August 17, 2024 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – ‘Friday Nights’ with L.A. Radio Legend Nautica De La Cruz checking out the “Alhambra Historical Society Museum” AND highlighting today’s ‘Hidden Gem,’ Kenneth DeOso and ‘Grow-Good.org,’ which is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming urban spaces into thriving community gardens…PLUS – Mark Rahner reviews the new 20th Century Studios sci-fi/horror-thriller ‘Alien: Romulus’ in ‘The Rahner Report’ AND the crew offers thoughts on the kerfuffle between ‘X-Men ’97’ Creator Beau DeMayo and Marvel - 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 now time for Friday Nights with Nica de la Cruz.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Hello Mo, Happy for Friday TGIF. Well, it's about that
time for Discover so cal So. I told you I
was going to Alhambra, and I did. I made my
way over to Alhambra Historical Society Museum, which is a
place dedicated to preserving and showcasing the rich history of Alhambra, California.
It offers visitors a glimpse into the city's pass through
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a variety of exhibits and collections. The museum houses artifacts, photographs,
documents that highlight significant events, people, and milestones that have
shaped the community over the years.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Now I had to I have.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The pleasure of receiving a one on one tour of
the Alhambra Historical Society Museum from a dedicated volunteer named Bruce,
who previously served as a firefighter for thirty five years
for the city of Alhambra, and he knew about everything.
Like everything inside the museum, Bruce guided me through a
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variety of displays that highlighted different aspects of Alhambra's history,
from its beginning as a small settlement to its development
into the thriving city it is today and beautiful by
the way. His insights and personal stories added a unique
and enriching perspective to the experience, making the tour even
more memorable. The exhibits are thoughtfully curated, offering a mix
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of personal stories, historical objects, and detailed timelines that tell
visitors and help them understand the evolution of the area.
Whether you're interested in local architecture, cultural heritage, or the
daily lives of residents from decades ago. Like a telenovela,
there's something for everyone. And in addition to the permanent exhibits,
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the Alhambra Historical Society Museum often hosts special events and
temporary exhibits to delve into specific topics or celebrate local achievements.
These events provide opportunities for the community to come together,
to learn and to share a little bit about their history. Earlier,
I mentioned documents, right, Well, I got to see some
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documents and articles and even a yearbook from Alhambra High
School from nineteen forty eight. Now listen Ralph Kiner alleged.
Do you know who he is in baseball?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Ralph Kiner, a legendary Major League baseball player, attended Alhambra
High School. Excelling in high school, he went on to
make his mark in the Big Leads, becoming one of
the most feared sluggers of his area era. Ralph Kiner
also played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he dominated the
National League by leading in home runs for seven straight
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seasons from nineteen forty six to nineteen fifty two. His
remarkable accomplishments led him into the induction into the Baseball
Hall of Fame in nineteen seventy five. And I got
some tea from one of the volunteers there, so you know,
Bing Crosby.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yes, why Christmas?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So Bing Crosby, who was friends with Ralph Kiner, introduced
him to Elizabeth Taylor, who he then dated, who he.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Then took to a Hollywood premiere.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So I got to see all the pictures and I
got the tea, I got the scoop, So it was
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's I did not know.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yes, So that's what happens when you when you talk
to people, you get a little bit of nosey.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Also who came from Alhambra.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Is Norman Canter, a renowned medieval historian and professor Claudia
Lenner from a former ikette from she went on tour
with Tina Turner.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yes, I can, Tina and Frank Pastori. Do you know
who he is? Also MLB player?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yes, he was her picture for the Cincinnati Reds and
the Minnesota Twins during the seventies and the eighties. And
he also had a popular radio show here in La
kk LA Christian radio station.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And he died and twenty twelve in an accident.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's a really cute, very quaint museum and if you'd
like to go, it's located at one five five zero
West Alhambra Road.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Now it's only open from one to four the.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
First and the third Saturday of every month, and admission
is free ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Hey that right.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So, and I'm telling you and all the house is
so cute. It's a house museum and it's filled with
tall hydranges. That's how you know it is because the
sign is kind of small. But I don't know what
those flowers are hydrangeas. I don't know how to describe them.
They're just big flowers and big colors. But it's like
I said, it's a very quaint, very cute museum, and
it's really nice just to get to know a little
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bit of history. One other thing I saw in the
plans on the wall was I don't know if you
know this, but you know how now we have the
Burbank Airport. Before the Burbank Airport, it was the Alhambra Airport.
And so they decide I did that. They wanted to
take that. They wanted to take that lot and that
area and knock it down. And since Alhambra was growing,
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Burbank was starting to grow, so they said, oh, there's
enough land in Burbank to make the airport there. So
it used to be Alhambra where you would land if
you wanted to kind of land in the valley, but
now it's Burbank. So just a little bit of information
as you know us I did not know. Yeah, you know,
that's all about discovering. So callan for more information. You
could also visit their website and donate Alhambrahistoricalsociety dot org.
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That's Alhambrahistorical Society dot org.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
And when we come back, we'll have another hidden gym
from Nautica de la Cruz.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
This is Fridays with Nautica.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now it's back to Natica de la Cruz.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Thank you, Mo.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Today's hidden gem is Kenneth They Also Kenneth, They Also's
journey into the world of plants began early in his childhood.
Growing up on his parents' ranch, he spent countless hours
exploring the vast fields and gardens that surrounded his home.
His fascination with the natural world deepened as he observed
the growth of different plants and how they responded to
the care and attention they received. This passion for nurture,
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for nature and the science behind grew stronger as he
got older. When it came time to choose the path
of higher education, Kenneth naturally gravitated towards the University of California, Irvine,
where he majored in botany plant biology. His time at
UC Irvine was a period of intense learning and discovery.
