September 2, 2025 • 45 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – An in-depth look at California lawmakers’ decision to reject Senate Bill 712 AKA ‘Leno’s Law’, a bill which would exempt classic car owners from California’s rigorous smog-check requirements with the bills namesake; former ‘Tonight Show’ Host, Comedian Jay Leno…PLUS - A replay of Mo's conversation with Actress/Singer Tia Carrere, who joined the program to preview Disney’s ‘Lilo & Stitch’ September 3rd Disney+ debut - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh winmo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
One six.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and some wonders like, well,
how do you stay mo connected to the news, what's
going on locally when you're on vacation in Europe. Well,
I had to slowly ramp myself back up and get
into the swing of things. I think was maybe Friday
and Rome is nine hours or depending on if you're
(00:31):
in Greece, ten hours ahead of this time zone, so
I want to say Friday, I'm on the ship, is
between the last stop in Greece and the last stop
in Rome. I'm starting to digest more Southern California news
and I'm trying to get myself back up to speed.
And one of the stories that I did see was
(00:53):
this Lino's Law, as in Jay Lennel, which had been
trying to make its way through Sacramento. And this is
something that I'd followed from a distance, but now it's
back in the news because California State Assembly Appropriations Committee,
from what I read, has killed Leno's Law, which was
aimed to give classic car owners and I love classic cars.
(01:17):
It was aimed to give those owners a pass regarding
small requirements and Jay, if you happen to be listening
right now. Go ahead and give us a call on
the hotline. We'll put you right up because I know
this is something which is very important to you. In fact,
the last time he called in was when we were
talking about classic cars.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
He has called in out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And I understand, or at least from a distance, I
understand what Jay was trying to accomplish. If you have
a car that's let's say older than fifteen twenty years, yes,
you have to get it small check, I think, like
every other year, and it can be prohibitively expensive, dealing
with an agent, car, catalytic converters, all that kind of stuff.
(01:57):
And I understand why he would want to do it
try to do it, but I also understand that this
is California and the Democrats would never do it. It's
just something, you know, trying to be environmentally friendly quote
unquote that that's not going to make it through this.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, but this almost seems like this is picking on
a group for no reason. Because everyone doesn't have a
classic car.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
This is a small group, your car owner.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So I'm like, why are you picking on on the
small fries?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
You know?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
To me, that's one of the things. I'm like, you
could take this time to do more to build up
and enhance the infrastructure of California so we can have
more charging stations, more access for individuals with electronic cars,
increase the electronic car purchase rebates, things like that, if
(02:54):
you really want to do something and go in a
different direction. Because classic car owners that's a very small
group of Californians.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Wait, I just got hit by Jay's assistant, so he
might be able to get him on, so keep on
talking to Yah.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It's just I think that Jay Leno taking up this
fight is the absolute right move. And you know, of
course we absolutely support anything that Jay is doing. And
this to me as someone who is a fan of
classes are like right down the street from us at
the Bob's Big Boy. They still have the night where
they get together and they bring out those cars.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
But you know what, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Only like fifty people think about this. What did we
used to do each Labor Day? The Labor daya car cruise? Yes,
and we would go out. I think it was like
oc Fair and Vince Center. Ye, they'd have the crews
of these classic cars, many of them muscle cars. All
of those cars which would be impacted by Leno's law.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And guess what, there's only about two hundred at the
most cars on site. And of those cars, not every
one of them was driving. Some of them were just
there for show. So to me, this is one of
those things. It's like, come on, California, of all the
things that we could be targeting, you wanna you wanna
stop this one.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
This is I think a function of what I would
say governmental greed, where they would rather have the registration
fees and the small fees than just doing it's like
too much like right, you can't get about get out
of our own ways. To your point, it's a relatively
small segment, but also you could help enough Californians with this.
(04:39):
It's it's what I say, it's minor. I'm not I'm
not trying to criticize the law as of being unimportant,
but it's it's not impacting a major slice of Californians.
