October 30, 2024 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the Washington Post losing over 200k subscribers after owner Jeff Bezos blocked the Papers endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president…PLUS – A shocking new allegation of sexual assault on a minor has been levied against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs AND Metro has unveiled it’s new app - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
If I am sixty's later with Mo Kelly. We're live
everywhere the iHeartRadio app. And yes, we are monitoring the
Dodgers as they are in the top of the sixth inning.
The Yankees are still up five to four right now,
and we will let you know if anything should change.
You need not worry about missing anything. Well, if you
can turn on the Dodger game for the video and
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turn on the audio here for later with Mo Kelly
as we well.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm hoping I am really pulling for my Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
This would mean something to be on the air if
and win the Dodgers. I don't want to jinx it,
I don't want to chinx it, but I definitely would
like to be on the air if something wonderful word
to happen.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Let me put it that way. We have a huge
show for you to night.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Metro has a new and shiny app We're going to
tell you about next segment and I guess it has
some buttons on it and it can help you call
security and call for help just in case you get
stabbed or shanked or shot. It's everything that a Metro
busts and train rider would need. And Sean Ditty Combs.
He's back in the news. You know what that means.
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There's a new lawsuit, more accusations, more criminal conduct allegedly,
And of course we'll continue to monitor the Dodgers. But
I wanted to start with this something I started with
two of the past three nights or so. What has
been happening with our print media, you know, the Washington
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Post in the Los Angeles Times. They have both made
the decision, I should say, the outlets made the decision.
The editorial boards disagree with the decision, but the outlets
had made the decision that there would not be any
endorsement of a presidential candidate for this particular election, even
though at least with the LA Times they had an
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endorsement of every other race that was on the table,
and New York Times had every intention, at least from
its editorial staff, of making an endorsement, and in both instances,
from what we understand, the editorial staffs that it would
have been Vice President Kamala Harris. But I wanted to
dig down into this because you've had the respective owners.
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You've had Patrick sun Chong for the LA Times and
also Jeff Bezos for the Washington Post, say pretty much
the same thing they've said, and I'm paraphrasing, but it's
pretty much the same thing. They said that they did
not want to get into the fray. They didn't want
to influence the presidential campaign. They didn't want to distract
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from the larger discussion of the candidates, and they wanted
to encourage people like you and me to do our
own research. It's such a popular phrase, you know, do
your own research. And I wanted to say this and
Mark Runner he's out right now. I don't know if
he can jump on, but if he should here, okay,
good great. I remember when I was working for different
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editorial boards, different print media outlets, that there was an
editorial calendar, and nothing was done by chance, and nothing
was done at the last second.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Now you're onto something.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
We knew that come October we would have X, Y
and Z. Come November we would do a B and C.
And in years of a presidential election, all of that
was mapped out at least six months in advance. There
was no surprise to be had as far as what
was going to be printed by that outlet as you
got closer to an election. So for the respective owners
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to say this is what we've decided, and it's done
literally inside of two weeks before the election.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That goes against everything anyone with any.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Experience with print journalism would have experience would know as
a professional, you don't make editorial decisions to move any
other direction to not publish an editorial two weeks before
an election. That decision, if it were legitimate and sincere,
would have been made six months ago, and it would
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not have been a surprise to the editorial board.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And here's another thing.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
People need to be reminded that the editorial board or
the editorial journalists are different from the news staff, different
from the reporters.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The reporters they report the news.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
The editorial staff, you have the editorial columnists and the editors.
They get together and they decide what they will say
as one voice representing that outlet. The editorial board for
La Times, editorial board for the Washington Posts, those respective groups.
I've been working together on these endorsements. I can't speak
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for you, Mark and your particular experience, but my experience,
they would be working on them for at least three
four months.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh yeah, and the rationales for killing these things, for
spiking these at the LA Times Washington Post and now
USA today. They're completely dishonest and just utter hogwash.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You don't.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
First of all, you don't do that, as you indicated
a week or two before the election, when all this
stuff has been planned out. It is the owners, who
are not journalists, interfering with the free press. It's as
simple as that. It's absolutely unacceptable, and the Washington Post
is reaping the whirlwind right now. As of yesterday, I
don't know what the current figure is, but as of
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yesterday they had lost two hundred and fifty thousand subscribers
a quarter million. That is an enormous amount. That's more
than many papers total.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's probably more than that now, because that number was
gleaned from the number of cancelation subscription emails which were
sent out and staff inside the Washington Posts they were
able to get that number because of those emails, and
since that number has been reported, they, I guess for
sended that ability for the employees to find out any
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information about those cancelation subscriptions because it was embarrassing and
they didn't want that information going out. So it's probably
closer to three hundred thousand now, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What a shaka a newspaper deciding not to be fully transparent.
