I am sixty mister Mokelly here, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
We have more information on California what direction we're moving On tonight's show, KFI
is own. Blake Trolley will join us at the bottom of the hour and
he'll give us the latest on the cal State LA protests and what it's been
termed as extensive vandalism of the campus. He'll be calling in, and Disneyland
is cutting back on entertainment during peak summer season. Say what in Paris twenty
twenty four Olympics, they're going to debut high level break dancing. I think
they missed their shot to have me in the Olympics. I still got some
moves. Mark Ronner, good evening, But yes, I still have some
moves. Nothing would please me more than to see this nothing. I can
still do my swipes. I don't know if I can do my Thomas flair
anymore. That might be asking a bit much. But there's not enough room
in the studio. Maybe we can do it in the hallway. Oh yeah,
in the bullpen area would be a perfect place. And none of those
words mean anything to me, just so you know, but I'm excited to
see this one way or the other and as quickly as possible. I don't
know if I can still. I'm pretty sure I can still do my back
spin. I have to do that, probably in the kitchen, because it's
I need something that can actually spin on. That's the only place where there's
the linoleum here. What's the one where you spin around on your head.
That's called a headspin. Yeah, I'm gonna need to see that. No
no, no, no, no, no, no nude. No no,
I didn't do that when I was a kid break dancing. Why not
because my mother said, don't do that because it's dangerous. No no,
no, no no. Those are the compulsory moves. The Russians will mark
your way down if you don't do those, well, the highest and lowest
scores are thrown out, don't you know. No, no, no,
I need to see that heads, you know. But I guess I'll do
some breakdancing in the kitchen, just because I need to prove to myself that
I shouldn't be doing it anymore. Just go to a commercial right now so
that we can go look at this. No, ten years ago, I
did it in the studio as a dare from Wayne Resnick, and there's video
of it floating around somewhere. So yeah, how about yeah, we got
to do that. We'll do that during the break. I'll go in the
kitchen. I'll do some breakdancing moves to show you that I still don't got
it. Please anymore? Please? Yes, And we'll put it on Instagram
and every day we'll go live, well live, what if I get myself
into And there's so much more. First, let me just say good evening
to Walla. Sharp didn't have a chance to say hello to you. Did
you notice was the traffic even better for you today? It was really good
for me yesterday and today people are out of school. I don't know,
maybe they're just trying to avoid me. Maybe it's just my lucky day.
But it was a lot easier getting here. It was easy in the morning
getting here. No, there was some type of accident or something on the
one eighteen connecting the Vibe to the once evident, and it was horrible getting
here. Yeah. Yeah, I had to give somebody both barrels on the
way in. You gave them a double finger salute both barrels that is usually
reserved for the highest epistivity. I was trying to register my disapproval of somebody
driving dangerously and obnoxiously, and I don't think they got the message completely.
Okay, look I used to get mad at that stuff. But Mark,
you just have to let them go on ahead, because if they're driving dangerously,
they're already demonstrating to you that they're not thinking clearly. They're not thinking
about anyone's safety much less yours. Let you go on by, and you
want me to put the makers in Metropolol out of business while I'm at it.
All I want you to do is make it here safely, Mark Ronner,
Okay, I just want you to get here safely. And if you're
double birding people, I mean look, oh wait, it wasn't just the
double bird. It was the three D SCTV double bird in out. Yeah
yeah, okay, but the problem with that is that means neither hand is
on the wheel. And I want you to be safe. I was about
as safe as that. I was safer doing that than I was being cut
off by this terrible human being. All right, Okay, so let's see
this to this logical conclusion. If this crazy person cuts you off in this
dangerous maneuver, and you double birded that person. This is not even hypothetical
because that's what you did. What's the likelihood that that person's just going to
keep on driving? What if they slow down? Listen. Once you stop
raging against things that are unjust, you're dead inside. I just don't want
to be dead inside. I don't want you to be dead outside. That's
what that guy was trying to do to me. Make me dead outside.
