March 26, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – “What’s Up” with regular guest contributor Nick Pagliochini delving into everything the Southland has to offer; from the Propstore ‘Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction,’ to the Aquarium of the Pacific ‘Night Dive’ and MORE (@NickPagliochini & @ThisWeekendWithNick)…PLUS – At long last, Will Smith has opened up about the infamous Oscars incident and subsequent ban – on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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message at mister Mokelly on threads or on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
We can keep the conversation going there. Look at you
using threads. Sorry to interrupt you, but that's impressive.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Now.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
I've been using threads for a while.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's not as good as what Twitter used to be
as far as trending topics, ease of just moving around,
ease of tagging and hashtagging, I agree with it's not that,
but it's functional and it has some features that I
really love when dealing with trolls.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
The hide for everyone feature is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I mean, you can say something stupid on a thread
to me and I'll just hide for everyone no, and
we'll see it. Then I can mute and block your
ass into oblivion. It makes me feel so much better.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And if you're not familiar meta as offering threads as
that alternate too. Yes, you know it's a companion of Instagram,
but it's an alternate.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
To x I counter less foolishness. That's the only way
I can describe on threads. Twitter was sorry, it's just this,
and I'm not calling it x F out of here.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's a cesspool and it's just a bunch of nameless,
faceless a holes who want to say anything and everything,
and I can't respond in kind. Oh I would love to,
but I can't. So no, I'm not going to subject
subject myself not to go too far off the rails.
But do you do Mastadon or Blue Sky or any
of the other alternate ones or No? I post occasionally
on Blue Sky, I Masterdon hasn't had any real appeal
(01:51):
to me. I'll also have accounts on truth, Social Spill,
and a couple of others.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I was gonna say, spill is something that even I
have an account for spill, and I don't think anybody
really knows.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I can't figure out spill. It's too damn hard, right No,
And I think that's the hard.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We're so thoroughly saturated right now with everything, and I
think this is a great way to jump into what's
up with Nick because me trying to keep up with
everything that we started this in twenty twenty three, yep,
when it became later with Mokelly and it was this
weekend with Nick on Fridays, and now trying to figure
out every algorithm that's out there, every change that's happened.
I'm going to get into where I was earlier earlier
(02:27):
today with Amy King from Wake Up Call and Bill
Handles Show here on KFI and just trying to balance out.
All right, I gotta cut this for this platform, and
I gotta cut this for this platform. It's wild because
you're trying to do your best to inform people. But
then it's this game that all these major corporations have
jumped into playing. And then you have Macedon and Blue Sky.
(02:48):
If you're not familiar with those that are not overseen
by a major corporation, that those are more on the
free you know, freemium space, and it's really great, but
try to navigate it, just like you said in using
threads as an example from something we're all familiar with
Facebook for meta, we're all familiar with Instagram for meta.
And then you've got threads. So again there's those handful
(03:09):
of great options available, but it's also trying to like
figure it all out.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It's a learning curve is finding your village and people
in the sense of people that you're going to interact with.
And it takes a long time because let's say you
had your group of people that you would interact with
on Twitter. Yeah, then you've got to start all the
way over on a new social media app and it
doesn't have the same bells and whistles in the settings,
(03:34):
are not set up the same way.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
It takes a long time.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
This discovery, just the organic natural discovery of it that's
challenging it as it is.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
So well, thanks for going off topic with me. Okay,
we're back. Let's talk about superheroes and supervillains.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So it's just coin of works with I want to
talk about it and will probably take it after the
break as well. But there is an incredible option that
is happening at the Peterson Automotive Museum in.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Midwell Shoe Peterson.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Okay, did you go when it was originally the small
installation that was over and not? It could be completely
wrong with this. I should have done a little bit
or better Research, which is unlike me. But when it
was over by UCLA, there was a smaller Peterson before
the big huge build out with the free standing building
across from the Academy Museum on Fairfax, Right, yeah, but
it was the small little guy, right. I might have
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was like, was it real close to Santa Monica?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Kind of yes?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Okay, And so now I haven't been to the Peterson.
So first of all, I'm going to say just what's
up with Nick or this Weekend with Nick? Checking out
the Peterson Automotive Museum itself is well worth your time
parking on site there if you're interested in the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Their museum is directly
across the way. Everything in the Midweel Shure and Miracle
Mile corridor is right right there within walking distance. Great food,
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you know, Lachman's down the street, all of that, But
this is something that is very special and very different
from propstore propstore dot com. And you can check out
the Lincoln bio at Nick Pauli o'chane in This Weekend
with Nick on Instagram is the e theest way to
get the details. But they have a multimillion dollar auction
that goes live tomorrow. And when I say multimillion dollar, like,
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one of the items we saw today was Luke Skywalker
Mark Hamill's screen and photo match Metal of Yavin. Is
that correct because you're my Yavin.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
It is Yavin.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yes, So from New Hope for seventy seven that is
expected to go for between three hundred and six hundred
thousand dollars. Fact, we pretty much got to go. We
got a special preview, that's the truth. But no, I've
got all the details for you tonight, So you definitely
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want to check out the link because Amy King will
have an interview in the morning on wake Up Call
with the COO of the of prop Store, so you'll
be able to get more details and more of insight
and fund and excitement. But I want you to go
to this because tomorrow is the one day you get
to go in person and see everything that I got
to see today. And it is at the Penthouse at
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the Peterson Automotive Museum. Propstore dot com, Propstore auction dot com.
That'll get you the details about it, but I'm not kidding.
Go check out the reel that I just posted. You
can also see it's shared with later with Mokelly on
Instagram that will have all the different things you can see.
We saw things from Elf, so the oh the uh.
(06:23):
I'm trying to remember the specific engine that Santy uses
in Elf something three thousand, three thousand.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Is that what it is? Or is it an elf something? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I don't remember ELF's shoes. We saw Buddy's card that
he gave to James Conn to his dad's character in it.
You can buy that. There is a screen worn from
Superman three Evil Superman, so Christopher Reeves when he has
his in Superman three and eighty three, has that change
over that's available for you there two hundred to four
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hundred thousand dollars, like he able to be arm's length
away from Anything like that is just wild to me
because we have Hollywood in our backyard, and we've had
it in our backyard, both the small screen and the
silver screen for so long. We really take it for
granted because we enjoy all the content, but we don't
really go out and see it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
And sometimes you got.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
To be a tourist in your own neighborhood, if that
makes sense absolutely, because I mean, while I may not
want to hop on a bus and take a tour
of Hollywood to go see celebrities home is because lord knows,
we both know celebrities personally and know where they live,
and they're not on those tours, right, So there's a
reason for that, but a really good.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Reason for that. But it's just wild.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Like we saw Danny Zuko's jacket from Grease Lightning from
Greece to the movie, so but like from specifically the
one because he had a super shiny one and then
he had a little bit more matt that weren't better
with the cameras. And what's really cool is every single
one of these items you can also see online. I
really want you to go and I want you to
check it out in person, but you can see them
online again propstore dot Com or propstore auction dot com.
