April 3, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Wellness Wednesday with wife, mother, fitness expert, masterful storyteller & regular guest contributor Claudine Cooper AKA ‘The Nice Exercise Lady’ sharing tips for seniors to “incorporate variety to improve wellness, prevent injury and MORE…PLUS – Thoughts on President Trump’s new ‘Better Online Ticket Sales,’ or BOTS, Act aimed at ensuring “competition laws are enforced in the concert and entertainment industry” – on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty exercise.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You well listen, Lot says it short work out this
bad job.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Don't work out Kim six forty Later with Mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. It's now time
to talk to the nice exercise Lady. Claudie Cooper, who's
been away for a couple of weeks. Is good to
see you, Claudide and she joined us in the studio.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
It's great to be back. I'm sorry I brought my
raspy voice with me, but I have. I've taught twenty
one classes two weeks, so I've been yelling at people,
so I don't know if you can call me the
nice exercise lady anymore. Oh what.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Because they're mad at me right now?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
When you're yelling at someone, do sometimes they take offense
at that? Or do they understand?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I've had people walk out of my class flat out.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Ooh yeah, when you're yelling at them? Are you yelling pointily?
It's like, all right, Christine, I need.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
To know look it up.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Absolutely not I would ever, but I do a blanket.
I'm trying to help you guys get the results that
you say you want.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So if I have to light a fire, I have
to light a fire.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Ah. I sent you a story today because I don't
think about this, but you probably have. There's a Colorado
fitness program for seniors which is incorporating a variety of
exercises to not only improve wellness, but it's conscious of
avoiding or limiting injury. I haven't thought about that, But
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how often do you have to think about that as
far as you doing those twenty one classes? Variety of ages,
variety of health conditions, variety of limitations.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I always say, it's all shapes, all sizes.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
How do I incorporate my knowledge about injuries and age
and all these different things. Usually what I do is
just to keep myself safe. I say, if you feel
like something could potentially injure you, please don't do it.
Even if I'm saying to do it, ignore me for
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your safety.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah. That's where I usually get in trouble because male
ego will take over and I'm determined and I'm self
aware in this regard. I'm determined to keep up, probably
to my detriment at times. Yeah, And I can see
a situation where people are like, Okay, you know, I'm
doing this because it's going to be good for my health,
and maybe they should not be doing it at that
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pace or that level of rigorousness.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I mean, they'll be all right, you were all right
after my workout, weren't you, mom?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah it was. But I'm not sedentary either, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
So here's my point. A lot of times, what you
have in these situations. I'll just tell the listeners about
the article a little bit more. There's two guys, each
of them passionate about fitness, one of them passionate about
rehabilitation and recovery. And then the other one his mother
had dementia and a stroke, so he got first hand
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knowledge of what it's like to watch someone age, and
he is passionate about health. So these two guys come
together and what they do is they go into retirement
communities and they give them like a prescription of what
they should be offering for the seniors. Now, my grandmother
lives in a retirement community and she too has group
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fitness class.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Let me stuff at there. Yes, you still have grandparents.
I have one that is a blessing. Oh my goodness,
I know, I know ninety this year. Oh my god,
I've had a grandparents since two thousand and three.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Wow, well, you know, I'm a little younger than you,
but I.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Meanly, but yes, I do so.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
And she's active and that's and she lives in a
retirement community. There's two things at play. When you live
in a retirement community, you're more likely to socialize with your.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Fellow community members right now.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
The second thing is, these two guys put the group
fitness programming into the retirement community. What's better than getting
up and going dancing, stretching, strengthening taiji. I mean, they've
got all this stuff with the people you already connect
with when you're, you know, walking around the little neighborhood there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Kind of like college.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Actually, it feels a lot like my gym, because I
set the programming in such a way that I felt
like it would be connective people, and that's what group
fitness is supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I wonder have you started having that internal conversation with yourself.
You have said something to the effect of, I don't
go hard all the time like I used to when
I was younger as far as your teaching, but do
you apply that to yourself in any way?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Oh, I definitely give myself a lot more grace now
than I used to. I'm not.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
No, I'm not playing.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And when I say to my members, hey, guys, make
sure you're listening to your body, it's because I'm listening
to my body. But like today, for example, I taught
a class. My voice is gone, so I had to
do a lot of physical cues. Somebody said, well, we
can tell by how you were moving. You don't feel
too bad, do you, because I still have the physical
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ability to exercise.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
My voice is gone from yelling. But other than that, yeah,
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'm always conscious of the status of my voice because
I needed every single day, and I'm always aware of
how much I'm using it outside of here, how loud
I may be using it outside of here. My dietary
intake because I almost eat, no drink, no dairy now
because it will cope my throat, and it's much easier
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for me to have issues with my voice. I say
all that to say, what are the things that you're
conscious of to make sure that you are at your
best when you're doing what you do? Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That is I don't know what do I do?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I mean, you don't just work out aimlessly.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I do not work out aimlessly. I do take my
time with the exercises. These days, I'm a little slower.
I don't jump as much as I used to. I
used to do a lot of high intensity training. I
don't do a lot of that anymore. I'm trying to
protect my knees.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yes, I get that. I know, knock on wood. I
haven't had any problem with my knees. I'm always conscious
of my hips. I feel it in my hips. I
feel the almost forty years of kicking hips and so
and I wish you could see this. I stretch every day.
Oh yeah, I stretch multiple times at different points to day.
(07:09):
Like I've been sitting in this chair for almost an hour.
I'll probably walk around and do some light stretching before
this show's over. There are times that you've seen it
when come in the studio. I'm doing the show standing up.
