The Ingrid Andress National Anthem Disaster, ‘The Acolyte’ Finale & Space Force

ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the Ingrid Andress National Anthem Disaster at the MLB Home Run Derby, and what caused it…PLUS – A look at the Disney+ Star Wars series ‘The Acolyte’ season finale AND Space Force’s plan to launch a set of “laser retroreflector arrays” in 2025 to help pinpoint the center of Earth - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from k f I A M
six forty rod Oh God speed youBoo Yes, Spain bo bad to top

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t if I am six forty isLater with Mo Kelly. We'relive everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app. That was thelate Marvin Gay. He was performing the
national anthem, the Star Spangled Bannerat the nineteen eighty three NBA All Star
Game at the Fabulous Forum right herein Los Angeles, Well Inglewood. Actually,
the reason I played that is becausecustomarily you will hear artists do a

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very i'll say special rendition of thenational anthem at these types of events,
be it NBA All Star Game,Major League Baseball All Star Game, the
Super Bowl boxing match. That whenyou that's when you usually hear these non
additional renditions of the national anthem.With that mind, last night you had

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Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby aspart of the All Star festivities. Well,
I was not familiar with this artist, but her name is Ingrid Andres.
She has since come out and said, I'm sorry I was drunk for
what I did. In fact,I'm going to rehab. You can make

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your own judgment. But this hasto be one of the worst performances of
the national anthem in the history ofthis country, and we're going to listen
to every single bit of it.Shine Well, let me just start again.
I'm not even sure that she startedwith the right words, because every

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video I could find of it,she started like three lines in hoard shine
if sound bad, Sun to thepairs fire or the rest between was we're

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so gass stream and get spread there. The bones burst gave proof to the
night that a flag was ba ohsay do sto speed? Someone help her.

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I'm surprised they did not just turnoff her mic I'm video here,
but can you tell me mo wasWas her leg trapped in a bear trapped?
No, she seemed like she washalfway normal. She was ambulatory,
she was upright, you know whatI mean. She wasn't physically falling down.

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She sounded like she may have beenin labor or something. She sounded
definitely like she was in pain.Okay, Now that's the latest entrant in
the sweepstakes of the worst national anthemof all time. I know people say,
what about Roseanne Barr Well, thatwas pretty bad. That was pretty
bad even when she hawked a LOOKIat the end. Ah okay, yes,

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the last what's up? Last lastweeks? What drives? Ride from
time? Where's that lad l drigexpression? And that was not a Padres

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game? Just to keep it inSouthern California. That is still up there
as one of the worst renditions ofthe national anthem at all time, of
all time, and it gets extracredit because she stepped back. She grabbed
her crotch afterwards and hawked a loogieon the field. Well you should know
that Francis scott Key was a notoriousself crotch grabber. That's true. Well,
you know the stars Bagel banner.Let's be clear, it is a

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drinking song. It's a Stein song, as they say, you know,
it's you know, take it forwhat it's worth. Well, just between
you and me, mo, isn'tevery song a drinking song? I know,
I know. Here's another one.I don't know if it's the worst,
but it's on the list. WhenFergie sang the national anthem at the
NBA All Star Game and we're notgonna play at all, but you'll get

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the you'll get the gist, Oh, Kenny by their lie, what's sole
way and the twine lights less greakay, who let's ride and ride st brough

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the pace rod less fast for thewrist spree. Wah, we're so good.
Let leave story, hold on,hold on the bobs far say gay

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proop through gay proof all right,big finish star spak. Don't applaud for

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that horror the d did you justsay horror? I can neither confirm nor
deny he said horror y alright,Marilyn Memro love Happy birthday, mister Presidents.

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As bad as that was, Ithink even still, even though we
listened to Ingrid and just today,the worst of all time has to be
It's Olympic season. Carl Lewis,the three Me and the rotting he flew

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through the now that up black wasstill I'll make a fort No you won't,
oh say does that stars faddad wayfor the last or the line the

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freeze? I can do it.Yeah, I'm still partial with Carl Lewis.

