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And if you look at the calendar, it may say spring, but if
you look at the calendar through the prism of the box office, the summer
season has officially begun. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was the first
big movie. I don't know if it would be considered a blockbuster, but
it was one of the big releases for twenty twenty four, a lot of
promotion, high expectations. Legacy film, the fourth and the most recent series
of Planet of the Apes movie, so there was a lot riding on it.
How well did it do? Came in at number one, and I
would love to get Mark Runners's thoughts about these numbers. It came into number
one, it had fifty eight million domestically, but it also did another seventy
two million internationally. That surprised me. I didn't think this title would play
internationally. For a worldwide total of one hundred and thirty one million, that's
not fantastic when you think of box office blockbusters, but it's pretty good for
the franchise and for domestic box office generally. Would you agree, Mark,
Oh, the world loves apes Mo and it did. It did blow past
expectations. I think it was expected to make as much as fifty and it
made fifty eight. That's not nothing. No, it's not nothing, not
nothing, definitely that. But in terms of the larger box office, always
wonder if any of these movies will do a lot to shave excuse me,
to shift the direction of box office fortunes. Well, you need more than
one movie, but go ahead, sure, sure. The one that's really
hanging on despite I know your your wishes are similar to mine that it would
go away forever is Kong or Godzilla X Kong. I think it is the
Yeah, it won't go away. It keeps making money. It's unstoppable because
that's it's a kind of movie that translates to all sorts of non US audiences,
because it's a bunch of cgi monster fighting without a ton of dialogue that
you need to pay attention to. But we still have to look at it
through the lens of right now instead of yesteryear in previous years. Is grossed
five hundred and fifty eight million worldwide. That's good, it's broken half a
billion dollars. But if we were to put a Marvel movie in that slot,
it's nothing special. Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness brought in eight hundred million,
and people called it a flop. It was a disappointment. Yeah,
it was spectations or relative you're right, you're right, Doctor Strange. That
the second Doctor Strange wasn't even one of Marvel's best movies by any stretch,
but it was solid enough to they have a built in audience whatever they do.
So when you're talking about stuff like The Fall Guy, which, of
course, remember The Fall Guy was a remake of a TV series, right,
nobody exactly exactly crying out to be made, but it's still made decent
money. It's first weekend and that fell off like fifty fifty one percent.
It's second weekend in theaters, so anything that's not part of a franchise,
a remake or reboot, whatever, it's a total roll of The Dice and
The Fall Guy. Since you mentioned it did come in second place this week.
It's gross total worldwise one hundred and three million. It will make money
when it's done. I think I can't remember what the budget is, but
I think it's going to beat its budget. Yeah, I don't know what
the budget is. But those cgi things are not cheap to make. No,
they're not. Just like you do. You recall the old plan of
the apes where there were guys walking around and hot looking ape outfits. Those
didn't have gigantic budgets at all. I think, no, not at all.
It was a Halloween mask and the whole thought and the big scene when
you had I can't remember the doctor, the female doctor ape's name zero kissing
a human, yes, kissing humans, like, oh my goodness. You
know a lot of symbolism there. Yeah, Hessen wasn't that much better looking
than one of the chimps. And you got to remember that back in well,
I think the seventy seventy one one of those things was just two and
a half million bucks to make, and inteen nineteen seventies dollars these others are
up in the hundreds. Yeah. Again, the expectations are different. Fall
guy broke one hundred million. Challengers a movie I'm not going to see.
It's just not interested in it. It has sixty eight million. I can't
believe that its budget was much more than that. Honestly, he came in
with four point three million this week. Taro Mark, you should know something
about this. It's not a horror movie. It is, and I wasn't
able to get to it. I think that was on one of the weekends
when you were out and we didn't do any of the normal stuff. But
it's hanging in there. And as we always point out, horror movies generally
have low budgets, their critic proof and they always make a profit always.
Twenty million has growth so far. I doubted took twenty million dollars to bake
that movie, and they didn't spend much on advertising and promotion. We'll get
a tarot too. Number five, as we talked about Godzilla Kong, brought
in two point six million. Number six Unsung Hero. Can't tell you what
that's about. Number seven Kung Fu Panda is still hanging around. It's not
making huge money, but it brought in one point eight million, and it's
gross as it broke a half a billion, five hundred and twenty nine million
worldwide so far. So it's not nothing, as you said, Mark Ronner,
but it's not the lofty box office expectations and returns which we're accustomed to
in a healthy box office season. But now the summer season has officially begun,
we'll see whether it picks up. Civil War still hanging in the top
ten. It came in at number eight at one point eight million, and
it's a healthy one hundred and seven million worldwide. It's gotten its budget back
and again coming at number nine. Star Wars Episode one to Phantom Menace brought
in another one point four million. Now, either Mark or Tuala do you
know if they added anything, Is there any like special directors, scenes,
added anything special about this movie? I don't think so. It's just the
movie as it was, Just the movie as it was. Yeah, the
added nostalgia makes you not remember how terrible it was when it came out.
