June 18, 2024 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look ‘Beyond the Box Score’ with regular guest contributor Jackie Rae; Long Beach Post/WNBA Reporter and host of ‘The Jackie Rae Show,’ weighing in on the WNBA kicking off the 2024 season with highest attendance, and most-watched games ever AND the 2024 Olympic trials underway in Paris…PLUS – Thoughts on the California woman that was “harassed,” and ultimately mauled to death by an aggressive black bear she named ‘Big B---ard’ AND a look at this week’s Horoscopes - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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You're listening to Later with Mo Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty KIM
six forty. It's Later with moKelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app. And let's go beyond thebox score with our regular contributor and commentator
Jackie Ray. Jackie Ray, goodevening. How you doing tonight. I'm
doing fantastic. We knew that thismoment was coming. What I mean by
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this moment the moment when the wNBA all of a sudden would become chic,
it would become popular, it wouldbecome the thing. And now viewership
is higher than ever before, Attendanceis higher than ever before. Also,
for example, approximately four hundred thousandfans attended w NBA games since the beginning
of the season through the end ofMay, the most through the first month
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of the season in twenty six years. More than half of all WNBA games
were sellouts, one hundred and fiftysix percent increase from last year. You
can't say that's just Caitlin Clark thatpeople are going to see you absolutely can't.
I think one of the things thatI've noticed covering the sparks for the
last three years is how If yougo to my social media page, you
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can see I often take videos ofthe stands and it's quite empty in there.
We saw obviously they sold out.That was a little easier to do.
In long beat. They sold outboth games a long beat. They
had to move back to Crypto forCaitlin. Then we saw a slight drop
off, but then immediately following thatwe saw this influx of fans. Some
of that is Asiel Wilson. WhenAsia came to town, a lot of
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fans came to see her. Butnow we're seeing this across the league,
and it's not just I think it'sexactly what people thought would happen. A
lot of these fans are just casualfans. They just want to be able
to say, oh, I wentto a Caitlin Clark game. But other
fans are basketball fans who could maybeadmit that they've neglected the WNBA, and
then they go out and they seethese women play and they're like, oh,
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let me go back to this nextone. Oh okay, maybe let
me go to one more, youknow, and they're just growing this fandom
that way. One thing that youand I had talked about long before this
moment was the comparison between Bird andMagic to Angel Rees and Caitlin Clark,
the rivalry nature aspect of it.We saw the game yesterday in which Caitland
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Clark and the Indiana Fever came outon top for the second time against the
Chicago Sky, but everyone was watching, albeit sometimes for the wrong reasons.
But that rivalry aspect is absolutely there, and people know the other players beyond
Angel Race as well. Where doyou see this headed in the next few
months at least? I mean,I think by the and I don't want
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to be a pessimist in this,but I think in a few months,
the Caitlin Clark HYPEI died down,especially if the only time she can get
a win is against a team thathas a young core like the Chicago Sky
or the Mystics. Nobody's gonna reallycare about her not being able to beat
the Juggernauts and like the Connecticut Sun, the New York Liberty or the Las
Vegas Aces. So I think thehype around her will die down a bit
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because I don't think that team rightnow is anywhere close to being a team
that we're going to talk about.We're talking about the Indiana Fever because we
have to, because that's where thefans are at. So that's where we
have. But in the grand schemeof things, none of us will be
talking about the Indiana Fever. Wehaven't talked about the Indiana Fever in years
past. They haven't become the teamthat we would talk about now. So
I think eventually that hype die downunless they start winning. But nonetheless,
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even when that hype dies down,by then, I think fans will have
really seen the amazing play from throughoutthe league and we can retain at least
a good portion of that fan base. And we talk about people watching the
games, there are more available tosee. They're on Ion TV, they're
on NBA TV, you're seeing iton ESPN. For example, Ion in
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its second year airing w NBA gamessaw the most viewed w NBA game ever
when the Fever and the Sparks averageseven hundred and twenty four thousand viewers back
on May twenty fourth, NBA TVthe Sparks versus Fever on May twenty eight
average three hundred and fifty six thousandviewers. It's what you have been saying,
Jackie Ray, you gotta be ableto find WNBA basketball for it,
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when they get that major TV deal. These are just individual games that they're
televising. But when they get thatmajor deal and that's added to the collectively
bargained agreement, then we'll see themoney trickle down to the players. If
I have that right correct, Yes, it should. I mean I know
they'll have to renegotiate that collective bargainingagreement, but yes, once these viewership
goes up because that's where the moneyis, that's where the money maker is.
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And so I'm really happy to see. In years past, when you
would go to when you would buythe WNBA League Pass would be so frustrating
because you would click on it andthere are this message would come up that
would say this is not televised becauseit's airing in your area. And then
you'd be like, well, whereis it though? But now it's like
it's airing on ESPN, it's airingon Ion. It's very specific. So
now you're more inclined because me,I'm not inclined to go on no TV
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man, I'm not gonna do it. And so when you tell me,
oh, you can find it here, now I'm like, okay, well
that's just one more click for me, I'm not going to go google stuff
and try to figure out how tof in this game. I'm just not.
Let's give some other praise to theleague merchandise. Since the start of
the season, wnbastore dot com hasalready set the record for the most single
season sales in store history, asoverall transactions are up seven hundred and fifty
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six percent since last year. WNBALeague Pass set it all time high for
League Pass subscription. This is anotherthing which is very important. A three
hundred and thirty five percent increase versuslast season. I would guess that the
majority of that might be attributable toCaitlin Clark. But again, it's not
all of it, no, becauseyou can also cancel your subscription. Like,
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let's not forget that, Like it'sit's not that hard to cancel your
subscription. I don't know how itis on ion, but I know on
the WNBA, I think you canpay either month to month or you can
pay it for the entire season.So if you're in month to month,
you can just cancel that right now, I do. The merchandise is a
big thing, because that was oneof the things that I talked about a
lot. My first year of coveringthe WNBA is when you would go into
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the merchandise room at I think waswhen I started at Staples, it would
be very difficult to find. Youwould find Neca's jersey, Liz Cambage's jersey,
and that's it. Like you couldn'tfind anybody else's jersey. And that
is difficult because fans, they dolike other people outside of the two big
stars, they want to be ableto get that merchandise. So the WNBA
has to do a better job ofproviding merchandise across the league. And I
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think now that there's this demand,they have no choice but to do that.
So this is a win for fans. Some of it is that there
is some downside because there's a lotof negativity, a lot of people who
don't know anything about basketball at all, and it's so frustrating. But we
have to take the good with thebad, and this is a good thing
that it's this much attention. Ibelieve we know that the All Star voting
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has begun. I don't see ascenario in which Caitlin Clark does not end
up on the All Star team,and I don't think it's a merit based
selection, not even for the men. It's just it's a popularity contest.
