April 23, 2025 • 36 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A recap of Mo’s extremely unpleasant trip to Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas Inglewood IMAX to see ‘Sinners’…PLUS – Thoughts on LA Metro’s “taller faregates” ability to reduce crime AND Gov. Gavin Newsom’s response to critics of his podcast - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's later with mo Kelly cab By AM six forty
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on YouTube at mister mo'kelly. The show was getting better
and better every single day. I love doing it. And
I got to tell you I had an epiphany today.
I had a realization. I went to see the movie
Centers today and I saw it at You know what,
(00:44):
let me back up. I was pronouncing the theater wrong
all this time. I called it Snopoulos. It's sinnate Police,
sinne Police.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You asked, No.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
They had a promo up on the screen, you know,
in how promotion they're promoting, like when you come to
sene Polis, you get this, you get this. I said, what,
what the hell is Sennapolis? I thought it was a Synopolis,
but it's sinne Polis. Anyhow, I went there in Inglewood
to see Centers today, eleven am. First show. I'm thinking,
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I should be good. No one's going to be kicking
my chair because I got a chair up against the
wall recliner. There shouldn't be a lot of people in there.
It's eleven a m. They're about twenty people in the theater.
It starts, it's not too loud, so, like you you
had said in your review, some of the dialogue can
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be a little difficult to hear.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
That's important.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
About fifteen twenty minutes into the movie, these two women
walk in and I say two women.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I think they are a couple.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
They're sitting in the same row as me, about four
seats down to the left.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
They reek of weed.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
They start talking and if you know anything about Sinne Pulis,
they will have the waiter or waitress, the concierge, the
person who will come to you and take your order.
So they're talking and then they got to give their order,
and they're talking more and louder because they can't see
what's on the menu, and they got to talk about
everythingthing Do I want this?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And do I want that. I'm already pissed off at this.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Point because we're well into the movie, well into it,
and I'm really trying to pay attention without giving away
anything in the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But there's a build up which is really important.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I'm trying to concentrate between who is smoking, who is stacked. Okay,
I'm trying to figure out the small idiosyncrasies because they
do come back later on.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They give their order and the talking continues.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I could have sworn they thought they were Netflix and
chilling in their own living room, because they were talking
as if nobody was around.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And I'm looking like, am I going to be the one?
Am I?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Because I know the moment I say something, there's going
to be an escalation and I don't want that. I
didn't because I was thinking like this might be the
last time I.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Go to a theater. It was that bad.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Wow, it was like, I, this might be the last
time I go to the theater.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And then they're not really talking about the movie. They're
just talking.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Oh wait, so this is having a conversation, just having
a conversation about this, that and the other. And by
the way, there's a big ass screen in front of
all of us. And you know, and I say, I
smell we because they were high and probably not really
aware of everything going.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
On around them.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
After a certain point, oh this is true story, They're
about four seats to my left.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I turned my head and said, can you please stop
talking through the movie? Now?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The one who was closest to me said what I said,
can you please stop talking through the movie? And I
enunciated to make sure they both could understand me.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The woman was on the other side started to raise up.
I said, don't raise up.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Do not raise up, And I said it loud enough
where everyone in the theater can hear me. Do not
raise up, because at that point everybody's movie's ruined.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, yeah, and no one's seeing the movie yet.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
No one's gonna see the movie if you raise your
ass up out of the seat and you walk towards me.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Am I going to hit a woman?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Absolutely not, but she would have caught some salmon Southwest.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Bowl in her face.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It was not going to end well if she got
up and approached me. I think there were a couple,
and this is just my interpretation. I believe that one
of the women felt it was her job to defend
the honor of who she came to the movies with.
And they were both high, so I don't think they
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were thinking in their right mind.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But I had to stay it, almost like I was
talking to a child. Do not raise up.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Then she thought better of it and sat back down,
and for the next hour and forty five minutes of
the movie, we didn't have any major incident. And if
you've seen the movie, as soon as the credits start rolling.
They scampered their asses out of there, didn't even wait
for the mid credit or final credit scene. Okay, you know,
but it was so disruptive. I said, I don't need this.
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I cannot get into a situation. I don't want to
call a fight a situation with two women in a
theater at eleven forty five in the morning, I just
want to watch a movie.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I paid my money, reserve my seat.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I was enjoying my food, and I'm thinking of nearly
fifteen people in the theater because the movie's already started
at this point.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
There's no one in my row, nobody.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I said, yes, this is way it's supposed to be,
and then it went all to hell after that.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
After you say something, you're in fight or flight mode
for the rest of the movie.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But because you don't know if this done for them,
you don't know if it's over. No, you have to
be ready for an attack. I was thinking, like, are
they going to throw something at me?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I just don't know. The movie experience should not have
to be like that. And I was thinking, this is
exactly what I'm talking about, and did it impact my enjoyment?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Of the movie. You bet your hasset did.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It really took a lot away from it, and I
want to see it again because I know I missed
something because I was too busy staring down this woman
who was getting ready to get up out of receiat
and come walk over to me.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, just a lot of paying theater prices to have
a conversation that they can have at home.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I have no idea. Maybe it's just poor upbringing.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I'm being seriously, who told you that that was a
good idea? Who told you that I was the a
hole for reminding you to stop talking through the damn
ass movie?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
You know that's a thing online you people post am
I the a hole, and I think in this one
if you were to ask the public if you were
the a hole in this situation, absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But don't you have that internal conversation with yourself where
you say, okay, I know if I do X, Y
or Z, it's going to escalate it to the next thing.
I've already played out every scenario in my head. If
they walk over to me, if they throw something at me,
if they try to throw a punch at me, which
is not you know, unbelievable, impossible. I was resigned at
that point. I'm not going to make it to the
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end of the movie. So but I'm not going to
just leave and be annoy Yeah. I'm not gonna sit
for the movie and just be uncomfortable and not say
anything because I played, paid my money and I should
have a reasonable experience with the movie.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
No, And it's it's one thing if like you know,
people are having that if you're alone in a theater,
by all means you paid money, you can you're not
disturbing anybody. But other people there paid the same amount
as you did to get in there, and they're not
there to hear you having chatterback chatterbox conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
When I can understand everything that you're saying, you're too
f and loud.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's one thing.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
If I can understand the conversation with the waitress that
comes up, because that's something that's part of happens, yes, uh,
you know, or people you know ruffling a bag of
chips that they're trying to open. That stuff is understandable,
but just open conversation. It was an ongoing conversation.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Hey, you know, it's Synapolis to the police to send
the police. They need not sell food while the film
is shown. That should only be during the trailers.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I agree, And they came in till fifteen minutes late,
and so the waitress came up to it and took
their order.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
We're all well in the movie, she's standing up.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'm quite sure that people behind them were not happy,
because oh, it's a clear distraction.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Okay, So where do you stand then? On knocking them
out to the usher or the waitress, it wouldn't have helped.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And that's why if you've been there, they have this
button on the seat where you can call someone, And
for me, it would have taken too long, and I
don't think it would have given me the satisfaction honestly
to tell them to shut the f up, because I
can bring someone over to say, and I could tell
the person standing in front of me, the waitress saying, hey,
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the people to my left forced seats down there, two
f and loud, can you please tell them? And we're
right back to where we started anyhow, so I might
as well just cut out the middle person and.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Say I'll do it. I'll be the a hole.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And I know everyone around us was thinking the same thing,
But since no one did it. I guess it's one
of these things. Well, I guess it's on me. I'm
the one who's gonna have to save the movie for
everyone in the theater because we all see that they're
too damn loud, but nobody wants to say anything. Everyone's
gonna act like we're just gonna act like we just
don't notice it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Damn that I wanted to see the movie.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Well, at least you get the opportunity to see it
again so you can actually see it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Oh, I'm gonna have to see it again because there's
some stuff that I missed, and there's some stuff that
I think I heard. I do want to be sure,
but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have plenty of thoughts
on it, but I'm not gonna do that right now.
