March 20, 2025 • 29 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – An 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 the new TikTok challenge that led to a toy exploding, leaving a seven-year-old girl in a coma, to the viral airplane video which has sparks a serious conversation regarding “filming other passengers” … PLUS – A look at the harrowing video of a driver narrowly escaping a lightning strike in Atlanta – on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now it's time for the Viral Load with Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good evening, everyone, Good evening, mister mo Kelly. Another day,
another senseless TikTok challenge, and unfortunately this one doesn't end
in laughs or lightheartedness. This one, in fact ends in
a horrible accident where a young girl, a seven year
old girl, is the victim. The TikTok challenge is a
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challenge where people are taking something that is kind of
like Plato. It's a new type of Plato. It's called
me dough n ee dh and it's a squishy stress
cube made of rubber with a polyvinyl alcohol filling. Well,
that seems pretty innocuous enough. It's Plato. You enjoy it,
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you squish it, you stretch it. That should be the
end of it, but no, TikTok has started a challenge
where they are incouraging people for some strange reason of course,
likes and shares and follows to put their needo in
the microwave to heat it and get it to dissolve
into a more pliable, malleable substance. The needle is kind
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of firm at first, and so people are wanting to
loosen it up. That makes sense, but putting something that's
polyvinyl and plastic into a microwave does not. Unfortunately, a
young girl from Missouri named Scarlet Selby was left in
a coma after the needle that she put into the
microwave attempting to try this viral challenge exploded, covering her
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in the guy substance. Her father, Josh says quote, it
all happened so quickly. I heard her scream and it
was blood curdling. She lives in Missouri and again was
copying this challenge that has gone worldwide. Saw it on
TikTok and on YouTube, and she thought, again, this young girl, Scarlet,
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that this would be something fun to do. First, she
froze the needle cube the night before, and the next
day she showed her parents she stuck it in the microwave.
Her parents, not suspecting what she was doing or even
knowing what she was doing, weren't able to stop her
before she opened the microwave and pulled it out. Of course,
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it was scalding hot, and when she took it out
it exploded. Her father ran to her and attempted to
pull off the pieces of the goo kind of wipe
it away, but being that it was a scalding hot, plastic,
goopy liquid, it had already adhered to Scarlet's skin, and
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as the dad was pulling off the needle, he also
pulled off parts of scarlet skin with it. She sustained
really bad injuries to her face and her chest. The manufacturer,
Shialing Toys hasn't yet responded, but they did issue a
warning on their website that reads quote do not heat
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freeze or microwave may cause personal injury. TikTok also warns
on its site that the platform quote doesn't allow the
display or promotion of dangerous activities and challenges or violence. However,
as these TikTok challenges go, many of them are dangerous
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and many of them do end in violence, like for
this poor young girl, Scarlet Selby. Fortunately she's healing, but
she very well maybe left with lifelong scars.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, those warnings are for just legal limiting legal liability,
nothing more. I can appreciate that they put on the package,
you know, do not heat freeze or put in the microwave,
but who actually reads packages and if you're doing TikTok challenges,
you're obviously throwing the crash into the wind. And it's
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an unfortunate story, but it's not an unusual story in
this age of social media.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Here's yet another TikTok challenge story which has every opportunity
to go wrong so far, knock on wood, not many
instances that result in this sort of injury or anything, uh,
any other calamity. But this TikTok challenge is going to
make all of us, I would say, north of forty
just shake our heads and throw our hands up in disbelief.
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What this TikTok challenge is involves is eating those biodegradable
packing peanuts that come in boxes with your packaging. Well
you've seen those foam peanuts shaped packing nodules. They're not edible.
We all know that.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That's no who define all? Because clearly not all of
us know that.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I would say everyone north of forty, I hope would
know this is something you do don't eat. However, there's
a TikTok challenge going around to eat these biodegradable packing peanuts.
And the thing about it is it's not your run
of the mill, white standard foam peanut. This one is
a little different. There's a company it's called Lush. They
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have different makeup, I think in lotion, things like that,
and they pack their products using something that they say
is in fact somewhat edible, but they don't want people
to eat it. They're packing scenario is that they use
eco friendly materials and these materials dissolve in water and soil.
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They're made with a potato starch base. These peanuts, they
look just like the other packing peanuts. Again, they are
not to be a snack. But people online are taking
to their cameras recording themselves taking out packaging and then
taking out these peanuts, these biodegradable peanuts, saying that they
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make for the quote perfect bedtime snack. They say that
they are completely edible because they dissolve in their mouths.
One person wrote online, hey, did anyone know that Lush
packing peanuts are edible? Well they're not, but they are
being advertised online on YouTube and on TikTok as eco
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flow chips. Again, they're a potato starch base. One viewer
actually said, hey, guys, slow down. Biodegradable doesn't mean edible.
Another said, just because you can doesn't mean you should.
And of course Lush the company, is saying, don't eat
the packing peanuts. People, please don't do that. But in
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the interest of likes, views, shares, and Internet notoriety, people
are risking bloating, pain, and gas because these packing peanuts
are made with known carcinogens that can lead to more
than bloating in gas, but also to cancer.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I really can't feel sorry for anyone. You know that
it's not meant to be eaten. A reasonable person knows
that biodegradable as in won't sit in a landfill for
the next six thousand years, is not the same as edible.
