April 3, 2025 • 34 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 the latest exercise trend known as 'Rucking,' to the joy of Jenn aka ‘That Good News Girl,’ who has gone mega viral for sharing fun, uplifting news every day, and MORE…PLUS – Thoughts on an particularly nasty outbreak of Norovirus aboard the ‘Queen Mary 2’ luxury cruise ship - 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
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Kelly Show. It's social media, Facebook, It's next, TikTok Viradney,
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Load Timney k if I Am six forty.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
It's Later with Mo Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
You know what time it is. It's time for the
Viral Load with Tiffany Hobbs. Let's get it. One of
my favorite things to do is to visit Barnes and Noble.
I love a good bookstore.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
I know Nick Poliochini has talked to you, I believe
about the last bookstore in downtown LA. Bookstores are going
the way of the Dodo bird. Unfortunately, but if you're
lucky enough to find one, hold on to it.
Speaker 7 (01:02):
And Barnes and Noble happens to be my bookstore. Du jore.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
This story, this next viral story comes out of Barnes
and Noble.
Speaker 7 (01:11):
You know, mo.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
When you visit a Barnes and Noble or other bookstores,
you might happen upon an author doing a book signing
or a book reading. Well, such is the case for
a man from Toronto. His name is Jonathan Stanley, and
on March twenty second, he set up a table at
Barnes and Noble in Pennsylvania, waiting to sign copies of
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his new book titled Purpose Full Performance The Secret Mix
of Connecting, Leading and Succeeding. However, no one showed up
for his book signing. Jonathan Stanley sat there for the
hour hour and a half no one showed up, and
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a woman who happened to be in Barnes and Noble
recorded a video of him. Because that's the world we
live in. Everything is recorded, and the video was meant
to encapsulate what she was seeing at the time, which
is this man sitting at a table with books with
no one lining up to hear or sign his material.
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Now what this woman said, and her name is Taylor
may Dinelli, is quote. This sweet man is sitting at
Barnes and Noble with a stack of his books he wrote,
and my heart is breaking every time someone passes him.
That was the caption to her video. She uploaded it
to TikTok and it went viral immediately, having now been
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viewed over seventy six million times. It garnered twenty eight
thousand n climbing replies to the post from places such
as Ghana, the Philippines, and of course Stateside, with people
saying how do we buy this book? How do we
support this man? The recording and the uploading was done
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completely unbeknownst to Jonathan Stanley, who at the time had
no clue what was happening online. Earlier that day, when
Jonathan Stanley had set up his book or his stand
with his new book, he had only sold twelve copies.
He had only sold twelve copies up until that point.
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He self published the book in August of twenty twenty four,
and that day that this video went viral. His book
became an Amazon bestseller and was placed on Amazon's overall
top twenty five list and went number one in multiple
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business book categories.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
I love It, Stanley says.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Jonathan Stanley says he started to figure out that something
was different.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
His phone was buzzing.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
He was getting alerts on social media saying Hey, we
want to buy the book, or wow, I just saw
you on TikTok.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
He said he had absolutely no clue again that.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
This had happened, but he remembered earlier in the day
that he had met a young girl. She was about four,
and she had come up to him while he was
at the table, curious as as ever, and he said
to her some very inspirational words just to kind of
motivate her as a young book reader. But in a
very beautiful coincidence, that little girl ended up being the
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daughter of Taylor may Dinelli, who took the video and
uploaded it to TikTok.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
How infrequently do we hear about a story where the
power of social media does something positive?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Not often, very infrequently. Wanted to start with something positive
because of.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
How it all hell, here we go, got ahead of myself.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
All right, No, no, this next one is far from negative.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
It's pretty motivating.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
If you're looking for a new exercise, red sh then
this next viral story is for you. Mo I regularly
see you stand at the table here, you'll march in place,
walk in place. You do laps around the building here
on the floor to get your cardio in so that
you're not just sedentary for the hours you're on air.
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A lot of people love walking and count walking as
being one of the most viable and valuable exercises for
your health. Well, there's a new exercise trend and it's
called rucking.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Haven't you cussed me on the show.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
R U c k Ing, and it has a host
of physical and mental health benefits. It's walking, but it's
the idea of carrying something heavy on your body. It
is carrying weight on your body technically on your back.
And like regular walking, rucking is an accessible exercise. You
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can do it with anything that you have in your home.
Put a backpack on, load it up with some sort
of weighted something. Get that weighted blanket out, Get a
few ten pound you know, small hand barbells there, put
it in your backpack and it's supposed to, of course
add weight to you that you will then carry around.
So it helps with your strength training, it helps with
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your endurance, it helps with your cardiovascular workout. But it
is becoming popular because people are sharing it online as
something brand new. It's this brand new phenomena for people
who haven't yet figured out that it's what many people
do anyway. And they gave it a cute little tagline rucking.
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And I'll say, if you have a big rucking pack,
then you know you're in good shape.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
There.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Pack your bag so that you are rucking appropriately.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Rucking is a terrible word.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It is you need to watch your mouth?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
What the ruck?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
What the I'm just talking about a little it's I mean, Mo,
for God's sakes.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Is to watch your mouth or we're gonna have to just,
you know, cut off your mic?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Oh what the what's going on around this place? Mo Kelly?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Cut off for Mike can't keep up with all that profanity.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
I'm too fast for you. You should rock, You should
rock a little bit more. Mo, how did that get through?
FCC is going to be knocking on your rocking door.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Huh got you?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It's Later with mo Kelly, Part two of the Viral Load.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
In just a moment, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from kf I AM six forty.
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Now it's Talking My Room a Little with Tiffany Live
on campile To with mo o Kelly, you'll talk about the.
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Time this com social media five with To, then.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Hubs jf I AM six forty Later with Mokelly live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Let's start Part two of
the Viral Load with Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
We can all use a healthy dose of good news.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
There's a lot going on.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
In the world, and it's easy to inundate yourself go
down the rabbit holes, so to speak, of negative information
negative news. Well, this particular story is about a woman
who has gone viral because what she does is share
good news.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Her name is Jin.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
She goes by at that good newsgirl on TikTok and
she's gone viral to the tune of two point three
million followers because her videos have struck a chord with
her audience. The videos are likely it's likely that you've
seen her videos. They're mega popular, extremely popular, being shared
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hundreds of thousands of times. One such video chronicles the
unlikely friendship between a wild squirrel and a pet dog.
