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Speaker 2: Cam I mister b Kelly, but live everywhere in the
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Speaker 3: We can keep the conversation going there. Look at you
Speaker 3: using threads. Sorry to interrupt you, but that's impressive.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: I've been using threads for a while.
Speaker 2: It's not as good as what Twitter used to be
Speaker 2: as far as trending topics, ease of just moving around,
Speaker 2: ease of tagging and hashtagging, I agree with it's not that,
Speaker 2: but it's functional and it has some features that I
Speaker 2: really love when dealing with trolls.
Speaker 5: The hide for everyone feature is fantastic.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can say something stupid on a thread
Speaker 2: to me and I'll just hide for everyone no, and
Speaker 2: we'll see it. Then I can mute and block your
Speaker 2: ass into oblivion. It makes me feel so much better.
Speaker 3: And if you're not familiar meta as offering threads as
Speaker 3: that alternate too. Yes, you know it's a companion of Instagram,
Speaker 3: but it's an alternate.
Speaker 2: To x I counter less foolishness. That's the only way
Speaker 2: I can describe on threads. Twitter was sorry, it's just this,
Speaker 2: and I'm not calling it x F out of here.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: I get that.
Speaker 2: It's a cesspool and it's just a bunch of nameless,
Speaker 2: faceless a holes who want to say anything and everything,
Speaker 2: and I can't respond in kind. Oh I would love to,
Speaker 2: but I can't. So no, I'm not going to subject
Speaker 2: subject myself not to go too far off the rails.
Speaker 2: But do you do Mastadon or Blue Sky or any
Speaker 2: of the other alternate ones or No? I post occasionally
Speaker 2: on Blue Sky, I Masterdon hasn't had any real appeal
Speaker 2: to me. I'll also have accounts on truth, Social Spill,
Speaker 2: and a couple of others.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, spill is something that even I
Speaker 3: have an account for spill, and I don't think anybody
Speaker 3: really knows.
Speaker 5: I can't figure out spill. It's too damn hard, right No,
Speaker 5: And I think that's the hard.
Speaker 3: We're so thoroughly saturated right now with everything, and I
Speaker 3: think this is a great way to jump into what's
Speaker 3: up with Nick because me trying to keep up with
Speaker 3: everything that we started this in twenty twenty three, yep,
Speaker 3: when it became later with Mokelly and it was this
Speaker 3: weekend with Nick on Fridays, and now trying to figure
Speaker 3: out every algorithm that's out there, every change that's happened.
Speaker 3: I'm going to get into where I was earlier earlier
Speaker 3: today with Amy King from Wake Up Call and Bill
Speaker 3: Handles Show here on KFI and just trying to balance out.
Speaker 3: All right, I gotta cut this for this platform, and
Speaker 3: I gotta cut this for this platform. It's wild because
Speaker 3: you're trying to do your best to inform people. But
Speaker 3: then it's this game that all these major corporations have
Speaker 3: jumped into playing. And then you have Macedon and Blue Sky.
Speaker 3: If you're not familiar with those that are not overseen
Speaker 3: by a major corporation, that those are more on the
Speaker 3: free you know, freemium space, and it's really great, but
Speaker 3: try to navigate it, just like you said in using
Speaker 3: threads as an example from something we're all familiar with
Speaker 3: Facebook for meta, we're all familiar with Instagram for meta.
Speaker 3: And then you've got threads. So again there's those handful
Speaker 3: of great options available, but it's also trying to like
Speaker 3: figure it all out.
Speaker 2: It's a learning curve is finding your village and people
Speaker 2: in the sense of people that you're going to interact with.
Speaker 2: And it takes a long time because let's say you
Speaker 2: had your group of people that you would interact with
Speaker 2: on Twitter. Yeah, then you've got to start all the
Speaker 2: way over on a new social media app and it
Speaker 2: doesn't have the same bells and whistles in the settings,
Speaker 2: are not set up the same way.
Speaker 5: It takes a long time.
Speaker 3: This discovery, just the organic natural discovery of it that's
Speaker 3: challenging it as it is.
Speaker 5: So well, thanks for going off topic with me. Okay,
Speaker 5: we're back. Let's talk about superheroes and supervillains.
Speaker 3: So it's just coin of works with I want to
Speaker 3: talk about it and will probably take it after the
Speaker 3: break as well. But there is an incredible option that
Speaker 3: is happening at the Peterson Automotive Museum in.
Speaker 5: Midwell Shoe Peterson.
Speaker 3: Okay, did you go when it was originally the small
Speaker 3: installation that was over and not? It could be completely
Speaker 3: wrong with this. I should have done a little bit
Speaker 3: or better Research, which is unlike me. But when it
Speaker 3: was over by UCLA, there was a smaller Peterson before
Speaker 3: the big huge build out with the free standing building
Speaker 3: across from the Academy Museum on Fairfax, Right, yeah, but
Speaker 3: it was the small little guy, right. I might have
Speaker 3: was like, was it real close to Santa Monica?
