WEBVTT 1 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:25.000 It's later with mo Kelly. How's your Monday been going? 2 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:28.960 Hopefully pretty well? Is it a holiday? I know it 3 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:31.600 was Mother's Day yesterday, but it felt like a holiday. 4 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:34.039 I got on the freeway, it wasn't too crowded. My 5 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:37.320 commute was not too long. I got into the garage 6 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:39.920 and it wasn't too a fill that. I'm thinking, like, 7 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:41.240 wait a minute, maybe the joke. 8 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:41.640 Is on me. 9 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:46.479 Did someone send out a memo and I didn't get it. 10 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:50.880 I pulled in it was everywhere to park. Usually there's 11 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:54.640 nowhere to park. Today there was everywhere to park. I 12 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.759 had no problem getting to the office. It's almost like 13 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:01.000 somebody knows something I do not. 14 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:05.280 Here we are back on a Monday, Mark Ronald, good evening, sir. 15 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:06.719 How was your weekend? You know it was. 16 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:09.040 It was way too short, but I got a chance 17 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:11.439 to take in a movie or two. I went to 18 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.879 a special screening of Karate Kid Legends. 19 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:17.439 I may tell you about that later. Uh huh huh. 20 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:19.840 You know, I I was ruminating about that after we 21 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:22.000 had just a couple of texts. I'm just kind of 22 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.640 over that. I have had all the nostalgia from that 23 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:27.159 that I require, and. 24 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:28.599 I think too much of a good thing. Maybe at 25 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:33.200 this point. Yeah, you might be right, that's all I'll say. 26 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:35.280 Oh my god, you might be right. I hope this 27 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.640 is being recorded. We're starting off the week agreed that 28 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:43.920 that is unsettling. Oh we're off to a horrible start. Serious, Stephan, 29 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:44.959 Did you uber this weekend? 30 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:46.000 I did. 31 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:47.560 Did you make a little bit of money or a 32 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:49.400 lot of money? I made a pretty good amount of money. 33 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:50.640 Do they pay you each night? 34 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:54.680 Well, you have the option to take it out whenever 35 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:56.920 you want, but if you don't take it out yourself, 36 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:57.959 it's weekly. 37 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:00.519 Okay, that's not bad. Yeah, it's pretty cool. O bad 38 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:02.719 Twillert sharp. Did you go to any concerts with your 39 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:03.480 daughter this weekend? 40 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:04.959 No? 41 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:09.520 You sure? No? No, seriously, slept in pretty much all weekend. 42 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:14.520 Man, Shockingly, that is sometimes a good weekend, A good weekend, 43 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:17.960 the best. We got so much to cover locally. Just 44 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:19.400 want to let you know at the bottom of the hour, 45 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:22.719 we're going to talk about the Long Beach Memorial Nurses strike, 46 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:27.120 which has been announced and scheduled for May twenty second. 47 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:31.759 That could have all sorts of impact and influence on 48 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:34.439 your lives, especially if you're in Southern California. 49 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:36.039 We'll talk about that at the bottom of the hour. 50 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:37.680 I have to start off. 51 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:40.520 With some local news here, and it's unfortunate, but is 52 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.280 relevant to things we've discussed on this show. 53 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:46.360 And I say this not as I told you so, but. 54 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:49.960 More as let me warn you one more time that 55 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.719 you do not take going to the gas station lightly. 56 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:55.840 I say that I do not go to the gas 57 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:58.599 station at night, but whenever I do, which is always 58 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:01.039 in the daytime, my head is always on a swivel 59 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:04.520 because I know I am more likely to be victimized 60 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.080 at a gas station than any other time, if only 61 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:12.000 because you're there to spend money, presumably your stationary. You 62 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:15.479 may be distracted, your car door is opened, they know 63 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:18.639 you have your keys on you. You are more likely 64 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:22.120 to be victimized or carjacked or something of that. A 65 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:25.879 seventy eight year old man unfortunately has died when he 66 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:29.319 was dragged during a violent carjacking at a Norcote gas 67 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.759 station this afternoon. And this happened around twelve twenty three pm, 68 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:37.520 and the victim, according to news reports, was cleaning the 69 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:42.120 backseat of his car when a suspected carjacker got in 70 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:45.639 and started backing up with the seventy seventy eight year 71 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:48.840 old man still in the back of the vehicle, partially in, 72 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:52.919 partially out. And then that's when the suspect allegedly sped 73 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:56.240 east on Hidden Valley Parkway, dragging the victim for about 74 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:57.319 a quarter mile. 75 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.240 I'm seeing a mile. Oh okay, then they've updated. That's 76 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:03.840 in my copy. I don't know. I'm sure the story 77 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:05.120 will shape up throughout the evening. 