March 14, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – An in-depth look at one of the most successful touring acts of all time, “KIDZ BOP,” with KIDZ BOP Live performers Matty and Aleah, who join the program with a preview of their all new "KIDZ BOP Live Certified BOP Tour” coming to Anaheim’s Honda Center on 9/20 … PLUS – After suffering severe damage from the Eaton wildfire; Altadena’s Loma Alta Park is reopening in May thanks to the Dodgers, Clippers & the ‘Fire Aid’ concert AND details on the ‘Blood Worm’ lunar eclipse - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
The Kids Bop Kids are back in twenty twenty five
with their all new Kids Bop Live Certified Bop Tour,
coming to a city near you this summer, sing and
dance along to today's biggest bops live on the big stage.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
It is the ultimate pop concert experience for kids and parents.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Speaking of which, the popular Daddy Dance Off is returning
as well.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Have I got your attention? I hope so, because we're giving.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Away a family four pack to the Bop Tour when
it hits Anaheim on September twentieth, joining me to give
us a preview. Are Kids Bop members Maddie and Aaliyah.
Nice to meet you both. How are you this evening?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Look, I've been waiting for this. I love the whole
Kids Bop experience. Maddie, let me start with you. You're
from New Jersey, so the entertainment business was farther away
for you than most.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
What made you want to perform? Sing? Dance? What inspired you?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Well?
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Always when I was younger, I've always been a dancer
my whole life. But honestly, like seeing videos of tour
and kids Bob has always inspired me, like seeing videos online,
and I've always loved performing on stage for dance, so
that's always been my thing, so i just love doing it.
And now I did my first show on Wembley in
London and it was the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So I'm super excited for Tourer.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, I know the Wimbley experience was something special. You
if I'm have I had this correctly? You said againness
world record for the youngest performers to perform and perform
sold out Wibley.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Is that correct? Yes, yes, that is pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Leah.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You're a California kids, so the journey to the entertainment
business may not have been as long. But when did
you know this was what you wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I knew that this is what I wanted to do
when I booked my first job at the age of
six and I told my mom I was playing piano
and I told my mom I was like, I don't
want to do piano anymore. I just want to dance.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
So once I.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Made that decision, I just kept going with it and
now I'm here and I'm just so excited for this
new journey.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Maddie.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems kiss Pop
is a lot of work, a lot of singing, a
lot of dancing, a lot of recording and touring. How
do you find time for yourself and when you do,
how do you spend it?
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Well, like, we always have some free time, but everything
we do is always so much fun, Like all the
singing and the dancing. I enjoy it so much. But
when I have free time, I tend to I'm a
very like outside kid, so I love being outside, you know,
playing sports, and I'm always very active.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
But I always put most.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Of my time into dance and singing because that's just
what I love to do.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Eleah, you said you booked your first gig at six
years old.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That was a humble brag. I heard that. You just said, Yeah,
I've been doing this for like ten years. I'm a veteran.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But even though you might have been in this business
for a long time, you're human like the rest of us.
Do you find yourself maybe when you're on stage at
Wimbley or somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Kind of nervous Sometimes.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I can be nerves, but having my best friends around
me just really like calm me down. And I think
just the energy of the fans, just like putting on
a show for them, just makes me really happy and
the nerves just kind of naturally go away.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So yeah, Maddie, tell me about this Daddy Dance Off.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Are you just laughing at the old folks like me?
Tell the truth?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
No, I mean the Daddy Dance Off might be my
favorite part of the show. It's so cool. We get
to bring four dads up on stage and they get
to dance and then there's a little battle, so it's
so cool and all the fans love it. It always
gets the fans up on their feet excited, and they
get to vote, so it's really interactive with the crowd
and it's so so much fun to see the dads
come up on stage and do the move.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Elia take me into that performance even more so. What
should kids and parents like expect to see.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I think they should expect to see new choreography, new songs. Again.
The Daddy Dance Off is, again, I think the best
part of the show. Yeah, singing and dancing, and I
think they should just expect to have the best night
of their lives.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Maddie Alia talked about choreography, new choreography. There are a
lot of songs, there's a lot of choreography that you
have to learn and to perfect.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Tell me about that process.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
How do you go about practicing individually as a group,
how does it all come together?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Well, we actually have two months before we go on
tour in La where we're all there as a group
and we practice and we learned choreo and as a group,
we all love it. It's so much fun for all
of us to be there and train and learn all
the choreography and sing too.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So it's just.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
An amazing experience and it's really nice to just all
be together and go through this whole process together.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Alia is something that I've noticed in something that you
commented on. It's like being on stage with your best friends.
In that type of camaraderie, that type of energy is
not easy to come by. You're not necessarily going to
like all the people that you work with, going to
be working with.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Them for months on hand.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Why is it you think that you guys and gals
get along so well?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
When I met all of them, we just clicked and
I think our four different personalities just really mend well
together and our love and passion for what we do
all a line, and I think we just want to
have a great time, and I just love even the
people behind Kids Bop are just great people, such a
great company, and I'm just so grateful that these people
(05:29):
are the people I'm working on.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
All right, This next question is for both of you
because the question may be answered differently. You're getting ready
to kick off the North American portion of the tour
for the summer and you'll be performing just about every day.
Are there any places or any specific cities that you're
looking forward to visiting?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Well, for me, it's definitely New Jersey because the shows
we're doing in New Jersey, all my family, all my friends,
and I come be so excited, like looking into the
crowd and seeing all my family, and but I'm excited
for every city just to be able to perform and
meet all the new Kids Bob fans and make everyone happy.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Leah, I excited for Anaheim, Us. It's the Hawndess Center.
I am super super deper excited. All my friends and
family will be there, and yeah, it's my hometown, so
we're gonna bring it like we always do.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay, what's that like then? Leah, let me stay right there.
You're in front of your friends and family. Does that
make it a little more difficult because you have people
who are coming there.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Just to see you. It would seem to me that
it might be a little more pressure.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I'm not sure if it's like more pressure, it can
be more nerve wracking. But their support for me is
just out of this world and it just makes me
happy that they're there supporting me because they could just
stay at home, but they decided to come and see me,
and it just makes me even more excited and happy
to perform.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Well, this is the best part.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And I'm glad that you mentioned, Leah that you're from
Anaheim and we're going to be giving away a family
for Pa to someone to be able to come see
both of you and the rest of the Kids Bop
members in Anaheim on September twentieth. This is what I
need from you to help close out this conversation. I
need you to to agree upon a number between one
and ten.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
What do you think, kid?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, ten ten, caller number ten.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Give us a call it eight hundred five to zero
one KFI eight hundred five two zero one five three four.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
If you're caller number ten.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You and three of your friends or family members will
be going to see Kids Bop Live at the Honda
Center in Anaheim. Eight hundred five two zero one KFI
eight hundred five two zero one five three four caller
number ten, and I would like to thank my guests
Maddie and Aaliyah. The Kids Bop Kids are back in
twenty twenty five with their all new Kids Bop Live
Certified Bob Tour, coming to Anaheim on September twentieth and
(07:48):
touring all of North America throughout the summer. Maddie and Leah,
thank you for coming on this evening. Thank you for
a wonderful conversation. I wish you a great tour and make.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Sure to get your tickets at Kidsbob dot com. Thank
you so much, what.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
A consummate pro Nice for you to throw that in there.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
When we come back, we'll have an update on Alta,
Dina in the wake of the fires, and more.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Wimmo, Kelly and six.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I am a
baseball fan. I know many of you are baseball fans.
