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October 23, 2024 42 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Freeway warnings for Friday’s perfect storm of traffic due to Game 1 of the MLB World Series between the Dodgers & the Yankees at Dodger Stadium, as well as other major events in SoCal…PLUS – Thoughts on OC Supervisor Andrew Do pleading guilty to federal bribery charges AND the rise of the new designer drug 'pink cocaine' - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
K if I am six forty is later with Mo Kelly.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's good
to see Stephan back in the studio.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Where were you, man?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Taking care of business? You know, just had to, you know,
get some stuff done. Not necessarily a day off. I
don't want to know about your personal business. I'm just saying,
where were you? Oh, I was just I was at home,
but I was, you know, bouncing all over the city,
just getting stuff done and uh yeah, helping my dad
with some stuff. And you know, it's nice to have
that extra day. That's why we should have three day weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Aren't you a good son? Yeah? Aren't you a good son?
I try and.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Mark Ronner, good evenings, sir. How are you my friend?
I had the most interesting day today. You want to
hear this?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
I actually do. Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Ron Harper, the actor from the Planet of the Apes
TV series, Garrison's Gorillas and a bunch of other things.
He passed recently and I met his daughter and got
one of his old scripts today. It was the coolest
thing ever. That's probably a wonderful keepsake. Yeah, Garrison's Gorilla
script from the sixties. Very cool.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
All right, all right. Tawala Sharp also joins me in
the studio. There's a reason I'm introducing everyone. I will
tell you just.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
To say, okay, yeah, you doing all right?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
It's good that the whole team is together because next
week when we have the Lady with Mo Kelly pre
Halloween suare, the whole team will be together. Mark Ronner,
you don't know this, but I had a conversation with
program director Robin Berdlucci and she informed me they worked
it out. You will be upstairs with us doing the news.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
I was gonna wait and ask you about that off
the year, but since.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
The band is back together, how's that going to work? Exactly?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
They will have someone down here the floor below pressing
buttons if you need audio to fire off that kind
of thing.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I see, And if it doesn't work, it'll just sound horrible.
It'll be all on you. But yeah, that's not my problem.
That's a good thing. The logistics, I've got nerves of steel.
Are you kidding me? All right?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Then, so you should not be phased by any of
this except for the super spread apart.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
But I'm gonna come up with a costume that incorporates
a mask.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
That's my place. Just come as a surgeon. It would
be just fine. Oh yeah, I O bg an perfect. Yes,
I just said surgeon. Okay, I didn't get that specific.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
But if you want to be a gynecologist or something,
sure knock yourself out. It's just the first thing that mindy,
the ones that have been arrested are in jail.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Okay, no, we I'm against jail for the most part.
For the bust part.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, we'll have an update on the party before the
end of the show, but I wanted to start with this.
Did you see the news today that the editorial board
of the La Times is not making an endorsement in
the presidential election, and this would be for the first
time since two thousand and four. It's odd on top

(03:14):
of odd, because the paper, which is the largest in California,
did publish the slate of endorsements back on September tenth
for everything and everyone, with the exception of the presidential election.
And it got me thinking. It got me thinking about
whether it was really important that print outlets or even actors, actresses, entertainers, rappers,

(03:38):
radio hosts. Does it really matter whether we endorse someone
or who we endorse me personally. Just in case you
didn't know, I don't endorse political candidates. I refuse. I
don't even donate to campaigns. Reason being one, I want
to stay in an emotional space where I can just
discuss the issues in my personal preferences or politics are

(04:03):
not unduly influenced in the discussion of things. I obviously
do political commentary for a number of outlets, and I
am never going to tell you, And that could be
you Mark Ronner, or you listening in your car, or
you listening on your smartphone. I'm not going to tell
you who to vote for, and conversely, I wouldn't want
you to tell me who to vote for. I think

(04:25):
we all can do our own due diligence and should
do our own due diligence. But it's a fascinating thing
where we are now in the endorsement era, where we
somehow don't find it strange that a rapper is endorsing
a political candidate, or an actress is endorsing a political candidate,
or a singer is endorsing a political candidate. Here to fore, yes,

