Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: Mo Kelly, Notica, Veela Cruise were live everywhere on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app Nica First, It's great to see you. Marry Christmas,
Speaker 2: Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah. Exactly exact the minde. You might
Speaker 2: have heard our previous conversation talking about family traditions and
Speaker 2: how younger generations specifically is booping away from food traditions
Speaker 2: and other celebratory traditions.
Speaker 3: Where do you come out on that?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 5: I have to agree with you. I'm kind of tired
Speaker 5: of the big meals and the dressing up. I just
Speaker 5: really want to be chill and I'm going to see
Speaker 5: my mom for the holidays.
Speaker 4: And I told my mom nothing fancy. She's like, should
Speaker 4: I do a turkey? Mom?
Speaker 5: I said, you know what, you could do rice with
Speaker 5: chicken and a platano And I am super happy. Nothing fancy,
Speaker 5: And I said, and also I said, can we make
Speaker 5: it to where we show up in sweats?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: And she was like, what, because my mom is the
Speaker 5: you got to dress up to the tea and put
Speaker 5: on your makeup and your mask.
Speaker 4: No, you don't, you don't. You don't have to put
Speaker 4: on lashes. But no, and she was like, okay, I
Speaker 4: like that. I like that.
Speaker 5: I said, Mom, don't put stress on yourself. Do not
Speaker 5: put stress on yourself.
Speaker 3: Are there any foods that deep down they got to
Speaker 3: be there?
Speaker 5: I love aroskuls. It's a Puerto Rican staple rice themales.
Speaker 5: But we make theamales out of o which are platain
Speaker 5: leaves in Mexican culture. That make them the mais, which
Speaker 5: are the quarantines.
Speaker 4: Yes, we make them.
Speaker 5: So you know, the where the bananas grow, the plantains grow,
Speaker 5: We take those leaves, we wash them real good, we
Speaker 5: soak them in.
Speaker 4: Make sure you know, everything is clean.
Speaker 5: And then that's where we put the you know, the
Speaker 5: the stuffing of the tamales and so la masa.
Speaker 4: You yeah, and so.
Speaker 3: I just look to dish like around our head.
Speaker 5: And that is the process, like not only in arcoll
Speaker 5: And it's an all day thing because you have to
Speaker 5: cook the potatoes, you have to see them, the meat,
Speaker 5: you have to cook the meat.
Speaker 4: You have to cook the.
Speaker 5: Vegetables, and then you do the masa and then you
Speaker 5: do it all together and then you stuff them and
Speaker 5: then My job was sometimes either I stuffed or I
Speaker 5: tied them. But I didn't do a good job at
Speaker 5: tying them. And if you don't tie them right when
Speaker 5: you put them in the water to cook.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they took me off that job. I got fired.
Speaker 3: The elders.
Speaker 4: No, no, no.
Speaker 5: But you know what's so funny is that I did
Speaker 5: this a lot, especially growing up in New York, because
Speaker 5: my grandma was My grandmother was the one that kind
Speaker 5: of had the whole table and she was the one
Speaker 5: that directed everybody, and she told us what our jobs were,
Speaker 5: and if we put too much meat in one, she'd
Speaker 5: be like, uh no, no, no no, and she'd shave.
Speaker 4: It off because you have to extend these.
Speaker 5: Themalas, and these are thumbalais that we would start from
Speaker 5: Thanksgiving all the way to the which is Day of
Speaker 5: the Kings.
Speaker 3: I learned something today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it because you can freeze them. You
Speaker 4: can free them and you.
Speaker 3: Oh, I know, because I'll be eating them for a while.
Speaker 2: Those don't counters leftovers because they weren't originally put out.
Speaker 4: The malis are one of those things that you could
Speaker 4: freeze and eat all year.
Speaker 5: But it just it takes a lot of people, a
Speaker 5: lot of a lot of elbow grease, a lot of legwork,
Speaker 5: and and a lot of patients.
Speaker 2: But when they're good, yes, yes, producer makes them fire.
Speaker 3: Fire to my Quianna. Got to bring some more. Damn it.
Speaker 3: Your Tomali's are fire.
Speaker 4: I just saw on Instagram before I came in here.
Speaker 4: She's making.
Speaker 3: Can make that.
Speaker 4: I don't know that, I know.
