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July 2, 2024 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look ‘Beyond the Box Score’ with regular guest contributor Jackie Rae; Long Beach Post/WNBA Reporter and host of ‘The Jackie Rae Show,’ weighing in on the ongoing controversy surrounding the Los Angeles Lakers drafting Bronny James AND a Minor League Baseball team’s plan to install toilets in the stands…PLUS – A look at this week’s Horoscope and “ways to sharpen your claws during the season of the crab” AND a review of the latest Disney+ Star Wars series “The Acolyte” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty AM
six forty. It's Later with moKelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app and it's Beyond the box Scorewith Jackie Ray. Jackie Ray is good
to see you again. I've beengone about two weeks or so and we
haven't had a chance to really catchup with all this stuff which has been

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happening in between time in the meantime. But while I was gone, the
Lakers did as I hoped they wouldnot, and that is draft lebron James
Junior Bronni James. I didn't expectthem to do it, but they did.
I'll give the Florida you first.What did you make of it?
Well, you know, I waswith you. I didn't think that this
was going to happen until Rich Paul, which is the agent for Bronnie and

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Lebron, he started going on thiswhole I want to say, media blitz
tour, telling everyone who listens thatit's not about him being drafted to the
Lakers. It's all about him justgetting his name called. Yeah, okay
that it's kind of like me.You protest too, much. You're trying
to misdirect us. And that's whenI was like, oh no, he's

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literally making phone calls right now.That's the first sign. And then the
next thing that I saw was theheadline that says the Lakers are prepared to
give Lebron whatever he wants. Thatheadline sealed it for me. I was
like, Okay, whatever he wantsdoesn't mean just money. So I was
like, this is this is exactlywhat's going to happen. So when it
happened, I wasn't surprised at all. Obviously it had to happen in the
second round just to make it seemlike, oh well, we gave it

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some good thought, but it's it'sjust a show. This was going to
happen from day one. I wouldlike to think of myself as being somewhat
basketball knowledgeable, and I know thathistorically second round draft picks, even late
second round draft picks, don't alwaysor usually amount to anything. There are
notable exceptions Manugenobli, Dreybond, Green, Niicola Jokic, Jalen Brunson, others,

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but the second round draft pick stillhas value. It is a tradable
acid. It is something that theLakers could have used in a trade to
help bring more talent to the Lakers, and they still could have signed Barnie
James on a two way contract asa free agent and so forth. I
think this pick doesn't make basketball ororganizational sense given they could still have had

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Barnie James and not impacted their tradeaspects. Where do you come out on
that? Rich Paul said from dayone he was not going to consider a
two way contract for Bronnie, whichto me feels like have you seen him
play? We all were there,we all were rooting for him. We
know he had this tragic moment intime where we thought his life was in
danger, so we are all happyto see him be able to play the

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game that he loves. However,to your point, that does not mean
he is NBA ready. He's notNBA ready. He's at least two years
in my opinion, away from beingNBA ready. So this is definitely one
of those things where again lebron hasa dramatic amount of influence on what happens
in the Lakers organization. I knowpeople say nepotism. I'm not mad at
nepotism, because if don't let meget some money because everybody that's related to

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me is coming up. But I'mnot mad at that. But the Lakers
don't make good decisions for a longterm. They haven't done that for a
very long time. They make decisionsabout right now. So like it or
not, everybody's going to be talkingabout the Lakers because of this situation.
So they're gonna get butts in theseats because whether they win or they lose,
people want to see this mess that'sabout to happen next season. Now.

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Also, again, as a basketballknowledgeable person, most second round draft
picks don't even make the team.They'll go to summer league, they'll come
to camp, but it doesn't meanthey actually make the team. Doesn't this
mean by definition that Brownie James,because of the situation that the Lakers have
created, he has to make theteam and he has to be on the
bench opening night. He's not onlygonna be on the bench, he's going

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to average at least two minutes agame, two unproductive minutes a game.
He might surprise me. That's notbeyond the a possibility that you know your
dad is Lebron James. People dolevel up based on the talent that they're
around, so he's gonna pick upsome tricks of the trade. I just
don't see him having a athletic jumpthat's going to wow me this season.

