October 4, 2024 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the nationwide Verizon service disruption AND the Dish/DirecTV merger on ‘Tech Thursday’ with regular guest contributor; (author, podcast host, and technology pundit) Marsha Collier…PLUS – Actress, Comedian and KFI Reporter Heather Brooker joins the program with a preview of LA Comic-Con with LACC CEO/GM Chris DeMoulin - 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):
Of course it's tech Thursday, so that means Marcia Calier
joins us.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Marsha, how you doing this evening?
Speaker 4 (00:13):
I'm just doing great, you know. And Mo, I have
to tell you your listeners are so loyal. I actually
got fan mail after last week's show.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Look, there's nothing wrong with that fan mail, hate mail.
As long as they keep on listening, that's all I want.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You remember earlier this week, I want to say it
was Monday, at the beginning of the week, you had
that huge Verizon outage. Customers across the US reported problems
accessing the company's wireless network. I assume it was a
hack or data breach of some sort.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Look, we can always speculate.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
But what do we know. There's a problem with that.
It's a real problem. Tens of thousands of people in
the area. I mean from Chicago, Indianapolis, all the way
down to Phoenix, Nebraska, Omaha, they did not have service.
These are the people who need service. And sos appeared
(01:10):
in the status bars of iPhones if the device is
not connected to a cellular network, So and supposedly it
can still make calls, but no, not on the Verizon network.
I think this points out that we need an alternate
mode of talking to people of getting help.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
What about the idea of like an emergency backup system
which is used for situations just like this, where it
may not accommodate anything as far as Internet, but it
will accommodate people making calls for the purpose of an emergency.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I mean, this is a thing week as Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
This is disaster. This is a complete disaster. One of
the things that I do, and it's important to me,
is I keep an older phone. I have it connected
to Wi Fi and I can text. I can make
calls through WhatsApp, which is an excellent, excellent app, or
(02:12):
Google Voice. What do you use any alternates?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yes, I use Google Voice, and like you, I have
backup phones plural that hook up to any Wi Fi.
And for those who don't know, text messages take up
less bandwidth. It's easier for those to slip through in
an emergency situation. Remember we discussed this last week about
what to do if you're stranded in some remote area. Well,
(02:36):
people are now stranded in their own houses seemingly.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Have you ever been in a hurricane?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
No, that's why I live in California. I actually talked
about that on the show last Friday. I said, you know,
with great respect to the people who are dealing with
the hurricane. Part of the reason why I never moved
from California is there are certain things I did want
to deal with. I did want to deal with in
clement weather. I did not want to deal with tornadoes.
I did not want to deal with hurricanes. Yes, earthquakes
(03:02):
are a great unknown, but fewer people dying them comparatively
speaking than any other natural emergency.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I mean, I felt so horrible for the people. Their
houses were in sticks. Literally, Yes, it was horrible. I
grew up on Miami Beach, so I know a lot
about hurricanes, and all of Miami Beach would flood. I
worked at the Miami Herald, and it would be flooded
up to three blocks away from the newspaper. And when
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your car gave up the ghost, it couldn't drive any deeper.
You would just get out of your car, slog through
the wet and in the lobby of the Miami Herald,
John Knight had a setup with screens in the whole
thing and extra pressman's jumpsuits so you'd get to change
clothes when you got to work. It was and we
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were the lucky ones because newspapers have to come out
every day, right, But everywhere else. I also remember flooding
in my neighborhood, and when the eye of the hurricane
went over, the streets were filled with flopping fish, and
of course people were coming outside with the frying pans
getting well.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I was always aware of the fact that alligators are
everywhere in Florida, and when you have that massive flooding,
that means the alligators are going everywhere as well, so
the water can be very dangerous.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Oh yeah, but you know, I never saw an alligator
in Miami Beach, But then that that's Miami Beach.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It's kind of we.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Don't let alligators on Miami Beach. There are a cross
on the city side in the lagoons. But you know,
this is a terrifying thing. And the thing is the
news always whoops it up worse than it could possibly
be and totally terrifies people.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
The only problem with that is, with all due respect,
we also know they can be very dangerous after the hurricane.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Absolutely, and they can't prepare for having their house blown over, right,
they can't prepare for their roof being blown off and
the entire house saturated with rainstorm. I've known people who's
had to replace carpeting and god knows what in their house.
It's a horrible thing. But earthquakes, we kind of get
a little beep on the phone.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now, yeah, a whole three seconds of notice. But going
back to the story, this highlights how important and essential
our phone communication can be for moments just like these.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well, I think most importantly is, like you said, have
a backup. Absolutely, have a backup. I mean in our
emergency kit with the earthquake, because I had such a
horrible time in the north Ridge earthquake. I even have
a radio where you can broadcast. So you have to
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have these things. We need to make our homes emergency safe.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We just have to going back to the Verizon down
period and again we'll get more information, I'm sure, regardless
of whatever the first report is, we'll get more information
in the coming weeks about what happened, why, how extensive.
But my question to you, Marcia Carlier, is does this
signify that our infrastructure is exceptionally vulnerable and fragile or
(06:27):
is it something else?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Well, just think about our electricity. I mean, honestly, not
DWP and Los Angeles, but the other one further north
of us. They've been having outages on and off and
on and off. That's not just fragile, that's a fail.
And for how many years have we been paying taxes
(06:49):
to rebuild our infrastructure? I mean it always says that,
you know and like our problems with the schools. Oh yeah,
a lot of used to feed the schools. Uh huh
where does all that money go?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh you're waiting for me to answer, because I couldn't
tell you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
All I know is that more money has been pumped
in and less output and less reliability in.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Response, which is why we as citizens need to be
unfortunately more responsible for our own safety, just like buying
new tires on a car.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
The takeaway is make sure you have backup devices, you
have your emergency kits, that you are prepared for any
eventuality as best you can, because you don't know when
disaster might strike, even if they tell you that it's
coming in the form of a hurricane or some sort
of major storm in the next week. When we come back,
(07:45):
let's get into this merger of Direct TV and Dish.