But isn't that also a wonderful thingwhere people actually caring about the game.
Don't all these things work together?Ultimately? They do, And I'm trying
to remind myself of that, becausethere's not. With all due respect,
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I love her play. I likeCaitlyn Clark as a player, but she's
not there yet. Most of therookies are not there yet. Most of
the rookies have a long way togo. You do see Groke Spurts happening
a little faster with different rookies,but she's not there yet. And so
do I think she's even where aLeah Boston was at her rookie season.
I don't. I think that Caitlyncan shoot threes, but she really has
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to develop a lot of the restof her game. So it's gonna be
one of those things where those ofus who have been invested in the WNBA
since day one are just gonna haveto take that on the chin because she
is gonna win because of a popularitycontest, but not because she necessarily deserves
And I'm not gonna if you wantto say it like that yes, she
deserves it because she brought the fandomin, but her level of play to
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me yet does not warrant an AllStar appearance. Well, personally, let
the record reflect she leads the leaguein turnovers by a line. You can't
leave the league in turnovers and beamongst the best players in the league.
Because All Star Game ostensibly is forthe best in the league. I think
a reasonable person can agree and admitthat she's not among the let's say,
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the top fifteen in the league atthis point, not yet, not yet
correct. When we come back,let's talk about the Olympic trials, which
are now underway. Because people arestarting very slowly to turn their attention to
the Olympics. But what might theseOlympics mean for us in a sports sense
and a society sense more broadly,It's Later with mo Kelly. Can if
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I AM six forty live everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app you're listening to Later with
mo Kelly on demand from KFI AMsix forty KFI AM six forty. It's
Later with mo Kelly. I'm stilljoined by Jackie Ray as we are continuing
to go beyond the box score.Now, if you've been paying attention,
you should have noticed that the Olympictrials, depending on the sport, are
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slowly getting underway. Some of itis being televised, some of that you
won't see, but all together,we're slowly turning our attention to the Summer
Games in Paris, which are comingup in just a few weeks. Jackuary,
this is an opened ended question.Now that we're starting to focus on
the Olympics, what do you thinkwe should be taking notice of or what
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has jumped out at you so far. I'm excited to see a couple of
things just on a sporting level.Obviously, the WNBA, the team that's
going to the Olympics, want tofollow them because the Aces have i think
four players. Yeah, so I'mexcited about that. I'm also excited to
see what happens with Simone Biles andhow she transitioned. She says she's just
gotten to the point where she cantrust herself and her body. Want to
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see what that looks like. ButI'm also very interested to see and I've
said this before and I'm going tosay it again, if you really believe
in a cause or a purpose,there's no better place to voice your cause
or your purpose or even protests thenat on the Olympic stage. So I'm
curious to see if there's going tobe any protests about anything going in our
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wa world, but specifically the warin Gaza. I'm curious to see if
people take center stage in that regard. I think it's a foregone conclusion.
It has to if you think aboutthe history of protests young people, If
you think of the history of protestsand the Olympics, Mexico City, what
have you, It is inevitable.Now it's not just Gaza and Israel.
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I think about Ukraine and Russia aswell, and how that will play out
on the international stage or or theright. We don't necessarily know from what
place it may originate. Will itbe an athlete, will it be a
coach, Will it be a numberof teams showing solidarity. We've seen that
in an Olympics past. But alsoif and when that does happen, what
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do you hope the international response wouldbe, Because oftentimes during the time of
the protests, we go back andlook at Mexico City with the Black Power
salute, and we look at theother protests over different years. They want
well received in the moment, buthistory looking back on them has been kind
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well I and I've always said that, you know, do you know war
is won without bloodshed, even ifyou're on the bright side of that war.
So a lot of you know,careers were lost because of this protest,
even if you think locally like Macmoodrove. He ended up getting kicked out
of the NBA because of his protest, so and Colin Kaepernick. You know,
that's just kind of how things go. But at the end of the
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day, I when you're talking aboutpeople who are standing up for humanity,
it's always been fascinating to me.It's one of the reasons why I thought
I was gonna end up being ahistory teacher because it's always been fascinating to
me how people standing up for whatis clearly right agitates the majority, and
then you have to wonder what isthe majority benefiting from this loss of human
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life or disparaging an entire group ofpeople. So it's gonna be interesting to
see, and I'm gonna applaud becausepeople have to know this history is always
repeats itself. So if you dotake this stand, might be losing endorsements,
You might be you know, atthe center of losing your career.
What does that mean for you andyour family? But at the end of
the day, is it better tobe right or is it better to get
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paid? I always say there's adifference between right and being righteous. So
we'll see how that plays out.But let me leave you with this name.
We remember back in twenty twenty,how she carried Richardson didn't make the
team. This, I guess,is either a revenge or redemption story.
How would you characterize it? Thisis a phoenix story to me because I
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feel like she was always had thetalent and people always forget. People grieve
differently, you know, when shefound her biological mother lost their mother,
and then she had all these tragediessurrounding her and she spiraled. And grief
presents itself different ways in different people. But she has been on this trajectory
right now that is insane. Withthese endorsement deals. She looks authentically happy
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and at peace. She's doing fabulous. She's putting in the work that's to
before when she was going through this, she was doing her due diligence,
but she wasn't as focused on thework. She was talking a lot of
trash now she's just saying, youknow, I'm not back on better,
which I think is the exact rightnarrative for her. And she is doing
the thing, and I think sheis going to get on this world stage
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and she is going to shine sobright. So I'm calling her a phoenix
right now, Jackie Ray, whatare you talking about this week on the
Jackie Ray Show. So this weekI have made a bunch of appearances.
I was on La Sparks Weekly talkingabout the Sparks. But this week on
the Jackie Ray Show, I'm havinga guest on the show who's here in
Long Beach where I live, andhe is doing this charitable work that I
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never would have thought of. Andhe's just making sure that people who don't
have a lot of money have cleanclothes. So he's installing washer and dryers
in elementary schools. He's doing freelaundry dates for you know, young people,
especially young people that are living intheir cars trying to go to work.
I never even thought of that,but you know, if you look
good, you feel good, SoI understand wanting that clean clothes. Very
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excited to talk to him. Sojoin me on the Jacki Ray Show.
As we talked to Marcus Hobbs.It's Later with Mo Kelly, JACKI Ray.
Is always good to talk to you, is always good to see you.
