Speaker 1: It's later with Mo Kelly. We're alive everywhere on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. And Yes, I'm so happy about a lot
Speaker 1: of things. Tonight, Mark Ronner. He is continued with his
Speaker 1: homework assignment. I'm so proud. I'm like a proud parent.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh my, can't he get his homework? I'm
Speaker 1: so happy.
Speaker 2: Well, as you know, I just want to please you.
Speaker 2: Move because I respect you so much. I gotta make
Speaker 2: it weird. C No, there's nothing weird about it. I
Speaker 2: crave your approval.
Speaker 1: Crave it. I'm feeling wildly uncomfortable. I would never mock
Speaker 1: you ever. No, not that you would mock me. It's
Speaker 1: just that, you know, it just sounds like it's wrong.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't feel right. I think you're the one
Speaker 1: making it weird now. But the show's good. Talk about
Speaker 1: Paradise on Hulu. Can't get to Walla to start watching
Speaker 1: for some reason. I have no idea Stefan has seen
Speaker 1: at least the first first episode. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gotten past the first episode. I'm getting there. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to finish Night Agent because that's getting really good too.
Speaker 1: That's difficult because I'm dealing with Knight Agent the recruit. Yeah, Paradise,
Speaker 1: too much good stuff. It's amp him up in my house.
Speaker 1: How are you tolerating all this defiance from Tawala? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, it sounds like he and I
Speaker 1: are going through something. He's just you know, I talked
Speaker 1: to him. He's a little snippy with me. I try
Speaker 1: to ask him what's wrong. He starts yelling and throwing things.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just I think it's time for
Speaker 1: a little tough love.
Speaker 2: What you want to smack him around? This is your issue.
Speaker 2: I'm off to the sidelines, but you got to run
Speaker 2: a tight ship. Well, we will talk to Tuala a
Speaker 2: little bit later. He'll have plenty to say about Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 2: If you didn't hear the news, we'll get into the news.
Speaker 2: His half time show on Sunday during the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: at this point, according to published reports, the most watched
Speaker 2: in super Bowl history. So doesn't matter what I had
Speaker 2: to say about it. It doesn't matter what you had
Speaker 2: to say about it, whether you liked it, whether you
Speaker 2: hated it, whether you couldn't stand it, whether you couldn't
Speaker 2: understand any of it. Didn't catch all the Hitten messages
Speaker 2: didn't understand the Drake beef does not matter. It was
Speaker 2: the most watched halftime show in the history of halftime shows.
Speaker 2: And we'll get into that before the end of the hour.
Speaker 2: And we have so much more, But we do have
Speaker 2: to go to Mark Ronner, because Mark, you have a
Speaker 2: lot of important information. Now tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm under the impression that this rain that we're supposed
Speaker 1: to get is supposed to start. Is it tonight?
Speaker 2: Wait for it to finish there we go late tonight,
Speaker 2: early morning, but the heaviest is supposed to be between
Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon and early Friday morning.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it will start tonight if it goes according
Speaker 1: to plan or what expectation, it will start tonight, but
Speaker 1: it'll be heaviest when I'm driving to work, when Stephan
Speaker 1: and I are driving to work. Is that what you're saying? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Possibly, In fact, it's already coming down, and pardon me
Speaker 2: a few places, but the real rain will start soon.
Speaker 1: Well, here in Burbank it looks just as dry as
Speaker 1: can be. And honestly, when I was leaving the house today,
Speaker 1: for the better part of the day, I had to
Speaker 1: run a lot of errands it was a gorgeous day.
Speaker 1: And if you hadn't told me in advance that there
Speaker 1: was rain on the way, I would have had no expectation,
Speaker 1: no indication. It was just a gorgeous day, few clouds
Speaker 1: in the sky, clear, you can see to the mountains.
Speaker 1: One of those rare occasions. But it didn't look like
Speaker 1: rain was coming our way. Carpe adm seize today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta enjoy it while it lasts. Well. Here's the thing, is,
Speaker 1: like we can't get a real balance, have a drought,
Speaker 1: and then we'll have all this rain, we'll have the
Speaker 1: fire season, and now we're just really getting into the
Speaker 1: fire season. We're not actually in the fire season. It's
Speaker 1: like pre fire season.
Speaker 2: If you're not a big fan of weather extremes, the
Speaker 2: future is not for you.
