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He didn't go to a white school growing up, so he doesn't know
nothing about the pet shop boys. He doesn't know anything about the pet shop
boys. I'm gonna have to school him later. Let's talk about the Time
one hundred most Influential People of twenty twenty four. It's a list which comes
out every single year, I think since nineteen ninety nine. It's a tool.
It's a marketing tool to get people talking about Time. Anytime you see
a list of the most, the greatest, the best, it's always controversial.
It's a conversation starter. It's a discussion maker, and it leads you
back to the website where originally was posted. It is what it is.
Let's not make it more than what it is, but there's some worthy conversation
here. If they had called this list like the one hundred most interesting people
that you may not know about who were becoming very very popular over the past
year, that would have been more an apt description. When you look at
all the names and people brought together. Oh, they're all famous, they're
all well known, they're all even popular within their respective spheres of influence,
but they're not the most influential people in the world, like, for example,
and Tuila. I think you would appreciate this. I'd love to get
your opinion on this. On the list it features artists music artists like Dua
Lipa and Dojha Cat. It is insanely impossible for either or both of them
to be on this list as the most influential people of twenty twenty four.
Not when Taylor Swift and Beyonce Knowles had the years that they've had. All
Right, alady, you can't put Dua Lipa and Dosa Cat together to add
up to one Beyonce or one Tail Swift in terms of influence social media,
music, hair styles, clothing styles, lingo. There's not a day which
goes by that you don't hear a Taylor Swift or Beyonce record on multiple formats
stations all around the country and stream all around the world. Do Yeah,
So let's look at the list within that context. It's not even debatable.
And if you're not familiar with the list, if you check it out,
this really don't need me to tweet it out or sit it out. Each
person who's featured has a person who writes a letter kind of explaining them in
support of them, and you will notice that the person writing the letter and
support usually has more influence than the person who's being honored, Like, for
example, you cannot tell me, I don't care if you like the president
or hate the president, regardless of time and history previously, presently, it's
still the leader of the free world. When you have the leader of the
free world in this case, President Joe Biden writing a letter of support or
detailing like profile the head of the United Autoworkers Union, Can I ask anyone
who's that person without googling? Don't get me wrong, the president of the
United Autoworkers Union is very powerful and influential within his sphere of influence. Is
he one of the one hundred most influential people of twenty twenty four? Well
this year he might be. Is that that Sean Fame guy? It is
Sean Fame, Okay, Yeah, he's been in a lot of headlines this
year in with some major union movements. He has, but he's not one
of the one hundred in the world. It's good that you can list in
Mark and name check him, but I'm like, who, right, Okay,
I mean I'm part of this is transcendence. Okay, give you up
the list, and there are some obscure ones on here. Let me tell
you, having been worked at newspapers and magazines, these lists are just who
the people on staff like. Okay, right, there's nothing authoritative or objective
about this stuff. Ever, I'll give you a perfect example. Jeffrey Wright
is an actor who I love, and he's one I think who's been underappreciated
for decades. I had a chance to sit down and talk with them when
I was working the DNC in two thousand and eight. He's funny, he
is affable as nice as can be, but still most of the world don't
know him by name. He's a character actor. He's a character actor.
Like I love him. You know. I loved him in Westworld, I
loved him in the in the Daniel Craig Bond series. But he's not one
hundred top one hundred influential people in the world. Coleman Domingo. He was
up for an Academy award. I've long followed his work. He's not a
household name. I'm serious, he's on the list. You're kidding. Not
Jeffrey right on the same Okay, all right, right right, that's what
I'm saying, you know, And it's no hate to any of these people.
I'm just talking about the list and how it's named and when I think
of the most influential people of the world, because it's a world list.
You have world leaders, you have leaders of movements. You have the widow
of Alexi Navaldi. She's on the list. I would agree with that one.
Yeah, but I can't have her on the same list as twenty one
savage. Oh come on, but stop being serious. I am so offended
right now. There are newsmakers on this list. There are people who've inspired
others. I am not diminishing their accomplishments or contributions. I am saying that
they're not necessarily on the level of the top one hundred in the world.
Give you a perfect example. And it's open to having people on multiple years.
And wanna make this point. They have Mark Cuban on this list,
but you don't have Elon Musk. Is there anyone who's been more influential over
the past year, for positive or negative good or evil, love him,
hate him? In terms of technology, social media, news media, has
there been anyone more influential who transcends just what they're best known for more than
Elon Musk or can you say, is there anyone who has been more influential
than Donald Trump? And he's been on the list twice, he didn't put
him on this year. If anything, I think he's more deserving this year
than in previous years. Yeah, this list is actually hating if Trump isn't
on the list. I'm being serious. Yeah, yeah, it's not a
no, it's just people like to Mark's point, it's people we think we're
we think are cool, who we like, we want you to know about.