When this story broke also earlier this week, it blew
my mind because once again.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You think that you have a choice, but you really don't.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
It's all, Yeah, I have Dish TV, so and so,
now you have direct TV as well. Yeah, it's Later
with Mo Kelly, CAFI AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's Later with Mo Kelly and Marshall Callier. We're both
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And you know by
now a huge, huge telecom deal came down DirecTV Dish,
I would say, two of the preeminent cable providers in
the country are now coming together to form one super
telecommunications company. What it means for you, what it means
(08:37):
for me, It remains to be seen because even if
you have a streaming platform, most likely they are a
subsidiary of one of these cable giants. Marshall Callier, when
the news came down for you and you saw it
back on Monday, what first came to mind?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, first of all, I have Dish. I like Dish,
the only reason I keep Dish is because their technology
is really good, believe it or not. But more and
more people, you know, we have broken the cable and
we have a lot of over the air content at
our house. But this is something that is a big
(09:16):
deal because remember DirecTV is owned by EchoStar. Now, EchoStar
is worth a lot of money, and they have thirty
billion dollars in wireless spectrum investments, and then that means
they went at one time to an FCC auction. The
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Federal Communication System auctions off segments of the spectrum for
people to use so you could start your own phone company.
They own that. So I'm seeing maybe EchoStar will be
the new wireless carrier for a lot of people, or
(09:58):
maybe they'll specialize in something. But if you think about
a lot of the other networks, Comcast only has thirteen
point two million video subscribers, that's not a lot. You know,
DirecTV has about eleven million, so and Dish TV has
eight point one million. The only thing is it's subject
(10:20):
to the government's passing this, and I don't see why
they wouldn't because I think everybody deserves it. Direct TV
and Dish also are including Sling TV that's me in
the there you go.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know, yes, Sling originally is a division of Dish,
and so I was wondering we were going to be
folded in.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So yes, we are bingo.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Now, supposedly this is going to happen in the second
half of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Here's the question, and most likely the deal will go through.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
But we do know the federal government, at least this
administration has been more strict than others when it comes
to at least perceived antitrust monopoly mergers. They've broken up
a few, they've prevented a few. So I'm not going
to say that there's a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You were saying, though, well, these are the only satellite providers.
I think that's the difference. Now you've got Starlink. If
Ellan ever decided to bounce TV off of Starlink, which
would seem to be a natural progression, eventually agreed, he
could wipe everybody out. But you have cable. You know,
(11:35):
your frontier, your spectrum, all that, and cable is great
and reliable, but so is satellite, and satellite really is
the future. I mean even airlines now are switching to
Wi Fi from satellites versus ye whatever it is. They're
(11:55):
bouncing to the land and the whole thing. So yeah,
I think this is important and I think they will
pass it or they'll just let it hang and let
the next administration do it. I mean, that's you know,
I don't know how to play political games, but I
think that's how they're played.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, there's a calculation that's being made because if the
deal's not supposed to be consummated until early twenty twenty five,
we will have a new president, a new administration, and
I'm sure and sure, but it's still I mean, even
if Kamala Harris wins, it's still a different administration, so
it still figures into the calculations of when they want
to finish this deal exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
And I think everybody will benefit from it because it
will make it a stronger network. And like I said,
dishes technology, I love it. The one thing I love
about Dish technology is I can stop a show in
one room, pick it up in another room of the
house the DVR. But then again, I have DVR from
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Tableau which works with a little antenna in the window,
and I can get local news and things like that.
And that's another thing we have to consider. We were
talking about preparedness before. Maybe having those antennas that only
cost about ten bucks and an inexpensive system that will
allow you to get over the air programs. You'll be
(13:18):
able to get your local news in an emergency when
cable or satellite go down.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Not including kf I AM six forty one of those
very important outlets for breaking news during an emergency.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
So you know, just have to.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Fill I actually have. I am sounding like such a
crazy person. I actually have one of those radios that
you can crank to church and the battery.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
AI do I am so old school?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yes, well that isn't old school. That is, when there's
no electricity. We also have a giant Goal zero battery,
a giant one that when we did have a power outage,
has rolled out the refrigerator, plugged it into the Goal
zero and we would have had power for three days
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for just the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well, we still have a generator. We'll probably upgrade to
a battery soon. Well.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
The cool thing about the battery thing is we have
solar panels that you can plug into it and put
outside and it'll charge while it's discharging. So in other words,
you can charge something and charge it at the same time.
I love technology, especially if it helps people and we're
given the right to use it at a reasonable price.
(14:36):
Because our electric grid, we're talking about everything here on
the electric grid. Look around you.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Well, if our infrastructure is not where it needs to
be the next five years or so, we're going to
have a bunch more problems that we're not ready for.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Oh well, we're busy with a whole lot of other
problems that we're not going to go to politics. But
it seems to me that's not at the top.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Of the list. Ructure never is, Unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Marsha, I got a run, and I know you're probably
going to be doing some traveling sometime soon.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But hopefully we'll be able to do this again in person.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I will be over in England and I will download
all the apps that I can't download here. I'm bringing
three funds and updating apps and we'll talk more about
the differences between the EU and the US when I
get back.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Look forward to it.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
KFI AM sixty into the later with Mo Kelly, and
we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Kfi's own Heather
Brooker is not only a news anchor for the station,
she's a resident nerd like the rest of us here
on the show. So much so that this weekend she's
serving as our official nerd correspondent covering La Comic Con,
(15:55):
which returns this weekend to the La Convention Center.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And with that, Heather take it away.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
He La Comic Con returns to the La Convention Center
in downtown LA this weekend and if you're a fan
of characters, comics, or cosplay, then this is the event
for you. Joining me now to talk about the star
setate event this weekend is La Comic Con CEO Chris
de Mulin. I am absolutely thrilled to talk to you
(16:21):
this year because you have some huge stars coming to
La Comic this year.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Well, I mean, you know, every year when we finished
the show, we always do a survey of the fans
and say, you know, who haven't we brought in yet
that you'd love to see?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
And there are a couple of names that we're always in.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
That top five, and Ewan and Hayden Christiansend and Michael J.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Fox.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
We're always in that top five, and this just.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Happened to be a year where we, you know, reached
out really early to Ewan's agent and he was free
and we booked him. And we were talking to Hayden's
agent about somebody else and he said, hey, I heard
that you guys got you and you know Hayden could
be free that weekend. We're like, yeah, absolutely, and then
we the Michael J. Fox thing worked out in a
similar way. And then when Christopher Lloyd came in for that,
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we had been talking to Christina reach she separately.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
In one of our meetings.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Somebody said, oh, wouldn't it be fun if we get
Angelica Houston to come and do an Adam's family reunion?
