May 1, 2025 • 14 mins
ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – 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 a “professional panhandler” that’s gone viral for his handsome looks; to the Needham, Massachusetts high schoolers viral ‘rejection cake,’ and MORE - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kf I Am six.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty Now Kelly Show, It's social media.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Facebook, It's ex Tiptoe, Jidney Off, viral Load, viral Load,
the viral Load, vild with Timney.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Kf I AM six forty is Later with Mo Kelly
and we're live on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Check out the wonderful Tiffany Hobbs with the viral Load.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Well, one of the most popular phobias has to do
with the fear of flying. I know it's a phobia
that I've had.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
Mo.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
You raised your hand, you say that you have it,
and it's not a phobia that's easy to get over.
If anything, most of us who do travel us get
through it now. Of course, there are tips and tricks
to be able to manage your anxiety or your fear.
And there's another tip and trick in the form of
a section of Reddit. And Reddit is a very popular
(01:14):
message board where a new thread and a thread would
be a conversation that people are following and commenting on
and responding to. This thread is called Fear of Flying.
There are over thirty six thousand members and that's why
this story is going viral because of all of the
(01:34):
recent stories in the news about aircraft. The Fear of
Flying section of Reddit has seen and an influx of
new members who are looking to be able to find
ways to make flying less scary. And of course, when
we think of flying, there are all sorts of issues.
There are commercial airplanes that have multiple breakdowns in their
(01:56):
backup systems, or there's turbulence that none of them, I
imagine enjoy well. Members in this particular group can request
others so you can converse with people in the group
and ask them to actually track your flight in real
time and during that flight while you're sitting down and
(02:16):
maybe not necessarily enjoying the flight just yet. You will
be offered through this back and forth with members in
the Fear of Flying Group, encouragement during your travels, whether
it's telling you that turbulence is simply the sky's version
version of a boat rocking on waves, or that system
(02:37):
failure that you're imagining you're in your head, it's actually
not going to happen. The sentiment in the Fear of
Flying group is that there's someone always looking out for you.
For instance, there's one user, She's from Portland. Her name
is Sidney, and she recently used the Fear of Flying
group to console herself by repeating anxiety reducing mantras that
(03:02):
members suggested she use, and she said she had some anxiety. However,
it really really helped. So thirty six thousand members in
this Fear of Flying section of Reddit and lots of
other fear of Flying forums are taking off to encourage
people to take the skies get back to flying.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Would you join mo? No? No, No. The more I
talk about it, the worst it gets.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
What do you do to calm your anxiety about flying?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Not my own ways? Drink No.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
I'm being serious before and during a little bit after
as well.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
If it depends on the time of the day of
the flight. If it's a morning flight, I'm not having anything.
I'm just gonna grin and bear it. But if it's
an evening flight, y'all, I'll have a jack and neat
or two and then get on the plane and hopefully
go to sleep or relax just enough.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I'm being serious.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I'm not a nervous flyer, but I'm always aware. Yeah,
it's always in the back of my mind. I don't
like turbulence. I don't like the experience but I know
I got to do it to get wherever I'm going.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
A friend of mine, her name is Kaya, She passed
away almost ten years ago now. She was a flight
attendant for many years. And one of the best tips
or tricks that I ever got that she told me was,
when you think of turbulence, which is my biggest source
of anxiety in the air, think of it like running
over little speed bumps in your car. We don't panic
and freak out when we run over a speed bump
(04:27):
and a barking.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Lot because we don't fear that we're going to just
end up in this sewer. Don't do this, or you know,
don't you take it away from me, or we're going
to end up in the side of a mountain on fire.
You are groggy. I'm just letting you know right now,
and I'm going to move along.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
H If you want to earn some extra money, panhandling
probably isn't the option that you'll entertain. However, there's one
panhandler in Palm Springs who considers himself considers him himself
to be a professional panhandler, and he's gone viral, not
(05:04):
simply because of his panhandling, but because people say that
he is so handsome that he should be a model.