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I am. I think that's theworst rendition ever. And he's a
listener. Yeah, he sounds likesomebody's tickling his feet or something. But
in all fairness, who wouldn't havetrouble with orror orror and it's the funniest
thing. I was doing that bityears ago and he started following me,
following me on Twitter after that,so I know he's okay with it,

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or he's gonna have to be becausehe's still the worst of all. Yeah,
if you're gonna put that out inpublic, you better be a good
sport. Whenever you say oh inthe middle of your song, at least
you're self aware that you are goingstraight to hell with the song we gotta

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go to break It sounds like he'sgetting a prostate exam during this. What
is that? We gotta go tobrigs Later with six forty, We're Life

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Everybody. I Heart Radio app You'relistening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from kf I AM six forty.Just hours ago dropped the season finale and
hopefully series finale for The Acolyte onDisney Plus. It was much maligned from
its very first episode. There weredifferent comple it was review bombed. Some

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of the complaints were legitimate, someof the complaints were unfair. Some of
the complaints were misogynists because you know, they had female leads. Some of
them were racist. As a matterof fact, they didn't like that they
had two black not even leads,just main characters. And some of the
criticism had to do with the writing, which was well justified. Some of

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it had to do with store poorstory and plot devices. Let me just
say this, Toualla nine watched theseries. Yes, I'm just gonna claim
it series finale to The Acolyte.There will be no second season. We
watched it tonight, right before theshow started. The episode dropped at six

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pm. We watched it shortly thereafter, trying to hurry up and watch it
all before this show started. Now, if you're watching The Acolyte, it
deals with I wouldn't say the formmate of the Sith, but it deals
with some of their earlier history aboutone hundred years before what we know as
the Skywalker Saga of Liulke and LeiaHan and Chewey. You know the original

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Star Wars movies about one hundred yearsbefore that. It told a Jedi story,
but in an unflattering light. Idon't want to give away anything.
If you are watching it, youwant to see how it's resolved. But
the Jedi are put in a veryunflattering light. They are basically cast as

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the villains. You can make yourown decision about it, but I have
to say I just want to behonest and I don't like to be hyperbolic.
I don't want to put too muchon it. I don't want to
exaggerate. But let me just beas honest as possible. Who was the
worst horrible pos I've ever seen inmy life? Let's go to break.
I'm kidding, well, what's you? I second that pos assessment of this

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hatred of all things Jedi, thisfurther effort to destroy the legacy of Star
Wars and to make sure that thisperson who Kathleen Kennedy hired on to do
this never gets another job in StarWars low ever. Again, all these

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things work together to make this theworst series ever ever. Check one thing
for people don't know the showrunner,the executive producer alongside Kathleen Kennedy, is
this person a hired who was nota Star Wars fan, had not seen
any of the Star Wars movies accordingto published reports, and she was put

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in charge of the series. Andit showed every single way imagine trying to
write into the continuity and the legacyof the Star Wars universe, and you
don't even know what any of themovies are about. Can you imagine having
her go to writers like, so, who is Yoda? Tell me about
this Yoda person? What's a Lightsaber? How do you break someone in to

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have them write a show they knownothing about? Well, this is what
you get. You get garbage.It's absolute garbage. Yeah, top top
to bottom. But my question toyou, both of you is it was
garbage from the get go. Why'dyou keep watching it? I let it
go. That's what nerds do.Yeah, I was gonna see it to

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a conclusion because I felt if Iwere going to give an opinion of it
being a POS, I would wantto at least be able to say I
watched that pos from beginning to end. It wasn't like I stopped at episode
four and someone could say, oh, but you missed episode five, six
and seven, and it really turnedaround, and that was a good episode.
There was one episode which there wasa lot of action, there wasn't

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any talking, and I thought,from a choreography standpoint, that was the
only redeeming quality about this series,the Lightsaber choreography. Outside of that,
it was just it was bad allthe way, all around. So you're
saying that since I dropped it afterthe second episode, when it was clearly

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just an absolute Cleveland steamer, yousay, to really know what I'm talking
about and have the full picture,I needed to suffer through all the episodes.
No, I think your opinion wouldhave or my opinion carries more weight
because I can say I've seen everyepisode of the series, and because people
invariably would argue, well, youknow, you missed out on this,
you missed out on that, therewas this, that, and the other.