Where there's should there shouldn't have been any real obstacles
for this. This shouldn't be any real push.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, I got for me, I look at these cars
like their works of art.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
If you look at a painting It's like, are we
gonna take a painting off of the wall of the
Getty because it has lead based paint.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
That's a great point.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Wow, these are works of art and we should treat
them as such. If the people who own these cars
are upkeeping them with the original gear and everything inside,
then you shouldn't have They shouldn't be subjected to the
same laws because these aren't just the normal cars that
people are driving around. And these aren't the cars that
people are driving across town and sitting in two hours
of traffic. They're pulling out every day's hours once a week. Yeah,
(05:35):
to go to these car shows. They should be exempt
from these rules.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
It looks like it's for cars from nineteen seventy five
and earlier. So come on, this is really just petty.
That even makes it smaller. We're not even talking about
a nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
El Camino.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We're not talking about We're not talking about a good
portion of the classic muscle car.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Demographic.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, we're only talking about a relatively small number. Because
if you're growing up in the late nineteen sixties and
seventies like I was, it was a part of the
American identity. These cars you could turn on a show
like Starsky and Hutch or or I'm trying to think
(06:25):
we had night Rider night Rider, Yes, with the trans Am.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I mean all of classic cars. There's so many shows
that we used to watch that classic cars were part
of the show. I mean, hell, if you ever spent
any time watching Happy Days, you saw nothing but classic
muscle cars.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Well, in movie Vanishing Points, you got your two lane blacktop.
You're gonna tell Kowalski from Vanishing Point he's got to pass.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
An emissions test.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Are you gonna tell whoever the present owner of that
fastback Mustang from Bullet.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Don't just don't do I need to even say it?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Heresy. It's Later with mo Kelly. We'll see if we
can find out if Jay's available. His people just hit me,
so we'll see what happens. KFI AM six forty We're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (07:19):
Forty KFI It's mo Kelly Later with mo Kelly. We're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. I'm back from vacation
and I missed you guys. Well, not Mark Runner, but
everyone else.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
You brought something back from that filthy cruise ship and
it made me cough.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Okay, you're gonna be it's gonna be incubating in your
body and jes dating for the next I don't know,
a day or two, and then you'll have something blast
out of your chest.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
All those things are is just floating, Petrie dishes. Admit it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Goodness, We're gonna get you on the ship come April.
But right now, please be joined by none other than
the Jay Leno. As we talk about Leno's Law, Mister Lenno,
how you doing this evening?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Good God, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And when I saw this story about Leno's Law and
how it's aimed at easing classic car small requirements in California,
and also that at this point it has failed because
of our state legislature, of course I thought of you
and wanted to reach out to you. What was some
of the reasons why you wanted to pursue this and
(08:27):
where are we now?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Well?
Speaker 7 (08:29):
I mean in the same thing is if if you
have your grandfather's car for exactly you know, in other states,
like in Massachusetts where I grew up cars rusting out
after a couple of years. Here in California, cars last
a long long time, and you can drive an Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
The line dropped. We'll try to get it right back.
But I know the point that he was going to
make it. And Twalla, you understand this. If you're on
the East Coast and you have a car, due to rock,
salt and all the other elements, your car is going
to rust rather quickly.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Street conditions, all of that. Yeah, No cars burn out
quickly on the East Coast.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And to his point, if you have a car here
on the West Coast, it is not unusual that you
may have a car bequeathed to you, handed down to you,
and it's going to last. Like my last car prior
to this one, I had it for one hundred and
sixty thousand miles. The car before that was three hundred
thousand miles. So cars last longer.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
In general, we take care of our cars better here
in California.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
All right, And here is mister Leno calling right back.
We'll get him up in just a second. But there's
no one better that we can talk to.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Mister Leno. You there, I'm back.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
You know, Los Angeles like Guatemala. Now several day it's
sunny and the powers out. You know, you're welcome, Welcome
to the new Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You were saying that cars last longer here in California.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
Well, cars last longer here in California. It's just the
idea that you see up until nineteen ninety from nineteen
ninety six, and you had something called on board diagnostics,
which with a monocol, you drive in, you plug in,
and you know in ten seconds for your car pass
or fail. I mean it's real quick. It's forty five
(10:18):
dollars or whatever it is. Right, older cars they have
to be driven in up on a roller like what
they call a rolling road. You know, you back your
back cars and you hold it just thirty miles an hour.