Speaker 5: I don't, I do not, but I love I love
Speaker 5: all staple foods, and I am half Puerto Rican, half Colombian,
Speaker 5: so on my Colombian side, we do arepas.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 5: Which are their corn like a It's kind of like aia,
Speaker 5: but it's a little thicker. We do sulao. Sulao is
Speaker 5: like a it's kind of like a wet, stewy chicken,
Speaker 5: and we eat that with rice. So we have a
Speaker 5: lot of great food around. I'm sorry I stepped on
Speaker 5: too much of your time.
Speaker 4: It's okay.
Speaker 3: Where did you venture to this week? Oh?
Speaker 5: I went to the enchanted Forests of Light at Disconsol Gardens.
Speaker 5: I've never been to Thissconsol Gardens during the day, so
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to rego because I went at night
Speaker 5: and they have the magical they have the light show,
Speaker 5: and it's actually really really nice. It's about a mile
Speaker 5: walk and visitors can stroll along a one mile path
Speaker 5: filled with creative lights display including vibrant tulip fields, sparkling forests,
Speaker 5: and an interactive art piece.
Speaker 4: It really is extraordinarily beautiful.
Speaker 5: Now the event is designed to captivate people of all ages,
Speaker 5: making it a perfect outing for families during the holiday season,
Speaker 5: since we were talking about the holidays and it's nice
Speaker 5: to get together with your families and to enjoy the activities.
Speaker 5: There's many light displays. Also, visitors are as to if
Speaker 5: they would like to engage in some of the fun
Speaker 5: that they have there. There are spots along the trail
Speaker 5: that you could purchase festive snacks and hot drinks, and
Speaker 5: you know, you could just walk around and enjoy the lights,
Speaker 5: enjoy the art. Make sure you wear some comfortable shoes.
Speaker 5: Like I said earlier, it is a one mile pathwalk
Speaker 5: so and it is wheelchair accessible and the event is
Speaker 5: also hailed rain or shine, and check the weather before
Speaker 5: you go, because I know, I do know that there
Speaker 5: is rain coming next week or so.
Speaker 4: We'll have to ask morek about that.
Speaker 6: But he's never right, right, but to make most of
Speaker 6: your visit, dress warmly since the event takes place outdoors,
Speaker 6: and visitors will also find Disconsole Gardens gift shops the end.
Speaker 5: The gift shops have some nice little Christmas gifts that
Speaker 5: you might want to purchase, or maybe a stocking stuffer,
Speaker 5: so definitely check that out.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 5: I do want to say that tickets must be purchased
Speaker 5: in advance, online or by phone. They are not sold
Speaker 5: on site, so definitely check it out. It is a
Speaker 5: little on the priceier side. I'm sorry, you know I
Speaker 5: love free sky Free ninety nine. I try to get
Speaker 5: you free events. But it is beautiful and it is
Speaker 5: worth it. For the adults it's thirty five to forty
Speaker 5: five dollars and for children two to twelve it's twenty
Speaker 5: five to thirty.
Speaker 4: Also, it is going to be here.
Speaker 5: The Enchanted Forest of Lights runs until January fifth, twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five. I can't believe we're saying twenty twenty five already,
Speaker 5: and it's from five thirty pm to ten pm.
Speaker 4: So once again, go check it out. It's beautiful.
Speaker 5: Take the family. Disconsol Gardens located at one four one
Speaker 5: eighth Disconsole Drive in La Kanyata. And on another note
Speaker 5: about lights, Daisy emailed me and she was like, Nautica,
Speaker 5: you've been to a few light places like for the holidays.
Speaker 5: I was wondering if you had a holiday day list.
Speaker 5: So I do have a holiday list for here in
Speaker 5: Los Angeles. There's the Enchanted Forest of Lights and Disconsol Gardens.
Speaker 5: As I said, there's Candy Cane Lane and Woodland Hills.
Speaker 3: Definitely.
Speaker 5: There's the Holiday Road at the King Gillette Ranch, which
Speaker 5: I went to a few weeks ago, the La Zoo
Speaker 5: lights as well, the Venice Canals Holiday lights, the Marina
Speaker 5: del Rey Boat Parade, Sleepy Hollow Christmas Lights that's in
Speaker 5: the city of Torrance, and Christmas Tree Lane in Alta Dina.
Speaker 5: Those are some here and they're roughly here between. I
Speaker 5: think I checked online anywhere between the New Year's Eve
Speaker 5: and the first So those are some great places to
Speaker 5: take the family. And if you want that list, you
Speaker 5: could log onto www dot timeout dot com. So you know,
Speaker 5: you could either go in your pajamas or you could
Speaker 5: go in your swet's go check out some lights.
