January 16, 2025 • 20 mins
ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – An in-depth analysis of the most viral stories of the week in “The Viral Load” with regular guest contributor Tiffany Hobbs weighing in on stories shinning a light on the hope amongst the devastation with the story of a man reunited with his dog feared lost in the SoCal Fire; to a retro blue VW van that miraculously survived the deadly SoCal fire and MORE - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty Now Kelly Show.
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Viral Load, Lady.
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K if I Am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. It's Later with Mo Kelly and this is
the Viral Load with Me Tiffany Hobbs. This week and
last week, there's been a lot of content uploaded all
over social media. Obviously, people are keeping track of what's
going on with the fires that are ravaging southern California,
(00:55):
and also aside from that, there's content that continues to
be uploaded and anticipation of this looming TikTok band. Well,
all of that content has been coalescing into what has
made it out to be a very busy week in
social media. And because we've seen such devastating images and
(01:16):
so many really disheartening and sad posts online from these fires,
I wanted to start today's viral load off with something
extremely heartwarming. So you may have seen it. It's been
all over TikTok, it's been all over Instagram, Facebook, you
might have been sent it in an email, but regardless,
what I am going to share with you is extremely uplifting.
(01:40):
It is very emotional. The first time I saw it,
I absolutely cried, and then, because I'm a glutton for punishment,
I watched it again and again, and each subsequent time
I got emotional. Here's the story. A man, unfortunately was
separated from his two dogs during the Palisades fire.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He's caught on.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Video by a news reporter who is at the bottom
of Sunset and timescal Canyon as this man is trying
to get back to his home while his block is
on fire, or at least the fire is approaching. The
man interviews with this reporter and the reporter asks, you know,
you know, how can you get to your dogs? And
(02:22):
the man says, I can't. I'm being stopped. I'm being
told I can't get up there because of the fire.
And he's just having a full on breakdown emotionally understandably,
so I would too. My first instinct would be to
go back and get my fur babies. Well, this man
tries everything. He gets a bike, he tries to get
up the hill, and he stopped. Five days of searching
(02:44):
online for his misspets came up empty. He is able
to recover one pet during that five day period, but
the other pet, a little small dog named Oreo, was
still unaccounted for.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
On the fifth day, he's able.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
This man and his name is Hasey Covin, He's able
to make it back up to his home, and this
is what happens.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
There's audio, but.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I'll introduce it first, just so we can kind of
have a picture a visual. Casey goes back up to
his home. He stands outside of his gate. He has
a dog toy. There are cameras all around because they're
following this man's story. It's a human interest story. Casey
coven squeaks the toy and this is what you hear.
(03:37):
Awesome picks his dog up hooy hand is reunited with
his with his loved, very loved and missing for five days,
very resilient dog, Oreo, And as you can hear there,
it is extremely emotional. Casey is crying. It's just the
(04:00):
reunion that people needed to see. Myself included. There's more
to this story. So the reason that Oreo was able
to survive so long is because a very thoughtful and
compassionate firefighter who actually ended up being a battalion chief
named Brent Pascua, left open Casey Covin's doors to his
(04:24):
home and his windows, and that was in anticipation of
the fire reaching that block. Because of this battalion chief's
heroic efforts, because of his forward thinking, the dog, Oreo
was able to get back into the house outside to
the house. Outside of the house, he wasn't confined inside.
(04:45):
He was able to leave and he was spotted in
a neighbor's yard and that's when neighbors alerted Casey Covin
to the fact that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Orio was still alive.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
After the reunion caught on camera, Casey Covin was able
to meet eat battalion Chief Brent Pascua, where they had
their own reunion, very heartwarming, very emotional meeting. They embraced
and Brett, excuse me, Brent Pascua, that battalion chief who
really put all of this into motion, was able to
(05:16):
meet Oreo as well, and it has this story a
very very happy ending during a time when we need
as many happy endings as possible.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Look, it's very difficult for me to not get caught
up emotionally in this story. I knew about it, yes,
and I could not because just having two small dogs.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
It rang too familiar. Yeah, same, it was.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
A little too close to home, no pun intended, and
those are emotions that I wouldn't want to deal with.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It just can't I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I can't imagine what Casey was going through while waiting
to find out whether his dogs, you know, what the
fate of his dog was. But to have that re
unit again, it was something that I needed to see.