I feel like I'm talking to one of my sons. It's just just not
hearing me. My job is to make sure you get home or to work
safely. That's it, Okay, Dad? Can I have my allowance now?
No, go to your damn room. Man. I need you to
go and think about your life and talk about what you Look at my browser
history, Dad, back to me, what does that leave us to do?
Look, I just want you to be safe out there. Mark.
I used to be you, okay, and I used to look for an
excuse to cut someone out and dare them to pull me overs. I'm just
I want more peace in my life, and part of that is making sure
that the people around me are safe. I love you too, Dad,
No, you don't. But Father's Day is coming up. What do you
get to get me? Not a blank thing? Can you feel the love
tonight? And on the ones and two's Robin? How you doing this evening?
Robin? When was the last time you did some uber driving? You
have to think out loud. I think it was we Hope Pride. Actually,
oh so you were working? Did you make good money because it was
Pride? Yeah, I mean it was like after all Pride and everything happened,
it was just like everyone was drinking. Because did you have like crazy
half clothed people who would get in your car? No? Surprisingly, No,
Oh but you did expect that. Yeah, like I have, I
have sea covers. Ooh what hours were you driving? Was it late at
night? Yeah? It was like right after this, after the show.
Oh so you were working the show and then started driving. That's a lot
of work. Yep. I usually drive like five hours after working a six
hour shift, seven hour shift. Yeah. Yeah, And she insists she
hasn't seen Taxi Driver. You're living it. I don't think she cares about
any movie before two thousand and seven. I think this is relevant to your
life. What's the oldest movie that you've seen that you loved? Robin,
And I assume that you're under the age of thirty. I am. I
am twenty nine. Okay, see, I'm a good judge. What's what
are there any old movies quote unquote old movies that you like or love?
When was Taxi? Taxi Driver? No Taxi? That's you're talking about the
TV show. Oh, oh my gosh, I thought you was something like
the TV jim Oh my gosh. That I just like and I can understand
that. But do you know that horrible right? That movie was horrible?
I actually liked it. Oh wow, that's a lot of Queen Latina love.
That's that's that's a lot of love to overlook that movie. That was
back when Jimmy Fallon was a failure as an entertainer as opposed to now there
we go, Rocky horror picture show. That was way before I was born.
But I love that movie. Okay, all right, you saved yourself
at the end there. But that movie. Can you sing any of any
of the songs other than time Warp? No? You don't want to hear
me sing? No, actually we do. That's the whole point. I'm
getting ready to break dance and you can't sing. I need I need to
like five drinks. Okay, we didn't say you're gonna get paid for We're
just gonna have to. You know, it's Later with Mo Kelly can if
I AM six forty were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm gonna go,
U going to go break dance in the kitchen. You're listening to Later
with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. Then I'm tired.
You need to explain to people what they missed that. Okay, if you're
just tuning in for some reason. As I was running down what we're going
to discuss on the show tonight, one story is to Paris twenty twenty four
Olympics. They're going to debut high level breakdancing, and I said, I
missed my shot. I should have been given the opportunity to try out.
I used to break dance back in the mid nineteen eighties, which just happens
to be forty years ago. Nothing has changed since then. So I said,
let me go into the kitchen, move out the tables and see what
I got left in the tank. Well, I'm here to tell you nothing,
absolutely nothing when it comes to breakdancing. Did an Instagram live to Wallace
putting it up right now. Later with mo Kelly on Instagram and at mister
mo Kelly producer Kiki. You took a video, you saw it live.
I need to rest talk. I was very impressed with the breakdancing. You
say that you don't have anything left and you that might, in your case,
be the last little bit. Then I had left. You spent a
good while afterwards just playing on the floor. But I was very impressed.
I could never do anything like that. Well, you know, you should
have seen in my youth. Actually there is a picture. There might be
some video flow around, but there is a picture when I was break dancing
in high school as part of a school assembly at South Towrent High School.
