January 30, 2025 • 16 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 everything from the Detroit Rapper that’s suing Lyft after a driver allegedly told her she wouldn't 'fit' in his car due to her weight, the New Jersey Man suing for the right to sell his own organs - 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.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's too social media, Facebook gets to x stick Talk,
the Viraldney or.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Viral Load, Viral Load, the viral.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Load Lad with Timney, kf I AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's Later with Mo Kelly
and this is the return of the Viral Load with
Yes Me Tiffany Hobbs and we have a wild card
entry tonight. I usually have a schedule, but I was
overlooking social media because that's my job here on Wednesdays
(00:53):
to give you the top viral stories of the week.
And there is another story that has shot to the
of my list. And let me tell you a little
bit about it. So, if you've ever gone to an
aquarium or any place that has an aquarium attraction, Let's
say a rest restaurant, long Beach aquarium, maybe something in
San Diego, wherever you live. It could even be again,
(01:16):
a restaurant that features an aquarium attraction, something where there's
a live human person inside of the aquarium acting as
a mermaid or some sort of character. Well, in this case,
there's a mermaid. It's a Russian woman and this takes
place in China. This is the newest viral story, I
(01:37):
would say of the day. This woman is a mermaid
and she's doing her things. She's swimming around. Children are looking.
It's like an aquarium, a very normal setting until it's not.
And what happens is, as this young woman is swimming
with her mermaid tail and kind of doing all of
her little mermaid tricks, a large sturgeon, which is a
(01:58):
huge fit, goes atop of the woman while she's underwater
and all these people are watching and attempts to successfully,
let me not say, attempts to successfully places its entire
mouth over the woman's head, completely engulfing her. The good
thing is sturgeon don't have teeth, but they do have
(02:22):
a very powerful sucking mechanism. That's how they bring in
their prey. And he or it put its mouth over
this woman. She is able to push herself out of
the surgeon's mouth and she then swims away to I
imagine what is safety. She swims kind of off camera
while the children are standing there watching in horror. Did
(02:46):
the scream uh, you know, mortified confused screams at first? Yeah,
And she definitely left the scene and did not return.
So that's the wild card for this week. So if
we get back to our schedule, the first story I
want to share with you comes from Georgia. Oh, this
(03:08):
poor guy. You might have seen it floating around. If
you are a person who likes value shopping, and many
of us do, then you might have been lored to
Timu or something like Ali Express, kind of these drop
shipping sites, these big warehouse sites that are offshore. Ali
(03:29):
Express is a very popular one, and like Timu and
these other low cost providers, they they sell goods at
a fraction.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Of the price.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Okay, So this guy, this really nice man named Sylvester
Franklin of Savannah, Georgia, decides that he wants to buy
a drill, a conventional drill, a power tool, and he
goes on Ali Express. He picks out his favorite drill.
It's yellow. He decides to purchase it. It's about twenty two
dollars and fifty cents the pressure washer drill combination. He
(04:03):
sends off his money and a few weeks later he
gets a package in the mail. Sylvester Franklin goes and
excitedly opens his package, but there's no drill inside. There
are no actual physical tools or remnants of a drill.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
No.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
What Ali Express sent poor little Sevester Franklin of Savannah,
Georgia was a print out, a printed out picture of
the drill that he expected to purchase for twenty two
dollars and forty seven cents, a printed out xerox copied
picture of the drill that he expected to have in
(04:43):
the physical form.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yes, did they forget to put it in there? No,
this was deliberate. This was intentional.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And this is one of the warnings and cautionary tales
when you when you shop at these off shore sites
because you do not fully know what you're going to
be getting.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
See, at least with eBay, your purchases are guaranteed. Amazon,
your purchases are guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, not the offshore ones nearly as much. It is
buyer beware by at your own risk. And Sylvester Franklin
has yet to receive a refund for this. He says
he's waiting very patiently, but he has gone viral because
of this story. I actually put the picture up on
my Instagram at tiff Hobbs on here on Instagram, and
(05:31):
you can find a picture of Sylvester Franklin, and the
picture speaks a thousand words. He's holding up the picture
of the drill and the look on his face is priceless.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I found the Sturgeon video. It's worse than you described.
