November 7, 2024 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour TWO of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the impact of Fans at the funeral for legendary Los Angeles Dodger Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, Cole Leinart, the son of former USC Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart, committing to SMU & whether or not the Netflix “Super Fight” featuring former Heavyweight Champion and Boxing Icon Mike Tyson against YouTube Boxing sensation Jake Paul will be amazing or absurd - 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
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Mo Kelly WeLive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And it's
been I would say a turbulent time as a Dodger
fan over the moon, that they won the World Series
over the moon. But still that was against the backdrop
of Fernando Valezuela dying. Now you can say it was
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I would say a sweet response as far as you know,
the cosmic alignment where you have Fernando who left the team,
the broadcast team during the playoffs, never to return, and
it would be a fitting tribute given he died right
before the World Series. If the Dodgers were to win,
it was a storybook ending. But still you had to
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deal with the weight of his passing. Now that the
parade is over, now that the celebration is over. Today
was the funeral, and I want to be specific, the
Catholic funeral for Fernando Valenzuela, meaning it wasn't some public
event like they had for Kobe where people would come
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in and the stars would come in. Now, this was
about the family. This is about his son who offered remarks.
This was about the people who actually knew him. And
this is something which really bothers me. And I'm not
saying this for effect. I'm saying it to be honest.
This is something that really bothers me about fandom, and
I see this as a true and blue Dodger fan.
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When I was watching some of the funeral, I didn't
watch all of it, but you can find it online YouTube.
A lot of outlets streamed it and I saw random
fans there with jerseys on. It made me feel real
uncomfortable because all of us remember the public service that
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was held at Staple Center for the passing of Kobe Bran.
That was for people who didn't know Kobe personally. That
was for the people who didn't really know the family personally.
Thus for the fans to emote and grieve over the
loss of a great laker. That was that. That wasn't
the private ceremony for the family. And I know this service,
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I guess was open to the public. It was a
Catholic church. It's not like you going to turn people away.
But me personally, I know I can't be the only
one who would feel kind of out of place and uncomfortable,
like maybe I'm treading in an area where I shouldn't
be for a funeral, and there about maybe I'm guessing
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one hundred to one hundred and fifty people there. It
was an intimate setting. It was a true Catholic service,
if you're familiar with it. It wasn't like you had
five or six members of the Dodgers up there given remarks.
It wasn't a TV spectacle type event. It was just
a legitimate funeral in the way that we think of
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funerals for family members. And I know sometimes you feel
like you know these sports figures. I know you feel like,
oh my gosh, you know. And I think about for
Daniel Valenzuela, he takes me back to my childhood, nothing
but great memories seeing him pitch, I think on more
than one occasion. But I didn't know that man. I
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didn't know his son, I didn't know anyone of his family.
And for me, and maybe I'm just uptight, I admit
that I have rules, I have standards, I have boundaries.
I'm aware of myself in that regard. It just seems
like the wrong place for a fan to be. It
just seems like I would want to go in there
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because I would never want to tread on a family's
grieving process where you have sons, daughters, now widowed wife
and they're dealing with the grief of loss of a husband, father, brother,
and there you are in the back. You can see
the video. You can see the fans in there wearing
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their Fernando Valezuela jerseys, paying their last respects. I don't
know if they were interacting with the family, I would
feel really uncomfortable. I would feel really out of place.
I'd feel like, you know what, this is not meant
for me. This is not about me as a fan
and someone who just happens to like the Dodgers. This
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is about a family who is grieving. And if you've
never lost someone close to you, you may not know
what that process is like. You may not know the
guttural feeling, the emotions that you're dealing with the rawness
of someone. If you've like Tuala, you know this and Mark,
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we're all in the ne no Father's club. When you don't,
regardless of your relationship to that individual, there's an absence
that it's sometimes very difficult to address, and I don't
know if I would be able to do it in
a public sense. With just people who really had no
connection direct connection to me or my father. Yeah, that's
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just it's tasteless.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And I understand that from what I've read, there are
fans who felt that they were in mourning two and
one to join.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
In the family.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But as a fan, you should know that your time
to mourn and celebrate with other fans that are mourning
is at a public acknowledgement of his passing. You don't
show up to the private family and friend funeral services
of somebody who you only know from watching play a game.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You can't do that an actual church. It's not like
a you know, a rec center or a place where
you can come and like a repass where come and
tell stories. Not gonna it wasn't that type of thing.
I just it's the whole idea of fandom amazes me
and sometimes repulses me because I think of because one
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of the people part of the reason I'm talking about this,
one of the speakers of the funeral, and he was
breaking down, was Fernando's son and he was eulogizing his father.
I know that's like firsthand, that's not the time for
people who really have no connection to be there. Now,
I know, like with my father's funeral, he had former students,
people that I didn't know personally, but they had a
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connection to him. It would just be there are certain
places I just don't go, you know. I And I'm
a fan of a lot of people. A lot in
this business. You meet people that you wouldn't normally meet.
You get some sort of access to people that you
normally don't get access to. But there's usually a pretty
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solid line that you don't cross when you Oh, I forgot.
This is the point I want to make. Remember when
you have someone will pass well, you know, and there'll
be a celebrity they'll say the family requests privacy at
this time. It's because of stuff just like this. The
family requests privacy at this time because grieving is a
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private process. It's later with Moke Kelly ca if I
am six forty, we are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And you know what, I sometimes I hate reminding myself
that I'm a little bit older than I want to admit.
