Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: Forty KFI AM six forty, It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. As it's night
Speaker 2: three of the DNC. We'll be bouncing in and out
Speaker 2: and we're on the watch and all the lookout for
Speaker 2: Governor Tim Walls, who will be officially accepting the nomination
Speaker 2: for vice president tonight, so we will have his speech.
Speaker 2: You heard Mark Runner earlier with an excerpt from the
Speaker 2: former President Bill Clinton, who spoke earlier.
Speaker 3: In the evening.
Speaker 2: And I would say this schedule tonight has been more
Speaker 2: on schedule.
Speaker 3: They've been moving through the speakers.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that because the last two nights they were
Speaker 2: way over both nights, less so last night, but.
Speaker 3: Way way way over Monday night.
Speaker 2: So it seems they've pared down the schedule for tonight
Speaker 2: and the speakers have a shorter amount of time because
Speaker 2: they're really moving through the schedule. And I'm guessing that
Speaker 2: Governor Walls may hit the stage in the.
Speaker 3: Next forty five minutes or so.
Speaker 2: I'm just guessing there might be some musical performances they're
Speaker 2: on the schedule, but it doesn't mean that they won't
Speaker 2: get cut somewhere along the way. And and Twalla did
Speaker 2: just said that Oprah Winfrey was also speaking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Oprah Winfrey is supposed to be going up soon.
Speaker 4: Actually I think she was supposed to be next. But
Speaker 4: then it seems like maybe they had to shovel some
Speaker 4: things around because they just had Kamala Harris's brother in
Speaker 4: law on.
Speaker 3: I guess that's what that was.
Speaker 4: A second Yeah, okay, well yeah, they you know when
Speaker 4: something's not on when they just said coming up next
Speaker 4: is Oprah Winfrey and it's not right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's a real fluid schedule, and we'll have
Speaker 2: Governor Walls's speech, but there's some other business we have
Speaker 2: to tend to here in California. You might have heard
Speaker 2: me speaking with Tim Conway Junior about San Bernardino County
Speaker 2: and let me just give you some of the background
Speaker 2: what is happening there. San Bernardino County voters, you may remember,
Speaker 2: narrowly approved Measure EE and that was about two years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was in twenty twenty two, and it authorized the
Speaker 2: county government to explore the idea of seceding from the
Speaker 2: state of California. This was connected to the idea that
Speaker 2: the county was not getting its fair share of state resources.
Speaker 2: San Bernardino County, Okay, or as I call it, San Bernissippi.
Speaker 2: This week, what I like that you have River Tucky
Speaker 2: in San Bernissippi. You'll see why in just a moment.
Speaker 2: This week, the county government revealed the results of a
Speaker 2: study conducted by the Blue Sky consulting group that shows
Speaker 2: the county get this, actually receives nine percent more state
Speaker 2: funding per person than other counties statewide. And to me,
Speaker 2: it makes perfect sense because San Bernardino County is probably
Speaker 2: not producing the amount of state income tax the other
Speaker 2: counties are producing. And this is what fourth District Supervisor
Speaker 2: Kurt Hagman said for San Bernardino County. Quote, the truth
Speaker 2: is in the numbers, and we're able to show in
Speaker 2: most cases, or about fifty percent of the cases, we're
Speaker 2: as in San Bernardino County, we're getting our fair share
Speaker 2: by population or maybe a little more by population.
Speaker 3: Clothes quote, and.
Speaker 2: It goes on, we're not getting our fair share for
Speaker 2: homeless in the county because the formula they use is
Speaker 2: based on large cities. So even though we're the sixth
Speaker 2: largest as in county in California by population. We're not
Speaker 2: getting that because we don't have a city with more
Speaker 2: than three hundred thousand people in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also according to Blue Sky study, oh here it
Speaker 2: is quote, tax revenues generated in San Bernardino County are
Speaker 2: likely less than half the revenues generated statewide. Now, I
Speaker 2: understand you may not want to be connected to California.
