February 11, 2025 • 30 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – ‘Beyond the Box Score’ with regular guest contributor Jackie Rae; Long Beach Post/WNBA Reporter and host of ‘The Jackie Rae Show,’ weighing in on all the highlights from the Big Game & the NCAA’s decision to fall in line with President Trump’s executive order banning trans women from women’s sports…PLUS – A look at the Weekend Box Office - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Mister bo Kelly here with Jackie Ray as we get
ready to go beyond the box Score and we're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Jackie Ray, Good evening. How you doing tonight?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
I'm a little tired, little horse from yelling at the TV.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Now, this may be an unpopular opinion, as the young
folk may say, but I found the game very boring.
For lack of a better word, there wasn't a lot
of excitement. I thought the commercials were some of the
worst that I have seen in many years. The overall
experience was very lacking for me. What was it for you?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
I was very much rooting for Jalen to get his ring,
so I enjoyed that aspect of it. I enjoyed to
see Saquan, but other than that very much. So it
was literally kind of just watching those two players do
their thing. It wasn't exciting on the field. The commercials
were horrendous. I don't know if you taw the very
first one where it had Seal as Steal as Seal
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and when I saw that, I looked at my friend,
I said, Oh, this is going to be a really
bad commercial commercial season for them.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
But it was really kind of dull.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Obviously, the opening of the game was great, the halftime
show was great. But this is not what we're used
to seeing during during the Super Bowl. We're used to seeing.
I'm used to being in a bar like I was yesterday,
where people literally go quiet during the commercials because they
want to see something that's entertaining.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Awful, absolutely dreadful.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Now let me give you a little bit of counterpoint
I said, originally talking about the halftime show. When they
announced Kendrick Lamar, I said something to the effect of
I like Kendrick Lamar, fact I'm from LA I get
him and everything that he's about. I don't know if
that translates to number one a national audience, and I
knew it wouldn't translate to an NFL TV audience.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I appreciate the message.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It was message laden man, Well, okay, I could spend
an hour talking about his treatise on society and where
African Americans fit in the concept of being an American.
But from a performance aspect, I thought the show was eh.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I was the opposite listen I did not care that
it was specifically for that song.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
They not like us.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
It was definitely about that he catered that song to
a specific demographic. He catered that whole show to a
specific demographic. And for me, in this current climate, when
that specific demographic is being attacked, having that moment on
that national, international stage really where he was unabandoned in
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his blackness, in his pro blackness.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And literally, if you weren't, if you're not on.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
An intellectual level, you missed a lot of what was
happening in that And I love him for that.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Something we talked about last week sports gambling.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
How yes, you can't put this horse back in the bar,
this toothpaste back in the tube, and we knew it
was going to go somewhere really bad. Last week we
were talking about the NBA, but it actually applied to
all professional sports. And I don't know, maybe a day
or two after we talked last week, did you know?
In fact, I know you know because you saw the
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story about it was covered in forms. I mean, it
was like ESPN, but the MLB Major League Baseball fired
in umpire for the violation of the league's betting rules.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I don't need to go into the specifics.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm just letting you know, this is where all professional
sports are going with gambling. They're going to have major
issues with the concept of gambling in sports.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
What did you take away from that?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
We called it. I knew it was happening.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
What I found to kind of bring it back to
the NFL. One of the things I found interesting is
the bar that where I was at there was a
lot of Chiefs fans and the outrage from these fans
because they weren't getting the assistance from the refs all Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
That the Chiefs have received throughout the season.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
And I remember looking at my friend and I was like,
I wonder if there's a discussion in this, because like
it or not, if you've watched the Chiefs play, you
know that they do get a lot of assistance from
the refs, and it was not like that. And I
was like, there's got to be a parlay bet out
there somewhere that says, in the fourth quarter the Chiefs
are going to go on like a twenty point run
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or something, and there's got to be some sort of
parlay bet on that, because there's always parlay.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Bets like that. But I didn't see the refs getting involved.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yesterday, let me back up for people who may not
know or follow the NFL closely, the Chiefs were winning
literally all of their games.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
At the last drive of the game, and.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
There will be some penalty, some controversial call, something which
would happen, which inevitably would go the Chief's way. And
so there was this growing kickoff andy of voices saying
that the Chiefs must be in league with the refs.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Something is bought and paid for.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
And whereas I can stand back and laugh at that,
when you see stories about a Major League Baseball umpire
being fired for betting on some level, when you see
the stories in the NBA about players shaving their minutes
or their production, you know, to satisfy betters, it puts
all of our professional sports in a different context. Where
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As I may say, no, that's no, that's malarkey. There's
no way the Chiefs and the referees are in the league.
There's no funny business going on, the other side of
me is saying like, wait.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Hold on, now, slow down.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It may not be that, but there is an argument
to be made that there's more about sports and betting
which just hasn't come to the surface.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Listen, I tell everybody one of my favorite old school
iconic clips from sports is Michael Jordan complaining about a
call that a ref made and him walking up to
that ref and the ref telling him I didn't see that, Michael.
But if you say, if you said it, I believe
you because he's a fan of Michael Jordan. So this
happens in sports where you've seen a game called a
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certain way because you can tell that a ref or
an umpire he has a fondness for a certain player
or a certain team. You add money on top of
that fandom. Now you're just dealing with a whole different beast.
So it's entirely possible. Let me take that back. It's
highly likely that it is really happening, and it's just
like you said, hasn't come to surface yet.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Since we're pretty good at making predictions, especially when it
comes to sports betting and also possibly the corruption of
professional sports as we know it, where do you think
it goes from here? Are we looking at the possibility
because we've seen an individual referee in the NBA, Tim Donakey,
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We've seen an individual umpire in baseball be fire because
of his personal betting we've seen an individual in interpreter
of a player who also got just under five years supposedly,
and I say supposedly because I don't believe the full
story that he was betting for himself and stealing from
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Shohei Otani.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Those are individuals.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
How long do you think we see something larger than
that which could implicate a number of players on the
same team or a number of individuals connected to the
same franchise.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I think it's gonna it's around the corner, number one,
and I think it's going to be capped off with
you finding out an owner was in cahoots on something.
