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October 23, 2024 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at a new study that reveals a shocking number of people across the globe don’t wash their hands after using the restroom AND an interview with individual that claims to be an ‘extraterrestrial’…PLUS – Thoughts on the passing of legendary Los Angeles Dodgers Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Probably not, Probably not.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
If I am six forty, it's mo Kelly, We live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. The Washy Washy Song, in
various forms, is what sung when you're on a Royal
Caribbean cruise. When you're going into the wind gener which
is the buffet portion of the ship. You'll be greeted
by two or three crew members. One will usually have

(00:50):
a guitar, the other will be just singing, and they
sing the washy Washy song imploring you to wash your hands.
Why because if you're nasty, you could spread disease to
the whole fricking ship. It's kind of a big deal.
And that wasn't even there before the pandemic. That's something
which is post pandemic added to ships. I'd been on

(01:11):
a bunch of cruises that was never there until after
the pandemic.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Where did you find the washy washes? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
You gotta love YouTube. There's nothing better than YouTube. YouTube
is is just glorious, glorious. Let's go to Australia. But
we can extrapolate and assume that what is happening in
Australia happens everywhere else, everywhere else. Australia's Food Safety Information

(01:38):
Council released its latest report card on the country's hand
washing habits or lack thereof. It found that nineteen percent
of Australians don't wash their hands every time they use
the toilet. One in five close in half admit they
don't always wash their hands before handling food. Food, so

(02:01):
beware if you should ever eat anything anywhere in Australia.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Forty two percent.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Women do better than men at washing their hands after
using the toilet, but better is relative to men that
are there only slightly slightly better than men. Eighty percent
of men say they wash their hands every time versus
eighty three percent of women. Little better than four and five.

(02:30):
Just fifty five percent of men wash their hands before
touching food compared to sixty two percent of women. Again,
this is Australia, but I can assume that this applies
in varying levels to just about every Western country.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
You didn't see this in those Crocodile Dundee movies, did you?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
No? No, not at all.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
You want somebody Coli, I'll show you Colio. How about
age does that make a difference. Well, under thirty four
years old, sixty nine percent of people wash their hands
every time they used the toilet, about seven and ten times.
Under thirty four years old, if you're over the age
of sixty five, that number jumped to eighty six percent.

(03:14):
Maybe they've gotten sick enough times in between thirty four
and sixty five and then started to value washing their
hands after using the toilet or before handling food.

Speaker 5 (03:28):
You know what's interesting is Chris Little actually discovered that
there is a deficit of hand washing here within our
own building.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Damn all straight. Wait wait, wait, wait, he discovered that.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
I think we all know that well, and but it
was made true because many of us we see people
go in and if you're going after you see that
sink as dry as hell, then you know, like that
filthy mother father just walked out of here, just hands free.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
I want names.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
But Christ Chris discuss that that the soap dispenser in
the men's restroom that has soap is hardly ever touched. Yeah,
he did a study. He looked at and he was like,
this soap is not being used to even people are
running here and running the waters look grotesque.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
I am one hundred percent of the time, and I'm
not saying that just because I'm on the radio and
I want to present myself a certain way. I am
one hundred percent of the time washing my hands after
using the bathroom and sanitizer at the middle before handling.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Food, I wash my hands and then I get a
paper towel to make sure I have been to open
that hand. I don't go out that bathroom and touch
it again because of the filthy people that I've seen
walk out of there dry handed.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
And not only that.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Not only that, not to cast a spursion on the
cleaning crew, but those bathrooms are never.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Really clean on any meaningful level. Yeah. I don't want
to cast this versions.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Okay, I'm quite sure they're great individuals doing the best
they can with what they have.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
But but let's just leave it a back. I like
that bubblegum smell of the cleanser they use, fabuloso.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, that's about the only thing is covering up everything.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
But apart from that, we work with a bunch of
filthy animals, is what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Look, I know I've told this story before, but I'm
going to tell it again. There was a time in
that bathroom that's closest to our studio mark where someone.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
No, no, no, no, no, they did they dropped.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
To turn Okay, okay, no, I'm being serious to highlight
this in the middle of the floor, somewhere between the
stall and the stink.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Who does that? And it does? By the way, it worse.
It stayed there for days plural.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
How is that a thing? How is that possible? I
have no idea. I don't know how it was done.
I don't know how it remained. But it's an absolute
true story to Waller remembers it. We all remember it
because it's like you coming on Monday. Oh that's weird,
that's nasty. Coming on Tuesday. That's still there. Coming on Wednesday.
Damn Is anyone going to get that because you think

