November 28, 2024 • 36 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at data that led to the “405 Thanksgiving Traffic” myth, the growing trend of people deciding to spend Thanksgiving alone AND a few welcoming Friendsgiving events you can attend if you don’t want to be alone - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Okay, it's everyone ready? Is everyone ready for Thanksgiving? Is
everyone ready to deal with the family for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Is everyone ready? I didn't. I'm not cheering. It's everyone
ready to deal with.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The incessant, insipid, in ain, unimportant conversations with family members
that you don't even like, may not even know.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's basically trash. Is everyone ready because everyone wants talking about? Oh,
it's all great when the family comes together.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Can't f I mo Kelly live everybody? I heeartradio app
But we all know better, right. I don't know about you,
but I get stressed out right before these big family dinners.
I do because I don't get the luxury of just
kind of tuning out the family, because, at least in
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my house, we usually have multi house Thanksgiving gatherings, and
so you may run into family members who haven't seen
you in a few months, and everybody wants an update.
Everybody wants to oh, so, how's this, How's that, how's
the dogs, how's the show?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
How's there? And I was like, leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I just want to have a drink and watch the
football game, which one mode, all of them, every single one,
which is going to be on tomorrow. But I can't
because I got to be like the nice person and
entertain and you know, be sociable.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So glad. I have to go to work tomorrow, So.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Glad, So glad. Honey, you're not coming about Oh I
got work. You can listen to me on the air.
You'll feel closer to me that way, you know, put
your hands on the radio, you'll hear my warmth.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
That's all I got for you.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Is everyone ready or do you have your excuse ready?
Because you need to have one or the other. If
you if you're ready for the family, then back on deals. Okay,
go with God, good luck. Everybody wants to talk about
the great portion of Thanksgiving. I'm here to give you
the real There are millions of men just like me
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who just want to have a drink and watch the
football games and also have a good meal.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Don't get me wrong. That's all we want. Okay. We
don't want to have conversation.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
We don't want to talk about work, we don't want
to talk about life and relationships. We don't want to
talk about politics. We don't want to talk about anything
except oh that's that's a first down.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That's all we want us. All we want.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
We men are simple creatures, and yet we are some
twenty twenty five years at no Dominie in the year
of our Lord, and we still can't get women to
figure us out. Just give us our drink and our
game and a plate. That's it, and it will be
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a very happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's all. That's all.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That's why I wanted to start off the show tonight
asking you, and I'm talking to men specifically, are you
ready for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I know I'm not. Can I tell the truth tonight,
I'm not ready for all that because.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I know it won't be a plate, it won't be
the football games, because then I would be rude.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm not being sociable.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm being anti social when all I wanted back in
September was a plate, a drink.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And watch the football games.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It doesn't matter who's on, it doesn't matter who wins,
it doesn't matter who loses.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That brings me relaxation. And I know just about.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Every man listening night now agrees with me just about
And if you don't agree with me, you're wrong. Every
Man just wants to be able to have his food,
his drink, and his football game.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I think in varying different uh degrees degrees. Yeah, yeah,
it may not be the food drink in the football game.
You know, it's an analogy. Yeah, you know, but you
know it may be like the food and just time alone.
Let me sit in the big chair and just mind
my business.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I'm fifty five now, I'm big chair age. Have all
the kids in another room, go play, go play, But
big Daddy wants to sit in the chair and watch
the football game, hopefully have a plate prior to and
a drink in my hand. That's all I want. That's
all you asked for. Like what I want for Christmas?
I want that for my Thanksgiving leading into Christmas. That's
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exactly what I want. That's exactly how I want to
kick off the holiday season.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Me food, football, and drink. That's it. I'm a very
simple man.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But for some reason, the other species hasn't figured us
out yet.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Did I call them species? Ok? Mark, good evening, Hello,
mo am. I wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I'm working two shifts tomorrow, so you're not wrong, right.
I used to always volunteer to work the holidays for
some reason. Also, the thing that people don't understand if
you're just socializing on the holidays and if you are
a broadcast professional of any sort or in the media.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You're not on. You're not on all day, You're just
hanging out.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
No, And unfortunately I can't speak for you Mark. I
know Tawala, you probably get it to a certain degree
because people in your sphere of influence, your circle, they'll
come up and ask you about the show.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well, they want you to perform. Yeah, They was like, well,
did you talk about this? Are you going to talk
about that? Well, what do you think about this? You know,
Trump just got elect this, so what is that going
to mean for our country? Damn?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It is Thanksgiving and the cowboys are on getting their
ass kicked.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I would rather talk about that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
The only difference between you and me is that for
me to be a horror movie or something.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's an analogy. For me,
it's the football game. For someone else, that could be
I don't know, listening to music or like some old
Kung Fu episode, right, listening to KFI.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I know it could be like that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, No, I know there are a lot of people
who will be listening to KFI tomorrow night when we're
on when we are actually working.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Of course, I'm just saying that I hear KFI countless
hours in a given week, so I tend not to
do that in my leisure time.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Oh no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm with you on that, and I have to have
a degree of professional separation, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I may listen to like George Norrie on the way home,
but that's a little bit different. He's not talking about
the news for the most part. He is taking me
almost literally to another place. We're talking about another dimension,
another type of conversation, different types of subjects, so it's different.
I try to not especially during the holiday season. And
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here's the real point. I try to consume as little
news information during the holidays as possible because that's about
the only time I can get away with it and
there would be some sort of respite where I don't
have to feel like I have to stay up on
every single little political thing or socio cultural little thing,
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and I get some semblance of an actual holiday because
for the most part, we are going to be working
and you have to deal with the news right in
front of you. So that's why we're a little bit
more choosy with Yes, we know what's going on in
the world.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I can speak extemporaneously about all the Trump cabinet picks
and what they may mean in the political implications of
what that's going to mean for the next Congress. I
can do all that every single day. But I don't
want to do that in holidays. Is this kind of
what it sounds like.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
I'm just sitting there, just depressed, and it shall go.
Oh is that another touchdown?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Yeah, Cowboys just scored again. Oh okay, So the other team,
the one that's losing badly, that's your team. Yeah, that's
my team. Oh no, they could They scored again. I
didn't know you can score as many points.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And all I want to do is just watch the game,
and they won't let you watch the game. All I
want for Christmas is my two NFL football games on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Is everyone ready for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Not just the food, not all the fun that we
talk about, and we romanticize the whole experience of the
Thanksgiving dinner. I'm talking about the real of what happens
at Thanksgiving that nobody wants to talk about. The relatives
you don't want to see, the kids who are always
out of control and their parents never know how to
whoop their ass because they don't know what that is.
(09:23):
They get time out as opposed to an ass whooping.
No one wants to talk about the reality of Thanksgiving?
