Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: Let's find out what's up with Nick polyo'keanny, friend of
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Speaker 3: I appreciate all those titles coming after Christians. It's already warm.
Speaker 3: I love it. How are you see?
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Speaker 4: because I get to watch you guys from home.
Speaker 3: You actually watch us.
Speaker 4: I do because when I got leg go by iHeartRadio,
Speaker 4: I deleted the app from my phone, so I caught
Speaker 4: you in podcasts. But now I got an amazing way
Speaker 4: to see you all right and be a part of
Speaker 4: the show. So anyway, today, if you follow me on
Speaker 4: social media, speaking of which Nick polio'keanney in this Weekome
Speaker 4: with Nick, I was actually at the sixtieth Annual getting
Speaker 4: a little preview of the sixtieth Annual showcase House of
Speaker 4: Design here or over in Pasady. So if you're joining
Speaker 4: us on YouTube, I'm going to do a little bit
Speaker 4: of show and tell kind of with you.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 4: And so what it is is a home that showcases
Speaker 4: incredible designers from around the Southland. And it is going
Speaker 4: to be in Pasadena, which it has been in Pasadena
Speaker 4: or South past or San Marino many many times. But
Speaker 4: what it is is a huge fundraising event. And so
Speaker 4: it's one of those things that's really unique and special
Speaker 4: to Southern California that you get to be a part
Speaker 4: of and the thing that I like the most. And
Speaker 4: you'll be seeing me putting out interviews with the thirty
Speaker 4: plus designers on social media, talking to them about exactly
Speaker 4: what you can do to you know, we're in spring
Speaker 4: break or the springtime period, so it's time of renewal
Speaker 4: and doing some new things. But also today is tax Day,
Speaker 4: as you were talking about earlier. Now not with all
Speaker 4: the freebies, but hoping if you happen to get a
Speaker 4: tax return, you might be looking for some inspiration for
Speaker 4: what you might be able to judge up your home
Speaker 4: or things to that effect. Even the idea that there's
Speaker 4: so much that isn't nailed down, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: So even if you're a renter, there's so many things
Speaker 4: you can do to a home to really make it.
Speaker 4: Not to take Dean Sharp's you know, you know, house
Speaker 4: whispers kind of scenario here, but you can go and
Speaker 4: check out these really fun, unique setups that are in
Speaker 4: this beautiful palatial estate in the Pasadena area. Now, while
Speaker 4: I cannot reveal the secrets of where it's located specifically,
Speaker 4: you can always go online to Pasadena House, Pasadena Showcase House,
Speaker 4: or showcase dot org, Pasadenashowcase dot org, correct Pasadena Showcase
Speaker 4: dot org and if you really want to get a
Speaker 4: deep dive into it, they just announced today there's sixty
Speaker 4: years of Inspiring Design and Architecture, which is a beautiful
Speaker 4: coffee table book that is available as well, limited edition
Speaker 4: three hundred pages of beautiful photography, insightful stories, everything like that.
Speaker 4: But going in there and talking to some of these
Speaker 4: incredible designers and getting a whole new feel for what
Speaker 4: I could do, and that was my specific question for
Speaker 4: the vast majority of them, was if I got that
Speaker 4: tax refund, what can I do to either capitalize on
Speaker 4: and spend the splurge of the money or maybe save
Speaker 4: a few bucks. So the thing that I found that
Speaker 4: was most interesting is that they really were talking about
Speaker 4: the tactile components and things that you are interacting with,
Speaker 4: So not just the obvious things you refrigerator, your appliances
Speaker 4: and everything that effect, but things to spend a few
Speaker 4: little bit more money on that we don't really think
Speaker 4: about because you go out and you know times are tough.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm still out of work, so I know
Speaker 4: exactly what it's like to count your pennies, but making
Speaker 4: sure that you have pieces that are going to stand
Speaker 4: the test of time because it's super easy to go
Speaker 4: to big box stores and get course the really inexpensive things,
Speaker 4: but being able to really kind of pour yourself into
Speaker 4: that notion. And so the thing that I love about
Speaker 4: this I covered it earlier here on later with Mokelly
Speaker 4: about a month and a half ago when they had
Speaker 4: their empty house and we got to see the bare
Speaker 4: bones of this incredible structure. And now you can actually
Speaker 4: go and check it out. So you can get more
Speaker 4: pictures and more video and more details about the Pasaden
Speaker 4: showcase house to design their sixteenth anniversary again, you can
Speaker 4: go to Lincoln Bio for Nick Poulio Kinney or this
Speaker 4: Weekend with Nick but it's just really nice and the
Speaker 4: thing that's special about them or this specific house, it's
Speaker 4: over five.