(06:08):
that the bathroom is going to be cleaned each night?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
It wasn't.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
I want some kind of fecal colombo to get to
the bottom of this because this is insane.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I'm I need to know who did this. Look, no,
we've had someone drop a deuce in the urinal. How
do you even do that? You back up?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
What do you mean? How you looked in the mirror
and make sure you know, you guide into the parking.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Spot when so if somebody else wanders in while you're
doing that, you're just like, all I know is high five.
Someone dropped a deuce in the urinal. This is the
worst thing I've ever heard.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Know. The worst thing is when we had a radio
personality continue to drop deuces in the parking garage.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Oh that's the worst. Now I have heard about that.
That's the worst, and that's just that's certifiably insane.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
But I talk about all those things because in none
of those instances, most likely is anyone washing their hands.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Oh definitely not after the parking lot. That's those pre
sanitizer era. So that's why I'll give you a pound.
You know, i'll fistbump you. But as far as open hand,
I'm good. I'm good. I'm good on all that.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
And all these are truth. These are true stories.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
I've heard that supposedly the women's bathroom is worse. I
don't believe that from what I've seen, worse than what
you just described.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yes, correct.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
And I only know this because my daughter came out
of there one time and she was in sheer fright
because of what someone left behind on the seat and
she's a I can't go in there day, please there
anywhere else?

Speaker 2 (07:45):
You could tell me.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
She was almost in tears because she really had to go,
and she would not go in their restroom because of
what was left behind.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
And you think that we work with these individuals so
we know the person or persons who are doing this.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
This is indicative of some severe mental illness you know
this right.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Or some actual, verifiable, passive aggressive evil that someone is
trying to put upon it.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
It's got to be on some level, yeah, on some level.
Smearing it on the White House walls protest, I get
it up.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
I get yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
And there's some people who obviously live in filth where
they're okay with that. For me, it's just amazing that
someone won't even flush the toilet. It's amazing to me.
You're there, you might as well go ahead and flush it.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, that's some psychological disorder that this needs to be
called out reported. The person needs to be put in
a padded cell and charged with something. I don't care
what something.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Now, going back to Australia, all those percentages that I
gave you about you know, forty two percent admit that
they don't always wash their hands before handling food. Let's
assume that people are liars by nature. So the people,
if they say that eighty six percent say that they
wash their hands after using the toilet, it's probably like
sixty four percent. Because we all would like to think
of ourselves as less filthy than we actually are, and

(09:07):
people are liars, especially if someone's asking you in a survey,
excuse me, sir, do you wash your hands after using
the bathroom?

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Of course I do, of course I do. Why would
I not? That is filthy, that is unsanitary.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
I'd like to thank you formally for filling me with
contempt for the entire human race.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
This evening. Oh, it's gonna get worse before the night's hover.
It's gonna get much worse. I don't doubt that.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
It's Later with mo Kelly KFI A six forty five
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You know how we talked
about how the back to office orders and how companies
including Amazon have been demanding employees to come back. Well
are employees coming back? And if not, what are these
companies doing about it? We'll talk about that next.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI am six forty when mo Kelly on.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
K Sex.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
And we all know that life post pandemic has been
very different from the time pre pandemic and our personal lives,
especially in our professional lives. You might have noticed that
there are businesses which are completely remote. There are businesses
like restaurants which have retained their outside dining, which was

(10:26):
a function of the pandemic, but they kept it even
post pandemic, and in certain ways you can say that
that's a positive. But there are other businesses which have
been struggling with trying to find this happy medium between
allowing remote work, working off site or working at home,
and demanding employees be in the office. I'm a guy,

(10:48):
I've been in the workforce for about forty years now,
and the whole idea of remote work is still relatively new.
I had a remote job with when I was working
for Ryan Seacrest, one of his producers for American Top forty,
and it required me to be very disciplined as far
as structuring my time getting things done in a timely fashion.