Are you ready for Thanksgiving? I know I'm not, and
I was talking to Twalla and I don't think he
is either, But he's going to tell his own story
if he wants to.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Can we tell the truth? As men?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Do you think it's an accident that I became a childless,
middle aged bachelor.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Do you think it was an accident I got married
at forty six as opposed to.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
There are no accidents.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That was by choice, not by chance. Okay, okay, And
all of a sudden she tripped me. You know when
someone's running behind you and they kick your heels together.
That's what happened. Okay, I lost my balance. I wasn't intending.
Just happened that way. You just fell right on a
ring something like that, something like that. It's Later with
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Speaker 6 (10:20):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (10:25):
We all know about the four or five Freeway, nickname
the parking Lot, the four or five park lit It's
a freeway which has been notorious for the amount of
traffic and inefficiency trying to get you from one side
of the city to the other. But there has been
a myth attached to it. Yes, Thanksgiving traffic is horrible.
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That much is fact. But the myth is that today,
right now, specifically as the sun has recently gone down,
that the Wednesday, the date before Thanksgiving, is the worst
traffic day of not only the Thanksgiving weekend but of
the holiday season. That's a myth, and there's actual data
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which proves otherwise. Saw this in the La Times, and
if anything, if you were listening to this show yesterday,
you would know that even though it was anecdotal, we
our experiences validated what this was saying. Long story short,
Wednesday today is not the most traffic of the year
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as far as the four h five is concerned. It's
the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. If you were listening yesterday, you
knew that traffic turned our show upside down. And that
is not exclusive to the four h five. That was
all the freeways. I not even I didn't even see
this report, this data. This didn't even come out until today.
(11:56):
But yesterday we started off the show with it and
it became just a running joke until it wasn't funny,
where we lost two of our guests because of the traffic.
So it's Tuesday and Monday to a lesser degree, which
are filled with much more traffic at least on the
four or five freeway than today Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.
(12:21):
Now I can go into all the specific average daily
traffic speeding miles per hour, it really doesn't matter. All
I know is the traffic was horrible. It was fu
bar yesterday and that's enough for me. And I didn't
even get anywhere near the four or five because it
took me two hours to go twenty miles and I
was going from the one ten to the five. I
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even got off on surface streets at one point because
it wasn't getting any better, and then I drove up.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
To the one oh one. It was horrible to go
twenty miles.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And if it took two hours to go twenty miles
on all freeways, not name the four or five, you
can only imagine what it was like going through the
Subpulvida Pass. And if you've ever driven that, it's bad
on any given day at any time after like one pm,
going north on the four five, you're going over the
hill and then you're probably trying to get on like
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the oough. I just I have nightmares just thinking about it,
because you might actually be in a rush. It might
be an actual emergency. And let me digress for a second.
We always talk about are you earthquake prepared? We always
say are you ready for an emergency? And I keep
trying to remind people if it were an actual emergency
and you had to get from here to there during
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an emergency, Let's say after an earthquake, And that's assuming
that all the freeways are still physically intact rain and
the holiday season set down almost all the freeways. Yesterday
it took two hours to go twenty miles. What do
you think it's going to be after an earthquake, a
major earthquake. It means you're not going anywhere. But again
I was digressing. The traffic on the four or five
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has always been bad, but we've been led to believe
that today is the worst day. And maybe, and maybe
you know, it's not the worst day, but it's pretty
damn bad in its own right. Probably Tuesday yesterday, Yes,
that was bad for everything everywhere, everyone, all freeways, And
let's say today is slightly better.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I can say this.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I didn't take the four five, so I can't speak
for the four or five, but my trip in today
was light years ahead of what it was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Maybe some of that had to do with the lack
of rain.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
We had some rain yesterday, and that always impacts traffic
in a way because people don't know how to drive.
It's almost like, oh my gosh, six drops of water
hit my car and they just start careening into one another,
or they slow down to four miles an hour. It's
one of the other side. I can't get you to
drive at a safe speed. Four miles an hour is
not safe. Neither is ninety eight miles an hour. In
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the rain that's not safe either. But whenever it has
there's any precipitation out there, we just don't know how
to drive and it makes the drive for everyone bad.
But today was it raining, got here about forty forty
five minutes. It was beautiful. Day before Thanksgiving was absolutely beautiful.
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Can't speak for it to you and Stephan We're coming
from the same area, but not at the same time.
Mark Ronner, he lives on the other side of Hell
and Twalla's just short of that, but in the same
general vicinity.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yeah, kind of on the event horizon of Hell. No
middle fingers were dispatched today on the way in. Now
that should tell you something.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
People were not as stressed out and they're not driving
as erratically or dangerously.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Hopefully.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, my trip in was smooth, smooth as butter. Yesterday
I wanted to runner every other car that got.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
In my way. My name is not of her.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Today was ready for a double There is no double
runnerings that sounds filthy.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Okay, so we can't. We can't make your name a verb.
What about an adverb? I was driving erly?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Is that better?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I'm not sure how I feel about it. I have
to be honest with you. It kind of amuses me, right, Okay,
what about it?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Look, I was driving all of a sudden I got
a runner. No, that sounds like you have to poop
your pants.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Well, you need to choose which which which form of
bullying do I prefer Let me Let me give that
some fun and I'll get back to you.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
We can't be a Now, we can't be a verb,
can't use you as an adverb? What about an article?
I just want some basic human respect. Is that too
much to ask? Is it on this show yesterday? Yeah,
you're right, it is. Forget it forget I brought it up.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
But look, I love the idea of giving an I
do it. I mean it fills me with Joe. That
might be another shirt. Could you imagine?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, could you imagine getting pulled over by police? Sir?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I noticed that you're doing a runner in a school song.
Which will I have stepping out of the car?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Police? Is this your car? Go ahead and get it
out of your system? Oh? Even okay, what are you his?
Lindsey Graham? Now what is this? God? It was funny?
It was funny. Okay, go ahead. You like making fun
of other people, but you don't like you? No, no, no, no.
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He likes to give runners. He doesn't want.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
To bite your tongue. How dare you? Damn you all?
I treat you all with nothing but respect and love.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Nothing. Oh he was trying to be funny there.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That When we come back on the other side of
this break, I started the show asking the question, are
you ready for Thanksgiving? Not for you know, for the
purpose of eating, not because you want to have a
great deal, but are you ready for all the other
stuff that comes along with a Thanksgiving evening. Maybe it's
family you don't want to see. Maybe it's you know,
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children who are acting up. Maybe it's because no one
will leave you alone. Maybe it's because someone wants to
start a conversation about politics you don't want to deal
with that. Possibly you might be one of the people
who would plan to spend Thanksgiving alone to avoid all that.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Why do you think that is? We're gonna tell you why.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
On the other side, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And there are some people who plan to spend Thanksgiving alone.