The Washington Post is committing sepuku right now. It is
horrifying to watch in real time.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The real problem is not only this particular election. It
doesn't matter what they do in the next election. It
doesn't matter what they do in the future. I don't
think that they're well. I put it this way. There
are things that you can do which can irrevocably damage
your reputation, and you will not be able to get
it back. You will not be able to get back
the trust and faith of not only your loyal readership,
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but also the general public. I'm not talking about how
people may cast legacy media fake news. I'm not talking
about the politicization politicization of it all. I'm talking about
the people who thoroughly understand how news works and appreciates
how it does work.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You're completely right.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Nobody is going to trust Nobody who follows the media
and journalism is going to trust The Washington Post as
long as Jeff Bezos is still running it. He has
just initiated a complete disaster. He needs to distance himself
from this. He needs to release it, sell it, do something,
put in a you know, do like what pro Publica
has done, but he's destroyed the paper's reputation and so
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has soon shown here in LA.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Originally, when either in both of them made their respective
purchases of those print media outlets, they both said, individually,
said that they were going to have like this invisible
partition where they were not going to interfere in the
actions of the respective outlets.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And that, of course now is just not true. You
can't undo this.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You can't get the horse back of the bar, and
you can't get the toothpaste back in the in the
tube and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Do they have? Do they have actual tubes for toothpaste anymore?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
They do? They do?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Do they? I don't use actually you don't brush your teeth, No,
you just take the point of order.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I use toothpaste, but it's in one of those stand
up containers. It's not like a tube that you roll
up so you push down.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yes, okay, I don't want to hijack things here, but
I think they've fixed toothpaste since the old days. You
don't relationships have broken up over how you squeeze and
roll the toothpaste tube. I got toothpaste now where you
where it? Just it just blops right out and you
don't have to squeeze it. Yeah, you don't have to
roll up a tooth paste container anymore. We're living in
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the future. But this has nothing to do with nothing journalism, nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But the point is that we have passed a rubicon,
the point of no return, all those things where you
can't undo what has already been done. And I don't
I'm not even sure that even if you were to
remove Patrick soon Chong or and or Jeff Bezos, that
this would right the ship in either instance.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well, let's give it a try first and see if
it works fair enough.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Got a little bit of bad news.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
The Yankees tacked on another run and they're up six
to four thanks to a home run by Austin Wells
last inning. They are now in the top of the
seventh Yankee six Dodgers four Dodgers are up at the
plate went out. We will continue to monitor and have
our fingers crossed and put on our rally caps, and
hopefully the Dodgers can pull out another spectacular last minute victory.
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So we will continue to watch that let's talk about
the Metro real quick.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
The Metro is best known for crime right about now.
Let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's not about getting people from home to work, it's
not about getting people around the city to the different
places of interest and sight seeing tours. No, it's about crime,
because that's all we hear about. That's all that it's
best covered for. To that end, we've had discussions about
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increasing police presence and increasing patrol somehow a dedicated police
force for the Metro and hopefully that would decrease the
amount of crime. Well, this is something else that Metro
is trying to do. They've revamped their app. In fact,
they've launched a new version of what they call the
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Transit Watch app.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Think of it like that.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You know how that you have the Neighborhood app where
you report all the crime in your neighborhood and all
your neighbors get to see how much crime is in
your neighborhood. It's kind of like that, but Metro style
and this Transit Watch app is it's real simple. You
can share information including your exact location, you can upload
videos in real time twenty four cents, and you will
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have a direct line to security. So as you're getting shanked,
you can send a direct line to security and say hey,
I'm getting shanked, here's a video, and share your location
and someone hopefully will be on their way to save you.
There's real time translation functionality from inbound and outbound messages
to accommodate limited English proficiency users. There's an optional share
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location feature which allows users to easily select the location
from where they are reporting, whether it be a station, bus, stop,
trainer bus.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And this is important. I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Back when I was writing Metro, there was no internet availability.
Once you went down in that subway tunnel, you were done.
You didn't have any type of phone service, you didn't
have any type of internet service. You were just on
your own. It was kind of like Escape from New York.
You're down the tunnel and you know whoever you encounter
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is whoever you encountered. Because it wasn't like there were
any police. You couldn't call for help. You couldn't call
nine one one. I'm being serious, there was really nothing
you could do. Well, it was less violent back then,
but as it's become more violent, it became more and
more apparent there needed to be some way for people
to be able to communicate. So they've now created, implemented,
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constructed the infrastructure so people can use their phones on
the train itself, in the tunnels and elsewhere connected to
the Metro and that's something good. So you can share
your location, you can contact security directly, and they say
expanded media capability allows users to upload videos in.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Addition to photos. How about that?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So Metro is trying to up their game where you
will have a greater ability to stay in touch with
Metro in the event that you should need assistance and
not have to wait or have to rely on some
other system to call for help. Is that going to
change everything? Probably not, but I think it's a step
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in the right direction.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
This is a humong as step in the right direction.
This is what we needed to hear about instead of
the green shirts. Not knocking the nice green shirt people,
but we needed something tangible, a way where we can
actually alert authorities away, where.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We can capture.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Because I don't want you to come at if I've say,
been stabbed. I don't want you to be asking me
questions about give us all the details on the assailant.
I snap a picture, it should go right to you.
I want you to be able to find this individual
at the next step, you know where it happened. You'll
be able to quickly get to the next couple stops
or getting to the area.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
This is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
What I do like about it is, let's say that
there are twenty thirty people around an incident. They can
all give pieces of that puzzle. You know, one person
may not get a direct frontal view photo of the
of the face of the would be assailant, but another
person could. And you can also track a person's movements
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because yes, the guy in the green hoodie, we just
saw him. He's here, or he's at the next station,
so forth. You can have a continuous flow of information
which could help make someone not necessarily safer, but there
would be a way to be able to track some
of these events and would be assailants.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, capture the criminals.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
It's most important that the individuals who are committing these
crimes aren't getting away with And that's what we've been seeing,
you know, for so long, that these random, you know,
out of nowhere attacks are happening and there's just hands
in the air like, oh know what we're gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Those more green shirts on the train. No, well, it's
a multi pronged approach. I think it needs to be.
It's not just security. There's also an information aspect to it.
Know if something happens, we need to know about it
as it happens, where it's happened, and where assistance is needed.
Because if you're on a train, for example, you may
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not be able to get in touch with a conductor
other than just pushing that emergency stop button, but you
may need an immediate assistance and you need to be
able to get that information out immediately instead of needing
some other person to relay that information.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
And this on top of the weapon detection system that
they're coming up with and enhanced by the Green Church.
Who should all be able to use this technology and
help to capture incidents in the moment. This is Metro
moving in the right direction. I know they're not going
to give you credit, but they should give you credit
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for at least brainstorming coming up with some ways.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
No, no, no, it is. It is very positive.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Now how functional it is, how practical it is, we'll
see because there will be other incidents in which it
can be used and see if it's effective in any way,
See if it can offer assistance in any way, if
it can fill in the gaps along the way. If
it can help in that regard, then you may not
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need as much people power to protect people, you know,
because if you have eyes everywhere, that's part of it.