Feel good content for sure. Other videos include a cat
who landed his dream job at a bookstore. As you
can see, some of this may not necessarily be steeped
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in reality, but is certainly whimsical and feel good. And
another story details the fourteen year long friendship between a
Turkish fisherman and a stork. She's definitely a Disney princess.
I love her and many other people love her as well.
Clips again have gotten hundreds of thousands of views, close
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to one hundred thousand likes, and you would think that
with the amount of followers two point three million that
jin has amassed.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
That she's been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
No, she actually just started her account in twenty twenty three,
and here's why. Says she was at home, stuck in
her bedroom, feeling pretty lousy and down in the dumps.
She says she couldn't even remember the last time that
she smiled, and it seemed like absolutely nothing good was
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happening in the world. But she says, I knew that
couldn't be true. She says she uploaded one video and
after one of the videos suddenly took off and got
over one hundred thousand views, she realized that there were
lots of people out there like her, looking for things
to smile about. She then decided it was her mission
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to make content that would make people feel good. The
other interesting part of Jim's story and her viral fame
is that if you go to the comments, which is
always discouraged, don't go to comments, because that's where he
find largely the sustpool of humanity. Her comments are largely
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a largely positive You have a lot of people in
there atone to the fact that this is information that
they needed, that they've been going through depressions, themselves that
they're so happy to see this Turkish fishermen and the stork,
or these cats and dogs or other sorts of stories.
And because this community that Jin has created is so positive,
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she touts that is a part of her brand that
she's pushing positivity, tight knit community and appreciation for gratitude.
So if you want to follow her again, something really
positive she is at that good newsgirl on TikTok. The
last story is strange. It's strange. By now, you probably
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have seen this story. You didn't even know what you
were looking at. You heard it, you saw it, Moe,
I'm sure you've gotten wind of it. There's this guy
who went viral. He's a fitness influencer and he posted
a video that was taken and re shared by another account,
a fitness account, and this video is about this young
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man's wake up routine. It's titled wake Up with Me
or get Ready with Me? Okay, pretty innocuous stuff, but
his video starts at three fifty two in the morning.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Who does he think he is? U Mo filling in
for Bill Ham?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Oh, you know, well, he decided this is something he
revels and he enjoys it. He wakes up at three
point fifty two and for the next five and a
half hours, he shares with his followers his morning routine,
which involves rubbing a banana on his face, a banana peal,
dunking his face multiple times in ice cold water.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
You get to see that he bathes practically with bottled
water and all these kind of unusual and sometimes obnoxious
habits and routines that he has within this five and
a half mourning, five and a half hour morning process. Well,
what has come out of this viral video by Ashton Hall,
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the influencer we're speaking about, is that the brand of
water he's been using, Sarah Toga, has gone bonkers. People
are buying it. You can't find it on shelves. It
is selling out everywhere. You might have seen these bottles,
their cobalt blue, their glass if you remember clearly Canadian,
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that old sparkling water kind of in a nice cara
shaped bottle, kind of looks like that, and it doesn't
seem like something that you wouldn't necessarily use daily for
your bathing or your face washing or to brush your teeth,
like Ashton Hall is, but he uses the water for
a variety of purposes, including the aforementioned dunking his face
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in ice cold water. A lot of people are mocking
this video, including New York Governor Kathy Hocal, the Empire
State Building's social media account, YouTube star Mister Beast, and
many other celebrities and non celebrities alike are filming their
own content to share to make fun of Ashton Hall.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
But what is true is that Saratoga.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Water has seen a one thousand person spike in revenue,
and Google trend says that the water is at an
absolute all time high since the video was released a
little over one week ago. The power of virality, the
power of influencing and product placement. If you are smart,
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you can get your product in the hand of a
viral influencer, then your product might see an increase in revenue.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
There are a lot of variables.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It's an inexact science, but sometimes you just gotta be lucky.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
It's luck.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
It is absolutely the lucky of the draw because if
he would have chosen something else, aqua fina or anything
that's that probably also would have seen an increase in
sales as well. People really want to be a part
of something, and these viral videos capitalize and exploit people's
want to be involved, to be connected to something successful,
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and Ashton Hall is now really doing well financially because
of the virality of his videos, millions of followers, even
more millions over the course of one week. Mo It's
insane how fast this account and that one video has
blown up. Expect to see it, honestly on Saturday Night
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Live if they haven't covered it already, that's how popular
it is.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Incredible.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
That's the end of tonight's viral load.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 4 (16:00):
And if you have listened to me for any length
of time, you know I love cruising. I make no
apologies for that. It's something that I look forward to
each and every year. I think my wife has already
paid for a cruise. I think it's a Mediterranean or something.
I think we're going to go to Turkey, so we
haven't been to Turkey, so we're going to hit another
part of the world on this cruise.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And then's in August.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
If I'm not mistaken, We're usually gone to seven to
eight day cruise at the most.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
There's a reason for that.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
One You get bored, I think, and two you can
avoid some problems. Here's what I mean when I tell
you about how neurovirus has ruined a cruise for over
two hundred passengers.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There's a reason.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Okay, two hundred and twenty four passengers and seventeen crew
members fell ill. According to the CDC, the affected voyage
was a luxury Cunard Line ship traveling from Southampton, England,
through New York and the Caribbean. It's a long way,
it's a long time, and it was supposed to turn
to the United Kingdom. According to cruise Mapper, the ship,
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Canards Queen Mary two, was scheduled to travel for almost
a month, departing on March eighth, and was going to
return on April sixth. The neurovirus almost always where you
have these outbreaks, the longer the cruise, the more likely
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you will have an outbreak. If you're just a seven
or eight day cruise, you're gonna be good. I mean,
because there's an incubation period. It's not going to spread
through the ship in a short amount of time generally.
And I was telling you twalla, but even before you
got on the ship, certain things not to do to
avoid things just like this. I told, if you've ever
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been on a cruise ship, there are stairs usually at
the both ends of the ship. People will used to
walk up and down as opposed to getting on the elevator.
I told Twala, do not put your hands on that rail.
