April 22, 2025 • 36 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at Mayor Karin Bass’ “State of the City” speech AND a new report that highlights “a majority of L.A. residents don't feel safe while riding Metro” with KFI Reporter Michael Monks…PLUS – Thoughts on Lancaster Mayor Rex Parris suggesting one way to deal with the homelessness crisis would be to “give them free fentanyl … all the fentanyl they want” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Kf I YouTube, it's later with Mo Kelly. We are
alive everywhere. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I
had a great weekend. It was busy, as they usually are,
but it was a wonderful, wonderful weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
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I'm just gonna call you Sam the sex Doctor on
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next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
How you doing, brother, I'm good. It's good being here.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
And Mark Ronner yeah, YouTube, Well nice to see you too.
You know what I do. You did you ever watch
the show Good Times? Of course everybody did. It was
the Law okay, you had. I think of our relationship.
It's like I'm James Evans and your Wolona.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I see that your self esteem is funny. Well that's
you know, you learned something even after you've worked with
people for years.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Isn't that funny? It is? It is, it is and
you two, Wolona.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I was listening to you Mark during the break and
you were talking about the state of the City address
given earlier today by Mayor Karen Bassett. I wanted to
start there, and I know that her popularity has sunk
tremendously since the fires for a number of reasons. Some
I think are justifiable reasons, some I don't think are
justifiable reasons. For example, if you want to blame her
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for all the fires and you are going to include
Eaton Canyon, then you don't understand basic civics.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's not La City.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
If you want to blame her for Palisades, absolutely that's
considered a part of La City and other stuff. But
she gave her a State of the City address today.
Can't play at all. It's more than an hour and
here's what I want to tell you about it. It's
both important and unimportant. I can promise you nobody remembers
what she said last year. I could promise you nobody
(02:06):
remembers what Gavin Newsom said at the State of the
State address last year, this year, two years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Won't care. Next year, we don't remember State of the Union.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Maybe aligned at most people don't remember because the content
really doesn't matter. It only matters what we may feel
about their administration when all is said and done, when
after they try to implement their policies, what have you.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's what matters.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Because if you're a supporter, you're okay with whatever they
say in the State of the City or State of
the state, state of the Union. And if you're not,
you're not going to be satisfied. But here is some
of what I thought was somewhat relevant audio from earlier today.
This is Mayor Bass starting off the State of the
City address.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
We come to that together and now in these chambers,
just over one hundred days after a natural disaster, firestorm
that also reminds us of how the world can change
in an instant. The aftermath of this disaster weighs on
our city, which already had huge challenges before us. We
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feel it every day, the strain of the housing crisis,
the tragedy.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Of the homelessness crisis.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
We worry about public safety, unpredictability.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Of our streets.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
We worry about a change in climate that brings increasing
weather extremes. And we worry about rising costs and economic uncertainty.
But I want you to know that I see it.
We are not here to gloss over difficulties. We are
here to make them heads on and to make real change.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Platitude, platitude, platitude, platitude applause, platitude, platitude, applause, platitude applause.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's how it usually goes.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Here's more when she gets into the fires and Palisades,
more specifically, where she wants to take a victory lap.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Today, in reporting on the state of our city, I
report to Los Angeles that the recovery in the Palisades
is on track to be the fastest in Calalifornia history.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Here's the victory lot.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
And we're not just moving fast to move fast.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
We know the faster we can rebuild, the faster we
can heal. We still have a long way to go,
and for those who have lost a home, each and
every day is a day too.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Long, right.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
We want to be fast, we want to be safe,
and we want to be resilient.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
So let me just tell you.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
We have issued permits to rebuild twice as fast as
after the camp and Mooseley fires. We restored water nearly
a year and a half faster than after the campfire,
and we restored power in just two months. Los Angeles,
I assure you rebuilding is underway.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I don't know if anyone remembers that or cares about it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
If you should be someone who lives in Altadena, and yes,
that's La County not LA City. This doesn't mean anything.
This doesn't move you. I don't know if you live
in the Palisades whether this moves you. But these events,
these states of the city, state of the state, state
of Union, is not uncommon for politicians to use it
to somehow tout their successes and run their victory laps.
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Here is Mayor Bass on homelessness and also the budget.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
In twenty sixteen, voters approved Measure HHH to build ten
thousand units housing. At the time, LA had about twenty
five thousand unhoused residents, but by the time I took
office less than two and a half years ago, that
number had grown to more than forty six thousand unhoused Angelinos.
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On my first day in office, I declared a state
of emergency on homelessness, specifically to inject disruption.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
And change to fix the broken system.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
This includes systematically confronting old, outdated policies that actually.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Stop people from being housed.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Listen to this, Okay, people living in a tent, people
who had nothing, actually had to prove that they were
poor before they were eligible for housing. So I want
to know, how do you prove no income? How do
you prove nothing? So we fought and Washington removed that barrier.
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Here's another one. If veterans, veterans, heroes who fought for
our country received disability checks, they were told they made
too much money and were not eligible for veteran housing vouchers.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
So we mobilized.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
We took more than fifty mayors to Washington, DC, and
we fought, and Washington removed that barrier.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
The result is, for the first.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Time, we have secured housing vouchers for every homeless veteran
in LA.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
There's some of the audit for what it's worth, Mark Ronner,
you had played some of the budgetary portion of her
message today, and in short, she basically said, we're going
to have to lay off a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Right well, the number is sixteen hundred, but she apparently
is also going to try and not to by asking
for money from the state. Now, based on your translation, platitude, platitude,
I think you could have just played audio from Charlie
Brown's teacher in the cartoons.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Pretty much, she would have three or four sentences in
her cadence and then they'd have the applause, the obligatory applause.
The room wasn't that big, That's why you could hear
every individual person clapping. It seemed like it was a
small room with maybe like one hundred people in there,
it seemed like, and most of it were city officials
that she would introduce, like sheriff, Jim McDonald and others.
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They stand up, the applause, sit down and stand up,
another person, applause, introduce members of the city council. It
didn't need to be an hour and twenty minutes, but
that's about how long she spoke.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I see, well, I think wah whah, whahahahah. I think
that would have been a very effective message. Well, yeah,
this is just my personal preference. I am not a
fan of her speaking style. It's very slow, it's very stilted.