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Kenneth immersed himself in his studies, focusing on understanding the
intricate relationships between plants, their environments, and the broader ecosystems
they support. After graduating, Kenneth returned to his roots literally,
he began cultivating vegetables in the backyard of his parents' ranch,
using the knowledge he had acquired during his studies. His
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home garden quickly became a flourishing oasis of greenery, showcasing
a variety of vegetables that thrived under his care. Kenneth's
commitment to sustainable farming practices and his ability to grow fresh,
organic produce became well known in his local community, where
he shared his expertise with his neighbors and his friends
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who wanted to grow as well. It was this deep
connection to sustainable agriculture that eventually led Kenneth to become
involved with grow good dot org. While attending a locals
farmer market, Kenneth met a representative from the organization who
was impressed by his dedication to organic farming and his
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innovative techniques.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Grow good dot.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Org is a non profit organization dedicated to transforming urban
spaces into thriving community gardens. Their mission is to address
food insecurity and promote sustainable living by creating green spaces
that not only provide fresh organic produce, but also serve
as as educational hubs for their local residents. These gardens
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are strategically developed in underutilized areas, turning vacant lots and
unused land into vibrant ecosystems that benefit both environment and
the community. Through hands on workshops and partnerships with local
schools and organizations, grow good dot org empowers individual to
cultivate own their own food, fostering a deeper connection to
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nature and promoting healthier, more sustainable lifestyles. Over the years,
grow good dot org has achieved remarkable success in its mission.
The organization has established numerous community gardens across various cities,
providing thousands of pounds of fresh produce to food banks
and shelters. Their flagship garden, located in Bell California, has
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become a model of urban agriculture, featuring a permaculture garden
and food as well well as a forest and educational
programs that reach hundreds of participants annually.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Grow good dot org.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Work grow goods dot Org's work has not only helped
to elevate food deserts, but has also built stronger, more
resilient communities by bringing people together to share the joys
of gardening and sustainable living. And if you'd like to
learn a little bit more, you could also visit their
website grow good dot org and please visit their website
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to see how you could get involved, and you could
also catch Kenneth. They also sometimes at the Pasadena Farmers Market,
the Studio City Farmers Market, and I believe it's the
one in Tapanga. I'm not really sure, but I just
wanted to say, Kenneth. They also, I love what you're doing,
I love organic produce, and keep keep going.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I often am amazed at how little people know about
the idea of a food desert. How depending on where
you go in this city, you will have a hard
time trying to have to come across a decent grocery
store with real produce. You may find like a meat
market here. Yes, you may find like a little bodeg
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over there, but a full on grocery store. They're not
all created equal, and they're not the same quality of
food which is being sold in them. So when I
hear stories like this, I'm always encouraged because I think
it brings more light to the issue of food deserts.
And like just where I live, you have to go
a mile or two in any different direction to get
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to a decent grocery store.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Dec I'm not saying a good one, just a decent one.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Well.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You know, the other thing too, is, first of all,
I love that you said bulleagg because that takes me
back home.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You know, we have a bullegg on every corner.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
But also another thing is I like the fact that
that we are starting to eat a little bit more organic.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
It doesn't mean sometimes I have this feeling.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
That organic is not really organic depending on where you shop,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
And yes, it is a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But you know, you could also learn how to grow
your own stuff in your own house. If you have
a kitchen, bay window, a piece of you know, a
land in your backyard, you know it just it takes
time to cultivate your vegetables. You know, my mom has
a big backyard and this lady grows everything from cilantro
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to those little baby corns, to cucumbers, to jalapinos, dill
what else or regano, you know. And I when I
lived in my old house, I was growing a little
bit of that too. And you save so much money, mo,
so much money when you grow things yourself.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I don't have the time, the patience, yes, or the
skill to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I think.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Look for the most part, and I still have the
plant that you gave me. I haven't killed that yet.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Okay, good airplane.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yes, for the most part, anything that is supposed to
live in my house which is not a.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Mammal will die.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I do not have a green thumb.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I remember as a child, I would try to grow
things in the backyard. I would marvel at people who could,
but that just wasn't my skill set. So when you
tell me about your mother growing all those items, like, yeah,
I would starve if I had to live off the
food that I was actually growing.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Oh no, I think I would do pretty well, you know.
And the thing is is sometimes you just got to
get a little dirty. You just got to get extra dirty,
and I mean in the backyard.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You know what I mean. And you got to learn.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And I have to say that I like the fact
that you're honest. You don't have a green thumb. You're
you're very honest and transparent about that. Not everyone does
have a green thumb. But it takes a little bit
of practice, it takes a little bit of learning. And
you know, Kenneth also told me about you know, I mean,
he got very strategic on things that I was like,
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whoof over my head? But you know, sunlight and the
dirt needs vitamins and you need to sew the dirt
as well.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
You need to see it at a certain time. It's
it's a.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Lot, That's what I mean. Yes, it is.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
It is a lot of work and a lot of patience.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
But I think if you want that that farm to
table kind of thing, and you have the land in
your backyard to do it and you want to, it's
never too late to learn and and it's such a
great feeling to go.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I grew with that baby corner. I picked that cucumber
from the back, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
So can I just go ahead and be bougie and
just go to whole Food?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You can always do that too, Okay, give them your money,
it's across the street.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Go ahead, give them your.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Money, a lot of money at that grow good dot Org.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, thank you so much for that.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No welcome you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
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Speaker 6 (13:57):
Talks about pontificates about pop culture, ron and Report with
Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, if I am six forty, is now time.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
For the Runner Report? With the Mark Ronner. Is it
weird that that song still makes me snort just a little.
I'm still out over the novelty.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Of that thing.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
It's great, we're talking about Okay tonight to it Alien
Romulus tonight. I think critics should be upfront when they
talk to you about what they're into and what they are.
But mostly you got to infer that from what they write.
I am into Alien, but it seems like that's more
and more like saying I'm into Star Wars. The first
two were great, and there's been a lot that's ranged
from mixed to code browns ever since then, and Alien
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Romulus isn't quite the turning point that say the Mandalorian
was for Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But it's not bad.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
And I'll even admit this one of the best experiences
of my career somewhere in the lower middle of journalism
has been watching the director's cut of the original Alien
with Tom's Garrett at his place in Seattle a number
of years ago. We watched the version with the scene
that was cut from the original where Ripley finds his
Dallas character trapped in an Alien cocoons spiderweb thingy on
a wall and he begs her to kill him. I
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got the chills, and not just because my hand was
on his leg. What a great nerd day. Yeah, never mind.
