4th of July LIVE from Chateau ‘Le Mo PART THREE

ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Part Three of an evening of Family, Fun & Fireworks from the 4th annual 4th of July LIVE Broadcast from Chateau ‘Le Mo - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

Episode Transcript

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K f I am sixty. You'relistening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. We're livefrom Chateau Lemo And also not to confuse
you, we are instagram live atLater with Mo Kelly and at Nick Polyokenny.
You can see what's going on inthe studio at Later with Mo Kelly,

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I'm sharing the screen with at NickPolyochinni. Nick is up at the
park showing the fireworks and it's Ican't describe it to you. You just
have to go see it for yourself. You can hear the fireworks in the
background. I wish they were soundeffects, but they're all real. You
can see the fireworks from our viewat my house at n at Later with

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mo Kelly on Instagram and also atNick Polyokenni. We have a dual Instagram
live feed going right now. Abunch of partygoers and attendees just walked up
there, readying themselves for the activity, the spectacle that it is, and
it is absolutely amazing. I cannotwait for us to be able to get

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the opportunity to go up there.Every single year I come. I like
to do this three sixty spin whereI get to show everyone who doesn't believe,
Like every single angle that you lookup there you see all of the
shows and all of these amazing hoodfireworks. This is what Fourth of July
is literally all about. We havesomeone who is on the Instagram live asking

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are those fireworks legal? I can'ttell you. The ones that you see
in the sky, for the mostpart, are legal. They're coming from
the sanctioned fireworks shows because they startednine o'clock. But there are a lot
of illegal, professional grade fireworks thatyou're going on right now as well.
One thing that always I think makesme the most uneasy is because with all

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of the rapid sounds and repeated soundsthat we hear, we know for a
fact, okay, let's not kideach other, we know for a fact
that some of this mixed in isalso gunfire. And that is what I
don't get about here in Los Angeles. Why Angelina's don't just at least look,
if you're gonna be bold enough,bad enough to have illegal fireworks,

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then just keep the guns at home. Please do not shoot up into the
air. Those bullets come down,yes, if it may not be reported
as much as it should be,but those bulls when they come down,
lives are lost. If you're justtuning in, we have an Instagram live
at Later with Mo Kelly. Youcan see the fireworks and also see into
the studio as we're broadcasting line fromChateau lem And also we're sharing the Instagram

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live with at Nick Poliochini and youcan there. You can also see the
three sixty degree fireworks that we've beentalking about all evening. I know some
people hit me on Instagram saying,Mo, there shouldn't be any illegal fireworks.
We just did a segment talking abouthow we're trying to move away from
a legal fireworks and legal fireworks todrone shows. But you know, I

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don't know if there's any real appetiteto stop it. We're in agreement.
They're dangerous. Yeah, no,and this is something that I don't think
anyone who is impacted by fireworks woulddisagree. I know my co parent,
I've invited her several times to comeand hang out with us, but because

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of growing up in Philadelphia and becauseof certain instances in her life dealing with
gun violence, she is actually petrifiedand afraid of fireworks. And it is
real. It is a very veryreal fear almost like with you and be's
her and fireworks do not get along, never have and it is like that

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for so many people. And thisis not some big commercial fool or anti
fireworks things, because look, everyoneright now, within the sound of our
voice, look you've heard us.We are against the illegal fireworks. But
what you're hearing outside these individuals settingthem up, they do not care.
They don't care about what we're talkingabout. Why because they've already purchased them

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with the specific purpose of setting itoff on the fourth of July. Right.
And also, I don't have afear of fireworks, but I have
a healthy respect of the danger offireworks. I've been burned by fireworks,
so I know how dangerous they canbe. And we were being flipped before
about you know, are we tiredof losing our figures and setting our houses

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on fire? But that's the realcost of these shows. I was more
talking about the nostalgia connected to themand the Fourth of July, and I
think that's an impediment as to whywe have trouble getting past the use of
traditional fireworks, be it legal orillegal. And also there's a cottage industry.