You know, risk falling and busting your ass. But the
stairs are huge. Why you don't need the rails the stairs,
or why the stairs are sturdy? I didn't even touch
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elevator button. Hello, I didn't touch door handles going in
and out of bathrooms. I kept some paper towels or
something on me. I could let me use something else
to touch that, and I used and I kept seeing
people looking sick, and I said to myself, I'm not
about to be one of those ones who get one
of these nasty bibies.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And it depends on the cruise line.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Now, Royal Caribbean, they make you wash your hands going
in and out of what they call the wind jammer.
That's the buffet section of getting food, And honestly, that's
why I would always get my food. The formal dining
experience is boring, it's slow, and after you do it
once you'd realize I don't need to do this again.
So most people go to the wind jammer and they
usually have someone in there singing song.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Like washy washy, washy, washy washy.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
They will not let you in the dining hall without
you washing your hands. There are people watching you. So
it's less likely to happen on a line like Royal Caribbean.
I don't know this line of never been on a
cruise with them, so they may not have had that
type of of you know, mitigating procedure to to make
sure people didn't get sick.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
It's called the Queen Mary Too, and right there, that's
your downfall. Well, they didn't call it a Titanic. Look,
the Queen married. The Queen Mary ain't going nowhere. Yeah,
but it not like everyone died or got no, no, no,
I'm just saying that. That's that right there is not
a successful cruise line. It's a fun destination. But no one,
no one has ever said, yeah, man, when I went
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out on the Queen Mary, why cause they ain't go nowhere.
Look it's sitting there and it looks nice. You don't
call it the Queen Mary too, right, you just don't
do that.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I am not getting on any cruise ship which is
going to be traveling for a month.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
I'm okay, suitcase from okay, okay, okay. And we had
talked about this before with that cruise line that I
believe in may have already embarked, the one that's going
to be on the seas for the entirety of the
Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, four years. You you honestly, you could not pay me.
You couldn't say, hey, Mo, we'll give you your work salary.
You don't have to work, you just live on the ship.
I would think of that as almost like a floating prison. Yes,
you're going into ports, but if you've ever been in
those state rooms, you can only fit like six.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Seven days worth of clothing.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Okay, okay, but look, okay, now, Mo, you're gonna be
broadcasting live. We know how much you love going on cruises.
We've got to deal with cruise for a lifetime cruises,
and you're gonna be broadcasting on board for the entirety
of the Trump administration, or just it didn't even have
to be that. Just you're going on a cruise for
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four years. You're saying that you're not gonna go four years?
Be it on a crime saying that's four yours get paid.
I know that, and talk to anyone who's worked on
a cruise ship. It's work. It is, it's work. Now,
if I were twenty one years old, single and living
a level of lifestyle which is consistent with someone who
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twenty one years old, no real ties to any location
or anyone, yeah, that would be cool because you know
your food is taking care of, your board is taken
care of, and you're getting paid. That would mean something.
But now, no, I would like to be able to
play with my dogs. I'd like to be able to
visit people what I want. I would like to be
able to go to someone's wedding. If you're talking.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
About four years now, a lot of life happens in
four years, and you're anywhere around the world. Would it
be nice to see all these places around the world. Sure,
But I need like a helipad or something where I
could leave the ship every now and then and come
back to the United States.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I need to do it like Basos style.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
You know, I can come and go as I please,
retirement mode.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I have thought about this. I think the idea is
more attractive than the reality. At most, I would consider
a month I've looked at the year long cruises. I
really looked at it. U's like, oh man, I'd like
to go there. I like to go there. But I
know at the end of every seven day cruise, I'm
ready to go home. I really am, because I'm tired
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of living out of my suitcase. In other words, I
can't do laundry like I want whenever I want. I
feel kind of cooped up because the ship, regardless of
how large it is, you kind of know where everything is.
There's only so much drinking I can do. There's only
you know, I want to get back to the world
after a certain point, whether I'm retired or not. That's
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what makes it special because it's not all the time
every day. There's a limited amount of time where I
can act a fool for six days if nothing else.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
You're a fantastic salesman because I was so on board
with cruises and now I don't want to do a cruise.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I'm talking about it, but it has to do with
the length of the cruise.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
We're talking about a month or a year or in
this case twelve was talking about four years. No, I
would never recommend that. Never, And I've heard of people,
you know, retiring and just at the ship. Yeah no, no,
I mean uh huh. For the super long cruises, yes,
a week, ten days, that's my max.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That's my max. You know, there's the novelty will have
worn off long before that.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Now, if I'm a twenty one year old single guy,
you going to a different port and you're meeting a
different woman all the time. Oh, that's great. As a
merry guy who's fifty five, you know, I'm not trying
to do all that.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Have you ever considered it going on the cruise that
goes through the Drake Passage?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
It's the one that.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Because I've read the news on that.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
No, it's ten days, and I just watched a little
YouTube about it with this couple that did it, and
they recommended it.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
They said it was beautiful, but fifty shot.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
It's a fifty to fifty shot. You might have a
wave which will capsize the whole ship. It's like, no,
the hell, yes, that's not Why do they advertise that?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Why is that even? That's the that's the draw.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I don't know if it's the draw, but it's one
of those things like you heard about that we talked
about the cruise ship where they had to turn off
their lights and pull their drakes because they're worried about
pirates and everything.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
If you are a.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Real cruiser, there's certain parts of the world you just
don't want to go, and there's certain times of year
you don't want to be in certain parts of the world.
There are cruises which are going to the Bahamas during
hurricane season.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I will not be on one. I don't know why
they even offer them, but they do.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Ten thousand dollars per person, by the way, for the
cruise through the drake passage, for the chance to die,
you know, they they they can't assure you that that
won't happen, but they say that it is highly unlikely,
but that you very well make it violently seasick.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Because you're unlikely event of a water landing. It's that
same type of thing.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
It's like, it's not a high likelihood, but there's a possibility.
And if you know anything about the drake passages they
encountered rough seas Yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
They call it the drake shape. Okay, the drake shake
or the drake.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Look, we're trying to get mark on the bow. That's
kind of scaring for further it's not gonna have it.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
No, No, I wouldn't mind taking like a week long
train ride someplace because you don't get neurovirus and you
can't fall overboard.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
But no way, no way. On the cruise.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I've done the week long train line. It's actually like
four or five days going from LA to Detroit. That's
not bad if you have a sleeper car on Amtrak.
