WEBVTT 1 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:24.640 Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. 2 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:26.800 This later with mo Kelly k if I am six 3 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:28.960 forty WeLive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:32.759 It seemed like a good idea. When I got in 5 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:36.840 my car, I turned on the GPS and I said, 6 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:40.799 about an hour and twenty minutes my normal route to 7 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:41.679 get to the studio. 8 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:44.039 It seemed like a good idea, said, well, why don't 9 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:45.280 I try a different route. 10 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:47.640 Why don't I just go ahead and take my time, 11 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:51.399 embrace the horror and maybe take surface streets. Usually I 12 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:53.880 go to the one ten to the five to the 13 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:56.119 one thirty four, and they said it was all bad, 14 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:01.200 all bad, bad, bad, bad bad movie mount he So 15 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:04.439 instead I just decided to drive north on Western take 16 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.439 the surface streets. And I've done it many times, and 17 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:09.239 usually it's like a one to one trade off, it's 18 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:10.719 about the same amount of time. 19 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:14.719 Not today, Not today. 20 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:18.400 I should have trusted my instincts and just sucked it 21 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:22.439 up and took the hour and twenty five minute commute 22 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.959 that Google Maps was telling me on the freeways. Instead, 23 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:30.000 I ended up with a two hour surface street drive. 24 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:36.040 I was going up Western and then I noticed that 25 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:40.040 and I think it's connected to standard time. There are 26 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:43.879 far more people on the roads in the three thirty 27 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:48.200 to four thirty hour now than a few weeks ago. 28 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:50.920 There's just far more people. So it just made it 29 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:55.719 a ridiculous drive. Motorcycles were zooming in and out. I 30 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:56.879 was honking at people. 31 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.439 I almost flipped off someone, and I thought, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 32 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:03.400 you can't do that. Yes, you can embrace the dark side. 33 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:05.560 It's different when you're on a surface street. There's nowhere 34 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:06.040 for you to go. 35 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.080 That's when someone in traffic so bad, someone could get 36 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:10.759 out the car and walk up to your car and 37 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:13.240 shoot you, as opposed to on the freeway where you 38 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:15.319 might be able to zig and zag and get away. 39 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:17.560 I wouldn't have had that opportunity. I feel like you're 40 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:20.039 moving in the right direction. Mo. You will embrace the 41 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:24.240 mark runner away soon. No, I won't discuss better part 42 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:27.159 of valor. But as I was going down Western. 43 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.400 If you know Western, and you cross the other side 44 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:34.199 of like First Street, you getting ready to get into 45 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:37.000 the Hollywood area, you pick up the one on one freeway. 46 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:38.800 As I was getting ready to get on the one 47 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:42.560 on one freeway for this hour and twenty minute drive. 48 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:45.919 Police had shut down the one oh one North. I 49 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:47.759 could see it as I was getting ready to turn 50 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.159 on because I don't know, maybe they were chasing someone. 51 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:51.479 I think there was some chase on a one on 52 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:55.719 one today and they shut down the one o one freeway, 53 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:59.039 so they were precluding anyone from getting on the one 54 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:02.159 on one at West. So I said shoot. No, I 55 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:04.680 didn't say shoot, I said something much more vulgar. And 56 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:07.520 then I got I said, got off the freeway entrance, 57 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:09.680 and I said, let me just keep going up north 58 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:13.039 on Western, and then I made a left onto Fountain, 59 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:16.520 if you know that basic path, I'm weaving my way 60 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:19.800 through Hollywood. And then it just came to a complete 61 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:24.039 standstill because the people who were stuck on the freeway 62 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:28.120 were being forced off the one freeway onto the surface 63 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:31.000 streets right where I was, and the people who were 64 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:34.439 going straight on on Fountain couldn't go any further because 65 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:36.039 a lot of those people were trying to get back 66 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:37.280 on the one on one freeway. 