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Load, Land with Timney, k f I AM six forty
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. This is Later with
mo Kelly and I Am Tiffany Hobbs with this week's
The Viral Load, your weekly roundup of the top viral
stories coming across social media. If you're an athlete, or
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you were an athlete at some point, like I was,
I played a few sports growing I played basketball, volley
ball really good. I was on city, I could ball.
I go yeah at Torrence High School, I have.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Never heard of them. I went to South. There was
only one school in Torrents. It was South Torents.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, until we beat you guys wething once.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I think we did what hard saw cartars. Thank you.
But this isn't about us, mo Kelly. We could go
on all night about this.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
This is about the fact that if you are an athlete,
then you may very well have really fond memories of
practicing your skills with a parent or with a beloved
adult in your life. There's a video that has gone
viral all over social media. I saw it on Instagram.
There are now millions of views and hundreds of thousands
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of comments across social media because there's a father clearly
in his sixties, maybe even his seventies. He's wearing khakis,
he has on a belt, he has on dress shoes
of some sort. He has on a button down shirt,
it's tucked in, and he is on the basketball court
with his two teenaged sons. They're probably in their upper
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teenage years. And he decides to school these kids in
a game of horse.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Go for it, Steph.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, like all you gotta go behind me, old school scofolk.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yep, okay.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
We go.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Dad is sinking free shot.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Behind the back.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Then thinks he's a scientist.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It was too I figured it was too hitting this miss.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Trash talking throughout the whole thing.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Let's say that jump shot.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Everybody thinks shot, that's what it's gonna be.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Okay, and he and bar.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Deep all right.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Step So, as you heard, with each shot that the
father made or that he took, he made the shot.
He ended up winning this game of horse, and not
because the shots were simplistic. No, these were shots that
would be hard in any professional arena, in any college
sports game. These shots were trick shots, and this father
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absolutely put his two sons to shame to the tune
of millions and millions of viewers and again hundreds of
thousands of comments. It is definitely a wholesome moment in
social media history and viral social media posts. And I
highly encourage you to find this post if you can.
If you go to Google and you type in father
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wins Game of Horse, you should be able to find it.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
It is worth the watch.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I remember when I finally could beat my dad horse.
I was so happy. It's so happy.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
It's like the pinnacle of your practicing.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yes, and then I thought that I didn't have to
listen to him anymore and I could whoop his ass.
And that was not the case.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
I remember when he bounced me off the linoleum floor
when I was fifteen.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, okay, this took a turn, all right. No, I'm
just saying, there's the right of limitation.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
So it's son.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Oh, he's passed off, so it's not like anything's going
to happen. But no, there's this right a passage where
the son eventually gets to supply and you know, beat
his father in whatever sport or what have you.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, and you look forward to that. I absolutely right.
So in this case, the two sons didn't do that.
Maybe in the future, Yeah, sure they'll have retribution, but
not keep on trying. The second clip for this particular
part of the segment has to do with another father. However,
this father is not himself a biological father.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
No.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
This young man, after he graduated from college in twenty twenty,
decided that he was going to create a social media
account in which he would give advice to people who
were watching his posts. This man, Summer Clayton, fancies himself
as being a motivational speaker, a person who's involved in
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leadership and motivating those who follow him, and his target
would be people who, he says, maybe don't have a
father figure and are looking for that sort of figure
in their lives. He hosts a weekly conversation called Dinner
with Dad. Let's hear a few clips from this one.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
Hey, how are you that's us can have someone mine already?
Speaker 9 (05:47):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Amen?
Speaker 6 (05:50):
How have you been?
Speaker 9 (05:51):
Man?