Many of you have been baseball fans for much of
your life. Maybe you were a former Little leaguer, maybe
someone in your family is presently a Little leaguer. This
next story might warm your heart. I think it will.
(08:41):
Altadena's Loma Alta Park is reopening in May. And this
is after, of course, the devastating eating fire. But they're
reopening because of new resources and support from the Los
Angeles Dodgers Foundation, the Los Angeles Clippers, and we heard
we talked about this a lot here on KFI the
(09:02):
fire aid benefit concert. The park is going to get
two new Dodgers Dream Fields from the Foundation so the
Central Alta Dina Little League can play their last games
at home. Obviously the league has been displaced. The good
news is the league is still going on, but unfortunately
could not play what they customarily do play. The community
(09:25):
Clippers Court program is going to give the gym and
basketball courts a makeover and a two point four million
dollar fire aid grant will rebuild and expand the playgrounds.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
That makes me feel good. It makes me feel beyond good.
This is the park that me and my brother and
all of my friends would go to when we were kids.
It's the park that had the big swimming pool. It
was a great It was gay, just walking up you know,
Fair Oaks and heading over to Loma Alta. This this
(10:00):
is not only a park that I grew up at.
It's a park that my niece, she goes there all
the time now, just hanging out with the friends. This
is like where they go to hang their tennis classes.
They used to be their basketball everything. It was a
safe zone. It was actually one of the safe zones
because growing up it was right around the corner from
(10:20):
a very notorious crypt.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Gang hangout, Alta Dina Black Crypt.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Right up the street from them was this park and
very rarely would they mess with any of the kids
going to the park because it was like that's the park,
that's the hangout. These are little kids that that's hands off,
stay away from that.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Love this park.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
My mother she had she was part of the co op,
the gardening co op that was there at Loma Alta
wherever would come and just growing whatever and sharing the vegetable.
This is where the Altadena Farmers Market was like this.
This park means so much to the city of Altadena
for the Dodgers and the Clippers and fire Aid to
(11:03):
come through to help rebuild this staple, this central focal
point of this is I love this everything about this.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Does this matter, I should say, does this move the
needle in helping convince people who might have lost their homes,
who might have lost everything, to come back and rebuild.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
I believe it does. I believe moves like this where
you have not just this organization, but we know about
Magic Johnson what he is trying to do it for
the city of Altadena as well and so many others
who are looking to pour into Altadena. This makes it
easier for people to see a future for the city
because when you drive through it, it is still heartbreaking.
(11:48):
It will bring literal tears to your eyes. When you
drive around, you see just that sheer devastation. Knowing something
like this is happening and not far off in the future.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
This is this is May.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
They are talking about relaunching this part and beautifying it
and making this happen.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
This fills my heart with joy. When was the last
time you drove through Altonina?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
What Saturday? Last Saturday?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Where are they with the debris removal? Right now? Everyone,
at least on my block in the yard, everyone has.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
A toxic chemical removal stamp or sign in the yard
saying that that has been cleaned up. Right now, just
up the street two or three blocks up from the
street where I grew up on, there are bunches of
trucks and like looks like digging tools and all types
(12:39):
of equipment that's up there, kind of like a staging ground.
Like they're like they're ready to move in and starting
to come clean up. There are several people that I
know who have personally gotten their own clean up teams
to come in and remove debris. The house the literally
I grew up on. I drove by there and was
showing my daughter and it's just a hole in the ground.
(13:00):
The people who who bought the house for my mother
after we moved, they said, we got our own crew.
They dug it out. It's just now a hole there
now so that they can start the process of rebuilding.
A good friend of mine, d Eric, what's up man,
He is already in the process of rebuilding his house.
(13:22):
He has already gotten the floor plans and he's like,
we can go forward with this. There is so much movement,
and I think a fire has been lit under so
many people, Like the Altadena strong sentiment is not just
words with so many people that are fighting to keep
a hold of their property and their land. It is
(13:42):
an actual thing that's happening.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I know that we've seen some of the stories we
talked about some of the stories where not only were
some residents suing power company possibly for their involvement, Where
is that, to the best of your knowledge, And what
is FEMA is still doing or not doing anymore?
Speaker 7 (14:02):
The FEMA deadline for filing and even the center that
is in Altadena, the FEMA deadline.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Believe that is the thirtieth of this month.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Yes, I believe the thirtieth or the thirty first, maybe
it's Monday. The thirty first is the last day for
filing with FEMA forgetting any help because after that they're like, hey,
we've already extended this deadline. We're trying to give everyone
as much help as possible. I have been over there
and they are going through every nook and cranny to
(14:34):
help people figure it out, so they're not just over
there stone walling individuals. If you go over to the
help center on Woodbury, there's a lot of resources. There
are a lot of help for everything you could imagine.
Every question you could imagine can get answered. That you
do have to have a healthy, healthy, healthy dose of patience.
(14:55):
These are people who are working to help you. What
they don't need also is attitude and like that. We
cannot be mad at the people trying to help us.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
How would you characterize the federal government's response, the state
level response, the local response, Because we know we talked
to a number of LA County supervisors here on this show.
Obviously Lindsay Horvath would be responsible, No, no, no, not Lindsay
Horvath to be. Katherine Barker was responsible for Eaton Canyon
(15:23):
in that area and Altadida.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
How would you rate the government responses on the various.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Levels as bureaucratically as possible. There is a lot of bureaucracy,
a lot of red tape, a lot of this department
says one thing while another department says another. The health
department is saying one faction of the health department is
saying no, you cannot return. It is not healthy to
live one hundred you know, feet within a burn zone.
(15:50):
One another saying ah, well, there may be okay. And
the insurance companies are like, everyone, go back, just hurry,
even go back because they're tired of keeping people in
hotels and as far as for your question, for the
all the many lawsuits out there now, even the city
of Pasadena is also jumped into suing as Southern California Edison.
(16:11):
It is just an ongoing process. There is no new news.
