September 11, 2024 • 37 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the latest developments in the SoCal-to-Vegas bullet train AND the ‘Swift Pod,’ which is a futuristic autonomous concept vehicle that's part car, an part hotel room…PLUS – Thoughts on Australian breakdancer Rachael Gunn, AKA B-Girl Raygun going from a dismal showing at the Paris games; to being named the #1 female breakdancer in the world - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I don't know if it lived up to the hype.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I know that that's probably the last presidential debate of
this election season. I do only expect that there would
be another one where in the second week of September,
fewer than sixty days away from the election. So that
probably will be that, and people will spend it as
they want, as I said last segment, But now we
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get to move on and talk about some other things.
We've been following the fires here in southern California and
how it seems like they get one somewhat under control
and then there's another one which may pop up from it.
And with this heat which has been unbearable for the
better part of a week or so, it definitely has
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not made it any easier. But I don't know, if
you notice, it wasn't as bad heat wise today, it
was just a little bit better. It wasn't one hundred
I'm seventeen outside Stephan's car. I think was maybe one
hundred and four, maybe one hundred and three. But if
you think about it in terms of the fire, it
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is probably better for those firefighters who are out there
working day and night. It also it probably alleviates some
of the heat stress on the brush out there. It
didn't seem as windy at least from you know, in
my small circle of where I was today as compared
to the previous days and what would most likely spread
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these fires. But it seems like it was just a
little bit better today than yesterday. We will continue to
update you on these fires around southern California, from the
Tribuco Canyon to the Line Fire and beyond as the
evening goes on. Let me just first say, because I
didn't have a chance to even say good evening to
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Mark Ronner because he was working doing the news thing
and I was doing the debate thing.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
What's going on? Brother? Well?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Hello, mo, I'm just trying to keep track of all
the different fires. It's fire season.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, you haven't lived in California long enough to know
that just about all year is fire season around here,
but especially in September especially.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh no, I'm going on six years now, so I'm
a full fledged Angelino. I make no apology claim you
claim us now, Yeah I'm a native now, but yeah, definitely,
and everything we know tells us it's going to keep
getting worse as well, so we might as well just
get used to living like this.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
How long did it take you before you started claiming
La as your home, not only your home but your birthplace.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Well, now, just now, I just decided that's it. I'm
no longer the interloper. I am a native. Now I've
gone native.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I don't think that's how it works. Does it work?
I was born and raised here.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I've lived here my whole life, with the exception of college,
and even then I was coming home for summers. So
I can't say I really lived anywhere else other than La,
and as is a true natural born La citizen. I
was born in California Hospital, down town, downtown l A.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You're gonna pull this on me, You're gonna autherize me.
Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, I'm just letting you know my bona FIDE's was
it bona fides or bona fide?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
So I'm lesser than as an Angelino than you, and
I'll never be as much of one as you.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I would never say that you're a lesser than I
am saying that I am authentic.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
So thanks for differentiating. That's great, good thing. My self
esteem is so healthy, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You know what, I don't think I've ever been to
the state of Washington, and I know I haven't been
to Seattle. I've had opportunities to opportunities to go for
business and other things, semi entertainment stuff, but I've never
been there. I think the farthest north that I've been
is Portland, Oregon. As far as the west coast, that's probably.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Plenty for you. You don't need to get up any further north. No,
the specific northwest is beautiful. But by the time I
left there, I was fully ready to leave because a
lot of the stuff that made it quirky and gave
it a character was disappearing and being bought up and
replaced by condo buildings with a retail level on the
ground floor. And there's tons of that stuff left here
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in La. There comes to explore in La.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You do know that we work in a building right
across the way from a condo building on top of
a whole foods right.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, I'm not saying it's not happening here, but La
is much larger than Seattle, and so there's less to disappear,
and I got here in time to experience what there
is left where there's not much left in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I like LA. I wish i'd moved here sooner. I'm
partial to it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
As they say, home is home, So I will always
be partial to LA, with all of its warts, with
all of its issues with weather, LA specific weather issues,
even the rash of earthquakes lately. So I have no
illusions of this place, but home will always have a
particular place in my heart.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
As they say, but I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I like the idea of places where you can go
and actually see grass.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, grass is good. And as far as living here
during earthquakes, I'm just gonna have to get used to
being asleep and having somebody come in and wake me
up from a sound sleep and go, did you feel
that I think we had a quake?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No, get out, I'm trying to sleep. Was there any
adjustment period for that earthquakes?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
No? No, We've have earthquakes, had earthquakes in the Pacific
Northwest too. They don't bother me the least bit, not
like fires, fires bother you, or just fires. Just dealing
with them. I would prefer not to be incinerated I
don't know about you.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, well, let me put it this way, and I'm
not trying to make light of the fires in any way. No, No,
but living in California, fires, or at least not until
the last four or five years, was not something I
believe which was top of mind for Angelino's unless it
directly impacted you where if you were evacuate, yes, that's
one thing. If you unfortunately lost your home or were impacted, yeah,
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that makes it very different and very personal. But I'm
saying California writ large big picture. I don't know, at
least up until recently, weather was on everyone's radar in
the way that it is now.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
No, things are definitely changing. There's just no way to
talk around it. And I think it's caused me, I
don't know about you, some internal change, like when you say,
imagine your dream retirement place, like someplace in the forest,
on the edge of a lake or something. Now I
start to think maybe I should be someplace that's surrounded
in concrete so I don't have to worry about fires.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Hey, Stephan, can we bring up John Cobelt and Lisa
Bloom on issue is with Alex Michaelson.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
See what they're talking about where is this campaign?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
You think go from here? John, I mean, this probably
is the one and only debate. I don't think we're
gonna have one after this. We do have a VP
debate going forward, but people are starting to vote in
states around the country now.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
And it's going to be a sludgy grind for the
next two months. The poles will probably stay very close,
the swing states will stay close, and nobody's going to
know until maybe three weeks after the election. I don't
even if you had a second and third debate, it
would probably be like this one. I mean, what did
what didn't they cover?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Right? They covered everything. Maybe you'd have a.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Pair of moderators who would actually be tossed and grow
a spine. And when Kamala Harris did her dance in
the clouds and not answer questions, they say, Kamla, stop
answer the question. I mean, I would give my right
arm for a moderator to say to any of these candidates,
shut up and answer the question.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Why can't that happen once? It's amazing they didn't pick
you to be the moderator. There's a reason no one's
picked me as a monitor.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Where do you think the campaign goes from here.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
This is a very tight race. It is every poll
is super super tight. And I just want to encourage
anybody out there who agrees with me that we've got
to get Kamala elected to please volunteer as I'm going
to be doing canvassing in a swing state, make phone calls,
give money. You don't want to look back after the
election and say, oh my god, we have Donald Trump
again and I didn't do what I could have done.
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So everybody really needs to get involved.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
And in terms of anything you think that will stand
out when people look back at this night, what do
you think is going to be the most memorable moment?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Well, the Kamala was smart, she had the facts, She
stuck to her messaging, She cares about the American people.
