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January 28, 2025 31 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 Tennessee women's basketball coach Kim Caldwell’s plans to return to coaching seven days after giving birth to her first child, and MORE…PLUS – A look at your weekly horoscope and which pie best represents your Zodiac sign according to your astrology - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
And we're going to go beyond the box Score with
Jackie Ray. Jackie Ray, Happy Monday evening to you. Let's
talk a little bit about women's college basketball tonight.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Can you help me out.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Woo woo my favorite subject?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
You know Tennessee coach Kim Caldwell. She is going to
coach seven days after giving birth against the number two
in South Carolina. They're always in the headlines for one
reason or another, but this time it's about Tennessee's coach
Kim Calwell. I hear time and time again that a

(00:40):
woman should be given adequate time to have birth, bond
with the child, should not have the same expectations as
a man. But then you have a story like this
where you have Kim Calwell said, you know what, I'm good.
I need to get back on the bench so I
can coach against one of the top teams in college basketball.
How should I as a man, and I'm saying this

(01:00):
that it's out of place for me to really weigh
in on it. How should I look at how Kim
Calwell is saying, yeah, give birth seven days go, no problem,
I want to go coach.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
How should I look at that?

Speaker 5 (01:12):
You should look at it like every woman is different.
Every woman has something that's important to them, and you
also should look at it as you know these especially
college coaches. I say this about Nick Saban a lot
as far as like his inspiration with college kids, Dionne Sanders,
you take on a parent role when you're a coach
of these college teams because now you're not only shaping them.

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You understand that most of them aren't going to make
it at the professional level. So you're not only shaping
them for the game, you're shaping them for their next
stage of life. So it is a motherly thing to do,
it's a fatherly thing to do. To being these coaching positions. Now,
I after I have my god daughter for several hours,
I personally need a break, So I don't understand myself
how she's coming back this quickly. But I also understand

(01:57):
this is her passion. So it's a little interesting when
you're talking about someone being away. She even talked about
watching the game from home right after she gave birth
and it just didn't feel quite right to her. So
I'm sure she has a support system. I'm sure her
husband took a little bit of time off. He's also
involved in the sports world, so he understands fully.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
I'm sure they've talked about this.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
I'm sure he knows her well enough to know that
her sitting at home was going to make her a
little bit anti So it's a person by person situation.
But women's bodies are amazing, their mindsets are amazing, and
if she feels like she's ready to do this, then
you should take it as she's just ready to do this.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okay, I'll take her out her word, But the cynical
side of me looks at some other circumstances where she
only missed one game prior to this, and that was
ended up being a loss to number seven Texas. This
is her first season with Tennessee. We're talking about the
Venerated Tennessee Volunteers women's basketball and she's fifteen and four.

(02:57):
If this is her first season, maybe not living up
to expectations of her predecessors. This is a huge game,
arguably the biggest game on her schedule the season, with
exception maybe LSU.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Do you think that also plays into it?

Speaker 5 (03:12):
It could possibly it plays into it for women who
aren't coaches. They are a little bit reluctant to take
their full maternity and even dat sometimes their paternity leave,
because there's an understanding that the longer you're away and
the easier it is for them to get along without you,
the more jepardy your job is. That just comes with
being in a capitalistic society. We are not a health

(03:33):
and wellness first society. We are a get it done
if you want this money society. So to your point,
we see coaches get fired for far less. So she
might even be thinking, do I want to take this
time away now when I'm really trying to solidify my
future as well with this team. So I'm sure that
comes into play as well, because you don't want the

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team to look at you and say, well, you know,
she didn't meet our expectations and then she had to
take all this time away and the team didn't finish.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
You know, maybe we just move on.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Whether that would be true or not, that's probably something
that's going through her head. It goes through a lot
of people's heads when you're in this situation.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
All right, So let me ask the obvious next question.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Not that there should be fairness, but it seems like
you're hinting at.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
An inherent unfairness.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
The expectations placed upon a female coach as opposed to
a male coach.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Absolutely, because a male just doesn't have this problem. Like
it or not.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
The male's not the one whose hormones are going to
be out of whack, who she can't sleep properly, she
might have to breastfeed. None of these things happened to
a man, so a man can literally I heard Draymond
Green and I.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Was deplored it when he said this.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
He was like, I would not miss a game, a
finals game, for the birth of my child like Rudy
Gobaert did.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
He said he would never.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
Do that because you don't have to, sir, You do
not have to miss anything. She doesn't have the option
of saying, you know what, I'm gonna put this baby
aside for the day and then just go over here.
And she doesn't have that option. So this is a
big decision for her. Whatever however she arrived here, it's
a big decision for her because, like I said, if
she's breastfeeding, that means she's gonna have to pump a

