Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: From joining me in studios, Jojo, right, you know it's
Speaker 2: Kiss FM three to seven pm week days.
Speaker 3: Jojo was good to talk to you again, man, how
Speaker 3: you been You're good doing good with people? Don't know.
Speaker 2: We were just talking off air about different people that
Speaker 2: we've worked with. Time in the business music industry. What
Speaker 2: do you make of your time in this business?
Speaker 3: It's a loaded question.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think I started at Kiss FM in
Speaker 4: ninety seven and I'm coming up mid ninety seven. I've
Speaker 4: been on Kiss almost well, it's coming up on thirty years.
Speaker 3: If you can believe that, I'm a hundred.
Speaker 2: I know that's almost unheard of because I always say,
Speaker 2: you haven't worked in this business until you've lost your job.
Speaker 3: In this business, I've had. I've been fired before.
Speaker 4: Okay, I've been I got fired in San Francisco up
Speaker 4: in the Bay Area, and then I was on vacation
Speaker 4: in La.
Speaker 3: You got firewall off vacation. I worked in the Bay
Speaker 3: I came to l A. Yeah, no, it's yeah, you
Speaker 3: have to.
Speaker 4: I came down to La just to chill and they
Speaker 4: you know, when somebody fills in for you, they do
Speaker 4: like they do your bits, like you're filling in for
Speaker 4: Mo and it's Moe's Top nine whatever. When these these
Speaker 4: guys went on for me, they changed all the bits,
Speaker 4: so I thought, something's up. That's respectful it is, and
Speaker 4: they fired me. You know, I got just I got fired.
Speaker 4: I was on vacation in La. Now, eventually they got
Speaker 4: booted and I went back.
Speaker 3: Up to there. That's Friday.
Speaker 4: It's just I mean, I'm telling the story terribly right now,
Speaker 4: but it's just that's.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I got fired while on vacation on my day off.
Speaker 3: How'd you in La? That's when I worked in the
Speaker 3: once again in the bay. Uh huh.
Speaker 2: The reason I have you on obviously, Wango Tango is
Speaker 2: coming up real soon, but tickets actually go on sale
Speaker 2: tomorrow at ten am on AXS dot Com. Now, let's
Speaker 2: go through some of these names are going to be
Speaker 2: on the bill. We're gonna give away a pair of
Speaker 2: tickets at the end of the segment when I say,
Speaker 2: Doja cat, what do I think doj Because you've probably
Speaker 2: interviewed me, I've.
Speaker 4: Interviewed I've interviewed I think I think everybody on this
Speaker 4: list I talked to. Yeah, I've interviewed Dojakat just once
Speaker 4: or twice at the iHeart Radio Music Festival, and I
Speaker 4: don't know know her. I want to get to know
Speaker 4: her better because she's such a huge artist and she
Speaker 4: was so she's super nice, but UH only talked to
Speaker 4: her just a couple of times, the last time being
Speaker 4: like I said in Vegas at the Iheard Festival, Gwen Stefani,
Speaker 4: I've known her for ever, just like you had.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say I knew her know her, but I
Speaker 2: worked with her when she was at the beginning of
Speaker 2: her career, when I was working at Interscope Records.
Speaker 3: I have nothing bad to say.
Speaker 4: He is awesome and she's she's as sweet as you
Speaker 4: remember she's she's the best. Megan Trainer, she's she's performing
Speaker 4: at Wango Tangle. Meghan Trainer used to come to our
Speaker 4: daughter's dance studio. She had a niece at the same studio.
Speaker 4: So I've seen Megan for years. David Gett interviewed him,
Speaker 4: you know for years as well.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: They're all doing extended sets, so it's not the typical
Speaker 4: like festival sets or you know, radio sets, which is
Speaker 4: a couple of songs. They're doing extended sets those four
Speaker 4: artists and Gwen is performing at sunset.
Speaker 3: So and we're on the beach. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you mentioned that. Oh, yes, we're on the beach.
Speaker 4: So imagine Gwen Stefani in Orange County, Huntington City beach
Speaker 4: on the beach at sunset. That's just kind of a
Speaker 4: it's kind of perfect in my opinion.
Speaker 2: That's got to be a beautiful site, saying nothing of
Speaker 2: the music, a beautiful experience.
Speaker 4: I'll say, yeahred percent so, and we've never done this
Speaker 4: well on the beach.
Speaker 3: We're pumped about that.
Speaker 4: A group called Katsi, they'd fall into the global pop category,
Speaker 4: not K pop, but a lot of K pop fandoms
Speaker 4: love Katsie. But there they'd be. They'd be referred to
Speaker 4: as a global pop group and K pop. I'm into
Speaker 4: the K pop scene. I do a K pop show
Speaker 4: on the weekends around around the country. And Uh, there's
Speaker 4: a group called cycres x I K e r S
Speaker 4: called Cychers. Fans are going crazy. The K pop community
Speaker 4: loves Cychers. Is a group called in Mix. Cyckers is
Speaker 4: a guy group. In Mix, it's a girl group. Uh,
Speaker 4: they're going to be their Hearts to Hearts. That's a
Speaker 4: young K pop group, girl group. They they just basically
Speaker 4: launched and this is their first I believe it's their first.
