January 2, 2025 • 39 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A recap of Mo’s NYE celebration on Catalina Island AND thoughts on the wanton acts of terrorism in New Orleans and Las Vegas - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's year three later with Mo Kelly can if I
Am six forty were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio happened.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm back, baby, I'm back. I'm back.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I'm back at a good New Year's Eve turning in
the New Year's Day, that much I could remember of it,
at least it was a good eating. I'm gonna tell
you all about it. I'm gonna talk about all the news.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
There's so much to cover, but let me just say
first and foremost, I'm glad to be back here talking
to you. I'm glad to be able to see to Wala,
to be able to see Stephan, to be able to.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
See go ahead, well you too, Mar saying it's doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, Yes. All I can say is well, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm not going to tell the full names in order
to protect the guilty. But for my New Year's Eve,
I went to the annual New Year's Eve gala celebration
on Catalina Island at the Casino Ballroom. This was a
choice of my wife. I didn't know anything about it.
She got the tickets back in August. And when I
(01:27):
say Casino Ballroom, there's no gambling. It's just a big
ass ballroom and if you've been to Catalina Island, it's
very prominently featured.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We went over New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I think it was like maybe three o'clock in the afternoon,
had some time to get some food, get in a
little nap, then we.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Put on our clothes. It was black tie optional. I
opted not for black tie. If you go to at
mister mo Kelly on Instagram, you can see what I wore.
For the most part, I have some about the pictures
I haven't put up in you get an idea of
what I was wearing. But my point is it was
a dressy affair, and when you make your reservations you
can't guarantee that it'll just be you and your guest.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You may be placed at a table with other guests.
It's not unusual.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Wasn't off putting, and we were put at a table
with a couple by the name of Mark and Pam.
They're from Orange County, probably KFI listeners, probably listening right now,
and I'm not going to tell you their last names.
Mark and Pam were very, very gracious, They were great fun.
(02:30):
They were seated at the table before we were.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And you have times in which you're supposed to be seated,
and it was buffet style. Get your food. It was
seven o'clock, seven thirty, eight o'clock and eight thirty. Mark
and Pam were eight o'clock. We were Me and La
bue Hair were eight o'clock. So we get our food.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Food was good, have beef, medallion, salmon, had all sorts
of food. And I think at this point I'm maybe
four jacks in, not jack and coke. I just I've
cut out the mixer of my old age because I've
known that if you add sugar to the alcohol, you're
more likely to get sick.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
All right, Hey, you're just straight jack, straight jack, four jack.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, no, no, it was more than four before the evening,
so I'm saying at this point I'm four jackson, I'm
add two double neat Jack, double neat. Okay, I'm not driving.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I'm just walking from our hotel to the casino ballroom
is about a ten to fifteen minute walk.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
That's important. I'll tell you why real quick. Moe is
very proud of that. He was he was sure, no driving,
no danger. That what I just had is his neat
is jack neat, and that was awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I could dance. I didn't fall down, I didn't get sick,
none of that. All right, I've an accomplished drinker. Don't
call me a drunk. That was later in the evening,
but we got our food at eight o'clock, had casual
conversation with Mark and Pam from Orange County.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
All right.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I'm not going to say their last name of what
they do, but they're from Orange County. And if you
happen to know anyone named Mark and Pam who are married,
who went to Catalina Island, it's them. Well, Mark and
Pam got to the table before we did, and they
already had started sharing a bottle of wine between them.
They were very affectionate couple, very gracious, very nice. So
I don't mean this with any type of malicer animosity,
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but I could tell they were.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Getting little frisky with each other at the table. And
at nine o'clock the band started playing.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I can't remember the name of I'll try to get
it because I want to give them their due credit.
It's a really good band. Band started playing at nine
o'clock and about nine to fifteen, Pam stands up and says, hey,
you know, good talking to you guys. Mark and I
are going to go back to our hotel room. We'll
probably catch you later on tonight.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now Mark is wearing a tuxedo, he's black tied, and
Pam is wearing about a floor length gown if I
remember correctly, And is it wrong for me to assume
that they went back to the hotel to get their
freak gone. No, I'm thinking you're already dressed up for
the evening. You've already had a bottle of wine that
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you share between each other and you and it's at
least a ten to fifteen minute walk back to your hotel.
You're all dressed up, and you're saying you're going to
leave the event for some undisclosed reason. I have to
assume that somebody got their back blown out. I'm just
assuming they got their freaking Am I wrong to assume that.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I hope they did? I hope so? On New Year's Eve?
God bless them.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now, I was thinking if it were me and La
MoU Hair, if we were to leave an event, we
probably wouldn't come back because there are a lot of
things that you have to do. Because you have your tuxedo,
you have to get yourself re ready to go back
out again. Sure enough, they did show back up. We
saw them again, like eleven eleven fifteen or so.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
They did.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, they did come back. Yeah me, I would have
been that. I would have been done for that. Look,
I'm you already been drinking and then you have a nightcap,
albeit rather early. Oh I'm done, I am done. I'm
going straight to sleep. But to their credit, they came back.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Now there's another couple and I have them probably featured
on my Instagram at mister Kelly, m r m ok
l y.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
They had to be the life of the party.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
They had to be the couple which had the most
fun out of anyone. The guy he looked like he
was an accountant, and his lady friend looked like that
she was going to do anything he asked, absolutely anything.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh wow, it was like one.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Of those nights, guys, know what I'm talking about, Like,
you know, at the end of the night, she's going
to do that thing that you really like, that special thing,
that special thing. They are dancing in the video and
I think they're dancing to your Instagram. Yeah, I'm dancing
Michael Jansen Michael Jackson's pyt and he is going forward.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You can tell he's killing it.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Oh he looked like, look, but right, it's it's it's
that type of it's a type of energy of like,
uh yeah, it's gonna happen. They did not care. Was
he the best dancer in the world. No, but no.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
This was your I thought that this was like an
Instagram video where you were just like I want a party, like.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah, this is me. That's off of my phone. I
thought this was a gift for I thought, look, I
didn't know that you got.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That's the actual live video that I took with my
phone of this couple who owned the dance floor. And
I know someone listening to KFI right now knows this couple.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh he killed it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I would love to shout them out on the air.
And if you happen to know one or both, because
they got to be from the area, they gotta be
not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Both of them killed it on the dance.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
They had more fun than anybody, and that they didn't care.
They didn't They talk about dance like nobody's watching. That
was then that all night long. And let me just say,
I'm quite sure their after party was better than everyone too.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Oh it looks like, oh I feel I hear exactly
what Oh whoa.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Right, that's what I'm saying. I want to love you.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Oh many, Oh yeah, look go to mister right.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yes, this video. I didn't finish watching it until right now.
You guys need mister mo Kelly. Check it out on Instagram.
They absolutely destroy the floor and they're like that the
whole night. And I didn't want to like intrude upon
their evening, you know, I didn't want to like be
voyeuristic too much. But I think get at least one
video of them. Everyone was watching them. They did not care.
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It was like they were performing. They just had the
best time of anybody in there. It was like they
were doing it for each other. Okay, I think that's
what it was. They just didn't care about anyone else.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
It's like, hey, they were lost in each other's eyes
exactly every way.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's like, damn, I love this. It was I thought
this was a meme. It was so perfect.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
They may be a meme after this, because you know,
Lob Blue Hair looked at me and said, why is
it you don't look at me like that?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Hey, look, hey this is dangerous. All I will say
it is he closed that deal. Oh he closed, he
put in work. He just licked his fingers like gave her.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So check it out right now, go at mister bo
Kelly on Instagram. You will see I think it's the
most recent posting I have up there. And if you
know the couple, if you know him or you know her,
please just let us know in the video or Instagram
message me and will shout him out. I would love
to shout them out. They had more fun than anyone.