Speaker 3: Acres and with it being Easter.
Speaker 4: Coming up this weekend and the weather looking really nice,
Speaker 4: there's vendors that are there from all around southern California.
Speaker 4: Certain amount of the proceeds from it will be going
Speaker 4: to support the San Gabriel Valley as well as eaten
Speaker 4: fire survivors with in Altadena, so that whole thing is
Speaker 4: covered because this actually was pushed a little bit down
Speaker 4: because of the fires. It was originally supposed to be
Speaker 4: open earlier. So this is one of those things that
Speaker 4: really pours itself into the community, if you will, and
Speaker 4: it's an opportunity for you to see some really impressive
Speaker 4: artisans who have pottery and paintings and all these unique
Speaker 4: and special installs that are there. So it will be
Speaker 4: opening this weekend and for twenty. I've got lots of
Speaker 4: stuff to talk to about for twenty because it's so interesting.
Speaker 4: For twenty is Sunday.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: If you do not know the connotations of four twenty,
Speaker 4: we're gonna talk to the talk about them a little bit.
Speaker 4: But you've got Easter coming out this weekend, so the
Speaker 4: opening is Easter Sunday also for twenty and it's supposed
Speaker 4: to beautiful weather this weekend. So it's definitely one of
Speaker 4: those places you can check out in the south Land
Speaker 4: and really be able to experience in one shot, so
Speaker 4: many unique special talents from people in our own backyard.
Speaker 4: But also they have a full working restaurant that'll be
Speaker 4: open there for you to dine in a little like
Speaker 4: it's a whole experience in and of itself. So and
Speaker 4: if you keep an eye on it, and if I
Speaker 4: can twist some arms, I'll be there for a special
Speaker 4: content creator an influencer event on Thursday. Let's see if
Speaker 4: I can get us some tickets to give away here
Speaker 4: on Later with Mokelly. So play with people's emotions now,
Speaker 4: it's okay if not, I at least want to copy
Speaker 4: that coffee table book to give away because it's absolutly beautiful.
Speaker 4: But you know how I do, I always try to,
Speaker 4: you know, really bring it because especially here for Later
Speaker 4: with mo Kelly, the listeners are so incredible and it's
Speaker 4: so nice viewers now well true and viewers, and I
Speaker 4: was gonna say, and to be able to interact with
Speaker 4: you is amazing to be able to see you on YouTube,
Speaker 4: to be able to really have that next level experience
Speaker 4: and being able to share our lives because we have
Speaker 4: been sharing them and it's been more theater the mind
Speaker 4: up to this point. So this now gives us that
Speaker 4: opportunity to be able to really reach out and you know,
Speaker 4: touch somebody hypothetically.
Speaker 2: And when we come back, we will talk more about
Speaker 2: Easter and four twenty, their intersection, the irony behind that.
Speaker 3: It ought to be an interesting Sunday. Let me put
Speaker 3: it that way.
Speaker 4: Let's just say I have got a fantastic nug hunt
Speaker 4: for you, because you know, eggs are too darn expensive
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: So I've got a great thing.
Speaker 4: And that's just a little teas to make sure you
Speaker 4: stick around and be sure to keep it tuned here
Speaker 4: on Later with No Kelly on KFI More.
Speaker 2: With Nick Polly o'keee in just a moment KFI AM
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Speaker 2: Let's pick back up with Nick Poliochini and find out
Speaker 2: what is up with him for this Easter Sunday and four.