It is just the constant slow back and forth between
the various groups who are doing civil suits, you know,
those who are doing direct lawsuits. Now the cities are
jumping in and suing, and it's just it's just a
long process. I know that the attorneys that I have
(16:33):
met with and that several people I know, they're like,
look this, this this is a year, two years, three years,
that this is a fight.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
This isn't hey, next week you'll be made whole.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
No, no, sir, this is a long term process and
this is something that we will all have to live through.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But part of that long term process is making sure
that it's still at the forefront of people's minds. It's
not just just because the fire is over, the story's over,
and people just move on. No, we have to keep
this the front of people's minds to make sure that
people are made whole on that time schedule or timetable
that it should happen.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Talk of a year, two years three at the most.
Everyone hold on to your butts. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I'm told that there's a blood worm lunar eclipse tonight.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
I've been going around trying to see if the skies
are getting dark anywhere. It's not happening yet.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It's supposed to happen around eleven or actually it's supposed
to be at its brightest and around eleven fifty five
tonight LA time. Oh, so we'll be on the lookout
for it. We'll try to explain it to you when
we come back. CAFI AM six forty Live everywhere on
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Speaker 1 (17:42):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And tonight is the blood worm moon. I don't name him.
I'm just going to tell you about it. The lunar
eclipse and the full moon will reach its peak illumination
at around eleven fifty five PM LA time, and the
total lunar eclipse will make the moon appear red tonight
(18:10):
into the following day, depending on your time zone, a course,
when and where to watch it. The full moon will
rise late tonight and it's going to go through Saturday.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Morning. This is according to NASA, so.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
You will see the full moon, but as the lunar
eclipse begins, the moon will start moving through Earth's shadow
at about and I'm trying to transpose the time from
East coast, it's already started started around eight fifty seven
pm tonight, so a little over a half hour ago,
and the moon will gradually dim, but it won't be
(18:50):
really noticeable until ten nine pm. During George Norri's program,
he'll probably talk about it. Coast to Coast AM at
around ten or nine pm tonight, and the moon will
be fully shaded depending on where you are, obviously and
how much bright light may be in your city light pollution,
(19:12):
from around eleven twenty six pm to twelve thirty am
Friday morning, and the best viewing opportunity for the red
moon or the blood moon, the blood moon will happen
around midnight our time, so in other words, by the
time we get off the air here and Coast to
(19:34):
Coast George AM with George norriy takes over, you might
as well just saddle up to some good viewing place
to watch the blood moon or as they call it,
the blood worm moon, and then you can see all
of it now. I don't know if you get to
see the total lunar eclipse. And I said it only
because from what I can see, the best viewing points
(19:56):
will be in North and South America along that range.
I don't know what it's going to be in California
versus Venezuela, but that's gonna be up to you, and
I wish.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I still keep.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Talking about buying a telescope, and I've never gotten around
to it, but it's one of my fond memories of
going out in the front yard with my dad in
the telescope and just looking at all the celestial bodies
out there with the limited range of my telescope, but
we caught more than a few lunar eclipses together. So
if you may have a son or daughter, if you
(20:30):
got the opportunity, I'm just telling you, as a kid
of someone who had a dad who was proactive and
loved all things astronomy, go ahead and take this opportunity.
I know it's a little late, but go out in
the front yard of the backyard, take out the telescope.
The technology is even better now than when I was
(20:51):
a kid, and you can get yourself some good photos
as a matter of fact of the lunar eclipse. In
the fact, if you should get a chance to take
feel free to send them to us at later with
mo Kelly at gmail dot com and would love to
post him on your behalf. Yeah, that's something I still
do want to get back into and hopefully i'll get
(21:12):
home soon enough. Well, I'll get home soon enough, but
I don't know. Per what Mark Runner told us earlier tonight,
We're supposed to get some rain tomorrow. Don't know when
that may begin. And I only say that because if
we're getting rained, that means we will have cloud cover
and some of this may be obscured because of the
(21:33):
precipitation and the rain which is coming sometime tomorrow. Don't
know when, because according to Mark, some of this is static.
It's not static, and it's going to change every single hour.
He won't be locked down to exactly when the rain
is going to begin. I will not be scapegoaded for
your weather insecurity.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
No, I'm not blaming you.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I'm just reiterating what you told us, that the rain
may change without notice.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
That's how weather works.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
If you look at that, if that's the off ramp
you want to take if you want to escape. Good
it in that way you don't want to take into responsibility.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Okay, okay, well I don't really like the way you're
framing it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
What do you mean? But please proceed, You live your life.
It's fine.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And I still haven't found exactly why they're calling it
the blood worm moon. Yes, it's red. Let's just call
it the blood moon and leave it at that. But
it's called the blood worm moon, a phenomenon which makes
the moon appear red during a total lunar eclipse. I'm
not sure where worm comes in. I have to look
that up, but there's no real explanation why it's the
(22:34):
blood worm moon. But it's going to be happening tonight
peak illumination around midnight our time. But you'll be able
to start seeing it the eclipse starting to form not
long after we get off the air, at about ten
oh nine PM. I don't want to speak for George
nor he's probably listening right now, but I have a
(22:56):
feeling he'll probably make reference to it on some level,
and it's probably far more knowledgeable than I am on it.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
But uh, yeah, this is since it's a lunar eclipse.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Just want to remind you you don't need any special
equipment to observe a lunar eclipse is completely safe to
look at it with the unaided eye.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You can just stare right into it.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yes, unlike a solar eclipse, where we're always told not
to do it, even though some people like our president
decided to.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
You don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
You don't need a shoe box, you don't need to
like use the refraction off a tree or something.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
You can look at it directly. What a huge relief
that should be for everyone.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, hopefully no one will go blind looking at a
lunary eclipse late at night.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It won't be that bright, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
But I know Samsung phones specifically have great telephoto lenses
and they take exceptional pictures of the moon.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
You will never ever dissuade me from my iPhone love ever.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
No, no, no, I didn't say you had to go buy
what I'm just saying. Look, I don't even have a Samsung.
I'm just giving credit where credit is due that Samsung
has exceptional telephoto lenses. And I've seen pictures on other
people's phones of just the moon on any old occasion,
and I'm looking forward to what people will take with
just their phones, which will show up on social media.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
I see so on the rare occasion that a celestial
rarity happens, you want to have the right phone for it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, if you do have a Samsung, you're ready for it. Look,
I don't need to have a phone just for an
event like this, so I will rely on other people's
technology and appreciate the moment with the photos that they post,
so I'm not even worried.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Also, you can just watch it on TV.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I know you can, but it's not quite the same
now I watch I'm quite sure. I'm pretty sure at
NASA dot com they'll probably have it as well featured.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
I don't know if you came to the same conclusion
that I did at an early age, but you really
don't have to go outdoors for anything. Almost anything that's
happening in the natural world. You can find it on television.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
But I do believe there's something to be said for
viewing it yourself and seeing it with your own eyes
instead of quote unquote a broadcast or a stream of it,
which you can find anywhere. In other words, sense, it's
viewable here in California, at least to some degree, I
would rather or at least in addition, to see it
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myself and then go check it out online.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Is this just to make sure that it's not some
kind of Stanley Kubrick moon landing hoax?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Nope, nope, not at all. I'd just like to view
it with the unaided I huh, that's all.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And then, you know, if I really want to see
it for real distinct clarity and granularity. Yeah, and then
I'll check it out online or check it out on
TV wherever it's happening.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
And that's the beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Also about the internet, you can find very clear pictures
and a live stream of it in any number of places,
because I know for the solar eclips as I know,
NASA had a stream on their you to page and
also their website, so there are any number of places
you'll be able to view it.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I'm in.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I am too. Hopefully I'll be able to get out
of here before ten fifteen. And you know, Stephan doesn't
give me extra stuff to do, or Twalla doesn't nag
me about something.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
You know, hopefully, no guarantees. I need you to stay
after work and talk about a work issue with me.
