September 23, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the announcement of late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel returning after ABC ends his suspension AND a look at the trailer for the new Star Wars spinoff film “The Mandalorian and Grogu” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Kelly six Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app And of course,
one of the biggest real stories today outside of the
rapture is Jimmy Kimmel the announcement today he'll be back
on the air as of tomorrow. Now there's an asterisk
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to it because from what I read, Sinclair stations are
not going to air Jimmy Kimmel Live. So we're talking
about I don't know the exact number, Mark correct me
if I'm wrong, but anywhere between like twenty and thirty stations.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I thought it was around thirty nine is sure. We're
both in the ballpark tho the other.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We're not talking about a lion's share of the affiliates
which would be carrying the show, but it's significant enough
for it to make mention of I don't know what
Jimmy Kimmel going to do. What I mean by that is,
we don't know as far as the internal discussions is
what the expectation is going forward, whether he's supposed to
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address it directly or head on and say hey, I'm back.
Towaala and I were tossing around whether there would be
some sort of an apology. I hope not because that
would defeat the whole purpose of everything that he said
up until this point.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I don't imagine there would be an apology. I've gone
over what he said again and again and again, and
I think it's been represented in a lot of mainstream coverage.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You'd be misrepresented, Yeah, misrepresented. Sorry. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
He was mainly talking about Mega's reaction to Charlie Kirk's death,
and a lot of people are trying to frame it
or have tried to as him, you know, mocking it
somehow mocking Kirk's death, when in fact he sent out
well wishes to Kirk's family.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
He did do that, and a lot of times, you know,
people want to say all this all the time. People
hear what they want to hear. People assume what people
have said. Yes, Jimmy Kimmel has been laying the wood
to the Trump administration from the very beginning.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
That's not anything new.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But when they try to assume then because of that,
he said something which was really out of pocket regarding
Charlie Kirk, the man.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That's just not what would happen. But neither here nor there.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The question is what's going to happen now that he's back,
And also back to what degree talking about Sinclair stations
and what are the expectations of Disney going forward. I
don't know how much the boycott did or did not
figure into things. I don't know. I mean, I can't
quantify it. Yes, they lost a lot of valuation due
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to subscribers canceling, so I can't push that aside.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I don't know if that was what tipped it in
the other direction.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, I've read the figure was somewhere around four billion dollars,
and that hasn't really been updated today to my knowledge.
But four billion, I'll get your attention.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
It'll definitely get you attention.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And put it this way, from what I know about
the business, I knew that Jimmy Kimmel was coming back
at some point one because he was suspended, and if
you know anything about contracts in this business, they couldn't
fire him outright unless they knew something that was there
was something that he did, which was they could fire
him for cause and could avoid his contract if you
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heard what he said. There was nothing that he said
that was either indecent or obscene or something that you
could be fireable for cause.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Rolling Stone reported that ABC executives reviewed it and found
that there was nothing out of the ordinary or inappropriate
at all or out of character with his usual material.
But they were responding to implied, well pretty pretty applied.
They were responding to threats from the FCC Commissioner Brendan
Carr and President Trump. They were afraid of retaliation.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm glad you said that, because I want to make
this distinction for people to hear. I keep hearing this
misguided comparison since his ABC in both instances that what
happened to Roseanne Bar is just like what happened to
Jimmy Kimmel, and it's not. And I hope people are
paying attention what happened with Roseanne Barr. There was an
internal decision which was purely on the basis of employer employee.
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Roseanne Barr made comments about Valerie Jarrett which were reprehensible, unconscionable, racial,
all of that, and ABC unrelated to any outside pressure.
In twenty eighteen, Trump was president, let's be clear, decided
to cut bait with Roseanne Barr, and she did not sue.
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Why because it was obvious she violated some sort of
term or clause in her contract.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That's why she didn't sue.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
She probably got some sort of settlement saying, you know,
thank you, goodbye and good luck, But there was no
lawsuit and response that did not have anything to do
with the federal government looming over ABC stations or Disney
saying if you don't do this, then we're going to
do that. You know, we can do this the easy
way of the hard way. That's an explicit threat. If
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you don't know how the FCC works. The only real
mechanism that the SCC has directly is they can immediately
find someone, and usually if the find has to do
with indecency or obscenity, it's not when you talk about
the public interest. He's making that stuff up. He's literally
just making it up. The FCC doesn't monitor for content
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which it likes or dislikes, so they think is is problematic.
That's not a category to find someone. And so when
Brendan Carr went out there and made the explicit threat,
that makes it a First Amendment issue because then the
question is whether ABC would have suspended Jimmy Kimmel at
all if not for the threats of the FCC, And
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now that he's been brought back, becomes even more clear
that they probably would have done nothing. Whether people appreciated
that or not, whether people were offended by what Jimmy
Kimmel said or not, ABC Slash Disney probably would not
have suspended him or did something public if not for
Brendan Carr.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
There's no question about it.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Both car and President Trump have been very open in
their statements about wanting the late night hosts to mock
and criticize the president to be gone, all of them.
It's not been subtle, all of them, all of them,
and by name.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, it's not like it's like, you know, it's not
when he makes it a general statement about well, unlike
Charlie Kirk and I'm paraphrasing please, so I'm not quoting him.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But he said I hate my enemies. That was at
the Memorial over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So the animus is explicit and undeniable. Specifically, when he
ties himself the president, to the comments of Brendan Carr,
then he can say that the federal government is targeting
Jimmy Kimmel. Whether you agree with it or not, the
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SEC played a role in how we got here going forward.
Will find out tomorrow night how Jimmy Kimmel plans to
handle it. If he comes out all guns blazing making
jokes about the president, making jokes about anything, I think
he'll tread lightly about anything.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Charlie Kirk, I don't think he'll.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
He'll still he'll steer clear of that. But if you
can tell that he's in his natural form as far
as how he criticizes the administration, then you can tell
what those internal negotiations were, like trust.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
And believe ask Ida Medamine that's going to be on there.
