April 22, 2025 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the Weekend Box Office AND Disneyland’s Star Wars ‘Smuggler’s Run’ makeover with a ‘Mandalorian’ twist…PLUS – Thoughts on Hollywood’s fight to expand “film & TV tax credits” in California with a massive show of support for SB630 and AB1138 - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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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):
And also YouTube. Right now, we still have the live
stream going. Let's talk about some movies. Of course, we
had had Mark Runner give his run a Report review
of Sinners, and also to wall A Sharp jumped In
gave his review. I hope to see it tomorrow. I've
been trying to avoid as many spoilers as possible, but
I've heard ninety nine percent good things, and I desperately
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wanted to weigh in on the movie and it's being
and its release of Easter weekend to add my thoughts.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I just couldn't get around to it. There was too
much going on.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But I plan to see it tomorrow, and I want
to juxtapose its religious overtones in a movie which are
nowhere there with my religion and see what I may
be able to glean from the movie or other messages
within it. It was the number one movie in America
prize there. It brought in forty eight million domestically another
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fifteen million internationally for sixty three million. It's listed as
a ninety million dollar budget, and it's estimated from what
I've seen in the new York times another sixty million
in marketing and promotion, so we're looking at one hundred
and fifty million for it to break even. This is
also what I know about the movie. It's probably going
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to grow in theaters. It's only in when I say,
it's only just thirty three hundred theaters, and it doesn't
surprise me because one is mostly black cast.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Let's be honest, It's not going to play in Idaho.
It's just not. And also it's a horror movie.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's are so that limits the amount of places that
it's going to play as well. But there will be
some theaters which will most likely add it this weekend,
which should give it some more legs. And it's doing
decent internationally. You don't necessarily see that for a horror
movie the first week, so centers it will be. It's
interesting to see what it does in week two, whether
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it adds theaters, and whether there is a significant drop off.
But as far as critics and Rotten Tomatoes audience meter,
it's still like ninety eight percent doing well. And tomorrow
I'll give my thoughts about it. Assume I get to
the movie theater. I promise you this. The hype surrounding
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this film, the reviews surrounding this film, the overwhelming praise
surrounding this film. None of it, absolutely, none.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Of it is hyperbole, not a single bit.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
This is what I will say.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We talk about how supposedly audiences are tired of sequels,
they're tired of reboots, they want original stories, and for
most of the year in recent years, people had not
been supporting these new stories like a Mickey seventeen or
a Nova King, what have you. But I believe they
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just weren't good movies. And I believe that if you
give them something new, fresh, inventive, there is an appetite
for that. Noe pun intended that people will want to
go out and see it, and if you tell good stories,
people will go see it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Absolutely, I don't. I don't think it's that is revelatory
in any way.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And Sinners is a completely new concept from what I've heard,
you know it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It doesn't seem reminiscent of this or that.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's a completely store a story which is completely unto itself.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, Number two is a minecraft movie. Has your son
seen this, Shet Twela, Yes, he has? How many times?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Only once? And they had a ball in the theater.
They had a ball.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Did they act out in any way?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
They did they have? Did they? According to him, they
acted out at the appropriate times, at the times when
you're supposed to wild out in the theater.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yes, but he said they had a ball watching the movie. Okay,
he said they loved it. It brought in forty million
this week. Domestically, it's up to seven almost three quarters
of a billion dollars three quarters. I think it's going
to get there. And it still has more than four
thousand theaters. And that's what I always try to point
out to people is not just how many people go
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to see the movie, but how available is it for
people to see the movie. If you have to hunt
to find a movie theater, well that limits not only
your options, but it limits the likelihood of you seeing
If it's not in every theater, well, that means I
might have to drive further, I might have less time
on a given day to go see it. I may
not want to change my schedule to see a movie.
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But if it's everywhere, like a minecraft movie still in
more than four thousand theaters, yeah, you may have a
higher chance of seeing that movie. Number three this week
was The King of kings seventeen million for this is
a second week for a grant tole of forty nine.
That million makes sense Easter weekend. Of course, the amateur
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still want to see that as well. This is its
second week. It brought in seven million this week for
a total of sixty three million. And I don't see
how Mark gets to see all these movies that I don't.
It just makes me angry.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Well, it's a bit of a hassle, to tell you
the truth, the amateur.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The budget on that, Oh no, it had to be
more than yeah, sixty million, Okay, sixty million, So it's
made its money back. Let's say it's one hundred million,
ninety million after marketing promotion, it'll make that eventually.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's a solid fun movie. That's all I want.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Not everything has to be great, Just be solid, Just
be entertaining, an enjoyable relative to what you're you're offering.
You know, if I'm going to see an action adventure
to be good at that. It doesn't have to be
all things to me. Number five this week is Warfare
from four. It's a small studio, but they do good movie.
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That's an Alex Garland movie. I'm dying to see that
as well. Did you do Civil War as well?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Huh, okay, there we go. Number five is Drop. I
don't know what that is.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
That's the one about the the blind Days with the
with the texting from the kidnappers.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh yeah yeah. Number seven is Colorful Stage a movie
a Miku who can't sing.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It's a kid's movie.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
That's the whole title.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That's the whole title, the whole title, the whole title.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Number eight Pride and Prejudice twentieth anniversary re release, number nine,
The Chosen Last Upper Part three and number ten snow.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
White still hanging around. Well, it's not for long.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's one hundred and ninety four million worldwide and it
only brought in one point two million this week, so
it will leave the top ten this next week. But
A Working Man, much to inschagrin, fell out of the
top ten. It has a total of thirty five million
domestic but fifty one million international. Jason Statham does better
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internationally and it has a box office worldwide of eighty
seven million.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well, violence is the international language.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That's true, that's true. I wonder what the budget and
that one was. Well, let's look it up real quier. Yeah,
the working or a working man? A working man budget?
Oh my gosh, the movie, come on, chat bet forty million?
Surprisingly enough, only forty million.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Okay, now I have a question for Tuala without spoiling
sinners for anybody, I looked up a lot of information
on on the movie over the weekend, and Twitter is
going nuts for Hailey Steinfeld. What's your take on that?