She never had to be corrected on the facts. And
Donald Trump is completely chaos making up facts. I mean,
you know, people eating dogs and cats.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Come on, you're a big takeaway. It's the final word.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Is that she swung and whiffed on all the stuff
that swing voters care about. Yeah, you explained, swift means
struck out swinging a mix Okay, it's a baseball term, okay,
And I.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Think people do care about economy, about tax credits for
childcare for small businesses, about keeping prescription drug prices down,
which she has done.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
By the way, and wants to continue. I think people
care a lot about that.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Takeaway is that it seemed like Kamala Harris laid trap
after trap after trap for Donald Trump that he could
not help himself, but going in which put him on
the defensive her on the offensive for most of the night.
What she didn't really do, though, is explain why she
changed her positions and lay out an affirmative case for
herself as effectively as maybe some people wanted to. We'll
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see if that matters.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Why not go on? What do on the border?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
We are just about out of time. We want to
let you guys know well what.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
John Copbelt has to say about the debate.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Make sure that you tune in the KFI tomorrow at
one pm, and I'm quite sure he will have even
more to say about tonight's debate. Oh and there's also
some breaking news right now. From what I can see,
Taylor Swift has now formally endorsed Vice President Harris for president,
which goes back to what I was saying last hour
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about watch the polling, watch the donations. It'll be interesting
to see whether Taylor Swift's endorsement and getting her Swifties involved,
whether that impacts the fundraising numbers. So something to look
out for in the coming days. It's Later with Mo
Kelly CAFI AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And the SoCal to Vegas Bullet train is still on
their path to being completed by twenty twenty eight, or
at least they're trying to deploy service then in twenty
twenty eight. I don't know if that is specifically to
coincide with the Olympics, but that is the target date.
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The company we've talked about this before, the company connected
to this is bright Line West, and they're trying to
build this the nation's first electric high speed rail system.
And again it would run between La Ish and Las Vegas.
But the news is they've released new renderings which show
what its trains might look like outside and inside. And
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when I say renderings, it's just artwork. It's an idea.
It's not going to be reality. And I don't know, Mark,
and there's a cinematic tie in here. I don't know
if you've seen these renderings of this high speed bullet
train between La and Las Vegas, but it looks like
what will eventually turn turn into snow piercer.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I love trains, I've loved them ever since the fight
scene and from Russia with love.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I love trains too.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
In fact, when I was in Korea back in June,
I had the opportunity, for those who've been following me
on social media to ride a bullet train for the
very first time, road one from Soul to Pousan, and
I was literally on the train to Poussan, as they say,
but no zombies, no zombies, I can confirm I was
on the train, no zombies or on the train. But
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it's a train which could get as fast as two
hundred and twenty miles an hour, just like the one
proposed here. That's to tie in, and you realize when
you're on a bullet train, you're not going to two
hundred and twenty miles an hour. Most of the time,
or even half the time. I'm not sure we were
that fast. Even some of the time. It seemed we're
about anywhere between one hundred and fifty and one hundred
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and eighty miles an hour. How do you know that,
mot Well, it's basic math. Because you can look at
the stops and the miles between stops. You can figure
out the time in between and do the math that way.
You know, I'm not a math genius, but I can
do basic math, so you could find out your average speed,
and I suspect it would be similar with what is
being proposed here. Depending on how many stops there are
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between the LA Area and Las Vegas, I'm quite sure
it may stop it. I don't know, needles or barstow
or you know, state line or something like that. Depending
on how many stops will determine how fast it probably
will go. But you're not going to get the full
two hundred and twenty mile an hour experience.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Let me recommend a train horror film called Horror Express,
which features Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalis, and a
soul sucking monster. I think you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's a lot of very prominent dead people, great actors
in their own right.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
It's very entertaining and if you love train I seriously
enjoy trains I've always wanted to go on one of
those long day's long train rides where you got a
sleeper car, you got the dining car, and I see
a party car on here.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yes, I have done that.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
When I was growing up, my mother, who doesn't like
flying even to this day, we often would travel across
country Amtrak LA to Detroit, where my mother's mother lived,
and we would get the sleeper car and everything, and
it was a great experience.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
It was me, my mother, and my sister.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Now my sister and I were young kids, so we
didn't take up too much room so we could get
in one sleeper car. It's always been cost prohibitive. Now
that I'm an adult and I can actually look at
the prices of it, it actually costs less and you
get there two and a half days quicker by flying.
So that's part of the reason why Amtrak has been
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struggling for the past forty forty five years, because it
costs a lot to get from one side of the
country to the other via Amtrak. That said, it's still
a great experience and I would recommend it for you.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Mark Ronner, Oh, yeah, I would take a train. It's
too bad that they are sometimes prohibitively expensive. And I
can't wait till we catch up with the rest of
the civilized world and have widely available affordable train travel
pretty much anywhere, to the point where you don't really
even need a car. Ha.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
And you saw the tie in. That's what I was
talking about with this bullet train. If it ever comes
to pass, you could see a revolution that we should
have had in this country. Forty fifty years ago. For
whatever reasons, we decided not to choose infrastructure in this country.
We chose defense. Always followed the money moow. Right, I
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know we chose military spending. We've outspent every other industrialized
nation in the world by ten times at least.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
We also chose the oil industry.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Right, I was saying, if we chose infrastructure, we would
have what other countries have, at least to some degree. Yes,
I know that we are geographically speaking, a much larger
country than Korea or Japan or any of the countries
in Europe where they had these high speed trains, but
they also committed to this many decades ago.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
If we commit to it, we could have it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And I say this because now that I've written one
or some it's like, yeah, we actually do need it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
One of the most fun train rides I ever had
was all the way down through Italy and to Sicily,
and it lasted quite a long time, and you get
so close to things that it's such a long train
ride that the temperature changes by the end, and you're
going so close to, say, orange trees, that you can
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reach out and grab one. And you're going from like
say Florence, where it's all well built out and like
a classical city, to kind of the Sicilian doorsteps with
the guys in the sleeveless t shirts hanging out being like, hey,
what are you looking at?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Was it high spreed rail?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
It was just a regular train, but it was so
relaxing and so much fun. And it wasn't the first
time I've taken a long train ride just to kind
of get my head in order.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
They're great for that, they.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Are, and especially if you want to travel and see
more of a country. I saw all of Korea just
because I went from Seoul to Bussan on the bullet train.
Because if you don't know the geography, you're literally going
from one side of the country to the other. The
country is only maybe I don't know, three hundred miles
long or something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It's really really small.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But going to your point, getting on the train, you're
not just traveling, you're experiencing. You get to see in
many instances, you get to smell and feel what a
country is like. You get to experience it on a
much more personal level than simply getting on a plane
and occasionally looking out the window stuff on the ground.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Absolutely, and if you're lucky enough to be on a
non bullet train, excuse me. I'm not great with directions.