I won't see you next week.I'll be out of the country on
vacation. So let me just say, you know, bye for now,
and I'll see you in a fewweeks. See in a few weeks,
you'd be safe out there. You'relistening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand
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from KFI AM six forty Animals theworld over. I have had enough of
humans. Hornets are attacking in China, Sharks are swallowing up surfers in Florida.
Lions and tigers are eating in turns. Oh my, and bears are
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pouncing on women in the Pacific Northwest. Unless we put our stop to the
mistreatment of animals, they can theywill they shine attack me? Can't I
A six forty years Later with MoroKelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
You remember the story of Pactist Millerseventy one years old. She died and
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they weren't sure whether she died ofnatural causes or whether she died due to
a mauling. A fatal mauling ofa black bear in her own home in
the Sierra to that area. Well, it's now been determined that Miller had
was stalked for a number of monthsby this bear. She even gave it
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a name, Big Bastard, andinstalled steeled bars across her windows to keep
this bear out. And now lawenforcement says that the bear broke down her
door, attacked and killed her.In fact, it's the first documented fatal
black bear attack on a human innCalifornia history, the first one. Now,
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this is something I do not understand. If you dig deeper into the
story, it says about forty percentof California's estimated sixty five thousand black bears,
so I don't know about maybe seventeenthousand of them or so live in
the Sierra Nevadas where this woman's townis located. Thousands of them. Yep,
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all right, yep. But alsoaccording to the story, it says
that the bear guilty of the mauling. They didn't have a trial, just
I guess it's just guilty. Theyjust determined that bear was the one.
They found it walking along, saidget that bear. They trapped the bear,
and then they euthanized the bear.Twill I'm not an expert on these
things. But did they use DNA? I mean, what is it that
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they did to figure out which bearit was? They probably were looking at
the fact that some gloves were leftbehind the probably checking the gloves for DNA
on this bear, and there wasthere was definitely a shoe print. They
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were probably checking the loafer because tosee if the bear but the bear literally,
if they would have been able toquestion that, they would have found
out the bear could not fit intothose loafers, nor get his paw into
that glove. I don't understand though, how they rushed to this judgment.
I know someone had to take thefall for killing this unfortunate woman. It's
a sad story. But you're tellingme that you got the right bear out
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of the thousands in that general area, like there was a lineup or something
they did they give out. Youknow, we were on the search for
a black bear five ten to fivefive bald well, you know they all
look alike. Yes, I'm youknow these African American bears. But I
mean, look, I don't knowhow they picked this bear out all the
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bears. Was like I set upjust found one probably, I don't know.
Walking to the store trying to getsome skittles and some iced tea,
and yeah, fuck them. Onecount of being a bear and one count
of being an accesserate at being abear. That's probably how it happened.
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That is exactly how it happened me. And I'm not going to blame the
victim. I'm just going to askthem rhetorical questions of the victim. If,
according to the late Baptist Miller,if this bear was actually harassing her,
taunting her, following her, actingin an aggressive manner towards her,
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it's at that point you probably needto leave, you know, if you
have to put up the bars,and you know that that's not going to
be enough to keep the bear out, you know, I mean, you've
gotten comfortable enough with this bear toname it a big bastard. I mean,
what do we do? I don'tknow. It sounds like they have
a somewhat friendly relationships. I don'tknow if it was a relationship gone bad.
It started off very friendly. Maybeone person had wanted more out of
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the relationship and the other person didnot, And you know, these things
happened. These things happened. Maybeit was a crime of bear passion.
I think you want to know whatshe was wearing, don't you. Well,
no, I don't know that.I don't want to blame the victim.
I'm just I'm just asking questions.We don't know what happened before all
this. Okay, we're only gettingone side of the story, you know,
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and the bear has been euthanized beforewe could even get the bear side
of the story. They grabbed abear, didn't any bear? I said
that one right there, probably hadthem without an attorney too. Okay,
oh, now you found it.Now, now you found it. Well,
we don't even know if he gothis Miranda rights. We don't know
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that first. In fact, wedidn't get to see the execution. There's
there's no record of it. Wejust were just told that they found them,
they chapped them, and we don'tknow what beings they used, and
then they euthanized them. If anything, this bear's family needs to go before
the governor because the death penalty isoutlawed in California. Oh that is that's
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a very good point. I'm tryingto figure this out. What is happening
now? There is no justice forAfrican American bears. Well, we don't
know if they even notified next toKen. Get ready for this, Robin.
I think somebody made a boo boooh, come on boo oh,
nice Robin. We're gonna take youand uproot you from that chair. No,
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no, I can see her learningcurve. It's good, good.
All I'm saying is how is itthey went from? And this is in
the story. How's they went from? They thought that she may have died
of natural causes, because they hadalready found her body at that point.
They went from natural causes to thebear mauled her to death. And that's
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the bear dragger from her bedroom tothe kitchen. How does that seem like
natural causes at any point? Well, a bear's part of nature. From
both of you at once in stereo, I like that. I mean,
look, dragged her from the kitchento or from the bedroom, bedroom to
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the kitchen. Sounds like it soundslike a domestic to speak, it sounds
like the Diddy of bears. Comeway too damn, way too damp.
We have a diddy story tonight,Mark like lose a rim shot? Can
you have one protracted comedy? Goldyou guys, just my sternum vibrate with
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your dual growls and you're gonna jumpon that. No, no, it's
way too soon, way too soon. Not look at the time, you
look at the shame to yourself makingfun of this, making light of it.
I wouldn't frame of it. No, I was one hundred percent serious.
You're the one with the tone problem. Here it's Later with mo Kelly,
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your horoscope when we come back.You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
on demand from KFI AM six fortysix forty. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Here is your weekly horoscope, andwe're alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
The start with aries right now.Trust is everything. You'll find it
harder than ever to work alongside oreven have fun with people you don't feel
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you can count on, but itworks in reverse. Others need to be
able to count on you. It'llbecome a parent where trust has frayed,
where it's eroded completely, where itwas never there to begin with. Sometimes
the damage is too great to fix, and you're allowed to be honest about
that. In some cases, repairis possible. It takes time and effort,
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but it's worth doing, and thisweek is a perfect time to start.
Taurus You're not often wrong about people, at least not when it comes
to the things that really matter.Your instincts tend to be spot on,
and when you second guess them,you usually end up regretting it. This
week, though, your first impressionswill be undeservedly harsh, maybe because you've
been hurt recently and don't want itto happen again, maybe because you're simply
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having a bad day. If yougive people the opportunity to prove you wrong
and stay open to changing your mind, you might find comfort, friendship,
even love where you didn't expect itJemini, Mark, that's all you have
it. Lots of people strike youas rigid. Once they make up their
mind about someone, they can't beswayed. When they come to a decision,
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they don't waver, even if theyprobably benefit from reassessing. You prefer
to keep your mind and options open, not because you're capricious or disloyal,
but because the world is constantly changingand you want to be able to change
with it. Sometimes, though,staying on the move becomes more stressful and
tiring than it's worth. This week, Mark, see what it feels like
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to stay in one place at leasttemporarily find somewhere soft where you can rest,
like bowl of milk, like oneof those inflatable round pillows for your
bottom. What are you talking about? It sounds like this thing says that
I believe in the scientific method,and we're just gonna leave it at that.