Going nuts in one way? Yeah, well, I mean that's
a polite way to say, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, deservedly so deservedly. So
this was a standout performance for her. I don't believe
anyone thought she had it in her, and I believe
that she proved otherwise. I thought this performance was stellar.
I personally, I only know her from the Hawkeye series
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and I thought she was fine in that. I thought
she plays a great Kate Bishop. But this film here,
I said, whoa wait a minute, now, okay, you're grown grown.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That was kind of the gist of the messages, Yes, grown, yeah,
because I think of her as not a child but
just very young.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
You'll watch this and you'll say.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Is that you?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Hollie?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Uh huh girl? Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Now,
last time I saw you this high?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, you all done growed up here?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Okay, all right, I'll give my review tomorrow. It's Later
with mo Kelly kf I AM six forty and YouTube.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Mo Kelly YouTube Live everywhere. And we love all things
to let me take that back. We loved past tense,
all things Star Wars back in the day, the newer stuff,
with the exception of maybe the Mandalorian and and Or
and Ahsoka.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
That's about it. That's about it. You know, you don't
like the bad betch You didn't like that. That was okay,
that was okay. It's not like somebody I just had
to rush to see. I've watched them all, but it
wasn't like, oh gosh, I'm engross Mandalorian. When you had
the episodes, Feloni would do Favreau, Carl Weathers, those were
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There was some great Star Wars set pieces.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
They did the Universe justice. But speaking of the Mandalorian,
next year, the Mandalorian will have a Taylor Disney ride
experience for the first time, and it's gonna start May
twenty second, twenty twenty six next year, and that also
coincides with the same day the film The Mandalorian and Grogu,
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obviously based on the Mandalorian series, will be released, and
from what I understand, Disney Resorts Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run
Ride will feature a storyline based on the characters.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. I mean it's
a big tie in to debut the new Mandalorian Grogu
addition to the Smugglers Run Ride. And I believe they're
supposed to have a animatronic of the Mandalorian because they
have some life sized animatronics in there, so they're supposed
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to have a life sized animatronic as well as some
specifically filmed additions from Pedro Pascal who plays the Mandalorian
Den Jarren. So I think that's gonna take it to
another level.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I hope so, because it has all the elements to
be something great. What I mean by that is a
movie I assume people will really really be interested in
because the Mandalorian, as far as Disney Plus Universe, has
really popped, and you've seen some crossover with other properties
within the Disney Disney Plus Universe, like Ah Soca like
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the pamphlet of Bob effect.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
We won't really refer to, but I.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Would say the best Star Wars Disney series had.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Three seasons from the second yeah, okay and all around.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yes, Yeah, we'll see what Andor does in season two
getting ready to come up. But you can see how
Disney has this plan where we're gonna use everything. We're
gonna use every title, We're gonna use every bit of
intellectual property, and also mainline that into our theme parks.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
And the good thing about the Man, the Mandalori and
Grogu is that it is still created and controlled by
people who love the franchise, people of Star Wars, and
that is what is most important because from all indications,
the trailer, which we should be getting to see soon
at the Star Wars celebration in Japan, the trailer had
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the crowd absolutely blown away. And that is a very
very critical audience there at Star Wars fan fest. It's
like if they're not feeling it, you'll know right away
because they will not keep it to themselves. And so
for everyone to say, like this is what we expected
from the movie, it is and and this is what's
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most important because a lot of people felt that that
final episode in season three and did it on such
a happy note that they thought we were going to
get happiness and joy, joy and all that in Mandlin
and Grogus like no, no, no, no, no no. This film
from first look is leaning into some of the darker
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elements of that storyline.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, they still have to explain what happens to Grogu
in the larger timeline, since he was not there for
the for the Skywalker saga, Yesday integrated Luke Skywalker into
the story of Grogu, but we don't know what happened
to him as a force wielder within the Star Wars universe.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
From my understanding, it's not a happy It can't be.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It can't be. If you really know Star Wars, you
know why it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Can't be, because the subsequent movies make it impossible. I
don't want to say too much, but you know you
have to see that on your own. Star Wars is
going to have to earn my trust back because after
the last trilogy, I don't have any burning desire to
see more Star Wars movies. Now I can watch Disney
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Plus shows, but actually going to the theater and sitting
down and watching a Star Wars movie.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
No, they're gonna have to show me something.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I mean, I don't know man for me Star Wars.
I'm one of those Star Wars hopeful So I'm one
of those individuals that like the very essence of what
Star Wars stands for.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Hope.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I keep hope alive that we're gonna get something good.
So I will be back when they drop Starfighter starring
Ryan Gosson, even though that's twenty seven, twenty twenty seven.
Even though I.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
May not be a big Ryan Gosling fan, I know
that if it's a Stars movie, it's he's featured in
an ensemble, and I'm down to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I you know, I love everything that's nerdy. So I mean,
we're gonna be in the theaters anyway, moy act like
we're not gonna go see it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Look, I don't have to go see it. I mean
be held hostage. I will be getting the tickets and.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
We just won't go. I just won't show. He's gonna
feed you some pickle juice at the theater too.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Okay, Hey, Sam the Sex Doctor, can you turn off
this mic? For good?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Sam the Sex Doctor?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Why do we call you Sam the sex Doctor because
I'm getting my PhD in human sexuality. Thank you very much,
Sam the sex doctor, call him doctor Ruth. Yes, I'll
take it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
It's late with mokel.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
We're gonna talk more Hollywood when we come back and
show you the difference why Hollywood and its various unions
do a hell of a lot better and are much
more formidable than the music unions. Is there a music union?
I don't think there is no. That's part of the reason.
