Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: Joining us in studio as friend of the show and
Speaker 2: my brother from another mother. Say, say, Nick Poliochini, what
Speaker 2: is up?
Speaker 3: Nick?
Speaker 4: It is so good to be back with you. And
Speaker 4: I can't even believe, and I'm going to do the
Speaker 4: cliched thing. I can't believe we're already into February because
Speaker 4: it already feels like we have lived through a year to.
Speaker 2: The point I can believe and appreciative that we are
Speaker 2: in February because January could not end soon enough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. So I'm glad that we're finally here. But
Speaker 4: it's good to be here and thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: But I just want to do you want to just
Speaker 4: jump into it?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: So I want to talk about something I actually did
Speaker 4: last week and it's something that's really cool that I
Speaker 4: think we'll be exciting because it comes up here in
Speaker 4: the next couple of months. So I was at the
Speaker 4: Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts, and this was something
Speaker 4: that has the sixtieth anniversary this year, and this is
Speaker 4: something that's very unique and different because it is a
Speaker 4: fundraiser for diverse arts programs within the schools in the
Speaker 4: Altadena and the Pasadena and everything else. So it's very
Speaker 4: interesting because it was supposed to happen. We did an
Speaker 4: empty house party, so it's this big, beautiful home in
Speaker 4: Pasadena and all these incredible designers come together and decorate it,
Speaker 4: and then you get to go through it and you
Speaker 4: get to meet the designers and you figure out their process,
Speaker 4: which in the world that we're living in right now,
Speaker 4: it kind of helps. It was really interesting to talk
Speaker 4: to me because a lot of them are very local,
Speaker 4: live in the SGV, the San Gabriel Valley area, and
Speaker 4: so they're very affected by the ETN fire and everything
Speaker 4: else that happened. So but also the amount of money,
Speaker 4: I mean the millions of dollars that have been raised
Speaker 4: by the Showcase House of Design. So this will be
Speaker 4: the sixtieth anniversary and so far it's twenty six million
Speaker 4: dollars contributed to the arts within the San Gabriel Valley area.
Speaker 4: So this year is going to be very very different
Speaker 4: because they're also working with cal Fire, and they're also
Speaker 4: working with the Eaton Fire and trying to help people
Speaker 4: that are trying to figure out and navigate people getting
Speaker 4: back into their homes and however that all plays out.
Speaker 4: But being able to go and tear through this big,
Speaker 4: beautifle home that was torn down to pretty much the
Speaker 4: studs and getting ready for it to come in is
Speaker 4: so different and unique because for me, I'm not that guy.
Speaker 4: I'm not that designer guy. So to be able to
Speaker 4: experience it in person and being able to talk to
Speaker 4: people and kind of get their process for it, but
Speaker 4: also to have this unusual weight that kind of was
Speaker 4: overshadowing the whole event because it was supposed to happen
Speaker 4: literally the week that the fires broke out, and so
Speaker 4: then for it to transition into this is so unique.
Speaker 4: But to see and be able to talk to these designers,
Speaker 4: some of them very very young, and that are up
Speaker 4: and coming, working with different architecture firms and everything here
Speaker 4: in the Southland and really being able to do it.
Speaker 4: So this is just one of the many things that
Speaker 4: you can check out. You can always follow me on
Speaker 4: social media. Nick pouliyo'keanney this weekend and Nick. Details for
Speaker 4: it are at the Lincoln Bio. But that one was
Speaker 4: so different because, as we talked about, and we've talked
Speaker 4: about a few times, having been over the Palisades with
Speaker 4: fires and volunteering, and then now being back into the
Speaker 4: San Marino Altadena Pasadena area.
Speaker 3: The whole thing.
Speaker 4: It's so interesting to be in the environment, even if
Speaker 4: you're not directly in the area where the fire was affected,
Speaker 4: It's affected everybody, and it doesn't matter if we're talking
Speaker 4: about the bougie world of San Marino and South Past
Speaker 4: and everything else. It has genuinely affected everybody. And so
Speaker 4: to be an event where it was really kind of
Speaker 4: a celebration, I mean, it's their sixtieth anniversary anyway of
Speaker 4: raising so much money for the kids, but it was
Speaker 4: specific to being able to talk to a lot of
Speaker 4: people who lost a lot or knew people who lost
Speaker 4: a lot, So it was very, very different. But anyway,
Speaker 4: that was the empty house party, and I've got some
Speaker 4: pictures on social media that you can check out. It's
Speaker 4: pretty wild. It's a beautiful home. But I'll be also
Speaker 4: passing along details as time progresses about how you can
Speaker 4: check it out when it's all decked out and has
Speaker 4: all those designers and all the fun and excitement for it.