I came across this Pew research study about the percentages
of people who spend Thanksgiving alone or what other people
plan to do that. Are they planning to go to
a big gathering, small gathering, or something in between. Well,
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the majority of people will celebrate Thanksgiving tomorrow with other
people seventy four percent, But surprisingly five percent of people,
so we're talking about five out of every hundred five
percent of people said they will have their Turkey solo,
and two percent to one hundred said they weren't participating
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at all. Check this out mark. Some of the reasons
for this were work or travel. Yes, if you work
in radio, you will miss some holidays guaranteed, because prior
to getting this show, I don't remember having any real holiday.
(19:35):
With exception of Christmas, I was a day which just
about everyone had a pre recorded a.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Best of shows, that's no secret.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But for the most part, New Year's Eve, New Year's
Day was here, King Holiday here, Thanksgiving. I might have
dodged it on occasion, depending if they could find someone
else to fill in, because if I was doing the
mo Kelly Show, I was usually filling in for someone,
and if I were filling in for someone earlier in
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the day, then it may not impact dinner, like if
I was filling in for Bill Handle or something like that,
which a.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Couple of times we got that one.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
But for the most part we were on late enough
where we were either missing it, but no matter what,
we still had to pre record a show for Saturday.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, and we weren't off off.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And I know that if only because they would usually
have a Thanksgiving spread here, and if I was eating here,
that means I was not eating there. And the worst
was and I might have told the story before, in fact,
I know I have. The worst was New Year's Eve.
I was filling in for then Tim Conway Junior from
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six to ten pm, and then I was filling in
that was New Year's Eve, and then filling in for
Gary and Shannon ten am to two pm on New
Year's Day.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, those short turnaround times are the roughest ones. I
didn't even go home.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I had a an air mattress the office, Yeah, in
my then office, and I just slept in the office
and I was but asked nasty for the next show
the next day one it's shower. We got this exclusive
gym here. We can't use it. It won't let us in there. No,
we don't even get a discount.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
You know.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I was kind of thinking that a membership in that
gym should come with our employment. But after this last
couple of weeks or so, I think we're just lucky
to let our key cards still work.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Both things are true, and we are lucky.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
And I always thought I heard when I first started it,
I because I started around this time the twelve days
of mo was a joke. And then I started seeing
you every single time I was training on different shows
until I got to where I am now every just
like wow, single day because Morgan, who used to work here,
She's the one that told me, and I'm like okay,
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and then there you were all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And I can tell it now.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Station management did not like me saying that on air
because they were afraid or concern that Osher or someone
would step in and say, well, how is it he's
working twelve days in a row.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Twelve? You gotta be kidding.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I think I hold the record for consecutive days here
and it's no twelve, is it is multiples of twelve?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well, look, this is not anything that I'm proud of,
and I'll be more than happy to relinquish any title
to anyone else. Because although I appreciated the work, it was,
I was the most miserable because I'm not getting any
time and it's during the holidays. There the things that
other people were doing, like maybe buying presents or doing
some housework where you catch up on stuff, that was
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the least amount of free time for me. But back
to the story, as far as why people may celebrate
Thanksgiving alone. The Pew Research Studies said a third of Americans,
about thirty four percent, plan to have Thanksgiving dinner at
their own home this year, either hosting others or dining alone,
and then another thirty nine percent plan to go to
someone else something. That's what my family's doing. We're going
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over my sister's house. But there's a small percentage three
percent who plan to go to a restaurant, hotel, or
other public place to celebrate the occasion.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I get that far.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, I get that Thanksgiving doesn't mean the same thing
to everyone. And I'm not saying that you need to
sit down and give thanks, you know, for the pilgrims
and thanks for the family. I'm just saying it doesn't
necessarily always hold the same memories, just like the Christmas
or holiday season. It could be painful memories, it could
be a number of things which may come to mind
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during the holidays. But here's something else, Mark and Twala
you'll appreciate. Although the number one activity during Thanksgiving is eating,
which we would all acknowledge, second to that is watching sports.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That's all I'm saying. It all comes back.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Just give me my football games and my food and
some Jack Daniels articular to Jack Daniels.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
For day drinking, that's your day drinking.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
No no, no, no no no. If it's Thanksgiving, dinner in
my household or households as we get some together, is
never before four to thirty five. So by the time
I finish dinner and get to an actual drink because
I'm not drinking with my meal, it's probably six six thirty,
so it's not day drinking. The sun is down, it
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is dark outside, and the football is on the TV.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I see. Okay, the judges will accept that, Thank you
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Speaker 4 (26:40):
Is there a minimum bid like on eBay there elo
which you're just you won't be insulted.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
There there is. I just don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And I say that because I was talking to producer
Michelle as she was putting it up and she said
she had to change the things, and I don't know
what she changed it to. There is a minimum bid,
but I'm telling you and Iran popeeal sort of. But wait,
there's more. There's there's there's so much more. There's so
much more to this KFI experience and hosting with later
(27:07):
with Mo Kelly than you know. And it is a bargain.
It is a bargain. I think it's worth twenty thousand.
That's just me. That's just me because I know people
would kill to be able to host a show on
this station.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Twenty thousand, you shooting low?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I know I know that, but I'm just twenty thousand
what rubles? But no, did you hear about the rubles?
I think that, like the whole market crash, they're not
doing so great. No, no, no, I would say that
maybe like eighty thousand rubles.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Oh okay, thank you to balloons. The balloon's quat lose
from Star Trek. We're betting in quat lose now. It's
all Star Trek. That is your weekly gamesters of Trice
Kelly in references.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Thank you very much. Wow.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
But yeah, like just to piggyback off of MO. Yeah,
if you're actually trying to get into any part of
this industry and you get this opportunity, it is an
absolute win.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Here's something else. KFI is what is known as a
heritage station. What do you mean, Mo, it's like in
other words, it's it's a grand station with a grand
history and level of importance for radio, not just southern California.
If you come across a radio station with just three
call letters, it's a heritage station. KFI, it's been around
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long time, Earl Anthony. You know the history, the importance
of KFI to Southern California and news nationally cannot adequately
be explained. Maybe you're someone who's listening to KFI for
twenty or thirty years and you always wanted a chance
to sit behind the microphone and have your voice go out.
(28:49):
Now it's not just southern California. Yes, you can hear
it in San Diego on terrestrial radio. Yes you can
hear it in Mexico on terrestrial radio. Yes you can
here going up the coastline. You can hear it, if
you didn't know, in about fourteen different states at night
on terrestrial radio, because KFI is one of the few
(29:10):
stations that does not have to turn down is broadcast
transmitter at night, so you're getting all of those fifty
thousand wats. But we live in the twenty first century
where we have this thing called the Internet and the
iHeartRadio app and it's the number one stream station on
Iheartradios app, so you can be heard the world over.