67 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:39.159 It was a cluster truck high and low. 68 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:43.000 Short version of this story is it took me two 69 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:48.080 hours to go twenty two miles in southern California when 70 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:50.840 I left, the sun was out. When I arrived, the 71 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:54.879 sun was down. Stop fighting it feel the power? 72 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.479 Fight what I look? I had given up. I was 73 00:03:58.759 --> 00:03:59.360 in my car. 74 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:03.039 It's like, look, at least I had some good stuff 75 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:06.479 to listen to. It had some relaxing music. I wasn't stressed. 76 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:09.000 It was like, I can't do this every day. I 77 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.159 just can't do two hours in the car one way 78 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:14.919 every single day. 79 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:15.639 Now. 80 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:18.920 I know they were extenuating circumstances whenever. It was happening 81 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:21.519 on the one oh one at four point thirty today, 82 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:24.920 but it was one of those things where this for 83 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:29.480 someone who drives every day, even for me, it was like, damn, 84 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:31.240 this is a lot to deal with. 85 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:32.360 A lot. 86 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:36.199 For like four point three seconds, I considered getting on 87 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.560 Metro going forward, but. 88 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:42.560 It was like it was like gas. It passed shortly thereafter, 89 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:44.959 and I was fine. After that, it was a fleeting thought. 90 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.600 It didn't linger, and I said, well, well maybe the 91 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:49.199 maybe the metro whip No. 92 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:52.720 Never mind, no, no. 93 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:54.000 So how was your commute? Mark? 94 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:57.279 I was horrible, Well, it was pretty bad until I 95 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:58.920 heard you describe yours. 96 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:01.199 Okay, yours was bad as well. 97 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:04.160 Oh yeah, it was terrible, but I'm picturing you like 98 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:08.319 an elderly gunfire. Just unsheathing the gun from the holster, 99 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:09.959 whipped that middle finger out and use it. 100 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:11.600 No, it was one of those things. 101 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:16.120 There was this Tesla who was driving erratically and dangerously, 102 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.439 and Westerns only has two lanes going north, and it 103 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.079 was one of those things where he was going to 104 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:27.480 hit someone. More importantly, he might have hit me, and 105 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:29.519 I didn't want to escalate, so I was trying to 106 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:30.439 just get out of his way. 107 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:35.160 When you see a crazy driver, just go, Just just go, because. 108 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.319 There's no point in you messing up the rest of 109 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:39.399 my day because you're not thinking. 110 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:41.839 Sometimes you have to think for the other driver as well. 111 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:43.959 I didn't even call it a defensive driver. I just 112 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:46.480 call it like survival skills. Okay, well, I can tell 113 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:48.360 you this as a rule of the road, and this 114 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:52.399 is the authoritative rule here. If it's a Tesla cyber truck, 115 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:54.959 you were actually required to give it the finger. 116 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:57.560 No, it was just one of those sedans, it was. 117 00:05:57.600 --> 00:05:59.800 It was okay, well yeah, No, it was one of 118 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:03.000 those things where I'm getting ready to install my dash 119 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:06.720 cam in this car. It would have been perfect for today, 120 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.920 perfect for today, but all I could do was just 121 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.040 memorize the license plate if in the event, if further escalated. 122 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:16.639 But I was thinking about you, Mark, I really was. 123 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:18.879 I said, is this the time to let him have it? 124 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:22.920 Is this the time you break glass? It's gonna feel 125 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:25.319 so good when you finally do it. Just trust me, Well, 126 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:27.279 I've done it before. I just haven't done any years. 127 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:30.720 It's like, you know, something I did when I was much, much, 128 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:31.959 much younger. 129 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:33.439 It'll feel righteous. 