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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty,
and believe it or not, Ihave some insight as it's how should I
say this? Mark? I thinkyou can agree with this. You and
I both know what it's like tosleep next to Stephen. Yeah. In
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fact, I have something I canplay whenever you're ready. Oh, you'll
know when to do it. Okay, just in case you don't know what
we're talking about. On Friday,the guys after the show went out to
see Furiosa a Mad Max Saga ata local theater. I was against it,
if only because I know that Idon't do well with late night movies,
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especially after getting off work. Andthe movie started an hour and a
half after the show ended, soI knew I was going to be fighting
it, just trying to stay awake. Mark and I we went to I
think it was Buffalo Wild Wings.I think we got a drink in the
meantime. It waited we saw themovie. We'll give you the review in
just a second. Furiosa came inat number one this week. As a
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matter of fact, But during themovie, Mark, what was going on
with Stefan Well I'm gonna play youa little clip here, and if you
can't figure out what's going on,I'll explain it at the end. Now,
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what you heard there was an actionscene, an action scene from Furiosa,
a Mad Max's story. But alsowhat you heard was the sound of
Stefan openly snoring throughout the whole thing. So disrespectful on this part. Now,
I know, I know we're notin a frat house or anything like
that, but I felt this wasnoteworthy because it was loud and it went
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on for a really long time.Well wait, what about when the movie's
over and he jumped and ump popcorneverywhere? He got scared popcorn fluid.
It was. It was a popcornholocaust. It was everywhere. What happened
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that remind one One time I wasseated next to Michael Medved I don't know
if you know who he is.He was based in Seattle and he was
a film critic who also was aconservative radio host. And I was seated
next to him and he had justcompletely fallen into a deep, r e
m sleep during the movie, andwhen something loud happened, he jumped like
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two feet out of his chair,and I think that's about what happened to
food Friday. Step will let yougo first. You want to offer your
movie review for Furiosa a mad Maxsaga. I don't think I have much
to review on, say, Stu, what you saw nothing? No graphics
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are cool? Okay. The moviecost one hundred and sixty eight million dollars
to make. It came in atnumber one, and I'll call it like
a pyrrhic victory. With all themoney that they spent on promotion, in
advertising, marketing, it only broughtin twenty six point three million dollars.
It's not going to make its moneyback at this point. If you couldn't
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do it across a three day weekend, I don't know. Slight correction there,
thirty two million over the four days, oh thirty two? Oh yes,
but that's still under what was projected. Well, it was going to
be like eighty five million across thethree days. But I can say one
personally, I really really liked it. Surprisingly, the star of this film
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is actually not at Anna Joy Taylor. She is actually in the film maybe
like halfway in. It has ayounger version of her throughout, and then
you get her towards the end.The star of this film is Chris Hemsworth.
Chris Hensworth is amazing in this film. I was shocked at how good
he was, really really shocked.I enjoyed it, but I also know,
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and I told Mark this while wewere heading home, why this film
wouldn't work because individuals like my son, he had no inclination even wanting to
see it. This is not afilm that I think anyone under the age,
really, really, really of fiftyis going to enjoy it. I'm
sorry, it's just not that typeof film. I'm a mad Max fan,
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and when I say that, thatmeans I'm a fan of the world
in universe that George Miller has created. This was very much within that universe.
I felt very comfortable being there.My problems with the movie was I
thought it was a little too muchwalking and talking at the end. I
thought it was a little too muchtelling us as opposed to moving the story
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along. I thought that it couldhave cut out maybe twenty minutes of it.