Just everyone applauded me for not getting in the fight
in the middle of the theater at eleven am. Thank
you very much, Thank you very much. I should have
seen the movie with you, guys. I should have seen
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the movie. Look, I was hot all day because of that.
Because I bought my ticket. I was ready to see
that the eleven A. If it's the first movie, you
should not have any problems with the first movie. I'm
thinking kids are in school, you know, potheads are not
up yet, and then we have that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, you gotta start thinking of strategies for the next
time so that you don't have to go through this again,
Like not going to the movies at all. No, like
bring a squirt gun with some p in it. That's criminal.
That's the only problem with that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Okay, asparagus p what we might as well just jump
to the fight because as soon as I squirt somebody
with something's going to be a fight.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, no, make it, make it surreptitious so they don't
know where it came from.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
What are we gonna do? What am I gonna do?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Walk behind them to a different rollins and squirt them
in the back.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Of the head? Yeah? Sure, Mark, you haven't thought this out.
You're not a criminal. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You have been in enough fights to know you have
to anticipate what a likely response is going to be.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, but if they don't know it's you, what are
they gonna do? Go through everybody until they get to you. No,
they're gonna turn around and see me.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Mark, there's only there's.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Only the three of them in the room. Listen, I'm
just trying to help here, Okay, bring up. I'm so
glad I didn't get arrested today. Today.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It was like I was actively thinking today just might
be the day my ass goes to jail. I was
that pissed off because it was so obvious nobody would
say anything and it was just a wanton disregard.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And then to have the dirty nerve to start raising up, It's.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Like ooh ooh, now seeing that you did not have
that type of personality of someone who looks for that
that confrontation, because there are those in this world who
when they say can you please be quiet, they say
with explotives. They say it with malice, and they say
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it with violence.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I thought I thought they were going to escalate anyway,
because I had the dirty nerve to say, could you
please stop talking through the movie? Could you please? I
said it twice, could you please? And they looked at
me like I was crazy. They said, I know, here
we go. I've already thought about this, here we go.
And once started raising up, I said, do not raise up.
(12:04):
Do not raise up, because that's the point of overturn.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, if it's going down, at that point you get
a sold in your face, right, all that damn everything,
all that one down, Yeah, and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1 (12:40):
Certain discussions are real simple. I don't need to spend
fifteen twenty minutes on them. I got an update on
Metro and you're gonna help me out. You're gonna realize
how simple this is. To understand. Metro has installed the
seven foot tall faregates. They've done it at the A
Line Lake Station and Pass Sina and Firestoned and in
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South LA. And the question being asked, will these faregates
stop freeloaders and reduce crime?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Mind you, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
There may be some sixty different stations, I'm guessing, and
you tell me about three stations in which you have
taller faregates. This is how simple this is. I want
you to go home and imagine locking only one of
your doors, Imagine only closing one of your windows. Imagine
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I don't know, not turning on your alarm tonight, and
then ask the question will that do much to stop crime?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Probably not. That's how simple this is.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
If you have faregates and they're not at all of
the terminals, they're not at all of the stations and platforms,
then you're not really doing anything. And if you've ever
written medtro I have not all of them, not even
half of them. I think have a fairgate situation. And the
only time you have a fairgate is if you have
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a true subway station, which is underground. If you're on
a platform, it's not going to stop anyone. It's an
open area. It may be a little more difficult to
jump the turnstile, but it's not going to be impossible
because it's not completely enclosed. So what are we talking about.
We're talking about an unserious solution. Could it help and
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mitigate at that one particular station in Pasadena?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, at Firestone?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, But the problem is if someone decides to get
on or free load or fair jump at another station,
not name Lake or Firestone, they still pass through those stations.
I know this, I've ridden the trains before. It doesn't
matter because you haven't secured the totality of the lines.
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So what you put your your bottom lock on of
your door tonight? What happens if you leave your sliding
glass door in the backyard open.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
They'll just come around back.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Okay, let's say you lock your front door and you
lock your sliding glass door in the back but you
leave your windows wide open. Guess what happens. They'll come
in the window. And then let's say you lock your
front door, you lock your sliding glass door in the
backyard leading to the backyard, and you close all the windows,
but you leave your freaking garage open and the door
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which comes straight into the house. Ho'll safe for you then,
because you locked down most of your house or some
of your house. This is the silliness of it all.
This doesn't do anything. We you're being too negative, maybe,
but I like to have common sense. And if you're
only put this in at one station or two, not
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even at the stations which lead into the station that
you're putting it on, you're not actually protecting anybody, not
at all. Maybe you'll have fewer fair jumpers at the
stations in which these are actually installed.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Two Two.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Why not put them in all if it's such a
good idea or are you unsure as to the efficacy
Are you unsure that it will actually.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Do anything to stop crime?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Do you need to figure out and see, well, are
there any weak points?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
So?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Are there any other entry points that we have in security?
You probably have?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
This is a real simple conversation, real simple. Remember I won't.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Say, maybe twenty years ago, and if you're at least forty,
you know what I'm talking about. Remember the club that
you put on your steering wheel. Yeah, I had the club.
Then thieves figured out how to just cut the club off. Yeah,
you just cut right through the wheel, right. My point
is there has to be some redundancy. There have to
be a consideration for the totality of the weak points
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of a car or a station, because just locking a
door doesn't mean much if you leave the windows rolled down.
Can you see where I'm going with this? You know,
just because you lock the door and you roll up
the windows, and if you haven't, I don't know, some
sort of anti theft device like LoJack or or you know,
(17:30):
a disarming switch it's not gonna do much.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I'm confused because looking at this, this looks like this
is all about increasing revenue. Because all they're siding with
this gate, with these faregates in Pasadena and South LA.