It's it's toughed off for goggles and everything.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It's very powerful, very powerful sucking mechanism. That poor young
lady and poor Sylvester Franklin. Another poor person, and I
mean that as far as Misfort is concerned. Is this
young lady. She's from Detroit and she was going to
a party. To get home from the party. Get to
the party, she used Lift, the ride sharing app, ride
(06:14):
sharing service, and when she attempted to come home from
the party.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
She booked this lift.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The Lift driver pulls up in a small compact sedan
of some sort and sees the young woman and pulls
away from the young woman without letting her in as
a passenger. The young woman is able to catch up
to this driver. He is John Doe and I'll tell
you why shortly, and as she catches up, she's able
(06:45):
to ask the driver. They have an interaction and she goes,
you know, what's up? Why are you leaving? Why'd you leave,
and the driver proceeds to tell her that he does
not think that she will fit in his car because
she is a dreamily overweight. They go back and forth,
there's a negotiation of sorts. She's trying to negotiate getting
(07:07):
in the car. She's saying she's done this plenty of times.
She's been in cars this size and smaller. What's the
big deal? And the driver this John Doe, goes on
to say that he is worried about his tires. All
of this is caught on camera because the young woman
is recording this interaction. This recording then was sent to
(07:29):
a lawyer. She lawyered up quickly and the lawsuit has
now been filed for discrimination based on weight and size.
And John Doe is the uber driver, the lyft driver
in this case.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So there's a lawsuit.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Did you see the video?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I did?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Did she start filming before she opened the car door?
Almost like she shut Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's hard to tell kind of the sequencing of events there,
but he did say some very inflammatory things about her weight.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Was the car was it like a you Go? Was
there a smart cars like a little Honda Cord or something.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I think it was a Mercedes c class and those
are like the small size.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Isn't a cord or a Corolla.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I'm just curious if it was filming, if she was
filming before he rolled up, that's a little sus to me.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It could be he does tell her. You know, lady, hey,
you can go on and book a different lift. In fact,
get the quote lift x L. You don't want to
say that to anything, but that's.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The correct answer. It's a larger car.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
The same thing with Uber, Stephan, Isn't it true if
you want a larger cars, the Uber.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
XL that's all I get her. The black SUV wants,
that's all I have. You don't have to bring race
into it, Okay, right?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Or wait, Colley, I'm still mad at you from the
opening of the show, just trying to stir it up.
We got to go to a quick break, but when
we come back, we will have the second portion of
the Viral Load with Tiffany Hobbs's Later with mo Kelly
ca if I Am six forty one Live everywhere the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now it's time for the Myra with Tiffany live on
Campia Time Win mo O.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Klly, she'll talk about the.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Toughest on social media. Good Bye rolone with Tiffany Hubbs.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Hey if I am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. It's later with mo Kelly. And this is
part two of Tonight's Viral Load. Online, you might share
pictures of your food, what you're eating, if it's a nice,
nicely presented meal. You might share pictures of your children
or your pets. You might share pictures of your vacation.
(09:48):
But do you share pictures of your stick? Mo Kelly
huh mo no, no, I don't no, no, no, I don't no.
That's for only fans have to pay to see that. Well,
there's a movement and it is growing in popularity at
an enormous rate.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Don't you do it? Sef Good.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, there's a movement and it is called stick Nation,
and it's all about literal sticks, yes, pieces of trees
or branches, whatever it might be. It's a bizarre movement.
It's exploded all over social media to the tune of
millions and millions of followers and shares. And these two
(10:31):
friends here are their names, Boone Hog and Logan Juggler.