It doesn't really move anyone. I don't think that's one
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of her strong suits.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I say that because I think that dilutes a lot
of her message and people.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Look, I can't remember what she said in the first
step of that played. Now you can say.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That about a lot of people who go into politics
and news too, for that matter, They stop speaking like
normal people.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, she's gonna have to do something a little bit
more abnormal to turn around the perception of her and
her administration.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Does that mean that she's going to be recalled? No?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Does that mean that she's going to have any problem
if she were in her re election bid?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Probably not. But there are things that she.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Can do to improve her station with voters and also
I'll guess how people view her and perceive her. There's
work that still needs to be done, not only in
her administration, but in the city of Los Angeles. It's
Later with Mo Kelly. When we come back, Michael Monks
is going to join us from the iHeartRadio Downtown LA studios.
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There is a new survey regarding Metro as far as
how writers feel about Metro and also Metro may allow
you and I say aloud, because they, for whatever reason,
they didn't want us to be able to go directly
to LAX. Sometime soon, we'll talk about that with Michael Monks.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Next, you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Let's talk to kfi's own Michael Monks about the latest
that we've learned about La Metro.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Michael, how are you this evening? Hey, good evening, Mo.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I'm doing well and I don't know what to think
about this information that I'm getting ready to share with
you and everyone else. Did you know when overwhelming majority
of people in LA say they don't feel safe while
writing Metro. This is according to a report by Crosstown
and a report Saturday, June twenty twenty fourth survey conducted
by usc RECs SEARS, which found that eighty four percent
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of LA residents think the Metro trains are unsafe. And
a report also found that there was a fifteen point
five percent decrease in violent crimes per transit rider from
twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four, fifteen percent decrease,
and that arrests for crime for trespassing crimes went up
one hundred and seventy seven percent in twenty twenty four
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compared to twenty twenty three. Michael, my question to you,
so we don't get too bogged down in minutie, is
any of this really surprising?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Well, think about what happened last year on the Metro system.
Does any one word come to mind as it relates
to security and law enforcement?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
How about surge? Right? That was the word we were
using all year.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
You heard it from Mayor Karen Bass, you heard it
from Metro you heard it from the Metro board county
supervisors in those sorts, Because after a woman lost her
life on the B line train, the Red line train,
if you will, people said, look, this is not a
safe system. You've got to do something. And so there
was a series of violent crimes and the muckety MUCKs
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decided that, hey, maybe we should do a better job
belasing this situation, and so they flooded the stations and
the trains and the buses with armed police, security guards
and more ambassadors. So one, it creates a sense of safety.
And two, when crimes are happening and there's someone there
to catch you or to have it reported to, you
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see higher reports of crime. And so that's what we're
seeing here. These numbers reported in twenty twenty four are
significantly higher than they were the year before, and even
higher than they were in the years before that. That's
what happens when there's law enforcement to catch this anti
social behavior.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Hopefully the positive trend will continue, but still I've said
any number of times on this show that safety is
a feeling. You can't stats your way out of it.
People have to feel as if they are safer or
at least less unsafe, if that makes any sense. And
I don't know if Metro has done a good job
either explaining that or demonstrating that people are safer. I
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don't see that, and I don't necessarily think given this
report that people feel that.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
No, you're exactly right, because these numbers reflect something that
we can quantify, trespassing, assault, drug use and that sort
of thing. But what do you report and how does
Metro or even news organization tabulate a guy having a
meltdown on the train, a guy screaming, a guy having
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some sort of psychotic episode while I'm trying to enjoy
this commute, which may not be reported either, it may
not be reported at all. That's exactly right, and this
surge has died down.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
By the way.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Now we're back into a position where it's the typical
amount of law enforcement. And this is a large system
that goes all across La County. So there are LAPD,
there's sheriff's deputies, there are Long Beach Police officers that
are patrolling these trains. Until Metro stands up its own
police force, which it decided it will do. That won't
happen until after the Olympics, though, So we're going to
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possibly see some fluctuation in these stats, because goodness knows
the type of folks that are committing these crimes. They
do tend to be homeless people, drug addicts. They haven't
gone anywhere, they're still around on the system. And as
it relates to perception. In this report from Crosstown that
you're talking about that analyzes the amount of crime and
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people's feelings, they quote Metro, Metro insists that public perception
of the rail experience has improved as a result of
the increased police presence, measured by a Metro led writers survey.
But here's the kicker. The transit system did not provide
that survey to Crosstown. Now, if it's good news, why
not give it to us? Right, And that's something that
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you've dealt with. It's something that I've dealt with. Metro's
communication strategy has been very strange. You know, they're very
sensitive to criticism. But even when you have something that
might reflect positively on the agency.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Why not hand it over.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Why not let us measure those results and test them
for ourselves.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Well, I always say, don't try to make sense out
of nonsense. Let me ask you about one other thing.
Metro related before I let you go, Michael Monks. It's
been about forty five years, tens of millions of dollars,
and I don't know how many meetings they have transpired
in between. But Metro has expanded over those forty five years,
but not to lax and this has been another one
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of my pet peeves.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
One of the things I just don't understand. Now.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
There are two different projects that are going on right now.
They're still constructing the so called peeper mover people mover,
which is going to take travelers to the airport, and
Metro is extending the K line, but it's not done yet.
Why has there been seemingly this desire to drag its
feet and not connect the Metro to the airport.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Well, it is a priority project that has been delayed. Unfortunately.
Some of the reporting we did last year on this
is that there were disputes between the airport board and
the contractor and the price of this thing has escalated.
I mean, this thing had to be adjudicated, and so
they are moving forward on this. It's just not ready yet.
And look what I often tell people as someone who
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uses Metro, I live downtown, I live in the center
of the system, so I can branch out into any
direction that I want to. On paper, this is a
great system for the most part, and if it's not
great yet, it's got plans in the works. There are
shovels in the ground to make it a pretty great system.
But it all comes down to why you would use it.
And if you ever have an experience on there where
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you feel unsafe, there's a good chance you'll never get
back on there again, especially if you're seeing reports time
after time that something bad has happened, or that it
smells bad, or that it's uncomfortable, or that it's it's
not on time.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
What do I mean? Or how about and yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
And or it's a lot of pressure facing this system,
but it requires leaders who acknowledge that the problems facing
our society are pretty deep and they require more than
kid gloves.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Michael Monks, thank you so much for staying on this story,
and of course we will be calling on you again
in the future.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I hope you will mo thanks a lot, have a
good evening when we come back.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We want to tell you about a California mayor who
says he has the answer to at least his city's
homelessness and it is Fittanyl.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
We'll tell you about it next. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
We're live on the iHeartRadio app and we're live on
YouTube right now k if I Am six forty.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
We're live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. Last segment,
we were talking about Metro and how people felt generally
unsafe on the Metro in our YouTube chat at mister
Mokelly watching the video live stream, ninety three percent of
those following the live stream said that they don't feel
safe on Metro, which is even higher than the report
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that we just talked about. So it's just not my opinion,
it's not just the opinion of most writers, as the
depinion of the folks in the chat and just about
everywhere else. We're going to continue to follow that story.