And I'm a huge USC football fan. You know that
if you listen to me, you know that I'm a
huge USC football fan. Even though they still suck. I'm
still a fan the program. The team sucks. Two things
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can be true. I'm a fan and they suck. I
was a fan back when Matt Liner was the Heisman
Trophy winner and USC was really really good winning national
champions you know, taking impermissible benefits with Reggie Bush getting
Heisman trophies, stripped away all that kind of stuff. And
I remember that now Matt Leiner as a kid who's
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playing football in college coming up next year, and I
realized that's not supposed to happen. Matt Leiner has a
quarterback son who's going to SMU. We'll talk about that
next and how unfortunate it is. And Mark Ronner will
never be able to know the joy of sports fandom
because he does not care about sports.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Now, I completely relate to what you just said because
I'm a Star Trek fan, but I think Discovery sucks.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh you're wrong about that though. Okay, let's go to
the News six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (08:52):
Forty KFI Later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. And I was saying last segment, I
love the USC Trojans. I'm broken up at how bad
they are this season. It's the first season in the
Big Ten. I knew that they were going to struggle
because of the strength of schedule, but I just didn't
know that they were going to be this bad. They
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just benched their quarterback, Miller Moss. They're four and five,
They have no chance at having any real meaningful Bowl
game appearance. It's just all bad. And they've been thoroughly
mediocre for a number of years now and across different coaches.
But I saw this story and it just wanted to
remind me of how quickly the years go by. And
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also I wonder what it would be like to be
the son of someone who's a famous athlete, Matt Liiner.
Just in case you don't remember how good he was
at USC, he was a three time All American from
two thousand and one to two thousand and five. He
had a record of thirty seven and two across three
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seasons as a starter for USC, and two of those
three seasons won national titles. In two thousand and three
two thousand and four, Matt Leinert set sixteen program records
and became the Trojans' sixth Heisman Trophy winner back in
two thousand and four, twenty years ago. He played six
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years in the NFL. Had an underwhelming NFL career. Not
trying to cast dispersions, but just you know, telling it
like it is. He played with the Arizona Cardinals, Houston Texans,
Oakland Raiders. I remember when he was at USC. I
thought he was going to be a big, big deal
in the NFL. Think about that as your legacy, think
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about that as you're passing it on to your son.
And I talk about this within the context of obviously
Lebron James and Lebron James Junior. We talked about how
Lebron James was trying to open a door for his son,
Bronni James. It hasn't worked out well for Bronnie James.
If you've been paying attention, he can't get off the bench,
and they're probably going to send him down to the
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G League, which is the NBA minor leagues. He's just
not good enough. We talked about it, and I said,
going back to Bronnie James, there must be all this
pressure on his shoulders because dad is an NBA legend
and you carry the name, and he's opened doors for you,
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So it's probably even more difficult for Bronnie James to
make his mark. And I think about that when I
read that. Matt Leinert, who is not necessarily a football
star on the level of Lebron James as a basketball star,
but I read you his resume really really big deal
when it comes to college football. And his son, Cole Liner,
is going to be in college. He has one more
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year in high school. He's a junior in high school.
He's at Redondo Union, which is one of my high
school rivals. I went to South Torrence High School. Redondo
Union has always been one of our big rivals. But
he's going to be going to SMU, and I when
I saw that, I said, thank goodness that he's not
going to USC, because that would have been almost unbearable
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when you were going to the school where your father
is a legend, won a Heisman Trophy, two national championships.
In fact, Matt Leinert's son is going in the opposite
direction of what Lebron James junior son is doing because
Lebron James Junior is playing on the team that his
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father's actually playing on. And you had the direct comparison
of Lebron James being great and Lebronni James being I
don't know, like Mark Ronner great, not, you know, just
a little bit lacking in talent. I like using Mark
Ronner as a foil because he hates sports. He knows
nothing about that.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I don't hate sports.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I just did all the unpopular ones where I had
to wear the required thing.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Liz, Oh, okay, let me just ask this. I don't know,
this is a digression. The first time you put on
a singlet, what did you think? They're rather unforgiving? Is
what I thought. I've never wrestled, but I had to
ask this question because I've had to wear a cup
for other sports. Wasn't that really uncomfortable? Sure?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Was?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
What about those ear muff things to protect your ears?
Now you got to have those white else so you
don't want to have like the cauliflower ears. Later on?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I got some of that anyway, really even still, and
it would have been worse without them.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Are they better? Now? Is the equipment better? Excuse me?
The equipment, the ear muff equipment what is it call?
What is it called?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Just headgear? Head gear?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Is it better now? I don't know it's been years
since I put it on. You can still see a
little bump on one of my ears. My cauliflower ear
is mostly gone. But yeah, that stuff's brutal on your
entire body. And the singlet. Uh, nothing like wearing a
singlet and acutely feeling yourself on top or beneath another man.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Can't beat that. Ah. I know that you were probably
trying to enjoy your food, and I know that probably
impacted that, but I wasn't. Okay, well, let me just
ask you that since you broached the topic. Yes, I'm
just going to leave the liner conversation all together because
this is more interesting. Go right ahead, open book. Did
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you ever have an issue with that? What do you
mean and wrestling trying to get past it? It just
seems real intimate. That's the only way I can describe it,
all right, If you really want to know, I do.
I do.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
When you're in the process of a wrestling match, you're
just going all out. You don't notice any of that
stuff because you're trying to beat the other guy and
avoid being beaten, and it's your brain and every muscle
in your body is at one hundred and ten percent. However, However,
let's say the coach wants to use you as a
practice dummy, and you just realize there's this guy lying
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on top of you for a good couple of minutes,
nobody's moving. Really really gets a little awkward and uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean, how do you do you look them in
the eye.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
There's no kissing before or afterwards, but still nobody gets
taken out to dinner.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
But I'm saying it gets real intimate and personal when
you look them in the eye.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Oh, it's it's very awkward, and you must just go
about your business and pretend nothing happened. What was your
wrestling weight? Uh, fearless fifty eight's and the savage sixty eights?
Did you walk around at that weight all the time
or no?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
No, no.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
You had to pee and spit and poop and everything
possible to get yourself down to the weight.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And it didn't dehydrate you. Yes, of course it did.
Uh huh when did you weigh in? How long before
your match were you weighed weigh in? Oh? An hour?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I guess not very long. But you spend the whole
day like wearing a plastic bag, running stairs, spitting into
a cup and here's a secret for you. Use a
like fruit flavored gum spit into a cup. So then
when people come by your desk, they're like, oh, that
smells good.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Can I taste that? Oh, there's something really wrong with you,
really really wrong with you. That's not fun. I'm not
laughing at that's strawberry. Oh gosh, Oh stop, Mark. I
think you'd look terrific in a wrestling singling. No, no, no, no,
Because what were you in high school? One three? I
graduated high school. I weighed one thirty three. I can
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see it on you right now.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
In fact, with the magic of AI, I think we
could generate a picture of it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
What would be my weight class at one thirty three?