His name is brat Love, and he admits he's not
actually homeless. No, he's a nurse, but he says that
panhandling actually earns him more and.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
That it's easier.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
He says he's of the ilk that does not want
to work, and so while he has nursing certifications, he
doesn't use him. He wants to stand out there and panhandle,
and that panhandling has gone viral as people have taken
videos of him because of his quote unquote good looks
(05:49):
Now they've gone viral all over TikTok, and people were
encouraging him in comments to become a model. People drive
up and tell him, hey, you should model. What are
you doing out here? Lots of exchange with brat Love,
and he says, every single time, I don't want to
be a model, I want to panhandle. He also says
that all of the attention that he's been getting is
(06:10):
bad for business because the police and Palm Springs have
recently tracked him down and told him to stop begging.
So far, he has a little over twenty thousand followers
on TikTok and in his profile bio on TikTok. He
advertises his cash app account, so he begs in person
(06:32):
and he begs online. He also posted a video last
month that went viral, saying that he made at one
point and continues to make around two hundred and sixty
dollars from panhandling over the course of.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
A few hours. So beat his ass. He needs it,
he needs it.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
When we come back, we're going to get into our
third story.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And that third story.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
As I flip through, because I wasn't fully ready to
pardon me so hung up on this panhandling deals with
high schoolers who went viral because of the way in
which they are acknowledging their college rejection letters. Something a
little different, but something they hope will bring a smile
to people's faces.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Now It's Tough the Myra Lodent Tiffany Live on camfile
to win mo O Kelly.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
She'll talk about the.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Toughness on social media. Lade with Tiffany Hubbs kf I
AM sixty and YouTube. It's Later with mo Kelly. Now
back to the viral load and Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I remember when I was applying for my undergraduate degree,
I was largely intimidated by the application process. It was lengthy,
it was costley, and it made things feel a bit overwhelming. You,
oh you, how dare you?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
How?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I told you're a curmudgeon today? You didn't go to UCLA.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
No, I went to the only USC, not even the
other one that claims USC the.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Only not South Carolina. No, we are not. What is
that called the game? Is that the name of it?
The game?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Game?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Cox? Yes, you say it, not me?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
AnyWho?
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Moving along, and this next story has to do with
college applications, a little bit of back story or back history.
According to Forbes, among the high school senior class of
twenty twenty two, so just three years ago, and they
were pulled, fifty nine percent of prospective college students applied
(08:44):
to five or more institutions, and twenty six percent applied
to ten or more institutions. So kids are out here, really, really,
really pushing these applications and not all of them are
getting accepted. That's where this viral story comes in. They're
high school seniors in Needham, Massachusetts, who have now received
(09:06):
over six million views on TikTok after baking one singular
cake that revealed all of the colleges they were not
accepted to. So the students say that the quote rejection
cake video was a fun way to vent their frustrations
(09:26):
that nearly everyone applying for college goes through.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
They said, quote.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Especially today, like on TikTok and Instagram, you only see
the acceptance videos and that can make it a little
bit stressful getting the rejections. So it was kind of
like normalizing the rejections in the college application process. So
what they did is they made this cake and inside
of the cake they stuffed some letters, and those letters
(09:54):
they unveiled one by one to show and to say
which colleges they they were rejected from.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
They wanted to flip the script.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Now. They did do a companion video, a follow up
video of all the schools they were accepted to as
well as they as well as the ones they actually
planned to attend. But the rejection cake video, six million
views on TikTok, has gone wildly viral and may very
well spark a trend in the near future.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Do you remember the schools if there were any that
turned you down?
