Okay, if I am six or forty years later with Mo Kelly, but live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We have a wonderful show coming up for you tonight. Yes, we're going to get into that bus shooting and it wasn't on Metro, but I think it goes back to a point I made a long time ago. If you can't be safe or feel safe on public
transportation, then no one is really safe. It doesn't matter whether if it was on some foothel bus or it was Metro or it was the Burbank bus right around the corner from us. If you cannot be safe on public transportation, than just about nobody is safe. We're definitely going to get into that, and we're going to get into these new cooling centers which are being launched
at public libraries all around the county. And we have an update on the Sunday ticket lawsuit where the NFL is having to defend the exorbitant price tag of Sunday ticket which is about I think like five hundred dollars now something like that for the season. Something ridiculous, and people are saying, wait a minute, come on, why is it so high? Are you trying to protect local showings of NFL games like CBS and Fox. But we'll get into that
a little later. But I wanted to start to show off tonight like I did last night. Last night, I told you that there was an approaching or pending vote LAUSD they were going to consider a total ban on student cell phones. Well, the LA School Board today set in motion to plan to ban all cell phones all day on all campuses, all year, saying the devices distract students from learning. I agree, lead to anxiety, I agree, and allow for cyber bullying. I agree there, but it's not going
to be immediate. The ban would take effect in January of twenty twenty five, after details are approved in a future meeting by the Board of Education. Let me just say it like this, when it comes to banning cell phones, smartphones, rotary phones, touchtne phones, whatever students may have, banning them is the right thing to do. It's a learning environment. But I
just don't know the right way to do it that makes any sense. I know there should be some severe restrictions and limitations about students having access to these phones which are distracting them not only from learning, but developing basic socialization skills. Have you ever seen how young people seemingly I know this is a generalization, but I think it's still an accurate one. A lot of young people
just don't know how to act around other people. They don't know to have how to have conversations, they don't know how to dialogue that sometimes they struggle to make eye contact. They seemingly are uncomfortable in all basic social situations. It's something that I've seen as if they're not developing those skills in which to
deal with people on a day to day basis. And you see it, you hear it, and you see it, you see it, and how they may react or act with people they don't know the subtle social cues of what's appropriate, what's inappropriate through language and also what they're doing on phones is as far as the text language, and I've heard this from many teachers, many teachers has seeped into how they're writing their papers, how they're trying to
communicate with teachers, how they're trying to learn, as it were, where you have all this text shorthand. And I saw this post and I know that's making fun of old people, and they say, you can always find someone who's like gen X or older because they text and complete sentences. Yes, I do. And I also managed to graduate high school. I also managed to be able to write a basic fundamental business letter and English paper.
These are skills that a lot of these kids are not learning because they don't know the difference or are unable to separate what they do on a phone with what happens in the real world. I am all for this cell phone, smartphone, rotary phone, touch tone phone ban for students in the school. I just don't know the right way to do it. And I know there's
going to be a lot of pushback. Whatever they come out with, there's going to be a contingent of parents are going to say, no, no, no, I need to get in touch with my child in an emergency. And I get that. And I know when I was going to school, not only did we not have cell phones, we did not have school shootings. I get that. It's a different animal altogether. The whole school experience is fundamentally different. The things that parents have to worry about today they
did not have to worry about then. When I was going to school, he had to worry about the occasional knife, he had to worry about fights, he had to worry about the occasional gay member coming from off campus or
something. All right, it's not the same thing, And I get parents have a different level of anxiety, but there has to be some sort of an arrangement, an agreement or understanding where kids should not have access to that phone all damn day because it's getting in the way of not only the learning
process, but the teaching process. And from all the people that I hear, who are teachers, who are educators, who are administrators, that is probably at the top of the list of the biggest distraction in the school environment. They are on the phones. Students' kids are on the phone all damn day. If they're not trying to look at their phone in class, it's
on the way to the class, or they're at lunch. They are completely mesmerized by whatever's going on that phone, and they're not learning the things that they need to learn. So again, banning cell phones, smartphones, touchtones, rotary phones is the right thing to do. I just don't know the exact right way it needs to be done. And hello, Mark Roner, how you doing tonight? Mo? I'm I'm glad we didn't have this trouble when I was in school. Well, if I had a phone back then
