May 1, 2025 • 29 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – In-depth analysis of the most viral stories of the week in ‘The Viral Load’ with regular guest contributor Tiffany Hobbs weighing in on everything from a “professional panhandler” that’s gone viral for his handsome looks; to the Needham, Massachusetts high schoolers viral ‘rejection cake,’ and more…PLUS – A look at what everyone missed in actor Terrence Howard saying he wouldn’t portray singer Marvin Gaye in a biopic due to Gaye’s ‘sexuality’ - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Check out the wonderful Tiffany Hobbs with the viral Load.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Well, one of the most popular phobias has to do
with the fear of flying. I know it's a phobia
that I've had.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
Mo.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
You raised your hand, you say that you have it,
and it's not a phobia that's easy to get over.
If anything, most of us who do travel us get
through it now. Of course, there are tips and tricks
to be able to manage your anxiety or your fear.
And there's another tip and trick in the form of
a section of Reddit. And Reddit is a very popular
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message board where a new thread and a thread would
be a conversation that people are following and commenting on
and responding to. This thread is called Fear of Flying.
There are over thirty six thousand members and that's why
this story is going viral because of all of the
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recent stories in the news about aircraft. The Fear of
Flying section of Reddit has seen and an influx of
new members who are looking to be able to find
ways to make flying less scary. And of course, when
we think of flying, there are all sorts of issues.
There are commercial airplanes that have multiple breakdowns in their
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backup systems, or there's turbulence that none of them, I
imagine enjoy well. Members in this particular group can request
others so you can converse with people in the group
and ask them to actually track your flight in real
time and during that flight while you're sitting down and
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maybe not necessarily enjoying the flight just yet. You will
be offered through this back and forth with members in
the Fear of Flying Group, encouragement during your travels, whether
it's telling you that turbulence is simply the sky's version
version of a boat rocking on waves, or that system
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failure that you're imagining you're in your head, it's actually
not going to happen. The sentiment in the Fear of
Flying group is that there's someone always looking out for you.
For instance, there's one user, She's from Portland. Her name
is Sidney, and she recently used the Fear of Flying
group to console herself by repeating anxiety reducing mantras that
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members suggested she use, and she said she had some anxiety. However,
it really really helped. So thirty six thousand members in
this Fear of Flying section of Reddit and lots of
other fear of Flying forums are taking off to encourage
people to take the skies get back to flying.
Speaker 8 (03:24):
Would you join mo?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
No? No, No. The more I talk about it, the
worst it gets.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
What do you do to calm your anxiety about flying?
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Not my own ways?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Drink No.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
I'm being serious before and during a little bit after
as well.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
If it depends on the time of the day of
the flight. If it's a morning flight, I'm not having anything.
I'm just gonna grin and bear it. But if it's
an evening flight, y'all, I'll have a jack and neat
or two and then get on the plane and hopefully
go to sleep or relax just enough.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I'm being serious.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I'm not a nervous flyer, but I'm always aware. Yeah,
it's always in the back of my mind. I don't
like turbulence. I don't like the experience but I know
I got to do it to get wherever I'm going.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
A friend of mine, her name is Kaya, She passed
away almost ten years ago now. She was a flight
attendant for many years. And one of the best tips
or tricks that I ever got that she told me was,
when you think of turbulence, which is my biggest source
of anxiety in the air, think of it like running
over little speed bumps in your car. We don't panic
and freak out when we run over a speed bump
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and a barking.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Lot because we don't fear that we're going to just
end up in this sewer.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Don't do this, or you know, don't you take it
away from me.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Or we're going to end up in the side of
a mountain on fire.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
You are groggy. I'm just letting you know right now,
and I'm going to move along.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
H If you want to earn some extra money, panhandling
probably isn't the option that you'll entertain. However, there's one
panhandler in Palm Springs who considers himself considers him himself
to be a professional panhandler, and he's gone viral, not
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simply because of his panhandling, but because people say that
he is so handsome that he should be a model.
His name is brat Love, and he admits he's not
actually homeless. No, he's a nurse, but he says that
panhandling actually earns him more and.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
That it's easier.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
He says he's of the ilk that does not want
to work, and so while he has nursing certifications, he
doesn't use him. He wants to stand out there and panhandle,
and that panhandling has gone viral as people have taken
videos of him because of his quote unquote good looks
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Now they've gone viral all over TikTok, and people were
encouraging him in comments to become a model. People drive
up and tell him, hey, you should model. What are
you doing out here? Lots of exchange with brat Love,
and he says, every single time, I don't want to
be a model, I want to panhandle. He also says
that all of the attention that he's been getting is
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bad for business because the police and Palm Springs have
recently tracked him down and told him to stop begging.
So far, he has a little over twenty thousand followers
on TikTok and in his profile bio on TikTok. He
advertises his cash app account, so he begs in person
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and he begs online. He also posted a video last
month that went viral, saying that he made at one
point and continues to make around two hundred and sixty
dollars from panhandling over the course of.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
A few hours.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
So beat his ass. He needs it, he needs it.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
When we come back, we're going to get into our
third story, and that third story as I flip through,
because I wasn't fully ready to pardon me so hung
up on this panhandling deals with high schoolers who went
viral because of the way in which they are acknowledging
their college rejection letters. Something a little different, but something
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they hope will bring a smile to people's faces.