And if you're doing it as a challenge, you know
that there is some degree of either danger or discomfort.
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Otherwise it wouldn't be a challenge. They're not saying, hey,
let's see if we can eat this oatmeal as a challenge. No,
they're doing something what there is a degree of danger
or discomfort or both. And if you should eat some
biodegradable packing material and it ends badly for you, who
am I to feel sorry for you?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I just can't.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
We've had too much Internet, We've had too much TikTok
for too long for folks not to know any better.
And if you're going to engage in any of these
lenges at this point, you know, God help you.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Whatever happens happens.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And just like you said, Moan, I totally agree with
that there are warnings on the packaging, just like if
you open a new pair of shoes that you might
get that come with those little tiny, any bitty little
balls in the little package, and it says do do
not eat very clearly. But people are then entire part
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of social media in this case is predicated upon, like
you said, ignoring these warnings in favor of trying some
sort of dare. And these dares can really lead to
a lot of personal injury and pain. But again, in
the interest of growing your Internet base, people seem to
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be willing to do anything.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
When we come back, Part two of the Viral Load
with Tiffty Hobbs KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Now It's Sudden Them Viral Movement.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Tiffany Live Oncam.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
With Mooky, you talk about the.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Time on social media. Viralde with Tiffany Hubs. Okay, if
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's time for part two of the Viral Load, as
we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app with Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Tiffany take it away.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
All right. So this next story involves a question about
filming other people without their consent, even without their knowledge.
This particular situation happened on an airplane, and we've seen
quite a few videos go viral of people having issues
on planes, encountering strange perhaps other travelers with them on
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the plane in the cabin, or perhaps other sort of
mental breakdowns that are recorded and then shared globally so
everyone can watch and of course take part in their
Internet conversation. But it does in fact lead to the
question of is it wrong or is it illegal to
film other passengers while traveling. There's a recent story that
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popped up and it's out of Brazil. The Daily Mail
is actually covering it, and it involves a woman who
refused to give up her seat in the aisle to
a toddler. She was asked by the family to switch
seats with other airplane passengers, but she said no, she
didn't want to give up her seat. She said she
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bought that seat fair and square, and she didn't feel
the need to share it or give it up to
anyone just because she was asked. Well, of course, this
situation turned into a confrontation between the woman and the
parents of the toddler. It was then filmed by other
passengers and shared online. The woman is now saying that
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she was shamed and criticized because she refused to give
up that seat to a crying toddler, and that shame
and criticism has turned into something that she's endured online
through threats and bullying and other forms of harassment. She
has since taken legal action against the passenger who filmed
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her and the actual airline, Brazil's Gol Airlines. According to
the Daily Mail. Now the airline declined to comment because
they don't want to involve themselves in something that's illegal proceeding.
But the woman is saying again that it wasn't right
for her to be filmed, and that in the interest
of going viral and the interest of sharing everything that
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one is seeing. And I know, MO, you've said before,
stop filming your crimes people. Is it illegal? Is it wrong?
Is it ethical to film other passengers while traveling? That
is the question on everyone's lips.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
No, that's actually five questions, and there are actually five
different answers. I don't know whether the plane was in
Brazil or or you know, international airspace, but as far
as American law is concerned, you do not have a
reasonable expectation of privacy when you are in public. If
you're on a plane, you're in public. If you're in
an airport, you're in public. That's the first thing. Is
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it wrong? Is it unethical? I think it's impolite. I
think it's inconsiderate. You're on a plane, you might be sleeping,
your hair is messed up, your mouth is open, your drooling,
it's inconsiderate. Now, if I were the young woman and
the family came to me and said, hey, can you
change sheet seats with us because it's easier to manage
our badass kid, I would hope that family would do
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me the courtesy because.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I'm the one who's being inconvenience. I'm the one.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Who did pay for that seat, because we all have
to pay for the aisle seat or the window seat whatever,
or the upgrade, so there is money out of my pocket.
And you're saying, because you're masses, couldn't buy all your
tickets early enough to get everyone together that somehow I
need to shoulder that burden and also take the loss
on the seat that I paid for. No, that's that's unacceptable.
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There has to be something, some level of consideration. Hey,
I understand that you paid extra for this seat. How
about we give you twenty dollars or you know, we'll
pay for your WiFi on the plane. There has to
be some level of consideration. And that's something I would
say out loud. It's like, you want me to move.
I don't have a problem with moving, but I need
to be compensated in some way because there was actual
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money out of my pocket. So legally, can they film
that person? Probably? Is it inconsiderate? Probably? Is there anything
morally wrong with it? No, not at all. But I
think there is more blame on the family than the
young woman who refused to give up her seat.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I agree, and I think that when issues like this
are filmed, we are obviously usually only seeing one side
of the information, which may be a confrontation on one
from one vantage point and might just be someone trying
to explain or wager on the other side. But as
this woman is saying, she is now being vilified in
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the court of public opinion because people are weighing in
on what they think she should have done or could
have done better, and now it is affecting her life
something that won't affect your life. Likely is our last story,
and it has to do with clothes. We all shop,
whether you like to shop or you don't. You have
your favorite stores or just your kind of run of
the mill routine items that you might pick up. Well,
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if you're interested in a new pair of genes, but
you're not really willing and ready to commit to Jens overall, Boy,
do I have something for you?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Mo?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I think this is your perfect summer attire for the office.