it would have been a distraction, without a doubt. Oh got it. And I got in fights constantly all through school. Never had to worry about getting shot, never once. Right, it's just completely different. And hello Stefan, welcome back this year yesterday? Hello, Hello, how you feeling much better? Okay? Good to know. Good tonight. Now we can make fun of you since you fal much better enough. And Twalla sharp,
producer of the show, How you doing? Brother fantastic? And Matt and oh you're gonna get on the mic because I heard you don't like to get on the mic. Okay he was told, yeah, okay, there is no being in here, Matt. You are co producing, associate producing tonight. How you doing, sir? Wait a minute, it's the other button. See that's why we watching, and so you learn how radio is there we go. That is the on button that turns on the microphone. Got
it? Got it? Now that's your first lesson. Welcome, Thank you, thank you. It's later with Mo Kelly can if I am six forty When we come back, we'll talk about that passenger who was injured after the shooting. On the bus near the ten Freeway in Baldwin Park. That's the next you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. And there's been another bus shooting. And I tell people, and maybe some people don't believe me, but let me explain it a little bit more.
Whenever there is violence on public transportation, I think it is usually indicative of a more violent society. More generally, if you cannot be safe on public transportation, then nobody's safe. And that's one of my formulations. And here's why. Think about who uses public transportation, children, youths, the elderly, men, women, cross section of just about everyone in society.
Everyone, And if your grandmother can't be safe on there, if your son or daughter can't be safe on it, and any given day every age group will use public transportation. If they can't be safe on it, then nobody is safe. I remember before I had a car, and I didn't get my first car until I was twenty two. But I'm not bitter. I didn't get my first car until I was twenty two, but before then, and I think Twela knows something about this. The only way we could get
around and this is pre subway. Was the bus that was our only means of transportation. Oh yeah, I forgot. We're talking to people under the age of forty. They don't remember a world without subway. They don't remember a world without uber, they don't remember a world without lyft. They don't know about the rough, tough and dirty. They don't know nothing about that. As they say, once upon a time, a long time ago, in a city far, far far away, people actually had to use public
transportation where they didn't have their own car. If I wanted to go to Dilamo Mall, it was only six miles straight down Supervita Bolevarc. You know how I did it. I got on the bus. And that's what most people did. You got on the bus. But the feeling, the thought was it was relatively safe. You didn't have to worry about much for the most part. You didn't have to worry about gunshots breaking out with any regularity,
at least not on my side of town. But the reason I bring this up is because in Baldwyn Park you've probably heard the story by now. A one min is still on the loose after an innocent passenger was wounded. An innocent passenger was wounded in a shooting on a foothill transit bus in Balwen Park. The suspect and another man began arguing, seemingly they did not know each other. From what I can tell, they didn't know each other,
leading to the suspect pulling out a gun and opening fire. I wasn't there. I don't know what happened. I don't know what was said. But we live in a world where you can get into a verbal confrontation with someone and say something that will make the other person pull out a gun and shoot you on a bus. When we go back to what I was saying before, on a bus with women, with children, all age groups, and that's exactly what happened. In fact, it said that authority said the bus
driver tried to calm things down before the suspect pulled out a gun. To no avail, and a woman in her fifties was inadvertently struck and then rushed to a hospital. Collateral Authorities are still trying to determine if she was actually struck by a bullet or if she was injured by shrapnel. To Tomato, Tomato, does it really matter, because without the gun, without the gun, shot there is no wound, there is no injury, there is no
trip to the hospital, there's nothing to discuss. The second person involved in a fight reportedly was not injured, and authorities believe the suspect fled to a nearby neighborhood. For me, it's less about the specifics of this shooting and more about the bigger picture of society today. I you know, I don't think well, I can't speak for you Twaala. You have the seventeen turning eighteen year old son who has written public transportation in recent days, weeks or
months. I know if I had a son that age, it'd be I would be very uncomfortable. Put it that way. Yeah, putting on my bus absolutely him getting around and knowing that, you know, come this fall, he'll have to catch the bus to school when he starts school at Pierce and it's a short distance away. But between there and the college campus, anything can happen. And to this story, he could be just someone on the bus, just catch some shrapnel, just being in this bystander, and