Yes, I think that's fair.Thank you. Cancer make mistakes isn't
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something to be ashamed of. Everybodydoes it. It's a part of being
human. The more you fixate onall that you got wrong in the past,
the harder it will become to trustyourself in the present. Self reflection
is important, of course, butonly to a certain point. It's time
to stop analyzing every Tiindy decision.If your confidence has been taking a beating
lately, this week is the timeto rebuild it. You have good judgment
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and you're wiser than you give yourselfcredit for. Don't be so scared of
living your life, Leo. Asmuch as you know that change is inevitable,
there's a part of you that wouldstill prefer to avoid it at all
costs. Staying still is easy inthe day to day, even if if
it is unrewarding in the long term. Growth. On the other hand is
painful. It demands so much ofyou. This week you'll see glimmers of
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how wonderful it can be. Toobeautiful. Things are waiting for you up
ahead, but you have to makeit through the weird, long days,
the uncomfortable conversations, and the difficultchoices first. You'll get there soon enough,
as long as you don't stop trying. Don't give up, Virgo.
If there's one thing you can't stand, Virgo, it's when people blame others
for their own mistakes. You're muchmore likely to blame yourself for everyone else's
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actions for issues that aren't your faultat all. There's satisfaction in taking responsibility.
I get it. If you havethe power to cause a problem,
then you also have the power tofix it. But this week you'll burn
out quickly if you take the weightof the world on your shoulders alone.
Act like you're part of a communitywhen there's work to be done, share
it evenly, and then you canshare the joy too. Libra. As
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much as you Libra like to benoticed and appreciated, attracted too much attention
can be stressful. You'd rather playyour own role in the group than stand
alone. Would rather feel at homein the crowd than at odds with it.
But sometimes staying true to yourself,your desires, and your ideals means
you have to go against the grain. Don't be scared to stake out an
unpopular position or to do things differentlythan everybody else. This week, be
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willing to stand out. Your friendsand community will be more supportive than you
think. Okay, are you readyto weal? Yep, Scorpio. Lately
you've been tired of your life,your personality, yourself, your usual emotional
patterns and relationship dynamics aren't working.Huh, and you're ready for something fresh
or someone fresh. It's possible toget what you want, but in order
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to feel differently, you have toact differently. The universe probably won't swoop
in and change your life for you. You can do the work yourself.
Give yourself a change of scenery,or make a point of spending time with
new people. The more you canshake up the environment, the more you'll
illuminate beautiful new size of yourself.What the hell's there? I guess it
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means show a little more ass.I don't know. It's this new side
so you know? Yikes? Well, maybe they didn't mean it literally,
but okay, here's Sagittarius. Sagittarismode. You're generous by nature with others
as well as yourself, but latelyyou've become your own harshest critic. Nothing
you do seems good enough, andyou believe that you only have yourself to
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blame. Unvarnished honesty can be usefulif you shake you out of complacency or
and spur you to do the hardwork life sometimes demands, but a certain
point you're only being cruel. Balanceis key. Don't avoid facing your difficult
traits, but don't make them outto be worse than they really are.
The goal is to live courageously andwith integrity, to keep growing, not
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to arrive at a state of perfection. Well damn it, I'm perfect already,
so you know I can't be correct. M It's well intentioned, but
it's it. Missus demark Capricorn.If you could have it your way,
you do it. You do allyour inner work and healing in total secrecy,
never letting anyone else see the messyprocess. You'd figure out your emotions
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before talking about them with anybody else. You'd fix your flaws without any help
or support. Unfortunately, it justdoesn't work that way. Sure, some
of the work is solitary, butsome of it can only be done alongside
others. Don't be scared to letpeople in. Vulnerability is scary, but
it'll be good for you in theend, Aquarius. When you're dissatisfied Aquarius
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with your life, you have atendency to want to throw it all out
and start from scratch, to quityour job and relationships, leave your city,
and begin again with a clean slate. Sometimes drastic action is necessary,
but if you try that this week, you only make things harder than they
need to be. Lean on whatis working instead of fixating on what's not.
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There's comfort and stability to be foundin the familiar. Once you're ready,
once you're more steady on your feet, you can make wild decisions again.
For now, try to appreciate calmwhere you can find it, Pisces,
we get it. It could bea struggle to make your voice heard,
Pisces. Other people seem so muchlouder, so much more insistent,
so good at getting what they want. While your words carry more weight than
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you realize. You still feel youneed to fight being talked over and disregarded.
But the noise around you subsides abit this week, and you'll find
that it's easier to get the careand attention you need. You won't have
to shout and raise a fuss tobe heard. Your energy is magnetic this
week, so make the most ofit. And there's your weekly horoscope.
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And mine was really wrong. Ican't speak for Mark. I can't speak
for Tuala. Robin doesn't speak atall, you know, she just passes
out rimshots which are undeserved to Mark. Are you saying that yours didn't adequately
recognize your perfection? Yeah? Ithink that's part of it, and I'm
usually very misunderstood. Would be frustrating. It is. It is a in
a you know, semidity sort ofway, kind of a demo. I
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wouldn't tolerate that if I were youhonest, I don't tolerate it. That's
why, you know I cut people'sheads off. I just don't get this,
me being tired of myself, bidlike, what's happening? I love
me. It's almost like this israndom and it has absolutely no bearing on
anything. What I mean. Idon't know if it's random, but I
just think, like you know,like the person, this seems like a
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personal attack. Well, it's nota fortune cookie. It's not supposed to
be eminently positive all the damn time. I mean, I guess, but
you know I thought I was goingto look forward to something this week,
not just like a shame. No, no, no, see see that's
where you get it wrong. It'snot look forward to anything. They're just
telling you how it is, whatto expect, what to do, what
not to do. Doesn't mean thateverything's going to come up roses. Nobody
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ever promised you a rose garden?Did yours say be exceptionally harsh? I
never read yours. You're generous bynature with others as well as yourself,
But lately you become your own harshestcritic. No, I'm not my own
harshest critic. I love myself.You just pass your just out there everyone
else. No, you're never yourown critic in any way? Whatsoever?
What are they talking about? MayAmo mood show, may Amo mood show.
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I love myself a lot. Tomake sure you do it when you're
not on camera with me, andI don't have to see it. Look,
look I just turned the camera around. It's later with Mo Kelly if
I am six forty. We're liveeverywhere in the iHeartRadio app. More importing.
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You're listening to Later with Mo Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty KIM
six forty. It's Later with moKelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app. And let's go beyond thebox score with our regular contributor and commentator
Jackie Ray. Jackie Ray, goodevening. How you doing tonight. I'm
doing fantastic. We knew that thismoment was coming. What I mean by
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this moment the moment when the wNBA all of a sudden would become chic,
it would become popular, it wouldbecome the thing. And now viewership
is higher than ever before, Attendanceis higher than ever before. Also,
for example, approximately four hundred thousandfans attended w NBA games since the beginning
of the season through the end ofMay, the most through the first month
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of the season in twenty six years. More than half of all WNBA games
were sellouts, one hundred and fiftysix percent increase from last year. You
can't say that's just Caitlin Clark thatpeople are going to see you absolutely can't.
I think one of the things thatI've noticed covering the sparks for the
last three years is how If yougo to my social media page, you
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can see I often take videos ofthe stands and it's quite empty in there.
We saw obviously they sold out.That was a little easier to do.
In long beat. They sold outboth games a long beat. They
had to move back to Crypto forCaitlin. Then we saw a slight drop
off, but then immediately following thatwe saw this influx of fans. Some
of that is Asiel Wilson. WhenAsia came to town, a lot of
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fans came to see her. Butnow we're seeing this across the league,
and it's not just I think it'sexactly what people thought would happen. A
lot of these fans are just casualfans. They just want to be able
to say, oh, I wentto a Caitlin Clark game. But other
fans are basketball fans who could maybeadmit that they've neglected the WNBA, and
then they go out and they seethese women play and they're like, oh,
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let me go back to this nextone. Oh okay, maybe let
me go to one more, youknow, and they're just growing this fandom
that way. One thing that youand I had talked about long before this
moment was the comparison between Bird andMagic to Angel Rees and Caitlin Clark,
the rivalry nature aspect of it.We saw the game yesterday in which Caitland
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Clark and the Indiana Fever came outon top for the second time against the
Chicago Sky, but everyone was watching, albeit sometimes for the wrong reasons.
But that rivalry aspect is absolutely there, and people know the other players beyond
Angel Race as well. Where doyou see this headed in the next few
months at least? I mean,I think by the and I don't want
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to be a pessimist in this,but I think in a few months,
the Caitlin Clark HYPEI died down,especially if the only time she can get
a win is against a team thathas a young core like the Chicago Sky
or the Mystics. Nobody's gonna reallycare about her not being able to beat
the Juggernauts and like the Connecticut Sun, the New York Liberty or the Las
Vegas Aces. So I think thehype around her will die down a bit
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because I don't think that team rightnow is anywhere close to being a team
that we're going to talk about.We're talking about the Indiana Fever because we
have to, because that's where thefans are at. So that's where we
have. But in the grand schemeof things, none of us will be
talking about the Indiana Fever. Wehaven't talked about the Indiana Fever in years
past. They haven't become the teamthat we would talk about now. So
I think eventually that hype die downunless they start winning. But nonetheless,
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even when that hype dies down,by then, I think fans will have
really seen the amazing play from throughoutthe league and we can retain at least
a good portion of that fan base. And we talk about people watching the
games, there are more available tosee. They're on Ion TV, they're
on NBA TV, you're seeing iton ESPN. For example, Ion in
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its second year airing w NBA gamessaw the most viewed w NBA game ever
when the Fever and the Sparks averageseven hundred and twenty four thousand viewers back
on May twenty fourth, NBA TVthe Sparks versus Fever on May twenty eight
average three hundred and fifty six thousandviewers. It's what you have been saying,
Jackie Ray, you gotta be ableto find WNBA basketball for it,
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when they get that major TV deal. These are just individual games that they're
televising. But when they get thatmajor deal and that's added to the collectively
bargained agreement, then we'll see themoney trickle down to the players. If
I have that right correct, Yes, it should. I mean I know
they'll have to renegotiate that collective bargainingagreement, but yes, once these viewership
goes up because that's where the moneyis, that's where the money maker is.
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And so I'm really happy to see. In years past, when you
would go to when you would buythe WNBA League Pass would be so frustrating
because you would click on it andthere are this message would come up that
would say this is not televised becauseit's airing in your area. And then
you'd be like, well, whereis it though? But now it's like
it's airing on ESPN, it's airingon Ion. It's very specific. So
now you're more inclined because me,I'm not inclined to go on no TV
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man, I'm not gonna do it. And so when you tell me,
oh, you can find it here, now I'm like, okay, well
that's just one more click for me, I'm not going to go google stuff
and try to figure out how tof in this game. I'm just not.
Let's give some other praise to theleague merchandise. Since the start of
the season, wnbastore dot com hasalready set the record for the most single
season sales in store history, asoverall transactions are up seven hundred and fifty
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six percent since last year. WNBALeague Pass set it all time high for
League Pass subscription. This is anotherthing which is very important. A three
hundred and thirty five percent increase versuslast season. I would guess that the
majority of that might be attributable toCaitlin Clark. But again, it's not
all of it, no, becauseyou can also cancel your subscription. Like,
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let's not forget that, Like it'sit's not that hard to cancel your
subscription. I don't know how itis on ion, but I know on
the WNBA, I think you canpay either month to month or you can
pay it for the entire season.So if you're in month to month,
you can just cancel that right now, I do. The merchandise is a
big thing, because that was oneof the things that I talked about a
lot. My first year of coveringthe WNBA is when you would go into
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the merchandise room at I think waswhen I started at Staples, it would
be very difficult to find. Youwould find Neca's jersey, Liz Cambage's jersey,
and that's it. Like you couldn'tfind anybody else's jersey. And that
is difficult because fans, they dolike other people outside of the two big
stars, they want to be ableto get that merchandise. So the WNBA
has to do a better job ofproviding merchandise across the league. And I
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think now that there's this demand,they have no choice but to do that.
So this is a win for fans. Some of it is that there
is some downside because there's a lotof negativity, a lot of people who
don't know anything about basketball at all, and it's so frustrating. But we
have to take the good with thebad, and this is a good thing
that it's this much attention. Ibelieve we know that the All Star voting
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has begun. I don't see ascenario in which Caitlin Clark does not end
up on the All Star team,and I don't think it's a merit based
selection, not even for the men. It's just it's a popularity contest.
But isn't that also a wonderful thingwhere people actually caring about the game.