(08:00):
Everything goes live tomorrow morning at ten thirty am. It's
three days of entertainment Memorabilia live auction happening each day.
Tomorrow is the only day you get to go and
see it physically in person, whether you're bidding on it
or not. Obviously prop Store would love for you to
bid on it. I wish I had the kind of
coin to drop on this. They had this sick model
of Voyager from Star Trek, one of the ones that
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was used in the filming of it. Absolutely incredible. Also
they had stuff from Back to the Future. I'm looking
at the links right now.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It's a wild right incredible, absolutely incredible store dot com
correct And the biggest thing is as funny as it sounds,
were starting out with the free ninety nine side of
things instead of the other way to go is free
ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You have to pay for parking or you have to
find parking somewhere near around there, so you pay for
whatever the product parking is at the Peterson But yes,
thank you Steff Fush it's going to be free ninety
nine for you to be able to check out these things.
So again, if you want to learn more, I highly
encourage it. It opens at ten thirty am tomorrow. They
will be doing a live auction in person. You can
also attend it online. So that's why I say Nick
(09:01):
Paulio O Kenny this week go and Nick the Lincoln
Bio will take you to where you need to go.
But get down there. If you've got nothing to do,
it's well worth it. You can check it all out
Thursday and Friday as well from the comfort of your
own home.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Go to popstore dot com right now, right because I'm
looking at this like, I wow, because.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
I'm just trying to think, like, you've got Catwoman.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So Michelle Feifirst costume from Batman returns, which is incredible
but also had definitely seen better days. But you have
to think that was from ninety two, so you know,
we've all weathered a little bit from ninety two. Yeah,
not just the costumes, but that was amazing. Amy King's
always excited about top guns. So Tom Cruise Mavericks nineteen
(09:40):
eighty six photo match Bomber Jacket is available for you
to buy fifty to one hundred K.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
See, I'm just looking at like they have Orlando Blooms
photo id pass from black Hawk down. How little stuff
like that, Like, yeah, it's random but specific at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, for sure, so it's well worth it. It's a
lot of fun. I had a blast doing it. I
got a great time tearing through it as Moe is
doing right now. Propstore dot com or propstore Auction dot com.
You can get the links in bio at Nick poliochany
this week with a Nick or later with mo Kelly
on Instagram and You can also check out a real
that I shot of just kind of running through just
a handful of the exhibits. They weren't even fully set
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up for guests to come in. They have a special
event tonight going on.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I would.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I'm sad I'm not there, but I much rather be
here always with you guys. But yeah, it's definitely something
to check out. Uh and you've got that, but I've
got more do We'll do it on yeah side.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
On the other side, Nick Poliochetty joins me in studios
Later with mo Kelly. We'll find out what's up with
Nick and more k if I Am six forty Live
Everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 4 (10:49):
Nick.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
What kf I Am six forty It's Later with mo
(11:16):
Kelly Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Nick Poliochini continues to join me in studio. Nick, what
is up? Well?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I want to talk about something that's coming up this
weekend and it granted, I always want you to when
you're going to these events. Be sure to tune into
Later with mo Kelly Monday through Friday from seven to ten,
especially for cult classic movies on Friday at nine o'clock.
But this Friday is Night Dive over in my neck
of the woods at the Aquarium of the Pacific and
Long Beach, and this is an eighteen and over event
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that takes over the entire aquarium, music, Art and Culture
U Their spring program is this Friday. They pretty much
have one going March, June, July, August, so it looks
like this is just the only spring offering that's gonna
be available. But they will have a live band there,
several DJs, music, cocktails, dancing, food, you name it. So
if you've not been to the Aquarium of the Pacific,
(12:07):
it's a fantastic opportunity for you to go and enjoy
whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
A day with the fishes.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It sounds very are you're gonna be sleeping with a fishes,
very moblive right exactly. But this is one of those
events that they take the footprint of something that's existing
and completely changed it up, which is always a good time.
I have been a member at the Aquarium for many,
many years, but it's so funny because there's people who
are members of things that are in their backyard but
(12:35):
not the direct backyard. So I have been a member
of the of the Pacific long before I lived in
Long Beach, just because it was so cool to have
something in the city that was close to where I
grew up for the most part with my grandparents, and
so to have that it's well worth checking out during
the day, and being a member is always a great opportunity.
But if you're a non member, it's still not too
bad because if you figure members for this event forty
(12:57):
bucks or thirty nine ninety five. For non members, it's
forty five dollars, so you save five bucks by being
a member of the aquarium. But this is a great
date night opportunity if you want to go, or if
you want to go meet some singles, it's not a
bad thing either, or just take a group of friends.
But I love it because it's a venue that is
predominantly If you go during the day, you're gonna see
a bunch of schools that are there and a bunch
of kids that are there, and this is an opportunity
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for you to kind of be a nerd and geek
out about things. Like we talked about last week the
grunn In Run. They will definitely be touching on that.
There's no grun in running at the aquarium itself specifically,
but it's something else for you to check out. And
the thing that starts this weekend and runs all the
way through April is something that I absolutely love and
is genuinely an institution in southern California. We all know
(13:40):
that I'm a huge fanboy of Disney and being a
Disney adult, but not it's very farm over way to park,
not that far away from Disneyland. They're kicking off their
Boysonberry Festival, and I will tell you the one thing
that I was incredibly impressed with nots especially during the pandemic,
is they figured out how to open the park and
(14:01):
get socially distanced time because it's a park, so everyone's
outdoors and so it was a great opportunity. And they
really have gotten their food festivals dialed in. Don't get
it twisted. I absolutely love the food and wine festival
that's underway right now, Disney California Adventure. In fact, I'll
be talking about that more next week, but not Sperry Farm.
The Bois and Berry Festival opens this weekend on the
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twenty eighth, runs through April twenty seventh. If you have
a season pass like I do, it's a great opportunity
to get over there. Not s Very Farm season passes
which is also now inclusive depending on what you buy
of Six Flags Magic Mountain because of the same company.
They are all part of the Cedar Fair family and
they really are reasonable. And when I say that, there
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are other theme parks that I've talked about spoken of
that are very very much a financial investment if you
will to become an annual pass hole. Yes, say expensive,
def and expensive, and it walid provides an incredible well
worth it thing. Knots Berry Farm is just such a
different vibe period whether you're the day or night. I
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love that they have Camp Snoopy, which is available for kids,
and they have revamped it so that has reopened with
all the new attractions that are available for you there.
But the Boys and Berry Festival, everything that is Boisonberry
is there, and that really is what put knots Berry
Farm on the map originally when it was just a
berry farm off of Root sixty six.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Do they still sell it in stores grocery stores?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
So the thing is is you're able to because Smuckers
bought the Knots brand after a number of years ago.
The only place in the entire world that you can
purchase Knots Berry Farm branded jams and jellies is physically
on site or I think it's Knots Marketplace dot com.
But those are the only two places that you're able
to find any of this. And what's even cooler is
(15:54):
with the Boys and Berry Festival. Obviously, every single food item,
every cocktail, every mocktail, even wines and beers all have
boisonberry in some way, shape or form involved with them.
