August 22, 2024 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at San Bernardino County’s dubious plan to secede from California…PLUS – Coverage of the Democratic National Convention; Day Three, with a live look at Oprah Winfrey’s DNC address - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty KFI AM six forty, It's Later with mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. As it's night
three of the DNC. We'll be bouncing in and out
and we're on the watch and all the lookout for
Governor Tim Walls, who will be officially accepting the nomination
for vice president tonight, so we will have his speech.
(00:25):
You heard Mark Runner earlier with an excerpt from the
former President Bill Clinton, who spoke earlier.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
In the evening.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And I would say this schedule tonight has been more
on schedule.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
They've been moving through the speakers.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I mentioned that because the last two nights they were
way over both nights, less so last night, but.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Way way way over Monday night.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
So it seems they've pared down the schedule for tonight
and the speakers have a shorter amount of time because
they're really moving through the schedule. And I'm guessing that
Governor Walls may hit the stage in the.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Next forty five minutes or so.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm just guessing there might be some musical performances they're
on the schedule, but it doesn't mean that they won't
get cut somewhere along the way. And and Twalla did
just said that Oprah Winfrey was also speaking.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, Oprah Winfrey is supposed to be going up soon.
Actually I think she was supposed to be next. But
then it seems like maybe they had to shovel some
things around because they just had Kamala Harris's brother in
law on.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I guess that's what that was.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
A second Yeah, okay, well yeah, they you know when
something's not on when they just said coming up next
is Oprah Winfrey and it's not right.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, So it's a real fluid schedule, and we'll have
Governor Walls's speech, but there's some other business we have
to tend to here in California. You might have heard
me speaking with Tim Conway Junior about San Bernardino County
and let me just give you some of the background
what is happening there. San Bernardino County voters, you may remember,
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narrowly approved Measure EE and that was about two years ago. Yeah,
it was in twenty twenty two, and it authorized the
county government to explore the idea of seceding from the
state of California. This was connected to the idea that
the county was not getting its fair share of state resources.
(02:24):
San Bernardino County, Okay, or as I call it, San Bernissippi.
This week, what I like that you have River Tucky
in San Bernissippi. You'll see why in just a moment.
This week, the county government revealed the results of a
study conducted by the Blue Sky consulting group that shows
the county get this, actually receives nine percent more state
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funding per person than other counties statewide. And to me,
it makes perfect sense because San Bernardino County is probably
not producing the amount of state income tax the other
counties are producing. And this is what fourth District Supervisor
Kurt Hagman said for San Bernardino County. Quote, the truth
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is in the numbers, and we're able to show in
most cases, or about fifty percent of the cases, we're
as in San Bernardino County, we're getting our fair share
by population or maybe a little more by population.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Clothes quote, and.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It goes on, we're not getting our fair share for
homeless in the county because the formula they use is
based on large cities. So even though we're the sixth
largest as in county in California by population. We're not
getting that because we don't have a city with more
than three hundred thousand people in it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And also according to Blue Sky study, oh here it
is quote, tax revenues generated in San Bernardino County are
likely less than half the revenues generated statewide. Now, I
understand you may not want to be connected to California.
You may not like the crime, you may not like
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the trash, you may not like the whole persona, you
may not like what California feels like. But let's see
this through to its logical conclusion. All right, let's do
a thought experiment. Let's say hypothetically San Bernardino word to
secede from the state of California.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Then what then what do you become?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Do you become Puerto Rico and you just kind of
govern yourself because you're not getting any revenue from the state.
You're not getting any help from the state. When there's flooding, right,
you know, there's a fire, some sort of disaster. State
can't help you.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Hey, Puerto Rico got paper towels, right, But again that
high velocity, by the way.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They had to go to the federal government for that.
That's true. Same thing here. You know, if you have
a problem with immigration, good luck. I'm being serious.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's not like you can go to the state because
you don't have control over the border.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I just don't know how this is supposed to work out.
Didn't we find a what's the word I'm looking for? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yes, a war over that kind of thing once we did.
I think they called it the Civil War. Oh yeah, yeah.
The idea of secession may sound real sexy, but the
realistic implementation not at all, not on a state level,
not on a city level, not on a county level.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And yet it's easy to put it on the ballot
and people want to say, yeah, let's just go ahead
and seceed. But I don't know if people have really
thought through what that means. If you were actually successful,
you love that state money, trust me. When it comes
to schools, putting students in schools and the money you
get for your public schools because you have actual students,
all that's gone gone. All the money that you get
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from the state on any level gone. I don't know
how that's This would be a better option. You know,
if you feel like you're not getting your fair share,
all right, then that means you get Put this way,
my mother told me a long time ago, you can
get a little bit of something, or you can get
all of nothing. And if you get all of nothing
because you've seceded from the state of California, I don't
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know how that's a better option. But as it turns out,
you are getting more than your fair share. Now, maybe
you want to reapportion some of the money where it goes,
you know, it's allocated for homelessness as opposed to something else.
Have that discussion. But if you think that San Bernardino
County can make it with its own industry, you know,
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it's not like you get any of the money from
Silicon Valley anymore. It's not like that. If you think
that San Bernardino County produces enough of anything where you
can survive on your own state income tax, good luck.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Toll roads. That's how they can make their money, toll
roads to.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Get through Oh yeah, okay, but they're just taxing themselves.
It's not like they're getting money from elsewhere, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
You're you're just not saying like so the like say,
if we need to drive through San Bernardinas for.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
What to stop you there? I mean like, it's just
it's an easier route than going how many time you
driven through San Bernissippi? Well, I mean, look, not often.