Don't all these things work together?Ultimately? They do, And I'm trying
to remind myself of that, becausethere's not. With all due respect,
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I love her play. I likeCaitlyn Clark as a player, but she's
not there yet. Most of therookies are not there yet. Most of
the rookies have a long way togo. You do see Groke Spurts happening
a little faster with different rookies,but she's not there yet. And so
do I think she's even where aLeah Boston was at her rookie season.
I don't. I think that Caitlyncan shoot threes, but she really has
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to develop a lot of the restof her game. So it's gonna be
one of those things where those ofus who have been invested in the WNBA
since day one are just gonna haveto take that on the chin because she
is gonna win because of a popularitycontest, but not because she necessarily deserves
And I'm not gonna if you wantto say it like that yes, she
deserves it because she brought the fandomin, but her level of play to
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me yet does not warrant an AllStar appearance. Well, personally, let
the record reflect she leads the leaguein turnovers by a line. You can't
leave the league in turnovers and beamongst the best players in the league.
Because All Star Game ostensibly is forthe best in the league. I think
a reasonable person can agree and admitthat she's not among the let's say,
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the top fifteen in the league atthis point, not yet, not yet
correct. When we come back,let's talk about the Olympic trials, which
are now underway. Because people arestarting very slowly to turn their attention to
the Olympics. But what might theseOlympics mean for us in a sports sense
and a society sense more broadly,It's Later with mo Kelly. Can if
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I AM six forty live everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app you're listening to Later with
mo Kelly on demand from KFI AMsix forty KFI AM six forty. It's
Later with mo Kelly. I'm stilljoined by Jackie Ray as we are continuing
to go beyond the box score.Now, if you've been paying attention,
you should have noticed that the Olympictrials, depending on the sport, are
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slowly getting underway. Some of itis being televised, some of that you
won't see, but all together,we're slowly turning our attention to the Summer
Games in Paris, which are comingup in just a few weeks. Jackuary,
this is an opened ended question.Now that we're starting to focus on
the Olympics, what do you thinkwe should be taking notice of or what
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has jumped out at you so far. I'm excited to see a couple of
things just on a sporting level.Obviously, the WNBA, the team that's
going to the Olympics, want tofollow them because the Aces have i think
four players. Yeah, so I'mexcited about that. I'm also excited to
see what happens with Simone Biles andhow she transitioned. She says she's just
gotten to the point where she cantrust herself and her body. Want to
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see what that looks like. ButI'm also very interested to see and I've
said this before and I'm going tosay it again, if you really believe
in a cause or a purpose,there's no better place to voice your cause
or your purpose or even protests thenat on the Olympic stage. So I'm
curious to see if there's going tobe any protests about anything going in our
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wa world, but specifically the warin Gaza. I'm curious to see if
people take center stage in that regard. I think it's a foregone conclusion.
It has to if you think aboutthe history of protests young people, If
you think of the history of protestsand the Olympics, Mexico City, what
have you, It is inevitable.Now it's not just Gaza and Israel.
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I think about Ukraine and Russia aswell, and how that will play out
on the international stage or or theright. We don't necessarily know from what
place it may originate. Will itbe an athlete, will it be a
coach, Will it be a numberof teams showing solidarity. We've seen that
in an Olympics past. But alsoif and when that does happen, what
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do you hope the international response wouldbe, Because oftentimes during the time of
the protests, we go back andlook at Mexico City with the Black Power
salute, and we look at theother protests over different years. They want
well received in the moment, buthistory looking back on them has been kind
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well I and I've always said that, you know, do you know war
is won without bloodshed, even ifyou're on the bright side of that war.
So a lot of you know,careers were lost because of this protest,
even if you think locally like Macmoodrove. He ended up getting kicked out
of the NBA because of his protest, so and Colin Kaepernick. You know,
that's just kind of how things go. But at the end of the
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day, I when you're talking aboutpeople who are standing up for humanity,
it's always been fascinating to me.It's one of the reasons why I thought
I was gonna end up being ahistory teacher because it's always been fascinating to
me how people standing up for whatis clearly right agitates the majority, and
then you have to wonder what isthe majority benefiting from this loss of human
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life or disparaging an entire group ofpeople. So it's gonna be interesting to
see, and I'm gonna applaud becausepeople have to know this history is always
repeats itself. So if you dotake this stand, might be losing endorsements,
You might be you know, atthe center of losing your career.
What does that mean for you andyour family? But at the end of
the day, is it better tobe right or is it better to get
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paid? I always say there's adifference between right and being righteous. So
we'll see how that plays out.But let me leave you with this name.
We remember back in twenty twenty,how she carried Richardson didn't make the
team. This, I guess,is either a revenge or redemption story.
How would you characterize it? Thisis a phoenix story to me because I
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feel like she was always had thetalent and people always forget. People grieve
differently, you know, when shefound her biological mother lost their mother,
and then she had all these tragediessurrounding her and she spiraled. And grief
presents itself different ways in different people. But she has been on this trajectory
right now that is insane. Withthese endorsement deals. She looks authentically happy
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and at peace. She's doing fabulous. She's putting in the work that's to
before when she was going through this, she was doing her due diligence,
but she wasn't as focused on thework. She was talking a lot of
trash now she's just saying, youknow, I'm not back on better,
which I think is the exact rightnarrative for her. And she is doing
the thing, and I think sheis going to get on this world stage
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and she is going to shine sobright. So I'm calling her a phoenix
right now, Jackie Ray, whatare you talking about this week on the
Jackie Ray Show. So this weekI have made a bunch of appearances.
I was on La Sparks Weekly talkingabout the Sparks. But this week on
the Jackie Ray Show, I'm havinga guest on the show who's here in
Long Beach where I live, andhe is doing this charitable work that I
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never would have thought of. Andhe's just making sure that people who don't
have a lot of money have cleanclothes. So he's installing washer and dryers
in elementary schools. He's doing freelaundry dates for you know, young people,
especially young people that are living intheir cars trying to go to work.
I never even thought of that,but you know, if you look
good, you feel good, SoI understand wanting that clean clothes. Very
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excited to talk to him. Sojoin me on the Jacki Ray Show.
As we talked to Marcus Hobbs.It's Later with Mo Kelly, JACKI Ray.
Is always good to talk to you, is always good to see you.
I won't see you next week.I'll be out of the country on
vacation. So let me just say, you know, bye for now,
and I'll see you in a fewweeks. See in a few weeks,
you'd be safe out there. You'relistening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand
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from KFI AM six forty Animals theworld over. I have had enough of
humans. Hornets are attacking in China, Sharks are swallowing up surfers in Florida.
Lions and tigers are eating in turns. Oh my, and bears are
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pouncing on women in the Pacific Northwest. Unless we put our stop to the
mistreatment of animals, they can theywill they shine attack me? Can't I
A six forty years Later with MoroKelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
You remember the story of Pactist Millerseventy one years old. She died and
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they weren't sure whether she died ofnatural causes or whether she died due to
a mauling. A fatal mauling ofa black bear in her own home in
the Sierra to that area. Well, it's now been determined that Miller had
was stalked for a number of monthsby this bear. She even gave it
(15:35):
a name, Big Bastard, andinstalled steeled bars across her windows to keep
this bear out. And now lawenforcement says that the bear broke down her
door, attacked and killed her.In fact, it's the first documented fatal
black bear attack on a human innCalifornia history, the first one. Now,
(16:00):
this is something I do not understand. If you dig deeper into the
story, it says about forty percentof California's estimated sixty five thousand black bears,
so I don't know about maybe seventeenthousand of them or so live in
the Sierra Nevadas where this woman's townis located. Thousands of them. Yep,
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all right, yep. But alsoaccording to the story, it says
that the bear guilty of the mauling. They didn't have a trial, just
I guess it's just guilty. Theyjust determined that bear was the one.
They found it walking along, saidget that bear. They trapped the bear,
and then they euthanized the bear.Twill I'm not an expert on these
things. But did they use DNA? I mean, what is it that
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they did to figure out which bearit was? They probably were looking at
the fact that some gloves were leftbehind the probably checking the gloves for DNA
on this bear, and there wasthere was definitely a shoe print. They
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were probably checking the loafer because tosee if the bear but the bear literally,
if they would have been able toquestion that, they would have found
out the bear could not fit intothose loafers, nor get his paw into
that glove. I don't understand though, how they rushed to this judgment.
I know someone had to take thefall for killing this unfortunate woman. It's
a sad story. But you're tellingme that you got the right bear out
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of the thousands in that general area, like there was a lineup or something
they did they give out. Youknow, we were on the search for
a black bear five ten to fivefive bald well, you know they all
look alike. Yes, I'm youknow these African American bears. But I
mean, look, I don't knowhow they picked this bear out all the
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bears. Was like I set upjust found one probably, I don't know.
Walking to the store trying to getsome skittles and some iced tea,
and yeah, fuck them. Onecount of being a bear and one count
of being an accesserate at being abear. That's probably how it happened.
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That is exactly how it happened me. And I'm not going to blame the
victim. I'm just going to askthem rhetorical questions of the victim. If,
according to the late Baptist Miller,if this bear was actually harassing her,
taunting her, following her, actingin an aggressive manner towards her,
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it's at that point you probably needto leave, you know, if you
have to put up the bars,and you know that that's not going to
be enough to keep the bear out, you know, I mean, you've
gotten comfortable enough with this bear toname it a big bastard. I mean,
what do we do? I don'tknow. It sounds like they have
a somewhat friendly relationships. I don'tknow if it was a relationship gone bad.
It started off very friendly. Maybeone person had wanted more out of
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the relationship and the other person didnot, And you know, these things
happened. These things happened. Maybeit was a crime of bear passion.
I think you want to know whatshe was wearing, don't you. Well,
no, I don't know that.I don't want to blame the victim.
I'm just I'm just asking questions.We don't know what happened before all
this. Okay, we're only gettingone side of the story, you know,
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and the bear has been euthanized beforewe could even get the bear side
of the story. They grabbed abear, didn't any bear? I said
that one right there, probably hadthem without an attorney too. Okay,
oh, now you found it.Now, now you found it. Well,
we don't even know if he gothis Miranda rights. We don't know
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that first. In fact, wedidn't get to see the execution. There's
there's no record of it. Wejust were just told that they found them,
they chapped them, and we don'tknow what beings they used, and
then they euthanized them. If anything, this bear's family needs to go before
the governor because the death penalty isoutlawed in California. Oh that is that's
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a very good point. I'm tryingto figure this out. What is happening
now? There is no justice forAfrican American bears. Well, we don't
know if they even notified next toKen. Get ready for this, Robin.
I think somebody made a boo boooh, come on boo oh,
nice Robin. We're gonna take youand uproot you from that chair. No,
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no, I can see her learningcurve. It's good, good.
All I'm saying is how is itthey went from? And this is in
the story. How's they went from? They thought that she may have died
of natural causes, because they hadalready found her body at that point.
They went from natural causes to thebear mauled her to death. And that's
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the bear dragger from her bedroom tothe kitchen. How does that seem like
natural causes at any point? Well, a bear's part of nature. From
both of you at once in stereo, I like that. I mean,
look, dragged her from the kitchento or from the bedroom, bedroom to
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the kitchen. Sounds like it soundslike a domestic to speak, it sounds
like the Diddy of bears. Comeway too damn, way too damp.
We have a diddy story tonight,Mark like lose a rim shot? Can
you have one protracted comedy? Goldyou guys, just my sternum vibrate with
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your dual growls and you're gonna jumpon that. No, no, it's
way too soon, way too soon. Not look at the time, you
look at the shame to yourself makingfun of this, making light of it.
I wouldn't frame of it. No, I was one hundred percent serious.
You're the one with the tone problem. Here it's Later with mo Kelly,
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your horoscope when we come back.You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
on demand from KFI AM six fortysix forty. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Here is your weekly horoscope, andwe're alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
The start with aries right now.Trust is everything. You'll find it
harder than ever to work alongside oreven have fun with people you don't feel
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you can count on, but itworks in reverse. Others need to be
able to count on you. It'llbecome a parent where trust has frayed,
where it's eroded completely, where itwas never there to begin with. Sometimes
the damage is too great to fix, and you're allowed to be honest about
that. In some cases, repairis possible. It takes time and effort,
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but it's worth doing, and thisweek is a perfect time to start.
Taurus You're not often wrong about people, at least not when it comes
to the things that really matter.Your instincts tend to be spot on,
and when you second guess them,you usually end up regretting it. This
week, though, your first impressionswill be undeservedly harsh, maybe because you've
been hurt recently and don't want itto happen again, maybe because you're simply
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having a bad day. If yougive people the opportunity to prove you wrong
and stay open to changing your mind, you might find comfort, friendship,
even love where you didn't expect itJemini, Mark, that's all you have
it. Lots of people strike youas rigid. Once they make up their
mind about someone, they can't beswayed. When they come to a decision,
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they don't waver, even if theyprobably benefit from reassessing. You prefer
to keep your mind and options open, not because you're capricious or disloyal,
but because the world is constantly changingand you want to be able to change
with it. Sometimes, though,staying on the move becomes more stressful and
tiring than it's worth. This week, Mark, see what it feels like
(23:57):
to stay in one place at leasttemporarily find somewhere soft where you can rest,
like bowl of milk, like oneof those inflatable round pillows for your
bottom. What are you talking about? It sounds like this thing says that
I believe in the scientific method,and we're just gonna leave it at that.