I set the recorder on the coffee table and just
turned it on while we watched the movie and talked
through it.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It was terrific.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Now, Alien Romulus is set after Ridley Scott's original Alien
from nineteen seventy nine and before James Cameron's Aliens Plural
from nineteen eighty six, and it includes lots of references
to those and others in the series. I think there's
been seven, not counting those trash Alien Versus Predator movies,
and yes they're trash, but of course I watched them.
It's what we do in this one. A handful of
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young people on a mining planet with no sun decide
they'd like to experience vitamin D in real life someday,
and they want off the planet. But they don't have
a metro like we do in La and what they
do is nearly as dangerous. Now here's a little bit
of the trailer, but not much of it because it's
largely visual and this is a radio. Also, there's an
F bomb after about a minute, so I'm going to
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try and cut it off before then, foosh, stand by
that dump button.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Be sure you want to do this.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
There's shoes you want to break in these still highly
regulated equipment.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
This could be already take it out. There should be
in and out in thirty minutes.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Welcome to the vody House space station.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I suppose gives right of creeps.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Okay, just to be on the safe side, we're gonna
cut it off right there. Anyway.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
To make their nine year voyage, these young people need
to steal some stuff from a derelict space station. But
it's not like your typical smash and grab in the valley.
Got two problems. The space station's orbit is decaying and
it's going to get cheese gratered by the planet's rings
in a matter of hours. And the ship is lousy
with face huggers and xenomores. There's your setup. This is
a great looking movie, and it looks like they spend
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some money on it too. The sets are so cool
that you want to freeze frame it just to get
a good look at everything, which apparently you can't do
in a theater no matter how much. The guy two
rose in front of me waved his hands over his
head the whole show. Anyway, it's worth remembering that the
Original Alien. Remember these things. The ships are meant to
look like a haunted house, and the Original Alien was
really the first space movie to make the ship all
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grungy and lived in looking and not like Star Trek,
which honestly can sometimes resemble an obgyn clinic. And it
would be illogical of you to ask how I know
that the movie moves right along, not much fat to
trim here. It kept my attention from start to finish,
and there are some tense, effective set pieces, especially involving
these space huggers. There's a lot of them. They move
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fast and they can jump. Lots of the full grown
Alien xenomorphs too. The characters none of them stand out
like the original crew, which was essentially a bunch of
space truckers and the next cast, which was a bunch
of space soldiers. And the actors are also young that
it's like Alien the OC or Alien nine O two
one zero. What I'm saying is I don't care so
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much when people who look like they could be in
the cast of Euphoria get dissolved with acid blood. I said,
we're being honest here. The female lead is Kaylee Spainey,
and she played the really young wannabe reporter in Civil
War earlier this year, which you got to see. She
was also in Priscilla, but I have to admit I
wasn't into seeing that. But now that we're talking about it,
there's literally nothing I want to see more than a
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movie with Elvis fighting a ship full of aliens. Don't
you steal that all of this is being recorded? You
remember mo Bubba Hotep Elvis versus a Mummy. Yes, it
can be done anyway. Cast robot seems mandatory. In these
alien movies. You had Ian Holme is ash in the
first one, then Lance Henrickson, then Michael Fassbender. David Johnson
is the robot in Romulus, and he's been programmed to
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be the protector of the Kaylee Spailey arn me, Kaylee Spainey,
I had trouble with this all last night. Just change
your name to Kaylee Spaley and save everybody the headache.
Unless I really missed this in the previous ones, we
see the robots here have little mini disc drives in
their necks where they can be rebooted and reprogrammed. A
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little tlunky like can you burn a mix CD? On
those two. There's also a little bit too much in
the way of homages and callbacks and references to the
previous movies, and that includes one of the hugest groaners
in terms of dialogue you will ever see. No exaggeration
pulls you right out of the movie, and you're gonna
know what I'm talking about the instant you see and
hear it. The director is Fede Al, who did the
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twenty thirteen Evil Dead remake reboot whatever that most people
liked a lot better than I did. He also did
a respectable suspense movie called Don't Breathe, and I'm pretty
sure he even does callbacks to his own stuff and
Alien Romulus, which is kind of an artistic way of
crawling up your own ass.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But I think this is the best thing he's done.
It's a fun movie.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
It's better than most of the sequels, but not in
the league of the first two. So here's your pull
quote publicist Alien Romulus, it didn't remis.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You're gonna use that on your Blu ray box right,
Oh my god, that's your runa report, Oh my gosh.