And this is before every single human on the planet
had a smartphone. I've actually had to throw my bag
off a train and jump after it onto the tracks.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Are you serious? You can buy me? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It was great fun. Oh my goodness, I've learned more
and more about you. I didn't know that you traveled
through Europe. I didn't know that you were hitching rides
on trains, just like Kwai Chang Caine with his bedroll
and his flute. But we don't have to talk about
that right now. Let's not talk about it, are you sure? No, no, no,
I regret bringing it up.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You don't want to talk about how you were sleeping
in cars and everything.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I didn't mind sleeping on train cars, but back then
people could still smoke, and so it was a real
crapshoot if you got somebody who was just going to
change smoke while you were trying to sleep, because even
if you cough directly at them, they'd look at you
like you're the problem. Buddy, you don't like this, you
can always go someplace else. Well, thank you, Mark Roner.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
When we come back, we're going to tell you about
the swift pod, a futuristic concept that could change long
distance travel.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Wimbo Kelly one.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
KAYM six, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And
last segment, I was talking with Mark Roner about long
distance travel, and that was against the backdrop of this
high speed rail which was being developed and built between
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Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Supposedly it's going to be
here in twenty twenty eight, and it got us thinking
about long distance travel, how technology can change and improve
the experience beyond just flying from here to there, but
having other alternatives and to While it came across this
technology which was being developed that I had not even seen,
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called a swift pod, where it's almost like a rolling motel.
I shouldn't say motel, but a hotel room which would
pick you up. Think of like a driverless taxi, but
with a bed and space for two people and take
you to your destination, which could be overnight, and you
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would wake up refreshed and have a better.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Way or a more pleasant way to travel.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
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Booking your journey is as easy as a few taps
on your phone. Specify your pickup location and time, and
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let the swift pods and intelligence system take care of
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most efficient route, but also suggests scenic stops along the way.
Created by Peter Stultz and the innovative minds at Zelio,
with its unique triangular shape and eco friendly design, the
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It's a vision of sustainable flight. Free future, though for
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now it's still just a concept more crazy cool tech
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Speaker 3 (20:27):
It looks like a light cycle from tron just a
real big light cycle.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Now here's my issue with it.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
If I'm not exactly cool with an autonomous taxi, I'm
not so sure I would be cool with an autonomous
motail six.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yes, it's so exciting, because you know why gave me.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Never a mash Okay, you know, I don't know if
i'd be good with an autonomous moteil six. I don't
know if i'd be I couldn't go to sleep in
one of those things. I don't know if I'm comfortable
they are developing in mode. This is yet another step
forward in the autonomous vehicle revolution that I think you
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need to wake up to. It's not just autonomous taxis,
it's not just air taxis. It is now going to
be autonomous traveling, hotel rooms, stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
This is travel of the future.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the idea
of a robot bringing me a pizza. I'm not sure
I could even trust it with that, But I get
my mind wrapped around that. Then we can talk about
it driving me while awake. Then we can talk about
it driving me while asleep. Then we could talk about
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it driving me and my wife while we're both.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Asleep or not asleep. This is all a part of
the forward to move me. You've got to understand that
by the time we have these travel pods, the self
driving autonomous vehicles, not only for taxis, but also just
for you and I, when we have the autonomous robotax
he's taking people to and fro here on the south Land.
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This will all be a part of that Blade runner
future that we were promised so long ago that we've
actually passed the blade render point.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
This is going to be technology which is going to
be perfected long after all of us are dead. This
is for our grandchildren, not even our children, our grandchildren.
I am shocked, shocked.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I say that Tawalla Sharp would come out championing such
a thing.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Who couldn't have seen that? Yeah, what a surprise?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Is he wearing some fancy new shoes, carrying an expensive
looking bag, a Rolex anything?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
What do you see?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
He wouldn't have a Rolex because that's low tech, but
obviously big tech is putting some money in his pocket
because he's always on the side of big autonomous technology.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Would you call him the Bob Menendez of big tech?
Wait a minute, you are out of order.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
There are Goald bars his refrigerator at home right now.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Look, I cannot understand how to forward thinking trekkies like yourself.
Two individuals who look to the future for leadership, cannot
see how it's happening now, especially you Mark, Mark, you
are thinking about such technology, how it's going to what
you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Right? Did they have autonomous vehicles in Star Trek?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Your father was a computer and your mother was an encyclopedia.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Does that ring a bell? No?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Really, I'm not a treky like you. Come on, what
is that the trouble with Troubles?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Which one was that?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
That's the one where they went to the planet where
they all got sprayed with the spores and everybody was
happy except Kirk and he had to bring Spock down.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Okay, let's Bock tried to kill him for it.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Let me be very clear, I'm a Star Wars kid,
My mother is a treky. To Walla Sharp will never
be a trecky. He makes that very clear he hates
Star Trek.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
No. No, it's almost as distaste and horrifying as you
not being into the Kung Fu series. But I think
both of you combined have enough positive qualities that I'm
able to look beyond that.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Most of the time. I'm not anti Star Trek. I'm
just saying I'm not a Trek.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
You we're going to get these vague, random, oblique references
to a very particular episode of nineteen sixty six seasons.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
No, these are not vague, random, nor are they oblique.
They're part of pop culture. They're huge, pop culture huge.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Okay, Stefan, you know a little something about pop culture, right, yeah,
a little bit.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
Did you know what in the hell he was talking about?
Absolutely not, thank you very much. I thought you were
talking about something from Mork.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And Mandy for all.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I oh, come, now, both of you have come on glued.
If you're going to try and argue to me that
Star Trek isn't a huge part of pop culture, then
that's that's happening insane.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well, we're talking about Look, I'm quite sure The Walking
Dead is a huge part of pop culture. It doesn't
mean that I'm going to get every obscure reference. You
went very obscure.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Apples and oranges as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
All right, other than yeah, other than Khan Noon Sing.
That's about it. That's about all I know. Oh, it's
a good one. Space Seed's a terrific one, and two
The Wrath of Khan is a great, great movie.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yes it is. That's what I'm saying. Okay, that's all
I got.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, great, terrible Okay, how obscure are you trying to go?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I don't think any of this is obscure. I think
it's a massive part of the pop culture that most
people living on Earth today are familiar with because they
grew up with it.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Okay, most people on Earth. That is very very generous. Tuala,
Can you name three characters of Star Trek not of
the original cast?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Three not of the original cast?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Like, you can't tell me Kirk, you can't tell me Sulu,
you can't tell me Uhuru. You know you can't do
any of those. Pipe Box Okay, Pike, that's one, uh travels.
That's not a character. Those are creatures. Borgo, that's not that.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
That's from the New York Prime Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Okay, Prime, that's a character.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
And uh, data is that all?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, that's from the next generation. Okay, and Wharf fair enough.
We'll let Wharf go. I would say your idea of
pop culture and most of the world knows, is vastly
over over Whoop Goldberg.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I think both of you have sustained head injuries. And
I think it's an objective fact that the original Star
Trek is the most popular cult television show in all
of television history.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
It might be the most impactful. I don't know it's
the most popular. I say it's most impactful because it
began the convention phenomenon as know it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I don't deny that.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
But as far as the TV show itself, I don't
know if it holds that same place in cinematic history.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I am astonished that we're even debating this. I oh,
it's debatable. It really is debatable. I mean, yeah, system,
it's not debatable in this time space continuum. I'm sorry,
but I mean I could talk about this till ten
o'clock if that's what you want to do.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And you would still be wrong for the next hour
and fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
That's a big negatory on that I can defend myself
against the three of you. I can defend myself.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So stephan doesn't count. He that even watch Star Trek.
