K f I am sixty. You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. We're live from Chateau Lemo And also not to confuse
you, we are instagram live at Later with Mo Kelly and at Nick Polyokenny.
You can see what's going on in the studio at Later with Mo Kelly,
I'm sharing the screen with at Nick Polyochinni. Nick is up at the
park showing the fireworks and it's I can't describe it to you. You just
have to go see it for yourself. You can hear the fireworks in the
background. I wish they were sound effects, but they're all real. You
can see the fireworks from our view at my house at n at Later with
mo Kelly on Instagram and also at Nick Polyokenni. We have a dual Instagram
live feed going right now. A bunch of partygoers and attendees just walked up
there, readying themselves for the activity, the spectacle that it is, and
it is absolutely amazing. I cannot wait for us to be able to get
the opportunity to go up there. Every single year I come. I like
to do this three sixty spin where I get to show everyone who doesn't believe,
Like every single angle that you look up there you see all of the
shows and all of these amazing hood fireworks. This is what Fourth of July
is literally all about. We have someone who is on the Instagram live asking
are those fireworks legal? I can't tell you. The ones that you see
in the sky, for the most part, are legal. They're coming from
the sanctioned fireworks shows because they started nine o'clock. But there are a lot
of illegal, professional grade fireworks that you're going on right now as well.
One thing that always I think makes me the most uneasy is because with all
of the rapid sounds and repeated sounds that we hear, we know for a
fact, okay, let's not kid each other, we know for a fact
that some of this mixed in is also gunfire. And that is what I
don't get about here in Los Angeles. Why Angelina's don't just at least look,
if you're gonna be bold enough, bad enough to have illegal fireworks,
then just keep the guns at home. Please do not shoot up into the
air. Those bullets come down, yes, if it may not be reported
as much as it should be, but those bulls when they come down,
lives are lost. If you're just tuning in, we have an Instagram live
at Later with Mo Kelly. You can see the fireworks and also see into
the studio as we're broadcasting line from Chateau lem And also we're sharing the Instagram
live with at Nick Poliochini and you can there. You can also see the
three sixty degree fireworks that we've been talking about all evening. I know some
people hit me on Instagram saying, Mo, there shouldn't be any illegal fireworks.
We just did a segment talking about how we're trying to move away from
a legal fireworks and legal fireworks to drone shows. But you know, I
don't know if there's any real appetite to stop it. We're in agreement.
They're dangerous. Yeah, no, and this is something that I don't think
anyone who is impacted by fireworks would disagree. I know my co parent,
I've invited her several times to come and hang out with us, but because
of growing up in Philadelphia and because of certain instances in her life dealing with
gun violence, she is actually petrified and afraid of fireworks. And it is
real. It is a very very real fear almost like with you and be's
her and fireworks do not get along, never have and it is like that
for so many people. And this is not some big commercial fool or anti
fireworks things, because look, everyone right now, within the sound of our
voice, look you've heard us. We are against the illegal fireworks. But
what you're hearing outside these individuals setting them up, they do not care.
They don't care about what we're talking about. Why because they've already purchased them
with the specific purpose of setting it off on the fourth of July. Right.
And also, I don't have a fear of fireworks, but I have
a healthy respect of the danger of fireworks. I've been burned by fireworks,
so I know how dangerous they can be. And we were being flipped before
about you know, are we tired of losing our figures and setting our houses
on fire? But that's the real cost of these shows. I was more
talking about the nostalgia connected to them and the Fourth of July, and I
think that's an impediment as to why we have trouble getting past the use of
traditional fireworks, be it legal or illegal. And also there's a cottage industry.
There are a lot of people who are willing to buy these fireworks.
They may be coming from across the border in large part, but they're people
buying them here as well. Yeah, no, no, no, no,
this isn't I have not seen an illegal firework like set up on a
street corner the entire year. So wherever they're going to get these, they
are going to get there and bring them back. Right. We just talked
about how California is trying to work with New Mexico and Nevada to curb the
import of illegal fireworks, but that still is individuals going across the border,
leaving California and bringing them in because they've long ban the cell of them in
Los Angeles County in particular, and I believe Orange County as well, But
that doesn't stop it. That doesn't stop it at all. And you know,
hey, sometimes people got to learn the hard way. Unfortunately. I
just hope it's not you know, someone that lives near you, brother,
So if you still want to tune into the fireworks, I want to log
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house, just outside my house, and we're gonna take a quick break.