It really instilled hope in me, and I think for
the millions of people who have now seen the numerous
videos of Casey reuniting with Oreo, it does give you
(06:11):
just that modicum of hope.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I'm glad that it has a happy ending, but it's
not a story that I could just I couldn't read it,
I couldn't watch it because you don't know how the
story ends until you're told how the story ends.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And I didn't know that it was going to have
a happy ending. I'm glad it did.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Something that didn't have a happy ending really speaks to
a lot of the scam and fraud that's going on
right now.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Sadly, people who.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Are devastated by the fires are dealing with scams and frauds.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But there are people who are outside.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Of southern California who continued to be defrauded as well.
And this story involves a French woman. Her name is Anne,
and this woman was unfortunately scammed out of about eight
hundred and fifty thousand from a person online pretending to
be none other than Brad Pitt. Here's how that happened.
(07:09):
So Anne's going through a divorce. She was particularly vulnerable
and last year she met someone online. They exchanged messages,
they flirted and said it was a really nice relationship.
The person, this man, spoke to her in ways that
she needed to be spoken to. She was swept off
of her feet. This wasn't an ordinary man, however, this was,
(07:32):
to Anne's knowledge, Brad Pitt.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
How how here's how.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So if you've ever been online and you wanted verification
of something, here's a callback. And let's say you're talking
to a person you've never met in person in reality,
you might ask that person to send you a photo
of themselves, maybe holding up something that shows the current date.
(07:59):
That's a common verification tactic, proof of life, proof of
reality in that very moment. Well, there is artificial intelligence,
and artificial intelligence can be manipulated.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
To look very much.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Like it is, you know, a live person there, like
it is reality. And so this person, this scammer pretending
to be Brad Pit, used AI doctored images and video
some sort of video that that did also show this
brad Pit character holding up a calendar a sheet that
(08:36):
said I love you.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And there are numerous images.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
They're disturbing when you look at them because you can
see that it is not quite brad Pit. There's something
a little off in it. Wasn't quite right, something's not
quite right. But and vulnerable going through a divorce and
really hungry for love and attention, bought the Chaine. And
here's what quote ung quote. Brad Pitt told her, Hey, Ann,
(09:02):
who I love. I can't get access to my money
because of my current divorce with Angelina.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I need you to send me money.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Send me money, which amounted to the total of eight
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And I also said he
was battling Cancir, so he just this person is scammer,
really stooped low and preyed upon Anne's compassion and.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Had eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars just laying around
or at least available to her.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
She was doing pretty well.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
But now it's in the hand of or hands of
this scammer or scammers, because Anne fell for it, hook
line and sinker and has not been able to recover.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
The fund yet. I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
And evidently Anne did pretty well in life, yeah with
her money, probably, you know, through other measurements. Is a
pretty smart woman. Yeah, probably, Okay, you know, yeah, you're
not just gonna luck upon eight hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars liquidity. You've done something right in your life, there's
something there to then literally risk it all on the idea.
(10:11):
Let's say it was actually Brad Pitt. Let's say everything
was true. It wasn't, but let's say it was the
whole idea that you're gonna let eight hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars go out the door for someone that you, oh,
fifty thousand dollars, well, you know, tomato tomatow at that point,
it's more than hundred thousand for someone that you've never
actually met, had coffee with, hung out at the Starbucks
(10:36):
for a while, callback none of that. It just defies
any type of exponenttion.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Just beyond gullibility.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It is It really shows to what her mental state
was at the time and after as well. The way
that Anne found out that this was all a scam,
all a ruse is that she bought it. She continued
to buy it into twenty twenty four. This is a
couple of years worth of sending money back and forth.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So it was a long game. A long game. Well,
Ann saw online viral pictures.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Of Brad Pitt with his current girlfriend and then realized
did we all did? That Brad was not only well,
but that he was in a relationship with someone else.
