March 6, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the soaring cost of concert tickets AND the death of 80’s rocker Taime Downe’s fiancée who died after going overboard while on an 80’s themed cruise…PLUS – A look at Cinemark CEO Sean Gamble’s excitement over “Amazon MGM & Apple helping boost the number of overall theatrical releases” in a calendar year AND what you need to know regarding the California REAL ID deadline - 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):
And if you are not familiar with me, I work
sometime in the music industry. This was early to mid
nineteen nineties through the early to mid two thousands at
the time of my life, and it was at a
time in which there was it was all sorts of excess.
You know, you could go to any concert you wanted,
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you could get any of the music you wanted. And
this is before the digital download revolution, so we were
still using CDs. That was like a form of currency
to get actual music without having to pay eighteen dollars
for what was the average price of a CD back then.
And one of the other perks is you got to go.
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And it wasn't really difficult. Regardless of your position or
record label you worked at, or radio station worked at,
you got to go to just about every event, every
concert for free.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It wasn't it wasn't uncommon to also.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Get backstage access and go to all the parties, all
the different Grammy parties.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It was a wonderful time, let me tell you that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So I don't have any real firsthand perspective about paying
for concerts I'm not saying that as a boast. I'm
just saying that was just an extension of the industry
in which I was working. When I saw this story
in the New York Times today talking about the soaring
prices of concert tickets, it blew me away because I
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really didn't have a reference point. And it also had
me question why anyone would pay so much to go
to a concert today. For example, in nineteen ninety six,
and I'm working in the industry at this time. At
that time, I was working at the Grammys. As a
matter of fact, the average ticket price for the top
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one hundred tours was twenty five dollars in eighty one
cents as the average ticket price, or about fifty two
dollars in twenty twenty five money adjusted for inflation.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And this is according to Pollstar.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And if you don't know Pollstar, it's one of the
big industry trade publications that covers the live music industry.
By last year, twenty twenty four, the average ticket prices
had risen to one hundred and thirty five dollars in
ninety two cents, almost triple triple what it was in
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nineteen ninety six. And let me just tell you the
music could not be three times better now, It just
is no way in the world if you happen to
be a member of gen Z. In a survey of
one thousand gen zs, eighty six percent admitted to overspending
on live events. Well what do you mean by overspending?
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I'll give you an example. Taylor Swift, her recent tour
eras tour it grows more than two billion dollars, the
average ticket price for that tour in twenty twenty three
was one thousand and eighty eight dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
The average in nineteen ninety six, the average price was
twenty five dollars. Taylor Swift, arguably the biggest artist in
the world, average ticket price one thousand and eighty eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And you may say, well, what does that mean? What
is that range?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, if you wanted to see Taylor Swift at Sofi
Stadium not too far from here, the set ticket prices
range from one hundred and five dollars and twenty five
cents to four thousand, seven hundred and sixty nine dollars.
That's not ticket that's not ticket brokers, that's not resale.
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That is printed on the ticket price going directly from Ticketmaster.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I believe even some of those hundred dollars tickets were
the behind the stage tickets, so they weren't of a
view of the stage. They were just so you could
be in the arena because and I know this because
my cold parent took my daughter to see this show
and she paid for their tickets about just under seven
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hundred apiece.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't know how you tickets, but they did.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Have some cheaper, like one hundred, one hundred fifty out tickets,
but they were not stage facing tickets, so it's basically
you're just there to dance and hear the music set live.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I'm inclined to believe that concertgoers get less for their
money now and pay more than in the nineteen nineties.
I thought the shows in the nineteen nineties, and I
worked on from a label side, worked on the Janet
Jackson Velvet Rope Tour. Got to see that three or
four times, and I could see how elaborate that show was.
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For the average price of twenty five dollars you had
some tickets probably were maybe two three hundred dollars, but
that was as high as it went. I can't imagine
paying two thousand dollars in nineteen ninety six money.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Well, there are some shows that are relatively, you know, inexpensive.
There's a show that my daughter's planning on going to
see this summer in London.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It's Billy Eilish.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Billie Eilish in London at the what was it this
the h oh the O two arena, and they have
the most expensive ticket is six hundred and forty dollars
while the least expensive is around two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I remember we covered the story, and I think it
was in regard to Beyonce's tour, where people were willing
to spend the money to go to Europe because the
tickets were less expensive for the European ports. Taylor Swift,
Taylor Swift, Swift. That's the first thing I thought when
you said Billie Eilish in London. I'm like, it was
probably cheaper to go there. Yeah, so why not?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
It is because the tickets here in the States when
the show comes are astronomical. They were in the thousands,
in the thousands. It is literally cheaper all all in
to fly to London, get a room and go and
see this little girl perform than it is to go
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and pay for all the parking, all the merchandise, all
of this, that and the other here in just southern California.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And the reason I'm talking about this is I wonder
what would be the driving force the motivation to go
to concerts today.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And yes, I'm biased.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I seem to think that concerts today are not with
the exception of the high end where we have the
super pyrotechnic shows. And you know, Taylor Swift show is
like none others, so it really doesn't apply to her.
But I'm saying as an industry, I don't know why
people will want to spend all this money to see
a lot of these artists when it probably doesn't compare
to decades before.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
We are biased, though, Mo, we are biased. I mean once, I.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Also have more money in my bank account because I
did spend five thousand dollars on Tailor Swift ticket.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
But you raise a question with that, if it's really
true that sixty percent of Americans are living paycheck to
paycheck and x percent don't have a four hundred dollars
surplus for an emergency, who's going to these shows?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
My question was, since the economy was so fricking horrible
in the past two three years. How in the hell
did Taylor Swift sell out every show? And Beyonce, I
mean that to say, when the economy is actually poor,
entertainment suffers because entertainment is supposedly extra disposable, discretionary money
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that you have.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Right, So are people just running themselves into debt to
go to these or are we getting some Elysium type
divide where only rich people can go to shows anymore?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yes, yeah, I say yes, thank you.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
The only thing I was I was gonna say was
I was talking to Sketch about Taylor Swift and he
watched a whole concert on his VR headset at home,
and it's like, that's the best way to do it.