I just think that it's gonna the rabbit hole is
that deep. And the reason why I think that is
because this isn't This isn't just people betting. There's a
relationship between sports. Betting and sports. You see DraftKings on
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the floor, you see FanDuel and commercials. There is a relationship.
And what do you have to do In relationships? There's
a give and take. There's an understand that I'm going
to do this, you need to do this for me.
So I've always said that once you start this marriage
and we're seeing this definitely marriage, this partnership between sports embedding.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Now it gets very very gray.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
And now what you're expecting people to do is to
overlook the relationship that you have. Overlook that you're probably
giving somebody. I've seen athletes that say, hey, you know,
go to DraftKings DA DA DA. Most of them are retired,
but there's still this relationship between these two entities.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It's too murky. It's just too muddy.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
There's no way that the temptation's not going to be there,
and in some cases there's no way that it's not
going to be beneficial for one entity to really exploit
this relationship.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
So it's too muddy for me. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We'll see if we're right again next week when we
come back. We have to get into what the NC
TWOA has done. They recently, i'll say, signed on with
what President Trump has done as far as officially banning
trans athletes from women's sports, and they wasted no time
in doing that. That's next to be on the box Score,
which Jackie Ray and b mo Kelly. This is Later
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with mo kellyfi AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty with.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Kelly six ft.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
The NC double A has changed his participation policy surrounding
transgender athletes, limiting competition to those assigned female at birth.
It comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order
intended to bar trans athletes from participating in women's and
girls sports. The NC Double A's revised policy permits athletes
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assigned male at birth to practice with women's teams and
receive benefits such as medical care while practicing. It takes
effect right away.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
KFI, Mo Kelly and Jackie Ray.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We're going beyond the box Score and we're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app on Litter with Mo Kelly. Let
me just start right here. I don't agree with President
Trump on a lot. I don't like the spirit in
which this has been done because I think it demonizes
and also points a lot of negativity at trans people.
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And I'm going to nuance my way through this. But
the issue I'm in alignment with him. I agree with him.
What about you, Jackie Ray?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Yeah, you know, I think a broken clock can be
right twice a day, and this is one of the
times that Donald Trump is right so, but I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
It's the spirit.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
So I think if this is your stance, I'm okay
with the stance, but I am not okay with a
lack of humanity within the stance. So if this is
your position, fine, there has to be some conversations. Number one,
how many trans athletes right now immediately will be affected
by this? I haven't seen a single person talk about that.
I don't know what that number is because that number
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hasn't been floating around out there.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
That should have been the first thing we've seen.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
These are the number trans athletes because that number might
be incredibly low or it might be high, and then
that might change people's perceptions. But we don't have that number,
so people can't make they can't have an educated conversation
about this.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So that's number one.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Number two, if there are trans athletes that are going
to be affected by this, what are the provisions that
we are going to make?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
How are we going to start building?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Because I have been a huge advocate of saying, yes,
there's different divisions, there are different categories in every single sport.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
This can be another opportunity.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
So if there are trans athletes that are going to
be affected by this, What provisions are we providing? Are
we starting to build up another way for them to compete?
I highly doubt that a trans woman would want to
all of a sudden go start competing in a male sport.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
But if that's what they want to do, is that
an option?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
What options have you given people who really are dedicated
to their craft and playing the sport. And how many
trans people have you really sat down with and had
a conversation and said, hey, your trans I'm not.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
What do you think we should do in this case?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
If this is how we're going to proceed, those conversations
are not happening, And to me, that's a lack of
humanity and that's just not right.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I could end the conversation right here because you covered
all the points that I wanted to make, and chiefly,
do not lose our humanity. And I don't think that
humanity has been included in this for all the reasons
that you've articulated.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
These are human beings.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
These are people who should be included in the conversation. Now,
it doesn't mean that we'll agree with the ultimate recommendations
or the decisions which are being made, but these are
people who should be included in the conversation. I personally
would have felt much better if it were rolled out
not as part of a flex, not as somehow part
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of a disk, but an understanding, but a choice to
go in a different direction if you are making this decision,
because look, I understand the desire to be included in
a sports I understand the desire that society is continuing
to evolve. But for the sake of sports and the
sake of fair level, an equal playing field and level
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of competition, this needs to be done. That sends a
very different message than I don't want men competing with women,
or you know, you're making a political argument and trying
to satisfy a political base as opposed to trying to
do what's best for people, which is inclusive of the
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trans community.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah, but that's not his administration. His administration is not
about including people who don't align with whatever he's got
going on in his head. That's just not who he
is and that is the problem. And I would just
encourage people. I know a lot of people identify with
him because of that, because they're kind of they have
an exclusionary spirit as well. But I would just implore
people to back away from that, because there's going to
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come a time when you're going to have something or
an idea, ideology, or maybe one day you get an
injury and now all of a sudden you're impaired in
a way. There's going to come a time in your
life when you want to be included in something that
people are trying to exclude you from, and then once
you understand how that feels, then you'll have a level
of empathy, but it'll be too late by then. So
I really encourage people to have empathy now because it's
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okay to say I.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Don't understand this group of people.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I don't understand how they decided to do this to
their all. That is fine to say I don't understand,
but lean into that, lean into the fact that you
don't understand, and then go to that group of people
and try to gain some understanding.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
That's what humanity is all about.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
My first question is, whenever I talk to anyone about
any particular community or any particular subject, is who have
you talked with, sat down with broken bread with from
the community.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Who do you know in that community?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Because are you just telling me what you think, what
you believe, or are you speaking from an informed perspective,
which is inclusive of their concerns, because if you can't
speak to their concerns, then I really can't take your
opinion seriously. I may intellectually agree with you, but you're
not coming from the standpoint of humanity. But you've already
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made that point, so there's no need for me to
restate it. Jackie Ray, I appreciate talking to you, and
a lot of these conversations are both complex and nuanced.