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But he's going to be on thebench. Not only that, he's going
to get playing time. All right, let me drill down deeper. You
use the word nepotism. I've heardthat word from a number of people,
as far as the casual fan.I see the casual fan objecting to this.
How unfair it is he's taking them, he lebron James junior. Bronnie
James is taking the place of someonemore worthy. I'm not against nepotism at
all. We see it in allforms in all fields, especially in sports.

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If you look on the ownership side. I look at gd Bus.
I'm not saying she's not qualified,but she is a beneficiary of being the
daughter of doctor Buss and now she'sthe team owner. But this is something
different. I think they've done RonnieJames a disservice. Hear me out,
if only because he's going to havesuch scrutiny. He's going to have such
pressure that if he does not performto a certain level, it's going to

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make it almost damn near impossible forhim to succeed as opposed to working his
way up through the rents now.Also, this Lebron James turns forty in
December, does that mean that wehave to hope that Lebron James sticks around
for the next two years or so, or does that mean that Lebron James
retires at the end of next year, which is a distinct possibility. And

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the Lakers are holding left holding theLebron James junior bag. Oh, I
think this Lebron James junior bag isgoing to run deep. I think they're
going to throw the whole pocket book, as my mom would say, at
Lebron. They're going to sign himto a three year deal. He's going
to try to wait for Bryce.I think that's exactly what's going to happen,
and it's going to be tragic.Because Lebron James is still playing at

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a high level. He can startlimiting his minutes a little bit and still
be effective in that way if hereally wanted to. But father Time is
undefeated. To your point, thatwas always my concern. People on social
media always said, oh, you'rehating on Bron. First of all,
I'm a diehard King James fan.There's nothing that's going to happen from that
man that I'm gonna hate on ever, including his son. I just don't
want him to fail. And Ithink to your point, when you put

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somebody first of all, the lightshine way too brightly in LA just period.
If you play well or you playbadly, there's going to be a
microscope on it. Either way.You're not going to have the opportunity,
say you would in a smaller marketto grow and to mature. He'd have
been better off going to Washington.So then that way he can grow and

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mature. And then if he's great, then it's like, oh my gosh,
now we can put attention on thisteam that needs the attention anyway.
But if he's not great, nobody'sgoing to really pay that much attention.
But here in LA you have tocome out the gate and prove that you're
supposed to wear the purple and gold. It's a cult like atmosphere here,
and if you don't prove that youcan wear the purple and gold, that's
going to damage your basketball legacy heretoo and forevermore. Let me give you

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a little more basketball information for thecasual fan who may not be following this
closely. I look at that thisis just the teams that made the playoffs
last season. The Oklahoma City Thunderthey are better than sh I know that,
if only because they're one year olderand more mature. If the Denver
Nuggets don't need to talk about them. Minnesota Timberwolves, they're better this season.

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Clippers, they've probably fallen off.Dallas Mavericks just added Klay Thompson hours
ago today to a three year deal. Of the Phoenix Suns, don't know
about them, then they're the Lakers. The Pelicans are probably better, Sacramento
Kings, we know that they're goingto be better. Golden State Wars.
I don't know. But the pointI'm trying to make is most teams are

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in the West are getting better now. I will con see that the Lakers
did some damage with their first roundpick from Tennessee. I followed in the
Dalton Connect He's a baller, hecan play. But for the most part,
the Lakers have just gotten older.Am I wrong? I just said
Father Time is undefeated and Lakers areout here trying to sign up for AARP
today. So I don't really know. How they think. This is what

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happens in basketball. To your point, for the casual fan, you'll have
these dynasties. We saw the dynastieswhen Magic here. We saw the dynasty
when Kobe was here. But thedynasty always ages out. So you have
to be thinking forward when you lookat the Warriors, for example, when
you're talking about Clay and Steph andDraymond, they weren't good out the gate,
but they grew and became good.And that's the benefit of having young

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talent. That young talent can growand suddenly get really good together and then
they are a force to be reckonedwith. The Lakers have a force that's
ready to retire, not to bereckoned with. Well, let's switch gears
when we come back on the otherside of this break. Let's talk a
little bit about baseball and bathrooms,really baseball and bathrooms. It's Later with