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Speaker 6 (07:49):
I remember when I was applying for my undergraduate degree.
I was largely intimidated by the application process. It was lengthy,
it was costley, and it made things feel a bit overwhelming.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
You.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Oh you, how dare you?
Speaker 9 (08:06):
How?
Speaker 8 (08:06):
I told you're a curmudgeon today?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
You didn't go to UCLA.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
No, I went to the only USC, not even the
other one that claims USC.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
The only not South Carolina.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
No, we are not. What is that called the game?
Is that the name of it? The game?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Game?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Cox?
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Yes, you say it, not me?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
AnyWho?
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Moving along, and this next story has to do with
college applications, a little bit of back story or back history.
According to Forbes, among the high school senior class of
twenty twenty two, so just three years ago, and they
were pulled, fifty nine percent of prospective college students applied
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to five or more institutions, and twenty six percent applied
to ten or more institutions. So kids are out here, really, really,
really pushing these applications and not all of them are
getting accepted. That's where this viral story comes in. They're
high school seniors in Needham, Massachusetts, who have now received
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over six million views on TikTok after baking one singular
cake that revealed all of the colleges they were not
accepted to. So the students say that the quote rejection
cake video was a fun way to vent their frustrations
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that nearly everyone applying for college goes through.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
They said, quote.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Especially today, like on TikTok and Instagram, you only see
the acceptance videos and that can make it a little
bit stressful getting the rejections. So it was kind of
like normalizing the rejections in the college application process. So
what they did is they made this cake and inside
of the cake they stuffed some letters, and those letters
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they unveiled one by one to show and to say
which colleges they they were rejected from.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
They wanted to flip the script.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Now. They did do a companion video, a follow up
video of all the schools they were accepted to as
well as they as well as the ones they actually
planned to attend. But the rejection cake video, six million
views on TikTok, has gone wildly viral and may very
well spark a trend in the near future.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Do you remember the schools if there were any that
turned you down?
Speaker 6 (10:30):
You know, I only applied to two schools and they
both accepted me. I was a little disenchanted, so I
didn't experience the rejection of it all. But I honestly
only applied to schools I knew would accept me.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I remember the schools that turned me down too, and
I still hold a grudge. Oh yeah, yeah, Duke accepted me,
but they put me on a wait list. And University
of North Carolina Chapel Hill they turned me down. And
even though I would have been like a legacy, I
had a lot of relatives who went there, they said, no,
you're not coming here, how dare they?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Got into Berkeley, got in UC San Diego, which my
safe school, and of course Georgetown my first choice. Mark guy,
But I still hold grudges. Absolutely. Do you remember anything?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Do you remember how much your applications were back then,
way the way way back then, a long time ago. Yeah,
it was the last century, way back then, adjusted for inflation,
thirty five dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
You know, I can't you know, I can't kick you
off my show.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Still, let's get to story number four, all right, So
if you want to make some extra cash to apply
for college or do these college applications, you might find
yourself if you're over eighteen at a casino. Let's say
you're trying to help a younger family member out. But
if you are at this casino or any casino, what
you don't want to do, if you're losing, or if
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you feel like you're winning but being shorted, is attack
the machine. And I know we have some audio stuff.
Let me let me just set this up. There's a man,
his name is George Smith, and this video actually went
viral last year, but people are talking about it now
and that's just a cycle of virality and stories because
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he went to a Shawnee, Oklahoma casino and got into
a destructive tirade against a machine. He says short in him.
Uh spoiler spoiler alert. If you get into a fight
with a machine, you probably are going to lose. Let's
roll that beautiful bean footage. Steph.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Yeah, he's lamming, and listen the sounds you're hearing of
that kind of smashing, Uh would be George Smith, the
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rowing his body into the machine repeatedly, and the machine
doesn't have to fight back, it just stands there and whoops.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
His ever loving ace Ace just lost really badly. But
he was of course arrested the Grand Casino hotel and
resort pressed charges because this incident was captured on camera
by that fellow casino patron, who then was able to
share it further with security. Again, it went viral and
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he now faces one count of felony destruction of property.
So do not, under any circumstances hurl your body or
any part of your body at a machine.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Not that I was going to, but okay, don't do it.
You don't have to tell me.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
But what you should do is you should listen to
me Saturdays from five to seven Saturdays with Tiffany right
here on KFI.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
It's been a blast. That's tonight's viral.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
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Speaker 4 (14:07):
We're still live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. And
this is a story that I've really been following closely.
And another one I think that most media outlets are
getting wrong. They're stopping in the headline and not going
any deeper. The headline is actor Terrence Howard won't be
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in a Marvin Gay biopic because he might have to
play someone who's gay or bisexual. And if you didn't
know Marvin Gay for all of his musical artistry. There
had long been rumors of whether Marvin Gay was living
a double lifestyle. Yes, he was a sex symbol, but
there was always this tension between Marvin Gay and his father.
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The rumor was that his father did not approve of son,
Marvin Gay's lifestyle and that led to the altercation in
which Marvin Gay's father shot Marvin Gay and killed him.
That was the rumor. They had always been whispers about
Marvin Gay. And in a biopic which is going to
be put together by Lee Daniels, the director behind Monster's Ball,
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who was Gay himself, and that's relevant in this particular conversation,
had thought of Terrence Howard to possibly play Marvin Gay.