Speaker 2: The way people wear pajamas now these days, they probably would. Anyhow,
Speaker 2: I was at getting some food and I just looked
Speaker 2: and it's like everyone.
Speaker 3: Was wearing pajamas. It's like, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I think after COVID, I think we
Speaker 4: lost fashion.
Speaker 3: Maybe I have an important question.
Speaker 7: Yes, if you wear pajamas to the store or out
Speaker 7: to someplace in public, do you wear those same pajamas
Speaker 7: back to bed without washing them first?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I don't wear pajamas, so I'm not the person to
Speaker 2: answer that question me neither.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: Robin, do you wear pajamas?
Speaker 4: I do wear pajamas, but.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't wear them to bed if I wore them
Speaker 3: out in public. Okay, so they're public pajamas and under
Speaker 3: private pajamas. Throw them in an autoclave.
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Speaker 5: Today's Hidden jem is David Afra. David Afra grew up
Speaker 5: in the vibrant streets of East Los Angeles, where life
Speaker 5: wasn't always easy, but the sense of community was strong.
Speaker 4: His parents, immigrants who.
Speaker 5: Worked tirelessly to provide for their family, always encourage him
Speaker 5: to focus on education. From a young age, David had
Speaker 5: a knack for numbers and enjoyed helping his dad balance
Speaker 5: the family's budget. That spark grew into a passion, and
Speaker 5: David set his sights on becoming an accountant. After graduating
Speaker 5: from high school, David enrolled into the local college to
Speaker 5: pursue his dream. While balancing part time jobs to pay
Speaker 5: for his classes, He gained valuable experiences by offering free
Speaker 5: tax prep help to neighbors during tax season. His commitment
Speaker 5: to giving back was inspired by the people around him
Speaker 5: who believed in lifting each other up. By the time
Speaker 5: David completed his accounting degree, he was eager not only
Speaker 5: to launch his career, but also to find a way
Speaker 5: to continue helping others in his community. That's when he
Speaker 5: discovered heartsofla dot org. Drawn to their mission of providing
Speaker 5: free programs and resources to understand youth and families. David
Speaker 5: saw an opportunity to use his skills in a meaningful way.
Speaker 5: He started volunteering as a financial literacy mentor, teaching workshops
Speaker 5: on budgeting and saving. His efforts gave families the tools
Speaker 5: they needed to manage their money more effectively, empowering them
Speaker 5: to build a better future. Hearts of La, also known
Speaker 5: as OLA Hola, has been a cornerstone of support for
Speaker 5: East LA residents for decades. The organization offers a wide
Speaker 5: range of programs, including academic tutoring, arts education, sports leagues,
Speaker 5: and careers readiness workshops. OLA's mission is simply is simple,
Speaker 5: but impactful, to create a safe and supportive space where
Speaker 5: kids and families can grow, thrive, and dream big. Through
Speaker 5: OLA Hola, David has seen firsthand how lives are changed.
Speaker 5: Kids who once struggled with schoolwork now find confidence through
Speaker 5: after school programs. Families facing financial hardships learn how to
Speaker 5: control take control of their finances through classes and Being
Speaker 5: a part of OLA is more than volunteering. It's a
Speaker 5: chance to give back to the neighborhood that shaped him
Speaker 5: and ensure the next generation has even more opportunities to succeed.
Speaker 5: And I think that discussing finances. Budgeting is always and
Speaker 5: saving is always important and a big part of family.
Speaker 5: So David, I just want to say thank you. Keep
Speaker 5: doing what you're doing, and if you'd like to get involved,
Speaker 5: you'd like to donate, you could also log onto.
Speaker 4: Heart ofla dot org. That's Heartofla dot org.
Speaker 3: You got to tell me how did this one come
Speaker 3: across your desk?
Speaker 5: Actually, this one was sent to me by an email
Speaker 5: by LinkedIn and we were discussing like financial stuff. I'm
Speaker 5: also in the you know, other than broadcasting, I'm also
Speaker 5: in the finance world, and I've worked for two business
Speaker 5: management firms and so yes, I know about numbers. It's
Speaker 5: not what I love, but it's not my passion, right,
Speaker 5: But we were discussing numbers and he was telling me about,
Speaker 5: you know, how he got involved in this organization and
Speaker 5: he also listens to KFI and so he said, you know,
Speaker 5: have you talked about them before?