If you have a communication ability everywhere, that's part of
the problem and also part of the solution. So yeah,
I think it's all going to work together, but it's
still going to still have to come back to it's
going to always work its way back to having some
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sort of legitimate armed security presence throughout the system. You
can't have people getting on a train at twelve thirty
in the morning and just fending for themselves. And you
can't have a system which is so open where it's
very easy for what be criminals to get on and
victimize other people. Those are the things which also have
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to be addressed. It's later with mo Kelly ca if
I am six forty, we are alive everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app and when we come back, we got to
tell you about the latest and it's actually pretty disturbing.
So I want to let you know this in advance.
It may not be good if you have any young
people around, But we have to tell you the latest
on P Diddy and this newest lawsuit which has been
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alleged it involves a minor, and it's also a minor
who allegedly is from Los Angeles. So if there is
a local connection to this next lawsuit, we'll tell you
about that next.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And as I said time and time again that there
would be more accusers, there would be more lawsuits, and
I said we were closer to the beginning than the end,
and I'm telling you once again there will be more.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Even beyond what I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
About to tell you, there will be more atuations, allegations
and accusers. There will be more with respect to Sean
p Ditty Combs. The latest one is a lawsuit which
was just filed here in LA and it alleges that
back in two thousand and five, the parents of a
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ten year old boy from LA sought to help their
son's ursioning career and flew with him to New York
to meet people in the music industry. This is not
an unusual story in that regard. P Diddy allegedly told
a consultant the family that the family hired that he
is in Ditty wanted to meet with the boy alone
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in a hotel room. The plaintiff performed several rap songs
for Diddy, who then told the boy, according to the lawsuit,
and he's referred to as John Doe in the suit,
that Diddy could make the boy a star. Then it says,
quote Combs asked the plaintiff how sadly he wanted to
be a star and what plaintiff would do to become one.
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The plaintiff responded, as any ten year old child, that
he would quote unquote do anything. According to the lawsuit,
one of the other people present gave the boy a soda,
which made him feel quote a little funny, And it
goes on this directly from the lawsuit. After plaintiff consumed
his soda and began feeling its effects, Combs told plaintiff
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to move closer to him, which the plaintiff did. Colmbs
then abruptly pushed plainiff down and said words to the
effect of, you have to do some stuff you don't
want to do sometimes. And then the lawsuit goes on
too graphically to describe an alleged sexual assault and it's
one of two new lawsuits which were filed against Diddy
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yesterday here in LA. There's going to be more. And
what we're seeing is you're seeing more and more miners accusations,
including miners that's not by accident. If it were one miner,
you think, Okay, maybe that one is the outlier, and
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we don't have to believe that. But when you're seeing
more and more, it starts to develop a pattern, and
you see that quite possibly that this was really prevalent
in his alleged criminal activity. Yes, this is a civil suit,
but it's alleging criminal activity.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
There were lots of stories when he had his Making
the band show of things he did to the contestants
and to even would be contestants outside of making them
walk miles to go get a slice of cheesecake that
involved torture, and some had alleged sexual acts, but it
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was kind of brushed off. Is Ah, that's Diddy, he
can get anyone.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Why would he do that? Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
But now when you look further at some of these
more recent lawsuits, these individuals who at the time were
minor sixteen and seventeen years old, some who were forced
into graphic sexual acts, some who said no and were
immediately disbarred from competing and or threatened within the industry,
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they would never go anywhere, this, that, and the other.
We're seeing more and more people coming out and as
you say, again, it this one young man doesn't have
to be true. But it only takes one of these
cases for me for everything to be true.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Right, because this is not the only then minor alleging
this criminal behavior. And this is something I have to
remind other people because wrongly, people were trying to say,
what is this?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Why is it?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
People are getting upset about freak costs? Why is it
they arrested him because of having sex parties. Sex parties
aren't illegal, no they're not, but we're talking about something
over and above, and in addition to those sex parties,
those alleged legal consenting adult sex parties, we're talking about
people being drugged. We're talking about minors also being involved.
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We're talking about people being forced against their will and
then threatened after the fact with violence. There's a lot
to this, and there's a whole lot more which is
still going to come out. We know that there are
other quote unquote celebrities who have been implicated, at least
by knowing who are witnesses to some of these alleged events.
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Some may have allegedly participated as well.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
They're quite sure varying levels of involvement with a lot
of people. So there's going to be a whole lot
more which is going to come out and which is
going to be both embarrassing and infuriating along the way.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
And these freak cofts weren't just consulting freak calls looking
deeper into some of the allegations. Because all of that
baby oil, allegedly that was purchased was laced with drugs,
So that was a part of getting people lucid and
in the mood, and that is a part of the
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ploy and how it was utilized. So people say, like,
what was he doing with all that baby or what
is the point of that? That was the point. It
was everyone get loose, and that was allegedly in the suits.
It's what was done with this substance. So the freak
coffs weren't just freak offs. They were they were opportunities
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to drug individuals and get them placid and victim IRUs allegedly.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Allegedly, it's Later with Mo Kelly. We'll give you a
Dodgers update when we come back. We're pulling for the Dodgers,
We're rooting for the Dodgers, but they are still behind.
Will give you more in just a moment. It's Later
with Mo Kelly, KFI AM six forty. We are live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
But if you're not watching the Dodgers right now, they
are still trailing the Yankees six to four. It is
now going into the bottom of the eighth inning. Unfortunately,
Max Monthsly just struck out to end the inning.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
It's not you know, it's not over, not all is lost.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It's just that the momentum is just not on the
Dodger's side. It seems this evening, after that Grand Slam
earlier in the evening, it seems like the Dodgers have
been skating ice, skating uphill, trying to get back in
this game.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
But it's not over going into the bottom of.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
The eighth, meaning the Yankees are coming up and the
Dodgers have one more inning, three more outs in which
to tie the game.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And I was talking to to Wallace like, gosh, I
would love the Dodgers to win. But if the Dodgers
were to win, what does that mean for my drive home?
