February 21, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on Delta Airlines paltry offer of 30k for crash survivors AND another hard lesson learned about the dangers of getting gas at night…PLUS – A look at the root cause behind the rapid return of Measles - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
K if I am six forty, it's mister Kelly and
that's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. We have a huge show for you tonight.
And if you've been listening to Later with Mo Kelly,
you are going to be rewarded, if only because you're
gonna hear some stuff. We're like, Damn, Moe actually knows
what he's talking about. He actually could have foreseen this.
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Did you see the Uber driver fight? The Uber driver
who was carjacked? Did you see that story? Well, we'll
tell you about it and we'll remind you how you
shouldn't go to gas stations at night. Where was the
Uber driver car jacked at a gas station when at night? Coincidence?
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I think not. We'll get into that story. Bell bottoms
are back, and so are measles. Everything old is new again.
Measles here, measles there, measles everywhere. And to think we
have had a vaccine for measles since nineteen sixty three
and it was doing just fine until people stop taking
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the vaccine. It's one of those diseases you can't really
do the herd immunity thing. It doesn't work that way.
But that's science. We'll get into that later.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Science.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And speaking of science, we have Tech Thursday again with
Marshall call Er. She's back to tell us some really
important things and how to again protect us from some
really dangerous things.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Dodger Spring training kicked off today.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It just seems like it was yesterday that they were
circling the basis celebrating their latest World Series win.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But here's where I really wanted to start tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
For the past couple of days, I've talked about airline
safety or lack thereof what needs to be done, and
one of the subjects surrounding that was the Delta Airlines
crash landing in Toronto. The good news was everybody survived.
Everybody survived. If there's anything that's close to a miracle,
it would be that. The bad news is how insulted.
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Why I should say how insulting it is that Delta Airlines,
in light of everyone surviving, is offering thirty thousand dollars
for all crash survivors. I get it, everyone has their
own price, everyone has that price in their head, and
it's different for people.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
But thirty thousand.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Dollars within the last hour or two of some breaking
news we learned Delta as now offering thirty thousand dollars
to survivors of that crash. Delta says the money comes
with no strings attacked.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
What does that mean? No strings attached?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
What you don't have to like give your first arm,
you give your arm for it, or you're first born.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What do you mean no strings attached? You're doing.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Me?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Taking that money would be a favor for you dog
no strings attached. Maybe they mean that you can still
sue us at a later update.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
And it's not a bribe per se, it's a gift truism.
It's an actor yus. And we all know you don't
take the first offer.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And if you if all seventy six people on that
flight took the thirty thousand, that's only two point three
million dollars two that's nothing that Delta Airlines, that's nothing.
And you, let's say hypothetically you did take the thirty thousand,
that's like getting a free Honda Civic.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
There's nothing. That's nothing, and.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
That won't pay for your lifetime with PTSD Because I
know I'm done, I'm emotionally done after speriencing something like that.
It probably won't pay for your physical therapy going forward.
You know, twenty one people into the hospital. It doesn't
mean that they just walk away. They're as you know,
good as new. When they left the hospital.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
The plane was upside down.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
They were hanging like bats in a cave.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
The passengers thirty thousand, you would need to at least
start with six zeros behind that three. Let's talk three
million and go from there. Go from there, because I'm
not accepting that. I don't care if it's no strings attached. No,
of course, no strings attached. What string would it will
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be an NDA.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I can't sue you later on.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh no, they're damn sure that there will be no
strings attached. You will offer me at least three million,
and then I still might sue you.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Why why?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And here's a serious point. We might find out that
it could have been pilot error. We could have found
out that it was something that was a malfunction of
the aircraft. There may be culpability connected to this. And
you rush out the box to give me thirty thousand dollars.
You obviously know something and you want to get ahead
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of this as best you can. Thirty thousand dollars. There's
no way in the world. I'm taking thirty thousand dollars.
That's what their CEO spends on lunch, probably more. Yeah,
you're talking about two point three million dollars. That's that's
not even middle management salary at Delta Airlines. When you're
talking about like a you know, junior CFO or something
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at the company, that's nothing. That is absolutely nothing, And
for me, it would be insulting that not only did
you offer it, you publicized it as if that's a
win for you, that you're showing your generosity. Thirty thousand dollars. No, no, No,
it'll be three million dollars lifetime free travel anywhere I
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want for me and my wife, and we could start there,
start there, and that includes hotel whenever we go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You get back on a plane after that, I would
have to.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I would have to, if only because I'm not going
to spend the rest of my life in La at home.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
But wait, wait, wait, you get back on the Delta.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I don't get some flights on a Delta. I have
to get something out of this. But back on a Delta.
I'm not getting on Spirit, I'm not getting on Frontier.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yeah, but that's like suffering food poisoning in the manufacturer
giving you a lifetime supply of the food that made
you sick.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, since you said food poisoning. If you know how
most of these restaurants whatever, they get all their food
from the same place they get it from. Like there's
a company called Cisco, and there's another company kept and
they remember the name of it, but all the food
comes from the same place. It's interesting that you chose
that as a comparison point, because yeah, I can get
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food poisoning at place A, but it's the same damn
food everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's just how it's prepared. So take trains. It's the
upshot of all this.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, you had someone like Aretha Franklin who refused to fly.
There are a number of people, prominent people who refused
to fly. She had her own bus, went everywhere for
all her concerts. Me, I still have more living to do.
And if I endured what these Delta passengers went through,
I'm getting a lot, a lot. And if I worked
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at cafe at the time too, oh oh, they would
pay out the ass for me because it'd be every
single night this show brought to you by Delta airlines,
the worst airlines in the world. They would have paid
for that. Oh, they'll get so much free media coverage.
I wish your mother father would. It's Later with Mo Kelly,
ca if I am six forty, We're live everywhere the
iHeartRadio app and California High Speed Rail did not have
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a good day at all. Republican members of Congress and
the Trump administration were here today assailing the whole project.