130 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.279 I remember some guy when I was driving the five 131 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.040 north getting ready to get on the one thirty four, 132 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:41.040 and I decided to keep on going north on on 133 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:45.000 the five. This guy, I guess I did something to 134 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:47.040 make him mad, or we made each other mad. This 135 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:51.759 guy flipped me off and then quickly went over to 136 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:55.399 the one thirty four. What's the word I'm looking for 137 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:57.480 is off ramp? Not the off ramp, but just the 138 00:06:57.480 --> 00:06:59.480 interchange where you were you switch over to the one 139 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:01.959 thirty four on the five, and then he made sure 140 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:03.639 that he was on safely on the other side of 141 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:04.879 that medium to flip me off. 142 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:06.959 I was so mad. I was so mad. 143 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:12.720 It's like with your batch ass, I just oooh oh, 144 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:13.199 if you're. 145 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.160 Gonna do that, at least make yourself available to me. 146 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:18.000 At least be a man and deal with the consequences. Boy, 147 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.639 were you planning to return the gesture or or were 148 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:22.480 you ready to go the whole nine yard? Well? 149 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:23.639 I was ready to escalate at that point. 150 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:25.319 I was ready to escalate it, Like, how are you 151 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:28.480 gonna flip me off when you know that you're safely away. 152 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:31.639 See that's where I draw the line. You have to 153 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:34.199 have some restraint. But the finger itself is a thing 154 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:36.759 of beauty. 155 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:39.399 Twala, I need you to pop your trunk on him, 156 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:43.920 just one good time. Yeah, that's the trunk, not the trunk. Okay. 157 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:46.560 So that was my comedian twiller real quick, How was yours? 158 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.120 It was horrible all day. I was running errands and 159 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:53.160 all I ran into was bumpers and tail lights, and 160 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:56.759 it was horrible. On the streets of the what is 161 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:00.439 this North Hills all the way through to the other 162 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:01.720 side of the valley, it was horrible. 163 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:03.000 I fell on the streets. 164 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:06.000 I really believe traffic is going to be worse for 165 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:11.399 the foreseeable future because people are leaving work earlier, because 166 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:12.360 the sun is going down. 167 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:13.839 It's almost like we're programmed. 168 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:17.519 My workday is over or I want to be able 169 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:20.000 to beat the sun home if at all possible, where 170 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:21.399 you're not driving home in the dark. 171 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:23.000 I think so. 172 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:26.720 Yeah, because all of our communities got real bad today. 173 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:29.000 We're coming from really different areas. 174 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:32.279 But one of us has some sort of vested interest 175 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:33.639 in big air taxi. 176 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:38.279 Yeah, that's t Waala because he gets paid my just you. 177 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:42.159 Know, I hate to have to be the reminder here, 178 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:45.080 but that would save a lot of us a lot 179 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:49.720 of trouble if we were all in air taxis, yes, 180 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:52.960 or or self driving vehicles. 181 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:55.519 That wouldn't save time. If we're in self driving, it 182 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:57.919 will save the stress. You could do so much if 183 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.720 you're in a self drive vehicle. Yeah, that's like riding metro. 184 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:04.960 There's no one in the vehicle with you to mug you. 185 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.039 Oh have you seen those self driving vehicles with the 186 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:10.240 people stand in front of the car and harassed them, 187 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.679 the riders and everything, and they've been drawing graffiti on 188 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:14.279 the car and everything. 189 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:16.159 Even you know what it is, you're bringing up stuff 190 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:17.279 that's that's no. 191 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:21.039 There was a woman in one of those self driving 192 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:24.679 taxis and they had these guys who were sexually harassing her. 193 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:26.080 So they stood in front of the car, so they 194 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:29.320 knew the car was not going to hit them, and 195 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:31.919 so they kept harassing her and they held it for 196 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:33.639 like an extra twenty thirty minutes. 197 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.600 It wasn't twenty thirty. Oh so you're familiar with the story. 198 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:38.440 I am familiar story. 199 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:39.879 But you didn't want to bring that up. You didn't 200 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:41.080 give you that story to talk about on the air. 201 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:41.840 Why is that toalla? 202 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:48.120 Because that's not pertinent to the expansion of self driving technology. 