August 15, 2024 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Wellness Wednesday with wife, mother, fitness expert, and masterful storyteller Claudine Cooper…PLUS – A look at where California ranks on the list of the most NFL player-producing states AND thoughts on Janet Jackson’s revelation during a BBC radio interview that she’s related to Stevie Wonder, Tracy Chapman and Samuel L. Jackson - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Weldness Wednesday. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And of course joining me on this Weldness Wednesday is
our regular contributor and commentator Claudine Cooper. Of course Claudinecooper
dot com. Claudine is good to talk to you. How
you doing tonight?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm doing great. How about you?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
MO?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
I'm doing well and well.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Actually I'm getting kind of sad because summer is winding down,
kids are going back to school, my traffic is getting worse,
my stress levels getting higher.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
What do you recommend?
Speaker 6 (00:37):
All of the above are happening in real time, including
kids going back to school. As you know, I'm taking
my daughter back down to college, and it has been
one of those really busy times where people's stress levels
do start to go up. But you can manage it
through movement, you can manage it through meditation, you can
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manage it by eating better.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How have you been eating, MO?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I have been eating much much better.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm not saying that just to make myself feel good.
I'm saying it because it's a fact. I've been very
intentional with my food choices, every single meal, every single day,
and it's about a process of improvement, not just physical
results in the short term.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
So I met with a trainer at work and he
gave me some tips. As we get older, because we
lose muscle, we could use a little bit more protein.
And for a carb lover like myself, it is really
difficult to get enough protein because I.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Would rather eat bread all day, you and me.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
But as I've been more intentional about getting the protein,
I have noticed a couple things. My mood has improved,
which I didn't really make a correlation between eating carbs
and kind of being earitible, but I do think the
better you're eating habits, the lower your stress levels, the
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less irritability you may have. And another added byproduct is
that I'm building a little more muscle. And as we
get older, as you know, all of us males and
females alike, we lose muscle. Meanwhile, my daughter, who you know,
she can run around the block three times and do
a pilates class and she looks like a million bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Right.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
But at the same time, if we adopt those habits
at the age that our children are in their twenties
and young adults. It'll last them for a lifetime. Don't
you agree?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh, I absolutely agree. It's just not fair that they
don't have to work at it. Of course, they say
youth is wasted on the young. We all have the
same amount of time in our twenties and thirties. But
you know, now we're on the other side of those
twenties and thirties and we missed how good we had it.
But I want to extract from what you said. You
said you're taking your daughter back down to college. And
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I know that some people may be leaving town, they
may be going on a last second vacation.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Effect.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Me and my wife were going on the last second
three day cruise over the Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
So I know people are getting in their last hurrahs.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
But I think about people who go on vacation and
use that as a time to not get in their
exercise or to move away from their diets. How do
you recommend navigating all that?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
The first thing I want to say is, I've heard
the cruises have amazing exercise classes. Now, when I was
a younger woman, I was recruited by a cruise line
asking if I would be willing to.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Teach water aerobics.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
I didn't even know cruise ships had like a pool
or put several pools on them.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
But apparently cruises are a resort on a boat.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Am I right? I'm never absolutely right?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yes, Well, this is the thing.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
If you plan ahead, for example, you're going on a
three day cruise, this is a great way to start
thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Now you can start to plan.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Hey, if I did want to take one of the
pool aerobics classes, or if I did want to walk
around on the cruise ship and get my ten thousand steps,
what do I need to pack?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So a lot of it has to do with preparation, right,
mo Right.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I try to be prepared, but sometimes I think, Okay,
I want to get my ten thousand steps in.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Oh, but that buffet looks so good.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I've heard the buffets on the cruises are second to none.
It's definitely a tough one. I don't want you to
stay away from enjoyment and relaxation and rest and all
of those things. But I also think that there's something
to be said for incorporating I don't know, an exercise class,
a little swimming labs, a little walk around the deck.
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In that case, you don't have to restart when you
get back. Now, I'm headed down south to take my
daughter to the HBCU that she attends, Tuskegee University, And
in that small town, there's not a lot of options
as far as working out is concerned. But the hotel
always has a small fitness center. So one thing I
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like to do is I like to queue up a
video on YouTube and just follow along with it from
the hotel fitness center. Thirty minutes, forty five minutes done.
But then that way, when I'm down south and I
want to eat that soul food and that comfort food,
I don't feel as guilty.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I do know what you're saying. I just want to know.
Do they have paved roads in Tuskiga, Alabama.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Not really, You're in the backwoods, I tell you.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Yeah, it's definitely a small town. She is enjoying her experience, though,
and that's all I can say. That's all I can
hope for.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I wonder not to get in your business. But in
a general sense, how much do your children observe or
take from you?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Or is it just mom being mom?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And they disregard some of the tips you may try
to pass on to them.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Oh please, have you ever heard that preacher's kids are
the wildest and cops.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Kids always commit the crimes.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
No, My kids really disregard a lot of the things
that I say. But every now and then I see
a glimmer of hope. For example, my son, he was
telling me that he was working out with a friend.
So I said, well, what were you guys doing exactly?
And he said, they went to the park and they
were doing sprints. And I said, oh my goodness, was
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it fun? And he looked at me and he said, mom,
I love working out. Okay, And that just just.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
A small little thing. He won't work out with me.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
He's not coming to my classes, but when it comes
to doing his own thing, he said, I love working out.
That is enough for me. You know, train a child
up moment, Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yes, And a lot of times you can be an
example that they may not verbalize, but they are still
watching you and they will still emulate much of what
they see, good and bad. But they're not going to
give you that credit. I know that they're just not
because you're not cool enough to give.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
That credit to I get the eye rolls.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I get the oh, here she goes again, you know,
but it's all good.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
If you just tuning in. I'm speaking with Claudie Cooper.