Speaker 4: It's different, it's unique, it's something special. It is not
Speaker 4: free ninety nine but all the money I know. But
Speaker 4: I'll get to the free ninety nine stuff there in
Speaker 4: a bit. But it's something where the money is going
Speaker 4: to a cause and you get to see it, because
Speaker 4: that's I think the thing that we don't experience a
Speaker 4: lot is we make a donation. I don't want to
Speaker 4: call anybody out, but there's a couple of places that
Speaker 4: even this week, have said, oh, we're putting out you know,
Speaker 4: this box of candy and a dollar from it is
Speaker 4: going to support Yeah, which I hugely appreciate because I
Speaker 4: don't know every facet of it. But when you actually
Speaker 4: get to tangibly experience where the money is going, that's
Speaker 4: so different than just to be like, oh, I feel
Speaker 4: good about myself. I donated money. I was able to
Speaker 4: support a cause and help people out. It's less abstract
Speaker 4: it is, and it's very like when we're talking design,
Speaker 4: it's literally you know, you're able to be in there
Speaker 4: and really touch everything and feel every you know, piece
Speaker 4: of material from wallpaper to paint, the way that the
Speaker 4: sculptures are done, to hearing the stories of why they
Speaker 4: picked what went into what room to honor that home
Speaker 4: that's in Pasadena and has this here history from the
Speaker 4: nineteen twenties when it was built.
Speaker 3: So it's really cool, really different.
Speaker 4: But something else to get into that's a little bit
Speaker 4: more exciting is that's happening right now is the Pan
Speaker 4: African Film and Arts Festival kicked off tonight, So I
Speaker 4: was actually this is my I came over here because
Speaker 4: I want to hang out here, but tonight was a
Speaker 4: really cool opening party for it. But this is something
Speaker 4: that kind of goes back to what you've talked about earlier,
Speaker 4: that in real life IRL theater crimunal experience, because this
Speaker 4: is different for me, and this for me is one
Speaker 4: of the first major film festivals that's happening here in
Speaker 4: southern California. They happen every weekend. They happen every week.
Speaker 4: This one runs through the middle of the month. But
Speaker 4: you get to sit down and meet those people. So
Speaker 4: beyond talking about Fantastic four and all the really cool
Speaker 4: trailers and everything with Marvel Do we love from the big,
Speaker 4: huge powerhouses, to be able to meet people kind of
Speaker 4: like you even talked about the documentaries and being able
Speaker 4: to meet these people and talk to them and really
Speaker 4: get that feel. For me, this is what makes that
Speaker 4: in person experience more viable. And so even if you
Speaker 4: don't go to this specific film festival, I encourage you
Speaker 4: to find what's going on in your backyard, because literally,
Speaker 4: there's stuff that goes on in Newport Beach, There's stuff
Speaker 4: that goes on out in Riverside, there's stuff that happens
Speaker 4: up in ventur there's things that happen in San Diego.
Speaker 4: So much is happening throughout the Southland that happens not
Speaker 4: just on the weekends but during the week And I
Speaker 4: think that's the biggest thing, because sometimes you just need
Speaker 4: a reset, and we've really hit that point now where
Speaker 4: the in person experience for movies may not connect with everybody.
Speaker 2: And I think after a certain point, we get in
Speaker 2: such a routine of it's either the movies or this
Speaker 2: or that, we lose sight of the other options which
Speaker 2: are available, or we don't think to explore these other options.
Speaker 4: No, And I think that's it. You hit the nail
Speaker 4: on the head specifically, because we get into our bubble,
Speaker 4: we get into our blinders on situation. I got to
Speaker 4: get up at X number hours, I got work, I
Speaker 4: got this. I can maybe fit in, you know, a
Speaker 4: drink with a friends during the week These are really
Speaker 4: cool opportunities for you to get out there and to
Speaker 4: be a part of the community and also get that
Speaker 4: drink with your friends. And it doesn't take much and
Speaker 4: for the most part, like including the Filmfest of the
Speaker 4: Pan African Film and Arts Festival, they have an install
Speaker 4: at Westfield Cuver City, so it's happening at the Colus Theater.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Yes, the Fox Fields Mall. You're correct, it
Speaker 2: is the Fox Hills Mall. No, if you ever call it, well,
Speaker 2: you're right. Look his mama name him Clay. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: call him Clay. It's the fox Fields Mall.
