Speaker 1: Oho winmo Kelly KFI AM six forty y is later
Speaker 1: with Moe Kelly were Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy eight, doctor Ronald McNair was selected as
Speaker 1: one of thirty five applicants from a pool of ten
Speaker 1: thousand for the NASA Astronaut Program. McNair flew as a
Speaker 1: mission specialist on STS forty one B, a board Space
Speaker 1: Shuttle Challenger, back on February third through February eleventh, nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty four, becoming the second African American to fly in space.
Speaker 1: But on January twenty eighth, nineteen eighty six, thirty nine
Speaker 1: years ago. Today, McNair Paris is part of the Challenger crew.
Speaker 2: Nine ers ken nine eight seven six. We have main
Speaker 2: engines start four three two one and liftoff liftoff of
Speaker 2: the twenty fifth Face Shuttle.
Speaker 3: Mission and it as clear as the.
Speaker 4: Tower Roger Challenger.
Speaker 5: ConTroll program confirmed. Challenger now heading down range engines beginning
Speaker 5: throttling down now at ninety four percent normal throttles for
Speaker 5: most of the plant one hundred and four percent. We
Speaker 5: will throttle down to sixty five percent shortly one minute
Speaker 5: fifteen seconds. Flocidy twenty nine hundred feet per second altitude
Speaker 5: nine nautical mouths down range, just at seven naugle miles.
Speaker 3: It looks like a couple of the solid rocket boosters
Speaker 3: blew away from the side of the shuttle in an explosion.
Speaker 5: Controllers here looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a
Speaker 5: major malfunction.
Speaker 1: Have no downey right now. His older brother, Carl McNair,
Speaker 1: founder of McNair Achievement Programs, author and STEM education consultant,
Speaker 1: joins me now on the show as we pay remembrance
Speaker 1: to him and the rest of the Challenger crew. Carl,
Speaker 1: my friend. Great to talk to you again. How have
Speaker 1: you been.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm doing very well. Brother Mo. Did I call
Speaker 4: you brother Moe?
Speaker 1: Yes, you can't because we are brothers, that's right. Aside
Speaker 1: from your brother, your younger brother's exploits, his academic exploits,
Speaker 1: which included a PhD in physics from MIT. Ronald McNair
Speaker 1: was a saxophonist, a jazz enthusiast. He was a man
Speaker 1: of Omega Sci Fi fraternity like you and me. He
Speaker 1: was a fifth degree black belt in karate. When I
Speaker 1: was a young teenager, I wanted to be Ronald McNair.
Speaker 1: But who was your brother beyond what most often is
Speaker 1: publicly shared.
Speaker 6: Well, Ron was like any of So many people think
Speaker 6: he was like a bookworm, but Ron was. As we
Speaker 6: were growing up, he was on the football team and
Speaker 6: the baseball team, ran track and just like any other kid.
Speaker 6: But he had a satiable theft for knowledge. That was
Speaker 6: Ron in the nutshell.
Speaker 1: When he was doing his thing being a baseball diamond
Speaker 1: or track field or any of his other exploits, did
Speaker 1: you see something in him which said he's not going
Speaker 1: to choose any of that. He's going to be a scientist.
Speaker 1: He is going to do something in the stem field.
Speaker 6: Yes, not to mention that he was very good at
Speaker 6: science and math, and as he was very good at
Speaker 6: the sports and what have you. But I think this
Speaker 6: was this particular time when he had a laccident at
Speaker 6: home where he cast his kneecap, and instead of going
Speaker 6: through the pain and agony of having gassed your your
Speaker 6: your kneecap, he started showing me the ligaments and the
Speaker 6: us I knew something was strange about me.
Speaker 1: What was home like for you and your family? Were
Speaker 1: your parents really tough on you as far as school?
Speaker 1: Did they encourage you to pursue certain careers. What was
Speaker 1: life like growing up in the McNair household.
Speaker 6: Well, my mother only went to the eleventh grade. Rather more,
Speaker 6: my father only went to the eighth grade, and my
Speaker 6: mother only went to eleventh grade because they would allow
Speaker 6: black people to go past the eleventh grade in this
Speaker 6: segregated town in South Carolina. But she did find a
Speaker 6: way to go on to school. And we saw her
Speaker 6: the nasty throughout our lives and all for education, and
Speaker 6: I think that inspired us. My dad he would say, hey, look,
Speaker 6: whatever you want to do, just be a just do it.
Speaker 4: Well, if you're going to be a bomb, be a
Speaker 4: good bomb. That was his advice.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when or was there a singular moment
Speaker 1: when doctor Minair maybe came to you and said, Carl,
Speaker 1: I have this dream of becoming an astronaut or I'm
Speaker 1: going to apply for the NASA astronaut program. Do you
Speaker 1: remember that moment. Was there a moment like that?
Speaker 6: Well, there was a like that, and I'll tell you
Speaker 6: about that moment, but I'll.