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I'm thinking, like, if they charge us to drive through,
like people who are going to River Tucky.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I will stop at the border and yell across, Hey, Tawala,
come see me in Orange County.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Oh, I know they're pro San Diego County, probably going
to entice Elon Musk to move Tesla to the state
of San Bernissippill good luck soon.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I'm just I'm trying to think it through. No, Look,
it would be for them to figure out. It's not
for us to solve their problems. But for now, Sand
Bernissippi is not going anywhere. It's Later with mo Kelly
can if I Am six forty well live everywhere in
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Speaker 1 (07:54):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It's night three of the DNC and we're following along
waiting for Governor Tim Wallas, who will speak live.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Will bring that to you.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania had just finished speaking and
I was looking over the rundown for tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
It's like, wait a minute, Stevie Wonder was supposed to
perform today. Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yes, he performed already, Yes, yes, yes, he was already
out there.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
He killed it. How did I miss it?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Okay, all right, you and I have worked in the
music business. Okay, mo, we don't lie here.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
MO.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I love Stevie Wonder. He's one of my most favorite
artists of all time. He just doesn't sound that good.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Live, I believe from looking at the response from the crowd.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
He had it up.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Okay, turned all the way up, dancers DJ Molsky on
stage with him, live band.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It was a lot happening. Okay to Wallop. You produced
a concert.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
This is true. Okay, this is true. Story time, Cas,
You produced a concert. It was the Beat Summer Jam. Yes,
and there was one year. I can't remember what year
it was. I just know I was there the year
that Stevie Wonder closed the show.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yes, it was the year that we had Little Kim
on the show. And instead of Little Kim being the headliner,
Steve Harvey, who was new to our station, wanted to
show us young people what real music was. And he said,
do I have an act for you all coming up
at the end of this show, okay, And he kept
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promoting it on the radio, kept talking about it, hyping
it up. And I'm the stage manager, okay. So Little
Kim is on and she's killing it because it's Little Kim, right.
This is preyday in our heyday, and the crowd is
and it was a secret you.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
No one knew who the act was.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
And Steve Harvey's on stage and he's bringing buy these days,
ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I know you have been waiting all.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Day for this act right here, family, fuse Steve, Steve Harvey,
let it give it up right now for the for
the what is he the eighth wonder of the world,
Give it up for the eighth wonder of the world,
the one, the only Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And how many crickets.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
And I'm telling you it was you could just see
I'm on the stage and this is this is Irvine Amphitheater,
and you just hear.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And you yeah, no, no, look I have a different
vanished point.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I was walking.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Out right after that announcement, and half the venue started walking.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Out and Look, I'm on the stage and I'm watching
all of these people leaving, and I'm look, and I'm
looking over Steve Harvey and he has the angriest look
on his face and he's just fuel me.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Well, at least Stevie didn't see it. And that was
the joke. Damn mo man.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Okay, but see, I've heard Stevie Wonder perform on to
say three or four times, yes, and each time that
I've seen him live, he has been far less than spectacular.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I don't know what it is. I don't know if
it's an age thing.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I don't know if it's he doesn't care as much anymore,
but he does not sound great live anymore. The last
time I saw him, I think you yeah, you were there.
It was unfortunately for a funeral. Cliff Winston, who used
to be the program director for kg LH one or
two point three FM.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
He didn't sound good there either. No, No, he did not. No,
he did not.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
That wasn't that wasn't. Look I okay. One time we
had Stevie Wonder to come into the station and he
performed live for Steve Harvey and the crew, and he
was phenomenal, just him and his keyboard and he was great, Okay,
And I think in the right circumstances, you get prime
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Stevie Wonder. Now I'm just looking at the screen and
people were up on their feet and they were dancing,
were doing it, and they were loving it. And I
think it was maybe a thing of respect because he
is the eighth Wonder of the world. He's Stevie Wonder,
one of the greatest musicians songwriters ever, right, And I
think it's just it's a thing of respect to have
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Stevie Wonder up there. And I think that's why he's
not closing because of what you're saying about his performance
as of late, because you have John Legend supposed to
be closing if they're on time.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Okay, well John Legend is supposed to perform. What is
going to perform ordinary people?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
No, no, No, there'll probably be you know, one of
his more rousing songs. He has a couple of let's
have powerful songs. Yeah, he has very rousing songs, very rousing.
I thought they'd get like childish Gambino This is America.
That'd be probably be on another night, maybe on Thursday. Okay,
you want to end with fire, you don't want to
get a fire right now.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well, you know, I'm just look, you have a lot
of talent to choose from. I'm just very surprised to
see Stevie Wonder performing the DNC.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
There reaching their reaching to different audiences, because yesterday they
had Patty LaBelle Open Up. You know, so it's like
they're trying to have two different audiences. Tonight you got
John Legend and you've got Chili, you know, different generations,
trying to make sure you're talking to everyone.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Oh, Sheila E is performing. Oh okay, I got it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Governor Walls, Minnesota, Sheila E from Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Both gammorous lid. Yes, okay, yes, Mark, you've mairied with Sheila.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
If they play crush Groove at the DNC, the reporters,
the reporters will finally get the riot they want.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Wait a minute, wait a minute, what do you do
about crush Groove? Nothing? Nothing, I'm half white, remember, okay,
so you know half of it? Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That was a deep cut as far as music, I'm
surprised that they would reach for Sheila E. Love Sheile.
I get what they're doing with the whole Minnesota connection.
But you know, I'm surprised, not that they could call
prints or anything. I'm surprised they didn't go, like more
Stay in the Time. He's still around too, he.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Is, he's been on this show.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Whoa, Yeah, yes, he still's got it. He stills, he
still still has it. Yeah, well he's no Shatner, but
I am jealous of that. No, no, no, no, he
he he came on the show. We did an hour
long conversation, went through all the songs all. A matter
of fact, I think I'm going to post that as
far as the great conversations, classic conversations and legend conversations.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, it was a great one.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
He was in a great mood and we just we
talked about all of his career, even talked a little
bit about Prince as well. How many songs are there though, honestly,
you mean more Staying in the Time. Yeah, I want
to say maybe ten to twelve off the top of
my head. Well, that exceeds my knowledge of more States
the Time, The Bird of course, Jungle Love, see a.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Cool Low's getting lonely too. Yeah, I don't know if
I know cancel to eleven. I guess I got some looking.
What's your phone number?
Speaker 9 (15:00):
You know?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And keep going seven, seven, seven, nine to three eleven?
Does it ring a bell?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Does it sound different or better when he does it?
He sounds just the same. As matter of fact, Stephan's
getting it right now. See and you will see that.