Speaker 4: Which is funny because no one when going back to
Speaker 4: my time as the traffic reporter here for KFI, I
Speaker 4: would always talks about Fox Hills and people literally like
Speaker 4: where's that? And I was like, what the monument? But
Speaker 4: that's so saying you cannot miss it. If you're going
Speaker 4: up the four h five, you cannot miss the Fox
Speaker 4: Hills Mall. Now granted it out now has Westfield Culver
Speaker 4: City branding and everything else. Okay what they call it,
Speaker 4: but that's it. And that whole area right there just
Speaker 4: before the ninety is going to be the Fox Hills area,
Speaker 4: like right there on the East edge city right exactly,
Speaker 4: but it's so in you go to that and being
Speaker 4: able to even go to which you used to be
Speaker 4: the Magic Johnson Theater in Crenshaw is now a cinema.
Speaker 4: So yes, the theater and so they're one of the
Speaker 4: venues that will be be showcasing the films from the
Speaker 4: Pan African Film Festival. So it's something that's different. But
Speaker 4: again going back over to Fox Hills Mall Westfield, Culver City,
Speaker 4: that they do have over one hundred and fifty international
Speaker 4: artists that have an art installation there, which is kind
Speaker 4: of cool. So that plays into the Free ninety nine.
Speaker 4: You may get a little bit of you may get
Speaker 4: a little bit of commerce in there.
Speaker 3: How much is that again? Free ninety nine? Okay, thank
Speaker 3: you very much. We got to go to a quick break.
Speaker 2: We'll have more with Nick Polliochin and just a moment
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Speaker 3: What is going on? Where are we going? Where are
Speaker 3: you going?
Speaker 4: I'm going to be headed off to Disney this weekend,
Speaker 4: which is not surprising. We talked about many of my
Speaker 4: eighteen times. But the thing that I like, and I
Speaker 4: actually was there today before coming in because right now
Speaker 4: is to celebrate Soulfully Festival. Well festival, I guess it's
Speaker 4: not the right name for it, but to celebrate Soulfully
Speaker 4: is happening at the Disneyland Resort, so it affects Downtown Disney,
Speaker 4: Disneyland Park, and Disney California Venture Park. The next two
Speaker 4: weekends are two of my favorite weekends at the resort
Speaker 4: because of the Fantasy Land Theater inside of Disneyland. So yes,
Speaker 4: it does require park admission, but if you are one
Speaker 4: of our Magic key holders, if you're an annual pass
Speaker 4: holder like me, this is well worth your time. So
Speaker 4: go ahead and get in there and make that day
Speaker 4: reservation for Saturday or Sunday this weekend or next because
Speaker 4: they have the Celebrate Gospel, which is an absolutely incredible thing.
Speaker 4: Different choirs from around the south Land and around the country.
Speaker 4: So there's a couple that are coming in from Africa
Speaker 4: this year and a couple from Europe. So it's really
Speaker 4: really impressive for you to come in. And this is
Speaker 4: something while it is not free ninety nine to get
Speaker 4: into Disneyland, it is included with the price of admission.
Speaker 4: So whether you're a magic keyholder and you are going
Speaker 4: and just have like myself, gospel, it is the Gospel Fest.
Speaker 3: So it's the next two weekends.
Speaker 4: But it's so different and unique because a lot of
Speaker 4: people may have heard this music but have an experienced date.
Speaker 4: And if you've never been to church, like we've talked
Speaker 4: about to church, right, this is that opportunity for you
Speaker 4: because it's not just you know, going to someone's home
Speaker 4: or going to somebody's home church. You've got different parishes
Speaker 4: from around the country, around the world that'll be there,
Speaker 4: but specifically you'll have just choirs that come out. And
Speaker 4: for me, that style of music, I mean as not
Speaker 4: to be cliched again with Disney with the celebrate soulfully,
Speaker 4: but there's a different soul behind it. There's a different
Speaker 4: feeling behind that style of music, and so that is
Speaker 4: something worth checking out. Also, we're exactly a month away
Speaker 4: from Marty Grau, which I'm excited because that means I'll
Speaker 4: be here to celebrate Fat Tuesday with you guys, because
Speaker 4: Tuesdays with Nick and what's up with Nick? Hey, we're
Speaker 4: gonna be So a month from today is gonna be
Speaker 4: Marty Grau. But that doesn't mean it's not already everywhere
Speaker 4: around the Southland, including SeaWorld down in San Diego. I
Speaker 4: was there this past weekend checked it out. They've got
Speaker 4: a brand new parade, so that is a great opportunity
Speaker 4: for you. Took my nieces down there because they have
Speaker 4: their birthdays at the end of January. And the thing
Speaker 4: that's special about SeaWorld, and it's very controversial still to
Speaker 4: this day, after Blackfish and everything else, SeaWorld is so educational,
Speaker 4: and that is where so many people are like, oh,
Speaker 4: I never go because of you know, the controversy behind
Speaker 4: how the animals retreat and everything else like that. And
Speaker 4: I can understand if that's where you say, okay, But
Speaker 4: when I lived in San Diego as a kid, that
Speaker 4: was my first theme park before Disneyland or anything else,
Speaker 4: and I was so excited to be able to go
Speaker 4: in there and experience what it would be to be
Speaker 4: like a marine biologist. So that's the opportunity that's still there.