Speaker 1: You would think, though, in California, especially when we come
Speaker 1: to California expecting a stability of weather, a consistency of weather,
Speaker 1: it has been anything but that in the past six
Speaker 1: months or so. It's all over the place. I wonder
Speaker 1: why that could possibly be. Do you have any ideas?
Speaker 1: Some people call it climate change. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. You'll know, say I absolutely
Speaker 1: have no idea. They don't tell anything around here. I
Speaker 1: told you that they don't tell me anything around here. No,
Speaker 1: you can't let that stand either. I have no power.
Speaker 1: People think like, hey, mo, don't you tell everybody what
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I tell nobody what to do, and even if I did,
Speaker 1: nobody would listen.
Speaker 2: No. Well, you can lead with the carrot and not
Speaker 2: the stick. And that involves ordering food for us tonight.
Speaker 1: How many times have I ordered food actually did not
Speaker 1: even order paid for food.
Speaker 2: He doesn't give me any more power around here. Well,
Speaker 2: you'll never know until you have to do more experimentation.
Speaker 2: I think the jury's still out. And if you'd order
Speaker 2: some food tonight, that'd be great.
Speaker 1: Seems like you're trying to hint at something like order
Speaker 1: some food tonight. Do you know how many times I've
Speaker 1: ordered paid for food, not ordered food, paid for food
Speaker 1: for Stefan and he still doesn't listen to the show
Speaker 1: at all. I'm not even sure he's around right now.
Speaker 1: I can't even see him. He's gone to his happy place.
Speaker 1: But what do you expect? No, no, no, no. I can
Speaker 1: say some really funny stuff on occasion, and he's not
Speaker 1: even aware of any of it, all the times that
Speaker 1: I purchased food for the crew, nothing, absolutely nothing. Where
Speaker 1: is he right now? Tell me if you can find him.
Speaker 1: Can you see him? I can't see him.
Speaker 2: But you think you're paying for the rim shots and
Speaker 2: they're not merit based.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm not. You know, we believe in everything
Speaker 1: merit based around here. Just so you know. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: no DEI rimshots? All right, I got it, I got it.
Speaker 1: I know that's what you're hitting out. I know you
Speaker 1: very much. That one was for me. That was for me.
Speaker 1: Don't try and you set him up, I knock him down.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I like that arrangement. But going ahead,
Speaker 2: there you go making it weird again.
Speaker 1: Oh real quick, Mark, what are you watching other than
Speaker 1: The Night Agent, The Recruit and Paradise?
Speaker 2: Like me so much? I just got finished. I watched
Speaker 2: episodes three and four of Paradise last night. But I'm
Speaker 2: watching old stuff like You're a big fan of Enter
Speaker 2: the Dragon. The Bruce Lee class.
Speaker 1: Absolutely seen it forty five hundred times.
Speaker 2: Over the weekend, I watched another movie by that same director,
Speaker 2: Robert Klaus, with a clearly drunk Robert Mitcham called The
Speaker 2: Amsterdam Kill on two B.
Speaker 1: I love that old stuff. Robert Mitcham. Wasn't he always
Speaker 1: drunk in all of his roles? Well, I'm being serious
Speaker 1: more as time passed.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so if you get up to around the
Speaker 2: friends of Eddie Coyle, he was just trashed constantly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all. It's almost like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's not acting anymore. He really is inebriated and yet
Speaker 1: still incredibly cool. He could still deliver his lines, but
Speaker 1: I could tell, like see like a little off. Oh yes, intoxicated,
Speaker 1: got it? Got it?
Speaker 2: I mean they so missed the boat by just having
Speaker 2: that guy doing the beef. It's what's for dinner commercials.
Speaker 2: He should have been reading like those pharmaceutical commercial warnings
Speaker 2: at anything.
Speaker 1: He has the best voice of all time. Maybe alcohol
Speaker 1: has its limitations. I think it only helped him. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. When we come back, you remember
Speaker 1: how we told you about or I should say, I said,
Speaker 1: I don't go to gas stations at night. I don't
Speaker 1: go to seven eleven. Well, law enforcement, especially specifically Taunt's
Speaker 1: Police Department and LAPD, they're saying that you must be
Speaker 1: careful because there is a recent increase in distraction thefts,
Speaker 1: and it's as it seems, people are distracting you so
Speaker 1: that you're more vulnerable as a potential victim. Will tell
Speaker 1: you about that, and once again I was right. They
Speaker 1: need to listen to me just a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Se If Stephan listened to me, he would know that
Speaker 1: I was funny. I was right, and I am pretty
Speaker 1: wittied and sightful, all around good guy. But he doesn't
Speaker 1: listen to the show.