We know that in an actor since Marvin Terrence Howard
could have done the role in a fantastic way, no question.
But Terrence Howard, in a conversation with Bill Maher highlighted
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how he thought he would never be able to do
the role. Listen to what Terrence Howard had to say.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
The biggest mistake I made in my career was Smokey
Robinson offered me, brought me all to come have dinner
with him and he wanted me to play his life.
And I just had conversations with Lee Daniels about playing
Marvin Gay, and I was like being faithful to Lee
Daniels because I had given my word as a man,
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I'm going to do this with you. Lee Daniels never
did Marvin Gay.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Smokey's interesting, Yeah, but he's not dead.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
No, he's not.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
And Marvin Gay is And I'm sorry, but drama's drama,
and there's a lot more drama in getting killed by
your dad. And Marvin Gay was like, you would have
been perfect.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I was over at Quincy Jones House, Quincy, I'm hearing
rumors that Marvin was gay and Marvel's gay, and I'm like,
was he gay? And Quincy's like, yes, they would have
wanted to do that. And I wouldn't have been able
to do that.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
You mean you couldn't kiss a guy on screen in
a movie, not even Yeah, no, because I don't fake
it that. I would put my lips off. Yeah, if
I tied some man, I would cut my lips.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
Well, I would not do that.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I can't play that character. I can't surrender myself right.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
What people are going to focus in on is Terrence
Howard saying that he could not play someone who is
gay and he's going to be ripped to shreds for it.
That's part of the story, But I think people are
missing the larger point. Actors have always had limitations that
they put on themselves, types of characters. They are willing
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to do things that they're willing or not willing to
do on a set. Terrence Howard takes it too far
to the point of homophobia when he talks about I
have to cut my lips off. But if you don't
know actor Neil McDonough, if I showed your picture, you
know who he was, famous character actor. He says he
does not do intimate scenes or sex scenes with women
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because he's a devout Christian and he's married. Mahersh la
Ali says he does not do intimate scenes with women
because he's a devout Muslim. There are any number of
actresses who refuse to do scenes with nudity. Well, they
won't do intimate scenes because of their beliefs. I'm going
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to make that same amount of room for Terrence Howard,
but you won't hear people talk about that. Whereas the
homophobia can't be denied and you can tell that's more
of his equation and why he won't do it than
anything else. I will make room for actors to set
their own boundaries as to the types of characters that
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they'll play, and I'm not going to begrudge him for that.
But the focus, unfortunately has been so far and will
continue to be, on the words that he used, including
cut my lips off. And that's fair to have a conversation,
but the larger conversation I think is far more important
about actors setting their own boundaries. If Heath Ledger said,
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you know, I can't play a gay character, so I
can't do this role and broke back Mountain, do you
think anyone would have given him any.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Trouble? Jake Jillenhall, same thing.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Now, if they would have taken to this anth degree, yeah,
probably there would have been a response. But there needs
to be some nuance in this. And if you've ever
listened to me, I've never been the greatest fan of
Terrence Howard.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
He's a wild dude.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
He does a lot of stuff which is really out
there and hard to support, and I think he fancies
himself as a person much smarter than he really is
and much more deep than he really is.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
You know, there is a recent documentary on Luther Vandros,
who himself was definitely subjected to a lot of rumors
about his sexuality, and in that documentary you hear it hinted.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
At that he is just a CNN one.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
This is the CNN one.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
You hear it hinted at numerous times that Luther Vandrose,
famous R and B soul singer songwriter, was gay or
at the very least bisexual, But you never see any footage.
They don't reimagine what it could have been like. And
I just I guess I am concerned that a biopic
about Marvin Gay would have to include some sort of
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explicit sexual content or some sort of physicality that would
paint the picture that he was gay. You can do
that without the physicality, and Terrence Howard could, then, it
seems like, become Marvin Gay and do a really good
job at portraying him. And I would just hope that
in and I agree with you, bodily autonomy is tantamount
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in this conversation, but I would hope that Lee Daniels,
the director, would be more creative and not just focus.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
On this is Lee Daniels, who did Monster's Ball.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
But the sexuality and even Empire, the sexuality has always
been part of Lee Daniels thing.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
That's the first thing. And two I worked with Luther Vandreus.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I worked this label at Virgin Records, were released an
album with him. I wouldn't say I knew him, but
I was around him enough to know, Yes, he was gay.
He was out as he could be during that time.
In other words, if you spend time around him, you
knew who who is seeing. It wasn't something that he advertised,
but this was pre Internet, so you know, he could
live his life without it being on display for people
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who weren't supposed to know.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
But this is a biopic, not a documentary.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
So if you're going to tell the story of Marvin Gay,
it has to prominently feature the murder of Marvin Gay,
and from what we know and like what Quincy Jones
has said, it also has to include the tension between
father and son and what from many people that I've
talked to led up to that argument and then murder,
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which was directly connected to the sexuality of Marvin Gay.
