March 26, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – An intervention for Mark with the hopes of getting him to stop issuing “Rahners” on the road…PLUS – A look at all the ways in-which students are getting around the LAUSD cellphone ban AND thoughts on the increase in the Southern California fire danger zone – on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Mister Bokeller here k if I am six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Have you ever had
something seemingly minor just completely throw you off your game
and wreck your concentration for the rest of the day.
My OCD can be easily impacted by the smallest of things,
not that you care, but I'm gonna share anyway. Negatively impacted, Yes,
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negatively as opposed to positivity. I see, I've never, or
I should say, I had not ever cracked my phone
glass ever in the history of having phones Hill Saturday, No, God.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Please no.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And it has wrecked my life in the days since.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And it's only Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And I said, well, maybe I'll just go ahead and
get another phone, or I'll get another glass for the phone.
And I don't have eight hours to just set aside
to have the phone, you know, get it repaired, because
that's just not an option in my life. And I
had already given away my backup phone to one of
my sons, so I don't have a backup phone.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Normally I would have had a backup phone.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I was just kept it moving, but I don't have
a backup phone, so it's really messing with my life
and I can't use my phone the way I want
to use it, and it's driving me insane. And then
I wanted to say, well, let me just go on
tostore dot Google dot com and get me one of
the new Pixel nine a's, which had just been announced
(01:54):
in the nineteenth Oh so sorry, they're not available until March.
I mean, excuse me April now, but they're not actually
available for sale. I'm thinking, like, wait a minute, why
don't you tell me about this phone? I can't even
have it. I thought I had a solution to my problem,
but instead I don't have a solution to my problem,
and my OCD is absolutely killing me. Not that you care,
(02:15):
but you should be aware. So if I should exhibit
some really erratic behavior, that's why have did you ever?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Like? I put it this way, I was that kid
when I went to school.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
If I, for some reason had mismatched socks on, it
would bother me the whole frickin' day. If I went
to school and forgot to put on my belt, it
would bother me the whole day. Little things will throw
me off like that. I can't be the only one.
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I can't be.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I have a glass cover, like protective case on my
phone because I couldn't have that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But I've never it's never happened to me before, never
until this past Saturday. But you've never had a cover. No, No,
I need to feel the glass.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You can still feel it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I don't want a phone condom, want.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
A raw dog it? Okay, No, you need protection.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You know where your thumbs are.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
No serious, I don't like those phone covers.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Fill mine. No, feel it, touch it. It's it's very smooth.
Look it's very smooth. Look touch it. You can't even tell. Now.
I've dropped that a couple of times, and I would
like to It's still smooth. You can still fill all
the buttons, all the knobs, all the the indentation. Yes,
it's very smooth. And I've dropped there. There is like
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a little crack in this one because I've dropped it.
I dropped it and then I stepped on it. So
now I have to go and get my spare glass
case cover. I was just a victim of circumstance. I
was getting out of the car and I had it
in my hand, and I was going to my hot
Keto studio and I happened to drop it. I've dropped
it maybe ten or twelve times, and this time it
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happened to drop right on its face on some jagged
asphalt and you know, the rest, they say is history,
and I've been out of sorts ever since. I just
it's almost like you walk in front of the mirror
and you see that ZiT in the front of your
center of your forehead every single time, and you can't
look away because that's all you can focus on. Well,
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all I can do is focus on this big ass
crack on my phone. Not that you care, but you
need to be made aware because I'm on one tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Things a little bit different. Oh, speaking of on one tonight, and.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
The next segment, we're going to talk about what we're
going to do to save Mark Ronner.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I saw that on the rundown and it filled me
with dread because Tuala wouldn't tell me what it was about.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
We're going to have a special segment and we're going
to save the life of Mark Ronner. We're going to
intervene and this is very serious, very serious, thank you.
We're going to keep him from getting killed. We're not
going to tell you why or how, but there's going
to be an intervention. Next segment, and it's all all
about Mark Ronner.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I'm not feeling so great. I think we got to
call Heather back in. It's for the greater good. I
promise you that that's the tease. Just get that phone
fixed with you.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And also, remember how we told you about how schools,
especially in southern California, were implementing their own ways of
making sure that kids don't use their phone, you know,
the head the cell phone band. Some schools were collected
to phone, some were putting them in these pouches, these
magnetic pouches, And we said, you know, kids are gonna
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find a way around all this stuff. They are, they are,
and sure enough they have. We'll tell you about that
at the bottom of the hour. And we have an
update about the fire zones. There is an update to
the danger zones as far as where you are and
the likelihood of you having to deal with a fire
in the next five to ten years. So we have
(05:55):
that and so much more. Full show tonight, it's Later
with Mo Kelly. I'm still upset about my phone. Pray
for me. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app you're
listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty. And this next story is specifically an
intervention to protect and save the life of Mark Ronner,
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who has been known to give a runner or two
or four to people who may cut him off, who
may wrong him in some way on the highways of
southern California.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I see, I see where this is going now, and
do you try to imagine my gratitude, please proceed.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
There was a woman who was arrested.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I'm going to say this morning, excuse me, yesterday morning
around eight fifteen, no, excuse me, arrested about five pm yesterday.
And the incident happened about eight fifteen a few days ago,
where a twenty four year old woman from San Bernardino
County now in custody accused of attempted murder because of
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a road rage. In what happened is she was traveling
westbound on the ten Freeway east of Riverside Avenue in
the San Bernadino area. A motorist in a gray Nissan Rogue,
now identified as Loma Linda resident Angeline Marie Gable, was
reportedly angered over a lane change when she pulled alongside
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the victim. The driver of a black twenty twenty four,
Honda civic authorities say that Gable pulled out a glock
handgun and fired several rounds at the Honda, striking it
numerous times. Wow, that's just rude over a lane change mark.
And here's something else which is very important. The Office
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of Criminal Investigations, Emergency Notification and Tactical Alert Center, which
is in Sacramento, provided real time investigatory assistance and discovered
a FLOCK safety camera had captured an image of the
suspect vehicle, meaning they were able to track this call
as it drove around the city and they later arrested
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the would be assailant later that day at around five pm,
just from the FLOCK system camera.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So there are two lessons here, Mark Ronner, Yes, yes, be.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Careful giving out runners because someone may shoot you.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And what is a runner again, Roner is when you
flip them the burd So there's already a name for that.
We don't need to give it my name.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
But when you're listening later with mo Kelly, it has
the context of you and you driving, so we're gonna
call her a runner for the sake of this conversation.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I gave a guy in a big truck, a thorough
ronnoring over the weekend. Who is one of those things
where there's three lanes and I'm in the middle lane.