78 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:08.000 No, since it happened earlier today, there may be some 79 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:11.039 conflicting information. I'm getting this from ABC seven. I can't 80 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.080 speak for you. It's horrifying one way or the other. 81 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:15.479 The man fell out of the car and was taken 82 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:18.920 to a hospital where he later died. And there's nothing 83 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:21.680 we can do about this man, unfortunately. But if I 84 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:26.319 can impress upon anyone one more time that when you 85 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:30.319 are at a gas station, be it man, woman, young adult, 86 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:35.439 elderly individual, you have to pay attention at all times 87 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:40.319 because criminals will target people and their cars at a 88 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:43.519 gas station. I don't know what else to say. And 89 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.720 this story came down, I want to think maybe five minutes. 90 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:48.759 I saw this five minutes before we got on the air, 91 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:50.680 and I said to walaw. We have to make mention 92 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:52.920 of this because it's real important to what we do. 93 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:53.480 Yeah. 94 00:04:53.680 --> 00:05:00.279 No, And interesting enough, I practice gas station safety whenever 95 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:02.399 I going today on the way in, I had to 96 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:06.160 stop and get gased, and in dropping off, actually dropping 97 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:06.879 my son off. 98 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:08.240 He didn't understand why I did it. 99 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:11.519 But I get out the car and I close the doors, 100 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.120 leave the AC runner and I lock the doors, lock 101 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.079 the doors, and then I go and get my gas. 102 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:18.600 He's like, I'm in the car. Why'd you lock there? 103 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:23.560 I'm like, because of car jackers. He's like, well, Dumbe's 104 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:24.120 coming around here. 105 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:26.720 I'm like, that's the type of mentality that you have 106 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.199 when you get jacked. No one's gonna come around here. 107 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:35.399 It's the false sense of security, believing that because it's 108 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:38.120 broad daylight. You know, this is twelve twenty three in 109 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:43.480 the afternoon, that's when we're probably most relaxed. Twelve twenty 110 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:45.160 three in the afternoon is when I would usually get 111 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:48.560 my gas, maybe on the way to work, and that's 112 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:52.720 when something bad could happen. I'm quite sure as a 113 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:55.199 seventy eight year old man, he was looked upon. Its 114 00:05:55.240 --> 00:06:00.639 probably an easier target. But again, if you're not paying attention, 115 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.079 you are an easier target, unfortunately, and I would want 116 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:08.439 everyone to be safe, and safety starts with the decisions 117 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:13.120 and choices that you make before you find yourself in danger, 118 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:16.279 before you get into a situation where someone is trying 119 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:19.680 to carjack you. And all of us, with exception of 120 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:21.800 the people who have evs, got to go to the 121 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:22.360 gas station. 122 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:24.600 And if you're going to go, don't go at night. 123 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.399 And when you do go, you have to remain attentive 124 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:32.279 at all times, because that's when you are more susceptible 125 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:34.519 than other times. I see this all the time. 126 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:36.079 I'm sorry, Mark, I see this all the time where 127 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.839 I see some people go through a gas station car 128 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.439 wash and right at the end they'll go apart right 129 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:45.600 there out the exit and they start vacuuming, cleaning out 130 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:47.720 the back of their car. And every single time I 131 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:51.279 see people just nose in in the car back to 132 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:53.120 the world with their door open. 133 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:56.519 I'm like, you are looking like a victim. You're looking 134 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:59.279 like a victim right now. Be safe out there. It's 135 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:01.279 later with Kelly when we come back. 136 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:05.360 We have a Metro update, and interestingly enough, it has 137 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:08.839 to do with safety and the elderly that's next. 138 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:13.040 You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from 139 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:17.120 KFI AM six forty. 