May 18, 2024 • 24 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – ‘Friday Nights’ with L.A. Radio Legend Nautica De La Cruz checking out the “Los Angeles Arboretum and Botanic Garden” AND highlighting today’s ‘Hidden Gem,’Rosaline Alam,' and the UnbreakableBondFoundation.org mission to be “a voice of unity, healing, and love to protect the family bond as the number one priority between parents in the middle of divorce or who were never married, and to ensure no child is put in the position to choose one parent over the other in custody scenarios” …PLUS - Mark Rahner reviews the new Lionsgate Horror/Slasher film “The Strangers: Chapter One” in ‘The Rahner Report’ - 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 on
this Friday Night with Narco Daila Cruz. Well, thank you so very much,
Mo. Happy Friday. All right, it is about that time.
It's time for discover Southern California.I went to the Los Angeles Arboretum and
Botanic Garden, located at three zeroone North Baldwin Avenue in Arcadia. I
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don't know why they don't call itbotanic gardens. They just call it botanic
Garden. The Los Angeles Arburidum andBotanic Garden is one hundred and twenty seven
acres of colorful plants, flowers,and trees from all over the globe.
The Arboretum is located across the streetfrom the Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia.
It's home to plant collections from allover the world, including many rare and
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endangered species, while also serving ananimal sanctuary, including many loud and exotic
pea fowl, which my friend andI got to see up close and personal.
The peacocks, which are the maleworst thrutting their stuff trying to get
the pea hens the female's attention.The pea fowl that roam around the grounds
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are descendants of a pair imported byElias Jackson aka Lucky Baldwin from India back
in eighteen eighty. The peacocks areas loud as they are beautiful, and
I heard many of them around thearboretum, and the neighbors seem to be
complaining about the noise as well,but hey, they are there to stay.
One of them even greeted us aswe entered. However, we kept
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our distance because it's mating season rightnow, so you know, we're He
was a little rallied up, butwe just let him be now. After
encountering the bedazzling mister peacock, weheaded right along the path. Following different
paths. You could smell the eucalyptustrees and see the variety of trees that
(01:51):
were imported from all over the world. They have a plant collection from Africa,
Australia, Canary Islands, and Madagascar. You could also see beautiful magnolia
trees, which are one of myfavorites, and they are in bloom right
now. Alo engleman ox Plumeria treesthat are also blooming in different colors from
(02:13):
yellow to pink to a hot pink. Now, if you want to spend
a day in nature on paths andsmelling the roses, having a picnic,
or enjoying lunch with friends, youmight want to take a visit to the
Arboretum. There is also quite abit of wildlife there, so wherever you're
walking, just make sure you lookbecause something is just, you know,
walking across the paths, and theydon't have not just peacocks. Apparently,
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there are about two hundred and sixtydifferent species sighted at the Arboreatum. At
the Arboretum, some even birds I'venever seen before. I don't know.
They're like different colors. I don'tknow exactly where they come from. But
the only thing I can tell youis that there are two hundred and sixty
different species. You can also seethe four historic structures on the premises and
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cottage, the coach barn, theReed Balwyn Adobe, which is a bit
under construction right now, and theSanta Anita Depot, of which has been
refurbished with the turn of the sentryhousewares and period railroad equipment to recreate the
ambiance of the bustling station stop itonce was. They also have a cute
(03:23):
cafe, a gift shop with someintricate gifts. It also has a great
place. It's for photography and alot of beautiful, beautiful, just a
lot of nature stuff. Now,being there is like taking a five mile
pleusterol around the world. So youmight want to put on your hiking shoes
or comfortable crocks if that's what youlike with your little gifting. There's nothing
(03:46):
comfortable those horrible shoes. Stop it. Well, you know, some people
have different tastes in shoes. AsI was saying, taste, maybe you're
comfortable crocs and enjoy the great outdoorsagain. Now, the Los Angeles Arboretum
and Botanical Garden is definitely a beautifulplace to wander around. You could get
your tickets online, make sure youread the rules before you go, and
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also look at their monthly calendar.So I was looking online at their monthly
calendar, and they have a lotof different great activities such as yoga.
They have succulents and sangria, soyou drink sangria and you kind of put
succulents in a nice pot whatever.They have night walks, they have auctions,
They have some amazing South Sound bathsand so much more, and you
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could find all this out at wwwdot arboretum dot org. That's a R
B O R E t U Mdot org. Now their hours are nine
am to seven pm. The lastentry is at six thirty. Adults for
fifteen, Seniors are eleven, studentsare eleven, Children five to twelve or
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five and children under four are absolutelyfree. So if you just want to
take your girlfriend or you know,take your parents, or take your daughter
and just have like a heart toheart conversation or even your son, just
walk around and check out the beautifulroses and just all the nature stuff that
they have there. It is abeautiful place to go. A lot of
people I was talking, you know, sometimes you just try to converse with
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people that are walking around, andI have to say that a lot of
people do go just to see thepeacocks. But you know, it's not
a where do you go here inLos Angeles in southern California and you just
walk around and you see a wholebunch of peacocks just walking around. Look,
let me just say this and recommendthis for the single men out there,
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Okay, highly recommend take your girlto the Arboretum. Yes, you
will win. That's all I'm gonnasay. You will win. Thank you.