And just some more.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Trivia here I think the movie also has some references
to the Alien Isolation video game, which I can never
remember if I've played, and I keep starting it, then
setting it aside, and then coming back to it about
every year or so.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Is this familiar to you, mo, I'm aware of it,
never played it. I'm still dwelling on that. Your pun,
your Greek mythology pun of Remus and Romulus.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Well, it's a pull quote because publicists ask us for
these things.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Are you hoping to get Like in the next commercial
for it, they'll put your quote up in there.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You never know what they take.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
And every now and then I'll run across something with
a quote from me on the box and I'm like, hey,
Noboddy asked me about that.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Are they supposed to imburse reimburse you or.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Oh no, no, no, no, no no no no okay,
so you don't get paid for that never not a
dime ever.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
This was my question going in because looking at the trailer, yes,
it did not look like a classic Alien or Aliens movie.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
To your point, Oh see Beverly Hills nine two one oh.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
If you go back to the original Alien, they look
like they were some space roughnecks. They look like they
were just people who were working blue collar jobs in
space industry.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
That hasn't been the case for quite some time. No,
and based on what I've read fed A. Elvaz, the director,
this cast is based on him seeing I think the
second alien movie, Aliens, when they found the girl Newt
I think, and there was a cut scene of other
young people running around, and he wondered what that would
be like with a whole cast of younger people, I
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guess in their early twenties now trying to survive in
that situation. I'm not really down with that. I would
like adults in a movie like this, but the movie
is worth seeing. It's a ton of fun and I
want to see it again, and this will be a
good dude outing for all of us.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
See.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Maybe it's just a function of being older, but I
do like the older cast as a general rule, because
they're in leadership positions. They're the ones who would actually
be in situations like that, not the twenty somethings.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
They kind of sell it.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
They set it up pretty well here, but it's just
hard for me to maintain interest in, you know, basically
a child cast. One other things to notice, because you
heard in the trailer, there was some accents that combined
with this ambient sound in the sort of constant in
the sound, it makes it hard to understand and the dialogue,
so you really have to pay attention, and if you're
in one of those audiences where people won't shut up,
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you're not going to get completely what's going on.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I think that's more a function of movies today, even
on streaming, the dialogue, and it's not a hearing thing,
it's just an understanding thing.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It makes it it's more.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
And more difficult to watch a lot of these movies
without close caption.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
I find that I'm watching movies with closed captioning a
lot more at home. So when this finally does come
out on streaming or home video or whatever, you're going
to want to use that.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
And it's because if I watch the older movies, no
dialogue is fine. It's just something that's a function of
movies more recently, maybe because the score and soundtrack are
overpowering the dialogue, or maybe it's recorded differently, but it's
not my imagination. It's something my wife and I have
talked about. It's just different as far as how they're
equalizing the dialogue versus the background sound design.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Yeah, I don't know what's up with that, Like what
focus group did they have where they receive the input
we'd like to not hear clearly what everyone's saying.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I don't know, but it needs to change. Get off
my lawn. Its later with Mo Kelly ca if I
am six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
And thank you for that review that was very thorough
in fact that it convinced me to actually go see
Alien Romulus Now.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Thank you mo oh wimmo Kelly ONKAM.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Six Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You may remember,
or you may not remember, about maybe six months ago,
we had one of the stars of X Men ninety
seven here in studio talking about that animated television series
which is very very popular on Disney Plus. And it
was at the beginning of the season and running simultaneous
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to the debut of X Men ninety seven on Disney Plus.
There was a controversy because the creator of the series,
Bo Demel, he was fired and he was stripped of
his production and writing credits for season two. He said
at the time, the creator of the show said that
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it was due to posting pro gay and gay pride
content on social media. Well, Marvel, which is a company
which usually doesn't respond to anything, took this opportunity to
respond to this guy bo to Mao and said, no, no, no, no, no,
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no no.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's not why we fired him.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
We fired him because of other internal investigations and what
they yielded. Let me just give you specifics. But where's it.
Oh yeah, first, this is what bo to Mao said.
Quote above this X Men fan art I posted on
Instagram for gay Pride in June. On June thirteenth, Marvel
sent a letter notifying me that they'd stripped my season
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two credits due to the post. Sadly, this is the
latest and a troubling pattern I suffered through while working
on X Men ninety seven and Blade. He said he
would have more to say soon, but at that point
he was taking a step back from social media to
find a safer space for him to be out, proud
and nerdy. Close quote. Marvel is saying that Damil was
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terminated in March of this year following an eternal investigation
and given the egregious nature the findings, we severed ties
with him, quoting Marvel immediately and he has no further
affiliation with Marvel. Close quote for me, this is real simple,
This is real simple. There's no way Bodmail will be stripped,
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would be stripped of his writing credits and anything else
connected to X Men ninety seven as a creator unless
Marvel had the goods on him. As far as alleged
sexual misconduct at Marvel, and according to Marvel, the credit
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room removal was due to breaches of the two sides
separation agreement and for alleged sexual misconduct. I don't know
the inner workings of Marvel. I've never worked for them,
happened to be a fan of the company, But Marvel
doesn't strike me as the company which would be sensitive
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to the idea of support for gay pride.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You're trying to tell me Wolverine's not gay.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Well, we can go down the list of all the
different characters. Well, if you look at just Deadpool, I mean,
he's like pan.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Sexual, there's nothing he wouldn't You can finish the sentence, No,
I won't finish the sentences.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Okay, So Marvel has long been a company I think
has been inclusive as far as the characters that they
present and also the creators who have presented those characters
specifically though, is that about that seem right?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, twalla, what's say you?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Also on this series they debuted one of the first
openly uh non binary animated characters in any animating who.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We had on the shelves.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
How, I'm like, I don't know if that argument works,
mister Demand, like that's.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
And also if you were wrongly stripped of his credits, well,
the next thing that we would hear about is a lawsuit. Yeah,
you know, they wrongly script stripped you of your credits
for season two as the creator. That seems like an
open and shut legal case. And if you want to
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say it's wrongful termination, that would also be part of
that lawsuit. So in the absence of the suit, it
says to me that there is more smoke connected to
the fire that Marvel says exists than the one that
he says exists.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Yeah, because he's just going on social media. This is
a This isn't a release about an actual law. So
he's just like, oh man, Marvel's coming down on the
LGBTQ community.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
It's like, are they though?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Are they one?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
That's not what Marvel does not historically two, that's not
what the X Man is. And if if Marvel were
super sensitive to that, then nothing named X Men would
be out, nothing, nothing, They would not have greenlit the series.
I just don't see it. Let me just put it
in Mark Ronner terms. Remember how Mark was telling us
how he did some voiceover work and some writing for
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a video game if it had come out later, that
they stripped him and his credits and they took basically
money out of his pocket for doing that. Because of
some sort of misconduct on the part of Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Mark is going to sue they never do anything. There's
nothing that we know that we know.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
But if someone is going to strip your your rights
and perpetuity, they damn sure better know that there the
eyes have been dotted and the t's have been crossed
before they do that.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Just from a legal standpoint.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
I have lots of friends who do and have worked
with Marvel, and I've never really heard of anything like that.
And in fact, the only times I've heard of things
like that in the comics industry at all are when
people have been outed as predators.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You're not saying but you're just saying.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Oh no, and I'm not not going to name any names,
even though you can look this stuff up. These are
names that have been published and people that they've gone
on to different careers now because nobody wants to work
with them. It's a entertainment is a smaller industry than
people generally think it is. And if it gets out
that you've done X, Y or Z, that is no
bueno to other human beings. Nobody wants to work with you.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
That's the lesson, that's the takeaway. If you didn't like
that opinion, keep listening.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
We've got a few more kf I, kost HD two.