Speaker 5: Kind of yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, And so now I haven't been to the Peterson.
Speaker 3: So first of all, I'm going to say just what's
Speaker 3: up with Nick or this Weekend with Nick? Checking out
Speaker 3: the Peterson Automotive Museum itself is well worth your time
Speaker 3: parking on site there if you're interested in the Academy
Speaker 3: of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Their museum is directly
Speaker 3: across the way. Everything in the Midweel Shure and Miracle
Speaker 3: Mile corridor is right right there within walking distance. Great food,
Speaker 3: you know, Lachman's down the street, all of that, But
Speaker 3: this is something that is very special and very different
Speaker 3: from propstore propstore dot com. And you can check out
Speaker 3: the Lincoln bio at Nick Pauli o'chane in This Weekend
Speaker 3: with Nick on Instagram is the e theest way to
Speaker 3: get the details. But they have a multimillion dollar auction
Speaker 3: that goes live tomorrow. And when I say multimillion dollar, like,
Speaker 3: one of the items we saw today was Luke Skywalker
Speaker 3: Mark Hamill's screen and photo match Metal of Yavin. Is
Speaker 3: that correct because you're my Yavin.
Speaker 5: It is Yavin.
Speaker 3: Yes, So from New Hope for seventy seven that is
Speaker 3: expected to go for between three hundred and six hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. Fact, we pretty much got to go. We
Speaker 3: got a special preview, that's the truth. But no, I've
Speaker 3: got all the details for you tonight, So you definitely
Speaker 3: want to check out the link because Amy King will
Speaker 3: have an interview in the morning on wake Up Call
Speaker 3: with the COO of the of prop Store, so you'll
Speaker 3: be able to get more details and more of insight
Speaker 3: and fund and excitement. But I want you to go
Speaker 3: to this because tomorrow is the one day you get
Speaker 3: to go in person and see everything that I got
Speaker 3: to see today. And it is at the Penthouse at
Speaker 3: the Peterson Automotive Museum. Propstore dot com, Propstore auction dot com.
Speaker 3: That'll get you the details about it, but I'm not kidding.
Speaker 3: Go check out the reel that I just posted. You
Speaker 3: can also see it's shared with later with Mokelly on
Speaker 3: Instagram that will have all the different things you can see.
Speaker 3: We saw things from Elf, so the oh the uh.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember the specific engine that Santy uses
Speaker 3: in Elf something three thousand, three thousand.
Speaker 5: Is that what it is? Or is it an elf something? Anyway?
Speaker 3: I don't remember ELF's shoes. We saw Buddy's card that
Speaker 3: he gave to James Conn to his dad's character in it.
Speaker 3: You can buy that. There is a screen worn from
Speaker 3: Superman three Evil Superman, so Christopher Reeves when he has
Speaker 3: his in Superman three and eighty three, has that change
Speaker 3: over that's available for you there two hundred to four
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars, like he able to be arm's length
Speaker 3: away from Anything like that is just wild to me
Speaker 3: because we have Hollywood in our backyard, and we've had
Speaker 3: it in our backyard, both the small screen and the
Speaker 3: silver screen for so long. We really take it for
Speaker 3: granted because we enjoy all the content, but we don't
Speaker 3: really go out and see it.
Speaker 5: And sometimes you got.
Speaker 3: To be a tourist in your own neighborhood, if that
Speaker 3: makes sense absolutely, because I mean, while I may not
Speaker 3: want to hop on a bus and take a tour
Speaker 3: of Hollywood to go see celebrities home is because lord knows,
Speaker 3: we both know celebrities personally and know where they live,
Speaker 3: and they're not on those tours, right, So there's a
Speaker 3: reason for that, but a really good.
Speaker 5: Reason for that. But it's just wild.
Speaker 3: Like we saw Danny Zuko's jacket from Grease Lightning from
Speaker 3: Greece to the movie, so but like from specifically the
Speaker 3: one because he had a super shiny one and then
Speaker 3: he had a little bit more matt that weren't better
Speaker 3: with the cameras. And what's really cool is every single
Speaker 3: one of these items you can also see online. I
Speaker 3: really want you to go and I want you to
Speaker 3: check it out in person, but you can see them
Speaker 3: online again propstore dot Com or propstore auction dot com.