And when we come back, I want to hear what
happened here at the station, because I hear that Mark
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and Stephan got some pizza maybe even Tualla two. And
it wasn't an easy process. There was a lot which
happened with that. Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It was Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It was quite a journey, okay, so when we come back, Yeah,
the Vietnamese pizza journey.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Let me come back.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Before the break, I was saying, go to my Instagram
at mister mo Kelly, R m OK E L L Y,
because I have a video that people thought was a meme. No, no,
it was an actual couple at this Catalina Island Casino event.
Me and my wife were there for New Year's even
Shout out to at that mister Jones. At that mister Jones,
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who was actually doing the sound for the evening, was
a listener to the show of the show and came
up to me and introduced himself.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So you never know where where the later crew.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Listeners are going to be, So shout out to that
mister Jones, who is who did the sound that night.
But please go to at mister mo Kelly because I'm
trying to find out who this couple is.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I know somebody listening knows who they are. I believe
because everyone who came was from southern California.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
For the most part.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
We had like the Catalina Fairies, which were coming from
San Pedro, Long Beach, Dana Point, I think Newport Beach,
but they were all Southern California, so they had to
be local and they were the life of the party.
I did not want to interrupt them, and I didn't
want to be the voyeur, just you know, filming them
all night. But who all I can say is man
(11:20):
to man, pimp to pimp.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
He got it in.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It is not an exaggeration. He put in work. He
didn't care who was watching. He put it this way,
A man with confidence dances like that, who knows that
he is going to close the deal in a.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Matter of hours.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And she kind of she kind of fed off of that, oh,
because she did the same thing on the woman's side,
like she.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
You mean where they were both dry humping each other
on the desk.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, I mean that happened too, but I mean her
her moves too. It's like she rescinded it. Yeah, yeah,
it was.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It was. It's incredible. Check it out.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So if you happen to know who the couple is,
man or woman, I would love to shout them out.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And I meant to engage them, but the night got
away from everyone. But he'd have real quick. Before I
get to the Vietnam story of the pizza ordeal.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I was about six jack shots in and I know
at this point that's about my maximum.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
They were very, very generous with the poor. Six is good. Yeah,
I was proud of you. And it was six over.
I guess about four hours because we got there eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Got my first drink and I'm double jack neats, so
I know I had three double jack neats.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's six shots like in between.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Okay, yeah, no, no mixer, and and I shouldn't have
had dessert because I was extra sugar. I'm trying to
be very methodical about this, but I had a good
amount of food to carry me throughout the evening.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Did not get sick.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yes, I was drunk, absolutely, but I was safe because
it was only a ten to fifteen minute walk back
to the hotel.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
We're standing at the like the Blanca if you know, uh,
the island. It's relatively close. And it was cold, but
not after six shots. No liquor blanket, Oh yes you were,
and everything's like, I don't need no stinking coat. I
love it all right now, what happened with the pizza here, Well,
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you were kind enough to take care of me and Fush.
We were the only two people here New Year's Eve,
and so for literally just thank you for being generous
and looking after us by allowing us to get a
pizza on your dime. But here's the deal. We couldn't
find anybody on New Year's Eve who would deliver. They
were all closing down or they were too busy to deliver.
So this is the definition of hell that we've got
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free pizza dangling in front of us, but we can't
have any. Finally, after I think it was hours, Fush
and I were going back and forth looking ours, looking
on yelp, oh for sure, calling places, looking online, putting
in orders like thinking it was a done deal, only
to hit the last button and be told nope, sorry,
we're done for the evening.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Finally I find a place quite late, actually, and I'm
not going to name the place.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oh he changed his mind.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Well, come on, it's a small business, and let's just
get to the end of this and you'll understand. Finally
find a place, they say, okay, it'll be forty five minutes.
And again quite late. After forty five minutes or so,
I am finishing up a newscast and I see that
I've gotten like six calls rapid file. I call a
guy back. It's the delivery guy. This is nine thirty,
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by the way, and it's a it's somebody. It's an
Asian guy, clearly who does not speak English very well,
and he's just shouting at me. He's shrieking at me.
Apparently he can't find the place. So even though I
left very very explicit details, I explained to him in
a park on Olive Street. You go through the gate,
you look for the big red iHeart Radio, iHeart Media
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sign on on the right. It's easy to find. We'll
meet you in the lobby. But we're both working, so
you've got a text us when you're in the lobby,
and he can't cope with it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
He's shrieking at me.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So we go back and forth, back and forth, and
he starts yelling at me. And I'm not going to
yell in the pigeon English because I don't want to
be protested. Off the air, we get an idea, but yeah,
it's an older Asian man who can't speak English shrieking
at me, and I can barely understand anything he's saying.
But I do understand. He's saying, it's my last order
of the night. Do you know how much I make?
(15:34):
And I'm telling him, I'm sorry, but I tipped you
in the app It's just a delivery and we have
a nice tip.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I don't know what else to tell you. Just meet
us in the lobby and we'll send you on your way.
Come to the iHeart Building. I don't know what he's
been through, the rest of the earlier part of the evening.
But he's clearly on the brink of sanity, and I'm
not exaggerating. He's shrieking. So I send Fush goes down
to meet him the first time. Can't find him. I'm
(16:01):
texting with Fush talking to the guy. The guy can't
see Fush. Fush says, he's waving his phone around and
I'm like, can you see him?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Can you see him? Was he like on the loading
dock side or something? He was on the Olive Street side.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, I went onto the Alameda side. He was on California, California,
to the side street, come up to the loading dock.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And by the way, it's not an insignificant distance to
get from here in the studio down to the street
in between newscasts.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It's impossible.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
No, it's literally impossible running top seat. So I got
we're hold on real quick. I got back just some
mark in the camera because the segment had finished, and
it was just like, there's no news and that was
all the one he was waiting. I had shoot off
the the sounder.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
He was just waiting.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I mean, I could have started talking, but you need
the sounder because it's it's an official, can't fine newscast anyway.
So the guy's losing his mind, the delivery driver, and
finally I tell him, okay, I'll come down this time.
We're going to make a second attempt. But you got
to come to the door. I mean, because it's a
pet We paid for a pizza delivery. It's not a
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pizza dead drop. I didn't agree to meet someplace to
hand off the pizza. Please deliver the pizza. We only
have limited time. So I go down, race to the elevator.
I'm running to the stand and I feel with my
I've got my phone up to my ear. I feel
like I'm Jack Ryan trying to stop a nuke and
this guy is shrieking at me in the phone top
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cruise Jack O Jack, I'll think of Jack Reacher running,
not Jack Reacher around. No, no, I said. So it's
a race against time because this guy has indicated to
me he's on the verge of leaving without giving us
the pizza, because he's just had enough. And I'm like, no, please,
I'm almost there. Can you see me. I'm waving, I'm waving.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I'm right here. I'm just like seconds away.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And fine, Finally I get to him and it's as
I suspected, an older, absolutely furious Asian guy, and I'm wheezing.
I get to the car out of breath because I
was just at a full sprint to get to the street.
