November 23, 2024 • 37 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – ‘Friday Nights’ with L.A. Radio Legend Nautica De La Cruz checking out the ‘Japanese American National Museum’ AND highlighting today’s ‘Hidden Gem,’ Slyvia Contreras and the ‘Sages & Seekers’ “mission to bring teens (Seekers) and older adults (Sages) together to share their unique gifts through authentic conversation” … PLUS – Mark Rahner has a review of the new ‘Paramount Pictures’ release ‘Gladiator II;’ Director/Producer Ridley Scott’s “epic historical action sequel to 2000s Gladiator” in ‘The Rahner Report’ - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Friday Nights with Nautica Delac. It was on Later
with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It is so good to see you this Christmas tree
in the studio. I'm going to do a boomerang at
Naudica de la Cruz so you guys could see it.
It is absolutely beautiful, a little girly for my taste,
but very very nice.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Wait wait, wait, wait wait, a Christmas tree can be
too girly just because it has pink.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
It's a little girly.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's it's gurly and it's foofy.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
But it really is beautiful.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
It's gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Court oh my god, gorgeous. Okay, well, let's get down
to business. My daughter was in town. She came into
town and from Portland, and she decided she wanted to
vote because she's not a resident in Portland. So we
actually went to two places here in La So, like
I said, my daughter of Brooklyn was in town and
we went to the Japanese American National Museum located in
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the art of Little Chokyo in downtown Los Angeles. Yes, really, okay,
it's a vibrant cultural landmark dedicated to preserving and sharing
the history and heritage of Japanese Americans. Established in nineteen
eighty five, the museum stands as a beacon of understanding
and education, offering visitors a chance to explore the diverse
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experience of Japanese Americans from immigration to the present day.
Its mission is to connect the people it's passed with
the present while inspiring.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
More just and inclusive of the future.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Inside the museum houses a rich collection of artifacts, photographs,
and personal stories that illustrate the struggles and triumphs of
Japanese Americans. One of the most powerful exhibits is called
Common Ground the Heart of Community, which explores over one
hundred and thirty years of history, including the impact of
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Japanese interment during World War II. Now visitors can the
authentic housing unit rooms, personal items from forced Attention, and
hear stories that highlight resilience and courage. And everywhere you
walk around, make sure you take your time to look, like,
look at everything, look at every piece of information and
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kind of artwork, and the little plaques that give the
description on the wall as well. Now beyond is exhibit,
the museum plays an active role in education and community.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Outreach.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Programs include workshops, film screenings you don't want to miss those,
and lectures that delve deeper into Japanese American culture and history.
The museum also fosters dialogue about broader issues like civil rights, justice,
and identity, making it a space for meaningful conversation. The
Japanese American National Museum is really more just than a
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vault of history. It's a testament to the strength of
a community and importance of remembering shared past. Now, whether
you're drawing to history, culture or art, which I love art,
the museum also offers something meaningful, meaningful for everyone. It's
a place where stories come alive, connections are made, conversations
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are had, and it gives you a.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Very deep understanding.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
The Japanese American National Museum is located at one hundred
North Central Avenue in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Their museum hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday eleven
am to five pm and Thursday twelve to eight. But
I suggest that you go online to www dot JAMM
dot org get your tickets now.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
It's more on the prose of your side mo.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Even though we like free ski free ninety nine adults
for sixteen dollars. Seniors and kids are nine, but age
of five and under are free.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
That's not a lot. That's not a lot, right.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I Mean, we've been to other places that are super expenses.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But just steps away from the Japanese American National Museum
is the Japanese Village Plaza, which I also walked just
a few feet away with my daughter and it has
amazing you know, uh restaurants, anything from sushi to ramen
to mochi desserts, whatever you what do you like, whatever
your taste buds kind of you want to indulge in,
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you could find it there. Also there's a lot of
great shops where you could find handcraft at souvenirs. And
there's this amazing I don't know the name of it,
but there's this really amazing bookstore that I was just
in awe of all the books that they had these,
you know, I like, I like books on like what
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do you call it?
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I can't think of it, like Japanese what do you
call it?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
When they have the little garden and they do you
know what I'm talking about with the sand and the
little somebody help me, yes, a zen garden.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
I wasn't gonna guess because I would probably got in
trouble for that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh my god, there was this book on zen gardens,
and I was just like, I want to create a
zen garden just for my little you know, for my
little apartment.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
But they have everything that you could absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Want, the book in the bookstore, and a lot of
handcraft stuff too. So if you're really into the culture
you want to learn a little bit more, I think
those are two great places that you might want to
check out, which is the Japanese American National Museum and
also right across a few feet away, the Japanese Village Plaza.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I used to quasi work in Little Tokyo when I
was working for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Oh Okay
one of our performance venues it was called back then
it was called the Japan America Theater, but now it's
called the Aratani Theater, and it said two four four.
I think, like a central somewhere in Little Tokyo. But
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that whole area is not only is it gorgeous, but
it's a walk through history, and you kind of forget
that you're right in the heart of downtown La But
I haven't been in a few years, but I know
that it's a wonderful, full cultural landmark and point of
entry where you can learn about a community, most likely
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which is not yours.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
And you don't have to go all the way around
the world to do it.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
No, you don't. And you know, it's just a few
blocks in that area.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
But you have these stores that have such great cultural artifacts.
I went to my daughter's really into scincare as. I
am too, and we went to this it's kind of
like their version of CBS, and I was like, oh,
I was like, they have really nice you know, you know,
just just wonderful creams and just serums that you put
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on your face. And you know, I don't understand the language,
and a lot of it's not translated, but I was
just in awe of just the things that they use
in their culture, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Also, and I'm not trying to confuse cultures, but especially
Asian countries more generally. When I was in South Korea,
the skincareortion of the world, I mean, that's like the
central portion, the Mecca, the Mecca. My wife was spending
all sorts of money. She said, look, we got to
go back and next time we got to go to
Tokyo and Japan.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
It's like it's it's a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh no, I I watched TikTok's and because you were
talking about spas earlier, and I want to.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Talk about wait wait wait, you both worked in the
music industry.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
But were we lying?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
No, you were not lying. You were not lying.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Help to it, but anyway, but no, you know what
you were saying earlier about you know, in Asia, it's
like the mecca of skincare. And even though I go
through this rabbit hole on TikTok and I see because
I follow a lot of influencers and I'm going you know,
they put on like five different serums and five different moisturizers.
