December 3, 2024 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look ‘Beyond the Box Score’ with regular guest contributor Jackie Rae; Long Beach Watchdog/WNBA Reporter and host of ‘The Jackie Rae Show,’ weighing in on the recent College Football “Flag Planting” melees AND the Rose Bowl’s $80 million "Lasting Legacy Campaign" stadium revamp…PLUS – A look at the Weekend Box Office with a review of ‘Moana 2’ AND your weekly Horoscope with the cake that best symbolizes your Zodiac sign - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty KFI mo Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And we're getting down to the end of the college
football season, which means there will be a college football
playoff this year where they will have twelve entrants as
opposed to the previous four. The playoff format has expanded
and with it also the chances of other universities to participate.
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So the games as we get down to the season
are much more important because there are still more schools
universities which have a chance at the national championship. If
you're a college football fan, you know that the rivalry
between the University of Michigan and Ohio State is legendary.
But I have to take a step back because I
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didn't go to a football school.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Jackie Ray, good even be good to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Good to see you too when you see or I
should say, when you go to a big time college
football game, what is special about it?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I think everything is special about the atmosphere when you
go to a college football game, because a lot of times,
I don't want to say a lot of times ninety
nine point nine percent of the time. This college team
is important to that town, it's important to that community,
it's important to that state. Sometimes you know, see you football.
Colorado is a sports town, a sports state. We live
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and die by our sports, even if they're not good.
We live and die by our sports.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
But that is.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Amplified at the college level because now you're cheering on
athletes that you plan on cheering on for the rest
of their careers. You're rooting on certain people to carry
you through their NFL career. And it's so electric, and
young people are there, they're probably there with their third
fourth generation alumni. It's just this very, very electric. So
when you say rivalries, there are people right now. I have,
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you know, Alabama friends they say roll Tide after every
statement that they say, just because that's a part of
their culture now.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
And it's so it's not just like going to an
NFL game.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
When you're in an NFL game, it's that it comes
and goes, but this is part of your culture.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
You live and die by this game.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
In this Ohio State Michigan game, Michigan was not thought
to have any chance of winning, right, but they did
win Ohio State. I assume it's still in the National
Championship playoff picture, but it was still a huge game.
A Michigan player took a University of Michigan flag and
physically planted it at the fifty yard line on the
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Ohio State Buckeyes logo.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And this is what ensued.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
That's what we are, That's what Michigan does, man, And
that's where your first of all stuff was.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
And folks, something interesting is going on on the field
right now. Michigan tried to play their flag in the
middle of the Ohio State field and the Buckeyes rushed
right to them, and now there's some skirmishes going on
on the field. An unsportsman like gesture by the Wolverines unnecessary.
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They've won the game, No need to be disrespectful.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
That's what happened in Ohio State, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That is still being investigated because police got involved. I
didn't know if there were enough police or they thought
they were outnumbered because they used pepper spray in the melee.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
There may be some lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
But that's not the only flag planting incident which happened
this weekend. It was also in the Florida Florida State,
which is another huge football rivalry. Where do you come
out on this idea of flag planting.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
They did it in the UNC University of North Carolina
and UC State game as well, so everybody was I
don't know if there a memo went around and said, hey,
if you win, plants flag.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
It seems like that's what happened.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You know, it's mad disrespectful unless you're the person planning
the flag, and then it's that statement of hey, we won,
we own your house. It's it's one of those statements.
I remember even in the professional level when Too wasn't
playing for the Cowboys, he tried.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
To plant the football.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
And he was leveled.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Now he was leveled by one person, so it wasn't
quite as bad. But these are kids, and so that
level of disrespect. I don't even know if they have
the mental faculties to really.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Process that.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But it's all the maturity, sophistication.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, none of that, and the reality of it is
in my opinion, and I feel like I'm going to
get dragged for this, But in my opinion, how you
get that big old flag onto the field without an adult,
a coach, somebody seeing you.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh, there are some accomplices there.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I just wonder how long in the way that schools
have started cracking down on the storm in the field.
I stormed the court once when Georgetown beat Syracuse in DC.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I know what that's like.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And also it was hella dangerous looking back, so people
got trampled that day.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I know for a.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I suspect football will do the same here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
My question is why haven't they already done it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Well, they're gonna have to now because especially when you
involve police and them doing pepper spray. So I know
have a ton of stories. But I was also a
police cadet. That's how I got through college.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
So in Denver, Colorado, you can become a police cadet.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
It's a very unique program.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Is it like rotcs are done in conjunction with the university.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, well no, it's done directly through the Denver Police Department.
And so what you have to do is you have
to train with the police department, you have to go
through the academy, you have to take the same test,
but you're still in your four year program for school,
and then when you get out, all the testing when
you graduate from college, all the testing and stuff that
you would normally have to go through as a civilian
you kind of bypass that and go straight into the academy.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
So because of.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
That and being a journalist for over ten years, I've
seen police far too often use excessive force and have
difficulty de escalating situations. And for me seeing them immediately
pull out their prepper spray in the situation, I get
that you might have been overwhelmed, but these there are
still kids, there are still people that they know and
trust on the field that you could have had them
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really step in. And we've seen these kind of melees
happen far too often.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
We know they're going to die down. So the use
of pepper.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Spray kind of it troubled me because it could potentially
escalate to something else.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Here is where I agree with you, if only because yes,
fights happen on the field, but usually it is left
to the on field official officials, coaches, staff and personnel
correct to handle. Once you put the police into that equation,
then you're talking about an escalation of violence.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Absolutely absolutely, And we've just seen far too often in
you know, numbers matters, stats matters, facts matter, and far
too often we've seen that it escalates too. It's three
times as likely to escalate just on the regular street
when it's a person of color. So now I imagine
somebody in a situation that there they feel threatened and
I'm using air quotes right now, they feel threatened in
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some way, and now that escalates, and I.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Just look at you up in there, if only because
these are some big ass.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Kids, right, so why are you six two.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
To six ' nine two hundred pounds to over three
hundred pounds. So there is a physical dangerous environment, legitimately dangerous,
But I don't think and I see this is someone
who has been a civilian his own life, his whole life.
I don't know if you can safely navigate that with
pepper spray.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
No, but you what you can do is understand that
there are people there on that field that these kids love,
they trust, they probably look at as father figures.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
And you can protect the crowd.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You might not necessarily be able to really intervene on
what's happening between the players on the field, but you
can make sure that no one from the stands comes
onto the field, and you can keep everyone else safe.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's the key point they're focused. You are saying should
have been just on that crowd and that's it, and
keeping people off the field. They overstepped. When we come back,
let's talk about still within the college football matrix, the
Rose Bowl.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Have you ever been to the Rose Bowl once?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I was not impressed.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Okay, and that's key here because they just announced some
eighty million dollars as part of this lasting legacy campaign
to revamp and upgrade the stadium. And I was looking
at that. I know it's like a historical landmark. I
know it's placed in college football history. I know what
it means for Pasadena and greater Los Angeles. But the
same can be said for the coliseum, and that's a dump.