Speaker 3: Everything goes live tomorrow morning at ten thirty am. It's
Speaker 3: three days of entertainment Memorabilia live auction happening each day.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow is the only day you get to go and
Speaker 3: see it physically in person, whether you're bidding on it
Speaker 3: or not. Obviously prop Store would love for you to
Speaker 3: bid on it. I wish I had the kind of
Speaker 3: coin to drop on this. They had this sick model
Speaker 3: of Voyager from Star Trek, one of the ones that
Speaker 3: was used in the filming of it. Absolutely incredible. Also
Speaker 3: they had stuff from Back to the Future. I'm looking
Speaker 3: at the links right now.
Speaker 2: It's a wild right incredible, absolutely incredible store dot com
Speaker 2: correct And the biggest thing is as funny as it sounds,
Speaker 2: were starting out with the free ninety nine side of
Speaker 2: things instead of the other way to go is free
Speaker 2: ninety nine.
Speaker 3: You have to pay for parking or you have to
Speaker 3: find parking somewhere near around there, so you pay for
Speaker 3: whatever the product parking is at the Peterson But yes,
Speaker 3: thank you Steff Fush it's going to be free ninety
Speaker 3: nine for you to be able to check out these things.
Speaker 3: So again, if you want to learn more, I highly
Speaker 3: encourage it. It opens at ten thirty am tomorrow. They
Speaker 3: will be doing a live auction in person. You can
Speaker 3: also attend it online. So that's why I say Nick
Speaker 3: Paulio O Kenny this week go and Nick the Lincoln
Speaker 3: Bio will take you to where you need to go.
Speaker 3: But get down there. If you've got nothing to do,
Speaker 3: it's well worth it. You can check it all out
Speaker 3: Thursday and Friday as well from the comfort of your
Speaker 3: own home.
Speaker 2: Go to popstore dot com right now, right because I'm
Speaker 2: looking at this like, I wow, because.
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to think, like, you've got Catwoman.
Speaker 3: So Michelle Feifirst costume from Batman returns, which is incredible
Speaker 3: but also had definitely seen better days. But you have
Speaker 3: to think that was from ninety two, so you know,
Speaker 3: we've all weathered a little bit from ninety two. Yeah,
Speaker 3: not just the costumes, but that was amazing. Amy King's
Speaker 3: always excited about top guns. So Tom Cruise Mavericks nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty six photo match Bomber Jacket is available for you
Speaker 3: to buy fifty to one hundred K.
Speaker 2: See, I'm just looking at like they have Orlando Blooms
Speaker 2: photo id pass from black Hawk down. How little stuff
Speaker 2: like that, Like, yeah, it's random but specific at the
Speaker 2: same time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, so it's well worth it. It's a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. I had a blast doing it. I
Speaker 3: got a great time tearing through it as Moe is
Speaker 3: doing right now. Propstore dot com or propstore Auction dot com.
Speaker 3: You can get the links in bio at Nick poliochany
Speaker 3: this week with a Nick or later with mo Kelly
Speaker 3: on Instagram and You can also check out a real
Speaker 3: that I shot of just kind of running through just
Speaker 3: a handful of the exhibits. They weren't even fully set
Speaker 3: up for guests to come in. They have a special
Speaker 3: event tonight going on.
Speaker 5: I would.
Speaker 3: I'm sad I'm not there, but I much rather be
Speaker 3: here always with you guys. But yeah, it's definitely something
Speaker 3: to check out. Uh and you've got that, but I've
Speaker 3: got more do We'll do it on yeah side.
Speaker 2: On the other side, Nick Poliochetty joins me in studios
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Speaker 3: I want to talk about something that's coming up this
Speaker 3: weekend and it granted, I always want you to when
Speaker 3: you're going to these events. Be sure to tune into
Speaker 3: Later with mo Kelly Monday through Friday from seven to ten,
Speaker 3: especially for cult classic movies on Friday at nine o'clock.
Speaker 3: But this Friday is Night Dive over in my neck
Speaker 3: of the woods at the Aquarium of the Pacific and
Speaker 3: Long Beach, and this is an eighteen and over event
Speaker 3: that takes over the entire aquarium, music, Art and Culture
Speaker 3: U Their spring program is this Friday. They pretty much
Speaker 3: have one going March, June, July, August, so it looks
Speaker 3: like this is just the only spring offering that's gonna
Speaker 3: be available. But they will have a live band there,
Speaker 3: several DJs, music, cocktails, dancing, food, you name it. So
Speaker 3: if you've not been to the Aquarium of the Pacific,
Speaker 3: it's a fantastic opportunity for you to go and enjoy
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 5: A day with the fishes.
Speaker 3: It sounds very are you're gonna be sleeping with a fishes,
Speaker 3: very moblive right exactly. But this is one of those
Speaker 3: events that they take the footprint of something that's existing
Speaker 3: and completely changed it up, which is always a good time.