(04:50):
you would have your print outlets, they would have an
editorial board, which is different from the newsroom. And this
goes back to the whole civics discussion and also the
understanding of media. When a place or an outlet like
the LA Times or New York Times should endorse a
candidate that's coming from the editorial board that's not the
news department.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
There's a distinction, with a difference.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
But when that endorsement is made in previous decades, I
wouldn't say in previous years, but decades, it carried weight
and people would take it to heart. Now, the endorsement
by anyone and everyone, I don't think it really means anything.
And I don't think any votes would be changed, Honestly,

(05:34):
no disrespect to The Times.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
I don't think any votes would have been changed.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
If The Times had come out and said Kamala Harris
is the person we endorsed for president. It might have
raised some eyebrows if they said Donald Trump is a
person we're endorsing for president, if only because for the
past four elections, the La Times has endorsed a Democratic candidate.
But that's something that I felt was noteworthy that the

(05:57):
La Times was not endorsing a presidential candidate. There is
conversation in speculation as to the reasons why. Possibly, and
I'm saying this is a part of the speculation. I
don't have any evidence to support this speculation, is that
the owner of the Los Angeles Times, who is extremely wealthy,
that the endorsement would conflict with his personal politics. I

(06:19):
don't have anything to substantiate that, and the LA Times
has already released a statement that they do not discuss
the internal discussion surrounding such decisions. I just don't think
that it would have changed any minds or influenced any voters.
And people can take from that whatever they want, but
it has for me another internal conversation about whether endorsements

(06:42):
really matter or mean anything to anyone in twenty twenty four,
given the political landscape.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
And I guess that's for everyone else to debate.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
But we could put all the endorsements that Kamala Harris
has on paper and diversely Donald Trump, and I don't
think anyone would care. Now, you can say to some
people may say, like the endorsements from the Teamsters union
or this organization or that organization may send a signal
to the larger voting public where the winds are blowing.

(07:19):
But that's on a very very small level. I don't
know if there are many endorsements which actually move the meter.
I mentioned the Teamsters because I think that's one of
the endorsements which could move the meter, But I don't
think there are many other smart Are there anyones that
you would think of that really make a difference.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
I'm not so sure about that.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
I think the influence of newspaper endorsements is waning. Like
you suggest, I have heard an article from Semaphore saying
that two sources at the Times confirmed that it was
the owner, which is strange of the La Times that
forbade the endorsement. So I should probably give you some
context for this. In a normal newspaper, the editorial board

(07:59):
is very different the reporting the journalist's staff right, absolutely,
in the sense that all the shoe leather reporters, generally,
at least at the Seattle Times, where I spent my
longest stretch, they regarded the editorial board as as a
bunch of monocle and ascot wearing head up their tailpipe

(08:19):
types with opinions that they constantly had to apologize to
people for when they were out in public. So when
you add the actual owner of the paper on top
of that, mixing anything like that. That's a strange piece
of interference there from the owner who's not a journalist
or even on the editorial board that I'm aware of.

(08:39):
I have to read more about this, but that's the
way it looks to me right now. Well, that is
a big discussion in and of itself. If you have
owners who have no real role in either the editorial
or the reporting inserting personal opinion into the conduct of
a news outlet, that is a slippery which should really

(09:01):
concern anyone and everyone. I've seen calls on Twitter for
mass walkouts and resignations at the Times. I doubt they're
going to do that because they they need a paycheck.
Is there anyone else to walk out at this point?
I'm being very serious. Well no, I mean there's We're
way into the ongoing extinction of the newspaper business right now.
So you know, you walk out on this job, see

(09:22):
what else you can get. You know, it's not going
to happen. So the guy who signs the paychecks says,
don't do this. What are their options? They don't have
a lot.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Hm, so much more to talk about, obviously, we'll get
into OC supervisor Andrew Doe who is going to plead
guilty to federal bribery charges. I tell people all the time,
when the Feds come knocking and they indict you, they
already have you, you might as well start thinking about
how soon you're going to plead guilty. Got a big
show tonight. Don't want to go anywhere. It's Later with

(09:52):
mo Kelly. Care if I am six forty we live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
six forty.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
I don't know about you, but I'm getting more and
more excited with each passing day awaiting Game one of
the World's Series, the twelfth meeting between the New York
Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. This particular meeting is
really special one because of the obvious it's been I
don't know forty three years since nineteen eighty one was

