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May 16, 2025 18 mins
The final thoughts for the week.  From the Diddy trial to Pete Rose and even Democratic candidate who outs herself as a swinger.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lad with the Shawn Ditty Combs trial. I'm going to
talk about it. It's underway. The prosecution, just in case

(00:23):
you haven't been following closely, wasted no time in depicting
Ditty is not only a monster, but one with wide
ranging abuse and criminality. This case is true with every
other case. Has nothing to do with whether Ditty is
actually guilty.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
It really doesn't.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's more about whether the prosecution can meet its burden
of proof, and if the prosecution's case is going to
be largely built on testimonial evidence as opposed to say
documentary evidence, Diddy has more than a slight chance of
either a hung jury or a not guilty verdict, and
I did not stutter. Witnesses will be cross examined and

(01:03):
subsequently impugned. Testimony will be rebutted and redirected. It's never
ever clear cut. This is a criminal trial. The standard
of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt. If it were
a civil lawsuit trial, the standard would be much lower
preponderance of evidence. So this is a much heavier lift
to put Ditty in prison for what would presumably be

(01:27):
the rest of his natural life. But don't get me wrong,
the testimony from witnesses thus far has been both chilling
and repulsive. The things that Cassie Ventura testified that she
was subjected to made me sick, probably you as well,
And if you haven't found out about it or read
about it, you need to read up about it. She

(01:48):
was humiliated and abused in just about every way imaginable
and even unimaginable. There will be a parade of witnesses
and testimony. It will likely seem as if there's no
way Diddy won't be found guilty. But this is just
the prosecution's portion of the case. The defense will have
its turn as well, and it is only in search

(02:08):
of converting one juror not all twelve, just one, because
one is enough to stand in the way of a conviction.
I mentioned all of this because Dinny was romanded to
prison in large part because the court considered him a
flight risk and a threat to tamper, slash intimidate witnesses.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
And that takes me back to the top.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
If the prosecution's case rests largely on witness testimony, it
is begging for the possibility that witnesses may recant, they
may perjure themselves, or simply disappear, and I mean disappear.
I say all this to say the American judicial system
has always made room for money and power. Diddy still

(02:51):
has both. He's not done yet. I know he's not
done yet, because what I saw with the Menindez brothers
just today today, again, it reminded me that our justice
system is not only fallible, it's open to manipulation, social manipulation,
political manipulation, you name it. Because, and here's the truth,
our justice system is not, and has not ever been

(03:14):
a search for truth. This is not about whether Diddy
actually did it. It's a competition to put on the
more convincing case. This is not about whether Sean Ditty
Combs did all the sex trafficking, did all the things
that he's been accused of. This is only about whether
he can buy his own acquittal through slick lawyers and

(03:38):
legal maneuvers in the way. I was absolutely not surprised
at the turn of events with the Menindez brothers today.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You you should be.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Prepared for the distinct possibility that Sean Ditty Combs will
artfully use his wealth and power to tip the scales
of justice air quotes to favor him. Celebrity has gotten
a lot of people off over the years. Sean Ditty
Combs won't be the first, and I'm not predicting that

(04:08):
he will get off. I'm saying I just don't have
any faith in the American justice system because it has
let me down too many times.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Now.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
You may only be mad about Eric and Lyle Menendez
or OJ and maybe one other person, maybe Oscar Pistorius
was not even an American case. But me, I can
think of a lot of them over many years and
many decades. So you might as well prepare for the
distinct possibility that Sean Ditty Combs will get off, regardless

(04:39):
of the case made against him or the evidence put
before him. Because it's twenty twenty five, nothing makes sense
anymore except nonsense. For k If I am six forty,
I'm mo Kelly.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Pete Rose, the late great Air quotes.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Pete Rose maybe on his way to the Major League
Baseball's Hall of Fame because of a recent announcement which
removed him from the permanently ineligible list.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Here's some facts.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Pete Rose is still Major League Baseball's all time hits leader.
Nobody has more hits than him, Nobody, nobody is anywhere
close his on field resume is Hall of Fame worthy.
It's undeniable. Here's some other facts. Pete Rose bet on baseball.
Pete Rose bet on his own team while manager of
the Cincinnati Reds. After fifteen years of public denial, Rose

(05:44):
finally admitted to both back in two thousand and four.
That's not subject to debate. Here's Rule twenty one of
Major League Baseball.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Any player, umpire, or club or league official, or employee
who shall bet any whatsoever upon any baseball game in
connection with which the better has a duty to perform,
shall be declared permanently ineligible. Remember that's player, umpire, club,