And that was nineteen eighty five. But those days are gone, nah,
but that was epic. Good you. I still have skills, though,
I could. I could see the formation, look your uprock into you know,
your groundwork. You had the flare action of the back spin. I
could see the beginnings of it. I could see even even you how you
were getting into it. I can see. I was tempted to try my
egg roll. I said, no, what is that is that? Where
you sit there and consume an egg roll role. It's like you're spinning around
and your legs are in a V and you're moving in a circle. Up.
By the way, we just passed the fortieth anniversary of the movie Beat
Street. That was June eighth, nineteen eighty four, one of the greatest
movies of all time. Of all time, you're making me want to watch
Breaking two Electric Boom. No no, no, watch Breaking one? Not
too? Do not watch two Electric Bugaloo? No no, no, no,
no, yeah, Well that only has the opposite effect. I'm sorry
to tell you this. So the next time I want to act out anything
on the show Rundown, just remind me about this and I will think better
of it. That was so good, though, so much fun. It
was so much better in my mind. It was so much better in my
mind. In my mind, it's like, how do this? How did
you do that? And I said, maybe I'll do with some swipes and
it didn't turn out the way. What kind of first aid facilities does the
building have here? There? You know it's on the walls, that little
box of band aids and and band aids and kills and cardio paddle. No
no, no, no, no no, we don't have a different defibrillator.
All right. The most impressive part about that whole thing was you did
it without any music to a commercial that was playing overhead in the kitchen,
and all you could hear was your little sneaker squeaks. It was like a
silent disco going. I can hear it in my mind. That's good.
No, I was very impressed. You're laughing at me, not with me.
Yeah, that was good, so much fun. And you did it.
Look you talk about it, you be about it. We did both.
You might have to do a second video because I might want to improve
upon that. Oh yes please. Oh so now you're gonna root me on?
Yeah, yeah, don't sweat the preposition, daddy, Oh just do
it. Look at the video was up? Okay, so is it at
later with Mo Kelly. At mister Kelly, I'm trying to relive my youth,
trying to do some of my breakdancing moves. I can't quite do my
swipes anymore, and did a backspan for about a half a spin. So
you can go ahead and judge me. Do your worst, like Mark Ronner,
just do your worst. No, No, I support you one hundred
percent. I mean literally, I might have to wind up supporting you.
All right, So that was my childhood. I used to break dance every
night in my teenage years. I can't speak for Tuala. I know Mark
wasn't He hasn't even eaten, so he doesn't know anything about that. I
know. Yeah, we used to be out there. My crew actually had
a slab of cardboard that you could fold up and we put uh linoleum tiled
pieces on it. We used to go to the Pasadena Post Office, like
right there in the lobby entrance and be out there take it wherever. I
was not really good. I was more uh into pop and stuff, but
we like we had wait wait, wait, wait you know I pop lot
too. No, yes, no, I know. Look I suck because
I seek from you in the That's what we're gonna do, right, Okay.
Two, when we go back at the end of this break, before
we talk to Blake Trolley, I'll do some poplock and see you can see
I'm legit. You didn't know he still got skills. Every break is going
to be a new dam style. You're laughing now, but see at the
end of this you're gonna say, wow, he really has some skills.
Yep. Yeah. So when we come back, Blake Trolley will join us.
He will tell us about his day at Kelson, LA. To be
serious for a moment, there was another round of demonstrations and occupying a campus
building. There was extensive vandalism. But I wanted to get someone who was
there who give us a and a an on the ground look at what happened,
whether any minds were changed, or whether this is going to lead to
something bigger or some sort of escalation. So when we come back, we'll
talk to Blake Trolley and find out what happened at cal State LA today.