Of course.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Go to Claudiancooper dot com for more information about her
and fitness tips and how you can catch up with
her at Iconics Fitness in Inglewood. We'll have more with
Claudine Cooper in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
It's Wellness Wednesday on Later with Mo Kelly. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm continuing to speak with
our regular commentator, Claudiancooper. Of course, Claudinecooper dot com and Claudie,
I don't usually have the opportunity, and I usually try
to be respectful boundaries.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
But I haven't asked you about your kids.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
But you open up the conversation talking about how you're
getting ready to go down south to put your daughter
back in school, which is admirable in and of itself,
but then it led to a wider conversation about fitness
and generational lessons and the things that you try to
pass on the kids, and we all know that kids
are more likely to listen to other people than they
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are their own parents, especially when it comes to advice.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Has that been your experience?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Well, you know, to be honest with you, MO, I
lean on this quote.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
It says children will do what you do, not do
what you say. And I think about that in so
many different aspects, not necessarily just in the health and
wellness field, but in the aspects of how are we
showing up for our children in our day to day
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interactions with other human beings. Now, since the gym has opened,
we've been open for two months now, I have really
had my customer service skills tested on.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
A whole other lege.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
What do you mean, I'll tell you people are peopling
if I can say it like that and you can
catch my drift. Basically, what I'm saying is the way
people are treating one another.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Now.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Granted, lots of great experiences, a lot of people enjoying
the gym, but I am noticing that we're a little
bit out of practice in how we handle one another.
And maybe you see it in road rage incidents, maybe
you see it in the market when you're in line.
It's just an interesting dynamic that I've noticed, and because
I've been working in the gyms for so long, I
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do have a starting point in my data research. I
notice that it's changed, and I can't really put my
finger on what it is. But one thing I tried
to emulate for my children is how to handle people,
how to speak to people when you go to restaurants,
how do you treat the server? When you're in a
gym and you walk in and you see someone at
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the front desk, how do you treat that person? And
so these are examples of modeling behavior that I want
my children to see from me. And it's not just
in the way I eat or the way I exercise,
but it's also in the way that I handle my
fellow human being.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Do you get what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Mom?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And it opens the door to a really, really big conversation.
Because I personally have loathed how younger generations have missed
out on basic socialization and etiquette skills as far as
how you greet someone, how you speak to someone. I
can't believe at all on the pandemic. I think it's
bigger than just the pandemic. I think they've been buried
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in their phones for so long, they forget how to
interact with people on a human level. And I think that,
to bring it back to fitness, I think that impacts
our emotional health in many ways.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
So it does, and we've talked about this several times
on the show. You know, sitting on your phone for
eight to ten to twelve to fifteen hours a day,
or on your iPad or on your laptop, it's for
any of us. I'd like to polarize the conversation to
this being just about the younger generation, because now that
I've been in the gym and I've been in hand
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to hand communication with customers, I'm noticing it's all ages,
it's all genders, it's all ethnicities, it's all spiritual believers,
it's everyone. A lot of people are out of practice
on treating others the way that they would want to
be treated. And maybe it's bigger than the pandemic, maybe
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it's bigger than social media. But I definitely think that
there is a correlation between isolation, between being focused on
a screen all day and being able to say what
you want behind that screen yes and coming out yeah.
And as a matter of fact, since we're on this subject,
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I did notice on your social media that you are
having a.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Block party right now. Oh yeah, do you want to
tell me a little bit about it.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
It's very simple.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I tried to have clear delineations and parameters between my
personal life and professional life. And part of that is,
even though you may encounter me on social media, do
not try to speak to me or come at me
in a way that you would not even think of
in person. In other words, whatever you say on the
line to me, I want you to be sure that
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you would say it the exact same thing, the exact
same way to me in person, knowing that if you
do it in person, there probably would be a different
response and there might be some consequences. I think we've
gotten to a point where people take too many liberties
because they're are online. It's like you would never not you,
but a person would never try to speak to me
in a certain type of way with all these insults
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and racial epithets.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
It's like you would never do that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But under the cover of anonymity or you know, lack
of proximity, people try to speak in a way that
is just impolite, and I would say ill advised. Let
me put it that way, and so I can let
people know I will block people in a heartbeat if
you can't say what you need to say without being
insulting or demeaning.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You know, I'm all for a snark.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You know I'm sarcastic, but if you come at me
sideways block, I'm not even having.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
The conversation with you.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Why to this conversation, I'm protecting my own emotional piece.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
You know, we could go down this rabbit hole all
night long mode, But I will say this, I definitely
see a consistency between the amount of courage people have
had online to the way.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
They're speaking to people in person.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
It's almost like they still feel like they come off
of that screen and they can talk to you in person.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
With the same amount of bravery and courage.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
I mean, I'm not a martial artist like you, but
I've had my day like you. May not want to
come to me with that type of energy, not knowing
exactly how I'm going to receive it. But at the
same time, going back to the behavior I want to
model for my children, there was a time in my
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young life where my response to this kind of what
I consider to be disrespect would have been met with
some consequences that I would not meet it with today.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I keep saying that it.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Is right now, in this time in my life, when
I have been given the opportunity to go in front
of customers in a luxury fitness facility in my town
where I live, and I have been able to do
it with grace. But it would not have been this
same exact way had it happened many years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I get exactly what you're saying, and I just put
it in another way. Don't let the smooth taste fool you.