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There are a lot of people whoare willing to buy these fireworks.
They may be coming from across theborder in large part, but they're people
buying them here as well. Yeah, no, no, no, no,
this isn't I have not seen anillegal firework like set up on a
street corner the entire year. Sowherever they're going to get these, they
are going to get there and bringthem back. Right. We just talked

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about how California is trying to workwith New Mexico and Nevada to curb the
import of illegal fireworks, but thatstill is individuals going across the border,
leaving California and bringing them in becausethey've long ban the cell of them in
Los Angeles County in particular, andI believe Orange County as well, But

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that doesn't stop it. That doesn'tstop it at all. And you know,
hey, sometimes people got to learnthe hard way. Unfortunately. I
just hope it's not you know,someone that lives near you, brother,
So if you still want to tuneinto the fireworks, I want to log
off my Instagram line, but laterwith mo Kelly log onto at Nick Poliochini
right now, don't ask me tospell it, just figure it out at

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Nick Paublo'chinni. He is bringing youthe fireworks live three sixty degrees from my
house, just outside my house,and we're gonna take a quick break.
Now the other side, we're gonnalet you listen to one of our classic
segments of movies and the Fourth ofJuly, and then we'll hit you on
the other side. It's Later withMo Kelly coming to you live from Chateau

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le mo on the fourth of July, Independence Day, Happy Birthday America.
You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty.
Of course we were going to discussmovies in the fourth of July at some
point. Well, now is thatpoint? I remember in a movie sense,

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the fourth of July weekend was supposedto be the weekend for what would
be the biggest movie of the summer, if not the year. That's when
the big movie you'd have either aWill Smith offering or a Tom Cruise offering
something that was supposed to be theweekend. It doesn't feel like that's the
case anymore. Jaws was set onthe fourth of July. When I think

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about beach scenes and going to thebeach during the summer. If you're at
least over the age of forty,you can't help but associate the beach with
Jaws. It changed how everyone wentinto the water. Whatever that promotion was,
Yes, Jaws was set on thefourth of July. This is a
great white larry, a big one, and any shark expert in the world
will tell you it's a killer.It's a man eater. Look. The
situation is that apparently a great whiteshark has staked to claim in the waters

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off Family Island, and he isgoing to continue to feed here as long
as there is food in the water, and there's no limit to what he's
going to do. I mean,we've already had three incidents, two people
killed inside of a week, andit's going to happen again. It happened
before the Jersey Beature scene. Fivepeople chewed up in the one week.
Tell them about the swimmers. Ashark is attracted to the exact kind of
splashing, an activity that occurs wheneverhuman beings go in swimming. You cannot

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avoid it if you open the beatureson the fourth of July. It's like
ringing the dinner bell for CHRISTI whatare the movies come to mind. When
you think of the Fourth of Julyweekend, only one movie the onliest movie
movie, and that is Independence Day. That's not top of the list.
Why we even talking about movies andFourth of July? That was I guess
a little too obvious for me.And that's probably arguably I can't think of

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one that's probably the biggest Fourth ofJuly weekend movie of all time. Yeah,
and probably obviously Fourth of July themedmovie of all time. The sequel
great disappointment, but the original wasjust wrapped in fourth of July. And
like I'm looking at TV right now, they have Independence Day on. You

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can't escape it. I mean notthat that's some surprise. Of course they're
going to show Independence Day. Theydo every single year, literally have to.
A few movies have captured the culturelike that. It is the film
that arguably cemented Will Smith as oneof the biggest actors ever define cemented,
given where he is right now,Okay, cemented in the terms of After

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that, the summer became known aswhat Will Smith Summer. He was a
big Willie. He ruled the summersevery summer after that. Hit film after
hit film after hit film, andthat is what did it for him.
Now we know he's trying to comeback, so I think that there may

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be hope for him. But regardless, this film here is the film that
everyone I think career wise, he'sdone a lot but pop culture across the
board. You know him from thisfilm. You know this was supposed to
be my weekend off. I knewshe got me out of here, dragging