So she didn't then think fortunately, and that she wasn't
that she was the other woman. She just decided that
this was a scam and she cut off all ties.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
She has since checked herself into a hospital for depression. OK,
a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I'm sympathetic for. But she thought it was a scam
only after seeing.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Brads only after she was he was seen with.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
His current She didn't think that it might have been
a scam after the eight hundred and fifty K went
out the window with no real confirmation of anything.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Sometimes it makes me feel like I missed my calling
as a scammer.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Look, I think it's a criminal I'm not a criminal,
and part of the reason is there's certain places I'm
not going to go. I'm not that depraved in mind
whether I would even think to do that, much less try.
It's a horrible story, it is, and it's a cautionary
tale obviously for all of us. I don't have eight
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to give, nor would I,
(12:17):
but it does let you know that there are a
lot of people out there who are trying to separate
you from your money, especially right now as we talk
about this against the backdrop of what's happening with the fires,
and people are going to try to victimize these same
people over and over again. So I think that's the
lesson to take away from.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
That is absolutely the lesson. And also to be very
wary of things you see online. We always preach media literacy,
and AI is very smart. It's probably smarter than you
are at this point in being able to separate you
from your money. So be very wary of the things
that you see.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
So I shouldn't believe the email I got from Jennifer
Aniston who said that she likes me.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I mean, you're mo Kelly. That could very well be
feasible in my dreams.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty. Now it's Sun the Viral lo
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Six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's Later
with mo Kelly And this is part two of the
Viral Load. I'm actually watching this story in real time
as it unfolds on CNN, And not only is it
on CNN, but it's been viral online on pretty much
every app right now. This is another story that is
(13:47):
emerging out of the fire and what it involves is
a beautiful retro blue Volkswagen van, one of those vans
you've seen, very very iconic. Fits the icon how do
you say that word iconography of California?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Did I get it?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That's a real difficult word, but it definitely fits the
backdrop of California. When you think about leisure and surfing
and oceans, those VW vans are synonymous with the California
lifestyle and this VW van, this beautiful blue retro vehicle
miraculously survived the deadly Palisades Fire.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
This is what happened.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Two days before the Palisades Fire erupted. A man named
Preston Martin parked his nineteen seventy seven VW Type two
van on a flat spot just up the hill from
the Getty Villa.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It's in really good condition.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
We're watching it here on CNN, and you can google
the images of this van so that you can see
exactly what we're talking about. The van miraculously survived the
Palisades fire. When you look around the van, it is
complete and utter destruction.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
The homes are leveled.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But this van sits in that photo right in the center,
a photo that has now gone viral and has been
shared millions of times over in plenty of places, and
it stands more or less as a symbol of that
California resilience, of the resilience that so many Angelinos are experiencing.
And so here's some back info about this van. Martin
(15:28):
purchased the van sometime around his junior year of college,
when he was studying engineering at the University of California
at Santa Barbara. And after he purchased the van. He
then sold it to another person. That person is the
current owner of the van, and in that just change
of hands they became friends. But now both of these owners,
(15:53):
former and new are in the spotlight because this van
somehow survived what is now being called on CNN as
a sea of devastation. It survived the wind, it survived
the flames. The van still looks in good condition. They
say it is operable, and people are saying that it
(16:14):
is a miracle, that it makes no sense.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It looks like they just pulled up to the corner
five minutes ago. And to think of all the devastation
around it, the heat involved, how it destroyed every structure
within eyesight around this thing. And it did not melt
the tires, It did not scorch the paint. It looks
completely untouched. That's the amazing part to me.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And I was skeptical.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Mo I thought perhaps someone did in fact pull this
van up, that it somehow snuck into this area and
was positioned in.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
A way that people could get photos.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, the AP photographer who was able to catch the
photo on the first day that the van was able
to be seen once the smoke cleared, verified and validated.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That the van had been there all along.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And I think this is a wonderful ad for Volkswagon
when you think about it, at least for their retro series.
The next story, the final story, deals with someone you
might be familiar with many people are.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Her name is Little Kim. She's a rapper.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
She was very popular in the nineties and early two
thousands in association with the now scorned p Ditty, the
deceased Notorious Big. She made a really big name for
herself as a successful rapper, and she is still in
the public eye. People look to her, people follow her.
