Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: KIM six forty. It's a letter with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 3: Let's go beyond the box score on this Monday with
Speaker 3: Jackie Ray who joined me in studio.
Speaker 2: Jackie Ray is good to see you. What's going on.
Speaker 4: It's good to be here.
Speaker 2: You know as I do.
Speaker 3: This was a big season for the WNBA, with the
Speaker 3: addition of Caitlin Clark and Angel Reees, among others, but
Speaker 3: specifically people were focused on those two rookies joining the
Speaker 3: league what it might do for the prospects of the league. Well,
Speaker 3: news has come out that the WNBA is set to
Speaker 3: lose about forty million dollars despite the historic aspect of
Speaker 3: this season.
Speaker 2: I think I know why that is. But did it
Speaker 2: surprise you?
Speaker 4: It didn't.
Speaker 5: The WBA hasn't made a profit since its inception, so
Speaker 5: it's gonna be years, literally years. Even once they starting
Speaker 5: in the black, it's still going to be a while
Speaker 5: before they turn a profit because they have been in
Speaker 5: the red for so long. But the good news, and
Speaker 5: I know a lot of people who just see that number,
Speaker 5: you go, oh my god. The good news is they
Speaker 5: were projected to be fifty million dollars in the red
Speaker 5: and it's only forty. So that just is a testament to,
Speaker 5: you know, the things that are coming at this what
Speaker 5: is like a two point four billion dollar TV deal
Speaker 5: that's going to last over several years. That's coming, and
Speaker 5: you know, the game is just getting better, just like
Speaker 5: with the Men's League. You know, the men's League for
Speaker 5: a while, the game when you look at Jordan's time
Speaker 5: to now, the game is different. I think it's progressed
Speaker 5: in a lot of ways. It's declined in others, but
Speaker 5: that's just how it grows. So it's growing. I think
Speaker 5: it's mimicking the NBA a little bit. I think my
Speaker 5: disappointment is the NBA knew some of the downfalls that
Speaker 5: it experienced, some of the reasons why it took so
Speaker 5: long to take off, and so since you know that,
Speaker 5: and since you were the catalyst who even launched the WNBA,
Speaker 5: I would have really hoped that they circumvented some of
Speaker 5: those problems, gave the w a bigger.
Speaker 4: Boost much much sooner.
Speaker 5: But it just didn't happen that way, and the WS
Speaker 5: had to be kind of on its own for a while.
Speaker 4: But I'm excited about this season.
Speaker 5: This is down, hands down, one of the best finals
Speaker 5: series I have seen as far as the WNBA are
Speaker 5: actually any basketball at all.
Speaker 4: So it's very exciting.
Speaker 3: Since you mentioned the finals, which just concluded, the New
Speaker 3: York Liberty won its first w NBA championship, but not
Speaker 3: without controversy. The Minnesota Links coach basically was saying that
Speaker 3: the officiating was siding with the New York Liberty and
Speaker 3: that's why they won, just paraphrasing, what did you make
Speaker 3: of that controversy?
Speaker 5: So, first of all, Cheryl Reeve is my favorite coach
Speaker 5: in the WNBA, so I tend to lean if she
Speaker 5: said it.
Speaker 4: I'm a rock with it.
Speaker 5: This is not one of those times, because the truth is,
Speaker 5: the officiating has been garbage the whole entire season. It's
Speaker 5: just been really, really bad officiating. If you watch the finals,
Speaker 5: there were some calls that were made that shouldn't have
Speaker 5: been and there were some overturns that didn't happen. So
Speaker 5: I don't think the officiating was the best. However, you
Speaker 5: can't go into overtime and not score a single basket
Speaker 5: and then.
Speaker 2: Blame it on the officiating.
Speaker 4: That's just not how that works for me. So I
Speaker 4: hear what she's saying.
Speaker 5: There was definitely some questionable no calls, But like my
Speaker 5: coach used to always tell me, if it comes down
Speaker 5: to whether an official does or does not make a
Speaker 5: call for you winning the game, then you had already
Speaker 5: lost the game much earlier.
Speaker 4: So that's not how that works.
Speaker 2: I say this as a basketball fan.
Speaker 3: I say this as someone who has watched the growth
Speaker 3: of the WNBA after it used to be the WNBA
Speaker 3: and the ABL. That's how far back I personally go.
Speaker 3: I personally have been very excited with what I've seen,
Speaker 3: and I know Rome, as they say, was not built
Speaker 3: in a day. This was the first step of many
Speaker 3: which are going to be taken, which have to be
Speaker 3: taken for the league to grow. I knew that the
Speaker 3: TV deals and ernest weren't going to kick in until
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. These growing they may still be going on,
Speaker 3: but they're not forever. And since they have some real
Speaker 3: when I say talent, talent that's being recognized, talent that's
Speaker 3: being seen, you have more fans coming to the game.