Am I gonna make it home safely?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Can you imagine if the Dodgers were to win the
World Series and sweep the Yankees tonight.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
What that would mean for LA?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I know, between me and Steph, we would have to
get home and board up the houses as quickly as
possible because the fireworks alone, the street takeovers, all that
would be out of control.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And I'm saying, I'm like conflicted.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It's like, I want the Dodgers to win, but I
know what that will likely mean. It means that I
will have to dodge Molotov cocktails on the way home,
land mines, and all sorts of foolishness which will be
going on for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Hey, Steph, let me just ask you.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Have you heard the rash of the fireworks over the
past couple of days?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Have you been hearing those as well? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I thought that was just me, but yeah, there's been
a couple of nights where I'm just like, really, what's
I mean? Like Fourth of July ESK going on for hours,
extensive fireworks display, and then I was Then I thought,
because it's funny you mentioned fireworks.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Then I thought, maybe it's because of some of the victories. Maybe,
but it seems yeah, random.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
It wasn't like it just was at the end the
back of the baseball game, because the baseball game would
be over at like eight o'clock our time, and it
was going well well into the new the night, and
I was waking up in the middle of and I
thinking like, wait a minute, is this like July or something?
Because I know in my neighborhood I can't speak for yours,
but in mine, the fireworks would go from about April
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to August, maybe September, but not into November. We're looking
at November. So it was really strange to roll over
middle of night of like October twenty seventh and have
all these fireworks going off as if it were a
major event or a major celebration. I didn't quite understand it.
And I know if I could hear it and feel
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it that Stephan you probably could hear it exactly as well.
The first time it happened, I thought it was maybe
just like I don't know, the party was just getting
too loud. But then after like the second night, or
when it was just a random time, I could hear
like the Pops and the and they're like boom in
it rattles the the kind of the four Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Now there's certain sporting events, I know they're going to
be fireworks. The USA is playing Mexico at the Coliseum
for like the CONCAF or something like that, I know
they're gonna be fireworks later that night, and I just
planned my life accordingly. I know the night of the
super Bowl, it doesn't matter who's playing in the game,
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they're gonna be fireworks in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Fourth of July. Of course, if the.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Lakers are playing in the playoffs, they're gonna be fireworks
if they do well. If or like last weekend or
two weeks ago, when the Rams were playing the Raiders, fireworks,
it did not matter. It just meant that there was
a football game at so Far and the Raiders were
playing in it. It was more about the Raiders than it
actually was the Rams, because the Rams would be there
every other week and you won't have the fireworks. But
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when the Raiders were there, fireworks were everywhere, So long
story short, watching the Dodger game, even though I want
them to win, it's going to turn into a thing
for me personally if they do, and I have to
think about how I'm going to be able to drive
home safely, can't take the surface streets, and the One
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ten is going to be did you ever drive down
to One ten on like fourth of July and see
how the fireworks the light up both sides of the
tea shrip down that night? Because this is like non
and you know that you see the professional ones and
you're like, that's someone's apartment in East or something central apartment.
It's not like it's it's it's Wilson Park in Torrance
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where you have like this open field, this professional you
know fireworks show. No, it's a professional show coming out
of somebody's backyard. And the thing about that too is
you know, if you're not familiar with that area, they're
clustered up, like they're real close together. So I mean,
one fireworker hit a house with without even trying because
they're you know, they're right next to each other, they're
right on top of each other. What I've never understood,
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and I intellectually understand, but I'm just saying in a
general sense, I don't status how they managed to keep
themselves so well supplied throughout the year. I mean, who
is this year round fireworks business? Now? I know a
lot of it is coming from south of the border.
I just know that because I've talked to some folks
in my neighborhood and they're saying that's where they're getting
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it from.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I'll take their word for it.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It's not like they're getting it from the fireworks stand
two streets down in Inglewood where they're legal. No, these
are professional grade and they're coming from somewhere other than
right around the corner. So back to the Dodgers. They
are still down six to four. The Yankees are batting
right now, and I know you're probably living and dying
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within with me. This is my concern, and I don't
want to be a negative Nancy, but it's been on
my mind with the Dodgers up three games to zero,
and anyone who has ever spent any time following professional sports,
it is always most difficult trying to close out a team.
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It's one thing to get a three game to zero
the lead, it's another thing to get that fourth and
final win, and I believe the Yankees have been playing
under their potential. Yes, the Dodgers have been playing very well,
but the Yankees are eventually gonna come out of their slump.
The Yankees are gonna start hitting. Some thing's gonna go
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their way. They're gonna get some timely hits. They're gonna
have some good luck. I hope it won't be until
next season, but there's a distinct possibility it could start
tonight or it has already started tonight, and then the
Yankees start developing. So momentum, we just had to play
right now. Where the Yankee hitter just hit a double,
actually was a single. He was going to be tagged
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out at second and the Dodgers player dropped the ball.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
So the Dodgers are in trouble again. They have someone
on second base.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yankees have someone on second base with one out, and
you don't want to give up more runs. But this
is the time where I'm just really stressed because the
Dodgers never make anything simple. I would I wish they
would have come in and got those first two runs
like they did and then just blew.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Out the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And so the Yankees just would have given up earlier
on in the game, but it didn't happen that way.
And I just feel this momentum shift and I'm dreading
it getting bigger and bigger. I know it was highly
unlikely that the Dodgers were going to sweep, but I
didn't want the Yankees to get an inkling that they
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had any chance to win this series. And it doesn't
take much for another team to start getting momentum, and
then the next thing you know, they're going back to
Dodger Stadium with a three to two series as opposed
to ending it here in New York. So right now
it's still six ' four Yankees over the Dodgers. There's
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one runner on at second base with one out. Will
continue to follow this. Hopefully the Dodgers can pull it
out and have everyone start celebrating the rest of the
night and ruin my drive home. If you're going to
ruin my drive home, I would rather be for the
Dodgers winning their eighth World Series. Will continue to follow it.