(11:12):
And I understand there are many managers and many businesses
which may be uncomfortable with allowing the majority of their
staff spending the majority of their time outside the office. Yes,
there's technology now where you can monitor keyboard movements and
the productivity of employees, but there is something to be

(11:33):
said for office camaraderie and team building, and if you're
working in the same physical environment, there are pluses to that.
But we've gone back and forth, and I've heard from
you saying that I'm out of touch and I'm old
regarding remote works like, No, I don't think so, I
get it, and it's just not for everyone. It's just
not for every business. But my biggest point was if

(11:56):
your employer says you need to be back in the office,
let's say three days a week, it's really not up
for you to disagree with. Just like any other employment situation.
If you're the subordinate and you have the superior and
they say you have to do this, so you have
to do that, well, then that's what you have to
do if you want the paycheck, because that's the agreement.

(12:17):
You are hired to perform certain services. You're hired to
perform and produce. We usually work in these results based businesses,
and if you aren't producing, and if you're not following
the code of conduct or the expectations set forth by
your employer. I am okay with your employer firing you.
But here is the rub. It seems that despite these

(12:41):
stories that we've read that we talked about how companies
like Amazon have been demanding and Disney, for example, have
been demanding their employees be in the office at least
three days a week, there has not been a measurable
shift in policies. In other words, the demands have been made,
but they have not been enforced. And this is according

(13:04):
to Real estate Brokerage CBR that quote, about eighty percent
of organizations have put in place returned to office policies,
but only about seventeen percent of those organizations actively enforce
their policies. Four out of five have put these policies

(13:26):
out there, and only maybe little less than one in
five actually enforced that.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Now, you can look at that one of two ways.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
You can say that they're laying the groundwork for later
firing these individuals who are not adhering to the policy,
or they're just lacks altogether and afraid of upsetting employees
and losing talent, or some combination of both. But it's
really fascinating to me that in this workforce environment that

(13:56):
employees seemingly have more power than they just deifiably should have. Now,
I know, not all jobs, not all industries are comparable.
There are some jobs you don't have any flexibility to
work outside of an actual office environment. Like for example, Stephan,
I'm just gonna pick on him. He doesn't have a

(14:18):
job which has even the real flexibility to not be
here because a lot of times he has to problem
solve in a physical environment from computer audio, he physically
needs to be here. Now, there are capabilities in place
where a lot of this he can do off site,

(14:38):
but it's essential for him to physically be here. That's
why he couldn't necessarily come to the July fourth remote
at Chateau Remote because he physically needed to be here. Also,
with Mark Ronner, he needed to physically be here to
deliver the news. Now, there are some things that he
can do remote, but to best do his job, and
that's the main point, he needed to be in the

(14:59):
physical studio. Well, even though when we do the later
with mo Kelly pre Halloween suare there is a technical
aspect to be able to allow him to go up
to the party and do the news upstairs and helpful
Honda Studios.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
I think the technical aspect will be to have a
fill in anchor down here in the news bood, No,
you're the news.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
You're doing the news, Surgeon.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
Do you remember what it was like during that thing
at the White House last year where I was sitting
right next to you scrambling to put together news reports
in the middle of that crowd while we were also
trying to do a show. Yeah, it's gonna be just
like that, except worse. You know how to throw a party,
don't you.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Oh, yes, it's gonna be great. You'll love it. Okay,
but we in this environment.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, there are times where I might be able to
do the show from my home studio, but it's not optimal.
It's a way it can be done on occasion, but
my boss has made it very clear, Hey.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Mo, we need you in studio. It helps for the
overall presentation of the show.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
We like to see each other.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, and there is something to be said for a
line of sight when doing a radio show.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Oh and you can tell a lot of the times
when somebody's remote we talk over each other because we
can't really see the cues whether it's you know, the
hand raising, which we actually don't do that much of.
But you know, you can just tell in a normal
conversation when you've established a rapport and a rhythm with somebody,
how that's going to work.