Speaker 4: So it's a very different world. Now, I don't think
Speaker 4: that's contradictory. Two things could have been true, which is true.
Speaker 4: The treatment of the animals and marine life could have
Speaker 4: been problematic, and it was still.
Speaker 3: Education, right, which is the thing.
Speaker 4: And I understand and relate to where people come from
Speaker 4: of what you just said if it's something that is
Speaker 4: very deep to your heart. But the thing is, it
Speaker 4: is so incredible to have taken my nieces who are
Speaker 4: now six and nine and see the wonder in their
Speaker 4: eyes that you don't experience. You see them go have
Speaker 4: a good time at another theme park, or you take
Speaker 4: them to the church carnival and they get to go
Speaker 4: on rides, and that's a whole fun experience. But being
Speaker 4: able to be up close and personal, especially with marine animals,
Speaker 4: is so unique and special and sea world. While you
Speaker 4: can experience that at zoos or maybe if you're lucky
Speaker 4: enough to be able to go some ways that has,
Speaker 4: you know, a wildlife preserve that you can experience, this
Speaker 4: is so different. But on top of that, completely separate.
Speaker 4: You've got Marty Gross celebrations underway down there. They also
Speaker 4: just had a Lunar New Year celebration. If you're still
Speaker 4: looking to do Lunar's New Year, check out this weekend
Speaker 4: with Nick and Nick Poliochini on Instagram. The Lincoln Bio
Speaker 4: has all the final celebrations that are happening for Lunar
Speaker 4: New Year, which just happened last week. So it's a
Speaker 4: really great opportunity. You granted, we're getting back into the
Speaker 4: swing of things after everything that hit us here in
Speaker 4: southern California, but there's so much for you to enjoy.
Speaker 4: In fact, you can even head over to Buyenne Park
Speaker 4: because this weekend kicks off Peanuts Celebration, so that's Peanuts
Speaker 4: Charles Schultz with Snoopy and Charlie Brown and Lucy. That
Speaker 4: celebration happens every year, and going to Wayne Park and
Speaker 4: going to Knotsberry Farm. If you're looking for something a
Speaker 4: little bit more on the reasonably priced side, that theme
Speaker 4: park and resort is great and they have a fantastic
Speaker 4: hotel there. You can make an entire experience out of it.
Speaker 4: But that's just a bunch of stuff going on, like
Speaker 4: it's we've gotten through January, which took three years to
Speaker 4: get through, or so it fell thereabouts maybe two and
Speaker 4: a half years. But now that we're moving into February,
Speaker 4: it's nice to be able to get out. And that's
Speaker 4: my biggest encouragement. As the air quality is improving around
Speaker 4: southern California the fires, it's time to get out because
Speaker 4: this is that time of the year where things are
Speaker 4: a little chill and a little mellow before we get
Speaker 4: into the thick of it once again, because spring break
Speaker 4: will be here right around the corner and then summer.
Speaker 3: And it seems like we're getting rained this week, but
Speaker 3: not this weekend.
Speaker 4: Correct, And even if it is, and if it's going
Speaker 4: to be what we've seen, we haven't had rain extensively.
Speaker 4: So that's one of those kind of the inside scoop
Speaker 4: if you will, of going to a theme park or
Speaker 4: going to any of these venues, even if it is
Speaker 4: an outdoor experience, if the experience isn't canceled or if
Speaker 4: the park isn't closed for the day, it's a great
Speaker 4: time to go. If you want short lines, if you
Speaker 4: want to be able to get on everything. Obviously, check
Speaker 4: in and then the one thing that I'm gonna it'll
Speaker 4: be a tease for Rue and Back next week. But
Speaker 4: fan Fest is coming to Universal Studios, which is a
Speaker 4: brand a new experience that will be coming up. I'll
Speaker 4: be there for the opening weekend of it. But FanFest
Speaker 4: will be the maybe the sister event to Halloween Horn Nights,
Speaker 4: and it is going to be featuring Star Trek and
Speaker 4: Back to the Future and all the different Universal properties,
Speaker 4: plus anime and all many, many, many different things. So
Speaker 4: I don't know, like it's now's the time we're getting
Speaker 4: back into the swing of things. There's so much happening
Speaker 4: around southern California. And if you're doing Universal CityWalk, that's
Speaker 4: free ninety nine. If you're using Downtown Disney oh wait, wait.
