January 15, 2025 • 42 mins
ICYMI: Hour THREE of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – “What’s Up” with regular guest contributor Nick Pagliochini delving into the latest happenings in the Southland … PLUS - Ongoing Coverage of the SoCal wildfires with ‘Billboard’ canceling ALL of their Grammy Week events as a result of the SoCal, Disneyland canceling their fireworks show due to high winds and MORE - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It seems like it's a family reunion up in here.
Nick polio Chini joins us in the studio. Happy New Year,
Happy New Year. I guess it's not too late to
say it. Yeah, no, halfway through the month.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
But it's not like I've been able to see you,
so no, And I think that's the funniest part. Well,
we've maybe text messaged and we randomly ran into each
other at a fast food restaurant across.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
This we're going that's where we're gonna start. Earlier today,
I left my house at like I want to say,
four to thirty, okay, And it took me because yeah,
you're really well, that's the whole point. That's why I
end up there because I need, guess some food before
I go on the air. So it's four thirty, it's
five o'clock, it's five thirty, it's getting on to six o'clock.
(00:48):
I said, I gotta have something to eat before I
get on the air, and there's some things I need
to do to get ready for the show. So I'm
kind of rushed. I pulled by Chick fil a and
I see like the park I'm not it's damn near empty.
It was really dinner hour. I said, shoot, this is
a sign.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
So I pulled into the.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Parking lot and I had no problem getting a parking space,
which is really really really rare.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, really, it was really quiet over there. I go
into the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
There's no one in line. I said, okay, this is
another sign. Yes, and I get my food to go.
It took like all of three minutes, no exaggeration. I
don't care if it was frozen and they just microwaved it.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I was hungry. I was in a rush. I had
to get back to the to the studio. I walk
outside and there was a very nice young lady by
the name of Margaret.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
What let me back up? Yeah. I made my order
and I said, what name is it going to be?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Under?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
And I said, mo, you know, because I'm not thinking
anything of it. Of course it could be MO.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It be more. Sometimes I say, it's it's tyrone, just
to just to mess with people.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Okay, it's just it's a point of reference.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Of course, I get my food, go outside and Margaret
comes up to me and she says are.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You Moe from care.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And it's like, well, you know I am, because you
know I am right, because you've heard my voice and
you've seen me, and I assume that you know at
that point.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
But she was very nice.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
She said, oh my gosh, I always listen to your show,
and are you supposed to be on the air soon?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I see yes, which is even funnier.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So while this is transpiring, I am on the other
side of the restaurant and I hear Margaret call Moe's
name for his food, and I am show prepping to
come to the show tonight, and I text message him
and go, well, neither you nor I were at Chick
fil across the street from the studio tonight.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
No were.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Neither of us were, but yes, And it was even
more entertaining because I thought he saw me because it
looked right through me when he happened to scan the
restaurant just randomly as he was walking out the door.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'll tell you, when I'm in a situation like that,
I'm always not scanning for threats, but I'm just looking
the general lay of the lag.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Well, it's funny because even the place, if you had
seen me, I am always that way. You and I
come from very specific cultures. So I'm LGBTQ I A
plus you're black. We both have very specific well allegedly
I mean, welcome to Kfie. Oh, but anyway, we both
have very specific ways of there. Yeah, but I'm just saying,
(03:15):
we walk into a room, we know where the exits are.
We always are very that way. So when I walk
into a room, I have my back to the wall.
I know where the exits are. So that was when
I was in there. I had this very specific setup.
And you and I have a very similar way. We
go out to dinner, we've gone to lunch. We have
the same way of obsessing a situation. So it's funny
because it was that same way. You have the same
scan of the room as you're walking out. Yes, And
(03:35):
so anyway, that was when I was sending you the
text message.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, because I'm not looking for anyone, like if I'm
in line waiting for my food, anyone who comes in
that door, right, I'm aware of right, just in case
it may turn into something.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Always, we live in a world where you gotta know, No,
you gotta know, you gotta know.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I get my car and I get this text
message from Nick, and it was a very funny reminder.
And this is something I always tell young people specifically, sure,
having nothing to do with technology.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Someone is always watching.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Of course, someone is always what it might be people watching.
They may be watching with intent, they may be watching
because they wanted to do something to you.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
But someone is always watching.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So mind your p's and q's always, because then anything
that's said, it's specific to what we have been trained with.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, Like for example, going back to Margaret, I could
have been acting an ass, Yeah, a complete ass, and
then that story is told somewhere else, what with no idea.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I have no idea about it, right, So that was
you can tell that, this is this we have been
friends for a long time.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You can tell this.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
No, you could tell this because we had a whole
plan and there was gonna be a thing and we're
gonna get to it.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
We're gonna get to it.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
But this is so funny because we can go down
a tangent. But it's been a wild start to twenty
twenty five period, full stop. Yes, and we had an
wild end in twenty twenty four here at KFI and
at iHeartRadio in general. But some of the things that
I wanted to really touch on. We've had so much inundation,
and the KFI team is incredible and have been working
(05:05):
so hard, and I think that that's the biggest thing.
With everything that wrapped up twenty twenty four and everything
that is going into twenty twenty five, the team here
and the iHeartRadio team specifically has worked so incredibly hard
to make sure to keep you informed of everything that
is happening in and around the fires, the Palisades fire,
the Outta Dina fire. Everything has been so heavy and
(05:29):
so we wanted to take a moment to find a
little bit of levity and not to be haha levity,
but there's a way to celebrate everything in and around it,
and the Lack Factory just did this past weekend. They
donated proceeds from every single one of their shows from Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday this past weekend. All of that from all
the comedy shows went to the fire relief from with
(05:52):
the La Fire Foundation. Fluffy Gabrielle Glesias down in Long
Beach where I'm from, he has been doing pounding the
pavement and collecting funds. He's and he's such a cool guy.
Like I run into him regularly, so, uh, he's a
huge I do all the time. He lives in Long Beach.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Got to tell me to come because I've wanted to
have him.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
We can have him on that's easy, yeah, because I've
seen a bunch of times we can do that's the time.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I'm no, we can do that. That's easy.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
No, that I can make happen. That's not a problem,
so that we can figure out for later with the
mo Kelly Fluffy. But he's a Volkswagen guy and I
am as well. So he actually just got the id Buzz,
which is the new van that's out from Volkswagen. Because
he's a huge I saw that the other day. It's
it's a nice throwbacks. And so he hasn't he has
a warehouse. It's actually not fro him from where Brian
(06:39):
and I live, so kind of it's kind of the
Wilmington Long Beach borders where his ware houses. Anyway, not
to give all of his secrets away, but I run
into him at a couple of hangouts in Long Beach
because that's where he is, and uh, yeah, so, but
he has been doing a lot of things, pounding the pavement.
He's been at Randy's Donats over in Inglewood and getting
a lot of money and donations. But I'm just saying, yeah, yeah,
(07:01):
there's only one real Randy's.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
You're correct, You're right with that one. There's a lot
of big donuts around here, but there's only one. I
think you were talking about to say one.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You're talking, Yes, we're talking about the original random Okay,
thank you. No, but Randy's is kind of expanded because
you can now get Randy's the Lai and that's that's
a story for another. No, that's not the same thing
at all. But the thing that's interesting that I want
to talk about that is going to get a lot
of buzz here very very soon. And so I kind
of we're not breaking any news here, but is the
big benefit concert that's going to be coming up here
(07:29):
at the end of the month, and I'm confident that
iHeartRadio is going to be involved in some way, shape
or form. Nothing has been officially announced, but it will
be happening at the Intoit Dome not too far from you.
We talked about this last week, yes, right, and so
there is more information has come out as of today.
So that's specific that I want to kind of touch
on it. It looks like that's going to be including both
not just into it Dome, but also now Kia Forum
(07:51):
is going to be a second like the Olympics exactly.
And so where it was originally twenty four slots and
at least fifty artists that we're going to be involved
or have shown interest involvement, it will likely expand beyond
those twenty four slots. And also it has been allegedly
we'll say just because we don't want to give away
facts that we don't one hundred percent know here on KFI,
(08:13):
but it will be also live streamed. Now what I'm
going to say very likely, because this is a charity event,
it will likely be a pay to view live stream
because it's a charity donation. So don't expect you're going
to be logging onto YouTube or whatever it is and
being able to enjoy these incredible artists for free. Because again,
at the end of the day, it is intended to
(08:33):
be a fundraiser, So it is going to be fire
Aid relief benefit concert. It is slated for Thursday the thirtieth,
the end of this month. Details are still coming out.
If you want to visit this week of a Nick
or Nick Poliochinia on Instagram. I have links in my
bio that have all the updated information for you there,
so I've been keeping it up to date as much
as possible. That's kind of the big event that is coming.