For about that happened roughly ninety minutes. No, no, no, no,
the lunar eclips is waiting for me. It is calling
my name.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
That's your stomach.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Okay, if I am six forty, we'll check in with
George Norrion because because I am in just a.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Moment, it's later with Mo Kelly ca.
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which is coming up next Coast Coast Am with George
Norri and he joins me, Now, good evening, sir.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
He long, mister Kelly here, I am.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I'm doing well. Are you doing anything on the blood
Worm moon tonight? By chance?
Speaker 9 (27:19):
Yes, just a little story on that.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, I figured you would, but I didn't want to
speak for you, so I thought I would ask.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
The moon is gorgeous? Did you see it tonight?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I have not been able to get outside yet.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
You got to peak and even before the eclipse. It's gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Plan to plan too. Hopefully there's not a bad cloud cover.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Yeah, it's it's been clear so far with that win
blowing everything away.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
On the show tonight, we're going to talk about how
technology it will affect human beings, and later on I'll
walk on the paranormal side.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
All right, cannot wait. Always good to talk to George.
Enjoy the moon, Thank you sir.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And my final thought for the week, I'm going to
get financially Nerdy'm going to have to dig in deep here,
so please bear with me. The stock market has lost
ten percent of its value since January twentieth. That would
be an inauguration day. In financial terms, that's called a correction,
and it would be the first since twenty twenty three.
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In the past month, the stock market is down thirty
nine hundred points depending on what source you use. There
are about one hundred and fifty to one hundred and
eighty million Americans who are actively involved in the stock market,
and by that I mean buying or selling or trading,
and or passively involved. That means the four oh one
(28:40):
k's three fifty sevens pensions, meaning about half the country
is impacted by the fortunes of the stock market. As
for the larger economic outlook, we've been told that the
Biden economy was an economic disaster. We've heard that time
and time again. In fact, some people are still saying
(29:01):
that even though GDP growth was hovering at about two
point eight two point nine percent per quarter, that's gross
domestic product and two point eight two point nine percent,
that is healthy, full stop, no exaggeration, not really debatable healthy.
Didn't say it was great, but it's healthy. And unemployment
(29:21):
is still historically low at four percent. I don't know
if you know this, but unemployment at five percent a
whole point higher is still considered full employment. These are
just facts. Well, why does this matter? It matters because,
as I said, the talk this week was whether the
country might be on the verge of a recession, meaning
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if the economy is not in a recession presently and
not near a recession presently at least as of January
this year, that also means the economy is not and
was not a disaster. Also a recession that's a very
specific economic term. They're parameters because in a recession, principally
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we have negative GDP gross domestic product for consecutive quarters.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
That's that's a necessity.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Meaning going from the two point nine percent that we've
seen in the past two quarters that I just told
you about to negative numbers, it would be a sharp turn.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Goldbn Sachs, which knows a little.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Bit about money, just a little bit, release a statement
this week that the prospect of a recession is about
fifteen to twenty percent, but could increase if the Trump
administration remains quote committed to its policies, even in the
face of much worse data close quote their words, not mine,
(30:45):
and let me translate that. They're saying that a recession
very much rests on the shoulders of and the choices
made by the Trump administration. It's not inevitable, not necessarily
Joe Biden, not anything happening prior to now, but what
happens now and going forward Again, If the economy is
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not in a recession, and it's not for the reasons
I just gave you, then by definition, it's not a
disaster and it's not horrible, despite what some people keep
trying to tell us, or put it another way, lie
to us, but that all could change rather quickly. And
I know what some of you are thinking, but mo,
what about the cost of eggs? What about the cost
(31:28):
of milk? And I would remind you that's not the economy.
That's one of the four major food groups. It's not
the same. Each year there is an issue with a
food item due to supply chain issues. Right now, there's
also a soybean shortage. Mad Cow sent beef prices through
the roof in the nineteen nineties. It was oranges in
twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. But that's not
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the economy. But if the actual economy as a whole
should go into a recession, that means we have been
slowly sliding to economic hell for six consecutive months or
two quarters leading up to it, going back to the
two quarters of negative GDP, it takes six months just
to officially be in a recession, with no guarantee of
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how long it would last after that. But let me
go back to the stock market losing thirty nine hundred
points in the past month.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
It's fair, and I try to be fair.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
It's fair to argue that the stock market could get
all of it back in the coming years. It's possible,
but it's not likely, and not everybody has those years
to wait. Maybe planned on retiring this year or next,
or you will be forced to retire due to age restrictions.
If so, you just got kicked in the teeth with
your active and passive investments.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
You won't ever get that back.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Maybe you're one of the thousands of veterans who were
laid off as the federal employee purge continues. Maybe you're
a veteran and disabled and lost not only your job,
but your benefits and a good portion of your retirement
all in the last thirty days. You're not getting any
of that back. If the firings hold, You're just out
of the game for good, saying nothing of what life
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may look like if we do end up going into
that recession in the meantime, And that's saying nothing of
the possibility of Medicaid and Social Security being cut as well.
Here's the larger point that I want to close with.
It's all fun and games and trying to call an
economy bad or a disaster right up until a real
(33:26):
economic disaster shows up and demonstrates the difference. I said
some time ago that the markets, our allies and our
adversaries will respond and be exceptionally clear on our terraffs
our disregard for our allies and disregard for our veterans.
And now they have responded, And oh, they have responded,
So I want to add to what I said. Then
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this is just the beginning. The market slide is not
going to stop, hear me, unless the terrorists stop and
the talk of annexing Canada and Greenland stop. Why Because
Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street Journal, and just about every
respected economist has told us as much. I'm not saying it.
(34:09):
They're saying it. Your four oh one k is saying it.
If we end up in some open ended recession, ditch,
it will be because our government chose it. Because it
doesn't have to happen this way. It does not have
to happen. We do not have to end up in
a recession. They said, only a fifteen to twenty percent chance.