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And we'll get into it next. But I wonder whether
these eighty million dollars are going to mean anything big picture.
We'll talk about that when we come back. My guest
in studio right now is Jackie Rays. As we go
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Speaker 1 (08:48):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. I'm joined by Jackie Ray
and studio. We're going beyond the box score and live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I've been to the Rose
Bowl I don't know, maybe a dozen times in my
life for various events, not only UCLA football games. But
it's an old ass stadium. And I mean this as
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respectfully as possible. It's one hundred and two years old. Yes,
it looks older. It looks even older when the closer
you get to it, especially if you've been to any
When I say a modern stadium, I'm talking about a
stadium which was built in the nineteen eighties or later.
I'm not talking about Sofi Stadium. The Rose Bowl is
really really old, and really really old facilities have a
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really difficult time attracting events to keep it open. We've
seen what has happened with the Coliseum, especially since Sofi
Stadium has been built. All the events that would be
held at a stadium were going to Sofi Stadium. Even
when you had the addition of the into It Dome
the new Clippers Stadium. You've seen that how concerts are
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going to the into A do as opposed to Staple Center, Slash,
Crypto dot Com whatever they want to call it. Nobody,
but right I'm talking about this business aspect of maintaining
these sports venues. Now, the Rose Bowl has announced this
eighty million dollar Lasting Legacy.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Campaign, and just the name even gives me pause.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
When you say lasting Legacy, it's almost like you want
to keep something as it is, where it is, preserving
what it is. But it doesn't help me move into
the future. But this remodeling project will well. According to
the Lasting Legacy campaign, will improve seating, refurbish the stadium's
iconic sign, and install one of the nation's largest video
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boards and other various enhancements. Now this is Jen's Widen,
the CEO of the Rose Bowl operating company, Jen said, quote,
these investments will help ensure that we remain one of
the most dynamic football, soccer, concert and festival venues in
the world. Close quote I'm not so sh.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I'm not either, especially when you use a word like refurbish.
If anyone's ever bought a refurbished back, yeah, you know
that you're just biding your time before you need another one.
So when you use words like refurbished, and the problem
is when you like I said, I've only been to
the Rose Bowl once and it was a destination for me.
When I came out here, it took me about six
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years after I moved out here to make it there,
but because like you said, I come from a college town,
it was a place that I wanted to go, and
for me, it was very reminiscent of the very first
time I went to San Diego to see the Chargers play,
and when I went in there, I was like, this
is a giant outhouse. Why are they playing here? And
then of course two years later they were gone. It
just didn't scream this is where I want to be.
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It didn't scream legacy, which it's very interesting to me
that they use that word. Maybe that's why they're using
that word because a lot of people see it that way.
It didn't scream that to me. It screamed falling down
to me.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I remember one of the reasons why LA could not
lure a football team was they only had the coliseum
with the rams used to play back of the day and.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
They still use that for high school games, and that's
a mess.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
The use it for high school games, to use it
for a USC for now, I don't know how long
USC is going to stay there.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
They use it for a NASCAR event.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
They're trying to be creative to find uses for it,
but ultimately it it cannot compete. And I remember when
they make compare apples to apples. They did I don't know,
like one hundred million dollars worth of renovations back in
the day to help make it more attractive to a
football team.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
It was not enough.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
No, And when you're talking about I use this analogy
all the time, when you're talking about a foundation of something.
If the foundation is faulty, then everything you build above
that is going to be faulty. So when you're talking
about refurbishing something that is one hundred and one hundred
and two years old, that's you can't do that.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
You have to. You have to. I don't want to
say start over.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You absolutely can keep some things of it, but it's
not going to look like state of the art.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
It's not going to have the same feel.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
It's going to look like you're trying to put technology
on something old.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Dodger Stadium has been I would think very I don't
want to say lucky, but they have been very, very
good at trying to at least upgrade some of the
in stadium experience. They've changed all the seats in Dodger
Stadium and also Dodger stadium is you're only dealing with
fifty four thousand seats as opposed to I don't know,
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like ninety thousand seats, and the things which are being
done in Dodger Stadium can be done on that smaller
level as opposed to a football stadium. I've been to
Sofi Stadium and I've been to the Rose Bowl. There's
more than one hundred and two years in between those
two stadiums as far as accoutrama and football experience. And
we're talking about fans now who were born in the
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twenty first century who are used to the Sofi Stadium
type experience or the fan experience. I don't know if
you'll be able to update this stadium in a way
which is going to bring events and also bring fans
outside of UCLA football.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, I think you can, but you have to be
willing to take a temporary loss. You have to say
for a season, we're going to shut it down and
redo the whole thing. And I think and that's where
the problem is. They want to keep revenue coming in
and then do these little things like, oh, look at
our shiny news.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Nobody cares, nobody cares. I think they really need to
rethink what they what they want. If they want to
look like an old stadium with a few new things
on it, it sounds like they're on the right path,
but that's not going to get them the result that
they want. And they have people consider this a destination
arena that's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I understand you want to preserve the past. You know,
the Rose Bowl is the granddaddy of them all.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
We got it.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But you know, even though Yankee Stadium was one of
the great pearls of baseball and Tiger Stadium and you
still have Rigley Field hanging on. But ultimately, there does
come a time where you have to move on from
the physical edifice.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Especially when you think of those stadiums that you just called,
think about the complaints that the fans are making about
those those stadiums.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
You can't You.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Have to understand that some people's die hardness is going
to die out with them. And then now when you're
trying to get that those those fans and so now,
if you really want this to be a legacy, look,
you have people who are going right now who don't
want to go because they're not comfortable.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Sports aren't just about what's happening on the field or
what's happening on the court anymore.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
It's about the experience for fans.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And it's easier to stay home, put up with the
traffic and the uncomfortable aspect of those seats because the question, sure,
those seats haven't changed, are nice and hard and uncomfortable
and small, and I don't have the same type of Now,
this is what going back to Dodger Stadium. Dodger Stadium
was good at upgrading the endstum, food options, things like that,
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where you're not missing the screens, where you're not missing
any of the action used to be. You go to
Dodger Stadium, you go to the concession, you you'd hear
the fans cheered and say, what did I miss? You
won't miss anything now at Doctor Stadium. I don't know
if they'll be able to do the same thing at
the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I love that you made that comparison, because Sofi to
me is a beautiful it's it's so miraculously well done.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I love going there.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
But when it first opened, I went to I think
the second game there, and the complaint that went viral
was the food is terrible nobody.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
But that's how important it is.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Though exactly, so if you can't, you have to understand
that at this point in time, you can fight it.