Speaker 4: Tell you how he got to that point.
Speaker 7: Ron.
Speaker 6: I remember, Ron had finished his education at A and
Speaker 6: T where he and I started at the same time.
Speaker 6: That's North Carolina, A and T in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Speaker 6: And it was through A and T where he got
Speaker 6: the opportunities to spend a summer at MIT and thereby
Speaker 6: having a look at Mit, Mit had to look at him,
Speaker 6: and he knew the professors, and that made it I
Speaker 6: won't say easier, but sometimes when you made relationships and
Speaker 6: connections in your network, it makes it a little easier.
Speaker 6: But it wasn't before he had some self doubts early
Speaker 6: on why he was at A and C whether he
Speaker 6: could compete, because he ran into these guys who was
Speaker 6: in the physics program, and they came from the school
Speaker 6: Swamp North. They had all of these great math and
Speaker 6: science courses. In fact, they had physics, thermodynamics and classical
Speaker 6: mechanics and had modern physics. And Ron only had a
Speaker 6: class of physics one oh one taught by a teacher
Speaker 6: who never saw a book of physics. So he came
Speaker 6: in at a disadvantage, almost quit but to become a
Speaker 6: music major. But his advisor, which you could only find,
Speaker 6: we'd like to think that way, but usually at HPCUS
Speaker 6: you'll find folks who will make certain that you get
Speaker 6: what you need. She encouraged him to go try physics.
Speaker 6: That was the confidence that he needed. He went on
Speaker 6: and try try physics, and the rest is history.
Speaker 3: It was a bitter, cold, but sparkling clear morning at
Speaker 3: Cape canaveral Man and here at the last seconds of
Speaker 3: the countdown.
Speaker 2: Three two one and lift off, left off solve the
Speaker 2: twenty fifth base Shuttle mission and it as clear.
Speaker 1: As the tower.
Speaker 3: All the communications between the shuttle and mission control indicated
Speaker 3: everything was going fine. There was a sense of relief
Speaker 3: that the much delayed flight was finally underway.
Speaker 5: Engines had sixty five percent, three engines are running normally,
Speaker 5: three good fuel deals, three good APUs engines throttling up,
Speaker 5: three engines and owin one hundred and four percent challenger
Speaker 5: goh it throttle up.
Speaker 3: It happened just over one minute into flight.
Speaker 5: One minute fifteen seconds, flanty twenty nine hundred and pet
Speaker 5: per second, altitude nine augo milestown, range distance seven aug.
Speaker 3: A mile, our mission control silence. Then the bland chilling report.
Speaker 5: We have a report from the flight dynamics officer that
Speaker 5: the vehicle has exploded. Flight director confirms that we are
Speaker 5: looking at checking with the recovery forces to see what
Speaker 5: can be done at this point.
Speaker 3: A search effort couldn't begin for some fifteen minutes after
Speaker 3: this debris, they said, just kept raining.
Speaker 1: From the sky.
Speaker 3: The head of the Space Shuttle program had no explanations,
Speaker 3: just sorrow at the tragedy.
Speaker 8: At eleven forty am this morning, Space program experience our
Speaker 8: national tragedy with the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Speaker 8: Approximately a minute and a half, I have to launch
Speaker 8: from here at the Kennedy Space Center.
Speaker 3: Computer enhanced video shows the explosion in detail. What explosion
Speaker 3: appears to happen at the rear of the spacecraft, around
Speaker 3: the main engines, perhaps in one of the two solid
Speaker 3: rocket boosters. Then up last, higher up, the shuttle was
Speaker 3: instantly a blazing fireball. NASA has appointed a committee of
Speaker 3: top engineers and scientists to investigate the catastrophe. Orders have
Speaker 3: been issued to impound all records concerning the flight, down
Speaker 3: to the personal notes of all the flight controllers. Dan Molina,
Speaker 3: NBC News at the Johnson Space Center, Houston.
Speaker 1: On the line right now is Carl McNair, the older
Speaker 1: brother of doctor Ronald McNair, who perished thirty nine years
Speaker 1: ago today on Challenger fifty one l if you old
Speaker 1: enough to remember, it changed history. We'll have more with
Speaker 1: Carl McNair in just a moment.
Speaker 9: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 9: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: And I'm right in the middle of a very special conversation.
Speaker 1: On this day, thirty nine years ago STS fifty one
Speaker 1: l Space Shuttle Challenger exploded. If you old enough like
Speaker 1: me to remember, it changed history. Right now on the
Speaker 1: line with me is Carl McNair, the older brother of
Speaker 1: doctor Ronald McNair, who perished along with six other astronauts
Speaker 1: on this day thirty nine years ago. And Carl, I
Speaker 1: think I remember, and I know you remember the Space
Speaker 1: Shuttle program. It was after the Apollo missions. The mandate,
Speaker 1: the direction of the space program was just different. What
Speaker 1: was your brother's aspiration beyond the Space Shuttle program? Did
Speaker 1: he want to go, maybe one day, back to the
Speaker 1: move Where did he think his astronaut career would take him?