And they're varying levels of consequences, and I'm not talking
about physical consequences. You know, if you speak to someone
like that the wrong way, you could lose your job,
you could lose your status, you could lose your place,
you could lose an opportunity. It's not just about if
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you come at me sideways on them, I'm going to
meet you with the same energy. Now, it's just a
function of you're doing yourself a disservice. I'm saying that
I will not allow it or tolerate it, but the
person who's perpetrating it, you're not helping yourself, and I
think they're far too many people here who don't understand
that that type of behavior not only has no place
in the real world, irl in real life, and there
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will be consequences for that which will negatively impact you.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Right.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
And when I show my children what it looks like
to handle people with care, even when those same people
have not handled me with care, I believe I'm displaying
a very valuable lesson that will take them far in
the world. Just like exercise, just like eating lots of
fruits and vegetables. I feel like they can take away
from that whatever they will.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
She is Claudinecooper Claudincooper dot com. I love how we
can have these in depth conversations about not only fitness
but life in general. Have a very safe trip down south,
and we'll see you on the other side.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yes, we will. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Actually, I'm pretty excited football season is back upon us.
When I say football season, I'm talking college and pro
lifelong Rams fan, professional, lifelong USC Trojans fan.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
But it's not Pac twelve anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's Big Ten, as USC and UCLA and others have
moved to the Big ten. It just feels weird. But
that's another discussion for another day. But I came across
this information talking about the number of players from California
who go on to the NFL. We hear about college
players going to the NFL, but what about people who
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from cities right around you and me, in both northern
and southern California. Did you know that Sacramento and Long Beach,
at least relative to California, they produce the more. I
should say, they've produced the most current NFL players from
a single city. Sacramento has twelve players in the NFL
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right now, and Long Beach has twelve as well.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
But you may think, well, is that a lot?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Actually it isn't, because none of the California cities are
in the top ten as far as cities which produce
NFL talent if you go by state. I'm gonna just
go ahead and let you know right now, California is
in the top ten. If you're listening to the first segment,
you know where we are in the top ten. But
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real quickly, real quickly, let me see, hey, Stephen, do.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
You follow college or professional football.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I know you're somewhat an almost never sports fans.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
He'll take that as a no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, if you follow sports, you know that in terms
of football, California usually does very well as far as
developing talent. Now I'm a little bit older than you.
When I was growing up, you had these great football
rivalries like Banning and Carson, and now in more recent
years you have schools like Modern Day and they're like
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football factories. They go on to those schools and a
good number of them go on to become pros. But
still California is not one of the biggest football factory
producing states around. So if you look at the top
ten states with the most current NFL players, as we're
on the precipice of not only NFL season, but college season,
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coming in at number ten, as far as the states
were the most current NFL players, I love Keith Jackson,
football famballa football Rosque Stefan.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Do you even know who Keith Jackson was? Nope?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Oh my goodness, one of the greatest college football announcers
to have ever lived.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Okay, this is what I want you to do. I
want you to just go to YouTube and find a
Keith Jackson commentary or something announcement. You know what, he's
calling a football game. So you can tell I just
wasted one of my best impressions. You don't even know
who that was.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Coming in at number nine.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
As far as the top ten states, were the most
current NFL players Illinois, number eight, Michigan, so I guess,
you know, Midwest, that's where they start churning them out.
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Number seven, Ohio, number six, Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Coming in at number five.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
North Carolina, and that actually surprised me because North Carolina
geographically is not a big state. College wise, it's not
very big when it comes to football. I mean yet,
you know they played football in the ACC, but they
don't have a lot of powerhouses coming out of North Carolina.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Number four.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Georgia. No surprise there. In fact, I thought that Georgia
would have been ranked higher on this list.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
California. That's where we landed, and I thought we would
be higher, but no. Coming in at number two. And
this is just for Mark Runner, your favorite state, Florida.
Who doesn't love Florida? Yeah, yeah, it's Florida's always at
the top of these lists. You know, it's a perfect state.
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Can't wait to reach the age where I can move there.
Really excited about it.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
The only thing about Florida, and we were talking about
this because it's one of the best, It was at
the top of the list for best retirement states.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I just don't like humidity.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
If they could just have it a cooler summers with
no humidity, then the Florida would be great.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
No, look at you're constantly walking around with a sheen
on you. Every time I watch Dexter, which is set
in Florida, I wondered how they tolerated that.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Oh it's great to visit. I mean, I love different
cities in Florida, But to imagine living there year round
as a retiree, older, more sensitive to the extremes in climate,
I don't know how people do it. Seriously, And it
gets cold there too. You may not get snow, but
he gets cold there. And it's going to get wetter
there soon too. Well, that's true, especially when it fall
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in the ocean and coming in at number one as
far as the top ranked state with the most current
NFL players.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Texas, Texas, Texas. That's it. Nothing, got nothing for me.
I forgot. You're not football friands. You know, I'm caring
something about football.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Mark is a wrestling fan, Stephan is a is a
nothing fan, Towala is a nothing fan, and you know,
and joining me in the studio, Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
I'm a football fan. You went to USC.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
You went to USC, but you're not a football I'm
a football fan. I was chiming in off Mike, I
know my football.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
All right. Where did the Rams play before Saint Louis?
I was going to say before La St. Louis? No, no, no, no,
they came back to La Gosh down in San Diego
County down there.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Before the Rams were the La Rams. They came from
another city in a different state.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
It's not it's not Saint Louis. I'm not getting that right. Okay, okay, okay.
The Rams went to Saint Louis in the late nineteen nineties.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah so technically, okay, I'm talking about before they originally
came to Los Angeles in like the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Oh so you're moving the goalpost. No, I said, where
did they play? Speak? Where did the Rams play prior
to coming to Los Angeles? Anyone?
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Is this like we're also the disappointing dad like that
Succession show.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
See that's what I'm saying. Come on, football fans know this.
