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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
KFI AM six forty is Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Now it's time to get to the viral load on
not only KFI but YouTube with Tiffany Hops.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
All right, So, twins have always had an air of mysticism,
whether it's Tweedled and Tweedled Dumb, the two girls from
the Shining in that hallway.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We all know that hallway and the Shining.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
The idea of twins comes along with do they have
their own language? And other questions like do they possess
special twin powers? Well, there's a pair of twins, obviously
a pair, and they're going viral for a video that
recounts a carjacking of their mother, and that's on its own,
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is a really harrowing event, really tough event. But this
particular video and its virality is all about just how
in sync these two twins are. Their names are Bridgette
and Paula Powers. There from Queensland, Australia, and we're gonna
hear from them exactly what happened as they recount the
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story of their mother's carjacking and.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
One guy he was up there with our mom, and
he he went up there and he was coming back
down towards us, and he goes, run, he's got a gun,
and our hearts started a pound, and I said, well mom,
where's mom? And poor mama's stuck up there by apparently
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our bravey mom.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
She goes, are you all right?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Because he had all black his face, and he goes,
I'll shoot you. She goes, hey, I'm here to hell
A mom's strategy needing to make him look the other way.
And he looked the other way, and Mama into the
bush behind the fence, and the guy goes to, I'll
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fine you and I'll shoot you. All I was thinking
about when we're Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Joined you were keep listening. Well, see he was out
there and we were past and they're pointing the same direction.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
All of that at the time, No, you just run.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You see, there was a glitch.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
One said one thing and another the other said a
different thing. But the majority of the video they are
completely in sync, as if they've rehearsed this. But they
say this is how they've always been. They've actually gone
viral before for being on camera recounting something that happened
in the news this is what they do. They are
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fifty and fortunately their mother is okay. Was a gun
wielding carjacker. Their mother did survive this event. Uh do
not know if the carjacker was captured. But these twins
are now the latest viral sensation. They're everywhere.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
They were on Kimmel last night, Jimmy Kimmel, did you
happen to see that? I saw it?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
So they they have their Their fame now is seeing
no bounds. People love these two women and what they
do naturally.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Kind of eerie. It's kind of eerie.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
When they say finishing each other's sentences, they mean finishing
each other's sentences.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
It's a how do you say it?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Telepath telepathy?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Telepathy exactly Tilapia, it's that as well, to Tilapia, Mississippi.
But this is what again, they say, they do this naturally.
It's unrehearsed. It's what they've been doing all of their lives.
They even dress identically. They live their lives together, so
they have a lot of a lot of practice.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That would get on my freaking nerves. Can you imagine
having a twin? Imagine dating one of them that means
dating both of them exactly. Yes, no no.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
No no no no no no, yes no absolutely no
no no.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
It's like go go buy one, get one two four
one oh yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yes, before we get out of here for this segment.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Now is the time.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I hope you were paying attention to the last two
segments because we flashed a word right behind Twala and
also Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It is the password if.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You want to win tickets to see Disney on Ice
tomorrow night at the Toronto excuse me, Toyota Arena can
never get it right the Toyota Arena in Ontario. Caller
number seven, Lucky number seven. You need to have the
Disney on Ice password, which we flash behind Tiffany Hobbs
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and flash behind to Walla's Sharp. We have a little
issue with that, but we got the password up there.
Caller number seven. You will have a chance to see
Disney on Ice presents Into the Magic. The show is
tomorrow night at the Toyota Arena in Ontario. The show
is tomorrow night at the Toyota Arena in Ontario. If
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you cannot go to Tomorrow night, do not call in.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Kim six forty and YouTube Tippy Hops take it away
when it comes to viral stories a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Ironically, the twentieth anniversary of YouTube is today. YouTube actually
was probably the first platform where virality actually took place,
and back then the videos were quite mundane.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Since then, we've seen a.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Lot of content creators really syncing their everything into going
viral in the hopes of monetization with clicks and subscriptions
all over YouTube, all over social media. There's a new
documentary on Netflix. It's called Bad Influencing The Dark Side
of Kidfluencing, and it exposes the exploitation of viral child influencers.
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So we spend every week talking about viral stories. But
of course there is another side to this content creation,
especially when children are employed. There are questions about exploitation
and other things. In this documentary takes a deep dive
into using children to create content and the dangerous effects
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physically and mentally that it can have on those kids.