And also, have you heard about the mayor in Lancaster.
His name is Rex Paris, and Rex is getting in
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a little bit of trouble for his views regarding solving
homelessness in Lancaster. Mark, I don't know if you know
about this story, but Rex Paris is a different type
of dude, different, howmo different in the way that he
kind of just cuts through the rigmarole and he just
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he says whatever's on his mind. And he was asked
about homelessness and basically said, why don't we just go
ahead and drug him to death? The world loves a
straight talker, Yes, we do, it seems Yeah. Here's what
he had to say in a city council meeting, and
he's been trying to clean it up ever since.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Haless, it sounds like you want to kind of close
all these homeless people in one territory.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
And I know what I want to do with it,
and I don't think I mean that's what I want.
I want to give them free Fanta.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I can't do what I do what.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
And I know what I want to do is and
I don't think, I mean that's what I want to do.
What I want to give them free?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I do what you want to do?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
What I mean, that's what I want.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I want to give them You want to you want
to do what we need?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
One of those cartoon noises where the person shakes his
head and goes, do what.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
I mean, that's what I want. I want to give
them free f.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
I can't understand what you're saying. You wanted to get
with them.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
What I want?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
To give them all the fentanyl they want. That's what
I want.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's what Mayor Paris had to say.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And then Fox eleven reached out to him and wanted
him to elaborate on what he had to say, whether
he was being silly, but whether he was being serious.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And here's a little bit of what he did say.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
I'm assuming you're talking about a meeting that occurred over
a month and a half ago, where you know, we
were attempting to move the homeless population to an abandoned.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
Golf course and as a camping ground, and the people
that lived near it were obviously not.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Happy with that.
Speaker 12 (20:41):
During the course of the meeting, I think I did
say that if it were up to me, I'd.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Be giving them fentanyl. Do what?
Speaker 11 (20:49):
But I made it very clear I was talking about
the criminal element that.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
He did it out of the prisons.
Speaker 12 (20:56):
He didn't that have now become forty to forty five
of what's referred to as the homeless population.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Let's go back and check the audio.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I don't think he was mentioned anything about prime and prisons.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Do I mean that's what I want to do. What
I want to give them free finton all do what.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I don't think that's what he said. Let's back up.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Talking about Hollis.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
It sounds like you want to kind of close all
these homeless people in one type of.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Territory, and I know what I want to do with it.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
And I don't think. I mean that's what I want
to do. What I want to give them free finton.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I do want.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
I can't understand what you're saying. You wanted to get
with them?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
What I want to give them all the fentanyl they want,
That's what I want.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That doesn't sound like because of crime where it just
sounds like he's just being an a hole.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Well, it is a heartfelt Post Eastern message, I think do.
Speaker 12 (21:54):
They are responsible for most of our robberies, most of
our rapes, and at least half of our murders.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
There is nothing that we can do for these people.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
They You know, Lancaster has the most innovative homeless solutions
of any city in America.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Do what.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
We're very proud of it.
Speaker 12 (22:18):
We can take care of a lot of people, But
I'm talking about the people that refuse those services.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It didn't sound like he was referring to those individuals.
It didn't sound like it.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That's just me.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
It sounds like you want to kind of close all
these homeless people in one territory.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
And I know what I want to do with it,
and I don't think, I mean, that's what I want.
I want to give.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
I can't understand what you're saying. You wanted to get
with them.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
What I want to give them all the fentanyl they want,
That's what I want.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Twally, you talked to Mayor Paris on occasion, haven't you.
Speaker 13 (22:55):
Yeah, Wow, Ago booked him on with Tim Conways to
talk about the Lancaster fireworks spectacular.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
They seemed like a pretty sensible guy. That's when they
canceled it.
Speaker 13 (23:08):
Yeah, okay, And they were trying to move him around,
and he's trying to do what he could do to
get it back up and run it.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You know, I mean, he had plans.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Look, we all understand that we got to do something
about the homelessness. Okay, I know you can't throw money
at it, but I'm not so sure you can throw
fitinel at it either.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
You're saying, are you suggesting that O ding isn't the
solution to the homeless problem.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Do what.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
I'm more curious about all of the rapes and murders
that are occurring.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
And I know what I want to do. Is I mean,
that's what.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I want I do?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
What what I do?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
What I want to give them free.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
F Wait, who's going to provide the free fentanyl? That's
what I want to know.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
If we see this to its logical conclusion, who is
the drug dealer here?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Who is going to provide the free fentanyl? If we
take him at his.
Speaker 13 (24:05):
Word, there are plenty of places already in existence in
Lancaster that are cooking it up. So maybe he suggesting
that he gives them free rein and people can just
go up, almost like they're getting free lunches or something.
They can go up and just get some fentol free lunches.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Do what I mean? That's what I want? What I
want to give them free ft A.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
I can't understand what you say.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Oh no, no, no, he'd be a great radio his voice,
don't he's great radio voice.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I just don't know how.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Effective such a policy would be when the dead body
start piling up.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Well, Also, as Ricky Ricardo would have said, lucy. Fentanyl
doesn't grow on trees.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Do what I want to give them free?
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Fin all, I can't understand what you're saying. Do you
want me to get with them?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
What?
Speaker 6 (24:56):
I want? To give them all the fentanyl they want.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
That's what I want. That's what he wants. He wants
the best for his community. Can you really argue with that?
Can you argue with the mayor who's saying I want
to put an end to this homelessness. They're they're responsible
for the rapes, they're responsible for all the crime, They're
responsible for the muggings.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
And if we just give them all free fentanyl, that'll
be the end of it.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I mean, that's what I want.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I do what that's all?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Do?
Speaker 9 (25:22):
What?
Speaker 10 (25:23):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
Forty and if you're following us on YouTube, the chat
is out of control right now. Offering up their solutions
for ending homelessness in southern California. We've had suggestions that
they should give all the Grammy Award for best New Artists,
because we always know anyone who wins the Best New
Artist award disappears, never to be seen again. Or we
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should put them all the bus out to Palm Springs
and leave them there. What if Paul Springs do to anybody, Carnacia.