(10:23):
the last time that these two franchises met in the
Fall Classic. And also you have arguably the most valuable
player of both leagues on the respective teams. You have
Aaron Judge for the Yankees and of course show Hail
Tani for the Dodgers, and both teams are the two
best teams in baseball. It's rare that you will have

(10:47):
the two best teams make it all the way to
the World Series. It's even more rare that you have
the two best teams of representing the two largest markets
and the two most historic franchises the World Series. But
it's all gonna happen here, and it starts on Friday.
Put it all together, you will be in traffic hell

(11:09):
on Friday. I don't care if you live in Orange
County and have no desire or intention to come anywhere
close to Los Angeles County. The traffic is going to
be horrendous. In fact, you might as well start driving
a Dodger stadium right now. Just camp out outside the
park for the next three days. That way you can

(11:29):
avoid the traffic. And it made like a sound that
I'm trying to be funny, But there will be people
camping out in advance because of the traffic.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
And that's if you can even get a ticket.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
The price gouging, of course, is through the roof of
thousands and thousands of dollars are going to be spent
on tickets just so people can say that they were
there for Game one. And I'm saying thousands and thousands
of dollars for tickets in the rafters. Don't get me wrong,
there's not a bad seat in Dodger Stadium. But you're

(12:01):
going to overpay for whatever seat that you have in
Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
And here's something else to remember.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
The first pitch for Game one, which is at Dodger Stadium,
will be at five oh eight pm on a Friday,
five oh eight pm, meaning that if you want to
be in your seat for the first pitch, you have
to be on the road probably before three o'clock on
a Friday. Having to look imagine Friday traffic with no

(12:33):
World Series going on. Imagine Friday traffic with no game
at Dodger Stadium going on. It's always hella bad on Friday,
and it's always worse trying to get through downtown. And
now you're saying that you have to get through downtown
or to downtown on a Friday for a five oh

(12:54):
eight start to the World Series. That's going to be
helld on. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. You know,
what's only you know, the only thing worse than that
is trying to get to iHeart Media Studios because Stephan
I don't know about you, but I'm leaving the house.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Usually.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Usually I'm leaving the house maybe between three three fifteen,
three thirty at the latest, and I usually hit downtown
around four four fifteen.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Not on this Friday either.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
I have to leave it one o'clock, no exaggeration, because
it's going to take me about two hours all the
people who are going to try to get to the
stadium real early. Or I can just sort of go
up the four five, and that's no guarantee. That takes
me way out of the way, and I have to
go over the hill down into the valley and sweep
around the one on one to the one thirty four,

(13:47):
and there's no guarantee that that's going to be any
better because the one thirty four and the five are
going to be backed up because of all the people
trying to get into downtown. There's no good way to go.
So I may just have to just grin and barrett
and leave at one o'clock. Oh but whoit whait wait wait,
it gets worse. It gets worse. The Lakers are going

(14:07):
to be playing the Phoenix Suns at Crypto dot Com
Arena at about seven pm, So if you're trying to
get to the Lakers game, and you would normally leave
it let's say five o'clock to get to a seven
pm start. You likely are not going to be able
to get to that game on time. Friday is going
to be a veritable cluster.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Truck. It's gonna be really bad, really.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Really bad for you, me and everyone. So if you
don't have tickets, just stay home. If you don't have work,
just stay home. Don't even try it.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
I don't know what Mark is gonna do, because he,
like me, has to be here at a certain time,
and Mark, you normally get here a little before six
most nights, and that's going to be impossible on Friday.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
I read about that before we started today and it
filled me with dread. I have no idea. What are
you gonna Are you gonna work from home that day?