Morris Day, Morris O Kelly one and the same.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I don't know if we have time for that. Oh
yes we do, because he's pulling it up right now.
Now we're up against the clock. Now, we are up
against the clock.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
But I'm going to wait. It's called host privilege. Hurry up, Stephan, Yeah,
Mars Day, he has it. I would say ten to
twelve if I actually thought about it all.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I like him. I just don't know all this stuff,
all right, do you know who? What's that spell?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I think you better do that you first than the
actual song.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
See.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Oh oh eh, what's the secret to that falsetto? By
the way, is it? Is it in the underwear?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
No, no, no no no, I'm had to make it weird.
No no, no, I'm not mocking you. I would never
do that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I Am six forty is Later with Mo Kelly We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Let's drop into the DNC and listen to Oprah Winfrey.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
And what we're gonna do is elect Kamada Harris as
the next President.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Of the United States.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I am so honored to have been asked to speak
on tonight's theme about what matters most to me, to
you and all of us Americans.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Freedom.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
There are people who want you to see our country
as a nation of us against them, people who want
to scare you, who want to rule you, people who'd
have you believe that books are dangerous and assault rifles
are safe, that there's a right way to worship and.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
A wrong way to love.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
People who seek first to divide and then to conquer.
But here's the thing, when we stand together, it is
impossible to conquer us.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Did Opos say what I thought?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
She said?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
In the words of an extraordinary American, the late Congressman
John Lewis, He said, no matter what ship our ancestors
arrived on, we are all in the same boat. Now,
Congressman very well, how far this country has come. Because
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he was one of the brilliant Americans who helped to
get us where we are. But he also knew that
the work is not done. The work will never be
done because freedom isn't free. America is an ongoing project.
It requires commitment, It requires being open to the hard
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work and the heart work of democracy, and every now
and then, it requires standing up to life's bullies. I
know this.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
I've lived in.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Mississippi, in Tennessee, in Wisconsin, Maryland.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Indiana, Florida, Hawaii, Colorado, California, and and Sweet Home Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
I have actually traveled this country from the Redwood Forest
loved those redwoods to the Gulf Stream waters. I've seen
racism and sexism, and income inequality and division. I've not
only seen it at times, I've been on the receiving
end of it. But more often than not, what I've
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witnessed and experienced are human beings, both conservative and liberal,
who may not agree with each other, but who'd still
help you in a heartbeat if you are in trouble.
These are the people who make me proud to say
that I am an American.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
They are the best of America. And despite what some
would have you think, we are not so different from
our neighbors.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
When a house is on fire, we don't ask about
the homeowner's race or religion.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
We don't wonder who their partner is or how they
vote it. No, we just try to do the best
we can to save them.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
And if the place happens to belong to a childless cat.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Lady, well.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
We try to get that cat out too.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Because we are a country of people who work hard
for the money. We wish our others and sisters well,
and we pray for peace. We know all the old
tricks and tropes.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
That are designed to distract us.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
From what actually matters, but we are beyond ridiculous tweets
and lies and foolery. These are complicated times, people, and
they require adult conversation, and I welcome those conversations because
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civilized debate is vital to democracy and it is the
best of America.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Now, over the last couple of nights, we have all.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Seen brave people walk onto the stage and share their
most private pain.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Amanda and Josh Caitlin Hadley.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
They told us their stories of rape and incest and
near death experiences from having the state deny them the
abortion that their doctor explained.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Was medically necessary.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
And they've told us these things for one reason, and
that is to keep what happened to them from happening
to anybody else.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
Because if you do not have autonomy over this, over this.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
If you cannot control woen and how you choose to
bring your children into this world and how they are
raised and supported, there is no American dream.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
The women and men who.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Are battling to keep us from going back to a
time of desperation and shame and stone cold fear, they
are the new freedom fighters. And make no mistake, they
are the best of America. I want to talk now
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about somebody who's not with us tonight. Tessi Prevos Williams
was born in New Orleans, not long af there's a
Supreme Court rule that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. That
was in nineteen fifty four, same year I was born.
But I didn't have to head to first grade at
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the all white Madonna nineteenth School with a US Marshal
by my side like TESSI did. And when I got
to school, the building wasn't empty like it was for Tessie.
You see, rather than allowing Madonna to be integrated, parents
pulled their kids out of the school, leaving only Tessi
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and two other little black girls, Gail at the Enne
and Leona Tate to sit in a classroom with the
windows papered over to block snipers from attacking the six
year old bodies.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Tessie passed away six weeks.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Ago, and I tell this story to honor her tonight,
because she, she, like Ruby Bridges and her friends Leona
and Gail, the New Orleans four.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
They were called, they broke barriers, and they.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Paid dearly for it. But it was the grace and
guts and courage of women like Tessie Prevots Williams that
paid the way for another young girl who nine years.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Later became part of the second class to.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Integrate the public schools in Berkeley, California.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
And it seems to me.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
That at school and at home, somebody did a beautiful
job of showing this young girl how to challenge the
people at the top and empower the people at the bottom.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
They showed her how to look at the world and
see not just what is, but what can be.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
They instilled in her a passion for justice and freedom
and the glorious fighting spirit necessary to pursue that passion.
And soon, and very soon, soon, embarrassed, soon, we're going
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to be teaching our daughters and sons about how this
child of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, two idealistic,
energetic immigrants, immigrants, how this child grew up to become
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the forty seventh President of the United States.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
That is the best of America.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
You're listening to it later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio Apple will continue to
dip in and dip out of the DNC.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
That was Oprah Winfrey who was just speaking.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
We're waiting on Minnesota Governor Tim Walls to formally accept
his nomination for vice president representing the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Will bring his address to you live as well.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Last week, I was talking about whether something was real
or something was more out of curiosity. I was talking
about how the first night of a convention, be it
RNC or DNC, you usually is pretty high and then
it levels off, tapers off, it goes down waiting for
the eventual presidential nominee to speak at the end of
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the convention, and you have this surge in viewership. The
Republican National Convention started off with like an eighteen point
seven million people viewing the first night, and it tapered
off to fourteen million the next night, and then its
surged to twenty five million when former President Trump spoke
and officially accepted the nomination to become president. Representing Republican Party,
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the Democrats started with twenty million about nineteen point eight
million on its first night Monday, compared to like the
eighteen point seven million for the Republicans. In fact, the
first night for the Democrats beat the next three nights,
the first three nights of the Republicans in the RNC,
and I was saying, well, let's wait for the second night,
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because then you can start to see a pattern or trend.