Speaker 2: Well, it's his method of dealing with extreme neediness, and
Speaker 2: I think that we should take note of them.
Speaker 1: Is anyone going to find out where he is. We're
Speaker 1: getting ready to go to break, and I can't actually
Speaker 1: go to break without him switching. Whatever he does on
Speaker 1: the board, we makes that little sound effect. You know
Speaker 1: what that sound efect?
Speaker 2: When I go to the news, you sound like it's
Speaker 2: a six million dollar man effect? Is that how you
Speaker 2: think of me? I'm back, sorry, I can do the
Speaker 2: news better, stronger, faster to do the sound effect real quick.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna go to new just to hear the
Speaker 2: soun effect.
Speaker 1: That's it. I am sixty, I'm I'm working with children.
Speaker 1: We're live everywhere the iHeart Radio app. Wait wait, I
Speaker 1: wasn't ready. Children. I'm working with children. Can if I
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Speaker 1: can if I turn a fi our newsroom and Mark Runner.
Speaker 2: All you're doing is cheapening it all right, Reset.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: There's a media release from the Torre's Police department, and
Speaker 1: it states that criminals are using quote unquote deceptive tactics
Speaker 1: in order to divert potential victims attention and then steal
Speaker 1: from them. Here's what it says. Quote Distraction thefts typically
Speaker 1: involve suspect creating a scenario to divert a victim's attention,
Speaker 1: allowing them and or their accomplices to steal personal belongings
Speaker 1: or valuables. Common tactics include asking for directions, spilling a drink,
Speaker 1: or creating a scene that requires assistance. A close quote,
Speaker 1: I wanna start with the last one. Creating a scene
Speaker 1: that requires assistance. I may be an a hole, but
Speaker 1: I don't stop for people who supposedly have car trouble.
Speaker 1: I just don't because I just know that is usually
Speaker 1: the ruse in this age of cell phones and triple
Speaker 1: A and all that kind of stuff. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you don't need my help. You honestly don't need my help.
Speaker 1: You don't need the help of a stranger who just
Speaker 1: happens to be driving by. And I remember it was
Speaker 1: one time. It was about maybe a block from my
Speaker 1: mother's house, so we were in a residential neighborhood, and
Speaker 1: there was this guy and a woman supposedly having car trouble,
Speaker 1: trying to flag me down. I drove around them as
Speaker 1: fast as I could and didn't look back because it
Speaker 1: suspected me could they have been genuinely in need? Quite possibly,
Speaker 1: But between the two of them, somebody had a cell
Speaker 1: phone at, or triple a at, or jumper cables at,
Speaker 1: or lugrene whatever the hell they supposedly needed. Because there
Speaker 1: are two cars there.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I came across the same two people,
Speaker 4: but I came across driving.
Speaker 1: I had the kids in the car driving.
Speaker 4: I saw a man and a woman and it looked
Speaker 4: like the guy had stopped for the woman whose car
Speaker 4: broke down. Yes, it was, because the woman's hood was
Speaker 4: up and the guy was there, and they tried to
Speaker 4: flag me down, and I drove by in the first day,
Speaker 4: and I think maybe my daughter who said they may
Speaker 4: need a help, And I said, that is an able
Speaker 4: bodied man. He can walk wherever he needs to go
Speaker 4: to to get the help needed. You don't need me
Speaker 4: to add my two cents in when there's a dude.
Speaker 1: Right there already helping. What are you flagging me down for?
Speaker 4: If not so that one of you can take my
Speaker 4: car while the other one dropped.
Speaker 1: No hel to the note. I thought everyone thought as
Speaker 1: I did in those scenarios, but evidently not. These distraction
Speaker 1: crimes are not new. And that's part of the reason
Speaker 1: why I don't go to a gas stations at night.
Speaker 1: And when I do, I'm not on my phone. My
Speaker 1: head's on a swivel. Why because I'm prone, I'm vulnerable.
Speaker 1: I'm outside of my car in a place where they're
Speaker 1: looking for people who are spending money and not paying attention,
Speaker 1: and you can't get a clear view of everyone everywhere.
Speaker 1: Have you ever gone to a gas station and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, out of nowhere, either some homeless person
Speaker 1: or some young person trying to sell some candy bars
Speaker 1: just seemingly came out of nowhere. Oh, yeah, it's scared.
Speaker 1: But Jesus out of you. Oh where did you come from? Yeah? Now,
Speaker 1: imagine that being someone who knt you harm. It's not hard.
Speaker 1: You have to be aware of your circumstances and situation,
Speaker 1: your location at all times, at all times. And in
Speaker 1: this world of always being on our phone and not
Speaker 1: paying attention when we're stopped, we are potential targets. And
Speaker 1: you talked about it. What was it you were telling
Speaker 1: about at the honeypot scheme? Oh, that's an old school.
Speaker 4: That is old school where an attractive young lady comes
Speaker 4: up and gets your attention and it's flirting with you
Speaker 4: while your back is turned clock right. At the back
Speaker 4: of your head, you are knocked out and all of
Speaker 4: your possessions are taking Some individuals I knew growing up
Speaker 4: they used to use this technique on security guards at
Speaker 4: shopping plazas and balls and things armed security guards to
Speaker 4: get a hold of firearms. So I knew that this
Speaker 4: technique worked, and it's working now even more something that
Speaker 4: a lot of people are not aware of. There is
Speaker 4: a new familiarity aspect to the scheme. Or they will
Speaker 4: come in and they will notice something on your shirt
Speaker 4: and be overly hype about whether it's a football team
Speaker 4: or a movie or something about the clubse.
Speaker 1: Like, oh man, you're to the Eagles, me too.
Speaker 4: Birds going next thing, you know, you're robbed. Whatever the
Speaker 4: bird gang slogan is, that's why eagles fly. Eagle fly, Yes, fly,
Speaker 4: eagles fly. Now they're flying away with your while in
Speaker 4: your car. I have simple rules.
Speaker 1: In fact, I was just doing a women's self defense
Speaker 1: seminar at my hop Keto studio on Saturday. We covered
Speaker 1: a lot of these same things, and we had members
Speaker 1: of LAPD LA Sheriff's Department as well who were there
Speaker 1: talking about basic self defense, which had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with a physical assault, just how to conduct yourself, carry yourself,
Speaker 1: be self aware wherever you go. And we all said
Speaker 1: the same thing. And I'm not a member of law enforcement,
Speaker 1: but there's some rules which are universal. You don't let
Speaker 1: someone get within ten feet of you. Someone can talk
Speaker 1: to you from ten feet away, but if they're within
Speaker 1: grabbing or punching or kicking distance, you've put yourself in
Speaker 1: danger unnecessarily. You know, if someone needs to ask you
Speaker 1: a question, they can ask it from ways away. They
Speaker 1: don't need to walk up on you. Ever, yep, Ever,
Speaker 1: I don't let anyone approach me at a gas station,
Speaker 1: just for example, that's in the middle of the damn day. Never. No,
Speaker 1: And if I'm somewhere and I'm not either sure of
Speaker 1: my surroundings or I'm not sure of someone who may
Speaker 1: be my immediate prime proximity, I'm looking at that person
Speaker 1: dead in the eye. I'm letting that person know I'm
Speaker 1: aware of your presence, not locked on because there may
Speaker 1: be someone coming from the other direction. But that's how
Speaker 1: I carry myself. I can't speak for other people, but
Speaker 1: I'm always aware of people, and I you know, I
Speaker 1: don't trust a lot of people, so that's another thing,
Speaker 1: not out of fear, but I'm always on alert, always
Speaker 1: got to be.
Speaker 4: You don't want to be on the letter from Kelly
Speaker 4: report forgetting Jack.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, don't want that mark. But you, as
Speaker 1: someone who worked the crime blotterer, as I say, yes,
Speaker 1: you probably have your own individual experiences and recommendations from
Speaker 1: just the crimes that you've seen and had to report
Speaker 1: on what we actually experienced a variation on what you
Speaker 1: guys are talking about.
Speaker 2: We pulled the long suffering one and I pulled over
Speaker 2: in a parking lot, a big parking lot to look
Speaker 2: at yelp and figure out where we were going to eat.
Speaker 2: And as we were pulled over there, a guy abruptly
Speaker 2: came to the window to ask if we'd seen a
Speaker 2: phone that he'd lost, and we were like, nope, haven't
Speaker 2: seen a phone. Sorry, and I pull out to back
Speaker 2: out because it immediately looked shady, only to see the
Speaker 2: guy has blocked us in with his car behind us,
Speaker 2: and we didn't notice it because they must have had
Speaker 2: his lights off or something, and so we immediately knew
Speaker 2: something was seriously wrong. And I'm not sure what caused
Speaker 2: the guy to leave apart from our stark terror, but
Speaker 2: it was obvious that it wasn't about the guy losing
Speaker 2: his cell phone, and it was just another distraction.
Speaker 1: I always you know, when you talk about whether you're
Speaker 1: vulnerable or not, someone is always watching you. Someone is
Speaker 1: always watching you. Maybe it's because they find you attractive,
Speaker 1: maybe it's because they like your clothes, maybe it's because
Speaker 1: they're sizing you up as far as how much how
Speaker 1: easy of a victim of a mark you may be.
Speaker 1: And if someone is going to approach you, you have
Speaker 1: to assume that they feel they have an advantage. Not
Speaker 1: only have they surprised you, they may have a weapon,
Speaker 1: they may have numbers. They believe that they have the
Speaker 1: upper hand on you. So anytime and interaction has begun,
Speaker 1: I have to assume that I'm at the disadvantage or
Speaker 1: they think I'm at a disadvantage. You have to think
Speaker 1: in advance of that moment, not just after you're in
Speaker 1: that moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody doing something like that to you has likely
Speaker 2: done it plenty of times, and it's your first time.
Speaker 2: Stay in the light, stay with other people. Minimize the
Speaker 2: chances of somebody isolating you from the herd yep like
Speaker 2: a cow.
Speaker 1: But to reset Torrence police and I assume other police
Speaker 1: departments are doing it as well. They're highlighting this what
Speaker 1: they're calling distraction thefts, people who are either unintentionally distracted
Speaker 1: on their own or they're being deceived and misled to
Speaker 1: distract them while there are others who are going to
Speaker 1: rob them. And just as a matter of course, in
Speaker 1: good practice, I don't engage with random strangers, especially out
Speaker 1: on the street. I have no reason to talk to
Speaker 1: and I wish it were a different time where you
Speaker 1: could say hello to everyone and walking down the street
Speaker 1: like it was Pleasantville or you know the Andy Griffith Show.
Speaker 2: But we don't live in that world, no, goober. Wait,
Speaker 2: so let's real plague. Aren't you Moe Kelly? Aren't you
Speaker 2: the guy on KFI? Can I come up and shake
Speaker 2: your hand?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But you don't see what's behind me either, So
Speaker 1: I will do that. But if you've already identified me,
Speaker 1: that's a little bit different, is it. Yes, because they have,
Speaker 1: They've put the interaction in a context. Doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: I'm relaxed, But at least I know where this is
Speaker 1: coming from. And it makes more sense than someone saying, hey,
Speaker 1: do I know you? No, you don't, or do you
Speaker 1: can I ask you a favorite for something? Or you're
Speaker 1: like just a blanket statement. Yeah, those open ended, very
Speaker 1: vague questions. You know, do you know how to get
Speaker 1: to or have you seen or is this where I
Speaker 1: can find? Ain't that kind of stuff? Those are red flags.
Speaker 4: Walking out of the supermarket late last night, guy came
Speaker 4: up to me. Uh. He had a box or something,
Speaker 4: look like energy drinks or something, and he's like, hey.
Speaker 1: You wanna you wanta Do you want to drink? This
Speaker 1: is good?
Speaker 4: I'm like, no, I'm gonna shot from across the park. No,
Speaker 4: I'm okay, I'm good. I don't need nothing from you. Man,
Speaker 4: get in my car. He's just walking around the parking
Speaker 4: lot with energy drinks. Like, no, dude, No, we don't
Speaker 4: want them to.
Speaker 1: Potentially take my keys, take something from me, take my life. Yea,
Speaker 1: damn it. No, I'm not trying to buy anything. The
Speaker 1: closest thing I'll do is I'll talk to the kids
Speaker 1: who are in front of the grocery store selling the
Speaker 1: candy bar candy bars for the team trip trip that
Speaker 1: doesn't exist. But you know it's like, yeah, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: play along. I'll play along. No, you're not big enough
Speaker 1: to play football. I know you're not on the football team.
Speaker 1: But I would rather do that than going out and
Speaker 1: actually jacking folks. So you know, that's that's as far
Speaker 1: as I'll go. Other than that, leave me alone, Leave
Speaker 1: me alone. I looked at it.
Speaker 2: I knew we could finally agree about something. Oh no,
Speaker 2: I look alone. Those girl scouts. I don't trust them
Speaker 2: at all. Trying to sell those cookies, Oh, vicious criminals.
Speaker 2: Would you like to buy some some What are those samas?
Speaker 1: No, get back before I kick you in your teeth,
Speaker 1: little girl damn can't trust anybody k IF I AM
Speaker 1: six forty We live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 1: When we come back, new record the most watched halftime
Speaker 1: show for the Super Bowl ever, will tell you how
Speaker 1: and why just a moment.
Speaker 3: You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: And you might have heard Mark Runner talk about it
Speaker 1: and talk about it a little bit more Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 1: And there was some, when I say controversy, there was
Speaker 1: dissension on whether people as an aggregate liked the halftime
Speaker 1: show super Bowl got it, thought it was quote unquote appropriate.
Speaker 1: Some people criticized it for being to this or to that.
Speaker 1: I'll let you fill in those blanks however you want.
Speaker 1: I thought, as a long time hip hop fan in
Speaker 1: a long time, I wouldn't say a phishing nod. I
Speaker 1: know a little something about hip hop. I've worked in
Speaker 1: hip hop, I've promoted hip hop music. I know something
Speaker 1: about the history of hip hop. For me, it was
Speaker 1: eh and I know a lot about the Super Bowl shows.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a show which was historically on the level
Speaker 1: of a super Bowl show. Wasn't like you had helicopters
Speaker 1: and different people descending from the top of the stadium.
Speaker 1: It wasn't on that level. Wasn't that type of show.
Speaker 1: And Twela and nine you had talked about it, how
Speaker 1: it would have been great for a Kendrick Lamar show.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was a super Bowl esque halftime show.
Speaker 1: And that's just me and maybe my baggage that I
Speaker 1: bring to the concept of super Bowl halftime show. But
Speaker 1: when you're talking about TV, the last word is the ratings.
Speaker 1: That's the final word. It doesn't matter what I think about.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if I loved it, doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: I hated it. It doesn't matter if you hated it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you don't like rap music you
Speaker 1: thought it was inappropriate for a super Bowl half None
Speaker 1: of that matters. The only thing that matters in TV
Speaker 1: ratings and viewership. That's it. It doesn't matter if you
Speaker 1: were hate watching it, doesn't matter if you watched it
Speaker 1: and didn't get it. It doesn't matter if you watched
Speaker 1: it and loved it. It just matters if you watched
Speaker 1: it and it was the most watched half time show
Speaker 1: at the super Bowl. Ever, in fact, the second half
Speaker 1: of the game was the most watched television in history.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm saying, That's what Nielsen is saying.
Speaker 1: What's different now, and I think which adds to it
Speaker 1: is it used to be before the age of streaming,
Speaker 1: you had to watch the Super Bowl on a conventional
Speaker 1: television set, broadcast television. And let's say you were doing
Speaker 1: something at that time and you couldn't be in front
Speaker 1: of a conventional television shiit set, you just didn't watch
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. You just couldn't do it. It was
Speaker 1: no other way. Now you could watch the super Bowl
Speaker 1: on your phone. You could have been Mark Ronner and
Speaker 1: watching it on to be Live. There were a number
Speaker 1: of streaming options for people to watch the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and yes, it all counts as part of viewership. It's
Speaker 1: not cheating, it's just no people have other ways in
Speaker 1: which they can actually watch it, and people tuned in
Speaker 1: for any number of reasons. I had a conversation if
Speaker 1: you were listening to the show yesterday with Shannon Farren,
Speaker 1: and she was saying like, maybe the show wasn't for us,
Speaker 1: as in people over forty. I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 1: But my fifty five year old ass was still watching.
Speaker 1: You know, the show may not have been for me,
Speaker 1: but I definitely tuned in, not only because I knew
Speaker 1: I was going to talk about it, but I was
Speaker 1: actually curious about it. And that's all that matters. And
Speaker 1: the super Bowl now, at least the commercials to run
Speaker 1: during the halftime are going to be a hell of
Speaker 1: a lot more. Why because they have the supporting data
Speaker 1: to justify it of how many people presumably would be watching.
Speaker 4: I think in cases like this there needs to be
Speaker 4: like an asterisk or dot dot dot in an era
Speaker 4: of streaming. It is the most watched super Bowl of
Speaker 4: all time. Because I'd promise you this, if the same
Speaker 4: metrics existed when Michael Jackson performed at Super Bowl, I
Speaker 4: could promise you this nothing would ever touch its numbers.
Speaker 1: If Prince see I ought to push back on that,
Speaker 1: if only because and I pulled this list in. There
Speaker 1: are performers who are presently more well known worldwide than
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar. Yes he's won twenty two Grammys, Yes he's
Speaker 1: won a Pulis Surprize. Yes he won I think five
Speaker 1: Grammys just a few days ago. He's as hot as
Speaker 1: he's ever been. But as far as a household name
Speaker 1: people known around the world, I'm willing to say that
Speaker 1: Usher is more well known e popular. That was just
Speaker 1: last year. I'm saying these are all the half time
Speaker 1: shows in the industry. The West Coast Hip Hop Tour
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, yeah, twenty twenty one, The Weekend.
Speaker 1: I don't think Kendrick Lamar is known like the Weekend.
Speaker 1: I don't think Kendrick Lamar, even on this day, is
Speaker 1: as well known worldwide as Shakira Jennifer Lopez when they
Speaker 1: did that show. Obviously, Beyonce I'm quite sure has a
Speaker 1: larger worldwide fan base than Kendrick Lamar because I know
Speaker 1: Beyonce and sell out arenas and stadiums around the world.
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar is not there yet.
Speaker 4: In terms of the tune in watch, Kendrick Lamar has
Speaker 4: currently a single that is double diamond.
Speaker 1: Explain what that means to us.
Speaker 4: That means more than twenty million people have downloaded this song.
Speaker 1: His song they Ain't Like.
Speaker 4: Us Not Like Us is quite possibly the largest song
Speaker 4: we have had in a decade. Bar Nunn the bar
Speaker 4: none him performing the idea of him even performing that
Speaker 4: song at Super Bowl had everyone in the world, including Drake,
Speaker 4: tuning in to say, is he gonna do that on
Speaker 4: the world stage.
Speaker 1: Well, let me tweet that it wasn't a guarantee that
Speaker 1: he was going to perform it because there were legal
Speaker 1: issues because Drake was trying to suit yes, regarding that song,
Speaker 1: and from what I understand, the NFL had asked him
Speaker 1: or request that he did not perform the song. Yes.
Speaker 1: So yes, people were tuning in to.
Speaker 4: See whether he was whether he was going to and
Speaker 4: as a result of him performing it and doing it,
Speaker 4: the rewatching on YouTube and every other platform available also
Speaker 4: counts to the most watched. It wasn't just the day
Speaker 4: of watching, it was all the watching that comes after
Speaker 4: on YouTube, which was giving two of those numbers. It's
Speaker 4: sours yes, So now it does go into a the
Speaker 4: most watched Why because it's the most talked about Beyonce, Shakira,
Speaker 4: and Jayla. Although they're artists that people like Bruno Mars,
Speaker 4: they've all got huge shows, they've been on the road,
Speaker 4: they've all got platinum bobles got it. But Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 4: right now is the most talked about artists bar none.
Speaker 1: Hold that thought. We got to go to a break,
Speaker 1: but we can pick it up on the other side
Speaker 1: because I know there's more to talk about. What we say,
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar had the most watched super Bowl halftime show
Speaker 1: in history. Is it accurate given what we know about
Speaker 1: streaming today? We'll talk about it more in just a moment.
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Speaker 1: Kelly six Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app And just
Speaker 1: to continue our conversation, we were talking about Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 1: and it was announced today that his halftime show during
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl was the most watched halftime show ever.
Speaker 1: And before the show tonight, it got me looking back
Speaker 1: at the previous performers who performed at the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: going back to two thousand and one. That was Aerosmith,
Speaker 1: n Sync, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly, And
Speaker 1: back then you never had a single performer. You had
Speaker 1: a slew of performers, and they've moved away from that.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and two was You two and Others? Two
Speaker 1: thousand and three, Shania Twain no doubt in sting two
Speaker 1: thousand and four, the Infamous, Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake Show
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, Paul McCartney two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: The Rolling Stones two thousand and seven, Prince two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen and The East Street Band twenty ten, The Who.
Speaker 1: These are all the people that Kendrick Lamar eclipsed also
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, The Black Eyed Peas, Usher and Slash twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: Madonna twenty thirteen, Beyonce twenty fourteen, Bruno Mars, Red Hot
Speaker 1: Chili Peppers. I really liked that show a lot. Twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen was Katy Perry, Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliott twenty sixteen, Coleplay, Beyonce,
Speaker 1: Bruno Mars again, I like that show twenty seventeen, Lady
Speaker 1: Gaga twenty eighteen, Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee Kids. Twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen was Run five, Travis Scott and Big Boy of
Speaker 1: the Group Outcast twenty twenty, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny
Speaker 1: and Others twenty twenty one. The weekend twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: was West Coast hip hop Doctor Dre Snoop Dogg, Kendrick
Speaker 1: Lamar and Mary J. Blige and Eminem made an appearance
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Rihanna twenty twenty four, Usher and Alisia
Speaker 1: Keys and others. In twenty twenty five, Kendrick Lamar special
Speaker 1: guest Sisson.
Speaker 4: Kendrick Lamar out of all of those artists at the
Speaker 4: time that they performed on Super Bowl, I think, honestly,
Speaker 4: with the exception of Beyonce, as far as artists who
Speaker 4: were so talked about coming off of a major haul
Speaker 4: at the Grammys, where every one's hotter than Kendrick lam
Speaker 4: No one's hotter than Kendrick Lamar. Right now everyone is
Speaker 4: talking about Kenchrick Glamar. He has quite possibly one of
Speaker 4: the most consequential songs in all of radio right now,
Speaker 4: all across the country. Yes, everyone was already tuning in
Speaker 4: two seed to your point, is he gonna do the song?
Speaker 4: And then when word got out that he did, I
Speaker 4: saw the numbers on YouTube just going up. It's out
Speaker 4: of control the number of times that the entirety of
Speaker 4: that halftime performance has been watched to rewatch to get
Speaker 4: all the innu window and all the code.
Speaker 1: Didn't watch it over and over and over and over.
Speaker 4: So people can go on social media and say, you
Speaker 4: didn't get it, you're not woke, you don't know what's
Speaker 4: going on in the world, you're.
Speaker 1: Asleep at the wheel. Da da da da da da.
Speaker 1: I got it. That's why it's the most watched. I
Speaker 1: think that's your most convincing point, if only because no
Speaker 1: one's likely going back to watch Lady Gaga No Disrespect
Speaker 1: two and three times in that twenty four hours. You've
Speaker 1: seen it. Maybe check you out again, but that's it.
Speaker 1: The Room five, Travis Scott, big boy nah ope, the
Speaker 1: weekend Now he had microphone problems. That was the most
Speaker 1: memorable thing about that. So yeah, as far as rewatchability
Speaker 1: and Nielsen, how in that first twenty four hours also
Speaker 1: counts like a live watch. Yeah, I get that. But
Speaker 1: there was a confluence of what I would call a
Speaker 1: confluence of events all meeting at this moment. How he
Speaker 1: was the It's almost like if Taylor Swift was performing
Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl last year, after the year she
Speaker 1: had just coming off tour, and she was the biggest
Speaker 1: thing in music at the time, then you probably would
Speaker 1: have seen a similar result.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thirty nine million views alone on YouTube for the
Speaker 4: NFL Kendrick Lamar's Apple Music super Bowl halftime show.
Speaker 1: It's like a damn Marvel trailer, yeah, you know, except
Speaker 1: as thirteen minutes long. So but it'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 1: But even that aside, the overall ratings for the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl were up as well. It was just and I
Speaker 1: said it, and I still remain that it was a
Speaker 1: boring game. It was a boring telecast. But you know,
Speaker 1: a boatload of people tuned in, more so than even
Speaker 1: last year. For whatever it's worth. But for now, Kendrick
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