Speaker 4: And I said, I don't think, so let me look
Speaker 4: them up.
Speaker 5: And so I looked them up and so we had
Speaker 5: a nice little conversation and I was really intrigued because
Speaker 5: I think at a small age he was introduced to numbers,
Speaker 5: which kind of reminded me of my dad didn't.
Speaker 4: Let me go outside to play enough.
Speaker 5: I had to do multiplications in addition and subtractions before
Speaker 5: I wanted to gout to play.
Speaker 4: He would give me about it. He would give me two.
Speaker 5: I mean, but as a kid, you know, it's like, oh, boring, sure,
Speaker 5: but but it would always you know, it kind of
Speaker 5: got me into like what numbers was really about. And
Speaker 5: also he would give me play money and we would
Speaker 5: discuss transactions and he would and so when I was
Speaker 5: talking to David, he goes, oh, my dad would do
Speaker 5: the Monopoly money thing to me, and I'd go, oh, really,
Speaker 5: he goes yeah. And sometimes we would play Monopoly and
Speaker 5: we would buy you know, how you buy hotels and
Speaker 5: all that other stuff, and it was it was really
Speaker 5: a game of thinking.
Speaker 4: And numbers at the same time.
Speaker 5: And I think that we need to introduce that to
Speaker 5: the youth, because yes, I know in high school I
Speaker 5: took economics, but I don't think that's enough for the
Speaker 5: youth of today. And I see so many people that
Speaker 5: are struggling in debt, and they're just racking up their
Speaker 5: credit cards and getting all these loans and they don't
Speaker 5: know how to manage their finances.
Speaker 2: I have been long, long, been a proponent of mandatory
Speaker 2: financial literacy classes as a requirement for high school graduation.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, Oh definitely. And I want to add something
Speaker 5: because this kind of talking to David. You know, I
Speaker 5: sometimes when I talk to people, I just I do
Speaker 5: a little bit of research and then it gets your
Speaker 5: mind going.
Speaker 4: And during that week I went, I went. I saw
Speaker 4: on Netflix.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you've seen, but it's this documentary
Speaker 5: called By Now have.
Speaker 4: You seen it?
Speaker 3: I'm aware of it, but I haven't seen it.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, this has to do with financial financial freedom.
Speaker 5: It talks about your finances and how much you're spending
Speaker 5: and how we're just clicking to buy and consumerism and
Speaker 5: also I think another.
Speaker 4: Thing you should definitely see this.
Speaker 5: I don't want to give too much away, but it
Speaker 5: is a musty documentary for everyone. Of it talks about
Speaker 5: finances and how you just click and it gets to
Speaker 5: your door, and over consumerism and how we are messing
Speaker 5: up the the What should I say? I would say,
Speaker 5: how we're messing up the earth with all all the
Speaker 5: technology that we're throwing throwing away, but we're not really
Speaker 5: recycling that's the part that really just well made me irate.
Speaker 5: We are not really recycling even though we think that
Speaker 5: we're recycling. And also something that you should also look into,
Speaker 5: I think is minimalism or minimalism ish, as they say
Speaker 5: on TikTok, how to live that kind of life, because
Speaker 5: when you start cluttering your life with too much, you're
Speaker 5: just buying, buying, buying, buying, and spending your money.
Speaker 4: You are overstressing yourself.
Speaker 3: Oh, it can be very stressful.
Speaker 2: And we live in a world where it's always talked
Speaker 2: to us to have more and not be more, not
Speaker 2: do more.
Speaker 4: I want more in my bank account. I don't want
Speaker 4: more in my house.
Speaker 3: I actually want less.
Speaker 2: I want to have enough of my bank account where
Speaker 2: I don't have to stress, where I don't feel the
Speaker 2: need to worry about this, that or the other. I
Speaker 2: don't need to have billions of dollars. I really don't.
Speaker 2: That's never been my aspiration.
Speaker 5: No mine, you know. I don't like to buy anything
Speaker 5: that's trendy. I see things that are on TikTok and
Speaker 5: on Instagram, and I go, oh, that's kind of cool,
Speaker 5: But do I need it?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: And I live in a really small place, the square
Speaker 5: footage is really small. So I always think when I'm purchasing,
Speaker 5: I go, do I really need it?
Speaker 4: Where am I gonna put it?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Thank you? Thank you? Well we think you like Where
Speaker 4: am I gonna put it?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 5: Now, if it's damaged or if it's ugly, I'll replace
Speaker 5: it if I really need it, But if I don't,
Speaker 5: I don't. And also another thing, and I want to
Speaker 5: talk about this in the new year, about upcycling and recycling.