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Give me one good thing, Give me one challenging day.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Start with a good thing.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
So in that clip, he sits down and he's enjoying
a dinner and he asks, Hey, tell me one good
thing about your week or your day. Okay, follow that
up with one challenging thing. So he has this dialogue
with an invisible person so that the person watching can
feel that they are the person who he is talking
to directly.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Can we play the next one? Stuff? This one has
to do with summer.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Clayton sitting down and talking at a park bench, so
he changes his settings.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Let's hear a little bit about this one, okay.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
And and you can't tell because all of us here
is at the bottom. But I feel like that's one
is the best. My dad used to get a snow
cones when I was younger, and I feel like I
really liked him then, But as an adult I fully
realized that this is just sugar water.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But that's life.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
So in that one, he talks about enjoying a summer
dessert a snow cone and how it's okay to be childlike,
and he encourages his followers to listen while he enjoyed
this snow cone with them. In the third clip, he
gives advice on a breakup.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Are you Okay, I just heard some crying in here.
It's okay to cry. It's okay to cry.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I know you missed them. It's gonna be okay, I promise.
It kind of feels like your whole world was taken away, you.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Know, but.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I know you're going to get back on your feet,
all right.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
So that's summer Clayton. He runs the Instagram account at
officially your Proud Dad. He has over four million followers
right now and a lot of engagement online and his
posts go viral weekly because a lot of people tune
in for his message. So that's a very wholesome account.
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It can be a little a little off putting at
first because he's young. It's a guy in his twenties
and he's giving advice to you. So if you're watching,
it takes a you know, it takes a while to
kind of get past the initial huh, you took.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
The words out of my mouth.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
I was kind of put off by it because I
felt this way just being a church, you'd have a
preacher who was younger than you. Was like, wait a minute,
you don't have the life experience to give advice on
things that you haven't experience. You don't haven't been through
and you know, don't. It's almost like it feels empty.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It does for those of us who have lived life
beyond I think Summer Clayton's you know, short amount of
years at this point, he's in his twenties. But for
younger people, for those teenagers who are looking for some
sort of guidance and who use social media as a
place to seek out advice, I think this account is
a lot better than other places they could go. So
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that's the first segment of the Viral Load. We'll be
back with more after this.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Now it's tuning the Viral Moment Tiffany Live on camlet
Win mo O Kelly. She'll talk about the time this
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Speaker 4 (09:32):
K if I AM six forty Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. This is Later with mo Kelly, and we
are in the second segment of tonight's Viral Load with me,
Tiffany Hobbs. We're gonna take a look back at what
happened during the Big Game, the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
I can say that now right, mo.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Hey, you can say you can say it, then you
can't use it as part of a promotion.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
There we only ound muddy waters with that with that phrase.
But the Super Bowl, as we all know now, the
e Eagles won the Super Bowl. Sorry, that's not your team.
It is a matter of last spoiler alert. Sorry about that. Well,
there's another special moment that came out of the Super
Bowl outside of Philadelphia being able to celebrate, and it
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involves a fanned fan that found an Eagles jacket, a
letterman jacket with the Eagles insignia and Eagles written across
the back on it. Really nice heavy weighted jacket after
the Super Bowl parade in Philadelphia with a special note inside.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
So this is what happened.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
After people left the Super Bowl parade, one fan spotted
something hanging on a gate. The fan's name is Amy
Rana Barger. She's a last bless you Amy again, Amy
Rana Barger.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
That sounds almost offensive.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
It is harsh.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I've never seen that last name in my life, and
I hope we won't have to say it again.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Proceed.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Amy r a LaSalle University graduate, shared with NBC ten,
a local affiliate affiliate in Philadelphia that she found a
retro looking Eagles starter jacket hanging on a light post
while at the Philadelphia Museum of Art during the ending
of this big parade, and she thought, Amy, r oh, no,
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someone left their jacket. She went to get the jacket
and when she picked it up, she started searching the
pockets for some sort of identification or extra change, whatever
she might have been looking for, and inside she found
a note. The note went viral. This is what the
note said. If found, do not return. This jacket belongs
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to you. I found this jacket on the night of
the Super Bowl in twenty eighteen, and it only felt
right to release back into the city when the angle
when the Eagles one again, enjoy the jacket. I hope
you get the opportunity to release back into the world
with another Super Bowl win soon, Go Birds. So Amy
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of course took the note, posted it on social media,
took the jacket as her own, and the note has
gone viral.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Did they find the previous owner by chance?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Not yet, And it seems like that is deliberate, where
that the previous owner did not want to be identified,
does not want to be found, just wanted to do
this deed and hope that's and hopes that someone would
find it. It's kind of like that bottle with the
that you cast into the ocean with a note inside
and see who might who it might wash up with
on the other side of the earth. In this case,
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it was a starter jacket with the eagles insignia.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Has anyone confirmed that the note is legitimate?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Oh, you're a cynic?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
I am?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I am.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
I believe people do stuff that make up stuff to
go viral and get some coverage.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They do.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
But in this case, let's believe, just for now, that
the note is I believe.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
In the worst of people. I work with Mark Runner,
I believe in the worst of people.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Well, let's take a sorry about that, Mark, I'm just
gonna jump all over it, not even gonna let you tea.