Here we go, four hundred and forty dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Nope, stop there, but's for nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
But go ahead, get ready. It gets better. Jeans denim,
but only one full leg is clothed in that dinom.
The other leg is a short pant for shorts. You
literally have the best of both worlds. You have shorts
on one leg and you have full jeans on the other.
(15:24):
I'm not interested, but apparently there are lots of people
because these new genes have sold out at a four
hundred and forty dollars price point, and they are going
viral online for just how polarizing they are. There are
people who hate them. I am probably in that ilk.
(15:46):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You don't hate them, No, I don't hate them. If
people want to be stupid, they're stupid.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Just because you want to sell me a rock for
a thousand dollars doesn't mean I have to buy it.
I can take my own pair of jeans and cut
off one leg and even sell it.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
If people want to diet, that's on them. I don't
hate the idea. It just would never get a dollar
or a dime out of meat.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And people are doing what you just suggested. They're cutting
their own genes and protests of this four hundred and
forty dollars tag saying I can do this, I don't
have to pay that, because again they did sell out.
They're from the brand Kopernee. One way Denim Trouser is
the full name of it. Half boot cut jeans and
one half gene shorts, and again people are saying that
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this is something they never thought they would see. The
brand says on their website that this is a quote
radical departure from tradition so people are picking them up.
They also have a similar black trouser price at five
hundred and seventy dollars, And the new fun thing for
people to do is to go out and spend their
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hard earned money on these jeans, to go and show
them off online. And again, like I said, people in
protests are taking to their own closets and chopping up
their own denim and saying, hey, if I'm gonna be
this kind of fashionista, then at least I can save
a few dollars of my own and make my own jeans.
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But they are the new genes. They are the new
djoor hot thing on the fashion item and you might
see them coming to your office even Mo Kelly, I
would love to see you in one short side and
then one long bootcut side. I think you could really
get that trend started here at KFI.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Let me tell you in English, No, let me tell
you in Spanish. No, let me tell you in German.
Nine hell noh like Russia. Yet, No, it's not gonna happen. Luka,
always good to see you.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's great to see you, Mo.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty and did you see the video.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
In fact, I'm gonna put it up right now at
mister mo Kelly on threads this video of someone driving
a truck and it's a dad video, so it's his
or her perspective, firsthand perspective, driving down this highway in
the outskirts of Atlanta and out of nowhere, you see
this lightning strike and you hear the power and force
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of that lightning strike. I think we've all seen lightning
strikes out in the distance. I can't well put this way.
I've never been around an actual lightning strike within thirty
or forty feet of me. And growing up, I would
hear these stories about people who had survived lightning strikes,
actual lightning strikes, and I said, wow, that must be
pretty amazing. And you always hear lightning doesn't strike in
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the same place twice, and then you see a video
like this and say, damn, I'm glad it doesn't because
if it did, you definitely have no chance to survive yet.
So I just re I'll say, rethreaded, retweeted, reposted, whatever
you want to call it. At mister bo Kelly. This video,
firsthand account dashboard cam of this person driving at night,
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so it makes it even more spectacular driving at night.
Lightning strike right in the road, right in front of
the truck, and the truck has to slightly veer to
make sure it's not going to run into the aftermath
of the lightning.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
That's how close it is.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And then you'll hear the audio of it played slow down,
and then I'll also play a news report. It was
pretty pretty spectacular because I'd never seen anything like it.
And this is one thing I do appreciate. With cam
or this everywhere and the internet, you get to see
things that you wouldn't actually see before. And before I
played the audio of the video. I remember growing up
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and I used to be so afraid of lightning, and
like most parents, my parents said to me and say, hey,
if you see lightning, you can start counting thousand and one,
thousand and two, thousand and three and so forth, and
then you would know how close or how far the
lightning is from you with each successive strike. If you
can count longer, it's moving away. If you're counting shorter,
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you know it's moving closer. So I just got a
better understanding of thunder and lightning because I used to
have a big fear of it. Well, I think the
fear is coming back because I had never seen anything
like this. So here's the audio of lightning striking a
truck about thirty feet in front of it.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
A driver narrowly escaped a lightning strike while traveling along
an interstate in Atlanta. Strong storms move through the area
as part of a powerful system that tore across the
United States, producing violent tornadoes, wildfires, and dust storms.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Okay, and here's a news report surrounding it. It's not
just us talking about it.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
A driver in Georgia is safe.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
His truck nearly was nearly struff by lightning.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah, I was really incredible. Look at this while he
was driving here on I two eighty five Sunday. You
can see that bolt of lightning strikes the ground, maybe,
my goodness, a few yards in front of him. He eventually,
of course, moves over as fast as he can, you know,
being in a trap. But my goodness, he had to
plow right through the smoke that was left behind.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I'm gonna go ahead and add lightning strikes to the
things that I could do without. We don't have a
lot of electrical storms out here in California. Well, hell,
we didn't have a lot of tornadoes, but we had
one last week. So it just seems like, uh, California
is going to be the place I want to stay
unless it starts turning into other places around the country.
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If we're going to get as many tornadoes and lightning
strikes and electrical storms as they do down south or
back east, ooh, that I might have to move somewhere
else because I just can't deal with those extremes. I
didn't have a lot of time because I was over
in the previous segment and I got a lot to
say during my final thought. But if you get a chance,
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go right now to at mister mo Kelly on threads.