I'm being serious. Yeah, you get to see America. They're
making enough stops where you get off from stretcher legs. Now,
I don't know about what the sleeper car Amtrak experience
is like. Now, do they have a car with this
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like a gym car, a car which is dedicated for
like exercise and crowd I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Yeah, I gotta look that up because I did the trip.
We caught the train to Philly from LA.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Yeah, we had to switch to a Greyhound bus once
we got close enough. But yeah, we caught the train
and that was a nice sleeper car experience. Seeing the
States on the ground level awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
But but bud, Bud, but don't do it with small children.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Well yeah, yeah, that's yes, not something I recommend.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I'm being selfish.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I would like to do it for me, and I
did it when I was actually a child, like maybe
nine ten years old, going to Detroit. This is pre internet,
so you had the family experience. It was me, my sister,
and my mother in a sleeper car. And if I
were to do it now, you'd have internet. There'd be
ways you can, you know, entertain yourself, have a drink
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or something, watch the United States pass by. It probably
would be a very relaxing experience, assuming you had a
sleeper car. But it's not inexpensive. It's actually very expensive. Yeah,
compared to flying, very expensive. And it's actually more expensive
than being on a cruise. Mark so you might as
well join us on the next alley.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
It's true, it is more expensive than a cruise. Oh well,
you really sold me on it this time, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
What I recommend is what I recommended for Twala a
nice weekend crew. It was a three day cruise. You
get your feet wet, not literally, but you get a
taste of what a cruising experience is like. And then
you can say, Okay, I'd rather elongate this and have
a seven day cruise or go to a specific location.
What I enjoy about cruising and allows is you, allows
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you to sample different destinations, not spend a lot of
time there, and if you want to come back and
spend more time there, you can. You can hit four
or five ports on a seven day cruise.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Do you consider it a rite of passage to get
violently ill on a cruise?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Not at all.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Actually you feel more motion on a whale watching trip.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
Or it's not the motion, it's the neurovirus. Well I'm
saying I can handle the motion. Okay, Well the neumal
virus we're talking about once every I don't know, four
or five years, you hear a story about that. No, no, no, no, no, no,
it's quite frequent.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
In fact, well it's not quite frequent.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
If we didn't have to go to a break right now,
I had an article prepared that lists a bunch of
recent cruises where neurovirus pro But.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Do you know how many cruises every day of every
week there are cruises? I know it were supposed to
go to break, Stephan, don't you try to spaghetti strap,
tell me to break snap. We'll stay here until nine
to fifty five.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I learn him one.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
All right, we gotta go to red, I ask forty
were Life Everywhere, da Heart Radio app.
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty and.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
For my final thoughts tonight.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
By now you've heard about New Jersey Senator Corey Booker
standing on the Senate floor for more than twenty five
hours speaking in critique of President Trump and the Trump administration,
a new record. If you happen to know the history,
it meant different things to different people and different constituencies.
If you don't know, standing on the Senate floor and
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talking at infinitum is not new, from the late strom Thurmann,
the previous record holder, to more recently Ted Cruz, who
tried to filibuster in the hopes of defunding Obamacare back
in twenty thirteen. He stood on the center floor for
twenty one hours. The question that most people have is simple,
or the assumptions are pretty predictable. What did Corey Booker accomplish?
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If anything on substance, nothing on substance, absolutely nothing. It
doesn't impact what the Trump administration has done. It doesn't
likely impact what the Trump administration will do in the
way that Senator strom Thurman's filibuster did nothing to stop
the Civil Rights Act of nineteen fifty seven, and Senator
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Ted Cruz did nothing to help repeal Obamacare on substance
made no impact. But these are times in which symbolism
can matter, I said, can as impossibly, the Democrats have
been lost in the wilderness my phraseology since November.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Booker's twenty five hours.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Can galvanize a party and focus a party, I said,
can not necessarily will, But symbolism does have its place.
Some moments can lead to momentum, and momentum can be
turned into a movement. Elections in a national sense are
all about momentum. You can go from no momentum to
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some momentum just because of one act. It could be
a speech, it could be an interview, it could be
a debate performance, and if you think about it, that
could go either way positive or negatively. Democrats will tell
you that the Wisconsin State Supreme Court election win last
night is a big step in the right momentum direction.
Maybe maybe not, but it's worth noting that in a
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race that Elon Musk spent some I don't know ninety
million dollars and gave away million dollar checks to multiple individuals.
That impact of Elon Musk was negligible or nonexistent in
terms of.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Swaying that election.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
So say what you want, but that Republican loss, it's
absolutely connected to why it's being said that Musk will
be leaving DOGE or stepping back in Trump administration duties
in the coming weeks. Put another way, that race mattered.
That's how momentum starts. And this is not about twenty
twenty eight. This is about twenty twenty six. Flip a
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few House seats and the speakership goes to Hakim Jeffreys.
No more blank check for the Trump administration. More momentum
has been generated, and so on. Here's how I know,
and we're going to use history as a guide. Ted
Cruz's twenty one hour filibuster in the hopes of defunding
Obamacare back in September of twenty thirteen was on substance unsuccessful,
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but on symbolism and momentum into twenty fourteen midterm elections.
Just a year later, the Republicans won sixteen seats from
the Democrats, and the GOP achieved their largest majority in
the House since nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Due to that Republican wave.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Arguably, you can trace the beginning of that red wave
right back to Ted Cruz's filibuster the year prior Cruz
was mocked and ridiculed by the Democrats. Sound familiar, not
unlike the Republicans who've largely have mocked and ridiculed Booker,
questioning what it accomplished.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I hope you can see where I'm going with this.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
The spark, while symbolic, is the point, of course, there
are other variables along the way, but every wave starts
with a droplet. It also bears mentioning that in the
way that Cruz used his filibuster to prime the pump
for his eventual presidential campaign, you should assume the same
with Booker. Lastly, the past is prologued, and there are
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any other meaningful parallels between filibusters and future elections. Ted
Cruz's twenty one hours on the Senate floor was one
year before a major red wave midterm and three years
before a Republican returned to the White House. Just in
case you're paying attention, So before you write off Booker's
record as just some meaningless stunt, look at the lessons
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of Ted Cruz and that roadmap. Not everything needs to
have an immediate impact or a substantive reward for it
to matter. On substance, Neither Ted Cruz nor Corey Booker
gained anything, but in the longview, don't overlook how symbolism
can be the spark that a party needs. For KFI
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AM six forty, I'm Moe Kelly.