But their skin is like glass, absolutely beautiful, I mean ageless.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
They have in that part of the world.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
They have the stuff that you just can't find the
United States, not even if you went to like the
professional grade and the doctors, the skin doctors around here,
the cosmetologists, You're not.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Going to find it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
No, And I will say that in one of the
things that I'm jealous because I'm a freckle face. I
am me too. Really, I'm big serious. I love their
skin and I love that they don't get milasma. It's
very few to see an Asian woman with malasma because
she's putting on probably her SPF is probably like one
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hundred and twenty.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I'm just saying. But their skin is just.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh, just beautiful. I would love to wake up in
the morning and just be absolutely flawless. But you know
I didn't wake up like this. So the takeaway is, yes,
we were right about spas.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Thank you. That's all I watch about.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Well, there you go once again. If you'd like more information,
go to www.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Dot ja m M dot or coming up, I'll have
my hidden gem.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I'm not a Goadela Cruz on Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I'm not a Cadela Cruz on Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It is time for our hidden Gem. This week's henden
Gem is Sylvia Contreras. Sylvia Contreras grew up in the
San Fernando Valley with her two brothers. Unlike her brothers,
who had big personalities that could light up a room,
Sylvia was deeply shy. While they thrived on social connections,
Sylvia preferred a quieter company. One of the constants in
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her life was her Aboila, and Aboila means grandmother, her
Aboila Gloria, who lived in the family. Gloria was a nanny,
and she was a social butterfly. She had lots of
friends from the park, from the church, and the community center.
Every couple of months she'd host some gatherings with her
fellow aboilas, her fellow grandmothers, and those afternoons kind of
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became a Sylvia sanctuary in a room filled with older,
wiser women, and Sylvia felt at ease. While her peers
often intimidated her, these women offered a world where she
felt like she belonged. Gloria even let Sylvia play a
hand of cards to feel included. It was during one
of those gatherings that Sylvia realized how much she loved
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learning from other experiences, especially those of an older generation.
A year later, at a bolton board at church, it
caught her eye when she saw a flyer for Sagesandseekers
dot org, a program connecting young adults with elders for
meaningful conversations and shared wisdom. Intrigued, Sylvia signed up and
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soon met Diana her sage. Now, sage is a term
to describe older individuals that have a lot of wisdom,
and you know, they just kind of have lived a
little bit longer. And so she met her sage, Diana,
and their first conversation, Diana created a space where Sylvia
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felt safe to share her story. Diana's effortless warmth made
Sylvia feel seen, heard.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
And valued, and one moment in.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Particular Sylvia with Sylvia, it kind of stayed with her.
When she confessed her shyness, Diana surprised her by pointing
out how approachable and easy to talk to she seemed.
It was a perspective Sylvia had never seen herself. That
simple affirmation inspired her to embody the confidence and kindness
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Diana saw in her. Over time, Sylvia realized she wasn't
just learning how to connect with others, she was also
learning to be kinder to herself. And I think some
of us need to take a page from that book.
Diana's wisdom, humor, and open heart taught her the incredible
power of authentic connection, and today Sylvia carries those lessons forward.
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Embracing the transformative power of a meaningful conversation and the
empathy that they cultivate. Sage and Sageanseekers dot Org's mission
is to bridge the generational gap by fostering one on
one connections between youth and elders, creating transformative relationships that
combat isolation for seniors while nurturing empathy and personal growth
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in younger participants. Through open dialogue and shared stories, the
program builds a community where wisdom is cherished and understanding
is deepened. By addressing the often overlook loneliness many elders
face and empowering young people with perspective and confidence, Sage
and Seekers reminds both generations to their inheritent value, proving
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that every story has the power to heal, inspire, and connect.
And if you like to connect or if you like
to donate, please visit www dot Sage and Seekers dot org.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
And I also want to.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Give a special shout out as we say some love
to Miss Karen B for her beautiful email regarding wanting
to do more. She is now retired and she talked
to me about a few weeks ago when I was
talking about Amelia, so I gave her that organization. And
if you hear me talk about an organization that you
would like to get involved with, please feel free to
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either find me on Instagram at Nautica de la Cruise
or you could email me Nautica on air at gmail
dot com. And I pretty much answer. I do answer,
not pretty much. I answer every single message. What yes,
I don't have that, I don't have. AI do it
for me. You know, I'm quick on typing, you know
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what I mean. But I just want to say I
think that I kind of connected with Sylvia because I
was my daughter and myself, we were always kind of
those people that, like I used to love.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Hanging out with my theas like the aunties and my aunties.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Just translated for everyone else, yes.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Of course, and what is our way less grandmother? And
I bet cheese me. It wasn't because I like to
hear them gossip. It was because I felt older and
I felt more mature, and I felt like I'm big
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now even though I was twelve.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
But okay, I will work on that next time. But
you know, you know the feeling.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I don't know if when you were a kid you liked,
you know, when you were around your dad and his boys,
and they would be talking about I don't know, football
or basketball. You kind of felt like you were older, absolutely,
you know, you felt like you belonged. And so I
really love this organization of you know, the the more
wise and the younger coming together and forming that connection
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because at the end of at the end of the day,
you know that you may be twenty today, but you're
going to get up to fifty and sixty and seventy.
And I Lord willing, God willing, Yes, I would love
to be a sage for somebody, you know, and tell
them all my you know, crazy stories about radio.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
In life and you know, and maybe you could learn something,
you know what I mean. Don't make the mistakes that
I made.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
And we've all made them. Oh yes, sir, we've all
made them. And I think there's nothing more valuable than
free wisdom. I say, free wisdom is the wisdom that
someone could give to you without you having to suffer
to earn that wisdom. If I can help someone avoid
some of the pitfalls and some of the obstacles, you know,
take it free, take it for free. It's okay that
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you didn't have to bump your head as many times
as I did.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yes, you know, I always say, we all fall, but
it's how we get up. Right, in this life, there's
gonna be some falling, and I don't know, but sometimes
there are days that I don't feel like adulting and
I don't feel like dealing with the world.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
But that's life. You have to do what you have
to do.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
But if you could connect with someone, and that's one
of the things is with sage and seekers, I think,
like I said earlier, I love the whys and the
young coming together and just sharing your stories and and
you know, sometimes people I know because this came from
some of my daughter's friends, they would get a little
scared of the older generation, like you know, they were
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going to get scolded and yelled at, and then you'd
come and find out and they were just amazing. People
like my daughter's friends would be like, your mom's so cool, Well,
let me teach you a few things. Well, well you
think I'm cool.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yeah, I don't know this younger generation, they don't have
the same reverence for the older generation that we had.
Yes growing up, we knew that okay, we needed to
mind our p's and q's around grown folks. You know,
we weren't allowed to even participate in conversations with adults.
It's like remember the say, don't you see us adults talking?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Children were to be seen and not heard.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
It's different now because kids, younger folks, they say anything
and everything to everyone. So I think they need a
little mentorship, someone to guide them and protect them.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
In many ways.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I agree with you one hundred and ten percent. And
I always listen. Like my daughter's around with her friends,
I always go listen. I said, the voice of experience.