Speaker 2: You may not like the crime, you may not like
Speaker 2: the trash, you may not like the whole persona, you
Speaker 2: may not like what California feels like. But let's see
Speaker 2: this through to its logical conclusion. All right, let's do
Speaker 2: a thought experiment. Let's say hypothetically San Bernardino word to
Speaker 2: secede from the state of California.
Speaker 3: Then what then what do you become?
Speaker 2: Do you become Puerto Rico and you just kind of
Speaker 2: govern yourself because you're not getting any revenue from the state.
Speaker 2: You're not getting any help from the state. When there's flooding, right,
Speaker 2: you know, there's a fire, some sort of disaster. State
Speaker 2: can't help you.
Speaker 5: Hey, Puerto Rico got paper towels, right, But again that
Speaker 5: high velocity, by the way.
Speaker 3: They had to go to the federal government for that.
Speaker 3: That's true. Same thing here. You know, if you have
Speaker 3: a problem with immigration, good luck. I'm being serious.
Speaker 2: It's not like you can go to the state because
Speaker 2: you don't have control over the border.
Speaker 3: I just don't know how this is supposed to work out.
Speaker 3: Didn't we find a what's the word I'm looking for? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, a war over that kind of thing once we did.
Speaker 2: I think they called it the Civil War. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: The idea of secession may sound real sexy, but the
Speaker 2: realistic implementation not at all, not on a state level,
Speaker 2: not on a city level, not on a county level.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: And yet it's easy to put it on the ballot
Speaker 2: and people want to say, yeah, let's just go ahead
Speaker 2: and seceed. But I don't know if people have really
Speaker 2: thought through what that means. If you were actually successful,
Speaker 2: you love that state money, trust me. When it comes
Speaker 2: to schools, putting students in schools and the money you
Speaker 2: get for your public schools because you have actual students,
Speaker 2: all that's gone gone. All the money that you get
Speaker 2: from the state on any level gone. I don't know
Speaker 2: how that's This would be a better option. You know,
Speaker 2: if you feel like you're not getting your fair share,
Speaker 2: all right, then that means you get Put this way,
Speaker 2: my mother told me a long time ago, you can
Speaker 2: get a little bit of something, or you can get
Speaker 2: all of nothing. And if you get all of nothing
Speaker 2: because you've seceded from the state of California, I don't
Speaker 2: know how that's a better option. But as it turns out,
Speaker 2: you are getting more than your fair share. Now, maybe
Speaker 2: you want to reapportion some of the money where it goes,
Speaker 2: you know, it's allocated for homelessness as opposed to something else.
Speaker 2: Have that discussion. But if you think that San Bernardino
Speaker 2: County can make it with its own industry, you know,
Speaker 2: it's not like you get any of the money from
Speaker 2: Silicon Valley anymore. It's not like that. If you think
Speaker 2: that San Bernardino County produces enough of anything where you
Speaker 2: can survive on your own state income tax, good luck.
Speaker 4: Toll roads. That's how they can make their money, toll
Speaker 4: roads to.
Speaker 2: Get through Oh yeah, okay, but they're just taxing themselves.
Speaker 2: It's not like they're getting money from elsewhere, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 4: You're you're just not saying like so the like say,
Speaker 4: if we need to drive through San Bernardinas for.
Speaker 3: What to stop you there? I mean like, it's just
Speaker 3: it's an easier route than going how many time you
Speaker 3: driven through San Bernissippi? Well, I mean, look, not often.
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, like, if they charge us to drive through,
Speaker 4: like people who are going to River Tucky.
Speaker 2: I will stop at the border and yell across, Hey, Tawala,
Speaker 2: come see me in Orange County.
Speaker 4: Oh, I know they're pro San Diego County, probably going
Speaker 4: to entice Elon Musk to move Tesla to the state
Speaker 4: of San Bernissippill good luck soon.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm trying to think it through. No, Look,
Speaker 2: it would be for them to figure out. It's not
Speaker 2: for us to solve their problems. But for now, Sand
Speaker 2: Bernissippi is not going anywhere. It's Later with mo Kelly
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Speaker 2: It's night three of the DNC and we're following along
Speaker 2: waiting for Governor Tim Wallas, who will speak live.