So it's not great on your waistline, but it is
a great for a good time, and it's a great
opportunity because you're gonna try to ride.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I tried. I didn't completely crash and burn.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Okay, it went well enough, but no, I just think
Knots Berry Farm is that unsung hero, especially now because
the weather is beautiful, it's not too warm yet, and
you're able to do something that is not going to
break the bank and get out there and enjoy a
solo trip, a couple's trip, a family trip, and you
name it, or become an interpassolder with them and get
a season pass because they're really, really reasonable. You do
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need to be aware that they do still have chaperone policies,
so kids under eighteen during certain times of the year,
you'll be able to check you on Not's berry Farm
and they'll be able to give that to you. But
the bois and Berry Festival and I am reached out
to my friends at Notts and hopefully when I'm back
in next week, even if I don't talk about it
all that much, I will definitely be bringing you some
boys and very treats.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I appreciate that Mark never brings me anything.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I know.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Well, the worst part is I was trying to figure
out how are going to put cookies and cream and boisonberg.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I don't know if that's going to roll. I don't
know if that's going to work, but something to that effect.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, I'll figure it out when Nick, when he comes here,
he usually brings me something.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I don't get jack from these jokers.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I was gonna say, I love that you all are
getting thrown another box, like just out a question, and
neither Stephen or Mark is anither. They're busy, No, no, they
know it's truck right, But I'm like, I'm looking at
them right now on the cameras, They're like, should I respond,
what is there anything the button used to contradict what
he's saying.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
No, No, it's just that you wouldn't want anything that
I would bring, like a black olive dish.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That's what What kind of dish are you going to
bring with black olives? Because you got to take us
there first of all. I love how you take us there,
which makes perfect sense. You open the door, let's walk through.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Well, I'd find one. I mean, I could come up
with one with a black olive dish. Oh, there must
be all sorts of delicious black olive dishes that Moe
would love.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
See, that's why I prefer Nick because I know that
right there, it's Later mo Kelly.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
That's always good.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Seeing a pleasure is always be sure to check me
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Speaker 1 (18:11):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (18:17):
Will Smith is getting himself back out there in the
wake of the controversy. He's spent three years now, imagine
that three years since that unfortunate Oscar slap, and I
have always been consistent in my condemnation of it. If
you put hands on someone that's as salt and battery,
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it should have been treated as a crime. Yes, Chris
Rock declined to press charges, but sometimes, and you see
this in domestic violence cases all the time, you don't
even need to have a willing victim for charges to
be filed, especially when it happens in front of the
whole world. For me, was never any justification for Will
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Smith to walk down and put hands on Chris Rock.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I don't believe, accept or agree.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
That Chris Rock somehow insulted Jada Pinkett Smith so flagrantly
and egregiously that his only option was to put hands
on Chris Rock. Sorry, and I commend Chris Rock for
not physically escalating that moment, knowing the whole world just watching.
(19:32):
I review that because you may not remember. Part of
the punishment air quotes for Will Smith was a ten
year ban, and I think it's more apt to call
it a suspension because a ban is permanent.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Suspension is more like a postponement.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Of his participation in any Oscar related activity, to which
he was asked specifically about the Oscar suspension now that
he's doing more media in support of this new album
and tour, and this is what Will Smith had to
say about it with the band and everything, are you
(20:07):
looking to appeal or you just looking just to write
everything out and just continue to do you I am
looking to be the best human I can possibly be,
and I'm gonna take what I get with that.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Huh what does that even mean? If you could see
both of our faces? What does it even mean? The
best human I could Yeah. I think all of us on.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
A daily basis wake up and not explicitly, but implicitly think,
let me see if I can have the best day possible.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Just be the best person. I can be the best
version of myself.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But Will Smith, in response to a question about the
Oscar band slash suspension right wanted to dither and deflect
and talk about how he's just trying to be the
best person he can be.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
No, no, no, no, that's going forward.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
He was asking about the past as far as that incident,
how you look upon it, how you're going to navigate
it for the next I don't know six years or
so that it's going to be in effect. It's a
relevant question, it's a question which is going to be
repeatedly asked of him.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And let me give you some behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I would bet dollars to donuts anyone who has been
granted the opportunity to interview Will Smith, and I know
Mark Roger knows about this, there probably will be a
list of topics and questions which will be verboten, which
will not be allowed to ask what you will be told
that you can't bring up or they're not going to
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agree to the interview. And if you go against that,
Will Smith probably will walk out.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Yeah, a real journalist doesn't agree to stuff like that.
Hacks Will people who have no journalistic integrity and just
want to be climbers. But I would never agree to
limitations on an interview.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
The only limitations that I agree to are the personal questions.
In other words, whenever I interview someone, I'm not going
to ask about the personal life unless the personal life
is the whole peg of the interview. In this situation,
the peg or in other words, the reason for the
interview would be the tour his new music and so forth.
(22:24):
I'm not going to ask, so, do you end Jada
have an open relationship? I would never do that, but
I would be employing journalistic malpractice if I did not
ask him about Chris Rock.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah, you also have to have some kind of internal compass.
I mean, if you want to see examples of people
who have done it wrong, look at the awkward interviews
with Robert Downey Junior where they completely inappropriately decide they
want to ask him about his ancient history of troubles
with drugs and the law, and he kind of tolerates
it up to a point, and then he ends the
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interview rightfully, so right, but with Will Swift, Will Smith No no, no, no,
no no. He hasn't even made amends for his Wild
Wild West movie. He gets to get asked apology. He
was the world in apology, and he gets to get
asked about that slap in perpetuity. I mean that was
in front of a billion people.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
And although he may have apologized quote unquote on social media,
there's still a conversation to be had in the wake
of it as far as what was going through his
mind had the follow up to that answer, and also
I need an explanation as to what has changed since then.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
There's been nothing like that, especially not in Oscar history.
I mean there are stories about when Sasheen Little Feather
accepted or rejected rather the Oscar for Brando, that people
had to hold John Wayne back, but you didn't see
any footage of that.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
We all saw this, And although I'm quite sure Will
Smith would like to move past it, I've never interviewed him.
I've met him in passing when he and Jada had
just gotten together. I don't even think they're even married yet.
I mean this is decades ago, so I don't know
anything about him personally. I doubt I will ever have
the opportunity to actually interview him because to what Mark
(24:15):
was saying, I'm not going to agree to the stipulations
which inevitably they would want to place on the interview.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
And I get it. His people have one job, and
that is to protect Will Smith.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
That's why you have a publicist, That's why you have
a crisis publicist, That's why you have a manager. You
want to limit those things which may blow up in
his or her face depending on the person that you're
paid to protect, and not generate bad publicity. I get it.
I don't sandbag any of my interviewees. I don't do
(24:46):
gotcha questions, but I have to ask Will Smith if
he's sitting in front of me certain questions about that night.