Speaker 5: And you know, instead of maybe you don't want to
Speaker 5: drop it off to, I'll say one of those donation places.
Speaker 5: How about asking your friends about, Hey, do you need this?
Speaker 5: Facebook marketplace has a freebee section of a lot of people.
Speaker 5: I put stuff there for free too, like, you know,
Speaker 5: do you need this? Do you need that? Sometimes we
Speaker 5: are living in a time where there's a lot of layoffs,
Speaker 5: that things are very defensive, and you know, if someone
Speaker 5: could donate something and give it to you for free,
Speaker 5: it's like, Wow, that's that's a blessing in itself.
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas not occurred.
Speaker 5: At least Merry Christmas, Mo and to everyone.
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Speaker 7: Two things up front. I am still pissed about how
Speaker 7: awful Dexter New Blood was a couple of years ago,
Speaker 7: especially the ending. And I'm going to give you a
Speaker 7: spoiler here. It's two years old. Dexter's own annoying son
Speaker 7: killed him at the end. Number two Young Sheldon, Young
Speaker 7: Indiana Jones, Young James Bond, Young Sherlock Holmes, young John Seaholmes.
Speaker 3: I don't care about any of that.
Speaker 7: Just the other day, Tula and I were still joking
Speaker 7: about the badness of the Young Hans Solo movie and
Speaker 7: how he got his name more like Hack Solo. These
Speaker 7: greedy dips into the well with characters we love usually suck,
Speaker 7: but at least they also diminish the characters. It's kind
Speaker 7: of like getting into a BodyCount discussion with somebody you've
Speaker 7: been dating. You may think you want to know it,
Speaker 7: but you don't usually feel great by the end of it.
Speaker 7: But Dexter Original Sin is mostly an exception to that. Rule,
Speaker 7: I'm not going to leave you in suspense. I liked it,
Speaker 7: and I found myself smirking through the whole thing. Here's
Speaker 7: some of the trailer, and I hope there's no dirty
Speaker 7: words in it.
Speaker 9: It really is like they say, your life flashes before
Speaker 9: your eyes. Beginning there was blood. What a code I
Speaker 9: learned from my father, A code to make sure you
Speaker 9: are different from the people that you're killed. It was simple,
Speaker 9: kill the bad guys who escaped justice. Don't get caught myself.
Speaker 7: If anyone knows how powerful lurgies can be, it's me.
Speaker 3: Trust me, you stay, of course, you'll be fine.
Speaker 4: All dex plemiside looks good on You couldn't agree more
Speaker 4: about this stuff. Where's my desk up?
Speaker 5: Photograph the entire scene, spatter matters. It's starting to look
Speaker 5: like a serial killer art project up in here.
Speaker 9: So I got myself a job.
Speaker 4: Welcome to Miami Metro the first day of the rest
Speaker 4: of your life.
Speaker 7: That seems like a good place to stop it now.
Speaker 7: When I first read that, after Dexter had died again
Speaker 7: by getting shot by his own annoying son, that they
Speaker 7: were going back to the well with a young Dexter.
Speaker 7: Origin series My reaction was something along the lines of
Speaker 7: you pieces of crap? Do you have to ring every
Speaker 7: last drop out of absolutely everything? Have you no decency?
Speaker 7: Let's be honest here. That fourth season of Dexter with
Speaker 7: John Lithgow as Trinity was maybe the high point of
Speaker 7: the series, and they should have ended it before Dexter's
Speaker 7: sister decided she wanted to get it on with him,
Speaker 7: among assorted other things, jump the shark. And there's not
Speaker 7: a living being on this planet who actually liked how
Speaker 7: the series wrapped up. Let's just be straight here. If
Speaker 7: it's not on lists of all time disappointing series finales,
Speaker 7: all right, that mother, I'll write that list myself and
Speaker 7: Dexter will come right after Lost. They kind of pulled
Speaker 7: something off here, though. It's a college aged Dexter before
Speaker 7: he becomes the vigilante serial killer and police of blood
Speaker 7: spatter expert we know in love. His father Harry still
Speaker 7: alive in this and played by Christian Slater. Patrick Dempsey
Speaker 7: is the head of the precinct, and Sarah Michelle Geller
Speaker 7: is another one of the cops. It's kind of freaking
Speaker 7: me out seeing these actors playing the old piece, because
Speaker 7: never mind I still have plenty of hair and the
Speaker 7: skin of a fetus bathed in oil of ola.