And I'm like, okay, all right, we got I'm sorry
about the trouble. I don't know what caused the problem,
but I'm here mission accomplished. At least Happy New Year's
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And he was so angry. If he could have thrown
the pizza at me, he could. He yanked it out
of the out of that that that that hot box
thing and just like jams it at me and peels out,
not even a goodbye. He's like, you're I'm not gonna
do the accident. Can you get your tip back? No?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
No, no, no, no bit in that food?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You know that?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, so I get up here and I'm wondering if
we got the special? Yeah, he asked, He's like, did
you get a special? But but we took a slice each,
but the guy, but the guy told me your food's
probably cold, and then he just peeled off. It was
traumatizing for everybody involved. This guy could have gone on
to commit by the end of the night, because I've
never seen somebody that worked up, and we weren't really
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asking anything of him. We've tried to order food here
from time to time in the past, and occasionally some
delivery people can have trouble with the directions. But this
guy wasn't even gonna do it. He's like, there's no
place to park. You want to pay for my ticket?
And I'm like, no, no, no, except forgot about this.
Just come to the lobby. It's it's easy to find,
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you go past Morton's. People do it all the time.
But that's it. So we we choked down that pizza
and we can't tell you how damn grateful we are
so here because here's the thing pulling the curtain back
once more. We got all of Moe's information. He sent
it with no issues. He gave us all the you know,
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the zip code, everything. We're all set and I literally
and Mark can attest to this. I went and there like, hey,
we got the we got the credit card number, let's
get the pizza. We could not find anything, and so
it took so long, and so we're both just like,
are you kidding me? Like we have this opportunity to
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have some free food, and we could not get it delivered.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It took so long.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That's like a rejected Rod Sterling night gallery plot that
takes place in Hell. You can have the pizza, but
it's the one with the guy he loses his glasses.
Time enough at last. Well, yeah, that's the first that's
the twilight Zone. But anyway, so thank you for that.
We're thinking of a way we can repay you somehow.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
No, no, no, you still need to let us know
what restaurant it was.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Well, I don't want to say it on the air
because I don't know if it's this guy's business or
if he was just an employee who had been through
hell that day. And you know, it's the New Year's
You want to cut some people some slack, even if
they want you to rot in hell. This guy was
I've never seen a human being this angry. By the
time he took off. I'm not going to say the name,
but Mark was ready to just obliterate this place. I
(21:03):
don't even remember the name anymore, but he was. And
and so now he's like, I don't want to say
the name, Well tell me, I'll say the name. We
don't know the whole story behind what happened. It could
have We need to get him on that sometime and
find out get their side of the story. Oh that
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that would actually be cool. Oh you want to drag
this out, do you? Yes, we do, Yes, we knew.
We want to get to the bottom of this. We
want to see if it was your fault. We ordered
a pizza for delivery? How could anything be our.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
F gave the wrong directions.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I couldn't have been more clear with the directions if if,
I mean, these were the most remedial explicit directions possible.
I will yeah, backing up, Mark, he was very uh,
don't beat him up. He was very explicit with the directions.
The thing that we did that apparently made this guy
want to kill me and my whole family was we
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ordered a pizza for delivery.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
That's it. Heaven forbid it actually got delivered.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Huh uh, I don't will give them another Why don't
we try them again?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Okay, we'll try it again tomorrow, since tomorrow's Friday, we'll
try it again and we'll see if we get the
same results.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh, that would be awesome. Okay.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
If if he comes back you it will be a
different story. Okay, I'm warning you, pizza driver, it will
be a different story if you yell anything at me.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Okay, we got we gotta go to break. I just
want to pay this off.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Last segment, I'll tell you about this band who was
featured entertainment for the Catalina Island Casino New Year's Eve Celebration,
the fifty first annual. The band is at Christian c
h r I S t I e N dot Anthony Group,
Christian Dot Anthony Group, Christian with an E c h
(22:54):
R I s t I e N dot Anthony Group.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
They were fantastic, a ten out of ten. A listener
passed that on to me. We're still trying to find
out who this marvelous couple is on my Instagram page.
Go there at mister mo Kelly R m ok e
l Y Against the Night Away. They had more fun
than anybody known to man. I want to be them
when I grow up, and I just want to find
out who they are so I can shout them out.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Hopefully they were where.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
They were supposed to be and not with, you know,
someone they're not supposed to be, not with my pizza guy.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
K If I am six forty, we're gonna turn the
corner when we come back and talk about some of
the series news which happened since New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty And.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I need not tell you what has been happening in
this country over the past let's say thirty six hours.
I need not tell you or remind you what has
happened in New Orleans. And we can get into the
weeds of why the terrorists, I'll call them a terrorist
did what he did. We can talk about what were
(24:03):
his motivations, And for me, it's less about that I'm
only talking about New Orleans at the moment. It's less
about his motivations and how more about how we as
a country are going to deal with this moment. Because
I think it's fair to say that since we live
in a free country, what I mean by that is free.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
We have freedom of movement.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We can convene and open spaces, we can go to concerts,
we can go to sporting events, we can go to
movie theaters. And in this free country, invariably there is
a vulnerability that doesn't exist everywhere else. And unfortunately that's
the cost of freedom, because what happened in potentially happened
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in Las Vegas, and what did happen in New Orleans
very low tech. We're talking about a vehicle that anyone
can get and go just about any way in this
free country. And if you've seen, unfortunately some of the
video regarding New Orleans, this guy turned down a side
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street about three fifteen in the morning and then started
driving top speed, trying to take out as many people
as possible, and at least fifteen have died so far.
But here's the unfortunate and uncomfortable reality that I think
all of us here in America are going to have
to deal with, like it or not, when you're talking
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about the actions of an individual, and it's gone back
and forth as far as what the FBI and President
Biden have said. First they thought that they didn't believe
that this person acted alone. Now I think President Biden
said today in the press conference said they believe that
he did act alone.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Well, whether he did or did not, that's neither here
nor there.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
As far as what I'm trying to say tonight, I
think we have to have a very honest conversation with
ourselves and other Americans about whether we're ready to cross
this rubicon, as they say, regarding terrorism. Many many years ago,
we would remember the news reports of what happened happened
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in Israel, or how a suicide bomber heaven Forbid would
walk into like a coffee shop and self detonate, And
I remember, as a much younger person's like, Wow, what
would that look like? What would that be like if
something like that happened here in America? And we're not
quite there yet, but I think we're on the doorstep
of that. When you have individuals very low tech and
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this guy not only had a truck in New Orleans,
he had IEDs with remote detonation capabilities.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
We're there.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
We're basically there, and because we are in a free country,
there's nothing preventing a single idiot or a coordinated group
of idiots and terrorists. And I'm not trying to scare anyone.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I'm just trying to be very very pragmatic and realistic
about where we are. There's nothing preventing someone with ill intentions,
regardless of motivations. We've seen it with mass shootings, and
it's not fundamentally different from that other than the motivations.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It's very very.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Simple, my word, to get something very low tech like
a truck and drive it to a place where a
lot of people are and I can't actively worry about it.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I don't think anyone could actively worry about.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It, because this could have happened if not on New
Year's Eves last New Year's Day. It could happen tomorrow,
whereas it was in the French Quarter New Year's Eve. Well,
it could be at a target in your neighborhood tomorrow.
It could be at a football game, it could be
outside of a concert venue, it could be near a
movie theater. We've seen similar incidents like this before. And
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I say that's the cost of freedom, because you notice
this doesn't happen to the best of our knowledge, at least,
this doesn't happen in North Korea. Why, because there is
no freedom. This doesn't happen in China largely, there's no freedom.