He's never seen an episode of Star Trek in his light.
You hear that, Stephanie says, you don't count. Are you going
to stand for that? Tell me I'm wrong, Stefan.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Tell me one Star Trek episode of one Star Trek
related show you've seen.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
He's right, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
This proves nothing except that Stefan has a great deal
to look forward to someday time.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
How is it you could be such a Star Trek
aficionado and never have interviewed William Shatner.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Well, I'm a James Bond of fishingado and I never
interviewed Sean Connery either.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
But you can't get to all of them. He's dead.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Well, most of the Star Trek cast apart from Shatner.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And uh, what is it? Koenig, Kanig and Kay they're
the only ones left. Oh but we did who we did?
Michelle Nichols, she's gone now too. Yeah. But I'm saying
you had ample time.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
So what you're saying is you're backing me up by
saying that you were enough of a Star Trek fan
yourself that you track down one of the original stars
to interviewers. Well done, and I appreciate that. I don't
deny that I.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Forgive you actually pop culture relevant. I'm just saying, for
someone who supposedly espouses that it was the greatest TV
show of all time, you have absolutely no professional history
connected to them.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I appreciate this support, and I forgive you for every
ignorant thing that you've said about this. And I'm ready
to move on because I think you've redeemed yourself.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
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KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And remember Ray Gunn, Rachel Gunn from the Olympics, the
breakdancer from Australia.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
She did not win one point.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And if you watch the breaking competition was based in competition.
They had multi round competitions was round robin. You competed
against everyone in your division and they were like three
rounds for each contest and you were scored the winner
or loser of each round. If you won a round,
you got a point, you won two out of three,
you won your match. Well, she did not win one match,
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she did not win one point. She went oh for
the Olympics. Ray Gun Rachel Gunn. You've probably seen her
by now. She went viral due to her antics. What
she thought was actual breakdancing.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It was not.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It was embarrassing and I think it did a disservice
to the art form of breakdancing altogether.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I thought she made a mockery of it.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Well, she's going to get the last laugh, it seems
because B girl Reygun. And if you're a breakdancer, you're
either a B boy or a B girl. B girl
Reygun is now the number one female breakdancer in the world.
Despite what happened in Paris. I'm not making this up.
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This is not from the onion. She failed to score
a single point at Paris. But according to the new
rankings released by the World Dance Sport Federation. Sorry I
don't know what that is, but it's listed as the
governing body for breakdancing, Raygun is now the number one
female breaker in the world. Why because Reygun won the
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twenty twenty three wdsf O Shiana Championships. In other words,
basically the twenty twenty three Australian Championships.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Which awarded her one thousand ranking points. Her win in
that event is how she earned her spot at the Olympics.
None of the medalists in women's breaking at the Olympics
none of them are currently ranked in the top ten.
Why that is who knows? Here we go.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
The rankings are based on points from each breaker's top
four performances in the last twelve months, but the points
expire after a year, and as the number of sports do.
Prior to the Olympics, Breaking changed its schedule and the
awarding of points to allow athletes to focus on preparation
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leading up to the Paris Games. So due to that,
three major events did not contribute to the rankings. Points
Olympic qualifiers in Shanghai and Budapest and the Olympic Games
itself did not contribute to the rankings. So while Reygun
earned zero points from the Olympics due to her performance,
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the medalists didn't earn any either, despite finishing the top
in the world.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
But there's more.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Not only did those three major events not contribute to
the points, they were some of the only events held
over the past year.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
You see where I'm going with this.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
So of the events which were held this year before
people's points expired, basically none of them counted toward the rankings.
So right now the points from most other events have
expired and there are no other points coming in due
to the Olympics, so almost by default, ray Gun ends
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up as the number one female breakdancer in the world,
not just in Australia, in the world.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
That's why we cannot have nice things.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
That's why people cannot take breakdancing seriously, because the person
who doesn't take it seriously and made a mockery of
it on the largest stage literally and internationally ever known
when it comes to breakdancing, is now the number one
breaker b girl in the world according to some organizations,
rankings that I've never heard of in my life.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
It's almost like you don't appreciate that. Listen.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
I have an idea, and I don't want you to
steal this from me, even though we're on live radio.
I want to show with ray Gun and the Hawk
to a girl. It'll either become the most popular thing
ever done, or it'll cause some sort of singularity and
the universe will collapse on itself.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's not a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
I just don't think either or both would be savvy
enough to figure how to make that happen.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
No, Actually, because the.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Hawk to a girl has talk to a she could
actually get another note talent bum like be girl ray
girl ray bum on her hawk to a show and
they can both talk about spitting on that thing.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
So hostile, so outright misogynistic from Tuala there. I'm just
upset by the idea that that this no talent bumb
is being labeled as the best breakdancer, female breakdancer in
the world by some rag trade.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
All of this is bad, Tuala. There's only one way
you can square your karma, and that is to formally
have your name changed to Hawk Twala.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Hawk dude spit on that night here you get me.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Look, but there is a serious commentary to be made.
You have someone like Hawke to a Haley Welch who
has no discernible talent whatsoever none. She just made a cringey,
honestly cringing, not even funny, a cringey, sexual, crude remark
on a man in the interview, and it changes her
life and she's made millions of dollars in endorsements from
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what I understand, And you have b but b girl
ray Gun who has no discernible talent. Let's be real,
for what she's known for, and she's turned that into
or will turn it into millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I know it may seem like it's chauvinistic and misogynistic
because it's a guy talking about two women.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
But take me out of it.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Tell me, show me, demonstrate to me that either of
them have any talent whatsoever in any way doing anything,
and I'll get on board.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Well, the ray Gun lady does have the funniest memes
at the moment, but.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
She's not creating them.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
We're creating them. The Internet is creating them. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Yeah, she's the source of all of it. It's the
American way. Don't begrudge them their success. They're running with it. No, no, no,
I'm not jealous of them.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
I'm saying, don't get mad at me or mischaracterize me
or Tuala because we point out the obvious. She is
not a legitimate breakdancer. She is not the best in
the world. She is not even talented on any measurable level.
Saying so is just telling the truth. It's not jealousy,
it is not any type of misogyny. It's just a fact.
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I mean, just a couple haters, is what it is.
Here's what I want, and this will settle it, just positively.
I want to see a breaking contest between you and Raygun,
and I think this can be achieved.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
What's in it for me? No, you get the right sponsor? Yeah,
I do it. Does everything have to come down to money?
You damn right?
Speaker 3 (36:42):
At this age, I am not going to hurt myself
at fifty four years old and get on the internet
and embarrass myself and subject myself to possible public ridicule
more than I usually do for absolutely zero.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Okay, he's that bad. You won't even break a sweat.
You got this in the bag man.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
But I'm saying for me to win, I have to
get something. I don't need the satisfaction of beating ray gunn.
I need more than that.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Well, I need to see this whatever it takes, and
I'm not bank rolling again.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
We'll call Jake Paul fuck dude.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
He spent on that night.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
I don't know if it lived up to the hype.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I know that that's probably the last presidential debate of
this election season. I do only expect that there would
be another one where in the second week of September,
fewer than sixty days away from the election. So that
probably will be that, and people will spend it as
they want, as I said last segment, But now we
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get to move on and talk about some other things.