Speaker 3: And that's what I think people misunderstood. Just because you
Speaker 3: have more fans coming to the game. It doesn't make
Speaker 3: the game more solvent. The game makes money through the merchandise,
Speaker 3: and the game makes money through the television deals, and
Speaker 3: as those things continue to pick up, and they are
Speaker 3: picking up, we'll see more growth of the WNBA. My
Speaker 3: question to you, bigger picture, are we just at the beginning,
Speaker 3: because when you have folks like Juju coming into the.
Speaker 5: League, Juju, let me tell your page Page Beckers, which
Speaker 5: fingers crossed the LA sparks will get. But I think
Speaker 5: we're in a different time because now it's more social
Speaker 5: media driven. When you have young players like this who
Speaker 5: are already on social media, they when you elevate I've
Speaker 5: been saying this for years and it just seems like
Speaker 5: people are catching on. I'm go to say they're finally
Speaker 5: listening to me, but maybe that's not the case. But
Speaker 5: when you elevate the person and elevate their specific brand,
Speaker 5: you automatically elevate the league and the specific team that
Speaker 5: they're on. Because if you are a fan of Caitlin Clark,
Speaker 5: now you care about the Indiana Fever. It's been a
Speaker 5: long time since anybody cared about the Indiana Fever, even
Speaker 5: though they have.
Speaker 3: No no it's never been any time in which people
Speaker 3: care about the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 4: It's not a long time trying to be nice.
Speaker 3: Don't lie to me, Okay, we know nobody ever cared
Speaker 3: about that franchise.
Speaker 5: Ever, even with the Leah Boston they had the number
Speaker 5: one draft pick two years ago, nobody cared.
Speaker 4: It was so easy.
Speaker 5: And I can tell you as a person who covers
Speaker 5: the WNBA, when you get star power like Angel Reese
Speaker 5: and Caitlin Clark, usually get a scrub. That's how you
Speaker 5: So when a scrum means is it's a bunch of
Speaker 5: reporters interviewing one.
Speaker 4: Player at a time.
Speaker 5: That's what you get when you get these star power
Speaker 5: rookies or these big name players Aliah Boston make a call,
Speaker 5: you get in a one on one with her, because
Speaker 5: nobody cared about the Indiana Fever. So, but when you
Speaker 5: elevate the little bit of attention they did get was
Speaker 5: because of Elijah Boston and all the attention that they're
Speaker 5: getting now is because of Caitlin Clark. So you do
Speaker 5: have to really capitalize on the young people coming in
Speaker 5: and their understanding of social media and being a presence
Speaker 5: in the social media world. That's going to bring in
Speaker 5: these new fans, you definitely have to capitalize on that.
Speaker 5: So I do feel like we're moving in the right direction.
Speaker 5: It's just going to be interesting to see. Do they
Speaker 5: make it hard Because covering USC before was as an
Speaker 5: independent journalist.
Speaker 4: No problem, no problem.
Speaker 5: I got an email the day before yesterday says, hey,
Speaker 5: we know you're independent. We really need you to be
Speaker 5: with a big name outlet to cover this season. So
Speaker 5: there's ebbs and flows because I think one of the
Speaker 5: things you're doing in that is really dismissing journalists. And
Speaker 5: I'm my own brand, so I know the importance of
Speaker 5: building your own brand. That's an audience that you're going
Speaker 5: to miss out just because I'm not affiliated.
Speaker 3: Let me just jump in there, Yes you are, because
Speaker 3: you're affiliated with iHeartRadio, which happens to be the biggest
Speaker 3: audio content provider in the world.
Speaker 2: Just want to put that out there.
Speaker 5: Yes, but they but they say, because I'm representing Jackie
Speaker 5: Ray TV, So what I should just just send an
Speaker 5: email from my personally because I told them, I said
Speaker 5: I work for iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4: They go, we know, but.
Speaker 2: It's a game that we all have to play in
Speaker 2: this business.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, but that just shows you the growth,
Speaker 5: because that's a bougienss. You don't do that when no
Speaker 5: one's really watching.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 5: Now that everyone's watching, Now you just get your little
Speaker 5: bougie on.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this before we go to break.
Speaker 3: There has been discussion about whether the WNBA needs to
Speaker 3: lengthen its season to help create more revenue opportunities for
Speaker 3: franchises and of course, you know, more games, more people,
Speaker 3: more merchandise, more television rights, more money for those television rights.
Speaker 3: Is that something that they should do or is it
Speaker 3: premature given that you may possibly grow too fast, too
Speaker 3: soon and not be able to accommodate it.
Speaker 4: I'm going to say it's premature. Sure.
Speaker 5: I'm going to base that answer entirely off of my
Speaker 5: experience covering the LA sparks.
Speaker 4: It's a cost attached to that.
Speaker 5: So when you linked in the season, you have to
Speaker 5: open those arenas, you have to have employees there to
Speaker 5: work the arenas, you have to have the lights on.