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's now time for Friday Nights with Nica de la Cruz.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Hello Mo, Happy for Friday TGIF. Well, it's about that
time for Discover so cal So. I told you I
was going to Alhambra, and I did. I made my
way over to Alhambra Historical Society Museum, which is a
place dedicated to preserving and showcasing the rich history of Alhambra, California.
It offers visitors a glimpse into the city's pass through
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a variety of exhibits and collections. The museum houses artifacts, photographs,
documents that highlight significant events, people, and milestones that have
shaped the community over the years.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Now I had to I have.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The pleasure of receiving a one on one tour of
the Alhambra Historical Society Museum from a dedicated volunteer named Bruce,
who previously served as a firefighter for thirty five years
for the city of Alhambra, and he knew about everything.
Like everything inside the museum, Bruce guided me through a
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variety of displays that highlighted different aspects of Alhambra's history,
from its beginning as a small settlement to its development
into the thriving city it is today and beautiful by
the way. His insights and personal stories added a unique
and enriching perspective to the experience, making the tour even
more memorable. The exhibits are thoughtfully curated, offering a mix
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of personal stories, historical objects, and detailed timelines that tell
visitors and help them understand the evolution of the area.
Whether you're interested in local architecture, cultural heritage, or the
daily lives of residents from decades ago. Like a telenovela,
there's something for everyone. And in addition to the permanent exhibits,
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the Alhambra Historical Society Museum often hosts special events and
temporary exhibits to delve into specific topics or celebrate local achievements.
These events provide opportunities for the community to come together,
to learn and to share a little bit about their history. Earlier,
I mentioned documents, right, Well, I got to see some
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documents and articles and even a yearbook from Alhambra High
School from nineteen forty eight. Now listen Ralph Kiner alleged.
Do you know who he is in baseball?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Ralph Kiner, a legendary Major League baseball player, attended Alhambra
High School. Excelling in high school, he went on to
make his mark in the Big Leads, becoming one of
the most feared sluggers of his area era. Ralph Kiner
also played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he dominated the
National League by leading in home runs for seven straight
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seasons from nineteen forty six to nineteen fifty two. His
remarkable accomplishments led him into the induction into the Baseball
Hall of Fame in nineteen seventy five. And I got
some tea from one of the volunteers there, so you know,
Bing Crosby.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Yes, why Christmas?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So Bing Crosby, who was friends with Ralph Kiner, introduced
him to Elizabeth Taylor, who he then dated, who he.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Then took to a Hollywood premiere.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So I got to see all the pictures and I
got the tea, I got the scoop, So it was
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's I did not know.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yes, So that's what happens when you when you talk
to people, you get a little bit of nosey.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Also who came from Alhambra.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Is Norman Canter, a renowned medieval historian and professor Claudia
Lenner from a former ikette from she went on tour
with Tina Turner.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yes, I can, Tina and Frank Pastori. Do you know
who he is? Also MLB player?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yes, he was her picture for the Cincinnati Reds and
the Minnesota Twins during the seventies and the eighties. And
he also had a popular radio show here in La
kk LA Christian radio station.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And he died and twenty twelve in an accident.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's a really cute, very quaint museum and if you'd
like to go, it's located at one five five zero
West Alhambra Road.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Now it's only open from one to four the.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
First and the third Saturday of every month, and admission
is free ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Hey that right.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So, and I'm telling you and all the house is
so cute. It's a house museum and it's filled with
tall hydranges. That's how you know it is because the
sign is kind of small. But I don't know what
those flowers are hydrangeas. I don't know how to describe them.
They're just big flowers and big colors. But it's like
I said, it's a very quaint, very cute museum, and
it's really nice just to get to know a little
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bit of history. One other thing I saw in the
plans on the wall was I don't know if you
know this, but you know how now we have the
Burbank Airport. Before the Burbank Airport, it was the Alhambra Airport.
And so they decide I did that. They wanted to
take that. They wanted to take that lot and that
area and knock it down. And since Alhambra was growing,
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Burbank was starting to grow, so they said, oh, there's
enough land in Burbank to make the airport there. So
it used to be Alhambra where you would land if
you wanted to kind of land in the valley, but
now it's Burbank. So just a little bit of information
as you know us I did not know. Yeah, you know,
that's all about discovering. So callan for more information. You
could also visit their website and donate Alhambrahistoricalsociety dot org.
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That's Alhambrahistorical Society dot org.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
And when we come back, we'll have another hidden gym
from Nautica de la Cruz.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
This is Fridays with Nautica.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now it's back to Natica de la Cruz.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Thank you, Mo.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Today's hidden gem is Kenneth They Also Kenneth, They Also's
journey into the world of plants began early in his childhood.
Growing up on his parents' ranch, he spent countless hours
exploring the vast fields and gardens that surrounded his home.
His fascination with the natural world deepened as he observed
the growth of different plants and how they responded to
the care and attention they received. This passion for nurture,
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for nature and the science behind grew stronger as he
got older. When it came time to choose the path
of higher education, Kenneth naturally gravitated towards the University of California, Irvine,
where he majored in botany plant biology. His time at
UC Irvine was a period of intense learning and discovery.