Speaker 1 (15:05):
No, because we're doing the name that movie called Classic Game.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
I've got to do that in studio. Okay, So here's
what we do.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
I spend the night at your place, sure, and then
we drive in early Friday morning.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
We can put you in the road with the dogs. Sure.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
I don't know if I like that. I mean, the
polite thing would be for you to change your sheets
and offer me your bed. Well, will you sleep elsewhere?
But what is my wife going to do? Is she
gonna be okay with that? We can work all that out.
I don't want to any thing's weird, that's the last
thing I want. But we have to come up with
We have to come up with the plan though, because
that's gonna be hellish. Just imagine the number of middle

(15:40):
fingers flying on Friday.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
It's gonna be one of those days where you have
to have the utmost patience. You're going to have to
have it or your day is going to end horribly. Yeah,
because I've got the rundown here. I was going to
read it later on. Yeah, the World Series at Dodger
Stadium and other major events. Worst traffic day of the
year in LA. So there's that game. Lakers host Phoenix
Suns at Crypto dot Com Arena at the Coliseum, there's

(16:05):
USC football. Englewood has three events. So if I stadium
as hosting something else, it's all bad.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
This is nuts. It's all bad.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
And coming up to four five, what I was talking about,
that would be the closest outlet, freeway outlet for me.
But I'd have to pretty much drive by Sofi Stadium
and all of that traffic trying to come in for
their seven thirty pm events.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
So yeah, we're gonna have to get one of Twala's
air taxis I think, which don't exist as of yet. Okay,
a little speed bump, but we'll figure it out. No,
but it's true.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
The USC Trojans are hosting Rutgers at the Coliseum at
eight pm. So there are two sides to this. There's
just trying to get wherever you're trying to go. If
you're going to any one of these events, and let's
say you're getting out of the Dodger game and it
ends normal time, which would be seven thirty eight p
to an half hour game, you would be leaving downtown

(17:05):
when people are still coming downtown for the Lakers game.
They're still going near downtown for the USC Trojans game,
which starts at eight pm. And if you're on the
Inglewood side of town like me, when I'm trying to
go home, well, they have concerts of the Kia form
as well as Sofi Stadium.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
The worst traffic.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Day in the history of Los Angeles, I'm calling it
right now, the worst ever know, and we're lucky we
have an earthquake too.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Here's the plan. You buy us an RV. No.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
No, what I can do is I can schedule an
uber and send Stefan to pick you up.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Oh yes, Stephane, are you still doing that, because that'd
be great.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
That's a day I would never want to work because
even though the surgeon would probably probably be pretty high,
once you get to those areas, you're just sitting in
traffic forever, and it's it's like almost not worth it.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
It's bad for just so far.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's bad now that you have into it and you
have the Kia forum and the YouTube theater.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
It is very, very very bad.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
When I get home on Friday, I'm not trying to
go anywhere. And that's assuming I get home Friday night
and not Saturday morning. No exaggeration, it's it's really really
gonna be bad. It's one of those things where I
may just hang out at the studio until ten thirty
eleven o'clock at night, maybe even midnight, because where am
I trying to go anywhere?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Fast?

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Okay, we book a hotel room somewhere near the stay.
Now you're making it weird. Well, we can have separate rooms.
And you said a hotel room, so I take you
at your word. A hotel room a piece, okay, better,
that's better. Okay, Yeah, there's got to be a hotel
near here, although I've never seen one. I mean, we're
right next to Warners. There's got to be plenty of
places to stay.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
No, you probably have to go into Burbank, into Burbank proper.
We're right on the edge, so we'd have to go
down towards downtown Burbank Bourbank Center.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
And you could probably write this off. So if you
could just book those and put them on your card, sure.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
That'll be great. I appreciate that. Okay, it'll be in
my name though.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, sure, I'd like a larger bed though, if you
don't mind, I roll around a lot.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
You got anything else? Some room service would be really cool.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
And abob prostitute of food in call out call what
do you want? No, just the food, the food, okay,
all right? And a bottle absolute it would would be
good too. I have trouble sleeping if it's not kettle
one absolute, whatever, whatever's convenient for you. I would hate
for you to go to any severe extra trouble.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Stephan, you want to get in on this before we
go to break anything. Sounds like a plan to me. Okay,
So you want to get in on the room as well. Yeah,
can we have some women at least? What where would
these come from? I know people, it's reread. He doesn't
know people. You know we're on the air right now, right, Oh,
I know. But if you're going to book a hotel room,
we must just go all the way.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
I see. Well, it's no pun intended. In for a penny,
in for a poundk Okay, look at the time, Well done.
I am six forty we live everywhere. You can do
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Speaker 4 (20:15):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
You've probably heard the KFI newsroom report on this over
the course of the day, talking about Orange County Supervisor
Andrew doe who was being investigated regarding where county funding
had been moved and also an organization which was spearheaded