We'll talk about that in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Before I get to my final thoughts to the next segment,
had a quick little update with.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Hollywood more generally, and let me back up.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I was arguing with people, as I'm known to do
online on threads, and I got into this argument with
someone who was trying to say, hey, have you seen
all the protests this past weekend regarding anti Trump protests
which were going on I think on the Huntington Beach
and other places. I was aware of them, but I
wasn't following them, and he was saying, isn't that a
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great thing? I said, I'm not moved by protests which
are going nowhere. I mean, you're wasting social capital. If
it's not for an express, explicit goal in the moment,
you probably won't be able to get those same type
of people to activate again, and you won't be able
to sustain the momentum. I've said that about every wandering,
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aimless protests, and I use the example of the Civil
rights movement. But check this out twelve. I want to
relate it to what the entertainment industry is doing right now.
You have about one hundred thousand different letters of support
which are being sent by members of the entertainment industry.
They're sent to California lawmakers ahead of some very important
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hearings on expanded film and TV tax credit proposal. In
other words, you're mobilizing, and you're utilizing your social capital
at a moment in which it can pass specific legislation
which could benefit from you, benefit you.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
That's exactly what I mean by.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
If you're going to do activating the masses, do it
for a particular reason, going towards a specific goal. More
than one hundred thousand letters have been sent to Sacramento
in support of SB six thirty and AB eleven thirty eight,
which would not only allocate seven hundred and fifty million
annually in tax incentives for production in the state, but
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also redefine and broaden eligibility for the program. The initiative
was led by the Entertainment Union Coalition as part of
its Keep California Rolling campaign, and they've been lobbying for
the passage of these two bills. The letters urge key
members of the Senate's Revenue and Taxation Committee, as well
as the Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and tour Reas Tourism
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Commuting Excuse Me Committee, to vote the bills out of
committee this week in order to put workers one step
closer to being able to continue to contribute and.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Work where they live.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
We know that a lot of business in California has
been going out of state to different states, television production.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Movie production.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But if you're going to get one hundred thousand people
to do something for you, is it better they stand
out on the corner and hold a sign or they
do something which is going to move you closer to
the passage of a law or some sort of bill
which you benefit.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
See.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
This is what we always talk about when we say
no one cares about your awareness, because making people aware
of something that gets you nothing A drive by sea
say oh hey, I'm aware that you are out there protesting.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Okay, but where you're mad?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I get that, you know, and hashtag whatever whatever your
cause may be. But none of those causes go towards
an actual bill. Anything that's going in front of either
the mayor's office, the governor's office, or the president's desk. Nothing.
You're just out there. Just we want you to know
we're mad, Okay, good luck with that. This is actually saying, hey,
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we need everyone to sign this letter. We've drafted the leather.
Are you gonna print it, put your name on it, send
it in. Here's the address, here's the deadline. Get this
in by this date. Because why we want to get
this thing to pass so we can do what bring
jobs back, keep jobs in, keep California rolling with our
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number one export films.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yes, this makes sense.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yes, if you're going to activate one hundred thousand people,
this is why. This is how this is when it's
not just let's go protest every Saturday so we can
be seen and get on the news. And yeah, I
know it makes you feel good. I know that you
may want to feel some sort of camaraderie. That is
good to see thousands of other people out there feeling
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the same way as you, But it doesn't propel the issue.
It doesn't get you anywhere specifically, it doesn't forward your interest.
And if the best thing you can do is, hey,
you know, we got to let people know. We got
to let people know that we're angry. We have to
be seen so people know that they're not alone. That
was actually said to me. People need to know that
they're not alone. Well, if that's the best that you
could drum up as a reason to get all the
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people together, you are wasting social capital, which is finite.
You're not going to be able to get people to
unite and do something every single weekend or successive weekends
to do nothing in particular, What are they going to
do with the next protests other than protests and hold
a sign, hold up signs.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Hold up signs, and keep saying things like hands off California.
Do you think that that's how things work in Washington?
Do you think that it's like, Oh, we were about
to go right after California, but when we saw those
angry protesters out there, we said, nah, Nah, because that's
not what That's not how laws, bills actions, that's not
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how legislation gets drafted. Nothing, nothing happens by way of protest.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Did you know that the Trump administration has not made
any acknowledgment of any of the protests?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Why why would they? Why would they?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
To?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
What end to.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Acknowledge is to give power too. And that's one of
those things where we are constantly acknowledging the things that
they may do, giving them power. Okay, stop giving them
the power. We're mad, We're mad. Hell, we're gonna take
it anymore. Meaning what meaning? Look, I look, I love y'all.
I do get another sign. You know you're gonna go
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out on another street corner. Look, you're gonna many of
you went to work today. Okay many of you may
not admit it, but I'm sure you probably stopped by
Starbucks or Target or Walmart, war some dei anti dei
place on your way home to get grossers or whatever. Look,
keep it real, okay, keep it real. You're out there
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and it looks good for the camera, and you've hashtagged.
But you know, the Montgomery bus boycott was not a
momentary hashtag.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It was a it was more than a year, more
than a year. And you know, there's been some movement
with Target. I know we're jumping around, but there's some
movement with Target where they're sitting down with I think
Al Sharpton.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You know, they've committed to spend money on black businesses.