It's simple yet sophisticated and full ofculture. Sure, highly recommend it
is beautiful. It's it's a greatyou know what. It's a great place
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to have like a first date.Yes, let's just walk and talk and
get to know each other. Isaid, the very New York is right,
Yeah you did. It was veryNew York. What you walk,
it's walk, snap out of ittalking to me? All right, already
forget about it once again. TheLos Angeles Arboretum and Botanic Garden is located
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at three zero one North Baldwin Avenuein the city of Arcadia, and for
more information go to Arboretum dot org. That's Arboretum dot org. When we
come back, I know you havea hidden gym? Do you not?
I do? You're listening to Laterwith Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM
six forty. Let's get back toFriday Nights. Were not a Codaila Cruz,
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Thank you mo. Today's hidden gemis rosalind Alarm. Rosalind Alam has
quite a unique story. When rosalindAlam was very a very young teen,
a family friend who was thirty twocoherst her into a sexual relationship that eventually
led to marriage and two children.It was not a healthy marriage and there
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were times where she felt like shewasn't good enough. She was also not
allowed to be around her family,and her ex husband manipulated her in ways
that you couldn't even imagine. Sheattended UC Irvine and walked to receive her
diploma eight months pregnant. She isa mother of two. She has a
daughter and a son. As amother, you strive to be the best
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that you could be. Love yourchildren, be there for your kids,
and most importantly, be present.Rosalind feared for her life when her ex
husband pulled a gun out on her. That's when she knew that was enough.
Plus, she wanted her son tohave a good example of how to
treat his future wife, and thatwasn't it. She finally had the courage
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to go to an attorney's office andfile for divorce. That courage took fifteen
years, but right after her divorce, her ex husband manipulated their children into
leaving Rosalin the same way he convincedher to leave her parents all those years
ago. It is a classic caseof parental alienation. An issue that the
American legal system rarely intervenes in,even though one out of even one of
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out of four children involved in adivorce experienced parental alienation according to the American
Psychological Association. Rosalin recently released amemoir called Preyed Upon. Her memoir shows
parents how to cope with losing theirchildren to parental alienation and hopefully how to
win them back By telling her storyand revealing tips that she has learned throughout
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the years since her children left,she has been an advocate for alleviating and
fighting against parental alienation by speaking withhundreds of parents and experts, allowing her
not to distill her research into thismanuscript. In order to help others other
parents who are hurting for their loss, rosalind Alam not only wants to bring
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awareness on the topic of parental alienation, she has taking it one step further.
Other than a book, she hasestablished Unbreakable Bondfoundation dot org that's in
Breakable Bondfoundation dot org to support parentswho are going through custody battles in hopes
of preventing parental alienation and preserving theparent child bond. Her organization offers therapy,
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financial and legal advice as well asworkshops regarding co parenting and other important
topics. Ultimately, there needs tobe a change in the family court legal
system to prevent parental alienation. Therewas a recent study done by the Parental
Alienation Study Group in January of twentytwenty four that states three point nine million
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children in the United States are goingthrough moderate to severe alienation from one parent.
If you would like more information,please visit Unbreakable Bondfoundation dot org for
the ways that you can support her. Rasan Alam, thank you for telling
me your story. Thank you forbeing our hidden gem today. And I
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also want to thank one of ourprevious hidden Gems, Elvira Barnett, who
put me in contact with her.She is still on the fight to get
a connection with her children. Tohear the entire interview that you could also
go to the Frequent She podcast.That's where I interviewed her on her that
again, the Frequent She the FrequentShe podcast. Yes, and on Mother's
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Day, which was her birthday,I hosted her book release and I asked
her some very hard questions and herstory is very compelling. You know,
parental alienation is something that I thinka lot of us have gone through as
children. You know, sometimes parentas they're going through a divorce, you
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know, don't want them to spendmore time with another parent, or they're
say they're you know, the fatheris not a good person. You're holding
back. I'm holding back because youknow about this personally. Okay it.
I'll call you out here because Ilove you, because this is something it's
very important, and you know moreabout it than most people do. I
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do. I think it's because ofmy personal situation, and you know,
in my personal situation in my divorce, and also my parents as well.
You know, my my mother,my mother didn't really bad mouth my father
much, but she did give meinklings of who he really was, and
so that made me upset. ButI used to be upset with myself thinking
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that their divorce was my fault andit really wasn't my fault. And I
think a lot of children also blametheir selves for that too. But I
also believe that you have to seethe signs. And one thing that she
said in her interview was start documentingeverything if you are going through this,
start documenting everything when you're when yourchildren say something like, oh Dad said
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this, or Mom said this.Also another thing is start checking their behaviors.