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You know what time it is. It's time for the
Viral Load with Tiffany Hobbs. Let's get it. One of
my favorite things to do is to visit Barnes and Noble.
I love a good bookstore.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
I know Nick Poliochini has talked to you, I believe
about the last bookstore in downtown LA. Bookstores are going
the way of the Dodo bird. Unfortunately, but if you're
lucky enough to find one, hold on to it.
Speaker 7 (01:02):
And Barnes and Noble happens to be my bookstore. Du jore.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
This story, this next viral story comes out of Barnes
and Noble.
Speaker 7 (01:11):
You know, mo.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
When you visit a Barnes and Noble or other bookstores,
you might happen upon an author doing a book signing
or a book reading. Well, such is the case for
a man from Toronto. His name is Jonathan Stanley, and
on March twenty second, he set up a table at
Barnes and Noble in Pennsylvania, waiting to sign copies of
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his new book titled Purpose Full Performance The Secret Mix
of Connecting, Leading and Succeeding. However, no one showed up
for his book signing. Jonathan Stanley sat there for the
hour hour and a half no one showed up, and
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a woman who happened to be in Barnes and Noble
recorded a video of him. Because that's the world we
live in. Everything is recorded, and the video was meant
to encapsulate what she was seeing at the time, which
is this man sitting at a table with books with
no one lining up to hear or sign his material.
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Now what this woman said, and her name is Taylor
may Dinelli, is quote. This sweet man is sitting at
Barnes and Noble with a stack of his books he wrote,
and my heart is breaking every time someone passes him.
That was the caption to her video. She uploaded it
to TikTok and it went viral immediately, having now been
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viewed over seventy six million times. It garnered twenty eight
thousand n climbing replies to the post from places such
as Ghana, the Philippines, and of course Stateside, with people
saying how do we buy this book? How do we
support this man? The recording and the uploading was done
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completely unbeknownst to Jonathan Stanley, who at the time had
no clue what was happening online. Earlier that day, when
Jonathan Stanley had set up his book or his stand
with his new book, he had only sold twelve copies.
He had only sold twelve copies up until that point.
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He self published the book in August of twenty twenty four,
and that day that this video went viral. His book
became an Amazon bestseller and was placed on Amazon's overall
top twenty five list and went number one in multiple
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business book categories.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
I love It, Stanley says.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Jonathan Stanley says he started to figure out that something
was different.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
His phone was buzzing.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
He was getting alerts on social media saying Hey, we
want to buy the book, or wow, I just saw
you on TikTok.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
He said he had absolutely no clue again that.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
This had happened, but he remembered earlier in the day
that he had met a young girl. She was about four,
and she had come up to him while he was
at the table, curious as as ever, and he said
to her some very inspirational words just to kind of
motivate her as a young book reader. But in a
very beautiful coincidence, that little girl ended up being the
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daughter of Taylor may Dinelli, who took the video and
uploaded it to TikTok.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
How infrequently do we hear about a story where the
power of social media does something positive?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Not often, very infrequently. Wanted to start with something positive
because of.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
How it all hell, here we go, got ahead of myself.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
All right, No, no, this next one is far from negative.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
It's pretty motivating.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
If you're looking for a new exercise, red sh then
this next viral story is for you. Mo I regularly
see you stand at the table here, you'll march in place,
walk in place. You do laps around the building here
on the floor to get your cardio in so that
you're not just sedentary for the hours you're on air.
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A lot of people love walking and count walking as
being one of the most viable and valuable exercises for
your health. Well, there's a new exercise trend and it's
called rucking.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Haven't you cussed me on the show.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
R U c k Ing, and it has a host
of physical and mental health benefits. It's walking, but it's
the idea of carrying something heavy on your body. It
is carrying weight on your body technically on your back.
And like regular walking, rucking is an accessible exercise. You
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can do it with anything that you have in your home.
Put a backpack on, load it up with some sort
of weighted something. Get that weighted blanket out, Get a
few ten pound you know, small hand barbells there, put
it in your backpack and it's supposed to, of course
add weight to you that you will then carry around.
So it helps with your strength training, it helps with
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your endurance, it helps with your cardiovascular workout. But it
is becoming popular because people are sharing it online as
something brand new. It's this brand new phenomena for people
who haven't yet figured out that it's what many people
do anyway. And they gave it a cute little tagline rucking.
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And I'll say, if you have a big rucking pack,
then you know you're in good shape.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
There.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Pack your bag so that you are rucking appropriately.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Rucking is a terrible word.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It is you need to watch your mouth?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
What the ruck?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
What the I'm just talking about a little it's I mean, Mo,
for God's sakes.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Is to watch your mouth or we're gonna have to just,
you know, cut off your mic?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Oh what the what's going on around this place? Mo Kelly?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Cut off for Mike can't keep up with all that profanity.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
I'm too fast for you. You should rock, You should
rock a little bit more. Mo, how did that get through?
FCC is going to be knocking on your rocking door.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Huh got you?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It's Later with mo Kelly, Part two of the Viral Load.
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In just a moment, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from kf I AM six forty.
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Now it's Talking My Room a Little with Tiffany Live
on campile To with mo o Kelly, you'll talk about the.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Time this com social media five with To, then.
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Hubs jf I AM six forty Later with Mokelly live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Let's start Part two of
the Viral Load with Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
We can all use a healthy dose of good news.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
There's a lot going on.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
In the world, and it's easy to inundate yourself go
down the rabbit holes, so to speak, of negative information
negative news. Well, this particular story is about a woman
who has gone viral because what she does is share
good news.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Her name is Jin.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
She goes by at that good newsgirl on TikTok and
she's gone viral to the tune of two point three
million followers because her videos have struck a chord with
her audience. The videos are likely it's likely that you've
seen her videos. They're mega popular, extremely popular, being shared
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hundreds of thousands of times. One such video chronicles the
unlikely friendship between a wild squirrel and a pet dog.
Feel good content for sure. Other videos include a cat
who landed his dream job at a bookstore. As you
can see, some of this may not necessarily be steeped
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in reality, but is certainly whimsical and feel good. And
another story details the fourteen year long friendship between a
Turkish fisherman and a stork. She's definitely a Disney princess.