(08:56):
The things that I do know for sure, at least
to this point. So granted everything's organic and I don't
know why this is the weirdest thing, but at this
point we know who's not performing or not participating allegedly.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
No, no, no, no, yeah, we talked about this actually last week.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay, you're not going to know who is performing exactly
because there's some legal issues around one hundred.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
And ten percent, correct, So I think that's it. So
I think you're looking at that. But what we do
know is folks that have donated and will be involved
in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Beyonce.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Beyonce has already donated two and a half million dollars
just in general to the funds. While she may not
be directly involved with this, she has already been involved
in donating, so you never know, she could pop up.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
We will see.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
There's a very possibility, but they're not going to announce, right,
But they're not Gonn announce that. But looking at some
of the actors that have been involved here, Jamie Lee
Curtis and her husband have already donated a million dollars,
there is a possibility of them being involved. They've been
doing stuff here with iHeartRadio and with the Dream Center
and everything else. Paris Hilton has also done some stuff,
but there's a lot going on, So that's kind of
that's the airtime I want to give to the names.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Remind me to tell you my story of being Paris
Hilton after the be Et Awards.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Oh one year. Oh yeah, okay, we were hanging out
one night. Okay, true story. Oh all right.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
If you follow me, first of all, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
If you follow me on social media and have followed
me for a long time, I really appreciate you and
I the biggest thing that I have encouraged a lot
of our well I say our, you know know, if
you listen to Later with mo Kelly, you know I
announced here I'm no longer with iHeartRadio as of last year.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Hopefully I'll be coming back some you never know. It's
a world.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But anyway, social media is one of those times or
those areas where sometimes you need a cleanse. And so
if you have noticed, my account has been pretty quiet
since the fires have broken out, and I was talking
to Moe and Swallow off the air. And the reason
it has been is because, and I'm not saying this
to toot my own horn, but I've been volunteering every
day since the fires have been happening, and for me,
(10:59):
it's important to be in my community. And granted I
live in Long Beach, so the only issue we're dealing
with in Long Beach is poor air quality be from
the fires. I am very thankful and I have had
people in our garage and in our guest rooms, and
we currently have a friend that Brian went to college
with who is displaced people from both Altadena and from
Palisades fire. And a friend one of Brian's best friends
(11:21):
from Biola from Bible Institute of Los Angeles here in
LA who he went to college with from the Palisades.
I know he went to Viola, That's where Brian went
to Yeah, I did not know that.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
That's not a problem. You didn't know that. Yeah, No,
he went to Biola. What happened.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh, so many stories, but that's my parasil story. But
one of his best friends that he went to Viola with,
who is lives into Penga, has been under evacuation orders
since you know, the beginning, and so he's still waiting
to go home. He's still waiting for evacuation orders to
lift from Pallisades. So he's still with us right now.
And I think that's the biggest thing that And I'm
(11:59):
doing my best to keep it together because it's been
crazy emotional for all of us. And I think the
thing that I like with Kfi and with iHeart it
gives us a platform to show emotion and genuineness. And
I think that's the thing that I love being here
and being able to put forward, is that we don't
have a platform.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
You're tiptoeing around it.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And I will say this, there have been a lot
of tiers in this studio. Sure, there are a lot
of tiers in these hallways. Yes, for this past week,
we just haven't let everyone know about it. Yeah, that's fine,
and it's hard.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And it's because even though you who are riding along
with us in your car, you are listening to us
on the iHeartRadio app. You who have been with us
for years and listen to us here on CAFI or
have maybe followed us from other stations, you know us
and you have become a part of our family, and
we have become a part of yours. So you know
our stories and you know our backgrounds. But there are
(12:53):
times that we need to keep things private as well,
and so there's a lot of times that we are
are commiserating behind the scenes, and there are some things
that we need to just share amongst ourselves. And so
there are also times with a world with inundation of
so much information, that we just share it amongst ourselves.
And so that's why I'm going back to social media.
(13:16):
My account has been pretty quiet because I have been
pounding the pavement in Pasadena and Altadena and the San
Gabriel Valley and doing what I can every day to
help benefit the people who I love and care about,
and the same for those in the Palisades area, because
(13:36):
it is important because this is southern California, this is
our community. And so the thing that I want to
shine a light on, and I've been really trying to
get back into the social media world, is there are
a lot of small businesses that we talk about here,
especially on Later, and we've talked about when it was
The mo Kelly Show on weekends and Small Business Saturday
and everything else. There are so many businesses who are
(13:59):
doubling and tripling down by putting out T shirts fifteen
dollars thirty dollars, one hundred percent of the proceeds are
going to the fire relief or they're going to pacading
in a humane or they're going to help the you know,
the LA Conservancy to help out the wildlife and all
that stuff. There's so much happening in our own backyards.
And I know that it's really really hard to sift
(14:22):
through a lot of the noise that's happening right now
in the media as you're listening to our station to KFI,
or you're watching television, or you're checking out social media.
But lean into it, and when you're looking for things,
look for ways you can help. And I know that
there are many. Uh, mister Rogers is great. Always look
(14:43):
for the helpers that and it sounds silly, and that
may sound a litt kumbaya for some people, and I
don't really care, because you've got to look for the helpers,
and we are in a point right now in southern
California where we need to band together and we need
to work together, and we need to be in each
other's back pocket. And sometimes you got to slip a
(15:05):
twenty in each other's back pocket, and that might be
buying a T shirt to help support whatever organization it is.
Because we have got a lot going on coming up
here in twenty twenty five and beyond that, we just
got to support each other. And so anyway, I just
want to say keep an eye out on social media
because there's a lot of opportunities to support each other
and help out, but a lot of it has to
(15:26):
do with right now coming up this weekend, there are
a lot of opportunities for you to be able to
give back and have some fun doing it. So if
you visit this Weekend with Nick or Nick pollio'channy on Instagram,
I'm fairly confident if you visit the other social media
accounts for iHeartRadio here in La, I'm not one hundred
percent sure. Can't speak for them, but I can speak
for this week of Nick and Nick Poliochinni Lincoln Bio
(15:49):
has all sorts of details of local community organizations, comedy shows, concerts,
A buddy of mine, Bury under your Bed, who is
a ventriloquist and a little monster guy. He has been
taking and doing Facebook I'm sorry FaceTime calls with children
who lost their homes to be able for free Free
(16:11):
ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
We love free ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Here on later with Mo Kelly and you know this
week out with Nick but you know, doing FaceTime calls
and he even recorded Jeff, I'm just saying, I'll just
get it out. Yeah, but Jeff, he literally recorded a
version of the rainbow connection that Kermit the Frog is
known for, but with Barry under the bed, this little
monster character singing it, and just to see the most
(16:36):
unusual communities, communities that you would think and like you
were talking about earlier when Chris was here and talking
about horror films and things with Mark Ronner. My birthday
is Halloween. I'm a big part of the Halloween horror community.
They are some of the most generous people and all
the different the conventions that I have attended, Midsummer Scream.
They have a charity of function that's going on right
(16:57):
now and raising funds like it's wild to think how
many people are bending over backwards to help here in
southern California. And I know it's really hard with everything
that's going on on a national stage right now. There's
a lot happening, and there's.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
A lot pulling us in another direction.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
There is, absolutely and that's probably the best way to
put it. There's a lot of noise that's happening that's
pulling us in a different direction. And I want you
listening to us now, whether you're listening to us live
or you're listening to us on the podcast, and it
is not in real time and it is down the
road and you are tuning in, you are worthwhile and
(17:36):
there is research that can be done. No matter if
you're listening to us now or down the road or
in the future, you can find ways to help and
get help and be able to assist and be able
to help out with the fire now, whatever the situation
may be down the road. But I'm just saying here
in southern California, being born and raised, we are a
community that bands together.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I am so amazed at the depth of people's willingness
to help their fellow what I say, man, their neighbor,
because there are so many opportunities not to it's easier
not to.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
But I am overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I am overjoyed at what I see, these intentional acts
of kindness, People doing as much as they can with
everything they have just right where they are. They're not
going to single handedly bring a community, a neighborhood, or
maybe even not even a full house back, but they
are helping people move through this moment, because, let's be honest,
(18:37):
this has been a craptastic start for my years.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
I mean, my goodness, No, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And I think the thing that's even more unique is
because we're such a melting pot here in southern California.
So not only do we have some really unique historical
communities that have been affected by the fires, but we
have an international community here. So just like what you said,
and you've got neighbors helping neighbors, but you have cultural
(19:05):
neighbors that are helping cultural neighbors. You have communities that
may not have ever thought of reaching out to their neighbor.
There are people who may have had qualms with each
other before, or may have had situations where they were
a little bit afeared of each other before, and people
are putting them aside. And people are you know, really
(19:28):
pushing through that discomfort to be able to work as
a community. And I'm not even saying a global community.
I'm an LA community. And as funny as it sounds,
as I have made many a joke between with the
orange curtain of Orange County and other things as well,
we have people that are coming up from San Diego
and coming from Orange County and from Riverside County and
(19:48):
San Bernardino County and the Central Coast, and coming down
from Nevada and coming in from Arizona. People are and
from Oregon and down from Washington. But I'm saying like
people are making the drive. People who have even just
visited and been a temporary part of our community are
coming in. People who may not quote unquote politically be
(20:09):
a part of this area, people who may not align
with different copas right because they're doing the right thing,
because they know it's the right thing, because they care
about their fellow man.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
It's never wrong time to do the right right.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Of course, And I think that's but it's funny with
how twenty twenty four wrapped up and how twenty twenty
five opened and how hard it is proving to be.
