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And as I get older, I realize more and more that there are a
lot of movies out there which have no desire to get my business. They're
not meant for me, they're not marketed to me, they're not thinking about
me. They don't care about me. They're just talking about things or to
an age demographic that I'm just I just don't care. And I realized that
when I thought about the movie Challengers, which came in at number one,
and it was a very soft number one starrings in DAYA about some tittus and
some threesomes or something, and I have no desire to see it, and
not a lot of people saw it, but it still came in at number
one. Do you see in your information how much it made over the weekend?
Yes? Fifteen million. Yeah, that was the upper end of the
estimates, I guess. And this is one of those trailers that just had
the stink of death on it, because you can tell when you see a
trailer for a movie months and months and months on end, they don't know
what to do with it. I didn't know what to think about what the
movie was actually about. Even though I saw the trailer, It's like,
Okay, is it a threesome? Is it about tennis? Is it about
tennis threesome? Are they having a three someme while playing tennis? I don't
know. I don't know, something like that. And I believe the director
is Luca Guadagnino, who did that terrible remake of Suspiria that was pretentious and
way too long and not scary like Suspiria, the original one. So right
away, I was glad that we didn't have a runner report last week because
that's probably the one that I would have had to go see. You gotta
think about it. To be number one in the box office doesn't mean what
it used to mean. It's Challengers is number one, but it wasn't even
in thirty five hundred theaters. Usually a number one movie needs to be in
some thirty eight hundred theaters or more. It's very soft in that regard.
Number two movie was Unsung Hero. Which one was that? What is that?
That's my point? Wait, that's a movie came to a number two.
We got seven point seven million based on a remarkable true story, A
mom's faith would never say mum is an mum. It's got to be British.
Oh is that the Allen Richson movie with the woman from a Million Dollar
Baby? No, honestly don't know, no, no, no, that's
the one that uh we had Tamala Jones on. You're talking about Mark?
Oh yes, yeah, Alan Richson. Yeah, well Hill, this is
even more obscure than we all that was or dairy Miracles. Yeah yeah,
okay, okay, Daisy bets Joel's small bone and carry burd A over there.
What language you're speaking? That's the star is small bones. Those are
stars, Those are people in the movie. It's a difference. Sinday is
a star. Those are people in a movie. Not the same. Now,
give you my damn rim shot. Oh that was very fun very very
funny. Number three Godzilla x Kong The New Empire is still hanging around in
its fifth week. It is a bona fide hit. Yeah, but how
much is it made? For? More than half a billion? Okay?
I mean that's what I mean. That's it. Okay, it's done better
internationally than domestically one hundred and eighty one domestically million, three hundred and thirty
nine million internationally it crossed a half billion. Is the biggest movie of the
year thus far? Right, No, what is is Doom? Didn't Doom
do more than that? Did Dune come out this year? Yeah? Yeah,
okay, okay, well let me see what doing is? All right?
Dune was number nine this week with two million. Yes, it is
doing better. It's seven hundred and four million worldwide so far. So Dune
is the number one movie the year. And you know what, I probably
don't want to see that either. I mean you don't need to. It's
probably about as entertaining as this Challengers movie. What there's no threesome with a
giant sand one? Yeah? It was rough, it was rough, well
done, that was deserved. But check this out. You know what came
in at number eleven? What the twenty twenty four re release of Alien?
Okay, that's some quality right there? You got that, right, we
got that. Didn't Spider Man two come out and did a gang busters at
the blocks office recently too? I think? So yeah, yeah, yeah,
probably you know, yeah, maybe they have an extra scene in there.
It's not too long ago. They just released Shrek two as well.
So movie studios are getting in the habit of just re releasing and getting basically
some free money. Yeah, I see Dawn of the Dead had an anniversary
three D release in some theaters too, and I was trying to figure out
where I could see that. But that's a good deal, especially like imagine
being a father and taking your kids to see Alien for the first time in
a theater. That would be terrific. My father took me to see Alien
for the first time in a theater. I am jealous of that, and
I got and I got old and realized that wasn't a good idea. Now
by the nightmares for weeks now. Yeah, my mom took me to see
Donna the Dead at a really inappropriately young age, and it's like one of
the few things I remember fondly about her. That's strange but almost understandable.
I don't really think guy can explain it any further than that, Okay,
all right. Also in the top ten, Civil War dropped from number one
to number four. It brought in seven million this week for a grand total
of seventy two million. Who has fifty six million domestically sixteen million internationally,
So the movie is still performing well. I don't remember how much it costs
to make it. But it doesn't seem as if that it's gonna have me
problem making all its money back. Maybe we'll get a civil war too.