He could see that there were cars parked in the
right lane coming up, so he tried to like jag
in front of me and cut me off and get
into my lane instead of just slipping in behind me
like a polite, normal human being. Right, he got the
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panoramic runner. And you may have been justified in doing it.
But is it worth being shot at? I'd prefer not
to be shot at. You perforrect about that.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
But you may lose control of the situation after you
run or someone and they may try to, you know,
pop a cap in your ass, and I don't want
that to happen.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
No, And I appreciate that. I can feel the love
emanating from you. I never get out of the car.
It's just a polite, little raised finger. When polite, when
somebody does something egregious, the finger is never as impolite
as the behavior that inspired the finger.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
That that may be true, we can argue that point,
but I would not say that a middle finger is polite.
There are varying degrees of impoliteness. Well, I don't, but
I wouldn't call it polite. Well, I don't have the
means to write them a letter and hand it to
them like kind sir, are you aware that you did
something obnoxious and dangerous just then just letting you know, thanks,
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have a nice day. No, the finger is shorthand for
all of that. Can't you just throw up both your
hands like saying, what the hell dude?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, that's kind of an earlier version of the finger.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Yeah, like if somebody, like if somebody cuts in front
of you and then slows down, that's so, what the
hell dude?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Okay, going back to the story, I'm quite sure the
woman who cut off the would be gun woman probably
was wrong as far as the rules of the road.
I want to give the attempted murderer because she's tar
arts with attempted murder. I'm going to give for the
benefit of the doubt and say that this civic actually
did cut her off.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But is it worth it to risk your life? Is it?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Well, you don't want to blame the victim first and foremost, Well,
in what you're trying to do is blame me, And
I'm always the victim.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
No, But what I'm saying, Okay, the person who got
cut off in this story responded with a gun.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
So is that person the victim in this story? Well,
I don't carry a gun.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
No, no, but you carry a runner. I'm saying everything
a victim, everybody. My point is you you characterize yourself
as a victim because of what was done to you.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You mow twala foush. We're all carrying unloaded runners at
all times. It's a weapon of peace. It's a non
lethal weapon.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah. But see Mark, And the reason I no longer
unleash fiery runners on the road is because of the wisdom,
believe it or not, of my daughter who said to me, Daddy,
you may want to issue that runner. Her daughter does
not say that that issue.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
That runner in anger.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But you don't know if the person receiving that runner
is crazy, and crazy beats angry every time, Daddy, keep
those runners holstered.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I don't think your daughter would appreciate you putting false
words into her mouth like that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
She doesn't call the middle finger by the name of
your coworker.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I know this, But she has said that between mad
and angry and someone who's angry is not thinking straight,
and they're probably more committed to the escalation than you are.
You probably are intending to runnor and move on with
your day. Where that as that crazy person going back
to the story, obviously had a gun available in the car,
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loaded glock, it didn't probably have a safety on it,
and was ready and looking for a reason to use
it on someone.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Well, there's going to be crazy people any place that
you go. And if somebody does something rude and you
give them a gesture that indicates that they were being rude,
and then they pull out a piece that's compounding the rudeness,
you understand that, right, it doesn't matter if you're dead.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Though you could be right and dead. I would prefer
to be right and alive.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Okay, we're making progress here, Yeah, So I would rather
you err on the side of caution and not put
yourself in a situation where the choice to continue to
live has been taken away from you.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
So for me and the people listening in their cars
right now, who overwhelmingly agree with me, what would you
a strophol what would she yes? What would you tell
them to do in place of the runnor? I would say,
if you can keep your hands at ten and twelve.
Just you don't have to remove either hand for a panoramic,
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for a thrusting, a gyrating, or an out the window runner.
What about a crankt into the open position one like
in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
No, because that's not taking as fun and playful on
the road. In a film, it's fine, but you know
in real life that's almost more insightful. That's even more
reason for me to come after you, because now you're
clowning with your honors. But don't you think people know
when they've done something terrible and rude and unsafe?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yes, I'm quite sure when this person pulled the gun
and started dumping, they thought it was rude and unsafe.
They didn't care, and that's my point. Well, they deserve
an extra honoring for that, all right then, But you
can't with a bullet in your head. I'm trying to
protect you from you.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Mark. I want you to live. Mark, you're my brother.
I love you.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I didn't expect to cry coming into work today. I said,
you're gonna make that happen.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
This is an intervention because there is someone listening right
now who, like you, has no reservations about giving someone
a runnor.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Well, it is important to stand up to bullies and wrongdoers.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You understand that moment, yes, And most bullies don't actually
want to fight. That's why they'll shoot from another car.
That's my point. A person who's going to shoot is
not trying to pull over and go head up with you.
You and I have been in scraps before, all right.
A person's gonna shoot you is not trying to fight you.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Well, maybe I should get one of them there, tesla's.
Aren't they supposed to be bulletproof? This yer, those swasti cars.
You can't trust those things. The panels fall off. You're
not going to stop a bullet. Okay, there's no bulletproof cars.
There probably are, but you don't drive one of them. No, No,
not currently, nor could you probably be able to afford it. Well,
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if you want to get that personal, I don't know
if any of.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Us here is personal. That's the whole point. We're trying
to keep you alive. And actually the serious point of
this conversation is it's not worth escalating the situation. I
know every single day someone makes me angry, and I'm
not going to stare them down. I'm not going to
do some aggressive maneuver and cut them off, and I'm
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not going to break check them if I happen to
be in front of them.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's not worth it. Will I calm down eventually? Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Am I angry in the moment, absolutely, But this is
a perfect example of wrong place, wrong time, because I
know I'm angry, and going back to what Taualla's daughter
said to him, I don't know if there's dumb and
crazy any other car having nothing to do with my anger.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I mean I follow the apocalypse now ruled never get
out of the boat, never get out of your car
for a road rage incident. And I just watched a
clip yesterday of a woman, I think it was a
woman getting out of her car and trying to approach
the next car ahead who'd break checked her or something
like that, and a cop stops cold on the other
side of the road and gets out and stops her
from doing it. And he's like, I got this, Okay,
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you get back in your car.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't get out of my car anymore, I know,
And I say never should And I say any more
because I have been on the other side of that
logic you know those electronic reader boards where you can
program it to have messages that scroll across the screen.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I'd like to have one of those for my car.