Speaker 2: Wait, city Walk is free parking pardons not free, okay,
Speaker 2: but woo.
Speaker 3: But with validation, depending on where you're going, you'll be
Speaker 3: able to get that. Look.
Speaker 2: When I lived in Studio City, I spent a lot
Speaker 2: of time back in the day at CityWalk.
Speaker 3: The parking was cost prohibitive. I can understand that.
Speaker 4: And here's my recommendation, and I say this with all
Speaker 4: the love in the world for the Disneyland Resort. You
Speaker 4: can get a pass to Universal Studios that includes parking
Speaker 4: for a very reasonable price of only a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Reasonable reasonable for a year's worth of exp oh years
Speaker 2: year's worth. Okay, yeah, we're not talking for one night.
Speaker 2: No no, no, okay, no no, because I know it
Speaker 2: was getting very expensive for one night. I mean it's
Speaker 2: like one night going to see a sporting of it
Speaker 2: fifty dollars. No, you're absolutely right, so I think that's it.
Speaker 2: And especially down your way. I mean you're in the
Speaker 2: thick of it into a dome and the forum like
Speaker 2: ninety five No exactly. That's why I get lucky because
Speaker 2: I get to go, hey, Mo, you can stop my
Speaker 2: mind stop.
Speaker 3: By your house, do you mind?
Speaker 4: And I'm just lift for uber over It would be
Speaker 4: funny because now I'm spending the money to get over there.
Speaker 4: But still yeah, So anyway, thanks for having me on, dude.
Speaker 4: Always good to see you, brother, pleasure as always.
Speaker 3: Will we come back.
Speaker 2: I have to tell you about this must see TV show.
Speaker 2: You must watch it at least the first episode. The
Speaker 2: first episode, take my word for it. If you don't
Speaker 2: take my word for it, you're missing out on one
Speaker 2: of the best shows of the year. We'll tell you
Speaker 2: about it next.
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Speaker 2: I'm not someone who likes to buy into TV shows
Speaker 2: in their first season. I do not want to get
Speaker 2: emotionally attached. Then the show underperforms or some corporate decision
Speaker 2: is made to cancel it, and I'm left holding the
Speaker 2: emotional bag of a show which goes nowhere. So I'm
Speaker 2: really reticent to jump into a show early on. But
Speaker 2: I happen to watch the first episode of Paradise on
Speaker 2: Hulu blew me away, and it's one of those things where,
Speaker 2: let me just see what this is about. If you
Speaker 2: don't know, Paradise stars James Marsden as a president United
Speaker 2: State since Sterley K. Brown, it's more like Sterley K.
Speaker 2: Brown's story. He plays the head of the President's detail.
Speaker 2: So I'm all into like government thrillers and conspiracy theories
Speaker 2: that kind of that. I like those types of shows
Speaker 2: because I'm into all things government and civics. This show
Speaker 2: starts one way, and I don't want to give it away.
Speaker 2: It's a whole different show by the end of the
Speaker 2: first episode. It is so smart the way they do it.
Speaker 2: It will leave your mouth hanging open. You won't see
Speaker 2: what's coming. You just don't see what's coming, and it
Speaker 2: takes you back to they've marketed this for like two
Speaker 2: months and no one saw what was coming. I suggest,
Speaker 2: if you're a fan of government thrillers, put it that way.
Speaker 2: Watch the first episode of Paradise on Hulu. Is it
Speaker 2: in the vein of like night Agent? Because that just
Speaker 2: came out. You can say night Agent, you can say
Speaker 2: the recruit, okay, because you're talking about presidential politics and
Speaker 2: protecting the president.
Speaker 3: So there are all sorts of stories which you could
Speaker 3: be told within that matrix.
Speaker 2: But this is something I can say that there are
Speaker 2: elements similar to another show, but I don't want to
Speaker 2: say because it will give it away where the show goes.
Speaker 2: I just tell people watch the first episode of Paradise
Speaker 2: and see if you don't like it. After the first episode,
Speaker 2: no need to keep on going. I suspect you'll want
Speaker 2: to keep going. And now the fourth episode dropped today
Speaker 2: and it was another just mind blowing. You think, like mo,
Speaker 2: you're being a little hyperbolic. No, no, no, no, it's
Speaker 2: It's one of the best shows that I've seen in
Speaker 2: quite some time for the genre that it's in, and
Speaker 2: it's Hulu, but it's not Disney.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of f bombs.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of cussin a lot, and I like
Speaker 2: shows with a lot of cussin because for me, that's
Speaker 2: how people talk. It felt very real in that regard.
Speaker 2: The quips are off the cuffs, like what are you
Speaker 2: effing wearing that type of thing, So it's very comfortable.