You know, I may be a voice of radio, but
I'm a voice of experience. I have been around the
sun a little bit longer than you, and I am
also older, and I made mistakes, and I, you know,
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flunked a few classes and I was and I still
am not perfect.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I don't even want to be perfect. I just want
to be as good as Mark Runner. Keep wishing, buddy boy.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Speaking of Mark Runner, thank you so very much for
having me.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I'm not a
Gonda Cruise on Later with Moe Kelly.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Nature.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Mark talks about pontificates about pop culture.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Ron and Report with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Welcome to the Runner Report. I'm Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
This week Gladiator Too, and I was feeling nostalgic.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Joey, you like movies about gladiators, don't call me Joey,
And yes, yes I do.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Bring on the swords and sandals and the strange monkey
creatures who can split their heads almost in half when
they shriek. I've seen all the Spartacus stuff. I've seen
that bredon Circus episode of the original Star Trek, and
I am a fire hose of testosterone. I am good
to go.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Find these games frightening, revolting.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Or consold.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
In some points of the galaxy, I have seen forms
of entertainment that makes this looks like.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
A that's right, folk dance Gladiator Too. You absolutely know
you want to say Roman boogloo.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
You know you do. It is the sequel.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Absolutely nobody was asking for it to Ridley Scott's Gladiator
from two thousand. Here's a little bit of the trailer.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
It is an art choosing gladiators. They're usually prisoners of war.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I claim this city for the glory of Rome.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
You have something in your rage, never let it go.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
It will carry you to quaintness.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
I own you now, but whose head could I give
you to satisfy your fury?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
The General will do.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Rome has taken everything from me, but I will have
my vengeance.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah, it's plenty of paying waiting for you in the
next life.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I don't know why you are so greedy for it
in this one, and you get the idea of pain.
Plenty of pain. Now.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
That original Gladiator from two thousand, I think that was
the one that really made Russell Crowe a superstar. He
played a general who got screwed over, he was made
a slave gladiator, and he vows revenge on the really
obviously hissable villain Emperor Joaquin Phoenix, which was even before
he went on to make Joker folly Oduce. The fact
that no one was asking for a sequel didn't mean
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one hadn't been kicked around for years. One minor speed
bump to that was cover your ears if you don't
want to spoiler on a twenty five four year old movie.
Crow's character dies at the end of the first one. Also,
in case you hadn't heard this about Citizen Kane, Rosebud
is a sled. We're getting all the spoilers out of
the way tonight one absolutely bat crap sequel idea came
from Nick Cave, the musician ed involved Crow's Maximus in
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the afterlife and becoming immortal and fighting in wars throughout
history and the part of me that clicks on obscure
to be titles at four am kind of wanted to
see that. In addition to Christopher Plummer in the Hooker
Cult murders last weekend. How could you not watch that
once you know it exists. Well, that's not the Gladiator
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sequel that got made. What got made is a lot
more ordinary, and I honestly don't see it becoming to
kind of hit the original was. But it's entertaining with
some good action. It looks fantastic and it'll make you
forget about say Elon Musk or bird flu for two
and a half hours. It starts a fairly unknown Irish
actor Paul Mescal and Chilean actor Pedro Pascal, who by
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law is in everything that Jean Carlo Esposito isn't in
everything that comes out must have one of the two
of them. And that's right. The two stars are Mescal
and Pascal. But you're thinking Mark you, Rascal. What difference
does it make? Only that it's hilarious that nobody seems
to care about making the Romans seem remotely Roman, which
is in Italy. Also where there are a bunch of
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black people in Rome like Denzellis Washingtonius. Yes, and if
there were, yes, did they have really obvious New York
accents like his?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Who cares?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
He seems to be the only one really having fun
in this movie. Denzel plays an ambitious slave owner broker
type who buys Mescal's character and offers him the chance
to get say it with me revenge on Pascal's character,
who is a general responsible for the death of Mescal's wife.
Blah blah blah blah. Much the same on that front,
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if you figured out that we're gonna call it. G
two is another fairly basic revenge movie. Like the first,
You're right and you win. Nothing unexceptional but enjoyable. There's
your pull quote. Publicist Meskel seemed unexceptional to me as
well at first by looks alone, But I really liked
him in this movie, and I thought he had a
bit of a Richard Harris riz to him, And now
I want to see him in more stuff. Harris, by
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the way, was in the first Gladiator, and there are
explicit connections to okay, Gladiator Prime and to Crow's Maximus
Connie Nielsen from the first ones in this one as well,
But I don't want to tell you any more than that,
since I've already spoiled the first one and Citizen Kane
for you tonight. I understand actual historians have taken issue
with elements of Gladiator too, such as sharks being in
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the coliseum, but really, Scott disagrees.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
You expect me to pick a side there.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Like I said, it's not a history movie, it's not
a documentary. It's a movie about men, fighting, dying, and
sweating like men, and also a rhino. And there's nothing
even remotely homo erotic about any of these kinds of
movies and shows.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
I'm entirely motivated by logic. Loss of our ship's surgeon,
whatever I may think of his relative skill, would mean
a reduction in the enterprise, And they're not why.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You're not afraid to die his buck.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
You're more afraid of living.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Day you stay alive, It's just one more day.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
You might slip, let your human have peak.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Out of your pants. If this one successful. Scott has
plans for a Gladiator three, and you're damn right. I'd
throw on one of those leather skirts and watch that.
And there's a name for those. They're not called skirts,
but you're gonna have to look it up. There's your
runner report, Moe. Now let me go back to some
things that you said. Yes, there were a lot of
Africans in ancient Rome, that's a historical fact.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Did they sound like Denzel, Well, that was my next point.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Denzel Washington gave an interview and he said specifically he
wasn't even trying to do an accent. It wasn't meant
for to be like a period piece. And he's Denzel
Washington and he could do whatever he wants.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Just too big. He's bigger than ancient y Rome. They
can adapt to him.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Look if it sounds like Alonso from Training Day, so
be it, so be it.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Okay, I didn't mind.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I mean, he looked like he was having fun, really
just eating the hole joined up and it's an entertaining movie,
even if it's not destined to be a classic. I
should point out that the original Gladiator, that is the
movie where Pearl Oliver Reed.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Drank himself to death.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Finally, you mentioned homo erotic, and there was another story
connected to Denzel Washington.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
I don't know if you saw it.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Denzel was saying that there was a scene cut from
the movie of him kissing a man on the lips.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
No, I didn't, but some of that was implied because
some of the people in the movie clearly are how
do you say it, omni sexual?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Yes, but that's also connected to the Roman Empire, so
that's you know, they bounce in and out of historical accuracy.
But I'm hearing nothing but good things about the movie itself,
which says, to your point, there will be a Gladiator three.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Well, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
The budget for this is massive, and you know, it's
not like a horror film that cost fifteen million bucks
to make and is going to make you know, eighty million.