Speaker 7 (17:14):
And she doesn't really.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Do cons, but we reached out to her agent, and
because she's local, she's like, sure, that sounds like fun.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Let's talk about some of the big panels and reunions
that people can look forward to seeing.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Well, I mean, I think I think the Adams Family
one will be super fun and big and unexpected and
the kind of thing that you know you may never
see anywhere else again. Just because you know, Angelica is
not a frequent condoor, although who knows, she may love
it decide that she wants to join the circuit.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
But I also think, you.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Know, we love, as you said, leaning sort of leaning
into the Star Wars thing, having you and Emily Swallow
for Obi Wan, having gian Carlo and Paul to do Mandalorian,
and then kind of the what I think of as
the old fashioned La Comic Con kind of pedalt like
the voice cast of Avatar and the voice cast of
(18:12):
New X Men ninety seven.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Let's talk about what you guys are doing for the
gamers this year. My daughter loves video games. She jokingly
calls herself a gamer at the ripe old age of
eleven years old. What can your video gamers expect to
experience this year?
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Well, your daughter will be thrilled because you know, in
the in the gaming hall on Saturday from one till
six is the finals of a Fortnite tournament that's for
female gamers only. It's being sponsored by Gonna Need Milk.
It's called the Milk Cup, and it has a two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars prize pool. And it was
really driven by their realization that forty six percent of
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all self described gamers like your daughter are women, but
only two percent of the top earners in the industry
were women, and so as a way to sort of
try and redress that balance, they decided to do a
series of competitions that were only for female gamers and
sort of increase the profile and the spotlight of that.
And they chose us to be the location for the final,
which was in person.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
The early rounds were online.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
So that would be really fun because ninety nine of
the best female gamers in the world, many of whom
are closer in age to your daughter than than.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
To any of us.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
You know, we'll be fighting it out for five hours
across three rounds to accumulate the points to win.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Well.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
You know, one of our favorite things to do every
year when we go is we love to watch all
of the cosplay. We love to see people dressed up,
really embracing their fandom. And I think it's so special
that we have this wonderful event here in Los Angeles,
the entertainment capital of the world, where people get to
really invest in their cosplay, in their costumes. Tell me
(19:55):
a little bit about what kind of what kind of
things the cosplay community can expl this year.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
We're just a great place to come in your costplay
and have a good time. I think a lot of
the families that come it's a great opportunity for their
kids to this year get their Halloween costumes early and
come out and have some fun in them. We of
course have the Costplay National Championships that are Saturday night,
and this is the I think the eighth or ninth
year in a row that we've done that. That price
pools up to thirty thousand dollars, so it's one of
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the biggest costplay prize pools and we have people coming
from all over the world that have competed in the
earlier rounds and are now coming in.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
For the semifinals and finals live at the show.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
We always have a Kids Costplay contest on Sunday, which
is you know, it's a little more fun for the
kids to come and costume and you know, for a
couple of hundred gets a chance to get up.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
On stage and wave a mom and dad and get
the picture taken.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
So I think, you know, about a third, We think
between thirty and thirty five percent of the people who
come to our show come in some version of cosplay.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
And now, of course it wouldn't be Comic Con without
the artists and the writers who create the comic books.
And you're going to have over a thousand artists and
vendors there.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Tell me a little bit about that we do.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
I mean, we have the largest artist alley this year
we've ever had. It's almost six hundred artists. It's so
big that we split it.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
We're gonna have a big artist alliy in South Hall,
but we're gonna have another one hundred and one hundred
and fifty artists that are in West Hall.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
And we've tried to work.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
With the artists to get those artists whose art style
and sort of taste is a little more anime and game,
you know, graphic driven, so we can get those artists
over in that hall and the general artists over here.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
The engine of this town is creation.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
It's the creators, and so whether we're celebrating them in
Artist's Alley, we're celebrating them in the in the mix,
which is where the young developers are, or in some
of the panels that we have because you know, we
have the main stage panels, but we have another one
hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty panels with all
sorts of creators that are you know, happening upstairs in
the panel rooms during the course of the whole weekend.
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So it's really important to us because that reflects what
LA is.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Right.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
We're a creative town, were and we're kind of the
ultimate mashup of creativity across every genre gaming and streaming
and TV and movies and music, and so we want
to make sure that there's a you know, an avenue
for those folks to come and express their creativity.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Okay, so are there any tickets left? Can we still go?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Is it too late?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
There?
Speaker 7 (22:16):
I want to just say there are always tickets left.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
We cannot wait to go.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
It's such a great event for the whole family and
especially people who are into pop culture and this fandom.
So Krista Mulin, thank you so much as always for
your time and congrats on another exciting and successful LA
Comic Con.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Well, thank you, Heather, It's always a pleasure to see
you ticket.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Thank you for that, Heather.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It's later with Mo Kelly on the other side of
the break will remind you of the most exclusive, the
coolest and spookiest party in the history of KFI which
is on the horizon, the Later with Mo Kelly pre
Halloween soiree, and how you might be able to get tickets.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And I've heard from some of you who've hit me
on social media at Later with mo Kelly on Instagram,
or you've hit me on threads at mister Mokelly. You've
wondered like, Hey, mo, I'm hearing about this party, but
I'm not seeing it anywhere online. I went to the
KFIM six forty dot com website, didn't see anything there,
didn't see anything on your social media.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
What's going on? And I said, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
You are not going to find out about this party online,
not not yet at least, because it is for our
people's twala Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Is it just for us or is it just for us?