140 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:19.319 It's Later with mo Kelly. 141 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:22.399 I gotta tell you, just in case you didn't know, 142 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:25.480 we're still live on YouTube at mister mo Kelly m 143 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:27.800 R M O K E L L Y. I gotta 144 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:33.480 tell you. I'm getting offended again for another occasion. Metro 145 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:37.240 is doing something and not including me. How are you 146 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:42.639 gonna have the ninth annual Older Adult Transportation Expo, which 147 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:45.439 is put on by La Metro at that Pasadena convention 148 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:46.720 Center happened. 149 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:48.720 Last Friday and not invite me. 150 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:53.759 I'm like doubly offended because they were talking about taking 151 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:56.959 seniors fifty five years and older. First, that's fed up. 152 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.920 I'm fifty five and they're considering me a senior. All right, 153 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.639 that's number one and number two. You didn't at least 154 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:06.759 give me the respect of inviting me to the event 155 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:09.399 because I might have had something to add. 156 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:11.399 Well, maybe they're working on something else, like naming a 157 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:14.120 new mo Kelly HEMO stat for people who have been injured. 158 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:15.480 I don't know. I don't know. 159 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:17.639 I would like to know, though they're not including me 160 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:20.920 in the conversation. You at least could have hosted the seminar. 161 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.480 Wouldn't I have been great for that. Yes, it would 162 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:26.399 have been a great community event, and it could have 163 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:31.519 built bridges. It could have improved their media outreach and 164 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.840 their coverage. But now they just completely ignored me. But anyhow, 165 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:39.840 it was the ninth annual Older Adult Transportation Expo. Happened 166 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.919 Friday at the Pasadena Convention Center and it was attended 167 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:46.399 by get this, six hundred and forty senior citizens. 168 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:49.399 It's like built in KFI six forty. 169 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:53.240 Six hundred and forty senior citizens did that on purpose. 170 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:55.200 That's not a mistake. It rights itself. 171 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:57.600 They're playing in my face, I tell you, I tell you, 172 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:02.080 and they were supposedly. Met was focused on teaching older 173 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:05.600 adults how to use the metro system, successfully loading and 174 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:08.639 using a tap card for entering trains and buses, and 175 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:11.799 also listening to their concerns. You know what their number 176 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:17.240 one concern was, anyone, anyone feeler the new security fairgates, 177 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:24.759 no safety getting killed, shot, stabbed, I don't know, abducted. 178 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:25.240 Quote. 179 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:28.720 A lot of older people are afraid to travel on 180 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:32.080 trains and buses because they don't think it is safe 181 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:35.480 that's Marilyn Peters and La Metro travel buddy for eight 182 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:40.480 years down in the Crenshaw District. Okay, this is what 183 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.480 Maryland does before she starts an outing with a new group. 184 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:47.200 She emails them safety precautions. Bring a small purse, keep 185 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.000 your cell phone inside your purse, Have your TAP card 186 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.879 ready so you're not rummaging for it. Always be alert, 187 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:57.120 don't wear a lot of jewelry. All great advice, great advice, 188 00:09:57.159 --> 00:10:02.399 but still the underlying concern is safety. That's not because 189 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:05.519 they're all listening to this station or they're watching me 190 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.480 on YouTube. That's because it's a real thing. It's not 191 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:16.080 just their imagination. And I appreciate to Metro's credit having 192 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:19.759 an event like this annually to help explain how to 193 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:23.480 use to tap fair cards, to explain what type of 194 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:27.120 safety and security measures are in place. But if you 195 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:29.559 look at the story, they had a number of people 196 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:37.559 speak up about what they as writers saw firsthand. Assaults, harassment, 197 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:40.720 all sorts of concerns that you and I have talked 198 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:44.320 about any number of times on this show. It's not new, 199 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.799 but La Metro still wants us to know as far 200 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:52.440 as stats go. Quote La Metro Violent crime rates drop 201 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:55.039 fifteen percent from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four. 202 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:58.600 And that's according to a report cited by Metros Operations, 203 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:03.720 Safety and Custom Experience Committee. Stats don't make you safer. 