Why are they saying Palm Springs they're talking about deserts. Well, Coachella,
Indio is a desert, but.
Speaker 13 (27:20):
See people keep going there for events. They're talking about
in the middle of the nowhere. Put them on a
bus to the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
What instead of fittingel, I mean, that's what I want.
I want to give them free Fenton.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Al He sounds like he is not only a video DJ,
He's like Frankie Crocker for nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
He is because that's what I want to do. I
want to give him all of fence and all.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
I want to give them free Fenton.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
And if people are laughing at the background, you're like,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Know if he was serious, but no one in the
room thought he was serious.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
And I know what I want to do. Is I mean,
that's what I want. I want to give them free.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Come again. He almost sounds like Larry King.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
He sounds like Ken Arden, Yes, man Kendin, Yes, Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I'm trying to place all the different voices, a bunch
of voices that he sounds like, but he sounds like
a radio and television professional. And if you just tune
me in Rex Paris, the mayor of Lancaster who's now
famous thanks to me. He is advocating giving fitanel to
all the homeless people, so.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I guess they would od.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
But talking about Hollis, it sounds like you want to
kind of close all these homeless people in one time.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Did you hear how she gradually edged up to it
and gave him an opportunity to clarify because she said,
wait a minute, I think this guy is talking about
having a bunch of homeless people ode on a drug
which is killing people left and right.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And so she.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Says it sounds like gives him an off ramp.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
He does not take it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
He does ninety in the fast lane with no passenger,
and with.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
It sounds like you want to kind of close all
these homeless people.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
In one territory. And I don't know what I want.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
To do is and I don't think I mean that's
what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
What you want you want to do what did you
just say? What I think you just said?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
And do what I think you want to do with
the homeless people and just have them all o d
on a toxic substance?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Did you, as an elected official, really say that to me?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
I want to give them free.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I can't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Oh, you understand exactly what you say. He just wanted
to say the third time.
Speaker 13 (29:44):
He doesn't want to charge them. I mean free Fentanyl's.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Got to be who is subsidizing this? Who? Gavin Newsom?
I mean, who's going to give up the free fentanyl?
Speaker 13 (29:56):
I guess player money? I mean, but what what other
options do we have? I know, carnation? Is there any
other options besides fentanyl? In the chat? See, no one
has any better ideas than fentanyl.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
We're going to the parents, baby off to something.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
The future of Southern California is going to be dependent
upon what comes comes up in the chat. Yes, I
want to give them free for Intona. The people have spoken.
He leans into his microphone like a professional. I want
to give them free fentanyl. I want to give them
free finton A free.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Do you him drag it out there? Free fentanyl.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
I want to give them free fintle, a free fendan Al.
I want to give them free fton.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
You know, I'm almost like kind of turned on. How
sexy he says it. I want to give him free fendon.
I wish he'd do an audio books the late night
radio show.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
He is a pro.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
You may not know Kevin slow Jam and James.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
He reminds me of Kevin Slow JamMan James. Ye, he does,
now that you mention it.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
He sounds a little bit like William Burrows too, which
I think is one hundred percent appropriate.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yeah, he's sexy.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I mean that's what I want. I want to give
them free fent.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I think she's turned on too, because she's like, oh
my god, did you really just say that.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
She's momentarily stunned by his extraordinary human decen It's.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Almost like he walked in the room with no clothes on.
He said, do what she her pearls. She definitely did.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Rex.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
What I want to do is it's almost like he's
talking to her. You know what I want to do
to you?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
You know what? You know what right do?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
What I What.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
I want to do is, I mean, that's what I want.
I want to give them free fent all.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It sounds like it's almost like a metaphor.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Well, let's just be honest. Everything sounds better in that
very white voice, right, you could suggest anything and watch
down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
He's here that way, that washdown. That is true. Let's
just keep moving.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
I know what I want to do is I mean,
that's what I want. I want to give them free
fan you know.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And laughter in the background makes it even better. They're
not even upset that he said it. They're like entertained
that he said it. She is the only one, bless
her heart, she is the only one who's incredulous. She
is the only one who's saying like, wait a minute,
I'm I'm I need to figure out are you serious,
mister Mayor? Are you talking about intentionally overdosing people who
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are homeless?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Pretty much? And I have people hitting me on text.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I won't say who, but they're saying like, this guy's ballsy,
I'd vote for him.
Speaker 13 (32:44):
I mean, I'm just saying like, look, okay, look he
has a plan. What is mayor base for all this?
We're going to come up with that money. We're going
to have a budget. We're gonna plan we're gonna we
already lost all that money from the LA homeless budget,
give it to him for the fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Speaking of budget, and remember I was talking about how
Karen Bass and her cadence makes it more difficult for
people to buy in. Not that you know it means
that we believe her more or less, but it's like
wanh wah wah wanh. Just like Mark Ronald was saying,
we listened to Rex Paris, listen to mayor baths talk
about the budget.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Now, I will all wish, I know, we all wish
that we could just focus on reductions and homelessness and
crime and on the fastest recovery in our state's history.
But the reality is our city place is it more
than an eight hundred million dollar deficit. You know, cities
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like ours are going through challenging economic times.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Across the nation.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Turmoil and uncertainty from Washington and a slowing economy are
causing lower revenues to the hung Millions of dollars liability
settlements have from backed up lawsuits during the pandemic, uncapped
damages combined with personnel costs, and of course the fires
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and rebuilding all together, Los Angeles we have a very
difficult budget.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Give me more, Rex Paris.
Speaker 9 (34:21):
It sounds like you want to kind of close all
these homeless people in one territory.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
And I know what I want to do is and
I don't think. I mean that's what I wanted to do.
I want to give them free fl I.
Speaker 10 (34:34):
Can't understand what you're saying. You wanted to get with them?
Speaker 2 (34:36):
What?
Speaker 6 (34:37):
I want to give them all the fentanyl they want.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
That's what I want. I want to give you free
finton all night long? What Rex Paris for governor? You
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can't find YouTube, y'all are missing it on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Let me take you here we go. I need a second.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
I mean, that's what I want. I want to give
them free fan.
Speaker 10 (35:28):
I can't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Oh no, okay, I need a break. Can't I hate
six for YouTube? We lived everywhere? You want?
Speaker 6 (35:44):
I mean that's what I want. I want to give
them free fent.
Speaker 10 (35:48):
I can't understand what you're saying. You wanted to get
with them?