Was it just voyeurism where people are just tuning in
to see what everything was going to be about, or
was it actually going to grow or taper off, And
then you would get a better sense of whether the
DNC was generating momentum or people, you know, were just
checking out the sideshow the first day and didn't really care. Well,
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the numbers are in for the second night of the DNC,
and the Democrats went up from twenty million to twenty
point six million. And if you want to make a
direct comparison, the RNC went down to fourteen million it's
second night.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
So if anything, it suggests.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That not well, it doesn't suggest it says that more
people are tuning in, but it does suggest that there
is increasing interest in what is happening at the DNC,
and that usually if you use history as a guide,
it usually translates to voter registrations and also increased fundraising, because,
like I said last night, this is about the time
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in which people really start tuning in and start paying
attention to the presidential race. I mean, Mark and I
we talk about this all year, every day. We follow
these things very closely as a nature of what we
do professionally, but not most people. Most people they're on
the periphery. They know what's going on, but they're not
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really paying attention. But when the conventions come around, people
start to play a closer attention. And let me just
go down the numbers a little bit more. The twenty
twenty four DNC is the first one to have higher
ratings on the second night in the last decade. In fact,
former President Obama's speech saw the highest spike in viewership
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over the course of the night. This is according to
Nielsen an average of twenty one point nine million people
tuned in to watch him speak, which was higher than
the rest of the night, and the Nielsen numbers on
the other end of the spectrum show that the Democrats
are still struggling to attract younger voters. Only nine hundred
and thirty nine thousand viewers between the ages of eighteen
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to thirty four the broadcast Tuesday, which was down from
nine hundred and forty one thousand and twenty twenty, and
it was just over two million and twenty sixteen. But
like I was saying last night, this is where social
media comes in because if you're looking for the sixteen
to twenty four year old, for the most part, they're
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not looking at a television broadcast. They will pick it
up on Twitter, they'll pick it up on TikTok, they'll
pick it up clips on it on YouTube. People will say, well,
what did the show Obama have to say last night? Well,
they're probably not tuning in live. They'll find it on
social media somewhere, and those speeches are very easy to find.
And if you've been following this closely, the Harris campaign
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has been spending more on digital media than any campaign
in history. They are trying to bridge that gap between
young people and the political reality, the present political landscape,
because the most people, well the most that I hear
from young people is just whatever they see on TikTok.
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They'll tell me what they saw on TikTok, what they
saw on Twitter, what they heard from a friend who
saw it on TikTok. They're not watching traditional media by
and large, and the Harris campaign is going out of
their way to make sure. Like last night we talked
about the roll call and DJ Cassidy, how they had
the music from the different states and how that could
be chopped up into one minute segments that could be
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sent out. All that stuff is going viral today. If
you just do DNC roll call on any social media,
you'll find it everywhere. And that is by design, that's
not by happenstance. It's not like it's going viral in
an organic way. They're pushing it, they're helping it go viral.
And that's I think one of the largest differences between
this election and just four years ago, where social media
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and the digital landscape has an outsized importance, a disproportionate
importance as far as getting messages out and also reaching
younger voters. Now, does this mean that they'll actually turn
out and vote? Historically not in high percentages, but you know,
we'll see if that changes.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
But you you disagree?
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Mark, Did you see me raise an eyebrow or something
yet the spastic eyebrow you go into action?
Speaker 7 (32:14):
No.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Actually, the pulling data that I've seen, and correct me
if I have this wrong, shows that younger demographic voters
are in the bag for Harris by a factor of
at least two to one. If no, no, no, not
in the bag. I'm not saying their preference. I'm saying
that turnout and the viewership. I don't young people aren't
going to watch this stuff on TV. And by the way,
as you and I were sitting here, Wes Moore, the
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governor of Maryland, was speaking, nobody knows him. Do you
really want to follow Oprah if you're Wes Moore? No,
not if you're actually a speaker on the slate.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
But thanks to social media, you can be separated from
Oprah and just his speech can go out and people
can find it.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Yeah, he better hopes so, because it's actually it would
be a come down for even to be president.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
From what I understand.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
You know, look, Oprah has an advantage over most people
because television is her natural habitat, as it were. So
she's very comfortable in front of a camera, and she
is obviously world renowned. Everyone knows Oprah, so she's made
for events like this, But the governor of Maryland probably
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is not, even though he is an elected official. He's
done campaign stops. But you're not going to be able
to rouse the audience in a way that Oprah Winfrey camp. No,
you got to plan this stuff out so that there's
a natural flow. And you guys, as longtime music people,
you know that you plan the flow of speakers, music acts, whatever,
so you know you.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Wind up to the big finish. Yes, the headliners, you don't.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
You don't put on one of the headliners first and
then put Wes moron welterward.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Think about a set list that's basically what you're talking about.
That he'll sprinkle in your hit songs throughout the night.
You're not gonna put them all at the beginning. You're
not gonna put them all at the end. You sprinkle
them in. You'll play some new songs. You know, Hey,
we have a new song from our album We're gonna
play because you want your fans to come along with
you and also buy the new music, not just the
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old music.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Yeah, if you're Berlin, you don't open with the metro, right,
you'll close and speaking of like Minnesota, all things Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
The one and only time that I saw Prince he
closed with purple rain. He didn't open with purple ring.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
That's what you do.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
It's later with Mo Kelly, Pete Buddha, Judge Secretary of
Transportation of speaking right now. I believe that Tim Walls
will be next, and if and when he does begin
to speak, we'll bring that to you live. That is
his vice presidential nomination acceptance speech. It's KFI AM six forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Opinion.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Without the Preach k s I KOST HD two Los Angeles,
Orange County lies everywhere on the radio.