I forget and I is that that's got to be
at the bottom range. No, well, it's it's getting close.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
But those are pretty competitive because people are small, wiry, strong. Yeah,
they don't have a lot of fat. Like my easier
matches were at the heavier weights. Weight was tough one
sixty eight. You were in for a little easier, right, Robin.
Could you if you know anything about this stuff? I'd
love to see a fake photo of No in a tight,
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tight wrestling singlet.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
What have you turned on or something? Why would you
want to see that? No, you'll know what I am.
It's okay. I know some people. Hey, hey, you're lucky.
We got to go to break It's the latter With
mo Kelly CAF I AM six forty, we have an
AMC Movie Theater update when we come back. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (17:30):
Forty KFI mo Kelly Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And we often have a conversation about what's it going
to take to get you in a physical movie theater?
What is it that keeps you at home as a
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preference to movie theaters? And I've said, and I may
be wrong, but I've said that this is the beginning
of the end, or like near the middle, heading towards
the end for actual movie theaters. I don't think that
they'll be able to keep up long term with what
we all have at home. We have the big TVs,
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we have the great surround sound system, we have the
great refrigerator, and the toilet that's nearby. We can pause,
we don't have to miss anything. Who wants to deal
with the kids kicking the back of your seat, people
people talking and texting, just being rude. And this almost
goes back to the airline conversations like since the pandemic,
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people don't know how to act in public. You know,
the movie can experience can be very unpleasant. And when
I do go, I'm willing to pay more money for
a more exclusive experience. I don't have to deal with
all those distractions and detractions. AMC Theaters is going to
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lean in and they're going to, as they say, go
on offense and make major upgrades to their movie theaters.
And they admit they're still in a box office recovery.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
What it is going to do exactly is still trying.
It's still kind of hazy because the specifics haven't been divulged,
but the CEO Adam Aaron, hints it that depending on
the pace of these renovations, costs likely would run into
the hundreds of millions. The plan will start in the US,
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but it's expected to reach international markets eventually. This is done,
according to the CEO, because their third quarter projections beat
I should say the third quarter revenues actually beat projections.
So they did a little better than expected, and now
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they're going to use that to improve the movie going experience.
I can't talk in specifics, they haven't given us any specifics.
But is it too little, too late? I don't know,
well put this much. What I do know, if they're
gonna spend all these hundreds of millions to upgrade the theaters,
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that also upgrades the price that's going to be passed
along to you as the consumer. And if you thought
movie prices were ridiculous, now at let's say eighteen nineteen
dollars per ticket, and I'm not talking about IMAX. What
is that now, twill er maybe twenty five thirty dollars? Yeah, yeah, okay,
out right right, So it's gonna be even more than that.
I don't know if you can make a movie theater
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good enough to make me not stay at home when
I know, when we talk about movies, we know that
the movie is not going to be in theaters longer
than two or three weeks before it's available on streaming,
even if you have to pay twenty nine dollars or
whatever it is to buy air quotes the movie when
it first hits streaming, a lot of these movies, i'd
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rather wait for them to just go out and hit streaming.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Well, I see for reading this report or AMC is
banking on the success of films like Dead Pulling Wolverine.
After having seen a lot of the rollout for the
twenty twenty five film season, they're confident that they have
some films that people are gonna want to come to
the theater to see on the big screen. And when
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you look at some of the early investments from new
seats that are already being put in some of their
highest grossing locations, including Bourbank, the Burbank AMC which we
often additional leg room is being added to these sectionsane
a no additional.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Leg room, you need it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
They have a new auditorium format called AMCXL, which features
expanded screen sizes. All of these things to try to
at least make the movie going experience for those who
want to see these larger than life films in any
theater you walk into. It can't be oh, I'm going
to this, you know record two D screen and no,
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you're not gonna enjoy the same. Every screen has to
be excellent, Every seed has to be a good seed,
and that's what they're doing. This is four This is
four young people who will come out and spend big
money for a weekend of going to see a movie
dead Pull Woverine. They're hoping that every film comes out
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next year is a dead Pool Woverine, which is not realistic.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
And also those movies are seasonal. You still have to
somehow get a movie theater business through months like November
where there's nothing really coming out, or December you have
the Christmas movies and that's about it, and you have
to wait through January, February, March before you even start
seeing those movies that everyone's kind of interested in.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Now, from my understanding, with a lot of the upgrades
that AMC is bringing to their theaters, like expanding their
bar offerings and their liquor offerings and things like that,
they're looking at have a series of adult attractions, you know,
sporting events like boxing matches, football game, sex parties that well, no,
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I mean the seastone reclined that far back. They don't
need to depends on the angle.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Okay, you're trying to get more business. I'm just trying
to throw out some suggestions. Not pee wee herman, rest
in peace.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I mean, we already didn't want to touch anything in
one of those places. And by the way, twelve you
said they were somebody was doing a larger screen thing.
These people not understand that the human field division doesn't
really change.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And it gets a little bit more difficult to process
all that eight K screenage when you're over the age
of forty yell at a certain point, none of that matters. Well, yes,
for old fogies like us, yes, but we are the
ones who have to pay the money because the kids
with the disposable income. I don't know if they're going
to be paying twenty five to thirty for just a regular,
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you know, regular ticket, because they're already paying twenty five
thirty for IMAX. Now, presumably this is going to be
costing more than that.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Well, I don't know if it's going to cost more
than that, because when you look at the numbers, they're
saying that they're just trying to make the movie going
experience equal across the board, for all screens, seats, equal sound,
equal everything, equal food offerings, because.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Are these deimovie theaters? No, come on, that was funny.