We can also talk about the album. We can also
talk about the tour, but I'm damn sure not going
to talk about the latter and disregard the former.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Yeah, his publicists can ask anything they want, but they
better not mistake me for one of the publicists.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
If I'm doing the interview.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oftentimes, especially if I'm interviewing high level either entertainment guests
or political guests, they will ask for the questions in advance.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
No way explicitly, No, I'm saying, they will ask, Hey,
can we get the questions in advance? Right?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Hell's f and no, And I can tell you about
some of the subjects we're going to cover, I'd be
more than happy.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yeah, that's an instant non starter. No legit person would
submit to that. But you also have to understand that,
as much as we don't like to admit it, there
are different standards for newspaper, radio, TV, and the kind
of thing like these all day junken interviews where you
get like three minutes and then it's the next in line.
They're all a little different, and you must decide, if
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you're the journalist or if you want to call yourself
a journalist, what you're willing to do, what you're willing
to put up with. I never put up with any
of that stuff because I can live without the interview
if it's too you know, if they think that they're
going to control the questions I ask.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And not only that, that's part of the reason why
I don't do junket interviews anymore. I'm not sitting around
a table and it's a literal table where you have
six different journalists and there's about ten minutes and you
get maybe one question two at the max. And that's
not an interview because that means your one question has
to be about the project, the thing that they're promoting.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
That's not a real dialogue. And if I were to
have a.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Conversation with Will Smith, it would be a very genuine, sincere,
respectful conversation about the biggest moment in Oscar history. If
I didn't ask that question, I don't deserve to sit
behind this microphone.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Oh god, no, you don't avoid the elephant in the
room just because it's going to make somebody uncomfortable. You're
not under their employe, and there is a dance that
you have to do.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
And what I do is I have to develop a
rapport with a person almost immediately. Sometimes I have a
chance to talk to that person before the interview, so
they get a feeling for me, I get a feeling
for him or hurt, and maybe they become a little
bit more comfortable and more inclined to share more.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
That's my job.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
If I'm doing my job very well, I can get
someone to open up, tell some stories, some anecdotes, and
they'll almost like forget that they're in an interview. If
I'm doing my job very well, that's the hardest part
because I have to develop that report immediately. But I
have quote unquote an agenda. My agenda is to get
the most out of that person as possible.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
If you act like a.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Crazy, violent person in front of the entire world, you
have no right whatsoever to request that that'd be off
limits in future interviews.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
None.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I just remember, Mark, I didn't even tell this to
you or Tawala. Remember when we had Randy Economy on
and we're talking about the recall effort the latest one
against gavindusm I do. He is also very closely connected
to Mel Gibson. Oh okay, And I was talking to Randy.
I said, hey, I would love to have Mel Gibson on,
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but I damn sure I am not going to have Mel
Gibson on and not talk about the totality of how
we got to this moment where he is obviously becoming
more and more of a political figure.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
He is still making movies, but people do still have.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Some reservations and misgivings about where he is now. We
have to have that conversation on some level. And the
reason why we haven't had that conversation yet we haven't
come to any sort of understanding. Now Randy may have
forgotten or Randy didn't follow up, but Randy knows me
well enough to know that I have real conversations with people.
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I'd love to have a conversation with Mel Gibson, but
it's not only going to be to promote his political interests.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I'm not nobody gets a free pass, but it could
still be a fair interview.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I would like to think that's what I specialize in.
I see it's later with mo Kelly. Not everyone wants
to answer real questions. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
And before we get out of here, yes, I have
my final thought for the evening. And it's still the
biggest story in the world, so I'm not going to
run away from it. Of course, I'm talking about signal leak.
We're learning more and more as time goes on. We're
learning who was on the text thread, more about the
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information which was shared in that chat, and the spin
which is being used to defend it or minimize it.
It is the biggest story in the world. And of
course a bunch of comparisons are being made to Hillary Clinton,
but you know, for political purposes, mostly insincere comparisons. Some
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what have you believed that Clinton's use of a personal
server was worse, and those same people claim hipocrisy. Others
will argue that the signal leak is worse and they'll
yell hipocrisy. And there's even a third group which will
pose the hypothet of just imagine if Lloyd Austin or
some other sect def did the same thing, what would happen,
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all pretty predictable stuff. But this ain't hard. This is
rather easy, you know how, I say, get the easy
ones right. This is so simple. People make it hard needlessly.
So here's the solution. Just treat them all the same.
I'm not talking about the spin, the media coverage, or
measurement of the outrage. Just treat the actual individuals, the
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players involved, the same. That's the only supposed hypocrisy anyone
should worry about. Not what Fox hosts say or who
they defend, not what MSNBC hosts say or who they condemn.
Just treat the actual individuals, the players involved, the same.
The actual hypocrisy is in not treating them and investigating
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all of them the same. I hope that's not some
sort of controversial statement. If you thought Hillary Clinton and
should have been locked up, that means at the minimum,
you thought she should have been investigated. She was investigated,
She gave a statement to the FBI, she was brought
before Congress and testified for eleven hours. A full report
was released by a Republican led committee, which also found
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no wrongdoing on her part. Yes that's what it found.
You can google it for yourself. But the same should
be done here. Treat them all the same, investigation congressional hearings,
and let the chips fall where they may. It doesn't
mean you're like the outcome or even agree with it.
But it shouldn't be about taking anyone's word, like Congressman
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Dan Crenshaw said he would take Pete Hegseth at his word. No, no, no,
not when it comes to national security issues. But Mo,
you're just a Democrat.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
No I'm not. Mo, You're just a flating liberal. No
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I'll have you know that I was the first person
here on KFI who said that I believe Hillary Clinton
should have been charged given what we knew and the
negligence alleged relative to the statute.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
I got the audio to prove it. I was the first.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I was on the air ind for Gary and Shannon
when former FBI Director James Colemey made his public declination
of charging Clinton.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
But I'm all about consistency. Treat them all the same.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
If there's a flagrant departure from protocol when it comes
to handling sensitive or dare I say.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Classified information, then treat them all the same.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I don't care if it if it's boxes in your
goal plated bathroom at your resort or in your garage
at your home in Delaware. Investigate accordingly. Let the chips
fall where they may. But see, that's why we have correction,
That's why we had Inspectors General.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
That's the exact purpose for them. Here's how I know.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Remember when former sectorf Lloyd Austin disappeared to have a
prostate procedure and didn't tell then President Biden, it was
immediately investigated by the Inspector General, and then Austin was
then sanctioned for his behavior. It went a little something
like increase it's the unnecessarily unnecessary risk to national security.
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That was from the Inspector General. There is, or at
least was a process in place for moments like these.
The Inspectors General used to be independent of any administration.
Unfortunately no longer. But that's the purpose that they serve.
And here's another point. We don't need to, nor should
we depend on cable news hosts or interviews of these
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same people on cable news to get to the truth.
People can and do lie in interviews. I'm here to
tell you it is perfectly legal to lie to us
in interviews, and they do but.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
It's a little more difficult to do under oath.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
At least it might or at least used to come
with some degree of consequences because of the vile analysis.
Either we actually care about national security or we don't.
It's one or the other, but it's sure as hell
won't be both, or when politically convenient for kf I
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AM six forty, I'm O Kelly, k f I M
k OS T h D two, Los Angeles, Orange County
Speaker 5 (34:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Cam I mister b Kelly, but live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app. You can always check me out on Instagram
at mister mo Kelly and at Later with mo Kelly.