If you haven't seen the video, it's pretty amazing, and
then you can tweet it out or repost it or
whatever is it, y'all, do whatever it's called on threads.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Another reminder, I'm gonna leave out of here tonight right
after the show and try to get home and to
sleep just as quickly as possible. Why because I'm in
for Bill Handle tomorrow and Friday. Twala will be in
for me tomorrow and Friday. Hopefully I'll get three hours
of sleep tonight. No guarantees, So if you should happen
to tune into Bill Handles Show tomorrow and I say
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I'd a bit loopy, you'll know why. But for my
final thought tonight, I wanted to give some updated comments
about Tesla now. As Tesla stock has fallen in recent weeks,
members of the board and an executive at Elon Musk's
company have been selling off millions of dollars in stock.
And this is according to filings with the SEC. Together,
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four top officers at the company have offloaded over one
hundred million dollars in shares since early February. James Murdoch,
yes related to Rupert Murdoch, his son and a board
member since twenty seventeen. James Murdoch that is, exercised a
stock option and sold shares worth approximately thirteen million according
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to the SEC regarding a filing back on March tenth,
which coincided ticket however you want, coincided with the stock's
largest single day decline in five years.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Here's the bigger picture.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Tesla stock is headed toward a ninth straight weekly drop
and shares now have plummeted fifty three percent from record
highs back in mid December. The Tesla protests we all
know about them. The vandalism, we all know about them,
but they've been growing in recent days, and with the
White House and DOJ signaling that such acts are to
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be considered quote unquote domestic terrorism. And if you're wondering
whether Elon Musk is concerned, his public behavior suggests that
he is absolutely concerned. In a Fox News interview this week,
Musk offered the following quote, It's really come as quite
a shock to me that there is this level of
hatred and violence from the left. I always thought that
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Democrats were supposed to be the party of empathy and caring,
and yet they are burning down cars, fire bombing dealerships,
firing bullets into dealerships, smashing up Tesla's clothes quote. Whereas
it's easy and reductionist to say that the boycott and
vandalism are acts of political violence, and specifically from quote
unquote the Democrats, not so simple. The doze cuts cross
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all demographics and impact people registered to both parties to
suggest the anger over loss of jobs, benefits, and four
oh one k valuations is only attached to registered Democrats.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
That may be politically.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Expedient, but it would also be remarkably dishonest. I can
promise you the sell off of Tesla stock is not
a dim party thing. I can promise you that the
veterans impacted and angered are likely not predominantly registered Dims.
The dose cuts have been far too vast, far too
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wide and deep to argue that the only angry people
in the streets or anger against the Tesla brand are
registered Dems. The only people who are committing violence are
registered Dems. That defies explanation and mathematical logic that I know.
It caters to your political worldview if you happen to
be a Republican or a MAGA supporter, but it defies logic. Also,
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Elon Musk is not in any way attempting to endear
himself to those most affected, either insulting them directly like
Senator Mark Kelly, or more generally railing against decency or empathy.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
He definitely can't have it both ways.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I personally would never support and would never recommend violence
or vandalism never, but I absolutely can understand and point
to the catalysts, which often lead to it. Musk also said, quote,
it turns out when you take away people's money that
they are receiving fraudulently, they get very upset. They basically
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want to kill me because I'm stopping their fraud, and
they want to hurt Tesla because we're stopping this terrible
waste and corruption in the government. Well, I guess they're
bad people. Bad people do bad things. Close quote. Actually,
I'm not sure if he meant that as an accusation
or a confession, because that cuts both ways.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
But I digress.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
In any event, As I've said before and I will
say again, Elon Musk has not conducted any forensic audit
or shown any proof of any fraud. He's listed fraud,
he's alleged fraud, but he's never shown any proof. He's
alleged fraud and required we take his word for it,
while also avoiding touching any of his contracts with the
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federal government. But he will have to make a decision
as to what's most important, and it's his to make.
I can't make it for him, and no one can
tell the richest man in the world what to do,
So it's up to him. He can be an agent
of Donald Trump and continued to ruin the people's professionals
and personal lives without justification, without evidence, without empathy, and
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deal with the social ramifications of such. Or he can
step down as president and CEO of Tesla for the
sake of his investors in the future of the company.
But he will not get the latitude of continuing with Doge,
mocking his detractors, placing blame elsewhere, and expecting that Tesla
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not pay a price for its association with him. They
were already Inspectors General to do exactly what Doge claims
to be doing right now. They literally are tasked with
finding fraud, waste, and abuse, but also there are official
verification and execution processes for it to be done correctly,
legally and transparently. Elon Musk is not doing any of
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that America, and Americans have no responsibility or obligation to
just take Elon Musk's word that he is ridding our
government of waste, fraud, and abuse, and it's being done
without favor or political preference.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Nobody is obligated to take his word for.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It, nor are we to cry tears over the struggles
of Tesla while He mocks the very people he fired
and their struggles. No empathy for me, none for THEE.