that petrifies me. Well, first, congratulations for your son graduating and matriculating the college. That's number one years and number two I don't know how you deal with that uncertainty. I don't want to call it a fear, but it's something you still have to think about. Yeah, each and every time that he's not within eyesight of you, and you know that he has to
try public transportation. Oh no, it's like every time, even during his internship while he was in high school, every time he left the campus. It's let us know when you leave the campus, let's know when you get on the bus, let's know when you get to your destination. These are the things that if you want us to trust this process of releasing our tight grip, you know, and letting you become who you want to be and become the man you're gonna be, then yeah, you got to show us
that you've got to be ready. You are not me, you're not your mother. You did not grow up in the streets learning about life. You grew up very sheltered, very protected, and this is a different world. But I don't blame him for not knowing. But he can do everything perfectly. He can. Let you know, Dad, I'm leaving school, Dad, I'm at the bus stop. Dad, I'm getting on the bus. And then some knucklehead having nothing to do with him not even speaking to him.
Not even talking to him has then created a situation in which your son can be victimized. Very true. And this is also why, and this is something you talk about all the time as it relates to martial arts, which is why I got him in martial arts at a very young age. Which is why I kept him in boxing and all types of combat sports, not because I wanted him to fight, because I wanted him to be able to keep his head on the swivel and be aware and be looking out at
all times, be suspicious of everyone around you. Any single person can go just absolutely loony and come after you. You don't know, you cannot crazy doesn't look like anything. Anyone can be quote unquote crazy and lose it. You have to be aware, and even that won't help you if the wrong situation presents itself in front of you, especially if it starts unfolding on a bus. There's only so much look a bus, let's say, during rush hour. I know what that's like because I used to ride a Metro and
part of that was the bus. On occasion, if the trains were down, or someone that unfortunately taking their own life on the track or something. You get on the bus during rush hour, you're standing, there's no way for you to move. There's nothing you can do. I say that to say if someone were to have pulled out a gun in that situation, there's absolutely nothing I can do. If I'm not even in a seat, I may be a person who's standing holding on to a bar. There's not a
room. There's not even enough room for you to duck. That is true. That's the unfortunate reality. And again, if public transportation can't have a modicum of safety, then nobody's safe anywhere. You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. There's this bill, and I would say it's somewhat controversial. It may be well intended, but I don't think it addresses any real issues that need addressing. I'm talking about automatic registration.
This coalition of dozens of organizations which are backing this bill to automatically register people to vote at the DMV. This is not new, but this is an ongoing discussion. Sidney Fang, policy director at the advocacy group of AAPI Dash Force, says, quote, we must ensure that every eligible citizen can exercise our rights to vote with as few barriers as possible. Close quote. I'm real big on voting. If you've ever listened to me, I'm very
big on voting. But let's not be dishonest in the characterization of what's most important and where barriers to voting lie. There are barriers in certain states, certain obstacles are in place to keep people from voting, but that's not the case in California. It's something I follow very very carefully and very closely. The problem we have in California is not voter registration. Have never had a
problem trying to register to vote. The problem we have is apathy, voter indifference, people actually wanting to vote and then exercising their right to vote. How many conversations have we had after I don't know how many elections. About eighteen percent came out for the mayoral race, or only twenty two percent came out for the primaries, and that's twenty two percent of eligible registered voters. It's not a problem of people getting registered. It's just people don't give a
whatever and don't go to the polls. It's two different conversations, two different issues, and we shouldn't conflate the two. And there's this This is part cynicism, but it's also fact. Know that whatever party or I would say representatives of a coalition which is closely aligned to a party, know that when they come out in support or against a measure, nine times out of ten
it's going to benefit a specific party. If you notice that people are trying to back a bill which would limit people having access to water like the was it case in Georgia, or people would have to wait in line for eight hours to limit the access to voting. The only time people do that is because they know that it will favor their preferred side. And we're talking in this respect about supposedly getting more people, a more diverse group of people to