You can you can get those.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
You can put it on right on top of your car,
and hopefully, like a Marquee, you can program it with
a picture of a middle finger so you can keep
your hands on toilet cark.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You cannot take a level Runners or you know, analogue runners.
They're they're the same. No, no science marches on. This is
you need to embrace the future. Mo. We tried to try.
Sometimes you just got to let family go. I want
to live for you, I want to live for both
of them. I have some addicts in my family and
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we couldn't save them. I feel the same way. I'm
giving the exact thing feally. It's like, sometimes you just
got to let them go. So I'm a middle finger junkie.
Is that it pretty much? And you know I I
don't want you to encounter someone who has a glock
on the ten freeway.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Oh I need to fix right now. Look at this
right here? Ah, that felt so good. You actually ronored
me in the middle of a freaking show. Well, it
was just to make a point, and now I feel
bad about it. I hope we can move on and
you can forgive me.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Look at the time when we come back, we go
into the schools and talk about how students are circumnavigating
the supposed cell phone band.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Just like we told you.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And middle school high school kids all around Los Angeles
Unified School District are being told don't touch that phone.
If you try to use it during school hours, you'll
be cited. The phone will be taken away, confiscated, maybe
your parents will be contacted as well.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It's an unusual time.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Schools are trying to figure out and navigate a way
to allow students to have their phone with them on campus,
but not use them while school is in session. And
this new policy for LAUSD we've talked about for quite
some time, and different schools have somewhat different approaches. Will
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take University High for example, they've turned to a local
company called Yonder while in dr and Yonder is a
maker of a lockable pouch commonly used in film premierees.
If you've ever been to a worldwide premiere of a movie.
They'll usually take your phone, they'll hold it up the front,
they'll put it in this pouch. I know, I've had
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to do it any number of times. And then you
it's almost like a coach check. You get a receipt
and then you come back and get your phone at
the end of the movie. It's much like that. And
you have these pouches available now at schools which are
going to do the same thing. They're stealed with a magnet,
and it's the most popular choice of most of the
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schools trying to enforce this cell phone band. Here's the problem,
and I said this before they even talked about possible
ways to get students to not use their phones. I
said it. Ta Wallace said it. We said, just like
they were able to hack their own laptops, they would
find a way around the pouch or any type of
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mechanism that you would have to keep them away from
their phones. Why, because their kids, and they're smart and
they're always looking for a way to get over. Students
have done exactly what I said they were going to do.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
They're using decoy phones.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I started the show today and this was for a reason,
talking about how I cracked the screen on my phone.
It normally wouldn't be a big deal, even though I've
never done it before, because why I had a backup phone,
and when I had a backup phone, I didn't really
trip on anything that would happen to this phone, because
all I would do is just use the backup phone.
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A lot of kids now, since they get new phones
just about every year, have backup phones laying around that
actually work, or at least you can turn on the power.
And you know what is an administrator going to know?
They're not going to know whether it's their true phone
or a backup phone. And these kids, what are they doing, Twalda.
They're giving the back of phone and putting that in
the pouch and keeping their main phone and using that in.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Class, or as my daughter has just informed me, they'll
be still listening to their music. So they'll walk into
class and they'll turn on their music listening device Spotify
or whatever, and they'll hide their Apple earbud under their
hair and just turn the phone. They'll still be listening
jamming to their music.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
She said.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, people still sneak their phones. They're not turning. They'll
turn in empty vouches and the light. This is a
first hand account of how she would never break the rules,
but she's aware of how other people are breaking the rules.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
She said, not need me, but this is how other
people are getting around it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Look, this is not I'm not trying to equate this
to criminal behavior when I say I think like a criminal,
but I do think like someone who's always looking to circumnavigate, circumvent,
kind of sidestep all of the rules. This is what
kids are going to do, and I know it's the
best foot forward by schools right now. I just think
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we were kidding ourselves if we didn't think that kids
were going to be smarter than all the administrators trying
to enforce this rule.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Now, she did say they all are trying to crack
down now, so I'm thinking right now at the entry
point of this crackdown and the band and then putting
in patches, yes, kids are finding a way around. But
as the months go on and years go on, they
will get to a point where this does work. I
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think right now it's almost backfiring, and that kids are
spending more time trying to find ways around the system,
which is more of a distraction. But eventually eventually this
will work.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
We'll see what I think. Work is going to be
a relative term.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Okay, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, I don't need it to
be fool proof. I just don't need to kid ourselves
as far as how effective it's going to be. I
was talking about UNI High and their rules are if
you're caught as a student breaking the rules for the
first time, you lose your phone for the rest of
the day, Okay, big deal, five hours maybe for them
it's a big deal. And if you do it a
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second time, if you found in violation a second time,
your phone is confiscated and their parent or guardian is
notified and required to retrieve it on a designated day,
you tuala. As a parent, would you be more angry
at your child for a second violation or the fact
that you would not be able to get in touch
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with your daughter on her primary phone if need.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Be, I would have to turn on my mic I
would be upset at both. Actually, I would be upset
that my daughter had violated the rules, but I would
be even more upset if the school decided to take
the phone and not return it. And I can go
back to a point in time when my daughter just
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had left her phone in her locker and wasn't allowed
to go back to get her phone after that's because
she had to run to her next class and the
locker room was closed. Whatever, And I went and I
lost my mind because I'm like, I have been calling
my daughter to pick up after school and she couldn't
get a hold of her phone. So eventually she called
me from her friend's phone, said, hey, they took my phone.
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And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa, whoa, whoa.
I don't care what's happening with you and your school.
My daughter is there with her phone for a reason.