The series is a three part series and it focuses
on one child in particular.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
She's now older.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Her name is Piper Rockwell, and she became a very
popular social media personality. Her mom and manager Tiffany Smith
is the one who orchestrated Piper's career, and it wasn't
just Piper that Tiffany started and stopped with. No, with
the success of Piper's channel and the content she was
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creating just about being a regular kid, other kids were
brought in and these kids ranged in age, they were
different genders, and they all loved being in front of
the camera. And Tiffany Smith, Piper's mother, said that this
was a way for these kids to express themselves and
create humorous content together. It was all very innocent in
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the beginning. However, this group became named as the Squad.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Was a group of these kids.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
They were called the Squad, and they are now saying
that there was another side to the industry that people
did not know about, but everyone inside was absolutely knowledgeable on.
They cite all sorts of abuse, including physical abuse, sexual abuse,
mental abuse abuse. They also say that they were disassociated
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from their families and alienated in ways that were extremely dangerous,
and this documentary really goes deeply into what they experienced
as well well as what kid fluencers that's what they're
called kid fluencers are potentially and maybe even likely dealing
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with behind the scenes of these really popular content creation channels. Again,
you can watch this documentary. It's a three part series.
It's called Bad Influencing The Dark Side of Kid Fluencing,
and it's on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
There is some irony here.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You're talking about the twentieth anniversary of YouTube while we're
live streaming on YouTube, talking about influencers on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, a lot of irony.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
It can be used, obviously, YouTube for wonderful things, including
a live broadcast of this show. But there is a
dark side when children are utilized. What are the parameters?
What are the boundaries therein if any where children are
kept safe? And this documentary is saying in many cases
children are not kept safe. It's the exact opposite. All
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in the name of going viral.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Our last story.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I'm so happy we have the YouTube cameras up so
you all can see this out there.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Please be watching right now.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
If you're doing something else, look back at the camera,
because we are going to do a little taste test
for our final story. What our final story involves something
I've been seeing everywhere.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Talk about viral.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It's been everywhere every social media handle, It's been in restaurants.
You might have noticed it, but didn't really pay too
much attention to it. And it's a new type of
chocolate bar. Okay, it's chocolate. If you like chocolate, then
this will appeal to you. This chocolate bar, however, is
going viral because it is purported to be from Dubai
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and it is what from Dubai?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
D what it's from Dubai?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Okay, I know and it That's not the only reason
it's fancy. It's filled with pistachios.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
If you look at this chocolate, a chocolate nut, that's special.
What continued.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
If you look at the chocolate, the chocolate actually looks
like it has kind of like a grassy texture on
the inside.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Wait, chocolate with green stuff on the inside. Yes, you
want me to put this in my mouth? And you
will on camera.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
This chocolate started as a simple trip to do. You're
gonna put it in your mouth and you're gonna love it.
And the trend on TikTok has turned into a global craze.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It's been all over the place.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
It traces back to an Immoradi chocolate tear in twenty
twenty one, who put a little whimsical name.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
To it sold it. It took off.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Someone posts about it on TikTok in December of twenty
twenty three, and it went completely viral. Now the price
of pistachios is being said to have jumped from just
under eight dollars a pound to over ten dollars a
pound within one year. So my guy, and that's pre terriffs.
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This is pre terriffs. Can you imagine stuff you like pistaschios?
You are in for a world of hurts.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Okay, but I don't. Okay, but now enough enough of
the talking.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
We're gonna try this pistaschio filled chocolate bar.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Everybody one two. Wait.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's like it's just like the commercial, Like how many
licks does it take to get to the center of
titsy roll popetalling?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Right? Go, I'm snacking. Let's get a four window janial.
It takes that cricket to me. Are you sure you
didn't give me like some ground up insects? Yeah? You
slipped it something weird here, didn't you. It tastes that cricket.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
It's not bad. It kind of tastes like if you
put crushed up kit cats. Hmmm, The stashios aren't crunchy
like that. There's something going on, right, I'm a mark
on this one. Right, We've been duped.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
This tastes like bugshells. I love it, though, I love it.
It is good. What have you done to us? What
you put in this choo? And you love it? Everyone
loves stop it? Chocol Is this bugs? Is it broken glass?
Maybe for some? Not all? Are you sure it's not
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like wood chips or something? I cannot confirm nor deny. Yeah,
the crunch was unexpected, but I like it.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
This is my first time eating it too. Because they
always say it's their first time, they always lie, They
always lie about the body count.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
This thing is like this. I've never done this before.
You're the first person I've ever done this. You put
this in your mouth? Stop laughing. Mark, Yours has the
glass and the bugs. So sorry, take it back, Mark,
You're fine, your safe? Wait? Is this human bones?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Not yet?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Right? Doub Yeah, this tastes wrong. I'm just telling you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
This does not taste This is why you need to
be watching a YouTube show.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
The smallest version of this chocolate bar from the restaurant
restaurant I got it from, is about the size of
a McDonald's apple pie.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
If you guys know what that is. It's about six
inches long.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
By two and a half inches wide.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Sometimes the jokes right themselves. Lovely chocolate minute. She said
that I was just watching face waiting for nice girse.