That's the cost, that's the price. I'm not saying it's fair,
I'm saying it is a fact. I don't know what
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is happening right now in America. I'm not going to
connect what happened with the cyber truck Tesla in Las
Vegas with what happened in New Orleans. But I will
say this, there may not have been a direct connection,
in other words, a coordination between these two individuals. They
may not have been connected by motive, but they are
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connected in our American conscience, where we have to look
at these events as possibly a change in what life
is going to be like.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
And I don't say that lightly. I think we have to.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Be aware that we're going into the next stage of
having to try to protect Americans. We saw a different
stage with the ninety three bombing of the New York
Trade Center World Trade Center nineteen ninety three. We saw
a different stage obviously after nine to eleven, and I
think we're now at a different stage where we as
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Americans are going to have to look at life just
a little bit differently. We have to be quite aware
of our surroundings in a way that maybe we weren't before.
Going back to my thoughts of what Israel used to be,
and I know it could be a very very scary proposition.
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And I was talking about this with Tula, and I'm
quite sure he'll have thoughts about this.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
This is not something we can bomb our way out of.
This is not something we can invade our country out of.
This is not something that we can eradicate as far
as this group of people, that sovereign nation, that particular
terrorist group, that militia, because it's an idea and from
what we know about the person in New Orleans, and
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I'm intentionally not using any names here because I'm not
trying to highlight them or promote them or their cause.
But what we do know is it's an idea that
festered and was radicalized here in America. It didn't happen
outside our borders. It happened right here, and for whatever reasons,
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this individual or other individuals were open and receptive to it.
It's not something we can can eradicate by going into
the Middle East. We tried that obviously with Afghanistan, we
tried it with Iraq. We've tried it in different ways
with Iran, and we see what's happening in the Middle
East right now. They're not all connected, but they're not
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all disconnected, and it's not something that we can bomb
our way through. Terrorism is an ideology, I should say
terrorists use an ideology. The mechanism is terrorism to inject
and I was not necessarily disappointed. I was very surprised
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that they postponed the super Bowl for one day. I
was very surprised, and this is just speculation on my part,
because you know America, capitalist society, everything's about money. I
was very surprised that they waited one day for the
Sugar Bowl Notre Dame in Georgia, which.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Was had tonight.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
It said to me, and I may be out of
turn for saying this, but it's said to me that
there might have been a credible threat. Might have been
a credible threat, and they had to institute and implement
other measures to make sure that nothing else happened.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I think we're at a new point. I think we
are at a new stage.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
And since these were low tech in nature, I expect
that concerts, open air concerts will have different measures used.
I think that sporting events will be different going forward.
It's not like the hard targets of an airport. I'm
talking about where you and I go on an everyday basis.
I think malls will be treated differently.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
We have to look at this fundamentally differently, because this
threat has evolved and all of us have to do
our own due diligence. We're going to talk about more
of this in just a moment when we come back.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
But I was thinking about all this because despite the
celebratory aspect of New Year's Eve, wake up New Year's
Day and you realize things are very different now in
twenty twenty five than twenty twenty four. And I'm not
saying that because we have a new person in the
White House that that's going to change anything or help
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anything or hurt anything.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I believe it's.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Smaller than that. What I mean is what we're dealing
with is not global. It is not a nation. It's
not a large militant group. It's Americans.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
We had a good time starting off the show talking
about my New Year's Eve and also the later crew
there New Year's Eve, But now we had to turn
to something more serious. What has happened in America the
past day and a half or so with the strange
explosion in Las Vegas. Let me put it that way,
up that cyber truck Tesla, which had I think it
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was a Green Beret former Green Beret, and explosives in it,
don't know if it was intentional. I guess it was
suicide because I believe he shot himself from there.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
No, it was, and it is now being reported that
that was intentional, that he rented the vehicle and drove
there intentionally with the plan of detonating it in front
of the Trump Hodel.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Don't know the motivations beyond that, as far as whether
he was trying to harm other people as well. Thank
goodness it did not. But I was talking about, well,
I don't know if you heard. I was talking about
how I think America is in a new moment. And
and this is the only thing that I'm going to
say that's political with respect to this, because this is
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when your elected officials and cabinet members are really really important.
And I do hope that President elect Trump is up
to the task. I do hope that likely Secretary of
Defense Pete Haigseth is up to the task. I do
hope a future Director of Homeland Security, Christy Nole, is
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up to the task. I do hope the new Director
of National Intelligence, Tulci Gabbert, is up to the task.
If not, that Americans are going to die. Can't you know,
I can't be anymore blunt than that.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
It's tough because when the first thought, the knee jerk
reaction and the first statements from President elect Trump is see,
this is what I'm talking about. This has everything to
do with immigration and blaming it on an issue wholly unrelated,
this being home grown terrorism. We cannot have leadership that
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strikes out like that first, obviously not knowing the facts.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
That was disheartening to me.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
It was just disheartening because I'm like, Wow, you just
went out knee jerk, just shot out out the side
of your neck, a response to something, and you obviously
did not have the facts. And all you did is
worse than a situation that did not have to be.
You did not have to blame this on immigration. That
was the wrong thing to do.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Here's what happens now.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Now we've been pushing the wrong direction as far as
what this is which we should be focusing on. And yes,
illegal immigration is a legitimate issue, it's just not applicable
to this at all. And when you talk about terrorism
and people dying, there's a fear component to it, and
if you point that fear in the wrong direction, people
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are put in danger, people die who are innocent and
have nothing to do with this. I hope, and I
mean this sincerely. I hope these elected officials and nominated
officials are up to the task.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
This is not a game. We're always talk about.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
This is not a game, and I expect that put.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
It this way.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
For everything that does happen, there are probably ten things
that don't happen that our federal government stops before it
actually gets to enacted, you know, before somebody becomes operational.
You may not hear about it until arrests are made,
but they're plots all the time. And hopefully we're on
our a game because I don't want to have another
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nine to eleven because our government wasn't doing what it
was supposed to do.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
The scariest part about the situation, I think for most
of looking at both of these incidents, be they connected
or not, and you spoke on this, is that they
both come from an idea, an idea that is anti
American idea that these two individuals said, we want to
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inflict fear and terror upon the citizens of this country.
And the hardest thing for us to fight against here
in America, the land or the free home of the brave,
is ideas and beliefs. We can't fight against that. That's
something we're not ready for. We're not ready to deal
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with mass shootings and schools. We're not ready to deal
with something on that level. Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
If we continue approaching it as if it's a group
of people, a body, or a nation state, then we're
going to lose because it's not that, and it's not
over there. It's right here, and it's American citizens. Now,
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however you want to twist that politically, that's up to you.
But if you keep playing that game, more people are
going to die.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I cannot make it any more plan than that these
are American citizens who are being radicalized that we know of.
I mean, because you know, for everyone that we know of,
quite shows another fifty we don't know who are planning
and plotting at various means and levels, varying levels of
sophistication and technology. I hope everyone is on their a
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game because they're telling you right now they're coming for us.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
You're not going to legislate your way out of this.
You're not going to bomb your way out of this.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
This is something that is bigger than a particular group
that you can target. This is again an idea, a feeling,
a belief structure, and it's being radicalized right here. It's
not something that needs to come across the border. This
is being born here, it's raised here, is being radicalized
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right here. And let's not forget these are former military individuals.
There's another component to all this that needs to be discussed.