It's the best opportunity. Do not let it pass you by.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
And Yeah, there's kind of a theme here. Let's say
you're a non traditional Thanksgiving person. Maybe you are working
like we are, and you're looking for something to do
in the later hours or at some point in the
day and you won't be able to have that traditional
sit down Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe you are a college student.
(29:57):
This happened to me I was in college. You know,
there's nowhere to go, and maybe you don't have any
family in the area, and maybe it costs too much
to go home for the holiday. Here's some options, at
least if you're in LA. There is the Friends Warner
Brothers Studio Tour for one hundred and fifty dollars per person. Damn, damn,
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one hundred and fifty dollars per person. You mus will
buy dinner for six people, buy five friends for a
one hundred and fifty dollars wait.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Okay, one fifty per per per per person. Yeah, go
to dinner. Yeah, go to Denny's.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Okay, spend twenty five dollars and then use the rest
one hundred and twenty five to get drunk. It wouldn't
even cost one fifty total. Gosh, for one hundred and
fifty dollars per person, fans of the show Friends can
experience a ninety minutes Friends themed studio tour.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Ninety minutes for one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
A Friends giving buffet next to the fountain from the
show's opening credits and see props from the show. Oh look,
one hundred and fifty dollars for ninety minutes of Friends fandom.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
What a bargain? Can you splash around in the fountain?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Probably not? You could probably look, but not touch. Probably
there's probably an extra cost. Yeah, like as in like
getting kicked out twenty five dollars per splash one hundred
and fifty dollars for ninety minutes of a Friend's tour.
In just in case you are curious about the menu
for the Friends Giving buffet, not even to sit down.
The menu will feature classics like slow cooked turkey, cranberry sauce,
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mashed potatoes, and more. No for ae hundred fifty dollars.
You need to tell me what the more is. Don't
leave it up to my imagination. I need to know
exactly what I'm getting for one hundred and fifty dollars
for ninety minutes. Concert tickets cost less than that, and
you get a longer show. But if you want to
know more information, you can go to WB Studio tour
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dot com, forward slash Tour, forward slash friends Giving. Here's
something Mark you might be interested in. There's the Cuddle
Sanctuary friends Giving Social.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Excuse me exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The Cuddle Sanctuary Social is a workshop and social experience
that begins with a welcome circle, involves relaxation activities and
the opportunity to meet other people.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Oh and you can cuddle with them. Well, you buried
the lead. It's with other people, so I want nothing
to do with it. If you'd said cats, then I'd
be one hundred percent in.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Some people don't want to be around their family, but
they're willing to cuddle with strangers. Benefits are set to
include an increased time we call those John's give he
earned that one.
Speaker 7 (32:52):
Okay, wow, I know he had the second guests himself
on Tough crowd tough crowd I left.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Benefits are set to include an increased sense of well
being and belonging, a decrease in blood pressure, and a
better night's sleep. For November, there will be a friends
giving social with autumn inspired relaxation, connection and gratitude activities
and more their set and more. What's the more exactly
(33:19):
you have to ask the right question during the massage?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Call back reservations, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Reservations are priced at fifty five dollars for early birds
and sixty five the day of much more economical than
one hundred and fifty dollars for ninety minutes. And you
can get more information at Cuddlesanctuary dot com.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
So you can have three cuddle events or one friends event.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Right, Yeah, you have three happy endings or no happy endings.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Thank you for saying that so I didn't have to.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's what friends are for, for good times and bad times.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I'll be on your side forever more.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
You know that song, Mark, I thought you were gonna
segue into the peptobismal diarrhea song.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You don't know Elton John Stevie.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Wonder everybody knows it? Come on the Russian judges mark
you way down. If you don't know that one, Yes,
I know that one. Oh Russian judges.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Well they thought the highest and lowest. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
All inclusive friends Giving Dinner. The Next Fun Thing, which
is a community events organization, is hosting an all inclusive
friends giving dinner tailored to people spending the holiday solo.
The dinner will have curated seating to pair guests with
new friends, a choice of main course and dessert, and
complimentary glass of champagne or mimosa for a toast. Gratuity
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for the restaurant's staff is also included in the ticket,
which costs sixty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
That doesn't sound all that great.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I mean, I look, if I can get cuddled for
fifty five dollars, why am I going to pay sixty
five dollars for this? But you can find out more
at the Next fun Thing dot com. And there's connect
to Rise Ultimate Friends Giving, the nonprofit committed to combating
loneliness through community connect to Rise. That's the number two Rise.
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It's hosting a friends giving event with food, music, games, dancing,
and more. There's that and more on the day of Thanksgiving,
so no one has to spend the day alone. No
dress code, but fall colors are encouraged. Well, that sounds
like a dress code.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
That's just encouraged, Like you, if you want to come
and just whatever, you want to come and do that.
But they're just saying, if you could wear fall colors,
you'd look nice with everyone else.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Look, I just went to Keana's wedding. Okay, they encourage
professional attire. That was a dress code.
Speaker 8 (35:48):
They weren't. Yeah, but there was like one trip. There
are one or two people there that said, damn that,
Yes they did. They said, f that right. It's like,
did you at least shower today. Let's say there were
some tickets are donation based.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
With a suggestion that got all these suggestions suggested donation
for adults at twenty six dollars. Just say it cost
twenty six dollars and you got to wear a fall collar.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
But you can't.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
If it's a nonprofit, you cannot force necessarily in some
cases many cases, people to pay. So you have to
say it suggested. Now, if you come in with sixteen
dollars and they look at you like your name is
Stanley and you stink and they don't talk to you
for the whole night. You understand that that's what your
sixteen dollars got you.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
What's what?
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (36:34):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Stop being such a hater? Would you look for you?
The easier it is to avoid the idiots around here.
Kf I, KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live
everywhere on the radio.
Okay, it's everyone ready? Is everyone ready for Thanksgiving? Is
everyone ready to deal with the family for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Is everyone ready? I didn't. I'm not cheering. It's everyone
ready to deal with.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The incessant, insipid, in ain, unimportant conversations with family members
that you don't even like, may not even know.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's basically trash. Is everyone ready because everyone wants talking about? Oh,
it's all great when the family comes together.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Can't f I mo Kelly live everybody? I heeartradio app
But we all know better, right. I don't know about you,
but I get stressed out right before these big family dinners.
I do because I don't get the luxury of just
kind of tuning out the family, because, at least in
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my house, we usually have multi house Thanksgiving gatherings, and
so you may run into family members who haven't seen
you in a few months, and everybody wants an update.
Everybody wants to oh, so, how's this, How's that, how's
the dogs, how's the show?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
How's there? And I was like, leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I just want to have a drink and watch the
football game, which one mode, all of them, every single one,
which is going to be on tomorrow. But I can't
because I got to be like the nice person and
entertain and you know, be sociable.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So glad. I have to go to work tomorrow, So.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Glad, So glad. Honey, you're not coming about Oh I
got work. You can listen to me on the air.