Speaker 4: Twenty so even before we get deep into that, let
Speaker 4: me give you two fun things because we love to
Speaker 4: keep it free ninety nine specifically it is going to
Speaker 4: be this Saturday kicks off National Parks Week so Saturday
Speaker 4: the nineteenth, running through April twenty seventh, and you get
Speaker 4: free admission to any of the national parks around the
Speaker 4: country free free ninety nine. So that's a great opportunity
Speaker 4: for looking for something fun.
Speaker 3: To do this weekend.
Speaker 4: Whey the it's supposed to be nice, but for Saturday
Speaker 4: the nineteenth, specifically Free ninety nine nationwide. Also National Junior
Speaker 4: Ranger Day, which would on the nineteenth. That's a special
Speaker 4: program for kids to participate in. So that's something that
Speaker 4: you can find at the Lincoln Bio at this weekend
Speaker 4: with Nick or Nick Poliochini. And also something that we
Speaker 4: usually talk about and this is again free ninety nine
Speaker 4: or if anything, it's a small fee is going to be.
Speaker 4: In years past, we've had super blooms with the poppies
Speaker 4: for the Poppy Reserve. Right this weekend is supposed to
Speaker 4: be so allegedly because of the lack of rain in
Speaker 4: the fall and winter, we haven't seen nearly those blooms.
Speaker 4: But right now in the Annealop Valley Poppy Reserve, Chino
Speaker 4: Hill State Park, and Carrizo Plain, all three of those
Speaker 4: local parks are supposed to be having their largest blooms
Speaker 4: now super bloom. But if you're looking to get out
Speaker 4: and do something ahead of Easter and four twenty, this
Speaker 4: is a great opportunity for those two things.
Speaker 3: So again you can chatch out Saturday. That's Saturday, but
Speaker 3: let's talk about Sunday, Sunday. Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 4: He has risen in all the restaurant hot Oh. I
Speaker 4: was going to say, we're all getting real high, thank you.
Speaker 4: I was because if you are not sky high with
Speaker 4: you know, JESU Cristo, then you're getting high sky high yourself.
Speaker 4: But with the price of eggs, this actually started every
Speaker 4: seven years, you have that once in a blue moon opportunity.
Speaker 4: Where for twenty which is the I associated with marijuana
Speaker 4: and Easter fall on the same day, and so that
Speaker 4: is definitely where we're at. And what is a great
Speaker 4: opportunity for you if you're looking for a fun activity
Speaker 4: to get into that kind of combines it Two is
Speaker 4: there is the four to twenty Eastern nug Hunt starting
Speaker 4: Friday through Sunday, happening in West Hollywood, and what's oh
Speaker 4: a nug is a unit of I just want to
Speaker 4: set you up though, So I love it because the
Speaker 4: funniest first I knew was coming. It was like if
Speaker 4: I talk about flour, that's a whole different ballgame as well.