Is that in Pasadena from March third to March fifth,
five hundred and twelve.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
People paid.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Accord to what they're saying, there were five hundred twelve
paid riders after the fare gates went up, an average
of thousand and sixty two paid entries. So I'm like, so,
are you're just counting paid entries versus non paid entry.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, so, I guess it helps with the fair jumpers.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But don't say to me that you're actually trying to
decrease crime, because it's not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know, it's not there're too many points of entry.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Yes, because none of this is saying that this is
correlating with a decrease in crime.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Their reasoning is as of twenty twenty three, La Metro
had determined that ninety four percent of riders arrested for
committing a violent crime did not even own a tap card.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
They were trying to connect the dots.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, if we make it where you got to pay
to get on, then they're less likely to commit a crime,
but you know criminal, they'll get on at a different.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Station, or or how about having a tap card is
not necessar necessarily a mitigator for violence?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Period? Are you saying to ask anything?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You're saying, I'm less likely to stab you in your
neck if I have a fair card.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Probably you know, I guess this is what they're saying,
because this arguably what's happening is they're saying, you know,
if he gets on the train with a knife, but
he's paid to get on, he's less likely to pull
the knife out. Why because he cares about Metro. He's
paying him to the Metros. And I've gotten a fair card.
It's not an identity card, Okay, it's not like you
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you put it on like your driver lives or something.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
You can pay cash. It just it does not matter.
Anybody can get a fair card, even Sam the sex doctor.
You can get a fair card and no one will know. Yeah,
nobody will know, even Mark Ronner. And no, okay, maybe
not Mark Ronner because he would never get on Metro.
Later with bo Kelly, let's talk about the governor when
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Ice tickets tomorrow night. Let's talk about some gubernatorial politics,
Governor Gavin Newsom. Every time I do a radio in
you for some other outlet, or I do a television interview,
I'm asked this question again and again and again. What
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is Gavin Newsom doing with this podcast? What does he
hope to accomplish? And is it successful? And I get
pretty much the same answer each time. I don't know
whether it's going to be successful, but I get the
strategy that he's trying to employ. Here's the strategy, very quickly,
Gavin Newsom. If you do not like him, Let's say
you only watch Fox News, if you only watch Newsmax,
(21:31):
if you only listen to KFI, You're not going to
hear anything positive about him.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You're not even going to hear his voice for the
most part.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You're going to hear people talking about him and telling
you what to think about him. And Gavin Newsom said,
wait a minute, Well, if I'm going to be defined.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Let me define myself.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
In other words, put out a podcast and I could
talk about the topics that I want, the subjects that
I want. I could talk with the people that I
would like to talk to. And if I talk to
someone who's on the far right, people on the far
right will probably tune in and they'll learn something about me,
and they'll be able to hear something from me that
has not necessarily been through the filter of Fox News
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or Newsmax. That's the strategy. And also I think he's
trying to soften his progressive slash liberal edges where people think, oh,
he might be somewhat decent guy. Whether you believe that
or not, I'm saying this is the strategy. If he
can sit down and have a conversation with Steve Bannon,
if he can sit down and have a conversation with
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Charlie Kirk, and it seems like that they're not trying
to be at each other's throats, then you may look
at Gavin news some somewhat differently. And we're only talking
about the margins here. We're not talking about ten twelve points.
We're just talking about the margins because obviously he's thinking
about running for president. He doesn't have to say it.
He turns out as far as his governorship in twenty
(22:52):
twenty six. Okay, he's doing this now in preparation for them.
That's why he's having this podcast. And he's also getting
a lot of pushback from Democrats and a lot of
pushback from those on the left saying, what are you doing,
Why are you platforming these people? What do you hope
to accomplish? And Gavin Newsom is now responding to that.
(23:14):
Gavin Newsom spoke with Amy Parnes for The Hill this
week and said the response to his podcast, which is
called This Is Gavin Newsom has been quote more bumpy
unquote than he originally anticipated. This is what Newsom had
to say, quote, I'm being tested by it because the
reaction has been a little more bumpy than even I
had anticipated. The reaction wh I had Charlie Kirk and
(23:36):
bandon On as in Steve mannon On was exactly to me,
exhibit a of what I feel is wrong right now
with my party and unwillingness to even engage and platform
to listen. Maybe we Democrats should pay attention and at
least express a desire to absorb and learn from what
they're doing and how successful they've been. We've not done
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it for of what as an audit of what just
went wrong, period, full start, full stop. I don't think it,
I know it. I mean to the extent that I'm
marginally part of this party. I represent the state larger
than twenty one state populations combined, and I can assure
you there's not been a party discussion that I'm aware
of that has included the state of California clothes quote.
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And this is something else you should remember. What people
in California may think of the governor or any governor
is different from the rest of the country. The rest
of the country doesn't know Gavin Newsom like we do,
or having involved themselves as much as we have. I'll
give you a perfect example, Rohnd de Santis, governor Florida.
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He's beloved in Florida. Like him or loathe them. He
is beloved in Florida, and what he was doing really
resonated with Floridians. But the moment he tried to create
his national profile, it fell apart.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
The people who.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Did not know him, even on the right, did not
particularly like him. And so this is what usually happens
when you have someone who maybe have a strong foothold
in his or her state or home area, when they
try to develop that national profile, it means that they
have to reach out and have to build a wider base,
and then you don't know where it goes. Gavin Newsom
(25:21):
is trying to be proactive and say I'm going to
help define myself or put myself out there in a
way which is not only going to be through the
lens in prism of Newsmax and or Fox News or An.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's what he's trying to do.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I can't tell you whether it's going to be successful,
but I completely get the strategy and why he's trying
to do it.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Right now, I would say, with.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
The exception of former Vice President Kamala Harris, for those
who might be running in twenty twenty eight, he arguably,
arguably has the largest profile. He's probably maybe Corey Booker
of those who might be running. But for the most part,
people know who Gavin Newsom is, but they may not
know Gavin Newsom the particular politician.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And this is why he's doing that.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
When we come back on the other side of the break,
there is a new entrant into the race for California
governor and it's a Republican.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I'll tell you about it in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's later with mo Kelly can if I am six
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Speaker 6 (26:38):
You're listening to. Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
We're live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app and also on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
You can see Mark Ronner's smiling face at the moment.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
How you doing, Mark? I didn't have a chance to
say hello to you, officially. I was enraptured listening to
your whatever you're saying.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, something you were talking talking about, YadA YadA, yeah,
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Now you got me going with your movie theater thing.
That's a constant bugaboo with me. Oh yes, I go
to movies almost every week and there's almost always just
some filthy animal in there who ruins it.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And part of it is me.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
If you didn't know, I started the show talking about
a very unpleasant experience movie theater experience at sit at
Police in Inglewood, a place that I usually go to
the theater, and I thought I'd be safe at eleven
am on a Tuesday, the first show without being disrupted,
without being inconvenience, without being bothered, and know someone had
(27:36):
to try to talk through the movie, so I interrupted
them talking.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
They took issue with me and it went from there.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Long story short, I remember thinking during the movie watching
centers that I may not be going to the movie
theater again anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And you wonder why theaters are having trouble staying open.