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lot to make sure that nanny has what they need.
She's gonna be checking in a lot because this is
her child, and this is a newborn. So there's a
level of pressure that women, especially women who have just
given birth, they have that men just don't. And we
see this in the WNBA too. We've seen countless women
have birth and then they come back and the narrative is,
oh my god, they're back so quickly because they have

(05:31):
to be, because they're trying to earn money in a
system that can easily dispose of you.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
All right, let me just be really unfair, because this
whole comes Okay, this whole conversation is unfair. Is there
anything to the argument that although we can conceive that
women's bodies are different, although the choice is being made
by Calwell and she's making the choice which is she
feels as best for her in her situation, does it
possibly send the wrong message and can it be used

(05:59):
against other women? Well, she came back in only seven days,
Why do you need two months or whatever?

Speaker 5 (06:06):
People can try it, but I know that any woman
said they can try it if they want to. But
I know ninety nine percent of women would be like
I would say, my name is Jackie Ray, I am
not Kim Caldwell. I'm an entirely different woman. I had
a different birth plan, I had a different plan to
spend time with my child afterwards. And please do not
compare me, because whatever she's going through, I can guarantee

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you her situation is unique to me, to the next
person or whatever. So people are going to try it,
but they will soon very well be told about themselves.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Let me close with this question, then, because I really
do want to stay out of this conversation because I
honestly believe it is not my place to lead the way,
but I can facilitate the way. And it would be
if you were to assess how sports have progressed or
regressed regarding women in coaching positions, where would you come

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out on that?

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Are we moving more in the right direction? Are we
moving more in the wrong direction?

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Okay, so this might not be the answer you want,
but I think it depends on who's in the leadership role.
If we're talking about if women are in leadership roles,
we've one percent progressed because women understand that what you
need and what I need might be two different things.
Men have not progressed in that regard. Men think, well, yeah,
but Billy his son was born last week and Billy's

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at work today. Men have not progressed at all when
it comes to this subject, so it depends on who's
in leadership.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
When we come back.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
We're going to stay within the realm of women's college basketball.
And I don't know, Jackie Ray, if you heard about this,
but South Carolina had to apologize to LSU specifically after
playing a controversial song after defeating a rival. Is it
trolling or something else? We'll find out in just a second.

(07:55):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. I'm joined by Jackie Ray
as we go beyond the box Score.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
And we're continuing to go beyond the box score. Jackie Ray,
let's pick it up right where we left off. In
women's college basketball, the South Carolina Athletic Department released a
public apology to LSU. Two of the top programs in
all of women's college basketball release a public apology to
LSU and Starguard Flower J. Johnson regarding a song played

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in Colonial Life Arena at the end of the game
between the number two game Cocks and the number five
LSU Tigers back on Friday.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Long story short, The song that they.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Played was to troll flow J Johnson because the song
was written and performed by her late father who was murdered.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
How did that happen? How did that manage to happen?

Speaker 5 (08:55):
I think this is a level of just trying too hard.
DJ stroll all the time. Shout out to DJ Malski.
He is the DJ for the La Sparks. Please do
not fall down when you're on the court because he's
gonna play that gospel song we fall down, or if
you miss a shot, he's gonna play brick House.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
He does troll, you know. He loves certain people.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
He'll play there for certain songs for them that he
knows he'll get under their skin because they've mentioned it.
He does troll other players from other teams. It makes
the game fun, It really engages the crowd. However, this
is a different situation. This is a situation where he
played a song at the end of the game, so
the trolling is done, they've already won, the game is over,

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but he played a song to troll her, specifically from
a man who undoubtedly would have been the most important
man in her life. Who she never met because he
died six months before. He was murdered six months before
she was even born. So she even a fan saw
it and they did a laughing emoji about it, and
she even posted it on her Instagram and said, you