203 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:50.360 That's a one off. That's that's uh. 204 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:51.000 You know. 205 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:54.039 So tell me was her commute shorter or longer because 206 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:57.080 of being in that taxi. We don't know where she 207 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:59.799 was going. She might have just been heading to the 208 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:02.759 that was in the bay or something like that. Let 209 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.240 me shed some light on this situation for the two 210 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:07.519 of you. I pulled this last night knowing that we 211 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:12.399 were going to talk about this. I was pre cognitive 212 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:15.639 on this subject. Study finds self driving waymos are more 213 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.639 expensive than taxis, take twice as long to get to destination. 214 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:22.639 Across fifty samples, the average human driven ride hail price 215 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:25.320 was twenty eight to fourteen, while an identical ride with 216 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:29.919 a Waimo robotaxi cost nine to fifty more. Sorry, Tuala, 217 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.120 You're you're really backed the wrong horse on this one. 218 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:40.360 Dude, Hey, there's nothing else to say. 219 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:42.840 Hey, talk to her. Really puts paid to all of 220 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:46.759 this too. Let's talk about some serious business. We've got 221 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:48.120 to give you an update on the fire when we 222 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:48.600 come back. 223 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:52.759 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from 224 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:54.399 KFI AM six forty. 225 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:55.879 We have an ongoing discussion. 226 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.799 We talk about what may be happening around the country 227 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.440 as it relates to natural disasters. Where we had the 228 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:06.399 hurricanes in the southeast in previous weeks, and people were 229 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.919 talking about, like Twala was talking about the swarms of 230 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:10.960 earthquakes we were having, and I said, I would rather 231 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:17.240 be in California because the earthquakes largely largely don't create 232 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:19.919 any damage or destruction, and no one is dying from 233 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:23.240 the earthquakes, I think I said back then, Yes, in fact, 234 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:27.600 I remember I said that the better correlation is fires. 235 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:32.120 Here in California, we have to deal with fires every year. 236 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.720 They are seasonal in the way that tornadoes, in the 237 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.639 way that hurricanes are seasonal in other portions of the country. 238 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:43.279 But fires are something which have been doing far more 239 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:47.320 damage in California than anything else, and this Ventura County 240 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:51.720 fire is a perfect example. Unfortunately, and I mean that unfortunately. 241 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:57.360 Oftentimes we may have fires and they don't necessarily lead 242 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:03.519 to destruction of home, bombs or changing people's lives, but 243 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:06.080 this is a little bit different. We've had the Santa 244 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:10.639 Ana wins and they have helped this fire expand to 245 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:14.919 over twenty thousand acres in just the past day. It's 246 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:20.399 destroyed homes, we've had massive evacuations, and it has remained 247 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:23.200 out of control. It's not close to being under control. 248 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:25.679 In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom you might have heard by now, 249 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:30.559 has called has declared a state of emergency regarding this fire. 250 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.200 If you were listening to KFI earlier, we had an 251 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:36.879 update on the number of structures and the degree of 252 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.799 destruction thus far. And when I was talking about the 253 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:45.399 state of emergency, it was specifically in relation to the 254 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:49.759 Ventory County fire because firefighters were struggling to gain any 255 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:54.320 advantage on that mountain fires it's also called and it's 256 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.360 destroyed an undetermined number of homes since starting near the 257 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:02.039 town of Cama Rill just affecting Chemo Real, but also 258 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:06.039 more park and other surrounding areas. The National Weather Service 259 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:10.759 has issued red flag warnings for Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, 260 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.440 and it's going to remain in effect at least through 261 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:17.519 Friday morning. Yesterday, we were under the impression that they 262 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:20.639 were going to remain in effect just through today in 263 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.720 the afternoon, but they've now been extended into Friday morning. 