Speaker 5: There's a cost attached to that. So if you're not
Speaker 5: close to being solvent yet, I don't know. They have
Speaker 5: made an announcement that they're going to extend the finals
Speaker 5: next season to seven games. I'm fine with that because
Speaker 5: that's two teams. Everyone can be hyper focused on that.
Speaker 5: But the season as a whole, we just extended it
Speaker 5: from what thirty six to forty games. I think it
Speaker 5: needs to sit there for a while because again, there's
Speaker 5: cost to extending that season, and I think be a
Speaker 5: little bit more solvent.
Speaker 4: Before you go into that.
Speaker 3: When we come back, let's stay in the basketball lane.
Speaker 3: Bronnie James very very controversial. If you will pick by
Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Lakers. The season is getting ready to start.
Speaker 3: Maggie Johnson, I would say mister Laker originally came out
Speaker 3: and said that BRONI wasn't ready.
Speaker 2: He needs at least a year in the G League.
Speaker 3: Now he's chanted, and I wonder if there were not
Speaker 3: outside pressures on him to change his mind. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about that next KFIM six to forty live everywhere in
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3: With Jackie Ray still as we go beyond the box
Speaker 3: score and for whatever reasons, Magic Johnson, who we talked
Speaker 3: about with his first thoughts of Bronnie James, the son
Speaker 3: of lebron James, has made an about face. He originally
Speaker 3: said that Bronnie paraphrasing, was not ready. He needed another year,
Speaker 3: He needed more growth, He needed more time before he
Speaker 3: could fill out an NBA roster again paraphrasing. Now, Magic
Speaker 3: Johnson has changed his tune and said it Bronni's gonna
Speaker 3: be a good player in the NBA. To what what happened?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: This one is rough for me because this is like
Speaker 5: you're singing rock music and all of a sudden you
Speaker 5: go to hip hop with no training. There's nothing to
Speaker 5: back up this statement for me, because we haven't seen
Speaker 5: enough preseason. Sure, he got I believe, fourteen points in
Speaker 5: his last preseason.
Speaker 3: Game, and no one, no one would be singing the
Speaker 3: praises of that.
Speaker 5: No one, no one, because the thing is, yeah, it's preseason.
Speaker 4: No one takes preseason seriously.
Speaker 5: It's equivalent to a bunch of All Star games where
Speaker 5: people are just kind of having fun at getting their
Speaker 5: basketball legs if you will back under them. But it's
Speaker 5: nothing to take seriously. I have echoed the same sentiments.
Speaker 5: You have echoed the same sentiments. Everybody who's ever watched
Speaker 5: basketball has echoed the same sentiments. While his last name
Speaker 5: is James, and yes, lebron is one of the greatest
Speaker 5: of all time, that does not Michael Jordan has proven
Speaker 5: to us that just because you're the greatest of all
Speaker 5: times does not mean that it's going to translate to
Speaker 5: your offspring. He has proven that to us. We know this,
Speaker 5: we've seen it before. We're lucky that Bryce is good,
Speaker 5: We're lucky that Bronny is decent.
Speaker 4: But to say that he.
Speaker 5: Is ready to be a starter, and then he doubled
Speaker 5: on it, and that's what made me upset.
Speaker 4: He was like, look at what we've done with Alex Caruso.
Speaker 5: Bronni's going to be a starter, just the same way
Speaker 5: the way that the Lakers train people up.
Speaker 4: I'm like, did you just compare Bronnie to.
Speaker 5: Alex Caruso and Austin Reeves and Austin Reeves.
Speaker 4: I was not prepared for that.
Speaker 3: Let me tell everyone exactly what Magic Johnson said. Most recently,
Speaker 3: he said, quote, Laker Nation, I have to tell you,
Speaker 3: Bronnie James is going to be a really good basketball player.
Speaker 3: Last night he showed he has a few things you
Speaker 3: simply can't teach high basketball IQ, athleticism and a competitive
Speaker 3: spirit that makes him a tenacious defender. I believe after
Speaker 3: a lot of hard work this season, he'll definitely be
Speaker 3: in the Lakers rotation and playing heavy minutes. Close quote
Speaker 3: that may or may not be true, but what I've
Speaker 3: seen on the court is not consistent with a regular
Speaker 3: rotation basketball player in the NBA. His defense, I would say,
Speaker 3: is above average. His shooting and be able to his
Speaker 3: ability to create his own shot is below average. I
Speaker 3: think because he's undersized and it's preseason, they're going to
Speaker 3: be coming for him during the season, and when he's
Speaker 3: in those high leverage situations where he's expected to perform
Speaker 3: and demanded to perform, it's going to be a very
Speaker 3: different situation.
Speaker 2: And I'm not wishing him to fail.
Speaker 3: I'm just using my fifty years of basketball watching as
Speaker 3: a reference point. Rookies usually don't do well unless they
Speaker 3: are exceptional.