Why to give myself some just some vertical stretching.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yes, absolutely, and going from standing or sitting to standing
is one of the ways that we can continue to.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Mobilize our body.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Right, it's not a big deal, and it's not a
huge change to a person's lifestyle. But with the phones
and the TVs and the laptops and the iPads.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We're on our but way more than we should be.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Okay, And I ask you a question of personal question
before we go to break. When you don't have a
voice like this, does your husband take advantage and sort
of just take liberties where Oh, but he can't hear
your saying huh, I can't hear you. Did you say something?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I'll tell you this. He's probably glad I can't talk
too much. I'm trying to protect my voice.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Okay, all right, all right, it's Later with mo Kelly.
The nice exercise lady Claudine Cooper, who I guess wasn't
as nice as he usually is as she's struggling with
her voice, joins us in studio.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
It's Later with mo Kelly. I'm joined in studio by
the nice exercise lady Claudie Cooper, who joins us, who
is struggling with her voice. So I don't want that
to surprise you. If you're just tuning in right now.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
It's just a little raspy tonight, they'll be okay, Okay, all.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Right, But I always want to make sure we make
time for you to tell people about what you do
each and every Saturday, especially since we're well into spring
now moving towards summer. There is an outdoor option for people,
a free options, a free option for people to go
ahead and get the workout on.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And it's all levels, just like I said earlier, so
all levels are welcome, all ages. There's a lot a
lot of families that come out. It's a free outdoor
workout and it's in Inglewood at the Hollywood Park retail
district at nine am every Saturday, and it's totally free.
Also there's a farmer's market, so you can go get
your workout, leave the workout, go get a fresh press, juice, kale, whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
It is a great experience and I don't know how
you manage it because some people may show up a
little later. You don't know who is going to show up.
You don't know, like you may have in your mind,
I'm going to do this, I may do that, but
depending on the client, tell who shows up. Going back
to our conversation last segment, I was there where you
see someone who's on the other side of sixty five.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Oh yeah, definitely and beyond. But I believe everybody has
the ability to rise to the occasion mo and even
if they can't keep all the way up, sometimes just
being in community with people is the uplifting medicine. I
think this article that you sent me earlier about the
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retirement community having group fitness is a very good demonstration
of how community can make the aging process a lot
more tolerable. You have people who are connecting in a
social way as well as in a healthy way of
doing movement, and they're living longer.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And not only that. I can only speak for what
I've seen with your group, yeap. People are encouraging each other.
They are not competing. There's a difference, and I've been
in places where people are obviously showing off and competing,
oh yeah, as opposed to encourage you one another.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You know, it was funny, Moh.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I think two weeks ago we got kicked out of
our space where we normally do the workout, and you know,
it was no big deal. It was just they were
having something for the soccer semi finals or something on
that area. So I didn't really know where we would go,
but I knew that if I gathered everyone together that,
like you said, they would encourage each other and we
would just figure it out. Well, we didn't have any
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music or anything. We're just kind of like just standing there.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
And I got to tell you, the way things always
seem to work out for these free workouts cannot be
described as anything but divine. So I have no music,
I've got about fifty people waiting for a workout, and
I'm like where we're gonna go. They're all looking at me,
like where we go and where we are? I'm like, okay,
so let me figure this out. I walk a little ways.
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I tell them let's go for a walk. And that's
something I want to impress upon people. It doesn't have
to be overly complicated. It doesn't have to be a
gym membership or you know, group fitness classes. It can
just be walking outside. And if you have a place
that's not that safe and you want to find somewhere
where you can walk. A lot of parks have trails,
well lit trails. I'm not sure where everybody is, but
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my Inner City park has a nice track. And so
I say that to say going for a walk is
enough so we start walking together and we stumbled upon
an outdoor restaurant that was basically playing the exact playlist
that I would play if I was touching a workout.
So I look around. Everybody's looking at me, No one's
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at the restaurant. The restaurant's completely empty. I'm like, this
is the spot. We just start moving our bodies. The
music's going. The owner of the restaurant comes out, sees
us in the area of the patio and all this
stuff doing our workout. He's like, let me turn that
music up for you guys, and we had such a
wonderful workout. But I just say that to say it
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always works out.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You mentioned walking, and not too long ago you led
the group which included me, on a walk around that
retail district. What how has it changed, or I put
it in your words, how much it has changed that
area in the past year or so.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You know, I would like to say it's changed a lot,
but the big changes that obviously iconics. The gym that
I work for is there in in a lot of
foot traffic, and because of that, others other businesses have
opened up since then, but it's still not occupied to
the place where we could just you know, hang out
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there all day. There's a couple little spots, but we
need more businesses in Inglewood. We need grocery stores, we
need salad spots, we need healthy fare. If anybody who's listening,
we have spaces in the Hollywood Park Retail District and
we have tons of foot traffic from the gym and
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we need it's so nice, Yes we do. So that's
me making my plea because I love the new restaurant
that's in there that allowed us to work out. It's
called the Meeting Spot. I love it, but we need
about three of those four of those.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I'm going to be at the Meeting Spot a lot
of the summer. It's an outdoor restaurant, yes, and it's
not far from the movies, which I usually go to
get food, so I know exactly where you're talking about.