Speaker 4: But for thirty nine dollars you can become a part
Speaker 4: of the great I don't know weed bus La for
Speaker 4: twenty Easter nug Hunt. So it starts on Friday at noon,
Speaker 4: runs all the way through Sunday, and it is twenty
Speaker 4: businesses along sands on a boulevard in West Hollywood that
Speaker 4: you go on a scavenger hunt if you will. You
Speaker 4: have an exclusive scavender Hunt app on your phone either iPhone,
Speaker 4: iOS or Android, and you walk, bike, scoot drive your
Speaker 4: way through the twenty participating shops, many of witches witches,
Speaker 4: many of which may be lounges associated with dispensaries. So
Speaker 4: this is definitely a unique experience only I mean, granted,
Speaker 4: I'm sure they do it elsewhere, but I'm going to say,
Speaker 4: this is truly a Southern California experience. If you make
Speaker 4: it through, you go into a drawing, and the ultimate
Speaker 4: prize at the end of that drawing is the five
Speaker 4: hundred dollars for just you know. But you got to
Speaker 4: bring your a game and be able to figure out
Speaker 4: the fun games and challenges along the way, so you
Speaker 4: sign up for that thirty nine dollars. Granted, not free
Speaker 4: ninety nine, but there are some really good suites and
Speaker 4: goodies and deals along the way for you, not just
Speaker 4: within Mary Jane's world, but in our world as well,
Speaker 4: so it's world worth it. Tickets are limited, you can
Speaker 4: go to this Week of a Nick or Nick Poliochini
Speaker 4: on Instagram at the Lincoln Bio will have all the
Speaker 4: details for you. And then also if you're looking for
Speaker 4: just a sash altogether, even on Saturday, you've got a
Speaker 4: sessh Fest which started last year and is going to
Speaker 4: be back this year, not specifically associated with Easter, but
Speaker 4: definitely associated with four twenty. Lots of different vendors will
Speaker 4: be their food, drink options, and lots of marijuana paraphernalia,
Speaker 4: so you can also check that out on an event
Speaker 4: right if you're looking for La sash Fest for twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five, and I think that's kind of where we're at. No,
Speaker 4: that's enough, it's enough, but you know, I mean, I
Speaker 4: give you so much more because the funnier part. To me,
Speaker 4: this is one of my favorites in downtown La happening
Speaker 4: on Sunday is going to be the underground for twenty Fest,
Speaker 4: which I'm like, well, how's it interact.
Speaker 3: Underground when it is legal?
Speaker 4: Now that's legal, and what is it you're advertising it
Speaker 4: as underground? We can drop the underground? Ye call it
Speaker 4: four twenty fest? Is it really underground if you're advertising No?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, they have some really good socials for
Speaker 4: them if you're going to, uh, well, I love it
Speaker 4: true potheads on Instagram anyway.
Speaker 3: But there's just a lot going on this weekend.
Speaker 4: It's supposed to beautiful weather most of southern California. This
Speaker 4: may be the last week of spring break. So we've
Speaker 4: talked about a lot of it. Yeah, Boys and Berry
Speaker 4: festivals still underway, notts Berry Farm and Way to Park.
Speaker 4: You've still got the Food and Wine Festival is going
Speaker 4: to be one of the actually the final weekend at
Speaker 4: Disney California adventure. You've got things that are going on again.
Speaker 4: The Seven Seas Food Festival down in San Diego. San
Speaker 4: Diego also on April twenty second, which is Earth Day,
Speaker 4: is going to have lots of They have EarthFest and
Speaker 4: a lot of things. San Diego is a huge community,
Speaker 4: really involved. I think Vegan Expo is behind EarthFest this
Speaker 4: year down in San Diego. But that's another thing, and
Speaker 4: that's going to be Tuesday, So it's kind of interesting
Speaker 4: to have kind of that later like street Fair vibe
Speaker 4: during the week.
Speaker 3: I will be here.
Speaker 4: Though, instead of being down there, because I say that wistfully.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 4: No, because if I can find a way to be
Speaker 4: live broadcasting live from EarthFest in San Diego, why not.
Speaker 3: I mean that's definitely a later Low Kelly thing. Yes
Speaker 3: it is, Yes it is. But yeah, so there's just
Speaker 3: so much going on. What do you have? Does does
Speaker 3: the Kelly family have any Easter traditions?
Speaker 2: Now, my mom she will be going to her church, okay,
Speaker 2: with his, which is Macedonia Baptist Church in Watts She'll
Speaker 2: probably want my wife and me to go with her.
Speaker 3: That probably won't happen because I get it. Easter Sunday
Speaker 3: church is like it's a challenge no matter what the situation.
Speaker 3: It's a Super Bowl. Everybody's showing up.