Speaker 2: It feels like these are people that we would know
Speaker 2: on a personal level, even though they happen to be
Speaker 2: very powerful. Check out Paradise on Hulu. I don't want
Speaker 2: to tell you more than that. Mark Ronner promised me,
Speaker 2: because you love me, that you watch just the first episode.
Speaker 6: Well, it's already kind of been ruined for me because
Speaker 6: somebody in the household had it on. Oh really, and
Speaker 6: have you had these conversations as a married man? Hey,
Speaker 6: I kind of wanted to watch that. Oh you can
Speaker 6: still watch it, I know, but you're watching the third
Speaker 6: episode and it's at the end of it right now,
Speaker 6: So you just ruined it for me.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'll go back and restart it, please do,
Speaker 2: please do. Yeah, Stepan highly recommend Twala. He may or
Speaker 2: may not watch it, but yet definitely recommend. It's one
Speaker 2: of those shows like I had no idea.
Speaker 3: I like Sterling K.
Speaker 2: Brown as an actor. I like James Morrison as an actor.
Speaker 2: He is pretty damn funny in this in an unintentional way.
Speaker 2: And let me just say, for people that are listening,
Speaker 2: Moe recommends shows. However, this is the first time, and
Speaker 2: we're coming up on a little over two years that just.
Speaker 3: A text watch Paradise. True was the text st our
Speaker 3: group chain and I was like, wow, that must be
Speaker 3: something special.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And for me it I regained a lot
Speaker 2: of faith in quote unquote television being creative and inventive,
Speaker 2: not formulaic, telling stories with characters that matter and you
Speaker 2: have rooting interests and their stakes.
Speaker 3: You're not suggesting that you like it better than the Agency,
Speaker 3: are you? No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, Well see, I think it's different. The
Speaker 2: Agency is much more grounded and it's not about bang
Speaker 2: bang shoot them up, and it's understated. If I were
Speaker 2: to compare the two shows, yeah, I'll accept that, and
Speaker 2: Paradise is a little more cinematic in its presentation, Paradise
Speaker 2: seemed to me a little bit more like a Fox
Speaker 2: TV show, and the agency to me was it was
Speaker 2: almost like the French original. It's about the most serious
Speaker 2: people on earth who are not playing around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Paradise.
Speaker 2: As far as the lensing, it looks like a TV show,
Speaker 2: but when you get into it, it's a long form movie.
Speaker 3: It really is.
Speaker 2: It's a movie broken up into I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: seven or eight episodes. I do enjoy the swearing, though,
Speaker 2: oh yes, and I look forward to it every single episode.
Speaker 2: They're at least seven or eight f bombs every single episode.
Speaker 2: Strong characters, strong backstories. Yes, there's you know, some what
Speaker 2: is it expository flashbacks, which which is fine. It doesn't
Speaker 2: bother me too much, but it's necessary to this particular
Speaker 2: plot that I don't want to give away.
Speaker 6: That's one of the things that I liked about Cross,
Speaker 6: even though when they made the villain reveal I just
Speaker 6: about bailed. Is the dialogue is full of some real talk,
Speaker 6: some real talk. It doesn't feel like dialogue.
Speaker 2: It feels like people who are actually talking to each
Speaker 2: other instead of you telling talking at the screen saying
Speaker 2: tell that M effort at X Y and Z when
Speaker 2: they actually say that in the show, that's exactly right.
Speaker 6: And we already know that there are all these studies
Speaker 6: that prove that the more profane people are, that's a
Speaker 6: sign of their intelligence. It is, it is, I feel
Speaker 6: like I'm being catered to. Oh, this show will cater
Speaker 6: to that aspect of your personality. Living Daylight said of me,
Speaker 6: and the way it's presenting.
Speaker 2: You think show Paradise, it it seems incongruous with the
Speaker 2: whole idea. It just it doesn't the show name. You're
Speaker 2: not going to understand until episode two and three. So
Speaker 2: you got to get through the first episode and then
Speaker 2: everything will be made clear and then you say, damn it,
Speaker 2: Moe was right. So check out Paradise on Hulu. Don't
Speaker 2: let anyone else tell you about it. Please, do not
Speaker 2: let anyone tell you about it. Just set aside forty
Speaker 2: five minutes for the first episode. If you loved the
Speaker 2: first episode like I did, you'll continue on.
Speaker 3: Sterling K.
Speaker 6: Brown wasn't really on my radar until I saw American
Speaker 6: Fiction and then I was like, hey, just a second here,
Speaker 6: this guy's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: He is and he's also paid his dues. Is he's
Speaker 2: been flying under the radar for quite some time. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's been around the block. He has not found that.