That was funny. Robin isn't paying attention, so it's totally
checked out.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
But I mean, there's a long history of theaters trying
gimmicks to get you into the theater, Like what's that
thing where somebody stands near you and spits on you
and blows a hair dryer forty Yeah. Yeah, nobody cares
about that. Nobody cares about three D. They're all BS
gimmicks instead of just good movies that get you into
the theater and that have production values that are noticeably
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better than what you get on television.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That's that's what you need, right But AMC.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
If looking at this report, not just this one that's
coming out of there was one that came out a
couple weeks ago. They talked about how AMC is looking
at theaters like Alamo Draft House and how successful they
are as an independent theater chain with their offerings. Their
bar is fully stocked. They have more than just movies there.
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They'll have football screenings, boxing matches and.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Not running the mail.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
But they have some really really high profile things where
a bunch of people say, Hey, instead of me paying
all this money to rent say this Tyson YouTuber fight,
let's all go to an AMC, get some drinks, watch
the fight on the big expanded screen. That's what they're
banking on doing more things like that.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
But there's a company called Cosm which is already trying
to go into that market where you have these super
stadium size almost like a half sphere, where you can
watch these events in. It's immersive, so you feel like
you're in the actual event, be it a movie, be
it a sporting event. That's where all this is going,
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because it has to be offering something more than what
we have at home. Yeah, and the only way they
can sit and watch Avatar in a bathtub. I wouldn't
watch Avatar anywhere under any circumstances. Why you're an Avatar truther? No,
I just look, I did see it. I thought it
was boring, And I don't believe that people saw that
movie three and four times to somehow justify the two
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billion dollars that had made.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
I'd watch Jaws in a swimming pool. I've heard people
doing that. Well, like floaties and everything, sitting on the raft. Yes, floaties.
The technical term is floaties. Are you mocking me?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Never?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I would never do that. I respect you far too
much to do that. Yeah, that's sarcasting.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Twala. You mentioned the YouTuber. I assume you're talking about
Jake Paul Yes and Mike Tyson. They're going to be
fighting on November fifteenth. They dropped a trailer today in
promotion of the fight. It's not very good, and I
wonder if anyone is actually going to see it. You
don't have to pay for it. I think it's part
of your Netflix subscription. Really yeah, I hope so, because
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I'm not paying for it. It's on the fifteenth. We'll
talk about it next.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
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Speaker 2 (27:26):
Kelly Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Big time boxing fan,
you know, as far as sports go, I grew up
a fan of boxing. I love fight Night. I love
the big fights starting with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes.
And I grew to be a Sugar Ray Leonard fan
back what they had. And I know Mark remembers this
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closed circuit TV. Oh, yeah, this is before pay per view.
It was just a few venues where you could see
a closed circuit TV event.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
That seems prehistoric now, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Oh, it pretty much is prehistoric, but you know it
was the forerunner of modern day pay per views and
now with streaming streaming has its own special live events.
I told you how I could foresee how Netflix was
getting into the sporting business and live event business, and
they're going deeper and deeper into that. Coming up on
November fifteenth, you have this latest boxing exhibition circus event
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between Iron Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Mike Tyson is
fifty eight years old. Jake Paul, I think is twenty six.
Mike Tyson when he was thirty six years old was
not routinely getting knocked out, but he was. He really
had no business being in the ring. That was twenty
two years ago. Mike Tyson is in great shape right now,
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do not get me wrong, But he's going to be
in the ring with someone who's thirty two years his junior.
You know, it's almost like watching Rocky three where they
said we're going to have to put him away early.
The only way Mike Tyson, and I know people like
mo you must be tripping. The only way Mike Tyson
wins this fight is if he puts away Jake Paul
in one or two rounds. You think, yeah, because outside
(29:08):
of that, he's gonna run out of gas. I know.
The punch is the last thing to go. But age
is age. Age is age and listening to this trailer
which dropped today for this fight, Thank goodness, I don't
have to pay for it, at least I don't think
I do. I think it's just part of my subscription.
It does not make me want to see it. It's
(29:29):
almost like it's it's laughing at itself, the ridiculous presentation
and promotion. You have to see it to just believe it.
But this is what it sounds like.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Everyone has a plane, this is ludicrous until they get
punched in the mouth. Yo.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Listen, Yeah, kid is in a jungle.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Night. There has never been a knight, There's been a
le This is no ordinary fight.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
This is Jake el Gayo, Paul, who's doing more than
me on the face of this sport with this rutor.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Versus Mike Tyson, the baddest man on the planet.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Thirty years ago, nobody could get close to me. I'm
the best fight in the world.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
This is the fight the world's been waiting for.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
What's not true? What happens next? Only one way to know.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Paul versus Tyson Friday, November fifteenth, live on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
So I'll watch it. I mean I'll be in DC,
but I'll watch it.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I know Ludacris got paid for that, I understand, but
he should have revised that script. You don't call this
fire the biggest ever. Do you know how many huge
fights there have been in the history of boxing.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
It's not this one. It's not even the biggest fight
for Mike Tyson this century. Yeah, this decade. I mean
when you fought Roy Jones Junior that was bigger than this,
that was actually a boxer and a boxer.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, you're not about to suggest to people that boxing
promotion is filled with hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
No, I get that they're trying to sell the fight
don King. Don King was much better, and he actually
had legitimate fighters to work with most of the time,
and he stopped the man to death. He did, and
I met him once. That man exudes evil and I've
never said that about anyone really. Yes, Don King is
(31:49):
a scary man. What does the heat miser hairdo? No,
he's a big man. I want to see it's like
six five sixty six. Oh, I had no idea. He's
a very, very big man. And it's just it's one
of those things where like, yeah, he shot a dude. Yeah,
I get absolutely believe it where it's almost like he's
polite to a point until it's time for you to die,
(32:09):
and then you realize like, oh, this is how he
ripped off a lot of people because he's he's a
he was a mobster. I think he's like ninety four. Yeah.
Oh that was the only person who I met and
all of my time in the entertainment where it was
like even Sugar Knight, I didn't get the same feeling.
Don King. Yeah, I know he has some bodies on
(32:32):
his record, yes, yeah, wow, no doubt. But I'm gonna
watch the fight. I'm gonna watch the fight me too.