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your heavy ass through the burning desertwith your dreadline sticking out the back of
my pastute. You gotta come downhere with an attitude hacking off bigg and
band And what the hell is thatsmell? I could have been at a

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barbecue, all right? We runlines of Independence Day, that speech by
Bill Pullman. I can almost reciteit from memory. We will be united
in our common interests. Perhaps it'sfate that today is the fourth of July
and you will once again be fightingfor our freedom, not from tyranny,

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impression, or persecution, but fromannihilation. We're fighting for our right to
live, to exist, and shouldwe win, the day, the fourth
of July will no longer be knownas an American holiday, but as the

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day when the world declared in onevoice, we will not go quietly into
the night. We will not vanishwithout a fight. We're going to live
on, We're going to survive.Today we celebrate our Independence Day and there
are a few movies and I haveto rethink my choice because I was thinking

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Jaws was the pre eminent one.Know, it has to be Independence that
it has to be. It hasto be the very fact that this film
has coined one of the greatest linesin all of cinema. It cannot which
one, there are a lot ofthem. No, no, no,
no, the one Moe. Youknew then there's no greater line in cinema.

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Then that's but that's only if youreally know the movie. And also
it's kind of prophetic now given howthe Pentagon has come out with all this
information about UFOs and everything else.I mean, it's actually like, uh,
yeah, you knew then, youknew that talking about Judd Hirsh's character
talking about the aliens, you know, the aliens in the bunker area of

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fifty one. You know that itall be dead Now, it wasn't my
David, none of you did anythingto prevent this. There's nothing we could
do. We were totally unprepared forthis. Ah, don't give me unprepared.
Come on, it was what inthe nineteen fifties or whatever. You
you had that spaceship that yeah,yeah, that thing that you found in
New Mexico, that that was notthe spaceship Russell wells well in Mexico.

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Yeah. No, you had thespaceship and you had the bodies. They
were all locked up in a bunkup and that was that. David An
Area fifty one, right, areafifty one. You know, Dan,
and you did nothing and you didnothing. Yeah. The only thing about
that film that I to this dayhave qualms with is the fact that earthmade

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technology could easily plug in to technologythat was light years Beyonce with just a
thumb drive. They were they werestill using a USB. Yeah, that
was that was tough. And youknow it's like my Commodore sixty four hacking
norad it it doesn't work. Thethree hundred bad dial up modem. You're

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listening to later with Moe Kelly ondemand from KFI AM six forty. As
we continue Chateau Lemo Live and inperson, I'm joined in my studio,
my personal studio, by the producerof Soul cal Saturday, Miss Kayla Austin
Kayla, how you doing this season? I am having a blast at this

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is your third time attending. IfI'm not mistaken, I literally have an
annual tradition here only because of you. I'm like, oh, I'm doing
my annual fourth of July tradition NationalSolomo. You text me, it's like,
can I bring my sisters? Likewait, wait, you always bring
your sister. What do you mean? Why are you asking me? Can
I bring your sister? I knowmy sister looks forward to whatever year.
She's like, well, when wefirst got here three years ago, one
of your cousins or Wendy's cousin,she was pregnant, so we love to

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see how big the little girl isnow she's so old and like her little
sons are like, I can't waitto see I'm big. The boys gotten
what's going on? Know what thedogs? So it's amazing here. The
years are flying by, and Iafter this before, but I want to
ask you again because all of tonighthas been about family, tradition, memories,
nostalgia. You're from the East Coast, where exactly from Atlantic City,

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Atlantic City, Atlantic City, NewJersey, the boardwalk and all. When
you were growing up, what wasthe fourth of July. What were some
of the traditions or festivity. Well, my grandma she had a house right
on the bay, so we wereable to kind of get in our boat
that we had and watch the fireworksfrom the bay, which was really cool
growing up or watching it from herdoc. I love how your accent is
coming out, your Jersey accent?Is it? I didn't notice it anymore.

