August 16, 2025 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the long-awaited grand opening of SoCal’s new premier live jazz music venue; 'Blue Note Los Angeles'…PLUS – Melissa, creator of the Inglewood, California-based, Black-owned media company ‘2UrbanGirls,’ joins the program to discuss the latest news in Inglewood, CA. and beyond - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
KFI Am sixty later with Mo Kelly and it's Friday.
Thank goodness, it is Friday. I am so excited that
the week is over. And hopefully you are excited too.
Maybe you're on your way home from work. Maybe you're
already home and getting ready to go out for the evening.
Set your weekend off. That's all right. We have a
show which is special to you. Here's what I mean.
(00:45):
We're going to tell you about the Blue Note Jazz Club,
which is gonna land in Hollywood, which is going to
bring a new era of La jazz that might be
something to consider in the future. Also, we're gonna have
two Urban Girls, the website and blog creator Melissa. They
do outstanding investigative reporting locally and they have turned into
a national force. So we're gonna talk about all things
(01:07):
too Urban Girls in just a moment. And also we'll
have actress Tia Carrer who's gonna join us tonight and
talk to about talk to us about Lelo and Stitch.
How it's been released coming up on Disney Plus, and
we have named that movie cult Classic. It's gonna be
sponsored by Alamo Drafthouse. Let me just tell you at
(01:30):
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Downtown La. You can face your fears
with Alibo Drafthouse exclusive theatrical debut of A Nightmare on
Elm Street, the seventh film collection.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That's right this August and September.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Alibo Draft House Cinema DTLA has the exclusive theatrical debut
of the entire A Nightmare on Elm Street seven film collection,
remastered and stunning four K and this is ahead of
its four K Ultra HD box set release on September thirtieth.
The theatrical screenings begin on August twenty ninth with A
(02:05):
Nightmare on Elm Street and Freddy's Alamo Run won't stop
until Wes Craven's New Nightmare, which screens on September twentieth.
Tickets are now on sale and we'll sell out fast.
I'm talking about A Nightmare on Elm Street August twenty ninth.
A Nightmare on Elm Street two, Freddy's Revenge on the fifth,
Nightmare on Elm Street three, Dream Warriors also on nine
(02:28):
to five, A Nightmare on Elm Street four, The dream
Master on the twelfth, A Nightmare on Elm Street five,
The Dream Child on the twelfth, Freddy's Dead, the Final
Nightmare on the nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And Wes Craven's New Nightmare on September twentieth.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We'll have all that information for you throughout the show tonight,
as Alimo draft House has kindly sponsored the show. Tonight,
we have the runner report with Mark Ronner, and we've
previewed a little bit of it, but I know he
has plenty more to say about Alien Earth is actually
no mo.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
We're gonna switch gears why and you're gonna really enjoy this?
You have something else that you'll be revealed? Oh, finger
on the pulse mode? You want to you want to
be surprised? Do you want me to tell you now?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Gosh no, no, you want the surprise. I promise you,
you especially you want this surprise. I want the finger
on the pulse finger MO on the pull. The repetition
makes it sound filthy, It.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Sounds like et okay. Yeah, so when we good.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Pieces for you? None with that long ass finger. There's
no theme for the game tonight, name that movie co Classic.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
There is no theme.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But there's some real easy ones and there's some damn
near impossible ones.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I don't know if Mark is going to get them all.
Sometimes I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
How many do you think you get on occasion, I'd
say I usually get.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, seven or eight. That sounds about right. But sometimes
because of your honestly, let's just call things what they are.
You have kind of offbeat taste in obscure, unpopular films, so.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It's my way.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You can't figure out the data movies. I thought you
were a cinophile na A. Well, oh no, your taste
is different.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I don't spend my time wallowing in the cinematic gutters
like MO does. Come on, now, okay, have you at
least seen have you seen Wayne's World with Tia Carrera?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, okay? Have you seen True Lies with Tia Carrera? Huh?
All right, Lelo and Stitch. No you you don't see
those movies because you're an ad Oh that's right, that's right.
I am. At least you know who she is because
she's going to be joining us. Yeah at eight o'clock.
Well that's exciting. I think of it this way.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know, there's some bad parts to anyone's job, and
there's some difficult parts to this job. Talking to Tia
Carrera is not one of them, not at all under
any circumstances.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now, I got to pay attention for this. You know
it'll be the first time. I'm sure. Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And Towalla Sharp, it's good to see you as well.
Fine show you put together this evening. And what's this
about Playboys moving their global headquarters out of California.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I didn't know they were still in business.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I did either, but that still shook me because of
all the time we spent at the Playboy Mansion.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That is true, That's why we got to here. All
the time that we spent looking at Playboys. No, no, no,
damn the magazine. I'm talking about the grotto.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh wow, Yeah, we have to tell the stories about
the grotto.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yes, I'll tell you the story of hanging out with
Hugh Hefner, the Los Angeles Lakers, Paula Abdul, Whitney, Houston,
Bobby Brown, and there were other people I'm trying to
think Huls there. But it was at the Playboy Mansion
and the grotto was popping and it was just for
(05:51):
an album release party that we were sponsoring at Warner
Brothers Records. I tell you, if I die tomorrow, and
I don't want to, Let's be clear, I'm not trying
to jinx myself, I can say I've lived and I
have some stories that I get to take with me.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, while I'm in line waiting to get through Heaven's Gate,
I'll be sharing some stories.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Brother time.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
We'll talk a little bit of jazz and a blue
note coming to California.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
In just a moment, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty am.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And just for those who may not know or remember,
I'm a kid who grew up with music everywhere. My mother,
still with us, was a vocal music instructor. My father
passed on. He was an instrumental music teacher. He taught
(07:04):
band at elementary, middle school, and high school level. Both
my parents are musicians in their own right. Beyond teaching,
they did some session work with Tina Turner back in
the day. My father played with various folks when he
was his youngest fifteen years old, playing jazz, sax and
(07:25):
doing some things with Lionel Hampton and others over the years.