I love her and many other people love her as well.
Clips again have gotten hundreds of thousands of views, close
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to one hundred thousand likes, and you would think that
with the amount of followers two point three million that
jin has amassed.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
That she's been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
No, she actually just started her account in twenty twenty three,
and here's why. Says she was at home, stuck in
her bedroom, feeling pretty lousy and down in the dumps.
She says she couldn't even remember the last time that
she smiled, and it seemed like absolutely nothing good was
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happening in the world. But she says, I knew that
couldn't be true. She says she uploaded one video and
after one of the videos suddenly took off and got
over one hundred thousand views, she realized that there were
lots of people out there like her, looking for things
to smile about. She then decided it was her mission
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to make content that would make people feel good. The
other interesting part of Jim's story and her viral fame
is that if you go to the comments, which is
always discouraged, don't go to comments, because that's where he
find largely the sustpool of humanity. Her comments are largely
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a largely positive You have a lot of people in
there atone to the fact that this is information that
they needed, that they've been going through depressions, themselves that
they're so happy to see this Turkish fishermen and the stork,
or these cats and dogs or other sorts of stories.
And because this community that Jin has created is so positive,
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she touts that is a part of her brand that
she's pushing positivity, tight knit community and appreciation for gratitude.
So if you want to follow her again, something really
positive she is at that good newsgirl on TikTok. The
last story is strange. It's strange. By now, you probably
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have seen this story. You didn't even know what you
were looking at. You heard it, you saw it, Moe,
I'm sure you've gotten wind of it. There's this guy
who went viral. He's a fitness influencer and he posted
a video that was taken and re shared by another account,
a fitness account, and this video is about this young
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man's wake up routine. It's titled wake Up with Me
or get Ready with Me? Okay, pretty innocuous stuff, but
his video starts at three fifty two in the morning.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Who does he think he is? U Mo filling in
for Bill Ham?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Oh, you know, well, he decided this is something he
revels and he enjoys it. He wakes up at three
point fifty two and for the next five and a
half hours, he shares with his followers his morning routine,
which involves rubbing a banana on his face, a banana peal,
dunking his face multiple times in ice cold water.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
You get to see that he bathes practically with bottled
water and all these kind of unusual and sometimes obnoxious
habits and routines that he has within this five and
a half mourning, five and a half hour morning process. Well,
what has come out of this viral video by Ashton Hall,
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the influencer we're speaking about, is that the brand of
water he's been using, Sarah Toga, has gone bonkers. People
are buying it. You can't find it on shelves. It
is selling out everywhere. You might have seen these bottles,
their cobalt blue, their glass if you remember clearly Canadian,
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that old sparkling water kind of in a nice cara
shaped bottle, kind of looks like that, and it doesn't
seem like something that you wouldn't necessarily use daily for
your bathing or your face washing or to brush your teeth,
like Ashton Hall is, but he uses the water for
a variety of purposes, including the aforementioned dunking his face
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in ice cold water. A lot of people are mocking
this video, including New York Governor Kathy Hocal, the Empire
State Building's social media account, YouTube star Mister Beast, and
many other celebrities and non celebrities alike are filming their
own content to share to make fun of Ashton Hall.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
But what is true is that Saratoga.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Water has seen a one thousand person spike in revenue,
and Google trend says that the water is at an
absolute all time high since the video was released a
little over one week ago. The power of virality, the
power of influencing and product placement. If you are smart,
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you can get your product in the hand of a
viral influencer, then your product might see an increase in revenue.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
There are a lot of variables.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It's an inexact science, but sometimes you just gotta be lucky.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
It's luck.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
It is absolutely the lucky of the draw because if
he would have chosen something else, aqua fina or anything
that's that probably also would have seen an increase in
sales as well. People really want to be a part
of something, and these viral videos capitalize and exploit people's
want to be involved, to be connected to something successful,
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and Ashton Hall is now really doing well financially because
of the virality of his videos, millions of followers, even
more millions over the course of one week. Mo It's
insane how fast this account and that one video has
blown up. Expect to see it, honestly on Saturday Night
(15:47):
Live if they haven't covered it already, that's how popular
it is.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Incredible.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
That's the end of tonight's viral load.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
And if you have listened to me for any length
of time, you know I love cruising. I make no
apologies for that. It's something that I look forward to
each and every year. I think my wife has already
paid for a cruise. I think it's a Mediterranean or something.
I think we're going to go to Turkey, so we
haven't been to Turkey, so we're going to hit another
part of the world on this cruise.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And then's in August.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
If I'm not mistaken, We're usually gone to seven to
eight day cruise at the most.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
There's a reason for that.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
One You get bored, I think, and two you can
avoid some problems. Here's what I mean when I tell
you about how neurovirus has ruined a cruise for over
two hundred passengers.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There's a reason.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Okay, two hundred and twenty four passengers and seventeen crew
members fell ill. According to the CDC, the affected voyage
was a luxury Cunard Line ship traveling from Southampton, England,
through New York and the Caribbean. It's a long way,
it's a long time, and it was supposed to turn
to the United Kingdom. According to cruise Mapper, the ship,
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Canards Queen Mary two, was scheduled to travel for almost
a month, departing on March eighth, and was going to
return on April sixth. The neurovirus almost always where you
have these outbreaks, the longer the cruise, the more likely
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you will have an outbreak. If you're just a seven
or eight day cruise, you're gonna be good. I mean,
because there's an incubation period. It's not going to spread
through the ship in a short amount of time generally.
And I was telling you twalla, but even before you
got on the ship, certain things not to do to
avoid things just like this. I told, if you've ever
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been on a cruise ship, there are stairs usually at
the both ends of the ship. People will used to
walk up and down as opposed to getting on the elevator.
I told Twala, do not put your hands on that rail.
You know, risk falling and busting your ass. But the
stairs are huge. Why you don't need the rails the stairs,
or why the stairs are sturdy? I didn't even touch
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elevator button. Hello, I didn't touch door handles going in
and out of bathrooms. I kept some paper towels or
something on me. I could let me use something else
to touch that, and I used and I kept seeing
people looking sick, and I said to myself, I'm not
about to be one of those ones who get one
of these nasty bibies.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And it depends on the cruise line.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Now, Royal Caribbean, they make you wash your hands going
in and out of what they call the wind jammer.