And also you can always give me a message. I
always respond if at all possible. You can drop a
message at mister Mokelly on threads or on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
We can keep the conversation going there. Look at you
using threads. Sorry to interrupt you, but that's impressive.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Now.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
I've been using threads for a while.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's not as good as what Twitter used to be
as far as trending topics, ease of just moving around,
ease of tagging and hashtagging, I agree with it's not that,
but it's functional and it has some features that I
really love when dealing with trolls.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
The hide for everyone feature is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I mean, you can say something stupid on a thread
to me and I'll just hide for everyone no, and
we'll see it. Then I can mute and block your
ass into oblivion. It makes me feel so much better.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And if you're not familiar meta as offering threads as
that alternate too. Yes, you know it's a companion of Instagram,
but it's an alternate.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
To x I counter less foolishness. That's the only way
I can describe on threads. Twitter was sorry, it's just this,
and I'm not calling it x F out of here.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's a cesspool and it's just a bunch of nameless,
faceless a holes who want to say anything and everything,
and I can't respond in kind. Oh I would love to,
but I can't. So no, I'm not going to subject
subject myself not to go too far off the rails.
But do you do Mastadon or Blue Sky or any
of the other alternate ones or No? I post occasionally
on Blue Sky, I Masterdon hasn't had any real appeal
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to me. I'll also have accounts on truth, Social Spill,
and a couple of others.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I was gonna say, spill is something that even I
have an account for spill, and I don't think anybody
really knows.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I can't figure out spill. It's too damn hard, right No,
And I think that's the hard.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We're so thoroughly saturated right now with everything, and I
think this is a great way to jump into what's
up with Nick because me trying to keep up with
everything that we started this in twenty twenty three, yep,
when it became later with Mokelly and it was this
weekend with Nick on Fridays, and now trying to figure
out every algorithm that's out there, every change that's happened.
I'm going to get into where I was earlier earlier
(02:27):
today with Amy King from Wake Up Call and Bill
Handles Show here on KFI and just trying to balance out.
All right, I gotta cut this for this platform, and
I gotta cut this for this platform. It's wild because
you're trying to do your best to inform people. But
then it's this game that all these major corporations have
jumped into playing. And then you have Macedon and Blue Sky.
(02:48):
If you're not familiar with those that are not overseen
by a major corporation, that those are more on the
free you know, freemium space, and it's really great, but
try to navigate it, just like you said in using
threads as an example from something we're all familiar with
Facebook for meta, we're all familiar with Instagram for meta.
And then you've got threads. So again there's those handful
(03:09):
of great options available, but it's also trying to like
figure it all out.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It's a learning curve is finding your village and people
in the sense of people that you're going to interact with.
And it takes a long time because let's say you
had your group of people that you would interact with
on Twitter. Yeah, then you've got to start all the
way over on a new social media app and it
doesn't have the same bells and whistles in the settings,
(03:34):
are not set up the same way.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
It takes a long time.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
This discovery, just the organic natural discovery of it that's
challenging it as it is.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
So well, thanks for going off topic with me. Okay,
we're back. Let's talk about superheroes and supervillains.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So it's just coin of works with I want to
talk about it and will probably take it after the
break as well. But there is an incredible option that
is happening at the Peterson Automotive Museum in.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Midwell Shoe Peterson.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Okay, did you go when it was originally the small
installation that was over and not? It could be completely
wrong with this. I should have done a little bit
or better Research, which is unlike me. But when it
was over by UCLA, there was a smaller Peterson before
the big huge build out with the free standing building
across from the Academy Museum on Fairfax, Right, yeah, but
it was the small little guy, right. I might have
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was like, was it real close to Santa Monica?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Kind of yes?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Okay, And so now I haven't been to the Peterson.
So first of all, I'm going to say just what's
up with Nick or this Weekend with Nick? Checking out
the Peterson Automotive Museum itself is well worth your time
parking on site there if you're interested in the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Their museum is directly
across the way. Everything in the Midweel Shure and Miracle
Mile corridor is right right there within walking distance. Great food,
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you know, Lachman's down the street, all of that, But
this is something that is very special and very different
from propstore propstore dot com. And you can check out
the Lincoln bio at Nick Pauli o'chane in This Weekend
with Nick on Instagram is the e theest way to
get the details. But they have a multimillion dollar auction
that goes live tomorrow. And when I say multimillion dollar, like,
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one of the items we saw today was Luke Skywalker
Mark Hamill's screen and photo match Metal of Yavin. Is
that correct because you're my Yavin.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
It is Yavin.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yes, So from New Hope for seventy seven that is
expected to go for between three hundred and six hundred
thousand dollars. Fact, we pretty much got to go. We
got a special preview, that's the truth. But no, I've
got all the details for you tonight, So you definitely
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want to check out the link because Amy King will
have an interview in the morning on wake Up Call
with the COO of the of prop Store, so you'll
be able to get more details and more of insight
and fund and excitement. But I want you to go
to this because tomorrow is the one day you get
to go in person and see everything that I got
to see today. And it is at the Penthouse at
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the Peterson Automotive Museum. Propstore dot com, Propstore auction dot com.
That'll get you the details about it, but I'm not kidding.
Go check out the reel that I just posted. You
can also see it's shared with later with Mokelly on
Instagram that will have all the different things you can see.
We saw things from Elf, so the oh the uh.
(06:23):
I'm trying to remember the specific engine that Santy uses
in Elf something three thousand, three thousand.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Is that what it is? Or is it an elf something? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I don't remember ELF's shoes. We saw Buddy's card that
he gave to James Conn to his dad's character in it.
You can buy that. There is a screen worn from
Superman three Evil Superman, so Christopher Reeves when he has
his in Superman three and eighty three, has that change
over that's available for you there two hundred to four
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hundred thousand dollars, like he able to be arm's length
away from Anything like that is just wild to me
because we have Hollywood in our backyard, and we've had
it in our backyard, both the small screen and the
silver screen for so long. We really take it for
granted because we enjoy all the content, but we don't
really go out and see it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
And sometimes you got.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
To be a tourist in your own neighborhood, if that
makes sense absolutely, because I mean, while I may not
want to hop on a bus and take a tour
of Hollywood to go see celebrities home is because lord knows,
we both know celebrities personally and know where they live,
and they're not on those tours, right, So there's a
reason for that, but a really good.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Reason for that. But it's just wild.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Like we saw Danny Zuko's jacket from Grease Lightning from
Greece to the movie, so but like from specifically the
one because he had a super shiny one and then
he had a little bit more matt that weren't better
with the cameras. And what's really cool is every single
one of these items you can also see online. I
really want you to go and I want you to
check it out in person, but you can see them
online again propstore dot Com or propstore auction dot com.
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Everything goes live tomorrow morning at ten thirty am. It's
three days of entertainment Memorabilia live auction happening each day.
