Disney's in
Speaker 2: the business of creating alternate realities, but this is the
Speaker 2: real world where we believe you earn your way and
Speaker 2: must answer for your own actions. Honestly, this sounds a
Speaker 2: little biting, it's a little bureaucratese. But this is thrown
Speaker 2: down in language. This is like saying, you know, here's
Speaker 2: a middle finger for you, Uncle Walt, and here is
Speaker 2: Disney's response. Well, I'll read the response and then we
Speaker 2: can interpret it. While we're open to offering direct TV
Speaker 2: flexibility in terms which we've extended to other distributors, we
Speaker 2: will not enter into an agreement that undervalues our portfolio
Speaker 2: of television channels and programs.
Speaker 3: They want more money, they do Disney. They always want
Speaker 3: more money.
Speaker 2: But honestly, after the acolyte, shouldn't you be a little
Speaker 2: bit humble about what you're asking people to cough up?
Speaker 2: I mean, really, really, so the direct TV guy really
Speaker 2: goes for it again down here, He says Disney Disney's
Speaker 2: only magic is forcing prices to go up while simultaneously
Speaker 2: making its content disappear. I mean, they might as well
Speaker 2: just say it's not the happiest place on Earth Disneyland.
Speaker 2: Go there and kill yourself. They're really pulling out the
Speaker 2: stops here, or like Disney the happy place on Earth
Speaker 2: for me to poop on? If it for a triumph
Speaker 2: the insult comic dog, we blew right through the box
Speaker 2: office results for the weekend. Maybe we'll get to that
Speaker 2: later in the show, like say, for instance, if a
Speaker 2: guest stiffs us tonight. But we're gonna go to a
Speaker 2: break right now, and when we come back, Jackie Ray
Speaker 2: is going to come and school me about what's going
Speaker 2: on in sports this week. Mark Ronner with Tiffany Hobbs.
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