Speaker 6 (16:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
I can see you right now, and I know that
you are attentive and not necessarily doing the newscast, prepared
the newscast.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
But if I'm.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Remote, I can't see you and have to say hey, Mark,
if you can hear me, or if you're in the
news booth or whatever, there's a disconnect.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Yeah, I've got my face all scrunched up like a
chimp when I'm focusing on some other work and can't
really engage you.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
And you can see that right now. Yeah, But our boss.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Says, hey, we need you to be in the studio
some it's just, without a question, can't be done elsewhere.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
And also it helps for the overall product. But as
far as normal civilians with regular, old built jobs go,
don't you think a lot of this boils down to
real estate money?

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Of course, of course, and I would think jobs if
they want to excuse me, employers, if they would like
to save money on rent and office space, if you can,
you would let more of your employees work remotely.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
But it is a case by case basis.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Like, for example, with even iHeartMedia, there are fewer people
in the office now post pandemic than there are pre pandemic.
Most of our sales staff is not physically in the
office all that often.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
That's not a big secret.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
But you know, these jobs have evolved, but there are
some companies which have said, we haven't evolved that much.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Bring your ass back to the office.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Yeah, we're having a big cultural and professional realignment now.
And some of the push pull involves the money. If
you challenge the money, the money's going to push back.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
And then it comes down to who is more important,
who is more replaceable or irreplaceable? Got some bad news
for you? Well, you know that's a game that I
never want to play. Nope, because I know I'm imminently replaceable,
and just about everyone in all of their jobs, varying
levels or degrees, are replaceable as well. Do you want

(18:13):
to play that game with your employer? I wouldn't say
it's an employee labor market right about now.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
I would not say that.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
The first newspaper job I ever had, there were screens
around the building and one of the aphorisms on the
screen every day said, the graveyard is filled with indispensable people.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Message received.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
I had not heard that. I'll have to remember it.
It's Later with mo Kelly caf I AM six forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And did you
hear about the extraterrestrial gave its first TV interview this week? Well, yeah,
well we're gonna play it for you.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
And at the risk of scooping George Nori and step
on his toes, there is this audio we need to
talk about. Allegedly, an alien has given its first TV interview.
Darryl Anka seventy three years old, claims he challenged channels

(19:17):
in otherworldly entity named Bashar and Bishar is not only
an alien, Bishar is from the future. After a few
seconds of twitching and shaking, Darryl transforms into Bashar, taking
on an entirely different personality.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Sounds like maybe he's possessed or something like that. So
it's an alien and also from the future. Correct pig one.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Man, No, no, both, because he's an alien has powers
that we don't and is from the future.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Highly plausible.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
According to this, Bishar likes to talk to us to
help mankind's evolution. So Bishar is talking to the past
and the hopes of improving or quickening our evolutionary process.
Darryl the guy who's channeling Bashar. He was interviewed by

(20:16):
documentary maker Serena d C, who last year probed the
existence of alien mummies in Peru. And I know saying, MO,
just get.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
To the audio. Okay, Well, let me just say this.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
I firmly believe in the existence of other species, intelligent
life beyond this earth.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
I don't believe that this is one of them. Okay,
I might be wrong.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
I might be but I don't know that this is
the proof that we're looking for or we'll be hearing.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Nonetheless, let's give it a go by.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
Finally, here here we are. I have to tell you,
it's been such an incredible journey, and I want to
thank you so much for letting me into your life,
Daryl and getting to know you. It's been a rabbical already.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
This is Daryl, not the alien, but Darryl's getting ready
to channel Bashar.

Speaker 7 (21:08):
Already and now we're about to have well, I'm about
to have an interview within extraterrestrials. This is a momentous occasions.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
No it isn't, No it isn't. But sure you know.