It's opening weekend. It's with these big budget movies, it's
always like the first weekend really determines everything.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Everything.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
If it's got the stink of death on it and
it only makes I don't know, like thirty million bucks
for the weekend, that's it.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
That's the end. That's all she wrote.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
It's got to make a half a billion dollars for
it to be profitable. The budget is two hundred and
fifty million and another one hundred million to promote. It's
got to do a half a billion, and to your point,
that means it's got to do at least one hundred
million this opening weekend to generate any type of momentum
to get it there.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I like movies like this, and I like the action.
The choreography was really well done. And like I said,
this Paul Mezcal guy. I'd never seen him before in anything,
and he seemed fairly ordinary to me. But he's This
is the advantage of casting actual actors in stuff like
this instead of just bodybuilders.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
He's really good. In fact, I think I will see
this one. I don't know when I'll get to see it.
It won't be this week, but maybe over the Thanksgiving
Day weekend, which I'll have a little bit more time presumably.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, this would have been a good one for the
boys to go out and have a couple of shots
before and then sit and.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Well doze off like we always do.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
But if you're trying to watch the movie at twelve
thirty at night on a work night, basically there's no
f and way, No, not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
No, save it for for a day. When when you've
got a free half a day, it's two and a
half hours long. It's not short. Was there an end
credit scene? Because movies are just doing that now, just
because you know, I'm such a sucker. I stayed to
see if there was, and I was the last person
in there, and so it's after three am, and the
poor teenage usher comes in and turns on all the
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lights and I'm sitting there and I felt like such
a creep. I just left. So I don't know if
at the very end, so you've felt like a creep. Yeah, okay,
so it is possible. I do feel bad, like I
do feel bad because they'll sit there with their the
broom and the thing they try to clean.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
All right, dude, come on. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I always try to watch as much of the credits
as I can, even if it's not a Marvel type
movie that you think could have an end credits scene,
And there's always some poor schmo out there just waiting
to clean up, and you're like, okay, I'm sorry, you
can get to work now.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
I didn't mean to keep you waiting.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Well, in theory, you know the movie's not over until
the lights come up, and the lights are not going
to come up until all the credits have run.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Unless it's on a weeknight and the movie gets out
after three a m.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
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Name that movie called Classic. Oh, just to let you know,
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the Thanksgiving I know that's sounded weird, the Thanksgiving edition
of Name that Movie Cled Classic? Give us a call
it eight hundred five to zero one KFI eight hundred
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five to zero one five three four playing Name That
Movie cult classic The Thanksgiving Day Weekend Edition eight hundred
five to zero one five, three four. And before we
go to break very quickly, want to tell you about
the fifteen No, actually, let's do ten. The ten most
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successful bad movies the two thousands. The ten most successful
bad movies of the two thousands. We're talking about movies
which were critical failures but commercial successes.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
So you don't mean a movie like Pretty Woman bad.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
No, that could be pretty bad, but I have to
look up their Rotten Tomato score. Okay, these are for
movies which the Rotten Tomatoes critics score was below thirty
five percent, but the movie made at least one hundred
million dollars. Critics score below thirty five percent, but made
more than one hundred million dollars. The best bad movies
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of the two thousands, so coming in at number ten.
Of the best of the bad movies of the early
two thousands.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
The Mummy, the one starring Tom Cruise, Oh, the Russell
Mulkayhey went yeah. I didn't like any of those, did you? No,
not at all? It had a fifteen Oh no, no, no.
If you said Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise, oh yeah, that's terrible. No, yeah,
I didn't like any of the mummies.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
But this one had a fifteen percent Rotten Tomatoes and
the thirty five percent audience score. But it did make
four hundred nine million off one hundred and twenty five
million dollar budget.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
That's the one that was meant to kick off Universal's
New Monsters.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Yeah, and it was so bad they just scrapped the
whole thing. It's almost like, you know, we were kidding
about that whole monster verse. We didn't mean it. We
weren't serious playing.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, our bad coming at number nine of the best
bad movies of the two thousands thus far, Alvin and
the Chipmunks the squeak Wool budget of seventy million, it
made four hundred and forty three million dollars a twenty
one percent critics score. If you always got to kick
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out of the squeak Wool. Number eight, The Smurfs twenty
one percent critic score. The budget was one hundred and
ten million, but it made five hundred and sixty three
point seven million. I'm surprised they didn't do a sequel.
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Didn't matter how bad it was, it made money. Number
seven of the best bad movies of the two thousands.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Fifty Shades of Gray. Ah, of course.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Oh yeah, that was budget forty million box office, five
hundred and seventy one million, twenty five percent critic score.
And yes, the phone lines are open if you want
to play. Name that movie cled classic. The Thanksgiving Day
Weekend edition eight hundred five to two zero one five
three four eight hundred five two zero one five three four,
coming in at number six of the best bad movies
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of the two thousands. They only listed one of them,
but I would say all of them, The Twilight Saga,
New Moon, just throw them all in there. The budget
was only fifty million, but the box office was seven
hundred and nine million dollars.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
I don't know if you remember this, but the vampires
were sparkly. They were Everything was bad about that. I
didn't every budget was that low. Yeah, only fifty million.
I hang, yeah. Number five.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Suicide Squad, not the Suicide Squad, but Suicide Squad, the
one with Will Smith and Jared Leto and Margot Robbie.
One hundred and seventy five million dollar budget, seven hundred
and forty seven million box office. It was a twenty
six percent critics score.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Now there's a movement for the director's cut of that
to come out. I think I'm good. Yeah, I don't
need to see anymore. Number four.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
The Da Vinci Code one hundred and twenty five million
dollar budget seven hundred and fifty eight million in box office,
twenty five percent critics Rotten Tomatoes score.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
But it was about an action symbologist.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Yeah, I thought that was the movie. We well, not
my critics. Now I didn't say audience score. Oh yeah,
I said critics score. And see that's the thing, not
that I put everything on critics as far as determining
what is a good or bad movie. But let me
just check real quick. Davinually had a fifty seven percent
audience score.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
God help me. I read the book too, and I'll
never get that time back. No, you won't.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Number three Pirates of the Caribbean, dead Men Tell No Tales.
Budget two hundred and thirty million, box office seven hundred
and ninety four million. Rotten Tomatoes score for the critics
was thirty percent.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Number two this is just for you, Mark Transformers, Revenge
of the Fallen. You could basically throw them all in there. No,
that's for towalach he likes those. Oh gosh. Budget two
hundred million box office eight hundred and thirty six million
brought in Tomatoes Critics score nineteen percent and coming in
at number one of the best bad movies of the
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two thousands. And I'm not so sure I agree with this.