There is nothing that you should be doing where you
should be taking her phone and preventing me from getting
in contact with her, especially because after school the school
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is closed. So if I can't contact the school to
contact her and I can't get her because you have
taken her phone, we have a problem. And they did
not like it when I came in. They did not
like the response. Were you hostile? I was very hostile,
Very very hostile words were used, which made which made
it very very best words that the very best words
it were verbal runners, and that did not happen again.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
There was no more taking of the phone. There was
you know what's her in the future. What we will
do is we will have a conversation with you. Uh
and my mother and I said, you do.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
That, you have a conversation with us firsthand. Do not
take it upon yourself to take the phone that we
are using to get in contact with her.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You have no idea what may be going on in
our lives.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
This is something you know, always thinking about how to
get around certain rules. I just, in my limited knowledge
of technology, I know how I can message from my
laptop right now if I didn't have my phone, I
know how to make calls from my laptop. And I
know that everyone under the age of seventeen knows this
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as well. I know that they've already figured out how
to get around all this.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And I know doesn't your daughter. Does she have her
own laptop.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
That she's allowed to take the class yep, Yes, that
she's supposed to use in class right.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yes, technology all over the US.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I mean, if she is sending messages, if she's trying
to communicate, if she was even looking at videos, there's
all types of things that she could be doing that
all these kids could be doing. And because most LAUSD
schools have now adopted a iPad or some sort of
technology component to being in school, that's why they've started
getting rid of lockers and all that kind of thing,
even though for some reason another kids backpacks are still
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hella heavy. It's a whole nother conversation. Yeah, I don't
get that, Yeah that's ridiculous. But the notion of taking technology,
especially because some of the programs that they have on
these iPads are not as robust as programs that may
be on the phones, which my daughter does use as
well to do work. Because she's not always doing the
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work and turning it in on the iPads. Sometimes there
are some programs she says, you know, it's easier for
me to do it on my phone. I've watched her
do it too, so she's not lying. I've watched her
do it and easier for her to do it on
her phone. I think that there does have to be
some type of compromise because again I think right now
we're at a point when just looking at these messages
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for my daughter, she says, people are finding all types
of ways around it. Who said that kids are who
said they would kids said that up. I mean, I
think that was what at the very beginning, before the
problem was even launched, we did. It was said here,
and now it's happening. So what are we doing right now?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Though?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I think it's well intentioned, but I know for a fact,
I'll bet dollars to donuts. This is a lawsuit, major
lawsuit waiting to happen.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And I'm not going to blame the school.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I'm just saying, let's look a few steps down the road.
When a parent legitimately needs to get in touch with
their child and they are unable to, like, for example,
after school hours, the phone has been confiscated unbeknownst to
the parent, and you're assuming that both parents know. Maybe
one parent is trying to get in touch with the
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child and does not do Long story short, we got
to go to break. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen,
and we told you here first because the way it's
set up, it's not going to work, and kids are
going to work their way around it, and there are
other problems which have yet to be addressed.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It's later, mo Kelly, when we come back.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
We when we talk about the Southern California fire danger
zone update and also how Altadena residents are protesting the
use of the golf course as a debris zone.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That more in just a moment.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Very quickly, we have talked about the fires extensively. We
talked about what we've not done in preparation for the
next fire or what we should have done prior to
these most recent spate of fires that we've been enduring,
and not only in the Los Angeles area, but the
Los Angeles County area.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Now listen to this.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
For the first time in fourteen years, CalFire is releasing
new fire hazard maps. They show the probability of a
wildfire occurring in the given area within the next thirty
to fifty years. Inspectors analyze data on vegetation, terrain, fire history,
and local weather. Take a look at this comparison. More
than eight hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
It's radio I can't take a look at it. That's
really unfair to ask.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Terrain, fire history, and local weather. Take a look at
this comparison. More than eight hundred thousand acres have been
added to the high and very high zones that's the
orange and red, and new this year, identified moderate danger
that's the yellow seen here in Los Angeles, San Bernardino
and Riverside County.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Replacing a roof with flame resistant materials.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Firefighters want people to understand the risk they're in, to
plan and prepare.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Multi pain windows with tempered glass, making sure that all
of their vent openings on your home, the openings the
screens are less than an eighth of an inch, and
then removing all combustible sighting on your homes.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Okay, I'm not the expert, but I do have a question.
What jumps out at me. Let's say I do that
all that's recommended for my home, but my home is
the only home that does that, and the rest of
my neighborhood is what we've already seen and not up
to that particular. I don't want to say cold because
it's not mandatory. These are suggestions and recommendations. Does that
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make any difference? I mean, if my house is a
little better protected, but the rest of the neighborhood is
not given what we saw two months ago, I don't
know if that changes the calculus at all.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
No, I mean, what I need to hear in this
report is that the city is paying for this retrofitting.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
If the city's not paying for this retrofitting and they
are expecting homeowners to do this on their own, good
luck with that those who have houses left standing. I
don't know if many are going to be able to
retrofit their houses, especially looking at so many of the
houses in Altadena that have these wide grates or wide
(30:50):
vents at the base of the roof when you get
to the house, I've seen that it's like like our
house as that, and then they have these wooden beams
that can easily catch fire. I don't know if anyone
has that type of money to redo that.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Since we're also talking about Altadena and residents and what
they feel they're going to need going forward, there is
a brooding controversy about use of the golf course within
Altadena as the temporary wildfire debris recycling center Twala. You
are in and out of the area, are you hearing
about that. Is it something which is a huge issue
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or do they understand this is just kind of part
of the process.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yes and no.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
There there are those who want to maintain the beauty
and the prestige of the Altadena wildfire or the Altadena
golf course. And no, they do not want this debris
and recycling centers set up there because there is no
assurance that the golf course will be returned to the
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way that it's supposed to look. It's already suffered enough
as it is with the wildfire, and now you want
to come and use it as a recycling center without
any real guarantees on what's going to happen after you're done.
You know, are you going to replant the grass? Are
you going to rebuild what is destroyed? Because just sitting
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the stuff there when there are other options that I
know the other options are also not good because they're
talking about just dumping stuff in the valley and the
North Hills and West Hills there.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
They're like, they don't want it there either.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Nimbi, Yeah, I know they don't want it in their backyard.
And I understand the considerations with got to be made.
You would like to preserve the golf course. And I'm
saying this as an outsider, so I understand that my
opinion doesn't count and I may not fully understand the
gravity of it, but it may be functionally what's necessary
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in the short term to help get through this a
little quicker as opposed to trying to move it fifteen
miles away from there.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Possibly possibly. I know that there are several areas within
the valley where there are just absolute open fields. There
are areas that some are saying even along the two
ten and where you get to like Sun Valley, where
there's just open space. If you're just if you just
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need a place to dump the stuff temporarily and recycle it,
why not go to an area where there is open
land for the moment instead of going to a place
like that that is established and that you are going
to have to do so much repair on.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That is kind of the argument. It's like, why.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
There's got to be there's got to be some open
spacing where you can do it, versus destroying the altad
in a golf course, which is like can we not
have something that stands that is not also destroyed or
not also made uh to look bad in the in
the in the interim.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I see the trucks. I was out there the other day.
I see the trucks. They're NonStop.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
They are just going up and down farokhs of debris
don't stop at the golf course.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Keep on going.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Take it to an open space where you can dump
it temporarily and recycle it can.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
If I AM six forty years later with Mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Kf I'M and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Mister Bokeller here k if I am six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Have you ever had
something seemingly minor just completely throw you off your game
and wreck your concentration for the rest of the day.