How are their behaviors changing. That'salso something that you need to that
you need to document as well.And you know, she she was also
telling me about sometimes how her exhusband were kind of cohers her children,
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and you know, like if youknow, if they wanted to go somewhere
and she couldn't because she had towork or she had to do a project
for work, you know, theywould say something like, oh well,
dad would drop everything and he wouldtake us. Let's just to say Disneyland
or something, you know, AndI think that really hurts the soul of
a parent, whether it's a motheror a father. And at the end
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of the day, mo I thinkwhat it is is that we have to
be the best parents that we canbe. I've always said we have to
be better than our parents, becauseyou know, I'm fifty years of hip
hop and so that means I wasborn in the seventies. But also you
know, how our parents were raisedit was rough for them, and how
our grandparents were raised it was roughfor them too, So every generation in
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your family raises your children a littledifferently. But I also have to say
that you know, as a woman, you have to see how your spouse
is treating you. You know,what are the red flags? How is
it that he is, you know, alienating you from your family because oh,
you know you're my wife now andyou're all mine. No, that's
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not how it works, you knowwhat I mean. She has an amazing
story. She also has an amazingmemoir that I couldn't put down, and
she's you know, getting a lotof great feedback and a lot of people
are feeling like, you know,she's telling the story through someone else's eyes,
but it's really her story. Andyou know, I think it's it's
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something that we need to be moreaware of, especially with with either family
members or friends that are going throughsomething and say, hey, you know,
let's check you. You know whatI mean, A true a true
friend and a true family member willcheck somebody and go, don't do that.
Don't don't alienate your son or yourdaughter from your your husband or your
wife. So and her organization,she started this organization because she wanted to
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help, she wanted to do more, and she wanted to spread the word
about parental alienation. And she eventold me there are a lot of podcasts
about parental alienations that there are kidstrying to connect with their parents, trying
to find their parents, trying tohave a bond with their parents, you
know, and I and if that'swhere you are in your life right now,
try to try to make a connectionwith your parents. Also. Once
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again, her organization is Unbreakable BondFoundation dot org Naanica. You know,
you know I called you out lovebecause I knew that there was an opportunity
there. It's like, tell yourstory, girl, tell your story because
it matches with the story you weretelling. You know. Mo. It's
funny because every time I do ahitting gym. I said this last week,
the last time I was here.I feel like every time I meet
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these people, I connect with themsome way. I don't know if it's
the universe or God telling me,hey, have a conversation with them.
And yes. And I want tothank Elvira Barnett too, because she was
like, hey, you should talkto her. And Rosalind was just such
an amazing woman, a great soul. And what I love about her is
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not only her beautiful eyes and hersmile. She just glows. You don't
see the pain through her, eventhough I'm sure in her heart. You
may feel it because she still isnot connected with her children, but she
is a beautiful, beautiful soul.Well, we appreciate what you do,
Nica de la Cruz. When wecome back, we will have the Runner
Report, and maybe coming up soonbefore the show's over, your chance to
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win a Disney four pack. Betterkeep listening. Can'fi AM six forty you're
listening to Later with Moe Kelly ondemand from KFI AM six forty. Camfi
A six forty is Later with MoKelly Live Everywhere in the iHeartRadio app is
now tied for the Runner Report withMark Ronner tonight. The Strangers Chapter one
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now mo the world loves an optimist, and what's more optimistic than calling a
movie chapter one? Well, filmingthe next two chapters before you see how
the first one does. It's sortof like breaking the ice with somebody by
saying hello the first time and addingthat you bought a case of condoms.
And also, by the way theoccasional herpies flare ups, nothing at all
to freak out about. Oops pointsfor self confidence, the merits for self
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awareness. The Strangers Chapter one ofthree is sort of but not really a
kind of remake of The Strangers fromtwo thousand and eight. That was a
respectable little thriller about a young couplespending the night at a house in the
middle of nowhere and they get teararise by some people in masks. It's
really nicely shot, the original one, the two thousand and eight one.
It's got some effective scares, It'snice and short. It gets the job
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done, gets out. Not aclassic, but worth a watch. It's
on HBO, I mean Max rightnow, and honestly the tagline should be
the Airbnb movie they don't want youto see. Okay, This New Strangers
chapter one is supposedly not a remakeof that two thousand and eight or a
reboot of it or whatever. Itdid have a sequel called The Strangers Prey
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Prey at Night in twenty eighteen.Is this new one an homage? Is
it part of a series? Well, based on what I've been able to
read, it's meant to take placein the same universe. And I'm not
really sure what that means. Buthere's a little bit of the trailer.
Today is the third day of ourthree day road trip across the country,
or our five anniversary, our fiveyear anniversary. Well, they've pretty much
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just sealed their fate. What comesdo? I actually like this so much
better than I'm talking now about thepeople who live here. Really happy.
Now, if you walk into adiner and everyone looks in bread and gives
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you the stink eye, get backin the car, don't order food.
Tough crowd, Hi, Hi,leave the diner, and a couple of
little boys who look like they're fromChildren of the Corn try to hand you
religious pamphlets. Your evening's likely toeat worse. Here here are the silence.