I don't think a Lee Daniels project, given what I
know about his cinematic history would have a show who
Is Out and Gay would tell the Marvin Gay story
and not include that.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
In today's world, I think you can do it without,
you know, the the reality of the physical interaction. I
think you could do it with the sex and the kissing.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Lee Daniels is not going to tell that story that
he shouldn't, but that's my point. He had the rights
to this particular story. That's why he had reached out
to Terrence Howard saying, Hey, I want you to play
Marvin Gay.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
You gotta know.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
It was like, this is Lee Daniels. It's almost like
you're going to do a movie with Quentin Tarantino. It's like,
you got to know what you're getting into.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Yes, yes, I would hope that another director would option
it from Lee Daniels, but you know, well you know,
and that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I I don't begrudge Terrence Howard for not feeling comfortable
to enough to play a gay man. I'm disappointed in
the way he articulated.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Absolutely absolutely, I agree.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I thought for all the smartness that he supposedly embodies,
he could have been a little bit uh better choice
of words, in a better sentiment and less homophobic.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Key.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yeah, in the way that he said it, he seems
like he's more worried about the ill factor of kissing
the man as opposed to being unable or being inauthentic.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
In his performance.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
If any other classification, whether you know, race, gender, ability, disability,
if someone were to say that an actor and actress
and say they didn't want to interact with an actor
because of those things, they would be held their feet
would be held to the fire, and rightfully so yep.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
So I don't know how this is going to turn out,
but any heat that goes his way, he's earned. But
there should be a more nuanced discussion about what actors
should or should not do. And the fact that is
maybe they want, possibly an actual gay actor to play
the role.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
That's something else to consider.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
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Speaker 5 (23:53):
Here is my final thought.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I am a news junkie that should surprise absolutely no one.
I start my day and in my day, every single day,
reading the news. I'm talking about before the internet.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Back then.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I started every day, even while working in the music industry,
reading the news. It was a great habit passed down
to me by my father, who pointed out the different
sections of a newspaper and the important information it imparted
to readers. In fact, I never read the funnies or
the comics in the newspaper growing up. I just wasn't interested.
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I wanted the actual news, both local and national. I
was fascinated with it. Yes, I read the sports section,
but I always look for what was on the front page.
I know people under thirty don't know what a front
page is anymore, or what above the fold means, or
what the letters to the editor are or were I
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get it. Times have changed, and thanks to the Internet,
times have changed really fast, including the news. But I
woke up every single morning during the week as a
child and read the Los Angeles Time sports section first
than Metro, than the front section, front page, and in
many ways it made me the news infused curious person
I am to this day. I knew the LA Times
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wasn't the New York Times in terms of quality of reporting,
but it was still, at least for time, the pre
eminent newspaper in California and maybe on the West Coast.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
But that time is long gone.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The LA Times lost roughly fifty million dollars last year.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
This is according to Adweek.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yes, newspapers have been on the decline, no doubt, but
the problems for this newspaper have been less about the
proliferation of online media and more about the paper's internal issues.
The La Times have had a robust podcasts podcast subscription base.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
It did, at least in the past.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
It had for a time an upward trending print and
online subscription base. Times were difficult, no pun intended, but
the La Times was still somewhat healthy and reputable, at
least until billionaire doctor Patrick Soon Shung purchased the paperback
in twenty eighteen, and as long as he allowed the
news outlet to just be a news outlet, it was surviving.
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But the moment Soon Shung decided his personal politics were
more important than the news mandate of the outlet, it
all went to hell. And unfortunately, we live in an
age where many, well maybe most people are news illiterate.
If it's you know, to shoe fits, so be it.
Not knowing the difference between news and opinion, facts and feelings.
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Soon Shong he actively involved himself in blocking reporting which
didn't show President Trump or previously candidate Trump in an
unfavorable light. He blocked it not because it might be
inconsistent with reporting of actual facts, but was inconsistent with
his personal politics. He blocked the editorial board endorsement of
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Kamala Harris in the presidential election, and regardless of whether
you liked or disliked Harris, the purpose of any editorial
board is to offer its collective, professional and informed opinion
after months of coverage of a race, any race. In fact,
they're usually endorsements across all races, but that never should
involve the personal politics of the owner. Because the moment
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that that happens to Los Angeles Times or any outlet, print, radio,
television ceases to be a news outlet emphasis on news,
It is then propaganda and nothing more. You're no longer
hearing the reporting of what's going on in the world.
You have someone manipulating thousands and thousands of readers for
the sake of one person. Some ideas, believe it or not,
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are actually indefensible. Some people are actually indefensible. Some political
candidates are not defensible. But it's the responsibility of the
fourth estate to serve as a check on government power.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
It's fair to question whether.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
An outlet has an inherent bias. It's not fair to
rest strict news coverage because you own the outlet and
because certain news coverage is in opposition to your personal
political interests.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
There's a distinct difference between.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
An outlet leaning one way or a slant in another direction,
and outright working to get a candidate elected. We've seen
it with the TV show Sixty Minutes. More recently, we've
seen it with The Washington Post and Jeff Bezos, and
of course the Los Angeles Times, which has now lost
fifty million dollars in revenue, twenty five thousand subscribers, and
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absolutely all of its credibility. The point tonight is that
print news media has a tremendous responsibility in not only
reporting the news, the who, what, when, where, why, how,
but providing what will be the official historical record of
the times in which we live. The Los Angeles Times
has failed on both accounts, and has earned every bad
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thing which is now happening to it. You don't get
to present your yourself as a news outlet and expect
people to pay for a personal pet political project. Farewell,
La Times, nice knowing you for k IF I am
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Speaker 6 (00:43):
Well, one of the most popular phobias has to do
with the fear of flying. I know it's a phobia
that I've had.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
Mo.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
You raised your hand, you say that you have it,
and it's not a phobia that's easy to get over.