About twenty minutes, and I wassurprised. And this is not really
a spoiler, because George Miller talkedabout it this week publicly. It leads
you right up to Fury Road.I mean literally right up to the events,
and it seemed weird because under JoyTaylor seems a lot younger than Charlie
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Starreon in terms of the characters thatthey were portraying. Of Furiosa, Yeah,
yeah, yeah. And when yousay that it seemed long, I
agreed with you that it did.But at the same time, I was
enjoying everything that I saw. Ithink, I think the movie's got a
lot of flaws, but if youlove movies, you cannot miss this in
a theater. You just can't.Yes, I agreed. I think we're
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gonna be talking about what we likeand don't like about it as we watch
it over and over again over theyears. That's how good I think it
is. I mean, it's it'sthe work of an absolute master. George
Miller is a genius and almost everyshot and Tuola noticed this as well,
is so perfectly composed that it lookslike something you could frame every single shot.
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Yeah, of the absolutely gorgeous,gorgeous film. That's what I'm saying.
If you like Fury Road, youwill really really like this. And
if you're a fan of the MadMax world, you will not be disappointed.
I just understand why individuals were notrushing to theaters to see this.
Even our theater was impact and Iwas surprised because I like, I walked
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out of there like I can't waitto see this again actually in theaters.
It's something that you have to seein theaters for the sound, the visuals,
everything about it. I just canI can understand why this film is
missing the mark with younger audiences whodon't have patience to actually sit and watch
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a movie that There's one kid whowas a run road in front of us.
I swear he had his phone ondark mode the entire time of the
film, and I'm like, whyin the hell are you in here if
you're just on your phone. Iwas trying to decide what to do about
that. It was driving me insane. Moe. You mentioned the plot and
the exposition. I think that theplot ranged from kind of being hard to
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follow for me to being irrelevant tojust string in all the action together,
right right, that's a good wayto care about the plot wasn't really important.
At the same time, You're like, oh, wait, so so
Chris Hemsworth is going to go raidthe bullet farm for what reason? Exactly?
I don't care. Just get tothe action, because that's what most
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of the movie is. One thingI did. It's rare that I sit
in a movie and think, oh, this is an Oscar winner for whatever
category. But this is a movieI knew at least a third of the
way in. For sound design,this has got to get an Oscars.
The sound experience was unbelievable. Well, we were sitting in a theater that
had the extra special rumble your seatsound. What is it, Moby at
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most? Yes, yeah, Sowhat that means is if anybody listening has
never sat through one of these,it means you feel every major sound all
the way up inside your colon.It's true. That's very specific, accurate
but specific. Yeah, if youwant to debate this, maybe you have
a different kind than I do thatI think, Hey, we got to
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go to a break, But let'scarry this over to the next segment because
I want to talk about Garfield andsome of these other movies which came in
the top ten, and also thelarger story. Bill pun intended that it
was the worst box office weekend forthe Memorial Day weekend in almost thirty years.
That's significant, and I think there'ssome things that we can extrapolate from
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it and extract from it because it'sa horrible omen for movie theaters rit large.
We got to get into that nextIt Later with mo Kelly caf I
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and we're going to continue our conversationfrom last segment the box office. It
was the worst box office weekend fora Memorial Day weekend in twenty nine years.
Twenty nine years, and historically theMemorial Day weekend would kick off the
summer movie season. In other words, you have a big title or a
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big franchise take you into summer,and many movies they would try to use
that as a launching point where therewouldn't be as much competition as you would
have in a June or a Julyfourth and July weekend date. It was
wide open for Furiosa or Garfield,however you want to look at it,
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and neither could dominate this lackluster boxoffice. You look at the chart,
overall, Furiosa came into number one. The Garfield movie I have no idea
who was going to see that camein at number two. I love Garfield
growing up, but I didn't likethe movie they did. I think it's
like two thousand and two. Idon't know, mo. This is a
phenomenal movie. Garfield is really good, and that's why as good as it
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did. It is a family film, and it is. It takes its
cues from the Pixar filmmaking, whereit has a lot of heart in it
and a lot of adult humor.So even as a parent me going,
I enjoyed it, and my daughterenjoyed it. You know, she's made
a teen, so I can seewhy it did as well as it did.