Speaker 5: Kobe Bryant included, right, and he's not even at the level.
Speaker 5: Clearly not at the level. Kobe was not even close
Speaker 5: to the level his dad was, and his dad can
Speaker 5: straight out of high school.
Speaker 4: So it is really.
Speaker 5: Putting this level of expectation on this kid who had
Speaker 5: a major life event is problematic, and it's dare I
Speaker 5: say dangerous, because now he's going to try to lift
Speaker 5: up to these standard perhaps push himself to limits that
Speaker 5: he's probably shouldn't physically go to right now. But he's
Speaker 5: not ready at all, and I think it could impact
Speaker 5: his ability to get mentally ready when you start adding
Speaker 5: these pressures on him and say, you know what, by
Speaker 5: the end of this season, you're going.
Speaker 4: To be starting.
Speaker 5: No, by the end of the season, you should be saying,
Speaker 5: I had an amazing time in the G League. I
Speaker 5: think I'm this much closer to being amazing on a roster.
Speaker 4: But don't put the cart before the horse. This is
Speaker 4: a bad idea.
Speaker 2: People don't know the Laker history.
Speaker 3: The Lakers first round pick last season didn't even get
Speaker 3: the first round.
Speaker 2: Jalen Hoods Freedom did not even get out of the
Speaker 2: G League.
Speaker 3: Okay, just as a reference point, just because you're drafted
Speaker 3: doesn't mean that you make the team. It means you
Speaker 3: won't get cut, you'll stay at the organization. I don't
Speaker 3: want to get in all that. But if your second
Speaker 3: round pick, rarely do those picks make the team rarely?
Speaker 2: It's a tradable asset. That's about it, right right.
Speaker 5: We drafted you because we think maybe we can use
Speaker 5: you to elevate us in other ways later.
Speaker 2: Right down the road. We think that you have potential,
Speaker 2: we can develop you.
Speaker 3: That's you gonna be playing serious minutes as a rookie.
Speaker 3: It doesn't happen, but we'll see. They're welcome to prove
Speaker 3: me wrong. But before we get out of here, Jackie Ray,
Speaker 3: what are you working on?
Speaker 5: So I am excited about this week's podcast. I got
Speaker 5: a call from the mayor of Long Beach who was
Speaker 5: upset about a take, and it just made my whole
Speaker 5: day when the mayor decided to call me and say,
Speaker 5: I ain't like your.
Speaker 2: Take but it was, but was it wrong? You don't
Speaker 2: have to like it right right right?
Speaker 4: So he and I argued about that for a bit.
Speaker 5: He has emailed me over some things which I am
Speaker 5: going to review about Measure JB here in Long Beach,
Speaker 5: which I have been on the record and say I
Speaker 5: would not vote yes for. I'm going to review everything
Speaker 5: he sent me. It's a plethora of documentation. But I'm
Speaker 5: going to represent to you guys on Tuesday right here
Speaker 5: on the iHeartRadio podcast app wherevery streaming your podcast. You
Speaker 5: can listen to that and see if I will do
Speaker 5: a magic Johnson and all of a sudden change my mind.
Speaker 3: From what I know about you, You're pretty thorough in
Speaker 3: your preparation and your research, right, I'm thinking, No, that's.
Speaker 4: What I'm thinking. It'll be fun to see if there's.
Speaker 3: Nothing wrong with being open to more information. I am
Speaker 3: a big proponent of new information. Look, you know, I
Speaker 3: thought one way about this, but then I receive more
Speaker 3: information or new information and it's either enhance my opinion
Speaker 3: or change my opinion.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and that's the That is a lesson for
Speaker 4: the masses. You need to be able to.
Speaker 5: Growth comes from learning new things and changing your perspective.
Speaker 5: That's how we grow as human beings. You do not
Speaker 5: have to be rigid in your thought process. That is
Speaker 5: a lesson.
Speaker 2: That's why we love you. And we'll see you next week.
Speaker 4: Chack, you d see you next week.
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Speaker 2: Gentlemen, it's come to my attention that a breakaway Russian
Speaker 2: republic CRYP Lakistan is about to transfer a nuclear warhead
Speaker 2: to the United Nations in a few days.
Speaker 3: Here's the plan.
Speaker 2: We get the warhead, and we hold the.
Speaker 3: World ransom for.
Speaker 2: One million dollars.
Speaker 6: M m m, well don't you think we should maybe
Speaker 6: ask for more than a million dollars?
Speaker 2: A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days.
Speaker 6: Virtukon alone makes over ninety billion dollars a year.
Speaker 7: Really, it's not.
Speaker 2: Okay? Then we hold the world ransom for.
