Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty Later with Ma kelln Oh, we
Speaker 1: here the party.
Speaker 2: Are we here to turn that mother and father out? Yes,
Speaker 2: from the windows to the wall. We're gonna do it
Speaker 2: all night long. Happy Halloween on the Lady with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 3: Aren't you glad to be in the space tonight? Yes,
Speaker 3: we have all of your favorite people associated with Lady
Speaker 3: with Mo Kelly. Let's do the introductions very quickly. Producer
Speaker 3: and co host t Walla Sharp all right, and it
Speaker 3: took me a minute to get it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: If you can see Twalla Sharp right now, he has
Speaker 3: this gold accoutrement around his neck and he has this
Speaker 3: information all around him.
Speaker 5: Can anyone guess his costume?
Speaker 6: No one that I already told though, can anyone guess it?
Speaker 3: He did it?
Speaker 5: That's not wrong, Okay, not wrong? No, run DMC.
Speaker 6: It is what you would automatically think, But you have
Speaker 6: to think what am I?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 6: Who am I? You see the news print? You see
Speaker 6: this fake jewelry there?
Speaker 3: It is all right, all right? And we had our
Speaker 3: favorite newsperson in the whole damn world, none other than
Speaker 3: the Mark Runner. We're gonna have a full cavalcade of
Speaker 3: all of our commentators and contributors here with later with
Speaker 3: Mo Kelly. Tonight, we'll be joined by Jackie Ray bed
Speaker 3: beyond the box row. With Jackie Ray, we're gonna get
Speaker 3: some of the viral low with Tiffany Hobbs. Wos to
Speaker 3: be in the house later on tonight and even that
Speaker 3: nice exercise. Lady Claudine Cooper will be in the house
Speaker 3: joining us and my from another myster you can tell
Speaker 3: by we just think the same way when it comes
Speaker 3: to technology.
Speaker 5: The Marcia call your Marsha. Let everyone see you.
Speaker 3: See how we dressed up similarly, we're both from Starfleet Academy.
Speaker 3: Let me see all my Starfleet Academy folks. Go ahead
Speaker 3: and stand up. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 5: We are one and the same.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, I'm overjoyed to see each and
Speaker 3: every one of you. This is something that we've been
Speaker 3: working on, at least an idea for quite some time,
Speaker 3: and now to see it to come to fruition is
Speaker 3: something which is.
Speaker 5: No small accomplishment.
Speaker 3: This show has grown tremendously not because of what we've done,
Speaker 3: it's because of what you've done. You have emailed, you
Speaker 3: have posted on social media, you have reached out to us,
Speaker 3: you have supported the name that movie called Classic Competition.
Speaker 3: You have told a friend again and again, and because
Speaker 3: of your actions, we can do this tonight. So please
Speaker 3: give yourselves a round of applause.
Speaker 6: And MO, we cannot we cannot forget. We also have
Speaker 6: not a cade la Cruise in house. Oh Friday Nights
Speaker 6: with Knights Naica in the building.
Speaker 3: Yes, it is so.
Speaker 5: It is so overwhelming to see all of you.
Speaker 3: I've heard most of you, some of you I've even
Speaker 3: met over over the course of years. But then to
Speaker 3: see you some of your voices do not match your
Speaker 3: your look and it's okay, but it's like I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 3: oh my goodness, that's wrong. I had no idea And
Speaker 3: to see you here at iHeartMedia. Isn't this a fabulous
Speaker 3: a set out tonight on a layout. We've all got
Speaker 3: a lot of food to everyone. Get some food.
Speaker 5: I know, I did, I know.
Speaker 3: I just made sure that I ate it, you know,
Speaker 3: damn all y'all, but make sure I got some food
Speaker 3: at least. But we're gonna listen to you tonight. We're
Speaker 3: gonna hear from you. We're gonna give away some great prizes.
Speaker 3: To tell them real quickly what we're gonna be giving
Speaker 3: away till we have passes.
Speaker 6: Someone who has the best costume on here is going
Speaker 6: to get a family for a pack plus pit tickets.
Speaker 3: What to Monster Jam?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 6: We have some new later with Mo Kelly t shirts,
Speaker 6: mugs and key chains. We have tons of shirts and
Speaker 6: also the good people at Wendy's who are providing delicious
Speaker 6: foods back there. They have some SpongeBob square Pants gear
Speaker 6: for y'all. So we have lots to give away tonight.
Speaker 6: There are a bunch of winners gonna be in the
Speaker 6: house tonight. So not only did you win to get here,
Speaker 6: but you're winning.
Speaker 5: Cutz, you're here.
Speaker 3: Let's put our hats together for Ron Ross at Whitney's
Speaker 3: and also Ed Garrigos and Wendy's because without them this
Speaker 3: would not have been possible, So we want to thank
Speaker 3: them first and for most. This is gonna be a
Speaker 3: fun evening. I can't tell you what's going to happen
Speaker 3: because a lot of it is going to be dependent
Speaker 3: on you, your energy, your fun, just hanging out with us.