My OCD can be easily impacted by the smallest of things,
not that you care, but I'm gonna share anyway. Negatively impacted, Yes,
(00:44):
negatively as opposed to positivity. I see, I've never, or
I should say, I had not ever cracked my phone
glass ever in the history of having phones Hill Saturday, No, God.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Please no.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And it has wrecked my life in the days since.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And it's only Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And I said, well, maybe I'll just go ahead and
get another phone, or I'll get another glass for the phone.
And I don't have eight hours to just set aside
to have the phone, you know, get it repaired, because
that's just not an option in my life. And I
had already given away my backup phone to one of
my sons, so I don't have a backup phone.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Normally I would have had a backup phone.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I was just kept it moving, but I don't have
a backup phone, so it's really messing with my life
and I can't use my phone the way I want
to use it, and it's driving me insane. And then
I wanted to say, well, let me just go on
tostore dot Google dot com and get me one of
the new Pixel nine a's, which had just been announced
(01:54):
in the nineteenth Oh so sorry, they're not available until March.
I mean, excuse me April now, but they're not actually
available for sale. I'm thinking, like, wait a minute, why
don't you tell me about this phone? I can't even
have it. I thought I had a solution to my problem,
but instead I don't have a solution to my problem,
and my OCD is absolutely killing me. Not that you care,
(02:15):
but you should be aware. So if I should exhibit
some really erratic behavior, that's why have did you ever?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Like? I put it this way, I was that kid
when I went to school.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
If I, for some reason had mismatched socks on, it
would bother me the whole frickin' day. If I went
to school and forgot to put on my belt, it
would bother me the whole day. Little things will throw
me off like that. I can't be the only one.
(02:47):
I can't be.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I have a glass cover, like protective case on my
phone because I couldn't have that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But I've never it's never happened to me before, never
until this past Saturday. But you've never had a cover. No, No,
I need to feel the glass.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You can still feel it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I don't want a phone condom, want.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
A raw dog it? Okay, No, you need protection.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You know where your thumbs are.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
No serious, I don't like those phone covers.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Fill mine. No, feel it, touch it. It's it's very smooth.
Look it's very smooth. Look touch it. You can't even tell. Now.
I've dropped that a couple of times, and I would
like to It's still smooth. You can still fill all
the buttons, all the knobs, all the the indentation. Yes,
it's very smooth. And I've dropped there. There is like
(03:39):
a little crack in this one because I've dropped it.
I dropped it and then I stepped on it. So
now I have to go and get my spare glass
case cover. I was just a victim of circumstance. I
was getting out of the car and I had it
in my hand, and I was going to my hot
Keto studio and I happened to drop it. I've dropped
it maybe ten or twelve times, and this time it
(04:01):
happened to drop right on its face on some jagged
asphalt and you know, the rest, they say is history,
and I've been out of sorts ever since. I just
it's almost like you walk in front of the mirror
and you see that ZiT in the front of your
center of your forehead every single time, and you can't
look away because that's all you can focus on. Well,
(04:23):
all I can do is focus on this big ass
crack on my phone. Not that you care, but you
need to be made aware because I'm on one tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Things a little bit different. Oh, speaking of on one tonight, and.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
The next segment, we're going to talk about what we're
going to do to save Mark Ronner.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I saw that on the rundown and it filled me
with dread because Tuala wouldn't tell me what it was about.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
We're going to have a special segment and we're going
to save the life of Mark Ronner. We're going to
intervene and this is very serious, very serious, thank you.
We're going to keep him from getting killed. We're not
going to tell you why or how, but there's going
to be an intervention. Next segment, and it's all all
about Mark Ronner.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I'm not feeling so great. I think we got to
call Heather back in. It's for the greater good. I
promise you that that's the tease. Just get that phone
fixed with you.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And also, remember how we told you about how schools,
especially in southern California, were implementing their own ways of
making sure that kids don't use their phone, you know,
the head the cell phone band. Some schools were collected
to phone, some were putting them in these pouches, these
magnetic pouches, And we said, you know, kids are gonna
(05:33):
find a way around all this stuff. They are, they are,
and sure enough they have. We'll tell you about that
at the bottom of the hour. And we have an
update about the fire zones. There is an update to
the danger zones as far as where you are and
the likelihood of you having to deal with a fire
in the next five to ten years. So we have
(05:55):
that and so much more. Full show tonight, it's Later
with Mo Kelly. I'm still upset about my phone. Pray
for me. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app you're
listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty. And this next story is specifically an
intervention to protect and save the life of Mark Ronner,
(06:17):
who has been known to give a runner or two
or four to people who may cut him off, who
may wrong him in some way on the highways of
southern California.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I see, I see where this is going now, and
do you try to imagine my gratitude, please proceed.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
There was a woman who was arrested.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I'm going to say this morning, excuse me, yesterday morning
around eight fifteen, no, excuse me, arrested about five pm yesterday.
And the incident happened about eight fifteen a few days ago,
where a twenty four year old woman from San Bernardino
County now in custody accused of attempted murder because of
(06:58):
a road rage. In what happened is she was traveling
westbound on the ten Freeway east of Riverside Avenue in
the San Bernadino area. A motorist in a gray Nissan Rogue,
now identified as Loma Linda resident Angeline Marie Gable, was
reportedly angered over a lane change when she pulled alongside
(07:20):
the victim. The driver of a black twenty twenty four,
Honda civic authorities say that Gable pulled out a glock
handgun and fired several rounds at the Honda, striking it
numerous times. Wow, that's just rude over a lane change mark.
And here's something else which is very important. The Office
(07:40):
of Criminal Investigations, Emergency Notification and Tactical Alert Center, which
is in Sacramento, provided real time investigatory assistance and discovered
a FLOCK safety camera had captured an image of the
suspect vehicle, meaning they were able to track this call
as it drove around the city and they later arrested
(08:05):
the would be assailant later that day at around five pm,
just from the FLOCK system camera.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So there are two lessons here, Mark Ronner, Yes, yes, be.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Careful giving out runners because someone may shoot you.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And what is a runner again, Roner is when you
flip them the burd So there's already a name for that.
We don't need to give it my name.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
But when you're listening later with mo Kelly, it has
the context of you and you driving, so we're gonna
call her a runner for the sake of this conversation.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I gave a guy in a big truck, a thorough
ronnoring over the weekend. Who is one of those things
where there's three lanes and I'm in the middle lane.
