‘Monster Jam’ with Kayla Blood & ‘When Animals Attack’

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I'm Caleb Blood, the driver of the brand new Sparkle Smash, a six ton Unicorn with a bold attitude. I've competed on the Triple Threat series, I've competed on the Stadium series.

Ala What Soldier Fortune.

And now I get to drive the brand new Sparkle Smash Monster Dam truck. For you guys, the initial call that I got to drive a brand new Master Damn truck, I couldn't believe it.

Change is part of life.

Changes part is being successful, and you have to learn to adapt to change. This is my journey from Soldier Force and a Sparkle Smash, in.

My journey, in my Monster Dam career.

My personality is a perfect fit for this truck. We are a combination of talent and toughness and I cannot wait to give life to Scorkles Smash and show everyone with this Washing Dam truck can be on the travel. We're not here to just compete, We're here to smash the competition.

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Monster Jam returns to dominate Anaheim.

Tickets are still available to see the world's most popular Monster Jam trucks and best driver's Roar in the Angels Stadium this weekend February fifteenth and sixteenth to battle in the Stadium Championship Series. And yes, we have tickets to give away. You know how we do it. Nobody gives away as many tickets as we do. In fact, before the end of my conversation with Kaylea Blood yes it's her real name, you will have your chance to win four event tickets and four pit passes.

We're doing it bigger than ever before.

Please welcome Lafayette, Louisiana's own kayleab Blood to the show.

How are you doing this evening, Miss Blood.

I'm doing great. Thank you for having me. I'm looking forward to coming back to Anaheim, my favor place.

Man Aha, I love it. And when you say Blood, you mean blood. You've competed in boxing, Mma, served in the National Guard.

Where did your competitive spirit come from?

Man?

Just growing up, I've always been super competitive and always been, you know, always looking for that adrenaline rush. And my life has definitely got me into some really interesting places, like you know, just having the being able to run track and field in high school and growing up and just having that coach that believed in me to just be there for me mentally and make me mentally strong and make me want all of these great things for myself.

She kind of instilled a lot of that for me.

So moving forward in my life, it just seemed like I'd always find myself in these crazy places where it's just like either my just one and adrenaline rush or just wanting to just I don't know, exceed people's expectations because sometimes they'll see a female and they'd be like, oh my gosh, she can stick with the guys and running, she can box, she can do all of this. I just I love that feeling of just being an inspiring female that could do all these things.

And now I'm on the ultimate stage to be.

Able to inspire little girls and girls everywhere to do awesome things like this, even in a male dominated sport.

You know, if you feel like you got it, go for it.

I love that.

And I've seen your videos and your driving style is as aggressive as anyone's. What is your mentality though, I mean, beyond the desire for the adrenaline rush. What's your mentality when you step in a Sparkle smash or any monster truck.

Well, you know, I'm trying to build a name for myself in the sport. I'm not a second generation driver.

You know.

I got into motocross at about twenty years old and found my way into motorsports, which is something that I truly love. And you know, I want to make a name for myself in this sport and in Monster Jam. You know, you have so many opportunities to be the world finals champion, to do this, do that, but you

You know that wasn't available for me.

I kind of had to open up all of those doors for myself throughout my entire life, and I never really had anyone's help, you know, to do that but my own. So I think that's what that's kind of taught me over the years is just kind of do what I need to do to help my son get to the next level and maybe make it a little easier for him than I did, but still teach him the values that it needs to learn.

Obviously, at the beginning of our conversation, you express your affection for Anaheim, and by that also it means Angel Stadium, So take me to Angel Stadium. What should someone expect to see, or hear or experience while at Monster Jam this weekend, Well, if.

You've never been to Monster dam at Anaheim, it's like anything that you've.

Never been to is for everyone.

And when I say it's for everyone, it's for mom,

So it really is always.

Something that someone's gonna want to come back to. And I love Anaheim so much. I've been going to Anaheim for the past four years now on my stadium tour and I was driving Soldier Fortune on my first freestyle there in Anaheim, and man, the support that I have there, I just feel it when I am there, and I know each and every one of these fans at Anaheim always have my bag no matter what moster jam truck I'm driving, and I love.

It coming out there.

Just feeling the support, it makes me want to go out there and win ten times more. And we do pit party, you know before the event, where we have everyone come out and we're by our trucks signing autographs, chit chatting with everyone, and that's such a great time. I've met so many people over the years that I have like so many personal relationships with now, and they follow my career and they support me. And you know, being a female in this male dominated sports sometimes you

Talk about mental toughness and being a competitor and this twelve thousand pound machine that you're driving. Let me take this in a different direction. All competitors have good days and they have bad days. But monster Jam, you're also at the mercy of that twelve thousand pound monster truck. How much does a truck vary from day to day, from competition to competition.