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It's nice. Is Tamar here?No, No, Tamar is not
here. And if you hear abang at the door at the house in
the middle of the woods, it'snot Postmates. You're screwed. The Strangers
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Chapter one isn't supposed to be aremake, but it's essentially the same movie.
It adds nothing, it improves nothing, It's a little dumber in some
respects no reason I can think offor it to exist completely worthless. Publicists,
there's your pull quote. Different castis all live. Tyler and Scott
Speedman were in the first one.This one stars Madeline Petch and Ryan Bound.
Never heard of either of them.I don't begrudge them work. Maybe
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they'll live this down at some point. This is the kind of movie if
it weren't absolutely worthless. This's ordinarilyfun to see in a theater. You
get to hear other people gasp andshriek at the good parts, and you're
not distracted like you would be athome. To illustrate that last point,
I paused the sequel at Home earlierto write that last line. Then I
paused again a few minutes later tosay this line that I'm saying right now.
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This is blowing my mind. Man, Let's get back to the movie.
Only the benefit of seeing this nonremake remake in a theater is if
you're avoiding a process server at home, or it's hot outside and you want
air conditioning. And did I mentionchapters two and three were shot at the
same time. Two comes out laterthis year. At least that's the current
plan. But let me propose somethingwe've seen news in recent months about some
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other movies that were finished and thenjust dumped his rite offs and never released
Batgirl and Acme Versus Coyote. Thosemovies. The Strangers Chapter one would be
the rare case where I'd be okaywith that. Take the right down,
keep them on the shelf. Thinkof it like this picture. Being a
judge on one of those awful talentshows, and when it's your turn to
give feedback to some lousy karaoke performer, you say, why don't you just
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skip the whole music career and startthem thing? And goes straight to the
overdose In case rich, how ifmy reaction to this movie wasn't one hundred
percent clear? The key exchange fromthe original was when the terrorized young woman
asks why are you doing this tous? And one of the masked terrorizers
says, because you were home now. In the two thousand and eight version,
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I took that as a sign thatdeath and suffering are random and nobody's
safe. When they do a versionof those lines in this new movie,
I took it as a sign thatthey couldn't be bothered to come up with
new dialogue. So who do weblame for this? The director is Rennie
Harlan. It's a familiar name.What yeap Rennie Harlan. It's not as
familiar as Chris Nolan or Guy Ritchie, whose name above the title makes you
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want to buy a ticket site unseen. Here is a guy with some ups
and downs. He perpetrated one ofthe biggest flops of all time, Cutthroat
Island. Then he turned right aroundand did one of the great action movies
of the nineties, The Long KissGood Night, both starring his wife at
the time, Geane Davis. NowI tried watching one of his other recent
ones on Netflix, a movie calledThe Bricklayer. Didn't make it through,
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how bad look didn't make it through? And I like Aaron Et cart but
yeah, yeah, sheep looking awfuldialogue, some admirably brutal fight action.
But that's enough. It is acode round. Let me stress. It
takes a real flusher for me tobail on a reactivated operative action movie.
Okay, that is my thing.Now, to put Harlan's career into perspective,
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he's been nominated for six Golden Raspberries, and those include The Adventures of
Ford Fairlane and his terrible version ofThe Exorcist The Beginning Remember that one.
Yeah, there's a whole different versionof that movie, same film, directed
by Paul Schrader. I've seen themboth, and I probably don't have to
tell you which one to go with. Now, your mileage may vary on
neholistic horror films about people getting terrorizedat home by random strangers. If you
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like that stuff, try Funny Games. That is a really messed up one
from Austria from nineteen ninety seven,and it had an American remake from the
very same director, Michael Hannikey intwo thousand and seven. Now, there
are certain cowardly types here who Iwon't name, who won't go to horror
movies even if I offer to pay. People like Stephen King compare horror movies
to carnival rides, like something thatmakes you feel danger while you know you're
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on a safe ride. Ultimately,I've always compared them to spicy foods too,
something to give you more of ajolt than your comfort foods. That
said, there are some horror moviesthat if they are like carnival rides,
they're the rides put together by thecarnies, strung out on mess where your
car might fly off and cripple you. Or if it's like food, it's
the kind you get from a streetvendor that sends you sprinting to the restroom
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like you saying bold. I shouldadd that even though this ain't no Marvel
movie. There is a brief sceneafter the credits start, and it's so
idiotic that it made me wish I'djust bolted like the guy with clearly superior
instincts ahead of me this afternoon.What I'm saying is, believe all that
bad stuff your parents told you aboutstrangers. This one is it's no good,
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no bueno. Oh, So you'resaying you really really did like it
deep down. It's one of theworst things I've seen recently. That says
a lot because we see some trash. We routinely watch trash as a public
service to people, and I thinkpeople need to understand that criticism is like
a consumer protection as well as anart. And you want to give Renny
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Harland the doubt because I think healso didn't he do the second Diehard movie,
as he didn't one of the Diehardmovies. No, No, first
was John McTiernan, So I knowit wasn't the first one. Yeah.