Speaker 3: One hundred billion dollars. Kfi mo' kelly, we're live everywhere
Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio app. Is Elon Musk, the real life
Speaker 3: version of doctor Evil. To some, he is, to his
Speaker 3: supporters and Trump supporters he is not. But here's the
Speaker 3: one million dollar tie in. Elon Musk is plasing to
Speaker 3: give away one million dollars a day to voters for
Speaker 3: signing his Political Action Committee's petition backing the Constitution. But
Speaker 3: this is where it gets complicated. It is illegal to
Speaker 3: pay someone for their votes, and it's illegal to pay
Speaker 3: someone to register to vote. But in this is the
Speaker 3: gray area where the incentive is to sign a petition.
Speaker 3: But to sign the petition and be eligible for the
Speaker 3: million dollars, you have to be already a registered voter.
Speaker 8: Elon Musk says every day he'll give one lucky registered
Speaker 8: voter a million bucks if they sign a petition from
Speaker 8: his pro Trump Political Action Committee, which is the latest
Speaker 8: way of the world. The world's richest man is boosting
Speaker 8: the former president. But whether the contest is legal and
Speaker 8: what Musk's endgame is are both unanswered questions. CBS is
Speaker 8: Joeline Kent reports.
Speaker 9: It's the Elon Musk Show on the Trump trail and
Speaker 9: must win Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: As a nice person is Seandreer.
Speaker 9: The world's richest man is handing out million dollar checks
Speaker 9: to swing state voters sweep steak style once a day till.
Speaker 1: Election Day, and all you have to do is sign
Speaker 1: a petition in support of a constitution.
Speaker 9: He's also poured seventy five million dollars into his own
Speaker 9: pack to get Trump voters to the poll.
Speaker 3: What he really wants to do is get people who
Speaker 3: he thinks are going to vote for Trump but aren't
Speaker 3: registered to register to vote.
Speaker 9: Federal election law says it's a crime to pay anyone
Speaker 9: to register to vote or simply vote.
Speaker 7: Is Elon Musk acting illegally the.
Speaker 10: Actions that we're seeing it violates federal law pretty clearly. Actually,
Speaker 10: I don't think it's a particularly close.
Speaker 9: Calls is dangling incentives to voters after he was promised
Speaker 9: a prominent role in a second Trump white House.
Speaker 1: I will create a Government Efficiency Commission, and Elon, because
Speaker 1: he's not very busy, has agreed to head that task force.
Speaker 9: His company's SpaceX and Tesla have benefited from billions in
Speaker 9: federal government grants and contracts.
Speaker 6: And I'm very concerned about a country where people like
Speaker 6: Elon Musk others that are sucking up to Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: That will undoubtedly be What did he say?
Speaker 3: What was that? The governor Knwsom said, that will undoubtedly
Speaker 3: be undoubtedly. That's not a word. There's undoubtedly, but not undoubtably.
Speaker 6: That will undoubtedly be carved out of regulations undoubtedly.
Speaker 2: Getting he did it again, he needed twice in one sentence.
Speaker 3: Irregardless, that's not a word, okay, irregardless of what the
Speaker 3: governor said, undoubtedly is not a word. It's like supposedly, no,
Speaker 3: it's supposedly undoubtedly, not supposably or undoubtedly.
Speaker 2: I am so disappointed in this governor. How can you
Speaker 2: not know.
Speaker 6: That, Donald Trump, that will undoubtedly be carved out of regulations,
Speaker 6: undoubtedly gotten.
Speaker 2: Doubtably he did it for emphasis or emphasists as they.
Speaker 6: Say they get massive, even larger federal contracts. I mean
Speaker 6: it is an American oligarchy.
Speaker 9: Musk also uses X formerly Twitter, which he owns, to
Speaker 9: promote Trump to his two hundred million plus followers.
Speaker 2: Now listen to this part.
Speaker 3: This is really important about the impact of what Musk
Speaker 3: has been doing, whether you like him or not.
Speaker 9: According to a CBS News investigation, Musk has used x
Speaker 9: to amass three point three billion views on posts about
Speaker 9: election security so far this year. Nearly sixty percent amplified
Speaker 9: false or misleading information.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that?
Speaker 9: Nearly sixty percent amplified false or misleading information, including unsubstantiated conspiracies.
Speaker 7: A third one million dollar check was just given away
Speaker 7: in Pennsylvania tonight. And when we reached out to Musk
Speaker 7: and his pack about whether this violates federal election law,
Speaker 7: a source directly familiar tells us it's confident in the
Speaker 7: legality of this initiative.
Speaker 2: As a practical matter.
Speaker 3: It really doesn't matter whether it is or is not
Speaker 3: legal for this reason, not whether you care whether it's
Speaker 3: illegal as a practical matter, unless there is an immediate injunction,
Speaker 3: it's not going to stop what he is doing, and
Speaker 3: any lawsuit after the fact is not going to undo
Speaker 3: any votes or registrations which may be connected to this.
