February 14, 2025 • 16 mins
A new segment was added to the show this week. Tentatively, for now, we calling it Mo's 'Final Thought.' And we'll be compiling the Thoughts over the course of the week and posting them for you to review and ponder each Thursday night.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh lad, here is my final thought. Let me be
serious for a moment. By now you probably have heard
(00:21):
the news that at least one person died and several
others were injured after a plane crashed into another jet
at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona today and ASSESSMA two eight
B crashed into sea ice just outside of Noame, Alaska,
after going missing during a flight last Thursday afternoon. Ten
(00:41):
people dead. That's after six passengers of a medical jet
and one person on the ground were killed after the
plane crash in a Philadelphia neighborhood last Friday evening. And
all of this is in the wake of the Reagan
National Airport mid air collision over the Potomac, which killed
sixty seven people. Are the collisions. Are the accidents or
the crashes related, of course, not, not specifically at least,
(01:05):
but emotionally they all connect in our recent memories, our politics,
as of lade, has embraced the idea of just blaming
the previous guy. I'm old enough to remember. Maybe you
are too, but I'm old enough to remember it was
said the buck stops here, But that's no longer the case.
Now it's just blame, blame, blame. But I did find
(01:29):
a quote that I especially liked that I want to
close out with, and it goes like this, Leaders, true
leaders take responsibility for the success of the team and
understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
It's so good, I'm going to read it twice. Leaders,
(01:50):
True leaders take responsibility for the success of the team
and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
Close quote. That quote is from Donald Trump, and I'll
take him at his word. I honestly don't know what
is going on with our planes and air traffic control.
(02:11):
But I do know we only have one president at
a time, and I do know only one head of
our federal government at a time. And the answer to this,
whatever this is, but it is a problem. But the
answer to this must come from the top. And here
are the facts. Our president fired the head of the
Transportation Security Administration, fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee,
(02:37):
froze hiring of all air traffic controllers, fired one hundred
top FAA security officers, all on the same day, the
same day. He's not been a passive participant in this.
He's been very much involved. But again, blame and responsibility
(03:00):
are not the same. Blame is looking back. You're trying
to say, well, this happened in the past, this person
did this, so therefore they are responsible. It's an excuse,
it's a cop out, it's an abdication of responsibility. That's blame.
Blame is the easy way out responsibility. At least from
(03:22):
where I sit, it's about going forward and tonight I'm
assessing no blame. I'm not going to sit here and say, well,
Biden did this, and it's not to protect Biden. It's
just because blame doesn't solve the future problem. Blame doesn't
tell us what we need to do if it win,
the next plane crashes, and unfortunately, if the past is prologue,
(03:45):
there's a distinct possibility that there may be another issue
in the very near future. And it can't be always
the other person's fault. If you're the person in charge,
you the person who wanted the job. You're the person
who got the job, so then as the job holder,
(04:08):
you are judged by your job performance. And again I'm
not going to assess any blame, but I am going
to do this. I'm going to look at future responsibility.
Let's just say all bets are off and the clock starts. Now,
this is our president's baby. Whatever happens going forward, given
(04:31):
the moves that he's made prior to now, whatever happens
going forward is his responsibility because he has been an
active participant in whatever our future air traffic control and
our airport security is going to be. He has been
(04:52):
actively involved. And it bears mentioning. Fired the head of
the Transportation Security Administration, fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee,
froze hiring of all air traffic controllers, and not saying
nothing in the fact that we all know that they
have been overworked and understaffed. Fired one hundred top FAA
security officers, all on the same day. And I'll say
(05:16):
it one more time before I go, this is the
president's baby, whatever happens going forward. And as our leader,
our leader, I'm not one of those people who's ever
going to say, not my president. No, he's my president,
he's your president, he's everyone's president. The country is chosen.
And as our leader, as our president, he can't only
(05:37):
be willing to take responsibility for the success, but also
any responsibility for the failure too. For KFI A six forty,
I'm o Kelly and before we go, we've been using
(06:04):
a new segment to close out the show right now.
It's called the Final Thought. I may change it, but
it's just some things that were you know, I've been
ruminating on and sort of just bouncing around in my head.
But with the news of the day, and here's tonight's
probably by now you've heard about the chances of a
particular asteroid striking Earth within the next decade. Well it's
(06:27):
doubled over the past few weeks. The chances is of
the hitting Earth. And this is according to NASA astronomers, doubled.