It's literally just for us.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
And if anyone listening has been paying attention, We've told
you how you're gonna be getting in. We have something
we do every Friday night, like Clockwork, one of the
most popular segments on all of KFI, and that's how we.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Are giving these tickets away.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And if you're wondering, well, how long are you going
to be doing this, Well, we're doing this up until
the date of the party, which is October thirtieth, the
day before Halloween. Obviously it's a pre Halloween soire. We're
bringing you to the Honda Studios. Here at iHeart Meta.
What do you mean the Honda Studios. Well, here at
the station, we have a special performance room. Sometimes the
(24:29):
different stations they'll bring in artists to perform live. You'll
have parties up there, but we have this big space
which will see I don't know anywhere from eighty to
one hundred people at least, not to mention. People will
be there for standing room and you will get to
see a live version of Later with Mokelly. We will
have celebrity guests, We'll have friends of the station, will
(24:51):
have KFI personalities. It will be you and your guests
and costumes Halloween festivities.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Did I forget anything tea? No, Actually love the costume part.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
And with costumes, I think we have to have some
prizes for those costumes.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
We just got in some new swag too, that's right.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
We will be giving away T shirts, we will be
giving away key chains, there will be some coffee mugs
for winners.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
We have all sorts of cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You've probably seen it online and we did not have
a lot to give away prior to this moment, but
we will have plenty to give away to you because
you are our family.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
You are special listeners.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You have rolled with us since the beginning, and we
want to make sure that this is made available for
the people who have been most supportive over these almost
two years.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Now you may hear about this from other people, but
the only way you're going to get to go to
this party is to keep on listening and participating in
some game show that we should do every seas and
good week here.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Should we have a theme tomorrow Tawala? What do you think?
Speaker 8 (26:06):
You know? It's it's the beginnings of October. This is
a Halloween themed party. Costumes galore. Maybe we should set
it off with some type of Halloween theme for tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I think that would be a great idea.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
So those who listen to Later with Mo Kelly every
single week know exactly what we're talking about, when we're
talking about it, and why we are talking about it.
So if you need any more hints than shame on you.
The theme will be Halloween movies tomorrow at the appointed time,
And that's the only way you're gonna get in this party.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
We've had people who work at the station that's like, oh,
you guys are throwing a party. I even heard from
the folk reporter yesterday and he didn't know, and he
went wild when I told him about it, because this
is going to be the hottest ticket in town because
you can't get it anywhere. You can't get it everywhere.
(27:07):
I can't wait. I'm excited, and I already know what
I'm gonna do, what I'm gonna be.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I know that I'm gonna be at the party. Look,
you've already got your You've already got your theme together.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I'm pretty sure I'm deciding between one or two things.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
See, I'm really really digging into my mental Halloween recesses
to think of something so original, so stellar that every
single person walking into our exclusive pre Halloween kickoff is
just floored.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And I know they're gonna be some mad people because
they're gonna say, wait a minute, I've always liked you, Mo,
but you got to keep listening consistently. Well, I've listened
to you since the mo Kelly show.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
That's nice. We appreciate that, don't get me wrong. We
love all the support.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But this is all about Later with mo Kelly, the
people who've been listening to us, the people who have
been actively supporting us on social.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Media, who join in every single.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Let's say Friday night to play a game or something
like that. It's specifically for those individuals. So do not
look for this at KFIAM six forty dot com. Do
not look for this on maybe my social media at
mister mo'kelly. Do not look for this on the show
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social media at Later with mo Kelly because you will
not find anything. You will just have to listen and
trust that I'm telling you the truth right now, because
there's not going to be any type of external validation
or confirmation or affirmation that this spooky party is going
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to happen on October thirtieth at the Honda Studios here
at iHeartMedia.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You're not gonna find it anywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
You just could have to know because I'm telling you,
because Tuwalla's telling you. And if you should happen to
run into Mark Ronner, he's looking to be strange. Yes, Mark,
you can tell people too, Stefan. He may tell you,
but it has to come from someone who's actually connected
to the show because we haven't really even divulged this
to all the other on air staff here. I haven't
had a chance to talk about it with Bill. He
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may want to come. Oh wow, you know, I haven't
talked to Gary and Shannon, but they've heard about it.
They may want to come. Tim Conway Jr. He knows
about it. He'll probably come because he always supports us
in anything that we do. John Cobel, he'll probably know
about it. That's all I can say.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
But it's going to be a time.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
He's going to be a grand old time, and it's
on you to make sure that you're part of the festivities.
We will make announcements as confirmations come in about who
else is going to be in the house, but a
lot of it we're going to hold back because it
is a surprise, it is exclud and we want people
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who come here to know that they are entering a
very very special place that they're going to find out
things before other people do.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And it's and you know what, I don't know, Tawala.
Should we live stream this?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Should we give everyone the opportunity or only for the
people in the house and just make everyone mad and say, see,
you should have been there.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
You know what, I'm not mad at the idea of
the concept of live streaming because of all the constules,
because of all the people dressed up, And I think
everyone listening needs to be able to see how fly
this is.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
So that way they know next year when we do
it again, they know for sure they better join in.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Well, you may not want to miss the first one,
because nothing's like the first time.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
So that's all we can say.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
You have been forewarned, and now you have been prepared
to get ready for next month's pre Halloween soire courtesy
of Later with Mokelly at the Honda Studios. Here at iHeartMedia,
It's not gonna be in the little studio where you
see on.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
The Instagram live. No no, no, no, no, it's a it's
it's a it's a big to do.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It's a big room with a lot of food, a
lot of drink, a lot of costumes. And now all
we need is a lot of you k if I
am six forty we are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Common Sense left California a long time ago. We're bringing
it back.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Of course it's tech Thursday, so that means Marcia Calier
joins us.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Marsha, how you doing this evening?
Speaker 4 (00:13):
I'm just doing great, you know. And Mo, I have
to tell you your listeners are so loyal. I actually
got fan mail after last week's show.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Look, there's nothing wrong with that fan mail, hate mail.
As long as they keep on listening, that's all I want.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You remember earlier this week, I want to say it
was Monday, at the beginning of the week, you had
that huge Verizon outage. Customers across the US reported problems
accessing the company's wireless network. I assume it was a
hack or data breach of some sort.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Look, we can always speculate.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
But what do we know. There's a problem with that.
It's a real problem. Tens of thousands of people in
the area. I mean from Chicago, Indianapolis, all the way
down to Phoenix, Nebraska, Omaha, they did not have service.
These are the people who need service. And sos appeared
(01:10):
in the status bars of iPhones if the device is
not connected to a cellular network, So and supposedly it
can still make calls, but no, not on the Verizon network.
I think this points out that we need an alternate
mode of talking to people of getting help.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
What about the idea of like an emergency backup system
which is used for situations just like this, where it
may not accommodate anything as far as Internet, but it
will accommodate people making calls for the purpose of an emergency.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I mean, this is a thing week as Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
This is disaster. This is a complete disaster. One of
the things that I do, and it's important to me,
is I keep an older phone. I have it connected
to Wi Fi and I can text. I can make
calls through WhatsApp, which is an excellent, excellent app, or
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Google Voice. What do you use any alternates?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yes, I use Google Voice, and like you, I have
backup phones plural that hook up to any Wi Fi.
And for those who don't know, text messages take up
less bandwidth. It's easier for those to slip through in
an emergency situation. Remember we discussed this last week about
what to do if you're stranded in some remote area. Well,
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people are now stranded in their own houses seemingly.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Have you ever been in a hurricane?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
No, that's why I live in California. I actually talked
about that on the show last Friday. I said, you know,
with great respect to the people who are dealing with
the hurricane. Part of the reason why I never moved
from California is there are certain things I did want
to deal with. I did want to deal with in
clement weather. I did not want to deal with tornadoes.
I did not want to deal with hurricanes. Yes, earthquakes
(03:02):
are a great unknown, but fewer people dying them comparatively
speaking than any other natural emergency.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I mean, I felt so horrible for the people. Their
houses were in sticks. Literally, Yes, it was horrible. I
grew up on Miami Beach, so I know a lot
about hurricanes, and all of Miami Beach would flood. I
worked at the Miami Herald, and it would be flooded
up to three blocks away from the newspaper. And when
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your car gave up the ghost, it couldn't drive any deeper.
You would just get out of your car, slog through
the wet and in the lobby of the Miami Herald,
John Knight had a setup with screens in the whole
thing and extra pressman's jumpsuits so you'd get to change
clothes when you got to work. It was and we
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were the lucky ones because newspapers have to come out
every day, right, But everywhere else. I also remember flooding
in my neighborhood, and when the eye of the hurricane
went over, the streets were filled with flopping fish, and
of course people were coming outside with the frying pans
getting well.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I was always aware of the fact that alligators are
everywhere in Florida, and when you have that massive flooding,
that means the alligators are going everywhere as well, so
the water can be very dangerous.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Oh yeah, but you know, I never saw an alligator
in Miami Beach, But then that that's Miami Beach.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It's kind of we.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Don't let alligators on Miami Beach. There are a cross
on the city side in the lagoons. But you know,
this is a terrifying thing. And the thing is the
news always whoops it up worse than it could possibly
be and totally terrifies people.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
The only problem with that is, with all due respect,
we also know they can be very dangerous after the hurricane.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Absolutely, and they can't prepare for having their house blown over, right,
they can't prepare for their roof being blown off and
the entire house saturated with rainstorm. I've known people who's
had to replace carpeting and god knows what in their house.
It's a horrible thing. But earthquakes, we kind of get
a little beep on the phone.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now, yeah, a whole three seconds of notice. But going
back to the story, this highlights how important and essential
our phone communication can be for moments just like these.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well, I think most importantly is, like you said, have
a backup. Absolutely, have a backup. I mean in our
emergency kit with the earthquake, because I had such a
horrible time in the north Ridge earthquake. I even have
a radio where you can broadcast. So you have to
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have these things. We need to make our homes emergency safe.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We just have to going back to the Verizon down
period and again we'll get more information, I'm sure, regardless
of whatever the first report is, we'll get more information
in the coming weeks about what happened, why, how extensive.
But my question to you, Marcia Carlier, is does this
signify that our infrastructure is exceptionally vulnerable and fragile or
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is it something else?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Well, just think about our electricity. I mean, honestly, not
DWP and Los Angeles, but the other one further north
of us. They've been having outages on and off and
on and off. That's not just fragile, that's a fail.
And for how many years have we been paying taxes
(06:49):
to rebuild our infrastructure? I mean it always says that,
you know and like our problems with the schools. Oh yeah,
a lot of used to feed the schools. Uh huh
where does all that money go?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh you're waiting for me to answer, because I couldn't
tell you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
All I know is that more money has been pumped
in and less output and less reliability in.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Response, which is why we as citizens need to be
unfortunately more responsible for our own safety, just like buying
new tires on a car.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
The takeaway is make sure you have backup devices, you
have your emergency kits, that you are prepared for any
eventuality as best you can, because you don't know when
disaster might strike, even if they tell you that it's
coming in the form of a hurricane or some sort
of major storm in the next week. When we come back,
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let's get into this merger of Direct TV and Dish.
When this story broke also earlier this week, it blew
my mind because once again.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You think that you have a choice, but you really don't.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
It's all, Yeah, I have Dish TV, so and so,
now you have direct TV as well. Yeah, it's Later
with Mo Kelly, CAFI AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's Later with Mo Kelly and Marshall Callier. We're both
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And you know by
now a huge, huge telecom deal came down DirecTV Dish,
I would say, two of the preeminent cable providers in
the country are now coming together to form one super
telecommunications company. What it means for you, what it means
(08:37):
for me, It remains to be seen because even if
you have a streaming platform, most likely they are a
subsidiary of one of these cable giants. Marshall Callier, when
the news came down for you and you saw it
back on Monday, what first came to mind?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, first of all, I have Dish. I like Dish,
the only reason I keep Dish is because their technology
is really good, believe it or not. But more and
more people, you know, we have broken the cable and
we have a lot of over the air content at
our house. But this is something that is a big
(09:16):
deal because remember DirecTV is owned by EchoStar. Now, EchoStar
is worth a lot of money, and they have thirty
billion dollars in wireless spectrum investments, and then that means
they went at one time to an FCC auction. The
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Federal Communication System auctions off segments of the spectrum for
people to use so you could start your own phone company.
They own that. So I'm seeing maybe EchoStar will be
the new wireless carrier for a lot of people, or
(09:58):
maybe they'll specialize in something. But if you think about
a lot of the other networks, Comcast only has thirteen
point two million video subscribers, that's not a lot. You know,
DirecTV has about eleven million, so and Dish TV has
eight point one million. The only thing is it's subject
(10:20):
to the government's passing this, and I don't see why
they wouldn't because I think everybody deserves it. Direct TV
and Dish also are including Sling TV that's me in
the there you go.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know, yes, Sling originally is a division of Dish,
and so I was wondering we were going to be
folded in.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So yes, we are bingo.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Now, supposedly this is going to happen in the second
half of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Here's the question, and most likely the deal will go through.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
But we do know the federal government, at least this
administration has been more strict than others when it comes
to at least perceived antitrust monopoly mergers. They've broken up
a few, they've prevented a few. So I'm not going
to say that there's a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You were saying, though, well, these are the only satellite providers.
I think that's the difference. Now you've got Starlink. If
Ellan ever decided to bounce TV off of Starlink, which
would seem to be a natural progression, eventually agreed, he
could wipe everybody out. But you have cable. You know,
(11:35):
your frontier, your spectrum, all that, and cable is great
and reliable, but so is satellite, and satellite really is
the future. I mean even airlines now are switching to
Wi Fi from satellites versus ye whatever it is. They're
(11:55):
bouncing to the land and the whole thing. So yeah,
I think this is important and I think they will
pass it or they'll just let it hang and let
the next administration do it. I mean, that's you know,
I don't know how to play political games, but I
think that's how they're played.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, there's a calculation that's being made because if the
deal's not supposed to be consummated until early twenty twenty five,
we will have a new president, a new administration, and
I'm sure and sure, but it's still I mean, even
if Kamala Harris wins, it's still a different administration, so
it still figures into the calculations of when they want
to finish this deal exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
And I think everybody will benefit from it because it
will make it a stronger network. And like I said,
dishes technology, I love it. The one thing I love
about Dish technology is I can stop a show in
one room, pick it up in another room of the
house the DVR. But then again, I have DVR from
(12:55):
Tableau which works with a little antenna in the window,
and I can get local news and things like that.
And that's another thing we have to consider. We were
talking about preparedness before. Maybe having those antennas that only
cost about ten bucks and an inexpensive system that will
allow you to get over the air programs. You'll be
(13:18):
able to get your local news in an emergency when
cable or satellite go down.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Not including kf I AM six forty one of those
very important outlets for breaking news during an emergency.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
So you know, just have to.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Fill I actually have. I am sounding like such a
crazy person. I actually have one of those radios that
you can crank to church and the battery.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
AI do I am so old school?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yes, well that isn't old school. That is, when there's
no electricity. We also have a giant Goal zero battery,
a giant one that when we did have a power outage,
has rolled out the refrigerator, plugged it into the Goal
zero and we would have had power for three days
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for just the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well, we still have a generator. We'll probably upgrade to
a battery soon. Well.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
The cool thing about the battery thing is we have
solar panels that you can plug into it and put
outside and it'll charge while it's discharging. So in other words,
you can charge something and charge it at the same time.
I love technology, especially if it helps people and we're
given the right to use it at a reasonable price.
(14:36):
Because our electric grid, we're talking about everything here on
the electric grid. Look around you.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Well, if our infrastructure is not where it needs to
be the next five years or so, we're going to
have a bunch more problems that we're not ready for.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Oh well, we're busy with a whole lot of other
problems that we're not going to go to politics. But
it seems to me that's not at the top.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Of the list. Ructure never is, Unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Marsha, I got a run, and I know you're probably
going to be doing some traveling sometime soon.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But hopefully we'll be able to do this again in person.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I will be over in England and I will download
all the apps that I can't download here. I'm bringing
three funds and updating apps and we'll talk more about
the differences between the EU and the US when I
get back.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Look forward to it.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
KFI AM sixty into the later with Mo Kelly, and
we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Kfi's own Heather
Brooker is not only a news anchor for the station,
she's a resident nerd like the rest of us here
on the show. So much so that this weekend she's
serving as our official nerd correspondent covering La Comic Con,
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which returns this weekend to the La Convention Center.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And with that, Heather take it away.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
He La Comic Con returns to the La Convention Center
in downtown LA this weekend and if you're a fan
of characters, comics, or cosplay, then this is the event
for you. Joining me now to talk about the star
setate event this weekend is La Comic Con CEO Chris
de Mulin. I am absolutely thrilled to talk to you
(16:21):
this year because you have some huge stars coming to
La Comic this year.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Well, I mean, you know, every year when we finished
the show, we always do a survey of the fans
and say, you know, who haven't we brought in yet
that you'd love to see?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
And there are a couple of names that we're always in.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
That top five, and Ewan and Hayden Christiansend and Michael J.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Fox.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
We're always in that top five, and this just.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Happened to be a year where we, you know, reached
out really early to Ewan's agent and he was free
and we booked him. And we were talking to Hayden's
agent about somebody else and he said, hey, I heard
that you guys got you and you know Hayden could
be free that weekend. We're like, yeah, absolutely, and then
we the Michael J. Fox thing worked out in a
similar way. And then when Christopher Lloyd came in for that,
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we had been talking to Christina reach she separately.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
In one of our meetings.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Somebody said, oh, wouldn't it be fun if we get
Angelica Houston to come and do an Adam's family reunion?