I'm not a Rams fan. Okay, it's Cleveland. They played
in Cleveland from nineteen thirty sixty eighteen.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
We know that.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Fall fans know that. Rams fans know that a very
obscure reference.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Okay, all right, where did the Lakers play before coming
to La?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
That would be in many apples? Right now? How did
you know that? I'm not a Laker fan either? But
all right, then that's my point. I think Laker fans
are a lot louder than Rams fans with their history. No,
just because the Lakers have won more. Perhaps perhaps I'm
a Clipper fan?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
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Speaker 1 (24:35):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 5 (24:41):
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back in the late nineties, I had the chance to
work what was the Velvet Rope tour. That song you
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heard at the beginning was from the Velvet Rope album,
one of her most popular albums ever.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
I provided tour support in other its.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
When she was in La I went with her to
the various radio stations where they'd meet with programmers in fact,
I went to Ta Wallace station that took pictures to everyone.
I said to say, she's one of the nicest people
you ever meet. I can't say that about a lot
of people, but Janet is one of those people. But
I would never allege to know her. I can just
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say I've been around her on a few occasions, and
you can get a sense of what a person is
really like. And she's soft spoken. She's very much to herself,
but she'll talk to you, but she doesn't have a
lot to say.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Very kind.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
But after all these years, I'm still finding out things
about her as someone who worked in the industry, someone
who knows a little bit about music history. I did
not know that Janet Jackson and by extension, the Jacksons
were related to Stevie Wonder, Tracy Chapman, and Samuel L.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Jackson. And it came out in an interview with the
BBC just days.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Ago Stevie Wonder. If someone told me this, yeah, are
you related to Stevie?
Speaker 5 (27:02):
She's our cousin.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Have I gone that long in life?
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Not a lot of people know that he's our cousin
on my mother's side, So is Tracy Chapman. Through the
family is Samuel Jackson.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
So Stevie is walk to you my cousin, Tracy Chapman,
cousin Samuel Jackson.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
He would be a cousin too. I mean he's not
my brother yet.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
But yes, I never knew.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Could you imagine a family reunion and a cookout? You
have people sitting around telling family stories, oral history. You
have the Jackson's that's special all by itself. You have
Tracy Chapman, who's come back into prominence in recent years.
She's not a recluse, but you don't see a lot
of her.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
And then you have Samuel L. Jackson walk in the room,
say what a dear?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Say what again?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I dare you?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I doubled there?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Your mother say what one more?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
God time?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
That would be one hell of a party. I want
that at a party.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Wait, and then you can have you could have some
music where Janet would cut a record with Tracy Chapman
and Stevie Wonder. That would be like the radio clean version.
And then you have Samuel L. Jackson do the remix
dirty version?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Say what again?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Say what again?
Speaker 7 (28:24):
I dare you?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I doubled down? Your mother?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Say what one more time?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Has somebody not already done that.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I would pay good money to have Samuel Jackson guest
appearance on a Janet Jackson record written by Stevie Wonder
and then Tracy Chapman played little guitar.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Let's be honest. There is a musicality to the experts swearing.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
We just heard. Oh no, there's a cadence. Yeah, and
there is a skill in the delivery.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Everyone has cussed, but no one is as proficient as
Samuel L.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Jackson.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
He's nobody. Yeah, I can't think of anyone who's even
in his league. I'm being real serious.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Only the drill instructor in full metal jacket. But see
that's a limited capacity.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
You could put Samuel Jackson in any movie and he
can cuss about any variety of subjects.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Oh yeah, you got snakes on a plane in there. No,
but Stephan will have it. They'll find it.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yes, I am sick of these mickey ficky snakes on
this Mickey ficky plane.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Yeah, that just lends itself to music. Come on, I
was thinking too.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
It makes sense now knowing that Stevie Wonder is one
of their cousins, Given that Stevie and Michael have both
done backgrounds on each other's records in history, and you
kind of wonder, like, where'd that come from?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
But now it makes even more sense, and I wonder.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I mean, of course they knew, But then you go
back to the early days of Motown, It's like, yeah,
you would probably tap family members, you would probably you
know people in your friend and family circle. But it's
something that you would think, given the bands of nature
of the internet today, is something like you thought that
most people would know.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
But even Jedet did say It's like, not a lot
of people know that. Stevie.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Wonder now someone told me this earlier. Are you related
to Stevie?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
He's our cousin?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
How have I gone that long in life?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Not a lot of people know that.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Not a lot of people know that, including me. It's like, Janet,
we were buddies, Like, why didn't you tell me we
used to hang out on you? You spent a lot
of time together. You didn't tell me that you and
Samuel L. Jackson were hanging out.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Pray what a dear Say what again?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I dare you?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I doubled?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
There?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Your mother?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Say what?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
One more?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
God?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
There is a poetic beauty in the rhythm cadence and
flow of those mfs.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
If she was somehow also related to Blowfly and Rudy
Ray Moore.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Look, it only took us forty years to figure this out,
so you know, look who knows. In the next interviews
you mat start talking about way down in the jungle Deep.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Only Rudy Rizon.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes on
this Monday to Friday.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Pray everybody strapping in about the open some freaking windows.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
All I know is the custom version much more powerful,
much more powerful. Hey, I was asking for Keith Jackson earlier.
This is for your personal edification. Did you find any
Keith Jackson?
Speaker 5 (31:33):
I found some? Yeah, okay, right, pull it up. Can
you just put some Keith Jackson real quick?
Speaker 7 (31:37):
I think, well I got rid of it because I
we're going to break what just excuse and some Jackson
Pollock after you're done with that, right, and then Jackson
Browne Andrew Jackson if you have any of that.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Trail of Tears one of his hips, Oh wow, wow blankets.