(20:41):
by his daughter, and originally because of that investigation, Andrew
Doau refused to step down, and he said, you know
how they always say, I'm going to fight this in
the end, I'm going to be found.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Then I said, you.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Know, YadA yad yadah blah blah blah, I look forward
to my day whatever.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
He said.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Well, he's agreed now to plead guilty to a felony
charge of conspiracy to commit bribery, admitting that in exchange
for more than five hundred and fifty thousand dollars in bribes,
he cast votes on the Board of Supervisors beginning in
twenty twenty that directed more than ten million dollars in

(21:22):
COVID relief funds to the Viet America Society, where coincidentally
his daughter worked. Now, this is the thing which really
bothers me beyond the misappropriation of funds than the Mauth seasons.
He could face up to five years in prison. Up
to that's the maximum white collar crime, five years in

(21:45):
prison for moving maybe I don't know, eleven million dollars.
Eleven million dollars. Prosecutor said. Some of the counting money
received by the Viet America Society or VAS was ultimately
funneled through an unnamed outside company that made monthly eight
thousand dollars payments to the daughter, Rhiannan Doe. Totally two

(22:08):
hundred and twenty four thousand dollars. The company also transferred
more than three hundred and eighty thousand dollars to an
Escro company, and Rhiann and Doe use that money, according
to prosecutors, to purchase a one million dollar home in
Tustin shout out to Tustin. Other funds were allegedly routed

(22:30):
back to Andrew Doe to make property tax payments on
properties owned by him and his wife the whole family
was benefiting, while another fifteen grand was used to pay
one of Andrew Doe's credit card bills because you got
to keep.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
That credit rating.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
More than eleven million dollars just by my calculations, and
as I said, he may face up to five years
in jail. Five five Now, if he tried to rob
someone arm robbery, George Gas going aside, you're probably looking

(23:06):
at more than five years five years for about eleven
million dollars.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
And that's what we know. Okay.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
I don't believe that prosecutors know everything that this guy did.
And it seems like he wasn't all that smart because
all this is easily traceable. I mean, at least be
a somewhat smart criminal. You're gonna divert all this money
and you give it to your daughter and you're gonna
buy a house. And the paper trail on this is thick.

(23:35):
It's not real hard. It's not like you put it
in the Cayman Islands. It's not like he put it
somewhere like in a refrigerator like Democratic Congressman Richard Jefferson did.
It's not like he put it anywhere where it would
be difficult to trace it.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Back to him.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
I mean, at least Bob Menendez had gold bars, and
he didn't. He would have gotten away with it if
he didn't have the gold bars in his house where
everyone could find him. But Doe is going to go
to jail, prison for most five years. And I think
that is what's stuck in my crawl, not that he
did it, because corruption is not new, and you give

(24:12):
someone the power to move that much money, someone's going
to be tempted, and someone is going to be corrupted
by it, and probably someone's going to do something which
is illegal. But to only have five years at most
at most, and with the calculation is that he's pleading
guilty in advance, which means he likely will not get

(24:33):
the maximum. So in theory he could get maybe four years,
be out in two. That seems like almost a worthy
exchange for a criminal. If you told me I could
steal eleven million dollars, probably more, probably more because I
don't assume that they know all of what he's stolen,
and you give me at max five years, but I'll

(24:54):
probably get less for pleading guilty and not going through
all the hassle of a trial. Yeah, I'm quite sure
a lot of people would do it. And that's why
I think a lot of elected officials can be corrupted,
because the penalties do not match the crime. It's later
with mo Kelly kfi AM six forty. We are live

(25:15):
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and honest to goodness, I
had never heard the phrase pink cocaine until just a
few days ago. Not that I know a lot about drugs,
Like I've never had crack, but I've heard of it.
I've never, you know, had meth, but I've heard of it.