I think he did the second one, which wasn't bad. So he seems
like a journeyman director who's had hisups and downs. But but after watching
this one and The Brick Layer,I'm thinking, no, No, the
guy's just kind of a hack.He's he's had a bit of good luck
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here and there to break up thehackness, but he no longer gets the
benefit of the doubt. He's likeChris Cuomo and uh oo callback and Kevin
Spacey double call back. There wego. Okay, got it. K
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty on
this Friday Night with Narco Daila Cruz. Well, thank you so very much,
Mo. Happy Friday. All right, it is about that time.
It's time for discover Southern California.I went to the Los Angeles Arboretum and
Botanic Garden, located at three zeroone North Baldwin Avenue in Arcadia. I
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don't know why they don't call itbotanic gardens. They just call it botanic
Garden. The Los Angeles Arburidum andBotanic Garden is one hundred and twenty seven
acres of colorful plants, flowers,and trees from all over the globe.
The Arboretum is located across the streetfrom the Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia.
It's home to plant collections from allover the world, including many rare and
(00:45):
endangered species, while also serving ananimal sanctuary, including many loud and exotic
pea fowl, which my friend andI got to see up close and personal.
The peacocks, which are the maleworst thrutting their stuff trying to get
the pea hens the female's attention.The pea fowl that roam around the grounds
(01:07):
are descendants of a pair imported byElias Jackson aka Lucky Baldwin from India back
in eighteen eighty. The peacocks areas loud as they are beautiful, and
I heard many of them around thearboretum, and the neighbors seem to be
complaining about the noise as well,but hey, they are there to stay.
One of them even greeted us aswe entered. However, we kept
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our distance because it's mating season rightnow, so you know, we're He
was a little rallied up, butwe just let him be now. After
encountering the bedazzling mister peacock, weheaded right along the path. Following different
paths. You could smell the eucalyptustrees and see the variety of trees that
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were imported from all over the world. They have a plant collection from Africa,
Australia, Canary Islands, and Madagascar. You could also see beautiful magnolia
trees, which are one of myfavorites, and they are in bloom right
now. Alo engleman ox Plumeria treesthat are also blooming in different colors from
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yellow to pink to a hot pink. Now, if you want to spend
a day in nature on paths andsmelling the roses, having a picnic,
or enjoying lunch with friends, youmight want to take a visit to the
Arboretum. There is also quite abit of wildlife there, so wherever you're
walking, just make sure you lookbecause something is just, you know,
walking across the paths, and theydon't have not just peacocks. Apparently,
(02:37):
there are about two hundred and sixtydifferent species sighted at the Arboreatum. At
the Arboretum, some even birds I'venever seen before. I don't know.
They're like different colors. I don'tknow exactly where they come from. But
the only thing I can tell youis that there are two hundred and sixty
different species. You can also seethe four historic structures on the premises and
(03:00):
cottage, the coach barn, theReed Balwyn Adobe, which is a bit
under construction right now, and theSanta Anita Depot, of which has been
refurbished with the turn of the sentryhousewares and period railroad equipment to recreate the
ambiance of the bustling station stop itonce was. They also have a cute
(03:23):
cafe, a gift shop with someintricate gifts. It also has a great
place. It's for photography and alot of beautiful, beautiful, just a
lot of nature stuff. Now,being there is like taking a five mile
pleusterol around the world. So youmight want to put on your hiking shoes
or comfortable crocks if that's what youlike with your little gifting. There's nothing
(03:46):
comfortable those horrible shoes. Stop it. Well, you know, some people
have different tastes in shoes. AsI was saying, taste, maybe you're
comfortable crocs and enjoy the great outdoorsagain. Now, the Los Angeles Arboretum
and Botanical Garden is definitely a beautifulplace to wander around. You could get
your tickets online, make sure youread the rules before you go, and
(04:12):
also look at their monthly calendar.So I was looking online at their monthly
calendar, and they have a lotof different great activities such as yoga.
They have succulents and sangria, soyou drink sangria and you kind of put
succulents in a nice pot whatever.They have night walks, they have auctions,
They have some amazing South Sound bathsand so much more, and you
(04:35):
could find all this out at wwwdot arboretum dot org. That's a R
B O R E t U Mdot org. Now their hours are nine
am to seven pm. The lastentry is at six thirty. Adults for
fifteen, Seniors are eleven, studentsare eleven, Children five to twelve or
(04:58):
five and children under four are absolutelyfree. So if you just want to
take your girlfriend or you know,take your parents, or take your daughter
and just have like a heart toheart conversation or even your son, just
walk around and check out the beautifulroses and just all the nature stuff that
they have there. It is abeautiful place to go. A lot of
people I was talking, you know, sometimes you just try to converse with
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people that are walking around, andI have to say that a lot of
people do go just to see thepeacocks. But you know, it's not
a where do you go here inLos Angeles in southern California and you just
walk around and you see a wholebunch of peacocks just walking around. Look,
let me just say this and recommendthis for the single men out there,
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Okay, highly recommend take your girlto the Arboretum. Yes, you
will win. That's all I'm gonnasay. You will win. Thank you.