No, I've seen it. It's it's it's good and terrible. Everything with
the Gungans and jar Jar Binks. Anything that doesn't have Darth Maul sucked.
It's literally I don't even think it's like the special edition because they they didn't
really go back and do much to the prequel films. It was the original
three that they went back and did the digital remastering and adding scenes that you
know what I mean, unless they toned down the yaes of mis you know,
you're you're not exaggerated. Yeah, like come on. Yeah, they
turned down the sambo sound. I mean, I don't know, no,
and that's the thing. And nobody stood it. Stepped in and said,
you know what, guys, this is not gonna land right that that film
was rife with all types of ras, even the viceroy, the viceroys and
and the entire the heavy handed messaging of dealing with Chinese companies, all the
way down to Wato owning a garage and having that heavy, that heavy,
heavy Middle East bed and everything. I'm just like, oh, oh,
George of Tattoo, Okay, we got it. I get that what George
Lucas was trying, and there was I cannot remember where the interview was where
he said he was trying to juxtapose society as it is today and covered and
hid it in an outer space overlay. But he wanted us to look at
the world and see our place in it and how we are interacting. But
I'm like, still, this is how you view us even in the world.
I promise you. I have never gone up to Mark Orsabaca. Here's
the big, big rennish. I can't wait for you to do it.
That's that's going to be a special thing. But Okay, look, we
don't have the illusions or revisionist history with George Lucas. This was after the
issues and problems we had with the original Star Wars and New Hope, and
while we got Lando cal Rission because in a galaxy long time ago, far
far away, black people didn't exist. It was weird. It was strange.
We could not get on that ship. You got that whole Star Wars
bar with with all the aliens on tattooing and not a single brother in it.
We could We couldn't just walk by the background us. Oh yes there's
one, there's one tattooed. Nope, not at all, fight pilot,
nothing, nothing. And then you had to bring out Billy d Williams and
you know, slit smolt liquor, pass down stale wise. Yeah he clashed
it up, didn't Yeah he did. It's like, oh, what do
we have here? I'm trying to flirt with Lea. It's like, come
on, Billy Day that brother Kate the walking it like James Brown please please
please? Uh George, George, George. It's later with mo Kelly.
Can if I am six forty, we're live every you know, I waited
like forty five years to say that about George. It took me about forty
five years. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app you're listening to Later with
Mo Kelly on demand from KFI Am sixty, and I was saying to Mark
Ronner, just ribbing him a bit when he was reading some of the o
bit for David Sanborn, who was referred to as a smooth jazz artist,
and I had to jump and It's like, no, no, no,
no, he's more jazz fusion artists. And that was just an example of
it mixing funk and jazz as opposed to what we may hear on smooth jazz
radio today. His roots were wide and varied, and he played with just
about every artist on the sun, from Eric Clapton to Stevie Wonder and every
musical genre in between, David Bowie, name it, he played with them.
He was more than just a session player when he started out. He
was one of the greatest jazz saxophonists of all time. And I didn't find
out until tonight. I keep finding out things about people who I work with
every single day that just blow my mind that Stephen had a father sudden connection
to David Sanborn just like me, and you knew of his idea. It's
like, yeah, he did smooth jazz, but that wasn't where he began.
No, Yeah, he worked with a lot of artists we wall before.
I mean, I mean one of his there's a video on there,
you can YouTube it with Luther. Yeah, played Lutha band over there.
And like you said, David Bow, he did a lot. He worked
with a lot of people. It's insane. It is insane, and I
wish and I wish I could do a real musical tribute, but I can't
because of licensing issues. I can't put music in podcasts. It'll be all
for not That's why we're playing in the bumpers as opposed to the body of
the show. But we wanted to at least acknowledge his passing with some music.
Over the course of the show and earlier this evening, as I switched
gears, Tuala showed me something which really, really, I will say,
disturb me on some level. Will Smith We've talked about any number of times
regarding his career, what happened with the Oscar slap, what I felt should
have happened during the show, how he should have been handled and escorted off
the premises, and that's nothing personally becaust Will Smith. It's just when you
assault someone there have to be consequences. There really were no consequences at night.