If anything, most of us who do travel us get
through it now. Of course, there are tips and tricks
to be able to manage your anxiety or your fear.
And there's another tip and trick in the form of
a section of Reddit. And Reddit is a very popular
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message board where a new thread and a thread would
be a conversation that people are following and commenting on
and responding to. This thread is called Fear of Flying.
There are over thirty six thousand members and that's why
this story is going viral because of all of the
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recent stories in the news about aircraft. The Fear of
Flying section of Reddit has seen and an influx of
new members who are looking to be able to find
ways to make flying less scary. And of course, when
we think of flying, there are all sorts of issues.
There are commercial airplanes that have multiple breakdowns in their
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backup systems, or there's turbulence that none of them, I
imagine enjoy well. Members in this particular group can request
others so you can converse with people in the group
and ask them to actually track your flight in real
time and during that flight while you're sitting down and
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maybe not necessarily enjoying the flight just yet. You will
be offered through this back and forth with members in
the Fear of Flying Group, encouragement during your travels, whether
it's telling you that turbulence is simply the sky's version
version of a boat rocking on waves, or that system
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failure that you're imagining you're in your head, it's actually
not going to happen. The sentiment in the Fear of
Flying group is that there's someone always looking out for you.
For instance, there's one user, She's from Portland. Her name
is Sidney, and she recently used the Fear of Flying
group to console herself by repeating anxiety reducing mantras that
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members suggested she use, and she said she had some anxiety. However,
it really really helped. So thirty six thousand members in
this Fear of Flying section of Reddit and lots of
other fear of Flying forums are taking off to encourage
people to take the skies get back to flying.
Speaker 8 (03:24):
Would you join mo?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
No? No, No. The more I talk about it, the
worst it gets.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
What do you do to calm your anxiety about flying?
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Not my own ways?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Drink No.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
I'm being serious before and during a little bit after
as well.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
If it depends on the time of the day of
the flight. If it's a morning flight, I'm not having anything.
I'm just gonna grin and bear it. But if it's
an evening flight, y'all, I'll have a jack and neat
or two and then get on the plane and hopefully
go to sleep or relax just enough.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I'm being serious.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I'm not a nervous flyer, but I'm always aware. Yeah,
it's always in the back of my mind. I don't
like turbulence. I don't like the experience but I know
I got to do it to get wherever I'm going.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
A friend of mine, her name is Kaya, She passed
away almost ten years ago now. She was a flight
attendant for many years. And one of the best tips
or tricks that I ever got that she told me was,
when you think of turbulence, which is my biggest source
of anxiety in the air, think of it like running
over little speed bumps in your car. We don't panic
and freak out when we run over a speed bump
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and a barking.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Lot because we don't fear that we're going to just
end up in this sewer.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Don't do this, or you know, don't you take it
away from me.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Or we're going to end up in the side of
a mountain on fire.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
You are groggy. I'm just letting you know right now,
and I'm going to move along.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
H If you want to earn some extra money, panhandling
probably isn't the option that you'll entertain. However, there's one
panhandler in Palm Springs who considers himself considers him himself
to be a professional panhandler, and he's gone viral, not
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simply because of his panhandling, but because people say that
he is so handsome that he should be a model.
His name is brat Love, and he admits he's not
actually homeless. No, he's a nurse, but he says that
panhandling actually earns him more and.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
That it's easier.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
He says he's of the ilk that does not want
to work, and so while he has nursing certifications, he
doesn't use him. He wants to stand out there and panhandle,
and that panhandling has gone viral as people have taken
videos of him because of his quote unquote good looks
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Now they've gone viral all over TikTok, and people were
encouraging him in comments to become a model. People drive
up and tell him, hey, you should model. What are
you doing out here? Lots of exchange with brat Love,
and he says, every single time, I don't want to
be a model, I want to panhandle. He also says
that all of the attention that he's been getting is
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bad for business because the police and Palm Springs have
recently tracked him down and told him to stop begging.
So far, he has a little over twenty thousand followers
on TikTok and in his profile bio on TikTok. He
advertises his cash app account, so he begs in person
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and he begs online. He also posted a video last
month that went viral, saying that he made at one
point and continues to make around two hundred and sixty
dollars from panhandling over the course of.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
A few hours.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
So beat his ass. He needs it, he needs it.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
When we come back, we're going to get into our
third story, and that third story as I flip through,
because I wasn't fully ready to pardon me so hung
up on this panhandling deals with high schoolers who went
viral because of the way in which they are acknowledging
their college rejection letters. Something a little different, but something
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they hope will bring a smile to people's faces.
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It's Later with mo Kelly. Now back to the viral
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Speaker 6 (07:49):
I remember when I was applying for my undergraduate degree.
I was largely intimidated by the application process. It was lengthy,
it was costley, and it made things feel a bit overwhelming.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
You.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Oh you, how dare you?
Speaker 9 (08:06):
How?