Speaker 3: We didn't have any type of script because we don't
Speaker 3: script this. We just come here to make sure that
Speaker 3: we entertain you. And also we let everyone know that
Speaker 3: this this is the coolest three hours at All Talk Radio.
Speaker 3: I don't care what anybody has to say. If they
Speaker 3: don't know, they're gonna know soon because y'all gonna tell somebody.
Speaker 3: And also want to thank Matt, who's on our social
Speaker 3: media tonight. Put your hands together for Matt.
Speaker 5: Matt in the building.
Speaker 3: So as we get forward, going forward, just want to
Speaker 3: make sure that you stay in a place of having
Speaker 3: a great amount of fun. We have some guests who
Speaker 3: will be in the house that will introduce you to
Speaker 3: a little bit later on tonight. So if you ever
Speaker 3: listened to Lady with Mo Kelly, you're going to be
Speaker 3: rewarded because all the voices that you've heard are now
Speaker 3: going to be the people that you get to meet,
Speaker 3: you get to see and get to interact with, take
Speaker 3: photos with. We're all families, so don't finkus on some
Speaker 3: celebrity stuff or any type of notoriety. We appreciate you
Speaker 3: and we are here only to say thank you tonight.
Speaker 3: So are we all ready to have some fun? I
Speaker 3: don't think you're ready. Are we all ready just to
Speaker 3: have a little bit of fun tonight. Yeah. And we're
Speaker 3: also live on Instagram Live I mister Kelly, m R
Speaker 3: m OK E L L Y. So if you can't
Speaker 3: listen right now, you can always see what you're missing
Speaker 3: at home. Too bad for them, they should have been here.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go to a quick break and then we're
Speaker 3: gonna get.
Speaker 5: This the party really started. It's Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3: KIM six forty.
Speaker 5: It is Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 3: We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I
Speaker 3: tell you to see all your faces. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. I know that you had to brave
Speaker 3: hell and high water to get here, because it took
Speaker 3: me a good two hours. For some reason, the traffic
Speaker 3: was worse than usual. It took me a long time
Speaker 3: to get here. And I'm thinking, like, is it just
Speaker 3: because of me? I mean, what is all this going on?
Speaker 3: And when I hit let me just tell you my route.
Speaker 3: I go to one ten North, you know how it
Speaker 3: is in La I go to the one ten, Then
Speaker 3: I go to the five. Then I go to the
Speaker 3: one thirty four, and for some reason, it took me
Speaker 3: two hours to go twenty two miles. Two hours, twenty
Speaker 3: two miles. And I said, I've got to get there
Speaker 3: because I have to see all of you. So I
Speaker 3: know if it was difficult for me, it had to
Speaker 3: have been difficult for you. Did anyone have to take
Speaker 3: a really circuitous route to get here? I know we
Speaker 3: have someone from Lancaster, who is from Lancaster. How long
Speaker 3: did it take you?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, wait, it took you an hour to get there?
Speaker 3: For hear from Lancaster, and it took me two hours
Speaker 3: to get here from my Englewood area. What is going on?
Speaker 5: Sandy? Where did you come from?
Speaker 3: Sandy took surface streets and you got here. Okay, I
Speaker 3: need to just get off the freeways all together. And
Speaker 3: I was on the phone with Twala, and I know
Speaker 3: Twalla was struggling.
Speaker 5: How long did it take you?
Speaker 6: It took me at least an hour to get here?
Speaker 6: But that's the one eighteen to the five.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 6: For there was this short little blockade and it just
Speaker 6: stopped me. And I said to myself, I need to
Speaker 6: get here. And I was trying to speed again there
Speaker 6: because I needed to meet you know, Ron and ed
Speaker 6: and helped get the food up and I was like,
Speaker 6: oh my god, it's gonna be late to stand outside.
Speaker 6: The food's gonna go cold. So I was really really rushing.
Speaker 6: So I'm glad I did not get pulled over. Thank
Speaker 6: you to the California Highway Patrol for ignoring the speeding
Speaker 6: Bronco going down the freeway.
Speaker 5: They didn't think. You're like, oh Jay spirit.
Speaker 3: We don't have we don't have the rim shots up here.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: It is really funny.
Speaker 3: The fun that we have on air to take you
Speaker 3: behind the scenes is the fun that we have every
Speaker 3: single night. None of it is forced, none of it
Speaker 3: is fake. And one of my brothers, and I mean
Speaker 3: this with all my heart, one of my brothers is
Speaker 3: Mark Ronner because he is someone who kind of just
Speaker 3: jumped in and I and he had the sense of
Speaker 3: humor which just meshed with ours. He saw the world
Speaker 3: as we did. Not that we agreed on everything, but
Speaker 3: we just had this cynicism and sarcasm that really worked
Speaker 3: well together. And to think to get him out is
Speaker 3: more than a small accomplishment because he goes nowhere nowhere
Speaker 3: and it's only because of you that he is here tonight.