I say all that to say that music, especially jazz,
has had a huge impact on my life, the different
eras of jazz from traditional jazz, bebop jazz fusion of
the nineteen eighties, and more contemporary jazz. Love it all,
(07:46):
but if you love jazz, you know that LA historically
has not had a singular pre eminent jazz venue. Now
there's some nice venues that they also have some jazz,
like if you went to Herb Albert's Robrado Grill, that
(08:07):
is a good location and a good venue for music
in general, and they have a lot of jazz there.
But as far as prohibited venues, I don't think we've
really had that one. If you go to Washington, d C.
They have Blue Es Alley. If you go to New York,
you obviously have the Blue Note, the legendary Blue Note.
So when I saw the news that they finally opened
(08:29):
a Blue Note here in Los Angeles, as a matter
of fact, it was yesterday was the official grand opening.
They have Robert Glasper who's going to be performing tonight.
I was overjoyed because LA has needed this and I'm
just digging through the calendar for the next few months
to see what I'm going to see, and it's close
(08:51):
enough where no disrespect to Herb Alberts of Verbrado Grill.
But that's like kind of up in the hills. Is
it's difficult to get to and it's difficult to get
away from. It has limited parking, so hopefully this being
in Hollywood, it will have ample parking.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah. I've been to the Blue Note in New.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
York just once, and that was when I was working
for the Grammys, and that was a good I don't know,
almost thirty years ago at this point. So it's it's
nice to have something to look forward to. As far
as music venues, I'm at that age where I'm not
going to big venues. I refuse to. I'm not dealing
with all that extra stuff. But if you can have
a nice intimate venue, yeah, I'm in there.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So that's what this is.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
This is more like maybe a two three hundred person
max venue where you can beat up close and see
the act.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
There's tables. This is.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
This is for grown people who wanted to go and
see a show where you don't have to be standing
room only.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Catalina Jazz Grill, I've been there maybe ten fifteen times.
That's a nice venue. I think it's on a little
small side. That's very small people mats with tables in there.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, it's nice when you get to see groups of
cataly in the jazz grill because you're like right up
in their face. You get to hear everything. It's almost
like they're performing in your living room. Yeah, but I
need a little bigger than that. Little bigger than that,
And I would say a good size venue back in
the day was House of Blues.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I liked House of Blues, but I like places like
the Viper Room even more.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I like even are intimate club like.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
That's the first time I saw Jill Scott and Angie
Stone and people like that at the Viper Room, where
it was like a nice intial clubs setting.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I saw Jill Scott at the House of Blues. In
the House of Blues. As far as music houses, which
of course is no longer, there, lent itself to all
sorts of performances and it wasn't limited to just jazz,
whereas the blue note is synonymous with jazz and jazz alone.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I hope that they don't dilute it. Oh no, no, no,
it's it's gonna be deluted like they've already. Besides Robert Glaswer, yes,
they've got like the Kamassie Washington's of the world. But
they've got Killer My, they've got Andrew Days. So they've
got jazz esque, hip hop, neo, they've they've got they've.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Got a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Now you're not gonna see you know, uh, little Dirk
or a little baby or.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Hope I'm in there.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
But you will see groups that appeal to a more
adult crowd.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Now, I would see the artist her at the Blue
Note Ook and that would that wouldn't offend my jazz sensibilities, Yes,
because she's done it. Like for example, when I saw Prince,
the one and the only time I saw Prince was
at the Conger Room, and that had maybe four hundred
people there.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
There were no chairs.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Everyone was I love the Congoo when it was on Washington,
I mean on which sure, yes, I loved it, the congo.
If that's about the size I want. I want to
feel like I'm not at Staple Center. You know, I'm
not at Sofi Stadium. The whole idea of going to
a stadium for a music performance is just mind boggling
to me. I would I have no desire to see
(11:59):
a Beyonce at Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Now, if the.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Blue Note Jazz Club is really about the business of
getting out there in LA and connecting with the audience,
that's going to feel them say. What they need to
do is they need to have later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Broadcasting live from the venue.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Come on, introducing the acts, hosting the look giving away
tickets here, come on, Blue Note.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Jazz Club, Tula. I'm going to be going on vacation
next week starting Wenesday. It's already in motion because I
put it out there in the universe. It's already emotion
all right, because that would be a perfect fit. And yeah,
so we just need to go ahead and make that
relationship happen. Yeah, man, Mark, are you a jazz fan
(12:48):
by chance?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah? I know you're a music fan, but I know
genre specific. Yeah, I like jazz.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I had kind of a father figure teach me jazz
at at a real young age, and I dig it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Now I have to ask, Robin, is anyone in your
friends group a jazz fan or has your generation left
jazz behind and don't even acknowledge it.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I think our generation left to find That's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, Yeah, y'all can't appreciate anything of value.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Not on the asteroid. Bring the asteroid.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I mean, it was an honest answer, but it was
a disappointing and depressing one.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That you know, it is all about booty.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
If we took enough time to show you where all
your favorite music came from and the jazz samples that
they use, you the source of what you like about
a song, I would say not you. But I'm saying
your generation would have a greater appreciation because it doesn't
seem like the Millennials and the gen z actually create
(13:50):
much of anything. They'll sample, they'll borrow, they'll do remakes,
but as far as you know, real new composition, not
so much.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Not so much.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And yes I'm being elitist. Yes I know I sound old,
but I also sound right. No, no, let her have it.
Oh this we agree on? Huh yeah for once? Yeah, Okay,
we'll talk about that generation gap when we come back.
I'll be joined by the founder and creator and editor
of Two Urban Girls. It is a fantastic website slash blog.