We want to give some press and publicity to at least Stephonic is on
the list. Now, this is what I would say if she were already
the vice presidential candidate, I would hear that argument. I'd hear it,
I'd listen to it. But as long as she's just a member of Congress
who gets into headlines every now and then, she's still just a trivia question.
And the only reason we know her name is because we follow this stuff
every single day, every single day. Interesting. Yeah, So that's the
thing. It's like, I'm not going to get upset. I know what
it is, and I know it's purpose. It's for us to get bothered
and all lathered up, have the discussion, talk about it. In fact,
we're going to talk about another segment because we're going to go down these
lists and get a nice hearty laugh out of some of these names, and
we're gonna say, who the hell is that? That's the whole point of
the list. So we should not take it for anything more than what it
is. And Time magazine is not what it once was, be it Time
person of the Year, the Time one hundred lists. It's a magazine from
a bygone era. And I used to love Time, the magazine, and
I read it when I was in high school. But I'm not in high
school anymore, and Time has not grown in any measurable way. It's Later
with mo Kelly. We'll have more on the Time one hundred most Influential People
of twenty twenty four or not when we come back. You're listening to Later
with Mo Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. We're talking about the
Time, the one hundred most Influential People of twenty twenty four last segment,
I was just giving some overview thoughts how this list, like any other list,
is just to provide controversy and converse and publicity and exposure. Four Time
magazine and this list, you know, click on the list and talk about
it at the water cooler, on your job, on the air, all
that kind of stuff. We see it for what it is. But if
we look at the list on its merits, I don't know if there are
even ten people on this list who are amongst those one hundred most influential people
of twenty twenty four in the world. Because this is a world list.
Now they break down the different groups into artists, icon, pioneers, yad
yah, yadah, blah blah blah. I was saying that this list and
Mark said, at first, this is the list of just the employees who
they like, because it doesn't really it doesn't jibe with reality. If you
have music artists on here, but you don't have the most influential music artists
presently in the world on the list, it's suspect. If you have tech
innovators on here, but you don't have the most influential tech vader on here,
then it's suspect. If you don't have the leader of the free world,
regardless of party, it's suspect. This is what I want to do,
So get ready, Stephen Mark Twalla. I'm going to read names on
the list in the various categories, and I just need to know if you
know who in the hell this person is. Can we do that? Yeah,
I gotta tell you. I pulled up the list and it's hard for
me to express to you how much news I read in a given day.
I didn't know half these people, right, no exaggeration, half of them.
All Right, let's go down the list because people are listening and they
said, well, I've been looked at the list yet. Well okay,
well we'll take care of that for you. Let's just start at the top,
in no particular order, just how they're listed on the Time website.
It starts with artists Dua Lipa. We've covered her. I know who she
is. I know she isn't one of the most influential people in the world.
Yeah, not even in music right now, he's not at all.
Yeah. No, couldn't name a song either, could I you know?
But I know her music's not for me. But I can name a Taylor
Swift song. I can name a Beyonce song. Death to tell know who
he is. But he's not one of the one hundred most Wait a minute,
he just has a new movie. I was right. But before that
then like slum Dog Millionaire, like who put him on the This is for
people who just made this list yesterday. Great inflation here. Yeah, it's
almost like we we hope that this person comes really big in the future.
Twenty one Savage. No, yeah, but I know him. Yeah,
I know right, he's on he's on the radio all day long. But
influential, No, no, Elijah bot A L I A B H A
T T. Nope. I couldn't tell you, Jenny Holzer, these aren't
real. These are staff, right, These are people who contribute to Jenny.
Don't do that to Channing, Jinny. I have to read because I
honestly don't know. All right, that's too much reading because if look,
if your bio is that long, then you can't be that influential. He
should be Donald Trump, former President of the United States, real estate magnate,
Oh, got it right, should be that short Coleman Domingo. Yes,
he was up for an Oscar I'm familiar with his work as an actor,
but he's still not even a household name. Jump yeah yeah, Divine
Joy Randolph saying, except she won an oscar? No, like, like,
what was she in when? Okay, sure, all right, all
right, all right, it's a great movie, but she's not in the
top hundred. Yeah, that's no. No, I don't know the name.
I'm sorry, you need do I Lauren Groff sounds familiar, but look,
familiar doesn't get on. Listen. We need some Jeopardy music, right,
Yeah, I don't want to read the whole bios. I mean,
how long you know who the person is? How long is the bio?
Is a page? Usually? Okay, yeah, we don't need that.
Jeffy Wright covered him. Fantasia Barrina know who she is? She's not even
one of the most influential names in R and B or God doesn't make any
sense. I mean, look, I know she was just in color purple.
Theyre talking about people who were in movies they just you know, basically,
I think that's the prevailing theme. Next up, former guests on the
show love this guy. I don't know if he's in the top one hundred.
Leslie Odom Junior Manuel Miranda before Leslie Odem Junior. Yeah, yeah,
that's fair. LaToya Ruby Fraser. Okay, sure, Alex Edelman once again,
I know the name, but I couldn't tell you what way you're doing
thing from? Where is? That's what I'm saying. I know it's he
related to Rick Edelman. What do we say? Give it to him?
Give it to No? Oh, you mean as in Rice Delman Ricedelman dot
com. That's an inside radio joke, right, Yes, it is h
James McBride. No, no, Brooks Headley, Heady heady, never bother
Hele Singer. That was that was That was a history of the world joke.
Y'all missed it? No? No, that was a uh blazing saddles.
Oh yes, well Harvey Corman, how about that? Okay? Taraji
p Henson, she's a newsmaker. You know who she is, But see
that one kind of I mean, not influential, but at least she's more
of a household name than you know these last few. I mean, she
was trying to go all out for women in acting while ago, but nothing
happened. I could I could get that one. I'm saying, nothing happened,
like like all of a Sudden Studios didn't say, hey, here's more
money. So I don't know about the influence. I'm saying influential and how
in what ways. I'll hear the argument, but it probably would fail Kylie
ten years ago, Wow, yeah, ago, Elliott Page, I like,
yeah, yeah, I could see the influences. I could see the
influence because of what he's done and the attention that Yeah, okay, burn
a boy, no, come on, wow, come on stop it.
Get some music artists don't worry about it, So go ahead, Michael J.
Fox. Yeah, I can see that. I can say that for
four I mean between the film that he's yeah, the the attention he's brought
to the cast, I mean absolutely right now yeah, and he's still acting.
Yeah, so that's I'm a golden who. Moving on Sophia Coppola,
No, the most influential Copla in the family. Random, she's the third
most influential, right, Like that's a promo right there. Okay, uh,
Jenny and misog name Frank are you saying these names right? Because you're
just making up serious motaz A Zisa. I had a case of that once
ftastasized it was painful to sit on Saks Malik that required penicillin. Mark Mark
Cuban. Okay, there we go. Okay, we're getting somewhere. Hiyao
Miyasaki. Yes, yes, yeah, yea, yeah, absolutely especially right,
yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, absolutely,
absoluolutely. Suzanne Samard absolutely not a type of the type of French cheese.
Absolutely not. Julianne Lessinge, Rosanna Flamer Caldera. It's almost like this is
high school graduation. I'm reading off names do fromage No, no, no,
okay, let's do this one more group before we go to break.
This is the Titans category. Patrick Mahomes, I'll listen to it. He's
the you have a football player in the league. I'll listen to it.
Satya Nadella maybe maybe, Okay, sure, go for it. Oza Wilson,
I know who she is, Okay, w Inba on the Best Wnba.
Oh okay cool. Kelly Reaper, No what no? Wait from the
show A Morning Yeah are usual? That's not a soccer player, isn't it
the morning show host? I think that's a soccer player. Yeah, it's
good, Good Morning America. No, don't no, no, that one's
got her own show with her husband now well yeah, yeah, with Mark
Yeah, Kelly, Yeah, but that show. I thought the one you're
talking about is a soccer player. There there's there's a Ripper who's a soccer
player. I don't know. I don't know. I would neither on the
list. Neither one of them make the cut. Okay, we gotta go
to break, but we're gonna finish this list when we come back. It's
Later with bo Kelly K six forty lives everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're
listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. Because
we continue with the list of times one hundred most influential people of twenty twenty
four or maybe the most influential people of their office. Because half these people
I don't know the name of no disrespect. We're going to continue reading through
the list just if we've heard of these people, not whether they're the most
influential, because they're not, just whether we've heard of them all. Right
back to the lists. We're still in titans. This is Jack Antonov.