Speaker 7 (17:14):
And she doesn't really.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Do cons, but we reached out to her agent, and
because she's local, she's like, sure, that sounds like fun.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Let's talk about some of the big panels and reunions
that people can look forward to seeing.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Well, I mean, I think I think the Adams Family
one will be super fun and big and unexpected and
the kind of thing that you know you may never
see anywhere else again. Just because you know, Angelica is
not a frequent condoor, although who knows, she may love
it decide that she wants to join the circuit.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
But I also think, you.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Know, we love, as you said, leaning sort of leaning
into the Star Wars thing, having you and Emily Swallow
for Obi Wan, having gian Carlo and Paul to do Mandalorian,
and then kind of the what I think of as
the old fashioned La Comic Con kind of pedalt like
the voice cast of Avatar and the voice cast of
(18:12):
New X Men ninety seven.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Let's talk about what you guys are doing for the
gamers this year. My daughter loves video games. She jokingly
calls herself a gamer at the ripe old age of
eleven years old. What can your video gamers expect to
experience this year?
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Well, your daughter will be thrilled because you know, in
the in the gaming hall on Saturday from one till
six is the finals of a Fortnite tournament that's for
female gamers only. It's being sponsored by Gonna Need Milk.
It's called the Milk Cup, and it has a two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars prize pool. And it was
really driven by their realization that forty six percent of
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all self described gamers like your daughter are women, but
only two percent of the top earners in the industry
were women, and so as a way to sort of
try and redress that balance, they decided to do a
series of competitions that were only for female gamers and
sort of increase the profile and the spotlight of that.
And they chose us to be the location for the final,
which was in person.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
The early rounds were online.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
So that would be really fun because ninety nine of
the best female gamers in the world, many of whom
are closer in age to your daughter than than.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
To any of us.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
You know, we'll be fighting it out for five hours
across three rounds to accumulate the points to win.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Well.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
You know, one of our favorite things to do every
year when we go is we love to watch all
of the cosplay. We love to see people dressed up,
really embracing their fandom. And I think it's so special
that we have this wonderful event here in Los Angeles,
the entertainment capital of the world, where people get to
really invest in their cosplay, in their costumes. Tell me
(19:55):
a little bit about what kind of what kind of
things the cosplay community can expl this year.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
We're just a great place to come in your costplay
and have a good time. I think a lot of
the families that come it's a great opportunity for their
kids to this year get their Halloween costumes early and
come out and have some fun in them. We of
course have the Costplay National Championships that are Saturday night,
and this is the I think the eighth or ninth
year in a row that we've done that. That price
pools up to thirty thousand dollars, so it's one of
(20:21):
the biggest costplay prize pools and we have people coming
from all over the world that have competed in the
earlier rounds and are now coming in.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
For the semifinals and finals live at the show.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
We always have a Kids Costplay contest on Sunday, which
is you know, it's a little more fun for the
kids to come and costume and you know, for a
couple of hundred gets a chance to get up.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
On stage and wave a mom and dad and get
the picture taken.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
So I think, you know, about a third, We think
between thirty and thirty five percent of the people who
come to our show come in some version of cosplay.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
And now, of course it wouldn't be Comic Con without
the artists and the writers who create the comic books.
And you're going to have over a thousand artists and
vendors there.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Tell me a little bit about that we do.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
I mean, we have the largest artist alley this year
we've ever had. It's almost six hundred artists. It's so
big that we split it.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
We're gonna have a big artist alliy in South Hall,
but we're gonna have another one hundred and one hundred
and fifty artists that are in West Hall.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
And we've tried to work.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
With the artists to get those artists whose art style
and sort of taste is a little more anime and game,
you know, graphic driven, so we can get those artists
over in that hall and the general artists over here.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
The engine of this town is creation.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
It's the creators, and so whether we're celebrating them in
Artist's Alley, we're celebrating them in the in the mix,
which is where the young developers are, or in some
of the panels that we have because you know, we
have the main stage panels, but we have another one
hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty panels with all
sorts of creators that are you know, happening upstairs in
the panel rooms during the course of the whole weekend.
(21:53):
So it's really important to us because that reflects what
LA is.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Right.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
We're a creative town, were and we're kind of the
ultimate mashup of creativity across every genre gaming and streaming
and TV and movies and music, and so we want
to make sure that there's a you know, an avenue
for those folks to come and express their creativity.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Okay, so are there any tickets left? Can we still go?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Is it too late?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
There?
Speaker 7 (22:16):
I want to just say there are always tickets left.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
We cannot wait to go.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
It's such a great event for the whole family and
especially people who are into pop culture and this fandom.
So Krista Mulin, thank you so much as always for
your time and congrats on another exciting and successful LA
Comic Con.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Well, thank you, Heather, It's always a pleasure to see
you ticket.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Thank you for that, Heather.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It's later with Mo Kelly on the other side of
the break will remind you of the most exclusive, the
coolest and spookiest party in the history of KFI which
is on the horizon, the Later with Mo Kelly pre
Halloween soiree, and how you might be able to get tickets.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And I've heard from some of you who've hit me
on social media at Later with mo Kelly on Instagram,
or you've hit me on threads at mister Mokelly. You've
wondered like, Hey, mo, I'm hearing about this party, but
I'm not seeing it anywhere online. I went to the
KFIM six forty dot com website, didn't see anything there,
didn't see anything on your social media.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
What's going on? And I said, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
You are not going to find out about this party online,
not not yet at least, because it is for our
people's twala Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Is it just for us or is it just for us?