Probably that might be the future, because I remember you
were talking about it MO when Oh we had the
guest on and it was like, you guys felt like
you were on the field watching that game. Yes, oh, Adam, Adam,
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And so yeah, it's that's I think what's going to
happen eventually, because there's no way you can afford that.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Hey, real quick, while we are talking about music and
concerts and performers, we'd be remiss if we did not
mention the passing of R and B Icon just a
really really great voice and person within the music industry.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Miss and Stone who passed and.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Today Roy Airs, two absolute absolute greats, and the legacies
will be missed within this year music industry.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, I worked with Roy Ayres a little bit. He
did a lot of work on Eric Padet's second album
with the song spent My Life with You. He did
a lot of work so we had a chance to
interact and he's one of the great jazz vibrophonus.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Of all time.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I've met Angie Stone when she first came back from
being a being a rap artist way back in the
late seventies. In the early eighties, on her first album,
she did her run of shows here in la I
was invited to go to her concerts just to kind
of get a taste of her music and her sound,
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and I was absolutely floored. And it was because of
how cool she was and how beautiful a person. She was,
so open, so shanan, so down to earth that I
fought hard for each and every record she released to
get played on the radio.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's interesting because she started out as a rapper and
became a neo soul star.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, that's where I most appreciated her. I only met
her once. Be salt of the earth, one of the
warmest people. You would never know that for this way.
Her talent was bigger than her ego.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Oh by far.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It's Later with mo Kelly caf I AM six forty.
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Speaker 1 (10:17):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (10:22):
This is just going to be.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Another reason for Mark Runner to never get on a
cruise ship. Unfortunately, we have to report the news as
it is not as we would like it to be.
And the fiance of Faster Pussycat frontman Tami Down died
at sea after falling overboard from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.
And there's a lot of unfortunate irony here. Kimberly Birch
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fifty six fell to her death from a room balcony.
I'll come back to that in just a moment, but
it was on the first night of an eighties cruise
on Royal Caribbean. The ship was exl of the seas
on March second, supposedly after some sort of heated argument
with the Rocker. We've talked about cruises here any number
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of times, talked about how I've been on I don't know,
six or seven cruises, got to wall to go on
his first cruise, and there were some general rules we
told people to live by. I said, I don't go
near the rail of the ship, especially at night.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
If I had any drinks, I stay away from that.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
The rail only comes up to depending on your height,
maybe your your waist, maybe your stomach level. Yeah, so
I don't I don't mess around with that. I don't
want like a wind gust to blow me over anything
like that. I stay away from the rails, and I
don't go up there at night, or at least I
don't go near the rails at any time. And usually
I do get up my wife and I will get
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a balcony cabin or stateroom, and it has a similar
rail to what you'll see on the top deck of
the ship.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
But the rules don't change.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
You know, I'll go out there and sit in the
deck chair on the balcony, but I'm not trying to
lean over the balcony and look and you know, have
a wind gust or you know, the ship just sort
of tilt to the side for whatever reason, all of
a sudden, I'm over the water.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Because you're the one who said to Waal. Look, if
you go over that rail, you're done. You're dead. And
it's a straight drop down. It's a straight You're not
going to hit like the deck below. You go over
that edge. It's a straight, sheer drop into quite possibly
what you can only imagine is the coldest water. And
maybe I think that because it is just a deep,
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dark abyss.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
If you've never been on a cruise ship at night,
it's hard to convey how dark it is, especially if
there's no moonlight. It is blue black, blurble, midnight black.
You can't see anything anywhere. You might as well be
in outer space.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yes, you don't know what is happening out there. You
don't know which way is up or down unless you
look down. I made that mistake. And you see that
water going by the bottom of the boat. Yeah, and
that is where you think to yourself, So that's what
death looks like. That's daring death in the eye.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
You got no chance. You go over that rail.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You might be lucky and you know, bounce off the
side of the ship on the way down. That would
be good for you, because you don't want to land
in that water and the undertow and pull you into
the rotors.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You don't want that there.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Look, I know they're gonna they send out a search
party and everything. They're not gonna find you. They never do.
If they do, good on you. Okay, it's like winning
the lottery. You got a chance in three million. Yeah,
most times they're gonna, you're gonna. And so when I
see the story, I'm not any less inclined to get
on a ship, but I'm reminded of the rules that
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you should keep yourself too each and every time, and
a lot of folks and it goes back to I
know that the drinks are watered down for reasons just
like these, because they don't want to have people out
of control, drunk, falling over the rails or getting into
these situations. Because you know, you're on a cruise ship.
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There's a lot of alcohol. You have couples, very couples,
college age kids, and it can be a bad mix.
It can be you know. When when I can say this,
I'm usually a very quiet drunk. I can't speak for
Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I'm a fairly peaceful drunk. Yes, but not everyone is.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You know, do you get invariably you get the angry drunks,
You get the couple which is already arguing with each
other the first night. And this seemed to be something
that happens the first night because you imagine being on
that cruise ship and you know someone has gone overboard
the first night, and it's the fiance of an eighties
rocker on an eighties cruise How kind of kill it
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for me? No pun intended, but you know, not to
sound selfish, but that would probably ruined the day in
the room, the rest of the trip. Yeah, yeah, another
drink after that. Come for the neuro virus and the
grotesque environmental damage and stay for.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
These Oh okay, okay, that's raining a little too much
on this here parade.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Okay, one person died, all right, it happens. It happens, sure,
I mean it does.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
I mean there are people who don't pay attention, people
who like to get loose, and.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
It's not inherently dangerous.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I would say, it's basically a hotel that just happens
to be on water. And if they were at a
hotel and she unfortunately fell out of a cross a
balcony at a stationary hotel.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
The result is the same. And the outside of Russia
that doesn't happen a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Are you kidding? They're falling out of hotel windows. There
are a few.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I can't remember who it was, but there were a
couple of stories this year if people died Wait the
one singer from the band, Yes, he just went he
would just one direction, yes, thank you?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Or did they find him in the room. I was
going to say.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Somebody died in that night, But the way you guys
describe it, it takes a lot to even get to
that part of the ship. Well, no, it depends this
has happened outside their cabin. If you can get a
cabin with a balcony attached, oh okay, do you get
a private balcony?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
But I know this because we always do.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
But there are on the lower decks, especially on the
lower decks where they have all the deck chairs and
it's just all facing the water and it's not much
out there's just it's a it's a relatively easy trip down.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, but that's on the very top deck. Okay, because
on the lower pool decks, you know they have that
glass there yeah, okay on the glass. Yeah, I'm talking
about life.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
When on the on the boarding deck where like we
went to go where they have the life rafts, that's
where I was standing where it literally came up to
my waist. I said to myself, if this ship right now,
right now, well I'm trying to take a picture of
this was to rock the wrong way, I could just
be hurled right over because the decks are somewhat moist. Yes,
they're not dry, not dry decks, because you could slip
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and pow.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You're gone in the water, just like the movie Friday.