He was from the show for ten years, and he lost some projects.
Some projects were canceled, He lost money, his obviously, his his
profile took a hit, his brand definitely took a hit, and people were
saying many people were saying, maybe you were saying that Will Smith had been
canceled, and I said, no, no, no, no, no.
There is no such thing as canceled or canceled culture. There's capitalism culture,
and you might get criticized and you might have consequences in the short term.
For long term, you'll be hard pressed to find someone who was canceled
for the rest of their career. I mean, even Gina Carano got work
after Star Wars, and I heard she's begging to come back to Star Wars.
That's not going to happen. But if you can run down the list,
you can say mel Gibson, he's not the star that he once was,
but no one is in their late sixties. He might be almost seventy
now. I can't think of anyone who in anyone who's actually been canceled.
Kevin Spacey, he's done some independent stuff. He probably will be back before
all is said and done. And the point is Will Smith is back.
Will Smith and John Moe will produce a big budget I'm calling it a blockbuster
sugar bandits through his Westbrook studios. They are shopping it now. And it
is about exploring the complex dynamics between law and order and the criminal underworld in
film excuse me. And it's supposed to be about breaking up the drug trade
in Boston. And Will Smith is supposed to be this a soldier or a
Special Forces soldier who runs an elite vigilante squad trying to wipe out the drug
trade in Boston. And it's based on a screenplay and novel Devil's in Exile
by Chuck Hogan. That doesn't sound like he's been canceled. I might be
wrong. No, sounds like that's he's not canceled. He's actually financed a
Bad Boys four getting ready to come out. Doesn't sound like he's canceled.
I don't know. I don't know what are we making up? Words are
we calling canceled? As far as having a momentary interruption in someone's career.
Is that being canceled? I look at the word canceled as being somewhat finite,
like there's a difference between postponing an event and canceling an event. Yeah,
time out, and I think Armie Hammer is not quite done with his
time out for the whole cannibalism thing. But it's only a matter of time,
that's just it. Yeah, it's only a matter of time. And
who is it? Bill Maher and Bill Burr were talking about. They said
some comedian had gotten canceled. It's like, no, just it just takes
more time, just takes more time. Bill Maher is always babbling about cancel
culture, which is nonsense. Uh, for someone who has never had any
type of consequences for anything he said at any time in his career, he
should be the last person to talk about cancel culture, because every single week
there's someone who's trying to get rid of his show. The only difference is
he's on HBO, their subscription base. It's not like he's as sponsors or
anything, so it's very difficult to get rid of his show. But he's
proof that there is no cancel culture. It's not like you can say one
thing and your career is over. No, cancel culture is not a thing.
In the real world. There are consequences sometimes, yep, for things
that you say and do that are reprehensible, and that's a normal thing.
Cancel culture not really a thing. No. I mean what happened with Kevin
Hart. Oh, his career is doing just fine. Imagine I forgot he
was canceled, right, I have forgotten. He's doing pretty well for somebody
who's been canceled, doing very, very well. That's the thing. I
just don't understand where we want to rail against something that doesn't even exist.
Will Smith. Did he lose a lot of money? I would say absolutely,
probably more than I'm aware of. Prettey too. He probably lost projects.
He probably had to lay off people his production company, probably took a
brand hit. I'm sure about all of that. But he's getting ready to
have a major blockbuster come out in the next year or two. He has
Bad Boys for coming out in the next month, and so I don't know
when it's coming out. All I know is they're promoting the hell out of
it. I'm seeing various reports of some secret meeting between Will Smith and Chris
Rock and they're trying to, you know, bury their feud. I don't
know if that's true or not. I hope it's not true for this reason,
before we go to break, if you were to slap me, and
I have to live with that meme and that embarrassment for the rest of my
life. Any type of reconciliation has to be done publicly on my terms,
a private apology and you know, a hashing out. It'll never undo what
has been done. And I hope that's not the case. I hope that
did not happen for Chris Rock's sake. But some outlets are reporting that,
I can confirm it. I have not seen a real legitimate outlet report that,
And if it does happen, we'll let you know. But the upside
for will Smith, Hey, he's back to normal. Everything's good. He's
not canceled. Oh my goodness. Once again, cancel culture does not exist.