That's the buffet section of getting food, And honestly, that's
why I would always get my food. The formal dining
experience is boring, it's slow, and after you do it
once you'd realize I don't need to do this again.
So most people go to the wind jammer and they
usually have someone in there singing song.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Like washy washy, washy, washy washy.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
They will not let you in the dining hall without
you washing your hands. There are people watching you. So
it's less likely to happen on a line like Royal Caribbean.
I don't know this line of never been on a
cruise with them, so they may not have had that
type of of you know, mitigating procedure to to make
sure people didn't get sick.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
It's called the Queen Mary Too, and right there, that's
your downfall. Well, they didn't call it a Titanic. Look,
the Queen married. The Queen Mary ain't going nowhere. Yeah,
but it not like everyone died or got no, no, no,
I'm just saying that. That's that right there is not
a successful cruise line. It's a fun destination. But no one,
no one has ever said, yeah, man, when I went
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out on the Queen Mary, why cause they ain't go nowhere.
Look it's sitting there and it looks nice. You don't
call it the Queen Mary too, right, you just don't
do that.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I am not getting on any cruise ship which is
going to be traveling for a month.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
I'm okay, suitcase from okay, okay, okay. And we had
talked about this before with that cruise line that I
believe in may have already embarked, the one that's going
to be on the seas for the entirety of the
Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, four years. You you honestly, you could not pay me.
You couldn't say, hey, Mo, we'll give you your work salary.
You don't have to work, you just live on the ship.
I would think of that as almost like a floating prison. Yes,
you're going into ports, but if you've ever been in
those state rooms, you can only fit like six.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Seven days worth of clothing.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Okay, okay, but look, okay, now, Mo, you're gonna be
broadcasting live. We know how much you love going on cruises.
We've got to deal with cruise for a lifetime cruises,
and you're gonna be broadcasting on board for the entirety
of the Trump administration, or just it didn't even have
to be that. Just you're going on a cruise for
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four years. You're saying that you're not gonna go four years?
Be it on a crime saying that's four yours get paid.
I know that, and talk to anyone who's worked on
a cruise ship. It's work. It is, it's work. Now,
if I were twenty one years old, single and living
a level of lifestyle which is consistent with someone who
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twenty one years old, no real ties to any location
or anyone, yeah, that would be cool because you know
your food is taking care of, your board is taken
care of, and you're getting paid. That would mean something.
But now, no, I would like to be able to
play with my dogs. I'd like to be able to
visit people what I want. I would like to be
able to go to someone's wedding. If you're talking.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
About four years now, a lot of life happens in
four years, and you're anywhere around the world. Would it
be nice to see all these places around the world. Sure,
But I need like a helipad or something where I
could leave the ship every now and then and come
back to the United States.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I need to do it like Basos style.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
You know, I can come and go as I please,
retirement mode.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I have thought about this. I think the idea is
more attractive than the reality. At most, I would consider
a month I've looked at the year long cruises. I
really looked at it. U's like, oh man, I'd like
to go there. I like to go there. But I
know at the end of every seven day cruise, I'm
ready to go home. I really am, because I'm tired
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of living out of my suitcase. In other words, I
can't do laundry like I want whenever I want. I
feel kind of cooped up because the ship, regardless of
how large it is, you kind of know where everything is.
There's only so much drinking I can do. There's only
you know, I want to get back to the world
after a certain point, whether I'm retired or not. That's
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what makes it special because it's not all the time
every day. There's a limited amount of time where I
can act a fool for six days if nothing else.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
You're a fantastic salesman because I was so on board
with cruises and now I don't want to do a cruise.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I'm talking about it, but it has to do with
the length of the cruise.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
We're talking about a month or a year or in
this case twelve was talking about four years. No, I
would never recommend that. Never, And I've heard of people,
you know, retiring and just at the ship. Yeah no, no,
I mean uh huh. For the super long cruises, yes,
a week, ten days, that's my max.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That's my max. You know, there's the novelty will have
worn off long before that.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Now, if I'm a twenty one year old single guy,
you going to a different port and you're meeting a
different woman all the time. Oh, that's great. As a
merry guy who's fifty five, you know, I'm not trying
to do all that.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Have you ever considered it going on the cruise that
goes through the Drake Passage?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
It's the one that.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Because I've read the news on that.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
No, it's ten days, and I just watched a little
YouTube about it with this couple that did it, and
they recommended it.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
They said it was beautiful, but fifty shot.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
It's a fifty to fifty shot. You might have a
wave which will capsize the whole ship. It's like, no,
the hell, yes, that's not Why do they advertise that?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Why is that even? That's the that's the draw.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I don't know if it's the draw, but it's one
of those things like you heard about that we talked
about the cruise ship where they had to turn off
their lights and pull their drakes because they're worried about
pirates and everything.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
If you are a.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Real cruiser, there's certain parts of the world you just
don't want to go, and there's certain times of year
you don't want to be in certain parts of the world.
There are cruises which are going to the Bahamas during
hurricane season.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I will not be on one. I don't know why
they even offer them, but they do.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Ten thousand dollars per person, by the way, for the
cruise through the drake passage, for the chance to die,
you know, they they they can't assure you that that
won't happen, but they say that it is highly unlikely,
but that you very well make it violently seasick.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Because you're unlikely event of a water landing. It's that
same type of thing.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
It's like, it's not a high likelihood, but there's a possibility.
And if you know anything about the drake passages they
encountered rough seas Yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
They call it the drake shape. Okay, the drake shake
or the drake.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Look, we're trying to get mark on the bow. That's
kind of scaring for further it's not gonna have it.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
No, No, I wouldn't mind taking like a week long
train ride someplace because you don't get neurovirus and you
can't fall overboard.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
But no way, no way. On the cruise.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I've done the week long train line. It's actually like
four or five days going from LA to Detroit. That's
not bad if you have a sleeper car on Amtrak.
I'm being serious. Yeah, you get to see America. They're
making enough stops where you get off from stretcher legs. Now,
I don't know about what the sleeper car Amtrak experience
is like. Now, do they have a car with this
(25:31):
like a gym car, a car which is dedicated for
like exercise and crowd I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Yeah, I gotta look that up because I did the trip.