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know what, I'll take my l but this isn't funny.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
This is just nasty behavior. And I agree with that.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
I think that the level of trolling, it's going to
get under the player's skin. It might even get under
the opposing fans skin's that's the fun of it. But
this isn't fun because now you're calling up a memory
of something that's very close to her and probably still
causes her a great deal of pain.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
I don't know what I would do if I were
in charge of that DJ or entertainment at the arena,
but I would be inclined to fire that person. That's
just something that's just way across the other side of
the line.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yeah, I was disappointed they said they were only going
to dispend her suspend her for one game.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
Now, listen, I might have co.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Signed on the one game suspension had it not been
for how she acted on social media, because that one
fan that did a laughing moji about it. She said,
my bad ha ha, And then you know, there was
backlash that people were like, this is not okay. This
is a very touchy subject. And then she said, if
people are going to get mad, just let them. There
was not an ounce of empathy or understanding of the

(10:57):
situation on her behalf. And I'm just not going to
have that individual representing my organization.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
I'm just not going to do it.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
What you talk about signifies forethought and malice. It wasn't
like it was an accident, you know, laughing emoji. She
knew exactly what she was doing. She knew that it
will get a response. She played into that response on
social media. There's no way that she could claim ignorance
in any.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Part of this.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
That to me says your ass needs to go because
a lack of It's beyond the lack of judgment.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
It's a lack of good common sense.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
I know common sense ain't all that common, but there
are some things, and especially this younger generation needs to
learn that there are parameters and boundaries, and that's way
on the other side of the boundary. I think there
should be actual consequences, and from what I've seen being
suspended by for one game doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
They got another fifteen to go right.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Right, and it's a slap on the wrist.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
So for context, this isn't her dad, isn't Jay Z
or Kendrick Lamar or Emmin. Most hip hop, most rap fans,
unless you are a fan of Flage because she talks
about him a lot, he inspires her music a lot.
Unless you are a fan of her specifically, most rap
and music fans have no idea who this person is.

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So there's a level of intentionality that is it's malice
at best, you know, but it's it's mean, it's mean spirited,
and it's hurtful. And what's crazy about situations like this
to me always is if and when the situation was reversed,
she would be the first one to talk about, Oh
that wasn't that was inappropriate. People don't think about how
it would affect them if it happened to them. They

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just try to get a rise. And to your point,
I do think a lot of that comes from this,
not only the young generation, but everything is clickbait now
because for her, she's probably sitting back and even with
the suspension, there are probably those who are saying, oh, man,
come on it's a song, so it's still helping her
social media stock. So I think a lot of it
is done intentional and not given to the regards of

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this is a person, This is a human being who
has real feelings, and this was over the top.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
And that's part of the reason why I didn't even
mention the DJ's name, because I did not want her
to get credit or any type of further notoriety for
what she'd done. I think it's more important to talk
about what she did as opposed to her name and
who did it so she gets attribution. But there was
a teachable moment in here for not only the DJ,
but also her friends, for also those who may follow

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her on social media, for also those who might have
done something similar or thought something similar would have been funny.
I can choose all sorts of other tragic events which
are quasi related to athletes, and we've seen it before,
especially when it comes to trolley athletes about their parents
or their kids, and usually both are out of bounds.

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I don't know how and why we got here beyond
social media, and that's not really a question, that's just
a statement of fact, a fact.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yeah, I mean, I've been one of those ones who
troll Patrick Mahomes about his brother. But it's funny because
he's out there being ridiculous. This isn't a person that
passed away. I'm not attacking his character. I don't talk
about his mother because now you're talking about personal situations.
And I think that if you don't love this person,
if you don't know what it feels like to, in
her case, love somebody that you've never even met, you

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can't even.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Imagine how that moment felt for her.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
And the fact that it's not even a thought, that
just close to show where we are as a society.
We genuinely don't care about each other. And that is
a problem.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
No, that is the problem, because all other problems probably
spiral from that one central problem. We do not care
about each other at all. Jacuary very quickly before I
let you go, what you're working on on the Jacuary
Show and beyond, I.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Am so excited if you've been following me on my
journey at jackuatv on Instagram. There's a movement, there's an
understanding that we live in an entirely different time and
there are definitely different communities committees that have bound together
and are here to try to fight Project twenty twenty five.
I've held off on doing my podcast because I wanted

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to report on these things. You can see my reporting
on the people that came together of the lack of
black representation. I don't mean to laugh, but it's kind
of funny, but there's a lack of black representation in
the Martin Luther King Day Junior Parade.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
If you can imagine that.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
So I can.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
That's crazy to me, but that sparked this whole movement.
And so please make sure you follow me at JACKIEATV
dot com or at JACKIEATV on all things social media
because there's going to be a lot of podcasts around that.
And I to this exact point, it's been such a
blessing to my heart to see people come together and
really care about each other and care about the things