Speaker 3: I have been a member at the Aquarium for many,
Speaker 3: many years, but it's so funny because there's people who
Speaker 3: are members of things that are in their backyard but
Speaker 3: not the direct backyard. So I have been a member
Speaker 3: of the of the Pacific long before I lived in
Speaker 3: Long Beach, just because it was so cool to have
Speaker 3: something in the city that was close to where I
Speaker 3: grew up for the most part with my grandparents, and
Speaker 3: so to have that it's well worth checking out during
Speaker 3: the day, and being a member is always a great opportunity.
Speaker 3: But if you're a non member, it's still not too
Speaker 3: bad because if you figure members for this event forty
Speaker 3: bucks or thirty nine ninety five. For non members, it's
Speaker 3: forty five dollars, so you save five bucks by being
Speaker 3: a member of the aquarium. But this is a great
Speaker 3: date night opportunity if you want to go, or if
Speaker 3: you want to go meet some singles, it's not a
Speaker 3: bad thing either, or just take a group of friends.
Speaker 3: But I love it because it's a venue that is
Speaker 3: predominantly If you go during the day, you're gonna see
Speaker 3: a bunch of schools that are there and a bunch
Speaker 3: of kids that are there, and this is an opportunity
Speaker 3: for you to kind of be a nerd and geek
Speaker 3: out about things. Like we talked about last week the
Speaker 3: grunn In Run. They will definitely be touching on that.
Speaker 3: There's no grun in running at the aquarium itself specifically,
Speaker 3: but it's something else for you to check out. And
Speaker 3: the thing that starts this weekend and runs all the
Speaker 3: way through April is something that I absolutely love and
Speaker 3: is genuinely an institution in southern California. We all know
Speaker 3: that I'm a huge fanboy of Disney and being a
Speaker 3: Disney adult, but not it's very farm over way to park,
Speaker 3: not that far away from Disneyland. They're kicking off their
Speaker 3: Boysonberry Festival, and I will tell you the one thing
Speaker 3: that I was incredibly impressed with nots especially during the pandemic,
Speaker 3: is they figured out how to open the park and
Speaker 3: get socially distanced time because it's a park, so everyone's
Speaker 3: outdoors and so it was a great opportunity. And they
Speaker 3: really have gotten their food festivals dialed in. Don't get
Speaker 3: it twisted. I absolutely love the food and wine festival
Speaker 3: that's underway right now, Disney California Adventure. In fact, I'll
Speaker 3: be talking about that more next week, but not Sperry Farm.
Speaker 3: The Bois and Berry Festival opens this weekend on the
Speaker 3: twenty eighth, runs through April twenty seventh. If you have
Speaker 3: a season pass like I do, it's a great opportunity
Speaker 3: to get over there. Not s Very Farm season passes
Speaker 3: which is also now inclusive depending on what you buy
Speaker 3: of Six Flags Magic Mountain because of the same company.
Speaker 3: They are all part of the Cedar Fair family and
Speaker 3: they really are reasonable. And when I say that, there
Speaker 3: are other theme parks that I've talked about spoken of
Speaker 3: that are very very much a financial investment if you
Speaker 3: will to become an annual pass hole. Yes, say expensive,
Speaker 3: def and expensive, and it walid provides an incredible well
Speaker 3: worth it thing. Knots Berry Farm is just such a
Speaker 3: different vibe period whether you're the day or night. I
Speaker 3: love that they have Camp Snoopy, which is available for kids,
Speaker 3: and they have revamped it so that has reopened with
Speaker 3: all the new attractions that are available for you there.
Speaker 3: But the Boys and Berry Festival, everything that is Boisonberry
Speaker 3: is there, and that really is what put knots Berry
Speaker 3: Farm on the map originally when it was just a
Speaker 3: berry farm off of Root sixty six.
Speaker 2: Do they still sell it in stores grocery stores?
Speaker 5: They don't.
Speaker 3: So the thing is is you're able to because Smuckers
Speaker 3: bought the Knots brand after a number of years ago.
Speaker 3: The only place in the entire world that you can
Speaker 3: purchase Knots Berry Farm branded jams and jellies is physically
Speaker 3: on site or I think it's Knots Marketplace dot com.
Speaker 3: But those are the only two places that you're able
Speaker 3: to find any of this. And what's even cooler is
Speaker 3: with the Boys and Berry Festival. Obviously, every single food item,
Speaker 3: every cocktail, every mocktail, even wines and beers all have
Speaker 3: boisonberry in some way, shape or form involved with them.
Speaker 3: So it's not great on your waistline, but it is
Speaker 3: a great for a good time, and it's a great
Speaker 3: opportunity because you're gonna try to ride.
Speaker 5: I tried. I didn't completely crash and burn.