He could see that there were cars parked in the
right lane coming up, so he tried to like jag
in front of me and cut me off and get
into my lane instead of just slipping in behind me
like a polite, normal human being. Right, he got the
(08:58):
panoramic runner. And you may have been justified in doing it.
But is it worth being shot at? I'd prefer not
to be shot at. You perforrect about that.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
But you may lose control of the situation after you
run or someone and they may try to, you know,
pop a cap in your ass, and I don't want
that to happen.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
No, And I appreciate that. I can feel the love
emanating from you. I never get out of the car.
It's just a polite, little raised finger. When polite, when
somebody does something egregious, the finger is never as impolite
as the behavior that inspired the finger.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
That that may be true, we can argue that point,
but I would not say that a middle finger is polite.
There are varying degrees of impoliteness. Well, I don't, but
I wouldn't call it polite. Well, I don't have the
means to write them a letter and hand it to
them like kind sir, are you aware that you did
something obnoxious and dangerous just then just letting you know, thanks,
(09:55):
have a nice day. No, the finger is shorthand for
all of that. Can't you just throw up both your
hands like saying, what the hell dude?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, that's kind of an earlier version of the finger.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Yeah, like if somebody, like if somebody cuts in front
of you and then slows down, that's so, what the
hell dude?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Okay, going back to the story, I'm quite sure the
woman who cut off the would be gun woman probably
was wrong as far as the rules of the road.
I want to give the attempted murderer because she's tar
arts with attempted murder. I'm going to give for the
benefit of the doubt and say that this civic actually
did cut her off.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But is it worth it to risk your life? Is it?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Well, you don't want to blame the victim first and foremost, Well,
in what you're trying to do is blame me, And
I'm always the victim.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
No, But what I'm saying, Okay, the person who got
cut off in this story responded with a gun.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
So is that person the victim in this story? Well,
I don't carry a gun.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
No, no, but you carry a runner. I'm saying everything
a victim, everybody. My point is you you characterize yourself
as a victim because of what was done to you.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You mow twala foush. We're all carrying unloaded runners at
all times. It's a weapon of peace. It's a non
lethal weapon.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah. But see Mark, And the reason I no longer
unleash fiery runners on the road is because of the wisdom,
believe it or not, of my daughter who said to me, Daddy,
you may want to issue that runner. Her daughter does
not say that that issue.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
That runner in anger.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But you don't know if the person receiving that runner
is crazy, and crazy beats angry every time, Daddy, keep
those runners holstered.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I don't think your daughter would appreciate you putting false
words into her mouth like that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
She doesn't call the middle finger by the name of
your coworker.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I know this, But she has said that between mad
and angry and someone who's angry is not thinking straight,
and they're probably more committed to the escalation than you are.
You probably are intending to runnor and move on with
your day. Where that as that crazy person going back
to the story, obviously had a gun available in the car,
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loaded glock, it didn't probably have a safety on it,
and was ready and looking for a reason to use
it on someone.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Well, there's going to be crazy people any place that
you go. And if somebody does something rude and you
give them a gesture that indicates that they were being rude,
and then they pull out a piece that's compounding the rudeness,
you understand that, right, it doesn't matter if you're dead.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Though you could be right and dead. I would prefer
to be right and alive.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Okay, we're making progress here, Yeah, So I would rather
you err on the side of caution and not put
yourself in a situation where the choice to continue to
live has been taken away from you.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
So for me and the people listening in their cars
right now, who overwhelmingly agree with me, what would you
a strophol what would she yes? What would you tell
them to do in place of the runnor? I would say,
if you can keep your hands at ten and twelve.
Just you don't have to remove either hand for a panoramic,
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for a thrusting, a gyrating, or an out the window runner.
What about a crankt into the open position one like
in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
No, because that's not taking as fun and playful on
the road. In a film, it's fine, but you know
in real life that's almost more insightful. That's even more
reason for me to come after you, because now you're
clowning with your honors. But don't you think people know
when they've done something terrible and rude and unsafe?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yes, I'm quite sure when this person pulled the gun
and started dumping, they thought it was rude and unsafe.
They didn't care, and that's my point. Well, they deserve
an extra honoring for that, all right then, But you
can't with a bullet in your head. I'm trying to
protect you from you.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Mark. I want you to live. Mark, you're my brother.
I love you.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I didn't expect to cry coming into work today. I said,
you're gonna make that happen.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
This is an intervention because there is someone listening right
now who, like you, has no reservations about giving someone
a runnor.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Well, it is important to stand up to bullies and wrongdoers.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You understand that moment, yes, And most bullies don't actually
want to fight. That's why they'll shoot from another car.
That's my point. A person who's going to shoot is
not trying to pull over and go head up with you.
You and I have been in scraps before, all right.
A person's gonna shoot you is not trying to fight you.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Well, maybe I should get one of them there, tesla's.
Aren't they supposed to be bulletproof? This yer, those swasti cars.
You can't trust those things. The panels fall off. You're
not going to stop a bullet. Okay, there's no bulletproof cars.
There probably are, but you don't drive one of them. No, No,
not currently, nor could you probably be able to afford it. Well,
(15:16):
if you want to get that personal, I don't know
if any of.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Us here is personal. That's the whole point. We're trying
to keep you alive. And actually the serious point of
this conversation is it's not worth escalating the situation. I
know every single day someone makes me angry, and I'm
not going to stare them down. I'm not going to
do some aggressive maneuver and cut them off, and I'm
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not going to break check them if I happen to
be in front of them.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's not worth it. Will I calm down eventually? Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Am I angry in the moment, absolutely, But this is
a perfect example of wrong place, wrong time, because I
know I'm angry, and going back to what Taualla's daughter
said to him, I don't know if there's dumb and
crazy any other car having nothing to do with my anger.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I mean I follow the apocalypse now ruled never get
out of the boat, never get out of your car
for a road rage incident. And I just watched a
clip yesterday of a woman, I think it was a
woman getting out of her car and trying to approach
the next car ahead who'd break checked her or something
like that, and a cop stops cold on the other
side of the road and gets out and stops her
from doing it. And he's like, I got this, Okay,
(16:26):
you get back in your car.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't get out of my car anymore, I know,
And I say never should And I say any more
because I have been on the other side of that
logic you know those electronic reader boards where you can
program it to have messages that scroll across the screen.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I'd like to have one of those for my car.
You can you can get those.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
You can put it on right on top of your car,
and hopefully, like a Marquee, you can program it with
a picture of a middle finger so you can keep
your hands on toilet cark.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You cannot take a level Runners or you know, analogue runners.