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
And as we get older, I would say the importance of sex may
change. For some, it becomes less important. For others it may be
more important. Maybe you've gone through a divorce, maybe you're having a renewal
of vows and a second, i'll say, reinvigorated time in life with your
spouse. Well, older people are having more sex more than ever before,
and they're getting sti's and STDs more than ever before. And there's a reason
or a bunch of reasons why. According to the article, rising divorce rates,
foregoing condoms as there is no risk of pregnancy yay, menopause, the
availability of drugs for sexual dysfunction, large number of older adults living together in
retirement communities, and the increased use of dating apps are likely to have contributed
to the growing incidents of STIs STDs in the over fifties. Twala, they're
talking about you. This is you specifically, you're divorced, you're on dating
apps. And I'll just leave it there. Yeah, let's just leave it
at that. Well, Mark, I think he's forty nine. He won't
tell us his AG. Let's leave me entirely out of this. There's no
reason at all for me to be a part of this discussion in any way.
Let's focus on Tuala spreading things around there around the dating game. Okay,
now, look to be fair, A lot of what they're saying.
A lot of what they're saying does make sense because once you hit a certain
age, I can tell you for a fact that there is a lot less
use of prophylactics among people of a certain age because you know, you're primarily
using them for protection against disease and the possibility of pregnancy. Now, most
of us, once we get to a certain age, we're checking constantly to
make sure that we are free of STDs, at least I am. And
you know, you would always hope that that whoever it is that you are
engaging with is doing the same hope. Uh, yeah, hope. But
this tells us that that's not the case. Yes, we would hope that,
but this is not the case. And that maybe because as we get
older again, if you're not chiefly concerned about pregnancy, and if you are
in a smaller circle of people, yeah thinking, Look, when you're in
your twenties, let me just speak for me. I'll insert myself into the
conversation. No, Pine intended. When I was in my twenties, there
was a larger what what's wrong? There was a larger group of people which
I would associate with that's the word, yes, associate with. Yeah,
and that group gets smaller and smaller as you get older. Presumably people get
married, you get married, whatever, but you're dealing with fewer people,
even fewer and fewer. And let's be honest, as people leave this earth,
there are just fewer people in your social circles. Not only that,
if you have to rely on one of those pills from I understanding, you
need to use that pill quickly. You may not have time for all this
fumbling around. Where's the condiment? Look, you got to go wait are
you talking about one of the blue pills, one of the blue bills?
I thought those were supposed to sometimes last year up to like four hours.
No, no, no, no, you got it all wrong. You've
got to if you want that thing to kick in, you've got to get
active quickly. Is that right? You need to listen to the commercials better.
If you should have your soldiers saluting for more than four hours, then
you should call a doctor. I see, so that wanted the last four
hours. That's the best case scenario. Is the last four hours? Right?
That's the worst that's the worst case scenario. That means you're stuck.
You want you want that thing to work quickly, effectively, and be done
with it. Really, I would think that if you if you had one
for four hours, you'd show a little gratitude with you. Now you're going
to the hospital, No, sir, I see you are on your way
to saying at least he died happy, that's what's gonna happen. Wow.
Yeah, man, So kind of like John Entwhistle of the Who. Whether
they found him in a hotel room where he was with a couple of a
couple of professionals, or David Carridy in your favorite, Well, they found
him hanging up in a closet with autoerotic asphyxiation. I thought it wasn't that
how he was found. Yeah, but I'm quite sure he was happy when
he went. So you think that he took a blue pill to service himself?
Absolutely? If that or cocaine, don't know the hell of a drug.
That's got to be the height of narcissism to take a blue pill to
be with yourself. Do you know anything about David Cardy For as much as
you like the movie Kung Fu, you need to research him. Oh.
I think he's terrific, But he had he had some court he was an
individual. Yeah, that would have called him. Now, Yeah, for
sure. Yeah, I mean, if it's the last thing I do,
I'm gonna get you to admit that Kung Fu was one of the greatest things
ever created for television. But that's not what we have to do tonight.
I want to let's stick on the blue pills that fasts. But there is
some i'll say cultural norms here. According to this Yahoo article quote this generation,
I guess they're referring to boomers or not even gen X. This generation
rarely considers using protection because they came up age when sex education in school did
not exist, HIV was virtually unheard of, and their main concern was to
avoid pregnancy. This is an associate professor, excuse me, professor of political
science at Lola Marymount. Yeah, I guess, I mean, I guess
I mean that. Yeah, if talking about kids just right under me,
that's fine. I mean, but my generation, we grew up when going
to the clinic was a thing. We came up when go see the doctor,
and every other rap song or R and B song about getting the heavy
gvs was all over the place, billboards, death everywhere associated with sex.
So we are at that age where if we're not going to use protection.