(25:36):
I've never heard of most of the drugs out there,
but I mean, I've never had any of the drugs
out there, but I've heard of most of them. But
pink cocaine, I had no point of reference, and I'm
finding out neither did a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
So we're going to learn something together when we come back.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six for JFI.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Mo Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
And let me just say up the top, I've never
experimented with drugs. I've never tried cocaine. I've never tried ecstasy.
I've never tried any of those things. I've done maybe
a half a joint and half an edible in my
life and alcohol.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
And working in the music industry during the time in
which I did that was no small accomplishment. I can't
speak for Touala's experience as far as what he saw,
but I've seen someone od drugs. Every drug that you
can think of was ever present. If I wanted to
get a cocaine habit, I could have very easily gotten

(26:46):
a cocaine habit and not even been able to afford one,
because it was everywhere. What stopped me from using cocaine
or any other drug was abject fear. Fear of arrested
in a sting, fear of odeing, dying, fear of all

(27:06):
the negative things which could happen with drugs, just straight
up fear.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
It wasn't like Nancy Reagan just say no no.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
I was seeing it in real time, people ruining their
lives because of drugs. So I never had any desire
to use any hard drugs. That said, I thought that
I was aware of most of the exotic drugs. Yes,
they change over the years, but at least I was
aware of them by name. I had never heard of

(27:34):
pink cocaine, and from what I read, it's ketamine and
usually psychedelics, but it can also include ecstasy, methamphetamine, and
other downers. And I think about that separately individually dangerous
put them all together. Surely you're going to die, maybe

(27:58):
not the first time or second time, but you're definitely
going to die. And I'm talking about this in relation
to the death of the former One Direction singer Liam Payne.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
When I saw that story.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Regard, I'm not going to get into any type of
conspiracy theories of why he died or how he died.
I'm just talking about what we know from the toxicology
report that to me says that death was easier than not,
especially if you're in a hotel room and you are

(28:32):
left to your own devices. I don't know who else
was in the room with him, but just left to
your own devices, like Tauhila.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I kid him.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
He was saying like he doesn't go near the rail
sober on a cruise ship. Oh yeah, yeah, I have
this little thing where I don't usually go into hotel
rooms with balconies if I plan to drink for that reason.
For that reason, and I can only imagine when you
have someone who was under the influences a pink cocaine,

(29:01):
which means a variety smorgas board of drugs, what could
have led to now? I see the face of Mark Runner,
and whenever he shows me a face, I have to ask, what, Mark?

Speaker 2 (29:14):
What?

Speaker 3 (29:14):
What is your commentary? I don't have any commentary. I'm
enjoying listening to your whatever it is you're doing. You know,
here's what's funny? What you doing so dismissive?

Speaker 2 (29:25):
I unlike you.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
I've never had a cocaine abbit myself, but because I'm
too cheap to pay for it. You make fun of
me for Jack Benny references because he's older than our parents.
But this is a total Jack Benny situation. I would
never do a develop a coke habit because it costs
too much money.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Well, I had a boss, more than one actually, who
was a confirmed coke addict. I saw what it did
to his marriage, his professional life, he had a stroke,
you know.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
So there was no.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Need to inform me about the dangers of drugs. And
we work with enough artists who had a drug habit
and what it did to their career is not calling
any names where I had no desire to touch any
of it. But each generation you'll see more and more
artists end up strung out or dead like an Amy

(30:25):
winehouse that's always been connected to the music industry. But
this is something that's completely new to me, this whole
idea of pink cocaine.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
It's always shocking to me how much we know about
the dangers of drugs, period, the number of artists that
we know that have died at the hands of drug abuse.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Period.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
Me. I grew up and I saw what cocaine does
to people. I saw crackheads. I saw individuals I said
to myself, no way in hell I would ever want
to end up like that. And I know people who
dealt drugs, and I saw what would happen to them
by getting high on their own supply. Hell no, so

(31:08):
to me, it's shocking that now we see these artists
finding even new ways to test the limits of hardcore drugs.
Pink cocaine, my god. Man.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Look, I can tell you a number of stories of
being in the presence of Whitney Houston while she was
high out of her mind on any number of drugs.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
We know how that story ended.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's something that's very real to me, and I don't
want to oversell it, but yeah, I was there for
Grammy rehearsal when I was working at the Grammys and
Whitney Houston stumbled in drunk, high, hungover, incoherent, getting ready
trying to rehearse with C. C.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Windings. I remember that.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I remember going to the Playboy Mansion for an album
release party and Whitney was there with Bobby Brown and
they were, oh, they were incoherent. Hi, just kind of
meandering like zombies around the party. Whitty Houston was singing
gospel music to herself. It was just strange behavior. We
know how that story ended. I can tell you all

(32:13):
sorts of stories of any number of artists. You can too, Tuala. Yeah,
I'm just really surprised that it hasn't gotten any better
in the year since I've been out of the industry.