That's going to be my hangout. But for people who've
never been there who expect possibly to join you this
Saturday again, please give them the information.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Basically, you would just go to the area around so
far and you'll go to a complex called the Hollywood
Park Retail District. We're right in the middle on the
basketball court, parking validated Farmers Market. You'll see the movie theater.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It's all right there.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The best place to park it and I when I
go there is I Just if you're going down Century,
go north on Prairie. You'll make an immediate rite, which
is ninety seventh Street into that parking structure. Easy way,
easy to find it from there. Yes, just you can
just follow the screaming of people you know, passing out
from no you're.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Singing, You'll follow the joyful noise, clauding Cooper.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Always great to see you.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Always great to be here, and I plan to be
back next week.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Now let your voice rest the rested evening. Can you
do that?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I will.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It's Later with mo Kelly caf I AM six forty
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And you may have noticed this. If not, let me
fill you in. We have talked on this show about
the price of tickets. How I would not ever go
to a music concert anymore just because of the price
of tickets. It's ridiculous. They have dynamic pricing where it
will fluctuate depending on demand. They had all these fees,
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which were now have since been removed due to a
Biden administration move, but there still was an issue about
the cost of tickets in this aftermarket. You had these
bots and these ticket brokers buying up all these tickets
which were supposed to be available for concertgoers like you
and me. But then you'd have these bots buying up
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the tickets and then reselling them at ridiculous prices. To
that end, the Trump administration issued an executive order last
week which directed the Federal Trade Commission to work with
a dog to ensure that competition laws are enforced in
the concert and entertainment industry. It's called the Bots Act
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the Better Online Ticket Sales, and it pushes state consumer
protection authorities on enforcement and or at least that's the
intention the president. You might have seen the video by
now in pictures. He was joined in the Oval office
by singer Kid Rock, real interesting outfit he was wearing,
who said computer bot purchases of tickets were hurting artists
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and their fans. I don't know if it was hurting artists,
but I can say that it was definitely hurting fans,
and a fewer people were buying tickets than by extension,
it was probably hurting artists.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I think it's hurting artists in that artists are not
getting the markup. Artists are getting the price of what
the tickets are when they're sold. When you have these
bots buy them and they're selling them at these after
market sites, no artist is getting that after market cost.
Artists are getting what they would the face value of
the tickets. And that's what President Biden established, like this
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is the cost of the ticket, this, this is the taxes,
the service charges, all that, so everything's factored in so
everyone knows what they're getting paid on the artists and
venue side. But then you have these bots that are
buying these tickets and say, buying them at one hundred
and fifty dollars and then turn around sell them at
two three, four hundred dollars a pop.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
How about four thousand even better? When it came to
the Taylor Swift tickets and also the Beyonce tickets, yes
they were one hundred times mark up, Yes absolutely, and
that is not going back to the artist.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
That's how the artists suffer, but also how the fans suffer.
Like right now, my co parent literally just finished the
purchase of the tickets and the tour package and all
that to go in and see Billy Eilish in London
at the old To Arena floor seats, floor seats o
To Arena in London for her and our daughter to
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go and see this show this summer. And still that's cheaper.
Cheaper tickets, hotel, ground, transtation, airfare and all that is
cheaper than seeing Billie Eilish here because the tickets that
were available here are already at a piece like some
two and three thousand dollars that they're trying to sell
on the aftermarket.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Okay, this is your daughter, right, yes, Okay, this is
your daughter who was able to go see Taylor Swift. Yes,
this is your daughter who was able to go see Beyonce. Yes,
this is your daughter who's been on cruises.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Cruises who you know who plural, who has seen probably
every play that we advertise Hamilton like three. She's like,
I don't know about this cast. I don't know about
this lineup for Hamilton tonight. You know this is I've
seen them before. I like the other cast, you know,
I like the New York She knows that this is
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not normal, right, yeah, but you know what something we
impress upon our children is experiences versus gifts, things that
I remember forever and ever and ever and even today.
We were talking about it as we were getting her
passport at the password office. She was like, like, I
don't know if I've ever received I haven't received a
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birthday gift. In a minute, it's like, no, you have not,
but you've received these experiences in these memories. This is
what you should cherish. Because I said, where is your
Christmas presence from two years ago?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And she went h oh h h. Yeah. I do
appreciate talking about concerts and going to see performances stage shows.
I do appreciate my parents having the forethought to say, no,
you're coming to see this. You're coming to see Lena Horn,
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a lady from music are you're coming to see you know,
Duke Ellington's sophisticated ladies. I appreciate, but I didn't fully
appreciate it until I got older and people could say, wait, baite,
you saw the Lena Horn live And it's like, yeah,
didn't all y'all see Leno? Right? She was in La
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for like weeks now.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
We were too busy playing with something that we lost,
you know, weeks later.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, it means a lot, and I was teasing you,
but I'm also saluting you to make sure that your
daughter has these experiences, not only to see the artists,
but to travel and see the world. Travel is something else,
which I think changes you as a person. I know
I'm digressing, but it's important here. I honestly believe we
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would not have so much political acrimony if more people
traveled and saw the world from outside the United States,
looked at the world through other people's eyes. I'll give
you a perfect example. I had not that they didn't
have an appreciation. I never had a greater appreciation for
those who may come to this country and not know
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the language than when I was in Spain for three weeks.
And if you've never been to Spain, it's like this,
English ain't the second language, it's maybe the fourth language.
You're not gonna hear English anywhere except the high end areas.
You're only gonna hear it in hotels you're gonna hear it,
and maybe some of the high end restaurants. You're not
gonna hear it. Back then, when you're gonna get into
a cab, you're not gonna hear it. When you're in
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a shop and you're only gonna get respect if you
attempt to speak Spanish, not come in and start speaking
English to look at you like you lazy mother, father American.
But the moment I started speaking Spanish and you find
yourself I'm not there now. Because you have to use
it every day. I was fluent in about a week.
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Did I know everything, No, but I was fluent because
you're not allowed to think in English. You have to
think in Spanish. That changes your whole perspective about when
you come somewhere and expect them to assimilate and learn
the language. It's not as easy as you think. Imagine
being in a country where you don't know the language
per se and you were dependent upon trying to figure
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out how to have your food cooked, you know, how
how to find out Here's another perfect example. I was
trying to find out where the bus was and I
was saying, you know, I was basically saying, for those
who don't speak Spanish, I'll say, where's the MTA. That's
what I was saying. But in Spain the MTA, oh no,
excuse me, I had it backwards. I will say where's
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the ATM You know, because I wanted to find a
cash machine. Well, when you say I am, that's that's
like the bus system in Spain. So I asked for
a And you know, when you learn the language, you
learn how to say something, but not necessarily how to
receive what's gonna tell you? Like I can say, twala,
you know, where's the liquor store? And you may say, man,
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you need to go down here. You're gonna make a
right at the corner. There's gonna be this this homeless
person on sitting on the street. That's Paul, gonna go
to the left and it's gonna be right in your right.