Speaker 3: On the flip side, as a practical matter, the people
Speaker 3: who are signing this petition and who are already registered voters,
Speaker 3: it's fair to assume that they're already Trump voters. And
Speaker 3: if they're not Trump voters and they just are in
Speaker 3: it for the money, well you paid someone a million
Speaker 3: dollars for someone who's not going to vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: So as a practical matter, I don't know if it
Speaker 3: changes the landscape in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: But even if it is deemed.
Speaker 3: Illegal, and even if there is an injunction filed and
Speaker 3: put in place, we are now what fifteen days away
Speaker 3: from the election, it's probably not going to make much
Speaker 3: of a difference.
Speaker 2: But here is the most important point.
Speaker 3: We are now in this slippery slope, this very gray
Speaker 3: area where money is going to in the next instance,
Speaker 3: probably move even closer to that line, or go further
Speaker 3: on the other side of the line, where they're just
Speaker 3: out now outright just buying votes, paying for votes, or
Speaker 3: paying for voter registrations.
Speaker 2: This is pretty much that.
Speaker 3: But since it's done so late in October and no
Speaker 3: one had dared to do it before, it's not going
Speaker 3: to make any difference in the sense of no one's
Speaker 3: probably going to step in to stop it. But the
Speaker 3: other side of that is is it really changing any votes?
Speaker 3: Is it encouraging anyone to vote who was not going
Speaker 3: to vote? Because both sides are trying to make sure
Speaker 3: that they can close that enthusiasm gap and get out
Speaker 3: their voters, turnout is going to be key. But in
Speaker 3: a state like Pennsylvania, the Democrats still have an advantage
Speaker 3: when it comes to enthusiasm. But this is again a
Speaker 3: result of that Citizens United horrible Supreme Court decision. If
Speaker 3: you're worried about the power of a few people dictating
Speaker 3: what happens in this country or as far as foreign policy,
Speaker 3: look to moments like that Supreme Court decision which said
Speaker 3: that there's no such thing as too much money in
Speaker 3: our politics, and there are people like Elon Musk trying
Speaker 3: to buy an election all by himself. It's later with
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Speaker 3: And here is your horoscope for this week, and it
Speaker 3: has to do with a pasta dish which aligns with
Speaker 3: your zodiac sign.
Speaker 2: I'm not Italian, I'm not of Italian descent.
Speaker 3: I am going to unintentionally mispronounce some of these dishes,
Speaker 3: probably horribly. I'm letting you know in advance. It's not intentional. Robin,
Speaker 3: are you, by chance of any Italian descent?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, so you can't help me, No, Tawala Tanzanian. He
Speaker 3: can't help me, Mark Ronner, any Italian blood?
Speaker 10: No, But I grew up in a city that was
Speaker 10: nothing but Italian Catholics, and I was like the Tom
Speaker 10: Hagen figure in everybody's family. So I might have.
Speaker 3: Your back, Okay, No guarantees, because you've never had my
Speaker 3: back in your life, so I'm not sure if I
Speaker 3: can depend on anyone to help me through these pronunciations. Again,
Speaker 3: it's unintentional, but I'm self aware and I'm going to
Speaker 3: mispronounce some of these dishes.
Speaker 2: Charge it to my head, not my heart. Aries.
Speaker 3: The pasta dish which aligns with your zodiac sign is spaghetti. Pomodoro.
Speaker 3: Aries is not a sign renowned for subtlety, and Pomodoro
Speaker 3: blutly and beautifully translates to tomato in Italian did not
Speaker 3: know that making up for nuance with absolute delightfulness. The
Speaker 3: dish sings with simplicity and comes together fast and easy,
Speaker 3: exactly how Aries likes their meals, sexual encounters and criminal getaways.
Speaker 3: Taurus pasta pest so oh man I wanted that one
Speaker 3: love Pesto. Pesto is traditionally made with the crushed leaves
Speaker 3: of the basil plant, an herb aligned with the traits
Speaker 3: and tendencies of Taurus.
Speaker 2: Taurus, whose power color is.
Speaker 3: Green and under belly is Greed rules the second house
Speaker 3: of values and possessions, and basil has long been associated
Speaker 3: with wealth and worth. It's said that carrying basil in
Speaker 3: your pocket will draw riches, having it in your place
Speaker 3: of business will attract customers, and putting a sprig in
Speaker 3: the hand of your beloved will indicate, by withering or
Speaker 3: not whether they are virtuous or promiscuous. A helpful trick
Speaker 3: for the jealous bull Gemini. That's you, Mark right, I
Speaker 3: predict angel hair casio e pepe c acio eh pepe yep.
Speaker 3: Gemini is ruled by the planet Mercury. Name for the
Speaker 3: god of commerce and communication, trade and tricks, and the
Speaker 3: patron of shepherds, thieves, and travelers. Fittingly and according to
Speaker 3: legend legend being Gemini's loveland language, Cassiopepe was born from
Speaker 3: the necessities of nomadic shepherds who spent the late spring
Speaker 3: and early summer of course Gemini season, grazing their flocks
Speaker 3: in the Appendine mountains. For sustenance, they needed something cheap, lightweight,
Speaker 3: and resistant to rot, a holy trinity of Gemini preference,
Speaker 3: of course, and packed dried pasta and pepper for the
Speaker 3: journey cancer.