What is happening and where is it happening in that
either education process or that training process, which may make
someone either more susceptible or more open to these different
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types of ideologies.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I hope that you chose right.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
For president, and I hope that this president chose the
right people, because loyalty and competency are not synonyms. Kf
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Speaker 5 (39:49):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm back, baby, I'm back. I'm back.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I'm back at a good New Year's Eve turning in
the New Year's Day, that much I could remember of it,
at least it was a good eating. I'm gonna tell
you all about it. I'm gonna talk about all the news.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
There's so much to cover, but let me just say
first and foremost, I'm glad to be back here talking
to you. I'm glad to be able to see to Wala,
to be able to see Stephan, to be able to.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
See go ahead, well you too, Mar saying it's doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, Yes. All I can say is well, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm not going to tell the full names in order
to protect the guilty. But for my New Year's Eve,
I went to the annual New Year's Eve gala celebration
on Catalina Island at the Casino Ballroom. This was a
choice of my wife. I didn't know anything about it.
She got the tickets back in August. And when I
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say Casino Ballroom, there's no gambling. It's just a big
ass ballroom and if you've been to Catalina Island, it's
very prominently featured.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We went over New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I think it was like maybe three o'clock in the afternoon,
had some time to get some food, get in a
little nap, then we.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Put on our clothes. It was black tie optional. I
opted not for black tie. If you go to at
mister mo Kelly on Instagram, you can see what I wore.
For the most part, I have some about the pictures
I haven't put up in you get an idea of
what I was wearing. But my point is it was
a dressy affair, and when you make your reservations you
can't guarantee that it'll just be you and your guest.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You may be placed at a table with other guests.
It's not unusual.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Wasn't off putting, and we were put at a table
with a couple by the name of Mark and Pam.
They're from Orange County, probably KFI listeners, probably listening right now,
and I'm not going to tell you their last names.
Mark and Pam were very, very gracious, They were great fun.
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They were seated at the table before we were.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And you have times in which you're supposed to be seated,
and it was buffet style. Get your food. It was
seven o'clock, seven thirty, eight o'clock and eight thirty. Mark
and Pam were eight o'clock. We were Me and La
bue Hair were eight o'clock. So we get our food.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Food was good, have beef, medallion, salmon, had all sorts
of food. And I think at this point I'm maybe
four jacks in, not jack and coke. I just I've
cut out the mixer of my old age because I've
known that if you add sugar to the alcohol, you're
more likely to get sick.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
All right, Hey, you're just straight jack, straight jack, four jack.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, no, no, it was more than four before the evening,
so I'm saying at this point I'm four jackson, I'm
add two double neat Jack, double neat. Okay, I'm not driving.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I'm just walking from our hotel to the casino ballroom
is about a ten to fifteen minute walk.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
That's important. I'll tell you why real quick. Moe is
very proud of that. He was he was sure, no driving,
no danger. That what I just had is his neat
is jack neat, and that was awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I could dance. I didn't fall down, I didn't get sick,
none of that. All right, I've an accomplished drinker. Don't
call me a drunk. That was later in the evening,
but we got our food at eight o'clock, had casual
conversation with Mark and Pam from Orange County.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
All right.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I'm not going to say their last name of what
they do, but they're from Orange County. And if you
happen to know anyone named Mark and Pam who are married,
who went to Catalina Island, it's them. Well, Mark and
Pam got to the table before we did, and they
already had started sharing a bottle of wine between them.
They were very affectionate couple, very gracious, very nice. So
I don't mean this with any type of malicer animosity,
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but I could tell they were.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Getting little frisky with each other at the table. And
at nine o'clock the band started playing.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I can't remember the name of I'll try to get
it because I want to give them their due credit.
It's a really good band. Band started playing at nine
o'clock and about nine to fifteen, Pam stands up and says, hey,
you know, good talking to you guys. Mark and I
are going to go back to our hotel room. We'll
probably catch you later on tonight.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now Mark is wearing a tuxedo, he's black tied, and
Pam is wearing about a floor length gown if I
remember correctly, And is it wrong for me to assume
that they went back to the hotel to get their
freak gone. No, I'm thinking you're already dressed up for
the evening. You've already had a bottle of wine that
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you share between each other and you and it's at
least a ten to fifteen minute walk back to your hotel.
You're all dressed up, and you're saying you're going to
leave the event for some undisclosed reason. I have to
assume that somebody got their back blown out. I'm just
assuming they got their freaking Am I wrong to assume that.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I hope they did? I hope so? On New Year's Eve?
God bless them.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now, I was thinking if it were me and La
MoU Hair, if we were to leave an event, we
probably wouldn't come back because there are a lot of
things that you have to do. Because you have your tuxedo,
you have to get yourself re ready to go back
out again. Sure enough, they did show back up. We
saw them again, like eleven eleven fifteen or so.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
They did.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, they did come back. Yeah me, I would have
been that. I would have been done for that. Look,
I'm you already been drinking and then you have a nightcap,
albeit rather early. Oh I'm done, I am done. I'm
going straight to sleep. But to their credit, they came back.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Now there's another couple and I have them probably featured
on my Instagram at mister Kelly, m r m ok
l y.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
They had to be the life of the party.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
They had to be the couple which had the most
fun out of anyone. The guy he looked like he
was an accountant, and his lady friend looked like that
she was going to do anything he asked, absolutely anything.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh wow, it was like one.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Of those nights, guys, know what I'm talking about, Like,
you know, at the end of the night, she's going
to do that thing that you really like, that special thing,
that special thing. They are dancing in the video and
I think they're dancing to your Instagram. Yeah, I'm dancing
Michael Jansen Michael Jackson's pyt and he is going forward.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You can tell he's killing it.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Oh he looked like, look, but right, it's it's it's
that type of it's a type of energy of like,
uh yeah, it's gonna happen. They did not care. Was
he the best dancer in the world. No, but no.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
This was your I thought that this was like an
Instagram video where you were just like I want a party, like.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah, this is me. That's off of my phone. I
thought this was a gift for I thought, look, I
didn't know that you got.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
That's the actual live video that I took with my
phone of this couple who owned the dance floor. And
I know someone listening to KFI right now knows this couple.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh he killed it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I would love to shout them out on the air.
And if you happen to know one or both, because
they got to be from the area, they gotta be
not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Both of them killed it on the dance.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
They had more fun than anybody, and that they didn't care.
They didn't They talk about dance like nobody's watching. That
was then that all night long. And let me just say,
I'm quite sure their after party was better than everyone too.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Oh it looks like, oh I feel I hear exactly
what Oh whoa.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Right, that's what I'm saying. I want to love you.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Oh many, Oh yeah, look go to mister right.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yes, this video. I didn't finish watching it until right now.
You guys need mister mo Kelly. Check it out on Instagram.
They absolutely destroy the floor and they're like that the
whole night. And I didn't want to like intrude upon
their evening, you know, I didn't want to like be
voyeuristic too much. But I think get at least one
video of them. Everyone was watching them. They did not care.
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It was like they were performing. They just had the
best time of anybody in there. It was like they
were doing it for each other. Okay, I think that's
what it was. They just didn't care about anyone else.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
It's like, hey, they were lost in each other's eyes
exactly every way.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's like, damn, I love this. It was I thought
this was a meme. It was so perfect.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
They may be a meme after this, because you know,
Lob Blue Hair looked at me and said, why is
it you don't look at me like that?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Hey, look, hey this is dangerous. All I will say
it is he closed that deal. Oh he closed, he
put in work. He just licked his fingers like gave her.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So check it out right now, go at mister bo
Kelly on Instagram. You will see I think it's the
most recent posting I have up there. And if you
know the couple, if you know him or you know her,
please just let us know in the video or Instagram
message me and will shout him out. I would love
to shout them out. They had more fun than anyone.