We've been following the fires here in southern California and
how it seems like they get one somewhat under control
and then there's another one which may pop up from it.
And with this heat which has been unbearable for the
better part of a week or so, it definitely has
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not made it any easier. But I don't know, if
you notice, it wasn't as bad heat wise today, it
was just a little bit better. It wasn't one hundred
I'm seventeen outside Stephan's car. I think was maybe one
hundred and four, maybe one hundred and three. But if
you think about it in terms of the fire, it
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is probably better for those firefighters who are out there
working day and night. It also it probably alleviates some
of the heat stress on the brush out there. It
didn't seem as windy at least from you know, in
my small circle of where I was today as compared
to the previous days and what would most likely spread
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these fires. But it seems like it was just a
little bit better today than yesterday. We will continue to
update you on these fires around southern California, from the
Tribuco Canyon to the Line Fire and beyond as the
evening goes on. Let me just first say, because I
didn't have a chance to even say good evening to
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Mark Ronner because he was working doing the news thing
and I was doing the debate thing.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
What's going on? Brother? Well?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Hello, mo, I'm just trying to keep track of all
the different fires. It's fire season.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, you haven't lived in California long enough to know
that just about all year is fire season around here,
but especially in September especially.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh no, I'm going on six years now, so I'm
a full fledged Angelino. I make no apology claim you
claim us now, Yeah I'm a native now, but yeah, definitely,
and everything we know tells us it's going to keep
getting worse as well, so we might as well just
get used to living like this.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
How long did it take you before you started claiming
La as your home, not only your home but your birthplace.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Well, now, just now, I just decided that's it. I'm
no longer the interloper. I am a native. Now I've
gone native.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I don't think that's how it works. Does it work?
I was born and raised here.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I've lived here my whole life, with the exception of college,
and even then I was coming home for summers. So
I can't say I really lived anywhere else other than La,
and as is a true natural born La citizen. I
was born in California Hospital, down town, downtown l A.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You're gonna pull this on me, You're gonna autherize me.
Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, I'm just letting you know my bona FIDE's was
it bona fides or bona fide?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
So I'm lesser than as an Angelino than you, and
I'll never be as much of one as you.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I would never say that you're a lesser than I
am saying that I am authentic.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
So thanks for differentiating. That's great, good thing. My self
esteem is so healthy, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You know what, I don't think I've ever been to
the state of Washington, and I know I haven't been
to Seattle. I've had opportunities to opportunities to go for
business and other things, semi entertainment stuff, but I've never
been there. I think the farthest north that I've been
is Portland, Oregon. As far as the west coast, that's probably.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Plenty for you. You don't need to get up any further north. No,
the specific northwest is beautiful. But by the time I
left there, I was fully ready to leave because a
lot of the stuff that made it quirky and gave
it a character was disappearing and being bought up and
replaced by condo buildings with a retail level on the
ground floor. And there's tons of that stuff left here
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in La. There comes to explore in La.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You do know that we work in a building right
across the way from a condo building on top of
a whole foods right.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, I'm not saying it's not happening here, but La
is much larger than Seattle, and so there's less to disappear,
and I got here in time to experience what there
is left where there's not much left in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I like LA. I wish i'd moved here sooner. I'm
partial to it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
As they say, home is home, So I will always
be partial to LA, with all of its warts, with
all of its issues with weather, LA specific weather issues,
even the rash of earthquakes lately. So I have no
illusions of this place, but home will always have a
particular place in my heart.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
As they say, but I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I like the idea of places where you can go
and actually see grass.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, grass is good. And as far as living here
during earthquakes, I'm just gonna have to get used to
being asleep and having somebody come in and wake me
up from a sound sleep and go, did you feel
that I think we had a quake?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No, get out, I'm trying to sleep. Was there any
adjustment period for that earthquakes?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
No? No, We've have earthquakes, had earthquakes in the Pacific
Northwest too. They don't bother me the least bit, not
like fires, fires bother you, or just fires. Just dealing
with them. I would prefer not to be incinerated I
don't know about you.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, well, let me put it this way, and I'm
not trying to make light of the fires in any way. No, No,
but living in California, fires, or at least not until
the last four or five years, was not something I
believe which was top of mind for Angelino's unless it
directly impacted you where if you were evacuate, yes, that's
one thing. If you unfortunately lost your home or were impacted, yeah,
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that makes it very different and very personal. But I'm
saying California writ large big picture. I don't know, at
least up until recently, weather was on everyone's radar in
the way that it is now.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
No, things are definitely changing. There's just no way to
talk around it. And I think it's caused me, I
don't know about you, some internal change, like when you say,
imagine your dream retirement place, like someplace in the forest,
on the edge of a lake or something. Now I
start to think maybe I should be someplace that's surrounded
in concrete so I don't have to worry about fires.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Hey, Stephan, can we bring up John Cobelt and Lisa
Bloom on issue is with Alex Michaelson.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
See what they're talking about where is this campaign?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
You think go from here? John, I mean, this probably
is the one and only debate. I don't think we're
gonna have one after this. We do have a VP
debate going forward, but people are starting to vote in
states around the country now.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
And it's going to be a sludgy grind for the
next two months. The poles will probably stay very close,
the swing states will stay close, and nobody's going to
know until maybe three weeks after the election. I don't
even if you had a second and third debate, it
would probably be like this one. I mean, what did
what didn't they cover?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Right? They covered everything. Maybe you'd have a.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Pair of moderators who would actually be tossed and grow
a spine. And when Kamala Harris did her dance in
the clouds and not answer questions, they say, Kamla, stop
answer the question. I mean, I would give my right
arm for a moderator to say to any of these candidates,
shut up and answer the question.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Why can't that happen once? It's amazing they didn't pick
you to be the moderator. There's a reason no one's
picked me as a monitor.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Where do you think the campaign goes from here.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
This is a very tight race. It is every poll
is super super tight. And I just want to encourage
anybody out there who agrees with me that we've got
to get Kamala elected to please volunteer as I'm going
to be doing canvassing in a swing state, make phone calls,
give money. You don't want to look back after the
election and say, oh my god, we have Donald Trump
again and I didn't do what I could have done.
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So everybody really needs to get involved.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
And in terms of anything you think that will stand
out when people look back at this night, what do
you think is going to be the most memorable moment?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Well, the Kamala was smart, she had the facts, She
stuck to her messaging, She cares about the American people.
She never had to be corrected on the facts. And
Donald Trump is completely chaos making up facts. I mean,
you know, people eating dogs and cats.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Come on, you're a big takeaway. It's the final word.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Is that she swung and whiffed on all the stuff
that swing voters care about. Yeah, you explained, swift means
struck out swinging a mix Okay, it's a baseball term, okay,
And I.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Think people do care about economy, about tax credits for
childcare for small businesses, about keeping prescription drug prices down,
which she has done.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
By the way, and wants to continue. I think people
care a lot about that.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Takeaway is that it seemed like Kamala Harris laid trap
after trap after trap for Donald Trump that he could
not help himself, but going in which put him on
the defensive her on the offensive for most of the night.