The cars shake and the floor shake it you know
kind of okay. First of all, not many service stations
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have that sort of small stations have that set of
equipment anymore. So you have to drive around to try
and find one that can even do a test on
your pre nineties car. So there's only two or three
in Los Angeles at this point, so it's it's hard
to find. So consequently, you wind up you wind up
making criminals a lot of people. You drive a car
(11:00):
you've had for thirty years and it's always run fine. Obviously,
if your car is you know, belching, smoke and all
those kind of things, well, equal cars, you're going to
get nailed. But that's not the case here. So the
idea is just the cars are exempt in every other state,
why shouldn't they be here?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You know, what do you think is the reason behind
the pushback? I was speculating, Hey, California just wants to
have more registration fees, small fees.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's just about money. Is it about that or something else?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
No?
Speaker 8 (11:33):
I don't know. You know something I look, when I
came to California in the seventies, there was probably a
tensive the amount of cars that are now, and this
smog was unbelievable. There were days they were you know,
for like one hundred and fifteen days a year they'd
take them outside. Okay, now you have ten times as
many cars and the air is infinitely cleaner. So obviously
(11:53):
they've done a very good job. But to me, it's
a bit like alcohol. You know, we tried banning alcohol,
how right, it didn't work, so we make it point
o eight. Okay, so you can get point a weight.
And it's kind of the same thing with smog. I mean,
you know, if you have an older car, obviously a
car from the seventies is not going to be its
efficient as a car from the current model the year.
(12:16):
But it's also if you've been driving it for fifty years,
you've done less environmental damage than someone who buys a
new car for a couple of years, you know what
I'm saying. So, I mean, that's that's one reason I
don't think. I mean, obviously money and registration is part
of it, but I'm not that much of a cinic.
I think. You know, there are people in the air
resources board in these places that are very committed to
(12:38):
cleaning up the air, and they get a bit overly
zellous about it. Gets to the point where it's like, really,
I have to this car has been run perfectly for
the last thirty five years, and I have to get
rid of it. And what are you doing to give it?
Will you sell it to somebody in Nevada? All right?
So now you've just moved it to another place. And
plus most of these old cars don't get riven them.
(13:01):
You know, I have a car I bought brand new
in nineteen eighty nine. It's got twenty seven thousand miles
on it. That's less than one thousand miles a year. Okay,
and it passes mug. But it's harder and harder to
find a place to to do the rolling road and
get this contest.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You know, from a legislative standpoint, we're talking about Senate
Bill seven twelve, which was advanced first by Bakersfield Republican
Senator Shannon Grove. Now the what what is the next step?
Is there a next step? Can you modify the bill
in some way and resubmit it.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Well, that's what we did. We modified it and we
instead of making it it's going to be thirty five
years and old, and we moved it back another you know.
But you know, and then they see these things in
the middle of the night where they vote on something
and what what happened? Hey, my wallet's gone. You know,
it's those kind of you know, it's it's you know,
(13:59):
I thought show, but this is sneaky. Oh my god, politics,
it's much worse. I'm not not even in the same league.
And look, look we gave it a try. You know, Look,
we drove the movie industry out of California, and for
the longest time, hot rotting and car modifications and the
(14:20):
car culture really start in Los Angeles and we've pretty
much driven that out too. You know, it's just to
get more and more businesses leaving California. You know, there
aren't enough old cars around. Really, It's like zero point
oh one percent of all the cars in the state
(14:40):
that would be effective by it.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I don't want to connect dots that aren't there, so
correct me if I'm wrong. Is this do you think
connected to this whole ev green initiative that California and
Governor Newsom has been pushing, and so they want to
actually dis further discourage fossil fuel industry cars of that note.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
You know, I have no you know, I'm not good
at speaking on things I have no proof about. I mean,
we could speculate, and that would be an interesting reason.