Speaker 3: Okay, it went well enough, but no, I just think
Speaker 3: Knots Berry Farm is that unsung hero, especially now because
Speaker 3: the weather is beautiful, it's not too warm yet, and
Speaker 3: you're able to do something that is not going to
Speaker 3: break the bank and get out there and enjoy a
Speaker 3: solo trip, a couple's trip, a family trip, and you
Speaker 3: name it, or become an interpassolder with them and get
Speaker 3: a season pass because they're really, really reasonable. You do
Speaker 3: need to be aware that they do still have chaperone policies,
Speaker 3: so kids under eighteen during certain times of the year,
Speaker 3: you'll be able to check you on Not's berry Farm
Speaker 3: and they'll be able to give that to you. But
Speaker 3: the bois and Berry Festival and I am reached out
Speaker 3: to my friends at Notts and hopefully when I'm back
Speaker 3: in next week, even if I don't talk about it
Speaker 3: all that much, I will definitely be bringing you some
Speaker 3: boys and very treats.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that Mark never brings me anything.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: Well, the worst part is I was trying to figure
Speaker 3: out how are going to put cookies and cream and boisonberg.
Speaker 5: I don't know if that's going to roll. I don't
Speaker 5: know if that's going to work, but something to that effect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll figure it out when Nick, when he comes here,
Speaker 2: he usually brings me something.
Speaker 5: I don't get jack from these jokers.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I love that you all are
Speaker 3: getting thrown another box, like just out a question, and
Speaker 3: neither Stephen or Mark is anither. They're busy, No, no, they
Speaker 3: know it's truck right, But I'm like, I'm looking at
Speaker 3: them right now on the cameras, They're like, should I respond,
Speaker 3: what is there anything the button used to contradict what
Speaker 3: he's saying.
Speaker 4: No, No, it's just that you wouldn't want anything that
Speaker 4: I would bring, like a black olive dish.
Speaker 3: That's what What kind of dish are you going to
Speaker 3: bring with black olives? Because you got to take us
Speaker 3: there first of all. I love how you take us there,
Speaker 3: which makes perfect sense. You open the door, let's walk through.
Speaker 4: Well, I'd find one. I mean, I could come up
Speaker 4: with one with a black olive dish. Oh, there must
Speaker 4: be all sorts of delicious black olive dishes that Moe
Speaker 4: would love.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: See, that's why I prefer Nick because I know that
Speaker 2: right there, it's Later mo Kelly.
Speaker 5: That's always good.
Speaker 3: Seeing a pleasure is always be sure to check me
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Speaker 2: Will Smith is getting himself back out there in the
Speaker 2: wake of the controversy. He's spent three years now, imagine
Speaker 2: that three years since that unfortunate Oscar slap, and I
Speaker 2: have always been consistent in my condemnation of it. If
Speaker 2: you put hands on someone that's as salt and battery,
Speaker 2: it should have been treated as a crime. Yes, Chris
Speaker 2: Rock declined to press charges, but sometimes, and you see
Speaker 2: this in domestic violence cases all the time, you don't
Speaker 2: even need to have a willing victim for charges to
Speaker 2: be filed, especially when it happens in front of the
Speaker 2: whole world. For me, was never any justification for Will
Speaker 2: Smith to walk down and put hands on Chris Rock.
Speaker 5: I don't believe, accept or agree.
Speaker 2: That Chris Rock somehow insulted Jada Pinkett Smith so flagrantly
Speaker 2: and egregiously that his only option was to put hands
Speaker 2: on Chris Rock. Sorry, and I commend Chris Rock for
Speaker 2: not physically escalating that moment, knowing the whole world just watching.
Speaker 2: I review that because you may not remember. Part of
Speaker 2: the punishment air quotes for Will Smith was a ten
Speaker 2: year ban, and I think it's more apt to call
Speaker 2: it a suspension because a ban is permanent.
Speaker 5: Suspension is more like a postponement.
Speaker 2: Of his participation in any Oscar related activity, to which
Speaker 2: he was asked specifically about the Oscar suspension now that
Speaker 2: he's doing more media in support of this new album
Speaker 2: and tour, and this is what Will Smith had to
Speaker 2: say about it with the band and everything, are you
Speaker 2: looking to appeal or you just looking just to write
Speaker 2: everything out and just continue to do you I am
Speaker 2: looking to be the best human I can possibly be,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna take what I get with that.
Speaker 5: Huh what does that even mean? If you could see
Speaker 5: both of our faces? What does it even mean? The
Speaker 5: best human I could Yeah. I think all of us on.
Speaker 2: A daily basis wake up and not explicitly, but implicitly think,
Speaker 2: let me see if I can have the best day possible.
Speaker 5: Just be the best person. I can be the best
Speaker 5: version of myself.