204 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:06.879 You can't walk out of the house. And I've said 205 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:09.120 this before, you can't walk out and feel like, well, 206 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:12.480 I feel fifteen percent safer as according to the stats 207 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:15.039 in front of me. You know, I feel like I'm 208 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:17.679 thirty five percent less likely to get shaped. 209 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:21.159 It doesn't work that way. It's not the numbers. 210 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:27.360 It's the environment that you create and can sustain consistently, 211 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:30.679 which makes one feel safer. 212 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.320 Maybe they need new slogan, like Metro it's not just 213 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:34.639 for apex predators. 214 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:37.000 I don't know if that's going to be good enough. 215 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:38.399 I don't know, Mark. 216 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:41.039 You might be onto something you think, well, part of 217 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.320 it is so numbers aren't supposed to make us feel better. 218 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:45.879 No, I don't think so. Oh okay, no, no, no, no, 219 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.840 not not in a vacuum. Yeah. 220 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:50.720 You know, if you were to walk up to me 221 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:55.840 and say, hey, mo, zero percent of people were stabbed today, 222 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.320 does that make me feel any better? Not really, because 223 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:01.799 someone can get stabbed tomorrow and we have the totality 224 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:05.480 of the information and the stats to know that there 225 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:08.759 is still a distinct possibility that something is going to 226 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:13.559 happen and it could be violent. Why because there's still 227 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:18.399 no security component and safety component to the way, or 228 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:23.039 to the degree which protects most passengers on buses, on trains, 229 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:24.240 on platforms. 230 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.399 Why we don't have that Metro security force. 231 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:29.559 You don't have that individual who's on every bus or 232 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:32.080 every train or at every platform. 233 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:36.960 But maybe since they have hired a new Metro police chief, 234 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:41.960 that is probably first on his docket. 235 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.879 Well I'm so yeah, I'm sure that is, and they 236 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:47.600 will be hiring people. But that's not tomorrow, that's not 237 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:50.440 next week, that's not next month. I honestly, you don't 238 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:52.159 even think it's next year. I think it's more like 239 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:56.360 twenty twenty seven, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so whatever 240 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:59.600 they're telling these elderly folks. And still I'm mad that 241 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:02.000 they think fifty five is elderly, okay, man, but it is. 242 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:05.000 I'm looking forward to that. No, no, no, I know five, 243 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:06.080 you've crossed the rubica. 244 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:08.679 I would like to think that I am still able 245 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:11.960 bodied enough where I don't need physical assistance to get 246 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:15.279 on a freaking bus. Okay, but did you get an 247 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.639 AARP card. No, they sent me an aa RP card. 248 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:21.480 I didn't ask for one. They started sending me that 249 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:24.159 information when I turned like forty five. And that's like, hey, 250 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:27.840 slow down fast, AARP. I don't know you like that. 251 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:29.679 We're not in a relationship. 252 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:33.080 Okay. It's like they want to just consummate the relationship 253 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:34.720 on the first day. It's like, look, I don't even 254 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:36.879 know you. Can we sit down and talk. 255 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:39.320 Oh, don't be so quick to reject it. Maybe there's 256 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:41.159 some good deals in there for a man of your age. 257 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:42.879 There are, there are. 258 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:45.039 And that was the only problem with it, because I 259 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:46.960 was willing to sit down and listen to them. You 260 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.320 can't say no because they actually do give good deals. 261 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:50.720 They are so I was looking at them. I might 262 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:53.519 go to Denny's tonight. Too much good stuff. 263 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:57.639 There were some deals in there. It's like, okay, well, 264 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.559 maybe I should just think about this for a while. 265 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:01.279 It's good story. 266 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:06.799 Yeah, it's my pride keeps getting in the well. Dismiss 267 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:09.519 it now, don't dismiss it. I was in the hallway. 