Well, you know, I'm not gonna lie, man. My whole life growing up, I've had what you call hard luck. So I've had that hard luck and I've had to work through it. And no matter if it is the monster damn truck that kind of fails me at the moment, And it just seems like a lot of times that's

My guest right now is the fantastic Caleb Blud. Can you hear the enthusiasm in her voice? Right now, we're talking about Monster Jam as it rolls into Angel Stadium this weekend February fifteenth and sixteenth, And when we come back, we're gonna give you your opportunity to win four pit passes and four event tickets to Monster Jam.

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I'm here in Anah, I'm California. It's something called Monster Jam. If you're not familiar with that, let me fill you in.

Monster truck craze began way back in the nineteen seventies with legendary names like driver Dennis Anderson and his Goliath sistruck known as the Grave Digger. When the Monster Jam Suga began in nineteen ninety two, they made the jump into the big time and it's currently a thriving, multi million dollar industry.

While crushing cars was.

Once pretty cool, today Monster Jam drivers have definitely taken monster truck racing and freestyle competition to all new heights.

And soon would be forty five thousand people in these stands to watch it. And one of the reason they here to watch it because of my next guest. She is just a killer driver. Her name is Kalo Blood and yes that's her real.

Name, Kfi.

Later with Moki, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and if you just tuning in, I'm right in the middle of a fantastic conversation with Lafayette, Louisiana's own Caleb Budd as we talk about Monster Jam, which is roaring into Angels Stadium this weekend February fifteenth and February sixteenth

Oh. You know the guys they're always messing with me and giving me a hard time. They were like my brothers, you know, so you know, they they know whenever it's time to give me constructive criticism, and they know whenever they can just mess with me about something like of course it's part of it, but they love to give me a hard time about it, you know, just being able to go out there and actually maintain my Monster damn truck respectfully for my crew guy and all of

How much can you prepare for a failure of a monster truck? I mean, you know what's going to happen on some level, but how much preparation goes into you know, do you have an extra axle, do you have two extra tires? Give me some sense of how can you best prepare from a mechanic standpoint.

Well, to be honest, all of our haulers that we have that actually transport our monster Damn trucks, they contain extra shocks, they can train, extra housings, transmissions, motors, so anything you think of, we have in these trade ready to go for at least two trucks. So you have these trailers, each truck, each trailer has two trucks that they're.

Transporting back and forth.

And with those trailers is all of your equipment, all your technicians, and typically on one team you'll have your crew chief and then you'll have your third guy, and together as a team they may and maintain your trucks and keep us going at all times.

And honestly, in.

The event it's pretty spectacular, it could be any one of the monster dam trucks go down and you have every mechanic from each truck or technicians from each other truck just out there thrashing and working on these trucks. They can change the transmission out in fifteen minutes, you know. They Yes, they are absolutely amazing. And then you have your thirds that might go out, so that's taking the whole rear off and putting everything back on it all together.

And they can do that in a matter of time.

And we really do all of this just to get our trucks back out there, and that is what the goal is, to have every one of them trucks out on the floor ready to compete, and you know, whatever way we can. And so they're pretty amazing at their job. You know, we have uoh technicians that have been able to have the opportunity to go to school there and then come on to Monster Jam and be technicians as well, and I think that's been a great program for them.

It's a big machine, as we say, and that's an understatement that some twelve thousand pounds. I wonder because I honestly don't know. There are a lot of g forces probably involved. It's a heavy piece of machinery. How do you personally train to keep you in a degree of shape to handle one of these machines.

Well, I definitely think being physically fit is beneficial, especially when you roll these things over and you're in a turtle position upside down. Being able to try to breathe is really tricky. But you know, I started my career ten years ago where we actually had the Triple Threat Monster Jam series where we race the ATV, side by

So you know, I still run everywhere I go. I'm running. They're like, Kayla, why are you running? You know this way I learned how to do this. I at one speed and I just run everywhere.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with you, but I know you got to go. You got more training to do. But we also have to give away some event tickets and pit passes. I need from you, Miss cayleb Blood

Time sounds great man. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.

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Animals the world over have had enough of humans.

Hornets are attacking in China, Sharks are swallowing up the surfers in Florida. Lions and tigers are eating in turns oh my, and bears are pouncing on women in the Pacific Northwest.

Unless we put us stop to the.

Mistreatment of animals, they can, they will, They shine attack.

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It's later with mo Kelly Live Everywhere in the iHeartRadio app And this was a segment that we used to do on The mo Kelly Show when animals attack, and it's real simple. The animals have every right to eat us, to kill us, to maim us, to destroy us because of how we treat them. And a common theme and a recommendation. Remember how earlier in the show I was saying, Hey, you know what, maybe you shouldn't try to get gas at night. You should always be aware of your surroundings.

Usually looking at you as food.