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Speaker 3 (32:04):
No need to keep it and refresh.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Weldness Wednesday. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And of course joining me on this Weldness Wednesday is
our regular contributor and commentator Claudine Cooper. Of course Claudinecooper
dot com. Claudine is good to talk to you. How
you doing tonight?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm doing great. How about you?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
MO?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
I'm doing well and well.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Actually I'm getting kind of sad because summer is winding down,
kids are going back to school, my traffic is getting worse,
my stress levels getting higher.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
What do you recommend?
Speaker 6 (00:37):
All of the above are happening in real time, including
kids going back to school. As you know, I'm taking
my daughter back down to college, and it has been
one of those really busy times where people's stress levels
do start to go up. But you can manage it
through movement, you can manage it through meditation, you can
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manage it by eating better.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How have you been eating, MO?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I have been eating much much better.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm not saying that just to make myself feel good.
I'm saying it because it's a fact. I've been very
intentional with my food choices, every single meal, every single day,
and it's about a process of improvement, not just physical
results in the short term.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
So I met with a trainer at work and he
gave me some tips. As we get older, because we
lose muscle, we could use a little bit more protein.
And for a carb lover like myself, it is really
difficult to get enough protein because I.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Would rather eat bread all day, you and me.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
But as I've been more intentional about getting the protein,
I have noticed a couple things. My mood has improved,
which I didn't really make a correlation between eating carbs
and kind of being earitible, but I do think the
better you're eating habits, the lower your stress levels, the
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less irritability you may have. And another added byproduct is
that I'm building a little more muscle. And as we
get older, as you know, all of us males and
females alike, we lose muscle. Meanwhile, my daughter, who you know,
she can run around the block three times and do
a pilates class and she looks like a million bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Right.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
But at the same time, if we adopt those habits
at the age that our children are in their twenties
and young adults. It'll last them for a lifetime. Don't
you agree?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh, I absolutely agree. It's just not fair that they
don't have to work at it. Of course, they say
youth is wasted on the young. We all have the
same amount of time in our twenties and thirties. But
you know, now we're on the other side of those
twenties and thirties and we missed how good we had it.
But I want to extract from what you said. You
said you're taking your daughter back down to college. And
(03:03):
I know that some people may be leaving town, they
may be going on a last second vacation.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Effect.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Me and my wife were going on the last second
three day cruise over the Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
So I know people are getting in their last hurrahs.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
But I think about people who go on vacation and
use that as a time to not get in their
exercise or to move away from their diets. How do
you recommend navigating all that?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
The first thing I want to say is, I've heard
the cruises have amazing exercise classes. Now, when I was
a younger woman, I was recruited by a cruise line
asking if I would be willing to.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Teach water aerobics.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
I didn't even know cruise ships had like a pool
or put several pools on them.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
But apparently cruises are a resort on a boat.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Am I right? I'm never absolutely right?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yes, Well, this is the thing.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
If you plan ahead, for example, you're going on a
three day cruise, this is a great way to start
thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Now you can start to plan.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Hey, if I did want to take one of the
pool aerobics classes, or if I did want to walk
around on the cruise ship and get my ten thousand steps,
what do I need to pack?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So a lot of it has to do with preparation, right,
mo Right.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I try to be prepared, but sometimes I think, Okay,
I want to get my ten thousand steps in.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Oh, but that buffet looks so good.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I've heard the buffets on the cruises are second to none.
It's definitely a tough one. I don't want you to
stay away from enjoyment and relaxation and rest and all
of those things. But I also think that there's something
to be said for incorporating I don't know, an exercise class,
a little swimming labs, a little walk around the deck.
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In that case, you don't have to restart when you
get back. Now, I'm headed down south to take my
daughter to the HBCU that she attends, Tuskegee University, And
in that small town, there's not a lot of options
as far as working out is concerned. But the hotel
always has a small fitness center. So one thing I
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like to do is I like to queue up a
video on YouTube and just follow along with it from
the hotel fitness center. Thirty minutes, forty five minutes done.
But then that way, when I'm down south and I
want to eat that soul food and that comfort food,
I don't feel as guilty.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I do know what you're saying. I just want to know.
Do they have paved roads in Tuskiga, Alabama.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Not really, You're in the backwoods, I tell you.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Yeah, it's definitely a small town. She is enjoying her experience, though,
and that's all I can say. That's all I can
hope for.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I wonder not to get in your business. But in
a general sense, how much do your children observe or
take from you?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Or is it just mom being mom?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And they disregard some of the tips you may try
to pass on to them.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Oh please, have you ever heard that preacher's kids are
the wildest and cops.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Kids always commit the crimes.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
No, My kids really disregard a lot of the things
that I say. But every now and then I see
a glimmer of hope. For example, my son, he was
telling me that he was working out with a friend.
So I said, well, what were you guys doing exactly?
And he said, they went to the park and they
were doing sprints. And I said, oh my goodness, was
(06:29):
it fun? And he looked at me and he said, mom,
I love working out. Okay, And that just just.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
A small little thing. He won't work out with me.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
He's not coming to my classes, but when it comes
to doing his own thing, he said, I love working out.
That is enough for me. You know, train a child
up moment, Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yes, And a lot of times you can be an
example that they may not verbalize, but they are still
watching you and they will still emulate much of what
they see, good and bad. But they're not going to
give you that credit. I know that they're just not
because you're not cool enough to give.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
That credit to I get the eye rolls.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I get the oh, here she goes again, you know,
but it's all good.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
If you just tuning in. I'm speaking with Claudie Cooper.