They're they're the same. No, no science marches on. This is
you need to embrace the future. Mo. We tried to try.
Sometimes you just got to let family go. I want
to live for you, I want to live for both
of them. I have some addicts in my family and
(17:17):
we couldn't save them. I feel the same way. I'm
giving the exact thing feally. It's like, sometimes you just
got to let them go. So I'm a middle finger junkie.
Is that it pretty much? And you know I I
don't want you to encounter someone who has a glock
on the ten freeway.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Oh I need to fix right now. Look at this
right here? Ah, that felt so good. You actually ronored
me in the middle of a freaking show. Well, it
was just to make a point, and now I feel
bad about it. I hope we can move on and
you can forgive me.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Look at the time when we come back, we go
into the schools and talk about how students are circumnavigating
the supposed cell phone band.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Just like we told you.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And middle school high school kids all around Los Angeles
Unified School District are being told don't touch that phone.
If you try to use it during school hours, you'll
be cited. The phone will be taken away, confiscated, maybe
your parents will be contacted as well.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It's an unusual time.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Schools are trying to figure out and navigate a way
to allow students to have their phone with them on campus,
but not use them while school is in session. And
this new policy for LAUSD we've talked about for quite
some time, and different schools have somewhat different approaches. Will
(18:47):
take University High for example, they've turned to a local
company called Yonder while in dr and Yonder is a
maker of a lockable pouch commonly used in film premierees.
If you've ever been to a worldwide premiere of a movie.
They'll usually take your phone, they'll hold it up the front,
they'll put it in this pouch. I know, I've had
(19:08):
to do it any number of times. And then you
it's almost like a coach check. You get a receipt
and then you come back and get your phone at
the end of the movie. It's much like that. And
you have these pouches available now at schools which are
going to do the same thing. They're stealed with a magnet,
and it's the most popular choice of most of the
(19:28):
schools trying to enforce this cell phone band. Here's the problem,
and I said this before they even talked about possible
ways to get students to not use their phones. I
said it. Ta Wallace said it. We said, just like
they were able to hack their own laptops, they would
find a way around the pouch or any type of
(19:51):
mechanism that you would have to keep them away from
their phones. Why, because their kids, and they're smart and
they're always looking for a way to get over. Students
have done exactly what I said they were going to do.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
They're using decoy phones.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I started the show today and this was for a reason,
talking about how I cracked the screen on my phone.
It normally wouldn't be a big deal, even though I've
never done it before, because why I had a backup phone,
and when I had a backup phone, I didn't really
trip on anything that would happen to this phone, because
all I would do is just use the backup phone.
(20:28):
A lot of kids now, since they get new phones
just about every year, have backup phones laying around that
actually work, or at least you can turn on the power.
And you know what is an administrator going to know?
They're not going to know whether it's their true phone
or a backup phone. And these kids, what are they doing, Twalda.
They're giving the back of phone and putting that in
the pouch and keeping their main phone and using that in.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Class, or as my daughter has just informed me, they'll
be still listening to their music. So they'll walk into
class and they'll turn on their music listening device Spotify
or whatever, and they'll hide their Apple earbud under their
hair and just turn the phone. They'll still be listening
jamming to their music.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
She said.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, people still sneak their phones. They're not turning. They'll
turn in empty vouches and the light. This is a
first hand account of how she would never break the rules,
but she's aware of how other people are breaking the rules.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
She said, not need me, but this is how other
people are getting around it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Look, this is not I'm not trying to equate this
to criminal behavior when I say I think like a criminal,
but I do think like someone who's always looking to circumnavigate, circumvent,
kind of sidestep all of the rules. This is what
kids are going to do, and I know it's the
best foot forward by schools right now. I just think
(21:51):
we were kidding ourselves if we didn't think that kids
were going to be smarter than all the administrators trying
to enforce this rule.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Now, she did say they all are trying to crack
down now, so I'm thinking right now at the entry
point of this crackdown and the band and then putting
in patches, yes, kids are finding a way around. But
as the months go on and years go on, they
will get to a point where this does work. I
(22:19):
think right now it's almost backfiring, and that kids are
spending more time trying to find ways around the system,
which is more of a distraction. But eventually eventually this
will work.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
We'll see what I think. Work is going to be
a relative term.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Okay, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, I don't need it to
be fool proof. I just don't need to kid ourselves
as far as how effective it's going to be. I
was talking about UNI High and their rules are if
you're caught as a student breaking the rules for the
first time, you lose your phone for the rest of
the day, Okay, big deal, five hours maybe for them
it's a big deal. And if you do it a
(23:00):
second time, if you found in violation a second time,
your phone is confiscated and their parent or guardian is
notified and required to retrieve it on a designated day,
you tuala. As a parent, would you be more angry
at your child for a second violation or the fact
that you would not be able to get in touch
(23:21):
with your daughter on her primary phone if need.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Be, I would have to turn on my mic I
would be upset at both. Actually, I would be upset
that my daughter had violated the rules, but I would
be even more upset if the school decided to take
the phone and not return it. And I can go
back to a point in time when my daughter just
(23:45):
had left her phone in her locker and wasn't allowed
to go back to get her phone after that's because
she had to run to her next class and the
locker room was closed. Whatever, And I went and I
lost my mind because I'm like, I have been calling
my daughter to pick up after school and she couldn't
get a hold of her phone. So eventually she called
me from her friend's phone, said, hey, they took my phone.
(24:06):
And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa, whoa, whoa.
I don't care what's happening with you and your school.
My daughter is there with her phone for a reason.