You can keep traditional live if you want to. But
we're spoiled now. We want to experience something that's beyond
what we're going to experience in our living room, and old,
busted in decrepit is not it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I don't know if the Rose Bowl is going to
be hosting any of the World Cup events. I'm saying
I honestly don't know right but going forward, they're probably
not going to put it this way.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
They're going to put the next Bowl championship game.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
They have to compete with Sofi Stadium for the next
National championship game because there's more money in it for
corporate sponsors to put it at the newer stadium than
the older stadium. So the press boxes, the you know,
the suites are so much better so far as opposed
to the Rose Bowl. If you can't compete on that
level in in corporate twenty first century, then you're wasting
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everyone's time and money, exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
And you should be thinking forward, not about right now.
And that's what I think is happening. I think a
lot of people who are in charge are from the
legacy of the Rose Bowl, which is fine. I don't
have a problem with you know, legacy employees, but I'm
saying you still have to be able to look forward.
Everything goes forward. CHECKI y is always good to see you,
great to be here.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (17:44):
I didn't see this coming. I did not.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Maybe Twala will be able to explain this when he
gives his review.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But Mowana Too.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Had a fantastic, I mean fanastic first weekend domestically in
what weekend, two hundred and twenty five million dollars. That's
Marvel movie, blockbuster fantastic numbers. It did another one hundred
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and sixty three point eight million internationally for three hundred
and eighty nine million dollars worldwide. It's very first week
and not that Mark Runner is right about this, But
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this is not a movie I ever wanted to see.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I do see that? Tell me why? Please?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
No, There's nothing in Mowanna that I wanted to see
that was interesting to me, because not because it's not.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
For adults, because you're an adult, say it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Say it because there are other movies that appeal to
that age group that I'd be more than happy to
look at them. To say, Mohana was not a movie
I ever had any desire to see. But let me
put it in financial terms, Maana two's budget was one
hundred and fifty million. It almost damn near tripled it
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in one weekend. That is pretty damn exceptional as far
as a first weekend for any movie, and we're in
basically winter. That doesn't happen in December. It'll happen in April,
It'll happen in May for Memorial Day weekend, It'll happen
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for the fourth of July weekend, but not for the
Thanksgiving weekend. Yes, I know it's a family weekend and
people will go to the movies, but that's not a
weekend where you're going to have the major blockbusters or
the type of movies which potentially go on to make
a billion dollars are released.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
That's not the time of the year. That's four And also,
it didn't.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Seem like they I'm as much money as you would
normally see for a potential billion dollar blockbuster.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
As far as promotions. You didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I didn't see the ads like I normally would. I
didn't see the type of promotions online that I would
normally would.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
For like, for example, I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Seeing the promotions for Sonic the Hedgehog three everywhere. They're
promoting the stuffing out of that movie, and it's probably
not going.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
To do as well.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
But you look at Mowana two, not the same level
of promotion, but the word of mouth must have been
through the roof, absolutely through the roof, almost four hundred
million worldwide in one week. And then you have Wicked,
which is still doing very well. It brought in another
eighty one million domestically in its second week, but as
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good of a week that Wicked had last week in
this week worldwide. When I say only, I'm comparing it
to Moana two, it only has brought in three hundred
and sixty million in two weeks, which is fast tastic
in its own right, but still behind Muwana to what
it's done in one week with three hundred and eighty
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nine million.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Coming in.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
At number three is Gladiator two. That's another movie which
is doing well in the box office. The movie theaters
are doing so well this past month it's probably gonna
make up for a lot of the year which was lackluster. Hey, Mark,
remember what I was saying about how people were traveling
going on flights for Thanksgiving, how people have been going
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on cruises at a record rate in twenty twenty four,
and how that the movie theater industry, the box office
was picking up and probably will eclipse twenty twenty three,
And how that people how they use their discretionary spending
is a function of and a reflection of how strong
the economy is. Because if people don't have the money,
that means they're not going to spend it on entertainment.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Oh yeah, Now, just wait till you hear about how
Black Friday did. Oh yeah, another record I heard?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Uh huh, So people are spending money they don't have
to go on trips.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Maybe it really was never about the price of eggs.
Mo no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I couldn't be.
That couldn't be that okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Coming in at number four is Red One, and that's
the movie that seems all the way bad to me.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
It just seems it just seems bad. What's the emphasis
on that? How do you pronounce that? Is it?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Red One?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Or Red One, because there was a Sam Fuller war
movie that came out I think in the eighties called
the Big Red One one, Yes, and people made it
sound kind of dirty by calling it the Big Red One.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
No, I'm not going to give to that now. It's
Red one is Red one Air Force one. Okay, clarification received.
But the movie is doing I would say relatively well.
It couldn't have had a huge budget, but it's growth
worldwide one hundred and fifty million, which is respectable. They
didn't advertise it all that widespread, and it's still in
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thirty three hundred theaters, so it's having some staying hour.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Of course, it's a holiday movie. It'll probably last throughout
the rest of the calendar year, and it's the rock.
As I said, you'll last about the calendar year. Tuala,
you saw ma Wana two?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I did?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Did you see mo Wana one? Look?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
I have seen Mowana one quite possibly, I'd say maybe
about one hundred to one hundred and fifteen times.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Now. When Mowana came out, it struck such a chord
within me and I wanted to watch that film. Hey hey,
heyana came out something like No, look, it's just like
when the film was when the film was first released
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in what twenty sixteen? I have watched that movie at
least once a month since it came out, just to
put me in a good mood.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Are you kidding? No?
Speaker 7 (23:54):
No, I kid you not. I'm so serious about alarm please. Yes,
I'm very very sure about that. I love Mowana one,
me and the kids went to go see Mawana too,
expecting to love it the same. And I will tell
you this, I will never watch that film again. That
film was god off, you got bamboozle. The music was bad,
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the story was horrible, and all the voice acting sounded
is if they phoned it in. This would have been
better as maybe a Disney Plus story where they could
have taken their time, But as a movie it did
not work at all. This, again, is coming from someone
who's seen Mowana one at least one hundred and fifteen times.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
But Moana one made six hundred and forty three million
dollars worldwide. Yes, ma Wana two is going to easily
eclipse itself. Of course it is because it's the holidays.
Parents are The theater was packed with parents and their kids.
They need something to see. They're not gonna all go
see Wicked, so it's giving them another choice and a
lot of little kids, kids who loved The Rock, who
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love Mowana. And again, there were some things I loved
about it. I loved all of the connection to the
Polynesian culture. I love how they went hard in this one.
They did some things in this film to connect the
Polynesian culture and African culture. I thought was like, wow,
that's gonna rub a few people are the wrong way.
But no, dude, as a whole, this movie was not
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good man witmen.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
But I thought a few so it's a woke movie.