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mo Kelly. We're going Beyond thebox Score with Jackie Ray. You're listening
to Later with Moe Kelly on demandfrom KFI Am six forty. As we
continue to go Beyond the box Scorewith Jackie Ray. We talked basketball last
segment. Let's talk a little bitof baseball now minor league baseball for the
uninitiated, known for strange, extreme, weird promotions. But even this,

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what I'm getting ready to tell youabout is more strange, more extreme,
more unusual than I think anything I'veseen before. A minor league baseball team
is looking to make fans as comfortableas possible during games, to the point
of installing toilets at the ballpark.We think, well, what's unusual about

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that. Well, the Lake CountyCaptains, which is a high A affiliate
of the Cleveland Guardians, They recentlydebuted their Roto Router toilet Row, which
consists of real toilets as seats behindhome plate working toilets, so you can

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watch the game and go to thetoilet at the same time in full view
of the stadium. Now, JackieRay, before you wig in, have
to let you and everyone else know, I have this recurring nightmare. Don't
ask me why, but I hadthis recurring nightmare. I have this nightmare
where I'm somewhere in public you knowwhere this is going, and I'm stranded

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on the toilet, sorry after numbertwo, and I can't figure out how
to get out of that situation,how to extricate myself from that excerimental situation.
If you will. Here is mynightmare brought to life. These are
real toilets. I don't know whowould want those seats. I don't know

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who would use those seats. Iknow that they are functioning toilets behind home
plate. Yes, it's doing itsjob in the sense of getting more publicity
and notoriety. But where do youcome out on this. I when I
saw the headline, I was like, Oh, this guy has to be
some sort of gimmick. There can'tbe actual, real toilets. And then

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they did a whole video promo showingyou how they are actually functionally functioning toilets,
and my mind spiraled because as awoman, I don't sit on public
toilet seats. I hover, Sowhat use is this to me? And
even if I was gonna sit,I'm a germophobe, So the amount of
cleaning that I would have to doto that toilet seat just before I sat

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down? And then does that meanI have to wear a skirt to the
game because I'm not gonna pull downmy pants in front of everybody. Finally,
my thought was, there is somebodyright now watching this. This is
a great idea. You know,they're saying that there's like this is fantastic,
And I can assure you that peoplewho think that way do not have
a clean diet. So if theythink this is a good idea, the

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smell from their use of this toiletis going to permeate at least three rows
back. Well, the two partsto this. The first part is,
yes, the person who would wantto sit there and actually use the toilet
expose themselves in some form or fashionif they were to actually use it.
And then there's the point that it'sin the front row. There's row two,
row three, row four of normalseats. There's no way in hell

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that I'm gonna pay my good moneyto see anything anyway. I don't care
if it's the movies, baseball game, auto show, whatever, where I'm
gonna sit behind someone who would beusing the toilet. I don't know how
this actually plays out other than peoplewanting to just look and God can see
this. Interbody's going to use it'sgonna use it. There's at least ten

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people right now that are looking atthis and saying, we've got to buy
those tickets today, and they aregoing to sit there for all those in
it. You know how long abaseball game is, they are not going
to go to the bathroom. They'regoing to think this is a great way
to not miss a single second ofbaseball, and everyone is going to see
them use the toilet and they're goingto think it's fantastic. When I went

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to the baseball game in the seventiesand eighties, I understood that, especially
at Dodger Stadium, you leave yourseat and you would lose sight of everything
which was happening. This was prehaving monitors on the concourse. That's how
old I am. I won't eventalk about going to the bathroom where you
had that trough for all the menand lighting up going number one. But

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they basically have monitors everywhere in everyat least major league stadium and most minor
league stadiums. This is a solutionto a problem which really does not exist.
Here's my real question, and youmay not be able to answer this,
but it's a real question I havein my mind. How do you
deal with public indecency or public exposurewhen you're basically saying it's okay to expose

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yourself in a situation like this.That was my whole thing. You're gonna
have to tell everyone. Like Isaid, women, you have to create
some sort of stipulation. Women,you have to wear skirts. If you're
not wearing a skirt, you can'tdrop trow and go to the bathroom.
Men, whether you're going number oneor number two, you have to be
sitting down. Once you put alcoholin that, it's just going to be
a whole mess. Well, we'vealready had a spate, if you will,