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that people are feeling and try to move an entirely
different direction than our nation as a whole is moving
right now. So it's a great thing. Shout out to
Long Beach. It's great to see you guys right now, and.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
It's great to see you Jackie Ray as well. We'll
see you again next week.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
It's later with Mo Kelly kf I A six forty
Live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. And when we come back,
we're going to get into your horoscope for this week.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
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Speaker 3 (16:04):
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Speaker 2 (16:09):
Zodiac signs by the slice of pie. That is what
pie are you? As per astrology, aries, you are cocaanut
cream pie. Aris aligns with the heat born energy of
cocaanut cream pie. Aries Folk are an impulsive lot, prone
to betting big, spending large, and apologizing often in kind.

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The coconut cream pie was born from a debt ode
and curiously repaid. Legend has it that in the nineteenth century,
a Caribbean businessman sent a shipment of coconuts to a
Philadelphia flour miller to settle the score between them. The
miller took to shredding, trying and selling the coconut meat
to bakers and homemakers, and before long the people of

(16:51):
this sledgeling nation were streaming for coconut cream. Taurus pecan pie,
rich and easy pecan is what the Taurus dreams are
made of Taurus, folk love and unholy indulgence that requires
very little effort to produce or procure. Enter the pecan pie,
or better yet, the chocolate pecan pie. High af on

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corn syrup and sweet enough to make your teeth ache.
This Southern staple can be made with less than ten
Now this is grammatically incorrect, with fewer than ten ingredients,
and is hot and ready and under an hour. Little
stuff like that drives me just that shite crazy?

Speaker 6 (17:29):
Does it negatively impact you?

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (17:31):
It does? Okay, Gemini mark rhubarb pie. That's what you get,
rubarb No, no, I'll accept that.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, This rubar pie is sour and sweet and only
partially present, just like the average Gemini, emotionally unpredictable.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
A look, that's what it says.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Emotionally unpredictable, swinging wildly and daily from sweet to recalcitrant.
Gemini is the sour patch kid of.

Speaker 6 (17:55):
The zodiac who could make an insult out a rubarb pie.
This is no is insulting it. Whois rubarb pie? So far,
it's been pretty accurate in kind.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
The rubar pie is a balance of the vegetable and
the candy, the earthly and the sublime, the sweet and
the bitter, and edible metaphor for life itself.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Cancer stefan apple pie.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Apple pie carries connotations of home, the natural habitat of
cancer comfort seekers and nest makers. Cancer rules the fourth
house of home and root systems, and nothing recalls a
wholesome childhood or our commercial concept of it quite like
apple pie. For cancers who prefer crumbs to lattice, i e.
The ones who didn't get enough hugs or orthodonic attention

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as children. The Dutch apple pie is more in line
with the sign I'll take it. Leo Lemon meringue pie.
Meringue is to pie topping what a lush mane of
hair or metaphorical crown is to the Leo native, absolutely
essential to esthetics and spirit. Add to this that Leo

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season roar during the high heat of summer in the
Northern Hemisphere, and Lemon meringue pie tastes like late July
and it's known to soothe a sunburn. Virgo cherry pie
fit for a queen and tart af cherry pie is
the pastry of choice for Virgos. Brits are credited with
inventing the cherry pie as an offering to the in

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real life virgin and apex Virgo herself, Queen Elizabeth the First.
A natural redhead, Elizabeth's taste for sugar was so expansive
it turned most of her teeth black.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Wow. To clear that haunting visage from your mind's eye,
it is recommended the guilty pleasure of Warrants, nineteen ninety
Indie window heavy banger cherry Pie.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yes, yes, that's a great song. Libra peanut butter pie.
Never heard of it. I've never heard of peanut butter pie.

Speaker 6 (19:51):
Disgusting, nauseating, No, no, no, that's good it Actually this is
the sell of that Burger King.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
It was like one of their pies for a minute.
Very good.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, that's why I always got that pod guests. In
her book Fifty Things to Bake Before You Die, Alison
Reedy describes peanut butter pie as a state of mind,
a salty, sweet, creamy, bitter, rich mood that transcends calories
and it becomes a state unto itself, because that's what
happens when peanut butter filling meets cocoa cookie crust consciousness.
Consciousnesses are cracked, and days are made. This rhapsody of union,

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which at the end there really sounds a touch like
burning man wedding vows is absolutely in line with Libra,
ruler of the seventh House of Partnerships and joined forces.
Are you ready, Scorpio twelve?