(06:14):
league official, or employee, and permanently ineligible is not to
be confused with for life. Permanently means forever. It's not
the same. Shoeless Joe Jackson and other members of the
nineteen nineteen Chicago White Sox were permanently ineligible for Hall
of Fame consideration for fixing the World Series, which is

(06:38):
betting by another name. The team has subsequently been called
the Black Socks for the black mark it placed on
the sport. That's really important, the rule against betting on
baseball in any form, by any player, ump, or personnel
member was inarguable and sacro synct.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Note I didn't say fan. Don't conflate the two just.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Because you can bet because of fan duel or what
have you. That's fan stuff, not people connected to the game.
Earlier this week, Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made the decision
to remove not only Pete Rose, but even shoeless Joe
Jackson of the Chicago Black Sox from the permanently ineligible list.

(07:20):
It doesn't automatically mean either or both will be elected
to the Hall, but more likely than not they will
get in the point of my final thought tonight is this.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
This was a horrible, horrible, horrible decision.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
It doesn't take into account the larger implications. It says
that all bets are off pun intended. It says there
is no longer any red line Tacitly, it's been made
clear that there is no death penalty for betting on
baseball or fixing games.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Do you hear me? You can still end up in
the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
The Major League Baseball Hall of Fame has ever been
a repository for the moralists. There are plenty of objectively
and undeniably horrible people in the Hall of Fame presently,
But the individual moral failings of the individual cannot and
do not call into question the integrity of the game.

(08:20):
It can't bring down the totality of the sport. The
reason why people like a rod Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds,
Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, and others are not in the
Hall of Fame is due to allege and or confirm
use of performance enhancing substances integrity of the game. Whereas
there was no official rule banning players from the Hall

(08:41):
of Fame for ped use, those aforementioned players haven't gotten close. Nonetheless,
even though they're on field accomplishments normally would merit inclusion.
But back to Rose, it's now open season another pun intended.
There is literally nothing to discourage anyone from betting on baseball,
big pig, and that's a big problem, not casting aspersions.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
But let's say a player like say.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Show Aotani, you know, just picking a random blayer, Show
Haotani has a Hall of Fame resume right now, even
if he retired to day, he's probably in. And let's
say somewhere down the line, hypothetically, speaking of course, we
find out that he was fixing games, throwing games, or
betting on baseball as a player.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
He would never do that. This is all hypothetical.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
He would not be able to turn around and say, well,
you can't put him in the Hall of Fame because
in theory you would have let Pete Rose in, you
would have let shoeless Joe Jackson in. And Rule twenty
one is no longer sacroo sanct There's no cudgel to
hold over players heads. There is no backstop, another pun

(09:51):
there's no backstop to protect the sport from the actions
of these individuals. No proverbial sort of damocles. That's for
Mark Runner to hold over any player today or in
the future, because you've made the risk worth the reward,
especially for players or player personnel. Here's why. And this
is something that you probably haven't heard on any other

(10:13):
show or any other discussion about this.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Did you know? It's not illegal.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
It's not illegal for players to bet on themselves in
their own sports.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
It is not inherently illegal.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Usually how players went about it was illegal because they
were using illegal beings or bookies in which to do it.
But in and of itself, it's not illegal. It's not
breaking the law. Professional sports across the board forbid it
and threatened to ban players for it, but it's not
specifically against the law. Don't confuse disallowed with illegal, They're

(10:48):
not the same. And I'm coming home. Major League Baseball,
by removing the deterrent of making someone permanently ineligible, you've
now created the permanent possibility that a player or many players,
will risk the integrity of the sport to make some
money on the side. It's the worst kind of bet
that any sports commissioner can make. History will not be

(11:12):
kind to Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, nor should
it be, because there is no reason for any player
now and going forward not to consider betting on their
own sport, betting on themselves, because at the end of
it all, the worst thing that could happen is they
would only be suspended and nothing more. For KFI am

(11:36):
six forty, I'm mo Kelly. I hope I did this right,
but I've been thinking about it all week long. There
are some things you just can't get back. There are

(11:57):
some places in which you won't be able to return from.
Sometimes you can go too far and there's no finding
your way back. I believe that's where we are as
a nation politically. Here's an example. A Democratic candidate for
Virginia's House of Delegates announced over the weekend that she

(12:19):
and her husband wait for it, wait for it, they're swingers.
Yvonne Rohr explained Saturday that she wanted to reveal something
that she thought could be used against her, that she
and her husband of twenty two years, even though they're
deeply committed in love, they consider themselves to be ethically