Speaker 3: We're gonna move on. Michael C.
Speaker 7: Hall narrates the show, and the young version of him
Speaker 7: in the show is played by Patrick Gibson. He's an
Speaker 7: Irish actor I'd never seen before, and he absolutely nails
Speaker 7: the speech and mannerisms of Hall. It's great fun to
Speaker 7: watch all that, and all the actors doing impressions of
Speaker 7: the originals. Even the guy who plays young Masuka the
Speaker 7: office PERV. You heard it in the trailer. He's got
Speaker 7: the laugh down so well that it almost steals the show.
Speaker 7: The show's got a jaunty pace, which is what you
Speaker 7: look for and shows about serial killers. If you like
Speaker 7: the original series, this won't actually feel like someone's defiling it.
Speaker 7: There are moments involving Dexter's first kill and his dad
Speaker 7: drilling the code into him that seem like they kind
Speaker 7: of have a toe in Young hans solo territory, but
Speaker 7: nothing that'll make you shout, oh, come on at the TV,
Speaker 7: which I absolutely never do, and never with dirty words
Speaker 7: that my landlady hears. Ever, all right, publicists, listen up here,
Speaker 7: pull quote your greed and refusal to let any decent
Speaker 7: work of popular art have a dignified end makes me
Speaker 7: ill and angry. But the Dexter prequels pretty watchable, and
Speaker 7: I would like to exsanguinate you for that. Now here's
Speaker 7: a PostScript, a long PostScript. Not everything's about me, but
Speaker 7: this sort is. As a comic book writer, I wrote
Speaker 7: a number of Vamparella books. You know, her horror character
Speaker 7: been around since the sixties. Where's sort of a bar
Speaker 7: at type of revealing costume that would get the attention
Speaker 7: of adolescent, young comic reading boys. Different writers wrote Vampirella
Speaker 7: different ways. My Vamparella stories we called her Vampi. They
Speaker 7: were one shot pop culture parodies, and when Dexter was
Speaker 7: still in its original run, toward the end, I wrote,
Speaker 7: Vamparella meets Baxter. You got to change the name so
Speaker 7: you don't get sued, And boy did I have fun
Speaker 7: with that With Baxter. I mean, I think I called
Speaker 7: his Dark Passenger. He had references to the dark Passenger,
Speaker 7: which essentially is his urge to kill. I called is
Speaker 7: shadow writer, and I took it in a supernatural and
Speaker 7: fairly disgusting direction you'd never see in the show. While
Speaker 7: amping up the absurdity of Dexter having these long conversations
Speaker 7: with his dead dad Harry, I mean Larry, because we
Speaker 7: don't want to get sued.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 7: This was before the Dexter Try TV series ended, and
Speaker 7: I'm here to tell you that I wrote an ending
Speaker 7: with Baxter disappearing to the Pacific Northwest before the actual
Speaker 7: finale of the show that outraged everybody so badly, in
Speaker 7: which he moved to the Pacific Northwest. I don't know
Speaker 7: what they were thinking with the show. It just seemed
Speaker 7: like they were kicking over the card table. I was
Speaker 7: living in Seattle at the time, and my thought was, well,
Speaker 7: the Northwest has more than its fair share of serial killers.
Speaker 7: It's probably because of all the miserable, rainy, cloudy, depressing
Speaker 7: weather and Dexter, I mean Baxter would fit right in there.
Speaker 7: I didn't win anything for this, and I also don't
Speaker 7: make a dime. If you read the book, it's in
Speaker 7: a collection called Vampirella Bites. It's also got satires on
Speaker 7: true blood, Buffy I mean Fluffy and stuff. You'll probably
Speaker 7: get it free online from the library. I got my
Speaker 7: insultingly low page rate when I turned in my script
Speaker 7: back in twenty thirteen. And I'm not telling you any
Speaker 7: of this because I stand again a single thing. I'm
Speaker 7: telling you because if you're a Dexter fan like I am,
Speaker 7: I love the show, you might find the story funny
Speaker 7: and cathartic. We all have favorite shows that go off
Speaker 7: the rails and we wish we could burn them to
Speaker 7: the ground with satire, or rewrite them, or comment on
Speaker 7: them somehow or otherwise just inhabit the characters. It was
Speaker 7: even fun to write his sister deb I mean Babs
Speaker 7: with her hilariously filthy mouth. That was what I was
Speaker 7: afraid of with the trailer that she was going to swear.