And honestly, it never had a chance. But now I
think it's a fish. It's dead. We'll tell you why
and also play you some of the audio from the
press conference today.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
In just a moment.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And it may not be dead, but it's definitely circling
the train high speed rail and with the advent of
the Trump administration two point zero, they have set their
sights on all sorts of federal funding around the country.
And you may not remember, even though this was a
or this is a state project, it also included additional
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federal funds to the tune of billions of dollars, and
Republican lawmakers, including Kevin Kylie stated excuse me. Assembly Member
Kevin Kylie who was on this show a few years ago.
He was speaking out about it, and listen to what
he had to say.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I'm Kevin Kylie.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
I represent California's third district.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Kevin, I already introduced you. You don't need to say your name.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I'm Kevin Kylie.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
I represent California's third District. California high speed rail disaster
is the worst public infrastructure failure in US history.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
They're very passionate, very very passionate, very angry. It sounds like.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I guess there are at least a few people who
still support high speed rail in California, very few. California's
high speed rail disaster is the worst public infrastructure failure
in US history.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
And that is why today's.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Action, they're chanting in the background, build the rail.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It doesn't quite have the same ring as build the wall,
but that's what they're saying.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Action by Secretary Duffy is so important, and it's why
I have introduced legislation to cut off all federal funding
for high.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Speed rail going forward. And this is a very important point.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
If we cut off federal funding, we kill the project.
Because the rail authority has said time and time again
that they are reliant. Their funding model is reliant on
further federal funding. This ill fated project is a blight
on our landscape.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And an embarrassment to our state. But it's more than that.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It symbolizes the decline of modern California under the current leadership.
It showcases political ineptitude on an epic scale. This doomed
project represents the failure of planning and governance, of vision
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and leadership, of transparency and account nobility of competence and
common sense that have turned the greatest state in the
country into the most popular state to leave.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That was a similar member Kevin Kylie, speaking on the
future of California high speed rail, at least the LA
to San Francisco. This is not to be confused with
the Bright Line project, which is LA to Las Vegas,
and that's a private project. In fact, Transportation Secretary Sean
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Duffy does talk about that as well in his remarks.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
So when originally conceived, the voters of California voted to
the project we're going to talk about today. They've been loud,
vocal voices that I think have stood up for the
taxpayers of California. And so we're here to talk about
the California High Speed Rail project. So when originally conceived,
the voters of California voted in in Proposition one A
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that they would have a high speed rail from La
to San Francisco. It was going to be done by
twenty twenty and it was going to cost thirty three
billion dollars. And people were excited. They were thrilled take
people off the road, out of the air, put them
on rail, move them quickly. It was an exciting time,
exciting promises for an exciting project. Where are we today, Well,
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today we are severely no pun intended off track. So
as we sit here, we're now looking at a piece
of the project that's going to go from Merced to Bakersfield.
And that project thus far is going to cost the
California taxpayer and the federal taxpayer, at best estimates thirty
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three to thirty five billion dollars at best. That portion
of the project is not going to be completed until
twenty thirty three, twenty thirty five, way after this whole
project was to be completed, and with the fifteen point
seven billion dollars already invested in a project that has
given you bridges here to my left and to my right,
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bridges to nowhere right. No high speed rail track has
been laid for sixteen billion dollars. The federal government has
invested two point seven billion dollars to this project. California
has invested the rest. Joe Biden has promised another four
billion dollars for mer Said to Bakersfield to complete the project.
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The problem is California is still short six point five
billion dollars. California doesn't have the money to complete the
project even with the federal promises that were made by
the last administration. So the question becomes, what do we
do well. I can't make decisions for the great state
of California, but we do have to be responsible for
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the tax dollars that are spent from the federal government.
And there are wonderful high speed rail projects that are
being proposed to the Federal Rail Administration, projects that will
connect cities where they have great timelines and they have
great budgets. Some of them are federal and private funding
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mechanisms in play. One of those that's been proposed is
bright Line West, going from La to Las Vegas. Seems
like a project that is worthy of investment. But this project,
if completed four hundred miles from LA to San Francisco,
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at best, it'll cost one hundred and six billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Can't argue the money. I mean this billion here, this
billion there. That's neither here nor there for me. This
project is probably just never going to be done at
this point for a number of reasons. One the cost
overruns which can't be argued, the fact that they've not
made any physical progress on it that can't be argued.
And also the Trump administration is definitely going to pull
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every single scent of federal funding from it, which at
best also makes it even less likely to finish it,
complete it even if they wanted to. Look, if you've
traveled around the world at all, if you've seen the world,
you inherently know the benefits of high high speed rail.
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It is a worthy project to pursue. But our country
is not the same as other countries as far as
size and scope of transportation needs. And just California loan
is like four Koreas. When I was in Korea and
got to ride high speed rail, you get to really
understand the value. If you have been to Europe and
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took some of the high speed trains. You understand the
value to the country or countries and also to the
people and transportation needs. But this country has never ever
been committed to infrastructure on any level, any level. The
fact that we don't have any high speed rail anywhere
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in this country says more about us than anything. Now
we can agree on how this particular high speed rail
project is doomed here in California, but the larger discussion
of why there's no high speed rail anywhere in the
United States is something I think is a blight and
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blemish on us as the nation because we are still
falling further and further behind the rest of the world
when it comes to technology and transportation. It's Later with
mo Kelly caf I am six forty. We are live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And let me just tell
you now, and I'll tell you after the commercial break,
and I'll tell you again tomorrow, and I'll tell you
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next week, and I'll tell you next month. Stay your
ass out of gas stations at night. That's a freebie
from me to you. And we have more evidence why
when we come back.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI am six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Hey Stephan, real quick pop quiz pop quiz Okay, I'm ready.
Where should you never go after a certain hour? I
would say the gas station? Ding ding ding ding ding
and wish When should you never go to that gas station? Uh?