And when we come back, I want to hear what
happened here at the station, because I hear that Mark
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and Stephan got some pizza maybe even Tualla two. And
it wasn't an easy process. There was a lot which
happened with that. Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It was Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It was quite a journey, okay, so when we come back, Yeah,
the Vietnamese pizza journey.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Let me come back.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Before the break, I was saying, go to my Instagram
at mister mo Kelly, R m OK E L L Y,
because I have a video that people thought was a meme. No, no,
it was an actual couple at this Catalina Island Casino event.
Me and my wife were there for New Year's even
Shout out to at that mister Jones. At that mister Jones,
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who was actually doing the sound for the evening, was
a listener to the show of the show and came
up to me and introduced himself.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So you never know where where the later crew.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Listeners are going to be, So shout out to that
mister Jones, who is who did the sound that night.
But please go to at mister mo Kelly because I'm
trying to find out who this couple is.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I know somebody listening knows who they are. I believe
because everyone who came was from southern California.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
For the most part.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
We had like the Catalina Fairies, which were coming from
San Pedro, Long Beach, Dana Point, I think Newport Beach,
but they were all Southern California, so they had to
be local and they were the life of the party.
I did not want to interrupt them, and I didn't
want to be the voyeur, just you know, filming them
all night. But who all I can say is man
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to man, pimp to pimp.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
He got it in.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It is not an exaggeration. He put in work. He
didn't care who was watching. He put it this way,
A man with confidence dances like that, who knows that
he is going to close the deal in a.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Matter of hours.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And she kind of she kind of fed off of that, oh,
because she did the same thing on the woman's side,
like she.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
You mean where they were both dry humping each other
on the desk.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, I mean that happened too, but I mean her
her moves too. It's like she rescinded it. Yeah, yeah,
it was.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It was. It's incredible. Check it out.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So if you happen to know who the couple is,
man or woman, I would love to shout them out.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And I meant to engage them, but the night got
away from everyone. But he'd have real quick. Before I
get to the Vietnam story of the pizza ordeal.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I was about six jack shots in and I know
at this point that's about my maximum.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
They were very, very generous with the poor. Six is good. Yeah,
I was proud of you. And it was six over.
I guess about four hours because we got there eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Got my first drink and I'm double jack neats, so
I know I had three double jack neats.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's six shots like in between.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Okay, yeah, no, no mixer, and and I shouldn't have
had dessert because I was extra sugar. I'm trying to
be very methodical about this, but I had a good
amount of food to carry me throughout the evening.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Did not get sick.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yes, I was drunk, absolutely, but I was safe because
it was only a ten to fifteen minute walk back
to the hotel.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
We're standing at the like the Blanca if you know, uh,
the island. It's relatively close. And it was cold, but
not after six shots. No liquor blanket, Oh yes you were,
and everything's like, I don't need no stinking coat. I
love it all right now, what happened with the pizza here, Well,
(13:31):
you were kind enough to take care of me and Fush.
We were the only two people here New Year's Eve,
and so for literally just thank you for being generous
and looking after us by allowing us to get a
pizza on your dime. But here's the deal. We couldn't
find anybody on New Year's Eve who would deliver. They
were all closing down or they were too busy to deliver.
So this is the definition of hell that we've got
(13:53):
free pizza dangling in front of us, but we can't
have any. Finally, after I think it was hours, Fush
and I were going back and forth looking ours, looking
on yelp, oh for sure, calling places, looking online, putting
in orders like thinking it was a done deal, only
to hit the last button and be told nope, sorry,
we're done for the evening.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Finally I find a place quite late, actually, and I'm
not going to name the place.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oh he changed his mind.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Well, come on, it's a small business, and let's just
get to the end of this and you'll understand. Finally
find a place, they say, okay, it'll be forty five minutes.
And again quite late. After forty five minutes or so,
I am finishing up a newscast and I see that
I've gotten like six calls rapid file. I call a
guy back. It's the delivery guy. This is nine thirty,
(14:43):
by the way, and it's a it's somebody. It's an
Asian guy, clearly who does not speak English very well,
and he's just shouting at me. He's shrieking at me.
Apparently he can't find the place. So even though I
left very very explicit details, I explained to him in
a park on Olive Street. You go through the gate,
you look for the big red iHeart Radio, iHeart Media
(15:04):
sign on on the right. It's easy to find. We'll
meet you in the lobby. But we're both working, so
you've got a text us when you're in the lobby,
and he can't cope with it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
He's shrieking at me.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So we go back and forth, back and forth, and
he starts yelling at me. And I'm not going to
yell in the pigeon English because I don't want to
be protested. Off the air, we get an idea, but yeah,
it's an older Asian man who can't speak English shrieking
at me, and I can barely understand anything he's saying.
But I do understand. He's saying, it's my last order
of the night. Do you know how much I make?
(15:34):
And I'm telling him, I'm sorry, but I tipped you
in the app It's just a delivery and we have
a nice tip.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I don't know what else to tell you. Just meet
us in the lobby and we'll send you on your way.
Come to the iHeart Building. I don't know what he's
been through, the rest of the earlier part of the evening.
But he's clearly on the brink of sanity, and I'm
not exaggerating. He's shrieking. So I send Fush goes down
to meet him the first time. Can't find him. I'm
(16:01):
texting with Fush talking to the guy. The guy can't
see Fush. Fush says, he's waving his phone around and
I'm like, can you see him?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Can you see him? Was he like on the loading
dock side or something? He was on the Olive Street side.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, I went onto the Alameda side. He was on California, California,
to the side street, come up to the loading dock.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And by the way, it's not an insignificant distance to
get from here in the studio down to the street
in between newscasts.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It's impossible.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
No, it's literally impossible running top seat. So I got
we're hold on real quick. I got back just some
mark in the camera because the segment had finished, and
it was just like, there's no news and that was
all the one he was waiting. I had shoot off
the the sounder.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
He was just waiting.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I mean, I could have started talking, but you need
the sounder because it's it's an official, can't fine newscast anyway.
So the guy's losing his mind, the delivery driver, and
finally I tell him, okay, I'll come down this time.
We're going to make a second attempt. But you got
to come to the door. I mean, because it's a
pet We paid for a pizza delivery. It's not a
(17:14):
pizza dead drop. I didn't agree to meet someplace to
hand off the pizza. Please deliver the pizza. We only
have limited time. So I go down, race to the elevator.
I'm running to the stand and I feel with my
I've got my phone up to my ear. I feel
like I'm Jack Ryan trying to stop a nuke and
this guy is shrieking at me in the phone top
(17:34):
cruise Jack O Jack, I'll think of Jack Reacher running,
not Jack Reacher around. No, no, I said. So it's
a race against time because this guy has indicated to
me he's on the verge of leaving without giving us
the pizza, because he's just had enough. And I'm like, no, please,
I'm almost there. Can you see me. I'm waving, I'm waving.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I'm right here. I'm just like seconds away.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And fine, Finally I get to him and it's as
I suspected, an older, absolutely furious Asian guy, and I'm wheezing.
I get to the car out of breath because I
was just at a full sprint to get to the street.
And I'm like, okay, all right, we got I'm sorry
about the trouble. I don't know what caused the problem,
but I'm here mission accomplished. At least Happy New Year's
(18:21):
And he was so angry. If he could have thrown
the pizza at me, he could. He yanked it out
of the out of that that that that hot box
thing and just like jams it at me and peels out,
not even a goodbye. He's like, you're I'm not gonna
do the accident. Can you get your tip back? No?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
No, no, no, no bit in that food?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You know that?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, so I get up here and I'm wondering if
we got the special? Yeah, he asked, He's like, did
you get a special? But but we took a slice each,
but the guy, but the guy told me your food's
probably cold, and then he just peeled off. It was
traumatizing for everybody involved. This guy could have gone on
to commit by the end of the night, because I've
never seen somebody that worked up, and we weren't really
(19:04):
asking anything of him. We've tried to order food here
from time to time in the past, and occasionally some
delivery people can have trouble with the directions. But this
guy wasn't even gonna do it. He's like, there's no
place to park. You want to pay for my ticket?