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I'm just like they told me thatoutside to One of your cousins told
me that outside I tried to actlike I was from South Central. It's
like you said, talk you did. But yeah, and then we all
just go to the Atlanta City Boardwalkand watch the fire fireworks there. That
was definitely a tradition to go there. And also with that's where we saw
Miss America too. So you cameto California you were not a radio new

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What brought you to California given thatyou had a radio career already on the
East Coast. Well, I dida morning show in an afternoon drive for
about five years when I randomly gotlaid off because they can no longer afford
my talent. This is this isradio. If you you've not worked in
radio, unless you've lost a job. I've been raided, right. I
thought that that that that rumor wouldnever affect my life. I lost at
least three Yeah, yeah, soI'm halfway there. So I got laid

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off and I'm crazy. So myreaction was to buy a one way flight
to la Like, oh, youguys are one way one way. I
got laid off in September. Ibought a one way flight like maybe a
week or two later for January tenth, and I said, I have everything.
You didn't have a job and thendecided to get on a plane to
a place you never lived, probablyhave few contacts, no contacts, no

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friends, no family, no job, nothing. I just said, I'm
going to buy a one way flightthree three thousand miles away and figure it
out. But you have a sisterout here, So how does that work?
Well, I got out here fouryears ago. Lee was only here
two years. I convinced her twoyears after. I've been like, you
need to come here too. Youwere here. Bye bye bye yourself,
Bye bye bye myself. What wasthe first step after the one way fighter?

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After I landed, it's the samebasically. After I landed, I
literally didn't realize what I was doing. I didn't realize how major of a
city Los Angeles was. I gotlost every single time I left the house.
I cried so many times, butI think that that's just what I
had to go through. And thenthe pandemic had because I got here January
twenty twenty, and then Mark twentytwenty, the pandemic was here. So

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it was literally just doing applications gettingtold no until September of twenty twenty when
I got hired at CAFI. Sofrom January to September November, I had
no job. Why radio, Ohmy gosh, I love it. I
think that this is the most funjob you can ever have. You just
get to turn on the mics,share your opinion, connect with the community.
I don't think there's anything like radio. The intimacy. I call it

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the intimacy. You get to connectwith people the way that you can't connect
on social media, you can't connecttelevision. There is a under one personal
conversation that you could have with someonein their home, in their car,
and you can have it every singleday. And I learned things about you,
and people will learn things about meas a host that you can't learn

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about the television personality. You can'tinteract with me, especially pre social media,
you know, with a TV personalitylike you could a radio personality,
and but you're still chasing this dream. It's so intimate. I agree that
it's a way to connect with people, and I also love being able to
express some creative freedoms. So Ithink that radio A lot of people who
don't work in radio think it's justkind of turning on the microphone and just

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shooting the craps. Couldn't That isso far from the truth. Like,
it's such controlled conversation, it's suchcreative, like it's it's just very intentional.
It's not just very flip floppy.It's a lot of fun. It's
a lot of fun. Now youare the producer of Soul col Saturday,
which is hosted by Tauola Shark,who's also the producer of Later with bo

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Kelly. What has that experience beenlike? What has that journey been?
Like? I love Twala Sharp somuch. He has taught me so much
because I feel like Sol Kyle ismy newest show. I've been recording,
I've been producing shows. I've beenon air for the while for a while
now. But me and Twala kindof started SOCAO at the same time because
it wasn't a show before I cameon to the scene, but he asked

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me to be his producer and Ihave so while is a real deal,
Like, first of all, he'sa radio legend. I learned so much
from him. I learned just theintentionality behind what the show is, the
intentionality behind the show brand, andhow if I give him a show or
a guest that isn't in line withwhat we're working toward, how he shoots
that down. Like he just reallytaught me so much in radio. And
I thought I knew a lot,but starting with the new show, with

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the head Han Show and the Kinglegend of radio, it's like, Wow,
people don't know Twiler Sharp has morethan thirty years in radio. I
don't know the exact math, butif you know the history of radio in
Los Angeles and the historic nature ofthe station ninety two point three, the
beat in Los Angeles, you wouldknow the name to Wallas Sharp. And
I remember when Tawyla Sharp had hisinterview at KFI and I said to Tula,