(17:35):
Millions of people follow her on her social media and
Little Kim felt compelled a couple of days ago to
send well wishes to the victims of those in the
fires around Los Angeles. Unfortunately, her well wishes didn't go
as planned because, while Little Kim was acknowledging the devastation
(17:57):
of the fires, she wished quote a monsoon would hit
Los Angeles to douse the flames, not quite understanding that
a monsoon is also a disaster and would not be
a better thing for us to be experiencing in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I don't dislike Little Kit.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I don't like the sharpest pencil in a box.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
She meant, well, but what do they say about the
road to hell? It's paved with good intentions and misspeakings
on social media that live in perpetuity.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So you really have to be careful.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Because while many were sympathetic, of course to the her misspeaking,
who her making that mistake and wanted to educate her
of course in the responses about what a monsoon actually is,
others were not so kind, called her many really harsh names,
and have used this example to kind of throw a
lot more dirt on celebrities being tone deaf when these
(18:59):
things happen.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I don't think people really understand the power of social media,
especially if you're a celebrity. You say something that you
would probably say amongst friends, and back in the day
your friends are saying like you're tripping, you're bugging, and
then someone would explain it to you when you put
it out there on social media, talking about something that's viral,
which can expand and be sent in an exponential way.
(19:24):
I don't see why people haven't figured out, especially when
it comes to disasters. You got to be very, very careful,
and I'm torried to myself as well. I'm very not
all my thoughts are put out on social media. There
are a lot of things where it's like backspace, backspace.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Backspace, delete, delete, delete, yes, cancel message. I do that
every single day.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
So the stuff that I put out there, it's gone
through three or four mental editors.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And again, she meant well, but she made a big mistake.
And like many things and not all things on social media,
it will likely live on as long as social media
is a thing, it will be there forever ever forever ever, ever,
ever ever ever.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That's the end of the viral load.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
But mo also, please guys listening, you can catch me
on Saturday from five to seven. I'll be continuing to
talk about updates with the fire and other stories that
are now creeping back into the public sphere. So make
sure you listen in five to seven Right here on
KFI AM six forty
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Social media, Facebook, It's Extra.
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Dney. Viral Load, Viral Load, the.
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Viral Load, Lady.
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K if I Am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. It's Later with Mo Kelly and this is
the Viral Load with Me Tiffany Hobbs. This week and
last week, there's been a lot of content uploaded all
over social media. Obviously, people are keeping track of what's
going on with the fires that are ravaging southern California,
(00:55):
and also aside from that, there's content that continues to
be uploaded and anticipation of this looming TikTok band. Well,
all of that content has been coalescing into what has
made it out to be a very busy week in
social media. And because we've seen such devastating images and
(01:16):
so many really disheartening and sad posts online from these fires,
I wanted to start today's viral load off with something
extremely heartwarming. So you may have seen it. It's been
all over TikTok, it's been all over Instagram, Facebook, you
might have been sent it in an email, but regardless,
what I am going to share with you is extremely uplifting.
(01:40):
It is very emotional. The first time I saw it,
I absolutely cried, and then, because I'm a glutton for punishment,
I watched it again and again, and each subsequent time
I got emotional. Here's the story. A man, unfortunately was
separated from his two dogs during the Palisades fire.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He's caught on.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Video by a news reporter who is at the bottom
of Sunset and timescal Canyon as this man is trying
to get back to his home while his block is
on fire, or at least the fire is approaching. The
man interviews with this reporter and the reporter asks, you know,
you know, how can you get to your dogs? And
(02:22):
the man says, I can't. I'm being stopped. I'm being
told I can't get up there because of the fire.