Speaker 8 (08:06):
I told you're a curmudgeon today?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
You didn't go to UCLA.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
No, I went to the only USC, not even the
other one that claims USC.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
The only not South Carolina.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
No, we are not. What is that called the game?
Is that the name of it? The game?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Game?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Cox?
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Yes, you say it, not me?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
AnyWho?
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Moving along, and this next story has to do with
college applications, a little bit of back story or back history.
According to Forbes, among the high school senior class of
twenty twenty two, so just three years ago, and they
were pulled, fifty nine percent of prospective college students applied
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to five or more institutions, and twenty six percent applied
to ten or more institutions. So kids are out here, really, really,
really pushing these applications and not all of them are
getting accepted. That's where this viral story comes in. They're
high school seniors in Needham, Massachusetts, who have now received
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over six million views on TikTok after baking one singular
cake that revealed all of the colleges they were not
accepted to. So the students say that the quote rejection
cake video was a fun way to vent their frustrations
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that nearly everyone applying for college goes through.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
They said, quote.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Especially today, like on TikTok and Instagram, you only see
the acceptance videos and that can make it a little
bit stressful getting the rejections. So it was kind of
like normalizing the rejections in the college application process. So
what they did is they made this cake and inside
of the cake they stuffed some letters, and those letters
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they unveiled one by one to show and to say
which colleges they they were rejected from.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
They wanted to flip the script.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Now. They did do a companion video, a follow up
video of all the schools they were accepted to as
well as they as well as the ones they actually
planned to attend. But the rejection cake video, six million
views on TikTok, has gone wildly viral and may very
well spark a trend in the near future.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Do you remember the schools if there were any that
turned you down?
Speaker 6 (10:30):
You know, I only applied to two schools and they
both accepted me. I was a little disenchanted, so I
didn't experience the rejection of it all. But I honestly
only applied to schools I knew would accept me.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I remember the schools that turned me down too, and
I still hold a grudge. Oh yeah, yeah, Duke accepted me,
but they put me on a wait list. And University
of North Carolina Chapel Hill they turned me down. And
even though I would have been like a legacy, I
had a lot of relatives who went there, they said, no,
you're not coming here, how dare they?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Got into Berkeley, got in UC San Diego, which my
safe school, and of course Georgetown my first choice. Mark guy,
But I still hold grudges. Absolutely. Do you remember anything?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Do you remember how much your applications were back then,
way the way way back then, a long time ago. Yeah,
it was the last century, way back then, adjusted for inflation,
thirty five dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
You know, I can't you know, I can't kick you
off my show.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Still, let's get to story number four, all right, So
if you want to make some extra cash to apply
for college or do these college applications, you might find
yourself if you're over eighteen at a casino. Let's say
you're trying to help a younger family member out. But
if you are at this casino or any casino, what
you don't want to do, if you're losing, or if
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you feel like you're winning but being shorted, is attack
the machine. And I know we have some audio stuff.
Let me let me just set this up. There's a man,
his name is George Smith, and this video actually went
viral last year, but people are talking about it now
and that's just a cycle of virality and stories because
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he went to a Shawnee, Oklahoma casino and got into
a destructive tirade against a machine. He says short in him.
Uh spoiler spoiler alert. If you get into a fight
with a machine, you probably are going to lose. Let's
roll that beautiful bean footage. Steph.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Yeah, he's lamming, and listen the sounds you're hearing of
that kind of smashing, Uh would be George Smith, the
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rowing his body into the machine repeatedly, and the machine
doesn't have to fight back, it just stands there and whoops.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
His ever loving ace Ace just lost really badly. But
he was of course arrested the Grand Casino hotel and
resort pressed charges because this incident was captured on camera
by that fellow casino patron, who then was able to
share it further with security. Again, it went viral and
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he now faces one count of felony destruction of property.
So do not, under any circumstances hurl your body or
any part of your body at a machine.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Not that I was going to, but okay, don't do it.
You don't have to tell me.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
But what you should do is you should listen to
me Saturdays from five to seven Saturdays with Tiffany right
here on KFI.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
It's been a blast. That's tonight's viral.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Loading later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM sixty.
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I Am six forty is later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
We're still live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. And
this is a story that I've really been following closely.
And another one I think that most media outlets are
getting wrong. They're stopping in the headline and not going
any deeper. The headline is actor Terrence Howard won't be
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in a Marvin Gay biopic because he might have to
play someone who's gay or bisexual. And if you didn't
know Marvin Gay for all of his musical artistry. There
had long been rumors of whether Marvin Gay was living
a double lifestyle. Yes, he was a sex symbol, but
there was always this tension between Marvin Gay and his father.
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The rumor was that his father did not approve of son,
Marvin Gay's lifestyle and that led to the altercation in
which Marvin Gay's father shot Marvin Gay and killed him.
That was the rumor. They had always been whispers about
Marvin Gay. And in a biopic which is going to
be put together by Lee Daniels, the director behind Monster's Ball,
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who was Gay himself, and that's relevant in this particular conversation,
had thought of Terrence Howard to possibly play Marvin Gay.
We know that in an actor since Marvin Terrence Howard
could have done the role in a fantastic way, no question.