Tomorrow is the only day you get to go and
see it physically in person, whether you're bidding on it
or not. Obviously prop Store would love for you to
bid on it. I wish I had the kind of
coin to drop on this. They had this sick model
of Voyager from Star Trek, one of the ones that
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was used in the filming of it. Absolutely incredible. Also
they had stuff from Back to the Future. I'm looking
at the links right now.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It's a wild right incredible, absolutely incredible store dot com
correct And the biggest thing is as funny as it sounds,
were starting out with the free ninety nine side of
things instead of the other way to go is free
ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You have to pay for parking or you have to
find parking somewhere near around there, so you pay for
whatever the product parking is at the Peterson But yes,
thank you Steff Fush it's going to be free ninety
nine for you to be able to check out these things.
So again, if you want to learn more, I highly
encourage it. It opens at ten thirty am tomorrow. They
will be doing a live auction in person. You can
also attend it online. So that's why I say Nick
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Paulio O Kenny this week go and Nick the Lincoln
Bio will take you to where you need to go.
But get down there. If you've got nothing to do,
it's well worth it. You can check it all out
Thursday and Friday as well from the comfort of your
own home.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Go to popstore dot com right now, right because I'm
looking at this like, I wow, because.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
I'm just trying to think, like, you've got Catwoman.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So Michelle Feifirst costume from Batman returns, which is incredible
but also had definitely seen better days. But you have
to think that was from ninety two, so you know,
we've all weathered a little bit from ninety two. Yeah,
not just the costumes, but that was amazing. Amy King's
always excited about top guns. So Tom Cruise Mavericks nineteen
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eighty six photo match Bomber Jacket is available for you
to buy fifty to one hundred K.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
See, I'm just looking at like they have Orlando Blooms
photo id pass from black Hawk down. How little stuff
like that, Like, yeah, it's random but specific at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, for sure, so it's well worth it. It's a
lot of fun. I had a blast doing it. I
got a great time tearing through it as Moe is
doing right now. Propstore dot com or propstore Auction dot com.
You can get the links in bio at Nick poliochany
this week with a Nick or later with mo Kelly
on Instagram and You can also check out a real
that I shot of just kind of running through just
a handful of the exhibits. They weren't even fully set
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up for guests to come in. They have a special
event tonight going on.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I would.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I'm sad I'm not there, but I much rather be
here always with you guys. But yeah, it's definitely something
to check out. Uh and you've got that, but I've
got more do We'll do it on yeah side.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
On the other side, Nick Poliochetty joins me in studios
Later with mo Kelly. We'll find out what's up with
Nick and more k if I Am six forty Live
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kf I Am six forty.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Nick.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
What kf I Am six forty It's Later with mo
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Kelly Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Nick Poliochini continues to join me in studio. Nick, what
is up? Well?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I want to talk about something that's coming up this
weekend and it granted, I always want you to when
you're going to these events. Be sure to tune into
Later with mo Kelly Monday through Friday from seven to ten,
especially for cult classic movies on Friday at nine o'clock.
But this Friday is Night Dive over in my neck
of the woods at the Aquarium of the Pacific and
Long Beach, and this is an eighteen and over event
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that takes over the entire aquarium, music, Art and Culture
U Their spring program is this Friday. They pretty much
have one going March, June, July, August, so it looks
like this is just the only spring offering that's gonna
be available. But they will have a live band there,
several DJs, music, cocktails, dancing, food, you name it. So
if you've not been to the Aquarium of the Pacific,
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it's a fantastic opportunity for you to go and enjoy
whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
A day with the fishes.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It sounds very are you're gonna be sleeping with a fishes,
very moblive right exactly. But this is one of those
events that they take the footprint of something that's existing
and completely changed it up, which is always a good time.
I have been a member at the Aquarium for many,
many years, but it's so funny because there's people who
are members of things that are in their backyard but
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not the direct backyard. So I have been a member
of the of the Pacific long before I lived in
Long Beach, just because it was so cool to have
something in the city that was close to where I
grew up for the most part with my grandparents, and
so to have that it's well worth checking out during
the day, and being a member is always a great opportunity.
But if you're a non member, it's still not too
bad because if you figure members for this event forty
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bucks or thirty nine ninety five. For non members, it's
forty five dollars, so you save five bucks by being
a member of the aquarium. But this is a great
date night opportunity if you want to go, or if
you want to go meet some singles, it's not a
bad thing either, or just take a group of friends.
But I love it because it's a venue that is
predominantly If you go during the day, you're gonna see
a bunch of schools that are there and a bunch
of kids that are there, and this is an opportunity
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for you to kind of be a nerd and geek
out about things. Like we talked about last week the
grunn In Run. They will definitely be touching on that.
There's no grun in running at the aquarium itself specifically,
but it's something else for you to check out. And
the thing that starts this weekend and runs all the
way through April is something that I absolutely love and
is genuinely an institution in southern California. We all know
(13:40):
that I'm a huge fanboy of Disney and being a
Disney adult, but not it's very farm over way to park,
not that far away from Disneyland. They're kicking off their
Boysonberry Festival, and I will tell you the one thing
that I was incredibly impressed with nots especially during the pandemic,
is they figured out how to open the park and
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get socially distanced time because it's a park, so everyone's
outdoors and so it was a great opportunity. And they
really have gotten their food festivals dialed in. Don't get
it twisted. I absolutely love the food and wine festival
that's underway right now, Disney California Adventure. In fact, I'll
be talking about that more next week, but not Sperry Farm.
The Bois and Berry Festival opens this weekend on the
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twenty eighth, runs through April twenty seventh. If you have
a season pass like I do, it's a great opportunity
to get over there. Not s Very Farm season passes
which is also now inclusive depending on what you buy
of Six Flags Magic Mountain because of the same company.
They are all part of the Cedar Fair family and
they really are reasonable. And when I say that, there
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are other theme parks that I've talked about spoken of
that are very very much a financial investment if you
will to become an annual pass hole. Yes, say expensive,
def and expensive, and it walid provides an incredible well
worth it thing. Knots Berry Farm is just such a
different vibe period whether you're the day or night. I
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love that they have Camp Snoopy, which is available for kids,
and they have revamped it so that has reopened with
all the new attractions that are available for you there.
But the Boys and Berry Festival, everything that is Boisonberry
is there, and that really is what put knots Berry
Farm on the map originally when it was just a
berry farm off of Root sixty six.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Do they still sell it in stores grocery stores?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
So the thing is is you're able to because Smuckers
bought the Knots brand after a number of years ago.
The only place in the entire world that you can
purchase Knots Berry Farm branded jams and jellies is physically
on site or I think it's Knots Marketplace dot com.
But those are the only two places that you're able
to find any of this. And what's even cooler is
(15:54):
with the Boys and Berry Festival. Obviously, every single food item,
every cocktail, every mocktail, even wines and beers all have
boisonberry in some way, shape or form involved with them.