Speaker 3: Will bring that to you.
Speaker 2: Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania had just finished speaking and
Speaker 2: I was looking over the rundown for tonight.
Speaker 3: It's like, wait a minute, Stevie Wonder was supposed to
Speaker 3: perform today. Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 4: Yes, he performed already, Yes, yes, yes, he was already
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 3: He killed it. How did I miss it?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you and I have worked in the
Speaker 2: music business. Okay, mo, we don't lie here.
Speaker 7: MO.
Speaker 2: I love Stevie Wonder. He's one of my most favorite
Speaker 2: artists of all time. He just doesn't sound that good.
Speaker 4: Live, I believe from looking at the response from the crowd.
Speaker 3: He had it up.
Speaker 4: Okay, turned all the way up, dancers DJ Molsky on
Speaker 4: stage with him, live band.
Speaker 3: It was a lot happening. Okay to Wallop. You produced
Speaker 3: a concert.
Speaker 2: This is true. Okay, this is true. Story time, Cas,
Speaker 2: You produced a concert. It was the Beat Summer Jam. Yes,
Speaker 2: and there was one year. I can't remember what year
Speaker 2: it was. I just know I was there the year
Speaker 2: that Stevie Wonder closed the show.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was the year that we had Little Kim
Speaker 4: on the show. And instead of Little Kim being the headliner,
Speaker 4: Steve Harvey, who was new to our station, wanted to
Speaker 4: show us young people what real music was. And he said,
Speaker 4: do I have an act for you all coming up
Speaker 4: at the end of this show, okay, And he kept
Speaker 4: promoting it on the radio, kept talking about it, hyping
Speaker 4: it up. And I'm the stage manager, okay. So Little
Speaker 4: Kim is on and she's killing it because it's Little Kim, right.
Speaker 4: This is preyday in our heyday, and the crowd is
Speaker 4: and it was a secret you.
Speaker 3: No one knew who the act was.
Speaker 4: And Steve Harvey's on stage and he's bringing buy these days,
Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: I know you have been waiting all.
Speaker 4: Day for this act right here, family, fuse Steve, Steve Harvey,
Speaker 4: let it give it up right now for the for
Speaker 4: the what is he the eighth wonder of the world,
Speaker 4: Give it up for the eighth wonder of the world,
Speaker 4: the one, the only Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 3: And how many crickets.
Speaker 4: And I'm telling you it was you could just see
Speaker 4: I'm on the stage and this is this is Irvine Amphitheater,
Speaker 4: and you just hear.
Speaker 2: And you yeah, no, no, look I have a different
Speaker 2: vanished point.
Speaker 3: I was walking.
Speaker 2: Out right after that announcement, and half the venue started walking.
Speaker 8: Out and Look, I'm on the stage and I'm watching
Speaker 8: all of these people leaving, and I'm look, and I'm
Speaker 8: looking over Steve Harvey and he has the angriest look
Speaker 8: on his face and he's just fuel me.
Speaker 3: Well, at least Stevie didn't see it. And that was
Speaker 3: the joke. Damn mo man.
Speaker 2: Okay, but see, I've heard Stevie Wonder perform on to
Speaker 2: say three or four times, yes, and each time that
Speaker 2: I've seen him live, he has been far less than spectacular.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is. I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's an age thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's he doesn't care as much anymore,
Speaker 2: but he does not sound great live anymore. The last
Speaker 2: time I saw him, I think you yeah, you were there.
Speaker 2: It was unfortunately for a funeral. Cliff Winston, who used
Speaker 2: to be the program director for kg LH one or
Speaker 2: two point three FM.
Speaker 3: He didn't sound good there either. No, No, he did not. No,
Speaker 3: he did not.