What she didn't really do, though, is explain why she
changed her positions and lay out an affirmative case for
herself as effectively as maybe some people wanted to. We'll
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see if that matters.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Why not go on? What do on the border?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
We are just about out of time. We want to
let you guys know well what.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
John Copbelt has to say about the debate.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Make sure that you tune in the KFI tomorrow at
one pm, and I'm quite sure he will have even
more to say about tonight's debate. Oh and there's also
some breaking news right now. From what I can see,
Taylor Swift has now formally endorsed Vice President Harris for president,
which goes back to what I was saying last hour
(09:59):
about watch the polling, watch the donations. It'll be interesting
to see whether Taylor Swift's endorsement and getting her Swifties involved,
whether that impacts the fundraising numbers. So something to look
out for in the coming days. It's Later with Mo
Kelly CAFI AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And the SoCal to Vegas Bullet train is still on
their path to being completed by twenty twenty eight, or
at least they're trying to deploy service then in twenty
twenty eight. I don't know if that is specifically to
coincide with the Olympics, but that is the target date.
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The company we've talked about this before, the company connected
to this is bright Line West, and they're trying to
build this the nation's first electric high speed rail system.
And again it would run between La Ish and Las Vegas.
But the news is they've released new renderings which show
what its trains might look like outside and inside. And
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when I say renderings, it's just artwork. It's an idea.
It's not going to be reality. And I don't know, Mark,
and there's a cinematic tie in here. I don't know
if you've seen these renderings of this high speed bullet
train between La and Las Vegas, but it looks like
what will eventually turn turn into snow piercer.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I love trains, I've loved them ever since the fight
scene and from Russia with love.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I love trains too.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
In fact, when I was in Korea back in June,
I had the opportunity, for those who've been following me
on social media to ride a bullet train for the
very first time, road one from Soul to Pousan, and
I was literally on the train to Poussan, as they say,
but no zombies, no zombies, I can confirm I was
on the train, no zombies or on the train. But
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it's a train which could get as fast as two
hundred and twenty miles an hour, just like the one
proposed here. That's to tie in, and you realize when
you're on a bullet train, you're not going to two
hundred and twenty miles an hour. Most of the time,
or even half the time. I'm not sure we were
that fast. Even some of the time. It seemed we're
about anywhere between one hundred and fifty and one hundred
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and eighty miles an hour. How do you know that,
mot Well, it's basic math. Because you can look at
the stops and the miles between stops. You can figure
out the time in between and do the math that way.
You know, I'm not a math genius, but I can
do basic math, so you could find out your average speed,
and I suspect it would be similar with what is
being proposed here. Depending on how many stops there are
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between the LA Area and Las Vegas, I'm quite sure
it may stop it. I don't know, needles or barstow
or you know, state line or something like that. Depending
on how many stops will determine how fast it probably
will go. But you're not going to get the full
two hundred and twenty mile an hour experience.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Let me recommend a train horror film called Horror Express,
which features Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalis, and a
soul sucking monster. I think you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's a lot of very prominent dead people, great actors
in their own right.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
It's very entertaining and if you love train I seriously
enjoy trains I've always wanted to go on one of
those long day's long train rides where you got a
sleeper car, you got the dining car, and I see
a party car on here.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yes, I have done that.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
When I was growing up, my mother, who doesn't like
flying even to this day, we often would travel across
country Amtrak LA to Detroit, where my mother's mother lived,
and we would get the sleeper car and everything, and
it was a great experience.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
It was me, my mother, and my sister.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Now my sister and I were young kids, so we
didn't take up too much room so we could get
in one sleeper car. It's always been cost prohibitive. Now
that I'm an adult and I can actually look at
the prices of it, it actually costs less and you
get there two and a half days quicker by flying.
So that's part of the reason why Amtrak has been
(14:15):
struggling for the past forty forty five years, because it
costs a lot to get from one side of the
country to the other via Amtrak. That said, it's still
a great experience and I would recommend it for you.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Mark Ronner, Oh, yeah, I would take a train. It's
too bad that they are sometimes prohibitively expensive. And I
can't wait till we catch up with the rest of
the civilized world and have widely available affordable train travel
pretty much anywhere, to the point where you don't really
even need a car. Ha.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
And you saw the tie in. That's what I was
talking about with this bullet train. If it ever comes
to pass, you could see a revolution that we should
have had in this country. Forty fifty years ago. For
whatever reasons, we decided not to choose infrastructure in this country.
We chose defense. Always followed the money moow. Right, I
(15:08):
know we chose military spending. We've outspent every other industrialized
nation in the world by ten times at least.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
We also chose the oil industry.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Right, I was saying, if we chose infrastructure, we would
have what other countries have, at least to some degree. Yes,
I know that we are geographically speaking, a much larger
country than Korea or Japan or any of the countries
in Europe where they had these high speed trains, but
they also committed to this many decades ago.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
If we commit to it, we could have it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And I say this because now that I've written one
or some it's like, yeah, we actually do need it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
One of the most fun train rides I ever had
was all the way down through Italy and to Sicily,
and it lasted quite a long time, and you get
so close to things that it's such a long train
ride that the temperature changes by the end, and you're
going so close to, say, orange trees, that you can
(16:03):
reach out and grab one. And you're going from like
say Florence, where it's all well built out and like
a classical city, to kind of the Sicilian doorsteps with
the guys in the sleeveless t shirts hanging out being like, hey,
what are you looking at?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Was it high spreed rail?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
It was just a regular train, but it was so
relaxing and so much fun. And it wasn't the first
time I've taken a long train ride just to kind
of get my head in order.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
They're great for that, they.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Are, and especially if you want to travel and see
more of a country. I saw all of Korea just
because I went from Seoul to Bussan on the bullet train.
Because if you don't know the geography, you're literally going
from one side of the country to the other. The
country is only maybe I don't know, three hundred miles
long or something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It's really really small.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But going to your point, getting on the train, you're
not just traveling, you're experiencing. You get to see in
many instances, you get to smell and feel what a
country is like. You get to experience it on a
much more personal level than simply getting on a plane
and occasionally looking out the window stuff on the ground.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Absolutely, and if you're lucky enough to be on a
non bullet train, excuse me. I'm not great with directions.
And this is before every single human on the planet
had a smartphone. I've actually had to throw my bag
off a train and jump after it onto the tracks.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Are you serious? You can buy me? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It was great fun. Oh my goodness, I've learned more
and more about you. I didn't know that you traveled
through Europe. I didn't know that you were hitching rides
on trains, just like Kwai Chang Caine with his bedroll
and his flute. But we don't have to talk about
that right now. Let's not talk about it, are you sure? No, no, no,
I regret bringing it up.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You don't want to talk about how you were sleeping
in cars and everything.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I didn't mind sleeping on train cars, but back then
people could still smoke, and so it was a real
crapshoot if you got somebody who was just going to
change smoke while you were trying to sleep, because even
if you cough directly at them, they'd look at you
like you're the problem. Buddy, you don't like this, you
can always go someplace else. Well, thank you, Mark Roner.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
When we come back, we're going to tell you about
the swift pod, a futuristic concept that could change long
distance travel.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Wimbo Kelly one.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
KAYM six, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And
last segment, I was talking with Mark Roner about long
distance travel, and that was against the backdrop of this
high speed rail which was being developed and built between
(18:45):
Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Supposedly it's going to be
here in twenty twenty eight, and it got us thinking
about long distance travel, how technology can change and improve
the experience beyond just flying from here to there, but
having other alternatives and to While it came across this
technology which was being developed that I had not even seen,
(19:09):
called a swift pod, where it's almost like a rolling motel.