Fair is fair for KFI AM six forty, I'm mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
a f I a M six forty
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now it's time for the Viral Load with Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good evening, everyone, Good evening, mister mo Kelly. Another day,
another senseless TikTok challenge, and unfortunately this one doesn't end
in laughs or lightheartedness. This one, in fact ends in
a horrible accident where a young girl, a seven year
old girl, is the victim. The TikTok challenge is a
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challenge where people are taking something that is kind of
like Plato. It's a new type of Plato. It's called
me dough n ee dh and it's a squishy stress
cube made of rubber with a polyvinyl alcohol filling. Well,
that seems pretty innocuous enough. It's Plato. You enjoy it,
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you squish it, you stretch it. That should be the
end of it, but no, TikTok has started a challenge
where they are incouraging people for some strange reason of course,
likes and shares and follows to put their needo in
the microwave to heat it and get it to dissolve
into a more pliable, malleable substance. The needle is kind
(01:16):
of firm at first, and so people are wanting to
loosen it up. That makes sense, but putting something that's
polyvinyl and plastic into a microwave does not. Unfortunately, a
young girl from Missouri named Scarlet Selby was left in
a coma after the needle that she put into the
microwave attempting to try this viral challenge exploded, covering her
(01:42):
in the guy substance. Her father, Josh says quote, it
all happened so quickly. I heard her scream and it
was blood curdling. She lives in Missouri and again was
copying this challenge that has gone worldwide. Saw it on
TikTok and on YouTube, and she thought, again, this young girl, Scarlet,
(02:05):
that this would be something fun to do. First, she
froze the needle cube the night before, and the next
day she showed her parents she stuck it in the microwave.
Her parents, not suspecting what she was doing or even
knowing what she was doing, weren't able to stop her
before she opened the microwave and pulled it out. Of course,
(02:27):
it was scalding hot, and when she took it out
it exploded. Her father ran to her and attempted to
pull off the pieces of the goo kind of wipe
it away, but being that it was a scalding hot, plastic,
goopy liquid, it had already adhered to Scarlet's skin, and
(02:49):
as the dad was pulling off the needle, he also
pulled off parts of scarlet skin with it. She sustained
really bad injuries to her face and her chest. The manufacturer,
Shialing Toys hasn't yet responded, but they did issue a
warning on their website that reads quote do not heat
(03:10):
freeze or microwave may cause personal injury. TikTok also warns
on its site that the platform quote doesn't allow the
display or promotion of dangerous activities and challenges or violence. However,
as these TikTok challenges go, many of them are dangerous
(03:32):
and many of them do end in violence, like for
this poor young girl, Scarlet Selby. Fortunately she's healing, but
she very well maybe left with lifelong scars.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, those warnings are for just legal limiting legal liability,
nothing more. I can appreciate that they put on the package,
you know, do not heat freeze or put in the microwave,
but who actually reads packages and if you're doing TikTok challenges,
you're obviously throwing the crash into the wind. And it's
(04:02):
an unfortunate story, but it's not an unusual story in
this age of social media.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Here's yet another TikTok challenge story which has every opportunity
to go wrong so far, knock on wood, not many
instances that result in this sort of injury or anything, uh,
any other calamity. But this TikTok challenge is going to
make all of us, I would say, north of forty
just shake our heads and throw our hands up in disbelief.
(04:32):
What this TikTok challenge is involves is eating those biodegradable
packing peanuts that come in boxes with your packaging. Well
you've seen those foam peanuts shaped packing nodules. They're not edible.
We all know that.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That's no who define all? Because clearly not all of
us know that.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I would say everyone north of forty, I hope would
know this is something you do don't eat. However, there's
a TikTok challenge going around to eat these biodegradable packing peanuts.
And the thing about it is it's not your run
of the mill, white standard foam peanut. This one is
a little different. There's a company it's called Lush. They
(05:18):
have different makeup, I think in lotion, things like that,
and they pack their products using something that they say
is in fact somewhat edible, but they don't want people
to eat it. They're packing scenario is that they use
eco friendly materials and these materials dissolve in water and soil.
(05:41):
They're made with a potato starch base. These peanuts, they
look just like the other packing peanuts. Again, they are
not to be a snack. But people online are taking
to their cameras recording themselves taking out packaging and then
taking out these peanuts, these biodegradable peanuts, saying that they
(06:03):
make for the quote perfect bedtime snack. They say that
they are completely edible because they dissolve in their mouths.
One person wrote online, hey, did anyone know that Lush
packing peanuts are edible? Well they're not, but they are
being advertised online on YouTube and on TikTok as eco
(06:28):
flow chips. Again, they're a potato starch base. One viewer
actually said, hey, guys, slow down. Biodegradable doesn't mean edible.
Another said, just because you can doesn't mean you should.
And of course Lush the company, is saying, don't eat
the packing peanuts. People, please don't do that. But in
(06:51):
the interest of likes, views, shares, and Internet notoriety, people
are risking bloating, pain, and gas because these packing peanuts
are made with known carcinogens that can lead to more
than bloating in gas, but also to cancer.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I really can't feel sorry for anyone. You know that
it's not meant to be eaten. A reasonable person knows
that biodegradable as in won't sit in a landfill for
the next six thousand years, is not the same as edible.
And if you're doing it as a challenge, you know
that there is some degree of either danger or discomfort.
(07:32):
Otherwise it wouldn't be a challenge. They're not saying, hey,
let's see if we can eat this oatmeal as a challenge. No,
they're doing something what there is a degree of danger
or discomfort or both. And if you should eat some
biodegradable packing material and it ends badly for you, who
am I to feel sorry for you?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I just can't.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
We've had too much Internet, We've had too much TikTok
for too long for folks not to know any better.