There is nothing that you should be doing where you
should be taking her phone and preventing me from getting
in contact with her, especially because after school the school
(24:27):
is closed. So if I can't contact the school to
contact her and I can't get her because you have
taken her phone, we have a problem. And they did
not like it when I came in. They did not
like the response. Were you hostile? I was very hostile,
Very very hostile words were used, which made which made
it very very best words that the very best words
it were verbal runners, and that did not happen again.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
There was no more taking of the phone. There was
you know what's her in the future. What we will
do is we will have a conversation with you. Uh
and my mother and I said, you do.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
That, you have a conversation with us firsthand. Do not
take it upon yourself to take the phone that we
are using to get in contact with her.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You have no idea what may be going on in
our lives.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
This is something you know, always thinking about how to
get around certain rules. I just, in my limited knowledge
of technology, I know how I can message from my
laptop right now if I didn't have my phone, I
know how to make calls from my laptop. And I
know that everyone under the age of seventeen knows this
(25:35):
as well. I know that they've already figured out how
to get around all this.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And I know doesn't your daughter. Does she have her
own laptop.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
That she's allowed to take the class yep, Yes, that
she's supposed to use in class right.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yes, technology all over the US.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I mean, if she is sending messages, if she's trying
to communicate, if she was even looking at videos, there's
all types of things that she could be doing that
all these kids could be doing. And because most LAUSD
schools have now adopted a iPad or some sort of
technology component to being in school, that's why they've started
getting rid of lockers and all that kind of thing,
even though for some reason another kids backpacks are still
(26:13):
hella heavy. It's a whole nother conversation. Yeah, I don't
get that, Yeah that's ridiculous. But the notion of taking technology,
especially because some of the programs that they have on
these iPads are not as robust as programs that may
be on the phones, which my daughter does use as
well to do work. Because she's not always doing the
(26:35):
work and turning it in on the iPads. Sometimes there
are some programs she says, you know, it's easier for
me to do it on my phone. I've watched her
do it too, so she's not lying. I've watched her
do it and easier for her to do it on
her phone. I think that there does have to be
some type of compromise because again I think right now
we're at a point when just looking at these messages
(26:56):
for my daughter, she says, people are finding all types
of ways around it. Who said that kids are who
said they would kids said that up. I mean, I
think that was what at the very beginning, before the
problem was even launched, we did. It was said here,
and now it's happening. So what are we doing right now?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Though?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I think it's well intentioned, but I know for a fact,
I'll bet dollars to donuts. This is a lawsuit, major
lawsuit waiting to happen.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And I'm not going to blame the school.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I'm just saying, let's look a few steps down the road.
When a parent legitimately needs to get in touch with
their child and they are unable to, like, for example,
after school hours, the phone has been confiscated unbeknownst to
the parent, and you're assuming that both parents know. Maybe
one parent is trying to get in touch with the
(27:42):
child and does not do Long story short, we got
to go to break. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen,
and we told you here first because the way it's
set up, it's not going to work, and kids are
going to work their way around it, and there are
other problems which have yet to be addressed.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It's later, mo Kelly, when we come back.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
We when we talk about the Southern California fire danger
zone update and also how Altadena residents are protesting the
use of the golf course as a debris zone.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That more in just a moment.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Very quickly, we have talked about the fires extensively. We
talked about what we've not done in preparation for the
next fire or what we should have done prior to
these most recent spate of fires that we've been enduring,
and not only in the Los Angeles area, but the
Los Angeles County area.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Now listen to this.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
For the first time in fourteen years, CalFire is releasing
new fire hazard maps. They show the probability of a
wildfire occurring in the given area within the next thirty
to fifty years. Inspectors analyze data on vegetation, terrain, fire history,
and local weather. Take a look at this comparison. More
than eight hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
It's radio I can't take a look at it. That's
really unfair to ask.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Terrain, fire history, and local weather. Take a look at
this comparison. More than eight hundred thousand acres have been
added to the high and very high zones that's the
orange and red, and new this year, identified moderate danger
that's the yellow seen here in Los Angeles, San Bernardino
and Riverside County.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Replacing a roof with flame resistant materials.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Firefighters want people to understand the risk they're in, to
plan and prepare.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Multi pain windows with tempered glass, making sure that all
of their vent openings on your home, the openings the
screens are less than an eighth of an inch, and
then removing all combustible sighting on your homes.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Okay, I'm not the expert, but I do have a question.
What jumps out at me. Let's say I do that
all that's recommended for my home, but my home is
the only home that does that, and the rest of
my neighborhood is what we've already seen and not up
to that particular. I don't want to say cold because
it's not mandatory. These are suggestions and recommendations. Does that
(30:10):
make any difference? I mean, if my house is a
little better protected, but the rest of the neighborhood is
not given what we saw two months ago, I don't
know if that changes the calculus at all.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
No, I mean, what I need to hear in this
report is that the city is paying for this retrofitting.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
If the city's not paying for this retrofitting and they
are expecting homeowners to do this on their own, good
luck with that those who have houses left standing. I
don't know if many are going to be able to
retrofit their houses, especially looking at so many of the
houses in Altadena that have these wide grates or wide
(30:50):
vents at the base of the roof when you get
to the house, I've seen that it's like like our
house as that, and then they have these wooden beams
that can easily catch fire. I don't know if anyone
has that type of money to redo that.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Since we're also talking about Altadena and residents and what
they feel they're going to need going forward, there is
a brooding controversy about use of the golf course within
Altadena as the temporary wildfire debris recycling center Twala. You
are in and out of the area, are you hearing
about that. Is it something which is a huge issue
(31:27):
or do they understand this is just kind of part
of the process.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yes and no.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
There there are those who want to maintain the beauty
and the prestige of the Altadena wildfire or the Altadena
golf course. And no, they do not want this debris
and recycling centers set up there because there is no
assurance that the golf course will be returned to the
(31:55):
way that it's supposed to look. It's already suffered enough
as it is with the wildfire, and now you want
to come and use it as a recycling center without
any real guarantees on what's going to happen after you're done.
You know, are you going to replant the grass? Are
you going to rebuild what is destroyed? Because just sitting
(32:15):
the stuff there when there are other options that I
know the other options are also not good because they're
talking about just dumping stuff in the valley and the
North Hills and West Hills there.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
They're like, they don't want it there either.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Nimbi, Yeah, I know they don't want it in their backyard.
And I understand the considerations with got to be made.
You would like to preserve the golf course. And I'm
saying this as an outsider, so I understand that my
opinion doesn't count and I may not fully understand the
gravity of it, but it may be functionally what's necessary
(32:49):
in the short term to help get through this a
little quicker as opposed to trying to move it fifteen
miles away from there.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Possibly possibly. I know that there are several areas within
the valley where there are just absolute open fields. There
are areas that some are saying even along the two
ten and where you get to like Sun Valley, where
there's just open space. If you're just if you just
(33:17):
need a place to dump the stuff temporarily and recycle it,
why not go to an area where there is open
land for the moment instead of going to a place
like that that is established and that you are going
to have to do so much repair on.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That is kind of the argument. It's like, why.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
There's got to be there's got to be some open
spacing where you can do it, versus destroying the altad
in a golf course, which is like can we not
have something that stands that is not also destroyed or
not also made uh to look bad in the in
the in the interim.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I see the trucks. I was out there the other day.
I see the trucks. They're NonStop.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
They are just going up and down farokhs of debris
don't stop at the golf course.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Keep on going.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Take it to an open space where you can dump
it temporarily and recycle it can.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
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We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (34:17):
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