vote, when it has nothing to do with voting. It has to do a voter registration. Well, mo, what's the difference. Ay, here's the key difference. When you sign up at the DMV and you declare a party, you immediately go on the voter rolls and then you will be bombarded by that particular party for donations or whoever's running. You will end up on everybody's list, everybody's list. I am registered as an independent and for some reason. Everybody has my email, everybody has one of my phone numbers,
and I never gave it to anybody. And then I said, aha, aha, when I register to vote, say it with me at the DMV. So I know this intimately and personally, and so it gives politicians the ability to fundraise more thoroughly across certain communities because if you are mandating or making it where anyone who goes to the DMV and gets a new driver license or
updates the registration, then they are registered to vote. Then you're getting all their information and that's used in the voter roles, and that's used for fundraising and all the political things that we really find distasteful. That is the reason that I am not for this. I am all for making sure that people have access to a voteam. But if you're trying to tell me that mandatory automatic voter registration is going to encourage more people to vote, that's simply not
true and the evidence is not there to support that. I'm quite sure, with the exception of a presidential election, which is always high turnout, for the most part, people don't care. People don't care about exercising their vote. Oh they'll vote for president, because that's the one office that everyone knows about and everyone argues on social media. But they're not running out there to vote for comptroller. They're not rushing to vote for assembly person, they're not
trying to vote for state senator. They have no idea who the judges are on the ballot, and I'd be willing to bet they'd leave a lot of those just blank, or or they're just randomly filling in boxes that little circle like they have no idea. People don't care. The issue is not, at least in California, being able to vote, and I should say it's about the desire to vote. That's the issue, not access to voting, not automatic voter registration. It is a solution in search of a problem which
does not exist. It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to talk about cooling centers in the library. When we come back. You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. And we know we've been inundated with a lot of heat. We have a heat wave coming this way all around the country. But in anticipation of that, and also as we go deeper into summer, LA is launching cool eating centers as part of a pilot program
at libraries. And I am a big proponent of the La County Library system. I've told a story before, I'll tell it again very quickly. When I was out of work, I used the LA Library as my office, as a place I could come do some work, send out resumes. There were resources which were available to me, always helpful staff. The LA Public
Libraries very very important. Not only do people like me, but also those in the community didn't have resources available to them to do similar things just like me, looking for a job, place to study, place to hang out and use find books or even DBDs. It's a great resource wherever you are in the county and now LA's launching this cooling center pilot program at libraries.
Locations will be the West Valley Regional Library and Resita Exposition Park, Doctor Mary maclaud Bethune Regional Library, the San Pedro Regional Library, the Pokuoima Branch Library, and Chinatown Branch Library. At why these locations, the city's Climate Emergency Mobilization Office used city and UCLA data to map heat risk in different communities.
The data brings together a variety of risk points including socioeconomic status, pollution burden, access to green space and shade, and numbers of heat related emergency room visits to identify what areas have the most people at risk for heat related illness. I'm all for this, now, I know that there are some out there who would not be for this, and two of those people would be Tucker Carlson and Fabio. You may remember that Fabio is against LA libraries because
allegedly they're having sex in the library. So to give you mark, you don't know this, Okay, let me just reset this. Fabio, who is an expert on everything he reads, He's an expert on everything. Of course, he came on with Tucker Carlson and there's a brain trust for you, and they were breaking down the problems in LA and it also got to the library. So let me just reset this very quickly. The Golden State has lost its glow. Obviously. California now has more poverty than any state.
Homelessness is completely out of control. State officials are still focused on protecting illegal immigrants from deportation rather than any of the problems the state faces, including the flight of its introremental class. It's a sad picture. One man who sees it clearly is who's been there a long time after Model Fabio. He's an immigrant to the state, but not one of those state officials care about Fabio joins us tonight. So Fabia, thanks for coming on. I want
to read. I don't believe there anymore, but I read about California every day. Here are two headlines. Tell me if they sum up what it's like now. This is just from the other day. Orange County homeless camp clear up. Four hundred tons of debris, fourteen thousand needles, five thousand pounds of human waste. Here's a second. California lowers the penalty for knowingly exposing someone to HIV. It sounds chaotic and dirty. Is that your experience?