Speaker 7 (21:20):
You it's been a rabbical already and now we're about
to have I'm about to have an interview within extraterrestrials.
This is a momentous occasion. So I just want to
say thank you before we get started.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Are those birds in the background, are they outside enough
of the mocker extraterrestrials.

Speaker 7 (21:38):
This is a momentous occasion, so I just wanted to
say thank you.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Before we get started.

Speaker 6 (21:43):
My pleasure.

Speaker 7 (21:43):
You'll never know how much this means to me.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Oh, I appreciate the opportunity to allow him to share
his message.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Thank you. Shall I let him come through?

Speaker 7 (21:55):
Yes, yes, give me just a minute, say goodbye see you?

Speaker 6 (22:04):
Yes, all right, Ali, clear your throat, lick your lips.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
In hell.

Speaker 8 (22:20):
Then I take good day to you this day of
your dim How are you?

Speaker 3 (22:25):
This is with shar from the Future and another print.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
Okay, this interviewer is a little too giggly. You never
heard Mike Wallace jiggle like that? Okay, yeah, just don't
respect for the.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Interviewee, this is serious. Okay, here we go.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
Then I take good day to you, this day of
your dim How are you hi? I'm good? How are
you perfect? Thank Hill?

Speaker 9 (22:48):
Please, by all means, you may proceed however you wish,
but allow us to thank you for the co creation
of this opportunity to exchange ideas and information with you.

Speaker 8 (23:00):
So I'm not believing it.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
It sounds like Daryl. It does not. That literally sounds
like two different people. Okay, this is Daryl from the beginning.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
Here we are.

Speaker 7 (23:12):
I have to tell you it's been such an incredible
journey your life.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Okay, that's Darryl. Here's the alien.

Speaker 8 (23:20):
I then take a day to you, this day of
your dying. How are you hi.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
The birds didn't react any differently, They didn't feel oppressed.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Way, No, Look, the birds don't understand what's happening unless
the birds are also aliens. But that is a different
dialect altogether.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Okay, so it's maybe Eddie Murphy doing different voices. I
don't get how that's an alien from the future, and
I want to believe I am the audience for this.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
How do we not know? Because just because because we
can't prove a negative.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Okay, I can't prove that it's not an alien, But
there's nothing compelling in that.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Why didn't you want this? Happy that we're introduced to Bashar,
who sounds friendly and wants to explain and help guide us.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
If Bishark can channel Daryl from the past and a
different civilization, Bishar can do something a little bit more
compelling and also revealing and speak to someone other than
this woman who has a podcast that I've never heard of.
Why can't you speak to someone like someone credible like
Brett Bear.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
No, because Brett Bear is a doubter. Brett Bear is
a doubter. Mo Tucker Carlson, Then Tucker Carlson is a
doubter or too, even though Tucker Carlson's audience is dwindling
and could possibly use someone like Darryl Bishar to come
on and revitalize his ex podcast or whatever the hell
it is he's doing.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yes, okay, Elon Musk.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
He would be a good person because that's one alien
talking to another.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Does the alien speak Russian? Look at the.

Speaker 8 (24:59):
Time, I don't take a day to you this day
of your.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
No, that's English.

Speaker 8 (25:06):
There, I I don't take a day to you this
day of your No.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no no no, sounds like
an auctionaire five.

Speaker 9 (25:15):
Whole.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
You know you're saying, take a day to you this
day of your next You're gonna tell me that Jerry
Lewis didn't really turn into Buddy Love and the Ntty professor.

Speaker 8 (25:23):
Oh, don't take a day to you this day of
your dog.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
No, I wouldn't say that he turned into buddy Love.
It was him, he turns into buddy Love.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
It's here it one more time.

Speaker 8 (25:32):
Oh, I take a day to you this day of
your dime.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
One of the best time.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
I take a day to you this day of your dime.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Look, when I expected us to meet aliens? Maybe my
expectations were just a little too high. Maybe I just
wanted it too much. Pretty day to you this day
of your dime.

Speaker 8 (25:53):
Hi, I'm good.