Speaker 4: That wasn't that wasn't. Look I okay. One time we
Speaker 4: had Stevie Wonder to come into the station and he
Speaker 4: performed live for Steve Harvey and the crew, and he
Speaker 4: was phenomenal, just him and his keyboard and he was great, Okay,
Speaker 4: And I think in the right circumstances, you get prime
Speaker 4: Stevie Wonder. Now I'm just looking at the screen and
Speaker 4: people were up on their feet and they were dancing,
Speaker 4: were doing it, and they were loving it. And I
Speaker 4: think it was maybe a thing of respect because he
Speaker 4: is the eighth Wonder of the world. He's Stevie Wonder,
Speaker 4: one of the greatest musicians songwriters ever, right, And I
Speaker 4: think it's just it's a thing of respect to have
Speaker 4: Stevie Wonder up there. And I think that's why he's
Speaker 4: not closing because of what you're saying about his performance
Speaker 4: as of late, because you have John Legend supposed to
Speaker 4: be closing if they're on time.
Speaker 2: Okay, well John Legend is supposed to perform. What is
Speaker 2: going to perform ordinary people?
Speaker 4: No, no, No, there'll probably be you know, one of
Speaker 4: his more rousing songs. He has a couple of let's
Speaker 4: have powerful songs. Yeah, he has very rousing songs, very rousing.
Speaker 4: I thought they'd get like childish Gambino This is America.
Speaker 4: That'd be probably be on another night, maybe on Thursday. Okay,
Speaker 4: you want to end with fire, you don't want to
Speaker 4: get a fire right now.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm just look, you have a lot
Speaker 2: of talent to choose from. I'm just very surprised to
Speaker 2: see Stevie Wonder performing the DNC.
Speaker 4: There reaching their reaching to different audiences, because yesterday they
Speaker 4: had Patty LaBelle Open Up. You know, so it's like
Speaker 4: they're trying to have two different audiences. Tonight you got
Speaker 4: John Legend and you've got Chili, you know, different generations,
Speaker 4: trying to make sure you're talking to everyone.
Speaker 3: Oh, Sheila E is performing. Oh okay, I got it.
Speaker 2: Governor Walls, Minnesota, Sheila E from Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Both gammorous lid. Yes, okay, yes, Mark, you've mairied with Sheila.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: If they play crush Groove at the DNC, the reporters,
Speaker 5: the reporters will finally get the riot they want.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, wait a minute, what do you do
Speaker 3: about crush Groove? Nothing? Nothing, I'm half white, remember, okay,
Speaker 3: so you know half of it? Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 2: That was a deep cut as far as music, I'm
Speaker 2: surprised that they would reach for Sheila E. Love Sheile.
Speaker 2: I get what they're doing with the whole Minnesota connection.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm surprised, not that they could call
Speaker 2: prints or anything. I'm surprised they didn't go, like more
Speaker 2: Stay in the Time. He's still around too, he.
Speaker 3: Is, he's been on this show.
Speaker 2: Whoa, Yeah, yes, he still's got it. He stills, he
Speaker 2: still still has it. Yeah, well he's no Shatner, but
Speaker 2: I am jealous of that. No, no, no, no, he
Speaker 2: he he came on the show. We did an hour
Speaker 2: long conversation, went through all the songs all. A matter
Speaker 2: of fact, I think I'm going to post that as
Speaker 2: far as the great conversations, classic conversations and legend conversations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a great one.
Speaker 2: He was in a great mood and we just we
Speaker 2: talked about all of his career, even talked a little
Speaker 2: bit about Prince as well. How many songs are there though, honestly,
Speaker 2: you mean more Staying in the Time. Yeah, I want
Speaker 2: to say maybe ten to twelve off the top of
Speaker 2: my head. Well, that exceeds my knowledge of more States
Speaker 2: the Time, The Bird of course, Jungle Love, see a.
Speaker 3: Cool Low's getting lonely too. Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 3: I know cancel to eleven. I guess I got some looking.
Speaker 3: What's your phone number?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 3: And keep going seven, seven, seven, nine to three eleven?
Speaker 3: Does it ring a bell?
Speaker 2: Does it sound different or better when he does it?
Speaker 2: He sounds just the same. As matter of fact, Stephan's
Speaker 2: getting it right now. See and you will see that.
Speaker 2: Morris Day, Morris O Kelly one and the same.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we have time for that. Oh
Speaker 3: yes we do, because he's pulling it up right now.