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You didn't give it a full chanceto to You're not judging it on
the fullness of the series. Isaw all the episodes. A lot of
them were filler, even the lastepisode. There's a lot of walking and
talking and slow dialogue to extend theepisode unnecessarily. That's just what you want
to see in a Star Wars story, isn't it. Well, yeah,
well there was one cool lightsaber battlein the end, But then and that

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that's where about when you came inand then they started talking it and I'm
like, wait a minute, Waita minute, wait one minute, involved
wait one minute, it's not goingto end, like this isn't And you
slowly walked out, shake and Ididn't say it works it yeah, man,
all right, keep on watching it. It was it was bad.
It was bad. There was alot of talking and that lightsaber duel in

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the final episode it was cool tolook at. But that's two minutes of
forty eight Yeah, yeah, thatthat that that that's the trade off.
Oh, forty eight minutes. Andthey try to end it with a quasi
cliffhanger continuity nod to the universe ofStar Wars that you know. I don't

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want to give it away. Andit was ham fisted. It was haphazard,
It was clumsy, and it didn'tmake sense given that. You would
think since they had the blessings ofKathleen Kennedy, they could have used anyone
in the Star Wars pantheon in theseries. It's not like you had to
pay Hugh Jackman to appear as Wolverine. Now, you had any character you

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wanted available to you, and youcould use cgi or whatever makeup and make
it happen. And there were opportunitiesthey missed every single one. It was
garbage. It was trash. Ihate you Kathleen Kennedy, who was definitely
garbage. All right, let metell you I know we have to go.
But the most freeing thing of myadult life was after I left the
Seattle Times and I realized I don'treally have to see every single movie that

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comes out. And that's how Ifelt when I dropped this one. After
the crappy first two episodes. Itwas just like, I don't know anybody
this nobody, you know. Iwould sit you down and say, let's
go to episode of I think itwas five, and I'll just say,
just look at this lightsaber battle justso you can enjoy it for what it
is. Yeah, appreciate that.I'm good. Yeah, that's all I

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need, right, that's all youknow. And I would show you the
lightsaber battle from this final episode.That's all I say. That's all you
need to see. You don't needto see anything else. You don't need
to hear a conversation. You needto worry about continuity, you don't have
to worry about Easter eggs. Itwas garbage, and I knew the moment
they started talking in slow dialogue,I said, I knew it was gonna

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be a bad episode at that point. It's later with Mo Kelly k if
I Am six forty were live everywhereon the iHeartRadio app you're listening to Later
with Mo Kelly on demand from KFIAM six forty. US Space Force aims
to better pinpoint the location of Earth'strue center. Why. I have no
idea, but they're trying to andthey're going to use lasers on GPS satellites

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slated to launch in twenty twenty five. According to space dot com, a
set of laser retro reflector arrays orlri's well, that's catchy. We'll be
installed onto two GPS three satellites calledSB nine and SV ten as part of

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NASA's Space ge Odyssey geodes Hey,Mark, what is g e O D
E s Y. That's an outstandingquestion, and I'll have an actually stop,
Oh my goodness, you may haveit is g O d Z sounds
like a geotas. Yeah, don'tlisten to me. G E O D
E s Y program Space Sensor Network. The lasers are designed to make precise

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subcentimeter level measurements using a technique calledsatellite laser ranging or s l R,
not to be confused with a camera, which will allow researchers to more accurately
determine Earth's center. Okay, Igot it right here, geodysse de e
s y. I thought you werespelling it like Odyssey is in space.
Odyssey O E y s s ey. Yeah. It's the science of

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accurately measuring and understanding Earth's geometric shape, orientation in space and gravity field.
Wow, it's a real thing.You got that? Okay? Yes,
I got it. Is there atech at the end? Yes? Okay,
good, okay, keep your pencilshark. On May sixth next year,
the two LRA excuse me. Earlierthis year, the two LRAs were
delivered to Lockeyed Martin to be integratedwith the GPS three satellites ahead of launch.

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The mission is a partnership between theSpace Force the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
I didn't know that was such athing. Yeah, why not?
Why not? I just didn't hearof it, you know. And NASA
quote, we were able to addnew capabilities to the GPS constellation years ahead
of schedule while ensuring the billions ofpeople who rely on our signals daily would

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be unaffected. And that's US SpaceForce. Colonel Andrew Menscher, Mentioner Position
Navigation and Timing Delta Commander at SpaceOperations Command, he goes on. We
expect LRAs to be standard on futureGPS vehicles and are pleased at SV nine
and SB ten will have the capabilityprior to launch. If I'm undert this

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correctly, is this is just goingto make our Google maps and Apple maps
just more accurate? Is that whatthey're telling us, just you know,
the next generation of GPS maybe,But also think about all these stories we
keep hearing on Noriri about the Earth'score possibly changing direction, so now we

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can see what's happening at the center. According to this, having accurate positioning
information is essential to find the centerof the mass of Earth, which can
undergo small changes following events like tsunamisand earthquakes. Therefore, the data collected
by the LRAs will allow researchers tomake more accurate measurements about how the world