Speaker 5 (32:21):
I mean again, for this to be a new trend.
And it's not just this artist, Liam Payne. There's also
reports that this pink cocaine is somehow tied to Diddy
and some of the allegations of drug abuse that he
forced on individuals. Allegedly, this pink cocaine is something that's

(32:44):
out there now and is trending with today's artists. So
it's not just Liam Payne happened upon some allegedly, and
this is what l no, this is what's out there now.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
This is the new trendy high for artists.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
It is sad that this is now connected to this
young talenthend artist death, but it is shocking that all
the reports today are what on earth is pink cocaine.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
It's just the latest way for artists to end up dead.
That's it. That's it.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
And I'm not surprised that it's connected to Ditty because
you're talking about the same basic space, that same industry,
the same people who are going to the same parties.
I don't know if limb Paigne ever went to a
Ditty party, but the music industry is big, but it's
also small. We knew each other for the most part.
Oh you worked at so and so. Oh you work

(33:35):
with so and so. You're going to the same parties
and the same party favors are there. And I'm not
super pious or anything. I was just scared to death
of using any of that stuff because you lose control.
And also, and I did know in the back of
my mind, there was a predatory aspect of the industry.
And when you were indulging in drugs that you don't

(33:59):
know where they came from or who was responsible for them,
then you're putting your life in someone else's hands. And
that's something that I never wanted to do. I knew
my limits, and my limits were alcohol. That was it,
and I could pretty much control that with the bartender.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
We didn't have as much of.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
An issue with GHB back in that time that that
was It was real hypnol, but that was not as
prevalent as the stuff that's out there today.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, wow, you took it back with hypno.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Well, look, a lot of these stories in the news
are awaking a lot of these memories that I had
that hadn't thought about in years. The things that we
had to deal with and kind of navigate on a
daily basis that we didn't think we're a big deal.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Back then, that was just life and going to work.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
But now, as you're little bit older and you look back,
you realize, no, it was a very dangerous time. And
that's being born out by the stories we're hearing about
Diddy and other artists, the things that they were or
that artists went through, and it reminds us like, yeah,
I'm kind of glad that I avoided a lot of
this stuff.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
Oh my god, it just hit me. Another record rep
that we know that had a stroke and almost ode
doing cocaine.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I'll tell you off there, Okay, I think I know
who you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
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Speaker 1 (35:25):
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Speaker 2 (35:35):
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Speaker 1 (35:37):
Right now, and then you'll be able to wake up
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Haig on the International Space Station Wow, don't miss this
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Wake Up Call with Amy King between five and six am,
and of course got to check in on you make

(35:58):
sure that you're still ready to attend the pre Halloween
later with Mo Kelly Pre Halloween sua A, which is
coming up on the thirtieth at the helpful Honda Studios
here at iHeartMedia. I got a couple of costumes that
I'm trying to choose between. I gotta keep it low
key because I don't want that to distract from my show.

(36:19):
But I think I want to maybe change my costume
during the show I have.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
I'm all tight up. I don't know what to do. Tawalla,
where are you in this?

Speaker 5 (36:26):
I've already got my entire costume. I got everything ready
to go. I am excited my costume. As always when
it comes to all hollows, Eve is a statement. I
don't go all the time with a known character or
anything like that. I try to make statements. I try

(36:47):
to let my costumes be commentaries or an idea or
a thought. So when you see this one, everyone's gonna
say odd damn. When you get it, I promise you
odd damn is gonna be what you say.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Well, aw damn is what they're going to say.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Because this week will be the last week of giveaways
for passes to the sare. So this Friday is your
final opportunity to win passes. Let me say it one
more time, because I don't think you heard me. This
Friday for name that movie called Classic will be your
final opportunity to get passes to the later with Mo

(37:28):
Kelly pre Halloween Suare on October thirtieth. No, we're not
going to give them away on the twenty ninth. No,
you can't beg for Well, you can beg it. It's
not gonna help you know, doesn't matter what you say
on social media. People have been begging on social media.
I appreciate that. I am thankful for the interest, but
we have a head count that we must stand firm on.