We may agree with the ultimate result, but it doesn't
necessarily mean that we agree with the path to get there.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Absolutely absolutely and covering the WNBA. Leisah Clarendon was one
of the first people who came out as transgender. She
goes by she him, and his, she goes by all
of those. But having conversations with Leasia really opened my
eyes to this is a deep well that I have
no idea how deep it is.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
I've never been in the well.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I haven't had a personal experience where I can relate
to this well. So the only way I'm going to
get a sense of what that feels like and what
how they would like to navigate that space is to
continue to have those types of conversations. So shout out
to Lasia for putting out that out there and continuing
that conversation, and I implore other people to do the same.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And if you follow the box office returns as closely
as I do, you should already know that, especially during
the dead of winter, fewer movies are released, fewer people
go to the theaters, especially if you don't live in California,
if you live in a place with inclement weather. I mean, hell,
let's get ready to rain here for a few days.
We're dealing with possibly flash floods and even mudslide, so
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our box office most likely will be depressed this at
least for the next few days. The point is it's
very difficult for movie theaters to generate enough revenue to
stay afloat in today's environment generally and during the winter specifically.
And you see that play out when you have the
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number one movie this past weekend, which was dog Man.
Dog Man, it grows thirteen point eight million domestically, which
is really nothing. It has a total gross of fifty
four million in its second week, is still able to
be number one. Number two Mark Runner talked about it
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is Heart Eyes came in with eight point three million,
and the number three movies Love Hurts.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I don't even know what that is. Five point eight million.
Oh that's the key hoon.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
That's right, where he's a retired hit man who's somehow
called back into action.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
We've never heard never before. I have never seen that
story told. That's a story that needs to be told
one day. Totally original.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And if you look at the number of theaters, if
you really drill down, Heart Eyes was only in thirty
one hundred theaters, Love Hurts was only in three thousand theaters.
Max's theater placement is around forty four hundred to forty
five one hundred theaters, which means even the new movies
are not getting broad placement. It's really difficult for movie
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theaters to stay in business if they don't have new titles,
meaningful titles people are gonna come out and see and
possibly see multiple times or definitely see during the week.
It's one thing to have movies, and you know, you
get some business on Friday, Saturday Sunday. If the business
was so slow this weekend for Friday Saturday, Sunday. What
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does it mean for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It's gotta
be far worse. But Mufoster the Lion King. It's been
out eight weeks. Okay, for it to stay in theaters
for eight weeks, that means theaters don't have a better option.
They would replace it in a heartbeat if they had
something better. It brought in four million dollars this week.
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It's done well overall big picture, but it's not doing
much for theaters.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Now.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Yeah, my daughter hated that, but I do believe that
even sin we talk about this all all the time,
there has to be something else going on at the
theater to draw you out. The new theater that you
go to, which the Napolis from all accounts from everything
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you say, it's dinner in a movie.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
There's a bar, there's there's a.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Lot of hat things happening there for adults, for people
who are gonna go out and want to go see
a movie. The seats are nice, the screens are nice,
and it's the entire ambiance involved. That's what is going
to take Alamo Draft House. We talk about them all
the time. It is more than just a movie theater.
AMC is trying what they try to bring in the bar,
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and they try to really step up their snacks and
things like that. But again, most most of the time,
and this is not a sight against AMC, because that's
the theater that I go to most of the time.
Every time I go, it's pretty much me and like
twenty other people. And this is in major, major releases.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
And that that's not a viable business model. You know
that you financially, that can't work long term. Where you
have the theater open, you have the concessionaire, you have
the person tearing the tickets, and you have the person
I don't know, cleaving the bathroom or something, and you're
paying for keep the lights on for.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Fifteen people in the theater.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Yeah, and this is still a better year for releases
than in previous years. I believe that films like Dog
Cop dog Man, Cop.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Dog dog Man, dog Man, Better Man, and Dog dog Man, both.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Of those, I think that.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Those are in such limited release if only because they're like, look,
there's no chance anyone is going to go see our movies.
Come this Friday, everyone will be seeing Captain America, A
Brave New World. That's it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
It's a rap.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
And then after that the movies actually do start rolling
out one after another.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Now for Captain America, Brave New World, what is working
against it is is coming out in the winter. That
works against it generally, if only because it's the winter
and you don't know what whether you're gonna get around
the country. What is working for it is there's nothing
else going up against it. Yeah, absolutely nothing. So if
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people want to go see it, and they will, the team,
we're going to go see it on Thursday night. In fact,
we're going to see it Thursday. I'm going to see
it Sunday at a free screen with a friend that's
providing for us at maybe some other time.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Yeah, I'm seeing it Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
So there's already three showings from me at least. I
just know that this is this is, this is gonna
be tough. And I believe that Captain America coming out
in February is coming out almost at the exact same
time as the first Black Panther, And I think there's
something about wanting to come out specifically at that time,
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from from the filmmakers, from Disney, from everyone to occupy
that space because Black Panther did a billion dropping when
they did. I think that this film from everything we're
seeing and everything I'm reading about, all of the surprises
and the things that happen in this film, beyond the
fact that it's another Marvel film and so far again,
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Disney has kept the theater chains open, no arguing that
this is something that's going to be very special via
word of mouth.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I try to tell people all the time, you can
hate on Disney all you want, but if Disney doesn't
do well, say goodbye to your local movie theater. I'm
not talking about the change. I'm talking about the mom
and pops. I'm talking about the one offs. You know,
that favorite theater that you have if Disney movies don't
do well, like for example, Captain America Brave New World.