And I'm not I'm not poopooyat. I'm just saying you
have to keep it in its proper perspective. Target has
not changed their policies. And after and and you know,
credit because you've been boycotting Target the longest, and I
said it has to be sustained, it has to be
a long time. But even after I don't know, three
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four months, whatever length of time it is, Target has
not changed their policies. You have to be willing to
do it another nine, ten months and maybe then Target
will change its policies. But the next protest, the next boycott,
is not going to mean anything unless you're willing to
commit to it from the long haul. This talking about
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how Hollywood and these one hundred thousand letters, it's for
a specific bill, actually two of them, and it's going
to be beneficial to those who support the bill. This
is how you do it. It has to be a
clearly defined goal. You have to exhibit leverage. You have
to make sure that you don't waste social capital, because
they probably not going to be able to get another
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one hundred thousand letters next week, so you got to.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Make it count.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Now, Correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe there is a
hands off California bill that's actually gone before the governor,
and that all these protests they're gathering hands off California
signatures to get signed and ratified by the governor, And
maybe that's what it is. Maybe I don't know about
that portion of it. I'm sorry. Maybe hit us in
the chat. Maybe someone watching us love on you two
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can say you're wrong. There is a hands off California
bill and it right now is going before the Senate
Judiciary or other Maybe it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Wasn't probably featured in the protests, It wasn't necessarily probably
explained in the messaging in the media out of appearances
where people are getting interviewed whye here, I'm mad. So
if that's the case, they're missing their moment, because I'd
like to think that I'm kind of aware of this stuff,
and I'm not aware of it, so I don't know
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how many times you'd be able to get people to
just protest aimlessly.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Is there a spokesperson?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I wouldn't know, Okay, I mean I should know, but
I'm saying I don't know of anyone because it's not
organized like that. It's a leaderless movement, and we all
know leaderless movements fail. They always have. It's Later with
mo Kelly my final thought. When we come back, We're
still live on YouTube and just want to remind you
we're giving away tickets to Disney on Ice on Wednesday,
but you're going to have to actually watch the YouTube
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Speaker 3 (24:23):
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Speaker 1 (24:26):
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Speaker 2 (24:32):
Last week, I told you about how I believe in experts.
I believe in education, I believe in training and expertise.
And I believe that those who have education, training and
expertise are superior to those who lack all three within
their respective disciplines. I'm talking about professionally, I'm not talking
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about as people, but call me crazy. I believe doctors
are more knowledgeable on issues of medicine than people who
only watch YouTube videos.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Call me crazy, but I actually believe that.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I believe actual pilots are more knowledgeable than I don't know,
those who simply play Microsoft Flight Simulator and other video games.
And I believe economists know more about what's going on
in the economy than people who only have a checking account.
Call me elitist if you want, but that's how I roll.
I prefer actual contractors and plumbers to guys who watch
(25:30):
YouTube videos as well. Expertise spatters. Your one DIY video
is not equal to years in a trade school or
decades in a profession. Can we agree on the simple stuff?
I think that's pretty simple. So when I tell you
that RFK Junior is only trained as a lawyer and author,
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I'm telling you that his feelings, opinions, and proclamations on
medical issues hold no water and less than a reign
of salt. Presently he's Secretary of Health and Human Services.
He has zero experience as a physician, a health scientist,
a virologist, immunologists, epidemiologists, podiatrist, dentist, chiropractor, veterinarian, apothecary, midwife,
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or even dental hygienist.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Zero.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
He and I are exactly the same in that regard.
But here's the difference, and it's a big one. Never
in my wildest nightmare is would I want me as
the head of any such agency, nor would I try
to imprint my socio political health beliefs on the agency.
I mention this because RFK Junior pledged an answer to
what he calls the autism epidemic quote unquote, and he
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will have that answer by September, not pledge a treatment
for any specific portion of this quote unquote epidemic. Remember autism.
There's a spectrum here. It's just not one particular condition.
But his word epidemic just an answer to this. But
to promise an answer is to presuppose we all agree
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on the same question. Again, substitute me for RFK Junior,
and you should have an equal amount of faith as
in none.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
More recently, Health and Human.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Services Secretary RFK Junior, in a new interview, set autism
was an epidemic with an impact that surpasses the COVID
nineteen pandemic. Believe that here are his words, quote, this
is an epidemic. It dwarfs the COVID epidemic and the
impacts on our country because COVID killed old people. Autism
affects children and affects them at the beginning of their lives,
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the beginning of their productivity, and it's absolutely debilitating for them,
their families, their communities.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Close quote.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's what Kennedy had to say on WABC seven to
seventy am. I don't argue with unseerious people. I don't
need to deconstruct his theories. I'm just telling you what
he had to say. Tawalla Sharp, the producer of this show,
works with children with autism every single day, every single day.
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He has more experience on the subject than RFK Junior,
and that's not open to debate among many people. Peter Marx,
the former head of the FDA, stepped down last month
because he didn't see eye to eye with Kennedy. The FDA,
like the CDC, Medicare, Medicaid, all under HHS. There's a
reason it's a crime to impersonate a physician or practice
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medicine without a license, because it is just that serious
people could die. And no, Kennedy isn't seeing patience or
prescribing medicine, but he's literally responsible for the totality of
the health and human services in this country, the whole country.
Like I said last week, we've devalued competence like it
is some sort of insult. And now the government apparatus
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of Health and Human Services is chasing the conspiracy theory
of vaccines and autism. This is like putting a flat
earther in charge of NASA, a government agency, and that
flat earther announcing he going to get an answer to
the shape of the planet. I know, I know, you
really like RFK Junior because he says stuff you also believe.
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But neither of you is a physician, a virologists, immunologists, epandemiologists, scientists,
all those real complicated jobs. Neither you nor RFK Junior
has conducted any peer review studies. Kennedy starting with a
conclusion and hoping to work his way backwards. I'm here
to tell you I'm not a scientist, but I do
know that's not how the scientific method works. You mean,
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you couldn't get at least a physician to run HHS,
not even a dentist, not even a pedietrist. Would you
want a Secretary of Defense with zero military experience? No,
say that out loud, because this is what that is like.
Do we really think that little of health in Human
Services to CDC, the FDA, the VA, etc. That any
old person who believes the same conspiracy theories that you
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do can do the job.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Question Mark, I'm ron Burgundy.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
As long as he believes vaccines cause autism, sign him up.
That's where we are in America. I like my pilots
highly trained. I like my air traffic controllers highly trained.
Why because people might die? Why we don't apply that
same a type of leadership to a top agency like HHS.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Let me remind you as I close, two children have
died in America thus far from measles and twenty seven states.
And I heard Mark Ronner say this, twenty seven states
have recorded measles infections in this latest outbreak, twenty seven states.