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty KFI AM six forty, It's Later with mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. As it's night
three of the DNC. We'll be bouncing in and out
and we're on the watch and all the lookout for
Governor Tim Walls, who will be officially accepting the nomination
for vice president tonight, so we will have his speech.
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You heard Mark Runner earlier with an excerpt from the
former President Bill Clinton, who spoke earlier.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
In the evening.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And I would say this schedule tonight has been more
on schedule.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
They've been moving through the speakers.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I mentioned that because the last two nights they were
way over both nights, less so last night, but.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Way way way over Monday night.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
So it seems they've pared down the schedule for tonight
and the speakers have a shorter amount of time because
they're really moving through the schedule. And I'm guessing that
Governor Walls may hit the stage in the.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Next forty five minutes or so.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm just guessing there might be some musical performances they're
on the schedule, but it doesn't mean that they won't
get cut somewhere along the way. And and Twalla did
just said that Oprah Winfrey was also speaking.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, Oprah Winfrey is supposed to be going up soon.
Actually I think she was supposed to be next. But
then it seems like maybe they had to shovel some
things around because they just had Kamala Harris's brother in
law on.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I guess that's what that was.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
A second Yeah, okay, well yeah, they you know when
something's not on when they just said coming up next
is Oprah Winfrey and it's not right.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, So it's a real fluid schedule, and we'll have
Governor Walls's speech, but there's some other business we have
to tend to here in California. You might have heard
me speaking with Tim Conway Junior about San Bernardino County
and let me just give you some of the background
what is happening there. San Bernardino County voters, you may remember,
(02:02):
narrowly approved Measure EE and that was about two years ago. Yeah,
it was in twenty twenty two, and it authorized the
county government to explore the idea of seceding from the
state of California. This was connected to the idea that
the county was not getting its fair share of state resources.
(02:24):
San Bernardino County, Okay, or as I call it, San Bernissippi.
This week, what I like that you have River Tucky
in San Bernissippi. You'll see why in just a moment.
This week, the county government revealed the results of a
study conducted by the Blue Sky consulting group that shows
the county get this, actually receives nine percent more state
(02:48):
funding per person than other counties statewide. And to me,
it makes perfect sense because San Bernardino County is probably
not producing the amount of state income tax the other
counties are producing. And this is what fourth District Supervisor
Kurt Hagman said for San Bernardino County. Quote, the truth
(03:09):
is in the numbers, and we're able to show in
most cases, or about fifty percent of the cases, we're
as in San Bernardino County, we're getting our fair share
by population or maybe a little more by population.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Clothes quote, and.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It goes on, we're not getting our fair share for
homeless in the county because the formula they use is
based on large cities. So even though we're the sixth
largest as in county in California by population. We're not
getting that because we don't have a city with more
than three hundred thousand people in it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And also according to Blue Sky study, oh here it
is quote, tax revenues generated in San Bernardino County are
likely less than half the revenues generated statewide. Now, I
understand you may not want to be connected to California.
You may not like the crime, you may not like
(04:07):
the trash, you may not like the whole persona, you
may not like what California feels like. But let's see
this through to its logical conclusion. All right, let's do
a thought experiment. Let's say hypothetically San Bernardino word to
secede from the state of California.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Then what then what do you become?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Do you become Puerto Rico and you just kind of
govern yourself because you're not getting any revenue from the state.
You're not getting any help from the state. When there's flooding, right,
you know, there's a fire, some sort of disaster. State
can't help you.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Hey, Puerto Rico got paper towels, right, But again that
high velocity, by the way.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They had to go to the federal government for that.
That's true. Same thing here. You know, if you have
a problem with immigration, good luck. I'm being serious.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's not like you can go to the state because
you don't have control over the border.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I just don't know how this is supposed to work out.
Didn't we find a what's the word I'm looking for? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yes, a war over that kind of thing once we did.
I think they called it the Civil War. Oh yeah, yeah.
The idea of secession may sound real sexy, but the
realistic implementation not at all, not on a state level,
not on a city level, not on a county level.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And yet it's easy to put it on the ballot
and people want to say, yeah, let's just go ahead
and seceed. But I don't know if people have really
thought through what that means. If you were actually successful,
you love that state money, trust me. When it comes
to schools, putting students in schools and the money you
get for your public schools because you have actual students,
all that's gone gone. All the money that you get
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from the state on any level gone. I don't know
how that's This would be a better option. You know,
if you feel like you're not getting your fair share,
all right, then that means you get Put this way,
my mother told me a long time ago, you can
get a little bit of something, or you can get
all of nothing. And if you get all of nothing
because you've seceded from the state of California, I don't
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know how that's a better option. But as it turns out,
you are getting more than your fair share. Now, maybe
you want to reapportion some of the money where it goes,
you know, it's allocated for homelessness as opposed to something else.
Have that discussion. But if you think that San Bernardino
County can make it with its own industry, you know,
(06:31):
it's not like you get any of the money from
Silicon Valley anymore. It's not like that. If you think
that San Bernardino County produces enough of anything where you
can survive on your own state income tax, good luck.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Toll roads. That's how they can make their money, toll
roads to.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Get through Oh yeah, okay, but they're just taxing themselves.
It's not like they're getting money from elsewhere, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
You're you're just not saying like so the like say,
if we need to drive through San Bernardinas for.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
What to stop you there? I mean like, it's just
it's an easier route than going how many time you
driven through San Bernissippi? Well, I mean, look, not often.