They sound like they love sticks and outdoorsy stuff, right,
boon Hog and Logan Juggler.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Are they from Hazard County? They're from Utah, so close enough.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
They started a few years ago, a couple of years ago,
collecting sticks and posting pictures and video of uniquely shaped
sticks and things that they found were interesting online. Well,
they're popularity again grew and they garnered a massive following
millions of people who now also engage with them by
(11:08):
uploading videos and pictures of their favorite sticks in the
shape of walking sticks, or anything that they feel the
Internet might find interesting.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I missed my calling.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You've missed your calling.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Because they are making major money from this, because again
they have millions of followers, especially on TikTok or sticktalk
as their account is known, twelve point five million likes
since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
What am I doing with my life?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
All they have to do is start my own stick account?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, well, I mean that's your only fans account.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
O hio.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Oh, so Stephan is now re engaged with the program.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Got it? Got it?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
If you want to make some extra money, here is
another way, another form of perhaps.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Passive income question mark.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
As you would say, it's not that passive because you
really have to dig deep for this source of income.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Steph, can we roll that beautiful clip?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
No, thousands of people are now awaiting life saving organ transplants,
but what if they could buy an organ, like example,
a kidney. Right now, federal law actually prohibits people from
selling their organs. By his Fox thirteen's Lloyd Sowers reports
a man wants to sell his kidney, and he's suing
for the right to.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Be able to do it. For anybody who thinks that
this is not already going on, they have no idea
that there is an enormous black market happening. John Blochio
says on the dark web, people all over the world
are selling kidneys and he wants the right to sell
his legally. Matt hagn is his attorney.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
If you just follow the case law on abortion, the
law to me is pretty clear that you know it's
my body, my choice. So John should have the personal
freedom to do whatever he wants with his body.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
He can filed a federal lawsuit in Manhattan arguing the
law Congress pasted in nineteen eighty four that makes selling
organs against the law is unconstitutional and with more than
one hundred thousand Americans on dialysis. He says many are
awaiting a transplant that may never come.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
The kidney.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
When I looked up how much a kidney might cost
in the United States, a kidney is going for on
average four hundred and forty two thousand dollars around that part.
So if you think about it, this is a lot
of money that people are looking to make from selling
their own organs. And I think evoking the idea of
my body, my choice is an interesting angle to all
(13:47):
of this, because yes, it is a person's body. It
should be a person's choice as to what they're going
to do with their body.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But what does this then encourage.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Yeah, it's a complicate You get an issue if only
because we can obviously donate organs, we can donate a kidney,
but at the same time, not the recipient per se,
but the whole process of donating a kidney generates money
for the hospital, it generates money for the pharmaceutical company
(14:20):
where you have to use those rejection drugs anti rejection
drugs sort of rest your life. And Dwala can tell
us better than anyone there's a lot of money changing
hands and the people involved don't get any piece of it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
And this is what that aims to mitigate, that people
would become the direct beneficiaries of that transaction. John, the
plaintiff here, the person with the lawsuit, is saying he
wants all of that money. He wants to sell his kidney.
So of course this has gone viral. It's being shared
all over social media, and we'll find out what happens
(14:57):
and what kind of precedents this sets if John successful
at his lawsuit. We have time for one more really
going on, all right, So another my body, my choice
type story. There's a TikToker who was arrested for dancing
provocatively over a disabled person's head in a video that
has now gone viral. Of course, on TikTok so back
(15:19):
last week, there's a young woman, she's nineteen. She works
at a what would you call it, like a convalescent
home type of place, and she is a like a
care nurse or in some sort of capacity working to
support the patients there. Well, instead of doing her job
that day, she decided to film a TikTok video. And
(15:39):
what she did is she kind of straddled one of
the patients who.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Was disabled is disabled.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And gyrated all over this patient's head and you know,
got her parts very close to this patient's head and
taped it, uploaded it, and is very surprised and shocked
to why she's in trouble, not just that the fact
that she lost her job, but that she is also
being charged with what is it, exploitation of a disabled person.