We caught the train to Philly from LA.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
Yeah, we had to switch to a Greyhound bus once
we got close enough. But yeah, we caught the train
and that was a nice sleeper car experience. Seeing the
States on the ground level awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
But but bud, Bud, but don't do it with small children.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Well yeah, yeah, that's yes, not something I recommend.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I'm being selfish.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I would like to do it for me, and I
did it when I was actually a child, like maybe
nine ten years old, going to Detroit. This is pre internet,
so you had the family experience. It was me, my sister,
and my mother in a sleeper car. And if I
were to do it now, you'd have internet. There'd be
ways you can, you know, entertain yourself, have a drink
(26:33):
or something, watch the United States pass by. It probably
would be a very relaxing experience, assuming you had a
sleeper car. But it's not inexpensive. It's actually very expensive. Yeah,
compared to flying, very expensive. And it's actually more expensive
than being on a cruise. Mark so you might as
well join us on the next alley.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
It's true, it is more expensive than a cruise. Oh well,
you really sold me on it this time, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
What I recommend is what I recommended for Twala a
nice weekend crew. It was a three day cruise. You
get your feet wet, not literally, but you get a
taste of what a cruising experience is like. And then
you can say, Okay, I'd rather elongate this and have
a seven day cruise or go to a specific location.
What I enjoy about cruising and allows is you, allows
(27:17):
you to sample different destinations, not spend a lot of
time there, and if you want to come back and
spend more time there, you can. You can hit four
or five ports on a seven day cruise.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Do you consider it a rite of passage to get
violently ill on a cruise?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Not at all.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Actually you feel more motion on a whale watching trip.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
Or it's not the motion, it's the neurovirus. Well I'm
saying I can handle the motion. Okay, Well the neumal
virus we're talking about once every I don't know, four
or five years, you hear a story about that. No, no, no, no, no, no,
it's quite frequent.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
In fact, well it's not quite frequent.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
If we didn't have to go to a break right now,
I had an article prepared that lists a bunch of
recent cruises where neurovirus pro But.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Do you know how many cruises every day of every
week there are cruises? I know it were supposed to
go to break, Stephan, don't you try to spaghetti strap,
tell me to break snap. We'll stay here until nine
to fifty five.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I learn him one.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
All right, we gotta go to red, I ask forty
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Speaker 1 (28:24):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty and.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
For my final thoughts tonight.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
By now you've heard about New Jersey Senator Corey Booker
standing on the Senate floor for more than twenty five
hours speaking in critique of President Trump and the Trump administration,
a new record. If you happen to know the history,
it meant different things to different people and different constituencies.
If you don't know, standing on the Senate floor and
(28:56):
talking at infinitum is not new, from the late strom Thurmann,
the previous record holder, to more recently Ted Cruz, who
tried to filibuster in the hopes of defunding Obamacare back
in twenty thirteen. He stood on the center floor for
twenty one hours. The question that most people have is simple,
or the assumptions are pretty predictable. What did Corey Booker accomplish?
(29:22):
If anything on substance, nothing on substance, absolutely nothing. It
doesn't impact what the Trump administration has done. It doesn't
likely impact what the Trump administration will do in the
way that Senator strom Thurman's filibuster did nothing to stop
the Civil Rights Act of nineteen fifty seven, and Senator
(29:43):
Ted Cruz did nothing to help repeal Obamacare on substance
made no impact. But these are times in which symbolism
can matter, I said, can as impossibly, the Democrats have
been lost in the wilderness my phraseology since November.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Booker's twenty five hours.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Can galvanize a party and focus a party, I said,
can not necessarily will, But symbolism does have its place.
Some moments can lead to momentum, and momentum can be
turned into a movement. Elections in a national sense are
all about momentum. You can go from no momentum to
(30:25):
some momentum just because of one act. It could be
a speech, it could be an interview, it could be
a debate performance, and if you think about it, that
could go either way positive or negatively. Democrats will tell
you that the Wisconsin State Supreme Court election win last
night is a big step in the right momentum direction.
Maybe maybe not, but it's worth noting that in a
(30:49):
race that Elon Musk spent some I don't know ninety
million dollars and gave away million dollar checks to multiple individuals.
That impact of Elon Musk was negligible or nonexistent in
terms of.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Swaying that election.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
So say what you want, but that Republican loss, it's
absolutely connected to why it's being said that Musk will
be leaving DOGE or stepping back in Trump administration duties
in the coming weeks. Put another way, that race mattered.
That's how momentum starts. And this is not about twenty
twenty eight. This is about twenty twenty six. Flip a
(31:27):
few House seats and the speakership goes to Hakim Jeffreys.
No more blank check for the Trump administration. More momentum
has been generated, and so on. Here's how I know,
and we're going to use history as a guide. Ted
Cruz's twenty one hour filibuster in the hopes of defunding
Obamacare back in September of twenty thirteen was on substance unsuccessful,
(31:54):
but on symbolism and momentum into twenty fourteen midterm elections.
Just a year later, the Republicans won sixteen seats from
the Democrats, and the GOP achieved their largest majority in
the House since nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Due to that Republican wave.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Arguably, you can trace the beginning of that red wave
right back to Ted Cruz's filibuster the year prior Cruz
was mocked and ridiculed by the Democrats. Sound familiar, not
unlike the Republicans who've largely have mocked and ridiculed Booker,
questioning what it accomplished.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I hope you can see where I'm going with this.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
The spark, while symbolic, is the point, of course, there
are other variables along the way, but every wave starts
with a droplet. It also bears mentioning that in the
way that Cruz used his filibuster to prime the pump
for his eventual presidential campaign, you should assume the same
with Booker. Lastly, the past is prologued, and there are
(32:58):
any other meaningful parallels between filibusters and future elections. Ted
Cruz's twenty one hours on the Senate floor was one
year before a major red wave midterm and three years
before a Republican returned to the White House. Just in
case you're paying attention, So before you write off Booker's
record as just some meaningless stunt, look at the lessons
(33:22):
of Ted Cruz and that roadmap. Not everything needs to
have an immediate impact or a substantive reward for it
to matter. On substance, Neither Ted Cruz nor Corey Booker
gained anything, but in the longview, don't overlook how symbolism
can be the spark that a party needs. For KFI
(33:44):
AM six forty, I'm Moe Kelly.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
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it back.
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