(14:23):
As far as independent reporting, they've broken a lot of
national stories centered in Inglewood, but now they've branched out
to all of southern California and national news. If you
get a chance check out two Urbangirls dot com. That's
number two Urbangirls dot com. Gonna speak with his founder
Melissa when we come back. It's Later with Mo Kelly
(14:44):
k if I AM six forty Live everywhere at the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty with.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Kelly.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
We're live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio App.
In twenty eleven, Two Urban Girls began solely as an Inglewood,
California based blog. It has since gained national recognition as
a credible and reliable brand that has been mentioned in
reputable news publishing sites across the country. Today, Two Urban
Girls has moved into reporting local, regional, state, and national
(15:28):
news to an international audience. And joining me right now
on the line is the founder and editor of Two
Urban Girls, Melissa, just like Madonna, just like Share.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It's just Melissa, Melissa. How you doing tonight?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I'm doing well. I have read Two Urban Girls for
many years. I don't know when I first started reading it,
but I noticed over the years she got more and
more stories that you would break and then local media
would pick up on them, national media would pick up
on them. Tell me very quickly, how and why you
started Two Urban Girls.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Okay, it was in twenty eleven. I was in some
parental leadership bodies within Inglewood Unified School District at the
time when it was still under local control. Doctor McHenry
was the superintendent, and we were in meetings with him
discussing the potential and inevitable state receivership that the district
(16:28):
was heading in for the next school year. And I
was looking into our local newspaper, Inglewood Today, and they
weren't writing about it. I looked at the Los Angeles
Way they weren't writing about it, and the Sentinel they
didn't write about it, but they were helping to push
bonds that were coming up on the ballot for the election.
(16:51):
And so I saw there was a void in covering
something that's huge azz the district being taken over. We're
getting ready to issue new bonds to fit the schools,
but we won't have control over how the money is
being spent, and so I started the blog to be
an alternative to reporting on those types of issues.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't know, maybe it was just in the progression
of bringing two NFL franchises here, first to Rams, then
the Chargers, and moving to an area which is just
right next to Inglewood. I became much more involved in
what was happening in my community around me, and I've
had plenty to say about the growth and expansion of Inglewood.
(17:33):
But if I were to leave it to you, how
would you characterize the change and the topography and the
demography of that city?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Ooh, I would say it's a multi layered perspective. When
you've been here a lifelong resident, you like to see
the new things coming in. What we don't like is
not having a voice in how the city is growing.
(18:03):
And so I think that has been the biggest gripe
within the community that these projects are being forced on
us without our input, and when you look at the
impact it's having on us, that could be why we're
not having any input, because we might not have approved
(18:25):
it if we knew the full picture.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Speaking of input, I've seen some of your stories recently
on the price of parketing parking. I'm talking about resident
parking and also parking when it comes to attending event
right next to so far or right next to into it.
Talk to me about the citywide permit parking program and
how it's led to parking prices being as high as
(18:50):
three hundred dollars for some events.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
So what we see is permit parking isn't something that's
totally new in Englewood. When the Forum was up and
running and you had the Lakers, there was a permit
parking program adjacent to the Forum on the west side
of Prairie, So those residents over there between Manchester the Century,
(19:17):
they've always had apertmit parking program because of the activity
at the Forum. The biggest difference was at the time
you still had the racetrack open, so that was your
overflow parking at the time, so it didn't really it
didn't really impact the residents too much because they had
another alternative for the attendees to park, which was over
(19:39):
at Hollywood Park.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You still had people.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Parking in the neighborhood, probably to avoid parking, but it
wasn't as costly as what we see today.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So fast forward to so if.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
I Stadium opening, the Forum opening, I think you might
recall when they started to dismantle Hollywood Park. It became
big news when the overflow parking became over at the
Englewood Park Cemetery. The news covered the fact that cars
were being parked over there and they were like, well,
it's an after hours no big deal. But it was
(20:11):
a big deal because it's a cemetery, it's people's final
resting place. We've never, in my opinion, we're not adequately
equipped to accommodate seventy eighty thousand sekh stadium because when
you're bringing cars in, where are they parking?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You literally dropped a.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Stadium in the middle of the city and said deal
with it. So they came up with this permit parking
program that charges the residents to park in front of
our home. They put up these signage that says, you know,
you're only have two hours to park without a permit,
but predominantly you have to have a permit, which people
were complaining about. But they said, well, you know, the
(20:51):
trade office, we'll be able to park when we come
home because it will prevent attendees from the forum the
stadium from parking in our neighborhoods. And that's not happening
because there's no parking enforcement.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Don't You're hard.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Pressed to see traffic in parking enforcement officers rolling through
the neighborhoods checking for those permits to ticket the cars
that are parking there that don't participate in the permit
parking program. And because of the cost of parking at
the venues, that leads to more parking in the neighborhoods.
(21:26):
And we don't understand why there's no enforcement.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
We know I know just living one street over from
Englewood that the traffic is unbearable most times of the year.
If I try to go over to the Hollywood Park Complex,
the retail district, just trying to park over there next
to into it is.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Difficult drive through.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Its almost impossible if the Clippers have a game, or
now the Sunday, if the Rams or Chargers have a game.
I sell that to say, I know the economic impact
can't be argued as far as the money being brought in.
I know it can't be argued that there was a
degree of gentrification because of these projects being brought in.
James Butts has both been revered and reviled as mayor
(22:10):
of Inglewood. He's up for reelection next year. What is
the temperature surrounding James Butts and also the civil judgments
against him and so forth.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Well, when in the last election. I think we've noticed
that his popularity dropped tremendously. His first reelection he won
with eighty three percent of the vote. Last election in
twenty twenty twenty two, he was down to fifty five percent.
He almost was forced into a runoff, and was almost
(22:41):
forced into a runoff by a candidate that wasn't as
well funded as the candidate who ran against him in
twenty eighteen. I think the temperature is that we have
James Butt's fatigue retired. We see the economic impacts aren't
(23:01):
as fruitful as what they could be if we weren't
paying so many legal fees connected to things that derive
from him. Traffic accidents, the issues with the treasure, the
issues with his former assistant. Those things are bad for business.