It's simple yet sophisticated and full ofculture. Sure, highly recommend it
is beautiful. It's it's a greatyou know what. It's a great place
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to have like a first date.Yes, let's just walk and talk and
get to know each other. Isaid, the very New York is right,
Yeah you did. It was veryNew York. What you walk,
it's walk, snap out of ittalking to me? All right, already
forget about it once again. TheLos Angeles Arboretum and Botanic Garden is located
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at three zero one North Baldwin Avenuein the city of Arcadia, and for
more information go to Arboretum dot org. That's Arboretum dot org. When we
come back, I know you havea hidden gym? Do you not?
I do? You're listening to Laterwith Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM
six forty. Let's get back toFriday Nights. Were not a Codaila Cruz,
(06:48):
Thank you mo. Today's hidden gemis rosalind Alarm. Rosalind Alam has
quite a unique story. When rosalindAlam was very a very young teen,
a family friend who was thirty twocoherst her into a sexual relationship that eventually
led to marriage and two children.It was not a healthy marriage and there
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were times where she felt like shewasn't good enough. She was also not
allowed to be around her family,and her ex husband manipulated her in ways
that you couldn't even imagine. Sheattended UC Irvine and walked to receive her
diploma eight months pregnant. She isa mother of two. She has a
daughter and a son. As amother, you strive to be the best
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that you could be. Love yourchildren, be there for your kids,
and most importantly, be present.Rosalind feared for her life when her ex
husband pulled a gun out on her. That's when she knew that was enough.
Plus, she wanted her son tohave a good example of how to
treat his future wife, and thatwasn't it. She finally had the courage
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to go to an attorney's office andfile for divorce. That courage took fifteen
years, but right after her divorce, her ex husband manipulated their children into
leaving Rosalin the same way he convincedher to leave her parents all those years
ago. It is a classic caseof parental alienation. An issue that the
American legal system rarely intervenes in,even though one out of even one of
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out of four children involved in adivorce experienced parental alienation according to the American
Psychological Association. Rosalin recently released amemoir called Preyed Upon. Her memoir shows
parents how to cope with losing theirchildren to parental alienation and hopefully how to
win them back By telling her storyand revealing tips that she has learned throughout
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the years since her children left,she has been an advocate for alleviating and
fighting against parental alienation by speaking withhundreds of parents and experts, allowing her
not to distill her research into thismanuscript. In order to help others other
parents who are hurting for their loss, rosalind Alam not only wants to bring
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awareness on the topic of parental alienation, she has taking it one step further.
Other than a book, she hasestablished Unbreakable Bondfoundation dot org that's in
Breakable Bondfoundation dot org to support parentswho are going through custody battles in hopes
of preventing parental alienation and preserving theparent child bond. Her organization offers therapy,
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financial and legal advice as well asworkshops regarding co parenting and other important
topics. Ultimately, there needs tobe a change in the family court legal
system to prevent parental alienation. Therewas a recent study done by the Parental
Alienation Study Group in January of twentytwenty four that states three point nine million
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children in the United States are goingthrough moderate to severe alienation from one parent.
If you would like more information,please visit Unbreakable Bondfoundation dot org for
the ways that you can support her. Rasan Alam, thank you for telling
me your story. Thank you forbeing our hidden gem today. And I
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also want to thank one of ourprevious hidden Gems, Elvira Barnett, who
put me in contact with her.She is still on the fight to get
a connection with her children. Tohear the entire interview that you could also
go to the Frequent She podcast.That's where I interviewed her on her that
again, the Frequent She the FrequentShe podcast. Yes, and on Mother's
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Day, which was her birthday,I hosted her book release and I asked
her some very hard questions and herstory is very compelling. You know,
parental alienation is something that I thinka lot of us have gone through as
children. You know, sometimes parentas they're going through a divorce, you
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know, don't want them to spendmore time with another parent, or they're
say they're you know, the fatheris not a good person. You're holding
back. I'm holding back because youknow about this personally. Okay it.
I'll call you out here because Ilove you, because this is something it's
very important, and you know moreabout it than most people do. I
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do. I think it's because ofmy personal situation, and you know,
in my personal situation in my divorce, and also my parents as well.
You know, my my mother,my mother didn't really bad mouth my father
much, but she did give meinklings of who he really was, and
so that made me upset. ButI used to be upset with myself thinking
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that their divorce was my fault andit really wasn't my fault. And I
think a lot of children also blametheir selves for that too. But I
also believe that you have to seethe signs. And one thing that she
said in her interview was start documentingeverything if you are going through this,
start documenting everything when you're when yourchildren say something like, oh Dad said
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this, or Mom said this.Also another thing is start checking their behaviors.