Speaker 2: And my wife's cousin is going to be preaching out
Speaker 2: another church out like Loma Linda, and she wants us
Speaker 2: to come out there for Sunrise service. Sunrise service is
Speaker 2: like five am, Yes it is. That means we have
Speaker 2: to leave the house at three thirty five am. That
Speaker 2: means I have to be up by two thirty. I
Speaker 2: might as well do the bill handle show No.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: Six sixteen will be sunrise up for Easter Sunday, so
Speaker 4: you might get that extra a little extra sleep.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: My schedule for Easter Sunday is up in the air,
Speaker 2: being pulled in multiple directions.
Speaker 3: That's fine, And I've got options for you to go elsewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I probably won't be doing That's never been my
Speaker 2: thing and that's never been your thing.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't mean you can't be the DD to
Speaker 4: pick up those who are enjoying Budfest.
Speaker 3: I feel so do that. That's a good thing.
Speaker 4: That's about it, real quick. Yeah, least the socials once
Speaker 4: again for everyone. Socials if you want, And I think
Speaker 4: that's the thing. If you are, I should say that
Speaker 4: the reason that I went to the Passing to showcase
Speaker 4: house is because they reached out to me. So if
Speaker 4: you have events that are happening in your neck of
Speaker 4: the woods, and not to sound like what's his name
Speaker 4: from television, but why am I turning?
Speaker 3: What's it? Who's in your neck of the woods that
Speaker 3: did the weather reports? Anyway? Not Al Roker, but the
Speaker 3: other guy. Yeah, that's him. It is the woods. Yeah, okay, So.
Speaker 4: If you are looking for some in your neck of
Speaker 4: the woods, that's why I talk about things that are
Speaker 4: going on the land Empire or up the hills. So
Speaker 4: Nick pollio'channy this week I went Nick on Instagram, the
Speaker 4: easiest place to reach me. You can also visit many
Speaker 4: other places on social media. I'm on TikTok you name it,
Speaker 4: Nick poli o'keanny. This week I when Nick fifteen minute Footy,
Speaker 4: all these different brands all under the same umbrella. And
Speaker 4: again the Lincoln Bio is the easiest way. Plus you
Speaker 4: can email me there if that's more your stike. So
Speaker 4: slide into those dms.
Speaker 1: That's right, baby, you're listening to later with Moe Kelly
Speaker 1: on Demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Lady with Mo Kelly live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 2: and YouTube. Let's talk about the first real hit for
Speaker 2: Will Smith. It was DJ Jazzy Jeff from the Fresh
Speaker 2: Prints Back then. Do you remember what year that was?
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty eight. Half the people in the studio weren't
Speaker 2: even born. Stefan, you weren't born.
Speaker 4: It was the year I was born. Okay, I'm seven. Well,
Speaker 4: I mean I was seven years old. No, Cardinia wasn't born,
Speaker 4: d'l say wasn't born. Talking about our new television staff.
Speaker 4: I was a sophomore in college.
Speaker 2: I'm still a year younger, year and a half younger
Speaker 2: than Will Smith. Just going to give you some context.
Speaker 2: That's when he musically came on the scene. Will Smith
Speaker 2: is staring at fifty seven now and he just dropped
Speaker 2: an album. I don't know if you can really still
Speaker 2: call it an album, a project, collection of music based
Speaker 2: on a true story. And I made brief mention of
Speaker 2: it last night, but I want to talk about it tonight.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of ways you can talk about
Speaker 2: this moment where his album only sold two hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty eight physical copies. Yes, we don't consume music, buy
Speaker 2: and large by physical copies. But we can damn sure
Speaker 2: believe that a Beyonce or Taylor Swift or Benson Boone
Speaker 2: or Post Malone dropped an album, they still would have
Speaker 2: sold more. To give you some more context, this album
Speaker 2: is Project by Will Smith didn't even land on the
Speaker 2: Billboard Top two hundred.
Speaker 3: In other words, the top two hundred albums.
Speaker 2: Music compilations, anthologies available right now. Will Smith is not
Speaker 2: in the top two hundred, and honestly, I'll talk more
Speaker 2: about it the next segment. There's no shame in that,
Speaker 2: but I wonder about the motivation of someone who's fifty
Speaker 2: six years old trying to do a music album which
Speaker 2: is specifically designed, at least in theory, to cater to
Speaker 2: twenty somethings and thirty somethings.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you can really do that now.