Nobody wants to deal with that.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I'm surprised that movie theaters haven't been more aggressive than
dealing with it. I don't care about a screen or
a thirty second spot talking about don't talk, don't text, No,
actually handle that, deal with that.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, they need to get more aggressive about that.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Have the ushers come through with the flashlights and yes,
tell people stfu if they're blabbing during the movie.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But that's what they do.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
If you actually go to an actual theater experience, yeah,
they will walk through with the flashlight and reprimand you.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Or some places like I think the New Beverly will
throw you out if they catch you on your phone
that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yes, we need more of that tough love, and I
would be more inclined to go to that theater. But
what happened today, I'm sorry. Send a police. I used
to sing your praises, but that cannot ever happen again ever,
or I will clown you like I do Metro every
chance I get police.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
At what point did people lose theater etiquette? I mean,
I think it was the pandemic. I really do, really,
I just I live above a movie theater and I
see this happening, and I've over the last fifteen years,
I've seen it going from a very like people would
be very protective of that space within the theater, and
(29:08):
now it's like just free for all.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
People can do whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
People, I think, by and large, are more selfish than
ever before.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
This is probably true, but I also think that people
are acting with fewer inhibitions because we have massive undiagnosed
COVID brain damage.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And I'm not joking about that.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I don't think you're wrong, But I also think that
coming out of COVID, we lost all sense of socialization skills,
so of what presumably is etiquette, as far as right
and wrong and socially acceptable behavior. There's something that's really
amiss with society because at no time was it okay
for you to sit down in a movie theater and
(29:47):
just start talking. At no time, and your adults they
were I think in their thirties, let's say thirty, They
were younger than me. But listen, in the thirties old
enough to know better, as my parents would say. But somehow,
here we are. And I don't ever want to go
back to the theater and have to be that uncomfortable
worrying about having to get into some sort of situation
(30:08):
with someone because they're talking too loud. Now I'm interrupting
their disruptive conversation in a movie theater.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
How about this, get one of those really super bright
tactical flashlights and when somebody starts talking, well, shining at
their head.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You know, I was thinking about just using my phone light. Hey,
you can do that too, but I wanted them to
hear me. I didn't want to just do that. I
didn't want to be passive aggressive. I wanted to be
aggressive aggressive, and I wanted them to actually acknowledge. I
didn't want them to play dumb and think, why are
you shining your phone in my face? And I want
them to hear. Please stop talking through the movie.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
And when somebody stands up in a theater in responds
to that, that's like getting out of your car.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It is no, It's an aggressive maneuver and one of escalation.
And that's why I said, if you didn't hear the
first act, and I said, do not raise up. Do
not raise up, because that's the point of no return.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Yeah, at what point, you know, why didn't they just say, sorry,
my bad, we'll keep it down, we don't do that.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Offended that? I was offended. They couldn't even acknowledge it.
I'm just glad they didn't take it to the next level.
But they couldn't even just say I'm sorry, my bad.
But of course a person who can say I'm sorry,
my bad probably wouldn't have been doing that in the
first place. Sure, anyhow, let me pay off this tease
real quick. I said that there is a new entrant
in the race for California governor and his name is
(31:29):
Steve Hilton.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You might have seen him for many years on Fox News.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
He's a Fox News contributor, and he's the author of
Cali Failure, and his campaign slogan is make California Golden again. Now.
And I try to tell the Republican Party this, and
I say Republican Party, the state party of California, Republican Party.
If you're serious and you want a shot at the
(31:56):
governor's mansion, you have to make a concerted effort. If
you are listening right now, and you desperately want to
have a Republican as governor. I'm going to give you
something which is fool proof. This is how you're going
to know if someone actually anyone who's running for governor,
specifically a state wide office, if they're serious or not.
(32:17):
If someone is serious about running for governor, you will
be able to read about their transition team, the people
they put in place who will be doing X, y
and Z jobs. If and when they win, you will
be able to see that person actually campaigning up and
down the state, going to the different counties, going to
(32:37):
the different areas of the state. You will actually see that.
If they're only doing interviews, TV interviews or even radio interviews,
they're not serious. You cannot win statewide office that way.
If they're only doing media that is friendly in nature,
(33:00):
not serious. California is a blue state. What I mean
by that is the large urban areas are blue. It's
not like you're gonna run for governor and just disregard
San Francisco in LA You're not serious. Okay, they got
some eight million people in LA County alone, and everybody
(33:22):
gets to vote in a statewide election, especially for governor.
So if your preferred candidate, be it Steve Hilton, be
it Chad Bianco. If you don't see them actually campaigning
on the ground in northern California, Central California, they're not serious.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Don't expect them to win.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
If you don't hear them or see them on media
which is not automatically friendly to him, they're not serious.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Don't expect him to win.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
You cannot say, let's just say come on KFI fifteen
times between now in the election, and that'd be the
extent of your meetiing outreach. If you're a Republican, you
already have KFI listeners. Let me put it that way.
You're not gaining anything. Democrats and Independence put together outnumber
(34:12):
Republicans two to one, and in a majority plus one election,
you have to do more than talk to the people
who would already vote for you.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I have a question, Moe.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
We had this story last night, and I haven't read
the book, but the premise implied in the title cal
of failure. How is it that the state with the
world's fifth largest economy is a failure.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I don't have an answer for that. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I can understand how people would say, hey, I think
our taxes are too high. I think the cost of
living is too high. I think that there's a problem
with homelessness. We could do better on homelessess. There too
many homeless people. But to have the starting point that
California is a failure is dishonest and disingenuous.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Do we have warts? Do we have issues? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I can look at the city of Los Angeles and
point them out all the time. But as California the
state of failure, not for as many other states that
we subsidize in this union. You can't be the fifth
largest economy and be a failure. That is factually impossible. Impossible.
That's kind of what I was getting at. I try
(35:21):
to tell the truth here. Now people will disagree with me,
and they'll argue with me, but they won't have any
facts to stand on. But before to go to break,
I do want to review if you want to support
Steve Hilton for governor or Chad Bianco for governor, if
you're a Republican and want this state to turn red,
you will be able to know long before the actual
(35:41):
election whether either of those candidates are serious. You will
see them campaigning on the ground all around the state,
all the different counties, and you will learn about their
transition team to people that they've put into their staff
who will be presumably this or that in the next administration.
If you don't see all that, then they're not serious.
(36:02):
They're not actually running for governor. They're running to increase
their profile. They're running to get a TV show, they're
running to get a radio show, which has been known
to happen. They're trying to promote their book, but they're
not actually trying to become the next governor of California.
And I promise you will know this a good seven
eight months before the election, and they'll be doing media
(36:22):
which is either not explicitly friendly, or they'll be doing
media which helps build their constituencies and coalitions. It can't
be just the people who you already have, because if
that's all you're talking to, you're not serious.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
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I got to tell you I had an epiphany today.