Speaker 6 (35:51):
What I want to give them all the fent and
all they want.
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had a great weekend. It was busy, as they usually are,
but it was a wonderful, wonderful weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:47):
And Mark Ronner yeah, YouTube, Well nice to see you too.
You know what I do. You did you ever watch
the show Good Times? Of course everybody did. It was
the Law okay, you had. I think of our relationship.
It's like I'm James Evans and your Wolona.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I see that your self esteem is funny. Well that's
you know, you learned something even after you've worked with
people for years.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Isn't that funny? It is? It is, it is and
you two, Wolona.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I was listening to you Mark during the break and
you were talking about the state of the City address
given earlier today by Mayor Karen Bassett. I wanted to
start there, and I know that her popularity has sunk
tremendously since the fires for a number of reasons. Some
I think are justifiable reasons, some I don't think are
justifiable reasons. For example, if you want to blame her
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for all the fires and you are going to include
Eaton Canyon, then you don't understand basic civics.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's not La City.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
If you want to blame her for Palisades, absolutely that's
considered a part of La City and other stuff. But
she gave her a State of the City address today.
Can't play at all. It's more than an hour and
here's what I want to tell you about it. It's
both important and unimportant. I can promise you nobody remembers
what she said last year. I could promise you nobody
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remembers what Gavin Newsom said at the State of the
State address last year, this year, two years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Won't care. Next year, we don't remember State of the Union.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Maybe aligned at most people don't remember because the content
really doesn't matter. It only matters what we may feel
about their administration when all is said and done, when
after they try to implement their policies, what have you.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's what matters.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Because if you're a supporter, you're okay with whatever they
say in the State of the City or State of
the state, state of the Union. And if you're not,
you're not going to be satisfied. But here is some
of what I thought was somewhat relevant audio from earlier today.
This is Mayor Bass starting off the State of the
City address.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
We come to that together and now in these chambers,
just over one hundred days after a natural disaster, firestorm
that also reminds us of how the world can change
in an instant. The aftermath of this disaster weighs on
our city, which already had huge challenges before us. We
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feel it every day, the strain of the housing crisis,
the tragedy.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Of the homelessness crisis.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
We worry about public safety, unpredictability.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Of our streets.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
We worry about a change in climate that brings increasing
weather extremes. And we worry about rising costs and economic uncertainty.
But I want you to know that I see it.
We are not here to gloss over difficulties. We are
here to make them heads on and to make real change.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Platitude, platitude, platitude, platitude applause, platitude, platitude, applause, platitude applause.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's how it usually goes.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Here's more when she gets into the fires and Palisades,
more specifically, where she wants to take a victory lap.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Today, in reporting on the state of our city, I
report to Los Angeles that the recovery in the Palisades
is on track to be the fastest in Calalifornia history.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Here's the victory lot.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
And we're not just moving fast to move fast.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
We know the faster we can rebuild, the faster we
can heal. We still have a long way to go,
and for those who have lost a home, each and
every day is a day too.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Long, right.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
We want to be fast, we want to be safe,
and we want to be resilient.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
So let me just tell you.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
We have issued permits to rebuild twice as fast as
after the camp and Mooseley fires. We restored water nearly
a year and a half faster than after the campfire,
and we restored power in just two months. Los Angeles,
I assure you rebuilding is underway.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I don't know if anyone remembers that or cares about it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
If you should be someone who lives in Altadena, and yes,
that's La County not LA City. This doesn't mean anything.
This doesn't move you. I don't know if you live
in the Palisades whether this moves you. But these events,
these states of the city, state of the state, state
of Union, is not uncommon for politicians to use it
to somehow tout their successes and run their victory laps.
(05:50):
Here is Mayor Bass on homelessness and also the budget.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
In twenty sixteen, voters approved Measure HHH to build ten
thousand units housing. At the time, LA had about twenty
five thousand unhoused residents, but by the time I took
office less than two and a half years ago, that
number had grown to more than forty six thousand unhoused Angelinos.
(06:18):
On my first day in office, I declared a state
of emergency on homelessness, specifically to inject disruption.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
And change to fix the broken system.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
This includes systematically confronting old, outdated policies that actually.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Stop people from being housed.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Listen to this, Okay, people living in a tent, people
who had nothing, actually had to prove that they were
poor before they were eligible for housing. So I want
to know, how do you prove no income? How do
you prove nothing? So we fought and Washington removed that barrier.
(07:12):
Here's another one. If veterans, veterans, heroes who fought for
our country received disability checks, they were told they made
too much money and were not eligible for veteran housing vouchers.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
So we mobilized.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
We took more than fifty mayors to Washington, DC, and
we fought, and Washington removed that barrier.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
The result is, for the first.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Time, we have secured housing vouchers for every homeless veteran
in LA.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
There's some of the audit for what it's worth, Mark Ronner,
you had played some of the budgetary portion of her
message today, and in short, she basically said, we're going
to have to lay off a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Right well, the number is sixteen hundred, but she apparently
is also going to try and not to by asking
for money from the state. Now, based on your translation, platitude, platitude,
I think you could have just played audio from Charlie
Brown's teacher in the cartoons.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Pretty much, she would have three or four sentences in
her cadence and then they'd have the applause, the obligatory applause.
The room wasn't that big, That's why you could hear
every individual person clapping. It seemed like it was a
small room with maybe like one hundred people in there,
it seemed like, and most of it were city officials
that she would introduce, like sheriff, Jim McDonald and others.
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They stand up, the applause, sit down and stand up,
another person, applause, introduce members of the city council. It
didn't need to be an hour and twenty minutes, but
that's about how long she spoke.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I see, well, I think wah whah, whahahahah. I think
that would have been a very effective message. Well, yeah,
this is just my personal preference. I am not a
fan of her speaking style. It's very slow, it's very stilted.
It doesn't really move anyone. I don't think that's one
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of her strong suits.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I say that because I think that dilutes a lot
of her message and people.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Look, I can't remember what she said in the first
step of that played. Now you can say.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That about a lot of people who go into politics
and news too, for that matter, They stop speaking like
normal people.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, she's gonna have to do something a little bit
more abnormal to turn around the perception of her and
her administration.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Does that mean that she's going to be recalled? No?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Does that mean that she's going to have any problem
if she were in her re election bid?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Probably not. But there are things that she.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Can do to improve her station with voters and also
I'll guess how people view her and perceive her. There's
work that still needs to be done, not only in
her administration, but in the city of Los Angeles. It's
Later with Mo Kelly. When we come back, Michael Monks
is going to join us from the iHeartRadio Downtown LA studios.