I said, to be fair, it only doubled from one
to two percent. But if I told you that there
was a two percent chance of your next flight ending
up in the side of a mountain, you wouldn't like
(06:47):
those chances, would you. Kind of same thing. The asteroid
discovered just after Christmas has been named twenty twenty four.
Why are four? It could possibly strike the planet in
December of twenty thirty two, and this is according to
NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies. And the way
we've been going, that too will be defunded by the
(07:10):
federal government. We've all likely seen movies like Armageddon Deep
Impact similar plot lines. You know, killer asteroid discovered, the
world comes together and depends on America to save the day,
And in both of those movies, with varying degrees, the
day is saved. But this is real life, and potentially,
(07:32):
potentially we are only at step one. You know, the
killer asteroid. It's out there, it's been identified. That's step one.
All that's left is step two and step three, you know,
for the world to come together and then America to
save the day. But step two and three would seem
to be damn near impossible. Right about now, we are
(07:53):
far closer to Netflix is don't look up which detailed
in America in denial of an asteroid impact, That to
be seems more realistic. We don't take measles seriously. We
don't take polio or e coli seriously eatingmore. We don't
take science and scientists seriously eating more scientists. We know
(08:18):
more than the scientists, than the experts, the elitists. So
given that, what chance is there of us taking an
asteroid seriously? Hell, we're still yelling at each other over
whether we've actually been to the moon. We're still cussing
each other out over whether the Earth is spherical. That's
actually like a real debate in someone's minds. These days,
(08:39):
we as in the United States of America, have routinely
devalued higher education than science and facts. The betting favorite
at this point should be the asteroid. And I gotta
be honest, a large part of me pulling for the asteroid,
or at least until we stop acting like an unseerios nation.
(09:01):
For example, today today a congressman from Georgia introduced a
bill to the House of Representatives with a straight face
that would give a new name to Greenland. Instead of Greenland,
it would be named Red, White and Blueland. This asteroid
cannot get here fast enough for KF. I am six forty.
(09:26):
I'm Moe Kelly. If you find yourself being more stressed
out because of politics, researchers have actually quantified that as
(09:50):
to why. And I often say, when I'm not working,
I don't talk about politics. I'll post some snark on
social media. I will from time to time, but I
don't always, and I don't want to go deep with
people because it begins to stress me out. It absolutely
stresses me out, which is almost a contradiction. But all
of my TV work, if you've been paying attention, is political,
(10:13):
and some of my radio work is too, so I
need some time to balance that out. There's a national
survey on stressors conducted by the American Psychological Association or
APA for twenty twenty four found that the future of
the nation or politics, was the leading cause of significant
stress among adults, with nearly eight in ten seventy seven
(10:34):
percent reporting it as a major source of anxiety. And
here are some of the other takeaways from this and
other comparable studies. Everyday political events can cause harmed psychological
and to our physical well being. In fact, politics can
harm people's wellbeing as much or more than get this alcohol.
(10:56):
A study conducted in twenty seventeen estimated that ninety four
million Americans felt politics caused significant stress, forty four million
lost sleep, thirty million suffered physical health harm, and eleven
million had suicidal thoughts. Effects comparable to or worse than
those associated with alcohol, except none of the buzz or
(11:19):
none of the great sex connected to it. That's just
my little addentum. In short, our politics is killing us.
But wait, there's more. The multiple studies concluded not only
are politics related well being issues worsened for many in
recent years. Political polarization is linked with worse anxiety and depression.
(11:41):
And here's my takeaway and one I give to you.
If the country is going to hell, and we all
have our theories as to why or whether it is
or who is responsible, here's the truth. You won't have
any real say in it or saving it. I know
you think that posting on social media is going to
make a difference, but I'm here to tell you it
(12:02):
will not. I know that if you think if you
insult enough people in real life or in cyberspace, it's
going to make a difference, it will not. It's not
going to change anything. Either the country is going to
go to hell or it won't go to hell. This
is my recommendation. Do like I do and know when
to let it go. It's not worth your health, it's
(12:27):
not worth your peace, and most importantly, it's not worth
your life. No when to just let it go. For
k if I am six forty, I'm mo Kelly. As
(12:55):
I close out the show in the week for my
final thought, he did say that the fellows We're gonna
go see Captain America a brave New World, and I
wanted to talk about that. And you know, it's starring
Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Tim Blake Nelson and others, and
the movie is not hitting theaters without controversy. We've talked
about some of it. You may not know all of it,
(13:17):
but some have complained. Maybe you are in this group
that there's only one Captain America and it's the character
Steve Rogers as portrayed by Chris Evans. I mean, that's nice.