Speaker 3: Now we're up against the clock. Now, we are up
Speaker 3: against the clock.
Speaker 2: But I'm going to wait. It's called host privilege. Hurry up, Stephan, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Mars Day, he has it. I would say ten to
Speaker 2: twelve if I actually thought about it all.
Speaker 3: I like him. I just don't know all this stuff,
Speaker 3: all right, do you know who? What's that spell?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: I think you better do that you first than the
Speaker 3: actual song.
Speaker 8: See.
Speaker 3: Oh oh eh, what's the secret to that falsetto? By
Speaker 3: the way, is it? Is it in the underwear?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, no no no, I'm had to make it weird.
Speaker 3: No no, no, I'm not mocking you. I would never
Speaker 3: do that.
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Speaker 3: Let's drop into the DNC and listen to Oprah Winfrey.
Speaker 6: And what we're gonna do is elect Kamada Harris as
Speaker 6: the next President.
Speaker 9: Of the United States.
Speaker 7: I am so honored to have been asked to speak
Speaker 7: on tonight's theme about what matters most to me, to
Speaker 7: you and all of us Americans.
Speaker 3: Freedom.
Speaker 7: There are people who want you to see our country
Speaker 7: as a nation of us against them, people who want
Speaker 7: to scare you, who want to rule you, people who'd
Speaker 7: have you believe that books are dangerous and assault rifles
Speaker 7: are safe, that there's a right way to worship and.
Speaker 9: A wrong way to love.
Speaker 7: People who seek first to divide and then to conquer.
Speaker 7: But here's the thing, when we stand together, it is
Speaker 7: impossible to conquer us.
Speaker 3: Did Opos say what I thought?
Speaker 5: She said?
Speaker 7: In the words of an extraordinary American, the late Congressman
Speaker 7: John Lewis, He said, no matter what ship our ancestors
Speaker 7: arrived on, we are all in the same boat. Now,
Speaker 7: Congressman very well, how far this country has come. Because
Speaker 7: he was one of the brilliant Americans who helped to
Speaker 7: get us where we are. But he also knew that
Speaker 7: the work is not done. The work will never be
Speaker 7: done because freedom isn't free. America is an ongoing project.
Speaker 7: It requires commitment, It requires being open to the hard
Speaker 7: work and the heart work of democracy, and every now
Speaker 7: and then, it requires standing up to life's bullies. I
Speaker 7: know this.
Speaker 9: I've lived in.
Speaker 7: Mississippi, in Tennessee, in Wisconsin, Maryland.
Speaker 6: Indiana, Florida, Hawaii, Colorado, California, and and Sweet Home Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 7: I have actually traveled this country from the Redwood Forest
Speaker 7: loved those redwoods to the Gulf Stream waters. I've seen
Speaker 7: racism and sexism, and income inequality and division. I've not
Speaker 7: only seen it at times, I've been on the receiving
Speaker 7: end of it. But more often than not, what I've
Speaker 7: witnessed and experienced are human beings, both conservative and liberal,
Speaker 7: who may not agree with each other, but who'd still
Speaker 7: help you in a heartbeat if you are in trouble.
Speaker 7: These are the people who make me proud to say
Speaker 7: that I am an American.
Speaker 9: They are the best of America. And despite what some
Speaker 9: would have you think, we are not so different from
Speaker 9: our neighbors.
Speaker 7: When a house is on fire, we don't ask about
Speaker 7: the homeowner's race or religion.
Speaker 9: We don't wonder who their partner is or how they
Speaker 9: vote it. No, we just try to do the best
Speaker 9: we can to save them.
Speaker 7: And if the place happens to belong to a childless cat.
Speaker 3: Lady, well.
Speaker 9: We try to get that cat out too.
Speaker 7: Because we are a country of people who work hard
Speaker 7: for the money. We wish our others and sisters well,
Speaker 7: and we pray for peace. We know all the old
Speaker 7: tricks and tropes.
Speaker 9: That are designed to distract us.