Why measles or bird flu is not at the top
of the list of priorities and providing an answer for.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Those issues I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Tomorrow, class, we're going to talk about the benefits of
hiring a secretary of labor who has never had a
job or work today in his or her life, and
a secretary of the VA who is anti military because
experience need not apply for KFI AM six forty I'm
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And also YouTube. Right now, we still have the live
stream going. Let's talk about some movies. Of course, we
had had Mark Runner give his run a Report review
of Sinners, and also to wall A Sharp jumped In
gave his review. I hope to see it tomorrow. I've
been trying to avoid as many spoilers as possible, but
I've heard ninety nine percent good things, and I desperately
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wanted to weigh in on the movie and it's being
and its release of Easter weekend to add my thoughts.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I just couldn't get around to it. There was too
much going on.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But I plan to see it tomorrow, and I want
to juxtapose its religious overtones in a movie which are
nowhere there with my religion and see what I may
be able to glean from the movie or other messages
within it. It was the number one movie in America
prize there. It brought in forty eight million domestically another
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fifteen million internationally for sixty three million. It's listed as
a ninety million dollar budget, and it's estimated from what
I've seen in the new York times another sixty million
in marketing and promotion, so we're looking at one hundred
and fifty million for it to break even. This is
also what I know about the movie. It's probably going
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to grow in theaters. It's only in when I say,
it's only just thirty three hundred theaters, and it doesn't
surprise me because one is mostly black cast.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Let's be honest, It's not going to play in Idaho.
It's just not. And also it's a horror movie.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's are so that limits the amount of places that
it's going to play as well. But there will be
some theaters which will most likely add it this weekend,
which should give it some more legs. And it's doing
decent internationally. You don't necessarily see that for a horror
movie the first week, so centers it will be. It's
interesting to see what it does in week two, whether
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it adds theaters, and whether there is a significant drop off.
But as far as critics and Rotten Tomatoes audience meter,
it's still like ninety eight percent doing well. And tomorrow
I'll give my thoughts about it. Assume I get to
the movie theater. I promise you this. The hype surrounding
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this film, the reviews surrounding this film, the overwhelming praise
surrounding this film. None of it, absolutely, none.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Of it is hyperbole, not a single bit.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
This is what I will say.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We talk about how supposedly audiences are tired of sequels,
they're tired of reboots, they want original stories, and for
most of the year in recent years, people had not
been supporting these new stories like a Mickey seventeen or
a Nova King, what have you. But I believe they
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just weren't good movies. And I believe that if you
give them something new, fresh, inventive, there is an appetite
for that. Noe pun intended that people will want to
go out and see it, and if you tell good stories,
people will go see it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Absolutely, I don't. I don't think it's that is revelatory
in any way.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And Sinners is a completely new concept from what I've heard,
you know it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It doesn't seem reminiscent of this or that.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's a completely store a story which is completely unto itself.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, Number two is a minecraft movie. Has your son
seen this, Shet Twela, Yes, he has? How many times?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Only once? And they had a ball in the theater.
They had a ball.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Did they act out in any way?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
They did they have? Did they? According to him, they
acted out at the appropriate times, at the times when
you're supposed to wild out in the theater.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yes, but he said they had a ball watching the movie. Okay,
he said they loved it. It brought in forty million
this week. Domestically, it's up to seven almost three quarters
of a billion dollars three quarters. I think it's going
to get there. And it still has more than four
thousand theaters. And that's what I always try to point
out to people is not just how many people go
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to see the movie, but how available is it for
people to see the movie. If you have to hunt
to find a movie theater, well that limits not only
your options, but it limits the likelihood of you seeing
If it's not in every theater, well, that means I
might have to drive further, I might have less time
on a given day to go see it. I may
not want to change my schedule to see a movie.
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But if it's everywhere, like a minecraft movie still in
more than four thousand theaters, yeah, you may have a
higher chance of seeing that movie. Number three this week
was The King of kings seventeen million for this is
a second week for a grant tole of forty nine.
That million makes sense Easter weekend. Of course, the amateur
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still want to see that as well. This is its
second week. It brought in seven million this week for
a total of sixty three million. And I don't see
how Mark gets to see all these movies that I don't.
It just makes me angry.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Well, it's a bit of a hassle, to tell you
the truth, the amateur.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The budget on that, Oh no, it had to be
more than yeah, sixty million, Okay, sixty million, So it's
made its money back. Let's say it's one hundred million,
ninety million after marketing promotion, it'll make that eventually.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's a solid fun movie. That's all I want.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Not everything has to be great, Just be solid, Just
be entertaining, an enjoyable relative to what you're you're offering.
You know, if I'm going to see an action adventure
to be good at that. It doesn't have to be
all things to me. Number five this week is Warfare
from four. It's a small studio, but they do good movie.
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That's an Alex Garland movie. I'm dying to see that
as well. Did you do Civil War as well?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Huh, okay, there we go. Number five is Drop. I
don't know what that is.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
That's the one about the the blind Days with the
with the texting from the kidnappers.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh yeah yeah. Number seven is Colorful Stage a movie
a Miku who can't sing.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It's a kid's movie.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
That's the whole title.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That's the whole title, the whole title, the whole title.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Number eight Pride and Prejudice twentieth anniversary re release, number nine,
The Chosen Last Upper Part three and number ten snow.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
White still hanging around. Well, it's not for long.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's one hundred and ninety four million worldwide and it
only brought in one point two million this week, so
it will leave the top ten this next week. But
A Working Man, much to inschagrin, fell out of the
top ten. It has a total of thirty five million
domestic but fifty one million international. Jason Statham does better
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internationally and it has a box office worldwide of eighty
seven million.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well, violence is the international language.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That's true, that's true. I wonder what the budget and
that one was. Well, let's look it up real quier. Yeah,
the working or a working man? A working man budget?
Oh my gosh, the movie, come on, chat bet forty million?
Surprisingly enough, only forty million.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Okay, now I have a question for Tuala without spoiling
sinners for anybody, I looked up a lot of information
on on the movie over the weekend, and Twitter is
going nuts for Hailey Steinfeld. What's your take on that?
Going nuts in one way? Yeah, well, I mean that's
a polite way to say, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, deservedly so deservedly. So
this was a standout performance for her. I don't believe
anyone thought she had it in her, and I believe
that she proved otherwise. I thought this performance was stellar.