Just see how how red I turned on. It's the
thickness that matters.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
But it's fifteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Just give up. Let it go onehand, the chocolate, the
viral load.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
God, good joy, here we go, never bringing For those
who don't know, he's not even on camera.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
He's off camera laughing.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Oh my god, it's the first time time right now.
That is chocolate dy okay, not on any other show
nowhere else.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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We're live everywhere, and you know, we love movies and
we also like to discuss cool ways to watch a movie,
especially when we get to summer.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I like watching movies outdoors.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
If I go on a cruise, I make sure I
watch one of the movies on the top decks. It's
a great experience watching a movie in the park.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Along those lines, you can add a mountaintop to watch
a movie. Soon Mount Wilson Observatory announced that it will
be hosting a new movie series this summer. Matinees on
the Mountain on select Saturday afternoons. The Historic Institution will
screen a decade spanning lineup of sci fi and astronomy
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inspired shorts and feature length films. This is something I
am going to do. As for the lineup so far,
Mark Ronner two thousand and one, A Space Odyssey on
May seventeenth, oh Masterpiece, Yes, a selection of sci fi
silent shorts on June twenty first, one of my personal favorites,
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Contact on July twenty sixth, starring Jody Foster and Matthew McConaughey.
Astronomical short films on August twenty third, Close Encounters of
the Third Kind.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
That's a gimme.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Look, if you don't have Close Encounters, then if you
haven't seen the movie, and I'm upset if you haven't.
But if you haven't seen the movie, the third act
is a large set piece outside, and you will feel
the movie differently if you're outside watching this movie in
his third act, which is outside, especially if you have
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a plate of mashed potatoes. Yes, look, and it's hard
to believe that that Richard Dreyfus is the Dreyfuss we
see now. Not the same dude, agreed, not the same
dude in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
But it's not for going back to the matinee on
the Mountain. It's not free.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Tickets will cost twenty dollars for adults and fifteen dollars
for kids under twelve. I'll just lie and say I'm
eleven and support the Mountain Wilson's Institute Preservation of the Observatory.
And yeah, I haven't been to Mount Wilson.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I think since I was a kid. One of our
field trips went there. That sounds like so much fun.
Were you a fan of drive in movies?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Here's the thing, not in my memorable portion of my
life have I been to a drive in killing. I've
been told as a very young child, my parents would
take me and my sister to the drive in so
they would not have to have a babysitter.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You were conceived at a drive in?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
No, No, they Unfortunately my parents told me where I
was conceived.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Oh really? Yeah? And where was that?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
My father had set up a house in like ninety
second in Western where my family was going to move
from Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
To la. Is that ninety second as in ninety second
street or ninety second as in ninety seconds ninety second street?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Okay, well, so in ninety second in Harvard. Here's a
long story show. My father came out to California first.
My mother was finishing up her master's degree at Howard University,
so my father was out here first.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
For no, this is the longest answer of all time.
Bottom line.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
My parents were separated for a few months because they
were moving. Yeah, okay, Then they got together in March
of nineteen sixty nine. They missed each other and nature
took its course, and you know, I guess my father
knocked it out the box. And then a sperm who
was very very fast met an aa which was very
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very slow, and so began the process of me. And
nine months later, actually eight months and three weeks later,
I was born.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Two weeks early I was born. If this were a book,
it would have been Crime and Punishment. I said, my god,
have you even read Crime and Punishment? It's one of
my favorite books. I started it and I couldn't get
into it. But the point is drive ins are magnificent.
There are almost none left. But that's true if you
get a chance to go to one that is like
that also is like one of the truly American things
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of all time. There was one in Carson Paramount. There's
some of the one.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
There is one president I'm saying, there used to be
one in Carson right off with the one on one
and excuse me, the one ten and the four or
five men.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Yes, where there is a car lot now, Yeah, but
there is one in Paramount by Paramount House ninety one
off the ninety one, I believe. But Odd's easily accessible,
still operating, and it's fun.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay, I'll do that. So to answer your question, not
within my memory, Well, you have to rectify this. They're great.
What are they like now as opposed to fifty years ago? Well,
I mean they have more mainstream popular movies now and
the stuff that would have been in drive ins in
the old days is like direct to streaming, or it
would have been direct to VHS when we were kids.
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But it's still fun. You got to get the food there,
and I know you're you're a food eater at movies.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
And I like to go to a place where I
have to worry about mother, father's talking.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Oh not only that, you can just like bring a
six pack in the car. I mean, not that I
would ever drive. Talking about okay, settle down, settle down.