I suppose, and I suppose there are people who do
believe that, you know. But yeah, but we gave it
a good shot. You know, we organized enough people, but
(15:24):
and it passed. It got further than any other bill
like this has gotten. We thought, oh, when September comes,
the governor just decide whether to veto it or but
it never even got that far. So yeah, that's that's
where we are. You know. It's uh, you know, I
never assume everybody's motives are evil or bad. I think
(15:48):
people want to clean up the state, and they've done
a wonderful job of cleaning up the state. I mean,
the air is much cleaner in California and it's ever been,
wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I absolutely agree.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I remember those small days, and I'm a little bit
younger than you, and I say that with great respect.
But we weren't allowed to go out for recess at
that time because we had the small alerts.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
Yeah, right right, and you know, and look I drive.
To me, the electric car is the great savior of
the gasoline car because to have some gasboarding cars sitting
in the four or five freeway to any I use
my electric car when I run back and forward and
go to the airport. And then on the weekends, I
use my cars the way people would use a snowmobile
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or any other recreational vehicle. I usually drive fifteen miles
to car show. It sits there all day with the
engine off. I tell lies to other car guys about
it and whatnot. And we all talk and then you
go home, you know. So it's not like these cars
are being driven hundreds of thousands of miles all the time.
It didn't seem like that big a thing to do
(16:49):
because every other state, any car twenty five years over
is considered a classic and not have now have to
subject to all the rules regulating. We're the only one
that really does that, and I'm sorry it's that way.
But apparently it didn't pass. So it didn't pass, So
I mean, at some point, maybe we'll try again and
see what happened. Since yeah, that's where we are.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Well, mister Lenno, I appreciate you sharing just some time
with us. We reached out to you, like, I don't know,
fifteen minutes ago, so thank you for coming on under
short notice.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Let me ask you this before we go.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Yeah, go ahead. I was wondering ahead, well, since.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You brought it up.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
No seriously though it may have been no right now,
but now people, I believe more of the general public
know about this issue and more about this building ever before.
Do you think that with a groundswell of support from
people like me and others who may not have been
aware of it prior to may change the calculus.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Well that's possible, you know. I you know, I go
over to Clay Constence and try it again. You know.
I met with the Air Resources Board and I complimented
them on the great work they do. I think they
thought out I'm not an adversary. I mean, I like
classic cars, but I also liked them to be clean.
I like them to be infisient. And I liked them
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because people like them. I mean, if they're blowing smoke
and dirting up the environment, well then nobody wants that,
you know. So I when I met with them, I
thank them for the good job they've done it. Just
I thought, this one just goes too far. It just
seems to be you know, if I have a nineteen
eighty nine automobile, the fact that I to even find
(18:32):
a small station that will give me a check even
though it passes, and then I can't find one, so
I don't pass it, and now I'm a criminal. Now
I'm driving an illegal car. Now you're breaking a lot.
You know, you're just kind of making criminals out of
innocent people. You know, the old thing when fifty hund
percent of people break the law, it's not a law anymore,
(18:53):
you know what I mean. And that's where it is.
I know so many people that inherent did you know,
their grandfather's Cadillac or whatever it might be, and they
just want to take it to a car show on
Sunday and they can't, I mean, you know, having just
pay a little extra whatever it may be. That doesn't
seem unfair to be even put a Mileagelummit, you're limited
(19:15):
to twenty five hundred miles a year. Okay, that's that
kind of thing. But to be able to force you
to take it off the road completely when you're just
usually going from point eight for point B on a
weekend for a car show, that doesn't seem like that
big a deal to me.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
You're making too much sense.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
As I was told long time ago, try to don't
try to make sense out of nonsense. Mister Jay Lenno,
thank you so much for coming on tonight under short notice,
and hopefully we'll have you.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
I'll be calling in on your guess the movie quiz.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well it won't be this Friday because we're preempted by
the chargers, but how about week after next call it?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, no, I enjoy that. That's good, good,
it's good. It's good. Sometimes the clues are just you
have one the add just it's just noise. Wait, that's
not fair. You have somebody speaking. I mean, who's pick
of the clues?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Ah is Mark Ronner, He's picking.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Hey, hey, hey, hey Jay Bullet or Vanishing Point car movies.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
Oh, Bullet the better one.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Okay, thank you, thank you for that.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Oh yeah, bullet Bullets it well, you know, you know
what's great about bullet is all the flaws. Like you see,
he's driving one hundred miles an hour through the streets
of Stansive, tearing around corners and the same Volkswang is
behind him three times.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I've never noticed that.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Yeah yeah, And then he goes around the corner. One
hub guy comes off, and then there's five hubcaps come off.