Speaker 9 (25:54):
How are you? Perfects Hank Hill? Please, by all means,
you may proceed however you wish, but allow us to
thank you for the co creation of this opportunity to
exchange ideas and information with you.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
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Speaker 1 (26:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
News has just come in that former Dodgers star Fernando
Valenzuela has passed away today at the age of sixty three.
If you had been following the team, you knew that
he left his broadcast duties early in the playoffs, and
it was noted that he would not return for the
rest of the season. If you had seen pictures of

(27:21):
him recently, he was very gaunt.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
He had lost a lot of weight.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Although no public statement had been made specifically as to
what he was dealing with in a health sense, it
was clear that it was seeming more dire than not.
And if you know anything about Dodgers' history and Fernando
Mania of nineteen eighty one and how he was a
very integral part of that nineteen eighty one team which

(27:50):
won the World Series against New York Yankees, the irony
should not be lost on any Dodgers fan as we
get ready to start this next World Series, but just
without Fernando Valenzuela as a broadcast figure or Dodger legend
who would be present to take part in it.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
This news is just breaking.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
I know that AM five to seventy LA Sports, our
partner station, had just posted the information. The La Times
has just posted this information.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Fernando Valenzuela is survived by his life wife Linda, and
four children, seven grandchildren and extended family. The Dodgers retired
Valenzuela's jersey, his number thirty four, back in twenty twenty
three last year, and this was done despite a long
standing rule that the team only did so for those

(28:43):
who were in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Valenzuela was
not elected to the Baseball MLB Hall of fame, but
he is still one of the most legendary Dodgers and
Dodger personalities in history. If you weren't old enough, or
if you didn't live in Los Angeles during nineteen eighty one,

(29:06):
Fernando Mania, when he started out eight and zero, that
time in Dodger baseball history was unprecedented. I know it's
a word which is used far too often and most
times undeservedly, but that time truly was unprecedented. We're talking
about a time prior to social media when and actually

(29:28):
at the advent of cable. But yet Fernando was everywhere.
He was as big a celebrity as the Lakers in
terms of sports celebritym he was so big and so
beloved at that time. And if you look at the

(29:48):
evolution of the Dodgers organization, if you want to talk
about Los Doyers and how Latinos and Spanish speaking people
fell in love with the Dodgers. And I say this
with great respect and hopefully I'm getting this right, it
was in large part too, Fernando Mania and how Los
Angeles embraced Fernando Valezuela, and how the Dodgers embrace Fernando

(30:12):
and his He was a different type player. If you
just looked at him, you think this guy could not
be a major league player. He was pudgy, he had
a little bit of a gut. He had this weird throw.
He threw a screwball, which just about nobody threw in
the sport of baseball. And if you think, well, what's
the screwball, it's like a reverse curveball. A curveball you're

(30:35):
spinning your hand outward, and a screwball you're spinning your
hand inward and the curve goes in a different direction.
And he confounded major league batters all over the place.
They just didn't know what to do with it. And
he did not throw with great velocity. I would say
he was in the high eighties, low nineties, but he
still was a very very effective pitcher. He did eventually

(30:59):
throw a no hitter, and he is probably one of
the greatest Dodgers in the latter portion of the twentieth century.
As far as of all the great Dodgers who have
always left us with great memories on and off the diamond,
you can't tell the Dodgers' story of the late twentieth

(31:21):
century and not include Fernando Valezuela because he was one
of the pictures and players instrumental in defeating the Yankees
and breaking that Yankees curse in nineteen eighty one. And
I'm quite sure the Dodgers will do something special in
remembrance of him, probably before the first game on Friday.

(31:43):
The timing of this is, of course ironic. It is sad,
but if you had been following the story and watching
at least the public pictures of Fernando Vealnezuela. We still
haven't gotten a specific cause of death, but he had
been in decline any health for quite some time. This
is a very sad day for any true Dodger fan

(32:06):
because Fernando Valezuela was huge when it came to Dodger history,
Dodger lore, and also Dodger success. So if you're just
tuning in and you don't know Dodger legend, Fernando Valezuela
passed away today at the age of sixty three, he
will definitely be missed. It's later with Moe Kelly KF

(32:28):
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