Yes, I think that's fair.Thank you. Cancer make mistakes isn't
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something to be ashamed of. Everybodydoes it. It's a part of being
human. The more you fixate onall that you got wrong in the past,
the harder it will become to trustyourself in the present. Self reflection
is important, of course, butonly to a certain point. It's time
to stop analyzing every Tiindy decision.If your confidence has been taking a beating
lately, this week is the timeto rebuild it. You have good judgment
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and you're wiser than you give yourselfcredit for. Don't be so scared of
living your life, Leo. Asmuch as you know that change is inevitable,
there's a part of you that wouldstill prefer to avoid it at all
costs. Staying still is easy inthe day to day, even if if
it is unrewarding in the long term. Growth. On the other hand is
painful. It demands so much ofyou. This week you'll see glimmers of
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how wonderful it can be. Toobeautiful. Things are waiting for you up
ahead, but you have to makeit through the weird, long days,
the uncomfortable conversations, and the difficultchoices first. You'll get there soon enough,
as long as you don't stop trying. Don't give up, Virgo.
If there's one thing you can't stand, Virgo, it's when people blame others
for their own mistakes. You're muchmore likely to blame yourself for everyone else's
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actions for issues that aren't your faultat all. There's satisfaction in taking responsibility.
I get it. If you havethe power to cause a problem,
then you also have the power tofix it. But this week you'll burn
out quickly if you take the weightof the world on your shoulders alone.
Act like you're part of a communitywhen there's work to be done, share
it evenly, and then you canshare the joy too. Libra. As
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much as you Libra like to benoticed and appreciated, attracted too much attention
can be stressful. You'd rather playyour own role in the group than stand
alone. Would rather feel at homein the crowd than at odds with it.
But sometimes staying true to yourself,your desires, and your ideals means
you have to go against the grain. Don't be scared to stake out an
unpopular position or to do things differentlythan everybody else. This week, be
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willing to stand out. Your friendsand community will be more supportive than you
think. Okay, are you readyto weal? Yep, Scorpio. Lately
you've been tired of your life,your personality, yourself, your usual emotional
patterns and relationship dynamics aren't working.Huh, and you're ready for something fresh
or someone fresh. It's possible toget what you want, but in order
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to feel differently, you have toact differently. The universe probably won't swoop
in and change your life for you. You can do the work yourself.
Give yourself a change of scenery,or make a point of spending time with
new people. The more you canshake up the environment, the more you'll
illuminate beautiful new size of yourself.What the hell's there? I guess it
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means show a little more ass.I don't know. It's this new side
so you know? Yikes? Well, maybe they didn't mean it literally,
but okay, here's Sagittarius. Sagittarismode. You're generous by nature with others
as well as yourself, but latelyyou've become your own harshest critic. Nothing
you do seems good enough, andyou believe that you only have yourself to
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blame. Unvarnished honesty can be usefulif you shake you out of complacency or
and spur you to do the hardwork life sometimes demands, but a certain
point you're only being cruel. Balanceis key. Don't avoid facing your difficult
traits, but don't make them outto be worse than they really are.
The goal is to live courageously andwith integrity, to keep growing, not
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to arrive at a state of perfection. Well damn it, I'm perfect already,
so you know I can't be correct. M It's well intentioned, but
it's it. Missus demark Capricorn.If you could have it your way,
you do it. You do allyour inner work and healing in total secrecy,
never letting anyone else see the messyprocess. You'd figure out your emotions
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before talking about them with anybody else. You'd fix your flaws without any help
or support. Unfortunately, it justdoesn't work that way. Sure, some
of the work is solitary, butsome of it can only be done alongside
others. Don't be scared to letpeople in. Vulnerability is scary, but
it'll be good for you in theend, Aquarius. When you're dissatisfied Aquarius
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with your life, you have atendency to want to throw it all out
and start from scratch, to quityour job and relationships, leave your city,
and begin again with a clean slate. Sometimes drastic action is necessary,
but if you try that this week, you only make things harder than they
need to be. Lean on whatis working instead of fixating on what's not.
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There's comfort and stability to be foundin the familiar. Once you're ready,
once you're more steady on your feet, you can make wild decisions again.
For now, try to appreciate calmwhere you can find it, Pisces,
we get it. It could bea struggle to make your voice heard,
Pisces. Other people seem so muchlouder, so much more insistent,
so good at getting what they want. While your words carry more weight than
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you realize. You still feel youneed to fight being talked over and disregarded.
But the noise around you subsides abit this week, and you'll find
that it's easier to get the careand attention you need. You won't have
to shout and raise a fuss tobe heard. Your energy is magnetic this
week, so make the most ofit. And there's your weekly horoscope.
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And mine was really wrong. Ican't speak for Mark. I can't speak
for Tuala. Robin doesn't speak atall, you know, she just passes
out rimshots which are undeserved to Mark. Are you saying that yours didn't adequately
recognize your perfection? Yeah? Ithink that's part of it, and I'm
usually very misunderstood. Would be frustrating. It is. It is a in
a you know, semidity sort ofway, kind of a demo. I
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wouldn't tolerate that if I were youhonest, I don't tolerate it. That's
why, you know I cut people'sheads off. I just don't get this,
me being tired of myself, bidlike, what's happening? I love
me. It's almost like this israndom and it has absolutely no bearing on
anything. What I mean. Idon't know if it's random, but I
just think, like you know,like the person, this seems like a
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personal attack. Well, it's nota fortune cookie. It's not supposed to
be eminently positive all the damn time. I mean, I guess, but
you know I thought I was goingto look forward to something this week,
not just like a shame. No, no, no, see see that's
where you get it wrong. It'snot look forward to anything. They're just
telling you how it is, whatto expect, what to do, what
not to do. Doesn't mean thateverything's going to come up roses. Nobody
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ever promised you a rose garden?Did yours say be exceptionally harsh? I
never read yours. You're generous bynature with others as well as yourself,
But lately you become your own harshestcritic. No, I'm not my own
harshest critic. I love myself.You just pass your just out there everyone
else. No, you're never yourown critic in any way? Whatsoever?
What are they talking about? MayAmo mood show, may Amo mood show.
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I love myself a lot. Tomake sure you do it when you're
not on camera with me, andI don't have to see it. Look,
look I just turned the camera around. It's later with Mo Kelly if
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