It's not the Garfield from back inthe day that you saw. No,
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it's not. It's not. Well, it's good. It did exceptionally
well internationally thirty one million domestic,but it did sixty six million around the
world for a total of ninety sevenmillion, So that that's impressive to me.
But in terms of the domestic boxoffice, with movie theaters in your
neighborhood, mind, they're going tobe struggling, and Garfield doesn't seem like
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it's going to be the antidote forthat. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
Twelve all right, I'm not goingto be saying it, you know.
I mean you don't have all kidsto go take it to go well?
No, I won't go well.No. Coming in number three is
IF with sixteen million in its secondweek. That movie is also underperforming.
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Number four Kingdom of the Planet ofthe Apes is doing decently well with thirteen
point four million in its third week, but it's not enough to lift the
whole industry. The Fall Guy camein at number five at five point nine
million, and still it's only likeseventy two million. It's not going to
make its money back or do whatthe studio hoped it would do. Number
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six. Shout out to Mark RONNERD. The Strangers Chapter one five point five
million. Yeah, it's hanging around. It's hanging around. Twenty one million
total domestic gross. Site came inat number seven. Don't know what that
is. It seems like, Isaid, indie film only in twenty one
hundred theaters two point eight million.Challengers hanging around at number eight one point
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four million. Back to Black camein at number nine with one million,
and Babes came in at ten withone million and all all minor releases.
You know, Furiosa, a MadMax saga was supposed to really kickstart the
summer movie season yea, and itdid not. It did not, regardless
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of how much y'all must have lovedit, but it didn't do what it
needed to do. No, andwe can only hope maybe it'll do a
slow burn. I'm already seeing thatMad Max the Wasteland is somehow in production,
but we don't know who's going tobe in it yet. We don't
know if Tom Hardy's coming back.But I'm excited for more Mad Max.
I want more. Look it shouldbe and it possibly will be Tom Hardy
only because of that got an amazingtease Easter egg from Furiosa, which let
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us know we are going to getanother film. I'm excited about this world.
I think that that this film probablycame out at the wrong time.
I do not know if this filmhad summer blockbuster written on it, even
though it had a summer blockbuster budget. I just think market and they had
an of marketing, a ton ofmarketing. But again it's tough because there
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aren't there isn't a huge, huge, audience out there for Mad Max.
There just there just isn't just that'sthat's about it. I'm sorry. Somebody
else made the point on Twitter,and I wish I could remember the person's
name, but it was a reallyvalid point, which is that the story
of Furiosa really seemed like the storyof some of the lesser Star Wars films,
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which is that it was just fillingin a bunch of stuff we already
knew about. It was just fillingin references that had been made in other
movies. So maybe that's where someof the lack of excitement was, apart
from all the spectacular action and photography. Well, part of part of the
reason why I have a problem withprequels is you kind of know how it
has to turn out, yes,because you know what happens after that.
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I am always into a sequel becauseit can go any number of places.
May not. They may not havebeen able to get Charlie ster On,
maybe she was unavailable or just interested, but I would have liked to have
seen where she went from there.And that probably because you think about the
prequels, it didn't do well forjust about any franchise that we know.
It's always been a step down.No, and this really reminded me vibe
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wise of the Solo film, whichI really really disliked, because what they
did was they took all the referencesthat we've known since nineteen seventy seven and
filled them in with something that wasn'tnearly as good as our imagination could have
come up with. It was justpedestrian stuff like, oh, how'd you
get your name? Well, thatthat kind of sucked. Or oh the
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Kessel run that we've heard about allthese years, well that happened. Okay,
flipping arms off? Yeah yeah,yeah, yeah. So that's a
little bit of my complaint about thestory of Furiosa. But I think overall
the movie was vastly superior to Soloin every other respect. But if this
movie does not do financially what itneeds to do, then yes, since
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we know another movie is in production, they have to bring Max back because
you can't have another movie of aspin off character if it can't sustain the
franchise. Yeah. No, andwell, and there's also a debate among
nerds about whether or not Anya TaylorJoy was as badass as Shirlie's Starn was
in the same role. I don'tthink she was not. She was not.