Speaker 2: I would say star vehicle to make everyone know who
Speaker 2: he is. If I said sterling k. Brown said, well
Speaker 2: who's that? And you show you a picture?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that guy.
Speaker 2: But he's on the precipice, he's on the cusp, he's
Speaker 2: right there. And this is another vehicle where people will
Speaker 2: become more and more familiar with him. He needs his
Speaker 2: own Marvel movie, he cusses, Well, he was in Black Panther.
Speaker 2: Oh he played kill Monger's father. Oh well he needs
Speaker 2: he needs a starring role in a Marvel thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that time is coming. That time is coming. Okay,
Speaker 2: So Mark started at the beginning. Nick Polo Lachini, you
Speaker 2: can watch it too. I would love to get your feedback.
Speaker 2: Thank you, because that's the first episode. No, it has
Speaker 2: an incredible beyond who have you already talked about. I've
Speaker 2: looked into the cast. It's impressive.
Speaker 3: It's impressive for your TV show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you said it was a more so a
Speaker 4: movie that was broken down, that's one hundred percent accurate
Speaker 4: what I'm seeing here because I have not just like
Speaker 4: you asked I have not don't tell me plot. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but just looking at the cast, read it off real quick.
Speaker 4: We've got Sterling K. Brown, Julian Nicholson, Sarah Sahi. Yeah,
Speaker 4: she's so fine, fine, gorgeous and so talented, but just
Speaker 4: absolutely creditical in credible, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Aliah Maston, James
Speaker 4: Marsen obviously already said, Cassidy Freeman. Oh, Scott Lawrence was
Speaker 4: the one that I really liked, who's does not get enough.
Speaker 4: He does a lot of character work. Yeah, you'll recognize him.
Speaker 3: Yes, let's see Gerald mcranny. It's almost like, honestly, not
Speaker 3: to not to minimize with you, but there are a
Speaker 3: lot of character actors by face right, No, No, what's it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: Jerald mcgranny, who is a coach, No, dad, what was it?
Speaker 3: He had the TV series? Oh, Simon and Simon?
Speaker 4: No, yeah, yes, you're right, you're correct, But I'm trying
Speaker 4: to think of, hold on, what's the other one?
Speaker 3: To look it up? I don't much.
Speaker 4: I'm looking it up as fast as I can. I'm
Speaker 4: trying to move as quickly as I can. Simon and
Speaker 4: Simon the eighteen the reboot in twenty ten, Okay, he
Speaker 4: was in The Never Ending Story. All right, this has
Speaker 4: been around since the seventies. He's been around, but ncas
Speaker 4: Los Angeles. Sure, family guy voice, Oh this is wild. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to remember what was it? Was it coach,
Speaker 4: Like I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 3: There was Craig Nelson. There you go. Okay, So then
Speaker 3: what's the other one?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Now see major Dad? Oh yeah, he was being Major
Speaker 3: Dad anyway.
Speaker 4: Sorry, didn't mean to come into your all that, but
Speaker 4: I'm like, the cast is really impressive, and like you said,
Speaker 4: there are a bunch of actors that you're going to
Speaker 4: see and go, oh, I haven't seen that person a while.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, y'all have your homework assignment.
Speaker 2: Okay, don't come back to class without completing the homework assignment.
Speaker 2: And two more episodes of The Night Agents All Night anyhow,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. And I was that kid who never
Speaker 2: did the homework assignment. I was always like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I didn't read the book. Let me just try to
Speaker 2: fake it in class. I did a lot of that,
Speaker 2: and that was good at it too. Cliff's notes were
Speaker 2: what I swore by God send Yes, did I ever
Speaker 2: read The Stranger by Albert kmus.
Speaker 3: No, that's actually good.
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you read that? Well, look, but I was
Speaker 2: weird like that book. I did read Crime and Punishment
Speaker 2: by Dostoyevsky. I could get through that, and it's a
Speaker 2: huge it started. But it's actually if you read the book,
Speaker 2: it's it's the basis for almost every interrogation scene in
Speaker 2: movies today, and you best appreciate it, since we always
Speaker 2: talk about movies.
Speaker 3: If you read Crime and Punishment, it's on my bucket list.
Speaker 3: I'll get to it when I reach you. Love it?
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Speaker 2: Does everyone remember the homework assignment? Because there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a test on this tomorrow. You better watch the first
Speaker 2: episode of Paradise. I don't ask for a lot, I
Speaker 2: really don't. It's not like Hulu's paying me or I'm
Speaker 2: trying to get an interview with one of the stars,
Speaker 2: though I wouldn't mind it. Okay, I'm just saying I
Speaker 2: like the show. I think more people need to see
Speaker 2: the show, and if more people see the show inclined
Speaker 2: to cancel the show after one season. This is something
Speaker 2: that could have multiple seasons or or going back to
Speaker 2: what I was talking about with Nick Polochini, maybe it's
Speaker 2: just one season and they can tell a complete story.
Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with the limited series. I'm okay with
Speaker 2: the limited series. As long as you have a beginning, middle,
Speaker 2: and end, and you could tie a bow on it
Speaker 2: at the end, this show could be that if they
Speaker 2: wanted to be so.
Speaker 6: The homework assignment watched the first episode of Paradise. Well,
Speaker 6: I can tell you at the end of the third
Speaker 6: one looked promising. Oh oh yes, yes, no.
Speaker 1: It's okay.
Speaker 2: It's okay, and since a lot of it does have
Speaker 2: a flashback component to it, it's okay.
Speaker 6: Let's go back to the beginning and put it all
Speaker 6: in context. President James Marsden got to wrap my head
Speaker 6: around that. Well, he's Cal Bradford in the show. I see, Okay,
Speaker 6: it's a nice presidential name. Most presidents will have like
Speaker 6: two syllable last names, you know, most, not all. Every
Speaker 6: once in a way you have an Obama and a Trump,
Speaker 6: but most most two syllables.
Speaker 3: This has been market tested, has it.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying if you just look at the names
Speaker 2: of presidents, a lot of them have just two syllables,
Speaker 2: I see, and they that idea carries over into TV
Speaker 2: and movies. Well, Washington was like a word like, for example,
Speaker 2: who's the president in Independence Day?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: God, Bill Pullman was the actor, But I couldn't remember
Speaker 6: what is uh whitmore?
Speaker 2: Doesn't that sound presidential? Works either way? Both two syllables. Sure,
Speaker 2: before we get out of here, I want to do
Speaker 2: something a little bit new and different. Just the last
Speaker 2: thought for the night kind of just sets the whole
Speaker 2: show in perspective, and I got to say, I'm concerned
Speaker 2: for this nation right now. I'm concerned about young people
Speaker 2: right now. And I start off the show speaking to
Speaker 2: young people. I'm going to end the show right where
Speaker 2: I began. I remember what when I was eighteen, I
Speaker 2: genuinely wanted to change the world. I wanted to be
Speaker 2: the change that I thought I wanted to see in
Speaker 2: the world. But someone told me long ago that I
Speaker 2: had to make a decision before I did anything. I
Speaker 2: was told to ask myself, and it wasn't something that
Speaker 2: I had to say publicly, but just asked myself did
Speaker 2: I want to be performative or transformative? Was I more
Speaker 2: interested in being seen on radio and just seen on
Speaker 2: TV and her on the radio and covered in the media,
Speaker 2: or was I interested in putting in the work changing
Speaker 2: laws and with it the country. Sometime I wanted to
Speaker 2: be a lawyer, you know, change laws. Then I got
Speaker 2: distracted in entertainment, so I had to ask myself what
Speaker 2: was the main goal. And granted I ended up in
Speaker 2: radio and TV. I've since learned I can do a
Speaker 2: little bit of both. But prior to that, I didn't
Speaker 2: have any platform to be a change agent. So it
Speaker 2: meant I had to put in the work silently, oftentimes
Speaker 2: quietly out of public view. It meant putting in work
Speaker 2: four years, sometimes without fanfare or pre I'm not talking
Speaker 2: about my professional dreams. I'm just talking about what I
Speaker 2: wanted to see in the world. Sometimes I did so
Speaker 2: with a lot of criticism. In fact, I still do
Speaker 2: it with a lot of criticism. Right now, we live
Speaker 2: in a world that's long on celebrity and light on sweat.
Speaker 2: Maybe your wish is to improve the lives of people
Speaker 2: in the LGBTQ community. Maybe you want this country to
Speaker 2: have a greater appreciation of Christian values. Maybe you want
Speaker 2: to ensure equal pay for women. It doesn't matter what
Speaker 2: it is. It does mean you're gonna have to put
Speaker 2: in the work. You're gonna have to care more about
Speaker 2: putting in the work than posting a hashtag. Part of
Speaker 2: the reason, at least, I believe people are disenchanted with
Speaker 2: the world in which we live right now because we
Speaker 2: don't do much more than watch cable news and post
Speaker 2: on social media. Every single day we watch cable news,
Speaker 2: we get mad, and then we post about how mad
Speaker 2: we are on social media, rent and repeat, and nothing
Speaker 2: ever really changes. But the only way we can be
Speaker 2: the change we want to see is to put in
Speaker 2: the work. After that, keep putting in the work, and
Speaker 2: then after that, keep putting in the work. And then
Speaker 2: when you get tired, you get old like me, you
Speaker 2: teach the next generation to what put in the work.
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