Two Americans have been injured in a shark attack while swimming in Bemini Bay, that's the Bahamas. According to police, two Americans were injured, one seriously, in this shark attack. Initial reports indicate that the victims, both USA residents, sustained injuries while swimming in the waters at Bamini Bay. Both women sustain injuries to their lower bodies, with one of the victims injured seriously. In fact, that person will require a third surgery to repair the damage to her leg.

But I never quite felt comfortable.

And I think this was maybe twenty seventeen, and I have not stepped my ass in the ocean since this is twenty twenty five. I may not ever go back in the ocean because I know that's not my house. I'm just basically on the menu. I'm just advertising. You know what I don't understand about this story is is it goes on to say the incident remains under investigation.

What is there to investigate for? What I investigate?

Are they are they trying to see if they were was some sort of precipitating event?

Was there some sort of argument?

Was there some sort of disagreement, whether you know, was a look someone called a name.

What is there to discuss?

Well to that point, in twenty twenty three, there were sixty nine unprovoked shark bites. So maybe they're trying to see if these sharks were harassed, if they were somehow teased encouraged.

Oha on, we need to ask the women what they were wearing. They yeah, we might need to see what was going That was kind of funny. Stepan, that was kind of funny. Even Mark was kind of Mark. Come on, you were laughing at that. Okay, all right, maybe that won't make you laugh, but maybe this will. Let's go to Marion County, Florida. Monkeys are a staple in central Florida.

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The virus can be transmitted by these monkeys through bites, scratches, or contact with bodily fluids. You can take that however you want. Well, what else do you expect from a breed of monkey called macaques. In addition, these recist macaques may become a straphing really see honestly some mercy room shot. In addition, the Reeseis macaqus may become aggressive when fed

But they're about.

It lists of different counties, but they are at least some anywhere from twenty five to fifty in each county, So they are everywhere, and there's a good chance that you may catch herpes if you happen upon a Reesis macaque.

Now not trying to stare upon.

Does that mean if you have an entanglement with how are you exchanging bodily fluid with one of these macaques?

I don't know.

It says if a monkey is encountered, keep children close and pets leashed. If bitten or scratched by a wild monkey, immediately wash the wound and seek metal medical attention. Call the National B Virus Resource Center for emergency information. What is the National B virus Herpes B? I'd rather call the A one the best?

This is the herpes B.

I never BUYD. I give up with Stephans. It's like, what the hell, what the hell's going on? If you observe a wild monkey that poses the threat to people, call the fwc's Wildlife Alert Hotline at eight eight eight four zero four three ninety two two.

Put that in your phone.

Any recis macaque observation scene outside of the core population near Silver Spring should be reported by calling the Exotic Species Hotline.

Hello, exotic species highline, How can.

I help you?

Eight eight eight four eight three four six eight one. Again, that's eight eight eight four eight three four six eight one. If you should encounter an exotic species herpes though.

Not bites, not just if you're bitten. This this is about you contracting herpes. That's very specific. Yeah, I said that that's an STD.

Well maybe they don't deal with gonorrhea or chlamydia.

I don't know. It said herpes. Be these monkeys are just wilding out. They're out there. Oh, they're getting their freak gone. They out there burn get the freak one, get the freak gone.

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That was a funny joke, Mark Bonner, I will give you that, and it just went by without even a second thought.

The least we could do is break the record for saying macac in a sentment. That would did take me a second though. I was gonna say, what is that is that an Irish my cac?

Oh?

Come on that that was damn funny. I'll tell you what you can do with that, Raise us my cock, lucky times, that magic that lets us.

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Do you have a romantic film of a love film that ranks at your at your number one?

I know I do.

I have my number one love fest film of all time. Off the top of my head, I would say Bronx Tail. Just off the top. Oh that's a good that's a going, that's a going that if I really thought, I mean I really liked The Notebook, I would watch that one again. I'm a fan of When Harry met Sally. I have to really think about it. I don't know.

Loving basketball, yeah, loving basketball top of my list. I'd have to think about it.

But yeah, I'm not a romantic as in anti romance. It's just that those movies are at the top, are not at the top of my list in a cinematic sense.

I was a Bronx tail or rom com I don't get that. No, no, no, just just romantic dating comics. And it's got so much about.

Age and finding the one you only get like three great loves in your life.

Oh, it absolutely the.

Test if you don't practice the door test.

Oh Mark I Oh, I saw that as a very young man and I took that to heart.

Is very much about finding peace within the storm of the mob and also his father, who was Robert de Niro, who was anti mob.

Yeah.

Yeah, it hasn't been out in thirty one years, so it might not be the freshest in my mind right now. But I never thought of it as a rom com. Oh well, I wouldn't say not rom com as in comedy, but.

It's a romantic film. Yeah, it's a romantic kind of coming up.

Okay, all right, It's no Harold in Maud as far as no romances go. No, I didn't like Harold and Maud anyhow I know good be mad, be mad, I don't care.

I'm just being honest. I can't do this. Look at the top.

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