It's literally just for us.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
And if anyone listening has been paying attention, We've told
you how you're gonna be getting in. We have something
we do every Friday night, like Clockwork, one of the
most popular segments on all of KFI, and that's how we.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Are giving these tickets away.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And if you're wondering, well, how long are you going
to be doing this, Well, we're doing this up until
the date of the party, which is October thirtieth, the
day before Halloween. Obviously it's a pre Halloween soire. We're
bringing you to the Honda Studios. Here at iHeart Meta.
What do you mean the Honda Studios. Well, here at
the station, we have a special performance room. Sometimes the
(24:29):
different stations they'll bring in artists to perform live. You'll
have parties up there, but we have this big space
which will see I don't know anywhere from eighty to
one hundred people at least, not to mention. People will
be there for standing room and you will get to
see a live version of Later with Mokelly. We will
have celebrity guests, We'll have friends of the station, will
(24:51):
have KFI personalities. It will be you and your guests
and costumes Halloween festivities.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Did I forget anything tea? No, Actually love the costume part.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
And with costumes, I think we have to have some
prizes for those costumes.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
We just got in some new swag too, that's right.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
We will be giving away T shirts, we will be
giving away key chains, there will be some coffee mugs
for winners.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
We have all sorts of cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You've probably seen it online and we did not have
a lot to give away prior to this moment, but
we will have plenty to give away to you because
you are our family.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
You are special listeners.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You have rolled with us since the beginning, and we
want to make sure that this is made available for
the people who have been most supportive over these almost
two years.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Now you may hear about this from other people, but
the only way you're going to get to go to
this party is to keep on listening and participating in
some game show that we should do every seas and
good week here.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Should we have a theme tomorrow Tawala? What do you think?
Speaker 8 (26:06):
You know? It's it's the beginnings of October. This is
a Halloween themed party. Costumes galore. Maybe we should set
it off with some type of Halloween theme for tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I think that would be a great idea.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
So those who listen to Later with Mo Kelly every
single week know exactly what we're talking about, when we're
talking about it, and why we are talking about it.
So if you need any more hints than shame on you.
The theme will be Halloween movies tomorrow at the appointed time,
And that's the only way you're gonna get in this party.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
We've had people who work at the station that's like, oh,
you guys are throwing a party. I even heard from
the folk reporter yesterday and he didn't know, and he
went wild when I told him about it, because this
is going to be the hottest ticket in town because
you can't get it anywhere. You can't get it everywhere.
(27:07):
I can't wait. I'm excited, and I already know what
I'm gonna do, what I'm gonna be.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I know that I'm gonna be at the party. Look,
you've already got your You've already got your theme together.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I'm pretty sure I'm deciding between one or two things.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
See, I'm really really digging into my mental Halloween recesses
to think of something so original, so stellar that every
single person walking into our exclusive pre Halloween kickoff is
just floored.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And I know they're gonna be some mad people because
they're gonna say, wait a minute, I've always liked you, Mo,
but you got to keep listening consistently. Well, I've listened
to you since the mo Kelly show.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
That's nice. We appreciate that, don't get me wrong. We
love all the support.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But this is all about Later with mo Kelly, the
people who've been listening to us, the people who have
been actively supporting us on social.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Media, who join in every single.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Let's say Friday night to play a game or something
like that. It's specifically for those individuals. So do not
look for this at KFIAM six forty dot com. Do
not look for this on maybe my social media at
mister mo'kelly. Do not look for this on the show
(28:29):
social media at Later with mo Kelly because you will
not find anything. You will just have to listen and
trust that I'm telling you the truth right now, because
there's not going to be any type of external validation
or confirmation or affirmation that this spooky party is going
(28:50):
to happen on October thirtieth at the Honda Studios here
at iHeartMedia.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You're not gonna find it anywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
You just could have to know because I'm telling you,
because Tuwalla's telling you. And if you should happen to
run into Mark Ronner, he's looking to be strange. Yes, Mark,
you can tell people too, Stefan. He may tell you,
but it has to come from someone who's actually connected
to the show because we haven't really even divulged this
to all the other on air staff here. I haven't
had a chance to talk about it with Bill. He
(29:20):
may want to come. Oh wow, you know, I haven't
talked to Gary and Shannon, but they've heard about it.
They may want to come. Tim Conway Jr. He knows
about it. He'll probably come because he always supports us
in anything that we do. John Cobel, he'll probably know
about it. That's all I can say.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
But it's going to be a time.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
He's going to be a grand old time, and it's
on you to make sure that you're part of the festivities.
We will make announcements as confirmations come in about who
else is going to be in the house, but a
lot of it we're going to hold back because it
is a surprise, it is exclud and we want people
(30:01):
who come here to know that they are entering a
very very special place that they're going to find out
things before other people do.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And it's and you know what, I don't know, Tawala.
Should we live stream this?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Should we give everyone the opportunity or only for the
people in the house and just make everyone mad and say, see,
you should have been there.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
You know what, I'm not mad at the idea of
the concept of live streaming because of all the constules,
because of all the people dressed up, And I think
everyone listening needs to be able to see how fly
this is.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
So that way they know next year when we do
it again, they know for sure they better join in.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Well, you may not want to miss the first one,
because nothing's like the first time.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
So that's all we can say.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
You have been forewarned, and now you have been prepared
to get ready for next month's pre Halloween soire courtesy
of Later with Mokelly at the Honda Studios. Here at iHeartMedia,
It's not gonna be in the little studio where you
see on.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
The Instagram live. No no, no, no, no, it's a it's
it's a it's a big to do.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It's a big room with a lot of food, a
lot of drink, a lot of costumes. And now all
we need is a lot of you k if I
am six forty we are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Common Sense left California a long time ago. We're bringing
it back.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
K s I K O S T HD two Los Angeles,
Orange County, live everywhere on the heart radio
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