Anyone that's alyphemism for something we can't talk about before ten pm. I quite
safe for word. Come on, be stingy. He is looking at this
Okay, No, no, dice, keep going. Uh the thunder tests,
Sunda Brown Ducket. I think it's tests, Sunda Brown Ducket. I
think you have that wrong. But the person, but the person who wrote
her letter is Jamie Diamond heard of Jamie? Kay? Yeah, he belongs
on the list more than she is, right, Which takes me to the
next person, Donna Langley, who obviously is a filmmaker because there's like a
film camera right next to your head. But I don't know who she is.
Does this say what she's done? I'm quite sure. I don't feel
like, Look, you gotta read the whole page now. Yeah, okay,
but you know who wrote her letter though, Jordan Peel, I know
who he is. He's influenced a lot of people. Yeah, he's influential,
all right. Do you know who Beth Ford is? Great granddaughter of
Henry Ford? Maybe maybe gonna be my guess too. Yeah, there are
only so many fours out there who are influential related to the Oh, no,
I'll let you. I'll let you have that one. I'll let you
have that generous Well, you know I'm a generous guy, you do know,
That's what I tell everyone okay, back to the list. Wang shue
afoot now now if you said Wang Chung, I would do blow down.
The last name is spelled c h u A n F you. That is
a respectful Bart Simpson right there, c h u A n F you.
Everybody before we get all get put off the air. Kelly Robinson, oh
from yeah, of course, okay with Alexander Scott, Yes, no different
Kelly Robins at uh Chizuku. We know, okay you e n o Okay,
okay, Jasper Broden, Jessper, that's a one ja but Jesper,
I know that's they can go with Jasper Wow, Jess Okay. Larry Ellison
Oh wait wait wait the writer. Yes, Tony Blair, that makes sense.
Yeah, yeah, we've had we've had I think we've had him on
the show. I believe. So if I'm not mistaken for I think if
we go back, I think we've had him on the show. No,
this this guy developed oracle, different guy. Are you sure we'll look it
up? Yeah, I'm looking at I'm looking at right now. Okay,
keep them all right, let me go back. Took me to the top
of the list. I'm gon scroll down. Next is Joanne can we get
an easy name to pronounce Jesus h Joanne, cravosorot c R E v O
I S E r A T. She still don't know who she is?
What does she do? I'm not looking, but she does. She makes
you appreciate Jackie right, if you have to ask, that means we don't
know who she is. All due respect that Max Verse stopping. Okay,
that's that's like something you're I don't know, the influential in the world.
You're stopping, Mark Schnell, Holy pulse. I okay, that was a
diehard reference. Now to the leaders, Julia, Yes, okay, yeah,
uh, these names are really difficult. Narga's mohammedy. What's that one?
A R G E S. Mohammadi. You don't want to get kicked
in the nargist. Mohammedy, You're going straight to hell. Do not pass
go You scold me, and yet you laugh speech. I know, I
know I'll be behind you, but I'm saying you go first. Donald Tusk,
Oh yeah, president of mm hmm. William Lae creator that you put
in your hair to straighten it. I think he's the new president Taiwan.
I think I'm pretty sure, okay, yeah, okay, Greg Abbott as
in governor, Oh yeah, okay, influential, Well, yeah, I
want to say rondas four, Greg Abbott, he's one of fifty US governors.
Yeah, how was he even close to the one? You could say?
He's very influential in the debate about immigration. I'm just trying to figure
out you're trying him makes sense? That announsense I'm trying to Yeah, and
I know that's my number one rule. Marina Silva. There's a brazil connection
because I see a Brazilian flag in the background of her. She gives people
Brazilians. William Burns is just gonna move right past that. William Burns,
Bill, I have no idea, no e g and Carroll you know,
yes, yes, Rina Lee r e n a Rina. Yeah, that's
what happens when you're Kidney knew you were going for that. We've known each
other too long, Okay. Javier Milet in my l e I no blank
Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Junior. I know is daddy. Yeah, it's got to
be somebody in the Philippines who was related to the how many Ferdinand Marcos?
Yeah? There did he Inherit his mom's shoe collection. That's the important thing.
That's a deep cut. Okay, history for that one, all right,
keep going. Was it Amelda? Yeah, Mohammed ben abdua raman Al
Tommy. I like the way on that one. Yeah, solid, But
that's all. That's it though. Yeah, at least the fan it we
covered her. Diana Salazar Mendez. I know she has something to do with
ecuador crickets. I've reckoned. I've heard the name before, Ecuadorian crickets.