It's Later with mo Kelly. We'll be going Instagram live in just a second
from the kitchen once again KFIM six forty. We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
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and you know my now. Pro Palestinian protesters took over the student Services building
at cal State LA today. Excuse me, starting yesterday, blocking off entrances
and exits in what university officials called an unauthorized action. It has escalated from
there. There has been extend vandalism. From what has been published, camfies
owned Blake Trolley has information was on the scene, Blake, how are you
doing this evening? What can you tell us at this point? Well,
I'm glad to know Abo that it is unauthorized to tip over golf carts on
cal State LA's campus just to create a barrier while you take over a building
on campus. I seen pictures of the graffiti. I've seen pictures of the
barricades, the trash, the campus furniture which is being used. But what
did you see that may have not been publicized at this point. Oooh,
that's a really good question. Well, we publicized this earlier today, but
a lot of the material that was used to create this barrier came from all
over campus, which you probably didn't see from the photos. Actually, i'll
pivot here for a second, which you probably didn't see from the photos was
that those umbrellas that were tipped over, those were not just umbrellas that they
used to create a barrier. What those actually were were all one solid unit.
They were picnic tables that are scattered across campus, super heavy units.
By the way, those umbrellas are made of metal, So there are these
metal umbrellas go that have a pole that goes down into a picnic bench that
has built in seats. That's what they were tipping over when they created those.
The portion of the barricade that was made with umbrellas. Otherwise, I
saw some takeout, some uneaten takeout that was that the front of the barrier.
And on top of that, we did see some hard helmets and some
yellow and orange vests and we presume that those came from a construction site that
we were told the protesters that stolen supply wood from on campus. But yeah,
what happened yesterday mo was there was there's a camp that's been on campus
for about six weeks now forty days, and so far it's just been a
small group of students, although it is a large camp. I did post
video of this if anybody wants to look at it, it's on my Twitter
at Blake Trolley. But there's been a camp for about six weeks on this
campus, and yesterday school officials say that people started joining the camp. People
who were not at the camp before started heading over to the camp joining it,
and at that point things really started to ramp up. These students made
their way across the quad. It was about a two hundred yard walk over
to the student services building. They started developing this barricade. They then entered
the first two floors of that student services building, graefeeding the windows, damaging
the building. Meanwhile, fifty eight school staff and administration were inside the building
and they were ordered to shelter in place. Those students enter the building about
four pm. Police were able to escort most of these staff that administrators out
by six pm, but twelve did remain. And it sounds like they were
trying to negotiate with these pro Palestinian protesters. We were told they were not
stuck in there, they stayed on their own accord, but that they were
trying to come to a peaceful resolution. I know that classes had been moved
online, but I'm not sure of the campus schedule. Are we postgraduation in
these are summer classes or are we still in the main school term. Yeah,
so they've had their graduation for the spring of twenty twenty four, so
these are summer classes. And there were students showing up today. We actually
spoke with one student and he was first and foremost. He was very confused
about the whole thing. He showed up only to have a bunch of the
local reporters of LA tell him that class had been moved online. He had
not gotten the memo yet. There are a few other students like that this
morning on campus, and you know, he was really frustrated with the whole
situation. He felt like these protesters were being selfish and you know, disrupting
campus for everybody else. So he was very unhappy to say the least.
Is this a coordinated effort? What I mean by that is is we know
that the demands include divestment, We know that there are are reticent to budge
on those demands, But do we know if this is organized in any way
or is it just going day by day just being intransigent and seeing if that's
going to move the meter that makes any sense. My assessment of this whole
thing is that it is organized. If we walked back about a month,
these students were speaking, or these students had some sort of meeting with campus
officials, and at that point in time, campus officials had green lit the
idea of becoming more transparent with how the school invested its money. That said,
the school did not make any commitments to divest and it sounds like from
that period from at least what the protesters are complaining about. They feel like
the school went quiet on them. Again, this is about a month ago.