It's later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty. We
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Speaker 4 (32:18):
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Speaker 2 (32:23):
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Speaker 3 (32:26):
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Dodgers as they are in the top of the sixth inning.
The Yankees are still up five to four right now,
and we will let you know if anything should change.
You need not worry about missing anything. Well, if you
can turn on the Dodger game for the video and
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turn on the audio here for later with Mo Kelly
as we well.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm hoping I am really pulling for my Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
This would mean something to be on the air if
and win the Dodgers. I don't want to jinx it,
I don't want to chinx it, but I definitely would
like to be on the air if something wonderful word
to happen.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Let me put it that way. We have a huge
show for you to night.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Metro has a new and shiny app We're going to
tell you about next segment and I guess it has
some buttons on it and it can help you call
security and call for help just in case you get
stabbed or shanked or shot. It's everything that a Metro
busts and train rider would need. And Sean Ditty Combs.
He's back in the news. You know what that means.
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There's a new lawsuit, more accusations, more criminal conduct allegedly,
And of course we'll continue to monitor the Dodgers. But
I wanted to start with this something I started with
two of the past three nights or so. What has
been happening with our print media, you know, the Washington
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Post in the Los Angeles Times. They have both made
the decision, I should say, the outlets made the decision.
The editorial boards disagree with the decision, but the outlets
had made the decision that there would not be any
endorsement of a presidential candidate for this particular election, even
though at least with the LA Times they had an
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endorsement of every other race that was on the table,
and New York Times had every intention, at least from
its editorial staff, of making an endorsement, and in both instances,
from what we understand, the editorial staffs that it would
have been Vice President Kamala Harris. But I wanted to
dig down into this because you've had the respective owners.
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You've had Patrick sun Chong for the LA Times and
also Jeff Bezos for the Washington Post, say pretty much
the same thing they've said, and I'm paraphrasing, but it's
pretty much the same thing. They said that they did
not want to get into the fray. They didn't want
to influence the presidential campaign. They didn't want to distract
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from the larger discussion of the candidates, and they wanted
to encourage people like you and me to do our
own research. It's such a popular phrase, you know, do
your own research. And I wanted to say this and
Mark Runner he's out right now. I don't know if
he can jump on, but if he should here, okay,
good great. I remember when I was working for different
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editorial boards, different print media outlets, that there was an
editorial calendar, and nothing was done by chance, and nothing
was done at the last second.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Now you're onto something.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
We knew that come October we would have X, Y
and Z. Come November we would do a B and C.
And in years of a presidential election, all of that
was mapped out at least six months in advance. There
was no surprise to be had as far as what
was going to be printed by that outlet as you
got closer to an election. So for the respective owners
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to say this is what we've decided, and it's done
literally inside of two weeks before the election.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That goes against everything anyone with any.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Experience with print journalism would have experience would know as
a professional, you don't make editorial decisions to move any
other direction to not publish an editorial two weeks before
an election. That decision, if it were legitimate and sincere,
would have been made six months ago, and it would
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not have been a surprise to the editorial board.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And here's another thing.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
People need to be reminded that the editorial board or
the editorial journalists are different from the news staff, different
from the reporters.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The reporters they report the news.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
The editorial staff, you have the editorial columnists and the editors.
They get together and they decide what they will say
as one voice representing that outlet. The editorial board for
La Times, editorial board for the Washington Posts, those respective groups.
I've been working together on these endorsements. I can't speak
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for you, Mark and your particular experience, but my experience,
they would be working on them for at least three
four months.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh yeah, and the rationales for killing these things, for
spiking these at the LA Times Washington Post and now
USA today. They're completely dishonest and just utter hogwash.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You don't.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
First of all, you don't do that, as you indicated
a week or two before the election, when all this
stuff has been planned out. It is the owners, who
are not journalists, interfering with the free press. It's as
simple as that. It's absolutely unacceptable, and the Washington Post
is reaping the whirlwind right now. As of yesterday, I
don't know what the current figure is, but as of
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yesterday they had lost two hundred and fifty thousand subscribers
a quarter million. That is an enormous amount. That's more
than many papers total.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's probably more than that now, because that number was
gleaned from the number of cancelation subscription emails which were
sent out and staff inside the Washington Posts they were
able to get that number because of those emails, and
since that number has been reported, they, I guess for
sended that ability for the employees to find out any
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information about those cancelation subscriptions because it was embarrassing and
they didn't want that information going out. So it's probably
closer to three hundred thousand now, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What a shaka a newspaper deciding not to be fully transparent.
The Washington Post is committing sepuku right now. It is
horrifying to watch in real time.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The real problem is not only this particular election. It
doesn't matter what they do in the next election. It
doesn't matter what they do in the future. I don't
think that they're well. I put it this way. There
are things that you can do which can irrevocably damage
your reputation, and you will not be able to get
it back. You will not be able to get back
the trust and faith of not only your loyal readership,
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but also the general public. I'm not talking about how
people may cast legacy media fake news. I'm not talking
about the politicization politicization of it all. I'm talking about
the people who thoroughly understand how news works and appreciates
how it does work.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You're completely right.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Nobody is going to trust Nobody who follows the media
and journalism is going to trust The Washington Post as
long as Jeff Bezos is still running it. He has
just initiated a complete disaster. He needs to distance himself
from this. He needs to release it, sell it, do something,
put in a you know, do like what pro Publica
has done, but he's destroyed the paper's reputation and so
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has soon shown here in LA.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Originally, when either in both of them made their respective
purchases of those print media outlets, they both said, individually,
said that they were going to have like this invisible
partition where they were not going to interfere in the
actions of the respective outlets.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And that, of course now is just not true. You
can't undo this.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You can't get the horse back of the bar, and
you can't get the toothpaste back in the in the
tube and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Do they have? Do they have actual tubes for toothpaste anymore?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
They do? They do?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Do they? I don't use actually you don't brush your teeth, No,
you just take the point of order.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I use toothpaste, but it's in one of those stand
up containers. It's not like a tube that you roll
up so you push down.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yes, okay, I don't want to hijack things here, but
I think they've fixed toothpaste since the old days. You
don't relationships have broken up over how you squeeze and
roll the toothpaste tube. I got toothpaste now where you
where it? Just it just blops right out and you
don't have to squeeze it. Yeah, you don't have to
roll up a tooth paste container anymore. We're living in
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the future. But this has nothing to do with nothing journalism, nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But the point is that we have passed a rubicon,
the point of no return, all those things where you
can't undo what has already been done. And I don't
I'm not even sure that even if you were to
remove Patrick soon Chong or and or Jeff Bezos, that
this would right the ship in either instance.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well, let's give it a try first and see if
it works fair enough.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Got a little bit of bad news.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
The Yankees tacked on another run and they're up six
to four thanks to a home run by Austin Wells
last inning. They are now in the top of the
seventh Yankee six Dodgers four Dodgers are up at the
plate went out. We will continue to monitor and have
our fingers crossed and put on our rally caps, and
hopefully the Dodgers can pull out another spectacular last minute victory.