Now the other side, we're gonna let you listen to one of our classic
segments of movies and the Fourth of July, and then we'll hit you on
the other side. It's Later with Mo Kelly coming to you live from Chateau
le mo on the fourth of July, Independence Day, Happy Birthday America.
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Of course we were going to discuss movies in the fourth of July at some
point. Well, now is that point? I remember in a movie sense,
the fourth of July weekend was supposed to be the weekend for what would
be the biggest movie of the summer, if not the year. That's when
the big movie you'd have either a Will Smith offering or a Tom Cruise offering
something that was supposed to be the weekend. It doesn't feel like that's the
case anymore. Jaws was set on the fourth of July. When I think
about beach scenes and going to the beach during the summer. If you're at
least over the age of forty, you can't help but associate the beach with
Jaws. It changed how everyone went into the water. Whatever that promotion was,
Yes, Jaws was set on the fourth of July. This is a
great white larry, a big one, and any shark expert in the world
will tell you it's a killer. It's a man eater. Look. The
situation is that apparently a great white shark has staked to claim in the waters
off Family Island, and he is going to continue to feed here as long
as there is food in the water, and there's no limit to what he's
going to do. I mean, we've already had three incidents, two people
killed inside of a week, and it's going to happen again. It happened
before the Jersey Beature scene. Five people chewed up in the one week.
Tell them about the swimmers. A shark is attracted to the exact kind of
splashing, an activity that occurs whenever human beings go in swimming. You cannot
avoid it if you open the beatures on the fourth of July. It's like
ringing the dinner bell for CHRISTI what are the movies come to mind. When
you think of the Fourth of July weekend, only one movie the onliest movie
movie, and that is Independence Day. That's not top of the list.
Why we even talking about movies and Fourth of July? That was I guess
a little too obvious for me. And that's probably arguably I can't think of
one that's probably the biggest Fourth of July weekend movie of all time. Yeah,
and probably obviously Fourth of July themed movie of all time. The sequel
great disappointment, but the original was just wrapped in fourth of July. And
like I'm looking at TV right now, they have Independence Day on. You
can't escape it. I mean not that that's some surprise. Of course they're
going to show Independence Day. They do every single year, literally have to.
A few movies have captured the culture like that. It is the film
that arguably cemented Will Smith as one of the biggest actors ever define cemented,
given where he is right now, Okay, cemented in the terms of After
that, the summer became known as what Will Smith Summer. He was a
big Willie. He ruled the summers every summer after that. Hit film after
hit film after hit film, and that is what did it for him.
Now we know he's trying to come back, so I think that there may
be hope for him. But regardless, this film here is the film that
everyone I think career wise, he's done a lot but pop culture across the
board. You know him from this film. You know this was supposed to
be my weekend off. I knew she got me out of here, dragging
your heavy ass through the burning desert with your dreadline sticking out the back of
my pastute. You gotta come down here with an attitude hacking off bigg and
band And what the hell is that smell? I could have been at a
barbecue, all right? We run lines of Independence Day, that speech by
Bill Pullman. I can almost recite it from memory. We will be united
in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the fourth of July
and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny,
impression, or persecution, but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to
live, to exist, and should we win, the day, the fourth
of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the
day when the world declared in one voice, we will not go quietly into
the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live
on, We're going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day and there
are a few movies and I have to rethink my choice because I was thinking
Jaws was the pre eminent one. Know, it has to be Independence that
it has to be. It has to be the very fact that this film
has coined one of the greatest lines in all of cinema. It cannot which
one, there are a lot of them. No, no, no,
no, the one Moe. You knew then there's no greater line in cinema.
Then that's but that's only if you really know the movie. And also
it's kind of prophetic now given how the Pentagon has come out with all this
information about UFOs and everything else. I mean, it's actually like, uh,
yeah, you knew then, you knew that talking about Judd Hirsh's character
talking about the aliens, you know, the aliens in the bunker area of
fifty one. You know that it all be dead Now, it wasn't my
David, none of you did anything to prevent this. There's nothing we could
do. We were totally unprepared for this. Ah, don't give me unprepared.
Come on, it was what in the nineteen fifties or whatever. You
you had that spaceship that yeah, yeah, that thing that you found in
New Mexico, that that was not the spaceship Russell wells well in Mexico.