So let's let's take a moment to deviate from people
for a second. We're gonna get away from humans. We
all may have issues with those. But if you've been
paying the paying attention to social media this week, there
is a huge story. It's bigger than any story I've
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seen in recent weeks, and it involves something called an
angler fish. An angler fish, let me paint this picture
for you. If you know what a piranha looks like.
It's a smallish fish with a big mouth with a
lot of spiky teeth in it bugged eyes. A very
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unique and bizarre looking fish. It's all mouth and a mouth,
all just crazy looking, terrifying teeth. Well, Disney and Pixar
callback did a movie a few years ago. That movie
was called Finding Nemo two thousand and three, huge movie
in which they featured an anglerfish. And the anglerfish in
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Finding Nemo was not a horrific looking creature. No, it
was a creature who had this light bulb on its head,
and it was a beloved character in the movie. Well,
people remember that scene. They remember that anglerfish. And so
this is where the worlds collide. Couple of weeks ago,
an anglerfish washed up in Spain.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
It washed up in Spain, and this is unusual. Yeah,
fish wash up.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
But this particular fish lives at a depth of between
two hundred and two thousand meters below sea level. It
lives in the darkest crevices of the ocean. So people
don't usually see this fish. It is a very unusual
occurrence to see this fish outside of the scientific scientific community. Well,
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one fish did in fact wash up, and it ended
up on the sand where people picked it up and
then took it to their local UH Scientific Research center,
and it was confirmed that it was an anglerfish, and
people have made up all sorts of romanticize stories and
theories about why this fish washed up. There has even
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been something called a Pixar edit, which means someone took
the anglerfish's you know it's it's likeness and animated it
and turned it into a short in which we are
following this anglerfish through the ocean as it ascends to
the the surface of which it then did die because
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it's not made to live outside of this dark area.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
But because of this Pixar.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Edit, people are completely in just shambles emotionally. It has
gone viral because people have connected with this anglerfish all
over TikTok, all over social media, and people are literally
obsessed with the story of this fish and its final
moments as it quote reaches for light on the ocean's surface.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
People are weird. I'm sorry, People are weird.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
People are unique, are strange. Well, they are strange and
they latch on to anything. But I found that this
this story was ironic given you were talking about Pixar
and Disney because I imagine that there will be some
sort of short that will be coming out of this
phenomenon with this one lone anglerfish soon, because they're going
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to capitalize off of this momentum and the popularity of
this fish.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It's ugly ass fish. I don't know about popularis ugly beloved.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
There's a lot of ugly things that are beloved.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Mo, it's ugly.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
It is.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It is since someone will make a movie of it,
you know.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, absolutely, and it deserves it because everything deserves.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Not everyone deserves a movie.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Everything deserves love. Period.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Oh look at the time it's later, Kelly, thank you.
No no, no, no, don't no, no, don't don't encourage her.