Speaker 7: From what actually matters, but we are beyond ridiculous tweets
Speaker 7: and lies and foolery. These are complicated times, people, and
Speaker 7: they require adult conversation, and I welcome those conversations because
Speaker 7: civilized debate is vital to democracy and it is the
Speaker 7: best of America.
Speaker 9: Now, over the last couple of nights, we have all.
Speaker 7: Seen brave people walk onto the stage and share their
Speaker 7: most private pain.
Speaker 9: Amanda and Josh Caitlin Hadley.
Speaker 7: They told us their stories of rape and incest and
Speaker 7: near death experiences from having the state deny them the
Speaker 7: abortion that their doctor explained.
Speaker 9: Was medically necessary.
Speaker 7: And they've told us these things for one reason, and
Speaker 7: that is to keep what happened to them from happening
Speaker 7: to anybody else.
Speaker 9: Because if you do not have autonomy over this, over this.
Speaker 7: If you cannot control woen and how you choose to
Speaker 7: bring your children into this world and how they are
Speaker 7: raised and supported, there is no American dream.
Speaker 9: The women and men who.
Speaker 7: Are battling to keep us from going back to a
Speaker 7: time of desperation and shame and stone cold fear, they
Speaker 7: are the new freedom fighters. And make no mistake, they
Speaker 7: are the best of America. I want to talk now
Speaker 7: about somebody who's not with us tonight. Tessi Prevos Williams
Speaker 7: was born in New Orleans, not long af there's a
Speaker 7: Supreme Court rule that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. That
Speaker 7: was in nineteen fifty four, same year I was born.
Speaker 7: But I didn't have to head to first grade at
Speaker 7: the all white Madonna nineteenth School with a US Marshal
Speaker 7: by my side like TESSI did. And when I got
Speaker 7: to school, the building wasn't empty like it was for Tessie.
Speaker 7: You see, rather than allowing Madonna to be integrated, parents
Speaker 7: pulled their kids out of the school, leaving only Tessi
Speaker 7: and two other little black girls, Gail at the Enne
Speaker 7: and Leona Tate to sit in a classroom with the
Speaker 7: windows papered over to block snipers from attacking the six
Speaker 7: year old bodies.
Speaker 9: Tessie passed away six weeks.
Speaker 7: Ago, and I tell this story to honor her tonight,
Speaker 7: because she, she, like Ruby Bridges and her friends Leona
Speaker 7: and Gail, the New Orleans four.
Speaker 9: They were called, they broke barriers, and they.
Speaker 7: Paid dearly for it. But it was the grace and
Speaker 7: guts and courage of women like Tessie Prevots Williams that
Speaker 7: paid the way for another young girl who nine years.
Speaker 6: Later became part of the second class to.
Speaker 7: Integrate the public schools in Berkeley, California.
Speaker 5: And it seems to me.
Speaker 7: That at school and at home, somebody did a beautiful
Speaker 7: job of showing this young girl how to challenge the
Speaker 7: people at the top and empower the people at the bottom.
Speaker 9: They showed her how to look at the world and
Speaker 9: see not just what is, but what can be.
Speaker 7: They instilled in her a passion for justice and freedom
Speaker 7: and the glorious fighting spirit necessary to pursue that passion.
Speaker 7: And soon, and very soon, soon, embarrassed, soon, we're going
Speaker 7: to be teaching our daughters and sons about how this
Speaker 7: child of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, two idealistic,
Speaker 7: energetic immigrants, immigrants, how this child grew up to become
Speaker 7: the forty seventh President of the United States.
Speaker 9: That is the best of America.
Speaker 3: You're listening to it later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio Apple will continue to
Speaker 2: dip in and dip out of the DNC.
Speaker 3: That was Oprah Winfrey who was just speaking.
Speaker 2: We're waiting on Minnesota Governor Tim Walls to formally accept
Speaker 2: his nomination for vice president representing the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3: Will bring his address to you live as well.