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of women at various sports events exposingthemselves, showing their breasts, and
they've been made, you know,Internet famous, some of got OnlyFans deals.
I can only imagine to your point, with alcohol being introduced into the
equation, what these men will doas well. Because I don't want to
put this on women. I'm moreafraid of what the men are going to

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do, you know, for abiological, anatomical and drunken reasons. I
just wonder how long before the firstlawsuit? How long? Because because if
you take your child to the gameand you may not know of this,
you know, how do you respondto this? Yeah, that's what I'm
saying. You have to understand thatthis is a baseball game. People aren't
going and to your point, theway that only fans is going. There's

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a woman right now, or maybelike you said, a men that's like,
oh my gosh, let me tellmy fans how I'm going to go
use this toilet and they can watchme live. They can watch me live
stream me on this toilet in ata base procket. People are so worried
about what happens on social media andhow they can get clout for it.
This is just a built in way. I would love to be a fly
on the wall in that business meetingthat said, hey, we need a

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marketing gimmick. I've got the greatestidea ever. Like who said that?
Well, someone always asked me longago, is like, if you say
yes to this, what do yousay no to? What is a bridge
too far? What is something whereyou say in the collective marketing meeting,
you know what, we can't dothat. That's not a good idea.
We should rethink this. We mayget sued, there may be all sorts

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of negative consequences. You know,it's not good for the organization. If
you still right. You know Cadfrom legal he clearly wasn't in the media,
and if he was, he needsto be fired because someone is getting
sued, and when someone gets sued, someone gets fired. But you should
have just avoided all that and saidno, or just go home to your

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partner and be like, hey,we had this great idea. No,
don't use great in front of thatidea. Look, it should have been
an April fool's joke, right thatthey posted on the internet and maybe photoshop
the picture for the sake of it, you know, and just left it
at that. But no, theseare real seats for real stadium, for

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a real baseball game. And Ireally wish I was still in South Korea
right now because they wouldn't be doingthey wouldn't be considering anything like this.
Jackuary, I gotta run, butit's great to see you. It's good
to be back to be able totalk to you. I hope we can
do it again soon. Yes,absolutely, welcome back. It's I am
six forty Later with mo Kelly.Yes, I am back in the saddle.

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And when we come back, wehave your July horoscope. You can
learn how to sharpen your claws duringthe season of the crab. You're listening
to Later with Moe Kelly on demandfrom KFI AM six forty if I am
six forty is later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
And this is your July horoscope.This is how you can sharpen your clause

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during the season of the Crab orthe season of the Stephan. Stephan has
a birthday coming up, can't Sarrian. Let's start off with the North node
is still working through your sign,a long chiron between the two. You
are gifted with double fire and thepower to cauterize past wounds and burn through
karma, searing, ceiling, welding, and melding. This scorching calls to

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mind Mulnir, the hammer of GodThor, forged in the heart of a
dying star. I encourage all ramsto find a similar talisman of protection and
purpose, carry it to light theway for the rest of us, working
to move from indecision to action andfrom conflict to resolution. Taurus Mars action
and Uranus chaos are traveling close togetherin Taurus, and their conjunction can translate

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to surprises of every kind, flashesof genius, up ended perspectives, shifting
drives, and radically new desires.Use the force of this lightning storm to
sow fresh seeds from the ground up, as the earth is the steadiest and
only place to start. Did yousay uranus chaos? Yes, I did,
just checking. Please proceed. Youcaught that. Huh nothing gets past

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us, well, you know,coming on the end of our defecation conversation.
He second on the end. Butokay, Gemini a whoy Gemini,
Jupiter, planet of big bets andgood luck, is in your sign,
expanding how you communicate. This isn'tjust about expression or monologues. It's about

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truly opening yourself to dialogue, Opento the back and forth to what the
words, books, songs, phrasesand poems fill up our cup and what
and who overflows it. This isyour territory. You are mercury blessed and
fortune favored. If you can listenas well as you speak, you will
be rewarded tenfold. Stephan, areyou ready for your horoscope? Since your

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birthday's coming up, let's do it. When's your birthday tomorrow to be twenty
two? Yeah, here we gofor cancer. Happy return of the sun
to you, Stephan. This isyour season and it could herald all of
unexpected gifts. Falling in love withyourself a home or the home you make
of another, giving your shadow aplace at the table, and or bowing

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to the terrifying prospect of being vulnerable. All of your growth will come from
this parallel witness of self that simultaneouslywitnesses the other. When you remove your
armor, you make it safe forthose around you to do the same.
Did you get anything out of thatstuff? And yeah, definitely an armor
part for sure. Okay, allright, because I didn't understand any of

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it, Leo, Mercury, theplanet of the mind, and Venus,
the planet of the heart, willstroll hand in hand in your sign this
month, Leo. These conspiring powerscreate an opportunity for you to use your
flair for the dramatic to meet yourneeds. The alignment of heart and mind
allows you to be truly sovereign.This sureness is the spark that illuminates your

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realm. Here is the candle bywhich you work, which softens and makes
magic from the familiar Virgo month ofJuly looks like a serious study for the
Virgo contingent. Get ancestral guidance aboutyour lost and unrequited loves. This is
a knot that only you can untie, but it doesn't mean you can't ask
for help. Study your own narrativeand the stories true and untrue you have

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self soothed with. Revisit these talesto retrieve your power so you might start
again with a blank slate and afresh page. Libra well wells urges the
Libra Ilk to lean into new andradical ways of relating. The south node
in your sign reminds us that weare all born relational beings. The challenges

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to engage in relationships in ways thatstrengthen rather than diminish, our individuality.
You can forge a bond without losingyourself. Sure, if you can let
go of the outcomes, dynamics andrules of the past, you just might
find that you've changed yourself and thegame altogether. Twalla Are you ready?
Of course, here's Scorpio. Thismonth you are asked to consider where you

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belong. Scorpio ever able to gowithin and without for long periods of time,
you are learning to trust yourself andthe group dynamics that birth belonging,
the ties that hold us up anddown, not back. What does your
version of utopia look like? You'renot allowed to say. Alone on a
desert island, you have already masteredthe art of solo survival. Now you

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must become an integral part of asustainable whole. In other words, go
find you somebody you know, getup under or never mind, I can't
see, can't say that. OhI'm taking this area all right, Sagittarius,
this is me Attention archers. Talkcan be medicine. This month,
your ruler Jupiter is in Gemini,so be prepared for your conversations to carve

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even deeper and more lasting routes intoyour psyche. You're in the process of
deep transformation, Sagittarius. Don't fightthe feeding, don't fight the feeling,
don't fight the cocooning. You arethe noble knight of the Zodiac, and
here and now is the forest whereyou learn to love the stuff you are
made of. Okay, be present, got it? Stay in the moment,
Capricorn. With the Sun in youropposite sign, your focus is on

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relationships and the role of the other. With the Sun and Moon on the
cancer slash, Capricorn access this month, you should be able to lock in
instead of getting locked up. Nofeast or famine for you, but rather
the glorious middle ground of satiety.Your ruling planet is getting close to Neptune
this month, fueling feelings of fear, especially around people and things you don't

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understand yet. If you allow yourselfto get curious rather than cautious, you
will find who and what you need. And lastly, more semi lastly,
Aquarius, Pluto, the mover ofmountains and power planet of buried treasure,
is retrograding in your sign this summer. I have no idea what any of
that means. In the novel Pluto, as the inhabitants of an underworld society

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go deeper and further into the Earthshould be Farther into the Earth, they
encounter prehistory, a wealth of beingsand ancient life forms that illuminate and educate.
The stands as a metaphor for you, Aquarius, as digging in and
looking back will fuel your journey tothe future and now. Lastly, Pisces
fish people, July is made forgoing in and getting deep through structured healing.

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Saturn, our lord of Time,is sitting in Pisces with the world's
weight. In a water sign,you can shower, dip, bathe,
baptize, surrender, and deep diveto all the places that didn't have a
concrete entry point before. Is thata metaphor for something else? They are
they talking about something else? Dothey mean something else other than what the
words are said? I think thiswhole thing does. There's a lot in

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this July horscope, shower, dipbathe, baptized, surrender, and deep
dive to all the places that didn'thave a concrete entry point before. M
gross talking about cups run it's over. Well, we could always talk about
toilets and you know number two andyou know, hey, Mark, you're