(10:11):
There is a new survey regarding Metro as far as
how writers feel about Metro and also Metro may allow
you and I say aloud, because they, for whatever reason,
they didn't want us to be able to go directly
to LAX. Sometime soon, we'll talk about that with Michael Monks.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Next, you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Let's talk to kfi's own Michael Monks about the latest
that we've learned about La Metro.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Michael, how are you this evening? Hey, good evening, Mo.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I'm doing well and I don't know what to think
about this information that I'm getting ready to share with
you and everyone else. Did you know when overwhelming majority
of people in LA say they don't feel safe while
writing Metro. This is according to a report by Crosstown
and a report Saturday, June twenty twenty fourth survey conducted
by usc RECs SEARS, which found that eighty four percent
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of LA residents think the Metro trains are unsafe. And
a report also found that there was a fifteen point
five percent decrease in violent crimes per transit rider from
twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four, fifteen percent decrease,
and that arrests for crime for trespassing crimes went up
one hundred and seventy seven percent in twenty twenty four
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compared to twenty twenty three. Michael, my question to you,
so we don't get too bogged down in minutie, is
any of this really surprising?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Well, think about what happened last year on the Metro system.
Does any one word come to mind as it relates
to security and law enforcement?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
How about surge? Right? That was the word we were
using all year.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
You heard it from Mayor Karen Bass, you heard it
from Metro you heard it from the Metro board county
supervisors in those sorts, Because after a woman lost her
life on the B line train, the Red line train,
if you will, people said, look, this is not a
safe system. You've got to do something. And so there
was a series of violent crimes and the muckety MUCKs
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decided that, hey, maybe we should do a better job
belasing this situation, and so they flooded the stations and
the trains and the buses with armed police, security guards
and more ambassadors. So one, it creates a sense of safety.
And two, when crimes are happening and there's someone there
to catch you or to have it reported to, you
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see higher reports of crime. And so that's what we're
seeing here. These numbers reported in twenty twenty four are
significantly higher than they were the year before, and even
higher than they were in the years before that. That's
what happens when there's law enforcement to catch this anti
social behavior.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Hopefully the positive trend will continue, but still I've said
any number of times on this show that safety is
a feeling. You can't stats your way out of it.
People have to feel as if they are safer or
at least less unsafe, if that makes any sense. And
I don't know if Metro has done a good job
either explaining that or demonstrating that people are safer. I
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don't see that, and I don't necessarily think given this
report that people feel that.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
No, you're exactly right, because these numbers reflect something that
we can quantify, trespassing, assault, drug use and that sort
of thing. But what do you report and how does
Metro or even news organization tabulate a guy having a
meltdown on the train, a guy screaming, a guy having
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some sort of psychotic episode while I'm trying to enjoy
this commute, which may not be reported either, it may
not be reported at all. That's exactly right, and this
surge has died down.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
By the way.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Now we're back into a position where it's the typical
amount of law enforcement. And this is a large system
that goes all across La County. So there are LAPD,
there's sheriff's deputies, there are Long Beach Police officers that
are patrolling these trains. Until Metro stands up its own
police force, which it decided it will do. That won't
happen until after the Olympics, though, So we're going to
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possibly see some fluctuation in these stats, because goodness knows
the type of folks that are committing these crimes. They
do tend to be homeless people, drug addicts. They haven't
gone anywhere, they're still around on the system. And as
it relates to perception. In this report from Crosstown that
you're talking about that analyzes the amount of crime and
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people's feelings, they quote Metro, Metro insists that public perception
of the rail experience has improved as a result of
the increased police presence, measured by a Metro led writers survey.
But here's the kicker. The transit system did not provide
that survey to Crosstown. Now, if it's good news, why
not give it to us? Right, And that's something that
(15:02):
you've dealt with. It's something that I've dealt with. Metro's
communication strategy has been very strange. You know, they're very
sensitive to criticism. But even when you have something that
might reflect positively on the agency.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Why not hand it over.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Why not let us measure those results and test them
for ourselves.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Well, I always say, don't try to make sense out
of nonsense. Let me ask you about one other thing.
Metro related before I let you go, Michael Monks. It's
been about forty five years, tens of millions of dollars,
and I don't know how many meetings they have transpired
in between. But Metro has expanded over those forty five years,
but not to lax and this has been another one
(15:42):
of my pet peeves.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
One of the things I just don't understand. Now.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
There are two different projects that are going on right now.
They're still constructing the so called peeper mover people mover,
which is going to take travelers to the airport, and
Metro is extending the K line, but it's not done yet.
Why has there been seemingly this desire to drag its
feet and not connect the Metro to the airport.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Well, it is a priority project that has been delayed. Unfortunately.
Some of the reporting we did last year on this
is that there were disputes between the airport board and
the contractor and the price of this thing has escalated.
I mean, this thing had to be adjudicated, and so
they are moving forward on this. It's just not ready yet.
And look what I often tell people as someone who
(16:32):
uses Metro, I live downtown, I live in the center
of the system, so I can branch out into any
direction that I want to. On paper, this is a
great system for the most part, and if it's not
great yet, it's got plans in the works. There are
shovels in the ground to make it a pretty great system.
But it all comes down to why you would use it.
And if you ever have an experience on there where
(16:53):
you feel unsafe, there's a good chance you'll never get
back on there again, especially if you're seeing reports time
after time that something bad has happened, or that it
smells bad, or that it's uncomfortable, or that it's it's
not on time.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
What do I mean? Or how about and yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
And or it's a lot of pressure facing this system,
but it requires leaders who acknowledge that the problems facing
our society are pretty deep and they require more than
kid gloves.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Michael Monks, thank you so much for staying on this story,
and of course we will be calling on you again
in the future.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I hope you will mo thanks a lot, have a
good evening when we come back.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We want to tell you about a California mayor who
says he has the answer to at least his city's
homelessness and it is Fittanyl.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
We'll tell you about it next. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
We're live on the iHeartRadio app and we're live on
YouTube right now k if I Am six forty.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
We're live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. Last segment,
we were talking about Metro and how people felt generally
unsafe on the Metro in our YouTube chat at mister
Mokelly watching the video live stream, ninety three percent of
those following the live stream said that they don't feel
safe on Metro, which is even higher than the report
(18:15):
that we just talked about. So it's just not my opinion,
it's not just the opinion of most writers, as the
depinion of the folks in the chat and just about
everywhere else. We're going to continue to follow that story.