So it's not great on your waistline, but it is
a great for a good time, and it's a great
opportunity because you're gonna try to ride.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I tried. I didn't completely crash and burn.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Okay, it went well enough, but no, I just think
Knots Berry Farm is that unsung hero, especially now because
the weather is beautiful, it's not too warm yet, and
you're able to do something that is not going to
break the bank and get out there and enjoy a
solo trip, a couple's trip, a family trip, and you
name it, or become an interpassolder with them and get
a season pass because they're really, really reasonable. You do
(16:37):
need to be aware that they do still have chaperone policies,
so kids under eighteen during certain times of the year,
you'll be able to check you on Not's berry Farm
and they'll be able to give that to you. But
the bois and Berry Festival and I am reached out
to my friends at Notts and hopefully when I'm back
in next week, even if I don't talk about it
all that much, I will definitely be bringing you some
boys and very treats.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I appreciate that Mark never brings me anything.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I know.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Well, the worst part is I was trying to figure
out how are going to put cookies and cream and boisonberg.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I don't know if that's going to roll. I don't
know if that's going to work, but something to that effect.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, I'll figure it out when Nick, when he comes here,
he usually brings me something.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I don't get jack from these jokers.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I was gonna say, I love that you all are
getting thrown another box, like just out a question, and
neither Stephen or Mark is anither. They're busy, No, no, they
know it's truck right, But I'm like, I'm looking at
them right now on the cameras, They're like, should I respond,
what is there anything the button used to contradict what
he's saying.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
No, No, it's just that you wouldn't want anything that
I would bring, like a black olive dish.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That's what What kind of dish are you going to
bring with black olives? Because you got to take us
there first of all. I love how you take us there,
which makes perfect sense. You open the door, let's walk through.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Well, I'd find one. I mean, I could come up
with one with a black olive dish. Oh, there must
be all sorts of delicious black olive dishes that Moe
would love.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
See, that's why I prefer Nick because I know that
right there, it's Later mo Kelly.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
That's always good.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Seeing a pleasure is always be sure to check me
out on Instagram as the easiest Nick Pauli o'keanney in
this weekend and Nick also a lot of times. You
can catch some of my content on Later with mo' kelly,
also on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Will Smith is getting himself back out there in the
wake of the controversy. He's spent three years now, imagine
that three years since that unfortunate Oscar slap, and I
have always been consistent in my condemnation of it. If
you put hands on someone that's as salt and battery,
(18:39):
it should have been treated as a crime. Yes, Chris
Rock declined to press charges, but sometimes, and you see
this in domestic violence cases all the time, you don't
even need to have a willing victim for charges to
be filed, especially when it happens in front of the
whole world. For me, was never any justification for Will
(19:03):
Smith to walk down and put hands on Chris Rock.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I don't believe, accept or agree.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
That Chris Rock somehow insulted Jada Pinkett Smith so flagrantly
and egregiously that his only option was to put hands
on Chris Rock. Sorry, and I commend Chris Rock for
not physically escalating that moment, knowing the whole world just watching.
(19:32):
I review that because you may not remember. Part of
the punishment air quotes for Will Smith was a ten
year ban, and I think it's more apt to call
it a suspension because a ban is permanent.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Suspension is more like a postponement.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Of his participation in any Oscar related activity, to which
he was asked specifically about the Oscar suspension now that
he's doing more media in support of this new album
and tour, and this is what Will Smith had to
say about it with the band and everything, are you
(20:07):
looking to appeal or you just looking just to write
everything out and just continue to do you I am
looking to be the best human I can possibly be,
and I'm gonna take what I get with that.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Huh what does that even mean? If you could see
both of our faces? What does it even mean? The
best human I could Yeah. I think all of us on.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
A daily basis wake up and not explicitly, but implicitly think,
let me see if I can have the best day possible.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Just be the best person. I can be the best
version of myself.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But Will Smith, in response to a question about the
Oscar band slash suspension right wanted to dither and deflect
and talk about how he's just trying to be the
best person he can be.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
No, no, no, no, that's going forward.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
He was asking about the past as far as that incident,
how you look upon it, how you're going to navigate
it for the next I don't know six years or
so that it's going to be in effect. It's a
relevant question, it's a question which is going to be
repeatedly asked of him.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And let me give you some behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I would bet dollars to donuts anyone who has been
granted the opportunity to interview Will Smith, and I know
Mark Roger knows about this, there probably will be a
list of topics and questions which will be verboten, which
will not be allowed to ask what you will be told
that you can't bring up or they're not going to
(21:44):
agree to the interview. And if you go against that,
Will Smith probably will walk out.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Yeah, a real journalist doesn't agree to stuff like that.
Hacks Will people who have no journalistic integrity and just
want to be climbers. But I would never agree to
limitations on an interview.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
The only limitations that I agree to are the personal questions.
In other words, whenever I interview someone, I'm not going
to ask about the personal life unless the personal life
is the whole peg of the interview. In this situation,
the peg or in other words, the reason for the
interview would be the tour his new music and so forth.
(22:24):
I'm not going to ask, so, do you end Jada
have an open relationship? I would never do that, but
I would be employing journalistic malpractice if I did not
ask him about Chris Rock.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah, you also have to have some kind of internal compass.
I mean, if you want to see examples of people
who have done it wrong, look at the awkward interviews
with Robert Downey Junior where they completely inappropriately decide they
want to ask him about his ancient history of troubles
with drugs and the law, and he kind of tolerates
it up to a point, and then he ends the
(22:56):
interview rightfully, so right, but with Will Swift, Will Smith No no, no, no,
no no. He hasn't even made amends for his Wild
Wild West movie. He gets to get asked apology. He
was the world in apology, and he gets to get
asked about that slap in perpetuity. I mean that was
in front of a billion people.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
And although he may have apologized quote unquote on social media,
there's still a conversation to be had in the wake
of it as far as what was going through his
mind had the follow up to that answer, and also
I need an explanation as to what has changed since then.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
There's been nothing like that, especially not in Oscar history.
I mean there are stories about when Sasheen Little Feather
accepted or rejected rather the Oscar for Brando, that people
had to hold John Wayne back, but you didn't see
any footage of that.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
We all saw this, And although I'm quite sure Will
Smith would like to move past it, I've never interviewed him.
I've met him in passing when he and Jada had
just gotten together. I don't even think they're even married yet.
I mean this is decades ago, so I don't know
anything about him personally. I doubt I will ever have
the opportunity to actually interview him because to what Mark
(24:15):
was saying, I'm not going to agree to the stipulations
which inevitably they would want to place on the interview.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
And I get it. His people have one job, and
that is to protect Will Smith.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
That's why you have a publicist, That's why you have
a crisis publicist, That's why you have a manager. You
want to limit those things which may blow up in
his or her face depending on the person that you're
paid to protect, and not generate bad publicity. I get it.
I don't sandbag any of my interviewees. I don't do
(24:46):
gotcha questions, but I have to ask Will Smith if
he's sitting in front of me certain questions about that night.