And when we look at the numbers, we see, okay,
(23:24):
you have the stadium open and doing events. That revenue
for admissions tax is capped at fifteen million dollars a year.
We're putting assets over there in terms of law enforcement,
code enforcement, parking control. We pay one hundred percent of
those costs, but we're not getting one hundred percent back
from those venues. We've also had to extend outside law
(23:48):
enforcement contracts to cover some of those events. When we
look at the parking tax, the numbers don't add up
once you start looking at the details of the budget.
And that's what I think is the most disappointing from
my perspective, that it was so to us that there
was going to be so much money coming in that
(24:10):
we were going to start to see things be different here,
and the only thing that we've seen constantly is traffic
and congestion. If you're just tuning, If.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You're just tuned in right now, joining me on the
line is founder and editor of two Urbangirls dot com.
Her name is Melissa, just like Madonna and Cher, She's
only got one name, so I didn't want.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You to be taken back by that.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But Melissa, on the other side of the break, I
want to ask you about a mutual friend, and I've
not spoken to our mutual friend. Our mutual friend is
Alex Michaelson. Today was this last day at Fox eleven
that it was, and you and I both know him
and have both known him for many years. He shouted
you out many times on his show and in his reporting,
(24:54):
so I know that he respects what you do. We
were having a playful interplay on on Instagram. You and
I talking about Alex Michaelson where he may end up
because he hasn't made a public announcement and I haven't
spoken to him. I don't know if you have, but okay,
so when we come back, I want to have a
guessing game as to where he's going to end up.
(25:16):
Because the KFI audience they know Alex, they love Alex,
and I think both of us can give some insight
as to where he might end up.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You want to play with that when we come back.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Absolutely, you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
KIM six forty y is Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
We live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
We're talking about all things Inwood and beyond with the
founder editor of Two Urban Girls, Melissa, who has been
joining me on the show for a while. Melissa, let
me bring you back into the conversation. We tease before
the break that we have a mutual friend in Alex Michaelson,
and the CAFI audience loves and has known Elex for
(26:08):
many years. You and I have known Elex for many
years and he had his last day at Fox eleven today,
and I think it caught a lot of people by
surprise because it seemed like Elex was moving in a
certain trajectory as it related to television and television news.
Not saying he left to do something else, but it
(26:29):
seemed like he was going in a certain direction. You
and I had this interplay on Instagram about where he
might be going, and neither of us have talked to him,
so we're just speculating a offering conjecture out loud. I'll
let you go first, where do you think Alex Michaelson
is going.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
To end up?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
I believe he's going to go run communications for our
governor Davin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
What you really think something, Give me some reasoning behind that.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I think he's developed a very good rapport with the governor.
He's been embedded with him a few times on occasions,
going around the state talking to people. I think Elix
has a very good grasp on the issues in the state.
He understands the cost, the high cost of the administration's
(27:24):
fight with the Trump administration. I think he's a good
analyst of reporting on the issues and staying out of
an opinion space, but keeping it very professional and insightful
and interesting in order to convey the message to Gavin
as he potentially prepares to run for president. And I
(27:47):
just think that overall, he's a really good guy and
it wouldn't be a bad place for him to land.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I agree with a lot what you're saying, but I
don't think that he would go working in an overtly
political capacity. And this is something I've never had a
personal political conversation with Alex.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's something we've always kept separate.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
But I got the impression he prided himself on having
or existing in this neutral space of being able to
report and give information without being perceived necessarily one side
of the aisle or the other. I have my personal
idea of where his politics are. Man, I'm not going
to speculate on that possible up publicly. My suspicion is,
(28:33):
and this may seem like a slight contradiction, but I
think that Alex is going to go higher than let's say,
the communications department. We know that the New York Post
is getting ready to start up the California Post out here,
and I was under the impression that it is supposed
to be a direct competitor to TMZ. We know that
Alex Michaelson has done some work with Harvey Levin recently.
(28:55):
I could see him running up that head that whole
operation and be the Alex Michaelson to the Harvey Levin
of TMZ, and then have a wider variety of reporting
that he is responsible for running.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
What do you say to that? That's interesting.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
I understand that with the constraints of working for Channel seven,
he can't be too controversial and probably is not able
to and of course not able to express his political beliefs.
TMZ is a little edgy, it's a little I wouldn't
(29:38):
say tabloid.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Ish, it would be tabloids. It would be it's tabloid ish.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
So I think it's fun. But it seems like when
I view him and watch him on TMZ, his body
language just wasn't given me he was into that kind
of those kind of topics.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
I think he likes the political space. I know he's
done a really good job of interviewing people across the board,
so I think he definitely wants to stay. I would
say he would want to stay in that space of
interviewing and maybe you know, doing a little bit more
in the political round to give a more insight into
what his actual political beliefs are.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Okay, we said I'm running out of time, but we
said offline that there needs to be some sort of
friendly wager here.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
We don't know who's going to be closer. One of
one of us could be right, neither of us could
be right.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
But in the event that one of us is right,
and I say, you know, I've been honest with you,
I have not spoken to Lex or anyone in his
immediate circle. If one of us is right, that means
maybe the other person is paying for dinner.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I would have loved that wager.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay, take that bet?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
All right, all right, So where is it you gonna
end up taking me? Since you're gonna lose?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Where am I gonna take you?
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Since I'm gonna lose?
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Yes, I'm gonna win.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Castaways? Oh oh oh, okay, all right?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Oh and if you go ahead and whin where do
you want to go?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I like Mastros Steakhouse game on. I love it, Melissa.
It's been a pleasure talking to you. This is the
first time we've had a conversation on air. I'm sure
it won't be the last, if only because I have
to call you to make sure that I get to collect.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
On my dinner.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
For sure, I'll be waiting for that call.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Will be in touch, talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Have a good night.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
It's later with Moke Kelly can if. I am six
forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio
Speaker 5 (31:36):
App ASI and KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County
more stimulating talk
KFI Am sixty later with Mo Kelly and it's Friday.