And if you're going to engage in any of these
lenges at this point, you know, God help you.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Whatever happens happens.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And just like you said, Moan, I totally agree with
that there are warnings on the packaging, just like if
you open a new pair of shoes that you might
get that come with those little tiny, any bitty little
balls in the little package, and it says do do
not eat very clearly. But people are then entire part
(08:25):
of social media in this case is predicated upon, like
you said, ignoring these warnings in favor of trying some
sort of dare. And these dares can really lead to
a lot of personal injury and pain. But again, in
the interest of growing your Internet base, people seem to
(08:46):
be willing to do anything.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
When we come back, Part two of the Viral Load
with Tiffty Hobbs KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Now It's Sudden Them Viral Movement.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Tiffany Live Oncam.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
With Mooky, you talk about the.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Time on social media. Viralde with Tiffany Hubs. Okay, if
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's time for part two of the Viral Load, as
we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app with Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Tiffany take it away.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
All right. So this next story involves a question about
filming other people without their consent, even without their knowledge.
This particular situation happened on an airplane, and we've seen
quite a few videos go viral of people having issues
on planes, encountering strange perhaps other travelers with them on
(09:56):
the plane in the cabin, or perhaps other sort of
mental breakdowns that are recorded and then shared globally so
everyone can watch and of course take part in their
Internet conversation. But it does in fact lead to the
question of is it wrong or is it illegal to
film other passengers while traveling. There's a recent story that
(10:19):
popped up and it's out of Brazil. The Daily Mail
is actually covering it, and it involves a woman who
refused to give up her seat in the aisle to
a toddler. She was asked by the family to switch
seats with other airplane passengers, but she said no, she
didn't want to give up her seat. She said she
(10:40):
bought that seat fair and square, and she didn't feel
the need to share it or give it up to
anyone just because she was asked. Well, of course, this
situation turned into a confrontation between the woman and the
parents of the toddler. It was then filmed by other
passengers and shared online. The woman is now saying that
(11:02):
she was shamed and criticized because she refused to give
up that seat to a crying toddler, and that shame
and criticism has turned into something that she's endured online
through threats and bullying and other forms of harassment. She
has since taken legal action against the passenger who filmed
(11:23):
her and the actual airline, Brazil's Gol Airlines. According to
the Daily Mail. Now the airline declined to comment because
they don't want to involve themselves in something that's illegal proceeding.
But the woman is saying again that it wasn't right
for her to be filmed, and that in the interest
of going viral and the interest of sharing everything that
(11:46):
one is seeing. And I know, MO, you've said before,
stop filming your crimes people. Is it illegal? Is it wrong?
Is it ethical to film other passengers while traveling? That
is the question on everyone's lips.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
No, that's actually five questions, and there are actually five
different answers. I don't know whether the plane was in
Brazil or or you know, international airspace, but as far
as American law is concerned, you do not have a
reasonable expectation of privacy when you are in public. If
you're on a plane, you're in public. If you're in
an airport, you're in public. That's the first thing. Is
(12:21):
it wrong? Is it unethical? I think it's impolite. I
think it's inconsiderate. You're on a plane, you might be sleeping,
your hair is messed up, your mouth is open, your drooling,
it's inconsiderate. Now, if I were the young woman and
the family came to me and said, hey, can you
change sheet seats with us because it's easier to manage
our badass kid, I would hope that family would do
(12:45):
me the courtesy because.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I'm the one who's being inconvenience. I'm the one.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Who did pay for that seat, because we all have
to pay for the aisle seat or the window seat whatever,
or the upgrade, so there is money out of my pocket.
And you're saying, because you're masses, couldn't buy all your
tickets early enough to get everyone together that somehow I
need to shoulder that burden and also take the loss
on the seat that I paid for. No, that's that's unacceptable.
(13:12):
There has to be something, some level of consideration. Hey,
I understand that you paid extra for this seat. How
about we give you twenty dollars or you know, we'll
pay for your WiFi on the plane. There has to
be some level of consideration. And that's something I would
say out loud. It's like, you want me to move.
I don't have a problem with moving, but I need
to be compensated in some way because there was actual
(13:34):
money out of my pocket. So legally, can they film
that person? Probably? Is it inconsiderate? Probably? Is there anything
morally wrong with it? No, not at all. But I
think there is more blame on the family than the
young woman who refused to give up her seat.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I agree, and I think that when issues like this
are filmed, we are obviously usually only seeing one side
of the information, which may be a confrontation on one
from one vantage point and might just be someone trying
to explain or wager on the other side. But as
this woman is saying, she is now being vilified in
(14:13):
the court of public opinion because people are weighing in
on what they think she should have done or could
have done better, and now it is affecting her life
something that won't affect your life. Likely is our last story,
and it has to do with clothes. We all shop,
whether you like to shop or you don't. You have
your favorite stores or just your kind of run of
the mill routine items that you might pick up. Well,
(14:37):
if you're interested in a new pair of genes, but
you're not really willing and ready to commit to Jens overall, Boy,
do I have something for you?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Mo?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I think this is your perfect summer attire for the office.