But Terrence Howard, in a conversation with Bill Maher highlighted
(15:32):
how he thought he would never be able to do
the role. Listen to what Terrence Howard had to say.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
The biggest mistake I made in my career was Smokey
Robinson offered me, brought me all to come have dinner
with him and he wanted me to play his life.
And I just had conversations with Lee Daniels about playing
Marvin Gay, and I was like being faithful to Lee
Daniels because I had given my word as a man,
(15:59):
I'm going to do this with you. Lee Daniels never
did Marvin Gay.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Smokey's interesting, Yeah, but he's not dead.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
No, he's not.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
And Marvin Gay is And I'm sorry, but drama's drama,
and there's a lot more drama in getting killed by
your dad. And Marvin Gay was like, you would have
been perfect.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I was over at Quincy Jones House, Quincy, I'm hearing
rumors that Marvin was gay and Marvel's gay, and I'm like,
was he gay? And Quincy's like, yes, they would have
wanted to do that. And I wouldn't have been able
to do that.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
You mean you couldn't kiss a guy on screen in
a movie, not even Yeah, no, because I don't fake
it that. I would put my lips off. Yeah, if
I tied some man, I would cut my lips.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
Well, I would not do that.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I can't play that character. I can't surrender myself right.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
What people are going to focus in on is Terrence
Howard saying that he could not play someone who is
gay and he's going to be ripped to shreds for it.
That's part of the story, But I think people are
missing the larger point. Actors have always had limitations that
they put on themselves, types of characters. They are willing
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to do things that they're willing or not willing to
do on a set. Terrence Howard takes it too far
to the point of homophobia when he talks about I
have to cut my lips off. But if you don't
know actor Neil McDonough, if I showed your picture, you
know who he was, famous character actor. He says he
does not do intimate scenes or sex scenes with women
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because he's a devout Christian and he's married. Mahersh la
Ali says he does not do intimate scenes with women
because he's a devout Muslim. There are any number of
actresses who refuse to do scenes with nudity. Well, they
won't do intimate scenes because of their beliefs. I'm going
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to make that same amount of room for Terrence Howard,
but you won't hear people talk about that. Whereas the
homophobia can't be denied and you can tell that's more
of his equation and why he won't do it than
anything else. I will make room for actors to set
their own boundaries as to the types of characters that
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they'll play, and I'm not going to begrudge him for that.
But the focus, unfortunately has been so far and will
continue to be, on the words that he used, including
cut my lips off. And that's fair to have a conversation,
but the larger conversation I think is far more important
about actors setting their own boundaries. If Heath Ledger said,
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you know, I can't play a gay character, so I
can't do this role and broke back Mountain, do you
think anyone would have given him any.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Trouble? Jake Jillenhall, same thing.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Now, if they would have taken to this anth degree, yeah,
probably there would have been a response. But there needs
to be some nuance in this. And if you've ever
listened to me, I've never been the greatest fan of
Terrence Howard.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
He's a wild dude.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
He does a lot of stuff which is really out
there and hard to support, and I think he fancies
himself as a person much smarter than he really is
and much more deep than he really is.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
You know, there is a recent documentary on Luther Vandros,
who himself was definitely subjected to a lot of rumors
about his sexuality, and in that documentary you hear it hinted.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
At that he is just a CNN one.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
This is the CNN one.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
You hear it hinted at numerous times that Luther Vandrose,
famous R and B soul singer songwriter, was gay or
at the very least bisexual, But you never see any footage.
They don't reimagine what it could have been like. And
I just I guess I am concerned that a biopic
about Marvin Gay would have to include some sort of
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explicit sexual content or some sort of physicality that would
paint the picture that he was gay. You can do
that without the physicality, and Terrence Howard could, then, it
seems like, become Marvin Gay and do a really good
job at portraying him. And I would just hope that
in and I agree with you, bodily autonomy is tantamount
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in this conversation, but I would hope that Lee Daniels,
the director, would be more creative and not just focus.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
On this is Lee Daniels, who did Monster's Ball.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
But the sexuality and even Empire, the sexuality has always
been part of Lee Daniels thing.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
That's the first thing. And two I worked with Luther Vandreus.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I worked this label at Virgin Records, were released an
album with him. I wouldn't say I knew him, but
I was around him enough to know, Yes, he was gay.
He was out as he could be during that time.
In other words, if you spend time around him, you
knew who who is seeing. It wasn't something that he advertised,
but this was pre Internet, so you know, he could
live his life without it being on display for people
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who weren't supposed to know.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
But this is a biopic, not a documentary.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
So if you're going to tell the story of Marvin Gay,
it has to prominently feature the murder of Marvin Gay,
and from what we know and like what Quincy Jones
has said, it also has to include the tension between
father and son and what from many people that I've
talked to led up to that argument and then murder,
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which was directly connected to the sexuality of Marvin Gay.