Thank goodness, it is Friday. I am so excited that
the week is over. And hopefully you are excited too.
Maybe you're on your way home from work. Maybe you're
already home and getting ready to go out for the evening.
Set your weekend off. That's all right. We have a
show which is special to you. Here's what I mean.
(00:45):
We're going to tell you about the Blue Note Jazz Club,
which is gonna land in Hollywood, which is going to
bring a new era of La jazz that might be
something to consider in the future. Also, we're gonna have
two Urban Girls, the website and blog creator Melissa. They
do outstanding investigative reporting locally and they have turned into
a national force. So we're gonna talk about all things
(01:07):
too Urban Girls in just a moment. And also we'll
have actress Tia Carrer who's gonna join us tonight and
talk to about talk to us about Lelo and Stitch.
How it's been released coming up on Disney Plus, and
we have named that movie cult Classic. It's gonna be
sponsored by Alamo Drafthouse. Let me just tell you at
(01:30):
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Downtown La. You can face your fears
with Alibo Drafthouse exclusive theatrical debut of A Nightmare on
Elm Street, the seventh film collection.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That's right this August and September.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Alibo Draft House Cinema DTLA has the exclusive theatrical debut
of the entire A Nightmare on Elm Street seven film collection,
remastered and stunning four K and this is ahead of
its four K Ultra HD box set release on September thirtieth.
The theatrical screenings begin on August twenty ninth with A
(02:05):
Nightmare on Elm Street and Freddy's Alamo Run won't stop
until Wes Craven's New Nightmare, which screens on September twentieth.
Tickets are now on sale and we'll sell out fast.
I'm talking about A Nightmare on Elm Street August twenty ninth.
A Nightmare on Elm Street two, Freddy's Revenge on the fifth,
Nightmare on Elm Street three, Dream Warriors also on nine
(02:28):
to five, A Nightmare on Elm Street four, The dream
Master on the twelfth, A Nightmare on Elm Street five,
The Dream Child on the twelfth, Freddy's Dead, the Final
Nightmare on the nineteenth.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And Wes Craven's New Nightmare on September twentieth.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We'll have all that information for you throughout the show tonight,
as Alimo draft House has kindly sponsored the show. Tonight,
we have the runner report with Mark Ronner, and we've
previewed a little bit of it, but I know he
has plenty more to say about Alien Earth is actually
no mo.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
We're gonna switch gears why and you're gonna really enjoy this?
You have something else that you'll be revealed? Oh, finger
on the pulse mode? You want to you want to
be surprised? Do you want me to tell you now?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Gosh no, no, you want the surprise. I promise you,
you especially you want this surprise. I want the finger
on the pulse finger MO on the pull. The repetition
makes it sound filthy, It.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Sounds like et okay. Yeah, so when we good.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Pieces for you? None with that long ass finger. There's
no theme for the game tonight, name that movie co Classic.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
There is no theme.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But there's some real easy ones and there's some damn
near impossible ones.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I don't know if Mark is going to get them all.
Sometimes I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
How many do you think you get on occasion, I'd
say I usually get.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, seven or eight. That sounds about right. But sometimes
because of your honestly, let's just call things what they are.
You have kind of offbeat taste in obscure, unpopular films, so.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It's my way.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You can't figure out the data movies. I thought you
were a cinophile na A. Well, oh no, your taste
is different.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I don't spend my time wallowing in the cinematic gutters
like MO does. Come on, now, okay, have you at
least seen have you seen Wayne's World with Tia Carrera?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, okay? Have you seen True Lies with Tia Carrera? Huh?
All right, Lelo and Stitch. No you you don't see
those movies because you're an ad Oh that's right, that's right.
I am. At least you know who she is because
she's going to be joining us. Yeah at eight o'clock.
Well that's exciting. I think of it this way.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know, there's some bad parts to anyone's job, and
there's some difficult parts to this job. Talking to Tia
Carrera is not one of them, not at all under
any circumstances.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now, I got to pay attention for this. You know
it'll be the first time. I'm sure. Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And Towalla Sharp, it's good to see you as well.
Fine show you put together this evening. And what's this
about Playboys moving their global headquarters out of California.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I didn't know they were still in business.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I did either, but that still shook me because of
all the time we spent at the Playboy Mansion.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That is true, That's why we got to here. All
the time that we spent looking at Playboys. No, no, no,
damn the magazine. I'm talking about the grotto.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh wow, Yeah, we have to tell the stories about
the grotto.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yes, I'll tell you the story of hanging out with
Hugh Hefner, the Los Angeles Lakers, Paula Abdul, Whitney, Houston,
Bobby Brown, and there were other people I'm trying to
think Huls there. But it was at the Playboy Mansion
and the grotto was popping and it was just for
(05:51):
an album release party that we were sponsoring at Warner
Brothers Records. I tell you, if I die tomorrow, and
I don't want to, Let's be clear, I'm not trying
to jinx myself, I can say I've lived and I
have some stories that I get to take with me.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, while I'm in line waiting to get through Heaven's Gate,
I'll be sharing some stories.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Brother time.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
We'll talk a little bit of jazz and a blue
note coming to California.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
In just a moment, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty am.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And just for those who may not know or remember,
I'm a kid who grew up with music everywhere. My mother,
still with us, was a vocal music instructor. My father
passed on. He was an instrumental music teacher. He taught
(07:04):
band at elementary, middle school, and high school level. Both
my parents are musicians in their own right. Beyond teaching,
they did some session work with Tina Turner back in
the day. My father played with various folks when he
was his youngest fifteen years old, playing jazz, sax and
(07:25):
doing some things with Lionel Hampton and others over the years.