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So we will continue to watch that let's talk about
the Metro real quick.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
The Metro is best known for crime right about now.
Let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's not about getting people from home to work, it's
not about getting people around the city to the different
places of interest and sight seeing tours. No, it's about crime,
because that's all we hear about. That's all that it's
best covered for. To that end, we've had discussions about
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increasing police presence and increasing patrol somehow a dedicated police
force for the Metro and hopefully that would decrease the
amount of crime. Well, this is something else that Metro
is trying to do. They've revamped their app. In fact,
they've launched a new version of what they call the
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Transit Watch app.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Think of it like that.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You know how that you have the Neighborhood app where
you report all the crime in your neighborhood and all
your neighbors get to see how much crime is in
your neighborhood. It's kind of like that, but Metro style
and this Transit Watch app is it's real simple. You
can share information including your exact location, you can upload
videos in real time twenty four cents, and you will
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have a direct line to security. So as you're getting shanked,
you can send a direct line to security and say hey,
I'm getting shanked, here's a video, and share your location
and someone hopefully will be on their way to save you.
There's real time translation functionality from inbound and outbound messages
to accommodate limited English proficiency users. There's an optional share
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location feature which allows users to easily select the location
from where they are reporting, whether it be a station, bus, stop,
trainer bus.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And this is important. I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Back when I was writing Metro, there was no internet availability.
Once you went down in that subway tunnel, you were done.
You didn't have any type of phone service, you didn't
have any type of internet service. You were just on
your own. It was kind of like Escape from New York.
You're down the tunnel and you know whoever you encounter
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is whoever you encountered. Because it wasn't like there were
any police. You couldn't call for help. You couldn't call
nine one one. I'm being serious, there was really nothing
you could do. Well, it was less violent back then,
but as it's become more violent, it became more and
more apparent there needed to be some way for people
to be able to communicate. So they've now created, implemented,
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constructed the infrastructure so people can use their phones on
the train itself, in the tunnels and elsewhere connected to
the Metro and that's something good. So you can share
your location, you can contact security directly, and they say
expanded media capability allows users to upload videos in.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Addition to photos. How about that?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So Metro is trying to up their game where you
will have a greater ability to stay in touch with
Metro in the event that you should need assistance and
not have to wait or have to rely on some
other system to call for help. Is that going to
change everything? Probably not, but I think it's a step
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in the right direction.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
This is a humong as step in the right direction.
This is what we needed to hear about instead of
the green shirts. Not knocking the nice green shirt people,
but we needed something tangible, a way where we can
actually alert authorities away, where.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We can capture.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Because I don't want you to come at if I've say,
been stabbed. I don't want you to be asking me
questions about give us all the details on the assailant.
I snap a picture, it should go right to you.
I want you to be able to find this individual
at the next step, you know where it happened. You'll
be able to quickly get to the next couple stops
or getting to the area.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
This is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
What I do like about it is, let's say that
there are twenty thirty people around an incident. They can
all give pieces of that puzzle. You know, one person
may not get a direct frontal view photo of the
of the face of the would be assailant, but another
person could. And you can also track a person's movements
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because yes, the guy in the green hoodie, we just
saw him. He's here, or he's at the next station,
so forth. You can have a continuous flow of information
which could help make someone not necessarily safer, but there
would be a way to be able to track some
of these events and would be assailants.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, capture the criminals.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
It's most important that the individuals who are committing these
crimes aren't getting away with And that's what we've been seeing,
you know, for so long, that these random, you know,
out of nowhere attacks are happening and there's just hands
in the air like, oh know what we're gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Those more green shirts on the train. No, well, it's
a multi pronged approach. I think it needs to be.
It's not just security. There's also an information aspect to it.
Know if something happens, we need to know about it
as it happens, where it's happened, and where assistance is needed.
Because if you're on a train, for example, you may
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not be able to get in touch with a conductor
other than just pushing that emergency stop button, but you
may need an immediate assistance and you need to be
able to get that information out immediately instead of needing
some other person to relay that information.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
And this on top of the weapon detection system that
they're coming up with and enhanced by the Green Church.
Who should all be able to use this technology and
help to capture incidents in the moment. This is Metro
moving in the right direction. I know they're not going
to give you credit, but they should give you credit
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for at least brainstorming coming up with some ways.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
No, no, no, it is. It is very positive.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Now how functional it is, how practical it is, we'll
see because there will be other incidents in which it
can be used and see if it's effective in any way,
See if it can offer assistance in any way, if
it can fill in the gaps along the way. If
it can help in that regard, then you may not
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need as much people power to protect people, you know,
because if you have eyes everywhere, that's part of it.