It's not true, but it's nice for you to think that.
Even in the comics, Anthony Mackie's character Sam Wilson took
the mantle of Captain America, even Bucky took the mantle
(13:39):
of Captain America, and he basically was a Russian spy
killing Americans. And if you're okay with him taking the
mantle of Captain America, I damn sure know that Sam
Wilson can and others have complained Anthony Mackie's character didn't
take the super serum, so therefore he can't be Captain America.
That's nice, it's nice that you think that, But if
(14:01):
you really know the Captain America's subtext, it was Steve
Rogers Heart, which made him great, and that was enhanced
by the serum. But speaking of the comics, if you
really knew Sam Wilson the character, you should already know that.
And this is assuming you know the comics that Sam
Wilson the character served in the Air Force fifty eighth
(14:21):
Rescue Squadron as a pair of rescue men and did
two tours and was a test pilot, expert marksman with
military firearms. He was an expert in hand to hand combat.
He was a master pilot. He was an expert tactician
who helped plan special operations. He was a counselor to
veterans with PTSD. He was already an American hero. Put
(14:47):
that in a real person, you'd probably say, Yeah, they're
worthy of being Captain America. And for all the talk
we have about respecting or disrespecting the military, to say
that that guy, Sam Wilson, that character is either unworthy
to represent America or is not appropriate to represent America,
(15:07):
y'all are telling on yourselves. But such a debate is
not completely disconnected to the whole point of the Kendrick
Lamar halftime show, and this idea of what is America?
Who is American and who deserves to represent America? I know,
Captain America. Brave New World is a movie, but it's
also a mirror held up to us as we trip
(15:29):
over ourselves, making Kendrick Lamar's point that some people have
the idea and it's the wrong idea. Some people have
the idea that America is only for some people and
only certain circumstances. That never was and never will be
the case for KF I am six forty. I'm O
Kelly then. Anyway, Sat
Oh lad, here is my final thought. Let me be
serious for a moment. By now you probably have heard
(00:21):
the news that at least one person died and several
others were injured after a plane crashed into another jet
at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona today and ASSESSMA two eight
B crashed into sea ice just outside of Noame, Alaska,
after going missing during a flight last Thursday afternoon. Ten
(00:41):
people dead. That's after six passengers of a medical jet
and one person on the ground were killed after the
plane crash in a Philadelphia neighborhood last Friday evening. And
all of this is in the wake of the Reagan
National Airport mid air collision over the Potomac, which killed
sixty seven people. Are the collisions. Are the accidents or
the crashes related, of course, not, not specifically at least,
(01:05):
but emotionally they all connect in our recent memories, our politics,
as of lade, has embraced the idea of just blaming
the previous guy. I'm old enough to remember. Maybe you
are too, but I'm old enough to remember it was
said the buck stops here, But that's no longer the case.
Now it's just blame, blame, blame. But I did find
(01:29):
a quote that I especially liked that I want to
close out with, and it goes like this, Leaders, true
leaders take responsibility for the success of the team and
understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
It's so good, I'm going to read it twice. Leaders,
(01:50):
True leaders take responsibility for the success of the team
and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
Close quote. That quote is from Donald Trump, and I'll
take him at his word. I honestly don't know what
is going on with our planes and air traffic control.
(02:11):
But I do know we only have one president at
a time, and I do know only one head of
our federal government at a time. And the answer to this,
whatever this is, but it is a problem. But the
answer to this must come from the top. And here
are the facts. Our president fired the head of the
Transportation Security Administration, fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee,
(02:37):
froze hiring of all air traffic controllers, fired one hundred
top FAA security officers, all on the same day, the
same day. He's not been a passive participant in this.
He's been very much involved. But again, blame and responsibility
(03:00):
are not the same. Blame is looking back. You're trying
to say, well, this happened in the past, this person
did this, so therefore they are responsible. It's an excuse,
it's a cop out, it's an abdication of responsibility. That's blame.