I had a realization. I went to see the movie
Centers today and I saw it at You know what,
(00:44):
let me back up. I was pronouncing the theater wrong
all this time. I called it Snopoulos. It's sinnate Police,
sinne Police.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You asked, No.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
They had a promo up on the screen, you know,
in how promotion they're promoting, like when you come to
sene Polis, you get this, you get this. I said, what,
what the hell is Sennapolis? I thought it was a Synopolis,
but it's sinne Polis. Anyhow, I went there in Inglewood
to see Centers today, eleven am. First show. I'm thinking,
(01:17):
I should be good. No one's going to be kicking
my chair because I got a chair up against the
wall recliner. There shouldn't be a lot of people in there.
It's eleven a m. They're about twenty people in the theater.
It starts, it's not too loud, so, like you you
had said in your review, some of the dialogue can
(01:38):
be a little difficult to hear.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
That's important.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
About fifteen twenty minutes into the movie, these two women
walk in and I say two women.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I think they are a couple.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
They're sitting in the same row as me, about four
seats down to the left.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
They reek of weed.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
They start talking and if you know anything about Sinne Pulis,
they will have the waiter or waitress, the concierge, the
person who will come to you and take your order.
So they're talking and then they got to give their order,
and they're talking more and louder because they can't see
what's on the menu, and they got to talk about
everythingthing Do I want this?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And do I want that. I'm already pissed off at this.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Point because we're well into the movie, well into it,
and I'm really trying to pay attention without giving away
anything in the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But there's a build up which is really important.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I'm trying to concentrate between who is smoking, who is stacked. Okay,
I'm trying to figure out the small idiosyncrasies because they
do come back later on.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They give their order and the talking continues.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I could have sworn they thought they were Netflix and
chilling in their own living room, because they were talking
as if nobody was around.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And I'm looking like, am I going to be the one?
Am I?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Because I know the moment I say something, there's going
to be an escalation and I don't want that. I
didn't because I was thinking like this might be the
last time I.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Go to a theater. It was that bad.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Wow, it was like, I, this might be the last
time I go to the theater.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And then they're not really talking about the movie. They're
just talking.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Oh wait, so this is having a conversation, just having
a conversation about this, that and the other. And by
the way, there's a big ass screen in front of
all of us. And you know, and I say, I
smell we because they were high and probably not really
aware of everything going.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
On around them.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
After a certain point, oh this is true story, They're
about four seats to my left.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I turned my head and said, can you please stop
talking through the movie? Now?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The one who was closest to me said what I said,
can you please stop talking through the movie? And I
enunciated to make sure they both could understand me.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The woman was on the other side started to raise up.
I said, don't raise up.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Do not raise up, And I said it loud enough
where everyone in the theater can hear me. Do not
raise up, because at that point everybody's movie's ruined.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, yeah, and no one's seeing the movie yet.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
No one's gonna see the movie if you raise your
ass up out of the seat and you walk towards me.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Am I going to hit a woman?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Absolutely not, but she would have caught some salmon Southwest.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Bowl in her face.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It was not going to end well if she got
up and approached me. I think there were a couple,
and this is just my interpretation. I believe that one
of the women felt it was her job to defend
the honor of who she came to the movies with.
And they were both high, so I don't think they
(04:51):
were thinking in their right mind.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But I had to stay it, almost like I was
talking to a child. Do not raise up.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Then she thought better of it and sat back down,
and for the next hour and forty five minutes of
the movie, we didn't have any major incident. And if
you've seen the movie, as soon as the credits start rolling.
They scampered their asses out of there, didn't even wait
for the mid credit or final credit scene. Okay, you know,
but it was so disruptive. I said, I don't need this.
(05:22):
I cannot get into a situation. I don't want to
call a fight a situation with two women in a
theater at eleven forty five in the morning, I just
want to watch a movie.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I paid my money, reserve my seat.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I was enjoying my food, and I'm thinking of nearly
fifteen people in the theater because the movie's already started
at this point.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
There's no one in my row, nobody.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I said, yes, this is way it's supposed to be,
and then it went all to hell after that.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
After you say something, you're in fight or flight mode
for the rest of the movie.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But because you don't know if this done for them,
you don't know if it's over. No, you have to
be ready for an attack. I was thinking, like, are
they going to throw something at me?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I just don't know. The movie experience should not have
to be like that. And I was thinking, this is
exactly what I'm talking about, and did it impact my enjoyment?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Of the movie. You bet your hasset did.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It really took a lot away from it, and I
want to see it again because I know I missed
something because I was too busy staring down this woman
who was getting ready to get up out of receiat
and come walk over to me.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, just a lot of paying theater prices to have
a conversation that they can have at home.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I have no idea. Maybe it's just poor upbringing.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I'm being seriously, who told you that that was a
good idea? Who told you that I was the a
hole for reminding you to stop talking through the damn
ass movie?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
You know that's a thing online you people post am
I the a hole, and I think in this one
if you were to ask the public if you were
the a hole in this situation, absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But don't you have that internal conversation with yourself where
you say, okay, I know if I do X, Y
or Z, it's going to escalate it to the next thing.
I've already played out every scenario in my head. If
they walk over to me, if they throw something at me,
if they try to throw a punch at me, which
is not you know, unbelievable, impossible. I was resigned at
that point. I'm not going to make it to the
(07:18):
end of the movie. So but I'm not going to
just leave and be annoy Yeah. I'm not gonna sit
for the movie and just be uncomfortable and not say
anything because I played, paid my money and I should
have a reasonable experience with the movie.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
No, And it's it's one thing if like you know,
people are having that if you're alone in a theater,
by all means you paid money, you can you're not
disturbing anybody. But other people there paid the same amount
as you did to get in there, and they're not
there to hear you having chatterback chatterbox conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
When I can understand everything that you're saying, you're too
f and loud.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's one thing.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
If I can understand the conversation with the waitress that
comes up, because that's something that's part of happens, yes, uh,
you know, or people you know ruffling a bag of
chips that they're trying to open. That stuff is understandable,
but just open conversation. It was an ongoing conversation.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Hey, you know, it's Synapolis to the police to send
the police. They need not sell food while the film
is shown. That should only be during the trailers.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I agree, And they came in till fifteen minutes late,
and so the waitress came up to it and took
their order.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
We're all well in the movie, she's standing up.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'm quite sure that people behind them were not happy,
because oh, it's a clear distraction.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Okay, So where do you stand then? On knocking them
out to the usher or the waitress, it wouldn't have helped.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And that's why if you've been there, they have this
button on the seat where you can call someone, And
for me, it would have taken too long, and I
don't think it would have given me the satisfaction honestly
to tell them to shut the f up, because I
can bring someone over to say, and I could tell
the person standing in front of me, the waitress saying, hey,
(08:56):
the people to my left forced seats down there, two
f and loud, can you please tell them? And we're
right back to where we started anyhow, so I might
as well just cut out the middle person and.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Say I'll do it. I'll be the a hole.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And I know everyone around us was thinking the same thing,
But since no one did it. I guess it's one
of these things. Well, I guess it's on me. I'm
the one who's gonna have to save the movie for
everyone in the theater because we all see that they're
too damn loud, but nobody wants to say anything. Everyone's
gonna act like we're just gonna act like we just
don't notice it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Damn that I wanted to see the movie.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Well, at least you get the opportunity to see it
again so you can actually see it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Oh, I'm gonna have to see it again because there's
some stuff that I missed, and there's some stuff that
I think I heard. I do want to be sure,
but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have plenty of thoughts
on it, but I'm not gonna do that right now.