Speaker 1: You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: Last week, I was talking about whether something was real
Speaker 2: or something was more out of curiosity. I was talking
Speaker 2: about how the first night of a convention, be it
Speaker 2: RNC or DNC, you usually is pretty high and then
Speaker 2: it levels off, tapers off, it goes down waiting for
Speaker 2: the eventual presidential nominee to speak at the end of
Speaker 2: the convention, and you have this surge in viewership. The
Speaker 2: Republican National Convention started off with like an eighteen point
Speaker 2: seven million people viewing the first night, and it tapered
Speaker 2: off to fourteen million the next night, and then its
Speaker 2: surged to twenty five million when former President Trump spoke
Speaker 2: and officially accepted the nomination to become president. Representing Republican Party,
Speaker 2: the Democrats started with twenty million about nineteen point eight
Speaker 2: million on its first night Monday, compared to like the
Speaker 2: eighteen point seven million for the Republicans. In fact, the
Speaker 2: first night for the Democrats beat the next three nights,
Speaker 2: the first three nights of the Republicans in the RNC,
Speaker 2: and I was saying, well, let's wait for the second night,
Speaker 2: because then you can start to see a pattern or trend.
Speaker 2: Was it just voyeurism where people are just tuning in
Speaker 2: to see what everything was going to be about, or
Speaker 2: was it actually going to grow or taper off, And
Speaker 2: then you would get a better sense of whether the
Speaker 2: DNC was generating momentum or people, you know, were just
Speaker 2: checking out the sideshow the first day and didn't really care. Well,
Speaker 2: the numbers are in for the second night of the DNC,
Speaker 2: and the Democrats went up from twenty million to twenty
Speaker 2: point six million. And if you want to make a
Speaker 2: direct comparison, the RNC went down to fourteen million it's
Speaker 2: second night.
Speaker 3: So if anything, it suggests.
Speaker 2: That not well, it doesn't suggest it says that more
Speaker 2: people are tuning in, but it does suggest that there
Speaker 2: is increasing interest in what is happening at the DNC,
Speaker 2: and that usually if you use history as a guide,
Speaker 2: it usually translates to voter registrations and also increased fundraising, because,
Speaker 2: like I said last night, this is about the time
Speaker 2: in which people really start tuning in and start paying
Speaker 2: attention to the presidential race. I mean, Mark and I
Speaker 2: we talk about this all year, every day. We follow
Speaker 2: these things very closely as a nature of what we
Speaker 2: do professionally, but not most people. Most people they're on
Speaker 2: the periphery. They know what's going on, but they're not
Speaker 2: really paying attention. But when the conventions come around, people
Speaker 2: start to play a closer attention. And let me just
Speaker 2: go down the numbers a little bit more. The twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four DNC is the first one to have higher
Speaker 2: ratings on the second night in the last decade. In fact,
Speaker 2: former President Obama's speech saw the highest spike in viewership
Speaker 2: over the course of the night. This is according to
Speaker 2: Nielsen an average of twenty one point nine million people
Speaker 2: tuned in to watch him speak, which was higher than
Speaker 2: the rest of the night, and the Nielsen numbers on
Speaker 2: the other end of the spectrum show that the Democrats
Speaker 2: are still struggling to attract younger voters. Only nine hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty nine thousand viewers between the ages of eighteen
Speaker 2: to thirty four the broadcast Tuesday, which was down from
Speaker 2: nine hundred and forty one thousand and twenty twenty, and
Speaker 2: it was just over two million and twenty sixteen. But
Speaker 2: like I was saying last night, this is where social
Speaker 2: media comes in because if you're looking for the sixteen
Speaker 2: to twenty four year old, for the most part, they're
Speaker 2: not looking at a television broadcast. They will pick it
Speaker 2: up on Twitter, they'll pick it up on TikTok, they'll
Speaker 2: pick it up clips on it on YouTube. People will say, well,
Speaker 2: what did the show Obama have to say last night? Well,
Speaker 2: they're probably not tuning in live. They'll find it on
Speaker 2: social media somewhere, and those speeches are very easy to find.
Speaker 2: And if you've been following this closely, the Harris campaign
Speaker 2: has been spending more on digital media than any campaign
Speaker 2: in history. They are trying to bridge that gap between
Speaker 2: young people and the political reality, the present political landscape,
Speaker 2: because the most people, well the most that I hear
Speaker 2: from young people is just whatever they see on TikTok.