There's only four hub caps on the car, but five
come off. Yeah. Yeah, I mean there's all kinds of
there's all kinds of funny little mistake, you know, things
that you could never get away with the movies now
they just did then.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
You know, nobody noticed.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Back then, my friend, my friend Buddy Kens, he was
the guy who's slid the motorcycle. Remember the guy guy
goes buying a helmet and the bad guys cut him
off and he and he he lays a bike down
and slides across the highway. Yeah, yeah, that was that
was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I'm looking at a photo of him on a bike
right now. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
But that movie got more people to wear seatbelts because
the scene where the bad guys are being chased and
they see the guy reach down, he goes, he goes click,
you know, he clicks the seatbelt with a big loud clunk,
and he pulls it tight, you know, and then he
floores it and the two guys drive off.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Well, between that and the Adam West batman that did
the job on.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Seat belts, yeah, yeah, you know, you know, I knew Adam.
He was a great guy, a real he had a
real sense of humor. He didn't take himself seriously because
it's such a ridiculous batman thing. It was so it
was so dumb. He was he was a nice guy.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
See it was dumb. Mark told you it was magnificent,
is what it was.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Okay, mister Leno, thanks so much for coming on tonight.
It's later with Mo Kelly. I am six forty live. Everybody,
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Speaker 2 (22:09):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (22:16):
I mister mo Kelly back from Europe, had a wonderful
vacation And to think, I walk back into the studio tonight,
there's a story regarding classic cars and Jay Leno and
he comes on just like that, Just like that. It
wasn't even we had the show had already started. We
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hadn't even reached out. It's like, hey, on a lark,
I'll just reach out to his people and Seev's available,
and he was nice enough and available to come on,
and he can tell his story better than anyone else
for guarding Leno's laws. So I got the sense that
it's not over. This is a setback, and who knows
what the future may hold. But I'm a kid who
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grew up loving They weren't called classic cars then, they
were just cars because they were the cars of the day.
The whole idea. Look, I didn't know. Mark Ronner will
probably agree with. Beyond this one, I mentioned Starsky and
Hutch Grand Tourno was my dream car.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
I had one of those. Was it styled the same way?
It wasn't colored like a tomato? No?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yes, look that racing stripe was to the thing back then.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Oh yeah, that it was an amazing car. Mine was.
I think it was repainted. It was like a powder
blue or something. But the engine in those you could
almost go up like a ninety degree hill.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Do you have a dream classic car that you would
want to own or dry?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Absolutely, it would be an old Jaguar, probably an E
type x K E.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
They're beautiful. You seem more like an Aston Martin.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Oh, those are beautiful too, but I mean those are
very specific to a a chance thing. Yeah, but I
think the big flared front on those old Jags, there's
nothing like them.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
They're just amazing about you. Oh minus the Grand Sino Sam,
What is yours?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
I mentioned it earlier Night Rider.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I want KIT.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
So you want like the eighty four version of the
trans am, not the whole smoking the bandit transam.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
No, I want the I want KIT. I want I
want the I want the interior. I want the voice
talking to me. I want all of them. We pretty
much have the voice talk. We have KIT today pretty much.
We do you know what I need to program? Does
ways have that on there?
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It's called Amy King.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Ah, that's right, she is but I need to get
Kit's voice on my phone.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, and then you could bluetooth it into your system.
Oh that would be so cool.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Twall you have a choice, I would re purchase a
seventy three Dodge dar my very very first car. The
first car that I bought with my own money was
a three Dodge Dart. I wanted because it's the same
year that I was born, and that car was amazing
(25:06):
To get up on that car was fantastic. But I
you know, I knew nothing about car and I got
it as it was a bucket. It was a bucket.