Of course.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Go to Claudiancooper dot com for more information about her
and fitness tips and how you can catch up with
her at Iconics Fitness in Inglewood. We'll have more with
Claudine Cooper in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
It's Wellness Wednesday on Later with Mo Kelly. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm continuing to speak with
our regular commentator, Claudiancooper. Of course, Claudinecooper dot com and Claudie,
I don't usually have the opportunity, and I usually try
to be respectful boundaries.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
But I haven't asked you about your kids.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
But you open up the conversation talking about how you're
getting ready to go down south to put your daughter
back in school, which is admirable in and of itself,
but then it led to a wider conversation about fitness
and generational lessons and the things that you try to
pass on the kids, and we all know that kids
are more likely to listen to other people than they
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are their own parents, especially when it comes to advice.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Has that been your experience?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Well, you know, to be honest with you, MO, I
lean on this quote.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
It says children will do what you do, not do
what you say. And I think about that in so
many different aspects, not necessarily just in the health and
wellness field, but in the aspects of how are we
showing up for our children in our day to day
(08:41):
interactions with other human beings. Now, since the gym has opened,
we've been open for two months now, I have really
had my customer service skills tested on.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
A whole other lege.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
What do you mean, I'll tell you people are peopling
if I can say it like that and you can
catch my drift. Basically, what I'm saying is the way
people are treating one another.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Now.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Granted, lots of great experiences, a lot of people enjoying
the gym, but I am noticing that we're a little
bit out of practice in how we handle one another.
And maybe you see it in road rage incidents, maybe
you see it in the market when you're in line.
It's just an interesting dynamic that I've noticed, and because
I've been working in the gyms for so long, I
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do have a starting point in my data research. I
notice that it's changed, and I can't really put my
finger on what it is. But one thing I tried
to emulate for my children is how to handle people,
how to speak to people when you go to restaurants,
how do you treat the server? When you're in a
gym and you walk in and you see someone at
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the front desk, how do you treat that person? And
so these are examples of modeling behavior that I want
my children to see from me. And it's not just
in the way I eat or the way I exercise,
but it's also in the way that I handle my
fellow human being.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Do you get what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Mom?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And it opens the door to a really, really big conversation.
Because I personally have loathed how younger generations have missed
out on basic socialization and etiquette skills as far as
how you greet someone, how you speak to someone. I
can't believe at all on the pandemic. I think it's
bigger than just the pandemic. I think they've been buried
(10:34):
in their phones for so long, they forget how to
interact with people on a human level. And I think that,
to bring it back to fitness, I think that impacts
our emotional health in many ways.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
So it does, and we've talked about this several times
on the show. You know, sitting on your phone for
eight to ten to twelve to fifteen hours a day,
or on your iPad or on your laptop, it's for
any of us. I'd like to polarize the conversation to
this being just about the younger generation, because now that
I've been in the gym and I've been in hand
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to hand communication with customers, I'm noticing it's all ages,
it's all genders, it's all ethnicities, it's all spiritual believers,
it's everyone. A lot of people are out of practice
on treating others the way that they would want to
be treated. And maybe it's bigger than the pandemic, maybe
(11:31):
it's bigger than social media. But I definitely think that
there is a correlation between isolation, between being focused on
a screen all day and being able to say what
you want behind that screen yes and coming out yeah.
And as a matter of fact, since we're on this subject,
(11:51):
I did notice on your social media that you are
having a.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Block party right now. Oh yeah, do you want to
tell me a little bit about it.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
It's very simple.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I tried to have clear delineations and parameters between my
personal life and professional life. And part of that is,
even though you may encounter me on social media, do
not try to speak to me or come at me
in a way that you would not even think of
in person. In other words, whatever you say on the
line to me, I want you to be sure that
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you would say it the exact same thing, the exact
same way to me in person, knowing that if you
do it in person, there probably would be a different
response and there might be some consequences. I think we've
gotten to a point where people take too many liberties
because they're are online. It's like you would never not you,
but a person would never try to speak to me
in a certain type of way with all these insults
(12:41):
and racial epithets.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
It's like you would never do that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But under the cover of anonymity or you know, lack
of proximity, people try to speak in a way that
is just impolite, and I would say ill advised. Let
me put it that way, and so I can let
people know I will block people in a heartbeat if
you can't say what you need to say without being
insulting or demeaning.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You know, I'm all for a snark.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You know I'm sarcastic, but if you come at me
sideways block, I'm not even having.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
The conversation with you.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Why to this conversation, I'm protecting my own emotional piece.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
You know, we could go down this rabbit hole all
night long mode, But I will say this, I definitely
see a consistency between the amount of courage people have
had online to the way.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
They're speaking to people in person.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
It's almost like they still feel like they come off
of that screen and they can talk to you in person.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
With the same amount of bravery and courage.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
I mean, I'm not a martial artist like you, but
I've had my day like you. May not want to
come to me with that type of energy, not knowing
exactly how I'm going to receive it. But at the
same time, going back to the behavior I want to
model for my children, there was a time in my
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young life where my response to this kind of what
I consider to be disrespect would have been met with
some consequences that I would not meet it with today.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I keep saying that it.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Is right now, in this time in my life, when
I have been given the opportunity to go in front
of customers in a luxury fitness facility in my town
where I live, and I have been able to do
it with grace. But it would not have been this
same exact way had it happened many years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I get exactly what you're saying, and I just put
it in another way. Don't let the smooth taste fool you.
And they're varying levels of consequences, and I'm not talking
about physical consequences. You know, if you speak to someone
like that the wrong way, you could lose your job,
you could lose your status, you could lose your place,
you could lose an opportunity. It's not just about if
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you come at me sideways on them, I'm going to
meet you with the same energy. Now, it's just a
function of you're doing yourself a disservice. I'm saying that
I will not allow it or tolerate it, but the
person who's perpetrating it, you're not helping yourself, and I
think they're far too many people here who don't understand
that that type of behavior not only has no place
in the real world, irl in real life, and there
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will be consequences for that which will negatively impact you.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Right.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
And when I show my children what it looks like
to handle people with care, even when those same people
have not handled me with care, I believe I'm displaying
a very valuable lesson that will take them far in
the world. Just like exercise, just like eating lots of
fruits and vegetables. I feel like they can take away
from that whatever they will.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
She is Claudinecooper Claudincooper dot com. I love how we
can have these in depth conversations about not only fitness
but life in general. Have a very safe trip down south,
and we'll see you on the other side.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yes, we will. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Actually, I'm pretty excited football season is back upon us.
When I say football season, I'm talking college and pro
lifelong Rams fan, professional, lifelong USC Trojans fan.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
But it's not Pac twelve anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's Big Ten, as USC and UCLA and others have
moved to the Big ten. It just feels weird. But
that's another discussion for another day. But I came across
this information talking about the number of players from California
who go on to the NFL. We hear about college
players going to the NFL, but what about people who
(16:48):
from cities right around you and me, in both northern
and southern California. Did you know that Sacramento and Long Beach,
at least relative to California, they produce the more. I
should say, they've produced the most current NFL players from
a single city. Sacramento has twelve players in the NFL
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right now, and Long Beach has twelve as well.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
But you may think, well, is that a lot?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Actually it isn't, because none of the California cities are
in the top ten as far as cities which produce
NFL talent if you go by state. I'm gonna just
go ahead and let you know right now, California is
in the top ten. If you're listening to the first segment,
you know where we are in the top ten. But
(17:37):
real quickly, real quickly, let me see, hey, Stephen, do.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
You follow college or professional football.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I know you're somewhat an almost never sports fans.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
He'll take that as a no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, if you follow sports, you know that in terms
of football, California usually does very well as far as
developing talent. Now I'm a little bit older than you.
When I was growing up, you had these great football
rivalries like Banning and Carson, and now in more recent
years you have schools like Modern Day and they're like
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football factories. They go on to those schools and a
good number of them go on to become pros. But
still California is not one of the biggest football factory
producing states around. So if you look at the top
ten states with the most current NFL players, as we're
on the precipice of not only NFL season, but college season,
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coming in at number ten, as far as the states
were the most current NFL players, I love Keith Jackson,
football famballa football Rosque Stefan.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Do you even know who Keith Jackson was? Nope?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Oh my goodness, one of the greatest college football announcers
to have ever lived.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Okay, this is what I want you to do. I
want you to just go to YouTube and find a
Keith Jackson commentary or something announcement. You know what, he's
calling a football game. So you can tell I just
wasted one of my best impressions. You don't even know
who that was.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Coming in at number nine.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
As far as the top ten states, were the most
current NFL players Illinois, number eight, Michigan, so I guess,
you know, Midwest, that's where they start churning them out.
(19:47):
Number seven, Ohio, number six, Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Coming in at number five.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
North Carolina, and that actually surprised me because North Carolina
geographically is not a big state. College wise, it's not
very big when it comes to football. I mean yet,
you know they played football in the ACC, but they
don't have a lot of powerhouses coming out of North Carolina.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Number four.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Georgia. No surprise there. In fact, I thought that Georgia
would have been ranked higher on this list.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
California. That's where we landed, and I thought we would
be higher, but no. Coming in at number two. And
this is just for Mark Runner, your favorite state, Florida.
Who doesn't love Florida? Yeah, yeah, it's Florida's always at
the top of these lists. You know, it's a perfect state.
(21:12):
Can't wait to reach the age where I can move there.
Really excited about it.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
The only thing about Florida, and we were talking about
this because it's one of the best, It was at
the top of the list for best retirement states.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I just don't like humidity.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
If they could just have it a cooler summers with
no humidity, then the Florida would be great.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
No, look at you're constantly walking around with a sheen
on you. Every time I watch Dexter, which is set
in Florida, I wondered how they tolerated that.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Oh it's great to visit. I mean, I love different
cities in Florida, But to imagine living there year round
as a retiree, older, more sensitive to the extremes in climate,
I don't know how people do it. Seriously, And it
gets cold there too. You may not get snow, but
he gets cold there. And it's going to get wetter
there soon too. Well, that's true, especially when it fall
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in the ocean and coming in at number one as
far as the top ranked state with the most current
NFL players.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Texas, Texas, Texas. That's it. Nothing, got nothing for me.
I forgot. You're not football friands. You know, I'm caring
something about football.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Mark is a wrestling fan, Stephan is a is a
nothing fan, Towala is a nothing fan, and you know,
and joining me in the studio, Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
I'm a football fan. You went to USC.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
You went to USC, but you're not a football I'm
a football fan. I was chiming in off Mike, I
know my football.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
All right. Where did the Rams play before Saint Louis?
I was going to say before La St. Louis? No, no, no, no,
they came back to La Gosh down in San Diego
County down there.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Before the Rams were the La Rams. They came from
another city in a different state.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
It's not it's not Saint Louis. I'm not getting that right. Okay, okay, okay.
The Rams went to Saint Louis in the late nineteen nineties.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah so technically, okay, I'm talking about before they originally
came to Los Angeles in like the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Oh so you're moving the goalpost. No, I said, where
did they play? Speak? Where did the Rams play prior
to coming to Los Angeles? Anyone?
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Is this like we're also the disappointing dad like that
Succession show.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
See that's what I'm saying. Come on, football fans know this.