That's how people respond to your questions, and you have
to think year it out from there. It's one thing
when you say, dun't de ass style a biblioteca and
then they give you an answer which is about fourteen sentences. Oh,
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since you asked, Yeah, you're talking about you're talking about
the one and down in Los Robles, or youre talking about
the one on the other side of town. You love
to talk, man, Oh yeah, they love to talk. Point
is travel changes you in a positive way and you
will not be so single minded about the idea of
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immigration or learning a language or cultural assimilation, and there's
something else, you know, when you go to Spain. It
took me three days to figure out that Spain is
the Spanish is the co national language. They're speaking Spanish
and Catalan. I didn't know what Cotchlan was when I
got in the in the country, Cotalana is like a
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mix of Spanish and French and Latin. It's like I
only understand like every four or five words. Yeah, fool,
it's a different language. Damn it will change. It will
just change you, you know. But let me get off
my soapbox. But kudos to you for making sure that
your daughter has been able to see the world and
also have experiences more so than things.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
But if we can control the cost of tickets here,
then you know she'll be able to see more shows
here is the ground.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Daddy Warbucks. No, no, I'm just saying this.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Be able to see more shows here, you know that
are not as expensive as you know.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
No, I'm with this executive order. I really am. As
someone who's a veteran of the music industry, I've seen
how this has become out of control and unaffordable and
ridiculous as far as the cost of concert tickets. You know,
when we say such and such tickets are gone on
sale right now, you won't get any of those tickets
because the box buy them all up and then you
have to go to third party ticket brokers and you're
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paying ten times the amount if you're lucky. If you're lucky,
it's Later with Mokelly care if I Am six forty
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Speaker 1 (24:59):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (25:11):
Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Last segment, we
started off talking about the latest executive action by President Trump,
which was directed at having a more competitive and fair
marketplace when it came to ticket purchases. I think all
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of us have purchased a ticket at some point to
go to a concert, and if you've done it in
recent years, you know that the prices have gone. You know,
when we say through the roof, I don't think that
actually does it justice. It's beyond that. It got to
the point of being ridiculous as far as the markup.
You'd have tickets go on sale and no matter what,
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even if you were right there trying to buy tickets,
you most likely couldn't buy them because they would have
these things called bots which would buy up the tickets
third party ticket sellers resellers, and then they would resell
it to the actual public for at least ten times
the face value of the ticket. When you have places
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like Ticketmaster, which would also introduce dynamic pricing relative to demand,
it would escalate the price even more. It was a
lose lose situation for any concert goer, and it usually
priced regular people out of the market for seeing their
favorite artists. Depending on where you live in the country,
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you will only have one chance to see your favorite
artists if that singer or performer goes on tour and
comes to your town. Let's say you live in Des Moines, Iowa.
It may not come to Des Moines, but it might
be in Dubuque, so you have to drive to the
other side of the state for that one opportunity to
see a Taylor Swift or a Beyonce. Tickets are limited
(26:59):
to be with, and then you have to pay basically
these hostage prices if you want to go. And that's
saying nothing of purchasing multiple tickets. So this executive action
was to address that, and it's nonspecific. Let me be clear.
Even though I'm for it, I am not. I'm not
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tricking myself into thinking that this is going to change
everything immediately. It is an act which is saying that
the Justice Department is going to work closely with the
Federal Trade Commission in identifying the bad actors and then
pursuing them and making sure that in this bot Act
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that there is a better online experience and people will
have more access to these tickets. And then we digress.
We were talking about Tawala and his daughter, how she's
going to see Billie Eilish somewhere around the world, and
because when it comes down to it, it costs less
to travel internationally and see your favorite artists as opposed
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to seeing that same artist here in the United States.
And the digression went like this, I was complimenting to
all of not only for making sure that his daughter
and by extension, his son have these experiences as opposed
to things. The experiences last with us for life. I
took it one step further, and I was saying that
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travel as an experience changes us. I think it improves us.
I have an explicit agreement with my wife where we
want to hit a different continent each time we travel. Well,
obviously the pandemic gotten a way of that in recent years,
but now we're getting back to that. We went to Korea.
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That was my first time in Asia. Last year. I
grew as a person again, and I'm in a place
where I largely do not speak the language, and I
have a few raises and some general understanding of Korean.
And when you're in South Korea, it's another place where
they appreciate the attempt because it shows respect of the culture.
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Respect for the culture, and knowledge of the culture. You're
not just some traveling idiot who's just there to buy stuff.
You actually have an interest in the country, and you've
obviously done some homework to be better suited. Because especially
in the country like South Korea, it's all about respect.
When you greet someone, they have a reference for someone
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who is older. They don't look down on people who
are older in the way that we do here in
the United States. There's a way that you greet an
older person. There's a way that you like. For example,
if someone is going to hand you your food or
hand you just your keys to your hotel room, it's
always done with two hands, and what to bring by
two hands is they'll extend one hand to give you
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the object, and your other hand is laid across your arm.
Everything is done in a very particular way, and if
you know how to do that, you're treated differently. Travel
changes you in a way that only people who travel,
I think fully understand. If there's something value about learning
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about different cultures. There's something I would say intrinsically valuable
about not thinking that the United States is the center
of the world. It really isn't, and you don't appreciate
that until you actually go somewhere else. I'm not talking
about going to the Mexican Riviera. I'm talking about a
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different continent.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
With this bots act and how frequently you all travel,
I wonder if something like this will be then put
across all second party ticket sellers, wherein you may have
travel companies who are jacking up the prices on travel
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packages that they may secure, versus you being able to
go and get it, say directly through the sales company itself.
I'm just trying to think that could this also help
for someone like yourself who travels.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I would say no, if only because there's more competition
in the travel market where they can compete against each other.
Part of the problem is there wasn't any real competition.
You have like Ticketmaster, which is a function of Live Nation.