Speaker 2: Oh hell.
Speaker 3: Okay linguini alos scoglio scoglio yep.
Speaker 2: Yes, fruiti di marem.
Speaker 3: Abondanzach, while the official noodle of cancer would be the ravioli,
Speaker 3: on account of this ilk, keeping their feelings inside and
Speaker 3: spirited away under a comfortable layer of mistrust. The pasta
Speaker 3: dish that speaks most fluently to cardinal water is linguine aloscoglio.
Speaker 3: The name translates to spaghetti of the rock, and the recipe,
Speaker 3: which fluctuates in accordance with the tide, seasons and temp
Speaker 3: remant of the cook is as ever changing as the
Speaker 3: moon and many moods that rule the people of the
Speaker 3: crab Nice Leo, well I can pronounce this one Feedicini
Speaker 3: Alfredo Leo is ruled by the sun lords over the
Speaker 3: human heart and shines as the zodiac's most unrepentant romantic
Speaker 3: showman and self ordained regent. Leo's also the sign of
Speaker 3: the eternal child, and in nineteen oh eight, in the
Speaker 3: eternal city of Rome, Chef Alfredo de Lelio's wife Ines
Speaker 3: gave birth to a son. According to Lucas Cesaries, the
Speaker 3: discovery of Pasta, a History and Ten Dishes in s
Speaker 3: was severely weakened from the delivery. A distressed Alfredo took
Speaker 3: to the kitchen to prepare her something nourishing and easy
Speaker 3: to digest. Like a true carb king, he made feedicini noodles,
Speaker 3: tossed him in a mulsified butter and parmesan, and said
Speaker 3: a prayer to the patron Saint of New Mothers. Ines
Speaker 3: loved the dish so much that they put it on
Speaker 3: the menu of the olive garden. I mean try to
Speaker 3: virgo Macaroni and cheese easy, That's an Italian dish.
Speaker 2: Pasta Okay, I get Pasta's not Italian dishes? Oh, I
Speaker 2: think of pasta? Never mind.
Speaker 3: Virgo is the sign of the resourceful recluse at Macaroni
Speaker 3: and cheese is the dish of choice of home alones.
Speaker 3: Hermit hero Kevin Mcowister played by in real life Virgo
Speaker 3: Macaulay Culkin. But who but a clever, mutable Earth priest
Speaker 3: would wish for their family to disappear so they can
Speaker 3: enjoy the holidays. In Peace Watch R rated movies, drink
Speaker 3: their milk from a wine glass and eat their pasta
Speaker 3: in Blessed Solitude. Libra spaghetti and meatballs, ruled by Venus,
Speaker 3: planet of love, esthetics, and attraction. Libra is a sign
Speaker 3: of partnership and popularity. In Disney's Lady in the Tramp
Speaker 3: provides the most iconic pasta scene in all of cinema history,
Speaker 3: as Belle Notte plays Tramp and Lady, two sides of
Speaker 3: the same Libra arc type, Rakish flirt and coquettish aristocrat,
Speaker 3: strike a balance and share an accidental kiss over a
Speaker 3: bowl of spaghetti and meatballs. Did you know the scene
Speaker 3: was almost cut by Walt Disney, who thought the idea
Speaker 3: of dogs eating was more ridiculous than romantic. But love
Speaker 3: went out in the end, and the spaghetti kiss remains
Speaker 3: a cultural cornerstone. Scorpio, let's go pasta alanorma? What pasta
Speaker 3: alanorma is a traditional Secilian past the salted egg plant,
Speaker 3: crushed potatoes, excuse me, crushed tomatoes, and fresh ricata. Regarding
Speaker 3: the corporeal form mortal coil, Scorpio rules the Genitalia. Wait
Speaker 3: a second, I'm just reading Scorpio rules the Genitalia.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that there was a ruler. No pun intended.
Speaker 3: And as any millennium will tell you, the egg plant
Speaker 3: emoji is a digital stand in for I can't say
Speaker 3: that on the air, but you can figure out the
Speaker 3: rest standing. Yes, it's a visual representation of an organ.
Speaker 3: Add to the sauce that the Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini,
Speaker 3: who wrote the opera Norma from which the dish takes
Speaker 3: its name, was a card carrying Scorpio sagittarius.
Speaker 2: That's me Lasagna. Why can I get lazangna?
Speaker 5: Look?
Speaker 2: I want it pest up, but you know.
Speaker 3: Zazu dining in Brisbane, Australia has gone viral for charging
Speaker 3: forty eight dollars for a crab lasagna sounds good? Actually
Speaker 3: topped with caviar does not sound good. Don't like caviar?