Yeah, well, let me tell you something right now about California. It look like a wild wild West. And don't look farther than the leaders of California. Jerry Brown, Levy, the mayor of Auckland, you know, Jerry Brown, with proposition forty seven fifty seven Bill one on nine, it to totally the side of the criminals. Is when on a criminal side totly turn his back on a law enforcement And you know the leaders of California
the acting criminals. They acting like criminals. So will you expect the rest of the people are going to do. Then you have the mayor of Auckland will totally tell all the criminal to run away because ice is coming over. So I had to do over nine android the arrest they only arrest about I think one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty people. Then you have you know,
the homeless, the homeless. If you look, if you go downtown Los Angeles, I'm Tallian attacker, it's like it's like I've been around the world. I remember being thirty years ago in Africa. Africa doesn't look like that in a in a in a it's unbelievable. Know either throw walk country thirty years ago ago look like California right now. Like downtown. You know, you go down to the library, it's like southom man Gamara. I mean it's like sex. The library is like Sodom Ngamorra. I gotta go
to the library more often. How far down on your guest list you have to go to decide that Fabio is the expert you want to come is an expert on everything. You know, you go down to the like the library, it's like sodom man Gamora. I mean, it's like sex, sex, rugs and rock and rolls a library, though it's in the library. In the library. Well, I knew the LA library system was good, but I didn't know it was that good. Look, I've been missing out.
So they're going to put cooling centers in a place where it's sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's sodom and Gomorrah and cooling centers where in the library. That's where you can find it. You didn't know they should advertise that. Look, they would get a lot more people of taking out books, checking out books. Oh my patronship of the library would increase at least twofold. So you know, five libraries cooling centers to help people.
And that's if you can get past the homeless and the sex, drugs and rock and roll, and you can only find it where in the library in Los Angeles. The last time I had this discussion, I had people saying, Mo, you don't know what you're talking about. Homeless people are having sex in the library. Well stop them. I don't know what to say honestly, who doesn't. When you're in college, it was always going on in the stacks at the college library. Homeless people are no different than anybody
else. They have needs. Look, I didn't have sex in the library. I had sex in the music room. I see. Well, and people may not know what a music room is. Music room is where they have the instruments and they have like practice rooms. They'll have a piano in there, or you have a space where you can practice your own instrument and there's nothing in there and at night. Never mind, it wasn't It wasn't like the library though. Matt stopped laughing at me. Okay, it was
a different time, well, a different person. You gotta be quiet about it in the library as all. Well, that's why you go to the music room because you have all these other sounds. You just kind of blend in there. When someone's practicing the suzophone, they don't notice it's not quite the same. Is that a trombone in the library. So that's where that comes from. All right, Hopefully it's better now than the homeless are not having as much sex in the library anymore. In the library. What are
they supposed to do outside the library? Of course it's inside the library. In the library, it's free, the door's open. Look, I wanted it, she wanted it. We're consenting adults. Why not? Why not? If no? What? Let me just put it this way. If you had the opportunity to have sex with someone who wanted to have sex with you and nobody stopped you, wouldn't you If a hot librarian comes up to you and says, sir, I believe you have a very thick volume,
what are you gonna do? Also, what the irony of the guy known primarily for being a model for romance book covers. He's against sex people getting it on? What has the world come to? He was the literbo cover boy for sex and and books, well, and butter, don't forget the butter. Well, that's true. And if you want to make a last Tango in Paris joke, that's totally on you. I'm out of it.
Didn't he get hit in the head by like a seagull or something on on a ride or something he did that his nose may have affected, it may have some long term damage. Well I'm not going to say that. You know it was karma, but you know, just leave the homeless people alone
having sex. You don't have to worry about that. It's later with mokel k if I AM SECT forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, Chock Pull Stimulating Chong k s I m k O st HD two Los Angeles, Orange County locks everywhere on the radio app