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Mo Kelly WeLive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And it's
been I would say a turbulent time as a Dodger
fan over the moon, that they won the World Series
over the moon. But still that was against the backdrop
of Fernando Valezuela dying. Now you can say it was
(00:27):
I would say a sweet response as far as you know,
the cosmic alignment where you have Fernando who left the team,
the broadcast team during the playoffs, never to return, and
it would be a fitting tribute given he died right
before the World Series. If the Dodgers were to win,
it was a storybook ending. But still you had to
(00:50):
deal with the weight of his passing. Now that the
parade is over, now that the celebration is over. Today
was the funeral, and I want to be specific, the
Catholic funeral for Fernando Valenzuela, meaning it wasn't some public
event like they had for Kobe where people would come
(01:11):
in and the stars would come in. Now, this was
about the family. This is about his son who offered remarks.
This was about the people who actually knew him. And
this is something which really bothers me. And I'm not
saying this for effect. I'm saying it to be honest.
This is something that really bothers me about fandom, and
I see this as a true and blue Dodger fan.
(01:36):
When I was watching some of the funeral, I didn't
watch all of it, but you can find it online YouTube.
A lot of outlets streamed it and I saw random
fans there with jerseys on. It made me feel real
uncomfortable because all of us remember the public service that
(01:57):
was held at Staple Center for the passing of Kobe Bran.
That was for people who didn't know Kobe personally. That
was for the people who didn't really know the family personally.
Thus for the fans to emote and grieve over the
loss of a great laker. That was that. That wasn't
the private ceremony for the family. And I know this service,
(02:22):
I guess was open to the public. It was a
Catholic church. It's not like you going to turn people away.
But me personally, I know I can't be the only
one who would feel kind of out of place and uncomfortable,
like maybe I'm treading in an area where I shouldn't
be for a funeral, and there about maybe I'm guessing
(02:46):
one hundred to one hundred and fifty people there. It
was an intimate setting. It was a true Catholic service,
if you're familiar with it. It wasn't like you had
five or six members of the Dodgers up there given remarks.
It wasn't a TV spectacle type event. It was just
a legitimate funeral in the way that we think of
(03:09):
funerals for family members. And I know sometimes you feel
like you know these sports figures. I know you feel like,
oh my gosh, you know. And I think about for
Daniel Valenzuela, he takes me back to my childhood, nothing
but great memories seeing him pitch, I think on more
than one occasion. But I didn't know that man. I
(03:30):
didn't know his son, I didn't know anyone of his family.
And for me, and maybe I'm just uptight, I admit
that I have rules, I have standards, I have boundaries.
I'm aware of myself in that regard. It just seems
like the wrong place for a fan to be. It
just seems like I would want to go in there
(03:51):
because I would never want to tread on a family's
grieving process where you have sons, daughters, now widowed wife
and they're dealing with the grief of loss of a husband, father, brother,
and there you are in the back. You can see
the video. You can see the fans in there wearing
(04:13):
their Fernando Valezuela jerseys, paying their last respects. I don't
know if they were interacting with the family, I would
feel really uncomfortable. I would feel really out of place.
I'd feel like, you know what, this is not meant
for me. This is not about me as a fan
and someone who just happens to like the Dodgers. This
(04:35):
is about a family who is grieving. And if you've
never lost someone close to you, you may not know
what that process is like. You may not know the
guttural feeling, the emotions that you're dealing with the rawness
of someone. If you've like Tuala, you know this and Mark,
(04:59):
we're all in the ne no Father's club. When you don't,
regardless of your relationship to that individual, there's an absence
that it's sometimes very difficult to address, and I don't
know if I would be able to do it in
a public sense. With just people who really had no
connection direct connection to me or my father. Yeah, that's
(05:23):
just it's tasteless.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And I understand that from what I've read, there are
fans who felt that they were in mourning two and
one to join.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
In the family.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But as a fan, you should know that your time
to mourn and celebrate with other fans that are mourning
is at a public acknowledgement of his passing. You don't
show up to the private family and friend funeral services
of somebody who you only know from watching play a game.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You can't do that an actual church. It's not like
a you know, a rec center or a place where
you can come and like a repass where come and
tell stories. Not gonna it wasn't that type of thing.
I just it's the whole idea of fandom amazes me
and sometimes repulses me because I think of because one
(06:22):
of the people part of the reason I'm talking about this,
one of the speakers of the funeral, and he was
breaking down, was Fernando's son and he was eulogizing his father.
I know that's like firsthand, that's not the time for
people who really have no connection to be there. Now,
I know, like with my father's funeral, he had former students,
people that I didn't know personally, but they had a
(06:45):
connection to him. It would just be there are certain
places I just don't go, you know. I And I'm
a fan of a lot of people. A lot in
this business. You meet people that you wouldn't normally meet.
You get some sort of access to people that you
normally don't get access to. But there's usually a pretty
(07:06):
solid line that you don't cross when you Oh, I forgot.
This is the point I want to make. Remember when
you have someone will pass well, you know, and there'll
be a celebrity they'll say the family requests privacy at
this time. It's because of stuff just like this. The
family requests privacy at this time because grieving is a
(07:31):
private process. It's later with Moke Kelly ca if I
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And you know what, I sometimes I hate reminding myself
that I'm a little bit older than I want to admit.
And I'm a huge USC football fan. You know that
if you listen to me, you know that I'm a
huge USC football fan. Even though they still suck. I'm
still a fan the program. The team sucks. Two things
(07:54):
can be true. I'm a fan and they suck. I
was a fan back when Matt Liner was the Heisman
Trophy winner and USC was really really good winning national
champions you know, taking impermissible benefits with Reggie Bush getting
Heisman trophies, stripped away all that kind of stuff. And
I remember that now Matt Leiner as a kid who's
(08:18):
playing football in college coming up next year, and I
realized that's not supposed to happen. Matt Leiner has a
quarterback son who's going to SMU. We'll talk about that
next and how unfortunate it is. And Mark Ronner will
never be able to know the joy of sports fandom
because he does not care about sports.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Now, I completely relate to what you just said because
I'm a Star Trek fan, but I think Discovery sucks.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh you're wrong about that though. Okay, let's go to
the News six forty.
