Oh lad, here is my final thought. Let me be serious for a moment. By now you probably have heard the news that at least one person died and several others were injured after a plane crashed into another jet at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona today and ASSESSMA two eight B crashed into sea ice just outside of Noame, Alaska, after going missing during a flight last Thursday afternoon. Ten people dead. That's after six passengers of a medical jet and one person on the ground were killed after the
plane crash in a Philadelphia neighborhood last Friday evening. And all of this is in the wake of the Reagan National Airport mid air collision over the Potomac, which killed sixty seven people. Are the collisions. Are the accidents or the crashes related, of course, not, not specifically at least, but emotionally they all connect in our recent memories, our politics, as of lade, has embraced the idea of just blaming
the previous guy. I'm old enough to remember. Maybe you are too, but I'm old enough to remember it was said the buck stops here, But that's no longer the case. Now it's just blame, blame, blame. But I did find a quote that I especially liked that I want to close out with, and it goes like this, Leaders, true leaders take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
It's so good, I'm going to read it twice. Leaders, True leaders take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure. Close quote. That quote is from Donald Trump, and I'll take him at his word. I honestly don't know what is going on with our planes and air traffic control. But I do know we only have one president at a time, and I do know only one head of our federal government at a time. And the answer to this,
whatever this is, but it is a problem. But the answer to this must come from the top. And here are the facts. Our president fired the head of the Transportation Security Administration, fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee, froze hiring of all air traffic controllers, fired one hundred top FAA security officers, all on the same day, the same day. He's not been a passive participant in this. He's been very much involved. But again, blame and responsibility
are not the same. Blame is looking back. You're trying to say, well, this happened in the past, this person did this, so therefore they are responsible. It's an excuse, it's a cop out, it's an abdication of responsibility. That's blame. Blame is the easy way out responsibility. At least from where I sit, it's about going forward and tonight I'm assessing no blame. I'm not going to sit here and say, well, Biden did this, and it's not to protect Biden. It's
just because blame doesn't solve the future problem. Blame doesn't tell us what we need to do if it win, the next plane crashes, and unfortunately, if the past is prologue, there's a distinct possibility that there may be another issue in the very near future. And it can't be always the other person's fault. If you're the person in charge, you the person who wanted the job. You're the person who got the job, so then as the job holder,
you are judged by your job performance. And again I'm not going to assess any blame, but I am going to do this. I'm going to look at future responsibility. Let's just say all bets are off and the clock starts. Now, this is our president's baby. Whatever happens going forward, given the moves that he's made prior to now, whatever happens going forward is his responsibility because he has been an active participant in whatever our future air traffic control and
our airport security is going to be. He has been actively involved. And it bears mentioning. Fired the head of the Transportation Security Administration, fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee, froze hiring of all air traffic controllers, and not saying nothing in the fact that we all know that they have been overworked and understaffed. Fired one hundred top FAA security officers, all on the same day. And I'll say it one more time before I go, this is the
president's baby, whatever happens going forward. And as our leader, our leader, I'm not one of those people who's ever going to say, not my president. No, he's my president, he's your president, he's everyone's president. The country is chosen. And as our leader, as our president, he can't only be willing to take responsibility for the success, but also
any responsibility for the failure too. For KFI A six forty, I'm o Kelly and before we go, we've been using a new segment to close out the show right now. It's called the Final Thought. I may change it, but it's just some things that were you know, I've been ruminating on and sort of just bouncing around in my head. But with the news of the day, and here's tonight's probably by now you've heard about the chances of a particular asteroid striking Earth within the next decade. Well it's
doubled over the past few weeks. The chances is of the hitting Earth. And this is according to NASA astronomers, doubled. I said, to be fair, it only doubled from one to two percent. But if I told you that there was a two percent chance of your next flight ending up in the side of a mountain, you wouldn't like those chances, would you. Kind of same thing. The asteroid discovered just after Christmas has been named twenty twenty four.