If we do not continue down this path, it won't
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necessarily happen on its own, but it will be a choice.
So choose wisely. For KF, I am six forty I'm
mo Kelly opinion.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
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Speaker 9 (34:49):
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
The Kids Bop Kids are back in twenty twenty five
with their all new Kids Bop Live Certified Bop Tour,
coming to a city near you this summer, sing and
dance along to today's biggest bops live on the big stage.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
It is the ultimate pop concert experience for kids and parents.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Speaking of which, the popular Daddy Dance Off is returning
as well.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Have I got your attention? I hope so, because we're giving.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Away a family four pack to the Bop Tour when
it hits Anaheim on September twentieth, joining me to give
us a preview. Are Kids Bop members Maddie and Aaliyah.
Nice to meet you both. How are you this evening?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Look, I've been waiting for this. I love the whole
Kids Bop experience. Maddie, let me start with you. You're
from New Jersey, so the entertainment business was farther away
for you than most.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
What made you want to perform? Sing? Dance? What inspired you?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Well?
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Always when I was younger, I've always been a dancer
my whole life. But honestly, like seeing videos of tour
and kids Bob has always inspired me, like seeing videos online,
and I've always loved performing on stage for dance, so
that's always been my thing, so i just love doing it.
And now I did my first show on Wembley in
London and it was the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So I'm super excited for Tourer.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, I know the Wimbley experience was something special. You
if I'm have I had this correctly? You said againness
world record for the youngest performers to perform and perform
sold out Wibley.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Is that correct? Yes, yes, that is pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Leah.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You're a California kids, so the journey to the entertainment
business may not have been as long. But when did
you know this was what you wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I knew that this is what I wanted to do
when I booked my first job at the age of
six and I told my mom I was playing piano
and I told my mom I was like, I don't
want to do piano anymore. I just want to dance.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
So once I.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Made that decision, I just kept going with it and
now I'm here and I'm just so excited for this
new journey.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Maddie.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems kiss Pop
is a lot of work, a lot of singing, a
lot of dancing, a lot of recording and touring. How
do you find time for yourself and when you do,
how do you spend it?
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Well, like, we always have some free time, but everything
we do is always so much fun, Like all the
singing and the dancing. I enjoy it so much. But
when I have free time, I tend to I'm a
very like outside kid, so I love being outside, you know,
playing sports, and I'm always very active.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
But I always put most.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Of my time into dance and singing because that's just
what I love to do.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Eleah, you said you booked your first gig at six
years old.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That was a humble brag. I heard that. You just said, Yeah,
I've been doing this for like ten years. I'm a veteran.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But even though you might have been in this business
for a long time, you're human like the rest of us.
Do you find yourself maybe when you're on stage at
Wimbley or somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Kind of nervous Sometimes.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I can be nerves, but having my best friends around
me just really like calm me down. And I think
just the energy of the fans, just like putting on
a show for them, just makes me really happy and
the nerves just kind of naturally go away.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So yeah, Maddie, tell me about this Daddy Dance Off.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Are you just laughing at the old folks like me?
Tell the truth?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
No, I mean the Daddy Dance Off might be my
favorite part of the show. It's so cool. We get
to bring four dads up on stage and they get
to dance and then there's a little battle, so it's
so cool and all the fans love it. It always
gets the fans up on their feet excited, and they
get to vote, so it's really interactive with the crowd
and it's so so much fun to see the dads
come up on stage and do the move.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Elia take me into that performance even more so. What
should kids and parents like expect to see.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I think they should expect to see new choreography, new songs. Again.
The Daddy Dance Off is, again, I think the best
part of the show. Yeah, singing and dancing, and I
think they should just expect to have the best night
of their lives.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Maddie Alia talked about choreography, new choreography. There are a
lot of songs, there's a lot of choreography that you
have to learn and to perfect.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Tell me about that process.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
How do you go about practicing individually as a group,
how does it all come together?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Well, we actually have two months before we go on
tour in La where we're all there as a group
and we practice and we learned choreo and as a group,
we all love it. It's so much fun for all
of us to be there and train and learn all
the choreography and sing too.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So it's just.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
An amazing experience and it's really nice to just all
be together and go through this whole process together.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Alia is something that I've noticed in something that you
commented on. It's like being on stage with your best friends.
In that type of camaraderie, that type of energy is
not easy to come by. You're not necessarily going to
like all the people that you work with, going to
be working with.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Them for months on hand.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Why is it you think that you guys and gals
get along so well?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
When I met all of them, we just clicked and
I think our four different personalities just really mend well
together and our love and passion for what we do
all a line, and I think we just want to
have a great time, and I just love even the
people behind Kids Bop are just great people, such a
great company, and I'm just so grateful that these people
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are the people I'm working on.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
All right, This next question is for both of you
because the question may be answered differently. You're getting ready
to kick off the North American portion of the tour
for the summer and you'll be performing just about every day.
Are there any places or any specific cities that you're
looking forward to visiting?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Well, for me, it's definitely New Jersey because the shows
we're doing in New Jersey, all my family, all my friends,
and I come be so excited, like looking into the
crowd and seeing all my family, and but I'm excited
for every city just to be able to perform and
meet all the new Kids Bob fans and make everyone happy.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Leah, I excited for Anaheim, Us. It's the Hawndess Center.
I am super super deper excited. All my friends and
family will be there, and yeah, it's my hometown, so
we're gonna bring it like we always do.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay, what's that like then? Leah, let me stay right there.
You're in front of your friends and family. Does that
make it a little more difficult because you have people
who are coming there.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Just to see you. It would seem to me that
it might be a little more pressure.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I'm not sure if it's like more pressure, it can
be more nerve wracking. But their support for me is
just out of this world and it just makes me
happy that they're there supporting me because they could just
stay at home, but they decided to come and see me,
and it just makes me even more excited and happy
to perform.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Well, this is the best part.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And I'm glad that you mentioned, Leah that you're from
Anaheim and we're going to be giving away a family
for Pa to someone to be able to come see
both of you and the rest of the Kids Bop
members in Anaheim on September twentieth. This is what I
need from you to help close out this conversation. I
need you to to agree upon a number between one
and ten.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
What do you think, kid?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, ten ten, caller number ten.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Give us a call it eight hundred five to zero
one KFI eight hundred five two zero one five three four.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
If you're caller number ten.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You and three of your friends or family members will
be going to see Kids Bop Live at the Honda
Center in Anaheim. Eight hundred five two zero one KFI
eight hundred five two zero one five three four caller
number ten, and I would like to thank my guests
Maddie and Aaliyah. The Kids Bop Kids are back in
twenty twenty five with their all new Kids Bop Live
Certified Bob Tour, coming to Anaheim on September twentieth and
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touring all of North America throughout the summer. Maddie and Leah,
thank you for coming on this evening. Thank you for
a wonderful conversation. I wish you a great tour and make.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Sure to get your tickets at Kidsbob dot com. Thank
you so much, what.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
A consummate pro Nice for you to throw that in there.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
When we come back, we'll have an update on Alta,
Dina in the wake of the fires, and more.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Wimmo, Kelly and six.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I am a
baseball fan. I know many of you are baseball fans.