How are their behaviors changing. That'salso something that you need to that
you need to document as well.And you know, she she was also
telling me about sometimes how her exhusband were kind of cohers her children,
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and you know, like if youknow, if they wanted to go somewhere
and she couldn't because she had towork or she had to do a project
for work, you know, theywould say something like, oh well,
dad would drop everything and he wouldtake us. Let's just to say Disneyland
or something, you know, AndI think that really hurts the soul of
a parent, whether it's a motheror a father. And at the end
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of the day, mo I thinkwhat it is is that we have to
be the best parents that we canbe. I've always said we have to
be better than our parents, becauseyou know, I'm fifty years of hip
hop and so that means I wasborn in the seventies. But also you
know, how our parents were raisedit was rough for them, and how
our grandparents were raised it was roughfor them too, So every generation in
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your family raises your children a littledifferently. But I also have to say
that you know, as a woman, you have to see how your spouse
is treating you. You know,what are the red flags? How is
it that he is, you know, alienating you from your family because oh,
you know you're my wife now andyou're all mine. No, that's
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not how it works, you knowwhat I mean. She has an amazing
story. She also has an amazingmemoir that I couldn't put down, and
she's you know, getting a lotof great feedback and a lot of people
are feeling like, you know,she's telling the story through someone else's eyes,
but it's really her story. Andyou know, I think it's it's
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something that we need to be moreaware of, especially with with either family
members or friends that are going throughsomething and say, hey, you know,
let's check you. You know whatI mean, A true a true
friend and a true family member willcheck somebody and go, don't do that.
Don't don't alienate your son or yourdaughter from your your husband or your
wife. So and her organization,she started this organization because she wanted to
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help, she wanted to do more, and she wanted to spread the word
about parental alienation. And she eventold me there are a lot of podcasts
about parental alienations that there are kidstrying to connect with their parents, trying
to find their parents, trying tohave a bond with their parents, you
know, and I and if that'swhere you are in your life right now,
try to try to make a connectionwith your parents. Also. Once
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again, her organization is Unbreakable BondFoundation dot org Naanica. You know,
you know I called you out lovebecause I knew that there was an opportunity
there. It's like, tell yourstory, girl, tell your story because
it matches with the story you weretelling. You know. Mo. It's
funny because every time I do ahitting gym. I said this last week,
the last time I was here.I feel like every time I meet
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these people, I connect with themsome way. I don't know if it's
the universe or God telling me,hey, have a conversation with them.
And yes. And I want tothank Elvira Barnett too, because she was
like, hey, you should talkto her. And Rosalind was just such
an amazing woman, a great soul. And what I love about her is
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not only her beautiful eyes and hersmile. She just glows. You don't
see the pain through her, eventhough I'm sure in her heart. You
may feel it because she still isnot connected with her children, but she
is a beautiful, beautiful soul.Well, we appreciate what you do,
Nica de la Cruz. When wecome back, we will have the Runner
Report, and maybe coming up soonbefore the show's over, your chance to
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win a Disney four pack. Betterkeep listening. Can'fi AM six forty you're
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now tied for the Runner Report withMark Ronner tonight. The Strangers Chapter one
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now mo the world loves an optimist, and what's more optimistic than calling a
movie chapter one? Well, filmingthe next two chapters before you see how
the first one does. It's sortof like breaking the ice with somebody by
saying hello the first time and addingthat you bought a case of condoms.
And also, by the way theoccasional herpies flare ups, nothing at all
to freak out about. Oops pointsfor self confidence, the merits for self
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awareness. The Strangers Chapter one ofthree is sort of but not really a
kind of remake of The Strangers fromtwo thousand and eight. That was a
respectable little thriller about a young couplespending the night at a house in the
middle of nowhere and they get teararise by some people in masks. It's
really nicely shot, the original one, the two thousand and eight one.
It's got some effective scares, It'snice and short. It gets the job
(17:07):
done, gets out. Not aclassic, but worth a watch. It's
on HBO, I mean Max rightnow, and honestly the tagline should be
the Airbnb movie they don't want youto see. Okay, This New Strangers
chapter one is supposedly not a remakeof that two thousand and eight or a
reboot of it or whatever. Itdid have a sequel called The Strangers Prey
(17:30):
Prey at Night in twenty eighteen.Is this new one an homage? Is
it part of a series? Well, based on what I've been able to
read, it's meant to take placein the same universe. And I'm not
really sure what that means. Buthere's a little bit of the trailer.
Today is the third day of ourthree day road trip across the country,
or our five anniversary, our fiveyear anniversary. Well, they've pretty much
(17:52):
just sealed their fate. What comesdo? I actually like this so much
better than I'm talking now about thepeople who live here. Really happy.
Now, if you walk into adiner and everyone looks in bread and gives
(18:15):
you the stink eye, get backin the car, don't order food.
Tough crowd, Hi, Hi,leave the diner, and a couple of
little boys who look like they're fromChildren of the Corn try to hand you
religious pamphlets. Your evening's likely toeat worse. Here here are the silence.
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It's nice. Is Tamar here?No, No, Tamar is not
here. And if you hear abang at the door at the house in
the middle of the woods, it'snot Postmates. You're screwed. The Strangers
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Chapter one isn't supposed to be aremake, but it's essentially the same movie.
It adds nothing, it improves nothing, It's a little dumber in some
respects no reason I can think offor it to exist completely worthless. Publicists,
there's your pull quote. Different castis all live. Tyler and Scott
Speedman were in the first one.This one stars Madeline Petch and Ryan Bound.