Since there's a dearth of movies in theaters at all,
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when the big movies come to town, you need them
to do well. You need them to stay in theaters longer,
and you need people to see them multiple times during
the week because otherwise, you know, you can kiss your
favorite movie theater goodbye. It's just a simplest basic math,
and we're going to see it on Thursday. We'll probably
have a I should say. Mark Ronner will have a
review in the Runner Report on Friday.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
It's a pretty fast turnaround. I don't know, wait what,
I'm quite sure you can work it out. We'll figure
I'm sure. I mean, you know, something up to the
crack of five pm. So something thoughtful and really well
well written. Yeah, well, we'll get right on that. Posts
were seeing it three times each, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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I'm just going to see it the once.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well, one time I'm supporting someone else, and another time
I'll probably see it with my family.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
So it's at least three times, yeah, the same.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
I'm seeing it with the crew, then I'm seeing its
Saturday with the family, and Sunday seeing it in support
of our friend and uh nerd rama co host doctor
Liz from The Freeway, who is a gained her tenure
as a professor. Yep, that's like a professor screaming it's
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a party.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
It's nice, you know.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
I hope it's one of those that that does make
you want to see it again right away, Like that's
the feeling I had coming out of the Winter Soldier movie,
want to see it again right away, And this one
looks terrific From the trailers.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It seems like it has the same tonality.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It's serious, it's a it's it's it's I don't want
to say darker, but it's just a more serious tone.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
As serious as you could be with a big red
Hulk in it. Yeah. Yeah, No one liners.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It doesn't seem like this going for one liners like
Tony Stark one liners.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
No, No, I mean that was as a boring as
the Flash film was. The more I reflect on that,
the more I think it was nothing but a movie
of comedy one liners.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
And I can't stand that anymore. I just can't take
that from Marvel to anyone else. I just don't want that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
You know, if there are really steaks and the world
is mistaken and this is going to happen, that's going
to happen.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
You don't have jokes all the time. Not all the time. Yeah,
give it a rest from time to time.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (25:04):
And before I get out of here, here is my
final thought. By now, you probably have heard the news
that at least one person died and several others were
injured after a plane crashed into another jet at Scottsdale
Airport in Arizona today and ASSESSMA two eight B crashed
into sea ice just outside of Noame, Alaska after going
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missing during a flight last Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Ten people dead.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
That's after six passengers of a medical jet and one
person on the ground were killed after the plane crash
in a Philadelphia neighborhood last Friday evening. And all of
this is in the wake of the Reagan National Airport
mid air collision over the Potomac, which killed sixty seven people.
Are the collisions are the accidents? Are the crashes related?
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Of course, not not specifically at least, but emotionally they
all connect in our recent memories, our politics, as of lade,
has embrace the idea of just blaming the previous guy.
I'm old enough to remember. Maybe you are too, but
I'm old enough to remember it was said the buck
stops here, But that's no longer the case.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Now it's just blame, blame, blame. But I did find a.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Quote that I especially liked that I want to close
out with, and it goes like this. Leaders, true leaders
take responsibility for the success of the team and understand
that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
It's so good, I'm going to read it twice. Leaders.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
True leaders take responsibility for the success of the team
and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Close quote.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
That quote is from Donald Trump, and I'll take him
at his word. I honestly don't know what is going
on with our planes and air traffic control. But I
do know we only have one president at a time,
and I do know only one head of our federal
government at a time. And the answer to this, whatever
this is, but it is a problem. But the answer
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to this must come from the top. And here are
the facts. Our president fired the head of the Transportation
Security Administration, fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee, froze
hiring of all air traffic controllers, fired one hundred top
FAA security officers, all on the same day, the same day.
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He's not been a passive participant in this. He's been
very much involved. But again, blame and responsibility are not
the same.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Blame is looking back. You're trying to.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Say, well, this happened in the past, this person did this,
so therefore they are responsible. Excuse, it's a cop out,
it's an abdication of responsibility.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
That's blame.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Blame is the easy way out responsibility, at least from
where I sit. It's about going forward and tonight I'm
assessing no blame. I'm not going to sit here and say, well,
Biden did this, and it's not to protect Biden. It's
just because blame doesn't solve the future problem. Blame doesn't
tell us what we need to do if it win,
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the next plane crashes, and unfortunately, if the past is prologue,
there's a distinct possibility that there may be another issue
in the very near future. And it can't be always
the other person's fault. If you're the person in charge,
you're the person who wanted the job, you're the person
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who got the job. So then as the job holder,
you are judged by your job job performance. And again
I'm not going to assess any blame, but I am
going to do this. I'm going to look at future responsibility.
Let's just say all bets are off and the clock starts.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
This is our president's baby. Whatever happens going forward, given
the moves that he's made prior to now, whatever happens
going forward is his responsibility because he has been an
active participant in whatever our future air traffic control and
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our airport security.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Is going to be. He has been actively involved, and
it bears mentioning.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Fired the head of the Transportation Security Administration, fired the
entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee, froze hiring of all air
traffic controllers. And that's saying nothing in the fact that
we all know that they have been over worked and understaffed.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Fired one hundred top FAA security officers, all on the
same day.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And I'll say it one more time before I go,
this is the president's baby, whatever happens going forward. And
as our leader, our leader, I'm not one of those
people who's ever going to say not my president. No,
he's my president, he's your president, he's everyone's president. The
country is chosen. And as our leader, as our president,
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he can't only be willing to take responsibility for the success,
but also any responsibility for the failure too.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
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Mister bo Kelly here with Jackie Ray as we get
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
Jackie Ray, Good evening. How you doing tonight?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
I'm a little tired, little horse from yelling at the TV.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Now, this may be an unpopular opinion, as the young
folk may say, but I found the game very boring.