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She was not, and again shefor the film to be about her
and her character. She played arelatively minor role the bulk of the film.
The most important things in the filmwere some of the runs across the
desert, and again Chris hemsworth portrayalas Dementius was it was absolutely stellar.
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I mean, they should have calledthis film Dementus because it was really and
truly his story. You know,I think I just remembered and it goes
back to Anya Taylor Joy in themovie Surial, So I don't want to
get too many specifics. She's kindof a second chair character. She's along
for the ride and participating, butit's not really leading in the way that
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she was leading in Fury Road.Jos, without a doubt, you're leader.
I agree with you one hundred percenton that, and without any spoilers
at all, what I will sayis there's a character that appears about a
third of the way into the filmwho is so strong that it almost takes
your focus away from Furiosis. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right,
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You're right, But you know,but I don't think that would be the
reason why the movie is not doingas well. If it's not doing well
out the game, that means therewasn't as much excitement or anticipation of it
as I thought there was going tobe. I thought there was going to
be more for it, and theway it's set up now, it's got
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maybe four weeks in theaters at best. At best, you're I think you're
right. But I also think thatmovie lovers have to support movies like this,
flawed or not. It's like,you know, Francis Ford Coppola,
the trailer for his new Megalopolis filmcame out, and whether or not it
turns out to be a pilot,crap or a masterpiece, we must support
these kinds of things from people weknow are great filmmakers. I don't know
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if I agree with that. Butthe next major movie release, major wide
release, big budget, is BadBoys, Ride or Die, and that's
June seventh, if I'm not mistaken. But I don't know if that's to
be enough to carry the box office. It's another R rated movie, so
there are limitations there. Well,you know, I'll be going along with
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Foosh and Runic because you'll be outof town. I might be again,
huh again, I'm coming down withsomething. At least get a midday show
if you're gonna make it. Itis no, no, no. The
other shows that I've gotten are areall like I think Bad Boys is noon
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and it is two o'clock. Okay, all right, I don't know if
I can get up that early Tualahonestly disgusting. You Notice how Stephan has
been real quiet. He's like,I'm not doing that stuff anymore with you
guys, never again, because offush is snoring. Then I say,
okay, I see I can't dolate night movies anymore. All right,
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listensh I know we got to goto a break, but let me just
tell you it's been done before,and the fact that you're a good sport
about it speaks well of you.Once I went to a movie convention,
a Hammer film convention in Baltimore witha friend of mine on the copy desk
at my first paper, and hewouldn't believe that he was keeping me up
snoring at night. So I seta tape recorder next to his bed,
and when we got back to thenewspaper, I played the tape over the
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building's PA system. Well, well, now was a jerk movie. Well,
listen, he brought it on himselfbecause he wouldn't believe that he was
keeping me up at night. Butto watch his face as the realization dawned
on him what the sound was,and then to see him kick a waste
basket all the way across the newsroomas this happened. You didn't do that,
foush, And that's your credit,Mark Marp. But what's worse doing
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it over the PA system or doingit all over southern California? And also
my heart radio app look at Asix forty were live everywhere in the I
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AM six forty. And I didnot know what I'm about to tell you
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is a thing, but it reallyis a thing. I've heard of women
getting like botox injections and fillers fortheir lips and their cheeks. I've heard
all that, and that seems somewhatnormal. It's odd to be, but
it's normal in you know, greatersociety. Women do it all the time.
But I did not know that menwere getting the same substance. I'm
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talking about hyaluronic acid being injected intomen. Well, they getting it injected
as a filler to you know,make you know, the big edition,
make it thicker and larger seeming.And yes, yes, and they get
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multiple injections right up the middle ofthe thing thing, you know, right
in that open door. Yes,multiple needle injections into the the you know,
the thing, the thing thing.They want their oppression to stand out,
that's right. They want their soldierto have a stronger salutation. I
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guess you could be a salute,but it's not. It's not that it's
a different type of salute where itseems like it's a much more forceful salute.