And also, have you heard about the mayor in Lancaster.
His name is Rex Paris, and Rex is getting in
(18:36):
a little bit of trouble for his views regarding solving
homelessness in Lancaster. Mark, I don't know if you know
about this story, but Rex Paris is a different type
of dude, different, howmo different in the way that he
kind of just cuts through the rigmarole and he just
(18:57):
he says whatever's on his mind. And he was asked
about homelessness and basically said, why don't we just go
ahead and drug him to death? The world loves a
straight talker, Yes, we do, it seems Yeah. Here's what
he had to say in a city council meeting, and
he's been trying to clean it up ever since.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Haless, it sounds like you want to kind of close
all these homeless people in one territory.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
And I know what I want to do with it,
and I don't think I mean that's what I want.
I want to give them free Fanta.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I can't do what I do what.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
And I know what I want to do is and
I don't think, I mean that's what I want to do.
What I want to give them free?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I do what you want to do?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
What I mean, that's what I want.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I want to give them You want to you want
to do what we need?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
One of those cartoon noises where the person shakes his
head and goes, do what.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
I mean, that's what I want. I want to give
them free f.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
I can't understand what you're saying. You wanted to get
with them.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
What I want?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
To give them all the fentanyl they want. That's what
I want.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's what Mayor Paris had to say.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And then Fox eleven reached out to him and wanted
him to elaborate on what he had to say, whether
he was being silly, but whether he was being serious.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And here's a little bit of what he did say.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
I'm assuming you're talking about a meeting that occurred over
a month and a half ago, where you know, we
were attempting to move the homeless population to an abandoned.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
Golf course and as a camping ground, and the people
that lived near it were obviously not.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Happy with that.
Speaker 12 (20:41):
During the course of the meeting, I think I did
say that if it were up to me, I'd.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Be giving them fentanyl. Do what?
Speaker 11 (20:49):
But I made it very clear I was talking about
the criminal element that.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
He did it out of the prisons.
Speaker 12 (20:56):
He didn't that have now become forty to forty five
of what's referred to as the homeless population.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Let's go back and check the audio.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I don't think he was mentioned anything about prime and prisons.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Do I mean that's what I want to do. What
I want to give them free finton all do what.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I don't think that's what he said. Let's back up.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Talking about Hollis.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
It sounds like you want to kind of close all
these homeless people in one type of.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Territory, and I know what I want to do with it.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
And I don't think. I mean that's what I want
to do. What I want to give them free finton.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I do want.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
I can't understand what you're saying. You wanted to get
with them?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
What I want to give them all the fentanyl they want,
That's what I want.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That doesn't sound like because of crime where it just
sounds like he's just being an a hole.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Well, it is a heartfelt Post Eastern message, I think do.
Speaker 12 (21:54):
They are responsible for most of our robberies, most of
our rapes, and at least half of our murders.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
There is nothing that we can do for these people.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
They You know, Lancaster has the most innovative homeless solutions
of any city in America.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Do what.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
We're very proud of it.
Speaker 12 (22:18):
We can take care of a lot of people, But
I'm talking about the people that refuse those services.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It didn't sound like he was referring to those individuals.
It didn't sound like it.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That's just me.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
It sounds like you want to kind of close all
these homeless people in one territory.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
And I know what I want to do with it,
and I don't think, I mean, that's what I want.
I want to give.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
I can't understand what you're saying. You wanted to get
with them.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
What I want to give them all the fentanyl they want,
That's what I want.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Twally, you talked to Mayor Paris on occasion, haven't you.
Speaker 13 (22:55):
Yeah, Wow, Ago booked him on with Tim Conways to
talk about the Lancaster fireworks spectacular.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
They seemed like a pretty sensible guy. That's when they
canceled it.
Speaker 13 (23:08):
Yeah, okay, And they were trying to move him around,
and he's trying to do what he could do to
get it back up and run it.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You know, I mean, he had plans.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Look, we all understand that we got to do something
about the homelessness. Okay, I know you can't throw money
at it, but I'm not so sure you can throw
fitinel at it either.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
You're saying, are you suggesting that O ding isn't the
solution to the homeless problem.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Do what.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
I'm more curious about all of the rapes and murders
that are occurring.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
And I know what I want to do. Is I mean,
that's what.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I want I do?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
What what I do?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
What I want to give them free.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
F Wait, who's going to provide the free fentanyl? That's
what I want to know.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
If we see this to its logical conclusion, who is
the drug dealer here?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Who is going to provide the free fentanyl? If we
take him at his.
Speaker 13 (24:05):
Word, there are plenty of places already in existence in
Lancaster that are cooking it up. So maybe he suggesting
that he gives them free rein and people can just
go up, almost like they're getting free lunches or something.
They can go up and just get some fentol free lunches.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Do what I mean? That's what I want? What I
want to give them free ft A.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
I can't understand what you say.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Oh no, no, no, he'd be a great radio his voice,
don't he's great radio voice.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I just don't know how.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Effective such a policy would be when the dead body
start piling up.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Well, Also, as Ricky Ricardo would have said, lucy. Fentanyl
doesn't grow on trees.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Do what I want to give them free?
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Fin all, I can't understand what you're saying. Do you
want me to get with them?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
What?
Speaker 6 (24:56):
I want? To give them all the fentanyl they want.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
That's what I want. That's what he wants. He wants
the best for his community. Can you really argue with that?
Can you argue with the mayor who's saying I want
to put an end to this homelessness. They're they're responsible
for the rapes, they're responsible for all the crime, They're
responsible for the muggings.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
And if we just give them all free fentanyl, that'll
be the end of it.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I mean, that's what I want.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I do what that's all?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Do?
Speaker 9 (25:22):
What?
Speaker 10 (25:23):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
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Speaker 6 (26:02):
Do what I want to give them free print and all.
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Speaker 2 (26:20):
Do we do it?
Speaker 6 (26:21):
And I don't? I mean, that's what I want. I
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
Forty and if you're following us on YouTube, the chat
is out of control right now. Offering up their solutions
for ending homelessness in southern California. We've had suggestions that
they should give all the Grammy Award for best New Artists,
because we always know anyone who wins the Best New
Artist award disappears, never to be seen again. Or we
(27:08):
should put them all the bus out to Palm Springs
and leave them there. What if Paul Springs do to anybody, Carnacia.