Yeah, Jack Smith okay, oh, the special prosecutor. Yes, yes,
yes, I'll accept that one. In terms of influence, Rachel Goldberg,
Poland, Are you saying that's where she's from? No, p O
L I N Poland? Yeah, A J bangam behave Mark behave Mark,
Gavin Newsom oh g t f o h. Come on, hey, he
runs the world's fifth largest economy. That is that is that is okay?
All right, that's an argument. William Rutto No, uh, Georgia Maloney
no relation to Christopher the Italian Prime Minister. Okay, Lee kang as in
q I A m G. That sounds like a star Trek villain. Come
on, he's a klingon g r. Shaw is gonna keep going past that,
right. I am Lauren Lovett, Blovelt Blauvelt. These names are killing
me. Andre You're not take a break, okay, Innovators, We're gonna
run through this. Maya Rudolph know who she is? Sean Fay covered him,
Seea Kalishi a Kiko of Asakian Kreese nothing. I think it's the brothers.
Uh Sense cries, oh my god, Corry Birch, Rachel Hardiman,
Katsuhiko Hayashi. I like to order those extra spicy. I feel like we're
at the DMV. The window twenty five, Dominique Crinn, Dave Rix,
Connie Walker, Julie Sweet, Jonathan Anderson, Mister Anderson, Marina Tibasum and
Pioneers. I think this is the last category because I know we're over Leslie
Loco l O k Ophelia Doll. That is a fake name for sure,
Ophelia Doll. Come on, show me on the Afelia Doll, Kennedy odentity
O d E d E Kennedy Odsity, Joshua Benio. I'm just running through
these. Ozma Khan, Kelly Sawyer, Pratchikov and Norah Weinstein. These writers
really had their finger on the pulse, didn't they? Priam Priam, Vada,
Nata, Johann Lana must Chop and Dan Drucker any one of the three
sam S, Simberis Sharon the no relation to Avril and Stuart or Kin.
I think he owns a pest control company. If this were jeopardy, we'd
all be getting our asses kicked. No. Look, look, one hundred
most influential, and we don't know most of them, not even half.
Most of them. You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty and before we get out of here. Look the list was
what the list was the time? One hundred the most of influential. I
guess they wanted to influence us and get us to learn more about those individuals
more than anything. But I don't think anyone was already being influenced by most
of those people. A handful at best a handful. But you know,
congratulations, Time Magazine. You got like an hour on my show, so
that should be worth something. That was their goal. No, it was
their goal, and I get that. I don't think they're fully anybody,
but it's just you could have done better. You really could have done better.
If you want to call it, hey, people to watch in twenty
twenty four, got it, I'm right there with you. I can't argue
with any of those names because they're probably on the precipice of doing something which
is newsworthy and maybe someone that you'll want to find out more about learn more
about. But if I don't know you from just name alone, it's kind
of hard for you to say that you're one of the most influential in the
world, because the people who are really most influential in the world, they're
kind of known the world over. Kind of those hand in hand, doesn't
it. In my experience, the staffs at papers and magazines, they get
so far up their own coinslots that their things are obscure because they think if
they pick somebody or something popular, that that's beneath them. You got to
be correct, because going back to those variety lists of the of the you
know, the greatest television shows, of the greatest movies of all time,
it is so esoteric at times and so far afield you think you're missing the
obvious ones right in front of you. They don't make sense more times than
not. But you know, Yeah, how would you say a full fifty
percent or more of that list were completely alien to us? Seventy five percent
I'm being serious, no exaggeration. Agreed three out of four, which begs
the question. Then just had to throw that in to annoy you. But
it begs the question. Then then how authentic can that list be if you
have a room full of I would say pretty knowledgeable people who stay abreast of
current events and news, who follow this very closely, have no idea who
most of the people are. Not saying that they're unimportant. I'm just saying
they're not readily recognizable. And if they're not readily recognizable outside of their sphere
of influence, then how influential can they honestly be on the world stage.
Twala called it right off the bat, that list is invalid. Yeah,
yeah, maybe we're overthinking it. It's just invalid. And that's that kind
of like Ta Walla's knowledge of music, Okay, whatever, Okay, just
like Kenny Love. Look, I like Kenny Loggin's better one. His name
was El Debars. How about that? That's what I'm gonna say about like
El Debar's too. No, That's what I'm gonna say about that enough Kenny
Loggins. Wow, you really got to go out of your way to dump
on Kenny Loggin's night. What's he ever done to you? Nothing except create
great music. You need to time out to wala. I don't know who
did you wrong, but someone hurt you. Your antipathy toward him is palpable
and I don't get it. Not to figure that out, but we'll figure
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