You'll feel closer to me that way, you know, put
your hands on the radio, you'll hear my warmth.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
That's all I got for you.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Is everyone ready or do you have your excuse ready?
Because you need to have one or the other. If
you if you're ready for the family, then back on deals. Okay,
go with God, good luck. Everybody wants to talk about
the great portion of Thanksgiving. I'm here to give you
the real There are millions of men just like me
(02:35):
who just want to have a drink and watch the
football games and also have a good meal.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Don't get me wrong. That's all we want. Okay. We
don't want to have conversation.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
We don't want to talk about work, we don't want
to talk about life and relationships. We don't want to
talk about politics. We don't want to talk about anything
except oh that's that's a first down.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That's all we want us. All we want.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
We men are simple creatures, and yet we are some
twenty twenty five years at no Dominie in the year
of our Lord, and we still can't get women to
figure us out. Just give us our drink and our
game and a plate. That's it, and it will be
(03:23):
a very happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's all. That's all.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That's why I wanted to start off the show tonight
asking you, and I'm talking to men specifically, are you
ready for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I know I'm not. Can I tell the truth tonight,
I'm not ready for all that because.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I know it won't be a plate, it won't be
the football games, because then I would be rude.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm not being sociable.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm being anti social when all I wanted back in
September was a plate, a drink.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And watch the football games.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It doesn't matter who's on, it doesn't matter who wins,
it doesn't matter who loses.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That brings me relaxation. And I know just about.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Every man listening night now agrees with me just about
And if you don't agree with me, you're wrong. Every
Man just wants to be able to have his food,
his drink, and his football game.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I think in varying different uh degrees degrees. Yeah, yeah,
it may not be the food drink in the football game.
You know, it's an analogy. Yeah, you know, but you
know it may be like the food and just time alone.
Let me sit in the big chair and just mind
my business.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I'm fifty five now, I'm big chair age. Have all
the kids in another room, go play, go play, But
big Daddy wants to sit in the chair and watch
the football game, hopefully have a plate prior to and
a drink in my hand. That's all I want. That's
all you asked for. Like what I want for Christmas?
I want that for my Thanksgiving leading into Christmas. That's
(05:13):
exactly what I want. That's exactly how I want to
kick off the holiday season.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Me food, football, and drink. That's it. I'm a very
simple man.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But for some reason, the other species hasn't figured us
out yet.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Did I call them species? Ok? Mark, good evening, Hello,
mo am. I wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I'm working two shifts tomorrow, so you're not wrong, right.
I used to always volunteer to work the holidays for
some reason. Also, the thing that people don't understand if
you're just socializing on the holidays and if you are
a broadcast professional of any sort or in the media.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You're not on. You're not on all day, You're just
hanging out.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
No, And unfortunately I can't speak for you Mark. I
know Tawala, you probably get it to a certain degree
because people in your sphere of influence, your circle, they'll
come up and ask you about the show.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well, they want you to perform. Yeah, They was like, well,
did you talk about this? Are you going to talk
about that? Well, what do you think about this? You know,
Trump just got elect this, so what is that going
to mean for our country? Damn?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It is Thanksgiving and the cowboys are on getting their
ass kicked.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I would rather talk about that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
The only difference between you and me is that for
me to be a horror movie or something.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's an analogy. For me,
it's the football game. For someone else, that could be
I don't know, listening to music or like some old
Kung Fu episode, right, listening to KFI.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I know it could be like that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, No, I know there are a lot of people
who will be listening to KFI tomorrow night when we're
on when we are actually working.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Of course, I'm just saying that I hear KFI countless
hours in a given week, so I tend not to
do that in my leisure time.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Oh no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm with you on that, and I have to have
a degree of professional separation, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I may listen to like George Norrie on the way home,
but that's a little bit different. He's not talking about
the news for the most part. He is taking me
almost literally to another place. We're talking about another dimension,
another type of conversation, different types of subjects, so it's different.
I try to not especially during the holiday season. And
(07:25):
here's the real point. I try to consume as little
news information during the holidays as possible because that's about
the only time I can get away with it and
there would be some sort of respite where I don't
have to feel like I have to stay up on
every single little political thing or socio cultural little thing,
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and I get some semblance of an actual holiday because
for the most part, we are going to be working
and you have to deal with the news right in
front of you. So that's why we're a little bit
more choosy with Yes, we know what's going on in
the world.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I can speak extemporaneously about all the Trump cabinet picks
and what they may mean in the political implications of
what that's going to mean for the next Congress. I
can do all that every single day. But I don't
want to do that in holidays. Is this kind of
what it sounds like.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
I'm just sitting there, just depressed, and it shall go.
Oh is that another touchdown?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Yeah, Cowboys just scored again. Oh okay, So the other team,
the one that's losing badly, that's your team. Yeah, that's
my team. Oh no, they could They scored again. I
didn't know you can score as many points.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And all I want to do is just watch the game,
and they won't let you watch the game. All I
want for Christmas is my two NFL football games on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Is everyone ready for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Not just the food, not all the fun that we
talk about, and we romanticize the whole experience of the
Thanksgiving dinner. I'm talking about the real of what happens
at Thanksgiving that nobody wants to talk about. The relatives
you don't want to see, the kids who are always
out of control and their parents never know how to
whoop their ass because they don't know what that is.
(09:23):
They get time out as opposed to an ass whooping.
No one wants to talk about the reality of Thanksgiving?
Are you ready for Thanksgiving? I know I'm not, and
I was talking to Twalla and I don't think he
is either, But he's going to tell his own story
if he wants to.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Can we tell the truth? As men?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Do you think it's an accident that I became a childless,
middle aged bachelor.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Do you think it was an accident I got married
at forty six as opposed to.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
There are no accidents.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That was by choice, not by chance. Okay, okay, And
all of a sudden she tripped me. You know when
someone's running behind you and they kick your heels together.
That's what happened. Okay, I lost my balance. I wasn't intending.
Just happened that way. You just fell right on a
ring something like that, something like that. It's Later with
mo Kelly. It's gonna be one of them shows tonight
(10:16):
kaf I AM six forty We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
We all know about the four or five Freeway, nickname
the parking Lot, the four or five park lit It's
a freeway which has been notorious for the amount of
traffic and inefficiency trying to get you from one side
of the city to the other. But there has been
a myth attached to it. Yes, Thanksgiving traffic is horrible.