Uh, it's more more impressive.They want their boying to boiling.
Yeah, that's it. Men aregetting injected the same stuff that women are
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putting into their lips. Women doit for powderier lips, for thicker lips.
Men are doing it for thicker Menare paying thousands upon thousands of dollars
for this cosmetic procedure, and theyhave to keep doing it again and again
to maintain the appearance of is girthinessa worthiness? So it's not just one
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and done. You gotta keep doingit, no, I mean, if
you're gonna keep going back and seeingthis young lady who you're doing this for.
You can't show up a slimmer.You have to pay twenty five thousand
dollars for a total of thirty sixinjections into your thing thing. That's a
lot of money for that. Imean, eventually, it's gonna catch up
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with you. Eventually you're gonna slipup, You're gonna miss as. She's
gonna come over and say, hey, why don't we, you know,
have a little late night horizontal dancemaneuvering, and she's going to see that
you're not as girthy. Well,it would never get that far because not
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not even for twenty five thousand Iwouldn't allow you to do it for two
dollars and fifty cents. You couldsay it was free. I would not
do that under any circumstances. You'renot going to put a needle up there
multiple times, some thirty six times. Yes, it's painful because needle soldier,
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trust and believe. I've had acatheter pulled out and it's quite possibly
one of the most excruciating experiences I'veever had to endure in all of my
medical history. So the idea ofsomeone going in the reverse and jabbing me
with the needle to help you know, No, I don't know. Explain
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it to me. Twelve a needleon the going in the inside to help
expand and lengthen and fatten. Whatare you trying to say, I'm trying
to say that. I don't knowif it's worth the necessary attention when say
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I'm coming out of the shower tosay, hey, well, let me
introduce you to Tommy. Tommy isa patient, and Tommy had this to
say quote, It's an immediate confidencebooster, both in the bedroom and outside
the bedroom. Even if I'm justwalking around and it feels nice, it
feels more full. Tommy is alie. Tommy got your shoes. And
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they say it's an improvement on theclunky and dangerous silicone injections of years previous,
and the procedure has become more ithas to become increasingly common in the
past few years. I don't know. I don't know if anyone getting these
things. No, not common tome, not common to people in my
friend group. There's no central databaseon a number of these Johnson filler enhancements,
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but it is picking up in popularityand men are increasingly warming up to
the idea of being all they canbe. I think it's a real sign
the economy has bounced back when guyscan throw some money at that, not
even that they can that they wouldmaybe would have. That is the definition
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of a luxury expenditure, right,twenty five thousand dollars on that on fat
Look, it's either that or andefensive car for those who are not filling
as endowed as they could be.This guy, one of the guys who's
doing it, says he makes twopoint two million dollars a year in providing
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this service. Hmmm, do youhave to have a license because two point
five million? I mean, well, yeah, I would hope. So,
you're it's a medical procedure. Andhe does not only provide these procedures,
but he offers swag their T shirtsthat he sells, which is Z
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hyphen r O C space h AR D. You have to spell it
out yourself. You want to advertisethat, do you that's that you've had
that done? Like who's wearing thisT shirt? That you need to have
that done? You want to advertise? It kind of defeats the purpose,
right right, let everyone know thatit's not natural. I mean we're supposed
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to be like this is me allthe time, not supposed to be like
yeah, went and got it doneat Tommy's, different Tommies. Okay,
nobody's eating here. Never mind,you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand from KFI AM six forty andbefore we get out of Herewala, I
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don't know if you meant to dothis, but you group the stories together,
so I need some clarity from you. Mark, feel free to jump
in. I maybe need someone who'ssomewhat unbiased, or at least a person
who's outside the circle when it comesto this. And I understand why Twalla
put these stories together. Last segmentwe talked about how men were getting fillers
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put in a thing thing right.Yeah, I'm glad we're discussing it like
mature adults. No, we are, we are. We're not trying to
have No, there's nothing funny aboutthis. Oh not the thing thing,
Nope. But to wallet, sometimesyou can't see the rundown if you're listening.
But he'll group stories together similar topicsor what he thinks may be similar
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topics. And he also put itwith this story and it's scientific in nature,
and it has to do with thismolecular biologist who originally made headlines for
his highly controversial artificial womb. Okay, so I'm thinking, all right,
it has something to do with anotherregions. Well, this guy who created
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the controversial artificial womb is now ontohis scientific advancement and he wants to create
the first head transplant. Yes,huh yes, I mean, look,
if we are talking about getting filler, then why not the next evolution,
which would be a total and completehead transplant. I don't think he's talking
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about no, no, no,no no, I think you know.
No no no no no no nono no no. I understand why you
might have thought that. But it'snot talking about a head transplant. It's
talking about a head transplant. Yes, a head transplant. We go from
we go from injections for girthiness tofull on head transplants. No, no,
no, no, this is adifferent part of the body. Hashim
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Al Galili, a Dubai based scientistand filmmaker, now aims to push forward
the idea of transplanting ahead onto adonor body. Yes, for individuals suffering
from cancer or paralysis. Okay,it didn't say impotence, said paralysis.
It wouldn't be for impotence in thefirst place. It would be for extension.
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Huh wait a second, Mark,you would to jump in here.
I'm not sure we're all talking aboutthe same thing, but it sounds horrifying.
I mean, look, horrifying.This is science. This is a
literal scientific procedure that I would thinkthat anyone who's going in for the filler
would then say, let me goon in an opt for the full on
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extension. Okay. The proposed headtransplantation process involves attaching a patient's head,
yes onto onto a brain dead donorbody. Okay. The guy boldly asserts
that the procedure could be available withineight years thanks to the integration of advanced
robotics and artificial intelligence. Why dowe need I don't get this the latest
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in head tech? Yes, whatare you trying to say? Mark?
I don't even sho that this Thisis literally the evolution if if women who
are able to spend millions upon millionsof dollars a year on all types of
cosmetic enhancements, why not guys,But I don't think this is a gender
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specific procedure. You're talking about ahead transplant. Look and I'm talking about
a head transplant. Wow. Yeah, but we're not talking about you're talking
about what? What are you talkingabout? Wait? Before did you talked
about? Because I talked about story. Yes, I'm looking at this story
and and even in the images itshows a guy on the table without his
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head. I mean, I guesshe's gonna get one attached. But I'm
talking about a legitimate head transplant whenyou take one head over here and put
it over there. Yes, huhyes. If we if we are getting
injections for girthiness, why not this. I mean it seems a little farther
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off. If we can get girthinjections now, why would we have to
wait another eight years for a fullon transplant? I don't, I don't.
I'm talking about north, you're talkingabout south. Depending on where you're
laying on the table. I thinkone thing's clear, and that is for
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our next guy movie night, We'reall gonna watch The Brain that Wouldn't Die.
I'm just talking about head transplants,because that's what the story is talking
about. I don't talk about I'mtalking about head transplants as well. And
Stephan is already snoring. I cantell you get a cricket sound. Thank
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you. Stephen said, I wantno part of this conversation whatsoever, whatsoever.
Now it could be because he's alreadystarted his filler routine. Could be
I honestly am legit confused between allof the guys talking about this. I
was gonna jump in and I'm like, wait, okay, it's this way.
Oh no, it's oh no,it's I don't say it's Look,
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there's only one way I think youcan take a story about head transplantation.
You only have one head, right, This is what I hear. Yeah,
I mean you know, yeah,I mean that would be really weird
if you have two. If Iam six forty We're live everywhere to the
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