Speaker 2: Yes, older artists do keep producing music, but they're usually
Speaker 2: speaking to the same fan base, the fan base that
Speaker 2: ages with them, like for example, ten years ago, last
Speaker 2: ten years to Temptations, of course not the original Temptations,
Speaker 2: but still in spirit, the same group came out with music.
Speaker 2: They were not trying to speak to the twenty thirty
Speaker 2: year old crowd. They're trying to speak to the more
Speaker 2: mature crowd, the fans who have grown up in age
Speaker 2: with them over the decades. That's how usually music artists
Speaker 2: do it. Yeah, you can try to reinvent yourself, but
Speaker 2: you don't. Historically, you don't get to reinvent yourself. And
Speaker 2: also get those fifteen year old girls to the ones
Speaker 2: who have the most disposable income and attend the most concerts.
Speaker 2: If you look at history, they spend the most money
Speaker 2: on music. You can think of something like someone like
Speaker 2: Janet Jackson made mention of her on a number of occasions.
Speaker 2: Janet Jackson is late fifties at this point. Is she
Speaker 2: touring yes, is she still creating music yes? Is she
Speaker 2: trying to talk to fifteen and twenty year olds, No,
Speaker 2: she's not. And the fifteen and twenty year olds are
Speaker 2: not checking for Janet Jackson. That's their parents' generation and
Speaker 2: we're getting to the point where it's almost.
Speaker 3: Their grandparents' generation.
Speaker 2: And again there's no shame in that, but the difference here,
Speaker 2: and I want to drill down with Will Smith. Janet
Speaker 2: is speaking to her classic fan base. I don't know
Speaker 2: if Will Smith is trying to do that and understand that.
Speaker 2: And this is after a great music career, and this
Speaker 2: is after a great a cinematic career, and it's not done.
Speaker 2: And if I remember correctly, Bad Boys, the most recent movie,
Speaker 2: more than four hundred million dollars brought in gross for seats.
Speaker 2: So it's not like he's been canceled. It's not like
Speaker 2: his his movie career is over. I just wonder what
Speaker 2: the motivation is to do an album at this point
Speaker 2: in his life, to talk to whom, to achieve what,
Speaker 2: to prove, what, to accomplish what. And there's a lot
Speaker 2: of money by behind this. He's going on a.
Speaker 3: Full on world tour, world tour.
Speaker 2: Now who's going to be out there buying the seats
Speaker 2: to the concert?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know, And I have my suspicions as far
Speaker 2: as what the motivation is, and I'll talk about that
Speaker 2: next segment. But I look in this studio and don't
Speaker 2: say I think is maybe early twenties. And I know
Speaker 2: Carnacian's she I'm not going to get my ass beat,
Speaker 2: so I'll say she's in her mid twenties.
Speaker 3: Carnaesian will get I'm supposed to laugh, she will.
Speaker 2: Cut a fool stuff and you know, but he's in
Speaker 2: another studio.
Speaker 3: I know you're studio, but I'm sitting here going wait,
Speaker 3: hold on. You know you never laugh like that. This
Speaker 3: is just be mid twenties.
Speaker 2: My point is, neither of these young ladies are checking
Speaker 2: for Will Smith musically, and I don't have to even
Speaker 2: ask them.
Speaker 3: They're not.
Speaker 2: Whatever they're listening to, it's probably not going to be
Speaker 2: Will Smith. And the people who are in their forties
Speaker 2: and fifties, like Mark is in his fifties to walk
Speaker 2: in his fifties, I'm in my mid forties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you are.
Speaker 2: We're not looking for Will Smith musically. Will I go
Speaker 2: to a Will Smith movie, Sure, but I'm not trying
Speaker 2: to buy any of his music.
Speaker 3: I wonder who it's for.