You know what, don't say electric Google either, don't. Oh, I'm
just saying, since the movie is so ambiguous in its origin and ending,
it does leave itself open for more story to be told. Well, I
mean, okay, it's just barely made this money back though, because it
costs fifty million to make. Yeah, but I'm saying it's only in this
third week. It'll be in for another three weeks probably, ye, come
on, Oh, you know movies are not staying in that long, especially
something as independent as this. Is not the last another three weeks? Yeah,
yes, well, because it still has thirty five hundred theaters set.
It's in in the last three weeks. Build to rented on Google tomorrow.
Yeah, you'll be able to rented. But I'm saying there still will be
box office. We'll see, Okay, we'll see, we'll see. What's
what's the budget on that fifty fifty Yeah? Oh okay, I said it
just barely clear. No no, no, no, no, no,
it's it's fifty six million domestically, it's worldwide seventy two million. Oh okay,
yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's fine, it's fine. Uh
but you know, still, overall big picture, those are very very low
numbers. That's not impressive at all when you think about what movies are usually
doing as we're gearing up now honestly for the summer movie season. Yeah,
I don't know whether these numbers are forget well, they're forgettable and it's not
inspiring anyone to go to the theater. And there are subtle indicators. I'm
looking at movies which are not in at least four thousand theaters. Means to
me that it wasn't all that highly anticipated. There wasn't really a desire for
movie theaters to carry movies like Challengers or Unsung Hero only twenty eight hundred theaters.
There's not a lot of box office excitement right now. And that's the
truth. What did you call it? Quick? What's that? Oh?
Yeah, but that's not until July, so they have a long way to
go. When we come back, we're going to review the White House Correspondence
Center. I have thoughts on the hosting job by Colin Jose He was I
will say, mostly criticized more than praise. I had a different opinion.
I'm a big Colin Joe's fan. I thought he just didn't hit any home
runs, but he hit a lot of singles in doubles. They were funny,
but there weren't like super funny jokes. We'll play some of the audio
when we come back with Kelly six. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
And on Saturday was NERD prom the White House Correspondence Center, and in short,
if you're not familiar with what it is, it's a time in which
you'd have the White House Press Corps, the people who are most responsible for
covering the presidency and the president. They get together have a roast. The
president usually speaks. You have a comedian roast to president and roasts the media,
and it's a lighthearted event, and then on Monday they go back to
business as usual. I always tune in for the comedic roast. It's probably
one of the hardest jobs out there because no one ever kills it, and
everyone is a critic of the comedy, or someone says, well, they
didn't do enough jokes about the president, or they didn't do they didn't go
hard enough, and so forth. But Colin Joe just got caught in the
middle. I would say, I don't think he did poorly. I just
think he didn't go for the jugular with his jokes. I think he should
have gone harder. We're going to play some of the audio and you can
come to your own conclusion if you haven't already heard it. We're going to
play these pretty much in order, and the audio speaks for itself. I
have to admit it's not easy following President Biden. I mean, it's not
always easy following what he's saying. Like, but before I begin tonight,
can we just acknowledge how refreshing it is to see a president of the United
States at an event that doesn't begin with a bailiff saying all rise. Eddie
has some thoughts on the news media wordle is here tonight. Sorry, sorry,
I meant The New York Times forgot. They do stuff in addition to
puzzles. I have to say it's not a great sign when the only thing
keeping a print media company alive are games people play on their phones. Too
chilling for you, guys. This room just froze faster than Mitch Dunnel.
That maybe laugh out loud. I was good, and I don't think the
room was just slow to get it all right. More on media, The
New York Post is like having the New York Times summarized for you by a
crackhead. The Times will say a border deal continues to evade Congress, and
the Post is like, these Mexicans are taking my stuff. One of the
most poignant ones he did was the race was tied. He said a lot
in this one. There is election. There's an election six extremely long months
from now. So let me see if I can summarize where this race stands
at this moment. The Republican candidate for president owes half a billion in fines
for bank fraud and is currently spending his days farting himself awake during a porn
star hush money trial. And the race is tied. The race is tied.
Nothing makes sense anymore. The candidate, who is a famous New York
City playboy took abortion rights away, and the guy who's trying to give you
your abortion rights back is an eighty year old Catholic. How does that make
sense? All right, there's more tied. The problem is people are always
going to compare your first term to Obama's. But I think there are actually
a lot of positive similarities. You both made big strides in healthcare. Obama
got us out of a recession. You got us out of a pandemic.