It's a damn good reason where we grew up to your point, Tawaala immersed
in the HIV. I don't want to call it scared. It was a
pandemic, absolutely, but we had all that education. We had sex education,
we had HIV education. I remember when I was a freshman in college,
we had someone come in and specifically train all the guys how to put
on a condom. No joke, no exaggeration. No, he's a cucumber,
getting very serious, but you're warm. But the cucumber, I guess,
was more realistic, more hopeful, certainly. But we all came up
in a different age. And I know anyone who's older than we are,
they had none of that, none of that. You would think our generation,
the gen X generation, would be more careful, given we know more
allegedly, Yeah, I thought we were terrified right out of it, Like
we wouldn't even consider touching somebody unless we had like a full beekeeper outfit on.
No. But Twalla makes a great point. There was a lot of
music talking about sex and HIV concerns. The Kumo d song Go See the
Doctor. That was That was our upbringing. That was very normal for us.
Solid pepper. I mean, that's right. Let's talk about sex.
There's just so many songs whose titles we cannot get into, but yeah,
they were all had to do with scaring you somehow, some way about stories
that are so to be real about catching you know, got rhea or something?
Did rap songs have a lot of rhymes for the herbs? Yeah,
yeah, in a way, I think about it. But there are a
lot of colloquial terms and phrases that were used to let it you know.
Yeah, yeah, well that makes me feel good about getting older straight though.
You're good now, but still you know, no, Look, look
you're done, You're done, Mark, I'm done. I'm the one that
has to worry about these things. I'm the one that's a danger here.
Won't just use a condom? I mean yeah, but I mean, what
what if I have to grab a blue pill? I need it? Never
mind? Never mind? Wait, too much information. You're listening to Later
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I've missed anything. It's so hard to keep all these which is giving away
stuff left and rights happening, and there's more. There's more, too much
good stuff, I tell you. Oh And speaking of too much good stuff,
and this is actually something I have to pick a bone with Twala.
With Tala over the weekend, you send out this text message and I want
to have this discussion in front of everyone before we call it a night.
The Fellas are going out to the movies. Yep, and you set it
up on the twenty fourth after we get off the air. Yes, what
in the hell weren't you were you thinking Friday night, May twenty fourth after
the show? We have been talking about it for I don't know how long
that we were going to go and see Furiosa. No, but we didn't
talk about got after the show. No, that's the only time to see
it. That's the only time to see it, because all the other times
are an opportunity. I'm not gonna wait till Monday or the weekend. We
have to see it and just have to be Friday night. The last time
we saw a movie after work was the damn Aquaman two movie and we fell
asleep. Ho I oh, no, no, no, no. This
is Furiosa. And for my understanding, even even Mad Max experts, bona
fides, people who know Mad Max fans and creators alike, are saying that
this film outshines Fury Road. This film takes it to another level as far
as the beauty, the spectacle, the characters, the tension, the action,
every single thing you want from this film, it's there. And I
gotta seek us to Dolby so we're gonna hear it's going to be in your
chest. Man. I gotta take a nap before I go to work that
day because this will take a nice long nap before you come in. Oh,
quit your one and listen. I'll tell you. The reason that we
fell asleep during Aquaman had nothing to do with the lateness of the hour.
Okay, it helped. Look, if that film wasn't crappy, we would
have been up. It was crappy, and it pleased to sleep the last
day away. That was some raw sewage. We endured that that's why we
fell asleep. But just so the listeners know, I love that. In
the group chat, he Mo immediately agreed to it, and then uh to
Wala had to he messed up on the date or something, so he had
to re send it out. And then and then that Mogo is after a
couple other responses, Wait eleven, pope, Yeah, because we've gone in
the morning, morning, early afternoon before. It's my favorite part. Yeah.
Yeah. This interferes with your early bird special. It interferes with you
if you watching Jeopardy and having an early bedtime. It does I eat dinner
at four o'clock. Huh you take out your teeth and soak them and go
to sleep. That's right. But it's Friday, it's special. This will
be a special occasion for you. I need to have someone send me an
uber. Just take a nap, mo taking that. When you come in,
you can be like Mark, good morning, and it'll be like five
o'clock or something. Yeah, I'll just have you do the show that night.
No, go to work too. Were going to be here, Well,
we're all gonna be here and then we're gonna wait. No, no,
here's what you can do though. Oh, here's what you after the
show. You can go downstairs and take a nap in your car. I'll
find I'll wake you up. No, no, I'm not soe who can
go to sleep after seven o'clock. I'm done? Oh that is true.
Yeah, no, no, no, I'm not gonna go to sleep at
ten o'clock. From ten o'clock to eleven o'clock, no way, no way.
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