Many of you have been baseball fans for much of
your life. Maybe you were a former Little leaguer, maybe
someone in your family is presently a Little leaguer. This
next story might warm your heart. I think it will.
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Altadena's Loma Alta Park is reopening in May. And this
is after, of course, the devastating eating fire. But they're
reopening because of new resources and support from the Los
Angeles Dodgers Foundation, the Los Angeles Clippers, and we heard
we talked about this a lot here on KFI the
(09:02):
fire aid benefit concert. The park is going to get
two new Dodgers Dream Fields from the Foundation so the
Central Alta Dina Little League can play their last games
at home. Obviously the league has been displaced. The good
news is the league is still going on, but unfortunately
could not play what they customarily do play. The community
(09:25):
Clippers Court program is going to give the gym and
basketball courts a makeover and a two point four million
dollar fire aid grant will rebuild and expand the playgrounds.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
That makes me feel good. It makes me feel beyond good.
This is the park that me and my brother and
all of my friends would go to when we were kids.
It's the park that had the big swimming pool. It
was a great It was gay, just walking up you know,
Fair Oaks and heading over to Loma Alta. This this
(10:00):
is not only a park that I grew up at.
It's a park that my niece, she goes there all
the time now, just hanging out with the friends. This
is like where they go to hang their tennis classes.
They used to be their basketball everything. It was a
safe zone. It was actually one of the safe zones
because growing up it was right around the corner from
(10:20):
a very notorious crypt.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Gang hangout, Alta Dina Black Crypt.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Right up the street from them was this park and
very rarely would they mess with any of the kids
going to the park because it was like that's the park,
that's the hangout. These are little kids that that's hands off,
stay away from that.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Love this park.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
My mother she had she was part of the co op,
the gardening co op that was there at Loma Alta
wherever would come and just growing whatever and sharing the vegetable.
This is where the Altadena Farmers Market was like this.
This park means so much to the city of Altadena
for the Dodgers and the Clippers and fire Aid to
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come through to help rebuild this staple, this central focal
point of this is I love this everything about this.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Does this matter, I should say, does this move the
needle in helping convince people who might have lost their homes,
who might have lost everything, to come back and rebuild.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
I believe it does. I believe moves like this where
you have not just this organization, but we know about
Magic Johnson what he is trying to do it for
the city of Altadena as well and so many others
who are looking to pour into Altadena. This makes it
easier for people to see a future for the city
because when you drive through it, it is still heartbreaking.
(11:48):
It will bring literal tears to your eyes. When you
drive around, you see just that sheer devastation. Knowing something
like this is happening and not far off in the future.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
This is this is May.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
They are talking about relaunching this part and beautifying it
and making this happen.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
This fills my heart with joy. When was the last
time you drove through Altonina?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
What Saturday? Last Saturday?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Where are they with the debris removal? Right now? Everyone,
at least on my block in the yard, everyone has.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
A toxic chemical removal stamp or sign in the yard
saying that that has been cleaned up. Right now, just
up the street two or three blocks up from the
street where I grew up on, there are bunches of
trucks and like looks like digging tools and all types
(12:39):
of equipment that's up there, kind of like a staging ground.
Like they're like they're ready to move in and starting
to come clean up. There are several people that I
know who have personally gotten their own clean up teams
to come in and remove debris. The house the literally
I grew up on. I drove by there and was
showing my daughter and it's just a hole in the ground.
(13:00):
The people who who bought the house for my mother
after we moved, they said, we got our own crew.
They dug it out. It's just now a hole there
now so that they can start the process of rebuilding.
A good friend of mine, d Eric, what's up man,
He is already in the process of rebuilding his house.
(13:22):
He has already gotten the floor plans and he's like,
we can go forward with this. There is so much movement,
and I think a fire has been lit under so
many people, Like the Altadena strong sentiment is not just
words with so many people that are fighting to keep
a hold of their property and their land. It is
(13:42):
an actual thing that's happening.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I know that we've seen some of the stories we
talked about some of the stories where not only were
some residents suing power company possibly for their involvement, Where
is that, to the best of your knowledge, And what
is FEMA is still doing or not doing anymore?
Speaker 7 (14:02):
The FEMA deadline for filing and even the center that
is in Altadena, the FEMA deadline.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Believe that is the thirtieth of this month.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Yes, I believe the thirtieth or the thirty first, maybe
it's Monday. The thirty first is the last day for
filing with FEMA forgetting any help because after that they're like, hey,
we've already extended this deadline. We're trying to give everyone
as much help as possible. I have been over there
and they are going through every nook and cranny to
(14:34):
help people figure it out, so they're not just over
there stone walling individuals. If you go over to the
help center on Woodbury, there's a lot of resources. There
are a lot of help for everything you could imagine.
Every question you could imagine can get answered. That you
do have to have a healthy, healthy, healthy dose of patience.
(14:55):
These are people who are working to help you. What
they don't need also is attitude and like that. We
cannot be mad at the people trying to help us.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
How would you characterize the federal government's response, the state
level response, the local response, Because we know we talked
to a number of LA County supervisors here on this show.
Obviously Lindsay Horvath would be responsible, No, no, no, not Lindsay
Horvath to be. Katherine Barker was responsible for Eaton Canyon
(15:23):
in that area and Altadida.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
How would you rate the government responses on the various.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Levels as bureaucratically as possible. There is a lot of bureaucracy,
a lot of red tape, a lot of this department
says one thing while another department says another. The health
department is saying one faction of the health department is
saying no, you cannot return. It is not healthy to
live one hundred you know, feet within a burn zone.
(15:50):
One another saying ah, well, there may be okay. And
the insurance companies are like, everyone, go back, just hurry,
even go back because they're tired of keeping people in
hotels and as far as for your question, for the
all the many lawsuits out there now, even the city
of Pasadena is also jumped into suing as Southern California Edison.
(16:11):
It is just an ongoing process. There is no new news.
It is just the constant slow back and forth between
the various groups who are doing civil suits, you know,
those who are doing direct lawsuits. Now the cities are
jumping in and suing, and it's just it's just a
long process. I know that the attorneys that I have
(16:33):
met with and that several people I know, they're like,
look this, this this is a year, two years, three years,
that this is a fight.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
This isn't hey, next week you'll be made whole.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
No, no, sir, this is a long term process and
this is something that we will all have to live through.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But part of that long term process is making sure
that it's still at the forefront of people's minds. It's
not just just because the fire is over, the story's over,
and people just move on. No, we have to keep
this the front of people's minds to make sure that
people are made whole on that time schedule or timetable
that it should happen.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Talk of a year, two years three at the most.
Everyone hold on to your butts. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I'm told that there's a blood worm lunar eclipse tonight.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
I've been going around trying to see if the skies
are getting dark anywhere. It's not happening yet.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It's supposed to happen around eleven or actually it's supposed
to be at its brightest and around eleven fifty five
tonight LA time. Oh, so we'll be on the lookout
for it. We'll try to explain it to you when
we come back. CAFI AM six forty Live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And tonight is the blood worm moon. I don't name him.
I'm just going to tell you about it. The lunar
eclipse and the full moon will reach its peak illumination
at around eleven fifty five PM LA time, and the
total lunar eclipse will make the moon appear red tonight
(18:10):
into the following day, depending on your time zone, a course,
when and where to watch it. The full moon will
rise late tonight and it's going to go through Saturday.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Morning. This is according to NASA, so.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
You will see the full moon, but as the lunar
eclipse begins, the moon will start moving through Earth's shadow
at about and I'm trying to transpose the time from
East coast, it's already started started around eight fifty seven
pm tonight, so a little over a half hour ago,
and the moon will gradually dim, but it won't be
(18:50):
really noticeable until ten nine pm. During George Norri's program,
he'll probably talk about it. Coast to Coast AM at
around ten or nine pm tonight, and the moon will
be fully shaded depending on where you are, obviously and
how much bright light may be in your city light pollution,
(19:12):
from around eleven twenty six pm to twelve thirty am
Friday morning, and the best viewing opportunity for the red
moon or the blood moon, the blood moon will happen
around midnight our time, so in other words, by the
time we get off the air here and Coast to
(19:34):
Coast George AM with George norriy takes over, you might
as well just saddle up to some good viewing place
to watch the blood moon or as they call it,
the blood worm moon, and then you can see all
of it now. I don't know if you get to
see the total lunar eclipse. And I said it only
because from what I can see, the best viewing points
(19:56):
will be in North and South America along that range.
I don't know what it's going to be in California
versus Venezuela, but that's gonna be up to you, and
I wish.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I still keep.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Talking about buying a telescope, and I've never gotten around
to it, but it's one of my fond memories of
going out in the front yard with my dad in
the telescope and just looking at all the celestial bodies
out there with the limited range of my telescope, but
we caught more than a few lunar eclipses together. So
if you may have a son or daughter, if you
(20:30):
got the opportunity, I'm just telling you, as a kid
of someone who had a dad who was proactive and
loved all things astronomy, go ahead and take this opportunity.
I know it's a little late, but go out in
the front yard of the backyard, take out the telescope.
The technology is even better now than when I was
(20:51):
a kid, and you can get yourself some good photos
as a matter of fact of the lunar eclipse. In
the fact, if you should get a chance to take
feel free to send them to us at later with
mo Kelly at gmail dot com and would love to
post him on your behalf. Yeah, that's something I still
do want to get back into and hopefully i'll get
(21:12):
home soon enough. Well, I'll get home soon enough, but
I don't know. Per what Mark Runner told us earlier tonight,
We're supposed to get some rain tomorrow. Don't know when
that may begin. And I only say that because if
we're getting rained, that means we will have cloud cover
and some of this may be obscured because of the
(21:33):
precipitation and the rain which is coming sometime tomorrow. Don't
know when, because according to Mark, some of this is static.
It's not static, and it's going to change every single hour.
He won't be locked down to exactly when the rain
is going to begin. I will not be scapegoaded for
your weather insecurity.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
No, I'm not blaming you.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I'm just reiterating what you told us, that the rain
may change without notice.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
That's how weather works.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
If you look at that, if that's the off ramp
you want to take if you want to escape. Good
it in that way you don't want to take into responsibility.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Okay, okay, well I don't really like the way you're
framing it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
What do you mean? But please proceed, You live your life.
It's fine.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And I still haven't found exactly why they're calling it
the blood worm moon. Yes, it's red. Let's just call
it the blood moon and leave it at that. But
it's called the blood worm moon, a phenomenon which makes
the moon appear red during a total lunar eclipse. I'm
not sure where worm comes in. I have to look
that up, but there's no real explanation why it's the
(22:34):
blood worm moon. But it's going to be happening tonight
peak illumination around midnight our time. But you'll be able
to start seeing it the eclipse starting to form not
long after we get off the air, at about ten
oh nine PM. I don't want to speak for George
nor he's probably listening right now, but I have a
(22:56):
feeling he'll probably make reference to it on some level,
and it's probably far more knowledgeable than I am on it.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
But uh, yeah, this is since it's a lunar eclipse.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Just want to remind you you don't need any special
equipment to observe a lunar eclipse is completely safe to
look at it with the unaided eye.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You can just stare right into it.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yes, unlike a solar eclipse, where we're always told not
to do it, even though some people like our president
decided to.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
You don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
You don't need a shoe box, you don't need to
like use the refraction off a tree or something.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
You can look at it directly. What a huge relief
that should be for everyone.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, hopefully no one will go blind looking at a
lunary eclipse late at night.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It won't be that bright, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
But I know Samsung phones specifically have great telephoto lenses
and they take exceptional pictures of the moon.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
You will never ever dissuade me from my iPhone love ever.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
No, no, no, I didn't say you had to go buy
what I'm just saying. Look, I don't even have a Samsung.
I'm just giving credit where credit is due that Samsung
has exceptional telephoto lenses. And I've seen pictures on other
people's phones of just the moon on any old occasion,
and I'm looking forward to what people will take with
just their phones, which will show up on social media.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
I see so on the rare occasion that a celestial
rarity happens, you want to have the right phone for it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, if you do have a Samsung, you're ready for it. Look,
I don't need to have a phone just for an
event like this, so I will rely on other people's
technology and appreciate the moment with the photos that they post,
so I'm not even worried.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Also, you can just watch it on TV.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I know you can, but it's not quite the same
now I watch I'm quite sure. I'm pretty sure at
NASA dot com they'll probably have it as well featured.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
I don't know if you came to the same conclusion
that I did at an early age, but you really
don't have to go outdoors for anything. Almost anything that's
happening in the natural world. You can find it on television.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
But I do believe there's something to be said for
viewing it yourself and seeing it with your own eyes
instead of quote unquote a broadcast or a stream of it,
which you can find anywhere. In other words, sense, it's
viewable here in California, at least to some degree, I
would rather or at least in addition, to see it
(25:22):
myself and then go check it out online.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Is this just to make sure that it's not some
kind of Stanley Kubrick moon landing hoax?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Nope, nope, not at all. I'd just like to view
it with the unaided I huh, that's all.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And then, you know, if I really want to see
it for real distinct clarity and granularity. Yeah, and then
I'll check it out online or check it out on
TV wherever it's happening.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
And that's the beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Also about the internet, you can find very clear pictures
and a live stream of it in any number of places,
because I know for the solar eclips as I know,
NASA had a stream on their you to page and
also their website, so there are any number of places
you'll be able to view it.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I'm in.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I am too. Hopefully I'll be able to get out
of here before ten fifteen. And you know, Stephan doesn't
give me extra stuff to do, or Twalla doesn't nag
me about something.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
You know, hopefully, no guarantees. I need you to stay
after work and talk about a work issue with me.