Speaker 3: Performance in the in the US. And a group called
Speaker 3: A two Oh May.
Speaker 4: They're from China and they will be doing their debut
Speaker 4: performance in the States as well, I believe.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this because I think you
Speaker 2: have enough history and perspective to be able to answer this.
Speaker 2: Why do you think K pop specifically has caught on
Speaker 2: with such fire here in the United States?
Speaker 4: I think it the why I don't know, but it's
Speaker 4: similar to the boy band Boom Backstreet and Sink early,
Speaker 4: you know, early two thousands.
Speaker 3: It's just like that.
Speaker 4: The only difference is there's I mean, BTS is king
Speaker 4: of the food chain when it comes to the K
Speaker 4: pop scene, and they'll be back as a group later
Speaker 4: this year or early next year, because there's still some
Speaker 4: of the members are still in the military, but they're
Speaker 4: they're king of the food chain. But there are so
Speaker 4: many groups in the K pop space and global pop
Speaker 4: space that are just huge, whereas in back in the day,
Speaker 4: I don't think there are as many moving the needle
Speaker 4: as much.
Speaker 3: But why, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think it's it's it's the same thing as you know,
Speaker 4: great choreo, great harmonies, right, you know, you.
Speaker 3: Fall in love.
Speaker 4: I love the musicality of it, the production of the
Speaker 4: of the K pop space, and I say k pop,
Speaker 4: I should say global pop space. It's it's pretty phenomenal.
Speaker 4: So once you get into it, it's it's I've fallen
Speaker 4: in love with it, and and the people as well.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna hold you all night.
Speaker 2: Now, if you just had a whole show from three
Speaker 2: to seven pm, then he come downstairs and sit and
Speaker 2: talk to us. Look, we both love our job jobs,
Speaker 2: but it still can be pretty demanding.
Speaker 3: I would imagine. Yeah, it's it's today. Well, today's my day. Today.
Speaker 4: I got here pretty early. I interviewed a guy named
Speaker 4: Domiano David. This is nothing to do with K pop
Speaker 4: or Wango Tango, but the Domiano is the lead singer
Speaker 4: of the group Monaskin. They're from Italy and but he's
Speaker 4: doing his solo things. So Domiano came in early this morning, like,
Speaker 4: well take the back about one o'clock, one o'clock to them,
Speaker 4: then about five o'clock in the middle of my radio show.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of doing two things once. You know, a
Speaker 4: group from came in called j O one and there
Speaker 4: were there's eleven members in the group. Plus when you
Speaker 4: think hair and makeup, there's a baseball team.
Speaker 3: It's a baseball team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and did like twenty five members total as far
Speaker 4: as hair and makeup. And then they had the camera
Speaker 4: crew from Japan. I think it was the way they
Speaker 4: I forget the name of the network. They said it
Speaker 4: was the equivalent of like a CNN in Japan, like
Speaker 4: a huge you know network came in to film there.
Speaker 4: They everything they do, they're filming them as they walk
Speaker 4: around the States. And so that's what I saw. There
Speaker 4: were a lot of people people to do. So that's
Speaker 4: that's that's my day today and tomorrow morning, jumping on
Speaker 4: KTLA to talk about Wango Tangle.
Speaker 3: So they got me, they got me working mo.
Speaker 2: Earn your money. Well, this is what I need from you.
Speaker 2: I need you to choose a number between one and
Speaker 2: ten because we're getting ready to give away a pair
Speaker 2: of tickets right now to Wangle Tangle. We told you
Speaker 2: about the artist Doja Cat of Megan trainer David Ghetta
Speaker 2: Katsi in mixed psichers a two olve May Hearts, two
Speaker 2: Hearts and of course Gwensdefani on the Beach Huntingdon City
Speaker 2: Beach as the sun goes down.
Speaker 3: This man one through It's funny.
Speaker 4: I was talking to Tim the other day yesterday and
Speaker 4: I was debating on what number to do, and we
Speaker 4: normally do one O two because Kiss FM one of
Speaker 4: two point seven. I thought, man, you can't do six
Speaker 4: hundred and forty calls. That's a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Caller twelve, caller number thirteen, collar number four hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty seven.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. So one through ten, I think that's
Speaker 3: a nice range. Let's go. Let's go number seven.
Speaker 2: If you're calling number seven, you and a guest will
Speaker 2: be going to iHeartRadio's Wingo Tango hundingson City Beach. Great lineup,
Speaker 2: superstar lineup, Jojo Wright.