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it's like, look, you know, we're trying to do something different
here and you may not see itright now, given how the station sounds
back then. We're talking two thousandand tennish twenty eleven, sometime around then,
And I said, just trust me, Twala. I don't know how
it's gonna happen, when it's gonnahappen, but we're trying to change how
LA sounds because I was told whenI came in to talk radio that you

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can't have music on talk radio.We do a lot of music on top
data. You can't talk about sportson news talk radio. We talk about
sports on news talk radio. SoI'm not a believer in what you can't
do. I am a firm believerin what I know works, and I
know what works in the sense ofconnecting with people things that people like to

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discuss. People don't talk about politicsall day long. Who does that?
There are other conversations that we haveand other conversations that we should have.
Why because we're family, And whenyou're with family, you'll talk about anything.
You may talk about the Kardashians,and it may move to sports,
it may move to your favorite showor your favorite movie, and that I
think creates the best relationship between hostand listener and all I can say is

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thank you. Also not only didTuala Sharp, host of Soul Cow Saturday,
but also you, Kayla Austin,You've come on this journey with us.
We were trying to school you onsome things early on and now you
start to see Hunh Howler, itis a process and it's a journey.
It's not a destination. All thethings that we're doing right now and later

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with mo Kelly, it took usa while to get to this point.
We didn't just open the mic andsay hey, we're just gonna have a
live show at the crib. Itdidn't work like that. Hey we're going
to talk about sports. No,it didn't work that right. You know,
Hey, why don't we talk aboutmovies? No. There were things
that we had to do to growto a point where people established a relationship
with us and trusted us to havethese conversations. Yes, we have the

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more serious conversations, but they knowthat it comes from a point of sincerity
and authenticity. And you, Iwould like to consider part of my radio
tree. Your success is our successgone with your bet So thank you,
thank you. I've learned so muchfrom you and in Towala and I appreciate
you being my You didn't ask tome my mentors, but I came in
here and I asked you in Toualaso many questions from the time I started,

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and you have never hesitated to giveme an answer, give me advice,
or help me in the right direction. That I'm eternally grateful for you
when I do get to where I'mgoing. Well, I say it this
way. If we have these platformsand we don't use them to lift,
uplift and help one another, thanwhat's the freaking point. You're right,
I thank you. So I'll talkto you soon. Cale when we come
back. We're going to close outChateau le Mo, this annual celebration of

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America's Birthday and Independence Day here onKFI AM six forty. In just a
moment, you're listening to Later withMoe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six
forty to Walla Sharp. You've beenwith me every step of the way.
You've been on this journey. NowI think we've really hit our stride and
having some fun with it. We'vetalked about these things. Now we're doing

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these things, food, family,fun, fireworks for the fourth year.
What are your thoughts. I thinkthat every year it just gets better.
If you were here in the building, you would have seen. As a
producer, Dana says, we're goingup. We are going up, and
that is what it is all about. We're taking it to the next level.

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Hopefully next year both Foosh and Markcan join us, because then the
family will really be complete. Yeah, I'm tired of Mark. Get your
ass up and bring your ass allover to the chateau. I know,
really stop playing listen to the peerpressure. Wow, okay, okay,
pressure. I know you're not mypeers. You're not my peers. Look,

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and I know Foods really wants tobe here because he loves fun as
much as we do. I don'tknow, maybe Mark doesn't love fun,
but what this is allow? Ihate fun? You figured it out.
I gett so jealous every time Isee the lives and I see the spread
that you put out, especially BloodsosLike, yes, every year bloods barbecue
over here. Yeah, come on, here's actually the story behind it.

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When Bloodsoe's had first opened on Librea, they were a relatively new barbecue place,
and The mo Kelly Show was havingone of its annual celebrations it's birthday
shows. Blood So's had reached outand said, hey, can we cater
your anniversary show? And they gaveus googlebs of food, just gave us.