Here we go, four hundred and forty dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Nope, stop there, but's for nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
But go ahead, get ready. It gets better. Jeans denim,
but only one full leg is clothed in that dinom.
The other leg is a short pant for shorts. You
literally have the best of both worlds. You have shorts
on one leg and you have full jeans on the other.
(15:24):
I'm not interested, but apparently there are lots of people
because these new genes have sold out at a four
hundred and forty dollars price point, and they are going
viral online for just how polarizing they are. There are
people who hate them. I am probably in that ilk.
(15:46):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You don't hate them, No, I don't hate them. If
people want to be stupid, they're stupid.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Just because you want to sell me a rock for
a thousand dollars doesn't mean I have to buy it.
I can take my own pair of jeans and cut
off one leg and even sell it.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
If people want to diet, that's on them. I don't
hate the idea. It just would never get a dollar
or a dime out of meat.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And people are doing what you just suggested. They're cutting
their own genes and protests of this four hundred and
forty dollars tag saying I can do this, I don't
have to pay that, because again they did sell out.
They're from the brand Kopernee. One way Denim Trouser is
the full name of it. Half boot cut jeans and
one half gene shorts, and again people are saying that
(16:29):
this is something they never thought they would see. The
brand says on their website that this is a quote
radical departure from tradition so people are picking them up.
They also have a similar black trouser price at five
hundred and seventy dollars, And the new fun thing for
people to do is to go out and spend their
(16:49):
hard earned money on these jeans, to go and show
them off online. And again, like I said, people in
protests are taking to their own closets and chopping up
their own denim and saying, hey, if I'm gonna be
this kind of fashionista, then at least I can save
a few dollars of my own and make my own jeans.
(17:10):
But they are the new genes. They are the new
djoor hot thing on the fashion item and you might
see them coming to your office even Mo Kelly, I
would love to see you in one short side and
then one long bootcut side. I think you could really
get that trend started here at KFI.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Let me tell you in English, No, let me tell
you in Spanish. No, let me tell you in German.
Nine hell noh like Russia. Yet, No, it's not gonna happen. Luka,
always good to see you.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's great to see you, Mo.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty and did you see the video.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
In fact, I'm gonna put it up right now at
mister mo Kelly on threads this video of someone driving
a truck and it's a dad video, so it's his
or her perspective, firsthand perspective, driving down this highway in
the outskirts of Atlanta and out of nowhere, you see
this lightning strike and you hear the power and force
(18:15):
of that lightning strike. I think we've all seen lightning
strikes out in the distance. I can't well put this way.
I've never been around an actual lightning strike within thirty
or forty feet of me. And growing up, I would
hear these stories about people who had survived lightning strikes,
actual lightning strikes, and I said, wow, that must be
pretty amazing. And you always hear lightning doesn't strike in
(18:37):
the same place twice, and then you see a video
like this and say, damn, I'm glad it doesn't because
if it did, you definitely have no chance to survive yet.
So I just re I'll say, rethreaded, retweeted, reposted, whatever
you want to call it. At mister bo Kelly. This video,
firsthand account dashboard cam of this person driving at night,
(19:02):
so it makes it even more spectacular driving at night.
Lightning strike right in the road, right in front of
the truck, and the truck has to slightly veer to
make sure it's not going to run into the aftermath
of the lightning.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
That's how close it is.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And then you'll hear the audio of it played slow down,
and then I'll also play a news report. It was
pretty pretty spectacular because I'd never seen anything like it.
And this is one thing I do appreciate. With cam
or this everywhere and the internet, you get to see
things that you wouldn't actually see before. And before I
played the audio of the video. I remember growing up
(19:39):
and I used to be so afraid of lightning, and
like most parents, my parents said to me and say, hey,
if you see lightning, you can start counting thousand and one,
thousand and two, thousand and three and so forth, and
then you would know how close or how far the
lightning is from you with each successive strike. If you
can count longer, it's moving away. If you're counting shorter,
(20:02):
you know it's moving closer. So I just got a
better understanding of thunder and lightning because I used to
have a big fear of it. Well, I think the
fear is coming back because I had never seen anything
like this. So here's the audio of lightning striking a
truck about thirty feet in front of it.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
A driver narrowly escaped a lightning strike while traveling along
an interstate in Atlanta. Strong storms move through the area
as part of a powerful system that tore across the
United States, producing violent tornadoes, wildfires, and dust storms.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Okay, and here's a news report surrounding it. It's not
just us talking about it.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
A driver in Georgia is safe.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
His truck nearly was nearly struff by lightning.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah, I was really incredible. Look at this while he
was driving here on I two eighty five Sunday. You
can see that bolt of lightning strikes the ground, maybe,
my goodness, a few yards in front of him. He eventually,
of course, moves over as fast as he can, you know,
being in a trap. But my goodness, he had to
plow right through the smoke that was left behind.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I'm gonna go ahead and add lightning strikes to the
things that I could do without. We don't have a
lot of electrical storms out here in California. Well, hell,
we didn't have a lot of tornadoes, but we had
one last week. So it just seems like, uh, California
is going to be the place I want to stay
unless it starts turning into other places around the country.
(21:44):
If we're going to get as many tornadoes and lightning
strikes and electrical storms as they do down south or
back east, ooh, that I might have to move somewhere
else because I just can't deal with those extremes. I
didn't have a lot of time because I was over
in the previous segment and I got a lot to
say during my final thought. But if you get a chance,
(22:08):
go right now to at mister mo Kelly on threads.