I personally, I only know her from the Hawkeye series
(08:15):
and I thought she was fine in that. I thought
she plays a great Kate Bishop. But this film here,
I said, whoa wait a minute, now, okay, you're grown grown.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That was kind of the gist of the messages, Yes, grown, yeah,
because I think of her as not a child but
just very young.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
You'll watch this and you'll say.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Is that you?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Hollie?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Uh huh girl? Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Now,
last time I saw you this high?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, you all done growed up here?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Okay, all right, I'll give my review tomorrow. It's Later
with mo Kelly kf I AM six forty and YouTube.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Mo Kelly YouTube Live everywhere. And we love all things
to let me take that back. We loved past tense,
all things Star Wars back in the day, the newer stuff,
with the exception of maybe the Mandalorian and and Or
and Ahsoka.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
That's about it. That's about it. You know, you don't
like the bad betch You didn't like that. That was okay,
that was okay. It's not like somebody I just had
to rush to see. I've watched them all, but it
wasn't like, oh gosh, I'm engross Mandalorian. When you had
the episodes, Feloni would do Favreau, Carl Weathers, those were
(09:31):
There was some great Star Wars set pieces.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
They did the Universe justice. But speaking of the Mandalorian,
next year, the Mandalorian will have a Taylor Disney ride
experience for the first time, and it's gonna start May
twenty second, twenty twenty six next year, and that also
coincides with the same day the film The Mandalorian and Grogu,
(09:56):
obviously based on the Mandalorian series, will be released, and
from what I understand, Disney Resorts Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run
Ride will feature a storyline based on the characters.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. I mean it's
a big tie in to debut the new Mandalorian Grogu
addition to the Smugglers Run Ride. And I believe they're
supposed to have a animatronic of the Mandalorian because they
have some life sized animatronics in there, so they're supposed
(10:31):
to have a life sized animatronic as well as some
specifically filmed additions from Pedro Pascal who plays the Mandalorian
Den Jarren. So I think that's gonna take it to
another level.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I hope so, because it has all the elements to
be something great. What I mean by that is a
movie I assume people will really really be interested in
because the Mandalorian, as far as Disney Plus Universe, has
really popped, and you've seen some crossover with other properties
within the Disney Disney Plus Universe, like Ah Soca like
(11:08):
the pamphlet of Bob effect.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
We won't really refer to, but I.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Would say the best Star Wars Disney series had.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Three seasons from the second yeah, okay and all around.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yes, Yeah, we'll see what Andor does in season two
getting ready to come up. But you can see how
Disney has this plan where we're gonna use everything. We're
gonna use every title, We're gonna use every bit of
intellectual property, and also mainline that into our theme parks.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
And the good thing about the Man, the Mandalori and
Grogu is that it is still created and controlled by
people who love the franchise, people of Star Wars, and
that is what is most important because from all indications,
the trailer, which we should be getting to see soon
at the Star Wars celebration in Japan, the trailer had
(11:59):
the crowd absolutely blown away. And that is a very
very critical audience there at Star Wars fan fest. It's
like if they're not feeling it, you'll know right away
because they will not keep it to themselves. And so
for everyone to say, like this is what we expected
from the movie, it is and and this is what's
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most important because a lot of people felt that that
final episode in season three and did it on such
a happy note that they thought we were going to
get happiness and joy, joy and all that in Mandlin
and Grogus like no, no, no, no, no no. This film
from first look is leaning into some of the darker
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elements of that storyline.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, they still have to explain what happens to Grogu
in the larger timeline, since he was not there for
the for the Skywalker saga, Yesday integrated Luke Skywalker into
the story of Grogu, but we don't know what happened
to him as a force wielder within the Star Wars universe.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
From my understanding, it's not a happy It can't be.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It can't be. If you really know Star Wars, you
know why it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Can't be, because the subsequent movies make it impossible. I
don't want to say too much, but you know you
have to see that on your own. Star Wars is
going to have to earn my trust back because after
the last trilogy, I don't have any burning desire to
see more Star Wars movies. Now I can watch Disney
(13:31):
Plus shows, but actually going to the theater and sitting
down and watching a Star Wars movie.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
No, they're gonna have to show me something.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I mean, I don't know man for me Star Wars.
I'm one of those Star Wars hopeful So I'm one
of those individuals that like the very essence of what
Star Wars stands for.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Hope.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I keep hope alive that we're gonna get something good.
So I will be back when they drop Starfighter starring
Ryan Gosson, even though that's twenty seven, twenty twenty seven.
Even though I.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
May not be a big Ryan Gosling fan, I know
that if it's a Stars movie, it's he's featured in
an ensemble, and I'm down to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I you know, I love everything that's nerdy. So I mean,
we're gonna be in the theaters anyway, moy act like
we're not gonna go see it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Look, I don't have to go see it. I mean
be held hostage. I will be getting the tickets and.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
We just won't go. I just won't show. He's gonna
feed you some pickle juice at the theater too.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Okay, Hey, Sam the Sex Doctor, can you turn off
this mic? For good?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Sam the Sex Doctor?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Why do we call you Sam the sex Doctor because
I'm getting my PhD in human sexuality. Thank you very much,
Sam the sex doctor, call him doctor Ruth. Yes, I'll
take it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
It's late with mokel.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
We're gonna talk more Hollywood when we come back and
show you the difference why Hollywood and its various unions
do a hell of a lot better and are much
more formidable than the music unions. Is there a music union?
I don't think there is no. That's part of the reason.
We'll talk about that in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (15:13):
Before I get to my final thoughts to the next segment,
had a quick little update with.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Hollywood more generally, and let me back up.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I was arguing with people, as I'm known to do
online on threads, and I got into this argument with
someone who was trying to say, hey, have you seen
all the protests this past weekend regarding anti Trump protests
which were going on I think on the Huntington Beach
and other places. I was aware of them, but I
wasn't following them, and he was saying, isn't that a
(15:43):
great thing? I said, I'm not moved by protests which
are going nowhere. I mean, you're wasting social capital. If
it's not for an express, explicit goal in the moment,
you probably won't be able to get those same type
of people to activate again, and you won't be able
to sustain the momentum. I've said that about every wandering,
(16:05):
aimless protests, and I use the example of the Civil
rights movement. But check this out twelve. I want to
relate it to what the entertainment industry is doing right now.