There's only like one real ticket provider, and you have
a dozen different resellers, and you'd have Live Nation only
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allowing so many tickets available to the public, and then
you have these third party resellers getting a lot of
those tickets which were available supposedly to the public, and
so the American consumer always lost out, and that's why
you're seeing so many people who are willing to travel
to see a concert outside the arameters of this country.
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We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. It's now time
to talk to the nice exercise Lady. Claudie Cooper, who's
been away for a couple of weeks. Is good to
see you, Claudide and she joined us in the studio.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
It's great to be back. I'm sorry I brought my
raspy voice with me, but I have. I've taught twenty
one classes two weeks, so I've been yelling at people,
so I don't know if you can call me the
nice exercise lady anymore. Oh what.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Because they're mad at me right now?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
When you're yelling at someone, do sometimes they take offense
at that? Or do they understand?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I've had people walk out of my class flat out.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Ooh yeah, when you're yelling at them? Are you yelling pointily?
It's like, all right, Christine, I need.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
To know look it up.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Absolutely not I would ever, but I do a blanket.
I'm trying to help you guys get the results that
you say you want.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So if I have to light a fire, I have
to light a fire.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Ah. I sent you a story today because I don't
think about this, but you probably have. There's a Colorado
fitness program for seniors which is incorporating a variety of
exercises to not only improve wellness, but it's conscious of
avoiding or limiting injury. I haven't thought about that, But
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how often do you have to think about that as
far as you doing those twenty one classes? Variety of ages,
variety of health conditions, variety of limitations.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I always say, it's all shapes, all sizes.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
How do I incorporate my knowledge about injuries and age
and all these different things. Usually what I do is
just to keep myself safe. I say, if you feel
like something could potentially injure you, please don't do it.
Even if I'm saying to do it, ignore me for
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your safety.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah. That's where I usually get in trouble because male
ego will take over and I'm determined and I'm self
aware in this regard. I'm determined to keep up, probably
to my detriment at times. Yeah, And I can see
a situation where people are like, Okay, you know, I'm
doing this because it's going to be good for my health,
and maybe they should not be doing it at that
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pace or that level of rigorousness.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I mean, they'll be all right, you were all right
after my workout, weren't you, mom?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah it was. But I'm not sedentary either, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
So here's my point. A lot of times, what you
have in these situations. I'll just tell the listeners about
the article a little bit more. There's two guys, each
of them passionate about fitness, one of them passionate about
rehabilitation and recovery. And then the other one his mother
had dementia and a stroke, so he got first hand
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knowledge of what it's like to watch someone age, and
he is passionate about health. So these two guys come
together and what they do is they go into retirement
communities and they give them like a prescription of what
they should be offering for the seniors. Now, my grandmother
lives in a retirement community and she too has group
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fitness class.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Let me stuff at there. Yes, you still have grandparents.
I have one that is a blessing. Oh my goodness,
I know, I know ninety this year. Oh my god,
I've had a grandparents since two thousand and three.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Wow, well, you know, I'm a little younger than you,
but I.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Meanly, but yes, I do so.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
And she's active and that's and she lives in a
retirement community. There's two things at play. When you live
in a retirement community, you're more likely to socialize with your.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Fellow community members right now.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
The second thing is, these two guys put the group
fitness programming into the retirement community. What's better than getting
up and going dancing, stretching, strengthening taiji. I mean, they've
got all this stuff with the people you already connect
with when you're, you know, walking around the little neighborhood there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Kind of like college.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Actually, it feels a lot like my gym, because I
set the programming in such a way that I felt
like it would be connective people, and that's what group
fitness is supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I wonder have you started having that internal conversation with yourself.
You have said something to the effect of, I don't
go hard all the time like I used to when
I was younger as far as your teaching, but do
you apply that to yourself in any way?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Oh, I definitely give myself a lot more grace now
than I used to. I'm not.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
No, I'm not playing.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And when I say to my members, hey, guys, make
sure you're listening to your body, it's because I'm listening
to my body. But like today, for example, I taught
a class. My voice is gone, so I had to
do a lot of physical cues. Somebody said, well, we
can tell by how you were moving. You don't feel
too bad, do you, because I still have the physical
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ability to exercise.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
My voice is gone from yelling. But other than that, yeah,
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'm always conscious of the status of my voice because
I needed every single day, and I'm always aware of
how much I'm using it outside of here, how loud
I may be using it outside of here. My dietary
intake because I almost eat, no drink, no dairy now
because it will cope my throat, and it's much easier
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for me to have issues with my voice. I say
all that to say, what are the things that you're
conscious of to make sure that you are at your
best when you're doing what you do? Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That is I don't know what do I do?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I mean, you don't just work out aimlessly.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I do not work out aimlessly. I do take my
time with the exercises. These days, I'm a little slower.
I don't jump as much as I used to. I
used to do a lot of high intensity training. I
don't do a lot of that anymore. I'm trying to
protect my knees.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yes, I get that. I know, knock on wood. I
haven't had any problem with my knees. I'm always conscious
of my hips. I feel it in my hips. I
feel the almost forty years of kicking hips and so
and I wish you could see this. I stretch every day.
Oh yeah, I stretch multiple times at different points to day.
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Like I've been sitting in this chair for almost an hour.
I'll probably walk around and do some light stretching before
this show's over. There are times that you've seen it
when come in the studio. I'm doing the show standing up.
Why to give myself some just some vertical stretching.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yes, absolutely, and going from standing or sitting to standing
is one of the ways that we can continue to.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Mobilize our body.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Right, it's not a big deal, and it's not a
huge change to a person's lifestyle. But with the phones
and the TVs and the laptops and the iPads.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We're on our but way more than we should be.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Okay, And I ask you a question of personal question
before we go to break. When you don't have a
voice like this, does your husband take advantage and sort
of just take liberties where Oh, but he can't hear
your saying huh, I can't hear you. Did you say something?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I'll tell you this. He's probably glad I can't talk
too much. I'm trying to protect my voice.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Okay, all right, all right, it's Later with mo Kelly.