264 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:29.720 And I was watching I think it was ABC earlier today, 265 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:33.120 ABC seven, and you could see the aerial footage of 266 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:36.679 the destroyed homes, and you get a better sense of 267 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.879 the degree of destruction and the path of it, and 268 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:46.639 how large it is and how it's almost it's hard 269 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:51.440 to describe how quickly people's lives have been changed by 270 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:55.519 this fire. It's hard to describe the degree of how 271 00:13:55.600 --> 00:14:00.399 quickly it has spread and how it's firefighters have struggle 272 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:04.080 to get any type of control of it, and it's 273 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:06.039 not like it's going to change in the next day 274 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:09.159 or so. My question is whether we will get a 275 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:12.080 break from any of the winds. If we can get 276 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:15.120 a break from the wind which would slow it from spreading, 277 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:18.080 then that would help firefighters. Of Course, I'm always pulling 278 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:21.399 for people, and I'm pulling for the firefighters but there 279 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:24.440 are things that are working against them in this situation. 280 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:28.879 And as I always say, if you get an evacuation order, 281 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:34.679 do not wait, do not see if you have to evacuate. 282 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:38.000 Sometimes they're voluntary and sometimes they're mandatory. 283 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:40.759 Don't wait for the voluntary to become mandatory. 284 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:43.919 You have to trust that you have to use the 285 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:46.360 time which is available to you to make sure that 286 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:49.600 you are safe, your family members are safe, your pets 287 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:53.960 are safe. Unless something else is extenuating and you don't 288 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:57.799 have that opportunity to leave, immediately, leave as soon as 289 00:14:57.840 --> 00:14:59.759 you can. If you get the sense that it might 290 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:02.279 be moving in your direction, do not wait. And that 291 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:05.279 goes back to the winds. Because of the winds, it 292 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:09.039 is so very unpredictable where this fire may lead. It's 293 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:13.000 unpredictable as far as how quickly it's going to continue 294 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:13.639 to spread. 295 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:15.840 And let me just come to you, Mark Ronnerd just 296 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:16.559 very quickly. 297 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:21.960 Is there any new information that you have received in 298 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:22.879 the past half hour. 299 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:25.200 No, but we're going to be hearing live from Chris 300 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:27.159 Adler at the bottom of the hour very since. 301 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:27.320 There we go. 302 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.480 Okay, so Chris Adler will be updating everyone in just 303 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:33.159 a moment, and beyond the structures which have been burned, 304 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:36.399 a number of people have been taken to hospitals. They've 305 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:41.320 been treated for smoke inhalation, and some victims became trapped 306 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:45.879 in their cars because they were racing from fast moving flames. 307 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:48.399 In other words, people were trying to get out and 308 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:51.840 then we're trapped by the flames, trapped by the smoke, 309 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:54.759 and then had to be taken to the hospital. 310 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:57.240 So this is something that is very very serious. 311 00:15:57.320 --> 00:16:01.120 It's very very dangerous, and you can find yourself in 312 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:04.759 a predicament where you will not be able to save yourself. 313 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.159 So if the fire is anywhere near where you might live, 314 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:10.600 this is the time where you have to act in 315 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:14.480 advance and protect yourself and protect your family before it 316 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:17.200 becomes too late. And as Mark Runner said, we'll have 317 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.240 an update in just a moment from Chris Adler. It's 318 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:22.799 Later with mo Kelly I AM six forty. We're live 319 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:24.399 everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. 320 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:28.600 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 321 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:30.279 KFI AM six forty. 322 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:34.399 And I got to tell you California voters, they are 323 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:39.559 funny to me. They are hilarious to me. They talk 324 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:42.399 out of one side of their mouth, and then they 325 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:44.519 turn around and talk out the other side. 326 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:46.720 Here's what I mean. And I know Mark Runner is 327 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:49.440 going to get a kick out of this. The La 328 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:52.559 County Board of Supervisors, when they're not buying two hundred 329 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:58.759 million dollar buildings, they approved lower annual rent increases for 330 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:04.000 many ten and unincorporated areas. If you're in an unincorporated area, 331 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:08.640 you're not You're not the City of La, You're just 332 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:12.759 the County of La. Like I'm in an unincorporated area. 333 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:16.079 If I call the police, the county sheriff, LA County 334 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:19.000 Sheriff comes, not LAPD. We don't get to vote for mayor. 