You have about one hundred thousand different letters of support
which are being sent by members of the entertainment industry.
They're sent to California lawmakers ahead of some very important
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hearings on expanded film and TV tax credit proposal. In
other words, you're mobilizing, and you're utilizing your social capital
at a moment in which it can pass specific legislation
which could benefit from you, benefit you.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
That's exactly what I mean by.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
If you're going to do activating the masses, do it
for a particular reason, going towards a specific goal. More
than one hundred thousand letters have been sent to Sacramento
in support of SB six thirty and AB eleven thirty eight,
which would not only allocate seven hundred and fifty million
annually in tax incentives for production in the state, but
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also redefine and broaden eligibility for the program. The initiative
was led by the Entertainment Union Coalition as part of
its Keep California Rolling campaign, and they've been lobbying for
the passage of these two bills. The letters urge key
members of the Senate's Revenue and Taxation Committee, as well
as the Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and tour Reas Tourism
(17:30):
Commuting Excuse Me Committee, to vote the bills out of
committee this week in order to put workers one step
closer to being able to continue to contribute and.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Work where they live.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
We know that a lot of business in California has
been going out of state to different states, television production.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Movie production.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But if you're going to get one hundred thousand people
to do something for you, is it better they stand
out on the corner and hold a sign or they
do something which is going to move you closer to
the passage of a law or some sort of bill
which you benefit.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
See.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
This is what we always talk about when we say
no one cares about your awareness, because making people aware
of something that gets you nothing A drive by sea
say oh hey, I'm aware that you are out there protesting.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Okay, but where you're mad?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I get that, you know, and hashtag whatever whatever your
cause may be. But none of those causes go towards
an actual bill. Anything that's going in front of either
the mayor's office, the governor's office, or the president's desk. Nothing.
You're just out there. Just we want you to know
we're mad, Okay, good luck with that. This is actually saying, hey,
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we need everyone to sign this letter. We've drafted the leather.
Are you gonna print it, put your name on it, send
it in. Here's the address, here's the deadline. Get this
in by this date. Because why we want to get
this thing to pass so we can do what bring
jobs back, keep jobs in, keep California rolling with our
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number one export films.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yes, this makes sense.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yes, if you're going to activate one hundred thousand people,
this is why. This is how this is when it's
not just let's go protest every Saturday so we can
be seen and get on the news. And yeah, I
know it makes you feel good. I know that you
may want to feel some sort of camaraderie. That is
good to see thousands of other people out there feeling
(19:30):
the same way as you, But it doesn't propel the issue.
It doesn't get you anywhere specifically, it doesn't forward your interest.
And if the best thing you can do is, hey,
you know, we got to let people know. We got
to let people know that we're angry. We have to
be seen so people know that they're not alone. That
was actually said to me. People need to know that
they're not alone. Well, if that's the best that you
could drum up as a reason to get all the
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people together, you are wasting social capital, which is finite.
You're not going to be able to get people to
unite and do something every single weekend or successive weekends
to do nothing in particular, What are they going to
do with the next protests other than protests and hold
a sign, hold up signs.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Hold up signs, and keep saying things like hands off California.
Do you think that that's how things work in Washington?
Do you think that it's like, Oh, we were about
to go right after California, but when we saw those
angry protesters out there, we said, nah, Nah, because that's
not what That's not how laws, bills actions, that's not
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how legislation gets drafted. Nothing, nothing happens by way of protest.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Did you know that the Trump administration has not made
any acknowledgment of any of the protests?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Why why would they? Why would they?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
To?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
What end to.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Acknowledge is to give power too. And that's one of
those things where we are constantly acknowledging the things that
they may do, giving them power. Okay, stop giving them
the power. We're mad, We're mad. Hell, we're gonna take
it anymore. Meaning what meaning? Look, I look, I love y'all.
I do get another sign. You know you're gonna go
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out on another street corner. Look, you're gonna many of
you went to work today. Okay many of you may
not admit it, but I'm sure you probably stopped by
Starbucks or Target or Walmart, war some dei anti dei
place on your way home to get grossers or whatever. Look,
keep it real, okay, keep it real. You're out there
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and it looks good for the camera, and you've hashtagged.
But you know, the Montgomery bus boycott was not a
momentary hashtag.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It was a it was more than a year, more
than a year. And you know, there's been some movement
with Target. I know we're jumping around, but there's some
movement with Target where they're sitting down with I think
Al Sharpton.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You know, they've committed to spend money on black businesses.
And I'm not I'm not poopooyat. I'm just saying you
have to keep it in its proper perspective. Target has
not changed their policies. And after and and you know,
credit because you've been boycotting Target the longest, and I
said it has to be sustained, it has to be
a long time. But even after I don't know, three
(22:19):
four months, whatever length of time it is, Target has
not changed their policies. You have to be willing to
do it another nine, ten months and maybe then Target
will change its policies. But the next protest, the next boycott,
is not going to mean anything unless you're willing to
commit to it from the long haul. This talking about
(22:40):
how Hollywood and these one hundred thousand letters, it's for
a specific bill, actually two of them, and it's going
to be beneficial to those who support the bill. This
is how you do it. It has to be a
clearly defined goal. You have to exhibit leverage. You have
to make sure that you don't waste social capital, because
they probably not going to be able to get another
(23:01):
one hundred thousand letters next week, so you got to.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Make it count.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Now, Correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe there is a
hands off California bill that's actually gone before the governor,
and that all these protests they're gathering hands off California
signatures to get signed and ratified by the governor, And
maybe that's what it is. Maybe I don't know about
that portion of it. I'm sorry. Maybe hit us in
the chat. Maybe someone watching us love on you two
(23:24):
can say you're wrong. There is a hands off California
bill and it right now is going before the Senate
Judiciary or other Maybe it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Wasn't probably featured in the protests, It wasn't necessarily probably
explained in the messaging in the media out of appearances
where people are getting interviewed whye here, I'm mad. So
if that's the case, they're missing their moment, because I'd
like to think that I'm kind of aware of this stuff,
and I'm not aware of it, so I don't know
(23:54):
how many times you'd be able to get people to
just protest aimlessly.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Is there a spokesperson?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I wouldn't know, Okay, I mean I should know, but
I'm saying I don't know of anyone because it's not
organized like that. It's a leaderless movement, and we all
know leaderless movements fail. They always have. It's Later with
mo Kelly my final thought. When we come back, We're
still live on YouTube and just want to remind you
we're giving away tickets to Disney on Ice on Wednesday,
but you're going to have to actually watch the YouTube
(24:22):
stream to win, so you.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Might also subscribe now at mister mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Last week, I told you about how I believe in experts.