I think this is wrong. Actually, I don't think this
movie was as bad as the critics thought. Batman Versus
Superman Down of Justice two hundred and fifty million in budget,
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eight hundred and seventy three point six million in box
office twenty nine percent, critics score, sixty three percent, audience score.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
I don't think it was that bad. I really don't. Well,
you couldn't really call it good though.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
No, no, no, Martha, Martha stopped reminding me, Yeah, what's
that bad?
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Stimulating Talk for Independent.
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You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Friday Nights with Nautica Delac. It was on Later
with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It is so good to see you this Christmas tree
in the studio. I'm going to do a boomerang at
Naudica de la Cruz so you guys could see it.
It is absolutely beautiful, a little girly for my taste,
but very very nice.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Wait wait, wait, wait wait, a Christmas tree can be
too girly just because it has pink.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
It's a little girly.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's it's gurly and it's foofy.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
But it really is beautiful.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
It's gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Court oh my god, gorgeous. Okay, well, let's get down
to business. My daughter was in town. She came into
town and from Portland, and she decided she wanted to
vote because she's not a resident in Portland. So we
actually went to two places here in La So, like
I said, my daughter of Brooklyn was in town and
we went to the Japanese American National Museum located in
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the art of Little Chokyo in downtown Los Angeles. Yes, really, okay,
it's a vibrant cultural landmark dedicated to preserving and sharing
the history and heritage of Japanese Americans. Established in nineteen
eighty five, the museum stands as a beacon of understanding
and education, offering visitors a chance to explore the diverse
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experience of Japanese Americans from immigration to the present day.
Its mission is to connect the people it's passed with
the present while inspiring.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
More just and inclusive of the future.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Inside the museum houses a rich collection of artifacts, photographs,
and personal stories that illustrate the struggles and triumphs of
Japanese Americans. One of the most powerful exhibits is called
Common Ground the Heart of Community, which explores over one
hundred and thirty years of history, including the impact of
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Japanese interment during World War II. Now visitors can the
authentic housing unit rooms, personal items from forced Attention, and
hear stories that highlight resilience and courage. And everywhere you
walk around, make sure you take your time to look, like,
look at everything, look at every piece of information and
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kind of artwork, and the little plaques that give the
description on the wall as well. Now beyond is exhibit,
the museum plays an active role in education and community.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Outreach.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Programs include workshops, film screenings you don't want to miss those,
and lectures that delve deeper into Japanese American culture and history.
The museum also fosters dialogue about broader issues like civil rights, justice,
and identity, making it a space for meaningful conversation. The
Japanese American National Museum is really more just than a
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vault of history. It's a testament to the strength of
a community and importance of remembering shared past. Now, whether
you're drawing to history, culture or art, which I love art,
the museum also offers something meaningful, meaningful for everyone. It's
a place where stories come alive, connections are made, conversations
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are had, and it gives you a.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Very deep understanding.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
The Japanese American National Museum is located at one hundred
North Central Avenue in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Their museum hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday eleven
am to five pm and Thursday twelve to eight. But
I suggest that you go online to www dot JAMM
dot org get your tickets now.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
It's more on the prose of your side mo.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Even though we like free ski free ninety nine adults
for sixteen dollars. Seniors and kids are nine, but age
of five and under are free.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
That's not a lot. That's not a lot, right.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I Mean, we've been to other places that are super expenses.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But just steps away from the Japanese American National Museum
is the Japanese Village Plaza, which I also walked just
a few feet away with my daughter and it has
amazing you know, uh restaurants, anything from sushi to ramen
to mochi desserts, whatever you what do you like, whatever
your taste buds kind of you want to indulge in,
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you could find it there. Also there's a lot of
great shops where you could find handcraft at souvenirs. And
there's this amazing I don't know the name of it,
but there's this really amazing bookstore that I was just
in awe of all the books that they had these,
you know, I like, I like books on like what
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do you call it?
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I can't think of it, like Japanese what do you
call it?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
When they have the little garden and they do you
know what I'm talking about with the sand and the
little somebody help me, yes, a zen garden.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
I wasn't gonna guess because I would probably got in
trouble for that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh my god, there was this book on zen gardens,
and I was just like, I want to create a
zen garden just for my little you know, for my
little apartment.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
But they have everything that you could absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Want, the book in the bookstore, and a lot of
handcraft stuff too. So if you're really into the culture
you want to learn a little bit more, I think
those are two great places that you might want to
check out, which is the Japanese American National Museum and
also right across a few feet away, the Japanese Village Plaza.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I used to quasi work in Little Tokyo when I
was working for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Oh Okay
one of our performance venues it was called back then
it was called the Japan America Theater, but now it's
called the Aratani Theater, and it said two four four.
I think, like a central somewhere in Little Tokyo. But
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that whole area is not only is it gorgeous, but
it's a walk through history, and you kind of forget
that you're right in the heart of downtown La But
I haven't been in a few years, but I know
that it's a wonderful, full cultural landmark and point of
entry where you can learn about a community, most likely
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which is not yours.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
And you don't have to go all the way around
the world to do it.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
No, you don't. And you know, it's just a few
blocks in that area.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
But you have these stores that have such great cultural artifacts.
I went to my daughter's really into scincare as. I
am too, and we went to this it's kind of
like their version of CBS, and I was like, oh,
I was like, they have really nice you know, you know,
just just wonderful creams and just serums that you put
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on your face. And you know, I don't understand the language,
and a lot of it's not translated, but I was
just in awe of just the things that they use
in their culture, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Also, and I'm not trying to confuse cultures, but especially
Asian countries more generally. When I was in South Korea,
the skincareortion of the world, I mean, that's like the
central portion, the Mecca, the Mecca. My wife was spending
all sorts of money. She said, look, we got to
go back and next time we got to go to
Tokyo and Japan.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
It's like it's it's a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh no, I I watched TikTok's and because you were
talking about spas earlier, and I want to.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Talk about wait wait wait, you both worked in the
music industry.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
But were we lying?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
No, you were not lying. You were not lying.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Help to it, but anyway, but no, you know what
you were saying earlier about you know, in Asia, it's
like the mecca of skincare. And even though I go
through this rabbit hole on TikTok and I see because
I follow a lot of influencers and I'm going you know,
they put on like five different serums and five different moisturizers.