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Kenneth immersed himself in his studies, focusing on understanding the
intricate relationships between plants, their environments, and the broader ecosystems
they support. After graduating, Kenneth returned to his roots literally,
he began cultivating vegetables in the backyard of his parents' ranch,
using the knowledge he had acquired during his studies. His
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home garden quickly became a flourishing oasis of greenery, showcasing
a variety of vegetables that thrived under his care. Kenneth's
commitment to sustainable farming practices and his ability to grow fresh,
organic produce became well known in his local community, where
he shared his expertise with his neighbors and his friends
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who wanted to grow as well. It was this deep
connection to sustainable agriculture that eventually led Kenneth to become
involved with grow good dot org. While attending a locals
farmer market, Kenneth met a representative from the organization who
was impressed by his dedication to organic farming and his
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innovative techniques.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Grow good dot.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Org is a non profit organization dedicated to transforming urban
spaces into thriving community gardens. Their mission is to address
food insecurity and promote sustainable living by creating green spaces
that not only provide fresh organic produce, but also serve
as as educational hubs for their local residents. These gardens
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are strategically developed in underutilized areas, turning vacant lots and
unused land into vibrant ecosystems that benefit both environment and
the community. Through hands on workshops and partnerships with local
schools and organizations, grow good dot org empowers individual to
cultivate own their own food, fostering a deeper connection to
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nature and promoting healthier, more sustainable lifestyles. Over the years,
grow good dot org has achieved remarkable success in its mission.
The organization has established numerous community gardens across various cities,
providing thousands of pounds of fresh produce to food banks
and shelters. Their flagship garden, located in Bell California, has
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become a model of urban agriculture, featuring a permaculture garden
and food as well well as a forest and educational
programs that reach hundreds of participants annually.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Grow good dot org.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Work grow goods dot Org's work has not only helped
to elevate food deserts, but has also built stronger, more
resilient communities by bringing people together to share the joys
of gardening and sustainable living. And if you'd like to
learn a little bit more, you could also visit their
website grow good dot org and please visit their website
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to see how you could get involved, and you could
also catch Kenneth. They also sometimes at the Pasadena Farmers Market,
the Studio City Farmers Market, and I believe it's the
one in Tapanga. I'm not really sure, but I just
wanted to say, Kenneth. They also, I love what you're doing,
I love organic produce, and keep keep going.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I often am amazed at how little people know about
the idea of a food desert. How depending on where
you go in this city, you will have a hard
time trying to have to come across a decent grocery
store with real produce. You may find like a meat
market here. Yes, you may find like a little bodeg
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over there, but a full on grocery store. They're not
all created equal, and they're not the same quality of
food which is being sold in them. So when I
hear stories like this, I'm always encouraged because I think
it brings more light to the issue of food deserts.
And like just where I live, you have to go
a mile or two in any different direction to get
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to a decent grocery store.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Dec I'm not saying a good one, just a decent one.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Well.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You know, the other thing too, is, first of all,
I love that you said bulleagg because that takes me
back home.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You know, we have a bullegg on every corner.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
But also another thing is I like the fact that
that we are starting to eat a little bit more organic.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
It doesn't mean sometimes I have this feeling.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
That organic is not really organic depending on where you shop,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
And yes, it is a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But you know, you could also learn how to grow
your own stuff in your own house. If you have
a kitchen, bay window, a piece of you know, a
land in your backyard, you know it just it takes
time to cultivate your vegetables. You know, my mom has
a big backyard and this lady grows everything from cilantro
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to those little baby corns, to cucumbers, to jalapinos, dill
what else or regano, you know. And I when I
lived in my old house, I was growing a little
bit of that too. And you save so much money, mo,
so much money when you grow things yourself.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I don't have the time, the patience, yes, or the
skill to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I think.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Look for the most part, and I still have the
plant that you gave me. I haven't killed that yet.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Okay, good airplane.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yes, for the most part, anything that is supposed to
live in my house which is not a.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Mammal will die.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I do not have a green thumb.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I remember as a child, I would try to grow
things in the backyard. I would marvel at people who could,
but that just wasn't my skill set. So when you
tell me about your mother growing all those items, like, yeah,
I would starve if I had to live off the
food that I was actually growing.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Oh no, I think I would do pretty well, you know.
And the thing is is sometimes you just got to
get a little dirty. You just got to get extra dirty,
and I mean in the backyard.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You know what I mean. And you got to learn.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And I have to say that I like the fact
that you're honest. You don't have a green thumb. You're
you're very honest and transparent about that. Not everyone does
have a green thumb. But it takes a little bit
of practice, it takes a little bit of learning. And
you know, Kenneth also told me about you know, I mean,
he got very strategic on things that I was like,
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whoof over my head? But you know, sunlight and the
dirt needs vitamins and you need to sew the dirt
as well.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
You need to see it at a certain time. It's
it's a.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Lot, That's what I mean. Yes, it is.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
It is a lot of work and a lot of patience.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
But I think if you want that that farm to
table kind of thing, and you have the land in
your backyard to do it and you want to, it's
never too late to learn and and it's such a
great feeling to go.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I grew with that baby corner. I picked that cucumber
from the back, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
So can I just go ahead and be bougie and
just go to whole Food?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You can always do that too, Okay, give them your money,
it's across the street.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Go ahead, give them your.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Money, a lot of money at that grow good dot Org.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, thank you so much for that.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No welcome you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand from KF I AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Talks about pontificates about pop culture, ron and Report with
Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, if I am six forty, is now time.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
For the Runner Report? With the Mark Ronner. Is it
weird that that song still makes me snort just a little.
I'm still out over the novelty.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Of that thing.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
It's great, we're talking about Okay tonight to it Alien
Romulus tonight. I think critics should be upfront when they
talk to you about what they're into and what they are.
But mostly you got to infer that from what they write.
I am into Alien, but it seems like that's more
and more like saying I'm into Star Wars. The first
two were great, and there's been a lot that's ranged
from mixed to code browns ever since then, and Alien
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Romulus isn't quite the turning point that say the Mandalorian
was for Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But it's not bad.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
And I'll even admit this one of the best experiences
of my career somewhere in the lower middle of journalism
has been watching the director's cut of the original Alien
with Tom's Garrett at his place in Seattle a number
of years ago. We watched the version with the scene
that was cut from the original where Ripley finds his
Dallas character trapped in an Alien cocoons spiderweb thingy on
a wall and he begs her to kill him. I
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got the chills, and not just because my hand was
on his leg. What a great nerd day. Yeah, never mind.
I set the recorder on the coffee table and just
turned it on while we watched the movie and talked
through it.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It was terrific.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Now, Alien Romulus is set after Ridley Scott's original Alien
from nineteen seventy nine and before James Cameron's Aliens Plural
from nineteen eighty six, and it includes lots of references
to those and others in the series. I think there's
been seven, not counting those trash Alien Versus Predator movies,
and yes they're trash, but of course I watched them.