268 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:11.639 True story, and I'm glad none of you saw this. 269 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:13.600 But I was in the hallway doing push ups because 270 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.320 I was having an internal struggles like, wait, man, I 271 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:19.200 can't be at that age where I'm going to be 272 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.399 considered a senior. I just know I reject it. I 273 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:27.279 rebuke thee get behind these state satan. I know, I 274 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:29.639 know I'm not I'm not too old. 275 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:31.159 For this ish. I refuse. 276 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:33.320 So you're doing push ups in the hallway like Jack 277 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.639 Palance doing them at the oscars, just to prove something 278 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:36.039 to people. 279 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:38.159 I can still do one arm push ups. By the way, Yeah, 280 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:40.679 I'm just throwing that out there. Okay, strong light bull. 281 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:42.120 Everybody wants to see that. 282 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:46.919 Very virile. Hey, you know we can we can't. 283 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:46.639 Can't. 284 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:50.399 I heard that. I am not. I'm not playing agaful. 285 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.399 These cameras are here for a reason. I think you 286 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:56.080 kind of have to do it. No, I really don't 287 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.759 have to do it. Just no, no, we have to get 288 00:14:58.799 --> 00:14:59.240 to the card. 289 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:01.480 So no, no, no pull up. 290 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:05.840 How many people want to see MO do one push up? 291 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.600 Just one? Just one me one? Okay. 292 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:12.840 When we come back, we're going to talk about Long 293 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:16.120 Beach Memorial and how the nurses there have announced a 294 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:18.759 one day strike for patient safety. 295 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:20.759 Coming up on May twenty second. 296 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:24.440 We'll talk about some of the issues surrounding that and 297 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:27.480 what it may actually be like for those nurses who 298 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:30.399 are working at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. 299 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:34.320 That's next you're listening to Later with mo Kelly on 300 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:41.759 Demand from KFI AM six forty. 301 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:42.840 When mo Kelly on k. 302 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:51.720 Six registered nurses at Memorial Care Long Beach Medical Center 303 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.000 gave notice to their employer back on May eighth that 304 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:57.759 they will hold a one day strike starting at seven 305 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:02.519 am on May twenty second, to protest the hospital's refusal 306 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:07.600 to what they call a dishonest engagement in good faith 307 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:13.480 negotiations over needed improvements to patient care, nurse working conditions 308 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:16.240 and staffing. Joining us right now on Later with mo 309 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:19.799 Kelly is registered nurse Nedrah Gails to give us some 310 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:22.159 sense or at least on the side of nurses, what 311 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:25.559 is going on both inside the hospital and outside of 312 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:28.159 it as far as negotiations. Gails is nice to have 313 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:29.399 you on the show tonight. How are you? 314 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:33.519 Thank you, Mo? I'm doing well. 315 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:38.840 How should I describe how desperate or I should say 316 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:43.159 how concerned nurses are at the working conditions at Long 317 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:44.360 Beach Memorial. 318 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:54.799 Well. The primary reason for the nurses going on strike 319 00:16:55.799 --> 00:17:02.200 is for the sake of our patients and also for ourselves, 320 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:08.240 you know, our our protests is it's towards the management 321 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:14.759 for their refusal to just address the concerns that the 322 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:24.519 nurses have regarding safe patient care, staffing, workplace violence protections, 323 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:31.160 and you know, just the overall wellbeing of the patient 324 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:35.240 population that we care for at Memorial and other children. 325 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:36.599 Do I have this correct? 326 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:40.759 That there was a negotiation which was planned for late 327 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:44.279 last week and instead of the negotiation they handed out 328 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:47.279 pink slips to various nurses. 329 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.480 Is that correct? 330 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:58.920 The negotiation was set for last Friday and our management 331 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:06.799 team decided did not to appear. Our nurse negotiation team 332 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:11.000 did it follow through and we were present at the 333 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:20.519 table ready to meet and discuss and hopefully come together 334 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:25.359 with a contract that was fair and equitable. But again 335 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:30.000 the management of the hospital decided that they would not come. 336 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:33.839 Tell me about what's it like on an average day 337 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:36.920 in Long Beach Memorial because of these issues. 