For about that happened roughly ninety minutes. No, no, no, no,
the lunar eclips is waiting for me. It is calling
my name.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
That's your stomach.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Okay, if I am six forty, we'll check in with
George Norrion because because I am in just a.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Moment, it's later with Mo Kelly ca.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
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(27:08):
which is coming up next Coast Coast Am with George
Norri and he joins me, Now, good evening, sir.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
He long, mister Kelly here, I am.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I'm doing well. Are you doing anything on the blood
Worm moon tonight? By chance?
Speaker 9 (27:19):
Yes, just a little story on that.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, I figured you would, but I didn't want to
speak for you, so I thought I would ask.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
The moon is gorgeous? Did you see it tonight?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I have not been able to get outside yet.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
You got to peak and even before the eclipse. It's gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Plan to plan too. Hopefully there's not a bad cloud cover.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Yeah, it's it's been clear so far with that win
blowing everything away.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
On the show tonight, we're going to talk about how
technology it will affect human beings, and later on I'll
walk on the paranormal side.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
All right, cannot wait. Always good to talk to George.
Enjoy the moon, Thank you sir.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And my final thought for the week, I'm going to
get financially Nerdy'm going to have to dig in deep here,
so please bear with me. The stock market has lost
ten percent of its value since January twentieth. That would
be an inauguration day. In financial terms, that's called a correction,
and it would be the first since twenty twenty three.
(28:18):
In the past month, the stock market is down thirty
nine hundred points depending on what source you use. There
are about one hundred and fifty to one hundred and
eighty million Americans who are actively involved in the stock market,
and by that I mean buying or selling or trading,
and or passively involved. That means the four oh one
(28:40):
k's three fifty sevens pensions, meaning about half the country
is impacted by the fortunes of the stock market. As
for the larger economic outlook, we've been told that the
Biden economy was an economic disaster. We've heard that time
and time again. In fact, some people are still saying
(29:01):
that even though GDP growth was hovering at about two
point eight two point nine percent per quarter, that's gross
domestic product and two point eight two point nine percent,
that is healthy, full stop, no exaggeration, not really debatable healthy.
Didn't say it was great, but it's healthy. And unemployment
(29:21):
is still historically low at four percent. I don't know
if you know this, but unemployment at five percent a
whole point higher is still considered full employment. These are
just facts. Well, why does this matter? It matters because,
as I said, the talk this week was whether the
country might be on the verge of a recession, meaning
(29:44):
if the economy is not in a recession presently and
not near a recession presently at least as of January
this year, that also means the economy is not and
was not a disaster. Also a recession that's a very
specific economic term. They're parameters because in a recession, principally
(30:05):
we have negative GDP gross domestic product for consecutive quarters.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
That's that's a necessity.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Meaning going from the two point nine percent that we've
seen in the past two quarters that I just told
you about to negative numbers, it would be a sharp turn.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Goldbn Sachs, which knows a little.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Bit about money, just a little bit, release a statement
this week that the prospect of a recession is about
fifteen to twenty percent, but could increase if the Trump
administration remains quote committed to its policies, even in the
face of much worse data close quote their words, not mine,
(30:45):
and let me translate that. They're saying that a recession
very much rests on the shoulders of and the choices
made by the Trump administration. It's not inevitable, not necessarily
Joe Biden, not anything happening prior to now, but what
happens now and going forward Again, If the economy is
(31:06):
not in a recession, and it's not for the reasons
I just gave you, then by definition, it's not a
disaster and it's not horrible, despite what some people keep
trying to tell us, or put it another way, lie
to us, but that all could change rather quickly. And
I know what some of you are thinking, but mo,
what about the cost of eggs? What about the cost
(31:28):
of milk? And I would remind you that's not the economy.
That's one of the four major food groups. It's not
the same. Each year there is an issue with a
food item due to supply chain issues. Right now, there's
also a soybean shortage. Mad Cow sent beef prices through
the roof in the nineteen nineties. It was oranges in
twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. But that's not
(31:50):
the economy. But if the actual economy as a whole
should go into a recession, that means we have been
slowly sliding to economic hell for six consecutive months or
two quarters leading up to it, going back to the
two quarters of negative GDP, it takes six months just
to officially be in a recession, with no guarantee of
(32:13):
how long it would last after that. But let me
go back to the stock market losing thirty nine hundred
points in the past month.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
It's fair, and I try to be fair.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
It's fair to argue that the stock market could get
all of it back in the coming years. It's possible,
but it's not likely, and not everybody has those years
to wait. Maybe planned on retiring this year or next,
or you will be forced to retire due to age restrictions.
If so, you just got kicked in the teeth with
your active and passive investments.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
You won't ever get that back.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Maybe you're one of the thousands of veterans who were
laid off as the federal employee purge continues. Maybe you're
a veteran and disabled and lost not only your job,
but your benefits and a good portion of your retirement
all in the last thirty days. You're not getting any
of that back. If the firings hold, You're just out
of the game for good, saying nothing of what life
(33:05):
may look like if we do end up going into
that recession in the meantime, And that's saying nothing of
the possibility of Medicaid and Social Security being cut as well.
Here's the larger point that I want to close with.
It's all fun and games and trying to call an
economy bad or a disaster right up until a real
(33:26):
economic disaster shows up and demonstrates the difference. I said
some time ago that the markets, our allies and our
adversaries will respond and be exceptionally clear on our terraffs
our disregard for our allies and disregard for our veterans.
And now they have responded, And oh, they have responded,
So I want to add to what I said. Then
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this is just the beginning. The market slide is not
going to stop, hear me, unless the terrorists stop and
the talk of annexing Canada and Greenland stop. Why Because
Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street Journal, and just about every
respected economist has told us as much. I'm not saying it.
(34:09):
They're saying it. Your four oh one k is saying it.
If we end up in some open ended recession, ditch,
it will be because our government chose it. Because it
doesn't have to happen this way. It does not have
to happen. We do not have to end up in
a recession. They said, only a fifteen to twenty percent chance.
If we do not continue down this path, it won't
(34:34):
necessarily happen on its own, but it will be a choice.
So choose wisely. For KF, I am six forty I'm
mo Kelly opinion.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Without the preach KF i kost HD two.
Speaker 9 (34:49):
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Speaker 3 (34:51):
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