He's going after that. Well, there's no question.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Men.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Ask at a minimum, That's what I think it is.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Men.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, I'm quaes sure he'll talk about the rapture too.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
We have more to talk about in regard to Jimmy Kimmel,
who was announced today that he will be back on
the air Jimmy Kimmel Live as of tomorrow. So we
can kind of predict what may happen tomorrow or what
may not happen. We may not even be here because
of the rapture. We're on Rapture Watch, so we have
to see.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
KFI. Mister Kelly later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app until we're not
we're on Rapture Watch in the event that the rapture
should happen during the show.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
If you don't know, there was a TikTok.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I guess viral trend where people were predicting that the
raptor was going to come. In fact, it started with
the South African pastor who said the rapture was going
to happen on September twenty third and September twenty fourth.
I don't know what the international date line, whether that
means September twenty third, South Africa. I don't know where
in the day that's supposed to be. All we know
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is supposed to be this week and we're on it.
And if for some reason the rapture should happen while
we're on the air, you'll be.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
The first to know. I can't go.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
There's nobody who can fill in for me. We're kind
of short staffed right now. Well, if you go, I
don't think anyone really is going to care. The rapture's
probably going to supersede everything.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, you can't say that for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'll tell you one thing, This really makes me appreciate
modern technology in the Internet, because in the old days,
you would have had to get this information from a
guy wearing a sandwich board on the corner.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Not only that, we would not even be informed of
the rapture until the eleven o'clock news.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We had the five.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
O'clock news, the six o'clock news, and the eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Now, finally, the twenty four hour news cycle is good
for something, for something, and.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
See the five o'clock will tell you to tune into
eleven o'clock for the latest on.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
For the latest.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Now you can listen to KFI and we will tell
you as we're being rapturing, raptured, ruptured, ruptured. Yeah, Jimmy Kibler,
we were talking about last segment and he is going
to return tomorrow night. Jimmy kill a lot, and we
were just basically throwing around what that may look like,
(10:25):
what that may sound like. How does Disney navigate this moment?
And I say Disney because Disney has been taking it
into shorts with regard to the cancelations of subscriptions. And
I'm not here to say that protest doesn't matter, but
I am going to say that protest with a specifically
designed goal does matter. And to Mark Runner's point last segment,
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when you're talking about at least a loss of four
billion in valuation, that's not nothing. I don't know if
this will stop the the churn of people unsubscribing, because
if Jimmy Kimmel were wondering if you were going to apologize,
if Jimmy Kimmel were to apologize or something like that,
(11:10):
I think that would just piss off people all over
again who did cancel their subscriptions.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Well, another that Disney had a lot to contend with.
When you have celebrities that are actively attached to Disney
projects also writing in and saying how this needs to
be corrected, it was a lot for.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
The company to do with.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I mean, you know, the protests are happening literally right
next door at the Disney a lot Like I passed
by on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I was like, Oh, yeah, they are out there, and
it was deep.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I do have to say this, It's kind of funny
to me because there was a portion of the country
which was already boycotting Disney for being so woke. Okay,
so they were already pissed off at Disney. Then you
had the people who were quote unquote woke who started
boycotting Disney, and Disney's.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Like, hey, we're getting it from both sides. It's like
ever return, people are boycotting us.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So I don't know if Disney made the calculation that, hey,
we have to do something to please somebody because this
path is unsustainable.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I don't know if they under.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Calculated or miscalculated the type of response which is going
to come from Jimmy Kimmel being suspended. But I knew
since he was suspended he was always going to come back.
And I said this publicly online, in social media elsewhere.
When they suspended him and didn't fire him outright, that
said to me they didn't have the goods to fire
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him with cause, and they were going to have to
mediate some sort of separation agreement or they were going
to bring him back.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And so they brought him back. And it's not just celebrities.
How often do you see this. Disney's previous CEO, Michael
Eisner came out and just blasted Bob Iger, blasted sure, yes,
it's like, what do you do? This is notable? Yeah,
that's very serious.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I'm actually surprised that Disney, the corporation, which is not
a stranger to controversy, made a knee jerk response.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
They could have waited a day or two.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, everybody was horrendously touchy last week for understandable reasons.
But Disney just backed the wrong horse, made the wrong
choice in the moment, caved to pressure, and they just
didn't seem to understand the fundamental truth of the situation,
which is, we don't do that in this country. And
that's not me editorializing. We literally don't do that. The
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First Amendment is the law of the land. It's one
of the founding principles of the United States, and no president,
Republican or Democrat can just zap that because they don't
like being criticized or mock that comes with the job.
What if Biden had tried to do that with Fox News.
He never said a word even close to that, And
we just don't do that in this country.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I am unsurprisingly, I am aware that most people don't
actually know what the Constitution says.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Most people have never read it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Most people don't know what the First Amendment actually says,
and most people don't know how it applies within circumstances
like these. And so people talk about I love the
Constitution or this amendment or that amendment. It's like, you've
actually never read it before. It ain't all a court.
You got to take them off.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
The whole thing. And people want to say, well, this
is censorship.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's like, no, no, no, there's a distinction to be
made between an employee internal matter. In other words, if
iHeart were to fire me for something I said on
the air, that's that's an employee related matter. And you
know I am using their station. They're allowing me to
use their station and be able to broadcast. I don't
have a constitutional right to a job. I think we
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all can agree with that. But this is different. When
you have external pressure being exerted, specifically by the President
of the United States himself and also in arm of
the federal government, the Federal Communications Commission, that makes it
completely different.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I've seen analysts since then saying that Kimmel could essentially
own ABC in a lawsuit after this.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Oh, he could sue.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And I think that's part of the reason why they
brought him back so quickly to if anything less than
the likelihood of that.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
But you know, he's back.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
We'll find out what he's going to say tomorrow, and
of course that's going to be musty TV because everyone
wants to see how he's going to approach his return.
Is he going to act like nothing happened, or he's
going to say I'm back Byatchaz.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I'm glad you brought up the viewership, because I guarantee
you his numbers are going to be absolutely through the
roof tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Through the roof.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And you know, this is kind of kind of sort
of like Stephen Colbert Part two in the sense that
you have the similarity of late night hosts backing one another,
and then you're going to see them, I think collectively
have a response. Yes, it will be Jimmy Kimmel's moment tomorrow,
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but you know Colbert is going to have a response
in light of what Jimmy Kimmel is going to say
coming back, as well as Seth Myers or anyone else.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Well, this has a lot to do.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
There's some similarities between Kimmel's situation and Colbert's because both
involved mergers and not wanting to piss off the people
who would okay a merger, and the irony of this
situation is that any corporation that runs a bunch of
TV stations that caves into political pressure like this, This
is proof they shouldn't be allowed to have mergers and
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get larger.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
And this also sets the stage for the next time
that it happens, and it will there will be another time.
I don't know whether it's going to be Seth Myers.
I don't know if it's going to be another incident
with Stephen Colbert, who obviously has the freedom of knowing
that his show is not going to be around in
a year, so he can say whatever he wants, and
he has been, and he has been. But it still
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remains to be seen as far as who's going to
take that next step and ratchet up this fight over
what can or can't be said over the air. In
other words, does the FCC try to find the ABC
affiliates to take it one step further or not?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know who's going to make that next step.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
One byproduct of this is that we're guaranteed to see
more scrutiny of media consolidation, which is never good for
the consumer. Not the scrutiny the consolidation. Not in any industry.
It didn't help with the consolidation and the music industry.
It hasn't helped in the television or the film industry.
It didn't help in the car industry.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It has never helped when you have these big conglomerates,
or it hasn't helped in social media. There's never an
example of how this consolidation, which works against the whole
idea of competition, has been good for the consumer. It's
Later with mo Kelly cay If I Am since forty
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Still no rapture, but when we can, we have to
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talk about this new trailer which dropped the Mandalorian and Grogo.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Speaking of Disney that's next.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kfi AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That's the theme to The Mandalorian, the Disney Plus TV
show starring Pedro Pascal. KFIM six forty is Later of
mo Kelly Live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. The Mandalorian,
the TV show on Disney Plus. The stream show was
a huge hit. I think it revitalized true Star Wars fans,
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and I would count me in that number.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It had the feel of really good Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
There were some episodes directed by the late Carl Weathers
Dave Filodi, and we thought if the Star Wars franchise
were put in their hands in an okay place. Then
they announced, after I think three seasons that they had
they're doing a Mandalorian and Grogu movie. Grogu if you
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don't know, it looks like a little Yoda. They called
him baby maybe Yoda for the longest and it was
a surprise success.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I think for many.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
People they didn't expect it was going to be so popular.
And maybe, and not to be conspiratorial, maybe they dropped
the trailer for this movie to distract from what was
happening elsewhere with Disney Plus and the issues with Jimmy Kimmel.
That's part of the reason why we're talking about these
things at the same time. I think this was an
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unplanned release of the trailer because the trailer was really bad.
The trailer seemed incomplete. The trailer did not seem like
it was ready for everyone to see it did look
if that was supposed to we're showing it right now
on the YouTube channel. But if this trailer was supposed
to get me excited, it didn't do his job. And
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they need to go back to the drunk board because
it seemed like Star Wars for kids all over again,
when the Mandalorian was priding itself on not being for kids. Yes,
there was a cute element in Baby Grogu, but still
it was. It was serious Star Wars for serious Star
Wars fans. As far as the show, this trailer just
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looks like, I'd bean, you know, for twelve to thirteen
year olds.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I mean it is a literal mishmash of scenes thrown
together where you don't know what's happening. It looks like
the misadventures of the Mandalorian in Grogu.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
And I mean it really.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I said to myself, Okay, look, no disrespect to the
Skeleton Crew crew, but this is like coming behind the
Skeleton Crew. It's not coming behind the Mandalorian.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, I'm thinking like e Walks all the worst of
the original Star Wars where it's like okay, come on.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
No, no, no, be very serious.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It seems like it's it's made for merchandising and marketing
and a demographic between eight and fourteen, not anyone older
than that. That is my fear, and that's why I
stopped going to the Star Wars movies. This was supposed
to bring me hopefully back into watching Star Wars movies,
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and it just doesn't seem like it's for me at all.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
All Right, I say this with love and respect. I
think the two of you need cognitive exams. I saw
this trailer and I thought it looked like a ton
of fun. The only thing that struck a sour note
for me was Grogu the baby yodas saying at the
end something like oh yeah, baby or something like that.
That seemed out of place. But the rest of you
got Sigourney Weaver, she's Nerd Royalty. I didn't know that
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she was going to be in it. It's got tons
of action. You get to see the Mandalorian flying around
in his jet pack, which is cool.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Shooting people.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
That actually was in Grogu that said it was the
other guy, a little character they introduced in the Mandalorian series. Yep,
another little character, a little cute little character that they're
gonn merchandise.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Whoever it is.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It just sounded like an anachronism that seemed out of
place in the Star Wars universe.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That's all gunshot girl, Yeah, that's let me. Let me
put it this way.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Star Wars prides itself on having a big bad a
central villain, which is usually highlighted or foreshadowed in the trailer.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Tell me, who's the villain in this movie? Mark you?
You right now? I'm not. You're the movie. You're the
bad guy.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Oh I am the bad guy. But I'm saying in
the movie, who look for the people who don't know?
This is set during the time after the fall of
the of the Republic, and you have Darth Vader out
there trying to snatch up everyone who is no actually
after the fall of the Empire, because we see Luke.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
He is dispatched the.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Death Star, the first first Death Star, so we have
Darth Vader is still in play. We have Luke out there,
who's a Jedi master. Where is the villain for this?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
The Mandalorian is shooting giant robots in the crotch. You
need more than that, Actually I do. I mean shooting
giant robots in the crotch. To me, it reaked of
a fart joke.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yeah I did. It's just so sorry, just shooting in
the crotch. I could just hear the robot go like ow.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You know, it's nice to see Sigourney Weaver, but okay,
we ain't alien.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I love Sigourney Weaver, but not stopping Grogul from pulling
something across the table with forced power.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
You know what that remind me of?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
It reminded me of Laura Dern and Vice Admiral Evening
Gown in the last job.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I'm not going to defend that those those Abrams movies
were trash, but uh.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
No, that was Ryan Johnson, let's get it right.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
But wasn't he the producer of all of them? I
don't know if you produced a second one. I didn't
like any of it. I didn't like any of them.
But the one thing we agree on is that the
Mandalorian show is one of the best Star Wars things
of all time.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Absolutely, absolutely, and honestly got taken over by Andor. In
my opinion, and Or is funenominal Star Wars goes. I
wouldn't say it negative.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I would chuse Mandalorian because it had more of the
Star Wars esque action that we're all accustomed to and
associate with.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And Or is much more cerebral, And there's nothing wrong
with that. I'm just saying it's a different type of good.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
A whole different vibe. The Mandalorian was essentially a space
spaghetti western, and and Or was a political thriller.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yes, I think maybe that's maybe that's why I love
Dander so much, because Andor was like, oh my god,
this is this is what I've always wanted from Star Wars.
But I feel you, I feel you when I of
the two. I'm an Andor fan, but Mandalorian, and I
think because the way the Andor ended, and when you
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think about the way the Mandalori and it ended with
Mando and Grogu sitting on the farm chilling. I remember
we all griped about that, like, oh, come on.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Man, not chilling and going out on the farm.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Now you're just looking at them on the backside, Yeah,
you know, come on, staring out into the sun, into
the sunset. That was kind of like, so looking at this,
I'm like, oh, so you picked up from the port scene.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Huh. It just feels like it's a.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Buddy cop movie, like Turner and Hoots or you know,
Tango and Cans.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Don't play the Turner and Hoots card.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
It just seemed like it it's a it's a buddy
cop movie where they to Twala's part point the misadventures,
and they do this, and they do a little bit
of that, and it's like, no, I need some like
Darth Vader, some inquisitors, some bad dudes out there who
were looking for for sensitive beings as Star Wars lore
during that time period.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Now, Mark, you can't tell me that you would not
appreciate much more a film about the Mandalorian defending Grogul
for all sides, with an onslaught of inquisitors or Vader,
or just them being on the run from individuals trying
to capture Grogu and then just being an all out
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just action.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I don't know, extravaganza.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I think a great film would be the Mandalorian defending
Grogu from a couple of guys who hate fun.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I mean it, hey, Mark, I mean this very respective. Yeah,
kiss my ass. Okay, you're all ass? Where would I start?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Both cheeks right and left? Can use it, sharpie, I
want to say, right on it.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I mean you just to delineate Mark, which Mark you
have to find the as.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
You know, maybe maybe the medications will help.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
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Speaker 1 (27:02):
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Speaker 3 (27:11):
What's coming up?
Speaker 4 (27:12):
George, we're talking about biblical Prophecimo and then later on
Dreams and Nightmares on Coast to Coast I.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Suspect to be talking about the rapture, which is supposed
to be coming up in about.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Twelve hours or so.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You got that right, Have a great show, George, Thanks
bleddy Ed.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, we've been talking about it here as well, because
I guess it's supposed to start any time now. In
South Africa. It's September twenty third, so it could be
any minute. It could be like right now, it could
be anytime. You just never know.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I wonder if South Africa's still here. We don't know,
you know, it's almost like the movie War Games.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
We have a phone line open to find out if
the missile hit, and you're trying to find out whether
it's still there. Someone needs to call South Africa. Hey, Sam,
can you get someone on the phone, like call Elon
Musk and say if you could call some of his
relatives or something. I will call South Africa right now. Okay,
I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Do you know anybody in South Africa we can call?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I'm afraid my list of South African context is kind
of sparse to anybody.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I don't know anybody South Africa.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I don't know anyone. I'm just going on Facebook right
now and I'm just looking up South Africa to see
if it's actually there, if there has been a mass
exodus by way of the rapture.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Well, why you're doing that? Got to let people know.
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I think are we giving those away this week?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Tula. We're giving away so much stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
So much stuff. I don't know if it's this week.
It just gotta keep listening.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Well, I do know this week we're going to be
giving away two pairs of tickets to see UB forty
this Sunday at the Sorito Center for the Performing Arts.
We are giving away another two pairs of tickets to
see Get the Lead Out, the American led Zeppelin tribute band,
who performing this Saturday at eight pm at the Sorito
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Center for the Performing Arts. We are giving away a
pair of tickets at least maybe more to see gospel
artist Corey Henry at the Miracle Theater in Inglewood this
sunn Day at seven pm. So much stuff that we're
gonna be giving away, And of course that has nothing
to do with the Disneyland four pack that will be
giving away sometime soon. It could be now, it could
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be maybe tomorrow, but again that's assuming we're still here.
We will be on rapture watch. We're not gonna go anywhere.
We're gonna stay right with you for the next thirty seconds,
and if the rapture should happen in the next thirty seconds,
we'll be here to give it to you.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Stay with me till midnight, it's your duty. Do you
want me to hold your hand? I don't want you
touching me, but still stay till midnight.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Well, I thought you might get scared, you might get lonely.
You know you want to meet the end with someone
holding your hand.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Well, I'm always scared. That doesn't mean I want you
touching me. You be forty though, That's cool, except aren't
they more like you?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Be eighty? Now?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
God, he waited all night for that job night long.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I know that one wasn't in the pocket. Mark.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Let the rapture happen now, Well, there's no need to
mean that was Mark.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
You do everybody ages there. Mark.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You know you're better than that. Maybe I'm not Tuola.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Right, and it's okay to embrace it. I say it
all the time that I'm not better than that. There's
nothing worse than a condescending listener says, Oh, no, you're
better than that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
No, I'm not. I really am not.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I like juvenile humor. I like real immature jokes. I
just do dad jokes. Was that like a dad joke? No,
he just wasn't an unfunny one.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
His granddad Joe, super punny, super punny.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Well, happy pre rapture everyone, Hopefully we will be well
if the raptor does come. I don't want to see
any of you. I just hope I'm out of here
because I should be first in line. I don't know
if I'm in line. How do I check?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Oh you are?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
No, they'll call your number or not. Okay, you know,
are you feeling light? I mean the loafers?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
No, no, no, he's just that's just high. I mean
he's high. Okay. Maybe they're doing this all by height?
So who what? The tallest goes first?
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
So would there be women and children first? Not necessarily
in the elderly. This isn't the Titanic twala.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
They had rising from the great human sacrifice.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Dogs and cats living together, massiestario. I get that point, KF.
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As By and the KOs T HD two Los Angeles,
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Kelly six Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app And of course,
one of the biggest real stories today outside of the
rapture is Jimmy Kimmel the announcement today he'll be back
on the air as of tomorrow. Now there's an asterisk
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to it because from what I read, Sinclair stations are
not going to air Jimmy Kimmel Live. So we're talking
about I don't know the exact number, Mark correct me
if I'm wrong, but anywhere between like twenty and thirty stations.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I thought it was around thirty nine is sure. We're
both in the ballpark tho the other.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We're not talking about a lion's share of the affiliates
which would be carrying the show, but it's significant enough
for it to make mention of I don't know what
Jimmy Kimmel going to do. What I mean by that is,
we don't know as far as the internal discussions is
what the expectation is going forward, whether he's supposed to
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address it directly or head on and say hey, I'm back.
Towaala and I were tossing around whether there would be
some sort of an apology. I hope not because that
would defeat the whole purpose of everything that he said
up until this point.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I don't imagine there would be an apology. I've gone
over what he said again and again and again, and
I think it's been represented in a lot of mainstream coverage.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You'd be misrepresented, Yeah, misrepresented. Sorry. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
He was mainly talking about Mega's reaction to Charlie Kirk's death,
and a lot of people are trying to frame it
or have tried to as him, you know, mocking it
somehow mocking Kirk's death, when in fact he sent out
well wishes to Kirk's family.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
He did do that, and a lot of times, you know,
people want to say all this all the time. People
hear what they want to hear. People assume what people
have said. Yes, Jimmy Kimmel has been laying the wood
to the Trump administration from the very beginning.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
That's not anything new.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But when they try to assume then because of that,
he said something which was really out of pocket regarding
Charlie Kirk, the man.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That's just not what would happen. But neither here nor there.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The question is what's going to happen now that he's back,
And also back to what degree talking about Sinclair stations
and what are the expectations of Disney going forward. I
don't know how much the boycott did or did not
figure into things. I don't know. I mean, I can't
quantify it. Yes, they lost a lot of valuation due
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to subscribers canceling, so I can't push that aside.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I don't know if that was what tipped it in
the other direction.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, I've read the figure was somewhere around four billion dollars,
and that hasn't really been updated today to my knowledge.
But four billion, I'll get your attention.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
It'll definitely get you attention.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And put it this way, from what I know about
the business, I knew that Jimmy Kimmel was coming back
at some point one because he was suspended, and if
you know anything about contracts in this business, they couldn't
fire him outright unless they knew something that was there
was something that he did, which was they could fire
him for cause and could avoid his contract if you
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heard what he said. There was nothing that he said
that was either indecent or obscene or something that you
could be fireable for cause.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Rolling Stone reported that ABC executives reviewed it and found
that there was nothing out of the ordinary or inappropriate
at all or out of character with his usual material.
But they were responding to implied, well pretty pretty applied.
They were responding to threats from the FCC Commissioner Brendan
Carr and President Trump. They were afraid of retaliation.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm glad you said that, because I want to make
this distinction for people to hear. I keep hearing this
misguided comparison since his ABC in both instances that what
happened to Roseanne Bar is just like what happened to
Jimmy Kimmel, and it's not. And I hope people are
paying attention what happened with Roseanne Barr. There was an
internal decision which was purely on the basis of employer employee.
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Roseanne Barr made comments about Valerie Jarrett which were reprehensible, unconscionable, racial,
all of that, and ABC unrelated to any outside pressure.
In twenty eighteen, Trump was president, let's be clear, decided
to cut bait with Roseanne Barr, and she did not sue.
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Why because it was obvious she violated some sort of
term or clause in her contract.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That's why she didn't sue.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
She probably got some sort of settlement saying, you know,
thank you, goodbye and good luck, But there was no
lawsuit and response that did not have anything to do
with the federal government looming over ABC stations or Disney
saying if you don't do this, then we're going to
do that. You know, we can do this the easy
way of the hard way. That's an explicit threat. If
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you don't know how the FCC works. The only real
mechanism that the SCC has directly is they can immediately
find someone, and usually if the find has to do
with indecency or obscenity, it's not when you talk about
the public interest. He's making that stuff up. He's literally
just making it up. The FCC doesn't monitor for content
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which it likes or dislikes, so they think is is problematic.
That's not a category to find someone. And so when
Brendan Carr went out there and made the explicit threat,
that makes it a First Amendment issue because then the
question is whether ABC would have suspended Jimmy Kimmel at
all if not for the threats of the FCC, And
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now that he's been brought back, becomes even more clear
that they probably would have done nothing. Whether people appreciated
that or not, whether people were offended by what Jimmy
Kimmel said or not, ABC Slash Disney probably would not
have suspended him or did something public if not for
Brendan Carr.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
There's no question about it.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Both car and President Trump have been very open in
their statements about wanting the late night hosts to mock
and criticize the president to be gone, all of them.
It's not been subtle, all of them, all of them,
and by name.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, it's not like it's like, you know, it's not
when he makes it a general statement about well, unlike
Charlie Kirk and I'm paraphrasing please, so I'm not quoting him.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But he said I hate my enemies. That was at
the Memorial over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So the animus is explicit and undeniable. Specifically, when he
ties himself the president, to the comments of Brendan Carr,
then he can say that the federal government is targeting
Jimmy Kimmel. Whether you agree with it or not, the
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SEC played a role in how we got here going forward.
Will find out tomorrow night how Jimmy Kimmel plans to
handle it. If he comes out all guns blazing making
jokes about the president, making jokes about anything, I think
he'll tread lightly about anything.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Charlie Kirk, I don't think he'll.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
He'll still he'll steer clear of that. But if you
can tell that he's in his natural form as far
as how he criticizes the administration, then you can tell
what those internal negotiations were, like trust.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
And believe ask Ida Medamine that's going to be on there.
He's going after that. Well, there's no question.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Men.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Ask at a minimum, That's what I think it is.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Men.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, I'm quaes sure he'll talk about the rapture too.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
We have more to talk about in regard to Jimmy Kimmel,
who was announced today that he will be back on
the air Jimmy Kimmel Live as of tomorrow. So we
can kind of predict what may happen tomorrow or what
may not happen. We may not even be here because
of the rapture. We're on Rapture Watch, so we have
to see.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
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Speaker 3 (08:34):
KFI. Mister Kelly later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app until we're not
we're on Rapture Watch in the event that the rapture
should happen during the show.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
If you don't know, there was a TikTok.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I guess viral trend where people were predicting that the
raptor was going to come. In fact, it started with
the South African pastor who said the rapture was going
to happen on September twenty third and September twenty fourth.
I don't know what the international date line, whether that
means September twenty third, South Africa. I don't know where
in the day that's supposed to be. All we know
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is supposed to be this week and we're on it.
And if for some reason the rapture should happen while
we're on the air, you'll be.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
The first to know. I can't go.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
There's nobody who can fill in for me. We're kind
of short staffed right now. Well, if you go, I
don't think anyone really is going to care. The rapture's
probably going to supersede everything.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, you can't say that for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'll tell you one thing, This really makes me appreciate
modern technology in the Internet, because in the old days,
you would have had to get this information from a
guy wearing a sandwich board on the corner.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Not only that, we would not even be informed of
the rapture until the eleven o'clock news.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We had the five.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
O'clock news, the six o'clock news, and the eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Now, finally, the twenty four hour news cycle is good
for something, for something, and.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
See the five o'clock will tell you to tune into
eleven o'clock for the latest on.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
For the latest.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Now you can listen to KFI and we will tell
you as we're being rapturing, raptured, ruptured, ruptured. Yeah, Jimmy Kibler,
we were talking about last segment and he is going
to return tomorrow night. Jimmy kill a lot, and we
were just basically throwing around what that may look like,
(10:25):
what that may sound like. How does Disney navigate this moment?
And I say Disney because Disney has been taking it
into shorts with regard to the cancelations of subscriptions. And
I'm not here to say that protest doesn't matter, but
I am going to say that protest with a specifically
designed goal does matter. And to Mark Runner's point last segment,
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when you're talking about at least a loss of four
billion in valuation, that's not nothing. I don't know if
this will stop the the churn of people unsubscribing, because
if Jimmy Kimmel were wondering if you were going to apologize,
if Jimmy Kimmel were to apologize or something like that,
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I think that would just piss off people all over
again who did cancel their subscriptions.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Well, another that Disney had a lot to contend with.
When you have celebrities that are actively attached to Disney
projects also writing in and saying how this needs to
be corrected, it was a lot for.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
The company to do with.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I mean, you know, the protests are happening literally right
next door at the Disney a lot Like I passed
by on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I was like, Oh, yeah, they are out there, and
it was deep.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I do have to say this, It's kind of funny
to me because there was a portion of the country
which was already boycotting Disney for being so woke. Okay,
so they were already pissed off at Disney. Then you
had the people who were quote unquote woke who started
boycotting Disney, and Disney's.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Like, hey, we're getting it from both sides. It's like
ever return, people are boycotting us.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So I don't know if Disney made the calculation that, hey,
we have to do something to please somebody because this
path is unsustainable.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I don't know if they under.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Calculated or miscalculated the type of response which is going
to come from Jimmy Kimmel being suspended. But I knew
since he was suspended he was always going to come back.
And I said this publicly online, in social media elsewhere.
When they suspended him and didn't fire him outright, that
said to me they didn't have the goods to fire
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him with cause, and they were going to have to
mediate some sort of separation agreement or they were going
to bring him back.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And so they brought him back. And it's not just celebrities.
How often do you see this. Disney's previous CEO, Michael
Eisner came out and just blasted Bob Iger, blasted sure, yes,
it's like, what do you do? This is notable? Yeah,
that's very serious.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I'm actually surprised that Disney, the corporation, which is not
a stranger to controversy, made a knee jerk response.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
They could have waited a day or two.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, everybody was horrendously touchy last week for understandable reasons.
But Disney just backed the wrong horse, made the wrong
choice in the moment, caved to pressure, and they just
didn't seem to understand the fundamental truth of the situation,
which is, we don't do that in this country. And
that's not me editorializing. We literally don't do that. The
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First Amendment is the law of the land. It's one
of the founding principles of the United States, and no president,
Republican or Democrat can just zap that because they don't
like being criticized or mock that comes with the job.
What if Biden had tried to do that with Fox News.
He never said a word even close to that, And
we just don't do that in this country.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I am unsurprisingly, I am aware that most people don't
actually know what the Constitution says.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Most people have never read it.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Most people don't know what the First Amendment actually says,
and most people don't know how it applies within circumstances
like these. And so people talk about I love the
Constitution or this amendment or that amendment. It's like, you've
actually never read it before. It ain't all a court.
You got to take them off.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
The whole thing. And people want to say, well, this
is censorship.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's like, no, no, no, there's a distinction to be
made between an employee internal matter. In other words, if
iHeart were to fire me for something I said on
the air, that's that's an employee related matter. And you
know I am using their station. They're allowing me to
use their station and be able to broadcast. I don't
have a constitutional right to a job. I think we
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all can agree with that. But this is different. When
you have external pressure being exerted, specifically by the President
of the United States himself and also in arm of
the federal government, the Federal Communications Commission, that makes it
completely different.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I've seen analysts since then saying that Kimmel could essentially
own ABC in a lawsuit after this.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Oh, he could sue.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And I think that's part of the reason why they
brought him back so quickly to if anything less than
the likelihood of that.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
But you know, he's back.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
We'll find out what he's going to say tomorrow, and
of course that's going to be musty TV because everyone
wants to see how he's going to approach his return.
Is he going to act like nothing happened, or he's
going to say I'm back Byatchaz.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I'm glad you brought up the viewership, because I guarantee
you his numbers are going to be absolutely through the
roof tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Through the roof.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And you know, this is kind of kind of sort
of like Stephen Colbert Part two in the sense that
you have the similarity of late night hosts backing one another,
and then you're going to see them, I think collectively
have a response. Yes, it will be Jimmy Kimmel's moment tomorrow,
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but you know Colbert is going to have a response
in light of what Jimmy Kimmel is going to say
coming back, as well as Seth Myers or anyone else.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Well, this has a lot to do.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
There's some similarities between Kimmel's situation and Colbert's because both
involved mergers and not wanting to piss off the people
who would okay a merger, and the irony of this
situation is that any corporation that runs a bunch of
TV stations that caves into political pressure like this, This
is proof they shouldn't be allowed to have mergers and
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get larger.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
And this also sets the stage for the next time
that it happens, and it will there will be another time.
I don't know whether it's going to be Seth Myers.
I don't know if it's going to be another incident
with Stephen Colbert, who obviously has the freedom of knowing
that his show is not going to be around in
a year, so he can say whatever he wants, and
he has been, and he has been. But it still
(16:59):
remains to be seen as far as who's going to
take that next step and ratchet up this fight over
what can or can't be said over the air. In
other words, does the FCC try to find the ABC
affiliates to take it one step further or not?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know who's going to make that next step.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
One byproduct of this is that we're guaranteed to see
more scrutiny of media consolidation, which is never good for
the consumer. Not the scrutiny the consolidation. Not in any industry.
It didn't help with the consolidation and the music industry.
It hasn't helped in the television or the film industry.
It didn't help in the car industry.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It has never helped when you have these big conglomerates,
or it hasn't helped in social media. There's never an
example of how this consolidation, which works against the whole
idea of competition, has been good for the consumer. It's
Later with mo Kelly cay If I Am since forty
with live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube.
Still no rapture, but when we can, we have to
(18:00):
talk about this new trailer which dropped the Mandalorian and Grogo.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Speaking of Disney that's next.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kfi AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That's the theme to The Mandalorian, the Disney Plus TV
show starring Pedro Pascal. KFIM six forty is Later of
mo Kelly Live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. The Mandalorian,
the TV show on Disney Plus. The stream show was
a huge hit. I think it revitalized true Star Wars fans,
(18:40):
and I would count me in that number.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It had the feel of really good Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
There were some episodes directed by the late Carl Weathers
Dave Filodi, and we thought if the Star Wars franchise
were put in their hands in an okay place. Then
they announced, after I think three seasons that they had
they're doing a Mandalorian and Grogu movie. Grogu if you
(19:09):
don't know, it looks like a little Yoda. They called
him baby maybe Yoda for the longest and it was
a surprise success.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I think for many.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
People they didn't expect it was going to be so popular.
And maybe, and not to be conspiratorial, maybe they dropped
the trailer for this movie to distract from what was
happening elsewhere with Disney Plus and the issues with Jimmy Kimmel.
That's part of the reason why we're talking about these
things at the same time. I think this was an
(19:37):
unplanned release of the trailer because the trailer was really bad.
The trailer seemed incomplete. The trailer did not seem like
it was ready for everyone to see it did look
if that was supposed to we're showing it right now
on the YouTube channel. But if this trailer was supposed
to get me excited, it didn't do his job. And
(19:59):
they need to go back to the drunk board because
it seemed like Star Wars for kids all over again,
when the Mandalorian was priding itself on not being for kids. Yes,
there was a cute element in Baby Grogu, but still
it was. It was serious Star Wars for serious Star
Wars fans. As far as the show, this trailer just
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looks like, I'd bean, you know, for twelve to thirteen
year olds.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I mean it is a literal mishmash of scenes thrown
together where you don't know what's happening. It looks like
the misadventures of the Mandalorian in Grogu.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
And I mean it really.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I said to myself, Okay, look, no disrespect to the
Skeleton Crew crew, but this is like coming behind the
Skeleton Crew. It's not coming behind the Mandalorian.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, I'm thinking like e Walks all the worst of
the original Star Wars where it's like okay, come on.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
No, no, no, be very serious.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It seems like it's it's made for merchandising and marketing
and a demographic between eight and fourteen, not anyone older
than that. That is my fear, and that's why I
stopped going to the Star Wars movies. This was supposed
to bring me hopefully back into watching Star Wars movies,
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and it just doesn't seem like it's for me at all.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
All Right, I say this with love and respect. I
think the two of you need cognitive exams. I saw
this trailer and I thought it looked like a ton
of fun. The only thing that struck a sour note
for me was Grogu the baby yodas saying at the
end something like oh yeah, baby or something like that.
That seemed out of place. But the rest of you
got Sigourney Weaver, she's Nerd Royalty. I didn't know that
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she was going to be in it. It's got tons
of action. You get to see the Mandalorian flying around
in his jet pack, which is cool.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Shooting people.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
That actually was in Grogu that said it was the
other guy, a little character they introduced in the Mandalorian series. Yep,
another little character, a little cute little character that they're
gonn merchandise.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Whoever it is.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It just sounded like an anachronism that seemed out of
place in the Star Wars universe.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That's all gunshot girl, Yeah, that's let me. Let me
put it this way.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Star Wars prides itself on having a big bad a
central villain, which is usually highlighted or foreshadowed in the trailer.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Tell me, who's the villain in this movie? Mark you?
You right now? I'm not. You're the movie. You're the
bad guy.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Oh I am the bad guy. But I'm saying in
the movie, who look for the people who don't know?
This is set during the time after the fall of
the of the Republic, and you have Darth Vader out
there trying to snatch up everyone who is no actually
after the fall of the Empire, because we see Luke.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
He is dispatched the.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Death Star, the first first Death Star, so we have
Darth Vader is still in play. We have Luke out there,
who's a Jedi master. Where is the villain for this?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
The Mandalorian is shooting giant robots in the crotch. You
need more than that, Actually I do. I mean shooting
giant robots in the crotch. To me, it reaked of
a fart joke.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yeah I did. It's just so sorry, just shooting in
the crotch. I could just hear the robot go like ow.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You know, it's nice to see Sigourney Weaver, but okay,
we ain't alien.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I love Sigourney Weaver, but not stopping Grogul from pulling
something across the table with forced power.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
You know what that remind me of?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
It reminded me of Laura Dern and Vice Admiral Evening
Gown in the last job.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I'm not going to defend that those those Abrams movies
were trash, but uh.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
No, that was Ryan Johnson, let's get it right.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
But wasn't he the producer of all of them? I
don't know if you produced a second one. I didn't
like any of it. I didn't like any of them.
But the one thing we agree on is that the
Mandalorian show is one of the best Star Wars things
of all time.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Absolutely, absolutely, and honestly got taken over by Andor. In
my opinion, and Or is funenominal Star Wars goes. I
wouldn't say it negative.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I would chuse Mandalorian because it had more of the
Star Wars esque action that we're all accustomed to and
associate with.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And Or is much more cerebral, And there's nothing wrong
with that. I'm just saying it's a different type of good.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
A whole different vibe. The Mandalorian was essentially a space
spaghetti western, and and Or was a political thriller.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yes, I think maybe that's maybe that's why I love
Dander so much, because Andor was like, oh my god,
this is this is what I've always wanted from Star Wars.
But I feel you, I feel you when I of
the two. I'm an Andor fan, but Mandalorian, and I
think because the way the Andor ended, and when you
(24:58):
think about the way the Mandalori and it ended with
Mando and Grogu sitting on the farm chilling. I remember
we all griped about that, like, oh, come on.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Man, not chilling and going out on the farm.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Now you're just looking at them on the backside, Yeah,
you know, come on, staring out into the sun, into
the sunset. That was kind of like, so looking at this,
I'm like, oh, so you picked up from the port scene.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Huh. It just feels like it's a.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Buddy cop movie, like Turner and Hoots or you know,
Tango and Cans.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Don't play the Turner and Hoots card.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
It just seemed like it it's a it's a buddy
cop movie where they to Twala's part point the misadventures,
and they do this, and they do a little bit
of that, and it's like, no, I need some like
Darth Vader, some inquisitors, some bad dudes out there who
were looking for for sensitive beings as Star Wars lore
during that time period.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Now, Mark, you can't tell me that you would not
appreciate much more a film about the Mandalorian defending Grogul
for all sides, with an onslaught of inquisitors or Vader,
or just them being on the run from individuals trying
to capture Grogu and then just being an all out
(26:11):
just action.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I don't know, extravaganza.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I think a great film would be the Mandalorian defending
Grogu from a couple of guys who hate fun.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I mean it, hey, Mark, I mean this very respective. Yeah,
kiss my ass. Okay, you're all ass? Where would I start?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Both cheeks right and left? Can use it, sharpie, I
want to say, right on it.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I mean you just to delineate Mark, which Mark you
have to find the as.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
You know, maybe maybe the medications will help.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
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Speaker 3 (27:11):
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Speaker 4 (27:12):
George, we're talking about biblical Prophecimo and then later on
Dreams and Nightmares on Coast to Coast I.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Suspect to be talking about the rapture, which is supposed
to be coming up in about.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Twelve hours or so.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You got that right, Have a great show, George, Thanks
bleddy Ed.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, we've been talking about it here as well, because
I guess it's supposed to start any time now. In
South Africa. It's September twenty third, so it could be
any minute. It could be like right now, it could
be anytime. You just never know.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I wonder if South Africa's still here. We don't know,
you know, it's almost like the movie War Games.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
We have a phone line open to find out if
the missile hit, and you're trying to find out whether
it's still there. Someone needs to call South Africa. Hey, Sam,
can you get someone on the phone, like call Elon
Musk and say if you could call some of his
relatives or something. I will call South Africa right now. Okay,
I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Do you know anybody in South Africa we can call?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I'm afraid my list of South African context is kind
of sparse to anybody.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I don't know anybody South Africa.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I don't know anyone. I'm just going on Facebook right
now and I'm just looking up South Africa to see
if it's actually there, if there has been a mass
exodus by way of the rapture.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Well, why you're doing that? Got to let people know.
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(29:20):
I think are we giving those away this week?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Tula. We're giving away so much stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
So much stuff. I don't know if it's this week.
It just gotta keep listening.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Well, I do know this week we're going to be
giving away two pairs of tickets to see UB forty
this Sunday at the Sorito Center for the Performing Arts.
We are giving away another two pairs of tickets to
see Get the Lead Out, the American led Zeppelin tribute band,
who performing this Saturday at eight pm at the Sorito
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Center for the Performing Arts. We are giving away a
pair of tickets at least maybe more to see gospel
artist Corey Henry at the Miracle Theater in Inglewood this
sunn Day at seven pm. So much stuff that we're
gonna be giving away, And of course that has nothing
to do with the Disneyland four pack that will be
giving away sometime soon. It could be now, it could
(30:12):
be maybe tomorrow, but again that's assuming we're still here.
We will be on rapture watch. We're not gonna go anywhere.
We're gonna stay right with you for the next thirty seconds,
and if the rapture should happen in the next thirty seconds,
we'll be here to give it to you.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Stay with me till midnight, it's your duty. Do you
want me to hold your hand? I don't want you
touching me, but still stay till midnight.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Well, I thought you might get scared, you might get lonely.
You know you want to meet the end with someone
holding your hand.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Well, I'm always scared. That doesn't mean I want you
touching me. You be forty though, That's cool, except aren't
they more like you?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Be eighty? Now?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
God, he waited all night for that job night long.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I know that one wasn't in the pocket. Mark.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Let the rapture happen now, Well, there's no need to
mean that was Mark.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
You do everybody ages there. Mark.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You know you're better than that. Maybe I'm not Tuola.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Right, and it's okay to embrace it. I say it
all the time that I'm not better than that. There's
nothing worse than a condescending listener says, Oh, no, you're
better than that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
No, I'm not. I really am not.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I like juvenile humor. I like real immature jokes. I
just do dad jokes. Was that like a dad joke? No,
he just wasn't an unfunny one.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
His granddad Joe, super punny, super punny.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Well, happy pre rapture everyone, Hopefully we will be well
if the raptor does come. I don't want to see
any of you. I just hope I'm out of here
because I should be first in line. I don't know
if I'm in line. How do I check?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Oh you are?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
No, they'll call your number or not. Okay, you know,
are you feeling light? I mean the loafers?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
No, no, no, he's just that's just high. I mean
he's high. Okay. Maybe they're doing this all by height?
So who what? The tallest goes first?
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
So would there be women and children first? Not necessarily
in the elderly. This isn't the Titanic twala.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
They had rising from the great human sacrifice.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Dogs and cats living together, massiestario. I get that point, KF.
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