Yeah. No, you had the spaceship and you had the bodies. They
were all locked up in a bunk up and that was that. David An
Area fifty one, right, area fifty one. You know, Dan,
and you did nothing and you did nothing. Yeah. The only thing about
that film that I to this day have qualms with is the fact that earthmade
technology could easily plug in to technology that was light years Beyonce with just a
thumb drive. They were they were still using a USB. Yeah, that
was that was tough. And you know it's like my Commodore sixty four hacking
norad it it doesn't work. The three hundred bad dial up modem. You're
listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. As
we continue Chateau Lemo Live and in person, I'm joined in my studio,
my personal studio, by the producer of Soul cal Saturday, Miss Kayla Austin
Kayla, how you doing this season? I am having a blast at this
is your third time attending. If I'm not mistaken, I literally have an
annual tradition here only because of you. I'm like, oh, I'm doing
my annual fourth of July tradition National Solomo. You text me, it's like,
can I bring my sisters? Like wait, wait, you always bring
your sister. What do you mean? Why are you asking me? Can
I bring your sister? I know my sister looks forward to whatever year.
She's like, well, when we first got here three years ago, one
of your cousins or Wendy's cousin, she was pregnant, so we love to
see how big the little girl is now she's so old and like her little
sons are like, I can't wait to see I'm big. The boys gotten
what's going on? Know what the dogs? So it's amazing here. The
years are flying by, and I after this before, but I want to
ask you again because all of tonight has been about family, tradition, memories,
nostalgia. You're from the East Coast, where exactly from Atlantic City,
Atlantic City, Atlantic City, New Jersey, the boardwalk and all. When
you were growing up, what was the fourth of July. What were some
of the traditions or festivity. Well, my grandma she had a house right
on the bay, so we were able to kind of get in our boat
that we had and watch the fireworks from the bay, which was really cool
growing up or watching it from her doc. I love how your accent is
coming out, your Jersey accent? Is it? I didn't notice it anymore.
I'm just like they told me that outside to One of your cousins told
me that outside I tried to act like I was from South Central. It's
like you said, talk you did. But yeah, and then we all
just go to the Atlanta City Boardwalk and watch the fire fireworks there. That
was definitely a tradition to go there. And also with that's where we saw
Miss America too. So you came to California you were not a radio new
What brought you to California given that you had a radio career already on the
East Coast. Well, I did a morning show in an afternoon drive for
about five years when I randomly got laid off because they can no longer afford
my talent. This is this is radio. If you you've not worked in
radio, unless you've lost a job. I've been raided, right. I
thought that that that that rumor would never affect my life. I lost at
least three Yeah, yeah, so I'm halfway there. So I got laid
off and I'm crazy. So my reaction was to buy a one way flight
to la Like, oh, you guys are one way one way. I
got laid off in September. I bought a one way flight like maybe a
week or two later for January tenth, and I said, I have everything.
You didn't have a job and then decided to get on a plane to
a place you never lived, probably have few contacts, no contacts, no
friends, no family, no job, nothing. I just said, I'm
going to buy a one way flight three three thousand miles away and figure it
out. But you have a sister out here, So how does that work?
Well, I got out here four years ago. Lee was only here
two years. I convinced her two years after. I've been like, you
need to come here too. You were here. Bye bye bye yourself,
Bye bye bye myself. What was the first step after the one way fighter?
After I landed, it's the same basically. After I landed, I
literally didn't realize what I was doing. I didn't realize how major of a
city Los Angeles was. I got lost every single time I left the house.
I cried so many times, but I think that that's just what I
had to go through. And then the pandemic had because I got here January
twenty twenty, and then Mark twenty twenty, the pandemic was here. So
it was literally just doing applications getting told no until September of twenty twenty when
I got hired at CAFI. So from January to September November, I had
no job. Why radio, Oh my gosh, I love it. I
think that this is the most fun job you can ever have. You just
get to turn on the mics, share your opinion, connect with the community.
I don't think there's anything like radio. The intimacy. I call it
the intimacy. You get to connect with people the way that you can't connect
on social media, you can't connect television. There is a under one personal
conversation that you could have with someone in their home, in their car,
and you can have it every single day. And I learned things about you,
and people will learn things about me as a host that you can't learn
about the television personality. You can't interact with me, especially pre social media,
you know, with a TV personality like you could a radio personality,
and but you're still chasing this dream. It's so intimate. I agree that
it's a way to connect with people, and I also love being able to
express some creative freedoms. So I think that radio A lot of people who
don't work in radio think it's just kind of turning on the microphone and just
shooting the craps. Couldn't That is so far from the truth. Like,
it's such controlled conversation, it's such creative, like it's it's just very intentional.