If you have a communication ability everywhere, that's part of
the problem and also part of the solution. So yeah,
I think it's all going to work together, but it's
still going to still have to come back to it's
going to always work its way back to having some
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sort of legitimate armed security presence throughout the system. You
can't have people getting on a train at twelve thirty
in the morning and just fending for themselves. And you
can't have a system which is so open where it's
very easy for what be criminals to get on and
victimize other people. Those are the things which also have
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to be addressed. It's later with mo Kelly ca if
I am six forty, we are alive everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app and when we come back, we got to
tell you about the latest and it's actually pretty disturbing.
So I want to let you know this in advance.
It may not be good if you have any young
people around, But we have to tell you the latest
on P Diddy and this newest lawsuit which has been
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alleged it involves a minor, and it's also a minor
who allegedly is from Los Angeles. So if there is
a local connection to this next lawsuit, we'll tell you
about that next.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And as I said time and time again that there
would be more accusers, there would be more lawsuits, and
I said we were closer to the beginning than the end,
and I'm telling you once again there will be more.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Even beyond what I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
About to tell you, there will be more atuations, allegations
and accusers. There will be more with respect to Sean
p Ditty Combs. The latest one is a lawsuit which
was just filed here in LA and it alleges that
back in two thousand and five, the parents of a
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ten year old boy from LA sought to help their
son's ursioning career and flew with him to New York
to meet people in the music industry. This is not
an unusual story in that regard. P Diddy allegedly told
a consultant the family that the family hired that he
is in Ditty wanted to meet with the boy alone
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in a hotel room. The plaintiff performed several rap songs
for Diddy, who then told the boy, according to the lawsuit,
and he's referred to as John Doe in the suit,
that Diddy could make the boy a star. Then it says,
quote Combs asked the plaintiff how sadly he wanted to
be a star and what plaintiff would do to become one.
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The plaintiff responded, as any ten year old child, that
he would quote unquote do anything. According to the lawsuit,
one of the other people present gave the boy a soda,
which made him feel quote a little funny, And it
goes on this directly from the lawsuit. After plaintiff consumed
his soda and began feeling its effects, Combs told plaintiff
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to move closer to him, which the plaintiff did. Colmbs
then abruptly pushed plainiff down and said words to the
effect of, you have to do some stuff you don't
want to do sometimes. And then the lawsuit goes on
too graphically to describe an alleged sexual assault and it's
one of two new lawsuits which were filed against Diddy
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yesterday here in LA. There's going to be more. And
what we're seeing is you're seeing more and more miners accusations,
including miners that's not by accident. If it were one miner,
you think, Okay, maybe that one is the outlier, and
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we don't have to believe that. But when you're seeing
more and more, it starts to develop a pattern, and
you see that quite possibly that this was really prevalent
in his alleged criminal activity. Yes, this is a civil suit,
but it's alleging criminal activity.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
There were lots of stories when he had his Making
the band show of things he did to the contestants
and to even would be contestants outside of making them
walk miles to go get a slice of cheesecake that
involved torture, and some had alleged sexual acts, but it
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was kind of brushed off. Is Ah, that's Diddy, he
can get anyone.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Why would he do that? Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
But now when you look further at some of these
more recent lawsuits, these individuals who at the time were
minor sixteen and seventeen years old, some who were forced
into graphic sexual acts, some who said no and were
immediately disbarred from competing and or threatened within the industry,
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they would never go anywhere, this, that, and the other.
We're seeing more and more people coming out and as
you say, again, it this one young man doesn't have
to be true. But it only takes one of these
cases for me for everything to be true.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Right, because this is not the only then minor alleging
this criminal behavior. And this is something I have to
remind other people because wrongly, people were trying to say,
what is this?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Why is it?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
People are getting upset about freak costs? Why is it
they arrested him because of having sex parties. Sex parties
aren't illegal, no they're not, but we're talking about something
over and above, and in addition to those sex parties,
those alleged legal consenting adult sex parties, we're talking about
people being drugged. We're talking about minors also being involved.
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We're talking about people being forced against their will and
then threatened after the fact with violence. There's a lot
to this, and there's a whole lot more which is
still going to come out. We know that there are
other quote unquote celebrities who have been implicated, at least
by knowing who are witnesses to some of these alleged events.
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Some may have allegedly participated as well.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
They're quite sure varying levels of involvement with a lot
of people. So there's going to be a whole lot
more which is going to come out and which is
going to be both embarrassing and infuriating along the way.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
And these freak cofts weren't just consulting freak calls looking
deeper into some of the allegations. Because all of that
baby oil, allegedly that was purchased was laced with drugs,
So that was a part of getting people lucid and
in the mood, and that is a part of the
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ploy and how it was utilized. So people say, like,
what was he doing with all that baby or what
is the point of that? That was the point. It
was everyone get loose, and that was allegedly in the suits.
It's what was done with this substance. So the freak
coffs weren't just freak offs. They were they were opportunities
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to drug individuals and get them placid and victim IRUs allegedly.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Allegedly, it's Later with Mo Kelly. We'll give you a
Dodgers update when we come back. We're pulling for the Dodgers,
We're rooting for the Dodgers, but they are still behind.
Will give you more in just a moment. It's Later
with Mo Kelly, KFI AM six forty. We are live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
But if you're not watching the Dodgers right now, they
are still trailing the Yankees six to four. It is
now going into the bottom of the eighth inning. Unfortunately,
Max Monthsly just struck out to end the inning.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
It's not you know, it's not over, not all is lost.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It's just that the momentum is just not on the
Dodger's side. It seems this evening, after that Grand Slam
earlier in the evening, it seems like the Dodgers have
been skating ice, skating uphill, trying to get back in
this game.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
But it's not over going into the bottom of.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
The eighth, meaning the Yankees are coming up and the
Dodgers have one more inning, three more outs in which
to tie the game.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And I was talking to to Wallace like, gosh, I
would love the Dodgers to win. But if the Dodgers
were to win, what does that mean for my drive home?