But their skin is like glass, absolutely beautiful, I mean ageless.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
They have in that part of the world.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
They have the stuff that you just can't find the
United States, not even if you went to like the
professional grade and the doctors, the skin doctors around here,
the cosmetologists, You're not.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Going to find it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
No, And I will say that in one of the
things that I'm jealous because I'm a freckle face. I
am me too. Really, I'm big serious. I love their
skin and I love that they don't get milasma. It's
very few to see an Asian woman with malasma because
she's putting on probably her SPF is probably like one
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hundred and twenty.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I'm just saying. But their skin is just.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh, just beautiful. I would love to wake up in
the morning and just be absolutely flawless. But you know
I didn't wake up like this. So the takeaway is, yes,
we were right about spas.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Thank you. That's all I watch about.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Well, there you go once again. If you'd like more information,
go to www.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Dot ja m M dot or coming up, I'll have
my hidden gem.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I'm not a Goadela Cruz on Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I'm not a Cadela Cruz on Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It is time for our hidden Gem. This week's henden
Gem is Sylvia Contreras. Sylvia Contreras grew up in the
San Fernando Valley with her two brothers. Unlike her brothers,
who had big personalities that could light up a room,
Sylvia was deeply shy. While they thrived on social connections,
Sylvia preferred a quieter company. One of the constants in
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her life was her Aboila, and Aboila means grandmother, her
Aboila Gloria, who lived in the family. Gloria was a nanny,
and she was a social butterfly. She had lots of
friends from the park, from the church, and the community center.
Every couple of months she'd host some gatherings with her
fellow aboilas, her fellow grandmothers, and those afternoons kind of
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became a Sylvia sanctuary in a room filled with older,
wiser women, and Sylvia felt at ease. While her peers
often intimidated her, these women offered a world where she
felt like she belonged. Gloria even let Sylvia play a
hand of cards to feel included. It was during one
of those gatherings that Sylvia realized how much she loved
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learning from other experiences, especially those of an older generation.
A year later, at a bolton board at church, it
caught her eye when she saw a flyer for Sagesandseekers
dot org, a program connecting young adults with elders for
meaningful conversations and shared wisdom. Intrigued, Sylvia signed up and
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soon met Diana her sage. Now, sage is a term
to describe older individuals that have a lot of wisdom,
and you know, they just kind of have lived a
little bit longer. And so she met her sage, Diana,
and their first conversation, Diana created a space where Sylvia
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felt safe to share her story. Diana's effortless warmth made
Sylvia feel seen, heard.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
And valued, and one moment in.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Particular Sylvia with Sylvia, it kind of stayed with her.
When she confessed her shyness, Diana surprised her by pointing
out how approachable and easy to talk to she seemed.
It was a perspective Sylvia had never seen herself. That
simple affirmation inspired her to embody the confidence and kindness
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Diana saw in her. Over time, Sylvia realized she wasn't
just learning how to connect with others, she was also
learning to be kinder to herself. And I think some
of us need to take a page from that book.
Diana's wisdom, humor, and open heart taught her the incredible
power of authentic connection, and today Sylvia carries those lessons forward.
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Embracing the transformative power of a meaningful conversation and the
empathy that they cultivate. Sage and Sageanseekers dot Org's mission
is to bridge the generational gap by fostering one on
one connections between youth and elders, creating transformative relationships that
combat isolation for seniors while nurturing empathy and personal growth
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in younger participants. Through open dialogue and shared stories, the
program builds a community where wisdom is cherished and understanding
is deepened. By addressing the often overlook loneliness many elders
face and empowering young people with perspective and confidence, Sage
and Seekers reminds both generations to their inheritent value, proving
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that every story has the power to heal, inspire, and connect.
And if you like to connect or if you like
to donate, please visit www dot Sage and Seekers dot org.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
And I also want to.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Give a special shout out as we say some love
to Miss Karen B for her beautiful email regarding wanting
to do more. She is now retired and she talked
to me about a few weeks ago when I was
talking about Amelia, so I gave her that organization. And
if you hear me talk about an organization that you
would like to get involved with, please feel free to
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either find me on Instagram at Nautica de la Cruise
or you could email me Nautica on air at gmail
dot com. And I pretty much answer. I do answer,
not pretty much. I answer every single message. What yes,
I don't have that, I don't have. AI do it
for me. You know, I'm quick on typing, you know
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what I mean. But I just want to say I
think that I kind of connected with Sylvia because I
was my daughter and myself, we were always kind of
those people that, like I used to love.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Hanging out with my theas like the aunties and my aunties.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Just translated for everyone else, yes.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Of course, and what is our way less grandmother? And
I bet cheese me. It wasn't because I like to
hear them gossip. It was because I felt older and
I felt more mature, and I felt like I'm big
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now even though I was twelve.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
But okay, I will work on that next time. But
you know, you know the feeling.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I don't know if when you were a kid you liked,
you know, when you were around your dad and his boys,
and they would be talking about I don't know, football
or basketball. You kind of felt like you were older, absolutely,
you know, you felt like you belonged. And so I
really love this organization of you know, the the more
wise and the younger coming together and forming that connection
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because at the end of at the end of the day,
you know that you may be twenty today, but you're
going to get up to fifty and sixty and seventy.
And I Lord willing, God willing, Yes, I would love
to be a sage for somebody, you know, and tell
them all my you know, crazy stories about radio.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
In life and you know, and maybe you could learn something,
you know what I mean. Don't make the mistakes that
I made.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
And we've all made them. Oh yes, sir, we've all
made them. And I think there's nothing more valuable than
free wisdom. I say, free wisdom is the wisdom that
someone could give to you without you having to suffer
to earn that wisdom. If I can help someone avoid
some of the pitfalls and some of the obstacles, you know,
take it free, take it for free. It's okay that
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you didn't have to bump your head as many times
as I did.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yes, you know, I always say, we all fall, but
it's how we get up. Right, in this life, there's
gonna be some falling, and I don't know, but sometimes
there are days that I don't feel like adulting and
I don't feel like dealing with the world.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
But that's life. You have to do what you have
to do.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
But if you could connect with someone, and that's one
of the things is with sage and seekers, I think,
like I said earlier, I love the whys and the
young coming together and just sharing your stories and and
you know, sometimes people I know because this came from
some of my daughter's friends, they would get a little
scared of the older generation, like you know, they were
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going to get scolded and yelled at, and then you'd
come and find out and they were just amazing. People
like my daughter's friends would be like, your mom's so cool, Well,
let me teach you a few things. Well, well you
think I'm cool.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yeah, I don't know this younger generation, they don't have
the same reverence for the older generation that we had.
Yes growing up, we knew that okay, we needed to
mind our p's and q's around grown folks. You know,
we weren't allowed to even participate in conversations with adults.
It's like remember the say, don't you see us adults talking?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Children were to be seen and not heard.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
It's different now because kids, younger folks, they say anything
and everything to everyone. So I think they need a
little mentorship, someone to guide them and protect them.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
In many ways.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I agree with you one hundred and ten percent. And
I always listen. Like my daughter's around with her friends,
I always go listen. I said, the voice of experience.