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I'm thinking, like, if they charge us to drive through,
like people who are going to River Tucky.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I will stop at the border and yell across, Hey, Tawala,
come see me in Orange County.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Oh, I know they're pro San Diego County, probably going
to entice Elon Musk to move Tesla to the state
of San Bernissippill good luck soon.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I'm just I'm trying to think it through. No, Look,
it would be for them to figure out. It's not
for us to solve their problems. But for now, Sand
Bernissippi is not going anywhere. It's Later with mo Kelly
can if I Am six forty well live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It's night three of the DNC and we're following along
waiting for Governor Tim Wallas, who will speak live.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Will bring that to you.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania had just finished speaking and
I was looking over the rundown for tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
It's like, wait a minute, Stevie Wonder was supposed to
perform today. Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yes, he performed already, Yes, yes, yes, he was already
out there.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
He killed it. How did I miss it?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Okay, all right, you and I have worked in the
music business. Okay, mo, we don't lie here.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
MO.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I love Stevie Wonder. He's one of my most favorite
artists of all time. He just doesn't sound that good.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Live, I believe from looking at the response from the crowd.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
He had it up.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Okay, turned all the way up, dancers DJ Molsky on
stage with him, live band.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It was a lot happening. Okay to Wallop. You produced
a concert.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
This is true. Okay, this is true. Story time, Cas,
You produced a concert. It was the Beat Summer Jam. Yes,
and there was one year. I can't remember what year
it was. I just know I was there the year
that Stevie Wonder closed the show.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yes, it was the year that we had Little Kim
on the show. And instead of Little Kim being the headliner,
Steve Harvey, who was new to our station, wanted to
show us young people what real music was. And he said,
do I have an act for you all coming up
at the end of this show, okay, And he kept
(09:34):
promoting it on the radio, kept talking about it, hyping
it up. And I'm the stage manager, okay. So Little
Kim is on and she's killing it because it's Little Kim, right.
This is preyday in our heyday, and the crowd is
and it was a secret you.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
No one knew who the act was.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
And Steve Harvey's on stage and he's bringing buy these days,
ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I know you have been waiting all.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Day for this act right here, family, fuse Steve, Steve Harvey,
let it give it up right now for the for
the what is he the eighth wonder of the world,
Give it up for the eighth wonder of the world,
the one, the only Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And how many crickets.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
And I'm telling you it was you could just see
I'm on the stage and this is this is Irvine Amphitheater,
and you just hear.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And you yeah, no, no, look I have a different
vanished point.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I was walking.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Out right after that announcement, and half the venue started walking.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Out and Look, I'm on the stage and I'm watching
all of these people leaving, and I'm look, and I'm
looking over Steve Harvey and he has the angriest look
on his face and he's just fuel me.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Well, at least Stevie didn't see it. And that was
the joke. Damn mo man.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Okay, but see, I've heard Stevie Wonder perform on to
say three or four times, yes, and each time that
I've seen him live, he has been far less than spectacular.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I don't know what it is. I don't know if
it's an age thing.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I don't know if it's he doesn't care as much anymore,
but he does not sound great live anymore. The last
time I saw him, I think you yeah, you were there.
It was unfortunately for a funeral. Cliff Winston, who used
to be the program director for kg LH one or
two point three FM.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
He didn't sound good there either. No, No, he did not. No,
he did not.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
That wasn't that wasn't. Look I okay. One time we
had Stevie Wonder to come into the station and he
performed live for Steve Harvey and the crew, and he
was phenomenal, just him and his keyboard and he was great, Okay,
And I think in the right circumstances, you get prime
(11:54):
Stevie Wonder. Now I'm just looking at the screen and
people were up on their feet and they were dancing,
were doing it, and they were loving it. And I
think it was maybe a thing of respect because he
is the eighth Wonder of the world. He's Stevie Wonder,
one of the greatest musicians songwriters ever, right, And I
think it's just it's a thing of respect to have
(12:14):
Stevie Wonder up there. And I think that's why he's
not closing because of what you're saying about his performance
as of late, because you have John Legend supposed to
be closing if they're on time.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Okay, well John Legend is supposed to perform. What is
going to perform ordinary people?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
No, no, No, there'll probably be you know, one of
his more rousing songs. He has a couple of let's
have powerful songs. Yeah, he has very rousing songs, very rousing.
I thought they'd get like childish Gambino This is America.
That'd be probably be on another night, maybe on Thursday. Okay,
you want to end with fire, you don't want to
get a fire right now.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well, you know, I'm just look, you have a lot
of talent to choose from. I'm just very surprised to
see Stevie Wonder performing the DNC.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
There reaching their reaching to different audiences, because yesterday they
had Patty LaBelle Open Up. You know, so it's like
they're trying to have two different audiences. Tonight you got
John Legend and you've got Chili, you know, different generations,
trying to make sure you're talking to everyone.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Oh, Sheila E is performing. Oh okay, I got it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Governor Walls, Minnesota, Sheila E from Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Both gammorous lid. Yes, okay, yes, Mark, you've mairied with Sheila.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
If they play crush Groove at the DNC, the reporters,
the reporters will finally get the riot they want.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Wait a minute, wait a minute, what do you do
about crush Groove? Nothing? Nothing, I'm half white, remember, okay,
so you know half of it? Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That was a deep cut as far as music, I'm
surprised that they would reach for Sheila E. Love Sheile.
I get what they're doing with the whole Minnesota connection.
But you know, I'm surprised, not that they could call
prints or anything. I'm surprised they didn't go, like more
Stay in the Time. He's still around too, he.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Is, he's been on this show.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Whoa, Yeah, yes, he still's got it. He stills, he
still still has it. Yeah, well he's no Shatner, but
I am jealous of that. No, no, no, no, he
he he came on the show. We did an hour
long conversation, went through all the songs all. A matter
of fact, I think I'm going to post that as
far as the great conversations, classic conversations and legend conversations.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, it was a great one.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
He was in a great mood and we just we
talked about all of his career, even talked a little
bit about Prince as well. How many songs are there though, honestly,
you mean more Staying in the Time. Yeah, I want
to say maybe ten to twelve off the top of
my head. Well, that exceeds my knowledge of more States
the Time, The Bird of course, Jungle Love, see a.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Cool Low's getting lonely too. Yeah, I don't know if
I know cancel to eleven. I guess I got some looking.
What's your phone number?
Speaker 9 (15:00):
You know?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And keep going seven, seven, seven, nine to three eleven?
Does it ring a bell?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Does it sound different or better when he does it?
He sounds just the same. As matter of fact, Stephan's
getting it right now. See and you will see that.
Morris Day, Morris O Kelly one and the same.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I don't know if we have time for that. Oh
yes we do, because he's pulling it up right now.