That's your ass, mister postman.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
I have an important question here, because I've never been
on one of these things, and of course you two
are pros. Do they not require you to walk around
with those kind of clip wired things like the Golden
Gate Bridge workers have. Now every place you go you
have to be clipped to something.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, there's no type of leash. You're just out there.
There's no life jackee that you're walking around with. Where
if you accidentally going you're just psh, Nope, oh I
don't like that.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You go over.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
You better hope someone was out there drinking and saw
you go over. That could alert someone, because at night,
especially that night, when everyone's on the inside, you do
have a few people who want to walk outside and
kind of take pictures or smoke to go out on
the next stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I have seen.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
There's a couple of people just out there. But I
said to myself, if I was to go over rather,
there was a family that was out there. They were
taking pictures some type of I guess they were dressed up,
so there must have been in an event.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
They went back in. That was probably the captain's dinner
that night. People were dressed up.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Oh yeah, they were all dressed up fancy. They went
back in, And when they went back in, I said
to myself, wait a minute, I'm out here in this section,
at least by myself. The next people they were at
least a mile down by ship way. I said, was
if I go over right now, that's it. No one knows,
and no one would know. Probably held till the end
of the ship because there's no telling where I would.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Be unless you know, unless someone saw you go over.
There's no way to know until you know when you
get back to port. And they realized that you haven't
because you have your seafaring badge that you scan in
any number of places when you get on and get
off the ship. Yeah, they wouldn't know until they're back
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in LA and mister Sharp never got off the ship.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Who could resist fun like that? I mean, I want
to go again. Yeah you have.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It's adult entertainment in the sense of you have to
use good common sense, and not everyone has good common sense,
especially under the influence. Because you can get alcohol wherever
you go, water down or not. Every you can go
twenty five feet there's another place where you can buy alcohol,
not even buy just get alcohol because you probably have
a drink pass. Oh it's great fun, but you still
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have to be a responsible adult. Past I am a
responsible adult. I can't speak for Mark Ronner, not so much. No,
IM six forty Live Everywhere in Nack Heart RADIOPP, we're
going to talk about movies and movie theaters and how
streaming in a way might be helping movie theaters.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
We'll tell you about it in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You might know from our previous discussions talking about movies.
I said, Hey, part of the reason why movie theaters
struggle right now now is that there are fewer releases.
There are fewer movies for movie theaters to show, and
not only that, the ones which do reach theaters don't
stay in theaters as long as they use like, for example,
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the Karate Kid originally the one in nineteen eighty four,
the original Karate Kid was in theaters for six months.
You'll be hard pressed to find a movie to stay
in theaters for six weeks now. And if you wonder
about the totality of releases, even though the theaters have
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had more movies to show in recent years, we're still
below twenty nineteen levels as far as numbers of movies
which are available for movie theaters to show. We're still
not even caught up to pre pandemic levels. And now
you're going to see a tide turning in a way.
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Cinemark CEO Sean Gamble is very optimistic about the film industry,
if only because there are certain streamers such as Amazon MGM,
which are making a concerted effort to not only offer
streaming movies but also theatrical releases. For example, I bet
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you didn't know this mark, but at the end of
the month, we have the opportunity to interview director David Air.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Oh, and he's for one.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
There's a new Jason Statham movie and if you don't know,
David Air directed The Beekeeper, also with Jason Statham, and
it's called A working Man. They've just started releasing the
promos and ads for that, and so we've been cleared
to do an interview with the director of the movie
and it's coming up. I think it's released in theaters
on March twenty eighth. The reason I bring that up
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is because it's Amazon and it's a theatrical release, so
you will see more and more streamers making the concerted
effort to not only offer streaming offerings but theatrical offerings
because movie theaters have a space and place for these movies.
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It's a little bit of light at the end of
the tunnel for especially mom and pop movie theaters which
may not have a lot to show in the first place.
But if you have more content to offer, then that
might be a lifeboat for these theaters. But yeah, it
just reminded me. We've just been clear to interview director
David Ayr at the end of the month for A
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working Man starring Jason Statham.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
His name comes up, Sorry, go ahead, twelve. No, I
can't wait for that. Yeah, it should be cool.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
I see his name come up pretty often because people
are pushing for directors cuts of certain movies of his
to be released.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
He also directed Suicide Squad.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
He was the writer for Training Day, a number of movies,
I think The Fast and the Furious. He knows action movies,
so I can't wait to talk to him about action movies.
But the point is, you have directors, you have studios,
not just doing streaming, not just doing theatrical. The lines
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are getting more and more blurred now. I don't know
how long these theatrical releases done by streaming platforms will
stay in theaters, but you know, at least there's more content.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
For them, something like this new movie with Millie Bobby Brown,
and Chris Pratt, The Electric State, directed by the Russo brothers.
That film looks hu muggus and I'm shocked. I am
shocked it is a Netflix only released. I'm like, that
should be in theaters.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
It doesn't shock me for this reason because greed wins out,
and anything that's in theaters you're sharing with theaters. You
don't They're not just showing it out of the goodness
of their heart. You are paying for that distributor platform,
if you will. And the appeal of stream for studios was,
we don't have to share anything with anyone. We could
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just have everyone come to our platform, our portal, and
watch our stuff. That was the original, i'll say attractiveness
of streaming because you have a Disney Plus platform and
you didn't have to release the movie in theaters. And
in theory you'd have people buying subscriptions and watching just
our movies on our streaming platform. And as it turned out,
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it wasn't as lucrative as they thought it was going
to be, and you had all this consolidation and buying
up other people's IP And there's still a place for
movie theaters, at least for now, in all of this,
because you can't get the same widespread coverage without them.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
As much as I thought Honora was the most overrated
movie in the history of humanity. When the director accepted
the award on Sunday, I really dug his plea for
people to support physical movie theaters.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I think there's something in that for all of us.
If you love now.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I'm still going to be sober about the prospect, the
long term prospect of theaters. Not only is it less
expensive to enjoy the home movie experience, it's less obtrusive.
You know, Mark, we hate people. Between you and me,
we hate people. We hate people who are going to
interrupt the movie. People are going to kick the back
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of our chair, rather not spend the money on the
gas going to the spending the time going to the
theater and coming back. The fact that we as a
group only go to the movies together once every two
or three months. It's now down to a special occasion
or a specific movie. I used to go to the
movies three four times a month.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Easy. That'll never happen again, I know.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
And look, you're never gonna mistake me for Nicole Kidman
in one of those breathy pro movie theater ads that
we see every single time week go.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
But I love movies.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
I've always loved going to movies, and it's too bad
there's so much stuff there that makes them not as
good experiences as before. But I mean, right up until
the play Big Hit, I was going to the New
Beverly twice a month because it's fun to have the
shared experience.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
We come to this place. Oh the magic.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
We come to AMC theaters to love, to cry, to care.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
We don't to see some guy's cell phone screen.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
That is the describable feeling we get when the lights.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Begin to dim and somebody else starts talking.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
And we go somewhere.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Why should she be so? Is it important?
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Entertained? But somehow were born together? You have to dazzling
images on a huge silver screen. Sound that I can
feel somehow.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Is she feels good in a place like this.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Our heroes feel like the beast part of us?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
What's she trying to sell us?
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Feel perfect and powerful? Because here they are.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
There's the time wait, wait for it, see you right there.
That was the climbax AMC theaters.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
We might movies better, I don't rush it said that
movie she wants you to see has a happy ending
for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
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We talked about going on a cruise, which is more
function of traveling, you know. Unfortunately, the cruise was not
a feel good story. But I'm a person who loves
to travel. And just in case you are not aware,
we talked about the deadline which was going to approach.
He kept getting moved back, But the real ID deadline
is actually almost upon us as of May seven, twenty
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five this year. That's the deadline a real ID will
be required to enter federal facilities such as military bases,
federal court houses, and of course to travel. The Department
of Homeland Security previously said that the twenty twenty five
extension was due to backlogs created by the COVID nineteen pandemic,
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and the real ID requirement was initially scheduled to take effect.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
In two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Of course, this is a response in many ways to
nine to eleven even still, but originally was supposed to
take effect in two thousand and eight after former President
George W. Bush signed the real ID Act into law
in two thousand and five. According to the TSA, a
California driver's license or identification card that is real ID
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compliant will include a bear and star in the top
right corner. I got mined Don Michaelmost. I want to
say two three years ago. At this point, it's been
a while.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah. Yeah, it was during the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I got my real idea done and there were a
lot of hoops to jump through as far as all
the paperwork.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
But you're running out of time to do it.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
So if you haven't done it already, seven have you
done it yet?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:16):
When they threatened that it was going to be uh,
it was going to be up. At the time I
did it was like another year, and now it's been
like six years since then.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Mark, have you done it yet? I'm actually not sure.
I need an assistant to check in.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Just pull up your your driver license right now, and
it's supposed to have this bear with a star in
the right top right corner. Yep, oh yeah, I got that. Okay,
then you should be good to go. Coming up in
just a moment will be the viral load. And then
let me ask Tiffany Hobbs, since she's in the studio,
have you gotten your real idea yet?
Speaker 9 (29:50):
No?
Speaker 10 (29:50):
I'm looking at my ID. No bear, just a man
panhandling for gold. Looks like let me see that, right,
I know, I kind of throwed that over here. Have
an antiquated ID, I think, But you have.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
A nice picture.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
It's a nice picture. I got all gussied up. Yeah,
I have the panhandler, but also have the bear on
top Ooh that's okay, that's a nice picture too. And
also no, this bear is definitely absent from mine, and
I'm going to rush and get that.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So you have about two months to the day. Two months.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
So the sooner you do it, the better because unless
you unless you're not going to be entering a federal
facility anytime soon, you should be all right. But if
you're planning to travel, I go on a cruise, you
might need this.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Probably not a cruise right now? Why not?
Speaker 10 (30:38):
You know, I I've never been on a cruise. I've
spoken about this before, and I do have interest in cruising,
But every time I am anticipating booking a cruise, something happens.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
To deter that, like a pandemic.
Speaker 10 (30:54):
Like a pandemic, like someone falling overboard, like a ship
being quarantined, lots and lots of things.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Chip running aground.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
All right, those are good reasons, not really good reasons,
but semi good reasons. But I think you would love
it and enjoy it. And for anyone who was thinking
about a cruise, or just even travel in general, you're
going to have to get your real I d I
unless they've changed it. I had to bring like two
bills which verified my address obviously, like a birth certificate,
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social Security card. There were a lot of documents that
I had to furnish. Part of it you can do
online part of it, but for me then I had
to take the other stuff to the actual DMV to
finish it. So I would look it up now. I
don't want to tell you wrong, but I would look
it up because there are a lot of hoops that
you have to jump through and it's probably going to
take some time, meaning you to be better off to
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start the process now as opposed to waiting until sometime
in April and nearing May, and then you have all
sets of other problems that you have to deal with,
especially if you're planning to travel anytime soon. Because I
know that you're going to require this or a passport
bids you doesn't have to be this if you do
have your passport. When it comes to just flying domestically,
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not even leaving the country, just domestically, you want to
fly to Las Vegas, you better have your real ID.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yes, yes, Tiffany, I'm being serious.
Speaker 10 (32:21):
You know, I definitely have my concerns about this, but
I will air on the side of caution and I
will follow your advice and go ahead and book that asap.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Let me ask you this question.
Speaker 10 (32:34):
Does it require a renewal in any sort of increment
of time? After five years you have to resubmit?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Do you know how has that been?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
No, I have to actually get my new have to
renew my ID on my birthday this year. It doesn't
say anything about the real aspect. Here's what I do
know you will if you want. If you don't have
a real ID come May seventh. This is what you
can use to flight. A state issued enhanced driver's license.
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Don't ask me what that is. I don't know what
it is. A US passport, a US Passport card, a
DHS Trusted Traveler card like Global Entry, Nexus Centry or
fast have a Global Entry card, a US Department of
Defense ID, including id's issue to dependents, a permanent resident card,
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a border crossing card, an acceptable photo ID issued by
a federally recognized tribal nation slash Indian tribe including enhanced
tribal cards, an HSPD DASH twelve PIV card sounds like
a disease foreign government issued passport, Canadian provincial driver's license
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or Indian and Northern Affairs Canada card, Transportation Worker Identification credential,
US Citizenship and Immigration Services Employment Authorization card, a US
Merchant Mariner credential, or a veteran health Identification card. Or
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you can always go to the DMV excuse me, DMV
dot CA dot gov and get more information about your
real ied D. But if you have your passport like
I do or passport card, you should be okay, but
be mindful. If you don't, you're gonna need to get
one of these documents or you will not be able
to get on a plane anywhere in the United States.
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And if you are not familiar with me, I work
sometime in the music industry. This was early to mid
nineteen nineties through the early to mid two thousands at
the time of my life, and it was at a
time in which there was it was all sorts of excess.
You know, you could go to any concert you wanted,
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you could get any of the music you wanted. And
this is before the digital download revolution, so we were
still using CDs. That was like a form of currency
to get actual music without having to pay eighteen dollars
for what was the average price of a CD back then.
And one of the other perks is you got to go.
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And it wasn't really difficult. Regardless of your position or
record label you worked at, or radio station worked at,
you got to go to just about every event, every
concert for free.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It wasn't it wasn't uncommon to also.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Get backstage access and go to all the parties, all
the different Grammy parties.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It was a wonderful time, let me tell you that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So I don't have any real firsthand perspective about paying
for concerts I'm not saying that as a boast. I'm
just saying that was just an extension of the industry
in which I was working. When I saw this story
in the New York Times today talking about the soaring
prices of concert tickets, it blew me away because I
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really didn't have a reference point. And it also had
me question why anyone would pay so much to go
to a concert today. For example, in nineteen ninety six,
and I'm working in the industry at this time. At
that time, I was working at the Grammys. As a
matter of fact, the average ticket price for the top
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one hundred tours was twenty five dollars in eighty one
cents as the average ticket price, or about fifty two
dollars in twenty twenty five money adjusted for inflation.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And this is according to Pollstar.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And if you don't know Pollstar, it's one of the
big industry trade publications that covers the live music industry.
By last year, twenty twenty four, the average ticket prices
had risen to one hundred and thirty five dollars in
ninety two cents, almost triple triple what it was in
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nineteen ninety six. And let me just tell you the
music could not be three times better now, It just
is no way in the world if you happen to
be a member of gen Z. In a survey of
one thousand gen zs, eighty six percent admitted to overspending
on live events. Well what do you mean by overspending?
(02:57):
I'll give you an example. Taylor Swift, her recent tour
eras tour it grows more than two billion dollars, the
average ticket price for that tour in twenty twenty three
was one thousand and eighty eight dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
The average in nineteen ninety six, the average price was
twenty five dollars. Taylor Swift, arguably the biggest artist in
the world, average ticket price one thousand and eighty eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And you may say, well, what does that mean? What
is that range?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, if you wanted to see Taylor Swift at Sofi
Stadium not too far from here, the set ticket prices
range from one hundred and five dollars and twenty five
cents to four thousand, seven hundred and sixty nine dollars.
That's not ticket that's not ticket brokers, that's not resale.
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That is printed on the ticket price going directly from Ticketmaster.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I believe even some of those hundred dollars tickets were
the behind the stage tickets, so they weren't of a
view of the stage. They were just so you could
be in the arena because and I know this because
my cold parent took my daughter to see this show
and she paid for their tickets about just under seven
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hundred apiece.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't know how you tickets, but they did.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Have some cheaper, like one hundred, one hundred fifty out tickets,
but they were not stage facing tickets, so it's basically
you're just there to dance and hear the music set live.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I'm inclined to believe that concertgoers get less for their
money now and pay more than in the nineteen nineties.
I thought the shows in the nineteen nineties, and I
worked on from a label side, worked on the Janet
Jackson Velvet Rope Tour. Got to see that three or
four times, and I could see how elaborate that show was.
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For the average price of twenty five dollars you had
some tickets probably were maybe two three hundred dollars, but
that was as high as it went. I can't imagine
paying two thousand dollars in nineteen ninety six money.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Well, there are some shows that are relatively, you know, inexpensive.
There's a show that my daughter's planning on going to
see this summer in London.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It's Billy Eilish.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Billie Eilish in London at the what was it this
the h oh the O two arena, and they have
the most expensive ticket is six hundred and forty dollars
while the least expensive is around two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I remember we covered the story, and I think it
was in regard to Beyonce's tour, where people were willing
to spend the money to go to Europe because the
tickets were less expensive for the European ports. Taylor Swift,
Taylor Swift, Swift. That's the first thing I thought when
you said Billie Eilish in London. I'm like, it was
probably cheaper to go there. Yeah, so why not?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
It is because the tickets here in the States when
the show comes are astronomical. They were in the thousands,
in the thousands. It is literally cheaper all all in
to fly to London, get a room and go and
see this little girl perform than it is to go
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and pay for all the parking, all the merchandise, all
of this, that and the other here in just southern California.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And the reason I'm talking about this is I wonder
what would be the driving force the motivation to go
to concerts today.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And yes, I'm biased.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I seem to think that concerts today are not with
the exception of the high end where we have the
super pyrotechnic shows. And you know, Taylor Swift show is
like none others, so it really doesn't apply to her.
But I'm saying as an industry, I don't know why
people will want to spend all this money to see
a lot of these artists when it probably doesn't compare
to decades before.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
We are biased, though, Mo, we are biased. I mean once, I.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Also have more money in my bank account because I
did spend five thousand dollars on Tailor Swift ticket.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
But you raise a question with that, if it's really
true that sixty percent of Americans are living paycheck to
paycheck and x percent don't have a four hundred dollars
surplus for an emergency, who's going to these shows?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
My question was, since the economy was so fricking horrible
in the past two three years. How in the hell
did Taylor Swift sell out every show? And Beyonce, I
mean that to say, when the economy is actually poor,
entertainment suffers because entertainment is supposedly extra disposable, discretionary money
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that you have.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Right, So are people just running themselves into debt to
go to these or are we getting some Elysium type
divide where only rich people can go to shows anymore?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yes, yeah, I say yes, thank you.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
The only thing I was I was gonna say was
I was talking to Sketch about Taylor Swift and he
watched a whole concert on his VR headset at home,
and it's like, that's the best way to do it.
Probably that might be the future, because I remember you
were talking about it MO when Oh we had the
guest on and it was like, you guys felt like
you were on the field watching that game. Yes, oh, Adam, Adam,
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And so yeah, it's that's I think what's going to
happen eventually, because there's no way you can afford that.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Hey, real quick, while we are talking about music and
concerts and performers, we'd be remiss if we did not
mention the passing of R and B Icon just a
really really great voice and person within the music industry.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Miss and Stone who passed and.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Today Roy Airs, two absolute absolute greats, and the legacies
will be missed within this year music industry.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, I worked with Roy Ayres a little bit. He
did a lot of work on Eric Padet's second album
with the song spent My Life with You. He did
a lot of work so we had a chance to
interact and he's one of the great jazz vibrophonus.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Of all time.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I've met Angie Stone when she first came back from
being a being a rap artist way back in the
late seventies. In the early eighties, on her first album,
she did her run of shows here in la I
was invited to go to her concerts just to kind
of get a taste of her music and her sound,
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and I was absolutely floored. And it was because of
how cool she was and how beautiful a person. She was,
so open, so shanan, so down to earth that I
fought hard for each and every record she released to
get played on the radio.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's interesting because she started out as a rapper and
became a neo soul star.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, that's where I most appreciated her. I only met
her once. Be salt of the earth, one of the
warmest people. You would never know that for this way.
Her talent was bigger than her ego.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Oh by far.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It's Later with mo Kelly caf I AM six forty.
We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (10:22):
This is just going to be.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Another reason for Mark Runner to never get on a
cruise ship. Unfortunately, we have to report the news as
it is not as we would like it to be.
And the fiance of Faster Pussycat frontman Tami Down died
at sea after falling overboard from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.
And there's a lot of unfortunate irony here. Kimberly Birch
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fifty six fell to her death from a room balcony.
I'll come back to that in just a moment, but
it was on the first night of an eighties cruise
on Royal Caribbean. The ship was exl of the seas
on March second, supposedly after some sort of heated argument
with the Rocker. We've talked about cruises here any number
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of times, talked about how I've been on I don't know,
six or seven cruises, got to wall to go on
his first cruise, and there were some general rules we
told people to live by. I said, I don't go
near the rail of the ship, especially at night.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
If I had any drinks, I stay away from that.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
The rail only comes up to depending on your height,
maybe your your waist, maybe your stomach level. Yeah, so
I don't I don't mess around with that. I don't
want like a wind gust to blow me over anything
like that. I stay away from the rails, and I
don't go up there at night, or at least I
don't go near the rails at any time. And usually
I do get up my wife and I will get
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a balcony cabin or stateroom, and it has a similar
rail to what you'll see on the top deck of
the ship.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
But the rules don't change.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
You know, I'll go out there and sit in the
deck chair on the balcony, but I'm not trying to
lean over the balcony and look and you know, have
a wind gust or you know, the ship just sort
of tilt to the side for whatever reason, all of
a sudden, I'm over the water.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Because you're the one who said to Waal. Look, if
you go over that rail, you're done. You're dead. And
it's a straight drop down. It's a straight You're not
going to hit like the deck below. You go over
that edge. It's a straight, sheer drop into quite possibly
what you can only imagine is the coldest water. And
maybe I think that because it is just a deep,
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dark abyss.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
If you've never been on a cruise ship at night,
it's hard to convey how dark it is, especially if
there's no moonlight. It is blue black, blurble, midnight black.
You can't see anything anywhere. You might as well be
in outer space.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yes, you don't know what is happening out there. You
don't know which way is up or down unless you
look down. I made that mistake. And you see that
water going by the bottom of the boat. Yeah, and
that is where you think to yourself, So that's what
death looks like. That's daring death in the eye.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
You got no chance. You go over that rail.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You might be lucky and you know, bounce off the
side of the ship on the way down. That would
be good for you, because you don't want to land
in that water and the undertow and pull you into
the rotors.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You don't want that there.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Look, I know they're gonna they send out a search
party and everything. They're not gonna find you. They never do.
If they do, good on you. Okay, it's like winning
the lottery. You got a chance in three million. Yeah,
most times they're gonna, you're gonna. And so when I
see the story, I'm not any less inclined to get
on a ship, but I'm reminded of the rules that
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you should keep yourself too each and every time, and
a lot of folks and it goes back to I
know that the drinks are watered down for reasons just
like these, because they don't want to have people out
of control, drunk, falling over the rails or getting into
these situations. Because you know, you're on a cruise ship.
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There's a lot of alcohol. You have couples, very couples,
college age kids, and it can be a bad mix.
It can be you know. When when I can say this,
I'm usually a very quiet drunk. I can't speak for
Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I'm a fairly peaceful drunk. Yes, but not everyone is.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You know, do you get invariably you get the angry drunks,
You get the couple which is already arguing with each
other the first night. And this seemed to be something
that happens the first night because you imagine being on
that cruise ship and you know someone has gone overboard
the first night, and it's the fiance of an eighties
rocker on an eighties cruise How kind of kill it
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for me? No pun intended, but you know, not to
sound selfish, but that would probably ruined the day in
the room, the rest of the trip. Yeah, yeah, another
drink after that. Come for the neuro virus and the
grotesque environmental damage and stay for.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
These Oh okay, okay, that's raining a little too much
on this here parade.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Okay, one person died, all right, it happens. It happens, sure,
I mean it does.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
I mean there are people who don't pay attention, people
who like to get loose, and.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
It's not inherently dangerous.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I would say, it's basically a hotel that just happens
to be on water. And if they were at a
hotel and she unfortunately fell out of a cross a
balcony at a stationary hotel.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
The result is the same. And the outside of Russia
that doesn't happen a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Are you kidding? They're falling out of hotel windows. There
are a few.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I can't remember who it was, but there were a
couple of stories this year if people died Wait the
one singer from the band, Yes, he just went he
would just one direction, yes, thank you?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Or did they find him in the room. I was
going to say.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Somebody died in that night, But the way you guys
describe it, it takes a lot to even get to
that part of the ship. Well, no, it depends this
has happened outside their cabin. If you can get a
cabin with a balcony attached, oh okay, do you get
a private balcony?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
But I know this because we always do.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
But there are on the lower decks, especially on the
lower decks where they have all the deck chairs and
it's just all facing the water and it's not much
out there's just it's a it's a relatively easy trip down.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, but that's on the very top deck. Okay, because
on the lower pool decks, you know they have that
glass there yeah, okay on the glass. Yeah, I'm talking
about life.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
When on the on the boarding deck where like we
went to go where they have the life rafts, that's
where I was standing where it literally came up to
my waist. I said to myself, if this ship right now,
right now, well I'm trying to take a picture of
this was to rock the wrong way, I could just
be hurled right over because the decks are somewhat moist. Yes,
they're not dry, not dry decks, because you could slip
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and pow.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You're gone in the water, just like the movie Friday.
That's your ass, mister postman.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
I have an important question here, because I've never been
on one of these things, and of course you two
are pros. Do they not require you to walk around
with those kind of clip wired things like the Golden
Gate Bridge workers have. Now every place you go you
have to be clipped to something.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, there's no type of leash. You're just out there.
There's no life jackee that you're walking around with. Where
if you accidentally going you're just psh, Nope, oh I
don't like that.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You go over.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
You better hope someone was out there drinking and saw
you go over. That could alert someone, because at night,
especially that night, when everyone's on the inside, you do
have a few people who want to walk outside and
kind of take pictures or smoke to go out on
the next stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I have seen.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
There's a couple of people just out there. But I
said to myself, if I was to go over rather,
there was a family that was out there. They were
taking pictures some type of I guess they were dressed up,
so there must have been in an event.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
They went back in. That was probably the captain's dinner
that night. People were dressed up.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Oh yeah, they were all dressed up fancy. They went
back in, And when they went back in, I said
to myself, wait a minute, I'm out here in this section,
at least by myself. The next people they were at
least a mile down by ship way. I said, was
if I go over right now, that's it. No one knows,
and no one would know. Probably held till the end
of the ship because there's no telling where I would.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Be unless you know, unless someone saw you go over.
There's no way to know until you know when you
get back to port. And they realized that you haven't
because you have your seafaring badge that you scan in
any number of places when you get on and get
off the ship. Yeah, they wouldn't know until they're back
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in LA and mister Sharp never got off the ship.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Who could resist fun like that? I mean, I want
to go again. Yeah you have.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It's adult entertainment in the sense of you have to
use good common sense, and not everyone has good common sense,
especially under the influence. Because you can get alcohol wherever
you go, water down or not. Every you can go
twenty five feet there's another place where you can buy alcohol,
not even buy just get alcohol because you probably have
a drink pass. Oh it's great fun, but you still
(19:29):
have to be a responsible adult. Past I am a
responsible adult. I can't speak for Mark Ronner, not so much. No,
IM six forty Live Everywhere in Nack Heart RADIOPP, we're
going to talk about movies and movie theaters and how
streaming in a way might be helping movie theaters.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
We'll tell you about it in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You might know from our previous discussions talking about movies.
I said, Hey, part of the reason why movie theaters
struggle right now now is that there are fewer releases.
There are fewer movies for movie theaters to show, and
not only that, the ones which do reach theaters don't
stay in theaters as long as they use like, for example,
(20:13):
the Karate Kid originally the one in nineteen eighty four,
the original Karate Kid was in theaters for six months.
You'll be hard pressed to find a movie to stay
in theaters for six weeks now. And if you wonder
about the totality of releases, even though the theaters have
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had more movies to show in recent years, we're still
below twenty nineteen levels as far as numbers of movies
which are available for movie theaters to show. We're still
not even caught up to pre pandemic levels. And now
you're going to see a tide turning in a way.
(20:58):
Cinemark CEO Sean Gamble is very optimistic about the film industry,
if only because there are certain streamers such as Amazon MGM,
which are making a concerted effort to not only offer
streaming movies but also theatrical releases. For example, I bet
(21:19):
you didn't know this mark, but at the end of
the month, we have the opportunity to interview director David Air.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Oh, and he's for one.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
There's a new Jason Statham movie and if you don't know,
David Air directed The Beekeeper, also with Jason Statham, and
it's called A working Man. They've just started releasing the
promos and ads for that, and so we've been cleared
to do an interview with the director of the movie
and it's coming up. I think it's released in theaters
on March twenty eighth. The reason I bring that up
(21:51):
is because it's Amazon and it's a theatrical release, so
you will see more and more streamers making the concerted
effort to not only offer streaming offerings but theatrical offerings
because movie theaters have a space and place for these movies.
(22:12):
It's a little bit of light at the end of
the tunnel for especially mom and pop movie theaters which
may not have a lot to show in the first place.
But if you have more content to offer, then that
might be a lifeboat for these theaters. But yeah, it
just reminded me. We've just been clear to interview director
David Ayr at the end of the month for A
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working Man starring Jason Statham.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
His name comes up, Sorry, go ahead, twelve. No, I
can't wait for that. Yeah, it should be cool.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
I see his name come up pretty often because people
are pushing for directors cuts of certain movies of his
to be released.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
He also directed Suicide Squad.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
He was the writer for Training Day, a number of movies,
I think The Fast and the Furious. He knows action movies,
so I can't wait to talk to him about action movies.
But the point is, you have directors, you have studios,
not just doing streaming, not just doing theatrical. The lines
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are getting more and more blurred now. I don't know
how long these theatrical releases done by streaming platforms will
stay in theaters, but you know, at least there's more content.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
For them, something like this new movie with Millie Bobby Brown,
and Chris Pratt, The Electric State, directed by the Russo brothers.
That film looks hu muggus and I'm shocked. I am
shocked it is a Netflix only released. I'm like, that
should be in theaters.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
It doesn't shock me for this reason because greed wins out,
and anything that's in theaters you're sharing with theaters. You
don't They're not just showing it out of the goodness
of their heart. You are paying for that distributor platform,
if you will. And the appeal of stream for studios was,
we don't have to share anything with anyone. We could
(24:05):
just have everyone come to our platform, our portal, and
watch our stuff. That was the original, i'll say attractiveness
of streaming because you have a Disney Plus platform and
you didn't have to release the movie in theaters. And
in theory you'd have people buying subscriptions and watching just
our movies on our streaming platform. And as it turned out,
(24:28):
it wasn't as lucrative as they thought it was going
to be, and you had all this consolidation and buying
up other people's IP And there's still a place for
movie theaters, at least for now, in all of this,
because you can't get the same widespread coverage without them.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
As much as I thought Honora was the most overrated
movie in the history of humanity. When the director accepted
the award on Sunday, I really dug his plea for
people to support physical movie theaters.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I think there's something in that for all of us.
If you love now.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I'm still going to be sober about the prospect, the
long term prospect of theaters. Not only is it less
expensive to enjoy the home movie experience, it's less obtrusive.
You know, Mark, we hate people. Between you and me,
we hate people. We hate people who are going to
interrupt the movie. People are going to kick the back
(25:21):
of our chair, rather not spend the money on the
gas going to the spending the time going to the
theater and coming back. The fact that we as a
group only go to the movies together once every two
or three months. It's now down to a special occasion
or a specific movie. I used to go to the
movies three four times a month.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Easy. That'll never happen again, I know.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
And look, you're never gonna mistake me for Nicole Kidman
in one of those breathy pro movie theater ads that
we see every single time week go.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
But I love movies.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
I've always loved going to movies, and it's too bad
there's so much stuff there that makes them not as
good experiences as before. But I mean, right up until
the play Big Hit, I was going to the New
Beverly twice a month because it's fun to have the
shared experience.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
We come to this place. Oh the magic.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
We come to AMC theaters to love, to cry, to care.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
We don't to see some guy's cell phone screen.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
That is the describable feeling we get when the lights.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Begin to dim and somebody else starts talking.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
And we go somewhere.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Why should she be so? Is it important?
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Entertained? But somehow were born together? You have to dazzling
images on a huge silver screen. Sound that I can
feel somehow.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Is she feels good in a place like this.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Our heroes feel like the beast part of us?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
What's she trying to sell us?
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Feel perfect and powerful? Because here they are.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
There's the time wait, wait for it, see you right there.
That was the climbax AMC theaters.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
We might movies better, I don't rush it said that
movie she wants you to see has a happy ending
for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
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Okay, deep breath Reset.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
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Speaker 3 (27:28):
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Speaker 2 (27:34):
We talked about going on a cruise, which is more
function of traveling, you know. Unfortunately, the cruise was not
a feel good story. But I'm a person who loves
to travel. And just in case you are not aware,
we talked about the deadline which was going to approach.
He kept getting moved back, But the real ID deadline
is actually almost upon us as of May seven, twenty
(27:59):
five this year. That's the deadline a real ID will
be required to enter federal facilities such as military bases,
federal court houses, and of course to travel. The Department
of Homeland Security previously said that the twenty twenty five
extension was due to backlogs created by the COVID nineteen pandemic,
(28:22):
and the real ID requirement was initially scheduled to take effect.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
In two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Of course, this is a response in many ways to
nine to eleven even still, but originally was supposed to
take effect in two thousand and eight after former President
George W. Bush signed the real ID Act into law
in two thousand and five. According to the TSA, a
California driver's license or identification card that is real ID
(28:52):
compliant will include a bear and star in the top
right corner. I got mined Don Michaelmost. I want to
say two three years ago. At this point, it's been
a while.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah. Yeah, it was during the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I got my real idea done and there were a
lot of hoops to jump through as far as all
the paperwork.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
But you're running out of time to do it.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
So if you haven't done it already, seven have you
done it yet?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:16):
When they threatened that it was going to be uh,
it was going to be up. At the time I
did it was like another year, and now it's been
like six years since then.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Mark, have you done it yet? I'm actually not sure.
I need an assistant to check in.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Just pull up your your driver license right now, and
it's supposed to have this bear with a star in
the right top right corner. Yep, oh yeah, I got that. Okay,
then you should be good to go. Coming up in
just a moment will be the viral load. And then
let me ask Tiffany Hobbs, since she's in the studio,
have you gotten your real idea yet?
Speaker 9 (29:50):
No?
Speaker 10 (29:50):
I'm looking at my ID. No bear, just a man
panhandling for gold. Looks like let me see that, right,
I know, I kind of throwed that over here. Have
an antiquated ID, I think, But you have.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
A nice picture.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
It's a nice picture. I got all gussied up. Yeah,
I have the panhandler, but also have the bear on
top Ooh that's okay, that's a nice picture too. And
also no, this bear is definitely absent from mine, and
I'm going to rush and get that.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So you have about two months to the day. Two months.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
So the sooner you do it, the better because unless
you unless you're not going to be entering a federal
facility anytime soon, you should be all right. But if
you're planning to travel, I go on a cruise, you
might need this.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Probably not a cruise right now? Why not?
Speaker 10 (30:38):
You know, I I've never been on a cruise. I've
spoken about this before, and I do have interest in cruising,
But every time I am anticipating booking a cruise, something happens.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
To deter that, like a pandemic.
Speaker 10 (30:54):
Like a pandemic, like someone falling overboard, like a ship
being quarantined, lots and lots of things.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Chip running aground.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
All right, those are good reasons, not really good reasons,
but semi good reasons. But I think you would love
it and enjoy it. And for anyone who was thinking
about a cruise, or just even travel in general, you're
going to have to get your real I d I
unless they've changed it. I had to bring like two
bills which verified my address obviously, like a birth certificate,
(31:29):
social Security card. There were a lot of documents that
I had to furnish. Part of it you can do
online part of it, but for me then I had
to take the other stuff to the actual DMV to
finish it. So I would look it up now. I
don't want to tell you wrong, but I would look
it up because there are a lot of hoops that
you have to jump through and it's probably going to
take some time, meaning you to be better off to
(31:50):
start the process now as opposed to waiting until sometime
in April and nearing May, and then you have all
sets of other problems that you have to deal with,
especially if you're planning to travel anytime soon. Because I
know that you're going to require this or a passport
bids you doesn't have to be this if you do
have your passport. When it comes to just flying domestically,
(32:12):
not even leaving the country, just domestically, you want to
fly to Las Vegas, you better have your real ID.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yes, yes, Tiffany, I'm being serious.
Speaker 10 (32:21):
You know, I definitely have my concerns about this, but
I will air on the side of caution and I
will follow your advice and go ahead and book that asap.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Let me ask you this question.
Speaker 10 (32:34):
Does it require a renewal in any sort of increment
of time? After five years you have to resubmit?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Do you know how has that been?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
No, I have to actually get my new have to
renew my ID on my birthday this year. It doesn't
say anything about the real aspect. Here's what I do
know you will if you want. If you don't have
a real ID come May seventh. This is what you
can use to flight. A state issued enhanced driver's license.
(33:03):
Don't ask me what that is. I don't know what
it is. A US passport, a US Passport card, a
DHS Trusted Traveler card like Global Entry, Nexus Centry or
fast have a Global Entry card, a US Department of
Defense ID, including id's issue to dependents, a permanent resident card,
(33:27):
a border crossing card, an acceptable photo ID issued by
a federally recognized tribal nation slash Indian tribe including enhanced
tribal cards, an HSPD DASH twelve PIV card sounds like
a disease foreign government issued passport, Canadian provincial driver's license
(33:48):
or Indian and Northern Affairs Canada card, Transportation Worker Identification credential,
US Citizenship and Immigration Services Employment Authorization card, a US
Merchant Mariner credential, or a veteran health Identification card. Or
(34:09):
you can always go to the DMV excuse me, DMV
dot CA dot gov and get more information about your
real ied D. But if you have your passport like
I do or passport card, you should be okay, but
be mindful. If you don't, you're gonna need to get
one of these documents or you will not be able
to get on a plane anywhere in the United States.
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