For lack of a better word, there wasn't a lot
of excitement. I thought the commercials were some of the
worst that I have seen in many years. The overall
experience was very lacking for me. What was it for you?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
I was very much rooting for Jalen to get his ring,
so I enjoyed that aspect of it. I enjoyed to
see Saquan, but other than that very much. So it
was literally kind of just watching those two players do
their thing. It wasn't exciting on the field. The commercials
were horrendous. I don't know if you taw the very
first one where it had Seal as Steal as Seal
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and when I saw that, I looked at my friend,
I said, Oh, this is going to be a really
bad commercial commercial season for them.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
But it was really kind of dull.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Obviously, the opening of the game was great, the halftime
show was great. But this is not what we're used
to seeing during during the Super Bowl. We're used to seeing.
I'm used to being in a bar like I was yesterday,
where people literally go quiet during the commercials because they
want to see something that's entertaining.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Awful, absolutely dreadful.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Now let me give you a little bit of counterpoint
I said, originally talking about the halftime show. When they
announced Kendrick Lamar, I said something to the effect of
I like Kendrick Lamar, fact I'm from LA I get
him and everything that he's about. I don't know if
that translates to number one a national audience, and I
knew it wouldn't translate to an NFL TV audience.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I appreciate the message.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It was message laden man, Well, okay, I could spend
an hour talking about his treatise on society and where
African Americans fit in the concept of being an American.
But from a performance aspect, I thought the show was eh.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I was the opposite listen I did not care that
it was specifically for that song.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
They not like us.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
It was definitely about that he catered that song to
a specific demographic. He catered that whole show to a
specific demographic. And for me, in this current climate, when
that specific demographic is being attacked, having that moment on
that national, international stage really where he was unabandoned in
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his blackness, in his pro blackness.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And literally, if you weren't, if you're not on.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
An intellectual level, you missed a lot of what was
happening in that And I love him for that.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Something we talked about last week sports gambling.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
How yes, you can't put this horse back in the bar,
this toothpaste back in the tube, and we knew it
was going to go somewhere really bad. Last week we
were talking about the NBA, but it actually applied to
all professional sports. And I don't know, maybe a day
or two after we talked last week, did you know?
In fact, I know you know because you saw the
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story about it was covered in forms. I mean, it
was like ESPN, but the MLB Major League Baseball fired
in umpire for the violation of the league's betting rules.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I don't need to go into the specifics.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm just letting you know, this is where all professional
sports are going with gambling. They're going to have major
issues with the concept of gambling in sports.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
What did you take away from that?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
We called it. I knew it was happening.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
What I found to kind of bring it back to
the NFL. One of the things I found interesting is
the bar that where I was at there was a
lot of Chiefs fans and the outrage from these fans
because they weren't getting the assistance from the refs all Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
That the Chiefs have received throughout the season.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
And I remember looking at my friend and I was like,
I wonder if there's a discussion in this, because like
it or not, if you've watched the Chiefs play, you
know that they do get a lot of assistance from
the refs, and it was not like that. And I
was like, there's got to be a parlay bet out
there somewhere that says, in the fourth quarter the Chiefs
are going to go on like a twenty point run
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or something, and there's got to be some sort of
parlay bet on that, because there's always parlay.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Bets like that. But I didn't see the refs getting involved.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yesterday, let me back up for people who may not
know or follow the NFL closely, the Chiefs were winning
literally all of their games.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
At the last drive of the game, and.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
There will be some penalty, some controversial call, something which
would happen, which inevitably would go the Chief's way. And
so there was this growing kickoff andy of voices saying
that the Chiefs must be in league with the refs.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Something is bought and paid for.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
And whereas I can stand back and laugh at that,
when you see stories about a Major League Baseball umpire
being fired for betting on some level, when you see
the stories in the NBA about players shaving their minutes
or their production, you know, to satisfy betters, it puts
all of our professional sports in a different context. Where
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As I may say, no, that's no, that's malarkey. There's
no way the Chiefs and the referees are in the league.
There's no funny business going on, the other side of
me is saying like, wait.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Hold on, now, slow down.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It may not be that, but there is an argument
to be made that there's more about sports and betting
which just hasn't come to the surface.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Listen, I tell everybody one of my favorite old school
iconic clips from sports is Michael Jordan complaining about a
call that a ref made and him walking up to
that ref and the ref telling him I didn't see that, Michael.
But if you say, if you said it, I believe
you because he's a fan of Michael Jordan. So this
happens in sports where you've seen a game called a
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certain way because you can tell that a ref or
an umpire he has a fondness for a certain player
or a certain team. You add money on top of
that fandom. Now you're just dealing with a whole different beast.
So it's entirely possible. Let me take that back. It's
highly likely that it is really happening, and it's just
like you said, hasn't come to surface yet.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Since we're pretty good at making predictions, especially when it
comes to sports betting and also possibly the corruption of
professional sports as we know it, where do you think
it goes from here? Are we looking at the possibility
because we've seen an individual referee in the NBA, Tim Donakey,
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We've seen an individual umpire in baseball be fire because
of his personal betting we've seen an individual in interpreter
of a player who also got just under five years supposedly,
and I say supposedly because I don't believe the full
story that he was betting for himself and stealing from
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Shohei Otani.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Those are individuals.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
How long do you think we see something larger than
that which could implicate a number of players on the
same team or a number of individuals connected to the
same franchise.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I think it's gonna it's around the corner, number one,
and I think it's going to be capped off with
you finding out an owner was in cahoots on something.