It's what we do in this one. A handful of
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young people on a mining planet with no sun decide
they'd like to experience vitamin D in real life someday,
and they want off the planet. But they don't have
a metro like we do in La and what they
do is nearly as dangerous. Now here's a little bit
of the trailer, but not much of it because it's
largely visual and this is a radio. Also, there's an
F bomb after about a minute, so I'm going to
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try and cut it off before then, foosh, stand by
that dump button.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Be sure you want to do this.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
There's shoes you want to break in these still highly
regulated equipment.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
This could be already take it out. There should be
in and out in thirty minutes.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Welcome to the vody House space station.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I suppose gives right of creeps.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Okay, just to be on the safe side, we're gonna
cut it off right there. Anyway.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
To make their nine year voyage, these young people need
to steal some stuff from a derelict space station. But
it's not like your typical smash and grab in the valley.
Got two problems. The space station's orbit is decaying and
it's going to get cheese gratered by the planet's rings
in a matter of hours. And the ship is lousy
with face huggers and xenomores. There's your setup. This is
a great looking movie, and it looks like they spend
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some money on it too. The sets are so cool
that you want to freeze frame it just to get
a good look at everything, which apparently you can't do
in a theater no matter how much. The guy two
rose in front of me waved his hands over his
head the whole show. Anyway, it's worth remembering that the
Original Alien. Remember these things. The ships are meant to
look like a haunted house, and the Original Alien was
really the first space movie to make the ship all
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grungy and lived in looking and not like Star Trek,
which honestly can sometimes resemble an obgyn clinic. And it
would be illogical of you to ask how I know
that the movie moves right along, not much fat to
trim here. It kept my attention from start to finish,
and there are some tense, effective set pieces, especially involving
these space huggers. There's a lot of them. They move
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fast and they can jump. Lots of the full grown
Alien xenomorphs too. The characters none of them stand out
like the original crew, which was essentially a bunch of
space truckers and the next cast, which was a bunch
of space soldiers. And the actors are also young that
it's like Alien the OC or Alien nine O two
one zero. What I'm saying is I don't care so
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much when people who look like they could be in
the cast of Euphoria get dissolved with acid blood. I said,
we're being honest here. The female lead is Kaylee Spainey,
and she played the really young wannabe reporter in Civil
War earlier this year, which you got to see. She
was also in Priscilla, but I have to admit I
wasn't into seeing that. But now that we're talking about it,
there's literally nothing I want to see more than a
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movie with Elvis fighting a ship full of aliens. Don't
you steal that all of this is being recorded? You
remember mo Bubba Hotep Elvis versus a Mummy. Yes, it
can be done anyway. Cast robot seems mandatory. In these
alien movies. You had Ian Holme is ash in the
first one, then Lance Henrickson, then Michael Fassbender. David Johnson
is the robot in Romulus, and he's been programmed to
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be the protector of the Kaylee Spailey arn me, Kaylee Spainey,
I had trouble with this all last night. Just change
your name to Kaylee Spaley and save everybody the headache.
Unless I really missed this in the previous ones, we
see the robots here have little mini disc drives in
their necks where they can be rebooted and reprogrammed. A
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little tlunky like can you burn a mix CD? On
those two. There's also a little bit too much in
the way of homages and callbacks and references to the
previous movies, and that includes one of the hugest groaners
in terms of dialogue you will ever see. No exaggeration
pulls you right out of the movie, and you're gonna
know what I'm talking about the instant you see and
hear it. The director is Fede Al, who did the
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twenty thirteen Evil Dead remake reboot whatever that most people
liked a lot better than I did. He also did
a respectable suspense movie called Don't Breathe, and I'm pretty
sure he even does callbacks to his own stuff and
Alien Romulus, which is kind of an artistic way of
crawling up your own ass.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But I think this is the best thing he's done.
It's a fun movie.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
It's better than most of the sequels, but not in
the league of the first two. So here's your pull
quote publicist Alien Romulus, it didn't remis.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You're gonna use that on your Blu ray box right,
Oh my god, that's your runa report, Oh my gosh.
And just some more.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Trivia here I think the movie also has some references
to the Alien Isolation video game, which I can never
remember if I've played, and I keep starting it, then
setting it aside, and then coming back to it about
every year or so.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Is this familiar to you, mo, I'm aware of it,
never played it. I'm still dwelling on that. Your pun,
your Greek mythology pun of Remus and Romulus.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Well, it's a pull quote because publicists ask us for
these things.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Are you hoping to get Like in the next commercial
for it, they'll put your quote up in there.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You never know what they take.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
And every now and then I'll run across something with
a quote from me on the box and I'm like, hey,
Noboddy asked me about that.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Are they supposed to imburse reimburse you or.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Oh no, no, no, no, no no no no okay,
so you don't get paid for that never not a
dime ever.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
This was my question going in because looking at the trailer, yes,
it did not look like a classic Alien or Aliens movie.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
To your point, Oh see Beverly Hills nine two one oh.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
If you go back to the original Alien, they look
like they were some space roughnecks. They look like they
were just people who were working blue collar jobs in
space industry.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
That hasn't been the case for quite some time. No,
and based on what I've read fed A. Elvaz, the director,
this cast is based on him seeing I think the
second alien movie, Aliens, when they found the girl Newt
I think, and there was a cut scene of other
young people running around, and he wondered what that would
be like with a whole cast of younger people, I
(22:11):
guess in their early twenties now trying to survive in
that situation. I'm not really down with that. I would
like adults in a movie like this, but the movie
is worth seeing. It's a ton of fun and I
want to see it again, and this will be a
good dude outing for all of us.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
See.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Maybe it's just a function of being older, but I
do like the older cast as a general rule, because
they're in leadership positions. They're the ones who would actually
be in situations like that, not the twenty somethings.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
They kind of sell it.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
They set it up pretty well here, but it's just
hard for me to maintain interest in, you know, basically
a child cast. One other things to notice, because you
heard in the trailer, there was some accents that combined
with this ambient sound in the sort of constant in
the sound, it makes it hard to understand and the dialogue,
so you really have to pay attention, and if you're
in one of those audiences where people won't shut up,
(23:05):
you're not going to get completely what's going on.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I think that's more a function of movies today, even
on streaming, the dialogue, and it's not a hearing thing,
it's just an understanding thing.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It makes it it's more.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
And more difficult to watch a lot of these movies
without close caption.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
I find that I'm watching movies with closed captioning a
lot more at home. So when this finally does come
out on streaming or home video or whatever, you're going
to want to use that.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
And it's because if I watch the older movies, no
dialogue is fine. It's just something that's a function of
movies more recently, maybe because the score and soundtrack are
overpowering the dialogue, or maybe it's recorded differently, but it's
not my imagination. It's something my wife and I have
talked about. It's just different as far as how they're
equalizing the dialogue versus the background sound design.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Yeah, I don't know what's up with that, Like what
focus group did they have where they receive the input
we'd like to not hear clearly what everyone's saying.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I don't know, but it needs to change. Get off
my lawn. Its later with Mo Kelly ca if I
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Speaker 5 (24:10):
And thank you for that review that was very thorough
in fact that it convinced me to actually go see
Alien Romulus Now.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Thank you mo oh wimmo Kelly ONKAM.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Six Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You may remember,
or you may not remember, about maybe six months ago,
we had one of the stars of X Men ninety
seven here in studio talking about that animated television series
which is very very popular on Disney Plus. And it
was at the beginning of the season and running simultaneous
(24:48):
to the debut of X Men ninety seven on Disney Plus.