It's not just very flip floppy. It's a lot of fun. It's
a lot of fun. Now you are the producer of Soul col Saturday,
which is hosted by Tauola Shark, who's also the producer of Later with bo
Kelly. What has that experience been like? What has that journey been?
Like? I love Twala Sharp so much. He has taught me so much
because I feel like Sol Kyle is my newest show. I've been recording,
I've been producing shows. I've been on air for the while for a while
now. But me and Twala kind of started SOCAO at the same time because
it wasn't a show before I came on to the scene, but he asked
me to be his producer and I have so while is a real deal,
Like, first of all, he's a radio legend. I learned so much
from him. I learned just the intentionality behind what the show is, the
intentionality behind the show brand, and how if I give him a show or
a guest that isn't in line with what we're working toward, how he shoots
that down. Like he just really taught me so much in radio. And
I thought I knew a lot, but starting with the new show, with
the head Han Show and the King legend of radio, it's like, Wow,
people don't know Twiler Sharp has more than thirty years in radio. I
don't know the exact math, but if you know the history of radio in
Los Angeles and the historic nature of the station ninety two point three, the
beat in Los Angeles, you would know the name to Wallas Sharp. And
I remember when Tawyla Sharp had his interview at KFI and I said to Tula,
it's like, look, you know, we're trying to do something different
here and you may not see it right now, given how the station sounds
back then. We're talking two thousand and tennish twenty eleven, sometime around then,
And I said, just trust me, Twala. I don't know how
it's gonna happen, when it's gonna happen, but we're trying to change how
LA sounds because I was told when I came in to talk radio that you
can't have music on talk radio. We do a lot of music on top
data. You can't talk about sports on news talk radio. We talk about
sports on news talk radio. So I'm not a believer in what you can't
do. I am a firm believer in what I know works, and I
know what works in the sense of connecting with people things that people like to
discuss. People don't talk about politics all day long. Who does that?
There are other conversations that we have and other conversations that we should have.
Why because we're family, And when you're with family, you'll talk about anything.
You may talk about the Kardashians, and it may move to sports,
it may move to your favorite show or your favorite movie, and that I
think creates the best relationship between host and listener and all I can say is
thank you. Also not only did Tuala Sharp, host of Soul Cow Saturday,
but also you, Kayla Austin, You've come on this journey with us.
We were trying to school you on some things early on and now you
start to see Hunh Howler, it is a process and it's a journey.
It's not a destination. All the things that we're doing right now and later
with mo Kelly, it took us a while to get to this point.
We didn't just open the mic and say hey, we're just gonna have a
live show at the crib. It didn't work like that. Hey we're going
to talk about sports. No, it didn't work that right. You know,
Hey, why don't we talk about movies? No. There were things
that we had to do to grow to a point where people established a relationship
with us and trusted us to have these conversations. Yes, we have the
more serious conversations, but they know that it comes from a point of sincerity
and authenticity. And you, I would like to consider part of my radio
tree. Your success is our success gone with your bet So thank you,
thank you. I've learned so much from you and in Towala and I appreciate
you being my You didn't ask to me my mentors, but I came in
here and I asked you in Touala so many questions from the time I started,
and you have never hesitated to give me an answer, give me advice,
or help me in the right direction. That I'm eternally grateful for you
when I do get to where I'm going. Well, I say it this
way. If we have these platforms and we don't use them to lift,
uplift and help one another, than what's the freaking point. You're right,
I thank you. So I'll talk to you soon. Cale when we come
back. We're going to close out Chateau le Mo, this annual celebration of
America's Birthday and Independence Day here on KFI AM six forty. In just a
moment, you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six
forty to Walla Sharp. You've been with me every step of the way.
You've been on this journey. Now I think we've really hit our stride and
having some fun with it. We've talked about these things. Now we're doing
these things, food, family, fun, fireworks for the fourth year.
What are your thoughts. I think that every year it just gets better.
If you were here in the building, you would have seen. As a
producer, Dana says, we're going up. We are going up, and
that is what it is all about. We're taking it to the next level.
Hopefully next year both Foosh and Mark can join us, because then the
family will really be complete. Yeah, I'm tired of Mark. Get your
ass up and bring your ass all over to the chateau. I know,
really stop playing listen to the peer pressure. Wow, okay, okay,
pressure. I know you're not my peers. You're not my peers. Look,
and I know Foods really wants to be here because he loves fun as
much as we do. I don't know, maybe Mark doesn't love fun,
but what this is allow? I hate fun? You figured it out.