I don't think a Lee Daniels project, given what I
know about his cinematic history would have a show who
Is Out and Gay would tell the Marvin Gay story
and not include that.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
In today's world, I think you can do it without,
you know, the the reality of the physical interaction. I
think you could do it with the sex and the kissing.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Lee Daniels is not going to tell that story that
he shouldn't, but that's my point. He had the rights
to this particular story. That's why he had reached out
to Terrence Howard saying, Hey, I want you to play
Marvin Gay.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
You gotta know.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
It was like, this is Lee Daniels. It's almost like
you're going to do a movie with Quentin Tarantino. It's like,
you got to know what you're getting into.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Yes, yes, I would hope that another director would option
it from Lee Daniels, but you know, well you know,
and that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I I don't begrudge Terrence Howard for not feeling comfortable
to enough to play a gay man. I'm disappointed in
the way he articulated.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Absolutely absolutely, I agree.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I thought for all the smartness that he supposedly embodies,
he could have been a little bit uh better choice
of words, in a better sentiment and less homophobic.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Key.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yeah, in the way that he said it, he seems
like he's more worried about the ill factor of kissing
the man as opposed to being unable or being inauthentic.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
In his performance.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
If any other classification, whether you know, race, gender, ability, disability,
if someone were to say that an actor and actress
and say they didn't want to interact with an actor
because of those things, they would be held their feet
would be held to the fire, and rightfully so yep.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
So I don't know how this is going to turn out,
but any heat that goes his way, he's earned. But
there should be a more nuanced discussion about what actors
should or should not do. And the fact that is
maybe they want, possibly an actual gay actor to play
the role.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
That's something else to consider.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Here is my final thought.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I am a news junkie that should surprise absolutely no one.
I start my day and in my day, every single day,
reading the news. I'm talking about before the internet.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Back then.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I started every day, even while working in the music industry,
reading the news. It was a great habit passed down
to me by my father, who pointed out the different
sections of a newspaper and the important information it imparted
to readers. In fact, I never read the funnies or
the comics in the newspaper growing up. I just wasn't interested.
(24:29):
I wanted the actual news, both local and national. I
was fascinated with it. Yes, I read the sports section,
but I always look for what was on the front page.
I know people under thirty don't know what a front
page is anymore, or what above the fold means, or
what the letters to the editor are or were I
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get it. Times have changed, and thanks to the Internet,
times have changed really fast, including the news. But I
woke up every single morning during the week as a
child and read the Los Angeles Time sports section first
than Metro, than the front section, front page, and in
many ways it made me the news infused curious person
I am to this day. I knew the LA Times
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wasn't the New York Times in terms of quality of reporting,
but it was still, at least for time, the pre
eminent newspaper in California and maybe on the West Coast.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
But that time is long gone.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The LA Times lost roughly fifty million dollars last year.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
This is according to Adweek.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yes, newspapers have been on the decline, no doubt, but
the problems for this newspaper have been less about the
proliferation of online media and more about the paper's internal issues.
The La Times have had a robust podcasts podcast subscription base.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
It did, at least in the past.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
It had for a time an upward trending print and
online subscription base. Times were difficult, no pun intended, but
the La Times was still somewhat healthy and reputable, at
least until billionaire doctor Patrick Soon Shung purchased the paperback
in twenty eighteen, and as long as he allowed the
news outlet to just be a news outlet, it was surviving.
(26:09):
But the moment Soon Shung decided his personal politics were
more important than the news mandate of the outlet, it
all went to hell. And unfortunately, we live in an
age where many, well maybe most people are news illiterate.
If it's you know, to shoe fits, so be it.
Not knowing the difference between news and opinion, facts and feelings.
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Soon Shong he actively involved himself in blocking reporting which
didn't show President Trump or previously candidate Trump in an
unfavorable light. He blocked it not because it might be
inconsistent with reporting of actual facts, but was inconsistent with
his personal politics. He blocked the editorial board endorsement of
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Kamala Harris in the presidential election, and regardless of whether
you liked or disliked Harris, the purpose of any editorial
board is to offer its collective, professional and informed opinion
after months of coverage of a race, any race. In fact,
they're usually endorsements across all races, but that never should
involve the personal politics of the owner. Because the moment
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that that happens to Los Angeles Times or any outlet, print, radio,
television ceases to be a news outlet emphasis on news,
It is then propaganda and nothing more. You're no longer
hearing the reporting of what's going on in the world.
You have someone manipulating thousands and thousands of readers for
the sake of one person. Some ideas, believe it or not,
(27:38):
are actually indefensible. Some people are actually indefensible. Some political
candidates are not defensible. But it's the responsibility of the
fourth estate to serve as a check on government power.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
It's fair to question whether.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
An outlet has an inherent bias. It's not fair to
rest strict news coverage because you own the outlet and
because certain news coverage is in opposition to your personal
political interests.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
There's a distinct difference between.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
An outlet leaning one way or a slant in another direction,
and outright working to get a candidate elected. We've seen
it with the TV show Sixty Minutes. More recently, we've
seen it with The Washington Post and Jeff Bezos, and
of course the Los Angeles Times, which has now lost
fifty million dollars in revenue, twenty five thousand subscribers, and
(28:34):
absolutely all of its credibility. The point tonight is that
print news media has a tremendous responsibility in not only
reporting the news, the who, what, when, where, why, how,
but providing what will be the official historical record of
the times in which we live. The Los Angeles Times
has failed on both accounts, and has earned every bad
(28:56):
thing which is now happening to it. You don't get
to present your yourself as a news outlet and expect
people to pay for a personal pet political project. Farewell,
La Times, nice knowing you for k IF I am
six forty I'm Mo Kelly.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Whatever happens, we have got it covered. K F I'm
the KOST.
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