Now we're up against the clock. Now, we are up
against the clock.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
But I'm going to wait. It's called host privilege. Hurry up, Stephan, Yeah,
Mars Day, he has it. I would say ten to
twelve if I actually thought about it all.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I like him. I just don't know all this stuff,
all right, do you know who? What's that spell?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I think you better do that you first than the
actual song.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
See.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Oh oh eh, what's the secret to that falsetto? By
the way, is it? Is it in the underwear?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
No, no, no no no, I'm had to make it weird.
No no, no, I'm not mocking you. I would never
do that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I Am six forty is Later with Mo Kelly We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Let's drop into the DNC and listen to Oprah Winfrey.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
And what we're gonna do is elect Kamada Harris as
the next President.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Of the United States.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I am so honored to have been asked to speak
on tonight's theme about what matters most to me, to
you and all of us Americans.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Freedom.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
There are people who want you to see our country
as a nation of us against them, people who want
to scare you, who want to rule you, people who'd
have you believe that books are dangerous and assault rifles
are safe, that there's a right way to worship and.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
A wrong way to love.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
People who seek first to divide and then to conquer.
But here's the thing, when we stand together, it is
impossible to conquer us.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Did Opos say what I thought?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
She said?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
In the words of an extraordinary American, the late Congressman
John Lewis, He said, no matter what ship our ancestors
arrived on, we are all in the same boat. Now,
Congressman very well, how far this country has come. Because
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he was one of the brilliant Americans who helped to
get us where we are. But he also knew that
the work is not done. The work will never be
done because freedom isn't free. America is an ongoing project.
It requires commitment, It requires being open to the hard
(18:25):
work and the heart work of democracy, and every now
and then, it requires standing up to life's bullies. I
know this.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
I've lived in.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Mississippi, in Tennessee, in Wisconsin, Maryland.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Indiana, Florida, Hawaii, Colorado, California, and and Sweet Home Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
I have actually traveled this country from the Redwood Forest
loved those redwoods to the Gulf Stream waters. I've seen
racism and sexism, and income inequality and division. I've not
only seen it at times, I've been on the receiving
end of it. But more often than not, what I've
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witnessed and experienced are human beings, both conservative and liberal,
who may not agree with each other, but who'd still
help you in a heartbeat if you are in trouble.
These are the people who make me proud to say
that I am an American.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
They are the best of America. And despite what some
would have you think, we are not so different from
our neighbors.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
When a house is on fire, we don't ask about
the homeowner's race or religion.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
We don't wonder who their partner is or how they
vote it. No, we just try to do the best
we can to save them.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
And if the place happens to belong to a childless cat.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Lady, well.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
We try to get that cat out too.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Because we are a country of people who work hard
for the money. We wish our others and sisters well,
and we pray for peace. We know all the old
tricks and tropes.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
That are designed to distract us.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
From what actually matters, but we are beyond ridiculous tweets
and lies and foolery. These are complicated times, people, and
they require adult conversation, and I welcome those conversations because
(21:29):
civilized debate is vital to democracy and it is the
best of America.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Now, over the last couple of nights, we have all.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Seen brave people walk onto the stage and share their
most private pain.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Amanda and Josh Caitlin Hadley.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
They told us their stories of rape and incest and
near death experiences from having the state deny them the
abortion that their doctor explained.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Was medically necessary.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
And they've told us these things for one reason, and
that is to keep what happened to them from happening
to anybody else.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
Because if you do not have autonomy over this, over this.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
If you cannot control woen and how you choose to
bring your children into this world and how they are
raised and supported, there is no American dream.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
The women and men who.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Are battling to keep us from going back to a
time of desperation and shame and stone cold fear, they
are the new freedom fighters. And make no mistake, they
are the best of America. I want to talk now
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about somebody who's not with us tonight. Tessi Prevos Williams
was born in New Orleans, not long af there's a
Supreme Court rule that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. That
was in nineteen fifty four, same year I was born.
But I didn't have to head to first grade at
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the all white Madonna nineteenth School with a US Marshal
by my side like TESSI did. And when I got
to school, the building wasn't empty like it was for Tessie.
You see, rather than allowing Madonna to be integrated, parents
pulled their kids out of the school, leaving only Tessi
(23:46):
and two other little black girls, Gail at the Enne
and Leona Tate to sit in a classroom with the
windows papered over to block snipers from attacking the six
year old bodies.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Tessie passed away six weeks.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Ago, and I tell this story to honor her tonight,
because she, she, like Ruby Bridges and her friends Leona
and Gail, the New Orleans four.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
They were called, they broke barriers, and they.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Paid dearly for it. But it was the grace and
guts and courage of women like Tessie Prevots Williams that
paid the way for another young girl who nine years.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Later became part of the second class to.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Integrate the public schools in Berkeley, California.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
And it seems to me.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
That at school and at home, somebody did a beautiful
job of showing this young girl how to challenge the
people at the top and empower the people at the bottom.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
They showed her how to look at the world and
see not just what is, but what can be.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
They instilled in her a passion for justice and freedom
and the glorious fighting spirit necessary to pursue that passion.
And soon, and very soon, soon, embarrassed, soon, we're going
(25:38):
to be teaching our daughters and sons about how this
child of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, two idealistic,
energetic immigrants, immigrants, how this child grew up to become
(26:01):
the forty seventh President of the United States.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
That is the best of America.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
You're listening to it later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio Apple will continue to
dip in and dip out of the DNC.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
That was Oprah Winfrey who was just speaking.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
We're waiting on Minnesota Governor Tim Walls to formally accept
his nomination for vice president representing the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Will bring his address to you live as well.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Last week, I was talking about whether something was real
or something was more out of curiosity. I was talking
about how the first night of a convention, be it
RNC or DNC, you usually is pretty high and then
it levels off, tapers off, it goes down waiting for
the eventual presidential nominee to speak at the end of
(27:07):
the convention, and you have this surge in viewership. The
Republican National Convention started off with like an eighteen point
seven million people viewing the first night, and it tapered
off to fourteen million the next night, and then its
surged to twenty five million when former President Trump spoke
and officially accepted the nomination to become president. Representing Republican Party,
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the Democrats started with twenty million about nineteen point eight
million on its first night Monday, compared to like the
eighteen point seven million for the Republicans. In fact, the
first night for the Democrats beat the next three nights,
the first three nights of the Republicans in the RNC,
and I was saying, well, let's wait for the second night,
(27:54):
because then you can start to see a pattern or trend.