There's a lot of wokeness to it. Look, I know
for a fact, anyone who's like, what is all of
this tribal speak? I came here to see them. No,
there's a lot. The Rock went hard with his representation
of his people, and it was Samoa love throughout and
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it was beautiful in that aspect. I love seeing them
bring that to the forefront. Too bad, it was saddled
with such a problematic script, songs that were just absolutely unbearable.
There wasn't a memorable song in it. There is no
hit song in this They should have gotten with Linden
man Miranda again to do all the music because man,
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and here's the thing about it, my kids they could
stop laughing. They were just so embarrassed. Second, and embarrassment
was real in this film.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, it's still gonna make money regardless of how much
you disliked a.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Poop ton a poop ton of money because it was poopy.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
When we come back, are you sure there wasn't like
some underlying LGBTQ storyline, Moani like no lessons and no, no, no,
and decided to change pronounce.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Just very brown, very brown. Oh yeah, go woke, go broke.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, it's Later with mo Kelly, KFIM six forty, were
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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We have a horoscope when we come back.
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Mo Kelly, We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio App. And what
kind of cake symbolizes your zodiac sign?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Everybody loves cake?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Everybody loves cake, But what kind of cake symbolizes your
zodiac sign aries? Your cake is red velvet cake aries
is ruled by blood spilling, bold, moving, fire, breathing, Mars
and the power color of these power players is arterial red,
making this classic cake a fitting choice for this fire
sign aries is a sign of conflict, and during the
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one to two punch of World War One and the
Great Depression, Baker's who came up short on dairy rations
began moistening. Here's your word mark moistening their cakes.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
That's not my word, with beet juice to turn the
batter blood red.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Taurus, your cake is black forest cake. As a Venus
ruled Earth sign, Taurus is prone to it and excess
is best ethos a belief system baked into the black
Forest Cake, an extra rich chocolate cake studded with cherries,
traditionally served with a shot of kersh poured over each slice.
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Drunk on decadence and death before dieting. An apt epitaph
for the people of the bull Gemini. You ready, Gemini,
I'm ready?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
What?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
No, I'm not actually not?
Speaker 5 (28:09):
After that moist remark, hummingbird cake, I don't even know
what that is?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
The never silent can't be still story spending propaganda disseminating
Planet of the Mind. The energy of Gemini is perhaps
best encapsulated in the high voltage BPM BES permitted pollinating
quickly and fleeing fast energy of the hummingbird. The hummingbird
is also the national bird of Jamaica, Jamaica son and
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the namesake of this recipe, which was developed in the
late sixties by Jamaica's Tourist Board board and to push
slash promote the island's flavor.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
So this is the preferred cake of propagandas everywhere.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yes, Gemini is a sign of duality, and the Hummingbird
cake sits as a star example of the way Jamaica
sought others to see it in contrast to its actual reality.
A flattering cancer, that's you stefan strawberry shortcake. Cancer's assign
synonymous with home and the traditions it fosters. In terms
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of tendencies, cancers, sentimental freaks that y'all are, are certainly
to blame for the tradition of preserving wedding cakes for decades.
If cancer were a viral food trend, they would absolutely
be troll Cakes Bakery and Detective Agency, the firm that
specializes in turning ugly internet commentary into cake decoration and
delivering it back and baked to the hate bongers responsible
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all right, yeah, Leo. Confetti cake as supreme Leo, Julia
Childs reminds us quote a party without a cake is
just a meeting clothes quote, and a cake without sprinkles
is a resignation to mediocrity. Lions, as in Leo's will
tolerate neither. Funfetti lets the world know and the office
party knows. You're here for a good time and ready
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to share. You eat icing off of your fingers, and
can always be convinced to have a drink before noon.
Apropos of Leo ruling the fifth House of Pleasure and play,
Confetti cake is a veritable party in a box and
a gateway drug for good times. Virgo, your cake is
angel food cake. Virgo is represented by the Virgin, and
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though these sexual devians are far from pure, they are
puritanical in their standards. In Kine, angel food cake bettered
Battered demands flour to be sifted and egg whites to
be beaten to an exact degree of perfection in order
to be born. Slash baked anew as a cake fit
for the divide, rising high above its lessers, with a
low caloric footprint and a smug ethereal texture.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Libra.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Your cake is pound cake. Libra is represented by the
scales and balances of justice. And this pound cake makes
good on exact measurements, calling for a pound of sugar,
a pound of flour, a pound of eggs, and a
pound of butter Holly. The cake is as pleasing and
easy as a libra at a wedding reception.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Okay, Scorpio, this is twala. This is a geode cake.
Geo d E.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Scorpio oversees all that lies beneath, secret subterranean criminal layers, sewers,
and power crystals. The geode cake celebrates the sacred underneath
and apropos of a sign that rules the Genitalia looks
remarkably like a.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Secret garden.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Runner up goes the to this vasectomy cake and this
freaky pastry effigy of notable Scorpio King Charles.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
Oh, sorry, I was just saying, it's really cool. It's
like those it's like those insulate crystallized rocks that you find.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
They make it like that on the inside of the cake. Oh,
it looks like a well, one of them does. But
it definitely looks like a geo. That's really cool.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Oh, he's right, it does look filthy, Sagittarius.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
This is me funnel cake boo. Sagittarius isn't sign of
good times, convivial atmospheres, risk, excess, travel, freedom and spirituality
and kind The funnel cake symbolizes the carnival coming to town,
bringing with it dicey rides, games of chance, the smell
of motor oil, and deep fried revelry add to the
batter that funnel cakes came to our shores under the
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heavy wool and in the hopeful hearts of the Pennsylvania
Dutch who fled the European homes to escape religious persecution.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Capricorn.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
In the major arcana of the Tarot, Capricorn is represented
by the nude servant wrangling cloven hoof, stomping devil card
And this here is the dark Lord's namesake, called so
for the decadence of dark chocolate and the taste so
good it must be send Devil's food. Cake speaks to
the spirit of the sea goat who works hard, lives rich,
and loves to the circle the drain of depravity. Last
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two Aquarius ice cream cake, Oh, I'm jealous. The joyless
detractors of ice cream and cake argue that it is
challenging to make, difficult to store, and arduous to cut, cold,
and difficult themselves. Aquarius is the sign of innovation and technology,
including but not limited to the freezers, hybrids of all kinds,
and sex with robots, sex with robots. Unsurprisingly, Sylvia Weinstock,
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the d DA Vinci of wedding cakes, who pioneered the
art of multiple tiers and edible art with a card
carrying Aquarius, and lastly Pisces. Their cake is pineapple upside
down cake, upside down or hungover. This is the cake
for fish pieces is pineapple upside down cake, because no
matter the occasion or preparation, a pineapple upside down cake
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invariably appears slightly drunk and or absolutely falling apart. The
unnatural color scheme of electric urine yellow and horror red. Yes,
that's nice, conspire to remind us of a clown coming
down off the MDMA in the noonday sun.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yep, and that is your horoscope for this week.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
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And we're getting down to the end of the college
football season, which means there will be a college football
playoff this year where they will have twelve entrants as
opposed to the previous four. The playoff format has expanded
and with it also the chances of other universities to participate.