Speaker 6: Well, all along Ronald wanted to be a college professor.
Speaker 6: But when the opportunity came to apply to NASA, he
Speaker 6: knew there was a latent desire to become an astronaut.
Speaker 6: But remember now, during the dark times of the Gemini
Speaker 6: and Apollo. You had to be military, you had to
Speaker 6: be a fighter pilot, you had to be twenty twenty visions.
Speaker 6: You didn't you couldn't be black. And of course he
Speaker 6: certainly didn't fit the requirement of being a fighter pilot
Speaker 6: because he never looked.
Speaker 4: Playing, never was in the military.
Speaker 6: So when the Space Shuttle program came around, this was
Speaker 6: NASA's opportunity to have a more diverse space program. So
Speaker 6: you had women, you had other ethnicities like white, et cetera.
Speaker 6: And that's when he took advantage of that. That's how
Speaker 6: he took advantage of it. And there was always this
Speaker 6: laten designs. I said, I think Star Trek that was
Speaker 6: a big plus for a lot of young people to
Speaker 6: consider science degrees or work in the area of science
Speaker 6: or stam if you will. And the prom was motivated
Speaker 6: Prome by one person more so than anyone else, and
Speaker 6: that was Lieutenant Yohora played by Michelle Nichols on Star Trek.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you, folks will go back that time
Speaker 6: to understand that was hour halle Berry doing those ladies.
Speaker 1: Carl. Let me ask you this because I have to
Speaker 1: ask you within the context of what's going on today.
Speaker 1: The whole idea of DEI diversity equity inclusion is controversial
Speaker 1: for lack of a better description, and it's been met
Speaker 1: with a lot of resistance. But you're telling me, if
Speaker 1: not for the public calls to diversify NASA, we would
Speaker 1: not have heard about doctor Ronald McNair or his ex
Speaker 1: world or his contributions within NASA. Is that correct?
Speaker 6: Absolutely? And probably for women as well. They didn't have
Speaker 6: any women and it was the New Space Program where
Speaker 6: they had decided to diversify. I might add that was
Speaker 6: under the administration Jimmy Carter, President Jimmy Carter's administration, So
Speaker 6: that kind of kind of fits, doesn't it, And so
Speaker 6: that's how that came about.
Speaker 4: It would be very challenging today. I thought about this recently.
Speaker 6: Obviously, that would being that I posted a picture of
Speaker 6: the Space Shuttle Challenger fifty one L crew and I
Speaker 6: thought to myself, would this have been possible today?
Speaker 4: Would have been possible?
Speaker 1: Since we're there, let's talk about it now directly. I
Speaker 1: remember where I was when I got the news that
Speaker 1: the Challenger Space Shuttle fifty one L had exploded shortly
Speaker 1: after takeoff thirty nine years ago this week, I was
Speaker 1: a junior in high school. I was walking in between
Speaker 1: Spanish and ap English classes. I remember the cloud around
Speaker 1: the very public investigation afterward. You know, all this is
Speaker 1: just like seared in my memory. There have been plenty
Speaker 1: of documentaries and movies over the years, and Karl McNair,
Speaker 1: I've known you for some twenty years and I've never
Speaker 1: asked you, but I'm asking you now. Have we, the
Speaker 1: general public, or at least the families, gotten the full
Speaker 1: truth surrounding Challenger?
Speaker 4: Quite frankly, we have no real idea.
Speaker 6: We know with some of the reports, We've seen some
Speaker 6: documentaries and found out more, But the answer is no.
Speaker 1: How do you look upon that some thirty nine years later.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm very actor, quite frankly, as somebody said, whatever
Speaker 6: they tell me, it's not going to bring Ron back,
Speaker 6: not going to bring in aid of the crew back.
Speaker 6: So I focus on the positive. As you well know,
Speaker 6: we have a lot of mcneir's scholars program.
Speaker 4: We have over five.
Speaker 6: Thousand mcnear's scholars program, mcnehir's scholars in the program right now.
Speaker 6: We've seen go on to do remarkable things in the
Speaker 6: areas of science, technology, engineering, math, as well as other
Speaker 6: profession as well. You know, for instance, Congresswoman Natima Williams
Speaker 6: from Georgia, she's a McNair scholar, and there's others who
Speaker 6: have achieved great things who are mcneir's scholars.
Speaker 4: And it had it not been for.
Speaker 6: The program, as I hear her from a person as
Speaker 6: early as today, and had not been for that program,
Speaker 6: they never would.
Speaker 4: Have achieved the level of success that they have.
Speaker 6: And the whole idea is inspired them be going to
Speaker 6: graduate school ultimately to get a PhD or some other
Speaker 6: doctor degree and return and be that person in front
Speaker 6: of the classroom that many of them found themselves absent of.