Speaker 6 (10:30):
You know, I only applied to two schools and they
both accepted me. I was a little disenchanted, so I
didn't experience the rejection of it all. But I honestly
only applied to schools I knew would accept me.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I remember the schools that turned me down, and I
still hold a grudge. Oh yeah, yeah, Duke accepted me,
but they put me on a wait list. And University
of North Carolina Chapel Hill they turned me down.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And even though I would have been like a legacy.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I had a lot of relatives who went there, they said, no,
you're not coming here, how dare they?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah? Got into Berkeley, got.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
In UC San Diego, which my safe school, and of
course Georgetown my first choice. Mark guy, But I still
hold grudges. Absolutely. Do you remember anything?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Do you remember how much your applications were back then,
way the way way back then, a long time ago. Yeah,
it was the last century, way back then, adjusted for inflation,
thirty five dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You know, I can't you know, I can't kick you
off my show.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Still, let's get to story number four, all right, So
if you want to make some extra cash to apply
for college or do these college applications, you might find
yourself if you're over eighteen at a casino. Let's say
you're trying to help a younger family member out. But
if you are at this casino or any casino, what
you don't want to do, if you're losing, or if
(11:47):
you feel like you're winning but being shorted, is attack
the machine. And I know we have some audio stuff.
Let me let me just set this up. There's a man,
his name is George Smith, and this video actually went
viral last year, but people are talking about it now
and that's just a cycle of virality and stories because
(12:08):
he went to a Shawnee, Oklahoma casino and got into
a destructive tirade against a machine. He says short in him.
Uh spoiler spoiler alert. If you get into a fight
with a machine, you probably are going to lose. Let's
roll that beautiful bean footage. Steph.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Yeah, he's lamming, and listen the sounds you're hearing of
that kind of smashing, Uh would be George Smith, the
(13:00):
rowing his body into the machine repeatedly, and the machine
doesn't have to fight back, it just stands there and whoops.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
His ever loving ace Ace just lost really badly. But
he was of course arrested the Grand Casino Hotel and
resort pressed charges because this incident was captured on camera
by that fellow casino patron, who then was able to
share it further with security. Again, it went viral and
(13:31):
he now faces one count of felony destruction of property.
So do not, under any circumstances hurl your body or
any part of your body at a machine.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Not that I was going to, but okay, don't do it.
You don't have to tell me.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
But what you should do is you should listen to
me Saturdays from five to seven Saturdays with Tiffany right
here on KFI.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
It's been a blast. That's tonight's viral load.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Do later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI a
M six forty
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kf I Am six.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty Now Kelly Show, It's social media.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Facebook, It's ex Tiptoe, Jidney Off, viral Load, viral Load,
the viral Load, vild with Timney.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Kf I AM six forty is Later with Mo Kelly
and we're live on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Check out the wonderful Tiffany Hobbs with the viral Load.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Well, one of the most popular phobias has to do
with the fear of flying. I know it's a phobia
that I've had.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
Mo.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
You raised your hand, you say that you have it,
and it's not a phobia that's easy to get over.
If anything, most of us who do travel us get
through it now. Of course, there are tips and tricks
to be able to manage your anxiety or your fear.
And there's another tip and trick in the form of
a section of Reddit. And Reddit is a very popular
(01:14):
message board where a new thread and a thread would
be a conversation that people are following and commenting on
and responding to. This thread is called Fear of Flying.
There are over thirty six thousand members and that's why
this story is going viral because of all of the
(01:34):
recent stories in the news about aircraft. The Fear of
Flying section of Reddit has seen and an influx of
new members who are looking to be able to find
ways to make flying less scary. And of course, when
we think of flying, there are all sorts of issues.
There are commercial airplanes that have multiple breakdowns in their
(01:56):
backup systems, or there's turbulence that none of them, I
imagine enjoy well. Members in this particular group can request
others so you can converse with people in the group
and ask them to actually track your flight in real
time and during that flight while you're sitting down and
(02:16):
maybe not necessarily enjoying the flight just yet. You will
be offered through this back and forth with members in
the Fear of Flying Group, encouragement during your travels, whether
it's telling you that turbulence is simply the sky's version
version of a boat rocking on waves, or that system
(02:37):
failure that you're imagining you're in your head, it's actually
not going to happen. The sentiment in the Fear of
Flying group is that there's someone always looking out for you.