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is changing. All right, yeah, I understand. Look, I think
that this is all a part ofthe advancement of understanding our planet where we're
from. Just think about what theselasers lasers big picture in not just mapping
the Earth's core, but mapping thisplanet and actually maybe helping the flat Earthers

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to understand how this planet is actuallyshaped. Oh, they'll never get on
point. Let's get into the site. So let's get real nerdy with it,
all the stuff that none of usunderstand. Laser ranging relies on small
bursts of laser light to detect distancesbetween objects. Did you get that pulses
of laser light from a ground stationare directed toward an orbiting satellite equipped with

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these lris, which then reflect thelight beams back to the original source.
You know what I mean. Yousee where I'm going with this. Therefore,
the time it takes for the laserlight to travel from the ground to
the satellite and back again. Comeon, now, it can be used
to calculate the distance between the satelliteand the ground. Lay Watch out now,
Watch out now. At one hundredand eighty six thousand miles per second,

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the light is reflected using three mirrors, not one, not two,
but three mirrors positioned at right angles, forming an inside corner of a cube.
Of course, did you know thatthe RAS system an array of forty
eight of the mirrored corner cubes,and this ensures that the beam of light
is reflected back out of the sameangle it came in at. While we

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have LRA magic, you were justreading words, just like phonetically reading a
foreign language. Weren't you. Yes, I had no comprehension of anything I
just said, but the way yousay, But someone is smarter because of
it, not me. Somebody,and I know someone listening right now understood

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all of that. I just haveno idea who you are. I have
no idea where you are. Maybeit's someone who's listening at JPL. And
they said, come on, moo. Of course you know about LRAs.
No, I don't know. Idon't presume to know everything. I know
a lot about some stuff, andI know everything about one or two subjects.
I know very little about this.Now it interests me greatly. I

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think it's fantastic. I love theworld of science, space explorer, astronomy,
all of that, but I wouldnever profess to be an expert.
You know, all of this isis Greek talking about foreign language. Yes,
it's like Greek to me. Well, the best part of this whole
thing is that you played the Starblazerstheme. Oh you caught that? Huh,
Yeah, that's great. Not alot of people actually know that.
You know, it's a that's agreat automated title. They actually did two

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versions They had the original version inthe nineteen seventies and they did an updated
version. I think it was aroundtwenty twelve. The updated the animation,
they redid it. They slightly changedthe story if you're familiar with it,
and it's a much smoother animation.It's really good. They have it on.
What's the one that streaming app thatalmost watching speed Racer on is with

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Amazon? Brom No, it's AmazonPrimes. It's a division of Amazon.
Oh free, No no no no, it's a division of Amazon. Is
going to bother me because it's apart of the subscription. Well, the
question is is the updated version asgood as the original? Because the better
it's better because the animation so muchbetter. It tells almost the exact same

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story, but slightly tweaked. It'sthe same where the spaceship battleship I'm the
model they call it Yamato in thisone, and they're going off to this
unknown, uncharted world to get thistechnology to save the Earth which is being
bombarded by these meteor bombs. It'scann dar Yes, it's the same.

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I remember it. Yeah, Butthe thing about the animation is that that
crude animation was just the same animationas speed Racer and Kimba the White Lion.
Yes, and all those crappy showsthat we had when we were kids.
No, the badness of it waspart of the appeal. No,
the updated animation is smooth, bright, vibrant. It's fantastic. So look

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for the two thousand I think it'stwenty twelve version. They have it on
crunch roll. That's the neighborhood Sackcrunchy roll. Yeah, they have it
on crunchy Roll, the updated version. I think. Didn't you Mark say
you had that one? No,I have crunching Roll. Yeah. Yeah,
that's what me and makes life Andfor some that's all. I'm thinking,
Mobile, soup, gundam, allthat everything, everything you want to
say. Yeah, so you know, maybe I'll get a subscription for you,

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Mark, Wink wink so you cancheck it out. No, please,
don't. You're welcome. You're listeningto Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six boarding before weget out here. Yes, we got
a nice laugh at the expense ofingrid Andress. She says that she's come
out and said that she apologizes forbeing quote unquote drunk during her national anthem

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performance. I didn't get a chanceto highlight that she's headed to rehab.
I'm not going to put it away. I will take her at her word
that she was drunk when she performedthe National Anthem. She sounded drunk,
she seemed drunk. She didn't fallover, but she seemed like she wasn't
perceiving reality the same way as therest of us. But I think about
this as someone who worked in themusic industry, I absolutely could see how