I say all that to say that music, especially jazz,
has had a huge impact on my life, the different
eras of jazz from traditional jazz, bebop jazz fusion of
the nineteen eighties, and more contemporary jazz. Love it all,
(07:46):
but if you love jazz, you know that LA historically
has not had a singular pre eminent jazz venue. Now
there's some nice venues that they also have some jazz,
like if you went to Herb Albert's Robrado Grill, that
(08:07):
is a good location and a good venue for music
in general, and they have a lot of jazz there.
But as far as prohibited venues, I don't think we've
really had that one. If you go to Washington, d C.
They have Blue Es Alley. If you go to New York,
you obviously have the Blue Note, the legendary Blue Note.
So when I saw the news that they finally opened
(08:29):
a Blue Note here in Los Angeles, as a matter
of fact, it was yesterday was the official grand opening.
They have Robert Glasper who's going to be performing tonight.
I was overjoyed because LA has needed this and I'm
just digging through the calendar for the next few months
to see what I'm going to see, and it's close
(08:51):
enough where no disrespect to Herb Alberts of Verbrado Grill.
But that's like kind of up in the hills. Is
it's difficult to get to and it's difficult to get
away from. It has limited parking, so hopefully this being
in Hollywood, it will have ample parking.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah. I've been to the Blue Note in New.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
York just once, and that was when I was working
for the Grammys, and that was a good I don't know,
almost thirty years ago at this point. So it's it's
nice to have something to look forward to. As far
as music venues, I'm at that age where I'm not
going to big venues. I refuse to. I'm not dealing
with all that extra stuff. But if you can have
a nice intimate venue, yeah, I'm in there.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
So that's what this is.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
This is more like maybe a two three hundred person
max venue where you can beat up close and see
the act.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
There's tables. This is.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
This is for grown people who wanted to go and
see a show where you don't have to be standing
room only.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Catalina Jazz Grill, I've been there maybe ten fifteen times.
That's a nice venue. I think it's on a little
small side. That's very small people mats with tables in there.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, it's nice when you get to see groups of
cataly in the jazz grill because you're like right up
in their face. You get to hear everything. It's almost
like they're performing in your living room. Yeah, but I
need a little bigger than that. Little bigger than that,
And I would say a good size venue back in
the day was House of Blues.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I liked House of Blues, but I like places like
the Viper Room even more.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I like even are intimate club like.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
That's the first time I saw Jill Scott and Angie
Stone and people like that at the Viper Room, where
it was like a nice intial clubs setting.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I saw Jill Scott at the House of Blues. In
the House of Blues. As far as music houses, which
of course is no longer, there, lent itself to all
sorts of performances and it wasn't limited to just jazz,
whereas the blue note is synonymous with jazz and jazz alone.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I hope that they don't dilute it. Oh no, no, no,
it's it's gonna be deluted like they've already. Besides Robert Glaswer, yes,
they've got like the Kamassie Washington's of the world. But
they've got Killer My, they've got Andrew Days. So they've
got jazz esque, hip hop, neo, they've they've got they've.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Got a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Now you're not gonna see you know, uh, little Dirk
or a little baby or.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Hope I'm in there.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
But you will see groups that appeal to a more
adult crowd.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Now, I would see the artist her at the Blue
Note Ook and that would that wouldn't offend my jazz sensibilities, Yes,
because she's done it. Like for example, when I saw Prince,
the one and the only time I saw Prince was
at the Conger Room, and that had maybe four hundred
people there.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
There were no chairs.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Everyone was I love the Congoo when it was on Washington,
I mean on which sure, yes, I loved it, the congo.
If that's about the size I want. I want to
feel like I'm not at Staple Center. You know, I'm
not at Sofi Stadium. The whole idea of going to
a stadium for a music performance is just mind boggling
to me. I would I have no desire to see
(11:59):
a Beyonce at Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Now, if the.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Blue Note Jazz Club is really about the business of
getting out there in LA and connecting with the audience,
that's going to feel them say. What they need to
do is they need to have later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Broadcasting live from the venue.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Come on, introducing the acts, hosting the look giving away
tickets here, come on, Blue Note.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Jazz Club, Tula. I'm going to be going on vacation
next week starting Wenesday. It's already in motion because I
put it out there in the universe. It's already emotion
all right, because that would be a perfect fit. And yeah,
so we just need to go ahead and make that
relationship happen. Yeah, man, Mark, are you a jazz fan
(12:48):
by chance?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah? I know you're a music fan, but I know
genre specific. Yeah, I like jazz.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I had kind of a father figure teach me jazz
at at a real young age, and I dig it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Now I have to ask, Robin, is anyone in your
friends group a jazz fan or has your generation left
jazz behind and don't even acknowledge it.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I think our generation left to find That's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, Yeah, y'all can't appreciate anything of value.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Not on the asteroid. Bring the asteroid.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I mean, it was an honest answer, but it was
a disappointing and depressing one.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That you know, it is all about booty.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
If we took enough time to show you where all
your favorite music came from and the jazz samples that
they use, you the source of what you like about
a song, I would say not you. But I'm saying
your generation would have a greater appreciation because it doesn't
seem like the Millennials and the gen z actually create
(13:50):
much of anything. They'll sample, they'll borrow, they'll do remakes,
but as far as you know, real new composition, not
so much.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Not so much.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And yes I'm being elitist. Yes I know I sound old,
but I also sound right. No, no, let her have it.
Oh this we agree on? Huh yeah for once? Yeah, Okay,
we'll talk about that generation gap when we come back.
I'll be joined by the founder and creator and editor
of Two Urban Girls. It is a fantastic website slash blog.
(14:23):
As far as independent reporting, they've broken a lot of
national stories centered in Inglewood, but now they've branched out
to all of southern California and national news. If you
get a chance check out two Urbangirls dot com. That's
number two Urbangirls dot com. Gonna speak with his founder
Melissa when we come back. It's Later with Mo Kelly
(14:44):
k if I AM six forty Live everywhere at the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty with.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Kelly.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
We're live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio App.