Just everyone applauded me for not getting in the fight
in the middle of the theater at eleven am. Thank
you very much, Thank you very much. I should have
seen the movie with you, guys. I should have seen
(09:52):
the movie. Look, I was hot all day because of that.
Because I bought my ticket. I was ready to see
that the eleven A. If it's the first movie, you
should not have any problems with the first movie. I'm
thinking kids are in school, you know, potheads are not
up yet, and then we have that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, you gotta start thinking of strategies for the next
time so that you don't have to go through this again,
Like not going to the movies at all. No, like
bring a squirt gun with some p in it. That's criminal.
That's the only problem with that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Okay, asparagus p what we might as well just jump
to the fight because as soon as I squirt somebody
with something's going to be a fight.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, no, make it, make it surreptitious so they don't
know where it came from.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
What are we gonna do? What am I gonna do?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Walk behind them to a different rollins and squirt them
in the back.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Of the head? Yeah? Sure, Mark, you haven't thought this out.
You're not a criminal. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You have been in enough fights to know you have
to anticipate what a likely response is going to be.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, but if they don't know it's you, what are
they gonna do? Go through everybody until they get to you. No,
they're gonna turn around and see me.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Mark, there's only there's.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Only the three of them in the room. Listen, I'm
just trying to help here, Okay, bring up. I'm so
glad I didn't get arrested today. Today.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It was like I was actively thinking today just might
be the day my ass goes to jail. I was
that pissed off because it was so obvious nobody would
say anything and it was just a wanton disregard.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And then to have the dirty nerve to start raising up, It's.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Like ooh ooh, now seeing that you did not have
that type of personality of someone who looks for that
that confrontation, because there are those in this world who
when they say can you please be quiet, they say
with explotives. They say it with malice, and they say
(11:42):
it with violence.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I thought I thought they were going to escalate anyway,
because I had the dirty nerve to say, could you
please stop talking through the movie? Could you please? I
said it twice, could you please? And they looked at
me like I was crazy. They said, I know, here
we go. I've already thought about this, here we go.
And once started raising up, I said, do not raise up.
(12:04):
Do not raise up, because that's the point of overturn.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, if it's going down, at that point you get
a sold in your face, right, all that damn everything,
all that one down, Yeah, and then all of a sudden,
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(12:30):
do not raise up, give him arna.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kfi AM six forty and on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Certain discussions are real simple. I don't need to spend
fifteen twenty minutes on them. I got an update on
Metro and you're gonna help me out. You're gonna realize
how simple this is. To understand. Metro has installed the
seven foot tall faregates. They've done it at the A
Line Lake Station and Pass Sina and Firestoned and in
(13:02):
South LA. And the question being asked, will these faregates
stop freeloaders and reduce crime?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Mind you, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
There may be some sixty different stations, I'm guessing, and
you tell me about three stations in which you have
taller faregates. This is how simple this is. I want
you to go home and imagine locking only one of
your doors, Imagine only closing one of your windows. Imagine
(13:33):
I don't know, not turning on your alarm tonight, and
then ask the question will that do much to stop crime?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Probably not. That's how simple this is.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
If you have faregates and they're not at all of
the terminals, they're not at all of the stations and platforms,
then you're not really doing anything. And if you've ever
written medtro I have not all of them, not even
half of them. I think have a fairgate situation. And the
only time you have a fairgate is if you have
(14:08):
a true subway station, which is underground. If you're on
a platform, it's not going to stop anyone. It's an
open area. It may be a little more difficult to
jump the turnstile, but it's not going to be impossible
because it's not completely enclosed. So what are we talking about.
We're talking about an unserious solution. Could it help and
(14:32):
mitigate at that one particular station in Pasadena?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, at Firestone?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, But the problem is if someone decides to get
on or free load or fair jump at another station,
not name Lake or Firestone, they still pass through those stations.
I know this, I've ridden the trains before. It doesn't
matter because you haven't secured the totality of the lines.
(15:05):
So what you put your your bottom lock on of
your door tonight? What happens if you leave your sliding
glass door in the backyard open.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
They'll just come around back.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Okay, let's say you lock your front door and you
lock your sliding glass door in the back but you
leave your windows wide open. Guess what happens. They'll come
in the window. And then let's say you lock your
front door, you lock your sliding glass door in the
backyard leading to the backyard, and you close all the windows,
but you leave your freaking garage open and the door
(15:39):
which comes straight into the house. Ho'll safe for you then,
because you locked down most of your house or some
of your house. This is the silliness of it all.
This doesn't do anything. We you're being too negative, maybe,
but I like to have common sense. And if you're
only put this in at one station or two, not
(16:03):
even at the stations which lead into the station that
you're putting it on, you're not actually protecting anybody, not
at all. Maybe you'll have fewer fair jumpers at the
stations in which these are actually installed.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Two Two.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Why not put them in all if it's such a
good idea or are you unsure as to the efficacy
Are you unsure that it will actually.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Do anything to stop crime?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Do you need to figure out and see, well, are
there any weak points?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
So?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Are there any other entry points that we have in security?
You probably have?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
This is a real simple conversation, real simple. Remember I won't.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Say, maybe twenty years ago, and if you're at least forty,
you know what I'm talking about. Remember the club that
you put on your steering wheel. Yeah, I had the club.
Then thieves figured out how to just cut the club off. Yeah,
you just cut right through the wheel, right. My point
is there has to be some redundancy. There have to
be a consideration for the totality of the weak points
(17:09):
of a car or a station, because just locking a
door doesn't mean much if you leave the windows rolled down.
Can you see where I'm going with this? You know,
just because you lock the door and you roll up
the windows, and if you haven't, I don't know, some
sort of anti theft device like LoJack or or you know,
(17:30):
a disarming switch it's not gonna do much.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I'm confused because looking at this, this looks like this
is all about increasing revenue. Because all they're siding with
this gate, with these faregates in Pasadena and South LA.