(37:51):
They're gonna be other people in the house who are
not just attendees. We have guests who are going to
be interviewed. We have people associate with the show, we
have KFI personalities, and the fire Marshal is very strict
on how many people can be in this predefined area
and saying nothing of the food that we're going to have,

(38:12):
which is going to be crowding.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
The area, if you will so.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
A lot is going to be happening on the night
of the thirtieth, and a lot is going to be
happening this Friday. It is your last opportunity to win
passes to the later with mo Kelly Prix Halloween Sore
at the helpful Honda Studios, and the only way you
can get in is through the gatekeeper to Walla Sharp.

(38:37):
Do you have any recommendation?

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Yes, let me say this.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
If you have already won passes, do not call in again.
We have a couple of people who try to win
passes again on another night. I saw your name. You're
exed out for the second pass. I promise you that
we are keeping a tight, tight list. If you win once,
do not call in this. We are being very strict.

(39:02):
We are checking the names, checking the list, checking it twice.
We want everyone to have an opportunity to come and
hang out.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
And I get it. I get it. This is the Halloween.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
Party of the year, damn near the Halloween Party of
the century. I know why you want to be there,
but I'm sorry. I have got to keep a firm list.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
And beyond the passes, you're gonna get fed, you're gonna
get show swag, you may meet some people who go
to have a wonderful time. There's going to be a
post show tour of iHeartMedia, so you get to see
all the stations. I'm talking about all ninety eight point seven,
Real ninety two to three. There is my FM, and

(39:44):
there's also AM five to seventy LA Sports, our sports
partner station, And there's so much here for you to see.
Sometimes I take it for granted because I see it
every single day. But if you've never seen it before,
iHeart Los Angeles is a wonderful facility. Will take you
into the KFI studio so you can see all the
behind the scenes where you can see where every show

(40:06):
is broadcast from. I'm talking about the Bill Handles show,
I'm talking about Gary and Shannon, definitely talking about John
Cobel's show.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Oh don't forget.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
We got Tim Conway Junior, who knows he might even
stop by for the Halloween show. He's only right down
the street, so you never know he could show up,
and of course later with Mo Kelly.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
So we're gonna take you behind the scenes. So you
can see it all.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
But the only way that you'll have a chance to
enjoy any of this is to if you haven't already
get passes for the event on October thirtieth, And there's
only one way and only one person who's going to
allow you to get into the party.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
That's Tula Shark. So if you are mean to Tuala.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Or you get out of pocket, or you won't try
to insult him or something, I can promise you he
will hang up the phone and you'll never get through again.
I'm not saying, but I am just saying.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
Look, you cannot leave out the fact that we have
have major prizes for best costument, yes like that, So
we definitely want you all to come in costume. We're
all planning on dressing up. We want you to dress
up because this is a Halloween sore and we want
you to be there in Halloween spirit.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
I can't wait to meet you. Of Course i've heard
your voice. Of course we've had fun during the game,
and of course I'm very appreciative of you continuing to
support support this show. But I can't wait to meet
you in person, so you get to see who I
am and I get to see who you are, because
the show is doing well because you have continued to

(41:41):
support it, and this is our way of saying thank you,
and I can't wait to say thank you to you
in person. Who knows who else is going to show up?
Oh yeah, I just got word today. We got it
set up where Mark Ronner will be up in the
live broadcast with us. You get to see Mark Ronner
as well all of our commentators and contributors.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
It's going to be a great night and it's because
of you.

Speaker 5 (42:06):
This is something that we have been diligently planning behind
the scenes. If you don't know, both Mo and I
come from the world of entertainment and we are used
to doing things extra large when it comes to parties.
So just know we are bringing everything that we know
to make a party spectacular here for you. This is

(42:29):
our gift to you. This is our opportunity to thank
you for listening to us, and we truly hope you
show up and show out and have a good time
with us.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
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