Am I gonna make it home safely?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Can you imagine if the Dodgers were to win the
World Series and sweep the Yankees tonight.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
What that would mean for LA?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I know, between me and Steph, we would have to
get home and board up the houses as quickly as
possible because the fireworks alone, the street takeovers, all that
would be out of control.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And I'm saying, I'm like conflicted.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It's like, I want the Dodgers to win, but I
know what that will likely mean. It means that I
will have to dodge Molotov cocktails on the way home,
land mines, and all sorts of foolishness which will be
going on for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Hey, Steph, let me just ask you.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Have you heard the rash of the fireworks over the
past couple of days?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Have you been hearing those as well? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I thought that was just me, but yeah, there's been
a couple of nights where I'm just like, really, what's
I mean? Like Fourth of July ESK going on for hours,
extensive fireworks display, and then I was Then I thought,
because it's funny you mentioned fireworks.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Then I thought, maybe it's because of some of the victories. Maybe,
but it seems yeah, random.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
It wasn't like it just was at the end the
back of the baseball game, because the baseball game would
be over at like eight o'clock our time, and it
was going well well into the new the night, and
I was waking up in the middle of and I
thinking like, wait a minute, is this like July or something?
Because I know in my neighborhood I can't speak for yours,
but in mine, the fireworks would go from about April
(26:21):
to August, maybe September, but not into November. We're looking
at November. So it was really strange to roll over
middle of night of like October twenty seventh and have
all these fireworks going off as if it were a
major event or a major celebration. I didn't quite understand it.
And I know if I could hear it and feel
(26:44):
it that Stephan you probably could hear it exactly as well.
The first time it happened, I thought it was maybe
just like I don't know, the party was just getting
too loud. But then after like the second night, or
when it was just a random time, I could hear
like the Pops and the and they're like boom in
it rattles the the kind of the four Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Now there's certain sporting events, I know they're going to
be fireworks. The USA is playing Mexico at the Coliseum
for like the CONCAF or something like that, I know
they're gonna be fireworks later that night, and I just
planned my life accordingly. I know the night of the
super Bowl, it doesn't matter who's playing in the game,
(27:24):
they're gonna be fireworks in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Fourth of July. Of course, if the.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Lakers are playing in the playoffs, they're gonna be fireworks
if they do well. If or like last weekend or
two weeks ago, when the Rams were playing the Raiders, fireworks,
it did not matter. It just meant that there was
a football game at so Far and the Raiders were
playing in it. It was more about the Raiders than it
actually was the Rams, because the Rams would be there
every other week and you won't have the fireworks. But
(27:51):
when the Raiders were there, fireworks were everywhere, So long
story short, watching the Dodger game, even though I want
them to win, it's going to turn into a thing
for me personally if they do, and I have to
think about how I'm going to be able to drive
home safely, can't take the surface streets, and the One
(28:13):
ten is going to be did you ever drive down
to One ten on like fourth of July and see
how the fireworks the light up both sides of the
tea shrip down that night? Because this is like non
and you know that you see the professional ones and
you're like, that's someone's apartment in East or something central apartment.
It's not like it's it's it's Wilson Park in Torrance
(28:34):
where you have like this open field, this professional you
know fireworks show. No, it's a professional show coming out
of somebody's backyard. And the thing about that too is
you know, if you're not familiar with that area, they're
clustered up, like they're real close together. So I mean,
one fireworker hit a house with without even trying because
they're you know, they're right next to each other, they're
right on top of each other. What I've never understood,
(28:56):
and I intellectually understand, but I'm just saying in a
general sense, I don't status how they managed to keep
themselves so well supplied throughout the year. I mean, who
is this year round fireworks business? Now? I know a
lot of it is coming from south of the border.
I just know that because I've talked to some folks
in my neighborhood and they're saying that's where they're getting
(29:17):
it from.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I'll take their word for it.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It's not like they're getting it from the fireworks stand
two streets down in Inglewood where they're legal. No, these
are professional grade and they're coming from somewhere other than
right around the corner. So back to the Dodgers. They
are still down six to four. The Yankees are batting
right now, and I know you're probably living and dying
(29:40):
within with me. This is my concern, and I don't
want to be a negative Nancy, but it's been on
my mind with the Dodgers up three games to zero,
and anyone who has ever spent any time following professional sports,
it is always most difficult trying to close out a team.
(30:02):
It's one thing to get a three game to zero
the lead, it's another thing to get that fourth and
final win, and I believe the Yankees have been playing
under their potential. Yes, the Dodgers have been playing very well,
but the Yankees are eventually gonna come out of their slump.
The Yankees are gonna start hitting. Some thing's gonna go
(30:23):
their way. They're gonna get some timely hits. They're gonna
have some good luck. I hope it won't be until
next season, but there's a distinct possibility it could start
tonight or it has already started tonight, and then the
Yankees start developing. So momentum, we just had to play
right now. Where the Yankee hitter just hit a double,
actually was a single. He was going to be tagged
(30:44):
out at second and the Dodgers player dropped the ball.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
So the Dodgers are in trouble again. They have someone
on second base.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yankees have someone on second base with one out, and
you don't want to give up more runs. But this
is the time where I'm just really stressed because the
Dodgers never make anything simple. I would I wish they
would have come in and got those first two runs
like they did and then just blew.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Out the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And so the Yankees just would have given up earlier
on in the game, but it didn't happen that way.
And I just feel this momentum shift and I'm dreading
it getting bigger and bigger. I know it was highly
unlikely that the Dodgers were going to sweep, but I
didn't want the Yankees to get an inkling that they
(31:32):
had any chance to win this series. And it doesn't
take much for another team to start getting momentum, and
then the next thing you know, they're going back to
Dodger Stadium with a three to two series as opposed
to ending it here in New York. So right now
it's still six ' four Yankees over the Dodgers. There's
(31:54):
one runner on at second base with one out. Will
continue to follow this. Hopefully the Dodgers can pull it
out and have everyone start celebrating the rest of the
night and ruin my drive home. If you're going to
ruin my drive home, I would rather be for the
Dodgers winning their eighth World Series. Will continue to follow it.
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