Speaker 2: They'll tell me what they saw on TikTok, what they
Speaker 2: saw on Twitter, what they heard from a friend who
Speaker 2: saw it on TikTok. They're not watching traditional media by
Speaker 2: and large, and the Harris campaign is going out of
Speaker 2: their way to make sure. Like last night we talked
Speaker 2: about the roll call and DJ Cassidy, how they had
Speaker 2: the music from the different states and how that could
Speaker 2: be chopped up into one minute segments that could be
Speaker 2: sent out. All that stuff is going viral today. If
Speaker 2: you just do DNC roll call on any social media,
Speaker 2: you'll find it everywhere. And that is by design, that's
Speaker 2: not by happenstance. It's not like it's going viral in
Speaker 2: an organic way. They're pushing it, they're helping it go viral.
Speaker 2: And that's I think one of the largest differences between
Speaker 2: this election and just four years ago, where social media
Speaker 2: and the digital landscape has an outsized importance, a disproportionate
Speaker 2: importance as far as getting messages out and also reaching
Speaker 2: younger voters. Now, does this mean that they'll actually turn
Speaker 2: out and vote? Historically not in high percentages, but you know,
Speaker 2: we'll see if that changes.
Speaker 3: But you you disagree?
Speaker 5: Mark, Did you see me raise an eyebrow or something
Speaker 5: yet the spastic eyebrow you go into action?
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 5: Actually, the pulling data that I've seen, and correct me
Speaker 5: if I have this wrong, shows that younger demographic voters
Speaker 5: are in the bag for Harris by a factor of
Speaker 5: at least two to one. If no, no, no, not
Speaker 5: in the bag. I'm not saying their preference. I'm saying
Speaker 5: that turnout and the viewership. I don't young people aren't
Speaker 5: going to watch this stuff on TV. And by the way,
Speaker 5: as you and I were sitting here, Wes Moore, the
Speaker 5: governor of Maryland, was speaking, nobody knows him. Do you
Speaker 5: really want to follow Oprah if you're Wes Moore? No,
Speaker 5: not if you're actually a speaker on the slate.
Speaker 2: But thanks to social media, you can be separated from
Speaker 2: Oprah and just his speech can go out and people
Speaker 2: can find it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he better hopes so, because it's actually it would
Speaker 5: be a come down for even to be president.
Speaker 3: From what I understand.
Speaker 2: You know, look, Oprah has an advantage over most people
Speaker 2: because television is her natural habitat, as it were. So
Speaker 2: she's very comfortable in front of a camera, and she
Speaker 2: is obviously world renowned. Everyone knows Oprah, so she's made
Speaker 2: for events like this, But the governor of Maryland probably
Speaker 2: is not, even though he is an elected official. He's
Speaker 2: done campaign stops. But you're not going to be able
Speaker 2: to rouse the audience in a way that Oprah Winfrey camp. No,
Speaker 2: you got to plan this stuff out so that there's
Speaker 2: a natural flow. And you guys, as longtime music people,
Speaker 2: you know that you plan the flow of speakers, music acts, whatever,
Speaker 2: so you know you.
Speaker 3: Wind up to the big finish. Yes, the headliners, you don't.
Speaker 5: You don't put on one of the headliners first and
Speaker 5: then put Wes moron welterward.
Speaker 2: Think about a set list that's basically what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: That he'll sprinkle in your hit songs throughout the night.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna put them all at the beginning. You're
Speaker 2: not gonna put them all at the end. You sprinkle
Speaker 2: them in. You'll play some new songs. You know, Hey,
Speaker 2: we have a new song from our album We're gonna
Speaker 2: play because you want your fans to come along with
Speaker 2: you and also buy the new music, not just the
Speaker 2: old music.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you're Berlin, you don't open with the metro, right,
Speaker 5: you'll close and speaking of like Minnesota, all things Minnesota.
Speaker 2: The one and only time that I saw Prince he
Speaker 2: closed with purple rain. He didn't open with purple ring.
Speaker 3: That's what you do.
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