Speaker 7: I'll just leave you with this. There's going to be
Speaker 7: another sequel series called Dexter Resurrection, with Michael C. Hall
Speaker 7: reprising the role of Dexter. In other words, he didn't
Speaker 7: really die after getting shot by his annoying son. And
Speaker 7: to that, I say, you pieces of crap? Do you
Speaker 7: have to ring every last drop out of absolutely everything?
Speaker 7: Have you no decency? That's your runner report, Moe. Are
Speaker 7: you a Dexter fan?
Speaker 2: No, I'm not sure not, but you're making me become
Speaker 2: one the way you describe it. No, because no, I
Speaker 2: never had any real interest in it. But if I
Speaker 2: should begin, I will start with this series and watch
Speaker 2: it in a more sequential way.
Speaker 7: It's kind of an irresistible premise, which is a serial
Speaker 7: killer who's almost a superhero the way he has depicted.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's got a costume that he is standard
Speaker 7: for when he goes out to kill, and he's he
Speaker 7: only goes after bad guys. He's a killer who kills
Speaker 7: bad guys. It's in Michael C. Hall is terrific in it.
Speaker 7: The whole cast is tons of fun. And I'm not
Speaker 7: kidding you when I say watching all these young actors
Speaker 7: do their impressions, it could easily devolve into an SNL sketch,
Speaker 7: But it's just a ton of fun. They somehow managed
Speaker 7: to dodge the bullet of the young fill in the blank.
Speaker 2: It's usually hard for me to get into prequels because
Speaker 2: I like to see this story advanced, not go back
Speaker 2: to the beginning, because I know there's no stakes.
Speaker 3: If someone was in the original.
Speaker 2: Series or movie, well, I know in the prequel they
Speaker 2: can't die. Yeah, you know, there's certain there's limitations placed
Speaker 2: upon what the prequel can do and where it can go.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know Dexter survived well. He survives everything. He
Speaker 7: even survived getting shot by his annoying son.
Speaker 3: He survives it all.
Speaker 7: But it's a lot of fun because it's got the
Speaker 7: exact same look and feel and sound and rhythm of
Speaker 7: the original show. You have it on your shelf right
Speaker 7: along with the others if you still collect that kind
Speaker 7: of thing, and it won't feel like crappy fan.
Speaker 3: Fiction like some of this stuff does.
Speaker 2: I think you might have convinced me, just might have
Speaker 2: convinced me you're gonna owe me for another one. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say that it's Later with mo Kelly, can't if
Speaker 2: I am six forty OnLive Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: And I have an addendum to the movie Red One,
Speaker 2: which was originally in theaters now it's available on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 2: I saw it and I want to update my review
Speaker 2: on it given that it's now on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 3: That's next.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Earlier in the week, I made passing mention of the
Speaker 2: movie Red One, starring Dwayne the Rock Johnson and also
Speaker 2: Chris Evans, and I said something to the effect of
Speaker 2: it wasn't bad.
Speaker 3: I didn't dislike it.
Speaker 2: It was fine for an Amazon Prime. In fact, even
Speaker 2: though a lot of stuff on Amazon Prime, depending on
Speaker 2: your subscription, now has commercials, this presentation of Red one,
Speaker 2: and I let you know at the very beginning this,
Speaker 2: you know, this presentation of Red one is commercial free
Speaker 2: with exception of the commercial right at the beginning.
Speaker 3: And it's by Capital One.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that because that meant that Capital One paid
Speaker 2: a boatload of money for that spot.
Speaker 3: When I go back and.
Speaker 2: Look at the budget for Red One, it was two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty men million dollars. That's more than Avengers Endgame. Okay,
Speaker 2: with all the stars in that, No movie which costs
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty million dollars to make, and I'm
Speaker 2: assuming that's including marketing and promotion.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'll just make that assumption. No movie costing two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty million dollars starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans
Speaker 2: could ever make its money back on its own in
Speaker 2: the theater. It's just and that's not a diss of
Speaker 2: Dwayne Johnson, that's not a diss of Chris Evans.
Speaker 3: It's just that.
Speaker 2: Historically They don't do gangbuster box office like that.
Speaker 3: Not even Dwayne Johnson.