I shouldn't say motel, but a hotel room which would
pick you up. Think of like a driverless taxi, but
with a bed and space for two people and take
you to your destination, which could be overnight, and you
(19:29):
would wake up refreshed and have a better.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Way or a more pleasant way to travel.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
Thanks to a self driving sleep pod. I'm the Cyberguy
following me at cyberguy dot com, where my newsletter is free.
It is called the swift Pod, and it could someday
redefine long distance travel. This autonomous vehicle offers hotel like amenities,
allowing you to sleep, relax, work, or simply enjoy the ride.
Booking your journey is as easy as a few taps
on your phone. Specify your pickup location and time, and
(19:58):
let the swift pods and intelligence system take care of
the rest. The pod smart system not only calculates the
most efficient route, but also suggests scenic stops along the way.
Created by Peter Stultz and the innovative minds at Zelio,
with its unique triangular shape and eco friendly design, the
sweat Pod is more than just a mode of transport.
It's a vision of sustainable flight. Free future, though for
(20:21):
now it's still just a concept more crazy cool tech
like this is Cyberg dot com. If you're not already
getting my newsletter.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
It looks like a light cycle from tron just a
real big light cycle.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Now here's my issue with it.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
If I'm not exactly cool with an autonomous taxi, I'm
not so sure I would be cool with an autonomous
motail six.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yes, it's so exciting, because you know why gave me.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Never a mash Okay, you know, I don't know if
i'd be good with an autonomous moteil six. I don't
know if i'd be I couldn't go to sleep in
one of those things. I don't know if I'm comfortable
they are developing in mode. This is yet another step
forward in the autonomous vehicle revolution that I think you
(21:06):
need to wake up to. It's not just autonomous taxis,
it's not just air taxis. It is now going to
be autonomous traveling, hotel rooms, stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
This is travel of the future.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the idea
of a robot bringing me a pizza. I'm not sure
I could even trust it with that, But I get
my mind wrapped around that. Then we can talk about
it driving me while awake. Then we can talk about
it driving me while asleep. Then we could talk about
(21:40):
it driving me and my wife while we're both.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Asleep or not asleep. This is all a part of
the forward to move me. You've got to understand that
by the time we have these travel pods, the self
driving autonomous vehicles, not only for taxis, but also just
for you and I, when we have the autonomous robotax
he's taking people to and fro here on the south Land.
(22:06):
This will all be a part of that Blade runner
future that we were promised so long ago that we've
actually passed the blade render point.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
This is going to be technology which is going to
be perfected long after all of us are dead. This
is for our grandchildren, not even our children, our grandchildren.
I am shocked, shocked.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I say that Tawalla Sharp would come out championing such
a thing.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Who couldn't have seen that? Yeah, what a surprise?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Is he wearing some fancy new shoes, carrying an expensive
looking bag, a Rolex anything?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
What do you see?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
He wouldn't have a Rolex because that's low tech, but
obviously big tech is putting some money in his pocket
because he's always on the side of big autonomous technology.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Would you call him the Bob Menendez of big tech?
Wait a minute, you are out of order.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
There are Goald bars his refrigerator at home right now.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Look, I cannot understand how to forward thinking trekkies like yourself.
Two individuals who look to the future for leadership, cannot
see how it's happening now, especially you Mark, Mark, you
are thinking about such technology, how it's going to what
you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Right? Did they have autonomous vehicles in Star Trek?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Your father was a computer and your mother was an encyclopedia.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Does that ring a bell? No?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Really, I'm not a treky like you. Come on, what
is that the trouble with Troubles?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Which one was that?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
That's the one where they went to the planet where
they all got sprayed with the spores and everybody was
happy except Kirk and he had to bring Spock down.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Okay, let's Bock tried to kill him for it.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Let me be very clear, I'm a Star Wars kid,
My mother is a treky. To Walla Sharp will never
be a trecky. He makes that very clear he hates
Star Trek.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
No. No, it's almost as distaste and horrifying as you
not being into the Kung Fu series. But I think
both of you combined have enough positive qualities that I'm
able to look beyond that.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Most of the time. I'm not anti Star Trek. I'm
just saying I'm not a Trek.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
You we're going to get these vague, random, oblique references
to a very particular episode of nineteen sixty six seasons.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
No, these are not vague, random, nor are they oblique.
They're part of pop culture. They're huge, pop culture huge.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Okay, Stefan, you know a little something about pop culture, right, yeah,
a little bit.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
Did you know what in the hell he was talking about?
Absolutely not, thank you very much. I thought you were
talking about something from Mork.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And Mandy for all.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I oh, come, now, both of you have come on glued.
If you're going to try and argue to me that
Star Trek isn't a huge part of pop culture, then
that's that's happening insane.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well, we're talking about Look, I'm quite sure The Walking
Dead is a huge part of pop culture. It doesn't
mean that I'm going to get every obscure reference. You
went very obscure.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Apples and oranges as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
All right, other than yeah, other than Khan Noon Sing.
That's about it. That's about all I know. Oh, it's
a good one. Space Seed's a terrific one, and two
The Wrath of Khan is a great, great movie.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yes it is. That's what I'm saying. Okay, that's all
I got.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, great, terrible Okay, how obscure are you trying to go?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I don't think any of this is obscure. I think
it's a massive part of the pop culture that most
people living on Earth today are familiar with because they
grew up with it.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Okay, most people on Earth. That is very very generous. Tuala,
Can you name three characters of Star Trek not of
the original cast?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Three not of the original cast?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Like, you can't tell me Kirk, you can't tell me Sulu,
you can't tell me Uhuru. You know you can't do
any of those. Pipe Box Okay, Pike, that's one, uh travels.
That's not a character. Those are creatures. Borgo, that's not that.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
That's from the New York Prime Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Okay, Prime, that's a character.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
And uh, data is that all?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, that's from the next generation. Okay, and Wharf fair enough.
We'll let Wharf go. I would say your idea of
pop culture and most of the world knows, is vastly
over over Whoop Goldberg.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I think both of you have sustained head injuries. And
I think it's an objective fact that the original Star
Trek is the most popular cult television show in all
of television history.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
It might be the most impactful. I don't know it's
the most popular. I say it's most impactful because it
began the convention phenomenon as know it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I don't deny that.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
But as far as the TV show itself, I don't
know if it holds that same place in cinematic history.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I am astonished that we're even debating this. I oh,
it's debatable. It really is debatable. I mean, yeah, system,
it's not debatable in this time space continuum. I'm sorry,
but I mean I could talk about this till ten
o'clock if that's what you want to do.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And you would still be wrong for the next hour
and fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
That's a big negatory on that I can defend myself
against the three of you. I can defend myself.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So stephan doesn't count. He that even watch Star Trek.