In twenty eleven, Two Urban Girls began solely as an Inglewood,
California based blog. It has since gained national recognition as
a credible and reliable brand that has been mentioned in
reputable news publishing sites across the country. Today, Two Urban
Girls has moved into reporting local, regional, state, and national
(15:28):
news to an international audience. And joining me right now
on the line is the founder and editor of Two
Urban Girls, Melissa, just like Madonna, just like Share.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It's just Melissa, Melissa. How you doing tonight?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I'm doing well. I have read Two Urban Girls for
many years. I don't know when I first started reading it,
but I noticed over the years she got more and
more stories that you would break and then local media
would pick up on them, national media would pick up
on them. Tell me very quickly, how and why you
started Two Urban Girls.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Okay, it was in twenty eleven. I was in some
parental leadership bodies within Inglewood Unified School District at the
time when it was still under local control. Doctor McHenry
was the superintendent, and we were in meetings with him
discussing the potential and inevitable state receivership that the district
(16:28):
was heading in for the next school year. And I
was looking into our local newspaper, Inglewood Today, and they
weren't writing about it. I looked at the Los Angeles
Way they weren't writing about it, and the Sentinel they
didn't write about it, but they were helping to push
bonds that were coming up on the ballot for the election.
(16:51):
And so I saw there was a void in covering
something that's huge azz the district being taken over. We're
getting ready to issue new bonds to fit the schools,
but we won't have control over how the money is
being spent, and so I started the blog to be
an alternative to reporting on those types of issues.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't know, maybe it was just in the progression
of bringing two NFL franchises here, first to Rams, then
the Chargers, and moving to an area which is just
right next to Inglewood. I became much more involved in
what was happening in my community around me, and I've
had plenty to say about the growth and expansion of Inglewood.
(17:33):
But if I were to leave it to you, how
would you characterize the change and the topography and the
demography of that city?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Ooh, I would say it's a multi layered perspective. When
you've been here a lifelong resident, you like to see
the new things coming in. What we don't like is
not having a voice in how the city is growing.
(18:03):
And so I think that has been the biggest gripe
within the community that these projects are being forced on
us without our input, and when you look at the
impact it's having on us, that could be why we're
not having any input, because we might not have approved
(18:25):
it if we knew the full picture.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Speaking of input, I've seen some of your stories recently
on the price of parketing parking. I'm talking about resident
parking and also parking when it comes to attending event
right next to so far or right next to into it.
Talk to me about the citywide permit parking program and
how it's led to parking prices being as high as
(18:50):
three hundred dollars for some events.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
So what we see is permit parking isn't something that's
totally new in Englewood. When the Forum was up and
running and you had the Lakers, there was a permit
parking program adjacent to the Forum on the west side
of Prairie, So those residents over there between Manchester the Century,
(19:17):
they've always had apertmit parking program because of the activity
at the Forum. The biggest difference was at the time
you still had the racetrack open, so that was your
overflow parking at the time, so it didn't really it
didn't really impact the residents too much because they had
another alternative for the attendees to park, which was over
(19:39):
at Hollywood Park.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You still had people.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Parking in the neighborhood, probably to avoid parking, but it
wasn't as costly as what we see today.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So fast forward to so if.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
I Stadium opening, the Forum opening, I think you might
recall when they started to dismantle Hollywood Park. It became
big news when the overflow parking became over at the
Englewood Park Cemetery. The news covered the fact that cars
were being parked over there and they were like, well,
it's an after hours no big deal. But it was
(20:11):
a big deal because it's a cemetery, it's people's final
resting place. We've never, in my opinion, we're not adequately
equipped to accommodate seventy eighty thousand sekh stadium because when
you're bringing cars in, where are they parking?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You literally dropped a.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Stadium in the middle of the city and said deal
with it. So they came up with this permit parking
program that charges the residents to park in front of
our home. They put up these signage that says, you know,
you're only have two hours to park without a permit,
but predominantly you have to have a permit, which people
were complaining about. But they said, well, you know, the
(20:51):
trade office, we'll be able to park when we come
home because it will prevent attendees from the forum the
stadium from parking in our neighborhoods. And that's not happening
because there's no parking enforcement.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Don't You're hard.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Pressed to see traffic in parking enforcement officers rolling through
the neighborhoods checking for those permits to ticket the cars
that are parking there that don't participate in the permit
parking program. And because of the cost of parking at
the venues, that leads to more parking in the neighborhoods.
(21:26):
And we don't understand why there's no enforcement.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
We know I know just living one street over from
Englewood that the traffic is unbearable most times of the year.
If I try to go over to the Hollywood Park Complex,
the retail district, just trying to park over there next
to into it is.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Difficult drive through.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Its almost impossible if the Clippers have a game, or
now the Sunday, if the Rams or Chargers have a game.
I sell that to say, I know the economic impact
can't be argued as far as the money being brought in.
I know it can't be argued that there was a
degree of gentrification because of these projects being brought in.
James Butts has both been revered and reviled as mayor
(22:10):
of Inglewood. He's up for reelection next year. What is
the temperature surrounding James Butts and also the civil judgments
against him and so forth.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Well, when in the last election. I think we've noticed
that his popularity dropped tremendously. His first reelection he won
with eighty three percent of the vote. Last election in
twenty twenty twenty two, he was down to fifty five percent.
He almost was forced into a runoff, and was almost
(22:41):
forced into a runoff by a candidate that wasn't as
well funded as the candidate who ran against him in
twenty eighteen. I think the temperature is that we have
James Butt's fatigue retired. We see the economic impacts aren't
(23:01):
as fruitful as what they could be if we weren't
paying so many legal fees connected to things that derive
from him. Traffic accidents, the issues with the treasure, the
issues with his former assistant. Those things are bad for business.