338 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:39.759 Are nurses being overworked? 339 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:43.119 Are they not getting the type of support and support 340 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:46.200 staff that they need? What are some of the central 341 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:50.440 issues which is having nurses speak out and also protest 342 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:54.119 picket and eventually go on strike May twenty second. 343 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:01.799 So Mo, what we are asking for regarding the safe 344 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:04.960 staffing is, you know, we want to be able to 345 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:07.799 take care of our patients the best way we can, 346 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:16.519 and when we have units that are not fully staffed, 347 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:22.440 patients are waiting for long periods of time for care 348 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:29.039 in our emergency departments. Those kinds of situations are concerning 349 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:31.359 to the nurses and to the community. 350 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:34.799 Now that you are shorter staffed, because I know there 351 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:38.319 have been layoffs, what is the concern In other words, 352 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:43.359 are there going to be any gaps in patient help 353 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:46.799 or patient care between now and the twenty second because 354 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:48.599 of these recent layoffs. 355 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:56.000 So because of one of the things that we're asking 356 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:02.079 for with regards to our pro tests, it does have 357 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:07.519 to do with services being cut to the community. An 358 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:15.119 example is our outpatient children's clinics. Because of these layoffs 359 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:20.519 that you mentioned of, some of those services are quite 360 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:25.720 possibly not going to continue the way that the community 361 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:31.720 has known them. A prime example is the closing of 362 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:37.599 the outpatient Children's Village Pharmacy, where a lot of the 363 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:42.240 children that are seen in those clinics, they are having 364 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:46.839 to get their medications from outside pharmacies that they're not 365 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:52.319 familiar with, and some of the specialized medications are harder to. 366 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:54.759 Attain if you're just tuning in. 367 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:57.200 My guess right now is Nedra Gails, who is a 368 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:00.920 registered nurse working at Long Beach Memorial Or talking about 369 00:21:01.279 --> 00:21:04.799 how nurses have given notice to their employer that on 370 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:07.480 May twenty second, they plan to go on a one 371 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:11.000 day strike starting at seven am on May twenty second, 372 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:16.079 to bring more light to negotiations with it, which at 373 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:20.160 this point have been stalled over needed improvements to patient care, 374 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:23.720 working conditions, and staffing. And Netie, let me pick up 375 00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:27.200 there on May twenty second, if things progress as they 376 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:30.480 seem to be progressing, what does that one day strike 377 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:33.880 look like? And how many nurses are we talking about? 378 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:35.000 Everyone? How does. 379 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:41.519 The hospital continue to function without your work. 380 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:48.200 So well? One of the big deals about this strike. 381 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:54.759 We proposed a one day strike starting on May twenty 382 00:21:55.279 --> 00:22:03.440 second and ending night of May twenty second. The management 383 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:09.799 of the hospital has elected to lock us out until 384 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:13.960 well for four days, so it'll be a toll of 385 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:18.160 five days that you know we will be away from 386 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:19.119 the bedside. 387 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:20.599 Does that let me jump in there? 388 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:24.039 Does that mean that patients will be lacking for care 389 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:27.839 or will they be bringing in other nurses from other 390 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:32.440 locations or other physicians assistance if you will, to cover 391 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:35.039 the gap while you are not working there during that time. 392 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:41.680 So, during the time that we are out on strike, 393 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:49.839 the hospital management has made the decision to bring in replacement, 394 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:55.599 and it comes on that decision comes on the heels 395 00:22:55.839 --> 00:23:05.039 of the approximately nurses that have been laid off, and 396 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:12.400 it gives kind of a mixed what's the word like? 397 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:21.319 It gives us Yeah, because the hospital is investing in 398 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:27.519 outside workforce when there have been nurses that have been 399 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:31.640 laid off from their jobs and then we were willing 400 00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:37.880 and are willing to come back to work after our protests. No, 401 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:41.759