Obama got Bin Lauden, you got OJ. And by the way, now
that OJ is dead, who is the new front runner for Trump's VP?
Is it Diddy? By the way, I bet if Trump did select Diddy
as his running mate, I bet this race would still be tied. And
he had a nice callback to last year's election. I would say, last
year's news cycle. It's also wonderful to be back in Washington. I love
being in Washington. The last time I was in DC, I left my
cocaine at the White House. Luckily the President was able to put it to
good use for a State of the Union. I'm kidding, of course,
the President doesn't call it cocaine. He calls it high speed rail. By
the way, can you blame the guy for turning to cocaine? He must
be exhausted orchestrating four separate trials against his rival, rigging the Super Bowl,
and gearing up to steal a second election. Wow. I love By the
way, that Trump's two attacks on President Biden are that he's a senile old
man and a criminal mastermind. I'm like, I think you gotta pick one.
Personally, I don't know any criminal masterminds who bike to get ice cream.
He had more. Also, it's not like Trump himself is young and
sharp. I'm not saying both candidates are old. But you know, Jimmy
Carter is out there thinking I could maybe win this thing. He's only ninety
nine. Oh my goodness, got one more. But the reason that I
bring up my grandfather. And I don't know if you know realize, mister
president, but Staten Island firefighters are not normally your demographic. Staten Island voted
about seventy percent for Trump in the last election, and the other thirty percent
was for Giuliani. But Staten Island also sided with the British during the Revolutionary
War, so we're not always on the right side of history. You remember,
he had some good jokes, but I don't know if he had any
home run zingers that you would laugh out loud, belly laugh. I thought
there was some, just some decent last what was your grade, Mark?
I thought he absolutely killed it in a room full of tight asses. By
the way, they were there it was a tight audience, you said,
you said it was nerd prompt and Colin jo just made a joke that Matt
Gates was just a prom right, and that made me laugh out loud because
you know Gates has a reputation for you know, these audience was just dead.
Oh, absolute tight asses. Listen, these journalists, these Washington centric
ones, they have no sense of humor about themselves, but they are very
self important, especially the New York Times, which got busted last week when
it was revealed that it's chairman A. G. Sulzberger was behind this insanely
disproportionate coverage of Biden's agent, not Trump, because because his nose has been
out of joint that Biden haven't given that hadn't given them a one on one
interview. Yep, this was leek last week and Jos had fun with that.
Remember how Michelle Wolfe a couple of years or so ago, absolutely railed
everyone in her said it was hilarious and she boyd she had dumped on afterwards,
she called us she but she went for it more so, oh righteously
and hilariously. She asked him at one point about Trump, did you all
used to date him? And so these things are an occasion where it's the
comedian as court jester. They're there to say uncomfortable, true things and wash
them down with a laugh. And it turns out a lot of my fellow
journals can be very thin skinned about that. I mean, get a good
joke about the Washington Post and their circulation and how they would die to have
a circulation of one hundred thousand. Oh yeah, look, how dare Somebody
like Colin Jost suggest along with Biden that these guys haven't risen to the seriousness
of the moment, or or that they've fallen back on horse race coverage instead
of informing people of the stakes and the elections they're covering, or the too
many of them are concerned with access and pimping their own books instead of giving
the public information that needs to know. Dare, who does he think he
is? I thought it was a really like a solid A minus B plus.
I thought it was I would say a B minus. I don't because
I know his predecessors went harder and were more direct. Okay, so you
like Michelle Wolfe, that was an a to you? Yes, what about
Stephen Colbert and Bush? I rewatched that watched Stephen Colbert. I thought roy
Wood was very good. He was he was solid. He wasn't my favorite.
The thing you got to remember is that people, the comedians react differently
to different presidents. Like when Colbert did his, it was in the context
of nobody saying boo to George W. Bush, and so he had nerves
of steel. But then by the time Obama took office, people were right
up in Obama's grill from day one in ways they never were with Yeah,
I didn't like Larry Willmore's one. I remember that. I remember not liking
that one at all, and he's probably listening, but oh well, I
remember it being about okay, but it didn't just kill me. Yeah,
I expect the comedian to really really go there, and Colin Joe's didn't really
go there. He had his age jokes and he had the tripping up the
stairs jokes, but I thought he would just really, I mean just really
a little bit more searing in the commentary, and he never quite got there.
For me, That's all I was looking for. I wonder if if
some of the comics are sort of gun shy. After Michelle Wolf got just
completely stomped on afterward, maybe I think that might be some of it.