Speaker 2: But Will Smith, in response to a question about the
Speaker 2: Oscar band slash suspension right wanted to dither and deflect
Speaker 2: and talk about how he's just trying to be the
Speaker 2: best person he can be.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, that's going forward.
Speaker 2: He was asking about the past as far as that incident,
Speaker 2: how you look upon it, how you're going to navigate
Speaker 2: it for the next I don't know six years or
Speaker 2: so that it's going to be in effect. It's a
Speaker 2: relevant question, it's a question which is going to be
Speaker 2: repeatedly asked of him.
Speaker 5: And let me give you some behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: I would bet dollars to donuts anyone who has been
Speaker 2: granted the opportunity to interview Will Smith, and I know
Speaker 2: Mark Roger knows about this, there probably will be a
Speaker 2: list of topics and questions which will be verboten, which
Speaker 2: will not be allowed to ask what you will be told
Speaker 2: that you can't bring up or they're not going to
Speaker 2: agree to the interview. And if you go against that,
Speaker 2: Will Smith probably will walk out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a real journalist doesn't agree to stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Hacks Will people who have no journalistic integrity and just
Speaker 4: want to be climbers. But I would never agree to
Speaker 4: limitations on an interview.
Speaker 2: The only limitations that I agree to are the personal questions.
Speaker 2: In other words, whenever I interview someone, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to ask about the personal life unless the personal life
Speaker 2: is the whole peg of the interview. In this situation,
Speaker 2: the peg or in other words, the reason for the
Speaker 2: interview would be the tour his new music and so forth.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to ask, so, do you end Jada
Speaker 2: have an open relationship? I would never do that, but
Speaker 2: I would be employing journalistic malpractice if I did not
Speaker 2: ask him about Chris Rock.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you also have to have some kind of internal compass.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you want to see examples of people
Speaker 4: who have done it wrong, look at the awkward interviews
Speaker 4: with Robert Downey Junior where they completely inappropriately decide they
Speaker 4: want to ask him about his ancient history of troubles
Speaker 4: with drugs and the law, and he kind of tolerates
Speaker 4: it up to a point, and then he ends the
Speaker 4: interview rightfully, so right, but with Will Swift, Will Smith No no, no, no,
Speaker 4: no no. He hasn't even made amends for his Wild
Speaker 4: Wild West movie. He gets to get asked apology. He
Speaker 4: was the world in apology, and he gets to get
Speaker 4: asked about that slap in perpetuity. I mean that was
Speaker 4: in front of a billion people.
Speaker 2: And although he may have apologized quote unquote on social media,
Speaker 2: there's still a conversation to be had in the wake
Speaker 2: of it as far as what was going through his
Speaker 2: mind had the follow up to that answer, and also
Speaker 2: I need an explanation as to what has changed since then.
Speaker 4: There's been nothing like that, especially not in Oscar history.
Speaker 4: I mean there are stories about when Sasheen Little Feather
Speaker 4: accepted or rejected rather the Oscar for Brando, that people
Speaker 4: had to hold John Wayne back, but you didn't see
Speaker 4: any footage of that.
Speaker 2: We all saw this, And although I'm quite sure Will
Speaker 2: Smith would like to move past it, I've never interviewed him.
Speaker 2: I've met him in passing when he and Jada had
Speaker 2: just gotten together. I don't even think they're even married yet.
Speaker 2: I mean this is decades ago, so I don't know
Speaker 2: anything about him personally. I doubt I will ever have
Speaker 2: the opportunity to actually interview him because to what Mark
Speaker 2: was saying, I'm not going to agree to the stipulations
Speaker 2: which inevitably they would want to place on the interview.
Speaker 5: And I get it. His people have one job, and
Speaker 5: that is to protect Will Smith.
Speaker 2: That's why you have a publicist, That's why you have
Speaker 2: a crisis publicist, That's why you have a manager. You
Speaker 2: want to limit those things which may blow up in
Speaker 2: his or her face depending on the person that you're
Speaker 2: paid to protect, and not generate bad publicity. I get it.
Speaker 2: I don't sandbag any of my interviewees. I don't do
Speaker 2: gotcha questions, but I have to ask Will Smith if
Speaker 2: he's sitting in front of me certain questions about that night.
Speaker 2: We can also talk about the album. We can also
Speaker 2: talk about the tour, but I'm damn sure not going
Speaker 2: to talk about the latter and disregard the former.
Speaker 4: Yeah, his publicists can ask anything they want, but they
Speaker 4: better not mistake me for one of the publicists.
Speaker 5: If I'm doing the interview.
Speaker 2: Oftentimes, especially if I'm interviewing high level either entertainment guests
Speaker 2: or political guests, they will ask for the questions in advance.
Speaker 5: No way explicitly, No, I'm saying, they will ask, Hey,
Speaker 5: can we get the questions in advance? Right?