Was it just voyeurism where people are just tuning in
to see what everything was going to be about, or
was it actually going to grow or taper off, And
then you would get a better sense of whether the
DNC was generating momentum or people, you know, were just
checking out the sideshow the first day and didn't really care. Well,
(28:15):
the numbers are in for the second night of the DNC,
and the Democrats went up from twenty million to twenty
point six million. And if you want to make a
direct comparison, the RNC went down to fourteen million it's
second night.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
So if anything, it suggests.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That not well, it doesn't suggest it says that more
people are tuning in, but it does suggest that there
is increasing interest in what is happening at the DNC,
and that usually if you use history as a guide,
it usually translates to voter registrations and also increased fundraising, because,
like I said last night, this is about the time
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in which people really start tuning in and start paying
attention to the presidential race. I mean, Mark and I
we talk about this all year, every day. We follow
these things very closely as a nature of what we
do professionally, but not most people. Most people they're on
the periphery. They know what's going on, but they're not
(29:13):
really paying attention. But when the conventions come around, people
start to play a closer attention. And let me just
go down the numbers a little bit more. The twenty
twenty four DNC is the first one to have higher
ratings on the second night in the last decade. In fact,
former President Obama's speech saw the highest spike in viewership
(29:37):
over the course of the night. This is according to
Nielsen an average of twenty one point nine million people
tuned in to watch him speak, which was higher than
the rest of the night, and the Nielsen numbers on
the other end of the spectrum show that the Democrats
are still struggling to attract younger voters. Only nine hundred
and thirty nine thousand viewers between the ages of eighteen
(29:58):
to thirty four the broadcast Tuesday, which was down from
nine hundred and forty one thousand and twenty twenty, and
it was just over two million and twenty sixteen. But
like I was saying last night, this is where social
media comes in because if you're looking for the sixteen
to twenty four year old, for the most part, they're
(30:19):
not looking at a television broadcast. They will pick it
up on Twitter, they'll pick it up on TikTok, they'll
pick it up clips on it on YouTube. People will say, well,
what did the show Obama have to say last night? Well,
they're probably not tuning in live. They'll find it on
social media somewhere, and those speeches are very easy to find.
And if you've been following this closely, the Harris campaign
(30:41):
has been spending more on digital media than any campaign
in history. They are trying to bridge that gap between
young people and the political reality, the present political landscape,
because the most people, well the most that I hear
from young people is just whatever they see on TikTok.
(31:04):
They'll tell me what they saw on TikTok, what they
saw on Twitter, what they heard from a friend who
saw it on TikTok. They're not watching traditional media by
and large, and the Harris campaign is going out of
their way to make sure. Like last night we talked
about the roll call and DJ Cassidy, how they had
the music from the different states and how that could
be chopped up into one minute segments that could be
(31:25):
sent out. All that stuff is going viral today. If
you just do DNC roll call on any social media,
you'll find it everywhere. And that is by design, that's
not by happenstance. It's not like it's going viral in
an organic way. They're pushing it, they're helping it go viral.
And that's I think one of the largest differences between
this election and just four years ago, where social media
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and the digital landscape has an outsized importance, a disproportionate
importance as far as getting messages out and also reaching
younger voters. Now, does this mean that they'll actually turn
out and vote? Historically not in high percentages, but you know,
we'll see if that changes.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
But you you disagree?
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Mark, Did you see me raise an eyebrow or something
yet the spastic eyebrow you go into action?
Speaker 7 (32:14):
No.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Actually, the pulling data that I've seen, and correct me
if I have this wrong, shows that younger demographic voters
are in the bag for Harris by a factor of
at least two to one. If no, no, no, not
in the bag. I'm not saying their preference. I'm saying
that turnout and the viewership. I don't young people aren't
going to watch this stuff on TV. And by the way,
as you and I were sitting here, Wes Moore, the
(32:36):
governor of Maryland, was speaking, nobody knows him. Do you
really want to follow Oprah if you're Wes Moore? No,
not if you're actually a speaker on the slate.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
But thanks to social media, you can be separated from
Oprah and just his speech can go out and people
can find it.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Yeah, he better hopes so, because it's actually it would
be a come down for even to be president.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
From what I understand.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
You know, look, Oprah has an advantage over most people
because television is her natural habitat, as it were. So
she's very comfortable in front of a camera, and she
is obviously world renowned. Everyone knows Oprah, so she's made
for events like this, But the governor of Maryland probably
(33:24):
is not, even though he is an elected official. He's
done campaign stops. But you're not going to be able
to rouse the audience in a way that Oprah Winfrey camp. No,
you got to plan this stuff out so that there's
a natural flow. And you guys, as longtime music people,
you know that you plan the flow of speakers, music acts, whatever,
so you know you.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Wind up to the big finish. Yes, the headliners, you don't.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
You don't put on one of the headliners first and
then put Wes moron welterward.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Think about a set list that's basically what you're talking about.
That he'll sprinkle in your hit songs throughout the night.
You're not gonna put them all at the beginning. You're
not gonna put them all at the end. You sprinkle
them in. You'll play some new songs. You know, Hey,
we have a new song from our album We're gonna
play because you want your fans to come along with
you and also buy the new music, not just the
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old music.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Yeah, if you're Berlin, you don't open with the metro, right,
you'll close and speaking of like Minnesota, all things Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
The one and only time that I saw Prince he
closed with purple rain. He didn't open with purple ring.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
That's what you do.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
It's later with Mo Kelly, Pete Buddha, Judge Secretary of
Transportation of speaking right now. I believe that Tim Walls
will be next, and if and when he does begin
to speak, we'll bring that to you live. That is
his vice presidential nomination acceptance speech. It's KFI AM six forty.
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