I just think that it's gonna the rabbit hole is
that deep. And the reason why I think that is
because this isn't This isn't just people betting. There's a
relationship between sports. Betting and sports. You see DraftKings on
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the floor, you see FanDuel and commercials. There is a relationship.
And what do you have to do In relationships? There's
a give and take. There's an understand that I'm going
to do this, you need to do this for me.
So I've always said that once you start this marriage
and we're seeing this definitely marriage, this partnership between sports embedding.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Now it gets very very gray.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
And now what you're expecting people to do is to
overlook the relationship that you have. Overlook that you're probably
giving somebody. I've seen athletes that say, hey, you know,
go to DraftKings DA DA DA. Most of them are retired,
but there's still this relationship between these two entities.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It's too murky. It's just too muddy.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
There's no way that the temptation's not going to be there,
and in some cases there's no way that it's not
going to be beneficial for one entity to really exploit
this relationship.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
So it's too muddy for me. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We'll see if we're right again next week when we
come back. We have to get into what the NC
TWOA has done. They recently, i'll say, signed on with
what President Trump has done as far as officially banning
trans athletes from women's sports, and they wasted no time
in doing that. That's next to be on the box Score,
which Jackie Ray and b mo Kelly. This is Later
(09:02):
with mo kellyfi AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty with.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Kelly six ft.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
The NC double A has changed his participation policy surrounding
transgender athletes, limiting competition to those assigned female at birth.
It comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order
intended to bar trans athletes from participating in women's and
girls sports. The NC Double A's revised policy permits athletes
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assigned male at birth to practice with women's teams and
receive benefits such as medical care while practicing. It takes
effect right away.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
KFI, Mo Kelly and Jackie Ray.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We're going beyond the box Score and we're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app on Litter with Mo Kelly. Let
me just start right here. I don't agree with President
Trump on a lot. I don't like the spirit in
which this has been done because I think it demonizes
and also points a lot of negativity at trans people.
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And I'm going to nuance my way through this. But
the issue I'm in alignment with him. I agree with him.
What about you, Jackie Ray?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Yeah, you know, I think a broken clock can be
right twice a day, and this is one of the
times that Donald Trump is right so, but I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
It's the spirit.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
So I think if this is your stance, I'm okay
with the stance, but I am not okay with a
lack of humanity within the stance. So if this is
your position, fine, there has to be some conversations. Number one,
how many trans athletes right now immediately will be affected
by this? I haven't seen a single person talk about that.
I don't know what that number is because that number
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hasn't been floating around out there.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
That should have been the first thing we've seen.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
These are the number trans athletes because that number might
be incredibly low or it might be high, and then
that might change people's perceptions. But we don't have that number,
so people can't make they can't have an educated conversation
about this.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So that's number one.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Number two, if there are trans athletes that are going
to be affected by this, what are the provisions that
we are going to make?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
How are we going to start building?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Because I have been a huge advocate of saying, yes,
there's different divisions, there are different categories in every single sport.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
This can be another opportunity.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
So if there are trans athletes that are going to
be affected by this, What provisions are we providing? Are
we starting to build up another way for them to compete?
I highly doubt that a trans woman would want to
all of a sudden go start competing in a male sport.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
But if that's what they want to do, is that
an option?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
What options have you given people who really are dedicated
to their craft and playing the sport. And how many
trans people have you really sat down with and had
a conversation and said, hey, your trans I'm not.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
What do you think we should do in this case?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
If this is how we're going to proceed, those conversations
are not happening, And to me, that's a lack of
humanity and that's just not right.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I could end the conversation right here because you covered
all the points that I wanted to make, and chiefly,
do not lose our humanity. And I don't think that
humanity has been included in this for all the reasons
that you've articulated.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
These are human beings.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
These are people who should be included in the conversation. Now,
it doesn't mean that we'll agree with the ultimate recommendations
or the decisions which are being made, but these are
people who should be included in the conversation. I personally
would have felt much better if it were rolled out
not as part of a flex, not as somehow part
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of a disk, but an understanding, but a choice to
go in a different direction if you are making this decision,
because look, I understand the desire to be included in
a sports I understand the desire that society is continuing
to evolve. But for the sake of sports and the
sake of fair level, an equal playing field and level
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of competition, this needs to be done. That sends a
very different message than I don't want men competing with women,
or you know, you're making a political argument and trying
to satisfy a political base as opposed to trying to
do what's best for people, which is inclusive of the
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trans community.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah, but that's not his administration. His administration is not
about including people who don't align with whatever he's got
going on in his head. That's just not who he
is and that is the problem. And I would just
encourage people. I know a lot of people identify with
him because of that, because they're kind of they have
an exclusionary spirit as well. But I would just implore
people to back away from that, because there's going to
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come a time when you're going to have something or
an idea, ideology, or maybe one day you get an
injury and now all of a sudden you're impaired in
a way. There's going to come a time in your
life when you want to be included in something that
people are trying to exclude you from, and then once
you understand how that feels, then you'll have a level
of empathy, but it'll be too late by then. So
I really encourage people to have empathy now because it's
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okay to say I.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Don't understand this group of people.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I don't understand how they decided to do this to
their all. That is fine to say I don't understand,
but lean into that, lean into the fact that you
don't understand, and then go to that group of people
and try to gain some understanding.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
That's what humanity is all about.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
My first question is, whenever I talk to anyone about
any particular community or any particular subject, is who have
you talked with, sat down with broken bread with from
the community.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Who do you know in that community?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Because are you just telling me what you think, what
you believe, or are you speaking from an informed perspective,
which is inclusive of their concerns, because if you can't
speak to their concerns, then I really can't take your
opinion seriously. I may intellectually agree with you, but you're
not coming from the standpoint of humanity. But you've already
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made that point, so there's no need for me to
restate it. Jackie Ray, I appreciate talking to you, and
a lot of these conversations are both complex and nuanced.