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Forty KFI Later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. And I was saying last segment, I
love the USC Trojans. I'm broken up at how bad
they are this season. It's the first season in the
Big Ten. I knew that they were going to struggle
because of the strength of schedule, but I just didn't
know that they were going to be this bad. They
(09:13):
just benched their quarterback, Miller Moss. They're four and five,
They have no chance at having any real meaningful Bowl
game appearance. It's just all bad. And they've been thoroughly
mediocre for a number of years now and across different coaches.
But I saw this story and it just wanted to
remind me of how quickly the years go by. And
(09:36):
also I wonder what it would be like to be
the son of someone who's a famous athlete, Matt Liiner.
Just in case you don't remember how good he was
at USC, he was a three time All American from
two thousand and one to two thousand and five. He
had a record of thirty seven and two across three
(10:01):
seasons as a starter for USC, and two of those
three seasons won national titles. In two thousand and three
two thousand and four, Matt Leinert set sixteen program records
and became the Trojans' sixth Heisman Trophy winner back in
two thousand and four, twenty years ago. He played six
(10:23):
years in the NFL. Had an underwhelming NFL career. Not
trying to cast dispersions, but just you know, telling it
like it is. He played with the Arizona Cardinals, Houston Texans,
Oakland Raiders. I remember when he was at USC. I
thought he was going to be a big, big deal
in the NFL. Think about that as your legacy, think
(10:45):
about that as you're passing it on to your son.
And I talk about this within the context of obviously
Lebron James and Lebron James Junior. We talked about how
Lebron James was trying to open a door for his son,
Bronni James. It hasn't worked out well for Bronnie James.
If you've been paying attention, he can't get off the bench,
and they're probably going to send him down to the
(11:05):
G League, which is the NBA minor leagues. He's just
not good enough. We talked about it, and I said,
going back to Bronnie James, there must be all this
pressure on his shoulders because dad is an NBA legend
and you carry the name, and he's opened doors for you,
(11:26):
So it's probably even more difficult for Bronnie James to
make his mark. And I think about that when I
read that. Matt Leinert, who is not necessarily a football
star on the level of Lebron James as a basketball star,
but I read you his resume really really big deal
when it comes to college football. And his son, Cole Liner,
is going to be in college. He has one more
(11:48):
year in high school. He's a junior in high school.
He's at Redondo Union, which is one of my high
school rivals. I went to South Torrence High School. Redondo
Union has always been one of our big rivals. But
he's going to be going to SMU, and I when
I saw that, I said, thank goodness that he's not
going to USC, because that would have been almost unbearable
(12:11):
when you were going to the school where your father
is a legend, won a Heisman Trophy, two national championships.
In fact, Matt Leinert's son is going in the opposite
direction of what Lebron James junior son is doing because
Lebron James Junior is playing on the team that his
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father's actually playing on. And you had the direct comparison
of Lebron James being great and Lebronni James being I
don't know, like Mark Ronner great, not, you know, just
a little bit lacking in talent. I like using Mark
Ronner as a foil because he hates sports. He knows
nothing about that.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I don't hate sports.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I just did all the unpopular ones where I had
to wear the required thing.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Liz, Oh, okay, let me just ask this. I don't know,
this is a digression. The first time you put on
a singlet, what did you think? They're rather unforgiving? Is
what I thought. I've never wrestled, but I had to
ask this question because I've had to wear a cup
for other sports. Wasn't that really uncomfortable? Sure?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Was?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
What about those ear muff things to protect your ears?
Now you got to have those white else so you
don't want to have like the cauliflower ears. Later on?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I got some of that anyway, really even still, and
it would have been worse without them.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Are they better? Now? Is the equipment better? Excuse me?
The equipment, the ear muff equipment what is it call?
What is it called?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Just headgear? Head gear?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Is it better now? I don't know it's been years
since I put it on. You can still see a
little bump on one of my ears. My cauliflower ear
is mostly gone. But yeah, that stuff's brutal on your
entire body. And the singlet. Uh, nothing like wearing a
singlet and acutely feeling yourself on top or beneath another man.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Can't beat that. Ah. I know that you were probably
trying to enjoy your food, and I know that probably
impacted that, but I wasn't. Okay, well, let me just
ask you that since you broached the topic. Yes, I'm
just going to leave the liner conversation all together because
this is more interesting. Go right ahead, open book. Did
(14:19):
you ever have an issue with that? What do you
mean and wrestling trying to get past it? It just
seems real intimate. That's the only way I can describe it,
all right, If you really want to know, I do.
I do.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
When you're in the process of a wrestling match, you're
just going all out. You don't notice any of that
stuff because you're trying to beat the other guy and
avoid being beaten, and it's your brain and every muscle
in your body is at one hundred and ten percent. However, However,
let's say the coach wants to use you as a
practice dummy, and you just realize there's this guy lying
(14:56):
on top of you for a good couple of minutes,
nobody's moving. Really really gets a little awkward and uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean, how do you do you look them in
the eye.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
There's no kissing before or afterwards, but still nobody gets
taken out to dinner.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
But I'm saying it gets real intimate and personal when
you look them in the eye.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Oh, it's it's very awkward, and you must just go
about your business and pretend nothing happened. What was your
wrestling weight? Uh, fearless fifty eight's and the savage sixty eights?
Did you walk around at that weight all the time
or no?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
No, no.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
You had to pee and spit and poop and everything
possible to get yourself down to the weight.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And it didn't dehydrate you. Yes, of course it did.
Uh huh when did you weigh in? How long before
your match were you weighed weigh in? Oh? An hour?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I guess not very long. But you spend the whole
day like wearing a plastic bag, running stairs, spitting into
a cup and here's a secret for you. Use a
like fruit flavored gum spit into a cup. So then
when people come by your desk, they're like, oh, that
smells good.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Can I taste that? Oh, there's something really wrong with you,
really really wrong with you. That's not fun. I'm not
laughing at that's strawberry. Oh gosh, Oh stop, Mark. I
think you'd look terrific in a wrestling singling. No, no, no, no,
Because what were you in high school? One three? I
graduated high school. I weighed one thirty three. I can
(16:29):
see it on you right now.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
In fact, with the magic of AI, I think we
could generate a picture of it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
What would be my weight class at one thirty three?