(16:12):
That's a big state law that she violated.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Nothing in this person's head said, you know, maybe not
one thing to do it. It's another thing to record it,
and it's another another another thing to record it and
upload it and be proud of it.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You're giving a big surprise. Way too much credit, way
too much credit. That's the viral load for this week.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty Now Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's too social media, Facebook gets to x stick Talk,
the Viraldney or.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Viral Load, Viral Load, the viral.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Load Lad with Timney, kf I AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's Later with Mo Kelly
and this is the return of the Viral Load with
Yes Me Tiffany Hobbs and we have a wild card
entry tonight. I usually have a schedule, but I was
overlooking social media because that's my job here on Wednesdays
(00:53):
to give you the top viral stories of the week.
And there is another story that has shot to the
of my list. And let me tell you a little
bit about it. So, if you've ever gone to an
aquarium or any place that has an aquarium attraction, Let's
say a rest restaurant, long Beach aquarium, maybe something in
San Diego, wherever you live. It could even be again,
(01:16):
a restaurant that features an aquarium attraction, something where there's
a live human person inside of the aquarium acting as
a mermaid or some sort of character. Well, in this case,
there's a mermaid. It's a Russian woman and this takes
place in China. This is the newest viral story, I
(01:37):
would say of the day. This woman is a mermaid
and she's doing her things. She's swimming around. Children are looking.
It's like an aquarium, a very normal setting until it's not.
And what happens is, as this young woman is swimming
with her mermaid tail and kind of doing all of
her little mermaid tricks, a large sturgeon, which is a
(01:58):
huge fit, goes atop of the woman while she's underwater
and all these people are watching and attempts to successfully,
let me not say, attempts to successfully places its entire
mouth over the woman's head, completely engulfing her. The good
thing is sturgeon don't have teeth, but they do have
(02:22):
a very powerful sucking mechanism. That's how they bring in
their prey. And he or it put its mouth over
this woman. She is able to push herself out of
the surgeon's mouth and she then swims away to I
imagine what is safety. She swims kind of off camera
while the children are standing there watching in horror. Did
(02:46):
the scream uh, you know, mortified confused screams at first? Yeah,
And she definitely left the scene and did not return.
So that's the wild card for this week. So if
we get back to our schedule, the first story I
want to share with you comes from Georgia. Oh, this
(03:08):
poor guy. You might have seen it floating around. If
you are a person who likes value shopping, and many
of us do, then you might have been lored to
Timu or something like Ali Express, kind of these drop
shipping sites, these big warehouse sites that are offshore. Ali
(03:29):
Express is a very popular one, and like Timu and
these other low cost providers, they they sell goods at
a fraction.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Of the price.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Okay, So this guy, this really nice man named Sylvester
Franklin of Savannah, Georgia, decides that he wants to buy
a drill, a conventional drill, a power tool, and he
goes on Ali Express. He picks out his favorite drill.
It's yellow. He decides to purchase it. It's about twenty two
dollars and fifty cents the pressure washer drill combination. He
(04:03):
sends off his money and a few weeks later he
gets a package in the mail. Sylvester Franklin goes and
excitedly opens his package, but there's no drill inside. There
are no actual physical tools or remnants of a drill.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
No.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
What Ali Express sent poor little Sevester Franklin of Savannah,
Georgia was a print out, a printed out picture of
the drill that he expected to purchase for twenty two
dollars and forty seven cents, a printed out xerox copied
picture of the drill that he expected to have in
(04:43):
the physical form.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yes, did they forget to put it in there? No,
this was deliberate. This was intentional.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And this is one of the warnings and cautionary tales
when you when you shop at these off shore sites
because you do not fully know what you're going to
be getting.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
See, at least with eBay, your purchases are guaranteed. Amazon,
your purchases are guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, not the offshore ones nearly as much. It is
buyer beware by at your own risk. And Sylvester Franklin
has yet to receive a refund for this. He says
he's waiting very patiently, but he has gone viral because
of this story. I actually put the picture up on
my Instagram at tiff Hobbs on here on Instagram, and
(05:31):
you can find a picture of Sylvester Franklin, and the
picture speaks a thousand words. He's holding up the picture
of the drill and the look on his face is priceless.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I found the Sturgeon video. It's worse than you described.