We may agree with the ultimate result, but it doesn't
necessarily mean that we agree with the path to get there.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Absolutely absolutely and covering the WNBA. Leisah Clarendon was one
of the first people who came out as transgender. She
goes by she him, and his, she goes by all
of those. But having conversations with Leasia really opened my
eyes to this is a deep well that I have
no idea how deep it is.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
I've never been in the well.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I haven't had a personal experience where I can relate
to this well. So the only way I'm going to
get a sense of what that feels like and what
how they would like to navigate that space is to
continue to have those types of conversations. So shout out
to Lasia for putting out that out there and continuing
that conversation, and I implore other people to do the same.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And if you follow the box office returns as closely
as I do, you should already know that, especially during
the dead of winter, fewer movies are released, fewer people
go to the theaters, especially if you don't live in California,
if you live in a place with inclement weather. I mean, hell,
let's get ready to rain here for a few days.
We're dealing with possibly flash floods and even mudslide, so
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our box office most likely will be depressed this at
least for the next few days. The point is it's
very difficult for movie theaters to generate enough revenue to
stay afloat in today's environment generally and during the winter specifically.
And you see that play out when you have the
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number one movie this past weekend, which was dog Man.
Dog Man, it grows thirteen point eight million domestically, which
is really nothing. It has a total gross of fifty
four million in its second week, is still able to
be number one. Number two Mark Runner talked about it
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is Heart Eyes came in with eight point three million,
and the number three movies Love Hurts.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I don't even know what that is. Five point eight million.
Oh that's the key hoon.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
That's right, where he's a retired hit man who's somehow
called back into action.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
We've never heard never before. I have never seen that
story told. That's a story that needs to be told
one day. Totally original.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And if you look at the number of theaters, if
you really drill down, Heart Eyes was only in thirty
one hundred theaters, Love Hurts was only in three thousand theaters.
Max's theater placement is around forty four hundred to forty
five one hundred theaters, which means even the new movies
are not getting broad placement. It's really difficult for movie
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theaters to stay in business if they don't have new titles,
meaningful titles people are gonna come out and see and
possibly see multiple times or definitely see during the week.
It's one thing to have movies, and you know, you
get some business on Friday, Saturday Sunday. If the business
was so slow this weekend for Friday Saturday, Sunday. What
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does it mean for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It's gotta
be far worse. But Mufoster the Lion King. It's been
out eight weeks. Okay, for it to stay in theaters
for eight weeks, that means theaters don't have a better option.
They would replace it in a heartbeat if they had
something better. It brought in four million dollars this week.
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It's done well overall big picture, but it's not doing
much for theaters.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Now.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Yeah, my daughter hated that, but I do believe that
even sin we talk about this all all the time,
there has to be something else going on at the
theater to draw you out. The new theater that you
go to, which the Napolis from all accounts from everything
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you say, it's dinner in a movie.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
There's a bar, there's there's a.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Lot of hat things happening there for adults, for people
who are gonna go out and want to go see
a movie. The seats are nice, the screens are nice,
and it's the entire ambiance involved. That's what is going
to take Alamo Draft House. We talk about them all
the time. It is more than just a movie theater.
AMC is trying what they try to bring in the bar,
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and they try to really step up their snacks and
things like that. But again, most most of the time,
and this is not a sight against AMC, because that's
the theater that I go to most of the time.
Every time I go, it's pretty much me and like
twenty other people. And this is in major, major releases.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
And that that's not a viable business model. You know
that you financially, that can't work long term. Where you
have the theater open, you have the concessionaire, you have
the person tearing the tickets, and you have the person
I don't know, cleaving the bathroom or something, and you're
paying for keep the lights on for.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Fifteen people in the theater.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Yeah, and this is still a better year for releases
than in previous years. I believe that films like Dog
Cop dog Man, Cop.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Dog dog Man, dog Man, Better Man, and Dog dog Man, both.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Of those, I think that.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Those are in such limited release if only because they're like, look,
there's no chance anyone is going to go see our movies.
Come this Friday, everyone will be seeing Captain America, A
Brave New World. That's it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
It's a rap.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
And then after that the movies actually do start rolling
out one after another.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Now for Captain America, Brave New World, what is working
against it is is coming out in the winter. That
works against it generally, if only because it's the winter
and you don't know what whether you're gonna get around
the country. What is working for it is there's nothing
else going up against it. Yeah, absolutely nothing. So if
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people want to go see it, and they will, the team,
we're going to go see it on Thursday night. In fact,
we're going to see it Thursday. I'm going to see
it Sunday at a free screen with a friend that's
providing for us at maybe some other time.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Yeah, I'm seeing it Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
So there's already three showings from me at least. I
just know that this is this is, this is gonna
be tough. And I believe that Captain America coming out
in February is coming out almost at the exact same
time as the first Black Panther, And I think there's
something about wanting to come out specifically at that time,
(21:59):
from from the filmmakers, from Disney, from everyone to occupy
that space because Black Panther did a billion dropping when
they did. I think that this film from everything we're
seeing and everything I'm reading about, all of the surprises
and the things that happen in this film, beyond the
fact that it's another Marvel film and so far again,
(22:21):
Disney has kept the theater chains open, no arguing that
this is something that's going to be very special via
word of mouth.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I try to tell people all the time, you can
hate on Disney all you want, but if Disney doesn't
do well, say goodbye to your local movie theater. I'm
not talking about the change. I'm talking about the mom
and pops. I'm talking about the one offs. You know,
that favorite theater that you have if Disney movies don't
do well, like for example, Captain America Brave New World.