335 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:23.200 These are areas without their own police department, areas without 336 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:26.960 their own city council. Little areas like Harbor City or 337 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:32.119 you know, they're no guardians. Seratone city have their own 338 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:35.400 police department, but unincorporated they don't have any of those things. 339 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:39.440 So you're governed by the county in most instances. And 340 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:44.119 when it comes to services, what they're going to do is, 341 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:47.720 beginning next year, rent increases will be limited for units 342 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:51.200 already under rent control. The sixty percent of the annual 343 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:55.440 change in the consumer price index. Put another way, the 344 00:17:55.480 --> 00:18:00.440 consumer price index rises about three percent, so your rent 345 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:05.160 can only be raised about sixty percent of that, maybe 346 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:10.359 like one point eight percent. Now, if you think about that, 347 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:14.160 that is less than the annual rate of inflation, which 348 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:16.720 is about two point four percent. I know it's going 349 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:21.319 to get complicated, but hear me out, Mark, what is 350 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:24.039 the biggest expense for just about everyone? 351 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:26.279 I thought you're going to give me a math problem 352 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:28.319 there for a second. No, No, not at all. Oh, 353 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:31.480 the biggest expense for most people is their rent? All right? 354 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:38.920 If your rent can be raised some two percent every 355 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:44.920 year and the annual rate of inflation is around two 356 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:49.720 to five percent each year, wouldn't it stand the reason 357 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:54.480 that since rent is your highest cost, that it would 358 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:59.000 be your greatest priority to be able to keep under control, 359 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:00.799 not eggs and milk. 360 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:03.640 Well, I told you yesterday that I hate story problems, 361 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:05.319 but I think I get where you're going with. 362 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:07.759 Can you see where I'm moving this? Yeah? 363 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:12.079 If you were concerned about how everything costs so much, 364 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:19.519 and the largest expenditure you have every single month that 365 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:24.559 is going to go up regardless every single year, is rent, 366 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:31.160 wouldn't it behoove you behoove, would it behoove you yes, 367 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:36.000 to do everything you can to limit the increase of 368 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:41.200 that expenditure. Right, one might think, okay, So if you 369 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:43.559 are a voter, going back to voters talking out of 370 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:46.440 both sides of the mouths, and I'm talking about this 371 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:49.359 very slowly because I need you to get this. If you, 372 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:54.279 as a voter went to the polls on Tuesday and 373 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:58.880 you were concerned about the economy, and you were concerned 374 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:02.079 about the cost of eggs and milk, because we heard 375 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:05.920 that everywhere eggs and milk, eggs and milk. I can't 376 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:08.640 believe it costs five dollars for a carton of eggs. 377 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:11.440 I can't believe it costs seven dollars for a carton 378 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:15.880 of milk. And you voted because you were worried about that, 379 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:22.200 and you did nothing to help control your rent. 380 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:26.200 Your largest expenditure. 381 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:31.720 As a percentage of your expenses every single month, and 382 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:33.680 it can be raised annually. 383 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:38.240 You don't see the disconnect there. 384 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:41.640 Well, since here, since you're using old school like grade 385 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:45.119 school teacher talk with Behoove, if you don't do something 386 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:49.400 that behooves you, will you rue the day. I don't 387 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:51.960 know if you're on my side or not man either. Honestly, 388 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:57.880 just keep going. No, it's very very simple. We're supposedly 389 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:00.000 supposedly concerned about the account. 390 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:04.720 We're concerned about how much things cost. And you had 391 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:08.920 the opportunity. You had the third opportunity, I don't know, 392 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:12.480 maybe ten years or so, to at least do something 393 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:17.119 to limit the amount that your rent can be raised 394 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:18.480 on you in a given year. 395 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:22.960 And you did nothing. You voted it down again. 396 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:28.519 But you're still complaining about inflation, don't you know? Rent 397 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:33.640 is also a function of inflation, the cost of living, the. 398 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:34.519 Cost of housing. 399 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:38.720 Listen, if you want to have real talk about this, 400 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:41.359 and I'm kind of reluctant to, but you got to 401 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:44.440