And he's just having a full on breakdown emotionally understandably,
so I would too. My first instinct would be to
go back and get my fur babies. Well, this man
tries everything. He gets a bike, he tries to get
up the hill, and he stopped. Five days of searching
(02:44):
online for his misspets came up empty. He is able
to recover one pet during that five day period, but
the other pet, a little small dog named Oreo, was
still unaccounted for.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
On the fifth day, he's able.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
This man and his name is Hasey Covin, He's able
to make it back up to his home, and this
is what happens.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
There's audio, but.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I'll introduce it first, just so we can kind of
have a picture a visual. Casey goes back up to
his home. He stands outside of his gate. He has
a dog toy. There are cameras all around because they're
following this man's story. It's a human interest story. Casey
coven squeaks the toy and this is what you hear.
(03:37):
Awesome picks his dog up hooy hand is reunited with
his with his loved, very loved and missing for five days,
very resilient dog, Oreo, And as you can hear there,
it is extremely emotional. Casey is crying. It's just the
(04:00):
reunion that people needed to see. Myself included. There's more
to this story. So the reason that Oreo was able
to survive so long is because a very thoughtful and
compassionate firefighter who actually ended up being a battalion chief
named Brent Pascua, left open Casey Covin's doors to his
(04:24):
home and his windows, and that was in anticipation of
the fire reaching that block. Because of this battalion chief's
heroic efforts, because of his forward thinking, the dog, Oreo
was able to get back into the house outside to
the house. Outside of the house, he wasn't confined inside.
(04:45):
He was able to leave and he was spotted in
a neighbor's yard and that's when neighbors alerted Casey Covin
to the fact that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Orio was still alive.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
After the reunion caught on camera, Casey Covin was able
to meet eat battalion Chief Brent Pascua, where they had
their own reunion, very heartwarming, very emotional meeting. They embraced
and Brett, excuse me, Brent Pascua, that battalion chief who
really put all of this into motion, was able to
(05:16):
meet Oreo as well, and it has this story a
very very happy ending during a time when we need
as many happy endings as possible.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Look, it's very difficult for me to not get caught
up emotionally in this story. I knew about it, yes,
and I could not because just having two small dogs.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
It rang too familiar. Yeah, same, it was.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
A little too close to home, no pun intended, and
those are emotions that I wouldn't want to deal with.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It just can't I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I can't imagine what Casey was going through while waiting
to find out whether his dogs, you know, what the
fate of his dog was. But to have that re
unit again, it was something that I needed to see.
It really instilled hope in me, and I think for
the millions of people who have now seen the numerous
videos of Casey reuniting with Oreo, it does give you
(06:11):
just that modicum of hope.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I'm glad that it has a happy ending, but it's
not a story that I could just I couldn't read it,
I couldn't watch it because you don't know how the
story ends until you're told how the story ends.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And I didn't know that it was going to have
a happy ending. I'm glad it did.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Something that didn't have a happy ending really speaks to
a lot of the scam and fraud that's going on
right now.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Sadly, people who.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Are devastated by the fires are dealing with scams and frauds.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But there are people who are outside.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Of southern California who continued to be defrauded as well.
And this story involves a French woman. Her name is Anne,
and this woman was unfortunately scammed out of about eight
hundred and fifty thousand from a person online pretending to
be none other than Brad Pitt. Here's how that happened.
(07:09):
So Anne's going through a divorce. She was particularly vulnerable
and last year she met someone online. They exchanged messages,
they flirted and said it was a really nice relationship.
The person, this man, spoke to her in ways that
she needed to be spoken to. She was swept off
of her feet. This wasn't an ordinary man, however, this was,
(07:32):
to Anne's knowledge, Brad Pitt.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
How how here's how.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So if you've ever been online and you wanted verification
of something, here's a callback. And let's say you're talking
to a person you've never met in person in reality,
you might ask that person to send you a photo
of themselves, maybe holding up something that shows the current date.