And I'm like, no, no, no, except forgot about this.
Just come to the lobby. It's it's easy to find,
(19:24):
you go past Morton's. People do it all the time.
But that's it. So we we choked down that pizza
and we can't tell you how damn grateful we are
so here because here's the thing pulling the curtain back
once more. We got all of Moe's information. He sent
it with no issues. He gave us all the you know,
(19:45):
the zip code, everything. We're all set and I literally
and Mark can attest to this. I went and there like, hey,
we got the we got the credit card number, let's
get the pizza. We could not find anything, and so
it took so long, and so we're both just like,
are you kidding me? Like we have this opportunity to
(20:06):
have some free food, and we could not get it delivered.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It took so long.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That's like a rejected Rod Sterling night gallery plot that
takes place in Hell. You can have the pizza, but
it's the one with the guy he loses his glasses.
Time enough at last. Well, yeah, that's the first that's
the twilight Zone. But anyway, so thank you for that.
We're thinking of a way we can repay you somehow.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
No, no, no, you still need to let us know
what restaurant it was.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Well, I don't want to say it on the air
because I don't know if it's this guy's business or
if he was just an employee who had been through
hell that day. And you know, it's the New Year's
You want to cut some people some slack, even if
they want you to rot in hell. This guy was
I've never seen a human being this angry. By the
time he took off. I'm not going to say the name,
but Mark was ready to just obliterate this place. I
(21:03):
don't even remember the name anymore, but he was. And
and so now he's like, I don't want to say
the name, Well tell me, I'll say the name. We
don't know the whole story behind what happened. It could
have We need to get him on that sometime and
find out get their side of the story. Oh that
(21:23):
that would actually be cool. Oh you want to drag
this out, do you? Yes, we do, Yes, we knew.
We want to get to the bottom of this. We
want to see if it was your fault. We ordered
a pizza for delivery? How could anything be our.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
F gave the wrong directions.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I couldn't have been more clear with the directions if if,
I mean, these were the most remedial explicit directions possible.
I will yeah, backing up, Mark, he was very uh,
don't beat him up. He was very explicit with the directions.
The thing that we did that apparently made this guy
want to kill me and my whole family was we
(21:59):
ordered a pizza for delivery.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
That's it. Heaven forbid it actually got delivered.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Huh uh, I don't will give them another Why don't
we try them again?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Okay, we'll try it again tomorrow, since tomorrow's Friday, we'll
try it again and we'll see if we get the
same results.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh, that would be awesome. Okay.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
If if he comes back you it will be a
different story. Okay, I'm warning you, pizza driver, it will
be a different story if you yell anything at me.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Okay, we got we gotta go to break. I just
want to pay this off.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Last segment, I'll tell you about this band who was
featured entertainment for the Catalina Island Casino New Year's Eve Celebration,
the fifty first annual. The band is at Christian c
h r I S t I e N dot Anthony Group,
Christian Dot Anthony Group, Christian with an E c h
(22:54):
R I s t I e N dot Anthony Group.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
They were fantastic, a ten out of ten. A listener
passed that on to me. We're still trying to find
out who this marvelous couple is on my Instagram page.
Go there at mister mo Kelly R m ok e
l Y Against the Night Away. They had more fun
than anybody known to man. I want to be them
when I grow up, and I just want to find
out who they are so I can shout them out.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Hopefully they were where.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
They were supposed to be and not with, you know,
someone they're not supposed to be, not with my pizza guy.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
K If I am six forty, we're gonna turn the
corner when we come back and talk about some of
the series news which happened since New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty And.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I need not tell you what has been happening in
this country over the past let's say thirty six hours.
I need not tell you or remind you what has
happened in New Orleans. And we can get into the
weeds of why the terrorists, I'll call them a terrorist
did what he did. We can talk about what were
(24:03):
his motivations, And for me, it's less about that I'm
only talking about New Orleans at the moment. It's less
about his motivations and how more about how we as
a country are going to deal with this moment. Because
I think it's fair to say that since we live
in a free country, what I mean by that is free.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
We have freedom of movement.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
We can convene and open spaces, we can go to concerts,
we can go to sporting events, we can go to
movie theaters. And in this free country, invariably there is
a vulnerability that doesn't exist everywhere else. And unfortunately that's
the cost of freedom, because what happened in potentially happened
(24:47):
in Las Vegas, and what did happen in New Orleans
very low tech. We're talking about a vehicle that anyone
can get and go just about any way in this
free country. And if you've seen, unfortunately some of the
video regarding New Orleans, this guy turned down a side
(25:09):
street about three fifteen in the morning and then started
driving top speed, trying to take out as many people
as possible, and at least fifteen have died so far.
But here's the unfortunate and uncomfortable reality that I think
all of us here in America are going to have
to deal with, like it or not, when you're talking
(25:30):
about the actions of an individual, and it's gone back
and forth as far as what the FBI and President
Biden have said. First they thought that they didn't believe
that this person acted alone. Now I think President Biden
said today in the press conference said they believe that
he did act alone.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Well, whether he did or did not, that's neither here
nor there.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
As far as what I'm trying to say tonight, I
think we have to have a very honest conversation with
ourselves and other Americans about whether we're ready to cross
this rubicon, as they say, regarding terrorism. Many many years ago,
we would remember the news reports of what happened happened
(26:11):
in Israel, or how a suicide bomber heaven Forbid would
walk into like a coffee shop and self detonate, And
I remember, as a much younger person's like, Wow, what
would that look like? What would that be like if
something like that happened here in America? And we're not
quite there yet, but I think we're on the doorstep
of that. When you have individuals very low tech and
(26:33):
this guy not only had a truck in New Orleans,
he had IEDs with remote detonation capabilities.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
We're there.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
We're basically there, and because we are in a free country,
there's nothing preventing a single idiot or a coordinated group
of idiots and terrorists. And I'm not trying to scare anyone.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I'm just trying to be very very pragmatic and realistic
about where we are. There's nothing preventing someone with ill intentions,
regardless of motivations. We've seen it with mass shootings, and
it's not fundamentally different from that other than the motivations.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It's very very.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Simple, my word, to get something very low tech like
a truck and drive it to a place where a
lot of people are and I can't actively worry about it.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I don't think anyone could actively worry about.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It, because this could have happened if not on New
Year's Eves last New Year's Day. It could happen tomorrow,
whereas it was in the French Quarter New Year's Eve. Well,
it could be at a target in your neighborhood tomorrow.
It could be at a football game, it could be
outside of a concert venue, it could be near a
movie theater. We've seen similar incidents like this before. And
(27:50):
I say that's the cost of freedom, because you notice
this doesn't happen to the best of our knowledge, at least,
this doesn't happen in North Korea. Why, because there is
no freedom. This doesn't happen in China largely, there's no freedom.