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for a change, you mean talkabout that? I don't know. No.
Someone was hitting me as like,did you really have that, that
dream, that recurring nightmare of youknow, the the toilet in public?
Said, yes, that's It's arecurring dream that I've had for years.
And I don't know what it means. I don't I don't know what it
means. It's just something that happens. Maybe every seven or eight months,

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I'll get the same dream, ora version of it. I think everybody
has that. I have that.It usually involves like a frantic search to
find a bathroom in a public place, and I can't uh and no,
no, I don't wake up ina puddle. It's just a weird dream.
My weird dream is usually obviously thedream you always start in the middle
of it. And I'm just sittingon the pot and I'm and I'm like

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in a mall, I'm in amovie theater, I'm in some public place
and everyone's around me and they're justalmost like looking at me. It's like,
so, how are you going toget yourself out of this situation?
Yeah, I don't know what thereason for that is. We need we
need to get a psychologist in hereor somebody who can analyze dreams, because
those are the dreams you wake updisturbed from. It used to disturb me.
Now it's like, okay, it'sthe latest version of the same dream.

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I don't know what it's supposed tomean. I don't I have no
idea. I think some things youcan just take it a one to one
value with what you're seeing there.I don't know if it's literal. Oh,
I have a phobia of pooping inpublic, and it's as simple as
that. But it's not something thatcould ever happen. Ever. You don't
know that. No, no,no, I do know that. No.
We could have some kind of walkingdead type emergency here, and that

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might be the only way to getbusiness done. And you're just gonna have
to live with it and overcome thefear. I have waited a whole week
without pooping. What the first yearI went to summer camp? I refused
to and it was it was CampRadford. It was nasty. It was
four age long story. People getthat, they get the travel pooping.
Yes, yes, thank you.Okay, Look I was out on I

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was out here. We go Nono, no, no, no,
no, no, no no.What it happened? Was it happened?
Was I was out with someone,a lady, and she wanted to go
to Michael Jackson's house, the onein then seen it, you know,
the the Jackson Jackson's ranch. Youknow, this was ever a little bit

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after he passed. So you wantto go and see all the flowers and
all the people of weird day.No, No, this wasn't necessary date.
This was just we were hanging outas we were going to go for
sure, and all of a suddenher stomach got really, really sick.
She was getting the bubblies. Yes, because we had gone to eat before.
I think we went to cheesecake factory. And something, you know,
with Darry maybe she shouldn't have hadand so she got really really sick,

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don't tell. So there was noplace to go, no night. No,
she had to go over near abuilding and just go. And I
gave her my under your shirt.You are the sir Walter Raleigh of incontinence.
Did she offer it back after?Did she offer to take it home?
Wash? It was all good afterit was just like, you know

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what, hey man, this thishappens. Wait, so you're saying she
defiled Neverland, which she defiled anddefecated. It's not never landed this This
was the Jackson's house. This isjust an encino. Oh okay, okay,
okay, let Tito deal with it. I get it. So I
had give it guilt to him.He already geared to him. He could

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have said Germaine, he could havesaid Randy, could have said Marlon.
But he brought Tito into the conversation. So that's that's a deep dove.
Can we go to break now?Yes? I care about you, Mark.
I want to make sure that youcould deliver the news. All right,

(27:53):
let's just get it out of theway. You're listening to later with
Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AMsix forty. I started off the show
talking about my trip to South Korea, how I was flying Korean Airlines and
for whatever reasons, I don't knowwhy we didn't have Wi Fi either way,

(28:15):
I just don't know. Maybe itwas a problem with the satellite or
what have you. Because we hadno Wi Fi and I was flying business
class, you would think Wi Fiwould be a minimum requirement. Didn't have
any Wi Fi. I say thatto say I had to. Luckily enough,
I had downloaded because we didn't knowuntil we got on the plane that
there would be no Wi Fi.I downloaded as many shows and movies as

(28:38):
possible because the flight from Los Angelesto inchin Soul, South Korea was thirteen
hours and twenty minutes going there,so I downloaded a bunch of movies,
TV show episodes, and some ofwhat I downloaded was The Acolyte, which
is airing on Disney Plus. Itfor the first three and a half episodes.