Speaker 3: Thank you, my brother. I really appreciate your ten. By
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 4: Tickets on sale general public on sale tomorrow morning, ten am.
Speaker 3: Access. Like you said, Aces dot com Mo.
Speaker 4: You're awesome, dude. I love what you do. Congrats on
Speaker 4: everything I know. I have heard your anniversary all that stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, so you know, one of these days we
Speaker 2: need to tell some of our stories that we were
Speaker 2: talking about off their on air, the ones that we're
Speaker 2: allowed to tell, because there's some stuff that we can't.
Speaker 3: Tell if we want to continue to work in this business.
Speaker 4: What's what's the when people tell you like this, say, hey, MO,
Speaker 4: give me a wild story me like your elevator, pitch
Speaker 4: your ten second. What's the I'll give you my wildest one,
Speaker 4: but give me yours.
Speaker 2: It's really inappropriate, and I think you would think different
Speaker 2: of me. I've told it on air. It's one time
Speaker 2: we went to Miami and we were promoting I was
Speaker 2: working for Interscope Records. We were promoting the first Eminem
Speaker 2: album and I got the platinum placket home to prove it.
Speaker 2: And what we did is my job was I had
Speaker 2: to go out and find some entertainment for DJs that
Speaker 2: we were playing the Eminem album for. This was at
Speaker 2: the Impact Music Convention. Oh, Miami, you know where this
Speaker 2: story is going. Oh, I know it involves dollar bills
Speaker 2: or something. Oh, you're very close. So I hired local
Speaker 2: entertainment to come in and there was a contest.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just gonna tell the story.
Speaker 2: There was a contest that we had all these DJs
Speaker 2: kind of in a circle and we had a talented
Speaker 2: individual matchup with each DJ and it was one thousand
Speaker 2: dollars prize for the first DJ who could let's say,
Speaker 2: reach the apex of the mountain.
Speaker 3: Shut up. True story, Oh I think god.
Speaker 2: My producer Touala was not in the room, but he
Speaker 2: was at the convention.
Speaker 3: True story. I heard he was in the room. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to tell that he was in the room.
Speaker 3: That's what, you know, that's what.
Speaker 2: But yes, there was a winner and that winner received
Speaker 2: one thousand dollars because he was the first to reach
Speaker 2: the finish line.
Speaker 3: Oh your turn, your turn? Mine is mine?
Speaker 4: Is not so risk A two thousand and three Neverland
Speaker 4: Ranch was in a cake fight with Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3: Oh you win? I mean I did well.
Speaker 4: I didn't throw cake. He threw cake on I was hosting.
Speaker 4: It was a fundraiser. They had two fundraisers, daytime and nighttime.
Speaker 4: I got to host the nighttime fundraiser, and basically I
Speaker 4: didn't think Michael was going to be there. I thought
Speaker 4: he just you know, wave it in the distance or
Speaker 4: just you know whatever. Sure enough, he shows up and
Speaker 4: uh cake fight. They brought a cake out and I
Speaker 4: saw him hand a piece of cake to a little
Speaker 4: girl or whoever it was, and I had the mic.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh man, we're gonna be gonna have a
Speaker 4: cake fight. I can just feel it. Sure enough, him
Speaker 4: and Nick and Aaron Carter start going back and forth,
Speaker 4: cake starts flying. He turns to me and he pauses
Speaker 4: because he clearly doesn't know me, you know, And I
Speaker 4: said something to the effect and then I'm sure there's
Speaker 4: a video that would you know, just be the most
Speaker 4: embarrassing thing ever.
Speaker 3: But I said, hit me, Michael. He goes like, are
Speaker 3: you sure?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's not, like yeah, he smash's cake onme
Speaker 4: in that was kind of it, and I you know,
Speaker 4: I I was basically in a cake fight.
Speaker 2: That's my only person I never had the opportunity to
Speaker 2: meet in this business. I've met everyone that I wanted
Speaker 2: to meet, could meet, from Janet, Tina Turner on down,
Speaker 2: every single one.
Speaker 3: But I never got a chance to meet Michael. Now.
Speaker 3: I was in like the fourth row at the Victory.
Speaker 2: Concert, the Victories and Doctor Stadium saw I was like
Speaker 2: fourteen at the time.
Speaker 4: Wow, So but that I never got a chance to
Speaker 4: meet him. You should meet I know his son, Prince,
Speaker 4: and one of these days you should. He has a
Speaker 4: charity called Heal La. You should have him on one
Speaker 4: of these days and meet meet Prince. I'll set it
Speaker 4: up if I'll call him one hundred percent. Let's set
Speaker 4: it up. Done, Chase, are right, great to see Mo.
Speaker 3: You're awesome. Thank you man. Kf I AM six forty
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