Speaker 5: This is no joke.
Speaker 6: We were literally all week twisting his arm, going back
Speaker 6: and forth. You know, maybe I could be in the
Speaker 6: room next to you all that kind of peek my
Speaker 6: head in. He was gonna be right over there that door,
Speaker 6: just gonna open the door and just say hey everyone,
Speaker 6: and just stay out there.
Speaker 5: We said, no, Mark, you got to be in.
Speaker 6: You can come in full godsop head to toe, cover
Speaker 6: your face if you want to. It's Halloween.
Speaker 5: And so wait, what are you though? Mark? Are you
Speaker 5: golda read riding hood? Wait? What's up?
Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
Speaker 5: Okay? With the mask? Yes?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, it's a little weird, but
Speaker 6: it is a little.
Speaker 5: Bit weird, dude.
Speaker 4: So I thought I wanted something fun and uplifting, and
Speaker 4: it took me a while to think of this. But
Speaker 4: what the kids find more fun and uplifting than Edgar
Speaker 4: Allan Poe's Masker of the Red Death. It's a great
Speaker 4: kids story.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, that's all.
Speaker 5: We read to our children.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yeah, all I can think of is like
Speaker 3: the Raven and nevermore.
Speaker 5: That's about it.
Speaker 4: Kids love Poe, can't get enough Poe can't get enough
Speaker 4: pop Wait what hoo, Poe Edgar Allan Poe po Oh.
Speaker 4: So you'll be shocked to know that the Red Death
Speaker 4: didn't have to give anybody the finger on the way
Speaker 4: into work today.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, and we're off. That is racicous, I know,
Speaker 3: and that also is a true story. We try to
Speaker 3: admonish him each and every night. Please don't give anyone
Speaker 3: the bird or the double bird, because we want you
Speaker 3: to make it to the show safely. And how will
Speaker 3: we be able to do the show if you get
Speaker 3: shot somewhere on the on the way in.
Speaker 5: No one would dare.
Speaker 3: See what I have to deal with every single night,
Speaker 3: every single night. This always this pushback, there's always this
Speaker 3: resistance where he just can't get along with the rest
Speaker 3: of us. But we had to go through hell and
Speaker 3: high water to get him here tonight. Because he's not
Speaker 3: that he's anti social, it's just that he's not someone
Speaker 3: that we can really get outside all that often. So
Speaker 3: this is a very very special occasion. And you may
Speaker 3: not know that Mark is so very talented. He is
Speaker 3: an accomplished writer. He is a he is a former
Speaker 3: CIA or.
Speaker 5: Something like that. He is he is a jiu jitsu master.
Speaker 6: He can fix nuclear bomb.
Speaker 5: Weren't you studying for your doctorate?
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, does it matter?
Speaker 3: Yes, it does. You have this great life story that
Speaker 3: you never want to tell anybody.
Speaker 4: Well, you don't want to reveal everything all at once.
Speaker 4: It's important for you to know that I wanted to
Speaker 4: be here to show my enormous personal respect to Youmo Kelly.
Speaker 5: Now we all know that that.
Speaker 6: Don't don't try to front for the audience. Okay, don't
Speaker 6: put on, you know, fronts for the audience.
Speaker 5: We know.
Speaker 4: I think my respect for you is palpable, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Let me just be serious for a moment. Mark Runner
Speaker 3: is so very talented. He is a man of many talents.
Speaker 3: He can do many things. He is very well read.
Speaker 4: He's very well educated.
Speaker 3: Now he'll never get married, but he is someone who
Speaker 3: live from Utah.
Speaker 5: Please proceed, see see what I'm dealing with. But he
Speaker 5: is someone who is so very quick.
Speaker 3: There's so many jokes that we can never tell you,
Speaker 3: and you'll be privy to all of them tonight. Because
Speaker 3: the conversations we have off air, raally can get on
Speaker 3: air because we have this thing called like the FCC
Speaker 3: and you know their laws and their limitations, and they're fines,
Speaker 3: and there's only so much profanity that we can use.
Speaker 5: But off there, Mark is a whole different guy. You
Speaker 5: think how many things that Mark is lovable? He's not.
Speaker 3: Let me disabuse you of that notion right now.
Speaker 5: No, he know. He is one of our best friends
Speaker 5: and he's someone.
Speaker 3: Honestly, this show would not be what it is, and
Speaker 3: what it is may mean different things to different people,
Speaker 3: but it would not be what it is without him.
Speaker 3: There's this sense of timing, there's this sense of brotherhood
Speaker 3: and friendship when we go back and forth trying to
Speaker 3: get the rim shot. And anyone who's listened to the
Speaker 3: show knows that we are always in competition.
Speaker 5: For the rim shot.