Speaker 2: Hell's f and no, And I can tell you about
Speaker 2: some of the subjects we're going to cover, I'd be
Speaker 2: more than happy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's an instant non starter. No legit person would
Speaker 4: submit to that. But you also have to understand that,
Speaker 4: as much as we don't like to admit it, there
Speaker 4: are different standards for newspaper, radio, TV, and the kind
Speaker 4: of thing like these all day junken interviews where you
Speaker 4: get like three minutes and then it's the next in line.
Speaker 4: They're all a little different, and you must decide, if
Speaker 4: you're the journalist or if you want to call yourself
Speaker 4: a journalist, what you're willing to do, what you're willing
Speaker 4: to put up with. I never put up with any
Speaker 4: of that stuff because I can live without the interview
Speaker 4: if it's too you know, if they think that they're
Speaker 4: going to control the questions I ask.
Speaker 2: And not only that, that's part of the reason why
Speaker 2: I don't do junket interviews anymore. I'm not sitting around
Speaker 2: a table and it's a literal table where you have
Speaker 2: six different journalists and there's about ten minutes and you
Speaker 2: get maybe one question two at the max. And that's
Speaker 2: not an interview because that means your one question has
Speaker 2: to be about the project, the thing that they're promoting.
Speaker 5: That's not a real dialogue. And if I were to
Speaker 5: have a.
Speaker 2: Conversation with Will Smith, it would be a very genuine, sincere,
Speaker 2: respectful conversation about the biggest moment in Oscar history. If
Speaker 2: I didn't ask that question, I don't deserve to sit
Speaker 2: behind this microphone.
Speaker 4: Oh god, no, you don't avoid the elephant in the
Speaker 4: room just because it's going to make somebody uncomfortable. You're
Speaker 4: not under their employe, and there is a dance that
Speaker 4: you have to do.
Speaker 2: And what I do is I have to develop a
Speaker 2: rapport with a person almost immediately. Sometimes I have a
Speaker 2: chance to talk to that person before the interview, so
Speaker 2: they get a feeling for me, I get a feeling
Speaker 2: for him or hurt, and maybe they become a little
Speaker 2: bit more comfortable and more inclined to share more.
Speaker 5: That's my job.
Speaker 2: If I'm doing my job very well, I can get
Speaker 2: someone to open up, tell some stories, some anecdotes, and
Speaker 2: they'll almost like forget that they're in an interview. If
Speaker 2: I'm doing my job very well, that's the hardest part
Speaker 2: because I have to develop that report immediately. But I
Speaker 2: have quote unquote an agenda. My agenda is to get
Speaker 2: the most out of that person as possible.
Speaker 5: If you act like a.
Speaker 4: Crazy, violent person in front of the entire world, you
Speaker 4: have no right whatsoever to request that that'd be off
Speaker 4: limits in future interviews.
Speaker 5: None.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I just remember, Mark, I didn't even tell this to
Speaker 2: you or Tawala. Remember when we had Randy Economy on
Speaker 2: and we're talking about the recall effort the latest one
Speaker 2: against gavindusm I do. He is also very closely connected
Speaker 2: to Mel Gibson. Oh okay, And I was talking to Randy.
Speaker 2: I said, hey, I would love to have Mel Gibson on,
Speaker 2: but I damn sure I am not going to have Mel
Speaker 2: Gibson on and not talk about the totality of how
Speaker 2: we got to this moment where he is obviously becoming
Speaker 2: more and more of a political figure.
Speaker 5: He is still making movies, but people do still have.
Speaker 2: Some reservations and misgivings about where he is now. We
Speaker 2: have to have that conversation on some level. And the
Speaker 2: reason why we haven't had that conversation yet we haven't
Speaker 2: come to any sort of understanding. Now Randy may have
Speaker 2: forgotten or Randy didn't follow up, but Randy knows me
Speaker 2: well enough to know that I have real conversations with people.
Speaker 2: I'd love to have a conversation with Mel Gibson, but
Speaker 2: it's not only going to be to promote his political interests.
Speaker 4: I'm not nobody gets a free pass, but it could
Speaker 4: still be a fair interview.
Speaker 2: I would like to think that's what I specialize in.
Speaker 2: I see it's later with mo Kelly. Not everyone wants
Speaker 2: to answer real questions. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: And before we get out of here, yes, I have
Speaker 2: my final thought for the evening. And it's still the
Speaker 2: biggest story in the world, so I'm not going to
Speaker 2: run away from it. Of course, I'm talking about signal leak.
Speaker 2: We're learning more and more as time goes on. We're
Speaker 2: learning who was on the text thread, more about the
Speaker 2: information which was shared in that chat, and the spin
Speaker 2: which is being used to defend it or minimize it.