It's it's toughed off for goggles and everything.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It's very powerful, very powerful sucking mechanism. That poor young
lady and poor Sylvester Franklin. Another poor person, and I
mean that as far as Misfort is concerned. Is this
young lady. She's from Detroit and she was going to
a party. To get home from the party. Get to
the party, she used Lift, the ride sharing app, ride
(06:14):
sharing service, and when she attempted to come home from
the party.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
She booked this lift.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The Lift driver pulls up in a small compact sedan
of some sort and sees the young woman and pulls
away from the young woman without letting her in as
a passenger. The young woman is able to catch up
to this driver. He is John Doe and I'll tell
you why shortly, and as she catches up, she's able
(06:45):
to ask the driver. They have an interaction and she goes,
you know, what's up? Why are you leaving? Why'd you leave,
and the driver proceeds to tell her that he does
not think that she will fit in his car because
she is a dreamily overweight. They go back and forth,
there's a negotiation of sorts. She's trying to negotiate getting
(07:07):
in the car. She's saying she's done this plenty of times.
She's been in cars this size and smaller. What's the
big deal? And the driver this John Doe, goes on
to say that he is worried about his tires. All
of this is caught on camera because the young woman
is recording this interaction. This recording then was sent to
(07:29):
a lawyer. She lawyered up quickly and the lawsuit has
now been filed for discrimination based on weight and size.
And John Doe is the uber driver, the lyft driver
in this case.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So there's a lawsuit.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Did you see the video?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I did?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Did she start filming before she opened the car door?
Almost like she shut Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's hard to tell kind of the sequencing of events there,
but he did say some very inflammatory things about her weight.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Was the car was it like a you Go? Was
there a smart cars like a little Honda Cord or something.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I think it was a Mercedes c class and those
are like the small size.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Isn't a cord or a Corolla.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I'm just curious if it was filming, if she was
filming before he rolled up, that's a little sus to me.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It could be he does tell her. You know, lady, hey,
you can go on and book a different lift. In fact,
get the quote lift x L. You don't want to
say that to anything, but that's.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The correct answer. It's a larger car.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
The same thing with Uber, Stephan, Isn't it true if
you want a larger cars, the Uber.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
XL that's all I get her. The black SUV wants,
that's all I have. You don't have to bring race
into it, Okay, right?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Or wait, Colley, I'm still mad at you from the
opening of the show, just trying to stir it up.
We got to go to a quick break, but when
we come back, we will have the second portion of
the Viral Load with Tiffany Hobbs's Later with mo Kelly
ca if I Am six forty one Live everywhere the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now it's time for the Myra with Tiffany live on
Campia Time Win mo O.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Klly, she'll talk about the.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Toughest on social media. Good Bye rolone with Tiffany Hubbs.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Hey if I am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. It's later with mo Kelly. And this is
part two of Tonight's Viral Load. Online, you might share
pictures of your food, what you're eating, if it's a nice,
nicely presented meal. You might share pictures of your children
or your pets. You might share pictures of your vacation.
(09:48):
But do you share pictures of your stick? Mo Kelly
huh mo no, no, I don't no, no, no, I don't no.
That's for only fans have to pay to see that. Well,
there's a movement and it is growing in popularity at
an enormous rate.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Don't you do it? Sef Good.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, there's a movement and it is called stick Nation,
and it's all about literal sticks, yes, pieces of trees
or branches, whatever it might be. It's a bizarre movement.
It's exploded all over social media to the tune of
millions and millions of followers and shares. And these two
(10:31):
friends here are their names, Boone Hog and Logan Juggler.