(10:50):
That much is fact. But the myth is that today,
right now, specifically as the sun has recently gone down,
that the Wednesday, the date before Thanksgiving, is the worst
traffic day of not only the Thanksgiving weekend but of
the holiday season. That's a myth, and there's actual data
(11:11):
which proves otherwise. Saw this in the La Times, and
if anything, if you were listening to this show yesterday,
you would know that even though it was anecdotal, we
our experiences validated what this was saying. Long story short,
Wednesday today is not the most traffic of the year
(11:33):
as far as the four h five is concerned. It's
the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. If you were listening yesterday, you
knew that traffic turned our show upside down. And that
is not exclusive to the four h five. That was
all the freeways. I not even I didn't even see
this report, this data. This didn't even come out until today.
(11:56):
But yesterday we started off the show with it and
it became just a running joke until it wasn't funny,
where we lost two of our guests because of the traffic.
So it's Tuesday and Monday to a lesser degree, which
are filled with much more traffic at least on the
four or five freeway than today Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.
(12:21):
Now I can go into all the specific average daily
traffic speeding miles per hour, it really doesn't matter. All
I know is the traffic was horrible. It was fu
bar yesterday and that's enough for me. And I didn't
even get anywhere near the four or five because it
took me two hours to go twenty miles and I
was going from the one ten to the five. I
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even got off on surface streets at one point because
it wasn't getting any better, and then I drove up.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
To the one oh one. It was horrible to go
twenty miles.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And if it took two hours to go twenty miles
on all freeways, not name the four or five, you
can only imagine what it was like going through the
Subpulvida Pass. And if you've ever driven that, it's bad
on any given day at any time after like one pm,
going north on the four five, you're going over the
hill and then you're probably trying to get on like
(13:15):
the oough. I just I have nightmares just thinking about it,
because you might actually be in a rush. It might
be an actual emergency. And let me digress for a second.
We always talk about are you earthquake prepared? We always
say are you ready for an emergency? And I keep
trying to remind people if it were an actual emergency
and you had to get from here to there during
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an emergency, Let's say after an earthquake, And that's assuming
that all the freeways are still physically intact rain and
the holiday season set down almost all the freeways. Yesterday
it took two hours to go twenty miles. What do
you think it's going to be after an earthquake, a
major earthquake. It means you're not going anywhere. But again
I was digressing. The traffic on the four or five
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has always been bad, but we've been led to believe
that today is the worst day. And maybe, and maybe
you know, it's not the worst day, but it's pretty
damn bad in its own right. Probably Tuesday yesterday, Yes,
that was bad for everything everywhere, everyone, all freeways, And
let's say today is slightly better.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I can say this.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I didn't take the four five, so I can't speak
for the four or five, but my trip in today
was light years ahead of what it was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Maybe some of that had to do with the lack
of rain.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
We had some rain yesterday, and that always impacts traffic
in a way because people don't know how to drive.
It's almost like, oh my gosh, six drops of water
hit my car and they just start careening into one another,
or they slow down to four miles an hour. It's
one of the other side. I can't get you to
drive at a safe speed. Four miles an hour is
not safe. Neither is ninety eight miles an hour. In
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the rain that's not safe either. But whenever it has
there's any precipitation out there, we just don't know how
to drive and it makes the drive for everyone bad.
But today was it raining, got here about forty forty
five minutes. It was beautiful. Day before Thanksgiving was absolutely beautiful.
(15:17):
Can't speak for it to you and Stephan We're coming
from the same area, but not at the same time.
Mark Ronner, he lives on the other side of Hell
and Twalla's just short of that, but in the same
general vicinity.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yeah, kind of on the event horizon of Hell. No
middle fingers were dispatched today on the way in. Now
that should tell you something.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
People were not as stressed out and they're not driving
as erratically or dangerously.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Hopefully.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, my trip in was smooth, smooth as butter. Yesterday
I wanted to runner every other car that got.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
In my way. My name is not of her.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Today was ready for a double There is no double
runnerings that sounds filthy.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Okay, so we can't. We can't make your name a verb.
What about an adverb? I was driving erly?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Is that better?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I'm not sure how I feel about it. I have
to be honest with you. It kind of amuses me, right, Okay,
what about it?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Look, I was driving all of a sudden I got
a runner. No, that sounds like you have to poop
your pants.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Well, you need to choose which which which form of
bullying do I prefer Let me Let me give that
some fun and I'll get back to you.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
We can't be a Now, we can't be a verb,
can't use you as an adverb? What about an article?
I just want some basic human respect. Is that too
much to ask? Is it on this show yesterday? Yeah,
you're right, it is. Forget it forget I brought it up.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
But look, I love the idea of giving an I
do it. I mean it fills me with Joe. That
might be another shirt. Could you imagine?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, could you imagine getting pulled over by police? Sir?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I noticed that you're doing a runner in a school song.
Which will I have stepping out of the car?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Police? Is this your car? Go ahead and get it
out of your system? Oh? Even okay, what are you his?
Lindsey Graham? Now what is this? God? It was funny?
It was funny. Okay, go ahead. You like making fun
of other people, but you don't like you? No, no, no, no.
(17:27):
He likes to give runners. He doesn't want.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
To bite your tongue. How dare you? Damn you all?
I treat you all with nothing but respect and love.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Nothing. Oh he was trying to be funny there.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That When we come back on the other side of
this break, I started the show asking the question, are
you ready for Thanksgiving? Not for you know, for the
purpose of eating, not because you want to have a
great deal, but are you ready for all the other
stuff that comes along with a Thanksgiving evening. Maybe it's
family you don't want to see. Maybe it's you know,
(18:02):
children who are acting up. Maybe it's because no one
will leave you alone. Maybe it's because someone wants to
start a conversation about politics you don't want to deal
with that. Possibly you might be one of the people
who would plan to spend Thanksgiving alone to avoid all that.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Why do you think that is? We're gonna tell you why.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
On the other side, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And there are some people who plan to spend Thanksgiving alone.
I came across this Pew research study about the percentages
of people who spend Thanksgiving alone or what other people
plan to do that. Are they planning to go to
a big gathering, small gathering, or something in between. Well,
(18:50):
the majority of people will celebrate Thanksgiving tomorrow with other
people seventy four percent, But surprisingly five percent of people,
so we're talking about five out of every hundred five
percent of people said they will have their Turkey solo,
and two percent to one hundred said they weren't participating
(19:12):
at all. Check this out mark. Some of the reasons
for this were work or travel. Yes, if you work
in radio, you will miss some holidays guaranteed, because prior
to getting this show, I don't remember having any real holiday.
(19:35):
With exception of Christmas, I was a day which just
about everyone had a pre recorded a.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Best of shows, that's no secret.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But for the most part, New Year's Eve, New Year's
Day was here, King Holiday here, Thanksgiving. I might have
dodged it on occasion, depending if they could find someone
else to fill in, because if I was doing the
mo Kelly Show, I was usually filling in for someone,
and if I were filling in for someone earlier in
(20:04):
the day, then it may not impact dinner, like if
I was filling in for Bill Handle or something like that,
which a.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Couple of times we got that one.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
But for the most part we were on late enough
where we were either missing it, but no matter what,
we still had to pre record a show for Saturday.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, and we weren't off off.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And I know that if only because they would usually
have a Thanksgiving spread here, and if I was eating here,
that means I was not eating there. And the worst
was and I might have told the story before, in fact,
I know I have. The worst was New Year's Eve.