But we're seeing a shining light, even if it's just
a small.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Glimmer, hopefully it's not a train oncoming. I agree now,
because there's a lot going on. But I am as
cynical as I tend to be, and sometimes I choose
to be. I am encouraged by what I'm seeing when
I'm reading, I feel as if good is winning out,
(21:00):
when most of the time I don't feel that way.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I agree, and I'm going to say, even in those
inklings were just like you said, I too, am like
you where I don't necessarily feel that way. I am
for a change, pushing aside that gut instinct of saying,
oh but what if, right you know, not to say
marvel and what if hopefully you know.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
It'll last beyond this moment.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Hopefully it won't require a perpetual disaster to have us
to find any reason to come together and see each
other as not only as Americans, but just brothers and
sisters and neighbors and friends, people of the same community,
because we were already that before the disaster. Indeed, we
(21:45):
just forgot about it, or we chose to turn our
back on it. I don't we can have an argument
as to what it was, but I'm glad that we're here.
Hopefully we can just kind of remain here for just
a little while longer.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, So all I can say is for you who
are here with us and listening right now, thank you
for tuning in, but also thank you for what you're
doing each and every day, getting up, putting your pants
on one leg at a time, listening to KFI.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Hey, I got news for you. I put my pants
on both legs at the time. I sit on the bed,
I lean back, and I put on both legs special week.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
We all know that Moe Kelly is an overchiever. We
are all very well aware.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Mark Ronner might do a one leg at a time,
but damn it, I don't do you put on your
depends two legs at a time.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Mark openings. Mark Roner doesn't even wear pants, but anyway,
that's because he's always talked about how he does the
news in his underwear. You can't see me above the waist.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Don't make any difference, but well you give us the visual.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Please out there. I don't want to see that. Oh
did you say hang out there?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Okay, look at the time, look at the time, sit
down anyway, KF.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I am sixty. Kelly here, Nick, You're welcome to hang
out if you like. Thank you, I'll stick around.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
KFI Mo Keller. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And again want to refer back to the daily briefing
which took place earlier today giving all of southern California
and update on the status on the fires, also evacuation zones,
expectations regarding the curfew. We heard from civic leaders, we
(23:38):
heard leaders from first responders, law enforcement, and there's something
else I wanted to play for you first. Want to
listen back to I hope I get this right. Is
Jerry mcgagna of cal Fire.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
My name is Jeremyganna Incident management teams for the Palisades
and Eating Fire. I just want to do once again
thank the partners and cooperators for all of their continued
teamwork with these incidents. We couldn't do it without each
other and without the support of the community. As mentioned
(24:14):
for both fires, I just wanted to continue to stress
the fact that it is important that the public stay
informed on the process and what is happening each day
on these incidents. With all of the press briefings that
are given, a ton of information is being put out there.
Just please make sure that you are aware of the
information for your impacted area.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
As a whole.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
For both incidents, Den's inspections continue and will be thoroughly
processed to get the latest information out to you so
that you have the ability to gather that information and
move forward within your process. You saw our operations continue
for both incidents and we will continue to update our
cooperators and partners with the latest and greatest information. And
(25:01):
today you'll also be hearing about the disaster recovery centers
that are being opened.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
More detail to follow.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
But we just wanted to make sure that you as
a public are getting all the information that you need
to move forward in the process. And then all of
us uppear on this stage. You're working together for you
to get you the information that you need. Please stay
patient with our process. We will get you in as
soon as we can.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Thank you. And here is a supervisor, Catherine Barger.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
It has been seven days since my constituents' lives were
devastated by the Eating fire.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Seven days.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
At the most recent in person community meeting we held
for eating fire survivors. We had hundreds of people attend. Also,
more than fifty thousand people joined on live stream. This
speaks to the scale and impact of this devastation.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
All eyes are on FEMA at this moment.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
We know value and appreciate FEMA's partnership. Are the agency
who is there for people in their time of darkest need.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
It is of the utmost importance.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
That we be very clear, very clear about what support
and help FEMA can realistically provide for wildfire survivors. They
need nothing less than clear and transparent answers about how
they will be supported through the recovery process. I want
to thank Bob Benton, FEMA Administrator for Region nine, for
(26:29):
being here today. I thank you for speaking to my
constituents so they can plan the way forward. I also
want to make sure survivors know disaster resource centers open today.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Disaster resource centers are.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Staffed by local, state, and federal officials who are there
to help those impacted by these fires. The east side
location is passing a City College community education center located
at three zero three five East Foothill Boulevard in Pasadena.
The west side location is UCLA Research Park, West one
(27:07):
zero eight five zero West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Both locations will be open from one pm to eight
pm today and then starting tomorrow morning and moving forward
they will open from nine am to eight pm. Details
can be found at Recovery dot LA County dot gov.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Still with me in studio is Nick Polio Kinni. Nick.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
This is an approaching holiday weekend, the King weekend.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It's going to be a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You have the Trump inauguration going on in the background. Yes,
you have a not holiday esque feeling term time.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
But what should we do? What might we do to
get out there?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
So I've got a handful of things, and I think
you have to remember, like we kind of talked about
and we are all very well aware what's happening in
the Southland right now, so as has been talked about
in the news here on KFI and you hear on
some of our PSAs and everything else. kN ninety five
masks are encouraged if you're going to be out and
about just for your own health and well being, because
you know the air quality is not the best. But
(28:14):
I've got a couple of old school can give it
an old school for this week. I'm a nick and
we do love a good free ninety nine event, So
one that is as far as I know at this
point in time, and then we'll find out what happens
with the sand An Wins and the fire situation. But
in the city of Monterey Park, which is in the
San Gabriel Valley, they will be doing Lunar New Year
kickoff this weekend, So in downtown Monterey Park both Saturday
(28:36):
and Sunday three ninety nine, you can take the family
and enjoy Lunar New Year. So this year it is
the celebration of the Year of the Snake, and that's
a big thing. So Lunar New Year is a celebration
throughout the Asian Pacific rim with details for all different
cultures celebrating different versions of it. So you've got tech
(28:58):
and you've got all different avenues of that. In fact,
I'll actually be at the Disneyland Resort this weekend celebrating
with them. You can actually start seeing me as of Thursday.
I'll be doing a couple of things with the Disneyland
Resort as well as Friday for the kickoff of Lunar
New Year at Disney California Venture Park, and they'll be
doing some fun and exciting new things for that whole
(29:19):
tie in. So I'm sure that they will be featuring
Cough from Jungle Book and a couple of other snakes
from Disney Lore. But scared me as a kid, But
that's okay. But I mean, you didn't enjoy the psychedelic eys, well,
scared the Jesus nightmares nowadays, I mean it's southern California.
You could you could be a whole different ballgame with
those eyes. But anyway, so that's one of the opportunities
(29:41):
that is available for you to be able to check out.
But also, uh, even something that I'm just gonna tease
and I know this is a little crazy, and then
we'll get back into what's going down this weekend. But
today is Tuesday, the fourteenth of January, and that means
we are a month away from Valentine's Day. I know
it's crazy to think I'm just saying. I'm saying, but
this is the thing that's interesting. And I have seen
(30:02):
a little bit of scuttle blot about this, I think,
and this seems very accurate. So Valentine's Day is going
to be a Friday this year, so that means it's
going to be a weekend. So two things are very
likely to happen. With what's going on in southern California,
we might see an unusual uptick and volunteering for Valentine's Day.
There might be some activities that are a little bit
more unusual. Also, it might be a time for going
(30:24):
out of town, so you might want to start planning
ahead for a little bit of a weekend get away
with your significant other.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Don't give my wife, are you listening ahead?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Are you there?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
She and I are actually on the same page. We
had a conversation about this before we got married. Neither
of us has any interest in Valentine's Day. It's a
it's a fabrication of so it's a Mark hall Mark. Yeah, okay,
so we don't care about any day now. It's great
for anyone else, just not for us.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
That's fine, nothing wrong with that. But I mean, well,
it's also if you do like one of my fas.
But this is because I'm a Disney fan. It's Valentine's
Day is the thirteenth of February. It's just like a
Halloween sk Yeah, it's all about the disney villains. Valentine's
Day the day before Valentine's Day. Oh and the only
reason I will not be with you next week is
because I will be celebrating at the Disneyland Resort the
(31:17):
very first Sweetheart's Night for this season.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
How many times do you go to Disneyland a year? Usually?
On average? I would say I probably.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It's so funny because like this is always think because everybody,
especially as we get past the summer season, people are like,
you know, you're there at Disneyland all the time.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
And last year I went in a.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Year, which is way more than most people go in
three hundred and sixty five days. I went eighteen times
last year.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I don't think I went anywhere eight except maybe the
grocery store eighteen times.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I was gonna say the gym, because I know you
went to your dojo.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah I do that, Yeah, they do that just but
every Saturday at a minimum, So about fifty two times.
I would say forty seven beau dojo because a few
times that are one, but so I say, I think
it was eighteen eighteen or nineteen times, because it Disney
sends you like an end of the year review of
like how many times you visited for the year.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I don't think i'd want to know all that, but
then you have to remember too. A lot of times.