I believe in education, I believe in training and expertise.
And I believe that those who have education, training and
expertise are superior to those who lack all three within
their respective disciplines. I'm talking about professionally, I'm not talking
(24:53):
about as people, but call me crazy. I believe doctors
are more knowledgeable on issues of medicine than people who
only watch YouTube videos.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Call me crazy, but I actually believe that.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I believe actual pilots are more knowledgeable than I don't know,
those who simply play Microsoft Flight Simulator and other video games.
And I believe economists know more about what's going on
in the economy than people who only have a checking account.
Call me elitist if you want, but that's how I roll.
I prefer actual contractors and plumbers to guys who watch
(25:30):
YouTube videos as well. Expertise spatters. Your one DIY video
is not equal to years in a trade school or
decades in a profession. Can we agree on the simple stuff?
I think that's pretty simple. So when I tell you
that RFK Junior is only trained as a lawyer and author,
(25:50):
I'm telling you that his feelings, opinions, and proclamations on
medical issues hold no water and less than a reign
of salt. Presently he's Secretary of Health and Human Services.
He has zero experience as a physician, a health scientist,
a virologist, immunologists, epidemiologists, podiatrist, dentist, chiropractor, veterinarian, apothecary, midwife,
(26:17):
or even dental hygienist.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Zero.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
He and I are exactly the same in that regard.
But here's the difference, and it's a big one. Never
in my wildest nightmare is would I want me as
the head of any such agency, nor would I try
to imprint my socio political health beliefs on the agency.
I mention this because RFK Junior pledged an answer to
what he calls the autism epidemic quote unquote, and he
(26:43):
will have that answer by September, not pledge a treatment
for any specific portion of this quote unquote epidemic. Remember autism.
There's a spectrum here. It's just not one particular condition.
But his word epidemic just an answer to this. But
to promise an answer is to presuppose we all agree
(27:05):
on the same question. Again, substitute me for RFK Junior,
and you should have an equal amount of faith as
in none.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
More recently, Health and Human.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Services Secretary RFK Junior, in a new interview, set autism
was an epidemic with an impact that surpasses the COVID
nineteen pandemic. Believe that here are his words, quote, this
is an epidemic. It dwarfs the COVID epidemic and the
impacts on our country because COVID killed old people. Autism
affects children and affects them at the beginning of their lives,
(27:35):
the beginning of their productivity, and it's absolutely debilitating for them,
their families, their communities.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Close quote.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's what Kennedy had to say on WABC seven to
seventy am. I don't argue with unseerious people. I don't
need to deconstruct his theories. I'm just telling you what
he had to say. Tawalla Sharp, the producer of this show,
works with children with autism every single day, every single day.
(28:02):
He has more experience on the subject than RFK Junior,
and that's not open to debate among many people. Peter Marx,
the former head of the FDA, stepped down last month
because he didn't see eye to eye with Kennedy. The FDA,
like the CDC, Medicare, Medicaid, all under HHS. There's a
reason it's a crime to impersonate a physician or practice
(28:24):
medicine without a license, because it is just that serious
people could die. And no, Kennedy isn't seeing patience or
prescribing medicine, but he's literally responsible for the totality of
the health and human services in this country, the whole country.
Like I said last week, we've devalued competence like it
is some sort of insult. And now the government apparatus
(28:47):
of Health and Human Services is chasing the conspiracy theory
of vaccines and autism. This is like putting a flat
earther in charge of NASA, a government agency, and that
flat earther announcing he going to get an answer to
the shape of the planet. I know, I know, you
really like RFK Junior because he says stuff you also believe.
(29:08):
But neither of you is a physician, a virologists, immunologists, epandemiologists, scientists,
all those real complicated jobs. Neither you nor RFK Junior
has conducted any peer review studies. Kennedy starting with a
conclusion and hoping to work his way backwards. I'm here
to tell you I'm not a scientist, but I do
know that's not how the scientific method works. You mean,
(29:31):
you couldn't get at least a physician to run HHS,
not even a dentist, not even a pedietrist. Would you
want a Secretary of Defense with zero military experience? No,
say that out loud, because this is what that is like.
Do we really think that little of health in Human
Services to CDC, the FDA, the VA, etc. That any
old person who believes the same conspiracy theories that you
(29:52):
do can do the job.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Question Mark, I'm ron Burgundy.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
As long as he believes vaccines cause autism, sign him up.
That's where we are in America. I like my pilots
highly trained. I like my air traffic controllers highly trained.
Why because people might die? Why we don't apply that
same a type of leadership to a top agency like HHS.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Let me remind you as I close, two children have
died in America thus far from measles and twenty seven states.
And I heard Mark Ronner say this, twenty seven states
have recorded measles infections in this latest outbreak, twenty seven states.
Why measles or bird flu is not at the top
of the list of priorities and providing an answer for.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Those issues I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Tomorrow, class, we're going to talk about the benefits of
hiring a secretary of labor who has never had a
job or work today in his or her life, and
a secretary of the VA who is anti military because
experience need not apply for KFI AM six forty I'm
Moe Kelly.
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