I'm not a Rams fan. Okay, it's Cleveland. They played
in Cleveland from nineteen thirty sixty eighteen.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
We know that.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Fall fans know that. Rams fans know that a very
obscure reference.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Okay, all right, where did the Lakers play before coming
to La?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
That would be in many apples? Right now? How did
you know that? I'm not a Laker fan either? But
all right, then that's my point. I think Laker fans
are a lot louder than Rams fans with their history. No,
just because the Lakers have won more. Perhaps perhaps I'm
a Clipper fan?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
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Speaker 5 (24:41):
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periphery in promotions. When I was working at Virgin Records
back in the late nineties, I had the chance to
work what was the Velvet Rope tour. That song you
(25:46):
heard at the beginning was from the Velvet Rope album,
one of her most popular albums ever.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
I provided tour support in other its.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
When she was in La I went with her to
the various radio stations where they'd meet with programmers in fact,
I went to Ta Wallace station that took pictures to everyone.
I said to say, she's one of the nicest people
you ever meet. I can't say that about a lot
of people, but Janet is one of those people. But
I would never allege to know her. I can just
(26:17):
say I've been around her on a few occasions, and
you can get a sense of what a person is
really like. And she's soft spoken. She's very much to herself,
but she'll talk to you, but she doesn't have a
lot to say.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Very kind.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
But after all these years, I'm still finding out things
about her as someone who worked in the industry, someone
who knows a little bit about music history. I did
not know that Janet Jackson and by extension, the Jacksons
were related to Stevie Wonder, Tracy Chapman, and Samuel L.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Jackson. And it came out in an interview with the
BBC just days.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Ago Stevie Wonder. If someone told me this, yeah, are
you related to Stevie?
Speaker 5 (27:02):
She's our cousin.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Have I gone that long in life?
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Not a lot of people know that he's our cousin
on my mother's side, So is Tracy Chapman. Through the
family is Samuel Jackson.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
So Stevie is walk to you my cousin, Tracy Chapman,
cousin Samuel Jackson.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
He would be a cousin too. I mean he's not
my brother yet.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
But yes, I never knew.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Could you imagine a family reunion and a cookout? You
have people sitting around telling family stories, oral history. You
have the Jackson's that's special all by itself. You have
Tracy Chapman, who's come back into prominence in recent years.
She's not a recluse, but you don't see a lot
of her.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
And then you have Samuel L. Jackson walk in the room,
say what a dear?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Say what again?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I dare you?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I doubled there?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Your mother say what one more?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
God time?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
That would be one hell of a party. I want
that at a party.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Wait, and then you can have you could have some
music where Janet would cut a record with Tracy Chapman
and Stevie Wonder. That would be like the radio clean version.
And then you have Samuel L. Jackson do the remix
dirty version?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Say what again?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Say what again?
Speaker 7 (28:24):
I dare you?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I doubled down? Your mother?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Say what one more time?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Has somebody not already done that.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I would pay good money to have Samuel Jackson guest
appearance on a Janet Jackson record written by Stevie Wonder
and then Tracy Chapman played little guitar.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Let's be honest. There is a musicality to the experts swearing.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
We just heard. Oh no, there's a cadence. Yeah, and
there is a skill in the delivery.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Everyone has cussed, but no one is as proficient as
Samuel L.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Jackson.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
He's nobody. Yeah, I can't think of anyone who's even
in his league. I'm being real serious.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Only the drill instructor in full metal jacket. But see
that's a limited capacity.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
You could put Samuel Jackson in any movie and he
can cuss about any variety of subjects.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Oh yeah, you got snakes on a plane in there. No,
but Stephan will have it. They'll find it.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yes, I am sick of these mickey ficky snakes on
this Mickey ficky plane.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Yeah, that just lends itself to music. Come on, I
was thinking too.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
It makes sense now knowing that Stevie Wonder is one
of their cousins, Given that Stevie and Michael have both
done backgrounds on each other's records in history, and you
kind of wonder, like, where'd that come from?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
But now it makes even more sense, and I wonder.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I mean, of course they knew, But then you go
back to the early days of Motown, It's like, yeah,
you would probably tap family members, you would probably you
know people in your friend and family circle. But it's
something that you would think, given the bands of nature
of the internet today, is something like you thought that
most people would know.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
But even Jedet did say It's like, not a lot
of people know that. Stevie.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Wonder now someone told me this earlier. Are you related
to Stevie?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
He's our cousin?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
How have I gone that long in life?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Not a lot of people know that.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Not a lot of people know that, including me. It's like, Janet,
we were buddies, Like, why didn't you tell me we
used to hang out on you? You spent a lot
of time together. You didn't tell me that you and
Samuel L. Jackson were hanging out.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Pray what a dear Say what again?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I dare you?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I doubled?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
There?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Your mother?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Say what?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
One more?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
God?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
There is a poetic beauty in the rhythm cadence and
flow of those mfs.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
If she was somehow also related to Blowfly and Rudy
Ray Moore.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Look, it only took us forty years to figure this out,
so you know, look who knows. In the next interviews
you mat start talking about way down in the jungle Deep.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Only Rudy Rizon.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes on
this Monday to Friday.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Pray everybody strapping in about the open some freaking windows.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
All I know is the custom version much more powerful,
much more powerful. Hey, I was asking for Keith Jackson earlier.
This is for your personal edification. Did you find any
Keith Jackson?
Speaker 5 (31:33):
I found some? Yeah, okay, right, pull it up. Can
you just put some Keith Jackson real quick?
Speaker 7 (31:37):
I think, well I got rid of it because I
we're going to break what just excuse and some Jackson
Pollock after you're done with that, right, and then Jackson
Browne Andrew Jackson if you have any of that.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Trail of Tears one of his hips, Oh wow, wow blankets.
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