Is that in Pasadena from March third to March fifth,
five hundred and twelve.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
People paid.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Accord to what they're saying, there were five hundred twelve
paid riders after the fare gates went up, an average
of thousand and sixty two paid entries. So I'm like, so,
are you're just counting paid entries versus non paid entry.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, so, I guess it helps with the fair jumpers.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But don't say to me that you're actually trying to
decrease crime, because it's not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know, it's not there're too many points of entry.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Yes, because none of this is saying that this is
correlating with a decrease in crime.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Their reasoning is as of twenty twenty three, La Metro
had determined that ninety four percent of riders arrested for
committing a violent crime did not even own a tap card.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
They were trying to connect the dots.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, if we make it where you got to pay
to get on, then they're less likely to commit a crime,
but you know criminal, they'll get on at a different.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Station, or or how about having a tap card is
not necessar necessarily a mitigator for violence?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Period? Are you saying to ask anything?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You're saying, I'm less likely to stab you in your
neck if I have a fair card.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Probably you know, I guess this is what they're saying,
because this arguably what's happening is they're saying, you know,
if he gets on the train with a knife, but
he's paid to get on, he's less likely to pull
the knife out. Why because he cares about Metro. He's
paying him to the Metros. And I've gotten a fair card.
It's not an identity card, Okay, it's not like you
(19:32):
you put it on like your driver lives or something.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
You can pay cash. It just it does not matter.
Anybody can get a fair card, even Sam the sex doctor.
You can get a fair card and no one will know. Yeah,
nobody will know, even Mark Ronner. And no, okay, maybe
not Mark Ronner because he would never get on Metro.
Later with bo Kelly, let's talk about the governor when
we come back. KFIM six forty Life everywhere in the
(19:55):
I heeartradio app and also who might be running for Governor?
Speaker 6 (19:58):
You're listening to Later with Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
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Ice tickets tomorrow night. Let's talk about some gubernatorial politics,
Governor Gavin Newsom. Every time I do a radio in
you for some other outlet, or I do a television interview,
I'm asked this question again and again and again. What
(21:07):
is Gavin Newsom doing with this podcast? What does he
hope to accomplish? And is it successful? And I get
pretty much the same answer each time. I don't know
whether it's going to be successful, but I get the
strategy that he's trying to employ. Here's the strategy, very quickly,
Gavin Newsom. If you do not like him, Let's say
you only watch Fox News, if you only watch Newsmax,
(21:31):
if you only listen to KFI, You're not going to
hear anything positive about him.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You're not even going to hear his voice for the
most part.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You're going to hear people talking about him and telling
you what to think about him. And Gavin Newsom said,
wait a minute, Well, if I'm going to be defined.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Let me define myself.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
In other words, put out a podcast and I could
talk about the topics that I want, the subjects that
I want. I could talk with the people that I
would like to talk to. And if I talk to
someone who's on the far right, people on the far
right will probably tune in and they'll learn something about me,
and they'll be able to hear something from me that
has not necessarily been through the filter of Fox News
(22:10):
or Newsmax. That's the strategy. And also I think he's
trying to soften his progressive slash liberal edges where people think, oh,
he might be somewhat decent guy. Whether you believe that
or not, I'm saying this is the strategy. If he
can sit down and have a conversation with Steve Bannon,
if he can sit down and have a conversation with
(22:31):
Charlie Kirk, and it seems like that they're not trying
to be at each other's throats, then you may look
at Gavin news some somewhat differently. And we're only talking
about the margins here. We're not talking about ten twelve points.
We're just talking about the margins because obviously he's thinking
about running for president. He doesn't have to say it.
He turns out as far as his governorship in twenty
(22:52):
twenty six. Okay, he's doing this now in preparation for them.
That's why he's having this podcast. And he's also getting
a lot of pushback from Democrats and a lot of
pushback from those on the left saying, what are you doing,
Why are you platforming these people? What do you hope
to accomplish? And Gavin Newsom is now responding to that.
(23:14):
Gavin Newsom spoke with Amy Parnes for The Hill this
week and said the response to his podcast, which is
called This Is Gavin Newsom has been quote more bumpy
unquote than he originally anticipated. This is what Newsom had
to say, quote, I'm being tested by it because the
reaction has been a little more bumpy than even I
had anticipated. The reaction wh I had Charlie Kirk and
(23:36):
bandon On as in Steve mannon On was exactly to me,
exhibit a of what I feel is wrong right now
with my party and unwillingness to even engage and platform
to listen. Maybe we Democrats should pay attention and at
least express a desire to absorb and learn from what
they're doing and how successful they've been. We've not done
(23:59):
it for of what as an audit of what just
went wrong, period, full start, full stop. I don't think it,
I know it. I mean to the extent that I'm
marginally part of this party. I represent the state larger
than twenty one state populations combined, and I can assure
you there's not been a party discussion that I'm aware
of that has included the state of California clothes quote.
(24:22):
And this is something else you should remember. What people
in California may think of the governor or any governor
is different from the rest of the country. The rest
of the country doesn't know Gavin Newsom like we do,
or having involved themselves as much as we have. I'll
give you a perfect example, Rohnd de Santis, governor Florida.
(24:44):
He's beloved in Florida. Like him or loathe them. He
is beloved in Florida, and what he was doing really
resonated with Floridians. But the moment he tried to create
his national profile, it fell apart.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
The people who.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Did not know him, even on the right, did not
particularly like him. And so this is what usually happens
when you have someone who maybe have a strong foothold
in his or her state or home area, when they
try to develop that national profile, it means that they
have to reach out and have to build a wider base,
and then you don't know where it goes. Gavin Newsom
(25:21):
is trying to be proactive and say I'm going to
help define myself or put myself out there in a
way which is not only going to be through the
lens in prism of Newsmax and or Fox News or An.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's what he's trying to do.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I can't tell you whether it's going to be successful,
but I completely get the strategy and why he's trying
to do it.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Right now, I would say, with.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
The exception of former Vice President Kamala Harris, for those
who might be running in twenty twenty eight, he arguably,
arguably has the largest profile. He's probably maybe Corey Booker
of those who might be running. But for the most part,
people know who Gavin Newsom is, but they may not
know Gavin Newsom the particular politician.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And this is why he's doing that.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
When we come back on the other side of the break,
there is a new entrant into the race for California
governor and it's a Republican.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I'll tell you about it in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's later with mo Kelly can if I am six
forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube
right now. Don't forget if you want to win those
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Speaker 6 (26:38):
You're listening to. Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
We're live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app and also on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
You can see Mark Ronner's smiling face at the moment.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
How you doing, Mark? I didn't have a chance to
say hello to you, officially. I was enraptured listening to
your whatever you're saying.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, something you were talking talking about, YadA YadA, yeah,
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Now you got me going with your movie theater thing.
That's a constant bugaboo with me. Oh yes, I go
to movies almost every week and there's almost always just
some filthy animal in there who ruins it.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And part of it is me.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
If you didn't know, I started the show talking about
a very unpleasant experience movie theater experience at sit at
Police in Inglewood, a place that I usually go to
the theater, and I thought I'd be safe at eleven
am on a Tuesday, the first show without being disrupted,
without being inconvenience, without being bothered, and know someone had
(27:36):
to try to talk through the movie, so I interrupted
them talking.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
They took issue with me and it went from there.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Long story short, I remember thinking during the movie watching
centers that I may not be going to the movie
theater again anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And you wonder why theaters are having trouble staying open.