For instance, there's one user, She's from Portland. Her name
is Sidney, and she recently used the Fear of Flying
group to console herself by repeating anxiety reducing mantras that
(03:02):
members suggested she use, and she said she had some anxiety. However,
it really really helped. So thirty six thousand members in
this Fear of Flying section of Reddit and lots of
other fear of Flying forums are taking off to encourage
people to take the skies get back to flying.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Would you join mo? No? No, No. The more I
talk about it, the worst it gets.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
What do you do to calm your anxiety about flying?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Not my own ways? Drink No.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
I'm being serious before and during a little bit after
as well.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
If it depends on the time of the day of
the flight. If it's a morning flight, I'm not having anything.
I'm just gonna grin and bear it. But if it's
an evening flight, y'all, I'll have a jack and neat
or two and then get on the plane and hopefully
go to sleep or relax just enough.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I'm being serious.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I'm not a nervous flyer, but I'm always aware. Yeah,
it's always in the back of my mind. I don't
like turbulence. I don't like the experience but I know
I got to do it to get wherever I'm going.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
A friend of mine, her name is Kaya, She passed
away almost ten years ago now. She was a flight
attendant for many years. And one of the best tips
or tricks that I ever got that she told me was,
when you think of turbulence, which is my biggest source
of anxiety in the air, think of it like running
over little speed bumps in your car. We don't panic
and freak out when we run over a speed bump
(04:27):
and a barking.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Lot because we don't fear that we're going to just
end up in this sewer. Don't do this, or you know,
don't you take it away from me, or we're going
to end up in the side of a mountain on fire.
You are groggy. I'm just letting you know right now,
and I'm going to move along.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
H If you want to earn some extra money, panhandling
probably isn't the option that you'll entertain. However, there's one
panhandler in Palm Springs who considers himself considers him himself
to be a professional panhandler, and he's gone viral, not
(05:04):
simply because of his panhandling, but because people say that
he is so handsome that he should be a model.
His name is brat Love, and he admits he's not
actually homeless. No, he's a nurse, but he says that
panhandling actually earns him more and.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
That it's easier.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
He says he's of the ilk that does not want
to work, and so while he has nursing certifications, he
doesn't use him. He wants to stand out there and panhandle,
and that panhandling has gone viral as people have taken
videos of him because of his quote unquote good looks
(05:49):
Now they've gone viral all over TikTok, and people were
encouraging him in comments to become a model. People drive
up and tell him, hey, you should model. What are
you doing out here? Lots of exchange with brat Love,
and he says, every single time, I don't want to
be a model, I want to panhandle. He also says
that all of the attention that he's been getting is
(06:10):
bad for business because the police and Palm Springs have
recently tracked him down and told him to stop begging.
So far, he has a little over twenty thousand followers
on TikTok and in his profile bio on TikTok. He
advertises his cash app account, so he begs in person
(06:32):
and he begs online. He also posted a video last
month that went viral, saying that he made at one
point and continues to make around two hundred and sixty
dollars from panhandling over the course of.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
A few hours. So beat his ass. He needs it,
he needs it.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
When we come back, we're going to get into our
third story.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And that third story.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
As I flip through, because I wasn't fully ready to
pardon me so hung up on this panhandling deals with
high schoolers who went viral because of the way in
which they are acknowledging their college rejection letters. Something a
little different, but something they hope will bring a smile
to people's faces.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Now It's Tough the Myra Lodent Tiffany Live on camfile
to win mo O Kelly.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
She'll talk about the.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Toughness on social media. Lade with Tiffany Hubbs kf I
AM sixty and YouTube. It's Later with mo Kelly. Now
back to the viral load and Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I remember when I was applying for my undergraduate degree,
I was largely intimidated by the application process. It was lengthy,
it was costley, and it made things feel a bit overwhelming. You,
oh you, how dare you?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
How?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I told you're a curmudgeon today? You didn't go to UCLA.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
No, I went to the only USC, not even the
other one that claims USC the.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Only not South Carolina. No, we are not. What is
that called the game? Is that the name of it?