If you haven't seen the video, it's pretty amazing, and
then you can tweet it out or repost it or
whatever is it, y'all, do whatever it's called on threads.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Another reminder, I'm gonna leave out of here tonight right
after the show and try to get home and to
sleep just as quickly as possible. Why because I'm in
for Bill Handle tomorrow and Friday. Twala will be in
for me tomorrow and Friday. Hopefully I'll get three hours
of sleep tonight. No guarantees, So if you should happen
to tune into Bill Handles Show tomorrow and I say
(22:48):
I'd a bit loopy, you'll know why. But for my
final thought tonight, I wanted to give some updated comments
about Tesla now. As Tesla stock has fallen in recent weeks,
members of the board and an executive at Elon Musk's
company have been selling off millions of dollars in stock.
And this is according to filings with the SEC. Together,
(23:10):
four top officers at the company have offloaded over one
hundred million dollars in shares since early February. James Murdoch,
yes related to Rupert Murdoch, his son and a board
member since twenty seventeen. James Murdoch that is, exercised a
stock option and sold shares worth approximately thirteen million according
(23:32):
to the SEC regarding a filing back on March tenth,
which coincided ticket however you want, coincided with the stock's
largest single day decline in five years.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Here's the bigger picture.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Tesla stock is headed toward a ninth straight weekly drop
and shares now have plummeted fifty three percent from record
highs back in mid December. The Tesla protests we all
know about them. The vandalism, we all know about them,
but they've been growing in recent days, and with the
White House and DOJ signaling that such acts are to
(24:09):
be considered quote unquote domestic terrorism. And if you're wondering
whether Elon Musk is concerned, his public behavior suggests that
he is absolutely concerned. In a Fox News interview this week,
Musk offered the following quote, It's really come as quite
a shock to me that there is this level of
hatred and violence from the left. I always thought that
(24:31):
Democrats were supposed to be the party of empathy and caring,
and yet they are burning down cars, fire bombing dealerships,
firing bullets into dealerships, smashing up Tesla's clothes quote. Whereas
it's easy and reductionist to say that the boycott and
vandalism are acts of political violence, and specifically from quote
unquote the Democrats, not so simple. The doze cuts cross
(24:56):
all demographics and impact people registered to both parties to
suggest the anger over loss of jobs, benefits, and four
oh one k valuations is only attached to registered Democrats.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
That may be politically.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Expedient, but it would also be remarkably dishonest. I can
promise you the sell off of Tesla stock is not
a dim party thing. I can promise you that the
veterans impacted and angered are likely not predominantly registered Dims.
The dose cuts have been far too vast, far too
(25:31):
wide and deep to argue that the only angry people
in the streets or anger against the Tesla brand are
registered Dems. The only people who are committing violence are
registered Dems. That defies explanation and mathematical logic that I know.
It caters to your political worldview if you happen to
be a Republican or a MAGA supporter, but it defies logic. Also,
(25:54):
Elon Musk is not in any way attempting to endear
himself to those most affected, either insulting them directly like
Senator Mark Kelly, or more generally railing against decency or empathy.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
He definitely can't have it both ways.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I personally would never support and would never recommend violence
or vandalism never, but I absolutely can understand and point
to the catalysts, which often lead to it. Musk also said, quote,
it turns out when you take away people's money that
they are receiving fraudulently, they get very upset. They basically
(26:30):
want to kill me because I'm stopping their fraud, and
they want to hurt Tesla because we're stopping this terrible
waste and corruption in the government. Well, I guess they're
bad people. Bad people do bad things. Close quote. Actually,
I'm not sure if he meant that as an accusation
or a confession, because that cuts both ways.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
But I digress.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
In any event, As I've said before and I will
say again, Elon Musk has not conducted any forensic audit
or shown any proof of any fraud. He's listed fraud,
he's alleged fraud, but he's never shown any proof. He's
alleged fraud and required we take his word for it,
while also avoiding touching any of his contracts with the
(27:14):
federal government. But he will have to make a decision
as to what's most important, and it's his to make.
I can't make it for him, and no one can
tell the richest man in the world what to do,
So it's up to him. He can be an agent
of Donald Trump and continued to ruin the people's professionals
and personal lives without justification, without evidence, without empathy, and
(27:37):
deal with the social ramifications of such. Or he can
step down as president and CEO of Tesla for the
sake of his investors in the future of the company.
But he will not get the latitude of continuing with Doge,
mocking his detractors, placing blame elsewhere, and expecting that Tesla
(27:57):
not pay a price for its association with him. They
were already Inspectors General to do exactly what Doge claims
to be doing right now. They literally are tasked with
finding fraud, waste, and abuse, but also there are official
verification and execution processes for it to be done correctly,
legally and transparently. Elon Musk is not doing any of
(28:22):
that America, and Americans have no responsibility or obligation to
just take Elon Musk's word that he is ridding our
government of waste, fraud, and abuse, and it's being done
without favor or political preference.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Nobody is obligated to take his word for.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It, nor are we to cry tears over the struggles
of Tesla while He mocks the very people he fired
and their struggles. No empathy for me, none for THEE.
Fair is fair for KFI AM six forty, I'm mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
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