Speaker 2: And I get the sense that there's something emotional going
Speaker 2: on here, trying to reclaim a level of glory or
Speaker 2: a time in his past, before all the controversies, before
Speaker 2: the marriage, before all the craziness, before the entanglements, before
Speaker 2: any of this went left.
Speaker 3: For Will Smith.
Speaker 2: And if there was one time, one place in which
Speaker 2: he was on top, it was music. He was one
Speaker 2: of the first crossover rap artists, His history, his success,
Speaker 2: his accolades really can't be argued with, but you can't
Speaker 2: argue with what he's trying to do right now and
Speaker 2: whether it will be successful and why he's even putting
Speaker 2: himself through this.
Speaker 3: Did you see.
Speaker 2: Lately or more recently, Genuine, that singer artist he was
Speaker 2: trying to perform and he fell off the.
Speaker 3: Stage, not once, twice. I forgot about that. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: did the.
Speaker 2: Song my Pony, his knees gave out. No, he's about
Speaker 2: the same age. He's about the same age, maybe a
Speaker 2: little younger than Will Smith. And Genuine doesn't have Will
Speaker 2: Smith's money, so I understand why he's performing. Will Smith
Speaker 2: is worth maybe half a billion dollars. So I want
Speaker 2: to get into this. Not only did his project fail,
Speaker 2: but I think there's something bigger, something more important, which
Speaker 2: should be discussed as far as why Will Smith is
Speaker 2: chasing this music, And we'll talk about that next as
Speaker 2: part as my final point.
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Speaker 2: Something I talk about. I'd love to talk about my
Speaker 2: time in the music business. There are a lot of
Speaker 2: stories I like to tell. There are a lot of
Speaker 2: stories that I can't tell because they're just inappropriate and
Speaker 2: it could impact some people's lives. And I mean that
Speaker 2: not to gash you or to blow myself up. I'm
Speaker 2: just saying we still live in a world where people
Speaker 2: have reputations and they have sometimes facades that you're trying
Speaker 2: to keep. I wouldn't say that I know Will Smith.
Speaker 2: I know that I've met him. I've met him and
Speaker 2: Jada Pinkett Smith when they were dating many many years ago.
Speaker 3: And you get to see people disarmed, you get to
Speaker 3: see them.
Speaker 2: I get the sense, or I got the sense that
Speaker 2: Will Smith is a decent person. I got the sense
Speaker 2: that Jada Pinkett Smith than just Jada Pinkett was a
Speaker 2: decent person.
Speaker 3: But you don't know.
Speaker 2: I always say, you don't know these people, But I
Speaker 2: can say that when I was in the music business,
Speaker 2: it was during the height of Will Smith's career, and
Speaker 2: I know a little something about that time in music.
Speaker 2: And I want to end the show tonight talking about
Speaker 2: Will Smith, and I'm not going to stretch and reach
Speaker 2: and try to connect dots which may not be there.
Speaker 2: Like I said last segment, we talked about what seems
Speaker 2: to be a failed musical effort by Will Smith based
Speaker 2: on a true story, his new music project. I say
Speaker 2: failed because the majority of promotion and press for a
Speaker 2: new album, any new album is done in anticipation of
Speaker 2: its first week of release.
Speaker 3: Just like a movie. You have to have a great
Speaker 3: first weekend because it's diminishing returns from there.
Speaker 2: As you already know, Smith's project based on a true story,
Speaker 2: it bombed. Some will wrongly say that Smith is still canceled. No,
Speaker 2: He's never been canceled. That's reaching the connect dots to
Speaker 2: Chris Rock which aren't there. Will Smith released a successful
Speaker 2: movie last year, Bad Boys Rider Die, which grows more
Speaker 2: than four hundred million dollars worldwide. It was a success
Speaker 2: by every measure. You can't say he was canceled, and
Speaker 2: his Chris Rock transgression would have had more impact on
Speaker 2: his movie career than anything. So this is I think
Speaker 2: about a really late middle age crisis.
Speaker 3: I would wager Smith has to be more than halfway
Speaker 3: to a billion dollars.