Nobody wants to deal with that.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I'm surprised that movie theaters haven't been more aggressive than
dealing with it. I don't care about a screen or
a thirty second spot talking about don't talk, don't text, No,
actually handle that, deal with that.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, they need to get more aggressive about that.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Have the ushers come through with the flashlights and yes,
tell people stfu if they're blabbing during the movie.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But that's what they do.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
If you actually go to an actual theater experience, yeah,
they will walk through with the flashlight and reprimand you.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Or some places like I think the New Beverly will
throw you out if they catch you on your phone
that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yes, we need more of that tough love, and I
would be more inclined to go to that theater. But
what happened today, I'm sorry. Send a police. I used
to sing your praises, but that cannot ever happen again ever,
or I will clown you like I do Metro every
chance I get police.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
At what point did people lose theater etiquette? I mean,
I think it was the pandemic. I really do, really,
I just I live above a movie theater and I
see this happening, and I've over the last fifteen years,
I've seen it going from a very like people would
be very protective of that space within the theater, and
(29:08):
now it's like just free for all.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
People can do whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
People, I think, by and large, are more selfish than
ever before.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
This is probably true, but I also think that people
are acting with fewer inhibitions because we have massive undiagnosed
COVID brain damage.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And I'm not joking about that.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I don't think you're wrong, But I also think that
coming out of COVID, we lost all sense of socialization skills,
so of what presumably is etiquette, as far as right
and wrong and socially acceptable behavior. There's something that's really
amiss with society because at no time was it okay
for you to sit down in a movie theater and
(29:47):
just start talking. At no time, and your adults they
were I think in their thirties, let's say thirty, They
were younger than me. But listen, in the thirties old
enough to know better, as my parents would say. But somehow,
here we are. And I don't ever want to go
back to the theater and have to be that uncomfortable
worrying about having to get into some sort of situation
(30:08):
with someone because they're talking too loud. Now I'm interrupting
their disruptive conversation in a movie theater.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
How about this, get one of those really super bright
tactical flashlights and when somebody starts talking, well, shining at
their head.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You know, I was thinking about just using my phone light. Hey,
you can do that too, but I wanted them to
hear me. I didn't want to just do that. I
didn't want to be passive aggressive. I wanted to be
aggressive aggressive, and I wanted them to actually acknowledge. I
didn't want them to play dumb and think, why are
you shining your phone in my face? And I want
them to hear. Please stop talking through the movie.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
And when somebody stands up in a theater in responds
to that, that's like getting out of your car.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It is no, It's an aggressive maneuver and one of escalation.
And that's why I said, if you didn't hear the
first act, and I said, do not raise up. Do
not raise up, because that's the point of no return.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Yeah, at what point, you know, why didn't they just say, sorry,
my bad, we'll keep it down, we don't do that.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Offended that? I was offended. They couldn't even acknowledge it.
I'm just glad they didn't take it to the next level.
But they couldn't even just say I'm sorry, my bad.
But of course a person who can say I'm sorry,
my bad probably wouldn't have been doing that in the
first place. Sure, anyhow, let me pay off this tease
real quick. I said that there is a new entrant
in the race for California governor and his name is
(31:29):
Steve Hilton.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You might have seen him for many years on Fox News.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
He's a Fox News contributor, and he's the author of
Cali Failure, and his campaign slogan is make California Golden again. Now.
And I try to tell the Republican Party this, and
I say Republican Party, the state party of California, Republican Party.
If you're serious and you want a shot at the
(31:56):
governor's mansion, you have to make a concerted effort. If
you are listening right now, and you desperately want to
have a Republican as governor. I'm going to give you
something which is fool proof. This is how you're going
to know if someone actually anyone who's running for governor,
specifically a state wide office, if they're serious or not.
(32:17):
If someone is serious about running for governor, you will
be able to read about their transition team, the people
they put in place who will be doing X, y
and Z jobs. If and when they win, you will
be able to see that person actually campaigning up and
down the state, going to the different counties, going to
(32:37):
the different areas of the state. You will actually see that.
If they're only doing interviews, TV interviews or even radio interviews,
they're not serious. You cannot win statewide office that way.
If they're only doing media that is friendly in nature,
(33:00):
not serious. California is a blue state. What I mean
by that is the large urban areas are blue. It's
not like you're gonna run for governor and just disregard
San Francisco in LA You're not serious. Okay, they got
some eight million people in LA County alone, and everybody
(33:22):
gets to vote in a statewide election, especially for governor.
So if your preferred candidate, be it Steve Hilton, be
it Chad Bianco. If you don't see them actually campaigning
on the ground in northern California, Central California, they're not serious.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Don't expect them to win.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
If you don't hear them or see them on media
which is not automatically friendly to him, they're not serious.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Don't expect him to win.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
You cannot say, let's just say come on KFI fifteen
times between now in the election, and that'd be the
extent of your meetiing outreach. If you're a Republican, you
already have KFI listeners. Let me put it that way.
You're not gaining anything. Democrats and Independence put together outnumber
(34:12):
Republicans two to one, and in a majority plus one election,
you have to do more than talk to the people
who would already vote for you.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I have a question, Moe.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
We had this story last night, and I haven't read
the book, but the premise implied in the title cal
of failure. How is it that the state with the
world's fifth largest economy is a failure.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I don't have an answer for that. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I can understand how people would say, hey, I think
our taxes are too high. I think the cost of
living is too high. I think that there's a problem
with homelessness. We could do better on homelessess. There too
many homeless people. But to have the starting point that
California is a failure is dishonest and disingenuous.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Do we have warts? Do we have issues? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I can look at the city of Los Angeles and
point them out all the time. But as California the
state of failure, not for as many other states that
we subsidize in this union. You can't be the fifth
largest economy and be a failure. That is factually impossible. Impossible.
That's kind of what I was getting at. I try
(35:21):
to tell the truth here. Now people will disagree with me,
and they'll argue with me, but they won't have any
facts to stand on. But before to go to break,
I do want to review if you want to support
Steve Hilton for governor or Chad Bianco for governor, if
you're a Republican and want this state to turn red,
you will be able to know long before the actual
(35:41):
election whether either of those candidates are serious. You will
see them campaigning on the ground all around the state,
all the different counties, and you will learn about their
transition team to people that they've put into their staff
who will be presumably this or that in the next administration.
If you don't see all that, then they're not serious.
(36:02):
They're not actually running for governor. They're running to increase
their profile. They're running to get a TV show, they're
running to get a radio show, which has been known
to happen. They're trying to promote their book, but they're
not actually trying to become the next governor of California.
And I promise you will know this a good seven
eight months before the election, and they'll be doing media
(36:22):
which is either not explicitly friendly, or they'll be doing
media which helps build their constituencies and coalitions. It can't
be just the people who you already have, because if
that's all you're talking to, you're not serious.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
It's later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the
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Speaker 6 (36:40):
I don't know what you're thinking, man, I kind of
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