I was filling in for then Tim Conway Junior from
(20:44):
six to ten pm, and then I was filling in
that was New Year's Eve, and then filling in for
Gary and Shannon ten am to two pm on New
Year's Day.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, those short turnaround times are the roughest ones. I
didn't even go home.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I had a an air mattress the office, Yeah, in
my then office, and I just slept in the office
and I was but asked nasty for the next show
the next day one it's shower. We got this exclusive
gym here. We can't use it. It won't let us in there. No,
we don't even get a discount.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
You know.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I was kind of thinking that a membership in that
gym should come with our employment. But after this last
couple of weeks or so, I think we're just lucky
to let our key cards still work.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Both things are true, and we are lucky.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
And I always thought I heard when I first started it,
I because I started around this time the twelve days
of mo was a joke. And then I started seeing
you every single time I was training on different shows
until I got to where I am now every just
like wow, single day because Morgan, who used to work here,
She's the one that told me, and I'm like okay,
(21:56):
and then there you were all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And I can tell it now.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Station management did not like me saying that on air
because they were afraid or concern that Osher or someone
would step in and say, well, how is it he's
working twelve days in a row.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Twelve? You gotta be kidding.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I think I hold the record for consecutive days here
and it's no twelve, is it is multiples of twelve?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well, look, this is not anything that I'm proud of,
and I'll be more than happy to relinquish any title
to anyone else. Because although I appreciated the work, it was,
I was the most miserable because I'm not getting any
time and it's during the holidays. There the things that
other people were doing, like maybe buying presents or doing
some housework where you catch up on stuff, that was
(22:40):
the least amount of free time for me. But back
to the story, as far as why people may celebrate
Thanksgiving alone. The Pew Research Studies said a third of Americans,
about thirty four percent, plan to have Thanksgiving dinner at
their own home this year, either hosting others or dining alone,
and then another thirty nine percent plan to go to
someone else something. That's what my family's doing. We're going
(23:01):
over my sister's house. But there's a small percentage three
percent who plan to go to a restaurant, hotel, or
other public place to celebrate the occasion.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I get that far.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, I get that Thanksgiving doesn't mean the same thing
to everyone. And I'm not saying that you need to
sit down and give thanks, you know, for the pilgrims
and thanks for the family. I'm just saying it doesn't
necessarily always hold the same memories, just like the Christmas
or holiday season. It could be painful memories, it could
be a number of things which may come to mind
(23:34):
during the holidays. But here's something else, Mark and Twala
you'll appreciate. Although the number one activity during Thanksgiving is eating,
which we would all acknowledge, second to that is watching sports.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That's all I'm saying. It all comes back.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Just give me my football games and my food and
some Jack Daniels articular to Jack Daniels.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
For day drinking, that's your day drinking.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
No no, no, no no no. If it's Thanksgiving, dinner in
my household or households as we get some together, is
never before four to thirty five. So by the time
I finish dinner and get to an actual drink because
I'm not drinking with my meal, it's probably six six thirty,
so it's not day drinking. The sun is down, it
(24:23):
is dark outside, and the football is on the TV.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I see. Okay, the judges will accept that, Thank you
very much. The Fourteenthdaniel Cafi Pastathon is here.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Chef Muno's charity, Katerina's Club, provides more than twenty five
thousand meals every single week to kids in need right
here in southern California. But you can be part of
that for the next twenty five thousand, in the next
twenty five thousand, in the weeks they're going forward. You
can donate a bit on exclusive KFI auction items like
the Later with Moe Kelly auction item where you can
(24:53):
co host a show with me for three whole hours
on our Friday, including name that movie called Classic and
you can find out whether Mark Ronner is going to
be a noun verb or adverb.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
How can you put a price tag on that kind
of fun? How?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
And you will be sitting in the chair in the
studio in which we broadcast all of our KFI shows.
You just need to go to KFIAM six forty dot
com forward slash Pastathon and you can make your bid there.
You can bid up until Tuesday, December third, which is
next week the date of the live broadcast until nine
to forty five pm will be on air at that
point and we'll probably let you know it's your last
(25:32):
second to bid. You can shop at any smartan Final
store and donate any amount at checkout. You can go
to any Windy's restaurant in southern California and donate, And
if you donate five dollars or more and get a
coup you get a coupon book worth fifteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
But again that'll remind you.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Coming up on Tuesday, you get to see the crew
will be live in person for Giving Tuesday at the
Anaheim White House as part of the Pastathon, the fourteenth
annual live all day broadcasts from five am to ten pm.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Come on out.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
You can see us in person acting a fool and
having some fun, but also most importantly raising money for
Katerina's Club and also raising pasta and sauce donations, and
one hundred percent of your donation goes to Katerina's Club.
Let me thank you in advance for your support. And
I know you probably can't remember all this. We'll tell
you about it again during the show. But you can
(26:22):
go right now to KFIAM six forty dot com forward
slash pastathon. You can bid on this item for co
hosting with me and later with mo Kelly's show. You
can do that right now or you can do it
later on tonight. But as long as you do it tonight,
don't wait.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Is there a minimum bid like on eBay there elo
which you're just you won't be insulted.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
There there is. I just don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And I say that because I was talking to producer
Michelle as she was putting it up and she said
she had to change the things, and I don't know
what she changed it to. There is a minimum bid,
but I'm telling you and Iran popeeal sort of. But wait,
there's more. There's there's there's so much more. There's so
much more to this KFI experience and hosting with later
(27:07):
with Mo Kelly than you know. And it is a bargain.
It is a bargain. I think it's worth twenty thousand.
That's just me. That's just me because I know people
would kill to be able to host a show on
this station.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Twenty thousand, you shooting low?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I know I know that, but I'm just twenty thousand
what rubles? But no, did you hear about the rubles?
I think that, like the whole market crash, they're not
doing so great. No, no, no, I would say that
maybe like eighty thousand rubles.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Oh okay, thank you to balloons. The balloon's quat lose
from Star Trek. We're betting in quat lose now. It's
all Star Trek. That is your weekly gamesters of Trice
Kelly in references.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Thank you very much. Wow.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
But yeah, like just to piggyback off of MO. Yeah,
if you're actually trying to get into any part of
this industry and you get this opportunity, it is an
absolute win.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Here's something else. KFI is what is known as a
heritage station. What do you mean, Mo, it's like in
other words, it's it's a grand station with a grand
history and level of importance for radio, not just southern California.