Then you hear those reports, and we heard this from school officials this
morning that a bunch of other protesters. So this camp has existed for forty
days, but a large number of protesters joined the camp yesterday and that's when
they headed to the building. They chained themselves to each other and they said
that they would not budge until the school president spoke with them. And keep
in mind that school president, the school's president, her name is getting away
from me right now, but she was on campus. The student services building
that they went into is the building she works. And we're told she was
on campus and she left at about one am this morning, so she was
part of that contingent of school staff that stayed on campus past one am trying
to speak with these with these protesters. President Benner and the STA jay ains
EANs. Is that yes, that yeah, that was her. So she
was on campus, as was the pio actually the spokesperson for the school who
came out. He was actually part of the group that was there past one
am. So just speaking with him this morning, it was it was he
had he had a long night because he was there till I don't know,
once fifteen one thirty in the morning. It sounds like he has some sort
of commute and he came back to campus this morning and he was giving a
press conference at nine am. We know that the protesters are on a path
of escalation. They feel it's justified, but we know that they are on
a path of escalation, and we know that this university, cal State LA
and other universities are treading lightly. I would say that they don't want to
have another UCLA situation. But do we know how much time before Cal State
LA will resort to some sort of law enforcement solution and remove the protesters and
the encampments. Well, of course that was that question was lobbed at them
multiple times this morning during that press conference, but they said that they were
not going to share any information on that. On that front, that said,
I have to imagine that with this escalation, the school's probably going to
move pretty quickly to remove this encampment. You know, we were there this
morning. I do want to point this out. We did try to speak
to people that were inside that encampment when I showed up to the front of
this camp. It seems like there was some sort of recruiting. There was
recruiting paperwork in the beginning, and it seems like they were open to speaking
with us when they didn't know I was a reporter. I'm a radio reporter,
so I don't look like a TV reporter. I showed up to the
front of it, and it looked like they were open to speaking with me.
Once I said I was with the media, they essentially retreated in and
you know that was that they were not open to speaking with the media.
I wouldn't necessarily say it was hostile, but it wasn't very friendly. And
I would imagine at this point, the you know, the campus is seeing
just the overall nature of the way this camp is operating, that it's so
self contained. Now you've got this escalation, I'd imagine the campus is going
to move pretty quickly to eradicate this camp. Well, late TROLLI thank you
so much for being there, getting eyes on the scene, and giving us
a perspective that we did not already have. Blake be safe out there,
and I'm quite sure we will check in with you again as this story continues
to evolve. Hi. Thanks Bob, It's Later with mo Kelly. We
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AM six forty. And Disneyland is cutting back on entertainment during the peak summer
season. Say what, why would Disneyland be cutting back or even canceling shows
during peak summer season. Well, that's what's happening. Disney California Adventure,
Let's Start There, has canceled two shows and cutback performance on two more.
As Atmosphere entertainment continues to shrink at that theme park heading into the busy Fourth
of July weekend to speak of summer, Disney California Adventure is trimming schedules in
July for the Warriors of Wakanda and Avengers Campus and the citizens of Buena Vista
Street along the park's main entrance Promenade. Disney California Adventure continually evaluates entertainment offerings
and makes adjustments. That's according to Disneyland officials. Both Warriors of Wakanda and
Citizens of Winnivista Street performed daily in June, but they'll cut back their performances
in July and going forward. I don't know why they would do that.
Of course, there's a monetary component. I'm sure they are making a calculation
that this saves money. But give it. How often we hear about how
Disneyland has raised the price of this, the cost of that, the passes
and so forth. I didn't know that Disneyland the theme park had anything to
worry about in that regard. And I know there has been this union fight
as of late with these performers, and maybe they are forecasting the financial impact
and so they are pulling back. I'm not saying that it's being done to
penalize performers, but I think they might be making a calculation mathematically where they
don't want to put out more money over the summer months than they would have
before. That's just me on the outside looking in, but someone who may
have a little more perspective than me is producer Keana who worked at Digitaland for
the past thirty four years. If I'm not mistaken, If I'm not mistaken,
thirty four years more than I've been alive. Well, you know,
he started in the womb plus ten years. But when you saw this story,
was there anything which jumped out of you? Or is this just more
business as usual Disney the company just making adjustments and calculations for the summer.