(07:59):
That's a common verification tactic, proof of life, proof of
reality in that very moment. Well, there is artificial intelligence,
and artificial intelligence can be manipulated.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
To look very much.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Like it is, you know, a live person there, like
it is reality. And so this person, this scammer pretending
to be Brad Pit, used AI doctored images and video
some sort of video that that did also show this
brad Pit character holding up a calendar a sheet that
(08:36):
said I love you.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And there are numerous images.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
They're disturbing when you look at them because you can
see that it is not quite brad Pit. There's something
a little off in it. Wasn't quite right, something's not
quite right. But and vulnerable going through a divorce and
really hungry for love and attention, bought the Chaine. And
here's what quote ung quote. Brad Pitt told her, Hey, Ann,
(09:02):
who I love. I can't get access to my money
because of my current divorce with Angelina.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I need you to send me money.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Send me money, which amounted to the total of eight
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And I also said he
was battling Cancir, so he just this person is scammer,
really stooped low and preyed upon Anne's compassion and.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Had eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars just laying around
or at least available to her.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
She was doing pretty well.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
But now it's in the hand of or hands of
this scammer or scammers, because Anne fell for it, hook
line and sinker and has not been able to recover.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
The fund yet. I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
And evidently Anne did pretty well in life, yeah with
her money, probably, you know, through other measurements. Is a
pretty smart woman. Yeah, probably, Okay, you know, yeah, you're
not just gonna luck upon eight hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars liquidity. You've done something right in your life, there's
something there to then literally risk it all on the idea.
(10:11):
Let's say it was actually Brad Pitt. Let's say everything
was true. It wasn't, but let's say it was the
whole idea that you're gonna let eight hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars go out the door for someone that you, oh,
fifty thousand dollars, well, you know, tomato tomatow at that point,
it's more than hundred thousand for someone that you've never
actually met, had coffee with, hung out at the Starbucks
(10:36):
for a while, callback none of that. It just defies
any type of exponenttion.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Just beyond gullibility.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It is It really shows to what her mental state
was at the time and after as well. The way
that Anne found out that this was all a scam,
all a ruse is that she bought it. She continued
to buy it into twenty twenty four. This is a
couple of years worth of sending money back and forth.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So it was a long game. A long game. Well,
Ann saw online viral pictures.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Of Brad Pitt with his current girlfriend and then realized
did we all did? That Brad was not only well,
but that he was in a relationship with someone else.
So she didn't then think fortunately, and that she wasn't
that she was the other woman. She just decided that
this was a scam and she cut off all ties.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
She has since checked herself into a hospital for depression. OK,
a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I'm sympathetic for. But she thought it was a scam
only after seeing.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Brads only after she was he was seen with.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
His current She didn't think that it might have been
a scam after the eight hundred and fifty K went
out the window with no real confirmation of anything.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Sometimes it makes me feel like I missed my calling
as a scammer.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Look, I think it's a criminal I'm not a criminal,
and part of the reason is there's certain places I'm
not going to go. I'm not that depraved in mind
whether I would even think to do that, much less try.
It's a horrible story, it is, and it's a cautionary
tale obviously for all of us. I don't have eight
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to give, nor would I,
(12:17):
but it does let you know that there are a
lot of people out there who are trying to separate
you from your money, especially right now as we talk
about this against the backdrop of what's happening with the fires,
and people are going to try to victimize these same
people over and over again. So I think that's the
lesson to take away from.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
That is absolutely the lesson. And also to be very
wary of things you see online. We always preach media literacy,
and AI is very smart. It's probably smarter than you
are at this point in being able to separate you
from your money. So be very wary of the things
that you see.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
So I shouldn't believe the email I got from Jennifer
Aniston who said that she likes me.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I mean, you're mo Kelly. That could very well be
feasible in my dreams.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (13:17):
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Speaker 2 (13:26):
Six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's Later
with mo Kelly And this is part two of the
Viral Load. I'm actually watching this story in real time
as it unfolds on CNN, And not only is it
on CNN, but it's been viral online on pretty much
every app right now. This is another story that is
(13:47):
emerging out of the fire and what it involves is
a beautiful retro blue Volkswagen van, one of those vans
you've seen, very very iconic. Fits the icon how do
you say that word iconography of California?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Did I get it?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That's a real difficult word, but it definitely fits the
backdrop of California. When you think about leisure and surfing
and oceans, those VW vans are synonymous with the California
lifestyle and this VW van, this beautiful blue retro vehicle
miraculously survived the deadly Palisades Fire.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
This is what happened.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Two days before the Palisades Fire erupted. A man named
Preston Martin parked his nineteen seventy seven VW Type two
van on a flat spot just up the hill from
the Getty Villa.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It's in really good condition.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
We're watching it here on CNN, and you can google
the images of this van so that you can see
exactly what we're talking about. The van miraculously survived the
Palisades fire. When you look around the van, it is
complete and utter destruction.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
The homes are leveled.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But this van sits in that photo right in the center,
a photo that has now gone viral and has been
shared millions of times over in plenty of places, and
it stands more or less as a symbol of that
California resilience, of the resilience that so many Angelinos are experiencing.