Speaker 3: Had it nasty? Sazu dining sagittarius is the sign of expansion,
Speaker 3: abundance at best and excess an empirical tyranny at worst.
Speaker 2: Apropos of this.
Speaker 3: Lasagna is a consequence of conquests originally developed by the Greeks.
Speaker 3: Did you know that the marauding Romans took the dish
Speaker 3: home with them, along with an entire esthetic tradition, a
Speaker 3: pantheon of gods, and a governing philosophy. In the century since,
Speaker 3: lasagna has been adapted and adopted while maintaining a richness
Speaker 3: in taste and reputation. Recent evidence includes this viral fifty
Speaker 3: dollars caviar lasagna just not taste. Doesn't sound appetizing caviar anything?
Speaker 3: Have you ever had caviar? Twala once?
Speaker 2: Did not like it at all?
Speaker 3: They had it all over parties in the music industry
Speaker 3: that was supposed to be a symbol of largess x us.
Speaker 2: I spit it into my napkin. It was bad. It
Speaker 2: was bad. Mark, have you had caviar? I like it,
Speaker 2: but I can't afford it.
Speaker 6: You like it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good. I'd try that. What did you have
Speaker 2: it with?
Speaker 10: But I would try it on an evening when you're
Speaker 10: picking up the tab. Yeah, it won't be that's ridiculously expensive.
Speaker 10: You're not gonna you're not gonna be ordering that on
Speaker 10: a Friday. I do want to see you and Tula
Speaker 10: recreate that lady in the tramp scene, though, with a
Speaker 10: piece of spaghetti.
Speaker 2: That would be heartwarming. Please proceed.
Speaker 3: Capricorn spaghetti Alaska.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's dirty. You know what that means? No,
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not going to say it on the air.
Speaker 3: Capricorn is the sign of industry, the sacred grind, the
Speaker 3: punishing work ethic, and the mighty dollar Putinska, which translates
Speaker 3: to in the style of sex workers.
Speaker 10: There we go kind of downplaying it, but you get
Speaker 10: the idea.
Speaker 2: That's the sanitized version of it.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, it's a quick and easy dish of spaghetti
Speaker 3: with tomatoes, black olives.
Speaker 2: Oh hell no, there we go, blackallics.
Speaker 3: Oh no, capers, anchobies, onions, garlic, and herbs. That sounds
Speaker 3: like a horrible kiss waiting to happen.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the prostitute part doesn't bother you so much as
Speaker 10: the black olives part.
Speaker 2: What's your point? I think I just made it. Why
Speaker 2: would prostitutes bother me? You want to keep going or
Speaker 2: you want to dwell on this?
Speaker 3: In the spirit of the enterprising sea goat legend holes
Speaker 3: that Neopolitan sex workers they have ice cream sexs No.
Speaker 2: That's just the different flavors of sex work.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, would draw men to their doors like the
Speaker 3: sirens of yore with the pungent scent of this pasta,
Speaker 3: and or prepare it between clients to maximize earning potential.
Speaker 2: It seems like it would be a turnoff, not a
Speaker 2: turn off. Yeah, you don't want pudget? Yeah? Work, No,
Speaker 2: not punge in sex? Is that the dish? Or is
Speaker 2: it right? That's almost like the dish, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Aquarius pastacomanata carbonaire carbonare carbonare carbonara is typically made with eggs,
Speaker 3: cured pork, parmesan, and cracked black pepper. Aquarius is ruled
Speaker 3: by two planets, staunch traditionalists Saturn and burn it Down
Speaker 3: build it back better, Euratus the planet, of course, always,
Speaker 3: It's always the planet. It's never referring to anything else.
Speaker 3: Never has the energy of these two luminaries found more
Speaker 3: acute culinary expression than in the Carbonara gate. It all
Speaker 3: began when a French website's recipe for a one pot
Speaker 3: carbonera using blasphemous bold type pasta went viral. The video
Speaker 3: sparked international debate among Italian food writers, chefs, home cooks,
Speaker 3: and pasta makers who were outraged by the break in
Speaker 3: orthodox preparation and the breakdown of general decency. Further fuel
Speaker 3: in the fire was a New York Times recipe the
Speaker 3: call for tomatoes to be added to Carbonera, which some
Speaker 3: likened to declaring war on Italy.
Speaker 2: And last is Pisces breakfast spaghetti you know whatever.
Speaker 3: In the Christmas classic Elf Efferves and Buddy is the
Speaker 3: quintessential Pisces, living and loving out loud with an endearing
Speaker 3: and unhinged sense of whimsy. His spirit and that of
Speaker 3: all fish folk is made manifest in this breakfast calamity
Speaker 3: of noodles covered in maple syrup, Oh Gosh, cereal, pop tarts, hope, marshmallows,
Speaker 3: cheer candy, and an inextinguishable enthusiasm.
Speaker 2: And that is your pasta horoscope for this week. KFI
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