It just feels like business as usual. I'm not surprised saying yeah, I'm
not surprised that they're doing more cuts, like they're coming back from what pre
COVID to that post COVID, like so much has changed with from the cast
member's perspective of just you know, quality and everything, it felt cheaped out
and I would get yeah, and so it felt like we were cheaping off
the guests and the guests were noticing it. And you know, we're just
doing our job. We go to work, we go home it day to
day. But you know, we're there to make magic. We want to
see the guests happy. We want to show the kids that, you know,
this is a magical place to have a great time. And so it's
it's not surprising that they're doing this, and it's really sad that they're doing
this for both the cast members and for the guests that are paying so much
money to go to the parks for the summer. When you see that they
are pulling back some twenty percent, does that mean that they wouldn't do a
night show or they would do fewer shows. Are the cast members when you
were there, were they're being paid by the show or is it just a
six hour period in which they're supposed to be working. I think, from
what I can remember, and don't like super quote me on this, but
from what I can remember, the character performers I think worked. They were
on a contract, so it would be for whatever time that they were working.
Oh okay, But let's say they're supposed to work six hours in a
given day. That could mean two or three shows, yeah, throughout the
day. Okay, all right, I wanted so there has to be some
sort of cost benefit to doing fewer shows. I don't know if it's a
saving of resources beyond the people performing not. I was wonder if they were
paid by their performance or not. Was it just an hourly rate over the
period of time that they're supposed to be at the park as far as I
could remember it, it's when they are performing and in their costume that they
are getting paid. Again, don't totally quote me on that. I wasn't
an entertainment cast member at all. I was just one of the regular attractions,
hosts, costuming and quick service. I didn't really deal with that,
but from the areas that I worked and talking with other people, that's how
I saw it was working. Hey, Twala, you've were at Disneyland more
recently than any of us here. Was there anything that you noticed or felt
that Disneyland was pulling back on? One thing that I thought was interesting is
I felt the parade overall had fewer performers. I think that the floats went
by, but all the performers that we usually see in between the floats,
there were fewer dancers and performers in between, and there were fewer performers on
the floats, Like there was just main characters on floats, and in between
that you had just a few people dancing, called people holding banners. But
it wasn't the grand spectacle that it was before. So we saw it go
by, We're like, where are the rest of the is this like any
parade is this like you know, just hey, we're just warm you up
for the parrey later on tonight. Because it just I didn't see as many
people in the parade. I wonder maybe because it was reported that we're paying
more attention to it. Maybe this is something that they do most years,
and we're just more sensitive to it now. But I think people are going
to be watching this, and since we're now aware of that, when we
do go to the park, going to say, hey, this feels thinner,
this feels like we're not getting as much for our one hundred and twenty
dollars as we normally would. And I currently have an annual pass, so
I go quite a few times myself throughout the year, and me and my
friend we love going during like the festival seasons with food and wine and Christmas
and Halloween and everything or sorry, the holidays, the Festival of Holidays what
they call it. But we've noticed just last year with the Festival of Holidays
that there wasn't a lot of oomph in all of the food and the entertainment.
It just felt like and every other day at Disneyland, it didn't feel
super super special like it had been the year's prior, and so I'm not
going as an annual pass holder. It really feels I can see it every
time I go that it feels less and less magic than Are you just getting
old? As you get older, you know, it's not the same.
Also, the food is so expensive, and so every time we're like,
let's share some nacho. Different now because you're paying for your own food.
It's not like your mother's taking you and paying for your food. Yeah,
well that's adulthood. Thanks. I still get my ten percent off the food,
and it's sad because I used to get what twenty percent off the food
and merge. But now that I'm no longer a caskma, are you just
a peon like us? Yeah? Well, since we were talking about the
fourth of July and summer season, remember do not miss Born on the fourth
of July. The Broadway music of George Mkohan tap along with patriotic pride to
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a pre and post show concert and a world premiere of unperformed Cohn songs.
It all happens on Sunday, June thirtieth and Lamarada Theater for the Performing Arts.
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