The game?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Game?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Cox? Yes, you say it, not me?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
AnyWho?
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Moving along, and this next story has to do with
college applications, a little bit of back story or back history.
According to Forbes, among the high school senior class of
twenty twenty two, so just three years ago, and they
were pulled, fifty nine percent of prospective college students applied
(08:44):
to five or more institutions, and twenty six percent applied
to ten or more institutions. So kids are out here, really, really,
really pushing these applications and not all of them are
getting accepted. That's where this viral story comes in. They're
high school seniors in Needham, Massachusetts, who have now received
(09:06):
over six million views on TikTok after baking one singular
cake that revealed all of the colleges they were not
accepted to. So the students say that the quote rejection
cake video was a fun way to vent their frustrations
(09:26):
that nearly everyone applying for college goes through.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
They said, quote.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Especially today, like on TikTok and Instagram, you only see
the acceptance videos and that can make it a little
bit stressful getting the rejections. So it was kind of
like normalizing the rejections in the college application process. So
what they did is they made this cake and inside
of the cake they stuffed some letters, and those letters
(09:54):
they unveiled one by one to show and to say
which colleges they they were rejected from.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
They wanted to flip the script.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Now. They did do a companion video, a follow up
video of all the schools they were accepted to as
well as they as well as the ones they actually
planned to attend. But the rejection cake video, six million
views on TikTok, has gone wildly viral and may very
well spark a trend in the near future.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Do you remember the schools if there were any that
turned you down?
Speaker 6 (10:30):
You know, I only applied to two schools and they
both accepted me. I was a little disenchanted, so I
didn't experience the rejection of it all. But I honestly
only applied to schools I knew would accept me.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I remember the schools that turned me down, and I
still hold a grudge. Oh yeah, yeah, Duke accepted me,
but they put me on a wait list. And University
of North Carolina Chapel Hill they turned me down.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And even though I would have been like a legacy.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I had a lot of relatives who went there, they said, no,
you're not coming here, how dare they?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah? Got into Berkeley, got.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
In UC San Diego, which my safe school, and of
course Georgetown my first choice. Mark guy, But I still
hold grudges. Absolutely. Do you remember anything?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Do you remember how much your applications were back then,
way the way way back then, a long time ago. Yeah,
it was the last century, way back then, adjusted for inflation,
thirty five dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You know, I can't you know, I can't kick you
off my show.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Still, let's get to story number four, all right, So
if you want to make some extra cash to apply
for college or do these college applications, you might find
yourself if you're over eighteen at a casino. Let's say
you're trying to help a younger family member out. But
if you are at this casino or any casino, what
you don't want to do, if you're losing, or if
(11:47):
you feel like you're winning but being shorted, is attack
the machine. And I know we have some audio stuff.
Let me let me just set this up. There's a man,
his name is George Smith, and this video actually went
viral last year, but people are talking about it now
and that's just a cycle of virality and stories because
(12:08):
he went to a Shawnee, Oklahoma casino and got into
a destructive tirade against a machine. He says short in him.
Uh spoiler spoiler alert. If you get into a fight
with a machine, you probably are going to lose. Let's
roll that beautiful bean footage. Steph.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Yeah, he's lamming, and listen the sounds you're hearing of
that kind of smashing, Uh would be George Smith, the
(13:00):
rowing his body into the machine repeatedly, and the machine
doesn't have to fight back, it just stands there and whoops.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
His ever loving ace Ace just lost really badly. But
he was of course arrested the Grand Casino Hotel and
resort pressed charges because this incident was captured on camera
by that fellow casino patron, who then was able to
share it further with security. Again, it went viral and
(13:31):
he now faces one count of felony destruction of property.
So do not, under any circumstances hurl your body or
any part of your body at a machine.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Not that I was going to, but okay, don't do it.
You don't have to tell me.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
But what you should do is you should listen to
me Saturdays from five to seven Saturdays with Tiffany right
here on KFI.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
It's been a blast. That's tonight's viral load.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Do later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI a
M six forty
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