Speaker 6: So that's the essence of the program.
Speaker 1: Carlbing there, My time is running short with you, but
Speaker 1: I know earlier this evening and I appreciate you coming
Speaker 1: on on such short notice. But earlier this evening there
Speaker 1: was a candle light visual for doctor McNair as doctor
Speaker 1: Ronald E. McNair Life History Memorial Park in Lake City,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, where he was born. This is an annual
Speaker 1: event to keep his memory alive. Along those lines, what
Speaker 1: do you hear from the young people who may not
Speaker 1: have any memory of him? But are now first learning
Speaker 1: about him.
Speaker 6: Well, we've found over the years. So the first thing
Speaker 6: young people must do be exposed to possibilities out there.
Speaker 6: As you occurred before. You can't be what you can't see,
Speaker 6: and so we showed them, not only the professionals who
Speaker 6: are in those areas as well. The Cantillot Visuals is
Speaker 6: the annual annual event, if you will, to remember in
Speaker 6: our small town, Lake City, South Carolina, when we were
Speaker 6: coming along, it was no more than population what two thousand,
Speaker 6: now maybe it's around eight if.
Speaker 4: He fludge it a little bit.
Speaker 6: And people need to remember that here was a country
Speaker 6: bar from Lake City, South Carolina. As I mentioned, population
Speaker 6: two thousand and segregated South Carolina was almost thrown out
Speaker 6: the library. But he came out of this environment went
Speaker 6: on to become an astronaut. And it was because of
Speaker 6: the upbringing the school teachers at the time that we had.
Speaker 6: And we remember, we remember the school teachers as well,
Speaker 6: if it had not been for them to inspire Ron
Speaker 6: to go to the Sower program at Virginia Union, which
Speaker 6: is another HBCU, and that's when he got the idea
Speaker 6: from a professor that he could go all the way
Speaker 6: to the PhD. Didn't know what it was.
Speaker 4: But he was going to receive a PhD out there
Speaker 4: learning that that was the highest academic level that you
Speaker 4: could achieve.
Speaker 6: So that was the spark right there that carried him
Speaker 6: on and some great advisors.
Speaker 4: And he didn't get there by himself.
Speaker 6: I want anybody to think that he just you know,
Speaker 6: got to that level by himself, but people along the line.
Speaker 6: I called him guarding an agents to looking over shielder
Speaker 6: and make certain it takes the right direction.
Speaker 1: He is Carl McNair, founder of McNair Achievement Program, author
Speaker 1: and STEM Education consultant. He, like me and doctor Ronald McNair,
Speaker 1: are men of Omega Sci Fi Fraternity Incorporated. Ral McNair,
Speaker 1: I said it early, I'll stay it again. I've known
Speaker 1: you for about twenty years. I've appreciated our dialogues off
Speaker 1: air about your brother and your brother's achievements, and I
Speaker 1: want to celebrate you and yours as well. Thank you
Speaker 1: for coming on this show tonight, and let's keep Ronald
Speaker 1: McNair's memory alive.
Speaker 4: Thank you, brother. Kelly.
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Speaker 1: You've been hearing the updates. We are excited here. Fire
Speaker 1: Aid is almost here. We were talking about this just
Speaker 1: off air before the show about how much we are
Speaker 1: excited by not only the fact we had the fire coverage,
Speaker 1: but there's something good which is going to come out
Speaker 1: of it where we as a community can come together
Speaker 1: and make sure that these individuals who've lost their homes,
Speaker 1: these individuals who don't know where to turn next, may
Speaker 1: have lost their businesses, can get, at least on a
Speaker 1: small level, some help. And we told you about fire
Speaker 1: Aid before it was even going to be called fire Aid,
Speaker 1: before they even had any artists who were signed up.