(12:41):
non monogamous.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yes, swingers.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I don't know why they want to call it ethically
non monogamous, but they get around. Quote Our lifestyle choice
mostly includes consensually dating other couples together and being part
of a vast and growing community of like minded people.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Close quote swingers first, Yvonne, it.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Can't be used against you because nothing matters anymore.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
We don't eleven, nineteen ninety three anymore.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
The sitting president of the United States just accepted a
four hundred million dollar bride in the form of a
goal plate at seven forty seven. That was accepted the
same news cycle as the Trump organization striking a five
point five billion dollar golf course in hotel deal in
Kitar weren't we supposedly concerned about Hunter Biden peddling influence
and making more than eleven million dollars in connection to Bisma.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
That was just last year.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Eleven million is five thousand times less than five point
five billion mark check my math.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
But I'm pretty sure I'm right. Yeah, I keep going.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Please, But the point is nothing matters, not the Hatch Act,
not the Emolument's clause, and the Constitution. Not sex with
playboy models and porn stars. So why would being swingers matter?

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Twenty five?

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Don't get me wrong, Thank you e von Rohorr for
falling on your sword, I'll just say sword and letting
the voting public know the truth about your pineapple sex life.
I'm old enough to remember when Billy Carter, the brother
of President Jimmy Carter, was hauled before Congress because of
what he was doing in Libya and Libya. Billy Carter

(14:22):
visited Libya three times with a contingent from Georgia. He
eventually registered as a foreign agent of the Libyan government
and received two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in the
form of a loan, and it was only some one
thousand dollars repaid. Our country went appoplectic over that of

(14:42):
two hundred and twenty thousand dollars loan, and he was
the brother of the sitting president. Now you can have
Eric Trump just announced his meme coin. We'll go public
next week and it should net him in the Trump
organization billions of dollars. Nothing matters anymore. There are some
things you just can't get back from. There's some places

(15:03):
in which you can't who you won't be able to
return from. Sometimes you can go too far and there's
no finding your way back, because that's where we are.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Nothing matters.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
We had a president who used a cigar as a
sex object with an intern on the resolute desk. We
have a president presidently who has cheated on every wife,
all three of them. Don't try to tell me that
we care about morals or our political leaders ever. Again,
it's a lie. So no nobody cares about somebody running

(15:32):
for office who engages in group sex with strangers and
partner swaps. That well equipped horse wink wink left the
barn a long time ago, and it's not coming back.
Remember when Ronald Reagan was accused of arms trafficking to
Iran for five whole years of his eight years as president.
You know the Iran contra affair, and that was one

(15:53):
of the greatest scandals, arguably in presidential history. Well, two
days ago, our government just agreed to sell Saudi your
Arabia one hundred and forty two billion dollars in arms,
directly out in the open, the same country responsible for
the murder of Jamal Kushogi, and the same country responsible
on some level for nine to eleven all facts, None

(16:14):
of it matters, not even a blip on the radar
in twenty twenty five. And speaking of Saudi Arabia and
family members of sitting presidents either pedaling, influenced or family
members of presidents benefiting. This is on the heels of
the country gifting Jerry Kushner and his company two billion dollars.
And everything I said is a fact, and nothing of

(16:35):
what I said matters anymore. There's no going back. And
I'm not even mad. I'm just pointing this out. This
is a true statement. This is not about Democrats or Republicans,
because none.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Of it matters.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
If you're okay with a four hundred billion dollar plane,
don't talk to me about eleven million to somebody's private citizen. Son,
I just want some consistency. We could have a future
presidential candidate who is part of Ditty's freak offs. It
will not matter because we don't have standards anymore. We
already have a felon as a president. What's a sex
trafficking or recketeering conviction. It's just next door, maybe in

(17:10):
the same yard. But here's the point, you or we
as a nation, can't delude ourselves with belief of this
supposed American exceptionalism when.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
We embrace not having any standards.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
You can't care about corruption last year and then disregard
it this year. You can't care about the supposed sexual
behavior of elected leaders last year but not this year.
Oh oh, getting ready to step on some toes. You
can't care about the cognitive decline of a president last year.

(17:48):
Say it with me, but not this year. Question mark,
I am Ron Burgundy. It just means that nothing matters anymore.
And there's no coming back from that because standards were
require a leg to stand on, and last I checked,
we've run out of legs. So ivon be proud that
you're a pineapple princess. Nobody freaking cares in fact, it

(18:10):
might help you win because nothing matters for k IF.
I am six forty, I'm mo Kelly

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