That's the ugly ass fish.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Call it what it is.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
It's been a lot of ugly things. I'm sure you've encountered.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
MO, Kelly, come on, I'm gonna leave that alone.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
I'm just gonna leave that alone because if I say something,
it'll be taking one way and be taking the wrong way,
and I'll be calling lots of names and they won't
get there.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Might be ugly names.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
No, no, oh, come on, you've really lowered the bar
for her he's gone road. Oh okay, y six forty
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Speaker 1 (17:47):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
You may remember last week that we told you about
this asteroid twenty twenty four y R four, how it
had a one percent chance of impacting Earth, and then
it was upgraded last week to two point three percent.
And I made the analogy two point three percent is
not a lot. But if I told you that you
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were getting on a plane with a two point three
percent chance of flying into the side of a mountain,
you probably would not feel too good about that. Well,
I have more bad news to offer you, and this
comes directly from NASA. This asteroid twenty twenty four yr
four now is up to and this is as of yesterday.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
This is really up to date.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
There's a three point one percent chance that this asteroid
twenty twenty four yr four will hit the Earth on
December twenty second of twenty thirty two.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's one in thirty two.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Now, let me put on my little conspiracy theory tenfoil
hat for just a second. If the odds were higher
than that, considerably higher, do you think our government or
any government would let us know. Let's say it was
twenty percent chance one in five. Do you think that
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our government would let us know? Or are they building
a tunnel in underground city right now in the hills
of Montana and they're going to have a secret lottery.
We're only important people like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
There's steps in New Zealand. All I'm saying, but they
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will have a super secret bunker for whomever they want.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
To say it's the answer is yes, Okay, the answer
is yes. I can promise you that there is no
way that they would let us know this. They will
not let us know until it's too late to do
anything about it. It's why I love the movie Don't
Look Up Start. Oh this asteroid was gonna hit us
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in like thirty years. Oh no, it's gonna hit us
in thirty days.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Phrase give.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
It's like one of those like yeah, it's coming and
that's all it will be. Because I love how it jumped.
It was just like, no, there's no way to Oh
I was a one in thirty one chance. That's better
than the lottery. The odds have tripled in the course
of a week. Yes, it's gone from one percent to
three percent. Now I'm going to get very very conspiratorial,
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only in that George Norris listening. So we have seen
and these are things that they've been reported because of
the depletion of the ozone layer, we have seen more
and more asteroids skipping off of our our protective dome
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that is around this here planet. By the time twenty
thirty two gets here, will probably be dealing with just
the thinnest of ozone layers. And that is and there's
there's an increase, there is an increase within the magnetism
of this planet. That is wise, so many asters are
getting closer and closer to us. Mark, I thought we
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fixed the ozone layer number one. Well, I don't want
to get in the way of Tuala's conspiracy theory, but yeah,
the ozone is no longer the problem it used to
be with the CFCs and people using aerosols for their
armpit spray. But it's going deeper than that. Damn the
damn the hair spray and the big hair. Oh, we're
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way past that. We're into doing so much more to
this planet with the deforestation. Well, how do they have
to do with asteroids being it has to do with
the fact that this planet is no longer in a
position to deflect just naturally asteroids as they as we
used to. And I know, I don't know anyone who
saw this story. The first thing they thought is we
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have something that can blow it up. That's what these
movies are for. All these heroic movies about us going
up and blowing up an asteroids is to placate us
and get us ready because we know good old America
an ingenuity. We'll build a rocket with our neighbors and
our partners.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Will go and blow it up. No, we're all going
to die. Do not look up. Did you think the
ozone layer deflected asteroids? He said, it is, It is,
there is. You got it right.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
There is the portion of of what the ozone layer
and all that does. There is an increase. You know,
I'm not a signist here, but there is. With without
without that, there is an increase in magnetism of the
planet as a whole. So we're more of an an
asteroid a magnet because of what we have done to
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our atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
So we're just dialing up asteroids saying come hit us,
come hit us. All these astras is flying by. There's
just this boosh. No, now, it's like, come on, come on, daddy.