Blame is the easy way out responsibility. At least from
(03:22):
where I sit, it's about going forward and tonight I'm
assessing no blame. I'm not going to sit here and say, well,
Biden did this, and it's not to protect Biden. It's
just because blame doesn't solve the future problem. Blame doesn't
tell us what we need to do if it win,
the next plane crashes, and unfortunately, if the past is prologue,
(03:45):
there's a distinct possibility that there may be another issue
in the very near future. And it can't be always
the other person's fault. If you're the person in charge,
you the person who wanted the job. You're the person
who got the job, so then as the job holder,
(04:08):
you are judged by your job performance. And again I'm
not going to assess any blame, but I am going
to do this. I'm going to look at future responsibility.
Let's just say all bets are off and the clock starts. Now,
this is our president's baby. Whatever happens going forward, given
(04:31):
the moves that he's made prior to now, whatever happens
going forward is his responsibility because he has been an
active participant in whatever our future air traffic control and
our airport security is going to be. He has been
(04:52):
actively involved. And it bears mentioning. Fired the head of
the Transportation Security Administration, fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee,
froze hiring of all air traffic controllers, and not saying
nothing in the fact that we all know that they
have been overworked and understaffed. Fired one hundred top FAA
security officers, all on the same day. And I'll say
(05:16):
it one more time before I go, this is the
president's baby, whatever happens going forward. And as our leader,
our leader, I'm not one of those people who's ever
going to say, not my president. No, he's my president,
he's your president, he's everyone's president. The country is chosen.
And as our leader, as our president, he can't only
(05:37):
be willing to take responsibility for the success, but also
any responsibility for the failure too. For KFI A six forty,
I'm o Kelly and before we go, we've been using
(06:04):
a new segment to close out the show right now.
It's called the Final Thought. I may change it, but
it's just some things that were you know, I've been
ruminating on and sort of just bouncing around in my head.
But with the news of the day, and here's tonight's
probably by now you've heard about the chances of a
particular asteroid striking Earth within the next decade. Well it's
(06:27):
doubled over the past few weeks. The chances is of
the hitting Earth. And this is according to NASA astronomers, doubled.
I said, to be fair, it only doubled from one
to two percent. But if I told you that there
was a two percent chance of your next flight ending
up in the side of a mountain, you wouldn't like
(06:47):
those chances, would you. Kind of same thing. The asteroid
discovered just after Christmas has been named twenty twenty four.
Why are four? It could possibly strike the planet in
December of twenty thirty two, and this is according to
NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies. And the way
we've been going, that too will be defunded by the
(07:10):
federal government. We've all likely seen movies like Armageddon Deep
Impact similar plot lines. You know, killer asteroid discovered, the
world comes together and depends on America to save the day,
And in both of those movies, with varying degrees, the
day is saved. But this is real life, and potentially,
(07:32):
potentially we are only at step one. You know, the
killer asteroid. It's out there, it's been identified. That's step one.
All that's left is step two and step three, you know,
for the world to come together and then America to
save the day. But step two and three would seem
to be damn near impossible. Right about now, we are
(07:53):
far closer to Netflix is don't look up which detailed
in America in denial of an asteroid impact, That to
be seems more realistic. We don't take measles seriously. We
don't take polio or e coli seriously eatingmore. We don't
take science and scientists seriously eating more scientists. We know
(08:18):
more than the scientists, than the experts, the elitists. So
given that, what chance is there of us taking an
asteroid seriously? Hell, we're still yelling at each other over
whether we've actually been to the moon. We're still cussing
each other out over whether the Earth is spherical. That's
actually like a real debate in someone's minds. These days,
(08:39):
we as in the United States of America, have routinely
devalued higher education than science and facts. The betting favorite
at this point should be the asteroid. And I gotta
be honest, a large part of me pulling for the asteroid,
or at least until we stop acting like an unseerios nation.
(09:01):
For example, today today a congressman from Georgia introduced a
bill to the House of Representatives with a straight face
that would give a new name to Greenland. Instead of Greenland,
it would be named Red, White and Blueland. This asteroid
cannot get here fast enough for KF. I am six forty.