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So the games as we get down to the season
are much more important because there are still more schools
universities which have a chance at the national championship. If
you're a college football fan, you know that the rivalry
between the University of Michigan and Ohio State is legendary.
But I have to take a step back because I
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didn't go to a football school.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Jackie Ray, good even be good to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Good to see you too when you see or I
should say, when you go to a big time college
football game, what is special about it?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I think everything is special about the atmosphere when you
go to a college football game, because a lot of times,
I don't want to say a lot of times ninety
nine point nine percent of the time. This college team
is important to that town, it's important to that community,
it's important to that state. Sometimes you know, see you football.
Colorado is a sports town, a sports state. We live
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and die by our sports, even if they're not good.
We live and die by our sports.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
But that is.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Amplified at the college level because now you're cheering on
athletes that you plan on cheering on for the rest
of their careers. You're rooting on certain people to carry
you through their NFL career. And it's so electric, and
young people are there, they're probably there with their third
fourth generation alumni. It's just this very, very electric. So
when you say rivalries, there are people right now. I have,
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you know, Alabama friends they say roll Tide after every
statement that they say, just because that's a part of
their culture now.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
And it's so it's not just like going to an
NFL game.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
When you're in an NFL game, it's that it comes
and goes, but this is part of your culture.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
You live and die by this game.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
In this Ohio State Michigan game, Michigan was not thought
to have any chance of winning, right, but they did
win Ohio State. I assume it's still in the National
Championship playoff picture, but it was still a huge game.
A Michigan player took a University of Michigan flag and
physically planted it at the fifty yard line on the
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Ohio State Buckeyes logo.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And this is what ensued.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
That's what we are, That's what Michigan does, man, And
that's where your first of all stuff was.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
And folks, something interesting is going on on the field
right now. Michigan tried to play their flag in the
middle of the Ohio State field and the Buckeyes rushed
right to them, and now there's some skirmishes going on
on the field. An unsportsman like gesture by the Wolverines unnecessary.
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They've won the game, No need to be disrespectful.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
That's what happened in Ohio State, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That is still being investigated because police got involved. I
didn't know if there were enough police or they thought
they were outnumbered because they used pepper spray in the melee.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
There may be some lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
But that's not the only flag planting incident which happened
this weekend. It was also in the Florida Florida State,
which is another huge football rivalry. Where do you come
out on this idea of flag planting.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
They did it in the UNC University of North Carolina
and UC State game as well, so everybody was I
don't know if there a memo went around and said, hey,
if you win, plants flag.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
It seems like that's what happened.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You know, it's mad disrespectful unless you're the person planning
the flag, and then it's that statement of hey, we won,
we own your house. It's it's one of those statements.
I remember even in the professional level when Too wasn't
playing for the Cowboys, he tried.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
To plant the football.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
And he was leveled.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Now he was leveled by one person, so it wasn't
quite as bad. But these are kids, and so that
level of disrespect. I don't even know if they have
the mental faculties to really.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Process that.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But it's all the maturity, sophistication.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, none of that, and the reality of it is
in my opinion, and I feel like I'm going to
get dragged for this, But in my opinion, how you
get that big old flag onto the field without an adult,
a coach, somebody seeing you.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh, there are some accomplices there.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I just wonder how long in the way that schools
have started cracking down on the storm in the field.
I stormed the court once when Georgetown beat Syracuse in DC.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I know what that's like.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And also it was hella dangerous looking back, so people
got trampled that day.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I know for a.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I suspect football will do the same here.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
My question is why haven't they already done it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Well, they're gonna have to now because especially when you
involve police and them doing pepper spray. So I know
have a ton of stories. But I was also a
police cadet. That's how I got through college.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
So in Denver, Colorado, you can become a police cadet.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
It's a very unique program.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Is it like rotcs are done in conjunction with the university.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, well no, it's done directly through the Denver Police Department.
And so what you have to do is you have
to train with the police department, you have to go
through the academy, you have to take the same test,
but you're still in your four year program for school,
and then when you get out, all the testing when
you graduate from college, all the testing and stuff that
you would normally have to go through as a civilian
you kind of bypass that and go straight into the academy.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
So because of.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
That and being a journalist for over ten years, I've
seen police far too often use excessive force and have
difficulty de escalating situations. And for me seeing them immediately
pull out their prepper spray in the situation, I get
that you might have been overwhelmed, but these there are
still kids, there are still people that they know and
trust on the field that you could have had them
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really step in. And we've seen these kind of melees
happen far too often.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
We know they're going to die down. So the use
of pepper.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Spray kind of it troubled me because it could potentially
escalate to something else.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Here is where I agree with you, if only because yes,
fights happen on the field, but usually it is left
to the on field official officials, coaches, staff and personnel
correct to handle. Once you put the police into that equation,
then you're talking about an escalation of violence.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Absolutely absolutely, And we've just seen far too often in
you know, numbers matters, stats matters, facts matter, and far
too often we've seen that it escalates too. It's three
times as likely to escalate just on the regular street
when it's a person of color. So now I imagine
somebody in a situation that there they feel threatened and
I'm using air quotes right now, they feel threatened in
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some way, and now that escalates, and I.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Just look at you up in there, if only because
these are some big ass.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Kids, right, so why are you six two.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
To six ' nine two hundred pounds to over three
hundred pounds. So there is a physical dangerous environment, legitimately dangerous,
But I don't think and I see this is someone
who has been a civilian his own life, his whole life.
I don't know if you can safely navigate that with
pepper spray.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
No, but you what you can do is understand that
there are people there on that field that these kids love,
they trust, they probably look at as father figures.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
And you can protect the crowd.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You might not necessarily be able to really intervene on
what's happening between the players on the field, but you
can make sure that no one from the stands comes
onto the field, and you can keep everyone else safe.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's the key point they're focused. You are saying should
have been just on that crowd and that's it, and
keeping people off the field. They overstepped. When we come back,
let's talk about still within the college football matrix, the
Rose Bowl.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Have you ever been to the Rose Bowl once?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I was not impressed.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Okay, and that's key here because they just announced some
eighty million dollars as part of this lasting legacy campaign
to revamp and upgrade the stadium. And I was looking
at that. I know it's like a historical landmark. I
know it's placed in college football history. I know what
it means for Pasadena and greater Los Angeles. But the
same can be said for the coliseum, and that's a dump.
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And we'll get into it next. But I wonder whether
these eighty million dollars are going to mean anything big picture.