Why are four? It could possibly strike the planet in December of twenty thirty two, and this is according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies. And the way we've been going, that too will be defunded by the federal government. We've all likely seen movies like Armageddon Deep Impact similar plot lines. You know, killer asteroid discovered, the world comes together and depends on America to save the day, And in both of those movies, with varying degrees, the
day is saved. But this is real life, and potentially, potentially we are only at step one. You know, the killer asteroid. It's out there, it's been identified. That's step one. All that's left is step two and step three, you know, for the world to come together and then America to save the day. But step two and three would seem to be damn near impossible. Right about now, we are far closer to Netflix is don't look up which detailed in America in denial of an asteroid impact, That to
be seems more realistic. We don't take measles seriously. We don't take polio or e coli seriously eatingmore. We don't take science and scientists seriously eating more scientists. We know more than the scientists, than the experts, the elitists. So given that, what chance is there of us taking an asteroid seriously? Hell, we're still yelling at each other over whether we've actually been to the moon. We're still cussing each other out over whether the Earth is spherical. That's
actually like a real debate in someone's minds. These days, we as in the United States of America, have routinely devalued higher education than science and facts. The betting favorite at this point should be the asteroid. And I gotta be honest, a large part of me pulling for the asteroid, or at least until we stop acting like an unseerios nation. For example, today today a congressman from Georgia introduced a bill to the House of Representatives with a straight face
that would give a new name to Greenland. Instead of Greenland, it would be named Red, White and Blueland. This asteroid cannot get here fast enough for KF. I am six forty. I'm Moe Kelly. If you find yourself being more stressed out because of politics, researchers have actually quantified that as to why. And I often say, when I'm not working, I don't talk about politics. I'll post some snark on social media. I will from time to time, but I don't always, and I don't want to go deep with
people because it begins to stress me out. It absolutely stresses me out, which is almost a contradiction. But all of my TV work, if you've been paying attention, is political, and some of my radio work is too, so I
need some time to balance that out. There's a national survey on stressors conducted by the American Psychological Association or APA for twenty twenty four found that the future of the nation or politics, was the leading cause of significant stress among adults, with nearly eight in ten seventy seven percent reporting it as a major source of anxiety. And here are some of the other takeaways from this and other comparable studies. Everyday political events can cause harmed psychological
and to our physical well being. In fact, politics can harm people's wellbeing as much or more than get this alcohol. A study conducted in twenty seventeen estimated that ninety four million Americans felt politics caused significant stress, forty four million lost sleep, thirty million suffered physical health harm, and eleven million had suicidal thoughts. Effects comparable to or worse than those associated with alcohol, except none of the buzz or
none of the great sex connected to it. That's just my little addentum. In short, our politics is killing us. But wait, there's more. The multiple studies concluded not only are politics related well being issues worsened for many in recent years. Political polarization is linked with worse anxiety and depression. And here's my takeaway and one I give to you. If the country is going to hell, and we all have our theories as to why or whether it is
or who is responsible, here's the truth. You won't have any real say in it or saving it. I know you think that posting on social media is going to make a difference, but I'm here to tell you it will not. I know that if you think if you insult enough people in real life or in cyberspace, it's going to make a difference, it will not. It's not going to change anything. Either the country is going to go to hell or it won't go to hell. This is my recommendation. Do like I do and know when
to let it go. It's not worth your health, it's not worth your peace, and most importantly, it's not worth your life. No when to just let it go. For k if I am six forty, I'm mo Kelly. As I close out the show in the week for my final thought, he did say that the fellows We're gonna go see Captain America a brave New World, and I wanted to talk about that. And you know, it's starring Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Tim Blake Nelson and others, and
the movie is not hitting theaters without controversy. We've talked about some of it. You may not know all of it, but some have complained. Maybe you are in this group that there's only one Captain America and it's the character Steve Rogers as portrayed by Chris Evans. I mean, that's nice. It's not true, but it's nice for you to think that.
Even in the comics, Anthony Mackie's character Sam Wilson took the mantle of Captain America, even Bucky took the mantle of Captain America, and he basically was a Russian spy killing Americans. And if you're okay with him taking the mantle of Captain America, I damn sure know that Sam Wilson can and others have complained Anthony Mackie's character didn't take the super serum, so therefore he can't be Captain America.
That's nice, it's nice that you think that, But if you really know the Captain America's subtext, it was Steve Rogers Heart, which made him great, and that was enhanced by the serum. But speaking of the comics, if you really knew Sam Wilson the character, you should already know that. And this is assuming you know the comics that Sam Wilson the character served in the Air Force fifty eighth Rescue Squadron as a pair of rescue men and did two tours and was a test pilot, expert marksman with
military firearms. He was an expert in hand to hand combat. He was a master pilot. He was an expert tactician who helped plan special operations. He was a counselor to veterans with PTSD. He was already an American hero. Put that in a real person, you'd probably say, Yeah, they're
worthy of being Captain America. And for all the talk we have about respecting or disrespecting the military, to say that that guy, Sam Wilson, that character is either unworthy to represent America or is not appropriate to represent America, y'all are telling on yourselves. But such a debate is not completely disconnected to the whole point of the Kendrick Lamar halftime show, and this idea of what is America? Who is American and who deserves to represent America? I know,
Captain America. Brave New World is a movie, but it's also a mirror held up to us as we trip over ourselves, making Kendrick Lamar's point that some people have the idea and it's the wrong idea. Some people have the idea that America is only for some people and only certain circumstances. That never was and never will be the case for KF I am six forty. I'm O Kelly then. Anyway, Sat