Speaker 1: But we told you about the process. Here's what's going
Speaker 1: to happen, and you'll see these big names rolling in
Speaker 1: and now the big names are here for fire Aid,
Speaker 1: which is going to be on Thursday, January thirtieth at
Speaker 1: both six pm at seven thirty pm between two different venues,
Speaker 1: the Kia Form and the Into It Dome. And let's
Speaker 1: say you can't get there in person, you can watch
Speaker 1: it on Max. You can watch it on Amazon Prime Video,
Speaker 1: Direct Stream, Apple TV, Hulu, Disney Plus, Direct Tv, Peacock,
Speaker 1: Paramount Plus, NBC News Now, Netflix to Doom, YouTube Tv,
Speaker 1: Amazon Music, you can listen Apple Music, you can listen Spotify, Serious, XM, iHeartRadio,
Speaker 1: of course, SoundCloud, Amazon Live, TikTok FanDuel. It goes on
Speaker 1: and on and on. What about tickets, Well, I'm glad
Speaker 1: you asked. The tickets are available right now and you
Speaker 1: can get them at ticketmaster dot com. What time is
Speaker 1: the concert? Tell you again? Starts at six o'clock at
Speaker 1: the ki of Forum. The doors open at five. The
Speaker 1: Into a Dome will begin at seven point thirty. Doors
Speaker 1: also open at five pm. And if you live in
Speaker 1: and around Inglewood like me, well you're just sol. Don't
Speaker 1: try to drive in that area if you don't actually
Speaker 1: have to be in that area. Well, what if you
Speaker 1: want to watch both concerts, Well you probably won't want
Speaker 1: to go to the venue if you want to see
Speaker 1: both concerts. But in an effort to ensure people can
Speaker 1: at least experience as much of the fire Aid benefit
Speaker 1: show as possible, fans who buy tickets four Into a
Speaker 1: Dome will be able to view the key of Form
Speaker 1: show when it begins on screens inside the into a Dome. Conversely,
Speaker 1: when the Key of Forms show ends, fans inside will
Speaker 1: be able to view the acts at Into a Dome
Speaker 1: on screens at the KYA Form until the end of
Speaker 1: the event. If you're wondering how much ticket's gonna cost, well,
Speaker 1: they start at ninety nine dollars. But here's the good news.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent of ticket purchases go to benefit fire
Speaker 1: aid relief efforts with all venue and ticketing service fees way,
Speaker 1: so the price you see is the price you will
Speaker 1: actually pay, and one hundred percent of that ticket goes
Speaker 1: to benefit fire aid relief efforts. Now, you will have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to go either show, but you probably won't
Speaker 1: be able to go to both shows. In other words,
Speaker 1: tickets are only valid for the venue that you select,
Speaker 1: So be very clear are you buying tickets for Kia
Speaker 1: Forum or into a Dome Because it will not let you.
Speaker 1: Even though they're right down the street from each other,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to drive back and forth.
Speaker 1: Maybe spend an hour one venue then go over to
Speaker 1: the other venue. No, they will have screens inside, but
Speaker 1: you will not be allowed entrance or access to both venues.
Speaker 1: And the question I usually get is you know, can
Speaker 1: I watch it? Yes, some of us will just be
Speaker 1: watching it. I know we may have it on the
Speaker 1: screens and here inside the studio at KFI. Obviously we
Speaker 1: can't listen to it per se, but we can watch
Speaker 1: what's going on. But you you can watch it through
Speaker 1: all those devices and streaming apps I told you about.
Speaker 1: You can listen to any of the FM stations here
Speaker 1: at iHeartMedia LA. They'll all be broadcasting the concert. And
Speaker 1: it's going to be a wonderful, wonderful event. And I
Speaker 1: haven't gone over yet. Let me go over it one
Speaker 1: more time about some of the acts which are going
Speaker 1: to be performing. This is just some of the acts.
Speaker 1: I expect some last minute late announcements about huge, huge performers,
Speaker 1: but right now we know at the end to it Dome,
Speaker 1: you're going to have Billie Eilish Abrams little baby shout
Speaker 1: out to Mark Runner. That's what you had me at
Speaker 1: the infant Mark you have always been a little Baby fan.
Speaker 1: So it's my job to give credit where credit is due.
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Katy Perry, and if that wasn't
Speaker 1: good enough, Stevie Wonder, the Stevie Wonder, Tate mccraig, Staying
Speaker 1: and Moore. In other words, they have other artists which
Speaker 1: they will be announcing in the next twenty four hours
Speaker 1: at the key of form. Let's say I love into
Speaker 1: a Dome, but I'm more interested in going to the
Speaker 1: Kia form. Well, here's what's waiting for you a lot.
Speaker 1: It's more Set Green Day, Dave Matthews and John Mayer,
Speaker 1: Red Hot Chili Peppers, No Doubt, Pink, and some other
Speaker 1: surprise guests that they will be announcing, and you can
Speaker 1: listen to all this on the iHeartRadio app. Of course,
Speaker 1: you can listen to it on our terrestrial radio stations.
Speaker 1: I told you about our FM radio stations. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about my FM, or Real ninety two to three, or
Speaker 1: Co's one of three point five, KISSFM one on two
Speaker 1: point seven. There's so many ways that you can enjoy,
Speaker 1: but more importantly, participate in this tremendous event for the
Speaker 1: benefit for victims of these fires. We've been telling you
Speaker 1: about that, We've been covering them for the better part
Speaker 1: of two and a half weeks, and now we can
Speaker 1: move from the crisis portion to the recovery portion. And
Speaker 1: we have Nick Pouliochini in the studio who knows a
Speaker 1: little bit about music. We have twallets Sharpen the studio
Speaker 1: knows a little bit about music, and I know just
Speaker 1: a little bit about music. And I can tell you
Speaker 1: it's rare, and it's good that it's rare given the circumstances.
Speaker 1: It's rare you have this much talent together under one roof,
Speaker 1: much less two roofs.