(29:00):
It's probably some of the worst televisionever aver not worse Disney Plus,
not worse streaming, not worse thiscentury in the history of video entertainment.
I yelled at the TV in thefirst episode, yelled at it. I
about threw my TV from across theroom, but getting on a plane,

(29:23):
it's like, okay, let mesee where this goes. And I just
wanted to have as much material aspossible. And there were some grumblings online
that episode four and five were reallyreally good, and I am a Star
Wars fan at heart, so Idownloaded and I watched it. Episode four
was eh, but it set upepisode five, which was consequential, and
I think it's only six episodes long, and if you know anything about Disney

(29:45):
plus, the penultimate episode is usuallythe most consequential, get the most action,
and so forth. Let me justsay this, and I hated the
series. I loved episode five,and I don't want to give away any
spoilers, but it felt the mostStar Wars ish of the series. And
I can say this. There wasa lot of action. There was a

(30:07):
lot of lightsaber duels. There wasa lot of expository moments where you got
to find out that some backstory,some reveals. Some of them were on
the nose and obvious, and otherswere like, oh, that's interesting.
But I appreciate it so much.I even watched it a second time for
Easter eggs and subtleties, because whenyou're watching it on the plane, you
might be half asleep. You maynot appreciate it in the same way when

(30:32):
you would have the opportunity to giveit my full attention. And I liked
it. It didn't save the seriesfor me, but I think it redeemed
it on some level because it gaveme something. I didn't feel like I
completely wasted all four hours of mytime watching it. The episodes are like
thirty five minutes each. Okay,So my question to you is, if
I've dropped it because the first twoepisodes were so terrible, is it worth

(30:53):
picking up just for this payoff you'retalking about. I would say yes,
I believe Talla would say no.Okay, Look here's what I'm gonna say.
Okay, Episodes one through four arethe absolute worst thing I've ever seen
happened to television. It is acrime I didn't Kathleen Kennedy should be jailed
and banned from even saying the wordsStar Wars under ten lashings as a punishment

(31:19):
that said. The last minute ofepisode four, major eyebrows go up and
say whoa because they did something reallyamazing within the use of the force and
all that, and it was like, wow, that was interesting, and
it made me watch episode five,which I will say had not just some

(31:41):
of the best action I've seen inStar Wars in a minute, but it
was one of the most violent lightsaberduels you will ever doubt ever it is.
It is pure violent. It's ratedr. It was horrific. What
happened. I was like a coupleof and it was shocking. It was
like, oh my god, like, how did you go right zero to
one hundred? Like, but thedialogue is still sucked. The acting,

(32:07):
it still sucks. I said,just just stick to fighting. Whoever's doing
this, just let them fight.Let them fight. That's all they needed.
Is it enough to watch the nextepisode to see where it's going.
Hell yeah, man, well you'vegot my attention with that. But can
it compete with The Boys, whichis consistently outrageous and wonderfully written. No,
we can't even talk about The Boysbecause I can't even put any context

(32:29):
to what I'm seeing on screen.I can't. I can't describe what I'm
seeing other than it's the most wonderfullyvulgar, offensive, diabolical TV show that
has ever been created, and Ilove every minute of it. But not
it's getting past just being vulgar forthe sake of being vulgar. It's the
things that they're telling right now whenyou make me actually start to care about

(32:52):
one of the most despised characters everto hit the screen with Homelander, I'm
like, he's not quite sympathetic.Okay, he he killed the people on
the airplane. Okay, look he'smocked. Look he murdered the people on
the airplane. But it's literally whathappens when you abuse nuclear weapons. They
eventually go off. Look, butthe way he goes off. Okay,

(33:16):
all I'm gonna say is when Homelandergoes home, oh and visit the people
who help raise him. Oh mygosh, oh my god, Oh my
goods. Everybody gets what they deserve. Don't get me wrong. But don't
call him John, don't call that. Don't call him by his government name.

(33:36):
But the acolyte hated the first Youwere correct, twalla the last minute
of episode four, Raise your eyebrows. Episode five, All hell breaks loose
and it's worth a watch. Andyou can't go wrong with the boys.
There you go, k if IAm six forty. We're live everywhere in
the Heart radio app. Do youthink we've got all the answers, Well,
we've got news for you, Chief. No, seriously, we've got

(33:59):
news right now. K S I, M, K O, S G
h G two Los Angeles, Orangedrowning lives everywhere on the radio.

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