The nice exercise lady Claudine Cooper, who I guess wasn't
as nice as he usually is as she's struggling with
her voice, joins us in studio.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
It's Later with mo Kelly. I'm joined in studio by
the nice exercise lady Claudie Cooper, who joins us, who
is struggling with her voice. So I don't want that
to surprise you. If you're just tuning in right now.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
It's just a little raspy tonight, they'll be okay, Okay, all.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Right, But I always want to make sure we make
time for you to tell people about what you do
each and every Saturday, especially since we're well into spring
now moving towards summer. There is an outdoor option for people,
a free options, a free option for people to go
ahead and get the workout on.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And it's all levels, just like I said earlier, so
all levels are welcome, all ages. There's a lot a
lot of families that come out. It's a free outdoor
workout and it's in Inglewood at the Hollywood Park retail
district at nine am every Saturday, and it's totally free.
Also there's a farmer's market, so you can go get
your workout, leave the workout, go get a fresh press, juice, kale, whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
It is a great experience and I don't know how
you manage it because some people may show up a
little later. You don't know who is going to show up.
You don't know, like you may have in your mind,
I'm going to do this, I may do that, but
depending on the client, tell who shows up. Going back
to our conversation last segment, I was there where you
see someone who's on the other side of sixty five.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Oh yeah, definitely and beyond. But I believe everybody has
the ability to rise to the occasion mo and even
if they can't keep all the way up, sometimes just
being in community with people is the uplifting medicine. I
think this article that you sent me earlier about the
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retirement community having group fitness is a very good demonstration
of how community can make the aging process a lot
more tolerable. You have people who are connecting in a
social way as well as in a healthy way of
doing movement, and they're living longer.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And not only that. I can only speak for what
I've seen with your group, yeap. People are encouraging each other.
They are not competing. There's a difference, and I've been
in places where people are obviously showing off and competing,
oh yeah, as opposed to encourage you one another.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You know, it was funny, Moh.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I think two weeks ago we got kicked out of
our space where we normally do the workout, and you know,
it was no big deal. It was just they were
having something for the soccer semi finals or something on
that area. So I didn't really know where we would go,
but I knew that if I gathered everyone together that,
like you said, they would encourage each other and we
would just figure it out. Well, we didn't have any
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music or anything. We're just kind of like just standing there.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
And I got to tell you, the way things always
seem to work out for these free workouts cannot be
described as anything but divine. So I have no music,
I've got about fifty people waiting for a workout, and
I'm like where we're gonna go. They're all looking at me,
like where we go and where we are? I'm like, okay,
so let me figure this out. I walk a little ways.
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I tell them let's go for a walk. And that's
something I want to impress upon people. It doesn't have
to be overly complicated. It doesn't have to be a
gym membership or you know, group fitness classes. It can
just be walking outside. And if you have a place
that's not that safe and you want to find somewhere
where you can walk. A lot of parks have trails,
well lit trails. I'm not sure where everybody is, but
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my Inner City park has a nice track. And so
I say that to say going for a walk is
enough so we start walking together and we stumbled upon
an outdoor restaurant that was basically playing the exact playlist
that I would play if I was touching a workout.
So I look around. Everybody's looking at me, No one's
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at the restaurant. The restaurant's completely empty. I'm like, this
is the spot. We just start moving our bodies. The
music's going. The owner of the restaurant comes out, sees
us in the area of the patio and all this
stuff doing our workout. He's like, let me turn that
music up for you guys, and we had such a
wonderful workout. But I just say that to say it
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always works out.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You mentioned walking, and not too long ago you led
the group which included me, on a walk around that
retail district. What how has it changed, or I put
it in your words, how much it has changed that
area in the past year or so.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You know, I would like to say it's changed a lot,
but the big changes that obviously iconics. The gym that
I work for is there in in a lot of
foot traffic, and because of that, others other businesses have
opened up since then, but it's still not occupied to
the place where we could just you know, hang out
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there all day. There's a couple little spots, but we
need more businesses in Inglewood. We need grocery stores, we
need salad spots, we need healthy fare. If anybody who's listening,
we have spaces in the Hollywood Park Retail District and
we have tons of foot traffic from the gym and
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we need it's so nice, Yes we do. So that's
me making my plea because I love the new restaurant
that's in there that allowed us to work out. It's
called the Meeting Spot. I love it, but we need
about three of those four of those.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I'm going to be at the Meeting Spot a lot
of the summer. It's an outdoor restaurant, yes, and it's
not far from the movies, which I usually go to
get food, so I know exactly where you're talking about.
That's going to be my hangout. But for people who've
never been there who expect possibly to join you this
Saturday again, please give them the information.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Basically, you would just go to the area around so
far and you'll go to a complex called the Hollywood
Park Retail District. We're right in the middle on the
basketball court, parking validated Farmers Market. You'll see the movie theater.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It's all right there.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The best place to park it and I when I
go there is I Just if you're going down Century,
go north on Prairie. You'll make an immediate rite, which
is ninety seventh Street into that parking structure. Easy way,
easy to find it from there. Yes, just you can
just follow the screaming of people you know, passing out
from no you're.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Singing, You'll follow the joyful noise, clauding Cooper.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Always great to see you.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Always great to be here, and I plan to be
back next week.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Now let your voice rest the rested evening. Can you
do that?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I will.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It's Later with mo Kelly caf I AM six forty
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Speaker 1 (14:57):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And you may have noticed this. If not, let me
fill you in. We have talked on this show about
the price of tickets. How I would not ever go
to a music concert anymore just because of the price
of tickets. It's ridiculous. They have dynamic pricing where it
will fluctuate depending on demand. They had all these fees,
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which were now have since been removed due to a
Biden administration move, but there still was an issue about
the cost of tickets in this aftermarket. You had these
bots and these ticket brokers buying up all these tickets
which were supposed to be available for concertgoers like you
and me. But then you'd have these bots buying up
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the tickets and then reselling them at ridiculous prices. To
that end, the Trump administration issued an executive order last
week which directed the Federal Trade Commission to work with
a dog to ensure that competition laws are enforced in
the concert and entertainment industry. It's called the Bots Act
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the Better Online Ticket Sales, and it pushes state consumer
protection authorities on enforcement and or at least that's the
intention the president. You might have seen the video by
now in pictures. He was joined in the Oval office
by singer Kid Rock, real interesting outfit he was wearing,
who said computer bot purchases of tickets were hurting artists
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and their fans. I don't know if it was hurting artists,
but I can say that it was definitely hurting fans,
and a fewer people were buying tickets than by extension,
it was probably hurting artists.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I think it's hurting artists in that artists are not
getting the markup. Artists are getting the price of what
the tickets are when they're sold. When you have these
bots buy them and they're selling them at these after
market sites, no artist is getting that after market cost.