We just opened the doors and say welcome to the party.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Pal. Yes, do weija boards play a role in any
of this? Okay, okay, okay, Sergeant Ron.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
I'm just asking, and there's no need to get ad
hominem about about my unfortunate hair It was abuse, actually,
and I'm considering a lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
They knock you out and take advantage of you. Well,
I was kind of.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Close to knocked out because I had I was drugged
up from the dentist. But we don't need to get
focused on that. We're talking about Tuala's bizarre conspiracy theory.
I'm more curious about what made you want to go
to the get a haircut right after that?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Okay you two and two.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
I'm really reluctant to get into this because the asteroid
thing is far more entertaining to me personally than talking
about the fact that my head's freezing today.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
It's freezing. My head's never been this gold. How do
you guys cope with this stuff? I just had to
take a couple of pictures of you so I could
put it on Instagram. So people couldn't see I please don't.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Oh you bet, you ask.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
But my question to you is, well, first of all,
I suppose it's incumbent on me to remind you at
this juncture. I don't know if you remember this, but
I'm white, so we a don't you know our haircare,
our hair cutting procedures are slightly different.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Also, we don't look as cool bald with shaved heads,
so I'm not ready to go that route yet. I
don't know how you deal with just the breeze on
your head. I can't stand this.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Wear a cap. I don't like those either. But you
have weight. Ta Walla shaves his head and your hair
is very closely cropped.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Yes, that's a fuzz u. And I would say I
look like a pencil eraser. Now, so this is difficult.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It looks like a military cut. It's a fine cut,
high and tight. Yeah. Oh so now you're saying you
find it attractive, you find it appealing, It's just high
and tight.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
I walked in, and I walked in, and I got
I got a flashed back to half of my hands
on the hood, officer runner. Yeah, okay, all right, Well
I'd like to know what you're doing in this neighborhood,
and that is that car yours?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
What else am I missing? Got any weapons on you?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:13):
And that money can't possibly be yours? Yeah yeah, yeah. No, No,
I think I think there's a way to turn this
to my advantage. And I just wasn't thinking of it
that way because my head was so cold.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
No, but absolutely, and and and as I've been doing
a little bit of.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
A quick research, the the depletion of the ozone layer
is what is causing the planet to overheat, and all
of the global warm that's happening. The heating of the
planet is what is demagnetizing it, and that is what
is causing these asteroids to not pass by.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Its Okay, if the planet's being demagnetized, that would be
a contradiction to the argument that it's attracting asteroids.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
It's almost like the asteroids, you know how magnets, uh
they they they can if they're what is that that
causes them to push apart? I don't know that it's
the thing that that it's the opposite of what causedes
certain magnets to not be able to connect correctly.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Now this is like boom, we just don't have this
reverse polarity or something.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Yeah, something like that. There you got something like that.
There you go, Thank you there and Neil the ass
so fire all you made it all so clear. I
feel much less intelligent for hearing that. I don't know
what tokay. I actually I have no idea what he
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just said.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
We are going to die?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Okay, I got that clear?
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yeah, we know the asteroids going to hit us. I'm
not sure it's for the reasons that you would listening
to it is the it is global warming as what's
going to cause the asteroid hit us? How about that
that clear.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Enough for you?
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Bring it on if I am six forty, we're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. We'll check in with George
Norri and see what he has to think about the
asteroid that's getting ready to hit us.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
In just a moment, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Come up in just a few more months, will be
coast Am with George Norri.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
George, is the asteroid going.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
To hit us? One in forty eight? Chance?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Mo see, I thought it was up to one in
thirty two. Down I still say one in forty eight
and it's a gravity that pulls it down. So not
the ozone layer Towala not.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
No, I was saying.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
I was saying that the depletion of the ozone layer
is what's caused the planet to heat up, and that
is what is attracting some of these asteroids that have
been normally passing by a lot further from the planet,
bringing them in closer to us.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
Just whatever six degrees and Louis there's no global warming
out there.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Anyways.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
On the show tonight, we're going to talk about stem
cell technology technology and then later on abundance for your Life.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
On Coast to.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Coast, I think that we are more out there tonight
than George and Coast to Coast am.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I think we were more conspiratorial when it came down.