That's the cost, that's the price. I'm not saying it's fair,
I'm saying it is a fact. I don't know what
(28:14):
is happening right now in America. I'm not going to
connect what happened with the cyber truck Tesla in Las
Vegas with what happened in New Orleans. But I will
say this, there may not have been a direct connection,
in other words, a coordination between these two individuals. They
may not have been connected by motive, but they are
(28:34):
connected in our American conscience, where we have to look
at these events as possibly a change in what life
is going to be like.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
And I don't say that lightly. I think we have to.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Be aware that we're going into the next stage of
having to try to protect Americans. We saw a different
stage with the ninety three bombing of the New York
Trade Center World Trade Center nineteen ninety three. We saw
a different stage obviously after nine to eleven, and I
think we're now at a different stage where we as
(29:12):
Americans are going to have to look at life just
a little bit differently. We have to be quite aware
of our surroundings in a way that maybe we weren't before.
Going back to my thoughts of what Israel used to be,
and I know it could be a very very scary proposition.
(29:32):
And I was talking about this with Tula, and I'm
quite sure he'll have thoughts about this.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
This is not something we can bomb our way out of.
This is not something we can invade our country out of.
This is not something that we can eradicate as far
as this group of people, that sovereign nation, that particular
terrorist group, that militia, because it's an idea and from
what we know about the person in New Orleans, and
(29:56):
I'm intentionally not using any names here because I'm not
trying to highlight them or promote them or their cause.
But what we do know is it's an idea that
festered and was radicalized here in America. It didn't happen
outside our borders. It happened right here, and for whatever reasons,
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this individual or other individuals were open and receptive to it.
It's not something we can can eradicate by going into
the Middle East. We tried that obviously with Afghanistan, we
tried it with Iraq. We've tried it in different ways
with Iran, and we see what's happening in the Middle
East right now. They're not all connected, but they're not
(30:44):
all disconnected, and it's not something that we can bomb
our way through. Terrorism is an ideology, I should say
terrorists use an ideology. The mechanism is terrorism to inject
and I was not necessarily disappointed. I was very surprised
(31:06):
that they postponed the super Bowl for one day. I
was very surprised, and this is just speculation on my part,
because you know America, capitalist society, everything's about money. I
was very surprised that they waited one day for the
Sugar Bowl Notre Dame in Georgia, which.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Was had tonight.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
It said to me, and I may be out of
turn for saying this, but it's said to me that
there might have been a credible threat. Might have been
a credible threat, and they had to institute and implement
other measures to make sure that nothing else happened.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I think we're at a new point. I think we
are at a new stage.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
And since these were low tech in nature, I expect
that concerts, open air concerts will have different measures used.
I think that sporting events will be different going forward.
It's not like the hard targets of an airport. I'm
talking about where you and I go on an everyday basis.
I think malls will be treated differently.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
We have to look at this fundamentally differently, because this
threat has evolved and all of us have to do
our own due diligence. We're going to talk about more
of this in just a moment when we come back.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
But I was thinking about all this because despite the
celebratory aspect of New Year's Eve, wake up New Year's
Day and you realize things are very different now in
twenty twenty five than twenty twenty four. And I'm not
saying that because we have a new person in the
White House that that's going to change anything or help
(32:39):
anything or hurt anything.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I believe it's.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Smaller than that. What I mean is what we're dealing
with is not global. It is not a nation. It's
not a large militant group. It's Americans.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
We had a good time starting off the show talking
about my New Year's Eve and also the later crew
there New Year's Eve, But now we had to turn
to something more serious. What has happened in America the
past day and a half or so with the strange
explosion in Las Vegas. Let me put it that way,
up that cyber truck Tesla, which had I think it
(33:23):
was a Green Beret former Green Beret, and explosives in it,
don't know if it was intentional. I guess it was
suicide because I believe he shot himself from there.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
No, it was, and it is now being reported that
that was intentional, that he rented the vehicle and drove
there intentionally with the plan of detonating it in front
of the Trump Hodel.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Don't know the motivations beyond that, as far as whether
he was trying to harm other people as well. Thank
goodness it did not. But I was talking about, well,
I don't know if you heard. I was talking about
how I think America is in a new moment. And
and this is the only thing that I'm going to
say that's political with respect to this, because this is
(34:05):
when your elected officials and cabinet members are really really important.
And I do hope that President elect Trump is up
to the task. I do hope that likely Secretary of
Defense Pete Haigseth is up to the task. I do
hope a future Director of Homeland Security, Christy Nole, is
(34:28):
up to the task. I do hope the new Director
of National Intelligence, Tulci Gabbert, is up to the task.
If not, that Americans are going to die. Can't you know,
I can't be anymore blunt than that.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
It's tough because when the first thought, the knee jerk
reaction and the first statements from President elect Trump is see,
this is what I'm talking about. This has everything to
do with immigration and blaming it on an issue wholly unrelated,
this being home grown terrorism. We cannot have leadership that
(35:06):
strikes out like that first, obviously not knowing the facts.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
That was disheartening to me.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
It was just disheartening because I'm like, Wow, you just
went out knee jerk, just shot out out the side
of your neck, a response to something, and you obviously
did not have the facts. And all you did is
worse than a situation that did not have to be.
You did not have to blame this on immigration. That
was the wrong thing to do.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Here's what happens now.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Now we've been pushing the wrong direction as far as
what this is which we should be focusing on. And yes,
illegal immigration is a legitimate issue, it's just not applicable
to this at all. And when you talk about terrorism
and people dying, there's a fear component to it, and
if you point that fear in the wrong direction, people
(36:00):
are put in danger, people die who are innocent and
have nothing to do with this. I hope, and I
mean this sincerely. I hope these elected officials and nominated
officials are up to the task.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
This is not a game. We're always talk about.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
This is not a game, and I expect that put.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
It this way.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
For everything that does happen, there are probably ten things
that don't happen that our federal government stops before it
actually gets to enacted, you know, before somebody becomes operational.
You may not hear about it until arrests are made,
but they're plots all the time. And hopefully we're on
our a game because I don't want to have another
(36:49):
nine to eleven because our government wasn't doing what it
was supposed to do.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
The scariest part about the situation, I think for most
of looking at both of these incidents, be they connected
or not, and you spoke on this, is that they
both come from an idea, an idea that is anti
American idea that these two individuals said, we want to
(37:15):
inflict fear and terror upon the citizens of this country.
And the hardest thing for us to fight against here
in America, the land or the free home of the brave,
is ideas and beliefs. We can't fight against that. That's
something we're not ready for. We're not ready to deal
(37:36):
with mass shootings and schools. We're not ready to deal
with something on that level. Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
If we continue approaching it as if it's a group
of people, a body, or a nation state, then we're
going to lose because it's not that, and it's not
over there. It's right here, and it's American citizens. Now,
(38:02):
however you want to twist that politically, that's up to you.
But if you keep playing that game, more people are
going to die.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I cannot make it any more plan than that these
are American citizens who are being radicalized that we know of.
I mean, because you know, for everyone that we know of,
quite shows another fifty we don't know who are planning
and plotting at various means and levels, varying levels of
sophistication and technology. I hope everyone is on their a
(38:32):
game because they're telling you right now they're coming for us.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
You're not going to legislate your way out of this.
You're not going to bomb your way out of this.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
This is something that is bigger than a particular group
that you can target. This is again an idea, a feeling,
a belief structure, and it's being radicalized right here. It's
not something that needs to come across the border. This
is being born here, it's raised here, is being radicalized
(39:02):
right here. And let's not forget these are former military individuals.
There's another component to all this that needs to be discussed.
What is happening and where is it happening in that
either education process or that training process, which may make
someone either more susceptible or more open to these different
(39:22):
types of ideologies.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I hope that you chose right.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
For president, and I hope that this president chose the
right people, because loyalty and competency are not synonyms. Kf
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