Never heard of either of them.I don't begrudge them work. Maybe
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they'll live this down at some point. This is the kind of movie if
it weren't absolutely worthless. This's ordinarilyfun to see in a theater. You
get to hear other people gasp andshriek at the good parts, and you're
not distracted like you would be athome. To illustrate that last point,
I paused the sequel at Home earlierto write that last line. Then I
paused again a few minutes later tosay this line that I'm saying right now.
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This is blowing my mind. Man, Let's get back to the movie.
Only the benefit of seeing this nonremake remake in a theater is if
you're avoiding a process server at home, or it's hot outside and you want
air conditioning. And did I mentionchapters two and three were shot at the
same time. Two comes out laterthis year. At least that's the current
plan. But let me propose somethingwe've seen news in recent months about some
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other movies that were finished and thenjust dumped his rite offs and never released
Batgirl and Acme Versus Coyote. Thosemovies. The Strangers Chapter one would be
the rare case where I'd be okaywith that. Take the right down,
keep them on the shelf. Thinkof it like this picture. Being a
judge on one of those awful talentshows, and when it's your turn to
give feedback to some lousy karaoke performer, you say, why don't you just
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skip the whole music career and startthem thing? And goes straight to the
overdose In case rich, how ifmy reaction to this movie wasn't one hundred
percent clear? The key exchange fromthe original was when the terrorized young woman
asks why are you doing this tous? And one of the masked terrorizers
says, because you were home now. In the two thousand and eight version,
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I took that as a sign thatdeath and suffering are random and nobody's
safe. When they do a versionof those lines in this new movie,
I took it as a sign thatthey couldn't be bothered to come up with
new dialogue. So who do weblame for this? The director is Rennie
Harlan. It's a familiar name.What yeap Rennie Harlan. It's not as
familiar as Chris Nolan or Guy Ritchie, whose name above the title makes you
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want to buy a ticket site unseen. Here is a guy with some ups
and downs. He perpetrated one ofthe biggest flops of all time, Cutthroat
Island. Then he turned right aroundand did one of the great action movies
of the nineties, The Long KissGood Night, both starring his wife at
the time, Geane Davis. NowI tried watching one of his other recent
ones on Netflix, a movie calledThe Bricklayer. Didn't make it through,
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how bad look didn't make it through? And I like Aaron Et cart but
yeah, yeah, sheep looking awfuldialogue, some admirably brutal fight action.
But that's enough. It is acode round. Let me stress. It
takes a real flusher for me tobail on a reactivated operative action movie.
Okay, that is my thing.Now, to put Harlan's career into perspective,
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he's been nominated for six Golden Raspberries, and those include The Adventures of
Ford Fairlane and his terrible version ofThe Exorcist The Beginning Remember that one.
Yeah, there's a whole different versionof that movie, same film, directed
by Paul Schrader. I've seen themboth, and I probably don't have to
tell you which one to go with. Now, your mileage may vary on
neholistic horror films about people getting terrorizedat home by random strangers. If you
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like that stuff, try Funny Games. That is a really messed up one
from Austria from nineteen ninety seven,and it had an American remake from the
very same director, Michael Hannikey intwo thousand and seven. Now, there
are certain cowardly types here who Iwon't name, who won't go to horror
movies even if I offer to pay. People like Stephen King compare horror movies
to carnival rides, like something thatmakes you feel danger while you know you're
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on a safe ride. Ultimately,I've always compared them to spicy foods too,
something to give you more of ajolt than your comfort foods. That
said, there are some horror moviesthat if they are like carnival rides,
they're the rides put together by thecarnies, strung out on mess where your
car might fly off and cripple you. Or if it's like food, it's
the kind you get from a streetvendor that sends you sprinting to the restroom
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like you saying bold. I shouldadd that even though this ain't no Marvel
movie. There is a brief sceneafter the credits start, and it's so
idiotic that it made me wish I'djust bolted like the guy with clearly superior
instincts ahead of me this afternoon.What I'm saying is, believe all that
bad stuff your parents told you aboutstrangers. This one is it's no good,
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no bueno. Oh, So you'resaying you really really did like it
deep down. It's one of theworst things I've seen recently. That says
a lot because we see some trash. We routinely watch trash as a public
service to people, and I thinkpeople need to understand that criticism is like
a consumer protection as well as anart. And you want to give Renny
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Harland the doubt because I think healso didn't he do the second Diehard movie,
as he didn't one of the Diehardmovies. No, No, first
was John McTiernan, So I knowit wasn't the first one. Yeah.
I think he did the second one, which wasn't bad. So he seems
like a journeyman director who's had hisups and downs. But but after watching
this one and The Brick Layer,I'm thinking, no, No, the
guy's just kind of a hack.He's he's had a bit of good luck
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here and there to break up thehackness, but he no longer gets the
benefit of the doubt. He's likeChris Cuomo and uh oo callback and Kevin
Spacey double call back. There wego. Okay, got it. K
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