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At night?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Two for two gold star for Stephan. How many times
have I said it? How many times you don't go
to gas stations? Or let me just say I don't
go to gas stations at night one, because you're more
of a target. It's almost like you have a backlit
stage where the lights are on you a spotlight, and
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someone who's in the dark can watch you. You can't
necessarily see him, her or them. Crime tends to happen
more often at night, especially when you are more isolated
and you're at a gas station. You're probably distracted, I
don't know, pumping gas. Maybe you're on your phone. You
shouldn't be looking under the hood or your car whatever.
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You are not focused on who is watching you. Even
in the middle of the day, I still keep my
head on a swivel.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (18:21):
Absolutely, and that's like in like two in the afternoon, right,
gas on the way here.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Absolutely, I'm the same way I'm always high alert, always
high alert. So when Tawallas sends me this story today
talking about an uber driver, thank goodness she's okay. Uber
driver who was attacked after trying to be a good
samaritan and give someone a ride. That's something I wouldn't
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have done Anyhow, that's a whole nother discussion. But get
attacked and carjacked at a gas station at night. Unfortunately,
it was a sum total of bad decisions, some total.
But there is a teachable moment in all of this.
In other words, everything she did, don't you do.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
This all started at a gas station not far from here.
That ride share driver had her car parked at the
gas station.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
The suspect wait parked at a gas station.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Not getting gas parked at a gas station at night.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
It doesn't matter. To the city that you're in, it
does not matter.
Speaker 12 (19:29):
This all started at a gas station not far from here.
That ride share driver had her car parked at the
gas station. The suspect approached her, got into her vehicle. Now,
she did try to stop the car jacking, and it
was all caught on camera. West Kavino Police released this
video of a carjacking on social media. You can see.
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The suspect put a bike in the trunk of a
car at a Vollo gas station at the intersection of
South Garvey and Azusa Avenue. The ride share driver secures
the bike as the man gets into the driver's seat.
The driver quickly stops the door from closing and jumps
into the car with the suspect.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
The victim got into the vehicle and the driver's seat
on the suspect's lap, and there was a struggle. The
suspect did tell the victim that he was going to
purposely crash the vehicle, and he drove out of the
parking lot, dragging our female with him.
Speaker 12 (20:19):
The car reverses, speeds out of the gas station and
is on the wrong side of the road when it
slams into a pole.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
He then ran on foot and we got a call
shortly after from a security company.
Speaker 12 (20:32):
The driver, a woman in her twenties, told police the
suspect asked for a ride. She declined it first, but
then agreed to drop the man off at a nearby location.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Okay, I got to ask the question what possessed her
to give a stranger a ride somewhere? And mind you,
she met the stranger at night where at a gas station.
What about that seems like a good idea. And I'm
not blaming the victim. I'm just asking a question. What
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possessed her to put herself in that situation.
Speaker 9 (21:08):
When you're trying to do a good deed to help
somebody out, you know, don't always assume that it's for
the right reasons.
Speaker 12 (21:15):
After the crash, the suspect was spotted at a nearby
car dealership in a white.
Speaker 13 (21:19):
Van, an outside company that looks at videos overnight. They
are multiple TVs looking at different videos, so they're really
alert and they're they're they're good.
Speaker 12 (21:32):
In video, you can see the suspect coming out of
the van. Officers had their weapons drawn and a canine
on scene as he backed up.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I'm sorry, but this is radio, so we can't see
the video. I appreciate it. She's being polite, but we
can't see it.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
They're really alert and they're they're they're good.
Speaker 12 (21:47):
In video, you can see this height.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Look, this is radio. I can't see it. So unless
you can tell us and narrate, you're not going to help.
Speaker 12 (21:56):
In video, you can see the suspect coming out of
the van. Off so has had their weapons drawn and
a canine on scene as he backed up towards them,
hands on his head.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Okay, kids, let's review. So the carjacker was arrested. He
didn't get anything out of it. He didn't get to
officially jack the car. He didn't get a ride to
wherever he was trying to go. The Uber driver presumably
lost her Uber car for some amount of time.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
She's not going to be able to make any money.
Did anybody gain anything out of this? Anybody? Anyone? Anyone?
Speaker 6 (22:33):
No, we gained yet another lesson, another reason why you
don't ever stop your ass at the gas station at night.
Get your gas during the day whenever humanly possible. If
you need to get gas at night, please do everything
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you can to make sure you're getting gas where a
police station is nearby, close something.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But all that speaks to planning in advance. I tell
my students in my martial arts class. Safety begins before
a situation happens. It's before you get in a car,
it's before you enter a building. It's before you do
anything which puts you potentially in harm's way. You have
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to think about where you're going. You have to think
about who's going to be around. You have to think
about any likely, you know, problems which could arise because
you're in this location, be it a bar, be at
a gas station, be at a grocery store. There's some
grocery stores I don't go to at night for the
exact same reasons. Foosh, As an uber driver, would you
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ever in your right mind do something like give someone
a ride off the clock? Absolutely not, No effing way.
It's not in nineteen seventy four. People don't hitch ike anymore.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
I just think I always think of because someone else
also said this, but more specifically to Mo. When I'm
driving on the freeway and I see someone pulled over
to the side of the road, I'm not stopping to
help them. I'll call the police, I'll let CHP deal
with it, but i am not stopping to help them because,
like you said, they could be in distress. But I'm
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not gonna end up on the nightly news. No, and
their call boxes. People have smartphones.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
There are too many ways that people can't communicate not
needing your help. I'm not talking about a burning car
and someone is obviously in distress. We're talking about a
car stopped on the side of the freeway and the
hood is up. Pull out your cell phone, the one
that you were on while you're driving up until that
moment your chexting on. That's why a lot of horror
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movies start that way, Mark, did you learn anything tonight?
I've seen the Texas chainsaw massacre. The whole thing starts
when they pick up that guy who talks about the
head cheese.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
It all goes downhill from there. Okay, I sign It's
all around you. Yeah, I know what not to do.