Speaker 3 (20:34):
I'm ready? Blueberry pie? Hey, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
It carries top notes of vengeance. No one revels in
revenge more than Scorpio, and no Stein is more willing
to suffer in pursuit of it. The cinematic distillation can
be found in the Coming of Age tail stand by Me,
where a bully team triggers a blueberry pie bar for
rama as payback for body shaming. I remember that, I
remember I made a blueberry pie for the least.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
That's contest. Yes you did. Yeah. I didn't taste it though.
Was it good?

Speaker 6 (21:04):
Everyone like liked it? They get By the time I
got to the it had melted the lots.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Did it win?

Speaker 6 (21:10):
That's not what we're talking about. Was there a group
vomit at your party? That's not even what we're talking about.
Actually we are, because it made the references.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Stand by Me, and then you made the comparison with
your blueberry pie. So Sagittarius, that's me Shepherd's Pie.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
Don't know what that is. That's the savory pie with
the ground beef and the potato. Y. I don't want
any meat in my pie. No, it's like a cast
role basically. Yeah, those delicious shepherds Pie is wonderful. How
dare you?

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Sagretarius is sanguine, sanguine, and Shepherd's Pie is an optimistic
take on leftovers.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
There we go, there it is, there it is.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
I don't eat leftovers. Don't eat Shepherd's The most accurate
ones so far. Rule by the lucky planet Jupiter. Sagittarius
is a ceaseless optimist of the zodiac. The eggs are
sunny side up, the lemons get lemonade, and last week
last week's boiled potatoes and leftover scraps become the makes
for the palatable patchwork that is Shepherd's Pie.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
No, sir, no, thank you, No way you would love it.
I would not. I've had it as delicious. You've had
a lot of things too. I don't think I think
your palate is off.

Speaker 6 (22:16):
The judges rule that Touala is correct on this. Shepherd's
Pie is magnificent. You've got the entire United Kingdom alienated
as of right now.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
Okay, mister haggis.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Capricorn meat pie, meat pies and specifically Cornish pasties are
laced with the Capricorn spirit of industry. Capricorn is the
unparalleled opportunists and industrialists of the Zodiac. Concerned with bottom
dollars and return on an investment. It doesn't encourage a
two martini lunch. The meat pie, specifically the Cornish pasty,

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was designed with the health and productivity of ten miners
in mind. Workers could carry their lunch by the half
moon crust and discard it afterward, eliminating the risk of
being poisoned by the dust on their fingers. Yeah, well,
you just don't have time with the ability to wash
your hands. Aquarius key lime pie. Key lime pie is
born from limited means and outside the box thinking. Aquarius

(23:09):
is the rebel hearted, outside the box or pie crust type,
and key lime pie is born from scarcity and innovation.
In the early twentieth century, fresh milk and refrigeration were
aware a rarity in the isolated Florida keys. Legend holds
that enterprising bakers created the pie using spoil proof sweetened
condensed milk and the tiny mightily tart key limes that

(23:32):
populated the chain of islands they call home.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
No wonder I never liked it.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Spicy Pisces is Boston Cream Pie. I don't think I've
ever had Boston cream pie. That is good, Okay, fly
as the last nine in the zodiac. Pieces is equal
parts idealist and nickel nihilist. Pie in the sky and
burn it all to the ground. For this reason, we
are awarding Pisce's Boston Cream Pie. This dessert is real
deal chaos energy called a pie, but nothing like it.

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The Boston Cream rides the line between matter and mayhem,
identity and illusion, the ephemeral and the edible, just like
our Pisces pals.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
And there you have it.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
There is your Zodiac sign by the pie slice.

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Speaker 2 (24:27):
Six We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And we
know for the past two weeks we've heard mostly bad news.
We've heard about the fires. We've heard about the damage
and the destruction and the despair people struggling to find
out if they still had a home to go back to.
And you might have seen the news earlier today where

(24:49):
the area around Pacific Palisades had been opened up for
people to return. But I'm going to stay on this,
if only because the Eaton Canyon fire, alt has been
less covered, even though there was more death and devastation there,
Comparatively speaking, we need to continue to shine a light
on it. And despite all the negative news that we've had,

(25:12):
every once in a while you get a little bit
of good news, or at least the good news of
people actually coming together and helping one another.