Speaker 2: He's already won four Grammys, He's won a Best Actor Oscar,
Speaker 2: He's won a batht for Best Actor. He's been nominated
Speaker 2: for an Emmy for his work with Cobra Kai. He's
Speaker 2: won a Golden Globe. He's won multiple MTV Video Music
Speaker 2: Awards and American Music Awards.
Speaker 3: If this were about reaching.
Speaker 2: New heights or new accomplishments, let's say he's going after
Speaker 2: an egod, well, we would have seen Smith.
Speaker 3: Chase a Tony Award.
Speaker 2: But instead he's bending over, reaching down to pick up
Speaker 2: his music success of his past, for tweens, for teenagers,
Speaker 2: for twenty somethings, while.
Speaker 3: He's staring age fifty seven square in the face. And
Speaker 3: I want to be clear here, it's his life.
Speaker 2: It's his time left with his life, it's his legacy.
Speaker 2: Everything he's gotten so far he has definitely earned. And
Speaker 2: that includes the right to even fail if need be.
Speaker 2: But he hasn't earned the right to escape public review
Speaker 2: or critique. If he wanted to escape all that, he
Speaker 2: should have become a recluse like Jack Nicholson. But instead
Speaker 2: he chose to put out a new album targeted at
Speaker 2: fans as much as forty years younger than him, and
Speaker 2: fans get to review and critique art. Music is not
Speaker 2: like movies, Dentel Washington. He's seventy years old, and twenty
Speaker 2: somethings will still go to see him. Twenty somethings won't
Speaker 2: do that. For pop music.
Speaker 3: They will not.
Speaker 2: Music just doesn't have that age elasticity. It never has.
Speaker 2: I just don't, for the life of me, understand why
Speaker 2: Smith seems to be at this point trying to chase
Speaker 2: his glory from the nineteen let's say nineteen eighties, honestly
Speaker 2: late eighties. That's why I call it an extremely late
Speaker 2: midlife crisis, more like a two thirds life crisis. Much
Speaker 2: has been made of his marriage to Jada Peka Smith
Speaker 2: and the various controversies which have swirled around it, from
Speaker 2: her entanglement to quote unquote with son Jaden's friend august Alcina,
Speaker 2: to what I would call the very public emasculation of Smith.
Speaker 2: With the public revelation, I just got to be honest
Speaker 2: as a man, I don't know how I would have
Speaker 2: responded to that. If anything that made Smith a more
Speaker 2: sympathetic figure to me, it was that no man deserved that.
Speaker 3: Then again, no man deserved what he did to Chris Rock.
Speaker 3: And you can bet all.
Speaker 2: Of this is emotionally at least, this is one dot
Speaker 2: I will connect. This is emotionally connected somehow, some way,
Speaker 2: deep inside of Smith, all these things have to be
Speaker 2: connected somewhere.
Speaker 3: I'll go one step further.
Speaker 2: I believe his descent from the mountaintop of Hollywood will
Speaker 2: never be separate altogether from the moment he assaulted Chris
Speaker 2: Rock at the Oscars. I don't believe he makes this
Speaker 2: album if that moment didn't happen. I'll never believe he
Speaker 2: will fully ever get out from under that. There are
Speaker 2: some things you just can't undo. Whereas this music failure,
Speaker 2: and that's my word, I call it a failure of
Speaker 2: Smith is probably far more disappointing to Smith himself than
Speaker 2: anyone else. I'm more curious what peace and happiness may
Speaker 2: look like for Smith in this stage of his career
Speaker 2: where he's not the star, He's not the draw that
Speaker 2: he was ten years ago in a cinematic sense, and
Speaker 2: not the music star he was some thirty five years ago.
Speaker 2: Because if peace and happiness are in any way tied
Speaker 2: to one last gasp of super stardom, which is different
Speaker 2: from stardom, if this album is any indication that may
Speaker 2: be no longer in reach, and if this is a
Speaker 2: mid to late life crisis for Will Smith, I wonder
Speaker 2: what that means for him as an artist, as a father,
Speaker 2: and as a man.
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