Speaker 10: Well, yeah, And I think it's gonna be really interesting
Speaker 10: to see exactly what happens and what this is because
Speaker 10: the last time we did this was we had like
Speaker 10: Farm Aid and we've had all these different Aid concerts
Speaker 10: throughout time. But I'm really curious to see how this
Speaker 10: is going to play out, because I mean, you've got
Speaker 10: two venues, You've got two completely different setups.
Speaker 1: What is it going to be?
Speaker 10: Is it going to be something akin to a telethon
Speaker 10: like we've been used to kind of down that farm
Speaker 10: made path?
Speaker 1: Is just gonna be straight music? Like what exactly is
Speaker 1: the breakdown going to be? Here's something that I noticed
Speaker 1: that is really different and significant. You talked about or
Speaker 1: mentioned Live Aid, Farm Aid that was in a stadium, right,
Speaker 1: this is much more intimate, exact when you're in an
Speaker 1: arena of let's say, nineteen to twenty thousand people as
Speaker 1: opposed to eighty ninety thousand people, which as a concert
Speaker 1: goer is far more attractive for me. All this talent
Speaker 1: and I'll say, a relatively small arena, and you got
Speaker 1: other big names which are coming between now and Thursday. Lookout. Oh,
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 7: I'm hoping to see some really, really, really unique acoustic performances.
Speaker 7: See that's a really really personal intimate performance.
Speaker 1: How is it you know that? And why would you
Speaker 1: expect that?
Speaker 7: Because from doing shows like this, where you have artists
Speaker 7: who are coming out who are not doing their normal
Speaker 7: concerts setup. Whenever I've been involved in producing a show like.
Speaker 1: This, you produce shows like this, I have I've had
Speaker 1: quite a history.
Speaker 7: Some of these artists as a matter as a matter
Speaker 7: of fact, lots of these artists.
Speaker 1: Oh how about lots of these artists.
Speaker 7: When you have shows like this a lot of times
Speaker 7: and artists will come out with their signature musician team.
Speaker 7: They will have a small arrangement team, maybe a keyboard player,
Speaker 7: guitar upright, bass, you know, just the things that they
Speaker 7: need to just really knock out a show real fast,
Speaker 7: unless they're going to perform the track. Alah, maybe a
Speaker 7: little baby may be perform to track to kind of
Speaker 7: help things move along. But with artists like Billy Eilish
Speaker 7: and the Likes and even Stevie Wonder, I will just
Speaker 7: come out and say, hey, you know what, in order
Speaker 7: to make the show flow, I'm gonna come out and
Speaker 7: do my big hit. I'm gonna do another song which
Speaker 7: I will dedicate directly to the victims of the wildfire.
Speaker 7: You know, say God bless you good night. And that
Speaker 7: is what we will see a lot of because this
Speaker 7: is a lot of acts to pack into one night
Speaker 7: on a Thursday night.
Speaker 1: The show isn't going on all night long, No it isn't.
Speaker 7: So this is these are also union houses that have
Speaker 7: to What does that mean? They have to shut down
Speaker 7: at a certain time. Light's got to go on otherwise.
Speaker 7: And I know, God bless you Steve Walmer for picking
Speaker 7: up the tab. But but but there does come a
Speaker 7: limit and you will have to say light's got to
Speaker 7: go on at eleven.
Speaker 1: This is a show. As a performer, you want to
Speaker 1: perform early. You definitely want to perform early because people
Speaker 1: are going to invariably take more time than they're supposed to.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some logistical issues getting people on and
Speaker 1: off stage, maybe some technical difficulties, and if you're let's
Speaker 1: say the ninth or tenth act, and it's getting late
Speaker 1: in the evening, you may be asked to cut a
Speaker 1: song from your set evening.
Speaker 7: I mean, like, like anyone going, I want to make
Speaker 7: sure you're going knowing that these are not contraport just
Speaker 7: if they come out and do a song, if they donate,
Speaker 7: because remember, these arts are donating their time. These are
Speaker 7: arts who are getting paid millions upon millions of dollars
Speaker 7: to go on tour. I want you to know if
Speaker 7: they come out and they are able to donate a
Speaker 7: song or two, then cheer them on like it is
Speaker 7: the best thing you've ever seen, because they are donating
Speaker 7: their time to quite possibly one of the most worthy
Speaker 7: causes of this century, I would say. And so I
Speaker 7: solution you and shout out to the technical crew, behind
Speaker 7: the scenes crew, back house staging everyone ahead of time,
Speaker 7: because I know it is going to be hectic.
Speaker 1: And let me put it in just the consumer's terms.
Speaker 1: For ninety nine dollars, you would not be able to
Speaker 1: see one of these artists, much less thirteen of them.
Speaker 7: Trust My daughter's trying to get tickets to see Billie
Speaker 7: Eilish London.
Speaker 1: Their ticket is five hundred dollars.