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It's like, just you know,just give us some promotion on the
air. And ever since then,Yep, we've been riding with Bloodsoe's Barbecue
and that's how it should be.You know, they took care of us,
we take care of them, andthey did. When I say they
catered today's party and show, No, we paid for that. You know,
that's a part of the relationship.We're not asked for stuff for free.

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It's just that we want to supportyou and your business because you supported
us when there was no reason to. Yeah, I remember that. That
was literally the second anniversary show,because we did the one at the Bowling
Alley, and then the next onewe said, you know what, let's
do something different. Yep, let'shave a live in studio audience chairs,

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all in the in the booth,chairs, all in air mix. And
it was a party and we arekeeping that party going now. People may
not know we've talked about it.How Twala, you're from the commercial music
radio portion of the business. I'mfrom the radio label portion of the business.
And we came up at a timewhere there was no such thing as

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impossible. You were given a taskor you wanted to achieve a goal,
and you just went out and didit, like, for example, said
we don't have the money for this, We don't have the money for that.
Okay, we'll make it well,somehow make it ourselves. Like for
example, we don't have the moneyto do an anniversary show certain location.
That's fine, We'll throw our ownanniversary show. We'll find someone to bring
us some food. We'll open upthe doors and let just people come in

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the studio. That's what we did. Yeah, yeah, by hook or
by crook. The industry and theworld we came from, there was no
I can't do that. It wasget it done blank blank blank blank blank
blank blank, get it instead ofyour name. There are several curses thrown
at you. And that is thehustle that we put into this show.

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Why we work so hard to dothe impossible and oftentimes ask for forgiveness instead
of permission. I am sorry,Robin, but that's our mindset. Our
mindset is we are going to makeit happen by hook or crook, because
we are trying to make sure thatyou you listening, get the best show
that you will ever ever experience.Every time I when I say to people

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and I say it on air,and I don't know if people take me
seriously or know that I'm serious.When I say I'm the best job in
the world, I mean exactly thatbecause the things that I had to do
to get to this point. I'vetalked about it publicly in my public speeches,
but most people don't know it.Gone through hell and the high water
and be able to get here.And they say that you're working on your

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day off. No, no,no, this is fun. I'm also
doing something for the job, butit's not work. It's not the same.
I enjoy talking to you each andevery night from Monday to Friday,
seven to ten pm. And Ienjoy working with Tuala and everyone else at
KFI. This is fun under theguys of work. I love talking to

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you in Los Angeles and you inOrange County and you in San Diego County
and San Bergardino County and Ventura Countybecause I am no different than you.
I'm just a guy who likes totalk and have some opinions about this and
that, and I get the opportunityto share some of them and my world
view with you listening right now.I'm not trying to convince you to vote

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for someone. I'm not trying toconvince you to see the world as I
do. I'm just trying to havea conversation with you and somehow, hopefully
we can meet in the middle,because I would like this show to be
a reflection of how I would liketo see the world. You know,
the people who are here at thisparty, they're my family. We may
not be blood related, but damnit, I would go to the mat

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and through a wall for all ofyou because you are my family chosen.
And that does not to discount Stefanand Mark, who may not physically be
here, but if it went down, I'd be right there, shoulder to
shoulder with them. This has beena journey, this has been a fantastic
voyage, as they say, andwe're going to keep this party going beyond

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just this moment, beyond just tonight, and we as we come to the
end of the fourth of July chateauleMod Celebration, the fourth annual, just
know we do this because we loveyou. Last what it's yours Tuala.
Please, whatever you do, donot drink and drive today. There are

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several ride share companies that are justto tap away if you do anything,
save a life, call it Uber, call a cab, or just if
you can stay where you are.I've lost too many friends to the victimization
of drunk driving and I don't wantit to be you, so please do

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not drink a driver. I've beenhit as a pedestrian by a trunk driver,
so I co sign that and withthat, be safe and we will
talk to you soon, in facttomorrow. It's later with mo Kelly k
if I AIM six forty. We'relive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You've
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and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadioapp.