February 8, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Good times with ‘KFI Traffic Guy’ Pedro Moreno…PLUS – A look at what everyone is doing on Big Game Sunday AND “Big Game Talk” with Gary & Shannon’s very own Shannon Farren - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. And thank god it's Friday. Friday. Friday is
party night. Here in the studio. I got Stephan he's
praising the Lord. I can see him on the camera.
Mark Rodger, he doesn't praising Satan. Yes, yes, pretty much,
pretty much. And and and we got a special guest
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in studio. And if you've been listening to Later with
Mo Kelly, you know that our personal traffic person is
none other than Pedro Moreno. And we had never met
in person lo and behold he's in the studio tonight.
So personal traffic person. Yes, yes, it's a nice traffic guy.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Is it like?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Is it non gender specific? I can't call him the
traffic guy or traffic human? Okay, traffic human. That sounds
almost criminal, though. You got to pull the mic over
there to Walla. We call him a trafficker. But that
has some implications that I'm not comfortable. None of that
is good, pet. You don't need to take any of this.
I'm good with traffic guy. Okay, traffic guy. What brought
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you to Bourbank tonight?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You know I was just driving around traffic doing traffic stuff.
I got stuck in the rain, just like wished me
over here.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Man, Well, what's it like when you are listening to
what we may do and then you know you have
to hit your mark every I don't know, nine or
ten minutes at a time. How do you are you
like listening to the show or you just walking around
the studio and you'll come back in every quarter hour.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Or so to do the traffic. It depends on what
else I have to do. But for the most part,
I'm listening because I want to be able to know
where you guys are gonna basically toss it to me,
and if anything like I kind of have to like
calm my nerves as well, because I just hear you
guys joking and it'll lead to something so ridiculous and
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then I'm laughing on my end, and then I have
to get professional listening to Mark Ronner composed himself to
like resetting, So it's almost like I'm here, but I'm
not here, but I'm still here.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
If that makes sense. Yeah, no, it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And it's funny because if you're just listening right now,
you don't know that we're usually in multiple different locations
like I can see Stefan, but we're in different studios,
and Stefan can see Mark Ronner and he can see me,
but we're all in physically different locations. Now we're close,
we're about maybe twenty to thirty feet away from each other,
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but there are soundproof doors separating all of us, and
it changes the dynamic. It's I would say, somewhat warm
because we can see each other, but it's not the
same as if we were in the actual same physical studio.
I can only imagine Petro, what it's like for you
when you don't see us, but you're just hearing us,
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And then you can't be too much into the show.
You have to keep some emotional distance so you can
do the traffic.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I don't know how you juggle all that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I mean, I'm occupied because I'm you know, doing reports
for other stations as well. You're cheating on us, Nah,
but you know it's ieheart, We're all the team here, baby.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
How many stations might you do reports for?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's changed quite a bit over the years, but I
have multiple that I do at the moment. But during
my shift from seven to ten, when I'm on the
air with you, guys, it's only this one and one
other one. So it's a lot more manageable now.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That you're you're smart not to name the person you're
cheating on us with.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah, you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You don't want to name the person. That's right.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What was the most ridiculous piece of information you had
to impart or a crazy traffic situation.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
If one comes to.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Mind, or is it just always something crazy every single day?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Not every single day, but I will say, I mean,
you know, unfortunately with the last couple of weeks, with
the fires and everything, that got really hectic for us
to manage because not only are we you know, we
have the news room, TVs on uh, we're constantly either
calling fire departments or CHP just to get like surface
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street information and closures and things like that. So usually
you might hear me talking about a freeway incident or
something like that of that nature. But then when it
gets to incidents like what we've had, you know, you
really want to get those surface streets to the exact
point as possible because you know, there's people's livelihoods at stake.
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So I would think these recent fires have been something
that even in like the traffic reporters go. It was
really like all of us are just kind of scrambling
on the fly. Especially I remember there was a night
where one of the random fires that happened was in
the Hollywood Hills. Yes, and I had to like get
on it, like, Okay, what are the alternative roots? What
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incidents are being or where what surface streets are being
affected at this moment? And you know, things like that
you can't prepare for.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I always wonder we have GPS now and few people
remember you gotta be be about at least forty remember
life driving without GPS, And I remember, like Cabby's had
to know the whole city, the whole city grid before
they could be a Cabby. My question to you page
is if I threw you out there with no GPS,
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do you know most of the cities and streets?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, I would say, so I'm I'm gonna go out
on the limb and say I'm a little bit younger
than you.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That was nice of you, You see, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He's got to be at least twenty years younger than me.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So back in my day, we had a thing called
map Quest, and yes.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I remember we had to print out that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You know, we'd have we'd have all kinds of appointments
to make back in the day, and we'd use that
map quest if I didn't have that. At one point,
I remember as a kid, my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Used to have the uh, the Thomas Guy. Thomas Guy.
Did you ever learn how to use one? Yes? Okay,
just want to make sure now you're legit.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Now you can play amongst the adults because you have
to know how to use a Thomas Guy.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
GPS.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I think it's just but I also wonder a very
serious question before we go to break, given that a
lot of people use GPS, what would you say is
the most important aspect of what you do?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
The GPS cannot.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Do basically using all the sources available to you, because
if you're just looking at a map, you're not really
going to get the full effect. And nowadays we have
freeway cameras we have at your disposal, at our disposal. Yes,
but I mean some of the some of the things
that I can see other people, there's you know, there's information,
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there's websites that you can look for yourself as well.
You know, HP makes their makes their information, you know accessible.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
You have a not ball driving though not why driving? Yeah,
and that's something that you could do the rest of
us can't. Now, there's some fools out there, like maybe
Mark Ronner. He's probably reading while he's driving because he
has no regard for the safety of anyone else.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
How dare you? How dare you? We have a guest
and instantly you're trying to turn him against me.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Family.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
He's not a guest. He's with us every single night.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
You wish you could go back to being remote right now,
don't you. Pedro Patrol.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
No, you asked for us.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You're gonna get that level. You can get the full experience.
It's Later with Mo Kelly, join us in the studio.
It's gonna be hanging out with us for the majority
of the evening. Pedro Moreno. You often hear him deliver
the traffic newscast, but not tonight. He's playing with the
fellows in the studio. K if I AM six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
And Sunday is a Super Bowl or the Big Game,
whatever you wanna call it. But Sunday is usually that
time for people to come together, if only for the party.
Does everyone care about who wins or who loses. I'm not,
in a sports sense, invested in whether the Philadelphia Eagles
win or the Kansas City Chiefs win. I would rather
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the Kansas City Chiefs win me personally, but I don't
care if Philadelphia the Eagles should win. My thing is okay.
I want to make sure. I want to check out
the commercials. I do still enjoy the commercials, and I
want to maybe hang out with friends. I still haven't
decided where I'm going to actually watch the game and
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enjoy the festivities, if only because if I go to
a friend's house, I don't know, if you think about this,
I think about how early do I have to get
over there so I can have a decent seat, a
decent seat because I don't like people that much. I
don't want to stay at your house for five hours,
all right, I really dom't. So that means if I
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get there, let's say kickoff is maybe three point thirty,
I don't want to get there at two o'clock and
have to like hold down a seat. And then I
know if I get there at three fifteen, all the
decent seats will be gone, and I'm like standing the
whole time. Those are the things that I think about
because it's less about the game and more about the experience.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And I don't want to go to a party which
to are too many people.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Why Because I want to hear the commercials and some
people don't care about the commercials. I may just end
up at home watching it by myself. I don't think
my wife cares, and she is a football fan, but
I don't think she cares about this game as a
Rams fan, and I don't think she's too into the
actual commercials. So I'm still in limbo. It's Friday. It's
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almost like, you know, two days before New Year's Eve.
I don't know where I'm going for the actual party
because the super Bowl for me is all about the
party and experience.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I need to be somewhere comfortable.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I need to be somewhere where I'm going to get
a good seat, and I know that the food is decent.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I'm asking for a lot. Oh, I'm real picky.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I'm the first to admit that Twala doesn't care about sports,
but I'll ask him anyway.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I plan on getting myself a delicious rib dinner and
getting in front of my computer and opening up YouTube
so I can see.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
All of the commercials during the game.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
During the game, so you were, yes, I'm catching all
the commercials online. I may tune in for the halftime
show unless that is also on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Well put this way, you're not going to see it
in advance on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Then I'll tune in for the halftime show. And I
want to see how Kendrick does. Okay, Kendrick Lamar is
performing at halftime.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I wonder who will also be performing with him, because
it's gonna be Kendrick Lamar and friends. It's not just
going to be him. I wonder if he's going to
bring out Wayne Sciss didn't they Yeah, they have, they have. Lord,
Lil Wayne is not a part of this.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
No, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
But I thought, you know, because it was controversy little
Wayne be from New Horners, I thought maybe they do
like to, you know, just an Olive branch and say
Lil Wayne come on out.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
He might, But so far this is Kendrick Lamar and
his friends. So that is says A. That is I believe, absolut.
What about Drake Drake, I don't think Drake will come
out unless they want the entirety of the world to just.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Ero because I promise you that would be funny. That
would be that would be actually major.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
If he brings them out and buries the hatchet and
it's like it's all rap, it's all love, that would
be crazy. I'd be one of the biggest shows after
it will That would top Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I don't know if Drake would be willing to do
that because he's been dragged for the past year.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
But see now you gave us another angle. Yeah, look,
you don't care about the game. I'm just gonna check
out the commercials and the halftime show. Mark you are
an avowed non sports fan outside of I'll say contact sports.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I suppose so.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
And this is so on brand for me that you're
gonna think I'm making it up for a bit and
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm going to a book sale. No, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I'll out catch the highlights on YouTube later on, just
like Tawala. I always watched the commercials and that kind
of stuff. But yep, big book sale this weekend.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Petrol Moreno, how about you, I will be watching have
you staked out your location.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yes, there's an invite time, RSVP all that, and they
say be here at one thirty.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's when the party starts. See see, I can't do that.
That means you're committed to from like one thirty to seven.
But I want to be able to sit somewhere where
I'm comfortable. And if I'm there early that guess who's
leaving earlier too?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Ahha? The strategy to all this stuff? Yeah, but what
about the chair etiquette to this?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You think you're just going to squat in a chair
all day and if you get up to go to
the bathroom or get some food or something, nobody else
can sit in your chair.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You have to.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It depends on the type of party and crowd there.
If you know most of the people shouldn't be a problem.
But if you don't, you might have to fight somebody.
That's another consideration, because like, do I go to bathroom
at one thirty and then hold it until seven?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
What do you call those those uh sporting event diapers
we were talking about a couple of months ago? Are
those widely available for the concert?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
They're available, But I'm not just gonna sit there watching TV.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And just what I don't see why you wouldn't. I
just can't. I might like up at all amazed drinking.
I'm like, you know what, I'm good? Get up?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Wait wait wait wait wait sorry what was your question?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Just like the scene in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, people are
going to know by the look on your face. Yeah,
just the frown squints. They just won't know if it's
one or two, I assume. But well, you know, I
mean the diaper doesn't hold in the smell though, I
mean does it?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I don't know. It does not hold in this. It
does not.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Okay, well, Stephen, since you know everything about diapers, what
is your what a what are you doing for the super?
I was I was gonna do uber because I'm starting
back on it again. But you talk about it like
a drugs or something. I'm off the wagon, I'm off
doing I'm doing uber again. It Sorr bay line.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Uh No.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Usually, just always hang out with my dad's. He's got
like a kind of like your setup. He's got a
really big screen TV. He's got the surround sound. So
we get usually go to like a local mom and
pop shop. Yeah, get some pizza, get some fries, you know,
just the good stuff and just hang out and party.
That's the good way to do it because you'll have
everything you need.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You're not fighting for a seat.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
You can watch the commercials, whatever, you can enjoy someone
else's company.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's a nice relax stating.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
When I was in my twenties and thirties, had to
go to a super Bowl party, and then I had
enough subpar experiences. Then I became very choosy, very choosy.
I may go to a local watering hole that I'm
not going to stay on the air because I don't
want everyone to go also go. But that's about it,
I think, and I think it when you go to
a unless you are an actual sports fan, when you
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go to a super Bowl party at like at the twenties,
you're just going there to get faced and just have
fun with your friends.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, yeah, you don't care about the game. No.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
My co parent, Cy, she is bird gang for life.
I believe she might even have a bird Gang tattoo
on her arm or something.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
She's alive. I mean, she's from Philly.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So they're they're sick with it out here, that little
bird gang gang out here. They are there, they've already
got half the city ready to set on fire if
their team doesn't win.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well, you can tell her next time you talk to
her that I hope the team loses.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Well, let's see when we come back what Shannon Farren
has to say about that. You know her as the
co host of Gary and Shannon here on KFI and
also sideline reporter for the LA Chargers and a vowed
forty nine Ers fan. We won't hold that against her,
but the forty nine Ers really suck. And I'll probably
bring that up at some point in our conversation that
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our team knocked her team. My rams knocked out her
forty nine Ers, so they didn't even get in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
But that's water on the bridge. I'll try to be
the bigger person.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But you didn't mind telling her text, don't count on it,
Shannon Farrin next.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And maybe you have figured it out by now that
Sunday is the day of the Super Bowl and there's
no one else that I would rather talk to about
the big Game than Shannon Farren. Obviously, of Gary and
Shannon obviously La Charger sideline reporter. Obviously, I'll try to
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be nice forty nine Ers fan and she's my guest
right now, Good evening.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Shannon, you had to play the Super Bowl shuffle, And
now I can't unsee Mike single, Kerry and to McMahon
those all, And I can't unhear the nineteen eighty six
hit RAMT from your Los Angeles Rams. I can't unhear
any of that disaster that was a moment in pop
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culture that we all want to forget about.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Why is it that's a great place to start.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Why is it that football has taken this space in
popular culture these days?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I've just got to believe that we're going backwards. We
love the Gladiator, we love the arena, We love the
stories of the guys who fought their way into the
league and all of that. We love that. As a people,
you know, we're already back to hieroglyphics mode when it
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comes to how we communicate with each other. We just
send pictures, barely even words anymore. We are at base,
just stupid humans who love this kind of thing. And
I think that that's where it's at. And the advertising
the juggernaut that has been the NFL has been incredible
what they've been able to do with the league. We
were making fun of it today or yesterday, I don't remember. No,
I wasn't at work yesterday. I was at the dentist.
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So how do you have been a day about everyone
calling it the big Game? Because the NFL doesn't want
anyone to profit off of saying the you know, supe
Er Bowl, right, And it's like, what the NFL's hurting
for money? They don't want anyone else up to profit
off the just the name of the stupid game, you know,
which is usually the most uninteresting game of the year,
unless you're looking at like a Jacksonville Week three game.
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But it's just it's It's odd, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
They want us, though, to promote the sport and talk
about the game the other three hundred and fifty eight
days of the year, but they get sensitive in the
days leading up to it. I have no problem saying it.
We're not promoting an event in connection to him. Did
you get that email that I got?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Though I don't. I don't read my email, but go
on tell me.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
No, we got an email. Stand We're not supposed to
say the name of the game. It's like, well, how
were the hell were supposed to talk about it?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You know, we're not We're not trying to sell like
you know, or something in connection to the game. But anyhow, us, oh,
I bet you do, because you're a forty nine Ers fan.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Where did that come from? Anyhow? What did you become
a forty nine Ers fan.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
My dad's family had tickets going back to Keysar to
the forties, so I mean I was born into it.
They had season tickets going back as far as the
forty nine Ers went back in San Francisco, so I
had no choice in the matter.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It's true, most often our politics and our sports team
loyalties come from our parents in their past down I
went to my first Rams game in seventy six, I believe,
when the Rams shut out the then expansion teed the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So for me it's been almost fifty years. Legitimately,
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as a Rams fan, what happens if Philadelphia wins? This
is a fan question. What happens to the city of
Philadelphia if the Eagles win? And what happens if anything
if the Chiefs three.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
P well, the Eagles fans say, like to climb up
the obelisks. They like to show their passion. Very passionate
fan base. Kansas City. They used to be a fan
base that I rooted for. When I first went to
see the Chiefs play the forty nine Ers in the
Super Bowl in Miami, I was happy for that fan base.
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They had never won. They were a gracious bunch. And
then you know what happens to fan base is when
they start winning, right, they get unearned Yeah, they get
a knoxious They get this unearned valor, this unearned confidence.
You saw it with the Patriots for twenty years. You
saw it with the forty nine Ers in the late
eighties and the nineties. You saw it with the Rams.
You sawt most recently with the Rams in twenty twenty
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when they when they came back and all of that,
and you see it with every franchise. Think it's a
little bit of success. The fans act like they played
it down, you know what I mean, And so they
get the too big for their bridges. And that's kind
of what's happened in Kansas City. I mean, I go
there once a year with the Chargers. I see how
the city has changed. And you know, you can't walk
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ten feet in that city without seeing a picture of
Patrick Mahomes somewhere, and you know, good on them. I listen.
I don't hate the Chiefs. I'm just sick of them.
I don't hate excellence. I never hated Tom Brady. I
don't hate Patrick Mahomes and the Travis Kelsey connection and
Andy Reid and what they've been able to do. I
don't hate that. You're entertained, but I think everyone's just
kind of bored by it. Will the city burn or
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will they You know, they'll be excited, but I think
you'll see more upheaval in Philly probably if they win.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I would agree with that of Patrick Mahomes question. Let's
get a little bit nerdy with it. I would say
that he is ahead of Tom Brady in the goat
conversation at this point in his career.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Would you agree if he wins on Sunday?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Not yet. Patrick Mahomes has shown what he can do
with a diverse group of players. He has made those
adjustments to his own sole in order to keep weapons.
He has done without a wide receiver room. You could
argue at times he has created something out of nothing.
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Time and time again. We've all seen it. Some of
us have paid ridiculous amounts of money to watch it
happen in the middle of the fourth quarter in the
Super Bowl and turn the game around. There's no doubt
that he is a difference maker. Talk about a league MVP.
You know, you look at what Josh Allen named MVP
last night Associated Press was able to do with that
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Buffalo team. It's not always the best player. It's what
that player brings to the team, how that player elevates
the team. And Patrick Mahomes, no doubt elevates that team
or whatever team. But Tom Brady, he's got what seven
super Bowl yet?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Seven And for people don't know, sorry interrupted, but for
people don't know, if Patrick Mahomes were to win on
Sunday would be his fourth and I think he's like
not even thirty.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Yet, right, he's got But Tom Brady's got seven. He
won his last one with another team when he was
forty two. Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
I feel like this is. If I'm not exactly correct,
I'm in the arena. So I think the longevity that
you saw with Tom Brady, what he brought to that
program when he brought it the way he brought it
and the longevity and the continuity. And I know it's
not just Brady, it's Belichick as well. I think I
think Mahomes is absolutely in the conversation. I just don't
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know if he's able to take that throne at this point.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
No, I wouldn't give him the throne. But I think
he's he's in, he's at the palace. How about that
he's circling one other thing? Tell me what if anything
will happen given the enormity of the event, given the
this is actually a news question, given that we had
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a terrorist attack in New Orleans January first, and we'll
have the president there on Sunday. Is it just going
to be a lot of security of nothing or do
we expect some sort of demonstration.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
I don't think so. Every time I've gone to the
Super Bowl, which has been three times now, to watch
the forty nine ers lose three times, I do.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That for you most because I love you.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
It is when I say perimeter, it is like a
perimeter I have never seen before, the perimeters at the conventions.
I've been to the RNC, I've been to the DMC
in different cities. That perimeter is secure. It is Fort Knox.
This makes that look like a freaking tea party. The
perimeter on the super Bowl is like something you have
not seen before. You've got Donald Trump and Taylor Swift.
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I challenge you to name one other more high profile
person than those two on this day, in this period
of time, in this country.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I can't.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
You've got them both that are going to be there,
so it's going to be Banana. I feel bad for
the people, the suckers like myself who pay crazy amounts
of money because you're going to be standing in line
for about eight hours trying to get into that event.
That you paid that kind of money, that is wildly
under under whelming once you're there. Do I have time
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to tell you my favorite super Bowl story?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Sure? Absolutely? Rub it in that you've gone to the
super Bowl three times that I haven't at all. Go ahead,
go ahead, dude.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
I tell you that because I'm a fool and I
want you to relish my fullness foolishness. Okay, my favorite
super Bowl story is this. When I first met my husband,
we were on one of our first dates and he's
a baseball fan and I said, well, I'm a football fan,
and whatever. He didn't really care to take it or
leave it when it comes to football with him. And
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he said, I think I've been to a super Bowl.
And I said, what what do you mean? You think
you've been to a super Bowl? Because yeah, you know,
I don't remember much. I was young. My dad took me.
I was at the coliseum. I think I don't know it.
He's like, I've got this vague memory of the Dolphins playing.
I'm like, you saw the perfect season too, saw the
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perfect season, and you didn't even freaking know. Like who
saw the Dolphins perfect seventy two seasons? Didn't know that
they were there for the.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Culmination a football fan. That's right, right?
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Isn't that great? It's one of my favorite things. Like
that's what That just highlights how much of a fool
I am for the kind of money and craziness I
have spent to watch my team. But that's what fans do.
That's what we do. You know, it's for that unearned valor.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Before I let you go out to do this for you, Shanna.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Farn I have one last thing to say. I have
a question for the game, and it's going to be
the stake. It's going to be the Saquon Barkley game.
I mean, this is somebody to root for. You want
someone to root for. Root for Saquon Barkley. It's a
great story. He was alert out the Giants to go
to Philadelphia. He didn't do much for the Giants. It
killed the owner to let him go. He goes over
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to the rival Eagles, and he freaking set the world
on fire this season. He's so much fun to watch.
Arguably the best running back in the league. Eric Dickerson
there from Rammitt will tell you, hey, I still hold
the record, and he does, and he will say that
they played fewer games back then, and they did. I
make the argument that nobody else does is Sakwon Barkley
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has played in an era where they're playing more games
and they're putting more wear and tear on their bodies.
You're looking at a running back who's pounded the rock
since twenty eighteen when he was drafted by the Giants, right,
and he's twenty seven now, and he has a season
like he did this year, after playing that many games
a year after year after year, more than Eric Dickerson.
I don't know. I'm just saying he deserves some flowers
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for that.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
No, it's a historic season, no doubt by any measurement.
Now whether he rightfully gets the record when you put
together regular season in playoffs. I'll let the stat nerds
and geeks argue that, but you cannot argue that this
was one sensational season. And it's not even over yet.
Shannon Farren, I think we made it through a whole
segment without any insults to the other person's fandom.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
I mean, we're growing up, are we not?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, you're getting older. I'm just getting more mature.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
You were alive to go to that Rams game in
seventy six, and I was.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Not, well, how about this?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
My father was actually that Coliseum super Bowl for the
Miami perfect season and he didn't tell me until I
was like fifty years old, and it's like, how did
you leave that out of.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
All the stories that you told me?
Speaker 6 (29:12):
That's so funny. I gotta go, You gotta go, doctuitor bye.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Last segment talking to Shannon Farren. Of course, of Gary
and Shannon, you could always listen to them from nine
am to one pm weekdays here on KFI. But I
will say that Shannon Faerirren the person that you hear
on the radio with a lot more custom that's exactly
who she is off the air. She is one of
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the few people where she's very consistent with who she is.
If you should happen to come across her on the street,
she's gonna be that person. She's very opinionated, she's very
funny and always like being able to talk to her,
and our off air conversations a lot more cussing, but
they are very funny as well. And I couldn't think
of anyone else that I'd want to have a conversation
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with about Sunday, the Super Bowl, where it sits as
far as our consciousness, what we think about the country,
the sports fandom.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
All those things. She's great on that.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
So be sure to check out Gary and Shannon from
nine to one if you don't already do and Mark,
have you figured out yet what you're going to do
with this book signing?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Where does it? See in the book sale? Book sale?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
The Tashin Story at Where's that at the Farmer's Market?
Tashin makes these beautiful, big art type of books which
farmers market. There's one one, oh, the one at fair Fact,
Fair Facts. Okay, the big one. Yeah, yeah, it's terrific.
I spent an enormous amount of money I shouldn't have
last year. And let me tell you, the long suffering
one is really looking forward to having a couple more
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stacks of books, crowdedness out of the place.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
You're one of those book hoarders. I love it. You
can never have too manys against it.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I'm just saying, like, buy a library or something, a
bookshelf or something.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
No, I have many bookshelves. I like living among books.
That's how you know it's a place where humans live.
We've gone to like friends place and they don't have
any books, but they've got just like tons of pictures
of themselves, like they've got no long term memory or
internal life. That makes me nervous. I like places with books.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I don't, Well, you wouldn't like my house because I
don't have books on display. Now that I've read a
lot of books, but I've never been like having the
proverbial study with the wall of books. That has never
appealed to me. I'd rather read the book, give the
book back. I don't need to have the book I'm
very much a digital digital person, where if I want
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to find something, I'll look for it in the digital space.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I still read a lot of digital books from the
library on my iPad, but some you want to have.
It just makes me feel comfortable, like it's it's an
actual Like I'mbardo Echo the author, the late author.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
He had a lot.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
To say about owning books and how comfortable that made
a place, and how what kind of fool would only
keep books around that they've read and I just makes.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It feel like a home. Yeah, I've never been that person.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
And I hear similar sentiments from people say, Hey, I
like the feeling of the turning of the pages. I
like to hold the book in my hand, And none
of that really holds any intrinsic value to me.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I just want the information.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Whether I get it off the screen, whether I get
it off an actual book and turn physical pages, that
doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
What you're saying is that you're just as comfortable taking
an iPad into the toilet with you as an actual paperback.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Number one, I would never use an iPad because that's
an Apple product, Okay, And what I'm being serious.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I don't understand that number two.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I wouldn't use a kindle because the black screen, the
black text. I guess that greatest screen doesn't jump out
of me, and I have bad eyes. I've never had
a kindle, but I love the idea. It's like we're
living in a Jetson's future where you can get this
device in your hand, look at what the library's got
and it instantly appears.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It's like something out of Logan's Run or something.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Here's something else, And you wouldn't necessarily know this about me.
It took me a long time just because I would
read the Bible. It took a long time for me
to even get comfortable with reading it electronically, because that
is something which is based on tradition. And I grew
up in an age where we weren't allowed to use
our phones in church, we weren't allowed to use the
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electronic devices. So that was one book I held on
to the end before I went to the digital space.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Wouldn't the loving God give you the ability to create
this technology and want you to use it.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
No, I'm talking about religion, and religion usually gets all
this mixed up and messed up. It's hard to keep
tracked religion is dogma, which is different from faith. Yeah,
that's a whole nother thing. It's later with Mo Kelly
KFIM six forty. We are live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. And thank god it's Friday. Friday. Friday is
party night. Here in the studio. I got Stephan he's
praising the Lord. I can see him on the camera.
Mark Rodger, he doesn't praising Satan. Yes, yes, pretty much,
pretty much. And and and we got a special guest
(00:44):
in studio. And if you've been listening to Later with
Mo Kelly, you know that our personal traffic person is
none other than Pedro Moreno. And we had never met
in person lo and behold he's in the studio tonight.
So personal traffic person. Yes, yes, it's a nice traffic guy.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Is it like?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Is it non gender specific? I can't call him the
traffic guy or traffic human? Okay, traffic human. That sounds
almost criminal, though. You got to pull the mic over
there to Walla. We call him a trafficker. But that
has some implications that I'm not comfortable. None of that
is good, pet. You don't need to take any of this.
I'm good with traffic guy. Okay, traffic guy. What brought
(01:32):
you to Bourbank tonight?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You know I was just driving around traffic doing traffic stuff.
I got stuck in the rain, just like wished me
over here.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Man, Well, what's it like when you are listening to
what we may do and then you know you have
to hit your mark every I don't know, nine or
ten minutes at a time. How do you are you
like listening to the show or you just walking around
the studio and you'll come back in every quarter hour.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Or so to do the traffic. It depends on what
else I have to do. But for the most part,
I'm listening because I want to be able to know
where you guys are gonna basically toss it to me,
and if anything like I kind of have to like
calm my nerves as well, because I just hear you
guys joking and it'll lead to something so ridiculous and
(02:26):
then I'm laughing on my end, and then I have
to get professional listening to Mark Ronner composed himself to
like resetting, So it's almost like I'm here, but I'm
not here, but I'm still here.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
If that makes sense. Yeah, no, it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And it's funny because if you're just listening right now,
you don't know that we're usually in multiple different locations
like I can see Stefan, but we're in different studios,
and Stefan can see Mark Ronner and he can see me,
but we're all in physically different locations. Now we're close,
we're about maybe twenty to thirty feet away from each other,
(03:02):
but there are soundproof doors separating all of us, and
it changes the dynamic. It's I would say, somewhat warm
because we can see each other, but it's not the
same as if we were in the actual same physical studio.
I can only imagine Petro, what it's like for you
when you don't see us, but you're just hearing us,
(03:24):
And then you can't be too much into the show.
You have to keep some emotional distance so you can
do the traffic.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I don't know how you juggle all that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I mean, I'm occupied because I'm you know, doing reports
for other stations as well. You're cheating on us, Nah,
but you know it's ieheart, We're all the team here, baby.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
How many stations might you do reports for?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's changed quite a bit over the years, but I
have multiple that I do at the moment. But during
my shift from seven to ten, when I'm on the
air with you, guys, it's only this one and one
other one. So it's a lot more manageable now.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That you're you're smart not to name the person you're
cheating on us with.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah, you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You don't want to name the person. That's right.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What was the most ridiculous piece of information you had
to impart or a crazy traffic situation.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
If one comes to.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Mind, or is it just always something crazy every single day?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Not every single day, but I will say, I mean,
you know, unfortunately with the last couple of weeks, with
the fires and everything, that got really hectic for us
to manage because not only are we you know, we
have the news room, TVs on uh, we're constantly either
calling fire departments or CHP just to get like surface
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street information and closures and things like that. So usually
you might hear me talking about a freeway incident or
something like that of that nature. But then when it
gets to incidents like what we've had, you know, you
really want to get those surface streets to the exact
point as possible because you know, there's people's livelihoods at stake.
(05:13):
So I would think these recent fires have been something
that even in like the traffic reporters go. It was
really like all of us are just kind of scrambling
on the fly. Especially I remember there was a night
where one of the random fires that happened was in
the Hollywood Hills. Yes, and I had to like get
on it, like, Okay, what are the alternative roots? What
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incidents are being or where what surface streets are being
affected at this moment? And you know, things like that
you can't prepare for.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I always wonder we have GPS now and few people
remember you gotta be be about at least forty remember
life driving without GPS, And I remember, like Cabby's had
to know the whole city, the whole city grid before
they could be a Cabby. My question to you page
is if I threw you out there with no GPS,
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do you know most of the cities and streets?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, I would say, so I'm I'm gonna go out
on the limb and say I'm a little bit younger
than you.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That was nice of you, You see, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He's got to be at least twenty years younger than me.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So back in my day, we had a thing called
map Quest, and yes.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I remember we had to print out that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You know, we'd have we'd have all kinds of appointments
to make back in the day, and we'd use that
map quest if I didn't have that. At one point,
I remember as a kid, my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Used to have the uh, the Thomas Guy. Thomas Guy.
Did you ever learn how to use one? Yes? Okay,
just want to make sure now you're legit.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Now you can play amongst the adults because you have
to know how to use a Thomas Guy.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
GPS.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I think it's just but I also wonder a very
serious question before we go to break, given that a
lot of people use GPS, what would you say is
the most important aspect of what you do?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
The GPS cannot.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Do basically using all the sources available to you, because
if you're just looking at a map, you're not really
going to get the full effect. And nowadays we have
freeway cameras we have at your disposal, at our disposal. Yes,
but I mean some of the some of the things
that I can see other people, there's you know, there's information,
(07:36):
there's websites that you can look for yourself as well.
You know, HP makes their makes their information, you know accessible.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
You have a not ball driving though not why driving? Yeah,
and that's something that you could do the rest of
us can't. Now, there's some fools out there, like maybe
Mark Ronner. He's probably reading while he's driving because he
has no regard for the safety of anyone else.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
How dare you? How dare you? We have a guest
and instantly you're trying to turn him against me.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Family.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
He's not a guest. He's with us every single night.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
You wish you could go back to being remote right now,
don't you. Pedro Patrol.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
No, you asked for us.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You're gonna get that level. You can get the full experience.
It's Later with Mo Kelly, join us in the studio.
It's gonna be hanging out with us for the majority
of the evening. Pedro Moreno. You often hear him deliver
the traffic newscast, but not tonight. He's playing with the
fellows in the studio. K if I AM six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
And Sunday is a Super Bowl or the Big Game,
whatever you wanna call it. But Sunday is usually that
time for people to come together, if only for the party.
Does everyone care about who wins or who loses. I'm not,
in a sports sense, invested in whether the Philadelphia Eagles
win or the Kansas City Chiefs win. I would rather
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the Kansas City Chiefs win me personally, but I don't
care if Philadelphia the Eagles should win. My thing is okay.
I want to make sure. I want to check out
the commercials. I do still enjoy the commercials, and I
want to maybe hang out with friends. I still haven't
decided where I'm going to actually watch the game and
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enjoy the festivities, if only because if I go to
a friend's house, I don't know, if you think about this,
I think about how early do I have to get
over there so I can have a decent seat, a
decent seat because I don't like people that much. I
don't want to stay at your house for five hours,
all right, I really dom't. So that means if I
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get there, let's say kickoff is maybe three point thirty,
I don't want to get there at two o'clock and
have to like hold down a seat. And then I
know if I get there at three fifteen, all the
decent seats will be gone, and I'm like standing the
whole time. Those are the things that I think about
because it's less about the game and more about the experience.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And I don't want to go to a party which
to are too many people.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Why Because I want to hear the commercials and some
people don't care about the commercials. I may just end
up at home watching it by myself. I don't think
my wife cares, and she is a football fan, but
I don't think she cares about this game as a
Rams fan, and I don't think she's too into the
actual commercials. So I'm still in limbo. It's Friday. It's
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almost like, you know, two days before New Year's Eve.
I don't know where I'm going for the actual party
because the super Bowl for me is all about the
party and experience.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I need to be somewhere comfortable.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I need to be somewhere where I'm going to get
a good seat, and I know that the food is decent.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I'm asking for a lot. Oh, I'm real picky.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I'm the first to admit that Twala doesn't care about sports,
but I'll ask him anyway.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I plan on getting myself a delicious rib dinner and
getting in front of my computer and opening up YouTube
so I can see.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
All of the commercials during the game.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
During the game, so you were, yes, I'm catching all
the commercials online. I may tune in for the halftime
show unless that is also on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Well put this way, you're not going to see it
in advance on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Then I'll tune in for the halftime show. And I
want to see how Kendrick does. Okay, Kendrick Lamar is
performing at halftime.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I wonder who will also be performing with him, because
it's gonna be Kendrick Lamar and friends. It's not just
going to be him. I wonder if he's going to
bring out Wayne Sciss didn't they Yeah, they have, they have. Lord,
Lil Wayne is not a part of this.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
No, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
But I thought, you know, because it was controversy little
Wayne be from New Horners, I thought maybe they do
like to, you know, just an Olive branch and say
Lil Wayne come on out.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
He might, But so far this is Kendrick Lamar and
his friends. So that is says A. That is I believe, absolut.
What about Drake Drake, I don't think Drake will come
out unless they want the entirety of the world to just.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Ero because I promise you that would be funny. That
would be that would be actually major.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
If he brings them out and buries the hatchet and
it's like it's all rap, it's all love, that would
be crazy. I'd be one of the biggest shows after
it will That would top Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I don't know if Drake would be willing to do
that because he's been dragged for the past year.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
But see now you gave us another angle. Yeah, look,
you don't care about the game. I'm just gonna check
out the commercials and the halftime show. Mark you are
an avowed non sports fan outside of I'll say contact sports.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I suppose so.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
And this is so on brand for me that you're
gonna think I'm making it up for a bit and
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm going to a book sale. No, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I'll out catch the highlights on YouTube later on, just
like Tawala. I always watched the commercials and that kind
of stuff. But yep, big book sale this weekend.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Petrol Moreno, how about you, I will be watching have
you staked out your location.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yes, there's an invite time, RSVP all that, and they
say be here at one thirty.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's when the party starts. See see, I can't do that.
That means you're committed to from like one thirty to seven.
But I want to be able to sit somewhere where
I'm comfortable. And if I'm there early that guess who's
leaving earlier too?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Ahha? The strategy to all this stuff? Yeah, but what
about the chair etiquette to this?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You think you're just going to squat in a chair
all day and if you get up to go to
the bathroom or get some food or something, nobody else
can sit in your chair.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You have to.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It depends on the type of party and crowd there.
If you know most of the people shouldn't be a problem.
But if you don't, you might have to fight somebody.
That's another consideration, because like, do I go to bathroom
at one thirty and then hold it until seven?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
What do you call those those uh sporting event diapers
we were talking about a couple of months ago? Are
those widely available for the concert?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
They're available, But I'm not just gonna sit there watching TV.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And just what I don't see why you wouldn't. I
just can't. I might like up at all amazed drinking.
I'm like, you know what, I'm good? Get up?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Wait wait wait wait wait sorry what was your question?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Just like the scene in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, people are
going to know by the look on your face. Yeah,
just the frown squints. They just won't know if it's
one or two, I assume. But well, you know, I
mean the diaper doesn't hold in the smell though, I
mean does it?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I don't know. It does not hold in this. It
does not.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Okay, well, Stephen, since you know everything about diapers, what
is your what a what are you doing for the super?
I was I was gonna do uber because I'm starting
back on it again. But you talk about it like
a drugs or something. I'm off the wagon, I'm off
doing I'm doing uber again. It Sorr bay line.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Uh No.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Usually, just always hang out with my dad's. He's got
like a kind of like your setup. He's got a
really big screen TV. He's got the surround sound. So
we get usually go to like a local mom and
pop shop. Yeah, get some pizza, get some fries, you know,
just the good stuff and just hang out and party.
That's the good way to do it because you'll have
everything you need.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You're not fighting for a seat.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
You can watch the commercials, whatever, you can enjoy someone
else's company.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's a nice relax stating.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
When I was in my twenties and thirties, had to
go to a super Bowl party, and then I had
enough subpar experiences. Then I became very choosy, very choosy.
I may go to a local watering hole that I'm
not going to stay on the air because I don't
want everyone to go also go. But that's about it,
I think, and I think it when you go to
a unless you are an actual sports fan, when you
(16:04):
go to a super Bowl party at like at the twenties,
you're just going there to get faced and just have
fun with your friends.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, yeah, you don't care about the game. No.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
My co parent, Cy, she is bird gang for life.
I believe she might even have a bird Gang tattoo
on her arm or something.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
She's alive. I mean, she's from Philly.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So they're they're sick with it out here, that little
bird gang gang out here. They are there, they've already
got half the city ready to set on fire if
their team doesn't win.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well, you can tell her next time you talk to
her that I hope the team loses.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Well, let's see when we come back what Shannon Farren
has to say about that. You know her as the
co host of Gary and Shannon here on KFI and
also sideline reporter for the LA Chargers and a vowed
forty nine Ers fan. We won't hold that against her,
but the forty nine Ers really suck. And I'll probably
bring that up at some point in our conversation that
(17:03):
our team knocked her team. My rams knocked out her
forty nine Ers, so they didn't even get in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
But that's water on the bridge. I'll try to be
the bigger person.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But you didn't mind telling her text, don't count on it,
Shannon Farrin next.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And maybe you have figured it out by now that
Sunday is the day of the Super Bowl and there's
no one else that I would rather talk to about
the big Game than Shannon Farren. Obviously, of Gary and
Shannon obviously La Charger sideline reporter. Obviously, I'll try to
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be nice forty nine Ers fan and she's my guest
right now, Good evening.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Shannon, you had to play the Super Bowl shuffle, And
now I can't unsee Mike single, Kerry and to McMahon
those all, And I can't unhear the nineteen eighty six
hit RAMT from your Los Angeles Rams. I can't unhear
any of that disaster that was a moment in pop
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culture that we all want to forget about.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Why is it that's a great place to start.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Why is it that football has taken this space in
popular culture these days?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I've just got to believe that we're going backwards. We
love the Gladiator, we love the arena, We love the
stories of the guys who fought their way into the
league and all of that. We love that. As a people,
you know, we're already back to hieroglyphics mode when it
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comes to how we communicate with each other. We just
send pictures, barely even words anymore. We are at base,
just stupid humans who love this kind of thing. And
I think that that's where it's at. And the advertising
the juggernaut that has been the NFL has been incredible
what they've been able to do with the league. We
were making fun of it today or yesterday, I don't remember. No,
I wasn't at work yesterday. I was at the dentist.
(19:07):
So how do you have been a day about everyone
calling it the big Game? Because the NFL doesn't want
anyone to profit off of saying the you know, supe
Er Bowl, right, And it's like, what the NFL's hurting
for money? They don't want anyone else up to profit
off the just the name of the stupid game, you know,
which is usually the most uninteresting game of the year,
unless you're looking at like a Jacksonville Week three game.
(19:29):
But it's just it's It's odd, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
They want us, though, to promote the sport and talk
about the game the other three hundred and fifty eight
days of the year, but they get sensitive in the
days leading up to it. I have no problem saying it.
We're not promoting an event in connection to him. Did
you get that email that I got?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Though I don't. I don't read my email, but go
on tell me.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
No, we got an email. Stand We're not supposed to
say the name of the game. It's like, well, how
were the hell were supposed to talk about it?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You know, we're not We're not trying to sell like
you know, or something in connection to the game. But anyhow, us, oh,
I bet you do, because you're a forty nine Ers fan.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Where did that come from? Anyhow? What did you become
a forty nine Ers fan.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
My dad's family had tickets going back to Keysar to
the forties, so I mean I was born into it.
They had season tickets going back as far as the
forty nine Ers went back in San Francisco, so I
had no choice in the matter.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It's true, most often our politics and our sports team
loyalties come from our parents in their past down I
went to my first Rams game in seventy six, I believe,
when the Rams shut out the then expansion teed the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So for me it's been almost fifty years. Legitimately,
(20:43):
as a Rams fan, what happens if Philadelphia wins? This
is a fan question. What happens to the city of
Philadelphia if the Eagles win? And what happens if anything
if the Chiefs three.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
P well, the Eagles fans say, like to climb up
the obelisks. They like to show their passion. Very passionate
fan base. Kansas City. They used to be a fan
base that I rooted for. When I first went to
see the Chiefs play the forty nine Ers in the
Super Bowl in Miami, I was happy for that fan base.
(21:19):
They had never won. They were a gracious bunch. And
then you know what happens to fan base is when
they start winning, right, they get unearned Yeah, they get
a knoxious They get this unearned valor, this unearned confidence.
You saw it with the Patriots for twenty years. You
saw it with the forty nine Ers in the late
eighties and the nineties. You saw it with the Rams.
You sawt most recently with the Rams in twenty twenty
(21:41):
when they when they came back and all of that,
and you see it with every franchise. Think it's a
little bit of success. The fans act like they played
it down, you know what I mean, And so they
get the too big for their bridges. And that's kind
of what's happened in Kansas City. I mean, I go
there once a year with the Chargers. I see how
the city has changed. And you know, you can't walk
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ten feet in that city without seeing a picture of
Patrick Mahomes somewhere, and you know, good on them. I listen.
I don't hate the Chiefs. I'm just sick of them.
I don't hate excellence. I never hated Tom Brady. I
don't hate Patrick Mahomes and the Travis Kelsey connection and
Andy Reid and what they've been able to do. I
don't hate that. You're entertained, but I think everyone's just
kind of bored by it. Will the city burn or
(22:23):
will they You know, they'll be excited, but I think
you'll see more upheaval in Philly probably if they win.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I would agree with that of Patrick Mahomes question. Let's
get a little bit nerdy with it. I would say
that he is ahead of Tom Brady in the goat
conversation at this point in his career.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Would you agree if he wins on Sunday?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Not yet. Patrick Mahomes has shown what he can do
with a diverse group of players. He has made those
adjustments to his own sole in order to keep weapons.
He has done without a wide receiver room. You could
argue at times he has created something out of nothing.
(23:09):
Time and time again. We've all seen it. Some of
us have paid ridiculous amounts of money to watch it
happen in the middle of the fourth quarter in the
Super Bowl and turn the game around. There's no doubt
that he is a difference maker. Talk about a league MVP.
You know, you look at what Josh Allen named MVP
last night Associated Press was able to do with that
(23:29):
Buffalo team. It's not always the best player. It's what
that player brings to the team, how that player elevates
the team. And Patrick Mahomes, no doubt elevates that team
or whatever team. But Tom Brady, he's got what seven
super Bowl yet?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Seven And for people don't know, sorry interrupted, but for
people don't know, if Patrick Mahomes were to win on
Sunday would be his fourth and I think he's like
not even thirty.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Yet, right, he's got But Tom Brady's got seven. He
won his last one with another team when he was
forty two. Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
I feel like this is. If I'm not exactly correct,
I'm in the arena. So I think the longevity that
you saw with Tom Brady, what he brought to that
program when he brought it the way he brought it
and the longevity and the continuity. And I know it's
not just Brady, it's Belichick as well. I think I
think Mahomes is absolutely in the conversation. I just don't
(24:24):
know if he's able to take that throne at this point.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
No, I wouldn't give him the throne. But I think
he's he's in, he's at the palace. How about that
he's circling one other thing? Tell me what if anything
will happen given the enormity of the event, given the
this is actually a news question, given that we had
(24:47):
a terrorist attack in New Orleans January first, and we'll
have the president there on Sunday. Is it just going
to be a lot of security of nothing or do
we expect some sort of demonstration.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
I don't think so. Every time I've gone to the
Super Bowl, which has been three times now, to watch
the forty nine ers lose three times, I do.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That for you most because I love you.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
It is when I say perimeter, it is like a
perimeter I have never seen before, the perimeters at the conventions.
I've been to the RNC, I've been to the DMC
in different cities. That perimeter is secure. It is Fort Knox.
This makes that look like a freaking tea party. The
perimeter on the super Bowl is like something you have
not seen before. You've got Donald Trump and Taylor Swift.
(25:34):
I challenge you to name one other more high profile
person than those two on this day, in this period
of time, in this country.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I can't.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
You've got them both that are going to be there,
so it's going to be Banana. I feel bad for
the people, the suckers like myself who pay crazy amounts
of money because you're going to be standing in line
for about eight hours trying to get into that event.