Speaker 10: And I'm going to say something they've already looked because
Speaker 10: we kind of broke the news about this concert when
Speaker 10: it came out. We did those not need like I
Speaker 10: was literally we was literally here sitting in this chair.
Speaker 1: Was the first one, was the first Later with Kelly.
Speaker 10: Was the very first show in Los Angeles to talk
Speaker 10: about it, long before you heard any promos. No, I
Speaker 10: agree with you. The here's the challenge though, And remember
Speaker 10: I'm saying this not in a cynical way, because every
Speaker 10: single penny is going to an incredibly important, you know,
Speaker 10: situation to assist with. But those ninety nine dollars tickets
Speaker 10: are long gone.
Speaker 1: So okay, let's say the next tier up. You're still
Speaker 1: teen hundred dollars. Okay, it's the next tier up? Can
Speaker 1: if I am six forty we live everywhere in the iheartrad.
Speaker 9: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1: And coming up at the top of the hour. I'm
Speaker 1: always so glad to see my brother in study with us,
Speaker 1: Nick Poliochini. It's our new segment, What's Up with Nick?
Speaker 1: What's up? Comma with Nick? Not what's up with just
Speaker 1: like later with Mokelly. Right, yes, because if you say
Speaker 1: Landward Kelly, this sounds nigga now when you say what's
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Speaker 10: But really well with the show that started here this
Speaker 10: weekend came Yeah, there you go, so all that stuff.
Speaker 1: What do you have coming up at the top of
Speaker 1: the hour.
Speaker 10: I'm excited because it has been I don't know. First
Speaker 10: of all, I'd like to say, welcome to Tuesday, the
Speaker 10: forty ninth of February. Is what it feels like without
Speaker 10: a joke in my you know, just saying that. But
Speaker 10: I want to talk about what's going on in the Southland.
Speaker 10: We've already covered a lot here. We've got fire aid
Speaker 10: coming up, We've got so much else. But also tomorrow,
Speaker 10: a good portion of not just southern California, especially in
Speaker 10: Orange County, Garden Grove, Westminster, Santa Ana, we'll be celebrating
Speaker 10: Lunar New Year, and so that's what we're going to
Speaker 10: preview and We're going to talk about a lot of
Speaker 10: things that you can do and enjoy in and around
Speaker 10: the south Land, give you a little bit of history
Speaker 10: and background on Lunar New Year as well. And I
Speaker 10: want to talk about the biggest Vietnamese community outside of
Speaker 10: Vietnam is in Orange County. We've talked about it here
Speaker 10: in KFI many times.
Speaker 1: Before, and I didn't know that until you told me
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 10: This was like right, But that's it's wild to think
Speaker 10: that it's been something that you know, is I mean,
Speaker 10: you could say it's something that we are very proud
Speaker 10: of here in southern California. Is the cultural diversity that
Speaker 10: we have, and not just you know, here in Los
Speaker 10: Angeles County, but La County, Riverside County, Sanmerdandino Ventura.
Speaker 1: Can you hear me?
Speaker 10: You know, I'm just saying it's we have such a
Speaker 10: diverse group of people who come together. And a lot
Speaker 10: of the businesses that I've been talking to have been
Speaker 10: raising money as well for the fires, the you know,
Speaker 10: for the Eaten fire, for Alsadena, for the Palasades fire,
Speaker 10: So you know it'll be something different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a function of a byproduct of
Speaker 1: everybody knows somebody, yes, who was impacted by these fires.
Speaker 10: You're correct, and I think like we've talked about here
Speaker 10: on Later but you you and Toualla specifically talking about
Speaker 10: the Dina like talking about the community that is or
Speaker 10: you know, is there still a lot of these communities
Speaker 10: have been affected and they know people and being of
Speaker 10: an international and a different cultural existence and experience here
Speaker 10: in southern California, some of them are still pretty quiet
Speaker 10: and they like to keep themselves, but they've been doing
Speaker 10: just as much behind the scenes as much as they
Speaker 10: can to help support but not just their community, but
Speaker 10: the community at large.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that a little bit as well.
Speaker 1: And you gotta give us an update on what you're
Speaker 1: doing personally.
Speaker 10: I'll be happy to because lord knows, since begin in December,
Speaker 10: I've been out of work. So let's be real and
Speaker 10: genuine and audience. That's how we keep it here on
Speaker 10: Later but real, No, but I think that's it. It's
Speaker 10: just like so many of you who are trying to
Speaker 10: figure out what's next here in twenty twenty five, That's
Speaker 10: what I'm doing and pound the pavement and seeing what
Speaker 10: there is out there. You can still see me on
Speaker 10: social media, Nick pollio'channi this week with Nick and many
Speaker 10: other brands fifteen minute footy and that'll be what we'll
Speaker 10: be diilding into a little bit here with eighty five
Speaker 10: Degrees Bakery, which uh oh yeah, which I was gonna say,
Speaker 10: you've thoroughly enjoyed, so you can tell about business. I
Speaker 10: was gonna say, you tell about business. So what's funny
Speaker 10: is it is for those of you who will participate
Speaker 10: in watching your calories coming in the New Year. Some
Speaker 10: of the stuff is keto friendly, some of it's kind
Speaker 10: of paleo, so you know, I got you back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not completely sugar laden. No it's not.