He's never seen an episode of Star Trek in his light.
You hear that, Stephanie says, you don't count. Are you going
to stand for that? Tell me I'm wrong, Stefan.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Tell me one Star Trek episode of one Star Trek
related show you've seen.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
He's right, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
This proves nothing except that Stefan has a great deal
to look forward to someday time.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
How is it you could be such a Star Trek
aficionado and never have interviewed William Shatner.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Well, I'm a James Bond of fishingado and I never
interviewed Sean Connery either.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
But you can't get to all of them. He's dead.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Well, most of the Star Trek cast apart from Shatner.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And uh, what is it? Koenig, Kanig and Kay they're
the only ones left. Oh but we did who we did?
Michelle Nichols, she's gone now too. Yeah. But I'm saying
you had ample time.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
So what you're saying is you're backing me up by
saying that you were enough of a Star Trek fan
yourself that you track down one of the original stars
to interviewers. Well done, and I appreciate that. I don't
deny that I.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Forgive you actually pop culture relevant. I'm just saying, for
someone who supposedly espouses that it was the greatest TV
show of all time, you have absolutely no professional history
connected to them.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I appreciate this support, and I forgive you for every
ignorant thing that you've said about this. And I'm ready
to move on because I think you've redeemed yourself.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And remember Ray Gunn, Rachel Gunn from the Olympics, the
breakdancer from Australia.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
She did not win one point.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And if you watch the breaking competition was based in competition.
They had multi round competitions was round robin. You competed
against everyone in your division and they were like three
rounds for each contest and you were scored the winner
or loser of each round. If you won a round,
you got a point, you won two out of three,
you won your match. Well, she did not win one match,
(29:45):
she did not win one point. She went oh for
the Olympics. Ray Gun Rachel Gunn. You've probably seen her
by now. She went viral due to her antics. What
she thought was actual breakdancing.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It was not.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It was embarrassing and I think it did a disservice
to the art form of breakdancing altogether.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I thought she made a mockery of it.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Well, she's going to get the last laugh, it seems
because B girl Reygun. And if you're a breakdancer, you're
either a B boy or a B girl. B girl
Reygun is now the number one female breakdancer in the world.
Despite what happened in Paris. I'm not making this up.
(30:33):
This is not from the onion. She failed to score
a single point at Paris. But according to the new
rankings released by the World Dance Sport Federation. Sorry I
don't know what that is, but it's listed as the
governing body for breakdancing, Raygun is now the number one
female breaker in the world. Why because Reygun won the
(30:56):
twenty twenty three wdsf O Shiana Championships. In other words,
basically the twenty twenty three Australian Championships.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Which awarded her one thousand ranking points. Her win in
that event is how she earned her spot at the Olympics.
None of the medalists in women's breaking at the Olympics
none of them are currently ranked in the top ten.
Why that is who knows? Here we go.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
The rankings are based on points from each breaker's top
four performances in the last twelve months, but the points
expire after a year, and as the number of sports do.
Prior to the Olympics, Breaking changed its schedule and the
awarding of points to allow athletes to focus on preparation
(31:48):
leading up to the Paris Games. So due to that,
three major events did not contribute to the rankings. Points
Olympic qualifiers in Shanghai and Budapest and the Olympic Games
itself did not contribute to the rankings. So while Reygun
earned zero points from the Olympics due to her performance,
(32:10):
the medalists didn't earn any either, despite finishing the top
in the world.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
But there's more.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Not only did those three major events not contribute to
the points, they were some of the only events held
over the past year.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
You see where I'm going with this.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
So of the events which were held this year before
people's points expired, basically none of them counted toward the rankings.
So right now the points from most other events have
expired and there are no other points coming in due
to the Olympics, so almost by default, ray Gun ends
(32:50):
up as the number one female breakdancer in the world,
not just in Australia, in the world.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
That's why we cannot have nice things.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
That's why people cannot take breakdancing seriously, because the person
who doesn't take it seriously and made a mockery of
it on the largest stage literally and internationally ever known
when it comes to breakdancing, is now the number one
breaker b girl in the world according to some organizations,
rankings that I've never heard of in my life.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
It's almost like you don't appreciate that. Listen.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
I have an idea, and I don't want you to
steal this from me, even though we're on live radio.
I want to show with ray Gun and the Hawk
to a girl. It'll either become the most popular thing
ever done, or it'll cause some sort of singularity and
the universe will collapse on itself.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's not a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
I just don't think either or both would be savvy
enough to figure how to make that happen.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
No, Actually, because the.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Hawk to a girl has talk to a she could
actually get another note talent bum like be girl ray
girl ray bum on her hawk to a show and
they can both talk about spitting on that thing.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
So hostile, so outright misogynistic from Tuala there. I'm just
upset by the idea that that this no talent bumb
is being labeled as the best breakdancer, female breakdancer in
the world by some rag trade.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
All of this is bad, Tuala. There's only one way
you can square your karma, and that is to formally
have your name changed to Hawk Twala.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Hawk dude spit on that night here you get me.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Look, but there is a serious commentary to be made.
You have someone like Hawke to a Haley Welch who
has no discernible talent whatsoever none. She just made a cringey,
honestly cringing, not even funny, a cringey, sexual, crude remark
on a man in the interview, and it changes her
life and she's made millions of dollars in endorsements from
(35:05):
what I understand, And you have b but b girl
ray Gun who has no discernible talent. Let's be real,
for what she's known for, and she's turned that into
or will turn it into millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I know it may seem like it's chauvinistic and misogynistic
because it's a guy talking about two women.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
But take me out of it.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Tell me, show me, demonstrate to me that either of
them have any talent whatsoever in any way doing anything,
and I'll get on board.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Well, the ray Gun lady does have the funniest memes
at the moment, but.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
She's not creating them.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
We're creating them. The Internet is creating them. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Yeah, she's the source of all of it. It's the
American way. Don't begrudge them their success. They're running with it. No, no, no,
I'm not jealous of them.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
I'm saying, don't get mad at me or mischaracterize me
or Tuala because we point out the obvious. She is
not a legitimate breakdancer. She is not the best in
the world. She is not even talented on any measurable level.
Saying so is just telling the truth. It's not jealousy,
it is not any type of misogyny. It's just a fact.
(36:23):
I mean, just a couple haters, is what it is.
Here's what I want, and this will settle it, just positively.
I want to see a breaking contest between you and Raygun,
and I think this can be achieved.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
What's in it for me? No, you get the right sponsor? Yeah,
I do it. Does everything have to come down to money?
You damn right?
Speaker 3 (36:42):
At this age, I am not going to hurt myself
at fifty four years old and get on the internet
and embarrass myself and subject myself to possible public ridicule
more than I usually do for absolutely zero.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Okay, he's that bad. You won't even break a sweat.
You got this in the bag man.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
But I'm saying for me to win, I have to
get something. I don't need the satisfaction of beating ray gunn.
I need more than that.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Well, I need to see this whatever it takes, and
I'm not bank rolling again.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
We'll call Jake Paul fuck dude.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
He spent on that night.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
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Speaker 1 (37:16):
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