I didn't just fall off the back of the truck.
It's Later with mo Kelly. Stay your ass out of
gas stations at night. That's the takeaway, kids. And if
you failed the test, well you've been warned. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And everything old is new again, I said nineteen seventy
four when people stop really hitchhiking, Well, I guess that's
new again. Everything old is new. So what else is back?
Measles is back? Yes, Measles.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
What disease?
Speaker 11 (25:41):
Is there a song about?
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Come on, come on Boom boom?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I know what about the Measles song?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
The measles song.
Speaker 11 (25:49):
I what kind of measles song.
Speaker 13 (25:52):
It's called a It's called the German measles song.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
You'd the German measo song.
Speaker 13 (26:02):
You're the German measos song.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I've heard of the German measles but I've heard of
a German meso song.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
You heard of the German measles No?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh, maybe there isn't one can't buy. Mister.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
You're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and you know
we can laugh about that, but I don't know if
we should laugh about the measles. We've had a measles
outbreak here in the United States and it's uncontrolled. When
I say uncontrolled, measles can spread very very quickly, and
it's spreading in Texas and New Mexico. And when we
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tell you about how many are infected, those are only
the people who've actually come forward to seek treatment or
who have been hospitalized. It's probably ten times that. So
if you have maybe fifty eight people who are known
to be infected, it's at least five hundred and eighty.
And I don't know if you know this, and I'm
not making this up, but if you are unvaccinated with respect,
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to mess and you are someone who comes into contact
with or close proximity with someone who has measles, there's
like a nine to ten chance, a ninety percent chance
that you can track measles if you are a child.
And I'll go into this because this is going to
be a part of my final thoughts, so I'm not
going to talk about all of it now. But if
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you're a child, or if you are elderly, or if
you are someone with a compromised immune system, or if
you are someone who has an altered immune system due
to maybe an organ transplant, you are susceptible to all
sorts of complications from brain swelling, pneumonia, death, combination of
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all three. And as of Tuesday this week, there were
at least fifty eight cases of measles reported in the
South Plains region of Texas and eight cases reported in
eastern New Mexico. Again, let me stress these are only reported,
so it doesn't necessarily indicate total infections. The Texas Department
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of State Health Services reported that thirteen people have been
hospitalized with the virus. For the cases are people who
were vaccinated, so the vaccine doesn't mean that you're automatically exempt.
But there's a ninety seven percent success rate. In other words,
you're ninety seven percent protected, and I would rather take
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those odds as opposed to being unvaccinated, where there's a
ninety percent chance that you will be infected if you
come into contact with someone who has measles, and I can't.
I have to say this is a direct result of
our attitudes which have shifted in the past five to
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ten years around vaccines more generally, and it's going to
collectively impact all of us.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Polio has come back to the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Why lack of vaccination measles, same, whooping cough, same.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
There's a reason, and.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Maybe we're not old enough to remember those reasons why
these vaccinated vaccines were created and developed in the first place.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Mark, I don't know if you know this, but on
to bounce this off you, oh please do Yes.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
The measles vaccine was created in nineteen sixty three, so
clearly in the forties and the fifties and the sixties,
measles were a thing, was an issue, it was necessary
for science of the day, and of course it's been
updated in the years since to develop a vaccine because measles,
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especially if you look at measles and underdeveloped countries in
Africa and Asia. The most people are dying in those countries.
Did you know, Mark Ronner? In twenty twenty three, more
than one hundred.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Thousand people die of measles in the world.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
You know something, Mo, you sound like somebody who doesn't
believe in freedom. And I believe very shortly we're going
to be changing the name of measles to freedom spots.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
So let's just fix that attitude.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
More than one hundred thousand people died of measles in
twenty twenty three around the world. You may think that's
not a lot, but most of those one hundred thousand
people were children under the age of five.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Well, let me tell you something. Polio is no walk
in the park either, literally no walk in the bar yea.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Literally no walk.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
And if we're at a time where most of the
people who are under the age of sixty five, I
would say have no memory of polio, have no memory
of iron lungs, have no memory of people who got polio,
maybe survived it and can barely walk straight. Don't know
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how it ravaged our nation, but it's back. Why because
more and more of us won't even do the basic
vaccinations basic. Now, Okay, we can go back and forth
about COVID. Okay, I'm not talking about COVID. I'm just
talking about the ones that you took, You and I
we all got before we even got in the kindergarten,
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especially here in California. The whole schedule of vaccinations mmr,
all that kind of stuff. These diseases were largely eradicated.
There's a reason no one's dealing with smallpox. There's a
reason we weren't dealing with measles five ten years ago.
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There's a reason why we didn't have a case of
polio for I don't know how many years until they
had a few in New York, if I'm not mistaken
last year.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
It's a reason it's called science.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
You sound like somebody who doesn't appreciate the freedom of
doing your own research with an Internet hookup and not
taking the word of credentialed experts who spend their entire
career and lives getting expertise on a single subject like
the measles.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
And I hear from people all the time say, mo,
you're not a doctor. It's like no, no, but I
know the first time that you get sick or you're
breaking arm, or you're getting a car accident, or your
parent has open heart surgery or needs to have a
stint put in. You're running straight to the experts. You're
running straight to the doctors. You know, that's that's who
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you're going to. And I trust them over YouTube, you know,
I trust peer reviewed studies over YouTube.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
What you can't just google some open heart surgery.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
No you can't. You can't.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I mean, and I'm not an epidemiologist. I'm not an immunologist.
I'm not a virologist. I'm not a pathologist. But if
I have to deal with any of those associated issues,
I'm going straight to them. You can call them elitists
all you want, but damn it, they know more than
a And since you haven't had a science class since
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ninth grade, I'm not listening to you. Kf I am
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Speaker 2 (33:10):
Life moves pretty fast.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
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K if I am six forty, it's mister Kelly and
that's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. We have a huge show for you tonight.
And if you've been listening to Later with Mo Kelly,
you are going to be rewarded, if only because you're
gonna hear some stuff. We're like, Damn, Moe actually knows
what he's talking about. He actually could have foreseen this.
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Did you see the Uber driver fight? The Uber driver
who was carjacked? Did you see that story? Well, we'll
tell you about it and we'll remind you how you
shouldn't go to gas stations at night. Where was the
Uber driver car jacked at a gas station when at night? Coincidence?
(01:12):
I think not. We'll get into that story. Bell bottoms
are back, and so are measles. Everything old is new again.
Measles here, measles there, measles everywhere. And to think we
have had a vaccine for measles since nineteen sixty three
and it was doing just fine until people stop taking
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the vaccine. It's one of those diseases you can't really
do the herd immunity thing. It doesn't work that way.
But that's science. We'll get into that later.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Science.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And speaking of science, we have Tech Thursday again with
Marshall call Er. She's back to tell us some really
important things and how to again protect us from some
really dangerous things.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Dodger Spring training kicked off today.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It just seems like it was yesterday that they were
circling the basis celebrating their latest World Series win.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But here's where I really wanted to start tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
For the past couple of days, I've talked about airline
safety or lack thereof what needs to be done, and
one of the subjects surrounding that was the Delta Airlines
crash landing in Toronto. The good news was everybody survived.
Everybody survived. If there's anything that's close to a miracle,
it would be that. The bad news is how insulted.
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Why I should say how insulting it is that Delta Airlines,
in light of everyone surviving, is offering thirty thousand dollars
for all crash survivors. I get it, everyone has their
own price, everyone has that price in their head, and
it's different for people.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
But thirty thousand.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Dollars within the last hour or two of some breaking
news we learned Delta as now offering thirty thousand dollars
to survivors of that crash. Delta says the money comes
with no strings attacked.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
What does that mean? No strings attached?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
What you don't have to like give your first arm,
you give your arm for it, or you're first born.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What do you mean no strings attached? You're doing.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Me?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Taking that money would be a favor for you dog
no strings attached. Maybe they mean that you can still
sue us at a later update.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
And it's not a bribe per se, it's a gift truism.
It's an actor yus. And we all know you don't
take the first offer.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And if you if all seventy six people on that
flight took the thirty thousand, that's only two point three
million dollars two that's nothing that Delta Airlines, that's nothing.
And you, let's say hypothetically you did take the thirty thousand,
that's like getting a free Honda Civic.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
There's nothing. That's nothing, and.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
That won't pay for your lifetime with PTSD Because I
know I'm done, I'm emotionally done after speriencing something like that.
It probably won't pay for your physical therapy going forward.
You know, twenty one people into the hospital. It doesn't
mean that they just walk away. They're as you know,
good as new. When they left the hospital.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
The plane was upside down.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
They were hanging like bats in a cave.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
The passengers thirty thousand, you would need to at least
start with six zeros behind that three. Let's talk three
million and go from there. Go from there, because I'm
not accepting that. I don't care if it's no strings attached. No,
of course, no strings attached. What string would it will
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be an NDA.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I can't sue you later on.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh no, they're damn sure that there will be no
strings attached. You will offer me at least three million,
and then I still might sue you.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Why why?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And here's a serious point. We might find out that
it could have been pilot error. We could have found
out that it was something that was a malfunction of
the aircraft. There may be culpability connected to this. And
you rush out the box to give me thirty thousand dollars.
You obviously know something and you want to get ahead
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of this as best you can. Thirty thousand dollars. There's
no way in the world. I'm taking thirty thousand dollars.
That's what their CEO spends on lunch, probably more. Yeah,
you're talking about two point three million dollars. That's that's
not even middle management salary at Delta Airlines. When you're
talking about like a you know, junior CFO or something
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at the company, that's nothing. That is absolutely nothing, And
for me, it would be insulting that not only did
you offer it, you publicized it as if that's a
win for you, that you're showing your generosity. Thirty thousand dollars. No, no, No,
it'll be three million dollars lifetime free travel anywhere I
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want for me and my wife, and we could start there,
start there, and that includes hotel whenever we go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You get back on a plane after that, I would
have to.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I would have to, if only because I'm not going
to spend the rest of my life in La at home.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
But wait, wait, wait, you get back on the Delta.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I don't get some flights on a Delta. I have
to get something out of this. But back on a Delta.
I'm not getting on Spirit, I'm not getting on Frontier.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yeah, but that's like suffering food poisoning in the manufacturer
giving you a lifetime supply of the food that made
you sick.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, since you said food poisoning. If you know how
most of these restaurants whatever, they get all their food
from the same place they get it from. Like there's
a company called Cisco, and there's another company kept and
they remember the name of it, but all the food
comes from the same place. It's interesting that you chose
that as a comparison point, because yeah, I can get
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food poisoning at place A, but it's the same damn
food everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's just how it's prepared. So take trains. It's the
upshot of all this.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, you had someone like Aretha Franklin who refused to fly.
There are a number of people, prominent people who refused
to fly. She had her own bus, went everywhere for
all her concerts. Me, I still have more living to do.
And if I endured what these Delta passengers went through,
I'm getting a lot, a lot. And if I worked
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at cafe at the time too, oh oh, they would
pay out the ass for me because it'd be every
single night this show brought to you by Delta airlines,
the worst airlines in the world. They would have paid
for that. Oh, they'll get so much free media coverage.
I wish your mother father would. It's Later with Mo Kelly,
ca if I am six forty, We're live everywhere the
iHeartRadio app and California High Speed Rail did not have
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a good day at all. Republican members of Congress and
the Trump administration were here today assailing the whole project.
And honestly, it never had a chance. But now I
think it's a fish. It's dead. We'll tell you why
and also play you some of the audio from the
press conference today.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
In just a moment.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And it may not be dead, but it's definitely circling
the train high speed rail and with the advent of
the Trump administration two point zero, they have set their
sights on all sorts of federal funding around the country.
And you may not remember, even though this was a
or this is a state project, it also included additional
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federal funds to the tune of billions of dollars, and
Republican lawmakers, including Kevin Kylie stated excuse me. Assembly Member
Kevin Kylie who was on this show a few years ago.
He was speaking out about it, and listen to what
he had to say.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I'm Kevin Kylie.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
I represent California's third district.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Kevin, I already introduced you. You don't need to say your name.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I'm Kevin Kylie.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
I represent California's third District. California high speed rail disaster
is the worst public infrastructure failure in US history.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
They're very passionate, very very passionate, very angry. It sounds like.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I guess there are at least a few people who
still support high speed rail in California, very few. California's
high speed rail disaster is the worst public infrastructure failure
in US history.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
And that is why today's.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Action, they're chanting in the background, build the rail.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It doesn't quite have the same ring as build the wall,
but that's what they're saying.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Action by Secretary Duffy is so important, and it's why
I have introduced legislation to cut off all federal funding
for high.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Speed rail going forward. And this is a very important point.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
If we cut off federal funding, we kill the project.
Because the rail authority has said time and time again
that they are reliant. Their funding model is reliant on
further federal funding. This ill fated project is a blight
on our landscape.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And an embarrassment to our state. But it's more than that.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It symbolizes the decline of modern California under the current leadership.
It showcases political ineptitude on an epic scale. This doomed
project represents the failure of planning and governance, of vision
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and leadership, of transparency and account nobility of competence and
common sense that have turned the greatest state in the
country into the most popular state to leave.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That was a similar member Kevin Kylie, speaking on the
future of California high speed rail, at least the LA
to San Francisco. This is not to be confused with
the Bright Line project, which is LA to Las Vegas,
and that's a private project. In fact, Transportation Secretary Sean
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Duffy does talk about that as well in his remarks.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
So when originally conceived, the voters of California voted to
the project we're going to talk about today. They've been loud,
vocal voices that I think have stood up for the
taxpayers of California. And so we're here to talk about
the California High Speed Rail project. So when originally conceived,
the voters of California voted in in Proposition one A
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that they would have a high speed rail from La
to San Francisco. It was going to be done by
twenty twenty and it was going to cost thirty three
billion dollars. And people were excited. They were thrilled take
people off the road, out of the air, put them
on rail, move them quickly. It was an exciting time,
exciting promises for an exciting project. Where are we today, Well,
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today we are severely no pun intended off track. So
as we sit here, we're now looking at a piece
of the project that's going to go from Merced to Bakersfield.
And that project thus far is going to cost the
California taxpayer and the federal taxpayer, at best estimates thirty
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three to thirty five billion dollars at best. That portion
of the project is not going to be completed until
twenty thirty three, twenty thirty five, way after this whole
project was to be completed, and with the fifteen point
seven billion dollars already invested in a project that has
given you bridges here to my left and to my right,
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bridges to nowhere right. No high speed rail track has
been laid for sixteen billion dollars. The federal government has
invested two point seven billion dollars to this project. California
has invested the rest. Joe Biden has promised another four
billion dollars for mer Said to Bakersfield to complete the project.
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The problem is California is still short six point five
billion dollars. California doesn't have the money to complete the
project even with the federal promises that were made by
the last administration. So the question becomes, what do we
do well. I can't make decisions for the great state
of California, but we do have to be responsible for
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the tax dollars that are spent from the federal government.
And there are wonderful high speed rail projects that are
being proposed to the Federal Rail Administration, projects that will
connect cities where they have great timelines and they have
great budgets. Some of them are federal and private funding
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mechanisms in play. One of those that's been proposed is
bright Line West, going from La to Las Vegas. Seems
like a project that is worthy of investment. But this project,
if completed four hundred miles from LA to San Francisco,
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at best, it'll cost one hundred and six billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Can't argue the money. I mean this billion here, this
billion there. That's neither here nor there for me. This
project is probably just never going to be done at
this point for a number of reasons. One the cost
overruns which can't be argued, the fact that they've not
made any physical progress on it that can't be argued.
And also the Trump administration is definitely going to pull
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every single scent of federal funding from it, which at
best also makes it even less likely to finish it,
complete it even if they wanted to. Look, if you've
traveled around the world at all, if you've seen the world,
you inherently know the benefits of high high speed rail.
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It is a worthy project to pursue. But our country
is not the same as other countries as far as
size and scope of transportation needs. And just California loan
is like four Koreas. When I was in Korea and
got to ride high speed rail, you get to really
understand the value. If you have been to Europe and
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took some of the high speed trains. You understand the
value to the country or countries and also to the
people and transportation needs. But this country has never ever
been committed to infrastructure on any level, any level. The
fact that we don't have any high speed rail anywhere
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in this country says more about us than anything. Now
we can agree on how this particular high speed rail
project is doomed here in California, but the larger discussion
of why there's no high speed rail anywhere in the
United States is something I think is a blight and
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blemish on us as the nation because we are still
falling further and further behind the rest of the world
when it comes to technology and transportation. It's Later with
mo Kelly caf I am six forty. We are live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And let me just tell
you now, and I'll tell you after the commercial break,
and I'll tell you again tomorrow, and I'll tell you
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next week, and I'll tell you next month. Stay your
ass out of gas stations at night. That's a freebie
from me to you. And we have more evidence why
when we come back.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI am six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Hey Stephan, real quick pop quiz pop quiz Okay, I'm ready.
Where should you never go after a certain hour? I
would say the gas station? Ding ding ding ding ding
and wish When should you never go to that gas station? Uh?
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At night?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Two for two gold star for Stephan. How many times
have I said it? How many times you don't go
to gas stations? Or let me just say I don't
go to gas stations at night one, because you're more
of a target. It's almost like you have a backlit
stage where the lights are on you a spotlight, and
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someone who's in the dark can watch you. You can't
necessarily see him, her or them. Crime tends to happen
more often at night, especially when you are more isolated
and you're at a gas station. You're probably distracted, I
don't know, pumping gas. Maybe you're on your phone. You
shouldn't be looking under the hood or your car whatever.
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You are not focused on who is watching you. Even
in the middle of the day, I still keep my
head on a swivel.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (18:21):
Absolutely, and that's like in like two in the afternoon, right,
gas on the way here.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Absolutely, I'm the same way I'm always high alert, always
high alert. So when Tawallas sends me this story today
talking about an uber driver, thank goodness she's okay. Uber
driver who was attacked after trying to be a good
samaritan and give someone a ride. That's something I wouldn't
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have done Anyhow, that's a whole nother discussion. But get
attacked and carjacked at a gas station at night. Unfortunately,
it was a sum total of bad decisions, some total.
But there is a teachable moment in all of this.
In other words, everything she did, don't you do.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
This all started at a gas station not far from here.
That ride share driver had her car parked at the
gas station.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
The suspect wait parked at a gas station.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Not getting gas parked at a gas station at night.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
It doesn't matter. To the city that you're in, it
does not matter.
Speaker 12 (19:29):
This all started at a gas station not far from here.
That ride share driver had her car parked at the
gas station. The suspect approached her, got into her vehicle. Now,
she did try to stop the car jacking, and it
was all caught on camera. West Kavino Police released this
video of a carjacking on social media. You can see.
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The suspect put a bike in the trunk of a
car at a Vollo gas station at the intersection of
South Garvey and Azusa Avenue. The ride share driver secures
the bike as the man gets into the driver's seat.
The driver quickly stops the door from closing and jumps
into the car with the suspect.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
The victim got into the vehicle and the driver's seat
on the suspect's lap, and there was a struggle. The
suspect did tell the victim that he was going to
purposely crash the vehicle, and he drove out of the
parking lot, dragging our female with him.
Speaker 12 (20:19):
The car reverses, speeds out of the gas station and
is on the wrong side of the road when it
slams into a pole.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
He then ran on foot and we got a call
shortly after from a security company.
Speaker 12 (20:32):
The driver, a woman in her twenties, told police the
suspect asked for a ride. She declined it first, but
then agreed to drop the man off at a nearby location.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Okay, I got to ask the question what possessed her
to give a stranger a ride somewhere? And mind you,
she met the stranger at night where at a gas station.
What about that seems like a good idea. And I'm
not blaming the victim. I'm just asking a question. What
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possessed her to put herself in that situation.
Speaker 9 (21:08):
When you're trying to do a good deed to help
somebody out, you know, don't always assume that it's for
the right reasons.
Speaker 12 (21:15):
After the crash, the suspect was spotted at a nearby
car dealership in a white.
Speaker 13 (21:19):
Van, an outside company that looks at videos overnight. They
are multiple TVs looking at different videos, so they're really
alert and they're they're they're good.
Speaker 12 (21:32):
In video, you can see the suspect coming out of
the van. Officers had their weapons drawn and a canine
on scene as he backed up.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I'm sorry, but this is radio, so we can't see
the video. I appreciate it. She's being polite, but we
can't see it.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
They're really alert and they're they're they're good.
Speaker 12 (21:47):
In video, you can see this height.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Look, this is radio. I can't see it. So unless
you can tell us and narrate, you're not going to help.
Speaker 12 (21:56):
In video, you can see the suspect coming out of
the van. Off so has had their weapons drawn and
a canine on scene as he backed up towards them,
hands on his head.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Okay, kids, let's review. So the carjacker was arrested. He
didn't get anything out of it. He didn't get to
officially jack the car. He didn't get a ride to
wherever he was trying to go. The Uber driver presumably
lost her Uber car for some amount of time.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
She's not going to be able to make any money.
Did anybody gain anything out of this? Anybody? Anyone? Anyone?
Speaker 6 (22:33):
No, we gained yet another lesson, another reason why you
don't ever stop your ass at the gas station at night.
Get your gas during the day whenever humanly possible. If
you need to get gas at night, please do everything
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you can to make sure you're getting gas where a
police station is nearby, close something.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But all that speaks to planning in advance. I tell
my students in my martial arts class. Safety begins before
a situation happens. It's before you get in a car,
it's before you enter a building. It's before you do
anything which puts you potentially in harm's way. You have
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to think about where you're going. You have to think
about who's going to be around. You have to think
about any likely, you know, problems which could arise because
you're in this location, be it a bar, be at
a gas station, be at a grocery store. There's some
grocery stores I don't go to at night for the
exact same reasons. Foosh, As an uber driver, would you
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ever in your right mind do something like give someone
a ride off the clock? Absolutely not, No effing way.
It's not in nineteen seventy four. People don't hitch ike anymore.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
I just think I always think of because someone else
also said this, but more specifically to Mo. When I'm
driving on the freeway and I see someone pulled over
to the side of the road, I'm not stopping to
help them. I'll call the police, I'll let CHP deal
with it, but i am not stopping to help them because,
like you said, they could be in distress. But I'm
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not gonna end up on the nightly news. No, and
their call boxes. People have smartphones.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
There are too many ways that people can't communicate not
needing your help. I'm not talking about a burning car
and someone is obviously in distress. We're talking about a
car stopped on the side of the freeway and the
hood is up. Pull out your cell phone, the one
that you were on while you're driving up until that
moment your chexting on. That's why a lot of horror
(24:50):
movies start that way, Mark, did you learn anything tonight?
I've seen the Texas chainsaw massacre. The whole thing starts
when they pick up that guy who talks about the
head cheese.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
It all goes downhill from there. Okay, I sign It's
all around you. Yeah, I know what not to do.
I didn't just fall off the back of the truck.
It's Later with mo Kelly. Stay your ass out of
gas stations at night. That's the takeaway, kids. And if
you failed the test, well you've been warned. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And everything old is new again, I said nineteen seventy
four when people stop really hitchhiking, Well, I guess that's
new again. Everything old is new. So what else is back?
Measles is back? Yes, Measles.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
What disease?
Speaker 11 (25:41):
Is there a song about?
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Come on, come on Boom boom?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I know what about the Measles song?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
The measles song.
Speaker 11 (25:49):
I what kind of measles song.
Speaker 13 (25:52):
It's called a It's called the German measles song.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
You'd the German measo song.
Speaker 13 (26:02):
You're the German measos song.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I've heard of the German measles but I've heard of
a German meso song.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
You heard of the German measles No?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh, maybe there isn't one can't buy. Mister.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
You're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and you know
we can laugh about that, but I don't know if
we should laugh about the measles. We've had a measles
outbreak here in the United States and it's uncontrolled. When
I say uncontrolled, measles can spread very very quickly, and
it's spreading in Texas and New Mexico. And when we
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tell you about how many are infected, those are only
the people who've actually come forward to seek treatment or
who have been hospitalized. It's probably ten times that. So
if you have maybe fifty eight people who are known
to be infected, it's at least five hundred and eighty.
And I don't know if you know this, and I'm
not making this up, but if you are unvaccinated with respect,
(26:59):
to mess and you are someone who comes into contact
with or close proximity with someone who has measles, there's
like a nine to ten chance, a ninety percent chance
that you can track measles if you are a child.
And I'll go into this because this is going to
be a part of my final thoughts, so I'm not
going to talk about all of it now. But if
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you're a child, or if you are elderly, or if
you are someone with a compromised immune system, or if
you are someone who has an altered immune system due
to maybe an organ transplant, you are susceptible to all
sorts of complications from brain swelling, pneumonia, death, combination of
(27:43):
all three. And as of Tuesday this week, there were
at least fifty eight cases of measles reported in the
South Plains region of Texas and eight cases reported in
eastern New Mexico. Again, let me stress these are only reported,
so it doesn't necessarily indicate total infections. The Texas Department
(28:06):
of State Health Services reported that thirteen people have been
hospitalized with the virus. For the cases are people who
were vaccinated, so the vaccine doesn't mean that you're automatically exempt.
But there's a ninety seven percent success rate. In other words,
you're ninety seven percent protected, and I would rather take
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those odds as opposed to being unvaccinated, where there's a
ninety percent chance that you will be infected if you
come into contact with someone who has measles, and I can't.
I have to say this is a direct result of
our attitudes which have shifted in the past five to
(28:48):
ten years around vaccines more generally, and it's going to
collectively impact all of us.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Polio has come back to the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Why lack of vaccination measles, same, whooping cough, same.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
There's a reason, and.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Maybe we're not old enough to remember those reasons why
these vaccinated vaccines were created and developed in the first place.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Mark, I don't know if you know this, but on
to bounce this off you, oh please do Yes.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
The measles vaccine was created in nineteen sixty three, so
clearly in the forties and the fifties and the sixties,
measles were a thing, was an issue, it was necessary
for science of the day, and of course it's been
updated in the years since to develop a vaccine because measles,
(29:43):
especially if you look at measles and underdeveloped countries in
Africa and Asia. The most people are dying in those countries.
Did you know, Mark Ronner? In twenty twenty three, more
than one hundred.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Thousand people die of measles in the world.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
You know something, Mo, you sound like somebody who doesn't
believe in freedom. And I believe very shortly we're going
to be changing the name of measles to freedom spots.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
So let's just fix that attitude.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
More than one hundred thousand people died of measles in
twenty twenty three around the world. You may think that's
not a lot, but most of those one hundred thousand
people were children under the age of five.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Well, let me tell you something. Polio is no walk
in the park either, literally no walk in the bar yea.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Literally no walk.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
And if we're at a time where most of the
people who are under the age of sixty five, I
would say have no memory of polio, have no memory
of iron lungs, have no memory of people who got polio,
maybe survived it and can barely walk straight. Don't know
(30:54):
how it ravaged our nation, but it's back. Why because
more and more of us won't even do the basic
vaccinations basic. Now, Okay, we can go back and forth
about COVID. Okay, I'm not talking about COVID. I'm just
talking about the ones that you took, You and I
we all got before we even got in the kindergarten,
(31:14):
especially here in California. The whole schedule of vaccinations mmr,
all that kind of stuff. These diseases were largely eradicated.
There's a reason no one's dealing with smallpox. There's a
reason we weren't dealing with measles five ten years ago.
(31:37):
There's a reason why we didn't have a case of
polio for I don't know how many years until they
had a few in New York, if I'm not mistaken
last year.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
It's a reason it's called science.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
You sound like somebody who doesn't appreciate the freedom of
doing your own research with an Internet hookup and not
taking the word of credentialed experts who spend their entire
career and lives getting expertise on a single subject like
the measles.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
And I hear from people all the time say, mo,
you're not a doctor. It's like no, no, but I
know the first time that you get sick or you're
breaking arm, or you're getting a car accident, or your
parent has open heart surgery or needs to have a
stint put in. You're running straight to the experts. You're
running straight to the doctors. You know, that's that's who
(32:26):
you're going to. And I trust them over YouTube, you know,
I trust peer reviewed studies over YouTube.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
What you can't just google some open heart surgery.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
No you can't. You can't.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I mean, and I'm not an epidemiologist. I'm not an immunologist.
I'm not a virologist. I'm not a pathologist. But if
I have to deal with any of those associated issues,
I'm going straight to them. You can call them elitists
all you want, but damn it, they know more than
a And since you haven't had a science class since
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ninth grade, I'm not listening to you. Kf I am
six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Life moves pretty fast.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
If you don't let KFI fill you in once in
a while, you could miss it.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
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Speaker 3 (33:18):
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