They sound like they love sticks and outdoorsy stuff, right,
boon Hog and Logan Juggler.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Are they from Hazard County? They're from Utah, so close enough.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
They started a few years ago, a couple of years ago,
collecting sticks and posting pictures and video of uniquely shaped
sticks and things that they found were interesting online. Well,
they're popularity again grew and they garnered a massive following
millions of people who now also engage with them by
(11:08):
uploading videos and pictures of their favorite sticks in the
shape of walking sticks, or anything that they feel the
Internet might find interesting.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I missed my calling.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You've missed your calling.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Because they are making major money from this, because again
they have millions of followers, especially on TikTok or sticktalk
as their account is known, twelve point five million likes
since twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
What am I doing with my life?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
All they have to do is start my own stick account?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, well, I mean that's your only fans account.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
O hio.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Oh, so Stephan is now re engaged with the program.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Got it? Got it?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
If you want to make some extra money, here is
another way, another form of perhaps.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Passive income question mark.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
As you would say, it's not that passive because you
really have to dig deep for this source of income.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Steph, can we roll that beautiful clip?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
No, thousands of people are now awaiting life saving organ transplants,
but what if they could buy an organ, like example,
a kidney. Right now, federal law actually prohibits people from
selling their organs. By his Fox thirteen's Lloyd Sowers reports
a man wants to sell his kidney, and he's suing
for the right to.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Be able to do it. For anybody who thinks that
this is not already going on, they have no idea
that there is an enormous black market happening. John Blochio
says on the dark web, people all over the world
are selling kidneys and he wants the right to sell
his legally. Matt hagn is his attorney.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
If you just follow the case law on abortion, the
law to me is pretty clear that you know it's
my body, my choice. So John should have the personal
freedom to do whatever he wants with his body.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
He can filed a federal lawsuit in Manhattan arguing the
law Congress pasted in nineteen eighty four that makes selling
organs against the law is unconstitutional and with more than
one hundred thousand Americans on dialysis. He says many are
awaiting a transplant that may never come.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
The kidney.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
When I looked up how much a kidney might cost
in the United States, a kidney is going for on
average four hundred and forty two thousand dollars around that part.
So if you think about it, this is a lot
of money that people are looking to make from selling
their own organs. And I think evoking the idea of
my body, my choice is an interesting angle to all
(13:47):
of this, because yes, it is a person's body. It
should be a person's choice as to what they're going
to do with their body.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But what does this then encourage.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Yeah, it's a complicate You get an issue if only
because we can obviously donate organs, we can donate a kidney,
but at the same time, not the recipient per se,
but the whole process of donating a kidney generates money
for the hospital, it generates money for the pharmaceutical company
(14:20):
where you have to use those rejection drugs anti rejection
drugs sort of rest your life. And Dwala can tell
us better than anyone there's a lot of money changing
hands and the people involved don't get any piece of it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
And this is what that aims to mitigate, that people
would become the direct beneficiaries of that transaction. John, the
plaintiff here, the person with the lawsuit, is saying he
wants all of that money. He wants to sell his kidney.
So of course this has gone viral. It's being shared
all over social media, and we'll find out what happens
(14:57):
and what kind of precedents this sets if John successful
at his lawsuit. We have time for one more really
going on, all right, So another my body, my choice
type story. There's a TikToker who was arrested for dancing
provocatively over a disabled person's head in a video that
has now gone viral. Of course, on TikTok so back
(15:19):
last week, there's a young woman, she's nineteen. She works
at a what would you call it, like a convalescent
home type of place, and she is a like a
care nurse or in some sort of capacity working to
support the patients there. Well, instead of doing her job
that day, she decided to film a TikTok video. And
(15:39):
what she did is she kind of straddled one of
the patients who.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Was disabled is disabled.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And gyrated all over this patient's head and you know,
got her parts very close to this patient's head and
taped it, uploaded it, and is very surprised and shocked
to why she's in trouble, not just that the fact
that she lost her job, but that she is also
being charged with what is it, exploitation of a disabled person.
(16:12):
That's a big state law that she violated.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Nothing in this person's head said, you know, maybe not
one thing to do it. It's another thing to record it,
and it's another another another thing to record it and
upload it and be proud of it.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You're giving a big surprise. Way too much credit, way
too much credit. That's the viral load for this week.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
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