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that would happen because performers, youmay not know they have a writer,
and when they're going to be performing, a writer is what they want in
their green room prior and also postsany performance. And if you look at
an artist writer, they're usually ridiculous. It could be like six Caesar salads,
ten bottles of water, two bottlesof champagne, four cokes. They're

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really ridiculous. But always just aboutalways, unless that person swears off alcohol,
there's plenty of alcohol included. Andif you're performing the National Anthem at
an event like the home Run Derby, anything that is on that writers in
the room hours before he or sheis going to perform. I know that

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she's probably sitting in that dressing roomjust drinking and drinking away. So I
believe her. I say that tosay I believe her that she walked out
to that field drunk and started singingthe national anthem. Who I blame?
Well, there should have been someonearound her to kind of just, you
know, just just shadow her andmake sure she didn't get too drunk.

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And if she genuinely is an alcoholicwhere needs treatment, then there's maybe nothing
anyone could have done. But whothat was? That was? That was
embarrassing for her and I think embarrassingfor everyone. I was looking at the
color guard standing right behind her andI said, well, they didn't break
character. I was like, theyhave to be thinking like, oh my
gosh, she's horrible. I lookedat some of her videos because she's an

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actually she's really a good singer,and I would look at some of her
videos on YouTube, and so itshot. I was like, how do
you go from this to that?And when you read about because I have
I have had artists on stage whohave been too drunk, yam, I
have had some of the one ofthe greatest voices in music. I've had
her on stage and it was nota sweet thing. I will just say

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that. Oh, I'll say it, because we had a grandy breakfast and
we had to pick up I willsay it. I was there, I
witnessed it, and we had toget her to at nine o'clock breakfast for
Grammy and the schools. And shewas drunk and hungover. I didn't say
hungover from the last night, buthungover from the last night and drunk that
morning. It's been drinking that morning. Yeah. It can affect you.

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It can affect you, you know, But I still got it. I
watched her on a tiny desk concertand she killed it. So I'm just
saying, yes, this it's reallyreally bad that this happened to her in
this moment, and now she's addedto the pantheon of horrible national anthems.
I don't know about Carl Lewis,if he was under the influence, I

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don't know. I don't know.He didn't sound like he was drunk.
I don't think Roseanne Barr she wasunder the influence. I think that she
was just trying to be funny anddidn't know how to sing it all.
Okay, it doesn't sound drunk,just sounds horrible. Two different things.
Now, Fergie, if you've everlistened to her, and if you ever

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listen to her sing, she's neverbeen a very good singer. You don't
think fer Delicious was good. She'sso fur delicious. No, she's good
looking, she's not a good singer. There's a difference. And I worked
with like Black Eyed Peas when what'sworking in interscope. So, I mean,
there are a lot of people whocan perform well, but singing the
national anthem the Star Spangled Banner isone of the most difficult songs to sing

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because it's such a wide range.You need to have at least two and
a half octaves of register to singthe song, and when you sing it,
you have to put at the verybottom of your range so you have
some room to go so you don'tend up like Carl Lewis, where you
have to hit those high notes andthen you realize that you can't because they're
outside of your range and you endup saying, oh yeah, because it's

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just too high for you to sing. It's not funny, it's anthem.
If you want to know what peopleare under the influence of it, sounds
in that clip that Carl Lewis isunder the influence of a laxident e,
three men and the rocket definite laxident. He flew through the now that lack

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was still. I'll make a fortnow he knows what he did. That
starts fang band Gadway for the lastor the last? The free? Did

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you try? And? Oh?Now I can sing a little bit,

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But I would never try to singthe national anthem. I wouldn't, I
wouldn't. It's just a song thatthe too many variables. You know,
you might be in a cold arenaor stadium, which hurts your voice,
makes it more difficult to sing.You may be nervous, you may forget
the words. You notice. Idon't know why they don't ever put the
words up on the jumbo tron justto help the singer. How many times

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do we see people forget the words? You mean, think, well,
you should know the words to thenational anthem, But when you're trying to
concentrate on singing, you will forgetthe words. It's your patriotic duty.
How do you forget the words tothat? It's like old McDonald had a
farm. Everybody knows the words tothat. Yeah, everybody knows the words
to it. Until you're in frontof eighteen thousand people and television cameras,

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and you realize you're not as goodof a singer as you think you are,
and you have to say or canif I aim? Sinceport lived everywhere,
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