Speaker 2: Now he's had movies which have done well, but they
Speaker 2: were larger ensemble pieces. Same with Chris Evans, but they
Speaker 2: were the two principal actors in this movie. In a
Speaker 2: buddy cop style movie, you'd see the Rock and maybe
Speaker 2: Kevin Hart. It was along those lines. And let me
Speaker 2: say again, it wasn't a bad movie. It seemed really
Speaker 2: mismarketed and it couldn't figure out whether it was going
Speaker 2: to be a movie for kids, because the storyline is
Speaker 2: pretty much about remembering your childhood and remembering the magic
Speaker 2: of Christmas, and it didn't make sense when you saw
Speaker 2: some of the imagery and some of the dialogue in
Speaker 2: the movie, which was much more adult. As a man,
Speaker 2: I appreciated the women walking around in bikinis and thongs.
Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, I really did appreciate that, but
Speaker 2: it seemed incongruent with the overall message of the movie.
Speaker 2: And when I remember how it was marketed, it didn't
Speaker 2: you know, it didn't seem like it was for me.
Speaker 3: It seemed like it was more a kids movie. And
Speaker 3: it's caught somewhere in between.
Speaker 2: I talk about all that, only to say this, it's
Speaker 2: another example of why streaming is so great for the consumer,
Speaker 2: but it's horrible for the movie theater. Red One is
Speaker 2: at the top of prime video streaming and it's doing
Speaker 2: numbers record I don't know how that works out financially
Speaker 2: for Amazon or even read One, but it doesn't do
Speaker 2: anything for the movie theater. And in the movie theaters
Speaker 2: that the movie didn't make over two hundred and fifty million.
Speaker 2: I have to look it up, but it hasn't made
Speaker 2: money yet, and that says to me that movies are
Speaker 2: being made now knowing good and well, they're not going
Speaker 2: to spend any time in the theater. And maybe there's
Speaker 2: another fee that they can charge when they sell it
Speaker 2: to streaming. I don't know what the deal was, And
Speaker 2: that's what you're going to see, these big balloon budgets.
Speaker 2: They'll stay in the movie theaters for a few weeks
Speaker 2: and then they go to streaming. And me, the avid
Speaker 2: movie consumer, had no intentions of watching this movie in theater,
Speaker 2: but I was more than content watching it at home
Speaker 2: as part of my Amazon Prime subscription.
Speaker 3: I halfway enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: I did the dishes, I was cleaning up I was
Speaker 2: working out on the treadmill. Is one of those halfway
Speaker 2: I pay attention movies. And I was satisfied.
Speaker 10: You said it costs how much to make two fifty
Speaker 10: Ooh yikes? So far is worldwide? Total worldwide is one
Speaker 10: hundred and seventy six.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, they're not making no money back because they
Speaker 2: have to make at least four hundred million.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I made ninety three in the US eighty three and
Speaker 10: other territories.
Speaker 2: I just don't know who said yes to this as
Speaker 2: far as that this movie, with these two stars, unfortunately
Speaker 2: neither of them are bankable, could justify a two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty million dollars budget. And I'm saying I'm just
Speaker 2: assuming that's including marketing and promotion.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 10: See, the thing is, it's weird because the Rock is
Speaker 10: also one of the co stars of Mowana Ti, which
Speaker 10: is doing Gangbusters, and that film is primarily the Rock
Speaker 10: and the female Ali who you don't know who that is.
Speaker 10: It's just she's the voice of Mowana. So it's basically
Speaker 10: a rock movie. He is the star, he is the
Speaker 10: focus and all of that it's about him, you redeeming
Speaker 10: himself again. So he is bankable in that that film
Speaker 10: is almost a billion or so.
Speaker 2: I don't know if people want are going to see
Speaker 2: that movie because it's the Rock or they just want
Speaker 2: to see the story because yeah, I know he's a
Speaker 2: part of the movie. But I don't know if people
Speaker 2: were running to the theaters because it was him. All
Speaker 2: I'm saying is Red One is another example of the
Speaker 2: evolution of theater entertainment, how we consume it and how
Speaker 2: they're spending goog gobs of money, but they're not getting
Speaker 2: returned on that investment when they're doing these movies which
Speaker 2: have these theatrical releases and all the marketing promotion consistent
Speaker 2: with the theatrical release, and there's no way they're going
Speaker 2: to make their money back long. That's a long way
Speaker 2: of saying another nail in the coffin for movie theaters.
Speaker 2: You're not going to get these big budget movies. They're
Speaker 2: not going to stay in in theaters all that long.
Speaker 2: It's later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the
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