You know, I may be a voice of radio, but
I'm a voice of experience. I have been around the
sun a little bit longer than you, and I am
also older, and I made mistakes, and I, you know,
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flunked a few classes and I was and I still
am not perfect.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I don't even want to be perfect. I just want
to be as good as Mark Runner. Keep wishing, buddy boy.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Speaking of Mark Runner, thank you so very much for
having me.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I'm not a
Gonda Cruise on Later with Moe Kelly.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (18:01):
Nature.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Mark talks about pontificates about pop culture.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Ron and Report with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Welcome to the Runner Report. I'm Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
This week Gladiator Too, and I was feeling nostalgic.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Joey, you like movies about gladiators, don't call me Joey,
And yes, yes I do.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Bring on the swords and sandals and the strange monkey
creatures who can split their heads almost in half when
they shriek. I've seen all the Spartacus stuff. I've seen
that bredon Circus episode of the original Star Trek, and
I am a fire hose of testosterone. I am good
to go.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Find these games frightening, revolting.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Or consold.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
In some points of the galaxy, I have seen forms
of entertainment that makes this looks like.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
A that's right, folk dance Gladiator Too. You absolutely know
you want to say Roman boogloo.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
You know you do. It is the sequel.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Absolutely nobody was asking for it to Ridley Scott's Gladiator
from two thousand. Here's a little bit of the trailer.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
It is an art choosing gladiators. They're usually prisoners of war.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I claim this city for the glory of Rome.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
You have something in your rage, never let it go.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
It will carry you to quaintness.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
I own you now, but whose head could I give
you to satisfy your fury?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
The General will do.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Rome has taken everything from me, but I will have
my vengeance.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah, it's plenty of paying waiting for you in the
next life.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I don't know why you are so greedy for it
in this one, and you get the idea of pain.
Plenty of pain. Now.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
That original Gladiator from two thousand, I think that was
the one that really made Russell Crowe a superstar. He
played a general who got screwed over, he was made
a slave gladiator, and he vows revenge on the really
obviously hissable villain Emperor Joaquin Phoenix, which was even before
he went on to make Joker folly Oduce. The fact
that no one was asking for a sequel didn't mean
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one hadn't been kicked around for years. One minor speed
bump to that was cover your ears if you don't
want to spoiler on a twenty five four year old movie.
Crow's character dies at the end of the first one. Also,
in case you hadn't heard this about Citizen Kane, Rosebud
is a sled. We're getting all the spoilers out of
the way tonight one absolutely bat crap sequel idea came
from Nick Cave, the musician ed involved Crow's Maximus in
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the afterlife and becoming immortal and fighting in wars throughout
history and the part of me that clicks on obscure
to be titles at four am kind of wanted to
see that. In addition to Christopher Plummer in the Hooker
Cult murders last weekend. How could you not watch that
once you know it exists. Well, that's not the Gladiator
(21:36):
sequel that got made. What got made is a lot
more ordinary, and I honestly don't see it becoming to
kind of hit the original was. But it's entertaining with
some good action. It looks fantastic and it'll make you
forget about say Elon Musk or bird flu for two
and a half hours. It starts a fairly unknown Irish
actor Paul Mescal and Chilean actor Pedro Pascal, who by
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law is in everything that Jean Carlo Esposito isn't in
everything that comes out must have one of the two
of them. And that's right. The two stars are Mescal
and Pascal. But you're thinking Mark you, Rascal. What difference
does it make? Only that it's hilarious that nobody seems
to care about making the Romans seem remotely Roman, which
is in Italy. Also where there are a bunch of
(22:19):
black people in Rome like Denzellis Washingtonius. Yes, and if
there were, yes, did they have really obvious New York
accents like his?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Who cares?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
He seems to be the only one really having fun
in this movie. Denzel plays an ambitious slave owner broker
type who buys Mescal's character and offers him the chance
to get say it with me revenge on Pascal's character,
who is a general responsible for the death of Mescal's wife.
Blah blah blah blah. Much the same on that front,
(22:49):
if you figured out that we're gonna call it. G
two is another fairly basic revenge movie. Like the first,
You're right and you win. Nothing unexceptional but enjoyable. There's
your pull quote. Publicist Meskel seemed unexceptional to me as
well at first by looks alone, But I really liked
him in this movie, and I thought he had a
bit of a Richard Harris riz to him, And now
I want to see him in more stuff. Harris, by
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the way, was in the first Gladiator, and there are
explicit connections to okay, Gladiator Prime and to Crow's Maximus
Connie Nielsen from the first ones in this one as well,
But I don't want to tell you any more than that,
since I've already spoiled the first one and Citizen Kane
for you tonight. I understand actual historians have taken issue
with elements of Gladiator too, such as sharks being in
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the coliseum, but really, Scott disagrees.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
You expect me to pick a side there.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Like I said, it's not a history movie, it's not
a documentary. It's a movie about men, fighting, dying, and
sweating like men, and also a rhino. And there's nothing
even remotely homo erotic about any of these kinds of
movies and shows.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
I'm entirely motivated by logic. Loss of our ship's surgeon,
whatever I may think of his relative skill, would mean
a reduction in the enterprise, And they're not why.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You're not afraid to die his buck.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
You're more afraid of living.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Day you stay alive, It's just one more day.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
You might slip, let your human have peak.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Out of your pants. If this one successful. Scott has
plans for a Gladiator three, and you're damn right. I'd
throw on one of those leather skirts and watch that.
And there's a name for those. They're not called skirts,
but you're gonna have to look it up. There's your
runner report, Moe. Now let me go back to some
things that you said. Yes, there were a lot of
Africans in ancient Rome, that's a historical fact.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Did they sound like Denzel, Well, that was my next point.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Denzel Washington gave an interview and he said specifically he
wasn't even trying to do an accent. It wasn't meant
for to be like a period piece. And he's Denzel
Washington and he could do whatever he wants.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Just too big. He's bigger than ancient y Rome. They
can adapt to him.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Look if it sounds like Alonso from Training Day, so
be it, so be it.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Okay, I didn't mind.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I mean, he looked like he was having fun, really
just eating the hole joined up and it's an entertaining movie,
even if it's not destined to be a classic. I
should point out that the original Gladiator, that is the
movie where Pearl Oliver Reed.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Drank himself to death.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Finally, you mentioned homo erotic, and there was another story
connected to Denzel Washington.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
I don't know if you saw it.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Denzel was saying that there was a scene cut from
the movie of him kissing a man on the lips.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
No, I didn't, but some of that was implied because
some of the people in the movie clearly are how
do you say it, omni sexual?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Yes, but that's also connected to the Roman Empire, so
that's you know, they bounce in and out of historical accuracy.
But I'm hearing nothing but good things about the movie itself,
which says, to your point, there will be a Gladiator three.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Well, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
The budget for this is massive, and you know, it's
not like a horror film that cost fifteen million bucks
to make and is going to make you know, eighty million.