Yeah, maybe, And that goes back to the whole idea of comedy and
what we find funny and what we find acceptable as comedic fodder. These days,
well, you cannot overstate how little journalists will tolerate what they do to
everyone else. Okay, they don't like to be poked fun at, and
that makes me want to poke fun at them. Well, we'll do it
every single year when we come back. Did you know that organ transplants can
possibly change one's personality and sexuality? To Walla Sharp has answers when we come
back. You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from KFI AM six
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app. Scientists have found that organ transplants can have unexpected consequences, including profound
changes to one's personality and even sexuality. In a study involving forty seven people,
a whopping eighty nine percent reported personality changes following their transplant surgery, no
matter what organ they had received. These changes included changes in the preferences for
food, into to see, and even preferences and you know what I mean,
I don't know firsthand what it's like to be a transplant recipient. Knock
on wood, you know, who knows what tomorrow may bring. But Juala
Sharp, you might have one or two opinions. I say two opinions because
you are a double organ transplant recipient, yep. And we talk about this
subject in a serious way often. Yeah, I can tell you for a
fact that there definitely are our side effects to the mood, especially in the
beginning of your personality. Just in General's part of the intake and part of
the entire valuation process is they want to get a good idea of the person
you are before the transplant, and they want to know this so that they
can help you and your family watch for significant personality changes because a lot of
the medicine that we are are medicines that do affect not only personality but sectionuality.
I have not necessarily had all of a sudden, you know, preference
for the opposite sex, Like I'm not looking at Marx's mustache and going hey
there, fella, but I think you are. Yeah. I only brought
it up because I am. That's why you've been sending me the cat videos.
Isn't that Oh, that's no, but it's it is interesting that one
of the side effects, at least for me, has been a lack of
interest in sex period. So it's like one of those people are like,
man, so you're not dating, gonna. I'm like, I don't even
have the desire or the drive. It's kind of like almost non existent.
Well, let me ask you then, is it more the organ or is
it the immunosuppress it's the suppressant. Immunosuppressant drugs. Those a lot of those,
especially we're on a cocktail of drugs that all have some mood altering or
erectile dysfunction type side effect the possibility of Yeah, it's very serious for me.
I think it has affected me in terms of bringing my overall hormone levels
down. And I've talked to a doctor about that, like, hey,
man, I don't know what's going on, but I'm like, I'm not
even interested. And he did a hormone check and he's like, yeah,
your T cells are very very low, very low. Unfortunately, it's one
of those side effects. And his response is so, hey, sirre's what
we can do. I can put you on another medicine that'll bring your T
cells up. But then you're gonna need another medicine to help with that,
because that medicine is going to counteract with all of these medicines. And I
say, you know what, I'm good, I'm cool. I just won't
date. I'm straight. I don't know how you do it, seriously,
because I've seen you take your medicines. They're a lot. It's a lot.
It is a lot. It is old that would change my personality on
the strength of just that, because you have your alarm set to a certain
time, we're supposed to do X, Y and Z. And you know,
I'm quite sure you are gracious and grateful, yes, the transplant,
but there's still a lot of maintenance involved. Oh, the maintenance. It's
a lifetime of maintenances you sign up for when you sign on that dotted line
that you're going to get this extremely invasive, extremely expensive procedure. You're signing
up for life saying I will take care of this for as long as I
possibly can, because I know what the alternative looks like. So for me,
I'm like, I'll take it, give me the blue pill if need
be. But even still, I'm like, all the things that I have
saved on by not being in a relationship stress money, Valentine's Day gifts that
mean absolutely nothing. You mess around and be middle class in California. Callback
you're gonna be able to go to those pizza days with Foosh, Right,
man, I could definitely take pizza Pizza fest. Oh yeah, now twelve.
I don't know what kind of insurance coverage you have, but is it
possible that the expenses associated with an organ transplant are so high that it's hard
to afford paying for sex afterwards? Here I thought he was going to ask
a real question. It's a pretty good set up as a set up.
I sat thought that was gonna be like, yeah, okay, you earned
that one, all right, you get one off every now and then.
It's the mustache. It's much thicker now. You find it appealing to,
don't you. I don't have a transplant. Yeah, okay, ain't nothing
changed. There's nothing to be ashamed of. Yeah, looking at that mustache,
yes there is. Oh no, this mustache is tasty, admitted tasty.
Yeah, look at it. Let's not turn the focus to me.
We're talking about to wala here about me. I think we're over me.