Why are they saying Palm Springs they're talking about deserts. Well, Coachella,
Indio is a desert, but.
Speaker 13 (27:20):
See people keep going there for events. They're talking about
in the middle of the nowhere. Put them on a
bus to the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
What instead of fittingel, I mean, that's what I want.
I want to give them free Fenton.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Al He sounds like he is not only a video DJ,
He's like Frankie Crocker for nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
He is because that's what I want to do. I
want to give him all of fence and all.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
I want to give them free Fenton.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
And if people are laughing at the background, you're like,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Know if he was serious, but no one in the
room thought he was serious.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
And I know what I want to do. Is I mean,
that's what I want. I want to give them free.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Come again. He almost sounds like Larry King.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
He sounds like Ken Arden, Yes, man Kendin, Yes, Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I'm trying to place all the different voices, a bunch
of voices that he sounds like, but he sounds like
a radio and television professional. And if you just tune
me in Rex Paris, the mayor of Lancaster who's now
famous thanks to me. He is advocating giving fitanel to
all the homeless people, so.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I guess they would od.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
But talking about Hollis, it sounds like you want to
kind of close all these homeless people in one time.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Did you hear how she gradually edged up to it
and gave him an opportunity to clarify because she said,
wait a minute, I think this guy is talking about
having a bunch of homeless people ode on a drug
which is killing people left and right.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And so she.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Says it sounds like gives him an off ramp.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
He does not take it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
He does ninety in the fast lane with no passenger,
and with.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
It sounds like you want to kind of close all
these homeless people.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
In one territory. And I don't know what I want.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
To do is and I don't think I mean that's
what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
What you want you want to do what did you
just say? What I think you just said?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
And do what I think you want to do with
the homeless people and just have them all o d
on a toxic substance?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Did you, as an elected official, really say that to me?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
I want to give them free.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I can't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Oh, you understand exactly what you say. He just wanted
to say the third time.
Speaker 13 (29:44):
He doesn't want to charge them. I mean free Fentanyl's.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Got to be who is subsidizing this? Who? Gavin Newsom?
I mean, who's going to give up the free fentanyl?
Speaker 13 (29:56):
I guess player money? I mean, but what what other
options do we have? I know, carnation? Is there any
other options besides fentanyl? In the chat? See, no one
has any better ideas than fentanyl.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
We're going to the parents, baby off to something.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
The future of Southern California is going to be dependent
upon what comes comes up in the chat. Yes, I
want to give them free for Intona. The people have spoken.
He leans into his microphone like a professional. I want
to give them free fentanyl. I want to give them
free finton A free.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Do you him drag it out there? Free fentanyl.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
I want to give them free fintle, a free fendan Al.
I want to give them free fton.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
You know, I'm almost like kind of turned on. How
sexy he says it. I want to give him free fendon.
I wish he'd do an audio books the late night
radio show.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
He is a pro.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
You may not know Kevin slow Jam and James.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
He reminds me of Kevin Slow JamMan James. Ye, he does,
now that you mention it.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
He sounds a little bit like William Burrows too, which
I think is one hundred percent appropriate.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yeah, he's sexy.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I mean that's what I want. I want to give
them free fent.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I think she's turned on too, because she's like, oh
my god, did you really just say that.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
She's momentarily stunned by his extraordinary human decen It's.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Almost like he walked in the room with no clothes on.
He said, do what she her pearls. She definitely did.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Rex.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
What I want to do is it's almost like he's
talking to her. You know what I want to do
to you?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
You know what? You know what right do?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
What I What.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
I want to do is, I mean, that's what I want.
I want to give them free fent all.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It sounds like it's almost like a metaphor.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Well, let's just be honest. Everything sounds better in that
very white voice, right, you could suggest anything and watch
down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
He's here that way, that washdown. That is true. Let's
just keep moving.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
I know what I want to do is I mean,
that's what I want. I want to give them free
fan you know.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And laughter in the background makes it even better. They're
not even upset that he said it. They're like entertained
that he said it. She is the only one, bless
her heart, she is the only one who's incredulous. She
is the only one who's saying like, wait a minute,
I'm I'm I need to figure out are you serious,
mister Mayor? Are you talking about intentionally overdosing people who
(32:37):
are homeless?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Pretty much? And I have people hitting me on text.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I won't say who, but they're saying like, this guy's ballsy,
I'd vote for him.
Speaker 13 (32:44):
I mean, I'm just saying like, look, okay, look he
has a plan. What is mayor base for all this?
We're going to come up with that money. We're going
to have a budget. We're gonna plan we're gonna we
already lost all that money from the LA homeless budget,
give it to him for the fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Speaking of budget, and remember I was talking about how
Karen Bass and her cadence makes it more difficult for
people to buy in. Not that you know it means
that we believe her more or less, but it's like
wanh wah wah wanh. Just like Mark Ronald was saying,
we listened to Rex Paris, listen to mayor baths talk
about the budget.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Now, I will all wish, I know, we all wish
that we could just focus on reductions and homelessness and
crime and on the fastest recovery in our state's history.
But the reality is our city place is it more
than an eight hundred million dollar deficit. You know, cities
(33:44):
like ours are going through challenging economic times.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Across the nation.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Turmoil and uncertainty from Washington and a slowing economy are
causing lower revenues to the hung Millions of dollars liability
settlements have from backed up lawsuits during the pandemic, uncapped
damages combined with personnel costs, and of course the fires
(34:13):
and rebuilding all together, Los Angeles we have a very
difficult budget.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Give me more, Rex Paris.
Speaker 9 (34:21):
It sounds like you want to kind of close all
these homeless people in one territory.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
And I know what I want to do is and
I don't think. I mean that's what I wanted to do.
I want to give them free fl I.
Speaker 10 (34:34):
Can't understand what you're saying. You wanted to get with them?
Speaker 2 (34:36):
What?
Speaker 6 (34:37):
I want to give them all the fentanyl they want.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
That's what I want. I want to give you free
finton all night long? What Rex Paris for governor? You
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can't find YouTube, y'all are missing it on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Let me take you here we go. I need a second.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
I mean, that's what I want. I want to give
them free fan.
Speaker 10 (35:28):
I can't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Oh no, okay, I need a break. Can't I hate
six for YouTube? We lived everywhere? You want?
Speaker 6 (35:44):
I mean that's what I want. I want to give
them free fent.
Speaker 10 (35:48):
I can't understand what you're saying. You wanted to get
with them?
Speaker 6 (35:51):
What I want to give them all the fent and
all they want.
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