If you come across a radio station with just three
call letters, it's a heritage station. KFI, it's been around
(28:26):
long time, Earl Anthony. You know the history, the importance
of KFI to Southern California and news nationally cannot adequately
be explained. Maybe you're someone who's listening to KFI for
twenty or thirty years and you always wanted a chance
to sit behind the microphone and have your voice go out.
(28:49):
Now it's not just southern California. Yes, you can hear
it in San Diego on terrestrial radio. Yes you can
hear it in Mexico on terrestrial radio. Yes you can
here going up the coastline. You can hear it, if
you didn't know, in about fourteen different states at night
on terrestrial radio, because KFI is one of the few
(29:10):
stations that does not have to turn down is broadcast
transmitter at night, so you're getting all of those fifty
thousand wats. But we live in the twenty first century
where we have this thing called the Internet and the
iHeartRadio app and it's the number one stream station on
Iheartradios app, so you can be heard the world over.
It's the best opportunity. Do not let it pass you by.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
And Yeah, there's kind of a theme here. Let's say
you're a non traditional Thanksgiving person. Maybe you are working
like we are, and you're looking for something to do
in the later hours or at some point in the
day and you won't be able to have that traditional
sit down Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe you are a college student.
(29:57):
This happened to me I was in college. You know,
there's nowhere to go, and maybe you don't have any
family in the area, and maybe it costs too much
to go home for the holiday. Here's some options, at
least if you're in LA. There is the Friends Warner
Brothers Studio Tour for one hundred and fifty dollars per person. Damn, damn,
(30:23):
one hundred and fifty dollars per person. You mus will
buy dinner for six people, buy five friends for a
one hundred and fifty dollars wait.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Okay, one fifty per per per per person. Yeah, go
to dinner. Yeah, go to Denny's.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Okay, spend twenty five dollars and then use the rest
one hundred and twenty five to get drunk. It wouldn't
even cost one fifty total. Gosh, for one hundred and
fifty dollars per person, fans of the show Friends can
experience a ninety minutes Friends themed studio tour.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Ninety minutes for one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
A Friends giving buffet next to the fountain from the
show's opening credits and see props from the show. Oh look,
one hundred and fifty dollars for ninety minutes of Friends fandom.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
What a bargain? Can you splash around in the fountain?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Probably not? You could probably look, but not touch. Probably
there's probably an extra cost. Yeah, like as in like
getting kicked out twenty five dollars per splash one hundred
and fifty dollars for ninety minutes of a Friend's tour.
In just in case you are curious about the menu
for the Friends Giving buffet, not even to sit down.
The menu will feature classics like slow cooked turkey, cranberry sauce,
(31:44):
mashed potatoes, and more. No for ae hundred fifty dollars.
You need to tell me what the more is. Don't
leave it up to my imagination. I need to know
exactly what I'm getting for one hundred and fifty dollars
for ninety minutes. Concert tickets cost less than that, and
you get a longer show. But if you want to
know more information, you can go to WB Studio tour
(32:04):
dot com, forward slash Tour, forward slash friends Giving. Here's
something Mark you might be interested in. There's the Cuddle
Sanctuary friends Giving Social.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Excuse me exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The Cuddle Sanctuary Social is a workshop and social experience
that begins with a welcome circle, involves relaxation activities and
the opportunity to meet other people.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Oh and you can cuddle with them. Well, you buried
the lead. It's with other people, so I want nothing
to do with it. If you'd said cats, then I'd
be one hundred percent in.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Some people don't want to be around their family, but
they're willing to cuddle with strangers. Benefits are set to
include an increased time we call those John's give he
earned that one.
Speaker 7 (32:52):
Okay, wow, I know he had the second guests himself
on Tough crowd tough crowd I left.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Benefits are set to include an increased sense of well
being and belonging, a decrease in blood pressure, and a
better night's sleep. For November, there will be a friends
giving social with autumn inspired relaxation, connection and gratitude activities
and more their set and more. What's the more exactly
(33:19):
you have to ask the right question during the massage?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Call back reservations, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Reservations are priced at fifty five dollars for early birds
and sixty five the day of much more economical than
one hundred and fifty dollars for ninety minutes. And you
can get more information at Cuddlesanctuary dot com.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
So you can have three cuddle events or one friends event.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Right, Yeah, you have three happy endings or no happy endings.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Thank you for saying that so I didn't have to.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's what friends are for, for good times and bad times.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I'll be on your side forever more.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
You know that song, Mark, I thought you were gonna
segue into the peptobismal diarrhea song.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You don't know Elton John Stevie.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Wonder everybody knows it? Come on the Russian judges mark
you way down. If you don't know that one, Yes,
I know that one. Oh Russian judges.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Well they thought the highest and lowest. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
All inclusive friends Giving Dinner. The Next Fun Thing, which
is a community events organization, is hosting an all inclusive
friends giving dinner tailored to people spending the holiday solo.
The dinner will have curated seating to pair guests with
new friends, a choice of main course and dessert, and
complimentary glass of champagne or mimosa for a toast. Gratuity
(34:48):
for the restaurant's staff is also included in the ticket,
which costs sixty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
That doesn't sound all that great.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I mean, I look, if I can get cuddled for
fifty five dollars, why am I going to pay sixty
five dollars for this? But you can find out more
at the Next fun Thing dot com. And there's connect
to Rise Ultimate Friends Giving, the nonprofit committed to combating
loneliness through community connect to Rise. That's the number two Rise.
(35:18):
It's hosting a friends giving event with food, music, games, dancing,
and more. There's that and more on the day of Thanksgiving,
so no one has to spend the day alone. No
dress code, but fall colors are encouraged. Well, that sounds
like a dress code.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
That's just encouraged, Like you, if you want to come
and just whatever, you want to come and do that.
But they're just saying, if you could wear fall colors,
you'd look nice with everyone else.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Look, I just went to Keana's wedding. Okay, they encourage
professional attire. That was a dress code.
Speaker 8 (35:48):
They weren't. Yeah, but there was like one trip. There
are one or two people there that said, damn that,
Yes they did. They said, f that right. It's like,
did you at least shower today. Let's say there were
some tickets are donation based.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
With a suggestion that got all these suggestions suggested donation
for adults at twenty six dollars. Just say it cost
twenty six dollars and you got to wear a fall collar.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
But you can't.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
If it's a nonprofit, you cannot force necessarily in some
cases many cases, people to pay. So you have to
say it suggested. Now, if you come in with sixteen
dollars and they look at you like your name is
Stanley and you stink and they don't talk to you
for the whole night. You understand that that's what your
sixteen dollars got you.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
What's what?
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (36:34):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Stop being such a hater? Would you look for you?
The easier it is to avoid the idiots around here.
Kf I, KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live
everywhere on the radio.
Later, with Mo'Kelly News
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