You're always out there. Oh I thought you were going.
Did you hear your show last night?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah, No, we.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Weren't out there. That's regular out there. You don't see George.
You only listened to us like in the last half hour.
But we were really we were way out there even
before that. There was on Monday. I even told to
Wallace said, we can't do the story tonight because there
was just too there was too much going on, and
I didn't think you would approve of it.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
So we changed the story just because of you on
Monday night. Well you should have changed yesterday's too. Oh damn,
you know.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
And the thing is, he's not playing, he's serious. He's
absolutely see man down by George. I still love you, Merciless.
If you ever wanted truth, just go talk to George.
Like looking in the mirror.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I love it. I love it. Not hold back.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Here's my final thought for this evening. It goes without saying,
but I'm going to say it anyway. This world is
changing so very fast, probably faster than any of us
could have ever imagined growing up, or at least when
I was growing up, I dreamed of the day of
just having my own phone in my room. I'm not
talking about my own number. I'm talking about my own
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physical rotary or touch tone phone. Yes, I said rotary
that I could answer in my own room. That was
the dream once upon a time. Now I got my
own phone and personal computer on my hip, put it
in my pocket, which communicates with my watch on my wrist,
and you know what, I upgrade just about every single
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year both of them. I can use my phone in
my car thanks to Bluetooth. In fact, I can answer
of calls on my wrist. I can play music through
my wrists. I could talk to my phone and tell
it to call anyone and everyone, as if there's some
MANI person in my dashboard dialing the phone.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
For me.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
It's like the Jetsons, but in real life. And you
got to be a certain age to remember what life
was like with the advent of the mobile phone, combined
that with the Internet and the world in nineteen ninety five.
Back then, it's nothing like now in twenty twenty five.
In my day, we didn't have computers in every classroom
for all students. We had a singular room a computer
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lab that you had to walk to to use a
computer for a limited amount of time.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
And there was no internet. Teachers, and this is the
point of this.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
Teachers back then only had to deal with students having
sony walkman's remember them, I do, or calculators remember them.
And don't get me wrong, I wanted to communicate with
the girls in my class just like anyone else. It
was high school. I mean, I was going through puberty.
But the only way we could communicate back then was
passing notes, which was tantamount to the pony Express, very
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low tech.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
But here's my point.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
Students today have all of that in just their mobile phone,
from the computer to the walkman, to the calculator to
the passing note communicator, all of it. It is heaven
in a box for an adolescent. They can talk with
their crushes all day and all night and not make
a sound. Mom and Dad would be none the wiser,
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but worse. In a word, they are addicted. In fact,
so are the rest of us. And despite that addiction,
or maybe because of it, our children are relatively speaking,
less educated than ever before. And although LAUSD may have
taken a very very small step to try to correct both,
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there has to be far more done. And parents don't
pull the phone news back because those phones serve a
purpose for them as well, a constant tether in this
very very dangerous world. I don't condone it, but I
damn sure understand it. But I do wonder if we
are better off today with this proliferation of cell phone
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technology because we're all pretty much generally dumber than ever before,
or are we just dumber, or are we just having
more available ways to stay in touch with each other.
It could be both. I'm not sure. Are we more
dumb than ever before? It sure seems like it. It
sure sounds like it. We surely act like it from
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the way we talk to each other, From the way
we communicate with each other. Ask a teacher when a
child turns in a paper, they're turning in shorthand, They're
turning in text shorthand They're not even communicating.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
In complete sentences.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
And that is a direct derivative of the texting, the environment,
and the way we speak to each other on our phones.
And we know from the State of Education, at least
here in California, we are performing worse than ever before,
although we have this technology which is supposedly making life
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easier for us, more so than ever before.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I just don't know.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Are we generally dumber or not given all this technology.
And after I send these texts, and after I post
on social media, and after I check all my emails
on my phone, I'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
For k if I am six forty, I'm O Kelly.
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