There was a controversy because the creator of the series,
Bo Demel, he was fired and he was stripped of
his production and writing credits for season two. He said
at the time, the creator of the show said that
(25:11):
it was due to posting pro gay and gay pride
content on social media. Well, Marvel, which is a company
which usually doesn't respond to anything, took this opportunity to
respond to this guy bo to Mao and said, no, no, no, no, no,
(25:34):
no no.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's not why we fired him.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
We fired him because of other internal investigations and what
they yielded. Let me just give you specifics. But where's it.
Oh yeah, first, this is what bo to Mao said.
Quote above this X Men fan art I posted on
Instagram for gay Pride in June. On June thirteenth, Marvel
sent a letter notifying me that they'd stripped my season
(25:58):
two credits due to the post. Sadly, this is the
latest and a troubling pattern I suffered through while working
on X Men ninety seven and Blade. He said he
would have more to say soon, but at that point
he was taking a step back from social media to
find a safer space for him to be out, proud
and nerdy. Close quote. Marvel is saying that Damil was
(26:24):
terminated in March of this year following an eternal investigation
and given the egregious nature the findings, we severed ties
with him, quoting Marvel immediately and he has no further
affiliation with Marvel. Close quote for me, this is real simple,
This is real simple. There's no way Bodmail will be stripped,
(26:44):
would be stripped of his writing credits and anything else
connected to X Men ninety seven as a creator unless
Marvel had the goods on him. As far as alleged
sexual misconduct at Marvel, and according to Marvel, the credit
(27:06):
room removal was due to breaches of the two sides
separation agreement and for alleged sexual misconduct. I don't know
the inner workings of Marvel. I've never worked for them,
happened to be a fan of the company, But Marvel
doesn't strike me as the company which would be sensitive
(27:26):
to the idea of support for gay pride.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You're trying to tell me Wolverine's not gay.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Well, we can go down the list of all the
different characters. Well, if you look at just Deadpool, I mean,
he's like pan.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Sexual, there's nothing he wouldn't You can finish the sentence, No,
I won't finish the sentences.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Okay, So Marvel has long been a company I think
has been inclusive as far as the characters that they
present and also the creators who have presented those characters
specifically though, is that about that seem right?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, twalla, what's say you?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Also on this series they debuted one of the first
openly uh non binary animated characters in any animating who.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We had on the shelves.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
How, I'm like, I don't know if that argument works,
mister Demand, like that's.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
And also if you were wrongly stripped of his credits, well,
the next thing that we would hear about is a lawsuit. Yeah,
you know, they wrongly script stripped you of your credits
for season two as the creator. That seems like an
open and shut legal case. And if you want to
(28:43):
say it's wrongful termination, that would also be part of
that lawsuit. So in the absence of the suit, it
says to me that there is more smoke connected to
the fire that Marvel says exists than the one that
he says exists.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Yeah, because he's just going on social media. This is
a This isn't a release about an actual law. So
he's just like, oh man, Marvel's coming down on the
LGBTQ community.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
It's like, are they though?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Are they one?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
That's not what Marvel does not historically two, that's not
what the X Man is. And if if Marvel were
super sensitive to that, then nothing named X Men would
be out, nothing, nothing, They would not have greenlit the series.
I just don't see it. Let me just put it
in Mark Ronner terms. Remember how Mark was telling us
how he did some voiceover work and some writing for
(29:32):
a video game if it had come out later, that
they stripped him and his credits and they took basically
money out of his pocket for doing that. Because of
some sort of misconduct on the part of Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Mark is going to sue they never do anything. There's
nothing that we know that we know.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
But if someone is going to strip your your rights
and perpetuity, they damn sure better know that there the
eyes have been dotted and the t's have been crossed
before they do that.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Just from a legal standpoint.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
I have lots of friends who do and have worked
with Marvel, and I've never really heard of anything like that.
And in fact, the only times I've heard of things
like that in the comics industry at all are when
people have been outed as predators.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You're not saying but you're just saying.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Oh no, and I'm not not going to name any names,
even though you can look this stuff up. These are
names that have been published and people that they've gone
on to different careers now because nobody wants to work
with them. It's a entertainment is a smaller industry than
people generally think it is. And if it gets out
that you've done X, Y or Z, that is no
bueno to other human beings. Nobody wants to work with you.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
That's the lesson, that's the takeaway. If you didn't like
that opinion, keep listening.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
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