And so here's some back info about this van. Martin
(15:28):
purchased the van sometime around his junior year of college,
when he was studying engineering at the University of California
at Santa Barbara. And after he purchased the van. He
then sold it to another person. That person is the
current owner of the van, and in that just change
of hands they became friends. But now both of these owners,
(15:53):
former and new are in the spotlight because this van
somehow survived what is now being called on CNN as
a sea of devastation. It survived the wind, it survived
the flames. The van still looks in good condition. They
say it is operable, and people are saying that it
(16:14):
is a miracle, that it makes no sense.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It looks like they just pulled up to the corner
five minutes ago. And to think of all the devastation
around it, the heat involved, how it destroyed every structure
within eyesight around this thing. And it did not melt
the tires, It did not scorch the paint. It looks
completely untouched. That's the amazing part to me.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And I was skeptical.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Mo I thought perhaps someone did in fact pull this
van up, that it somehow snuck into this area and
was positioned in.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
A way that people could get photos.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, the AP photographer who was able to catch the
photo on the first day that the van was able
to be seen once the smoke cleared, verified and validated.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That the van had been there all along.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And I think this is a wonderful ad for Volkswagon
when you think about it, at least for their retro series.
The next story, the final story, deals with someone you
might be familiar with many people are.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Her name is Little Kim. She's a rapper.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
She was very popular in the nineties and early two
thousands in association with the now scorned p Ditty, the
deceased Notorious Big. She made a really big name for
herself as a successful rapper, and she is still in
the public eye. People look to her, people follow her.
(17:35):
Millions of people follow her on her social media and
Little Kim felt compelled a couple of days ago to
send well wishes to the victims of those in the
fires around Los Angeles. Unfortunately, her well wishes didn't go
as planned because, while Little Kim was acknowledging the devastation
(17:57):
of the fires, she wished quote a monsoon would hit
Los Angeles to douse the flames, not quite understanding that
a monsoon is also a disaster and would not be
a better thing for us to be experiencing in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I don't dislike Little Kit.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I don't like the sharpest pencil in a box.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
She meant, well, but what do they say about the
road to hell? It's paved with good intentions and misspeakings
on social media that live in perpetuity.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So you really have to be careful.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Because while many were sympathetic, of course to the her misspeaking,
who her making that mistake and wanted to educate her
of course in the responses about what a monsoon actually is,
others were not so kind, called her many really harsh names,
and have used this example to kind of throw a
lot more dirt on celebrities being tone deaf when these
(18:59):
things happen.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I don't think people really understand the power of social media,
especially if you're a celebrity. You say something that you
would probably say amongst friends, and back in the day
your friends are saying like you're tripping, you're bugging, and
then someone would explain it to you when you put
it out there on social media, talking about something that's viral,
which can expand and be sent in an exponential way.
(19:24):
I don't see why people haven't figured out, especially when
it comes to disasters. You got to be very, very careful,
and I'm torried to myself as well. I'm very not
all my thoughts are put out on social media. There
are a lot of things where it's like backspace, backspace.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Backspace, delete, delete, delete, yes, cancel message. I do that
every single day.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
So the stuff that I put out there, it's gone
through three or four mental editors.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And again, she meant well, but she made a big mistake.
And like many things and not all things on social media,
it will likely live on as long as social media
is a thing, it will be there forever ever forever ever, ever,
ever ever ever.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That's the end of the viral load.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
But mo also, please guys listening, you can catch me
on Saturday from five to seven. I'll be continuing to
talk about updates with the fire and other stories that
are now creeping back into the public sphere. So make
sure you listen in five to seven Right here on
KFI AM six forty
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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