It's opening weekend. It's with these big budget movies, it's
always like the first weekend really determines everything.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Everything.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
If it's got the stink of death on it and
it only makes I don't know, like thirty million bucks
for the weekend, that's it.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
That's the end. That's all she wrote.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
It's got to make a half a billion dollars for
it to be profitable. The budget is two hundred and
fifty million and another one hundred million to promote. It's
got to do a half a billion, and to your point,
that means it's got to do at least one hundred
million this opening weekend to generate any type of momentum
to get it there.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I like movies like this, and I like the action.
The choreography was really well done. And like I said,
this Paul Mezcal guy. I'd never seen him before in anything,
and he seemed fairly ordinary to me. But he's This
is the advantage of casting actual actors in stuff like
this instead of just bodybuilders.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
He's really good. In fact, I think I will see
this one. I don't know when I'll get to see it.
It won't be this week, but maybe over the Thanksgiving
Day weekend, which I'll have a little bit more time presumably.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, this would have been a good one for the
boys to go out and have a couple of shots
before and then sit and.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Well doze off like we always do.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
But if you're trying to watch the movie at twelve
thirty at night on a work night, basically there's no
f and way, No, not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
No, save it for for a day. When when you've
got a free half a day, it's two and a
half hours long. It's not short. Was there an end
credit scene? Because movies are just doing that now, just
because you know, I'm such a sucker. I stayed to
see if there was, and I was the last person
in there, and so it's after three am, and the
poor teenage usher comes in and turns on all the
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lights and I'm sitting there and I felt like such
a creep. I just left. So I don't know if
at the very end, so you've felt like a creep. Yeah, okay,
so it is possible. I do feel bad, like I
do feel bad because they'll sit there with their the
broom and the thing they try to clean.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
All right, dude, come on. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I always try to watch as much of the credits
as I can, even if it's not a Marvel type
movie that you think could have an end credits scene,
And there's always some poor schmo out there just waiting
to clean up, and you're like, okay, I'm sorry, you
can get to work now.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
I didn't mean to keep you waiting.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Well, in theory, you know the movie's not over until
the lights come up, and the lights are not going
to come up until all the credits have run.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Unless it's on a weeknight and the movie gets out
after three a m.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
After three am, Ready to go home?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
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Name that movie called Classic. Oh, just to let you know,
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it eight hundred five to zero one KFI eight hundred
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five to zero one five three four playing Name That
Movie cult classic The Thanksgiving Day Weekend Edition eight hundred
five to zero one five, three four. And before we
go to break very quickly, want to tell you about
the fifteen No, actually, let's do ten. The ten most
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successful bad movies the two thousands. The ten most successful
bad movies of the two thousands. We're talking about movies
which were critical failures but commercial successes.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
So you don't mean a movie like Pretty Woman bad.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
No, that could be pretty bad, but I have to
look up their Rotten Tomato score. Okay, these are for
movies which the Rotten Tomatoes critics score was below thirty
five percent, but the movie made at least one hundred
million dollars. Critics score below thirty five percent, but made
more than one hundred million dollars. The best bad movies
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of the two thousands, so coming in at number ten.
Of the best of the bad movies of the early
two thousands.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
The Mummy, the one starring Tom Cruise, Oh, the Russell
Mulkayhey went yeah. I didn't like any of those, did you? No,
not at all? It had a fifteen Oh no, no, no.
If you said Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise, oh yeah, that's terrible. No, yeah,
I didn't like any of the mummies.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
But this one had a fifteen percent Rotten Tomatoes and
the thirty five percent audience score. But it did make
four hundred nine million off one hundred and twenty five
million dollar budget.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
That's the one that was meant to kick off Universal's
New Monsters.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Yeah, and it was so bad they just scrapped the
whole thing. It's almost like, you know, we were kidding
about that whole monster verse. We didn't mean it. We
weren't serious playing.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, our bad coming at number nine of the best
bad movies of the two thousands thus far, Alvin and
the Chipmunks the squeak Wool budget of seventy million, it
made four hundred and forty three million dollars a twenty
one percent critics score. If you always got to kick
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out of the squeak Wool. Number eight, The Smurfs twenty
one percent critic score. The budget was one hundred and
ten million, but it made five hundred and sixty three
point seven million. I'm surprised they didn't do a sequel.
(33:10):
Didn't matter how bad it was, it made money. Number
seven of the best bad movies of the two thousands.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Fifty Shades of Gray. Ah, of course.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Oh yeah, that was budget forty million box office, five
hundred and seventy one million, twenty five percent critic score.
And yes, the phone lines are open if you want
to play. Name that movie cled classic. The Thanksgiving Day
Weekend edition eight hundred five to two zero one five
three four eight hundred five two zero one five three four,
coming in at number six of the best bad movies
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of the two thousands. They only listed one of them,
but I would say all of them, The Twilight Saga,
New Moon, just throw them all in there. The budget
was only fifty million, but the box office was seven
hundred and nine million dollars.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
I don't know if you remember this, but the vampires
were sparkly. They were Everything was bad about that. I
didn't every budget was that low. Yeah, only fifty million.
I hang, yeah. Number five.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Suicide Squad, not the Suicide Squad, but Suicide Squad, the
one with Will Smith and Jared Leto and Margot Robbie.
One hundred and seventy five million dollar budget, seven hundred
and forty seven million box office. It was a twenty
six percent critics score.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Now there's a movement for the director's cut of that
to come out. I think I'm good. Yeah, I don't
need to see anymore. Number four.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
The Da Vinci Code one hundred and twenty five million
dollar budget seven hundred and fifty eight million in box office,
twenty five percent critics Rotten Tomatoes score.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
But it was about an action symbologist.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Yeah, I thought that was the movie. We well, not
my critics. Now I didn't say audience score. Oh yeah,
I said critics score. And see that's the thing, not
that I put everything on critics as far as determining
what is a good or bad movie. But let me
just check real quick. Davinually had a fifty seven percent
audience score.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
God help me. I read the book too, and I'll
never get that time back. No, you won't.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Number three Pirates of the Caribbean, dead Men Tell No Tales.
Budget two hundred and thirty million, box office seven hundred
and ninety four million. Rotten Tomatoes score for the critics
was thirty percent.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Number two this is just for you, Mark Transformers, Revenge
of the Fallen. You could basically throw them all in there. No,
that's for towalach he likes those. Oh gosh. Budget two
hundred million box office eight hundred and thirty six million
brought in Tomatoes Critics score nineteen percent and coming in
at number one of the best bad movies of the
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two thousands. And I'm not so sure I agree with this.
I think this is wrong. Actually, I don't think this
movie was as bad as the critics thought. Batman Versus
Superman Down of Justice two hundred and fifty million in budget,
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eight hundred and seventy three point six million in box
office twenty nine percent, critics score, sixty three percent, audience score.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
I don't think it was that bad. I really don't. Well,
you couldn't really call it good though.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
No, no, no, Martha, Martha stopped reminding me, Yeah, what's
that bad?
Speaker 6 (36:51):
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