That you paid that kind of money, that is wildly
under under whelming once you're there. Do I have time
(26:04):
to tell you my favorite super Bowl story?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Sure? Absolutely? Rub it in that you've gone to the
super Bowl three times that I haven't at all. Go ahead,
go ahead, dude.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
I tell you that because I'm a fool and I
want you to relish my fullness foolishness. Okay, my favorite
super Bowl story is this. When I first met my husband,
we were on one of our first dates and he's
a baseball fan and I said, well, I'm a football fan,
and whatever. He didn't really care to take it or
leave it when it comes to football with him. And
(26:31):
he said, I think I've been to a super Bowl.
And I said, what what do you mean? You think
you've been to a super Bowl? Because yeah, you know,
I don't remember much. I was young. My dad took me.
I was at the coliseum. I think I don't know it.
He's like, I've got this vague memory of the Dolphins playing.
I'm like, you saw the perfect season too, saw the
(26:52):
perfect season, and you didn't even freaking know. Like who
saw the Dolphins perfect seventy two seasons? Didn't know that
they were there for the.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Culmination a football fan. That's right, right?
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Isn't that great? It's one of my favorite things. Like
that's what That just highlights how much of a fool
I am for the kind of money and craziness I
have spent to watch my team. But that's what fans do.
That's what we do. You know, it's for that unearned valor.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Before I let you go out to do this for you, Shanna.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Farn I have one last thing to say. I have
a question for the game, and it's going to be
the stake. It's going to be the Saquon Barkley game.
I mean, this is somebody to root for. You want
someone to root for. Root for Saquon Barkley. It's a
great story. He was alert out the Giants to go
to Philadelphia. He didn't do much for the Giants. It
killed the owner to let him go. He goes over
(27:43):
to the rival Eagles, and he freaking set the world
on fire this season. He's so much fun to watch.
Arguably the best running back in the league. Eric Dickerson
there from Rammitt will tell you, hey, I still hold
the record, and he does, and he will say that
they played fewer games back then, and they did. I
make the argument that nobody else does is Sakwon Barkley
(28:03):
has played in an era where they're playing more games
and they're putting more wear and tear on their bodies.
You're looking at a running back who's pounded the rock
since twenty eighteen when he was drafted by the Giants, right,
and he's twenty seven now, and he has a season
like he did this year, after playing that many games
a year after year after year, more than Eric Dickerson.
I don't know. I'm just saying he deserves some flowers
(28:24):
for that.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
No, it's a historic season, no doubt by any measurement.
Now whether he rightfully gets the record when you put
together regular season in playoffs. I'll let the stat nerds
and geeks argue that, but you cannot argue that this
was one sensational season. And it's not even over yet.
Shannon Farren, I think we made it through a whole
segment without any insults to the other person's fandom.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
I mean, we're growing up, are we not?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, you're getting older. I'm just getting more mature.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
You were alive to go to that Rams game in
seventy six, and I was.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Not, well, how about this?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
My father was actually that Coliseum super Bowl for the
Miami perfect season and he didn't tell me until I
was like fifty years old, and it's like, how did
you leave that out of.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
All the stories that you told me?
Speaker 6 (29:12):
That's so funny. I gotta go, You gotta go, doctuitor bye.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Last segment talking to Shannon Farren. Of course, of Gary
and Shannon, you could always listen to them from nine
am to one pm weekdays here on KFI. But I
will say that Shannon Faerirren the person that you hear
on the radio with a lot more custom that's exactly
who she is off the air. She is one of
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the few people where she's very consistent with who she is.
If you should happen to come across her on the street,
she's gonna be that person. She's very opinionated, she's very
funny and always like being able to talk to her,
and our off air conversations a lot more cussing, but
they are very funny as well. And I couldn't think
of anyone else that I'd want to have a conversation
(30:05):
with about Sunday, the Super Bowl, where it sits as
far as our consciousness, what we think about the country,
the sports fandom.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
All those things. She's great on that.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
So be sure to check out Gary and Shannon from
nine to one if you don't already do and Mark,
have you figured out yet what you're going to do
with this book signing?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Where does it? See in the book sale? Book sale?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
The Tashin Story at Where's that at the Farmer's Market?
Tashin makes these beautiful, big art type of books which
farmers market. There's one one, oh, the one at fair Fact,
Fair Facts. Okay, the big one. Yeah, yeah, it's terrific.
I spent an enormous amount of money I shouldn't have
last year. And let me tell you, the long suffering
one is really looking forward to having a couple more
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stacks of books, crowdedness out of the place.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
You're one of those book hoarders. I love it. You
can never have too manys against it.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I'm just saying, like, buy a library or something, a
bookshelf or something.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
No, I have many bookshelves. I like living among books.
That's how you know it's a place where humans live.
We've gone to like friends place and they don't have
any books, but they've got just like tons of pictures
of themselves, like they've got no long term memory or
internal life. That makes me nervous. I like places with books.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I don't, Well, you wouldn't like my house because I
don't have books on display. Now that I've read a
lot of books, but I've never been like having the
proverbial study with the wall of books. That has never
appealed to me. I'd rather read the book, give the
book back. I don't need to have the book I'm
very much a digital digital person, where if I want
(31:46):
to find something, I'll look for it in the digital space.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I still read a lot of digital books from the
library on my iPad, but some you want to have.
It just makes me feel comfortable, like it's it's an
actual Like I'mbardo Echo the author, the late author.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
He had a lot.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
To say about owning books and how comfortable that made
a place, and how what kind of fool would only
keep books around that they've read and I just makes.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It feel like a home. Yeah, I've never been that person.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
And I hear similar sentiments from people say, Hey, I
like the feeling of the turning of the pages. I
like to hold the book in my hand, And none
of that really holds any intrinsic value to me.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I just want the information.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Whether I get it off the screen, whether I get
it off an actual book and turn physical pages, that
doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
What you're saying is that you're just as comfortable taking
an iPad into the toilet with you as an actual paperback.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Number one, I would never use an iPad because that's
an Apple product, Okay, And what I'm being serious.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I don't understand that number two.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I wouldn't use a kindle because the black screen, the
black text. I guess that greatest screen doesn't jump out
of me, and I have bad eyes. I've never had
a kindle, but I love the idea. It's like we're
living in a Jetson's future where you can get this
device in your hand, look at what the library's got
and it instantly appears.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It's like something out of Logan's Run or something.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Here's something else, And you wouldn't necessarily know this about me.
It took me a long time just because I would
read the Bible. It took a long time for me
to even get comfortable with reading it electronically, because that
is something which is based on tradition. And I grew
up in an age where we weren't allowed to use
our phones in church, we weren't allowed to use the
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electronic devices. So that was one book I held on
to the end before I went to the digital space.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Wouldn't the loving God give you the ability to create
this technology and want you to use it.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
No, I'm talking about religion, and religion usually gets all
this mixed up and messed up. It's hard to keep
tracked religion is dogma, which is different from faith. Yeah,
that's a whole nother thing. It's later with Mo Kelly
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