And when we look at the numbers, we see, okay,
(23:24):
you have the stadium open and doing events. That revenue
for admissions tax is capped at fifteen million dollars a year.
We're putting assets over there in terms of law enforcement,
code enforcement, parking control. We pay one hundred percent of
those costs, but we're not getting one hundred percent back
from those venues. We've also had to extend outside law
(23:48):
enforcement contracts to cover some of those events. When we
look at the parking tax, the numbers don't add up
once you start looking at the details of the budget.
And that's what I think is the most disappointing from
my perspective, that it was so to us that there
was going to be so much money coming in that
(24:10):
we were going to start to see things be different here,
and the only thing that we've seen constantly is traffic
and congestion. If you're just tuning, If.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You're just tuned in right now, joining me on the
line is founder and editor of two Urbangirls dot com.
Her name is Melissa, just like Madonna and Cher, She's
only got one name, so I didn't want.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You to be taken back by that.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But Melissa, on the other side of the break, I
want to ask you about a mutual friend, and I've
not spoken to our mutual friend. Our mutual friend is
Alex Michaelson. Today was this last day at Fox eleven
that it was, and you and I both know him
and have both known him for many years. He shouted
you out many times on his show and in his reporting,
(24:54):
so I know that he respects what you do. We
were having a playful interplay on on Instagram. You and
I talking about Alex Michaelson where he may end up
because he hasn't made a public announcement and I haven't
spoken to him. I don't know if you have, but okay,
so when we come back, I want to have a
guessing game as to where he's going to end up.
(25:16):
Because the KFI audience they know Alex, they love Alex,
and I think both of us can give some insight
as to where he might end up.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You want to play with that when we come back.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Absolutely, you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
KIM six forty y is Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
We live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
We're talking about all things Inwood and beyond with the
founder editor of Two Urban Girls, Melissa, who has been
joining me on the show for a while. Melissa, let
me bring you back into the conversation. We tease before
the break that we have a mutual friend in Alex Michaelson,
and the CAFI audience loves and has known Elex for
(26:08):
many years. You and I have known Elex for many
years and he had his last day at Fox eleven today,
and I think it caught a lot of people by
surprise because it seemed like Elex was moving in a
certain trajectory as it related to television and television news.
Not saying he left to do something else, but it
(26:29):
seemed like he was going in a certain direction. You
and I had this interplay on Instagram about where he
might be going, and neither of us have talked to him,
so we're just speculating a offering conjecture out loud. I'll
let you go first, where do you think Alex Michaelson
is going.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
To end up?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
I believe he's going to go run communications for our
governor Davin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
What you really think something, Give me some reasoning behind that.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I think he's developed a very good rapport with the governor.
He's been embedded with him a few times on occasions,
going around the state talking to people. I think Elix
has a very good grasp on the issues in the state.
He understands the cost, the high cost of the administration's
(27:24):
fight with the Trump administration. I think he's a good
analyst of reporting on the issues and staying out of
an opinion space, but keeping it very professional and insightful
and interesting in order to convey the message to Gavin
as he potentially prepares to run for president. And I
(27:47):
just think that overall, he's a really good guy and
it wouldn't be a bad place for him to land.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I agree with a lot what you're saying, but I
don't think that he would go working in an overtly
political capacity. And this is something I've never had a
personal political conversation with Alex.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's something we've always kept separate.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
But I got the impression he prided himself on having
or existing in this neutral space of being able to
report and give information without being perceived necessarily one side
of the aisle or the other. I have my personal
idea of where his politics are. Man, I'm not going
to speculate on that possible up publicly. My suspicion is,
(28:33):
and this may seem like a slight contradiction, but I
think that Alex is going to go higher than let's say,
the communications department. We know that the New York Post
is getting ready to start up the California Post out here,
and I was under the impression that it is supposed
to be a direct competitor to TMZ. We know that
Alex Michaelson has done some work with Harvey Levin recently.
(28:55):
I could see him running up that head that whole
operation and be the Alex Michaelson to the Harvey Levin
of TMZ, and then have a wider variety of reporting
that he is responsible for running.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
What do you say to that? That's interesting.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
I understand that with the constraints of working for Channel seven,
he can't be too controversial and probably is not able
to and of course not able to express his political beliefs.
TMZ is a little edgy, it's a little I wouldn't
(29:38):
say tabloid.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Ish, it would be tabloids. It would be it's tabloid ish.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
So I think it's fun. But it seems like when
I view him and watch him on TMZ, his body
language just wasn't given me he was into that kind
of those kind of topics.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
I think he likes the political space. I know he's
done a really good job of interviewing people across the board,
so I think he definitely wants to stay. I would
say he would want to stay in that space of
interviewing and maybe you know, doing a little bit more
in the political round to give a more insight into
what his actual political beliefs are.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Okay, we said I'm running out of time, but we
said offline that there needs to be some sort of
friendly wager here.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
We don't know who's going to be closer. One of
one of us could be right, neither of us could
be right.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
But in the event that one of us is right,
and I say, you know, I've been honest with you,
I have not spoken to Lex or anyone in his
immediate circle. If one of us is right, that means
maybe the other person is paying for dinner.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I would have loved that wager.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay, take that bet?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
All right, all right, So where is it you gonna
end up taking me? Since you're gonna lose?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Where am I gonna take you?
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Since I'm gonna lose?
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Yes, I'm gonna win.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Castaways? Oh oh oh, okay, all right?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Oh and if you go ahead and whin where do
you want to go?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I like Mastros Steakhouse game on. I love it, Melissa.
It's been a pleasure talking to you. This is the
first time we've had a conversation on air. I'm sure
it won't be the last, if only because I have
to call you to make sure that I get to collect.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
On my dinner.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
For sure, I'll be waiting for that call.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Will be in touch, talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Have a good night.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
It's later with Moke Kelly can if. I am six
forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio
Speaker 5 (31:36):
App ASI and KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County
more stimulating talk
Later, with Mo'Kelly News
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!