Artists are getting what they would the face value of
the tickets. And that's what President Biden established, like this
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is the cost of the ticket, this, this is the taxes,
the service charges, all that, so everything's factored in so
everyone knows what they're getting paid on the artists and
venue side. But then you have these bots that are
buying these tickets and say, buying them at one hundred
and fifty dollars and then turn around sell them at
two three, four hundred dollars a pop.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
How about four thousand even better? When it came to
the Taylor Swift tickets and also the Beyonce tickets, yes
they were one hundred times mark up, Yes absolutely, and
that is not going back to the artist.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
That's how the artists suffer, but also how the fans suffer.
Like right now, my co parent literally just finished the
purchase of the tickets and the tour package and all
that to go in and see Billy Eilish in London
at the old To Arena floor seats, floor seats o
To Arena in London for her and our daughter to
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go and see this show this summer. And still that's cheaper.
Cheaper tickets, hotel, ground, transtation, airfare and all that is
cheaper than seeing Billie Eilish here because the tickets that
were available here are already at a piece like some
two and three thousand dollars that they're trying to sell
on the aftermarket.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Okay, this is your daughter, right, yes, Okay, this is
your daughter who was able to go see Taylor Swift. Yes,
this is your daughter who was able to go see Beyonce. Yes,
this is your daughter who's been on cruises.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Cruises who you know who plural, who has seen probably
every play that we advertise Hamilton like three. She's like,
I don't know about this cast. I don't know about
this lineup for Hamilton tonight. You know this is I've
seen them before. I like the other cast, you know,
I like the New York She knows that this is
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not normal, right, yeah, but you know what something we
impress upon our children is experiences versus gifts, things that
I remember forever and ever and ever and even today.
We were talking about it as we were getting her
passport at the password office. She was like, like, I
don't know if I've ever received I haven't received a
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birthday gift. In a minute, it's like, no, you have not,
but you've received these experiences in these memories. This is
what you should cherish. Because I said, where is your
Christmas presence from two years ago?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And she went h oh h h. Yeah. I do
appreciate talking about concerts and going to see performances stage shows.
I do appreciate my parents having the forethought to say, no,
you're coming to see this. You're coming to see Lena Horn,
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a lady from music are you're coming to see you know,
Duke Ellington's sophisticated ladies. I appreciate, but I didn't fully
appreciate it until I got older and people could say, wait, baite,
you saw the Lena Horn live And it's like, yeah,
didn't all y'all see Leno? Right? She was in La
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for like weeks now.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
We were too busy playing with something that we lost,
you know, weeks later.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, it means a lot, and I was teasing you,
but I'm also saluting you to make sure that your
daughter has these experiences, not only to see the artists,
but to travel and see the world. Travel is something else,
which I think changes you as a person. I know
I'm digressing, but it's important here. I honestly believe we
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would not have so much political acrimony if more people
traveled and saw the world from outside the United States,
looked at the world through other people's eyes. I'll give
you a perfect example. I had not that they didn't
have an appreciation. I never had a greater appreciation for
those who may come to this country and not know
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the language than when I was in Spain for three weeks.
And if you've never been to Spain, it's like this,
English ain't the second language, it's maybe the fourth language.
You're not gonna hear English anywhere except the high end areas.
You're only gonna hear it in hotels you're gonna hear it,
and maybe some of the high end restaurants. You're not
gonna hear it. Back then, when you're gonna get into
a cab, you're not gonna hear it. When you're in
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a shop and you're only gonna get respect if you
attempt to speak Spanish, not come in and start speaking
English to look at you like you lazy mother, father American.
But the moment I started speaking Spanish and you find
yourself I'm not there now. Because you have to use
it every day. I was fluent in about a week.
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Did I know everything, No, but I was fluent because
you're not allowed to think in English. You have to
think in Spanish. That changes your whole perspective about when
you come somewhere and expect them to assimilate and learn
the language. It's not as easy as you think. Imagine
being in a country where you don't know the language
per se and you were dependent upon trying to figure
(22:04):
out how to have your food cooked, you know, how
how to find out Here's another perfect example. I was
trying to find out where the bus was and I
was saying, you know, I was basically saying, for those
who don't speak Spanish, I'll say, where's the MTA. That's
what I was saying. But in Spain the MTA, oh no,
excuse me, I had it backwards. I will say where's
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the ATM You know, because I wanted to find a
cash machine. Well, when you say I am, that's that's
like the bus system in Spain. So I asked for
a And you know, when you learn the language, you
learn how to say something, but not necessarily how to
receive what's gonna tell you? Like I can say, twala,
you know, where's the liquor store? And you may say, man,
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you need to go down here. You're gonna make a
right at the corner. There's gonna be this this homeless
person on sitting on the street. That's Paul, gonna go
to the left and it's gonna be right in your right.
That's how people respond to your questions, and you have
to think year it out from there. It's one thing
when you say, dun't de ass style a biblioteca and
then they give you an answer which is about fourteen sentences. Oh,
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since you asked, Yeah, you're talking about you're talking about
the one and down in Los Robles, or youre talking about
the one on the other side of town. You love
to talk, man, Oh yeah, they love to talk. Point
is travel changes you in a positive way and you
will not be so single minded about the idea of
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immigration or learning a language or cultural assimilation, and there's
something else, you know, when you go to Spain. It
took me three days to figure out that Spain is
the Spanish is the co national language. They're speaking Spanish
and Catalan. I didn't know what Cotchlan was when I
got in the in the country, Cotalana is like a
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mix of Spanish and French and Latin. It's like I
only understand like every four or five words. Yeah, fool,
it's a different language. Damn it will change. It will
just change you, you know. But let me get off
my soapbox. But kudos to you for making sure that
your daughter has been able to see the world and
also have experiences more so than things.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
But if we can control the cost of tickets here,
then you know she'll be able to see more shows
here is the ground.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Daddy Warbucks. No, no, I'm just saying this.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Be able to see more shows here, you know that
are not as expensive as you know.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
No, I'm with this executive order. I really am. As
someone who's a veteran of the music industry, I've seen
how this has become out of control and unaffordable and
ridiculous as far as the cost of concert tickets. You know,
when we say such and such tickets are gone on
sale right now, you won't get any of those tickets
because the box buy them all up and then you
have to go to third party ticket brokers and you're
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paying ten times the amount if you're lucky. If you're lucky,
it's Later with Mokelly care if I Am six forty
Live Everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Last segment, we
started off talking about the latest executive action by President Trump,
which was directed at having a more competitive and fair
marketplace when it came to ticket purchases. I think all
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of us have purchased a ticket at some point to
go to a concert, and if you've done it in
recent years, you know that the prices have gone. You know,
when we say through the roof, I don't think that
actually does it justice. It's beyond that. It got to
the point of being ridiculous as far as the markup.
You'd have tickets go on sale and no matter what,
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even if you were right there trying to buy tickets,
you most likely couldn't buy them because they would have
these things called bots which would buy up the tickets
third party ticket sellers resellers, and then they would resell
it to the actual public for at least ten times
the face value of the ticket. When you have places
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like Ticketmaster, which would also introduce dynamic pricing relative to demand,
it would escalate the price even more. It was a
lose lose situation for any concert goer, and it usually
priced regular people out of the market for seeing their
favorite artists. Depending on where you live in the country,
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you will only have one chance to see your favorite
artists if that singer or performer goes on tour and
comes to your town. Let's say you live in Des Moines, Iowa.
It may not come to Des Moines, but it might
be in Dubuque, so you have to drive to the
other side of the state for that one opportunity to
see a Taylor Swift or a Beyonce. Tickets are limited
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to be with, and then you have to pay basically
these hostage prices if you want to go. And that's
saying nothing of purchasing multiple tickets. So this executive action
was to address that, and it's nonspecific. Let me be clear.
Even though I'm for it, I am not. I'm not
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tricking myself into thinking that this is going to change
everything immediately. It is an act which is saying that
the Justice Department is going to work closely with the
Federal Trade Commission in identifying the bad actors and then
pursuing them and making sure that in this bot Act
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that there is a better online experience and people will
have more access to these tickets. And then we digress.
We were talking about Tawala and his daughter, how she's
going to see Billie Eilish somewhere around the world, and
because when it comes down to it, it costs less
to travel internationally and see your favorite artists as opposed
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to seeing that same artist here in the United States.
And the digression went like this, I was complimenting to
all of not only for making sure that his daughter
and by extension, his son have these experiences as opposed
to things. The experiences last with us for life. I
took it one step further, and I was saying that
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travel as an experience changes us. I think it improves us.
I have an explicit agreement with my wife where we
want to hit a different continent each time we travel. Well,
obviously the pandemic gotten a way of that in recent years,
but now we're getting back to that. We went to Korea.
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That was my first time in Asia. Last year. I
grew as a person again, and I'm in a place
where I largely do not speak the language, and I
have a few raises and some general understanding of Korean.
And when you're in South Korea, it's another place where
they appreciate the attempt because it shows respect of the culture.
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Respect for the culture, and knowledge of the culture. You're
not just some traveling idiot who's just there to buy stuff.
You actually have an interest in the country, and you've
obviously done some homework to be better suited. Because especially
in the country like South Korea, it's all about respect.
When you greet someone, they have a reference for someone
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who is older. They don't look down on people who
are older in the way that we do here in
the United States. There's a way that you greet an
older person. There's a way that you like. For example,
if someone is going to hand you your food or
hand you just your keys to your hotel room, it's
always done with two hands, and what to bring by
two hands is they'll extend one hand to give you
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the object, and your other hand is laid across your arm.
Everything is done in a very particular way, and if
you know how to do that, you're treated differently. Travel
changes you in a way that only people who travel,
I think fully understand. If there's something value about learning
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about different cultures. There's something I would say intrinsically valuable
about not thinking that the United States is the center
of the world. It really isn't, and you don't appreciate
that until you actually go somewhere else. I'm not talking
about going to the Mexican Riviera. I'm talking about a
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different continent.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
With this bots act and how frequently you all travel,
I wonder if something like this will be then put
across all second party ticket sellers, wherein you may have
travel companies who are jacking up the prices on travel
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packages that they may secure, versus you being able to
go and get it, say directly through the sales company itself.
I'm just trying to think that could this also help
for someone like yourself who travels.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I would say no, if only because there's more competition
in the travel market where they can compete against each other.
Part of the problem is there wasn't any real competition.
You have like Ticketmaster, which is a function of Live Nation.
There's only like one real ticket provider, and you have
a dozen different resellers, and you'd have Live Nation only
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allowing so many tickets available to the public, and then
you have these third party resellers getting a lot of
those tickets which were available supposedly to the public, and
so the American consumer always lost out, and that's why
you're seeing so many people who are willing to travel
to see a concert outside the arameters of this country.
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