Since there's a dearth of movies in theaters at all,
(22:53):
when the big movies come to town, you need them
to do well. You need them to stay in theaters longer,
and you need people to see them multiple times during
the week because otherwise, you know, you can kiss your
favorite movie theater goodbye. It's just a simplest basic math,
and we're going to see it on Thursday. We'll probably
have a I should say. Mark Ronner will have a
review in the Runner Report on Friday.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
It's a pretty fast turnaround. I don't know, wait what,
I'm quite sure you can work it out. We'll figure
I'm sure. I mean, you know, something up to the
crack of five pm. So something thoughtful and really well
well written. Yeah, well, we'll get right on that. Posts
were seeing it three times each, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
(23:35):
I'm just going to see it the once.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well, one time I'm supporting someone else, and another time
I'll probably see it with my family.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
So it's at least three times, yeah, the same.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
I'm seeing it with the crew, then I'm seeing its
Saturday with the family, and Sunday seeing it in support
of our friend and uh nerd rama co host doctor
Liz from The Freeway, who is a gained her tenure
as a professor. Yep, that's like a professor screaming it's
(24:04):
a party.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
It's nice, you know.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
I hope it's one of those that that does make
you want to see it again right away, Like that's
the feeling I had coming out of the Winter Soldier movie,
want to see it again right away, And this one
looks terrific From the trailers.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It seems like it has the same tonality.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It's serious, it's a it's it's it's I don't want
to say darker, but it's just a more serious tone.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
As serious as you could be with a big red
Hulk in it. Yeah. Yeah, No one liners.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It doesn't seem like this going for one liners like
Tony Stark one liners.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
No, No, I mean that was as a boring as
the Flash film was. The more I reflect on that,
the more I think it was nothing but a movie
of comedy one liners.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
And I can't stand that anymore. I just can't take
that from Marvel to anyone else. I just don't want that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
You know, if there are really steaks and the world
is mistaken and this is going to happen, that's going
to happen.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
You don't have jokes all the time. Not all the time. Yeah,
give it a rest from time to time.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And before I get out of here, here is my
final thought. By now, you probably have heard the news
that at least one person died and several others were
injured after a plane crashed into another jet at Scottsdale
Airport in Arizona today and ASSESSMA two eight B crashed
into sea ice just outside of Noame, Alaska after going
(25:25):
missing during a flight last Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Ten people dead.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
That's after six passengers of a medical jet and one
person on the ground were killed after the plane crash
in a Philadelphia neighborhood last Friday evening. And all of
this is in the wake of the Reagan National Airport
mid air collision over the Potomac, which killed sixty seven people.
Are the collisions are the accidents? Are the crashes related?
(25:51):
Of course, not not specifically at least, but emotionally they
all connect in our recent memories, our politics, as of lade,
has embrace the idea of just blaming the previous guy.
I'm old enough to remember. Maybe you are too, but
I'm old enough to remember it was said the buck
stops here, But that's no longer the case.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Now it's just blame, blame, blame. But I did find a.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Quote that I especially liked that I want to close
out with, and it goes like this. Leaders, true leaders
take responsibility for the success of the team and understand
that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
It's so good, I'm going to read it twice. Leaders.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
True leaders take responsibility for the success of the team
and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Close quote.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
That quote is from Donald Trump, and I'll take him
at his word. I honestly don't know what is going
on with our planes and air traffic control. But I
do know we only have one president at a time,
and I do know only one head of our federal
government at a time. And the answer to this, whatever
this is, but it is a problem. But the answer
(27:12):
to this must come from the top. And here are
the facts. Our president fired the head of the Transportation
Security Administration, fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee, froze
hiring of all air traffic controllers, fired one hundred top
FAA security officers, all on the same day, the same day.
(27:37):
He's not been a passive participant in this. He's been
very much involved. But again, blame and responsibility are not
the same.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Blame is looking back. You're trying to.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Say, well, this happened in the past, this person did this,
so therefore they are responsible. Excuse, it's a cop out,
it's an abdication of responsibility.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
That's blame.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Blame is the easy way out responsibility, at least from
where I sit. It's about going forward and tonight I'm
assessing no blame. I'm not going to sit here and say, well,
Biden did this, and it's not to protect Biden. It's
just because blame doesn't solve the future problem. Blame doesn't
tell us what we need to do if it win,
(28:29):
the next plane crashes, and unfortunately, if the past is prologue,
there's a distinct possibility that there may be another issue
in the very near future. And it can't be always
the other person's fault. If you're the person in charge,
you're the person who wanted the job, you're the person
(28:52):
who got the job. So then as the job holder,
you are judged by your job job performance. And again
I'm not going to assess any blame, but I am
going to do this. I'm going to look at future responsibility.
Let's just say all bets are off and the clock starts.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
This is our president's baby. Whatever happens going forward, given
the moves that he's made prior to now, whatever happens
going forward is his responsibility because he has been an
active participant in whatever our future air traffic control and
(29:40):
our airport security.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Is going to be. He has been actively involved, and
it bears mentioning.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Fired the head of the Transportation Security Administration, fired the
entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee, froze hiring of all air
traffic controllers. And that's saying nothing in the fact that
we all know that they have been over worked and understaffed.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Fired one hundred top FAA security officers, all on the
same day.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And I'll say it one more time before I go,
this is the president's baby, whatever happens going forward. And
as our leader, our leader, I'm not one of those
people who's ever going to say not my president. No,
he's my president, he's your president, he's everyone's president. The
country is chosen. And as our leader, as our president,
(30:28):
he can't only be willing to take responsibility for the success,
but also any responsibility for the failure too.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
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