Speaker 3: The competition is real because we're always trying to outwit
Speaker 3: and outthink each other. And Mark damn sure makes it
Speaker 3: hard because he has all these literary references and these
Speaker 3: television references and cinematic references, and it's like, gosh, I mean,
Speaker 3: how do you keep all that stuff out up in
Speaker 3: their head and be able to and have it available
Speaker 3: on command?
Speaker 4: Well, I feel like partially I'm autistic, but also the
Speaker 4: rimshot thing is rigged. Stephan clearly is on team Mo,
Speaker 4: and I find that unacceptable.
Speaker 3: Well, it's later with Mo Kelly, it's not earlier with
Speaker 3: Mark Ryant. I mean, if the show was named after you,
Speaker 3: then you probably get a little bit more love.
Speaker 4: But it is you might as well just operate the
Speaker 4: shot thing yourself.
Speaker 5: Well, look, life is not fair. Not all things are
Speaker 5: gonna go your way in life. Clearly, Clearly, I.
Speaker 3: Was born with a little more funny than you. That's
Speaker 3: just how it turned out.
Speaker 4: Okay, and good looks what else you got.
Speaker 5: See you're being sarcastic, but I'm being serious. I am
Speaker 5: funnier than you.
Speaker 4: I would never be sarcastic with you because I respect
Speaker 4: you too much.
Speaker 5: And we all know that that is not true at all.
Speaker 3: But we're here on Halloween, and the purpose of coming
Speaker 3: here on Halloween is to talk about and remember all
Speaker 3: the things which made Halloween so special for us. I
Speaker 3: remember growing up and Halloween was the day.
Speaker 5: I was never big on candy, but.
Speaker 3: I love the process of trick or treating, which seems
Speaker 3: to be gone now. I love the process of going
Speaker 3: out with my friends to random neighborhoods and just seeing
Speaker 3: how much candy I could get. It wasn't even about
Speaker 3: eating it. It was about if I could outdo my
Speaker 3: friends and just get more candy, I can get more
Speaker 3: type of attention and favors. And I don't know if
Speaker 3: kids today have that same type of affinity. I don't
Speaker 3: know if they'll develop those same types of memories where
Speaker 3: they can say, yes, I remember going trick or treating
Speaker 3: with my friends.
Speaker 5: What is trick or treating? Now do they still do that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah they do.
Speaker 6: My Look, my daughter just outgrew trick or treating at
Speaker 6: fourteen thirteen. She was all about trick or treating. That
Speaker 6: that was her thing. But now fourteen is no that.
Speaker 6: We don't tricker treat anymore. Now we go to parties.
Speaker 6: So now you know she's been fighting to go to
Speaker 6: this Halloween party.
Speaker 5: What party it's it's a costume party.
Speaker 3: I never was allowed to go to a Halloween party
Speaker 3: at night as a kid.
Speaker 6: Well this is this ain't like a rave man. You know,
Speaker 6: she's fourteen And I was like, well, you know, there's
Speaker 6: there's a bunch of kids going around hanging out being
Speaker 6: awkward on one side, of the dudes on the other side.
Speaker 5: Last I checked, kids can get into a lot of
Speaker 5: trouble with not a lot of effort.
Speaker 6: Look that, look that that is true, because when I
Speaker 6: was thirteen, Lord have mercy. But but she also knows
Speaker 6: the consequences of getting into any Shenanigans. So she we
Speaker 6: trust her because she knows who her dad is. She
Speaker 6: knows that I'm not really with the Shenanigans. So yeah,
Speaker 6: kids up to thirteen don't trick or treat. That's what
Speaker 6: they do.
Speaker 3: Do they go in the neighborhood or do they go
Speaker 3: to a trick or treat trick or treating preordained spot
Speaker 3: or there's hot spots, you know the hotspots.
Speaker 6: Places they give you the big chocolate bars, not the
Speaker 6: little here's three or four tweeks.
Speaker 5: No, the big stuff.
Speaker 6: And so like you know, we would go to the valley,
Speaker 6: way deep in the valley where they got the good stuff.
Speaker 5: You have to scope it out. Parents.
Speaker 6: We know right, we know where the good neighborhoods are.
Speaker 6: They're gonna get get filled up. And what me and
Speaker 6: my cokee Aaron do is we buy all the candy
Speaker 6: because they know way where Let the kids eat any
Speaker 6: of this stuff when they bring it home. No, I
Speaker 6: don't trust anyone they're dipping it in, you know, drugs
Speaker 6: and still putting razors and apples. I believe that right,
Speaker 6: So no, like I like, we say, hey, you got
Speaker 6: a nice giant chocolate bar, Well that's a dollar, and
Speaker 6: then it goes down from there.
Speaker 5: They walk away about.
Speaker 6: Like fifty sixty dollars after Halloween, justus buying candy back.
Speaker 3: Oh you like getting guns off the streets and everything. Yeah,
Speaker 3: a buyback we're doing. I encourage every baron to do that.
Speaker 3: The drugs are real out there on the streets.
Speaker 6: You don't want your kid getting all hoppy and tweaky
Speaker 6: out there on a chocolate bar.
Speaker 5: No, No, that took a dark turn to say.
Speaker 3: Look, when we come back, we're going to meet Ron
Speaker 3: Ross of Wendy's, who's responsible for this wonderful spread.
Speaker 5: So put your hands together. It is Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 3: The Halloween Annual Halloween Special on camp I AM six forty.
Speaker 3: We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3: I AM six forty.
Speaker 5: It's a Lady with moo Kelly.
Speaker 3: Halloween Halloween on CAMFI AM six forty where we're live
Speaker 3: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app as we continue our Halloween
Speaker 3: swar ray. And joining me right now of Wendy's is
Speaker 3: Ron Ross, who has been so kind and so generous
Speaker 3: with this bread that you brought for us tonight. So first,
Speaker 3: let me put my hands together for you, Ron, for
Speaker 3: making this happen. You've gone over and above you. We
Speaker 3: explained what we wanted to do, what we hope to do,
Speaker 3: and you said, no, no, no, no, no, I got something better.
Speaker 3: I got this great idea.
Speaker 5: So what made you want to be a part of
Speaker 5: this event?
Speaker 8: What your guy had me? And he had my arm
Speaker 8: around my back and he kept squeezing and squeezing.
Speaker 3: All right, I give I'll do it.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 8: We enjoy our relationship with iHeartRadio. We work together on
Speaker 8: Katrina's Club and raise a decent amount of money which
Speaker 8: is a great charity. So you guys do a lot
Speaker 8: of good things and we want to be there with you.
Speaker 3: When you said okay, we got to do something special
Speaker 3: for later with Moe Kelly, did what did you end
Speaker 3: up doing for those who missed out and could not
Speaker 3: enjoy all the festivities?
Speaker 8: Well, what we wanted to do is actually bring our
Speaker 8: grills and cook here. But the building's insurance requirements were
Speaker 8: just a little steep.
Speaker 5: Weren't they so mean?
Speaker 8: I couldn't believe that, you know, I watch those guys
Speaker 8: with sharp pencils in their pocket. So anyway, we cooked
Speaker 8: at the local restaurant and we brought it over, and
Speaker 8: we brought some good frosties with us. Did some innovation
Speaker 8: for you, some different colors that Wendy's doesn't really know about.
Speaker 8: We won't tell them.
Speaker 5: We won't tell them, but no one's listening.
Speaker 3: It's just you'll be exactly what made you want to
Speaker 3: get into this business? Was it the customer service aspect?
Speaker 3: Helping people?
Speaker 8: What about it? It's funny. Forty forty five, forty eight
Speaker 8: years ago, I started with my brother in the pizza business,
Speaker 8: and I just got hooked on. At that time, it
Speaker 8: was serving pizzas as fast as you could. We had sandwiches,
Speaker 8: and I just fell in love with it. And then
Speaker 8: it never worked for your brother, by the way, he
Speaker 8: ended up firing me. So I needed a job. So
Speaker 8: I went to work for Wendy's because at the time
Speaker 8: that we went there on Fridays, because it's the only
Speaker 8: time we could afford it, and that was special for us.
Speaker 8: So I knew it was something I could stand behind
Speaker 8: the counter and be proud to serve because the food's
Speaker 8: that good.
Speaker 3: How has the industry changed in the intervening forty or
Speaker 3: so years when you started, I'm quite sure it's nothing
Speaker 3: like what you may look at and see today.
Speaker 8: You know, we have money coming in from so many
Speaker 8: different places. I mean, it's door Dash, it's grub Hub,
Speaker 8: it's uber eats, the kiosks now in the dining room.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's it's changed dramatically some ways, it's still
Speaker 8: the same. It's still fresh beef, never frozen, served square
Speaker 8: hamburgers because we don't cut corners, and that part's changed.
Speaker 5: You can't see what he did there.
Speaker 8: But you know we sell salads now, which we didn't
Speaker 8: used to do when I started. We didn't have potatoes.
Speaker 8: We have potatoes now. So uh. But it's really, uh,
Speaker 8: it's a people business. Really what you're into too. You know,
Speaker 8: you're you're into a people business. That's the same way
Speaker 8: with us. If we treat them right and we serve
Speaker 8: them the food we're capable of, they'll come back.
Speaker 3: What is it now, that's maybe different working inside of
Speaker 3: a fast food establishment. It seems like I've never worked
Speaker 3: fast food, and I know that it can be one
Speaker 3: of the most difficult jobs for anyone to do.
Speaker 5: Is that still the case?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 8: You know, I think it's a training ground, honestly. I
Speaker 8: mean there's we we have a lot of young people
Speaker 8: come in. They learn how to tell us what they're
Speaker 8: going to work, to be on time, leave on time,
Speaker 8: follow certain rules. I mean, yeah, it's work. I mean,
Speaker 8: you know, I don't I don't know that anybody it's
Speaker 8: got in the head that hasn't worked reasonably hard in
Speaker 8: their life, you know. I mean most people don't, you know,
Speaker 8: get to the top without any good reason. So I
Speaker 8: think it's a good training ground. It gets a lot.
Speaker 8: I mean it was. It's kind of funny because I
Speaker 8: used to have a license plate that said Burger Flipper,
Speaker 8: and normally, you know, the people that have no idea,
Speaker 8: you know, they say, well you flip burgers. You know,
Speaker 8: Well that's kind of a joke, you know. I mean,
Speaker 8: it's it's a it's a knucklehead job, you know. But
Speaker 8: I love it. I mean I really like it. And
Speaker 8: if you anybody that gets into it and finds out
Speaker 8: how you know. Dave Thomas used to say, it's a
Speaker 8: very easy business. It's spread to mannaate, spread to pickles,
Speaker 8: you know, put the right amount of onions on it,
Speaker 8: got a great hamburger. So it's it's very The rules
Speaker 8: are there, you follow them. You can do very well.
Speaker 8: But it's it's a great place. And now I mean
Speaker 8: with California. You know minimum wage that's forty thousand dollars
Speaker 8: a year. You know for somebody that has no skills
Speaker 8: and comes in off the street. You know, if they
Speaker 8: stay with us, they make more money. So it's you know,
Speaker 8: I get offended. And when COVID came, I don't really
Speaker 8: like to talk about COVID because it irritates me so much.
Speaker 8: All of a sudden, I became essential. So I heard
Speaker 8: it on the radio. I'm driving home. I told my
Speaker 8: wife said.
Speaker 3: Guess what.
Speaker 8: Guess what. I'm essential. I'm a burger flipper and I'm essential,
Speaker 8: you know, ocause we were allowed to stay open and
Speaker 8: we did very well.
Speaker 3: Speaking of staying open and doing very well, how many
Speaker 3: restaurants locations are under your responsibility or ownership?
Speaker 8: I owned four in La County?
Speaker 5: Where are they? So we can make sure that people
Speaker 5: can support you.
Speaker 8: Well support any of them. But if you want to
Speaker 8: go to South Kate, uh, Pig Rivera, Woodland Hills or Monrovia,
Speaker 8: that that allow that.
Speaker 5: Works too, all right?
Speaker 8: You know because there's two other franchises in the back
Speaker 8: and they have another forty five forty five restaurants around
Speaker 8: the city.
Speaker 5: So what is Ed Garrigos like?
Speaker 8: Uh, he's a knucklehead. I say that because he's not
Speaker 8: in a room, right, but he might hear this. He's
Speaker 8: a great guy. We talked quite a bit on the phone.
Speaker 8: Well we'll run ideas by each other. I mean we were.
Speaker 8: He called me today and he said, Ron, why didn't
Speaker 8: we do Dodger Blue Frosty's for the World Series? And
Speaker 8: I'm thinking, man, why don't we think of that stuff?
Speaker 8: But you know, some we get busy and the marketing
Speaker 8: people at Wendy's don't think about it because they're in Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 8: But uh, that would have been awesome, you know, to
Speaker 8: serve Dodger Blue Frosty's for a week or so.
Speaker 3: Well, along those lines, what are you featuring right now
Speaker 3: at your restaurant and others? What is it that when
Speaker 3: I go to Wendy's next. Did I just need to
Speaker 3: try or sample.
Speaker 8: Uh breakfast? Try our breakfast burrito right, it is really
Speaker 8: good and filling. We're about to come out with a
Speaker 8: bacon mushroom burger that we we trained on today and
Speaker 8: it is really good. I'm not a big mushroom fan,
Speaker 8: but on that hamburger, it really comes out nice. With
Speaker 8: three strips of apple wood smoke bacon. Oh yummy. We're
Speaker 8: gonna do a caramel salted Frosty coming in so my
Speaker 8: special guest.
Speaker 5: Frosty.
Speaker 8: I've I've had it and it's I mean, we come
Speaker 8: up with some pretty good flavors, but this one's really good.
Speaker 8: It's yummy. So we're you know, we're coming out with
Speaker 8: some different stuff. We'll do some our spicy chickens coming out.
Speaker 8: We've had it for quite a while, but we're finally
Speaker 8: going to put it back on TV and see if
Speaker 8: we can sell a.
Speaker 5: Few more people at home.
Speaker 3: Can't see this, but you also came bearing some gifts
Speaker 3: that we're going to give.
Speaker 5: Away to our in studio audience. Can you help us
Speaker 5: out with that?
Speaker 8: Sure?
Speaker 3: Put your hands together for Ron Ross and all the
Speaker 3: great things he's doing at Wendy's there.
Speaker 1: And also here you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
Speaker 1: on demand from KFI AM six forty I.
Speaker 3: AM six forties Later with bo Kelly the Halloween Special.
Speaker 3: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And it's my
Speaker 3: pleasure to not even introduce, just say hello again to
Speaker 3: a friend, a colleague, I would say, a confidant, a
Speaker 3: radio professional who's done far more for far longer in
Speaker 3: this business than I have.
Speaker 5: The Nautica Dela Cruise. Put your hands.
Speaker 3: Together for Daybickure.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much. It is so wonderful to see
Speaker 7: so many beautiful faces here, and thank you to some
Speaker 7: of you who They were talking about my head and
Speaker 7: gems and discover so cal And someone said, you know,
Speaker 7: I want to be a little bit more like you,
Speaker 7: to discover a little bit more of you know, southern California.
Speaker 7: And I was like, well, you know that's what divorce does.
Speaker 7: It makes you go out and explore.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: Wow, that took a different turn. I wasn't expecting that answer.
Speaker 7: Hey, you know what, it's Tony twenty four. We got
Speaker 7: to keep it real.
Speaker 3: Nowadays, I am encouraged and inspired by you because I
Speaker 3: before I even got into radio. I had been listening
Speaker 3: to you. Just tell people the different radio stations that
Speaker 3: you've been on, just in LA.
Speaker 7: In Los Angeles. I started off very very young. I
Speaker 7: always say I started at Powa one o six when
Speaker 7: I was twelve, Wink wink. So I worked at Power
Speaker 7: one oh six for about three years, and then I
Speaker 7: went to one hundred point three The Beat, but it
Speaker 7: was ninety two point three The Beat, and then about
Speaker 7: nine months later it became one hundred point three the Beat.
Speaker 7: It was sold. I was there for about seven years.
Speaker 5: You were part of Harvey's Angels working with him.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I was one of Steve Harvey's angels. It
Speaker 7: was Steve Harvey and the Angels. I was Shirley's Strawberry,
Speaker 7: Dominique Suprima and myself.
Speaker 3: So you were at the very beginning of Steve Harvey
Speaker 3: before he became the Steve Harvey that we all see
Speaker 3: and know now that he was on Family Feud and everything.
Speaker 3: Before all of that, he had started in LA with
Speaker 3: just a local radio show that eventually became syndicated.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'll actually tell you a little secret of a story.
Speaker 7: So when when when I was there at the Beat,
Speaker 7: I used to work with Ed Lover and Doctor dre
Speaker 7: If anybody remembers go MTV raps, you know.
Speaker 3: The funny thing.
Speaker 7: Was I I used to watch them when I would
Speaker 7: come home from school, and I'd be like, oh, that's
Speaker 7: my show. I lived in New York at that time,
Speaker 7: and then it was one of my dreams I got
Speaker 7: to work with them. So they were uh, you know,
Speaker 7: they were given their exit papers. And then Radio one,
Speaker 7: Miss MS Hughes, was interested in Steve Harvey, and so
Speaker 7: I became his co host for maybe about less than
Speaker 7: a year. But it wasn't that he didn't like me.
Speaker 7: It was it was I was more, I was young,
Speaker 7: so he wanted someone that was more more not season
Speaker 7: but more adult that kind of understood his, you know,
Speaker 7: his demeanor in a way. So we brought Shirley Strawberry
Speaker 7: back and then he got We got Dominiqueaprima to do
Speaker 7: the news Who's Wonderful, And then about a year later
Speaker 7: I became his producer. So I put on the producer
Speaker 7: hat for Steve Harvey and that was a struggle, but
Speaker 7: let me tell you, my paycheck was nice at the end,
Speaker 7: because I love Steve Harvey. We've been friends for twenty
Speaker 7: plus years, but it's you know, when he's on, he's on,
Speaker 7: and when he's off, he's off.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to experience.
Speaker 3: I want you to tell that story because one, you
Speaker 3: never know where life in this business will will take us.
Speaker 5: Individually and collectively. And also, you never know who's listening.
Speaker 3: And when I have you on on Friday nights and
Speaker 3: you talk about where you're venturing around SoCal or the
Speaker 3: hidden Gems, I hear from people, You hear from people,
Speaker 3: and it's always a positive and constant reminder. You never
Speaker 3: know who is listening. You never know who you might
Speaker 3: be touching, who you might be reachy. How has your
Speaker 3: been experience been. Has it been similar to that?
Speaker 7: It's been wonderful. You know, I get messages, whether it's
Speaker 7: on Instagram or LinkedIn, and it's nice to say, hey,
Speaker 7: I want to I donate it to this organization that
Speaker 7: you mentioned last.
Speaker 8: Week or prior.
Speaker 7: And then you know, you always put the show on
Speaker 7: the podcast too, so it's it's nice to get that
Speaker 7: feedback from people to go, hey, I donated to this
Speaker 7: organization or I went to where you said, you know,
Speaker 7: the Japanese Garden or somewhere in Santa Barbara. Had never
Speaker 7: been to the Santa Barbara Zoo. Some people don't even
Speaker 7: know there was a zoo in Santa Barbara, So you
Speaker 7: don't know, you know, and you too, even when I've
Speaker 7: been with you, you're like, I didn't even know I
Speaker 7: was there, So you know, that's that's the best thing
Speaker 7: about having a little bit of freedom, wink wink, is
Speaker 7: that you get to just get up and explore the world.
Speaker 7: And that's what we're here for, is to explore. I know,
Speaker 7: I understand that we need to work and make a living,
Speaker 7: but there's so much more to life.
Speaker 3: When all of a sudden that you've been in this
Speaker 3: business far longer than I have. I started, like you said,
Speaker 3: when you were twelve. What do you want them to
Speaker 3: say about your time in this business?
Speaker 7: You know, I just want them to say that Nautica
Speaker 7: always did her job diligently, with a smile, with passion,
Speaker 7: and that's kind of you know. I didn't get into
Speaker 7: radio because I didn't I never thought I had a
Speaker 7: good voice. But I will tell you this, television was
Speaker 7: my first love. And so when I did an internship
Speaker 7: at kron in San Francisco, you know I was the
Speaker 7: coffee girl, and I was like, oh, hell's no, I.
Speaker 3: Am way more than a coffee girl.
Speaker 7: And then I thought, well, wait a minute. If I
Speaker 7: can't do television, I could do radio. It's just a difference.
Speaker 7: I speak into a microphone regardless, I just don't have
Speaker 7: a tube in front of me. So I just want
Speaker 7: them to remember me as you know what. She was,
Speaker 7: the funny girl who was also like you, born with
Speaker 7: some humor and some sas.
Speaker 3: I don't have some sas, but you.
Speaker 7: Know, just I made I made them just feel loved
Speaker 7: every single day when they heard me on the radio.
Speaker 5: What's next for you?
Speaker 7: Well, cross my fingers. Maybe something more permanent at iHeartRadio
Speaker 7: and then some more television.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, thank you, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you're ready for my sass, you know,
Speaker 7: but if Moe could take it, you could take it
Speaker 7: to right.
Speaker 3: Now. Are you at the point where you consider yourself
Speaker 3: an actual Angelino?
Speaker 5: How long have you been out here in Los Angeles altogether?
Speaker 3: You just like to test sure too?
Speaker 7: Yes, I was just talking a homeboy over there with
Speaker 7: the La Dodger hat Ooh you like to test me? Okay,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna put this on the
Speaker 7: table for everybody who's here. I'm a girl from Brooklyn,
Speaker 7: New York. My heart, my heart is in New York,
Speaker 7: but my home is Los Angeles, and it's been my
Speaker 7: home for almost thirty years. So I love La.
Speaker 3: La has been good to me. West Coast is the
Speaker 3: best coast.
Speaker 7: All right, high five on you, my brother.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 7: I do love Los Angeles and it's it's it's really beautiful.
Speaker 7: I you know, sometimes people go, would you go back? Oh,
Speaker 7: hex no, you would have to pay me, you know,
Speaker 7: six digits, high six digits in order to you know,
Speaker 7: be their winter. Winter is too long. And and summer
Speaker 7: is you know, ten seconds. Spring is six seconds, and
Speaker 7: summer is two seconds. So I love the weather and
Speaker 7: and I love the people in Los Angeles and and
Speaker 7: everybody here is is not as you know, running in
Speaker 7: fast paced as New.
Speaker 5: York is very quickly.
Speaker 3: Whenever I have you come on, I think it's important
Speaker 3: that people can find you beyond here and they can
Speaker 3: listen to you on frequent she tell us real quick.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, so I have a podcast. I'm in my
Speaker 7: third year with my co host Amy Lopez and she's
Speaker 7: a baseball mom and the podcast is only twenty minutes.
Speaker 7: It's called the Frequent She Podcast fr e qu e
Speaker 7: n s h E because radio is in frequency. But
Speaker 7: there's two girls, so we're frequent cheese.
Speaker 3: I'll say two women, but you know two women.
Speaker 7: Yes, So you can catch us on iHeart No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: You could catch us on Spotify. We're trying to get
Speaker 7: on iHeart, and you could also catch us on iTunes,
Speaker 7: and we talk a little bit about everything, relationships, being
Speaker 7: a mom, you know, current news. It's really funny. You know,
Speaker 7: you'll see a different side of me and I may
Speaker 7: you know, drop a you know, an F bomb here
Speaker 7: and there.
Speaker 5: Oh, you can cuss with the best of them. Let's
Speaker 5: be clear.
Speaker 3: Yes, I care.
Speaker 5: You are a talented cussing well.
Speaker 7: You know that's why I do love Terrestrial Radio two
Speaker 7: because it keeps me grounded and focused.
Speaker 5: Put your hands together for Nautica Da La Cruz. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 3: We got one hour down of the Halloween Soiree. More
Speaker 3: when we come back. It's later with Mo Kelly caf
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