One of you has to be the designated driver, but
you can at least throw that in there. Yeah, there's
all sorts of things you can do in the privacy
of your car. You swine. I don't know what what
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is this turning into.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well, you have some nerve after the last second saying
now you want to you're high and mighty.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Now it's like, oh, we can't go there. I don't
even know what you're talking about. And this is either
slander or libel or something like that. It would be
slander because it's okay. Thank you, Thank you for admitting
to it.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Mattine's on the mountain Mount Wilson Observe Observatory. We'll have
it on our website at KFIAM six forty dot com
on the mo Kelly uh the Later with mo Kelly
show page. When we come back, we will catch up
with George Norri and find out what he's up to,
and also my final thought on the Fourth Amendment.
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Let me just put it back with there are a
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if you weren't following live on YouTube.
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So don't miss a show.
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Speaking of not missing a show, Coast to Coast AM
with George Norri.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
What's up tonight, George.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Mister Kelly.
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We're going to talk about biblical prophecy and then your
favorite subject.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yes you yes, because you care nothing more than to
please me, like.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Keeping you happy.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And by the way you look happy on YouTube. I
appreciate the shout out. I appreciate that. Thank you, sirky buddy.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
All right now talk soon and before I go, gotta
remind you Iheartradios. Wango Tango, presented by Fiji Airways, is
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up on May tenth. And for my final thought tonight.
We often talk about slippery slopes, the unintended consequences of decisions, ordinances, legislations.
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The slippery slope of the Patriot Act is that's the
greatst The pushback is usually connected to what it could open,
the door to the mission creep of rights infringement. Yes,
we want to stop terrorists, but at what expense? What
happens when actual American citizens are surveilled or treated in
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a way inconsistent with or in opposition to the Constitution.
Does the Fourth Amendment mean something all the time or
just some of the time? And you know what I say,
it's an all or nothing proposition. Here's the Amendment for
those who need a refresher or never knew it in
the first place. Quote, the right of the people to
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be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against
unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. And no
warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath
or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched
and the persons or things to be seized. If you're
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paying attention, you realize how specific the Fourth Amendment is.
And the Fourth Amendment, just for an example, is both
big and small. The implic implications could be broad or narrow.
Is it okay to violate the rights of just some
people if the greater good arguably outweighs it, well, not
according to the Fourth Amendment. That's the ongoing debate in
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this country. And I was thinking about that regarding the
story we discussed earlier in the evening with the license
plate reading technology that led to the recovery of multiple
stolen cars. Recovery of stolen cars, that's a good thing, right,
We probably would all agree that's a good thing. But
then you think about the possible unintended consequences and slippery
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slope slash Patriot Act implications of such technology combined with
let's say, drones looking in the backyards or having your
license plate run at any time for any reason, and
I wonder where we're headed. It's about looking beyond where
we are are right now and where we might be going.
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Combining that with facial recognition technology. We already have buses
ticketing cars, you know, reading your license plate, all of
your information. You may be not even illegally parked. You
just might be near a car which is illegally parked.
We have cameras on every corner immigration raids which are
sweeping up actual Americans. I'm not making this up who
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are being detained, And we are indeed slipping on this
slippery slope. As Mark Runner said earlier, we may already
be at the bottom of the hill. I'm not sure
what a reasonable expectation of privacy is anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
You're looking at YouTube right now.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Look at the first sentence, people to be secure in
their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What does being secure in our person houses, et cetera.
And what is now considered an unreasonable search or seizure?
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The forefathers could not have foreseen such technology or the
implications which come along with it. The Steven Spielberg movie
Minority Report, based on the nineteen fifty six Philip K.
Dick's short story The Minority Report, is more prescient than ever.
If you haven't seen a movie, I don't have time
to tell you all about it, but go see it.
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I think it's one of Tom Cruise's best. All we're
missing right now are some precogs, what a pre coog?
See the movie. But as far as the monitoring of
society in every way imaginable, we're there. It was scary
when I first saw the movie. Now it's just Tuesday
because just about all the technology you see in the movie,
with the exception of being able to predict crime, we
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presently have right now.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And that scares the Bejesus out of me.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
The question for this country is will continue to be
the question of the day, is whether we realize that
having the rights of others disregarded will inevitably, inexorably lead
to us.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
It never only harms someone else.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
You can't take someone else's rights away and then not
think that they won't eventually circle back around to you.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
If you think that they can.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Kick people and disappear them out of this country to
a prison, that it's only going to be the people
you don't like.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Do you really think that, then you're deluding yourself.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
History is clear that what is done to those you
don't care about will eventually get around to those you do,
which will include you if it hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
As my old pastor used to say, just keep on living.
For k IF.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I am six forty, I'm Mo Kelly Opinion without the Preachy.
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