Speaker 2: It is the biggest story in the world. And of
Speaker 2: course a bunch of comparisons are being made to Hillary Clinton,
Speaker 2: but you know, for political purposes, mostly insincere comparisons. Some
Speaker 2: what have you believed that Clinton's use of a personal
Speaker 2: server was worse, and those same people claim hipocrisy. Others
Speaker 2: will argue that the signal leak is worse and they'll
Speaker 2: yell hipocrisy. And there's even a third group which will
Speaker 2: pose the hypothet of just imagine if Lloyd Austin or
Speaker 2: some other sect def did the same thing, what would happen,
Speaker 2: all pretty predictable stuff. But this ain't hard. This is
Speaker 2: rather easy, you know how, I say, get the easy
Speaker 2: ones right. This is so simple. People make it hard needlessly.
Speaker 2: So here's the solution. Just treat them all the same.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the spin, the media coverage, or
Speaker 2: measurement of the outrage. Just treat the actual individuals, the
Speaker 2: players involved, the same. That's the only supposed hypocrisy anyone
Speaker 2: should worry about. Not what Fox hosts say or who
Speaker 2: they defend, not what MSNBC hosts say or who they condemn.
Speaker 2: Just treat the actual individuals, the players involved, the same.
Speaker 2: The actual hypocrisy is in not treating them and investigating
Speaker 2: all of them the same. I hope that's not some
Speaker 2: sort of controversial statement. If you thought Hillary Clinton and
Speaker 2: should have been locked up, that means at the minimum,
Speaker 2: you thought she should have been investigated. She was investigated,
Speaker 2: She gave a statement to the FBI, she was brought
Speaker 2: before Congress and testified for eleven hours. A full report
Speaker 2: was released by a Republican led committee, which also found
Speaker 2: no wrongdoing on her part. Yes that's what it found.
Speaker 2: You can google it for yourself. But the same should
Speaker 2: be done here. Treat them all the same, investigation congressional hearings,
Speaker 2: and let the chips fall where they may. It doesn't
Speaker 2: mean you're like the outcome or even agree with it.
Speaker 2: But it shouldn't be about taking anyone's word, like Congressman
Speaker 2: Dan Crenshaw said he would take Pete Hegseth at his word. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: not when it comes to national security issues. But Mo,
Speaker 2: you're just a Democrat.
Speaker 5: No I'm not. Mo, You're just a flating liberal. No
Speaker 5: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'll have you know that I was the first person
Speaker 2: here on KFI who said that I believe Hillary Clinton
Speaker 2: should have been charged given what we knew and the
Speaker 2: negligence alleged relative to the statute.
Speaker 5: I got the audio to prove it. I was the first.
Speaker 2: I was on the air ind for Gary and Shannon
Speaker 2: when former FBI Director James Colemey made his public declination
Speaker 2: of charging Clinton.
Speaker 5: But I'm all about consistency. Treat them all the same.
Speaker 2: If there's a flagrant departure from protocol when it comes
Speaker 2: to handling sensitive or dare I say.
Speaker 5: Classified information, then treat them all the same.
Speaker 2: I don't care if it if it's boxes in your
Speaker 2: goal plated bathroom at your resort or in your garage
Speaker 2: at your home in Delaware. Investigate accordingly. Let the chips
Speaker 2: fall where they may. But see, that's why we have correction,
Speaker 2: That's why we had Inspectors General.
Speaker 5: That's the exact purpose for them. Here's how I know.
Speaker 2: Remember when former sectorf Lloyd Austin disappeared to have a
Speaker 2: prostate procedure and didn't tell then President Biden, it was
Speaker 2: immediately investigated by the Inspector General, and then Austin was
Speaker 2: then sanctioned for his behavior. It went a little something
Speaker 2: like increase it's the unnecessarily unnecessary risk to national security.
Speaker 2: That was from the Inspector General. There is, or at
Speaker 2: least was a process in place for moments like these.
Speaker 2: The Inspectors General used to be independent of any administration.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately no longer. But that's the purpose that they serve.
Speaker 2: And here's another point. We don't need to, nor should
Speaker 2: we depend on cable news hosts or interviews of these
Speaker 2: same people on cable news to get to the truth.
Speaker 2: People can and do lie in interviews. I'm here to
Speaker 2: tell you it is perfectly legal to lie to us
Speaker 2: in interviews, and they do but.
Speaker 5: It's a little more difficult to do under oath.
Speaker 2: At least it might or at least used to come
Speaker 2: with some degree of consequences because of the vile analysis.
Speaker 2: Either we actually care about national security or we don't.
Speaker 2: It's one or the other, but it's sure as hell
Speaker 2: won't be both, or when politically convenient for kf I
Speaker 2: AM six forty, I'm O Kelly, k f I M
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