It's more so for me because I am getting invitations
to go and share all the fun and excitement of
what's coming for the season to with you. To be
able to share all the fun things that are coming.
So Sweetheart's Night starts on the twenty first, which is
a week from today. That's an after hours event for
(32:35):
Disneyland Resort. Also coming up very soon in the beginning
of February will be the seventy fifth anniversary of Peanuts
over at Nott's Berry Farm, So I'll be bringing some
of that to later with mo Kelly for What's Up
with Nick, which will be really exciting to celebrate Charles
Schultz and all the Peanuts characters.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Yeah, we have the same birthday, do you really? Yeah,
Charles Schultz to me?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, well yeah, it was like or Snoopy or yeah
I love that twenty six Yeah, okay, right before Thanksgiving.
I guess I didn't know. It depends okay, but I
have to stop you there a second. Sure, because there's
something that runs parallel to this. I don't know if
you saw the story going back to Disneyland. Disneyland has
canceled the fireworks show at least in the short term.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yes, due to the windy conditions. Let me ask this question.
You're intimately intimately familiar with Disney Yes. Would it have
made more sense for Disney slash Disneyland to just say
we're canceling the fireworks show for now?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Yes, period. Not because it's windy, no, just because.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
The optics are not all that So the last time
this happened in that same kind of vein was when
in Walt Disney World in Florida they had a malfunction. Well,
it happened here as well, when the dragon from Phantasmic
caught fire and then all pyrotechnics were cut off at
the resort here at Disneyland Resort. Also, similarly, when Maleficent
(34:03):
Dragon caught fire in the parade Magic Kingdom in Walt
Disney World in Florida, the same situation happened. They shut
all pyrotechnics down. I agree with you, it should just
genuinely be that way. And they got me a fire
fire wire work. It's probably not the thing to be
doing right now. And I think for me having been
a former Disneyland Resort cast member, because that's long before
(34:25):
my career in radio back in ninety eight, I know.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I'm very old. What part did you play?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
A mini Mouse? I would be a very tall mouse.
Five heels, yeah, can you imagine five? I would be
like a six to two mini Miley, How are you doing?
Speaker 4 (34:44):
You don't have to speak? It doesn't speak. She does now,
she does, she absolutely does. What does that? What did
that change?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I think I'm going to say back in early two
thousands is when they started having so there's a lot
of technology that advanced.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Because the last two times I what it is, I
don't remember.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I remember love MoU Hair took a picture with many,
but I don't remember her saying it each.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
So there's a handful of opportunities at the Disneyland Resort
or any of the Walt Disney interaction points, because it
can be on the Disney cruise lines or anywhere else
where you will encounter opportunities to interact with Minnie or
Mickey or any of the Fab five, or even beyond
that a lot of the different Disney characters, and they're
actually able to speak with you and interact with you.
So it's really quite impressive, like conversations. They're not like
(35:28):
a doll with a string in the back.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
No, because I.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Mean, but you've seen Mando. You've been on so Mando
can talk to you. It just feels different because you're right,
and I understand that. But there are definitely animated characters
who have crossed the divide, if you will, into reality
who are able to interact with you, which is really
quite exciting. So I was gonna say Mickey, Minnie, Goofy Donald,
Daisy chip Dale. I'm trying to think who else I've
(35:53):
interacted with? But yeah, so not all over the resort?
Oh absolutely, yes, have you not seen the show? I
went to the saw the show. Oh yeah, I couldn't
believe people getting upset.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
It's like this dead bowl. Won'll worry? What do you expect?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Yeah, exactly, No, And I mean I'm not one of
my favorite shows of the Christmas show that takes place
at on Avengers Campus, a Disney California a venture but
whatever anyway, But yeah, no, I think for me and
this is something I've always thought for a long time,
and I really hate to have guests visiting and I
haven't worked at Disney and I'm calling them as if
I work there, But I hate to have guests come
from all over southern California and beyond. But when we
(36:28):
are in the Santa Anna Win situation, I feel that
the Disneyland Short Resort should just communicate to guests that
are visiting that we just don't have fireworks during this
time period because there's a likelihood of being dangerous. Doesn't
matter that we have fires right now. Just generally speaking,
between this point of time and this point of time,
mother Nature is not necessarily on our side, and for
(36:50):
the safety of you and the other guests, we just
don't have fireworks.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Why haven't they gone to the drone show yet?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
So that is very interesting because they're still at this point,
even though a portion of it has lifted back from
nine to eleven. There's a TFR, a temporary flight restriction
over the Disneyland Resort that has been instituted from nine
to eleven for protection of the resort as well as
there is a flight path from John Wayne Airport that
loops surrounded right right because of that, the drones cannot
(37:18):
fly over the resort because they would have to change
it because the drones are specifically not allowed to fly
over the resort.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
But the exploding bombs, the red glare, your bombs bursting
in air, gave proof through the night.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
That's okay, that's okay, trust me, I know, and I think.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
But the thing that's funny, and if you visit YouTube
or social media and see the absolutely incredible shows that
they have at Walt Disney World and Disneyland Paris and
now they have at Tokyo Disneyland, those drone shows are
insane and it really irks me that we haven't been
able to find a way to incorporate them here, even
on a smaller scale, especially World of Color at Disney
(37:57):
California Adventure, which is just a Disneyized version of the
Fountain Show in fact created by the same company at
Blagio in Vegas. The same company behind the Blagio Fountain
Show is the same company that helped create World of
Color at Disney Park. I would love to see drones
incorporated in that, and they would be low enough out
(38:18):
of the sky that they could be involved on like
because the point is if they're at a low enough
altitude it wouldn't be affected by that temporary flight restriction.
Or the team far granted over the castle over at
Disneyland Park a different ballgame, because it would have to
be at a high enough altitude that it would be affected.
But I agree with you. I think that we're at
(38:39):
a point that it could be absolutely incredible. And there's
nothing wrong with a few flash bangs that are coming
off the castle, right, So I think that you could
combine those things, the small flash bangs that take place
at Fantasmic, and a couple of other different pyrotechnic opportunities.
So for me, there's so much magic and so much
technology that would be able to be incorporated. And I'm
just dis pointed. Disney, you are absolutely incredible, and I
(39:02):
know that I can literally look out the studio here
and I can see several of your buildings just down
the cele But you're so absolutely incredible, and you're a
juggernaut of entertainment within the world and realistically the universe.
Lord only knows that there's aliens out there. George Norri
could probably chime in on it, but Disney, you know,
I'm sure aliens are watching the shows from outside of
(39:25):
our galaxy. But I would love to see things here
happen in Southern California that haven't. And I think I'm
disappointed that I haven't seen an incorporation of some of
those really special, unique opportunities that have happened elsewhere within
the Walt Disney Company here for us in Southern California,
especially because starting in May is the seventieth anniversary celebration
(39:47):
of Disneyland Park here in Disney, California.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Or well, you makes me feel so old because I
remember being a kid in Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
The park was still relatively new.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Right, No, I mean you have to think I'm I'm
also old enough that I had books, I had the
ticket books, so I'm sack ticket books a ticket B
ticket on you still like what I'm saying, I'm I
too am old enough to have been around when ticket
books were thing, before the tickets went insanely expensive and
it was just one to get into the door, as
opposed to the.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Eight ticket rides with the best rides, and now they're
only like, I don't know a handful of the book booklet,
and you know, I think an a ticket ride with
like the tea cups like I don't want any of
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, I don't know, and I think there was a
C ticket but still see anyway, Okay, you get my point.
I feel you. No, I'm right there with you. But anyway,
there are some amazing things that are coming. Paint the
Night is returning to the Disneyland Resort for the seventieth anniversary.
I will have so many more exciting things to share
with you. What's up with Nick here? During a later
with Mo Kelly on KFI for the Disneyland Resort and
so much more.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
I mean, I've got you know me.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
I just I'm a plethora of useless information. If there
was who wants to be a millionaire, I was definitely
one of those people you should have called because I
just got inside scoop on so much.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
You close it out the segment, you close it out
the hour. Yeah, probably the show later on? Uh tell
us how people can can find you? Because it's been
a minute, sure said, You've you've been able to do
it like you always do it for me.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
You can always find me on social media, Nick Polio Channi,
which is always the challenge. But if you've been listening, yes,
Pagliochini is the pa g l I O C h
I and I very very fanatical.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
If you look at it.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
I swore that that was like a radio suitedam for
the longest.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
No, the funnier part is and Amy King here from
KFI can confirm this as well. I was Mark Silvio
for so many years, which is Sylvia. Which is so
funny to think that you had such a pors You
can tell we were right up against that safe harbor
time here brown chicken brown.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
No, I was Mark Silvio here for so many years
on KFI. In fact, it was very funny because Chris Little,
our former news director, was the one who made the
change I don't know, maybe a decade or so ago
over to me going by Nick Poliochanni, I mean Robin Berlucci,
our former program director, also made the decision.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
But still Mark Silvio, Mark Silvio.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
So yeah, so many many years of working here, I
was Mark Silvio.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
And then I became wearing assless chaps and.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Well, you know, I'm just like I took my well,
I didn't even know Mark Ronner at the time period,
who doesn't wear pants.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
During our youuge s report.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Mark Silvio has a mullet and parachute pants and no chess.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
And on that note, there we go. That's how we
sign up and wrap things up here at KFI. KFI
A six forty, we're live everywhere. The iHeartRadio app fires
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It seems like it's a family reunion up in here.
Nick polio Chini joins us in the studio. Happy New Year,
Happy New Year. I guess it's not too late to
say it. Yeah, no, halfway through the month.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
But it's not like I've been able to see you,
so no, And I think that's the funniest part. Well,
we've maybe text messaged and we randomly ran into each
other at a fast food restaurant across.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
This we're going that's where we're gonna start. Earlier today,
I left my house at like I want to say,
four to thirty, okay, And it took me because yeah,
you're really well, that's the whole point. That's why I
end up there because I need, guess some food before
I go on the air. So it's four thirty, it's
five o'clock, it's five thirty, it's getting on to six o'clock.
(00:48):
I said, I gotta have something to eat before I
get on the air, and there's some things I need
to do to get ready for the show. So I'm
kind of rushed. I pulled by Chick fil a and
I see like the park I'm not it's damn near empty.
It was really dinner hour. I said, shoot, this is
a sign.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
So I pulled into the.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Parking lot and I had no problem getting a parking space,
which is really really really rare.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, really, it was really quiet over there. I go
into the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
There's no one in line. I said, okay, this is
another sign. Yes, and I get my food to go.
It took like all of three minutes, no exaggeration. I
don't care if it was frozen and they just microwaved it.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I was hungry. I was in a rush. I had
to get back to the to the studio. I walk
outside and there was a very nice young lady by
the name of Margaret.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
What let me back up? Yeah. I made my order
and I said, what name is it going to be?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Under?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
And I said, mo, you know, because I'm not thinking
anything of it. Of course it could be MO.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It be more. Sometimes I say, it's it's tyrone, just
to just to mess with people.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Okay, it's just it's a point of reference.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Of course, I get my food, go outside and Margaret
comes up to me and she says are.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You Moe from care.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And it's like, well, you know I am, because you
know I am right, because you've heard my voice and
you've seen me, and I assume that you know at
that point.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
But she was very nice.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
She said, oh my gosh, I always listen to your show,
and are you supposed to be on the air soon?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I see yes, which is even funnier.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So while this is transpiring, I am on the other
side of the restaurant and I hear Margaret call Moe's
name for his food, and I am show prepping to
come to the show tonight, and I text message him
and go, well, neither you nor I were at Chick
fil across the street from the studio tonight.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
No were.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Neither of us were, but yes, And it was even
more entertaining because I thought he saw me because it
looked right through me when he happened to scan the
restaurant just randomly as he was walking out the door.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'll tell you, when I'm in a situation like that,
I'm always not scanning for threats, but I'm just looking
the general lay of the lag.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Well, it's funny because even the place, if you had
seen me, I am always that way. You and I
come from very specific cultures. So I'm LGBTQ I A
plus you're black. We both have very specific well allegedly
I mean, welcome to Kfie. Oh, but anyway, we both
have very specific ways of there. Yeah, but I'm just saying,
(03:15):
we walk into a room, we know where the exits are.
We always are very that way. So when I walk
into a room, I have my back to the wall.
I know where the exits are. So that was when
I was in there. I had this very specific setup.
And you and I have a very similar way. We
go out to dinner, we've gone to lunch. We have
the same way of obsessing a situation. So it's funny
because it was that same way. You have the same
scan of the room as you're walking out. Yes, And
(03:35):
so anyway, that was when I was sending you the
text message.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, because I'm not looking for anyone, like if I'm
in line waiting for my food, anyone who comes in
that door, right, I'm aware of right, just in case
it may turn into something.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Always, we live in a world where you gotta know, No,
you gotta know, you gotta know.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I get my car and I get this text
message from Nick, and it was a very funny reminder.
And this is something I always tell young people specifically, sure,
having nothing to do with technology.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Someone is always watching.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Of course, someone is always what it might be people watching.
They may be watching with intent, they may be watching
because they wanted to do something to you.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
But someone is always watching.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So mind your p's and q's always, because then anything
that's said, it's specific to what we have been trained with.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, Like for example, going back to Margaret, I could
have been acting an ass, Yeah, a complete ass, and
then that story is told somewhere else, what with no idea.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I have no idea about it, right, So that was
you can tell that, this is this we have been
friends for a long time.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You can tell this.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
No, you could tell this because we had a whole
plan and there was gonna be a thing and we're
gonna get to it.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
We're gonna get to it.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
But this is so funny because we can go down
a tangent. But it's been a wild start to twenty
twenty five period, full stop. Yes, and we had an
wild end in twenty twenty four here at KFI and
at iHeartRadio in general. But some of the things that
I wanted to really touch on. We've had so much inundation,
and the KFI team is incredible and have been working
(05:05):
so hard, and I think that that's the biggest thing.
With everything that wrapped up twenty twenty four and everything
that is going into twenty twenty five, the team here
and the iHeartRadio team specifically has worked so incredibly hard
to make sure to keep you informed of everything that
is happening in and around the fires, the Palisades fire,
the Outta Dina fire. Everything has been so heavy and
(05:29):
so we wanted to take a moment to find a
little bit of levity and not to be haha levity,
but there's a way to celebrate everything in and around it,
and the Lack Factory just did this past weekend. They
donated proceeds from every single one of their shows from Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday this past weekend. All of that from all
the comedy shows went to the fire relief from with
(05:52):
the La Fire Foundation. Fluffy Gabrielle Glesias down in Long
Beach where I'm from, he has been doing pounding the
pavement and collecting funds. He's and he's such a cool guy.
Like I run into him regularly, so, uh, he's a
huge I do all the time. He lives in Long Beach.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Got to tell me to come because I've wanted to
have him.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
We can have him on that's easy, yeah, because I've
seen a bunch of times we can do that's the time.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I'm no, we can do that. That's easy.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
No, that I can make happen. That's not a problem,
so that we can figure out for later with the
mo Kelly Fluffy. But he's a Volkswagen guy and I
am as well. So he actually just got the id Buzz,
which is the new van that's out from Volkswagen. Because
he's a huge I saw that the other day. It's
it's a nice throwbacks. And so he hasn't he has
a warehouse. It's actually not fro him from where Brian
(06:39):
and I live, so kind of it's kind of the
Wilmington Long Beach borders where his ware houses. Anyway, not
to give all of his secrets away, but I run
into him at a couple of hangouts in Long Beach
because that's where he is, and uh, yeah, so, but
he has been doing a lot of things, pounding the pavement.
He's been at Randy's Donats over in Inglewood and getting
a lot of money and donations. But I'm just saying, yeah, yeah,
(07:01):
there's only one real Randy's.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
You're correct, You're right with that one. There's a lot
of big donuts around here, but there's only one. I
think you were talking about to say one.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You're talking, Yes, we're talking about the original random Okay,
thank you. No, but Randy's is kind of expanded because
you can now get Randy's the Lai and that's that's
a story for another. No, that's not the same thing
at all. But the thing that's interesting that I want
to talk about that is going to get a lot
of buzz here very very soon. And so I kind
of we're not breaking any news here, but is the
big benefit concert that's going to be coming up here
(07:29):
at the end of the month, and I'm confident that
iHeartRadio is going to be involved in some way, shape
or form. Nothing has been officially announced, but it will
be happening at the Intoit Dome not too far from you.
We talked about this last week, yes, right, and so
there is more information has come out as of today.
So that's specific that I want to kind of touch
on it. It looks like that's going to be including both
not just into it Dome, but also now Kia Forum
(07:51):
is going to be a second like the Olympics exactly.
And so where it was originally twenty four slots and
at least fifty artists that we're going to be involved
or have shown interest involvement, it will likely expand beyond
those twenty four slots. And also it has been allegedly
we'll say just because we don't want to give away
facts that we don't one hundred percent know here on KFI,
(08:13):
but it will be also live streamed. Now what I'm
going to say very likely, because this is a charity event,
it will likely be a pay to view live stream
because it's a charity donation. So don't expect you're going
to be logging onto YouTube or whatever it is and
being able to enjoy these incredible artists for free. Because again,
at the end of the day, it is intended to
(08:33):
be a fundraiser, So it is going to be fire
Aid relief benefit concert. It is slated for Thursday the thirtieth,
the end of this month. Details are still coming out.
If you want to visit this week of a Nick
or Nick Poliochinia on Instagram. I have links in my
bio that have all the updated information for you there,
so I've been keeping it up to date as much
as possible. That's kind of the big event that is coming.
(08:56):
The things that I do know for sure, at least
to this point. So granted everything's organic and I don't
know why this is the weirdest thing, but at this
point we know who's not performing or not participating allegedly.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
No, no, no, no, yeah, we talked about this actually last week.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay, you're not going to know who is performing exactly
because there's some legal issues around one hundred.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
And ten percent, correct, So I think that's it. So
I think you're looking at that. But what we do
know is folks that have donated and will be involved
in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Beyonce.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Beyonce has already donated two and a half million dollars
just in general to the funds. While she may not
be directly involved with this, she has already been involved
in donating, so you never know, she could pop up.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
We will see.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
There's a very possibility, but they're not going to announce, right,
But they're not Gonn announce that. But looking at some
of the actors that have been involved here, Jamie Lee
Curtis and her husband have already donated a million dollars,
there is a possibility of them being involved. They've been
doing stuff here with iHeartRadio and with the Dream Center
and everything else. Paris Hilton has also done some stuff,
but there's a lot going on, So that's kind of
that's the airtime I want to give to the names.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Remind me to tell you my story of being Paris
Hilton after the be Et Awards.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Oh one year. Oh yeah, okay, we were hanging out
one night. Okay, true story. Oh all right.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
If you follow me, first of all, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
If you follow me on social media and have followed
me for a long time, I really appreciate you and
I the biggest thing that I have encouraged a lot
of our well I say our, you know know, if
you listen to Later with mo Kelly, you know I
announced here I'm no longer with iHeartRadio as of last year.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Hopefully I'll be coming back some you never know. It's
a world.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But anyway, social media is one of those times or
those areas where sometimes you need a cleanse. And so
if you have noticed, my account has been pretty quiet
since the fires have broken out, and I was talking
to Moe and Swallow off the air. And the reason
it has been is because, and I'm not saying this
to toot my own horn, but I've been volunteering every
day since the fires have been happening, and for me,
(10:59):
it's important to be in my community. And granted I
live in Long Beach, so the only issue we're dealing
with in Long Beach is poor air quality be from
the fires. I am very thankful and I have had
people in our garage and in our guest rooms, and
we currently have a friend that Brian went to college
with who is displaced people from both Altadena and from
Palisades fire. And a friend one of Brian's best friends
(11:21):
from Biola from Bible Institute of Los Angeles here in
LA who he went to college with from the Palisades.
I know he went to Viola, That's where Brian went
to Yeah, I did not know that.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
That's not a problem. You didn't know that. Yeah, No,
he went to Biola. What happened.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh, so many stories, but that's my parasil story. But
one of his best friends that he went to Viola with,
who is lives into Penga, has been under evacuation orders
since you know, the beginning, and so he's still waiting
to go home. He's still waiting for evacuation orders to
lift from Pallisades. So he's still with us right now.
And I think that's the biggest thing that And I'm
(11:59):
doing my best to keep it together because it's been
crazy emotional for all of us. And I think the
thing that I like with Kfi and with iHeart it
gives us a platform to show emotion and genuineness. And
I think that's the thing that I love being here
and being able to put forward, is that we don't
have a platform.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
You're tiptoeing around it.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And I will say this, there have been a lot
of tiers in this studio. Sure, there are a lot
of tiers in these hallways. Yes, for this past week,
we just haven't let everyone know about it. Yeah, that's fine,
and it's hard.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And it's because even though you who are riding along
with us in your car, you are listening to us
on the iHeartRadio app. You who have been with us
for years and listen to us here on CAFI or
have maybe followed us from other stations, you know us
and you have become a part of our family, and
we have become a part of yours. So you know
our stories and you know our backgrounds. But there are
(12:53):
times that we need to keep things private as well,
and so there's a lot of times that we are
are commiserating behind the scenes, and there are some things
that we need to just share amongst ourselves. And so
there are also times with a world with inundation of
so much information, that we just share it amongst ourselves.
And so that's why I'm going back to social media.
(13:16):
My account has been pretty quiet because I have been
pounding the pavement in Pasadena and Altadena and the San
Gabriel Valley and doing what I can every day to
help benefit the people who I love and care about,
and the same for those in the Palisades area, because
(13:36):
it is important because this is southern California, this is
our community. And so the thing that I want to
shine a light on, and I've been really trying to
get back into the social media world, is there are
a lot of small businesses that we talk about here,
especially on Later, and we've talked about when it was
The mo Kelly Show on weekends and Small Business Saturday
and everything else. There are so many businesses who are
(13:59):
doubling and tripling down by putting out T shirts fifteen
dollars thirty dollars, one hundred percent of the proceeds are
going to the fire relief or they're going to pacading
in a humane or they're going to help the you know,
the LA Conservancy to help out the wildlife and all
that stuff. There's so much happening in our own backyards.
And I know that it's really really hard to sift
(14:22):
through a lot of the noise that's happening right now
in the media as you're listening to our station to KFI,
or you're watching television, or you're checking out social media.
But lean into it, and when you're looking for things,
look for ways you can help. And I know that
there are many. Uh, mister Rogers is great. Always look
(14:43):
for the helpers that and it sounds silly, and that
may sound a litt kumbaya for some people, and I
don't really care, because you've got to look for the helpers,
and we are in a point right now in southern
California where we need to band together and we need
to work together, and we need to be in each
other's back pocket. And sometimes you got to slip a
(15:05):
twenty in each other's back pocket, and that might be
buying a T shirt to help support whatever organization it is.
Because we have got a lot going on coming up
here in twenty twenty five and beyond that, we just
got to support each other. And so anyway, I just
want to say keep an eye out on social media
because there's a lot of opportunities to support each other
and help out, but a lot of it has to
(15:26):
do with right now coming up this weekend, there are
a lot of opportunities for you to be able to
give back and have some fun doing it. So if
you visit this Weekend with Nick or Nick pollio'channy on Instagram,
I'm fairly confident if you visit the other social media
accounts for iHeartRadio here in La, I'm not one hundred
percent sure. Can't speak for them, but I can speak
for this week of Nick and Nick Poliochinni Lincoln Bio
(15:49):
has all sorts of details of local community organizations, comedy shows, concerts,
A buddy of mine, Bury under your Bed, who is
a ventriloquist and a little monster guy. He has been
taking and doing Facebook I'm sorry FaceTime calls with children
who lost their homes to be able for free Free
(16:11):
ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
We love free ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Here on later with Mo Kelly and you know this
week out with Nick but you know, doing FaceTime calls
and he even recorded Jeff, I'm just saying, I'll just
get it out. Yeah, but Jeff, he literally recorded a
version of the rainbow connection that Kermit the Frog is
known for, but with Barry under the bed, this little
monster character singing it, and just to see the most
(16:36):
unusual communities, communities that you would think and like you
were talking about earlier when Chris was here and talking
about horror films and things with Mark Ronner. My birthday
is Halloween. I'm a big part of the Halloween horror community.
They are some of the most generous people and all
the different the conventions that I have attended, Midsummer Scream.
They have a charity of function that's going on right
(16:57):
now and raising funds like it's wild to think how
many people are bending over backwards to help here in
southern California. And I know it's really hard with everything
that's going on on a national stage right now. There's
a lot happening, and there's.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
A lot pulling us in another direction.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
There is, absolutely and that's probably the best way to
put it. There's a lot of noise that's happening that's
pulling us in a different direction. And I want you
listening to us now, whether you're listening to us live
or you're listening to us on the podcast, and it
is not in real time and it is down the
road and you are tuning in, you are worthwhile and
(17:36):
there is research that can be done. No matter if
you're listening to us now or down the road or
in the future, you can find ways to help and
get help and be able to assist and be able
to help out with the fire now, whatever the situation
may be down the road. But I'm just saying here
in southern California, being born and raised, we are a
community that bands together.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I am so amazed at the depth of people's willingness
to help their fellow what I say, man, their neighbor,
because there are so many opportunities not to it's easier
not to.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
But I am overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I am overjoyed at what I see, these intentional acts
of kindness, People doing as much as they can with
everything they have just right where they are. They're not
going to single handedly bring a community, a neighborhood, or
maybe even not even a full house back, but they
are helping people move through this moment, because, let's be honest,
(18:37):
this has been a craptastic start for my years.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
I mean, my goodness, No, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And I think the thing that's even more unique is
because we're such a melting pot here in southern California.
So not only do we have some really unique historical
communities that have been affected by the fires, but we
have an international community here. So just like what you said,
and you've got neighbors helping neighbors, but you have cultural
(19:05):
neighbors that are helping cultural neighbors. You have communities that
may not have ever thought of reaching out to their neighbor.
There are people who may have had qualms with each
other before, or may have had situations where they were
a little bit afeared of each other before, and people
are putting them aside. And people are you know, really
(19:28):
pushing through that discomfort to be able to work as
a community. And I'm not even saying a global community.
I'm an LA community. And as funny as it sounds,
as I have made many a joke between with the
orange curtain of Orange County and other things as well,
we have people that are coming up from San Diego
and coming from Orange County and from Riverside County and
(19:48):
San Bernardino County and the Central Coast, and coming down
from Nevada and coming in from Arizona. People are and
from Oregon and down from Washington. But I'm saying like
people are making the drive. People who have even just
visited and been a temporary part of our community are
coming in. People who may not quote unquote politically be
(20:09):
a part of this area, people who may not align
with different copas right because they're doing the right thing,
because they know it's the right thing, because they care
about their fellow man.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
It's never wrong time to do the right right.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Of course, And I think that's but it's funny with
how twenty twenty four wrapped up and how twenty twenty
five opened and how hard it is proving to be.
But we're seeing a shining light, even if it's just
a small.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Glimmer, hopefully it's not a train oncoming. I agree now,
because there's a lot going on. But I am as
cynical as I tend to be, and sometimes I choose
to be. I am encouraged by what I'm seeing when
I'm reading, I feel as if good is winning out,
(21:00):
when most of the time I don't feel that way.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I agree, and I'm going to say, even in those
inklings were just like you said, I too, am like
you where I don't necessarily feel that way. I am
for a change, pushing aside that gut instinct of saying,
oh but what if, right you know, not to say
marvel and what if hopefully you know.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
It'll last beyond this moment.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Hopefully it won't require a perpetual disaster to have us
to find any reason to come together and see each
other as not only as Americans, but just brothers and
sisters and neighbors and friends, people of the same community,
because we were already that before the disaster. Indeed, we
(21:45):
just forgot about it, or we chose to turn our
back on it. I don't we can have an argument
as to what it was, but I'm glad that we're here.
Hopefully we can just kind of remain here for just
a little while longer.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, So all I can say is for you who
are here with us and listening right now, thank you
for tuning in, but also thank you for what you're
doing each and every day, getting up, putting your pants
on one leg at a time, listening to KFI.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Hey, I got news for you. I put my pants
on both legs at the time. I sit on the bed,
I lean back, and I put on both legs special week.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
We all know that Moe Kelly is an overchiever. We
are all very well aware.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Mark Ronner might do a one leg at a time,
but damn it, I don't do you put on your
depends two legs at a time.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Mark openings. Mark Roner doesn't even wear pants, but anyway,
that's because he's always talked about how he does the
news in his underwear. You can't see me above the waist.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Don't make any difference, but well you give us the visual.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Please out there. I don't want to see that. Oh
did you say hang out there?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Okay, look at the time, look at the time, sit
down anyway, KF.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I am sixty. Kelly here, Nick, You're welcome to hang
out if you like. Thank you, I'll stick around.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
KFI Mo Keller. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And again want to refer back to the daily briefing
which took place earlier today giving all of southern California
and update on the status on the fires, also evacuation zones,
expectations regarding the curfew. We heard from civic leaders, we
(23:38):
heard leaders from first responders, law enforcement, and there's something
else I wanted to play for you first. Want to
listen back to I hope I get this right. Is
Jerry mcgagna of cal Fire.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
My name is Jeremyganna Incident management teams for the Palisades
and Eating Fire. I just want to do once again
thank the partners and cooperators for all of their continued
teamwork with these incidents. We couldn't do it without each
other and without the support of the community. As mentioned
(24:14):
for both fires, I just wanted to continue to stress
the fact that it is important that the public stay
informed on the process and what is happening each day
on these incidents. With all of the press briefings that
are given, a ton of information is being put out there.
Just please make sure that you are aware of the
information for your impacted area.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
As a whole.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
For both incidents, Den's inspections continue and will be thoroughly
processed to get the latest information out to you so
that you have the ability to gather that information and
move forward within your process. You saw our operations continue
for both incidents and we will continue to update our
cooperators and partners with the latest and greatest information. And
(25:01):
today you'll also be hearing about the disaster recovery centers
that are being opened.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
More detail to follow.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
But we just wanted to make sure that you as
a public are getting all the information that you need
to move forward in the process. And then all of
us uppear on this stage. You're working together for you
to get you the information that you need. Please stay
patient with our process. We will get you in as
soon as we can.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Thank you. And here is a supervisor, Catherine Barger.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
It has been seven days since my constituents' lives were
devastated by the Eating fire.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Seven days.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
At the most recent in person community meeting we held
for eating fire survivors. We had hundreds of people attend. Also,
more than fifty thousand people joined on live stream. This
speaks to the scale and impact of this devastation.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
All eyes are on FEMA at this moment.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
We know value and appreciate FEMA's partnership. Are the agency
who is there for people in their time of darkest need.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
It is of the utmost importance.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
That we be very clear, very clear about what support
and help FEMA can realistically provide for wildfire survivors. They
need nothing less than clear and transparent answers about how
they will be supported through the recovery process. I want
to thank Bob Benton, FEMA Administrator for Region nine, for
(26:29):
being here today. I thank you for speaking to my
constituents so they can plan the way forward. I also
want to make sure survivors know disaster resource centers open today.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Disaster resource centers are.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Staffed by local, state, and federal officials who are there
to help those impacted by these fires. The east side
location is passing a City College community education center located
at three zero three five East Foothill Boulevard in Pasadena.
The west side location is UCLA Research Park, West one
(27:07):
zero eight five zero West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Both locations will be open from one pm to eight
pm today and then starting tomorrow morning and moving forward
they will open from nine am to eight pm. Details
can be found at Recovery dot LA County dot gov.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Still with me in studio is Nick Polio Kinni. Nick.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
This is an approaching holiday weekend, the King weekend.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It's going to be a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You have the Trump inauguration going on in the background. Yes,
you have a not holiday esque feeling term time.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
But what should we do? What might we do to
get out there?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
So I've got a handful of things, and I think
you have to remember, like we kind of talked about
and we are all very well aware what's happening in
the Southland right now, so as has been talked about
in the news here on KFI and you hear on
some of our PSAs and everything else. kN ninety five
masks are encouraged if you're going to be out and
about just for your own health and well being, because
you know the air quality is not the best. But
(28:14):
I've got a couple of old school can give it
an old school for this week. I'm a nick and
we do love a good free ninety nine event, So
one that is as far as I know at this
point in time, and then we'll find out what happens
with the sand An Wins and the fire situation. But
in the city of Monterey Park, which is in the
San Gabriel Valley, they will be doing Lunar New Year
kickoff this weekend, So in downtown Monterey Park both Saturday
(28:36):
and Sunday three ninety nine, you can take the family
and enjoy Lunar New Year. So this year it is
the celebration of the Year of the Snake, and that's
a big thing. So Lunar New Year is a celebration
throughout the Asian Pacific rim with details for all different
cultures celebrating different versions of it. So you've got tech
(28:58):
and you've got all different avenues of that. In fact,
I'll actually be at the Disneyland Resort this weekend celebrating
with them. You can actually start seeing me as of Thursday.
I'll be doing a couple of things with the Disneyland
Resort as well as Friday for the kickoff of Lunar
New Year at Disney California Venture Park, and they'll be
doing some fun and exciting new things for that whole
(29:19):
tie in. So I'm sure that they will be featuring
Cough from Jungle Book and a couple of other snakes
from Disney Lore. But scared me as a kid, But
that's okay. But I mean, you didn't enjoy the psychedelic eys, well,
scared the Jesus nightmares nowadays, I mean it's southern California.
You could you could be a whole different ballgame with
those eyes. But anyway, so that's one of the opportunities
(29:41):
that is available for you to be able to check out.
But also, uh, even something that I'm just gonna tease
and I know this is a little crazy, and then
we'll get back into what's going down this weekend. But
today is Tuesday, the fourteenth of January, and that means
we are a month away from Valentine's Day. I know
it's crazy to think I'm just saying. I'm saying, but
this is the thing that's interesting. And I have seen
(30:02):
a little bit of scuttle blot about this, I think,
and this seems very accurate. So Valentine's Day is going
to be a Friday this year, so that means it's
going to be a weekend. So two things are very
likely to happen. With what's going on in southern California,
we might see an unusual uptick and volunteering for Valentine's Day.
There might be some activities that are a little bit
more unusual. Also, it might be a time for going
(30:24):
out of town, so you might want to start planning
ahead for a little bit of a weekend get away
with your significant other.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Don't give my wife, are you listening ahead?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Are you there?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
She and I are actually on the same page. We
had a conversation about this before we got married. Neither
of us has any interest in Valentine's Day. It's a
it's a fabrication of so it's a Mark hall Mark. Yeah, okay,
so we don't care about any day now. It's great
for anyone else, just not for us.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
That's fine, nothing wrong with that. But I mean, well,
it's also if you do like one of my fas.
But this is because I'm a Disney fan. It's Valentine's
Day is the thirteenth of February. It's just like a
Halloween sk Yeah, it's all about the disney villains. Valentine's
Day the day before Valentine's Day. Oh and the only
reason I will not be with you next week is
because I will be celebrating at the Disneyland Resort the
(31:17):
very first Sweetheart's Night for this season.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
How many times do you go to Disneyland a year? Usually?
On average? I would say I probably.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It's so funny because like this is always think because everybody,
especially as we get past the summer season, people are like,
you know, you're there at Disneyland all the time.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
And last year I went in a.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Year, which is way more than most people go in
three hundred and sixty five days. I went eighteen times
last year.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I don't think I went anywhere eight except maybe the
grocery store eighteen times.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I was gonna say the gym, because I know you
went to your dojo.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah I do that, Yeah, they do that just but
every Saturday at a minimum, So about fifty two times.
I would say forty seven beau dojo because a few
times that are one, but so I say, I think
it was eighteen eighteen or nineteen times, because it Disney
sends you like an end of the year review of
like how many times you visited for the year.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I don't think i'd want to know all that, but
then you have to remember too. A lot of times.
It's more so for me because I am getting invitations
to go and share all the fun and excitement of
what's coming for the season to with you. To be
able to share all the fun things that are coming.
So Sweetheart's Night starts on the twenty first, which is
a week from today. That's an after hours event for
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Disneyland Resort. Also coming up very soon in the beginning
of February will be the seventy fifth anniversary of Peanuts
over at Nott's Berry Farm, So I'll be bringing some
of that to later with mo Kelly for What's Up
with Nick, which will be really exciting to celebrate Charles
Schultz and all the Peanuts characters.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Yeah, we have the same birthday, do you really? Yeah,
Charles Schultz to me?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, well yeah, it was like or Snoopy or yeah
I love that twenty six Yeah, okay, right before Thanksgiving.
I guess I didn't know. It depends okay, but I
have to stop you there a second. Sure, because there's
something that runs parallel to this. I don't know if
you saw the story going back to Disneyland. Disneyland has
canceled the fireworks show at least in the short term.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yes, due to the windy conditions. Let me ask this question.
You're intimately intimately familiar with Disney Yes. Would it have
made more sense for Disney slash Disneyland to just say
we're canceling the fireworks show for now?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Yes, period. Not because it's windy, no, just because.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
The optics are not all that So the last time
this happened in that same kind of vein was when
in Walt Disney World in Florida they had a malfunction. Well,
it happened here as well, when the dragon from Phantasmic
caught fire and then all pyrotechnics were cut off at
the resort here at Disneyland Resort. Also, similarly, when Maleficent
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Dragon caught fire in the parade Magic Kingdom in Walt
Disney World in Florida, the same situation happened. They shut
all pyrotechnics down. I agree with you, it should just
genuinely be that way. And they got me a fire
fire wire work. It's probably not the thing to be
doing right now. And I think for me having been
a former Disneyland Resort cast member, because that's long before
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my career in radio back in ninety eight, I know.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I'm very old. What part did you play?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
A mini Mouse? I would be a very tall mouse.
Five heels, yeah, can you imagine five? I would be
like a six to two mini Miley, How are you doing?
Speaker 4 (34:44):
You don't have to speak? It doesn't speak. She does now,
she does, she absolutely does. What does that? What did
that change?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I think I'm going to say back in early two
thousands is when they started having so there's a lot
of technology that advanced.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Because the last two times I what it is, I
don't remember.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I remember love MoU Hair took a picture with many,
but I don't remember her saying it each.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
So there's a handful of opportunities at the Disneyland Resort
or any of the Walt Disney interaction points, because it
can be on the Disney cruise lines or anywhere else
where you will encounter opportunities to interact with Minnie or
Mickey or any of the Fab five, or even beyond
that a lot of the different Disney characters, and they're
actually able to speak with you and interact with you.
So it's really quite impressive, like conversations. They're not like
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a doll with a string in the back.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
No, because I.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Mean, but you've seen Mando. You've been on so Mando
can talk to you. It just feels different because you're right,
and I understand that. But there are definitely animated characters
who have crossed the divide, if you will, into reality
who are able to interact with you, which is really
quite exciting. So I was gonna say Mickey, Minnie, Goofy Donald,
Daisy chip Dale. I'm trying to think who else I've
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interacted with? But yeah, so not all over the resort?
Oh absolutely, yes, have you not seen the show? I
went to the saw the show. Oh yeah, I couldn't
believe people getting upset.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
It's like this dead bowl. Won'll worry? What do you expect?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Yeah, exactly, No, And I mean I'm not one of
my favorite shows of the Christmas show that takes place
at on Avengers Campus, a Disney California a venture but
whatever anyway, But yeah, no, I think for me and
this is something I've always thought for a long time,
and I really hate to have guests visiting and I
haven't worked at Disney and I'm calling them as if
I work there, But I hate to have guests come
from all over southern California and beyond. But when we
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are in the Santa Anna Win situation, I feel that
the Disneyland Short Resort should just communicate to guests that
are visiting that we just don't have fireworks during this
time period because there's a likelihood of being dangerous. Doesn't
matter that we have fires right now. Just generally speaking,
between this point of time and this point of time,
mother Nature is not necessarily on our side, and for
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the safety of you and the other guests, we just
don't have fireworks.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Why haven't they gone to the drone show yet?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
So that is very interesting because they're still at this point,
even though a portion of it has lifted back from
nine to eleven. There's a TFR, a temporary flight restriction
over the Disneyland Resort that has been instituted from nine
to eleven for protection of the resort as well as
there is a flight path from John Wayne Airport that
loops surrounded right right because of that, the drones cannot
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fly over the resort because they would have to change
it because the drones are specifically not allowed to fly
over the resort.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
But the exploding bombs, the red glare, your bombs bursting
in air, gave proof through the night.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
That's okay, that's okay, trust me, I know, and I think.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
But the thing that's funny, and if you visit YouTube
or social media and see the absolutely incredible shows that
they have at Walt Disney World and Disneyland Paris and
now they have at Tokyo Disneyland, those drone shows are
insane and it really irks me that we haven't been
able to find a way to incorporate them here, even
on a smaller scale, especially World of Color at Disney
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California Adventure, which is just a Disneyized version of the
Fountain Show in fact created by the same company at
Blagio in Vegas. The same company behind the Blagio Fountain
Show is the same company that helped create World of
Color at Disney Park. I would love to see drones
incorporated in that, and they would be low enough out
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of the sky that they could be involved on like
because the point is if they're at a low enough
altitude it wouldn't be affected by that temporary flight restriction.
Or the team far granted over the castle over at
Disneyland Park a different ballgame, because it would have to
be at a high enough altitude that it would be affected.
But I agree with you. I think that we're at
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a point that it could be absolutely incredible. And there's
nothing wrong with a few flash bangs that are coming
off the castle, right, So I think that you could
combine those things, the small flash bangs that take place
at Fantasmic, and a couple of other different pyrotechnic opportunities.
So for me, there's so much magic and so much
technology that would be able to be incorporated. And I'm
just dis pointed. Disney, you are absolutely incredible, and I
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know that I can literally look out the studio here
and I can see several of your buildings just down
the cele But you're so absolutely incredible, and you're a
juggernaut of entertainment within the world and realistically the universe.
Lord only knows that there's aliens out there. George Norri
could probably chime in on it, but Disney, you know,
I'm sure aliens are watching the shows from outside of
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our galaxy. But I would love to see things here
happen in Southern California that haven't. And I think I'm
disappointed that I haven't seen an incorporation of some of
those really special, unique opportunities that have happened elsewhere within
the Walt Disney Company here for us in Southern California,
especially because starting in May is the seventieth anniversary celebration
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of Disneyland Park here in Disney, California.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Or well, you makes me feel so old because I
remember being a kid in Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
The park was still relatively new.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Right, No, I mean you have to think I'm I'm
also old enough that I had books, I had the
ticket books, so I'm sack ticket books a ticket B
ticket on you still like what I'm saying, I'm I
too am old enough to have been around when ticket
books were thing, before the tickets went insanely expensive and
it was just one to get into the door, as
opposed to the.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Eight ticket rides with the best rides, and now they're
only like, I don't know a handful of the book booklet,
and you know, I think an a ticket ride with
like the tea cups like I don't want any of
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, I don't know, and I think there was a
C ticket but still see anyway, Okay, you get my point.
I feel you. No, I'm right there with you. But anyway,
there are some amazing things that are coming. Paint the
Night is returning to the Disneyland Resort for the seventieth anniversary.
I will have so many more exciting things to share
with you. What's up with Nick here? During a later
with Mo Kelly on KFI for the Disneyland Resort and
so much more.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
I mean, I've got you know me.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
I just I'm a plethora of useless information. If there
was who wants to be a millionaire, I was definitely
one of those people you should have called because I
just got inside scoop on so much.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
You close it out the segment, you close it out
the hour. Yeah, probably the show later on? Uh tell
us how people can can find you? Because it's been
a minute, sure said, You've you've been able to do
it like you always do it for me.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
You can always find me on social media, Nick Polio Channi,
which is always the challenge. But if you've been listening, yes,
Pagliochini is the pa g l I O C h
I and I very very fanatical.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
If you look at it.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
I swore that that was like a radio suitedam for
the longest.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
No, the funnier part is and Amy King here from
KFI can confirm this as well. I was Mark Silvio
for so many years, which is Sylvia. Which is so
funny to think that you had such a pors You
can tell we were right up against that safe harbor
time here brown chicken brown.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
No, I was Mark Silvio here for so many years
on KFI. In fact, it was very funny because Chris Little,
our former news director, was the one who made the
change I don't know, maybe a decade or so ago
over to me going by Nick Poliochanni, I mean Robin Berlucci,
our former program director, also made the decision.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
But still Mark Silvio, Mark Silvio.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
So yeah, so many many years of working here, I
was Mark Silvio.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
And then I became wearing assless chaps and.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Well, you know, I'm just like I took my well,
I didn't even know Mark Ronner at the time period,
who doesn't wear pants.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
During our youuge s report.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Mark Silvio has a mullet and parachute pants and no chess.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
And on that note, there we go. That's how we
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