We're good we've got it. I think we've got all the information that we
need changes. Yes, yeah, okay, so there is some truth to
this. Oh no, there's a lot of truth. When I read through
the article, I was like, yeah, this Everything that they're saying in
this article is true. And I've talked to several people who have felt some
significant personality changes. They've had to get on mood stabilizers and things like that,
like you know that have gone into supreme extreme depression. The highs and
lows can be really rough, especially with a lot of the steroids that were
on that. That's some of the steroids that hit people differently. Six of
the forty seven participants reported changes in sexual preferences. Some transplant recipients even reported
that they've taken on the memories of their organ donors. But you know,
that's deep, Yeah, that's deep. It is very interesting. But you're
the first person I thought of. But we have a few people here at
KFI who've gone through organ transplants. So I would want to talk to Mondo.
I would want to talk to Neil and see if anything's changed in their
lives in that regard. You know, we got to get Mondo on so
he can tell us about his big guacamole event coming up and maybe we can
talk to him. Then. He's big timing now, so he knows where
to find us. Just like he's like he never has any time to give
us any guacamole, has never any time for any of that. I know
he's he's like famous and stuff now, so he doesn't think he needs to
talk to the little people about his guaca bab Ti big time is really disappointing.
I thought he wasn't gonna change when he got big, but now he's
changed, like guak king. Title's gone to his head. Yeah, yeah,
it's Later with Mokelly. Let's check in with George Nor and Coast to
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And also we have so many more cool things coming your way. I
don't even want to jinx myself. We're working on some great things to Wallas
working on some great things. We've got to get back in the giveaway business.
We love giving away free stuff and passing it on to you. No,
we're not trying to bribe your listenership. But if that's part of the
reason why you want to listen in, okay, we'll take it. It's
all right. But giving away movie tickets and theater tickets. Mark Ronerd is
going to give away I don't know, something's a memento from his childhood.
We're working on it. We're trying to decide what it's going to be.
Yeah, an Oregon something like that. Yeah, you probably would, yes,
way too much. Maybe you ought to like offer the chance to watch
you shave off your mustache. I don't know how much longer I can stand
it because it feels like a Halloween costume. It's not you huh no,
no, no, no, no, you need to do like some like
biker handles. That was the genesis of this, a biker movie. So
that's that's on the way. But then it's got to go because it's insane.
I don't know how people live with these things. What about the long
suffering one has? She weighed in on it. She wants it around for
a while longer because honestly, we've been in lock up with each other for
four solid years and she got sick of my face as it was. So
if you get rid of the mustache, that's gonna endear you to her.
No, oh, okay, she wants you to keep it in perpetuity.
No, she was sick of looking at me. So this is just a
little bit of a change, almost like role play. Probably not enough of
a change for her though you mean you get on people's nerves. I think
she'd like a much larger change than just the mustache. Well, you got
to make do with what you got, that's what I keep telling her.
Well, I gotta say it's good to be back. I miss you guys,
even though I was only gone for a day or so. But you
know, need to get away to do some other things like hop keto and
martial arts and train with other folks from around the state. It's especially weird
when you're not here on Fridays. Yeah, I like Chris Merrill, who
was the sub, but we don't do any of our normal stuff on Fridays
when you're gone, So it's just a whole different scene. And honestly,
almost felt like even though, like you said, it was a day,
it felt like a whole week went by. Well, absence makes the heart
grow fonder, and I'll be sure to make it up to all of you,
including a Friday this week would have big fun the rest of the week.
Obviously, we're going to be giving away tickets, We're going to have
the movie game this week. We got to get back on track doing all
the funny things and having all the fun that we normally do. I'm quite
sure Chris Merrill did a wonderful job, but you know, it's a different
show. I know what people expect on Friday. You're expecting to just all
sorts of silliness and lou behavior, things that most people would get put off
the radio for. I understand that. I understand that that's that's what we
do, you know, And tonight was just a little bit of that.
Tawala told us that he's not gay as of yet because of this organ transplant.
Didn't know that. I don't know what's happening, did not know,
but you know, he shared that with us tonight. I didn't know that
that was the point of the goal to take that. Yes, it was
like on personality changes and the effects of transplant or tramplant madzins no, no.
And we also learned that Mark role plays with his living girlfriend. Okay,
she had him grown mustache, so it'd be like a different guy living
with her. Yeah. I think she's pleased that it's or like someone else
way down the music. What are we doing? Hey, so Mark,
you got to get an organ transplant and you'd be a really different guy altogether.
I don't know what organ you're talking about. But look at the time,
we're just go ahead and leave it right there, just gonna end on
that low note. Yeah, can't buy a six forty Live everywhere in the
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