Speaker 10: It's not, but it's delicious and it has really so
Speaker 10: many and we're also going to try something that is
Speaker 10: very different. This is specific for Lunar New Year. Golden
Speaker 10: yolk red bean pastry. Say that again, slower golden yolk.
Speaker 10: You know that the eggs that we keep talking about prices, Yeah,
Speaker 10: that red bean pastry. So this is going to be
Speaker 10: one of the things that a lot, well, especially in Taiwan,
Speaker 10: but a lot of different places have different things that
Speaker 10: they do to celebrate Lunar New Year. So we're going
Speaker 10: to delve a little bit deeper into that, but yeah,
Speaker 10: that's pretty much what I've been up to is trying
Speaker 10: to figure out what's next. And I think that's what
Speaker 10: a lot of us are doing right now, is kind
Speaker 10: of figuring out what's next. It's the new year. We
Speaker 10: always are trying to figure out what's next and what's
Speaker 10: new for each of us. And some people subscribe to resolutions.
Speaker 10: I just need a job, So if that's my resolution,
Speaker 10: is finding a job and finding the next thing. But
Speaker 10: I think the thing that I have done the most
Speaker 10: between last year being let go by iHeart and then
Speaker 10: also you know, still coming around is where have I
Speaker 10: been able to help out? And I think being able
Speaker 10: to really get into it because of the incredible connections
Speaker 10: that I was able to make here over eighteen years,
Speaker 10: specifically since the launch of Later with mo Kelly and
Speaker 10: being a part of that inaugural season and then going
Speaker 10: all the way through twenty twenty four and everything else
Speaker 10: that we've been through. It's amazing. Because my dms are
Speaker 10: open and if you want to reach out to me,
Speaker 10: Nick Poliokane this week of a Nick on Instagram, that's
Speaker 10: the easiest way to get hold of me. But I've
Speaker 10: been able to coordinate so much with you know, connecting
Speaker 10: businesses and people and trying to find those things. I mean,
Speaker 10: the thing that we have not really talked about, the
Speaker 10: Grammys are coming up. Like it's kind of crazy to
Speaker 10: think that the Grammys are right around the corner. There's
Speaker 10: an event that I came from earlier today, getting the
Speaker 10: kicker off the Grammys. I'll be also participating in Grammy
Speaker 10: functions that are coming up. We've got the super Bowl.
Speaker 10: Just we've got that game around the corner. You know,
Speaker 10: we've got You can hear the rules.
Speaker 1: You can talk about the super Bowl, okay, you just
Speaker 1: can't use it to promote a product and use the
Speaker 1: name super Bowl. Look, I could tell people, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going over to Tallas House. We're gonna watch the super
Speaker 1: Bowl together in right, but I can't say, hey, tune
Speaker 1: in the Lady with Moke Kelly where you could win
Speaker 1: your chance to go to the can't do that.
Speaker 10: That game I got you, Okay. So with that, it's
Speaker 10: just being able to really hit Tawala. I love your
Speaker 10: contemplative thoughts. If people could see us in studio, I
Speaker 10: think that's the thing we this show. I mean, many
Speaker 10: many shows on radio period would benefit highly from having
Speaker 10: a camera in their face show what's working on. I
Speaker 10: feel that and I can't wait for that. But and
Speaker 10: we've done how many Instagram lives here too, so you
Speaker 10: do know but our faces.
Speaker 1: But there's certain things with stories be for public consumptions.
Speaker 1: Correct some of the conversations during the break and the
Speaker 1: facial expressions during the break. I mean the fact that
Speaker 1: Mark Runner doesn't wear pants in the news room. He
Speaker 1: says it like he's kidding, but he's actually telling the truth.
Speaker 10: I'm impressed that they finally got you a little like
Speaker 10: knee blanket or whatever you have in their market. I
Speaker 10: don't know what that if it's a modesty thing or
Speaker 10: if it's keeping you warm, but what the story is, dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, it's not very large, but.
Speaker 11: I really enjoy watching how you guys twist around to
Speaker 11: find a way to get me involved in these baroque insults.
Speaker 1: Get you here, it's time to break. You know you're
Speaker 1: at the time. I know that the seat must be clean.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's the best seat in the house, because Lord
Speaker 10: knows in here sits here.
Speaker 11: Normally you don't need pants to do the news do you.
Speaker 11: I mean, we'll find out in a second. You think
Speaker 11: Walter Cronkite wore pants.
Speaker 1: I think none. If I am six forty more simulating
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