We'll talk about that when we come back. My guest
in studio right now is Jackie Rays. As we go
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Speaker 1 (08:48):
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Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. I'm joined by Jackie Ray
and studio. We're going beyond the box score and live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I've been to the Rose
Bowl I don't know, maybe a dozen times in my
life for various events, not only UCLA football games. But
it's an old ass stadium. And I mean this as
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respectfully as possible. It's one hundred and two years old. Yes,
it looks older. It looks even older when the closer
you get to it, especially if you've been to any
When I say a modern stadium, I'm talking about a
stadium which was built in the nineteen eighties or later.
I'm not talking about Sofi Stadium. The Rose Bowl is
really really old, and really really old facilities have a
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really difficult time attracting events to keep it open. We've
seen what has happened with the Coliseum, especially since Sofi
Stadium has been built. All the events that would be
held at a stadium were going to Sofi Stadium. Even
when you had the addition of the into It Dome
the new Clippers Stadium. You've seen that how concerts are
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going to the into A do as opposed to Staple Center, Slash,
Crypto dot Com whatever they want to call it. Nobody,
but right I'm talking about this business aspect of maintaining
these sports venues. Now, the Rose Bowl has announced this
eighty million dollar Lasting Legacy.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Campaign, and just the name even gives me pause.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
When you say lasting Legacy, it's almost like you want
to keep something as it is, where it is, preserving
what it is. But it doesn't help me move into
the future. But this remodeling project will well. According to
the Lasting Legacy campaign, will improve seating, refurbish the stadium's
iconic sign, and install one of the nation's largest video
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boards and other various enhancements. Now this is Jen's Widen,
the CEO of the Rose Bowl operating company, Jen said, quote,
these investments will help ensure that we remain one of
the most dynamic football, soccer, concert and festival venues in
the world. Close quote I'm not so sh.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I'm not either, especially when you use a word like refurbish.
If anyone's ever bought a refurbished back, yeah, you know
that you're just biding your time before you need another one.
So when you use words like refurbished, and the problem
is when you like I said, I've only been to
the Rose Bowl once and it was a destination for me.
When I came out here, it took me about six
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years after I moved out here to make it there,
but because like you said, I come from a college town,
it was a place that I wanted to go, and
for me, it was very reminiscent of the very first
time I went to San Diego to see the Chargers play,
and when I went in there, I was like, this
is a giant outhouse. Why are they playing here? And
then of course two years later they were gone. It
just didn't scream this is where I want to be.
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It didn't scream legacy, which it's very interesting to me
that they use that word. Maybe that's why they're using
that word because a lot of people see it that way.
It didn't scream that to me. It screamed falling down
to me.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I remember one of the reasons why LA could not
lure a football team was they only had the coliseum
with the rams used to play back of the day and.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
They still use that for high school games, and that's
a mess.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
The use it for high school games, to use it
for a USC for now, I don't know how long
USC is going to stay there.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
They use it for a NASCAR event.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
They're trying to be creative to find uses for it,
but ultimately it it cannot compete. And I remember when
they make compare apples to apples. They did I don't know,
like one hundred million dollars worth of renovations back in
the day to help make it more attractive to a
football team.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
It was not enough.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
No, And when you're talking about I use this analogy
all the time, when you're talking about a foundation of something.
If the foundation is faulty, then everything you build above
that is going to be faulty. So when you're talking
about refurbishing something that is one hundred and one hundred
and two years old, that's you can't do that.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
You have to. You have to. I don't want to
say start over.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You absolutely can keep some things of it, but it's
not going to look like state of the art.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
It's not going to have the same feel.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
It's going to look like you're trying to put technology
on something old.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Dodger Stadium has been I would think very I don't
want to say lucky, but they have been very, very
good at trying to at least upgrade some of the
in stadium experience. They've changed all the seats in Dodger
Stadium and also Dodger stadium is you're only dealing with
fifty four thousand seats as opposed to I don't know,
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like ninety thousand seats, and the things which are being
done in Dodger Stadium can be done on that smaller
level as opposed to a football stadium. I've been to
Sofi Stadium and I've been to the Rose Bowl. There's
more than one hundred and two years in between those
two stadiums as far as accoutrama and football experience. And
we're talking about fans now who were born in the
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twenty first century who are used to the Sofi Stadium
type experience or the fan experience. I don't know if
you'll be able to update this stadium in a way
which is going to bring events and also bring fans
outside of UCLA football.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, I think you can, but you have to be
willing to take a temporary loss. You have to say
for a season, we're going to shut it down and
redo the whole thing. And I think and that's where
the problem is. They want to keep revenue coming in
and then do these little things like, oh, look at
our shiny news.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Nobody cares, nobody cares. I think they really need to
rethink what they what they want. If they want to
look like an old stadium with a few new things
on it, it sounds like they're on the right path,
but that's not going to get them the result that
they want. And they have people consider this a destination
arena that's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I understand you want to preserve the past. You know,
the Rose Bowl is the granddaddy of them all.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
We got it.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But you know, even though Yankee Stadium was one of
the great pearls of baseball and Tiger Stadium and you
still have Rigley Field hanging on. But ultimately, there does
come a time where you have to move on from
the physical edifice.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Especially when you think of those stadiums that you just called,
think about the complaints that the fans are making about
those those stadiums.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
You can't You.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Have to understand that some people's die hardness is going
to die out with them. And then now when you're
trying to get that those those fans and so now,
if you really want this to be a legacy, look,
you have people who are going right now who don't
want to go because they're not comfortable.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Sports aren't just about what's happening on the field or
what's happening on the court anymore.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
It's about the experience for fans.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And it's easier to stay home, put up with the
traffic and the uncomfortable aspect of those seats because the question, sure,
those seats haven't changed, are nice and hard and uncomfortable
and small, and I don't have the same type of Now,
this is what going back to Dodger Stadium. Dodger Stadium
was good at upgrading the endstum, food options, things like that,
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where you're not missing the screens, where you're not missing
any of the action used to be. You go to
Dodger Stadium, you go to the concession, you you'd hear
the fans cheered and say, what did I miss? You
won't miss anything now at Doctor Stadium. I don't know
if they'll be able to do the same thing at
the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I love that you made that comparison, because Sofi to
me is a beautiful it's it's so miraculously well done.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I love going there.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
But when it first opened, I went to I think
the second game there, and the complaint that went viral
was the food is terrible nobody.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
But that's how important it is.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Though exactly, so if you can't, you have to understand
that at this point in time, you can fight it.
You can keep traditional live if you want to. But
we're spoiled now. We want to experience something that's beyond
what we're going to experience in our living room, and old,
busted in decrepit is not it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I don't know if the Rose Bowl is going to
be hosting any of the World Cup events. I'm saying
I honestly don't know right but going forward, they're probably
not going to put it this way.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
They're going to put the next Bowl championship game.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
They have to compete with Sofi Stadium for the next
National championship game because there's more money in it for
corporate sponsors to put it at the newer stadium than
the older stadium. So the press boxes, the you know,
the suites are so much better so far as opposed
to the Rose Bowl. If you can't compete on that
level in in corporate twenty first century, then you're wasting
(17:18):
everyone's time and money, exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
And you should be thinking forward, not about right now.
And that's what I think is happening. I think a
lot of people who are in charge are from the
legacy of the Rose Bowl, which is fine. I don't
have a problem with you know, legacy employees, but I'm
saying you still have to be able to look forward.
Everything goes forward. CHECKI y is always good to see you,
great to be here.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I didn't see this coming. I did not.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Maybe Twala will be able to explain this when he
gives his review.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But Mowana Too.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Had a fantastic, I mean fanastic first weekend domestically in
what weekend, two hundred and twenty five million dollars. That's
Marvel movie, blockbuster fantastic numbers. It did another one hundred
(18:19):
and sixty three point eight million internationally for three hundred
and eighty nine million dollars worldwide. It's very first week
and not that Mark Runner is right about this, But
(18:41):
this is not a movie I ever wanted to see.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I do see that? Tell me why? Please?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
No, There's nothing in Mowanna that I wanted to see
that was interesting to me, because not because it's not.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
For adults, because you're an adult, say it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Say it because there are other movies that appeal to
that age group that I'd be more than happy to
look at them. To say, Mohana was not a movie
I ever had any desire to see. But let me
put it in financial terms, Maana two's budget was one
hundred and fifty million. It almost damn near tripled it
(19:16):
in one weekend. That is pretty damn exceptional as far
as a first weekend for any movie, and we're in
basically winter. That doesn't happen in December. It'll happen in April,
It'll happen in May for Memorial Day weekend, It'll happen
(19:37):
for the fourth of July weekend, but not for the
Thanksgiving weekend. Yes, I know it's a family weekend and
people will go to the movies, but that's not a
weekend where you're going to have the major blockbusters or
the type of movies which potentially go on to make
a billion dollars are released.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
That's not the time of the year. That's four And also,
it didn't.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Seem like they I'm as much money as you would
normally see for a potential billion dollar blockbuster.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
As far as promotions. You didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I didn't see the ads like I normally would. I
didn't see the type of promotions online that I would
normally would.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
For like, for example, I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Seeing the promotions for Sonic the Hedgehog three everywhere. They're
promoting the stuffing out of that movie, and it's probably
not going.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
To do as well.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
But you look at Mowana two, not the same level
of promotion, but the word of mouth must have been
through the roof, absolutely through the roof, almost four hundred
million worldwide in one week. And then you have Wicked,
which is still doing very well. It brought in another
eighty one million domestically in its second week, but as
(20:47):
good of a week that Wicked had last week in
this week worldwide. When I say only, I'm comparing it
to Moana two, it only has brought in three hundred
and sixty million in two weeks, which is fast tastic
in its own right, but still behind Muwana to what
it's done in one week with three hundred and eighty
(21:07):
nine million.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Coming in.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
At number three is Gladiator two. That's another movie which
is doing well in the box office. The movie theaters
are doing so well this past month it's probably gonna
make up for a lot of the year which was lackluster. Hey, Mark,
remember what I was saying about how people were traveling
going on flights for Thanksgiving, how people have been going
(21:30):
on cruises at a record rate in twenty twenty four,
and how that the movie theater industry, the box office
was picking up and probably will eclipse twenty twenty three,
And how that people how they use their discretionary spending
is a function of and a reflection of how strong
the economy is. Because if people don't have the money,
that means they're not going to spend it on entertainment.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Oh yeah, Now, just wait till you hear about how
Black Friday did. Oh yeah, another record I heard?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Uh huh, So people are spending money they don't have
to go on trips.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Maybe it really was never about the price of eggs.
Mo no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I couldn't be.
That couldn't be that okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Coming in at number four is Red One, and that's
the movie that seems all the way bad to me.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
It just seems it just seems bad. What's the emphasis
on that? How do you pronounce that? Is it?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Red One?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Or Red One, because there was a Sam Fuller war
movie that came out I think in the eighties called
the Big Red One one, Yes, and people made it
sound kind of dirty by calling it the Big Red One.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
No, I'm not going to give to that now. It's
Red one is Red one Air Force one. Okay, clarification received.
But the movie is doing I would say relatively well.
It couldn't have had a huge budget, but it's growth
worldwide one hundred and fifty million, which is respectable. They
didn't advertise it all that widespread, and it's still in
(22:57):
thirty three hundred theaters, so it's having some staying hour.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Of course, it's a holiday movie. It'll probably last throughout
the rest of the calendar year, and it's the rock.
As I said, you'll last about the calendar year. Tuala,
you saw ma Wana two?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I did?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Did you see mo Wana one? Look?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
I have seen Mowana one quite possibly, I'd say maybe
about one hundred to one hundred and fifteen times.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Now. When Mowana came out, it struck such a chord
within me and I wanted to watch that film. Hey hey,
heyana came out something like No, look, it's just like
when the film was when the film was first released
(23:45):
in what twenty sixteen? I have watched that movie at
least once a month since it came out, just to
put me in a good mood.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Are you kidding? No?
Speaker 7 (23:54):
No, I kid you not. I'm so serious about alarm please. Yes,
I'm very very sure about that. I love Mowana one,
me and the kids went to go see Mawana too,
expecting to love it the same. And I will tell
you this, I will never watch that film again. That
film was god off, you got bamboozle. The music was bad,
(24:16):
the story was horrible, and all the voice acting sounded
is if they phoned it in. This would have been
better as maybe a Disney Plus story where they could
have taken their time, But as a movie it did
not work at all. This, again, is coming from someone
who's seen Mowana one at least one hundred and fifteen times.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
But Moana one made six hundred and forty three million
dollars worldwide. Yes, ma Wana two is going to easily
eclipse itself. Of course it is because it's the holidays.
Parents are The theater was packed with parents and their kids.
They need something to see. They're not gonna all go
see Wicked, so it's giving them another choice and a
lot of little kids, kids who loved The Rock, who
(24:55):
love Mowana. And again, there were some things I loved
about it. I loved all of the connection to the
Polynesian culture. I love how they went hard in this one.
They did some things in this film to connect the
Polynesian culture and African culture. I thought was like, wow,
that's gonna rub a few people are the wrong way.
But no, dude, as a whole, this movie was not
(25:17):
good man witmen.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
But I thought a few so it's a woke movie.
There's a lot of wokeness to it. Look, I know
for a fact, anyone who's like, what is all of
this tribal speak? I came here to see them. No,
there's a lot. The Rock went hard with his representation
of his people, and it was Samoa love throughout and
(25:40):
it was beautiful in that aspect. I love seeing them
bring that to the forefront. Too bad, it was saddled
with such a problematic script, songs that were just absolutely unbearable.
There wasn't a memorable song in it. There is no
hit song in this They should have gotten with Linden
man Miranda again to do all the music because man,
(26:04):
and here's the thing about it, my kids they could
stop laughing. They were just so embarrassed. Second, and embarrassment
was real in this film.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, it's still gonna make money regardless of how much
you disliked a.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Poop ton a poop ton of money because it was poopy.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
When we come back, are you sure there wasn't like
some underlying LGBTQ storyline, Moani like no lessons and no, no, no,
and decided to change pronounce.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Just very brown, very brown. Oh yeah, go woke, go broke.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, it's Later with mo Kelly, KFIM six forty, were
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
We have a horoscope when we come back.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (26:47):
Mo Kelly, We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio App. And what
kind of cake symbolizes your zodiac sign?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Everybody loves cake?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Everybody loves cake, But what kind of cake symbolizes your
zodiac sign aries? Your cake is red velvet cake aries
is ruled by blood spilling, bold, moving, fire, breathing, Mars
and the power color of these power players is arterial red,
making this classic cake a fitting choice for this fire
sign aries is a sign of conflict, and during the
(27:20):
one to two punch of World War One and the
Great Depression, Baker's who came up short on dairy rations
began moistening. Here's your word mark moistening their cakes.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
That's not my word, with beet juice to turn the
batter blood red.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Taurus, your cake is black forest cake. As a Venus
ruled Earth sign, Taurus is prone to it and excess
is best ethos a belief system baked into the black
Forest Cake, an extra rich chocolate cake studded with cherries,
traditionally served with a shot of kersh poured over each slice.
(27:57):
Drunk on decadence and death before dieting. An apt epitaph
for the people of the bull Gemini. You ready, Gemini,
I'm ready?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
What?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
No, I'm not actually not?
Speaker 5 (28:09):
After that moist remark, hummingbird cake, I don't even know
what that is?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
The never silent can't be still story spending propaganda disseminating
Planet of the Mind. The energy of Gemini is perhaps
best encapsulated in the high voltage BPM BES permitted pollinating
quickly and fleeing fast energy of the hummingbird. The hummingbird
is also the national bird of Jamaica, Jamaica son and
(28:34):
the namesake of this recipe, which was developed in the
late sixties by Jamaica's Tourist Board board and to push
slash promote the island's flavor.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
So this is the preferred cake of propagandas everywhere.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yes, Gemini is a sign of duality, and the Hummingbird
cake sits as a star example of the way Jamaica
sought others to see it in contrast to its actual reality.
A flattering cancer, that's you stefan strawberry shortcake. Cancer's assign
synonymous with home and the traditions it fosters. In terms
(29:07):
of tendencies, cancers, sentimental freaks that y'all are, are certainly
to blame for the tradition of preserving wedding cakes for decades.
If cancer were a viral food trend, they would absolutely
be troll Cakes Bakery and Detective Agency, the firm that
specializes in turning ugly internet commentary into cake decoration and
delivering it back and baked to the hate bongers responsible
(29:30):
all right, yeah, Leo. Confetti cake as supreme Leo, Julia
Childs reminds us quote a party without a cake is
just a meeting clothes quote, and a cake without sprinkles
is a resignation to mediocrity. Lions, as in Leo's will
tolerate neither. Funfetti lets the world know and the office
party knows. You're here for a good time and ready
(29:51):
to share. You eat icing off of your fingers, and
can always be convinced to have a drink before noon.
Apropos of Leo ruling the fifth House of Pleasure and play,
Confetti cake is a veritable party in a box and
a gateway drug for good times. Virgo, your cake is
angel food cake. Virgo is represented by the Virgin, and
(30:12):
though these sexual devians are far from pure, they are
puritanical in their standards. In Kine, angel food cake bettered
Battered demands flour to be sifted and egg whites to
be beaten to an exact degree of perfection in order
to be born. Slash baked anew as a cake fit
for the divide, rising high above its lessers, with a
low caloric footprint and a smug ethereal texture.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Libra.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Your cake is pound cake. Libra is represented by the
scales and balances of justice. And this pound cake makes
good on exact measurements, calling for a pound of sugar,
a pound of flour, a pound of eggs, and a
pound of butter Holly. The cake is as pleasing and
easy as a libra at a wedding reception.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Okay, Scorpio, this is twala. This is a geode cake.
Geo d E.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Scorpio oversees all that lies beneath, secret subterranean criminal layers, sewers,
and power crystals. The geode cake celebrates the sacred underneath
and apropos of a sign that rules the Genitalia looks
remarkably like a.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Secret garden.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Runner up goes the to this vasectomy cake and this
freaky pastry effigy of notable Scorpio King Charles.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
Oh, sorry, I was just saying, it's really cool. It's
like those it's like those insulate crystallized rocks that you find.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
They make it like that on the inside of the cake. Oh,
it looks like a well, one of them does. But
it definitely looks like a geo. That's really cool.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Oh, he's right, it does look filthy, Sagittarius.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
This is me funnel cake boo. Sagittarius isn't sign of
good times, convivial atmospheres, risk, excess, travel, freedom and spirituality
and kind The funnel cake symbolizes the carnival coming to town,
bringing with it dicey rides, games of chance, the smell
of motor oil, and deep fried revelry add to the
batter that funnel cakes came to our shores under the
(32:10):
heavy wool and in the hopeful hearts of the Pennsylvania
Dutch who fled the European homes to escape religious persecution.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Capricorn.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
In the major arcana of the Tarot, Capricorn is represented
by the nude servant wrangling cloven hoof, stomping devil card
And this here is the dark Lord's namesake, called so
for the decadence of dark chocolate and the taste so
good it must be send Devil's food. Cake speaks to
the spirit of the sea goat who works hard, lives rich,
and loves to the circle the drain of depravity. Last
(32:43):
two Aquarius ice cream cake, Oh, I'm jealous. The joyless
detractors of ice cream and cake argue that it is
challenging to make, difficult to store, and arduous to cut, cold,
and difficult themselves. Aquarius is the sign of innovation and technology,
including but not limited to the freezers, hybrids of all kinds,
and sex with robots, sex with robots. Unsurprisingly, Sylvia Weinstock,
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the d DA Vinci of wedding cakes, who pioneered the
art of multiple tiers and edible art with a card
carrying Aquarius, and lastly Pisces. Their cake is pineapple upside
down cake, upside down or hungover. This is the cake
for fish pieces is pineapple upside down cake, because no
matter the occasion or preparation, a pineapple upside down cake
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invariably appears slightly drunk and or absolutely falling apart. The
unnatural color scheme of electric urine yellow and horror red. Yes,
that's nice, conspire to remind us of a clown coming
down off the MDMA in the noonday sun.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yep, and that is your horoscope for this week.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
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