I gett so jealous every time I see the lives and I see the spread
that you put out, especially Bloodsos Like, yes, every year bloods barbecue
over here. Yeah, come on, here's actually the story behind it.
When Bloodsoe's had first opened on Librea, they were a relatively new barbecue place,
and The mo Kelly Show was having one of its annual celebrations it's birthday
shows. Blood So's had reached out and said, hey, can we cater
your anniversary show? And they gave us googlebs of food, just gave us.
It's like, just you know, just give us some promotion on the
air. And ever since then, Yep, we've been riding with Bloodsoe's Barbecue
and that's how it should be. You know, they took care of us,
we take care of them, and they did. When I say they
catered today's party and show, No, we paid for that. You know,
that's a part of the relationship. We're not asked for stuff for free.
It's just that we want to support you and your business because you supported
us when there was no reason to. Yeah, I remember that. That
was literally the second anniversary show, because we did the one at the Bowling
Alley, and then the next one we said, you know what, let's
do something different. Yep, let's have a live in studio audience chairs,
all in the in the booth, chairs, all in air mix. And
it was a party and we are keeping that party going now. People may
not know we've talked about it. How Twala, you're from the commercial music
radio portion of the business. I'm from the radio label portion of the business.
And we came up at a time where there was no such thing as
impossible. You were given a task or you wanted to achieve a goal,
and you just went out and did it, like, for example, said
we don't have the money for this, We don't have the money for that.
Okay, we'll make it well, somehow make it ourselves. Like for
example, we don't have the money to do an anniversary show certain location.
That's fine, We'll throw our own anniversary show. We'll find someone to bring
us some food. We'll open up the doors and let just people come in
the studio. That's what we did. Yeah, yeah, by hook or
by crook. The industry and the world we came from, there was no
I can't do that. It was get it done blank blank blank blank blank
blank blank, get it instead of your name. There are several curses thrown
at you. And that is the hustle that we put into this show.
Why we work so hard to do the impossible and oftentimes ask for forgiveness instead
of permission. I am sorry, Robin, but that's our mindset. Our
mindset is we are going to make it happen by hook or crook, because
we are trying to make sure that you you listening, get the best show
that you will ever ever experience. Every time I when I say to people
and I say it on air, and I don't know if people take me
seriously or know that I'm serious. When I say I'm the best job in
the world, I mean exactly that because the things that I had to do
to get to this point. I've talked about it publicly in my public speeches,
but most people don't know it. Gone through hell and the high water
and be able to get here. And they say that you're working on your
day off. No, no, no, this is fun. I'm also
doing something for the job, but it's not work. It's not the same.
I enjoy talking to you each and every night from Monday to Friday,
seven to ten pm. And I enjoy working with Tuala and everyone else at
KFI. This is fun under the guys of work. I love talking to
you in Los Angeles and you in Orange County and you in San Diego County
and San Bergardino County and Ventura County because I am no different than you.
I'm just a guy who likes to talk and have some opinions about this and
that, and I get the opportunity to share some of them and my world
view with you listening right now. I'm not trying to convince you to vote
for someone. I'm not trying to convince you to see the world as I
do. I'm just trying to have a conversation with you and somehow, hopefully
we can meet in the middle, because I would like this show to be
a reflection of how I would like to see the world. You know,
the people who are here at this party, they're my family. We may
not be blood related, but damn it, I would go to the mat
and through a wall for all of you because you are my family chosen.
And that does not to discount Stefan and Mark, who may not physically be
here, but if it went down, I'd be right there, shoulder to
shoulder with them. This has been a journey, this has been a fantastic
voyage, as they say, and we're going to keep this party going beyond
just this moment, beyond just tonight, and we as we come to the
end of the fourth of July chateaule Mod Celebration, the fourth annual, just
know we do this because we love you. Last what it's yours Tuala.
Please, whatever you do, do not drink and drive today. There are
several ride share companies that are just to tap away if you do anything,
save a life, call it Uber, call a cab, or just if
you can stay where you are. I've lost too many friends to the victimization
of drunk driving and I don't want it to be you, so please do
not drink a driver. I've been hit as a pedestrian by a trunk driver,
so I co sign that and with that, be safe and we will
talk to you soon, in fact tomorrow. It's later with mo Kelly k
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