Speaker 6 (25:19):
As someone from the area directly who has directly impacted
someone where two blocks below and two blocks above, two
blocks on either side of my neighborhood was all but destroyed.
I was recently able to get back up to Altadena,
And truly, God is good because seeing my neighborhood during

(25:43):
the day, and after hearing all the reports about the
damage that was there, seeing in person it's twofolded, it
is I filled with joy. My house is standing, and
several of my neighbor's houses are standing.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
But when you say standing, what is that meant they
did not.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
Burn to the ground or can you return to living there? No?
Like today, there's no running water there's no electricity in
the area period. There's no electricity in the area at all,
Like as soon as five o'clock, it's it's pitch black dark.
You have to go a little bit further up in
Altadena where you can see the crews working where they
have like put together lights and stansions, and they have

(26:24):
the National Guard and the Army Corps of engineers up
there working trying to block by block, trying to take
down power lines and poles and just trying to get
things established. And so it has been it has been
really fulfilling to be in the neighborhood to see my neighbors,
even those whose houses have burned down, to hug and
embrace them and cry and share memories and just the

(26:48):
hope for the future of the neighborhood. And that the
power of what I'm seeing in Altadena and the surrounding
areas is it's it's something that I never saw before.
And I know there are several areas who have experienced
tragedies and mass destruction, but to see it at home

(27:11):
and to see, because we hear it all the time,
the people really came together. I hear the euphemism all
the time, but to see it and to see people
helping each other out, it is absolutely amazing. And today,
especially while waiting at the Pasadena Post Office over on
Lincoln and Orange Grove, where everyone who from outa Dina,

(27:32):
all of our mail is being re routed over there.
So if you're going to pick up your mail, please,
I implore you please be patient. The postal workers at
that post office are bending over backwards to make sure
we are getting our mail. I know it is frustrating
standing out there in those lines because those weights can
be an hour or more just waiting to get your mail,

(27:53):
just waiting to hear if your mail has been stopped,
forwarded whatever. They are working double, triple and quadruple over
time to make sure that we are getting our mail.
And today in particular, I was out there and I
noticed there was a food truck out there, and I said, wow,
this is different. They have a food truck out there.
I said, you know what, I'm hungry. I'm going to

(28:14):
stop and maybe get something to eat. Lo and behold,
the individuals from the food truck were actually there preparing
burritos and faheta plates. Fore, everyone in line didn't matter
if you were there really to get mail or not.
I saw people who were just showing up like, Hey,
I've got a family of four at the house, could

(28:36):
I possibly get a place there?

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Here?

Speaker 6 (28:38):
Here you go, what do you want? They were out
there for at least the time that I was there for,
at least a two hour window, handing out free food
to every single person in line. They weren't connected to
the post office, they weren't connected to the FEMA annex
that was there. They were there of their own good
will handing this stuff out. And God bless you and

(29:00):
the individuals over at v CHOS. I hope I'm pronouncing
that right.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
It is v C h o s.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
They are a poop Poopa Sarah papoosas you know, Yes,
the Poopa Sarah Maderna. And look they sel fantastical food.
The food is fantastic. And to see them out there,
their entire crew working hard, handing out food, handing out
water to people sitting down, and no one was turned away.

(29:26):
Everyone who came up to the truck that you got
some food. They were going down the line with burritos
in in bags, handing out all this and it's just
it is amazing to see people come together to help
out like that, and and it fills me with hope
for the future, really really does, because when you see
that devastation in person. I took my daughter up day

(29:50):
before last and for her to see the districs. She's
heard us talking about it, but to see it, She's like,
oh my god, Daddy, I cannot believe that this is
the neighborhood you go. It doesn't even look the same.
It looks like, like you said, like a war zone.
It is completely devastating for and seeing her perspective firsthand,

(30:13):
when you see it, you believe it. But again, to
be out there and to hug people, I've been dealing
with a heavy amount of survivor's remorse. You know, my
house is still standing, and it's tough when your house
is standing and you're looking across the street to a
house that is not. And I was embraced by one

(30:34):
of my dear friends, Maria Hudson go back to high
school and even to Pastadenia City to college and the
Black Student Alliance, And she was there with her mother,
and I was talking to her for a long time
and her mother told me, no, do not have survivor's
remorse at all. Your house standing is a testimony to
the strength of the city, and it is a reminder

(30:57):
of the beauty of the city. Seeing houses like this,
we know what this city is because otherwise, how do
you know what these neighborhoods look like if you don't
have houses like yours that are still there. And we
embraced long and hard and just hugged and cried, and
that moments like that let me know that it's.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Going to be all right. Nothing from me to to
stay behind that. Amen. K IF I am six forty.
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