(09:26):
I'm Moe Kelly. If you find yourself being more stressed
out because of politics, researchers have actually quantified that as
(09:50):
to why. And I often say, when I'm not working,
I don't talk about politics. I'll post some snark on
social media. I will from time to time, but I
don't always, and I don't want to go deep with
people because it begins to stress me out. It absolutely
stresses me out, which is almost a contradiction. But all
of my TV work, if you've been paying attention, is political,
(10:13):
and some of my radio work is too, so I
need some time to balance that out. There's a national
survey on stressors conducted by the American Psychological Association or
APA for twenty twenty four found that the future of
the nation or politics, was the leading cause of significant
stress among adults, with nearly eight in ten seventy seven
(10:34):
percent reporting it as a major source of anxiety. And
here are some of the other takeaways from this and
other comparable studies. Everyday political events can cause harmed psychological
and to our physical well being. In fact, politics can
harm people's wellbeing as much or more than get this alcohol.
(10:56):
A study conducted in twenty seventeen estimated that ninety four
million Americans felt politics caused significant stress, forty four million
lost sleep, thirty million suffered physical health harm, and eleven
million had suicidal thoughts. Effects comparable to or worse than
those associated with alcohol, except none of the buzz or
(11:19):
none of the great sex connected to it. That's just
my little addentum. In short, our politics is killing us.
But wait, there's more. The multiple studies concluded not only
are politics related well being issues worsened for many in
recent years. Political polarization is linked with worse anxiety and depression.
(11:41):
And here's my takeaway and one I give to you.
If the country is going to hell, and we all
have our theories as to why or whether it is
or who is responsible, here's the truth. You won't have
any real say in it or saving it. I know
you think that posting on social media is going to
make a difference, but I'm here to tell you it
(12:02):
will not. I know that if you think if you
insult enough people in real life or in cyberspace, it's
going to make a difference, it will not. It's not
going to change anything. Either the country is going to
go to hell or it won't go to hell. This
is my recommendation. Do like I do and know when
to let it go. It's not worth your health, it's
(12:27):
not worth your peace, and most importantly, it's not worth
your life. No when to just let it go. For
k if I am six forty, I'm mo Kelly. As
(12:55):
I close out the show in the week for my
final thought, he did say that the fellows We're gonna
go see Captain America a brave New World, and I
wanted to talk about that. And you know, it's starring
Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Tim Blake Nelson and others, and
the movie is not hitting theaters without controversy. We've talked
about some of it. You may not know all of it,
(13:17):
but some have complained. Maybe you are in this group
that there's only one Captain America and it's the character
Steve Rogers as portrayed by Chris Evans. I mean, that's nice.
It's not true, but it's nice for you to think that.
Even in the comics, Anthony Mackie's character Sam Wilson took
the mantle of Captain America, even Bucky took the mantle
(13:39):
of Captain America, and he basically was a Russian spy
killing Americans. And if you're okay with him taking the
mantle of Captain America, I damn sure know that Sam
Wilson can and others have complained Anthony Mackie's character didn't
take the super serum, so therefore he can't be Captain America.
That's nice, it's nice that you think that, But if
(14:01):
you really know the Captain America's subtext, it was Steve
Rogers Heart, which made him great, and that was enhanced
by the serum. But speaking of the comics, if you
really knew Sam Wilson the character, you should already know that.
And this is assuming you know the comics that Sam
Wilson the character served in the Air Force fifty eighth
(14:21):
Rescue Squadron as a pair of rescue men and did
two tours and was a test pilot, expert marksman with
military firearms. He was an expert in hand to hand combat.
He was a master pilot. He was an expert tactician
who helped plan special operations. He was a counselor to
veterans with PTSD. He was already an American hero. Put
(14:47):
that in a real person, you'd probably say, Yeah, they're
worthy of being Captain America. And for all the talk
we have about respecting or disrespecting the military, to say
that that guy, Sam Wilson, that character is either unworthy
to represent America or is not appropriate to represent America,
(15:07):
y'all are telling on yourselves. But such a debate is
not completely disconnected to the whole point of the Kendrick
Lamar halftime show, and this idea of what is America?
Who is American and who deserves to represent America? I know,
Captain America. Brave New World is a movie, but it's
also a mirror held up to us as we trip
(15:29):
over ourselves, making Kendrick Lamar's point that some people have
the idea and it's the wrong idea. Some people have
the idea that America is only for some people and
only certain circumstances. That never was and never will be
the case for KF I am six forty. I'm O
Kelly then. Anyway, Sat
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