I forget and I is that that's got to be
at the bottom range. No, well, it's it's getting close.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
But those are pretty competitive because people are small, wiry, strong. Yeah,
they don't have a lot of fat. Like my easier
matches were at the heavier weights. Weight was tough one
sixty eight. You were in for a little easier, right, Robin.
Could you if you know anything about this stuff? I'd
love to see a fake photo of No in a tight,
(17:07):
tight wrestling singlet.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
What have you turned on or something? Why would you
want to see that? No, you'll know what I am.
It's okay. I know some people. Hey, hey, you're lucky.
We got to go to break It's the latter With
mo Kelly CAF I AM six forty, we have an
AMC Movie Theater update when we come back. We're live
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And we often have a conversation about what's it going
to take to get you in a physical movie theater?
What is it that keeps you at home as a
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preference to movie theaters? And I've said, and I may
be wrong, but I've said that this is the beginning
of the end, or like near the middle, heading towards
the end for actual movie theaters. I don't think that
they'll be able to keep up long term with what
we all have at home. We have the big TVs,
(18:12):
we have the great surround sound system, we have the
great refrigerator, and the toilet that's nearby. We can pause,
we don't have to miss anything. Who wants to deal
with the kids kicking the back of your seat, people
people talking and texting, just being rude. And this almost
goes back to the airline conversations like since the pandemic,
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people don't know how to act in public. You know,
the movie can experience can be very unpleasant. And when
I do go, I'm willing to pay more money for
a more exclusive experience. I don't have to deal with
all those distractions and detractions. AMC Theaters is going to
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lean in and they're going to, as they say, go
on offense and make major upgrades to their movie theaters.
And they admit they're still in a box office recovery.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
What it is going to do exactly is still trying.
It's still kind of hazy because the specifics haven't been divulged,
but the CEO Adam Aaron, hints it that depending on
the pace of these renovations, costs likely would run into
the hundreds of millions. The plan will start in the US,
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but it's expected to reach international markets eventually. This is done,
according to the CEO, because their third quarter projections beat
I should say the third quarter revenues actually beat projections.
So they did a little better than expected, and now
(19:49):
they're going to use that to improve the movie going experience.
I can't talk in specifics, they haven't given us any specifics.
But is it too little, too late? I don't know,
well put this much. What I do know, if they're
gonna spend all these hundreds of millions to upgrade the theaters,
(20:09):
that also upgrades the price that's going to be passed
along to you as the consumer. And if you thought
movie prices were ridiculous, now at let's say eighteen nineteen
dollars per ticket, and I'm not talking about IMAX. What
is that now, twill er maybe twenty five thirty dollars? Yeah, yeah, okay,
out right right, So it's gonna be even more than that.
I don't know if you can make a movie theater
(20:34):
good enough to make me not stay at home when
I know, when we talk about movies, we know that
the movie is not going to be in theaters longer
than two or three weeks before it's available on streaming,
even if you have to pay twenty nine dollars or
whatever it is to buy air quotes the movie when
it first hits streaming, a lot of these movies, i'd
(20:54):
rather wait for them to just go out and hit streaming.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Well, I see for reading this report or AMC is
banking on the success of films like Dead Pulling Wolverine.
After having seen a lot of the rollout for the
twenty twenty five film season, they're confident that they have
some films that people are gonna want to come to
the theater to see on the big screen. And when
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you look at some of the early investments from new
seats that are already being put in some of their
highest grossing locations, including Bourbank, the Burbank AMC which we
often additional leg room is being added to these sectionsane
a no additional.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Leg room, you need it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
They have a new auditorium format called AMCXL, which features
expanded screen sizes. All of these things to try to
at least make the movie going experience for those who
want to see these larger than life films in any
theater you walk into. It can't be oh, I'm going
to this, you know record two D screen and no,
(22:01):
you're not gonna enjoy the same. Every screen has to
be excellent, Every seed has to be a good seed,
and that's what they're doing. This is four This is
four young people who will come out and spend big
money for a weekend of going to see a movie
dead Pull Woverine. They're hoping that every film comes out
(22:21):
next year is a dead Pool Woverine, which is not realistic.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
And also those movies are seasonal. You still have to
somehow get a movie theater business through months like November
where there's nothing really coming out, or December you have
the Christmas movies and that's about it, and you have
to wait through January, February, March before you even start
seeing those movies that everyone's kind of interested in.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Now, from my understanding, with a lot of the upgrades
that AMC is bringing to their theaters, like expanding their
bar offerings and their liquor offerings and things like that,
they're looking at have a series of adult attractions, you know,
sporting events like boxing matches, football game, sex parties that well, no,
(23:10):
I mean the seastone reclined that far back. They don't
need to depends on the angle.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Okay, you're trying to get more business. I'm just trying
to throw out some suggestions. Not pee wee herman, rest
in peace.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I mean, we already didn't want to touch anything in
one of those places. And by the way, twelve you
said they were somebody was doing a larger screen thing.
These people not understand that the human field division doesn't
really change.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And it gets a little bit more difficult to process
all that eight K screenage when you're over the age
of forty yell at a certain point, none of that matters. Well, yes,
for old fogies like us, yes, but we are the
ones who have to pay the money because the kids
with the disposable income. I don't know if they're going
to be paying twenty five to thirty for just a regular,
(24:01):
you know, regular ticket, because they're already paying twenty five
thirty for IMAX. Now, presumably this is going to be
costing more than that.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Well, I don't know if it's going to cost more
than that, because when you look at the numbers, they're
saying that they're just trying to make the movie going
experience equal across the board, for all screens, seats, equal sound,
equal everything, equal food offerings, because.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Are these deimovie theaters? No, come on, that was funny.