We can also talk about the album. We can also
talk about the tour, but I'm damn sure not going
to talk about the latter and disregard the former.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Yeah, his publicists can ask anything they want, but they
better not mistake me for one of the publicists.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
If I'm doing the interview.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oftentimes, especially if I'm interviewing high level either entertainment guests
or political guests, they will ask for the questions in advance.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
No way explicitly, No, I'm saying, they will ask, Hey,
can we get the questions in advance? Right?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Hell's f and no, And I can tell you about
some of the subjects we're going to cover, I'd be
more than happy.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yeah, that's an instant non starter. No legit person would
submit to that. But you also have to understand that,
as much as we don't like to admit it, there
are different standards for newspaper, radio, TV, and the kind
of thing like these all day junken interviews where you
get like three minutes and then it's the next in line.
They're all a little different, and you must decide, if
(25:49):
you're the journalist or if you want to call yourself
a journalist, what you're willing to do, what you're willing
to put up with. I never put up with any
of that stuff because I can live without the interview
if it's too you know, if they think that they're
going to control the questions I ask.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And not only that, that's part of the reason why
I don't do junket interviews anymore. I'm not sitting around
a table and it's a literal table where you have
six different journalists and there's about ten minutes and you
get maybe one question two at the max. And that's
not an interview because that means your one question has
to be about the project, the thing that they're promoting.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
That's not a real dialogue. And if I were to
have a.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Conversation with Will Smith, it would be a very genuine, sincere,
respectful conversation about the biggest moment in Oscar history. If
I didn't ask that question, I don't deserve to sit
behind this microphone.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Oh god, no, you don't avoid the elephant in the
room just because it's going to make somebody uncomfortable. You're
not under their employe, and there is a dance that
you have to do.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
And what I do is I have to develop a
rapport with a person almost immediately. Sometimes I have a
chance to talk to that person before the interview, so
they get a feeling for me, I get a feeling
for him or hurt, and maybe they become a little
bit more comfortable and more inclined to share more.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
That's my job.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
If I'm doing my job very well, I can get
someone to open up, tell some stories, some anecdotes, and
they'll almost like forget that they're in an interview. If
I'm doing my job very well, that's the hardest part
because I have to develop that report immediately. But I
have quote unquote an agenda. My agenda is to get
the most out of that person as possible.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
If you act like a.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Crazy, violent person in front of the entire world, you
have no right whatsoever to request that that'd be off
limits in future interviews.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
None.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I just remember, Mark, I didn't even tell this to
you or Tawala. Remember when we had Randy Economy on
and we're talking about the recall effort the latest one
against gavindusm I do. He is also very closely connected
to Mel Gibson. Oh okay, And I was talking to Randy.
I said, hey, I would love to have Mel Gibson on,
(27:57):
but I damn sure I am not going to have Mel
Gibson on and not talk about the totality of how
we got to this moment where he is obviously becoming
more and more of a political figure.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
He is still making movies, but people do still have.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Some reservations and misgivings about where he is now. We
have to have that conversation on some level. And the
reason why we haven't had that conversation yet we haven't
come to any sort of understanding. Now Randy may have
forgotten or Randy didn't follow up, but Randy knows me
well enough to know that I have real conversations with people.
(28:38):
I'd love to have a conversation with Mel Gibson, but
it's not only going to be to promote his political interests.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I'm not nobody gets a free pass, but it could
still be a fair interview.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I would like to think that's what I specialize in.
I see it's later with mo Kelly. Not everyone wants
to answer real questions. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
And before we get out of here, yes, I have
my final thought for the evening. And it's still the
biggest story in the world, so I'm not going to
run away from it. Of course, I'm talking about signal leak.
We're learning more and more as time goes on. We're
learning who was on the text thread, more about the
(29:24):
information which was shared in that chat, and the spin
which is being used to defend it or minimize it.
It is the biggest story in the world. And of
course a bunch of comparisons are being made to Hillary Clinton,
but you know, for political purposes, mostly insincere comparisons. Some
(29:44):
what have you believed that Clinton's use of a personal
server was worse, and those same people claim hipocrisy. Others
will argue that the signal leak is worse and they'll
yell hipocrisy. And there's even a third group which will
pose the hypothet of just imagine if Lloyd Austin or
some other sect def did the same thing, what would happen,
(30:06):
all pretty predictable stuff. But this ain't hard. This is
rather easy, you know how, I say, get the easy
ones right. This is so simple. People make it hard needlessly.
So here's the solution. Just treat them all the same.
I'm not talking about the spin, the media coverage, or
measurement of the outrage. Just treat the actual individuals, the
(30:28):
players involved, the same. That's the only supposed hypocrisy anyone
should worry about. Not what Fox hosts say or who
they defend, not what MSNBC hosts say or who they condemn.
Just treat the actual individuals, the players involved, the same.
The actual hypocrisy is in not treating them and investigating
(30:54):
all of them the same. I hope that's not some
sort of controversial statement. If you thought Hillary Clinton and
should have been locked up, that means at the minimum,
you thought she should have been investigated. She was investigated,
She gave a statement to the FBI, she was brought
before Congress and testified for eleven hours. A full report
was released by a Republican led committee, which also found
(31:14):
no wrongdoing on her part. Yes that's what it found.
You can google it for yourself. But the same should
be done here. Treat them all the same, investigation congressional hearings,
and let the chips fall where they may. It doesn't
mean you're like the outcome or even agree with it.
But it shouldn't be about taking anyone's word, like Congressman
(31:36):
Dan Crenshaw said he would take Pete Hegseth at his word. No, no, no,
not when it comes to national security issues. But Mo,
you're just a Democrat.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
No I'm not. Mo, You're just a flating liberal. No
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I'll have you know that I was the first person
here on KFI who said that I believe Hillary Clinton
should have been charged given what we knew and the
negligence alleged relative to the statute.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
I got the audio to prove it. I was the first.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I was on the air ind for Gary and Shannon
when former FBI Director James Colemey made his public declination
of charging Clinton.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
But I'm all about consistency. Treat them all the same.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
If there's a flagrant departure from protocol when it comes
to handling sensitive or dare I say.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Classified information, then treat them all the same.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I don't care if it if it's boxes in your
goal plated bathroom at your resort or in your garage
at your home in Delaware. Investigate accordingly. Let the chips
fall where they may. But see, that's why we have correction,
That's why we had Inspectors General.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
That's the exact purpose for them. Here's how I know.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Remember when former sectorf Lloyd Austin disappeared to have a
prostate procedure and didn't tell then President Biden, it was
immediately investigated by the Inspector General, and then Austin was
then sanctioned for his behavior. It went a little something
like increase it's the unnecessarily unnecessary risk to national security.
(33:04):
That was from the Inspector General. There is, or at
least was a process in place for moments like these.
The Inspectors General used to be independent of any administration.
Unfortunately no longer. But that's the purpose that they serve.
And here's another point. We don't need to, nor should
we depend on cable news hosts or interviews of these
(33:26):
same people on cable news to get to the truth.
People can and do lie in interviews. I'm here to
tell you it is perfectly legal to lie to us
in interviews, and they do but.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
It's a little more difficult to do under oath.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
At least it might or at least used to come
with some degree of consequences because of the vile analysis.
Either we actually care about national security or we don't.
It's one or the other, but it's sure as hell
won't be both, or when politically convenient for kf I
(34:01):
AM six forty, I'm O Kelly, k f I M
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Speaker 5 (34:08):
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