That was funny. Robin isn't paying attention, so it's totally
checked out.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
But I mean, there's a long history of theaters trying
gimmicks to get you into the theater, Like what's that
thing where somebody stands near you and spits on you
and blows a hair dryer forty Yeah. Yeah, nobody cares
about that. Nobody cares about three D. They're all BS
gimmicks instead of just good movies that get you into
the theater and that have production values that are noticeably
(24:57):
better than what you get on television.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That's that's what you need, right But AMC.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
If looking at this report, not just this one that's
coming out of there was one that came out a
couple weeks ago. They talked about how AMC is looking
at theaters like Alamo Draft House and how successful they
are as an independent theater chain with their offerings. Their
bar is fully stocked. They have more than just movies there.
(25:23):
They'll have football screenings, boxing matches and.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Not running the mail.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
But they have some really really high profile things where
a bunch of people say, Hey, instead of me paying
all this money to rent say this Tyson YouTuber fight,
let's all go to an AMC, get some drinks, watch
the fight on the big expanded screen. That's what they're
banking on doing more things like that.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
But there's a company called Cosm which is already trying
to go into that market where you have these super
stadium size almost like a half sphere, where you can
watch these events in. It's immersive, so you feel like
you're in the actual event, be it a movie, be
it a sporting event. That's where all this is going,
(26:07):
because it has to be offering something more than what
we have at home. Yeah, and the only way they
can sit and watch Avatar in a bathtub. I wouldn't
watch Avatar anywhere under any circumstances. Why you're an Avatar truther? No,
I just look, I did see it. I thought it
was boring, And I don't believe that people saw that
movie three and four times to somehow justify the two
(26:31):
billion dollars that had made.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
I'd watch Jaws in a swimming pool. I've heard people
doing that. Well, like floaties and everything, sitting on the raft. Yes, floaties.
The technical term is floaties. Are you mocking me?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Never?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I would never do that. I respect you far too
much to do that. Yeah, that's sarcasting.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Twala. You mentioned the YouTuber. I assume you're talking about
Jake Paul Yes and Mike Tyson. They're going to be
fighting on November fifteenth. They dropped a trailer today in
promotion of the fight. It's not very good, and I
wonder if anyone is actually going to see it. You
don't have to pay for it. I think it's part
of your Netflix subscription. Really yeah, I hope so, because
(27:11):
I'm not paying for it. It's on the fifteenth. We'll
talk about it next.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (27:26):
Kelly Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Big time boxing fan,
you know, as far as sports go, I grew up
a fan of boxing. I love fight Night. I love
the big fights starting with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes.
And I grew to be a Sugar Ray Leonard fan
back what they had. And I know Mark remembers this
(27:47):
closed circuit TV. Oh, yeah, this is before pay per view.
It was just a few venues where you could see
a closed circuit TV event.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
That seems prehistoric now, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Oh, it pretty much is prehistoric, but you know it
was the forerunner of modern day pay per views and
now with streaming streaming has its own special live events.
I told you how I could foresee how Netflix was
getting into the sporting business and live event business, and
they're going deeper and deeper into that. Coming up on
November fifteenth, you have this latest boxing exhibition circus event
(28:25):
between Iron Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Mike Tyson is
fifty eight years old. Jake Paul, I think is twenty six.
Mike Tyson when he was thirty six years old was
not routinely getting knocked out, but he was. He really
had no business being in the ring. That was twenty
two years ago. Mike Tyson is in great shape right now,
(28:46):
do not get me wrong, But he's going to be
in the ring with someone who's thirty two years his junior.
You know, it's almost like watching Rocky three where they
said we're going to have to put him away early.
The only way Mike Tyson, and I know people like
mo you must be tripping. The only way Mike Tyson
wins this fight is if he puts away Jake Paul
in one or two rounds. You think, yeah, because outside
(29:08):
of that, he's gonna run out of gas. I know.
The punch is the last thing to go. But age
is age. Age is age and listening to this trailer
which dropped today for this fight, Thank goodness, I don't
have to pay for it, at least I don't think
I do. I think it's just part of my subscription.
It does not make me want to see it. It's
(29:29):
almost like it's it's laughing at itself, the ridiculous presentation
and promotion. You have to see it to just believe it.
But this is what it sounds like.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Everyone has a plane, this is ludicrous until they get
punched in the mouth. Yo.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Listen, Yeah, kid is in a jungle.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Night. There has never been a knight, There's been a
le This is no ordinary fight.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
This is Jake el Gayo, Paul, who's doing more than
me on the face of this sport with this rutor.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Versus Mike Tyson, the baddest man on the planet.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Thirty years ago, nobody could get close to me. I'm
the best fight in the world.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
This is the fight the world's been waiting for.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
What's not true? What happens next? Only one way to know.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Paul versus Tyson Friday, November fifteenth, live on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
So I'll watch it. I mean I'll be in DC,
but I'll watch it.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I know Ludacris got paid for that, I understand, but
he should have revised that script. You don't call this
fire the biggest ever. Do you know how many huge
fights there have been in the history of boxing.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
It's not this one. It's not even the biggest fight
for Mike Tyson this century. Yeah, this decade. I mean
when you fought Roy Jones Junior that was bigger than this,
that was actually a boxer and a boxer.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, you're not about to suggest to people that boxing
promotion is filled with hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
No, I get that they're trying to sell the fight
don King. Don King was much better, and he actually
had legitimate fighters to work with most of the time,
and he stopped the man to death. He did, and
I met him once. That man exudes evil and I've
never said that about anyone really. Yes, Don King is
(31:49):
a scary man. What does the heat miser hairdo? No,
he's a big man. I want to see it's like
six five sixty six. Oh, I had no idea. He's
a very, very big man. And it's just it's one
of those things where like, yeah, he shot a dude. Yeah,
I get absolutely believe it where it's almost like he's
polite to a point until it's time for you to die,
(32:09):
and then you realize like, oh, this is how he
ripped off a lot of people because he's he's a
he was a mobster. I think he's like ninety four. Yeah.
Oh that was the only person who I met and
all of my time in the entertainment where it was
like even Sugar Knight, I didn't get the same feeling.
Don King. Yeah, I know he has some bodies on
(32:32):
his record, yes, yeah, wow, no doubt. But I'm gonna
watch the fight. I'm gonna watch the fight me too.
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