It was something for the summer, and I couldn't drive.
I didn't have a driver's license, I don't know how
to drive. But I still bought it, and me and
my friends still just drove all around all summer until
the thing fell apart.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
One of the groomsmen at my wedding who I grew
up with. We grew up on the same street. His father,
and I think he may still have it to this day,
had a seventy two Chevy Corvette.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Old will stop me, and.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
It was it was yellow, so it was it always
stood out and I hope he still has the car
off to reach out. It was one of those cars
that and he kept it in great condition. You could
hear it coming down the street. That's a car I
would have. An old school Corvette. I would have in
a heartbeat. And it's not something that you know. I
don't collect things. I collect more memories than actual physical things.
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I've never collected cars, but I've always been partial to
American muscle. Now there are other cars, classic cars that
the old school Mercedes Binz with the insignia, the hood
ornament which stuck up and they and the reason they
changed that because people were stealing them off of the
hoods of cars. Yeah, but the old classic Mercedes Benz
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definitely a Citron. I know Mark would know that old car,
the Citron. European cars, uh huh. Would would love to
have one of those. But as far as my personal preferences,
American muscle.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Oh, if I could get a Volkswagen like a seventy three,
like just a bug just to rebuild it.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
I see you living out of a Volkswagen Vannigan, I
would rock a van again. Did you know that those
are back now?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
They're nice, Yes, they're actually really nice.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
And I liked when they brought back the Volkswagen Bug.
It didn't have it turned Sorry, this is gonna sound sexist.
It turned into a woman's car. What are you talking about? Yeah,
when they brought back the Volkswagen Bug, dudes cannot drive
one of those.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
They put eyelashes on them. Is all freaking way would
I ever get one of those? Please? How insecure are
you guys?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Something that's going to disturb the entire neighborhood every time
I come.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Look, let's tell the truth. There are certain cars which
are more suited to be seen in as a woman
as opposed to a man.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
You're gonna answer perform or piz cars now, yes, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Look, if you're growing up and you were driving a
Volkswagen Golf or Volkswagen Fox Cabriole, it's not the dude's car.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Okay. The dude's car was a Schiroco. Oh that was
that was the lick? Actually what there was a Chiroco
and Dawn of the Dead. So you can you can
have points for the Shiroco. Great, that was my dream
car when I was fourteen. Volkswagen Chiroco.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Absolutely, I mean, I'll admit that the Subaru is specifically
for lesbians. But apart from that. From apart from that,
I think none of you have any idea which that one.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
That was Mark Ronner, that was Mark hate mail. That's
a controversial thing to say.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
No, No, SUBERU was one of the first people that
didn't check in on people's marriages. So if there were
gay lesbian couples, they were super was one of the
first companies I would lease cars to gays and lesbians.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Sam to say.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
The captain save the Mark with that one. I didn't
saving in the Pacific Northwest. If you are lesbian, you're
required to have a Super U. They'll stop you. Okay.
I don't think doctor Sam's going to co sign all that.
I don't need him for this one. I got this.
I speak the truth.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
You can try the parents into women and she drives
a super roof.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Oh gosh, what's going on with this show?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I love you for two weeks and all hell has
broken loose in the interim. Now we're talking about cars
and sexual preferences, so so politically incorrect.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
It's laid with mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
We want to listen back to our conversation with Tia
Carrera at just a moment KFI am six forty Live
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty Wimmo Kelly.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
One K.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
Six.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
You may know the iconic Tia Carrera from Wayne's World
or even True Lies. Yes, she can even play a
good villain. Some may need to be reminded that Carrera
also is a two time Grammy Award winner. You may
know her across generations from her contributions to both the
animated original version of Leelo and Stitch and the recent
live action version of Leelo and Stitch, the highest grossing
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movie of twenty twenty five with more than a billion dollars.
Leelo and Stitch is now on digital streaming exclusively on
Disney Plus starting on September third. What a delight to
have the inimitable Tia Carrera here on Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
MS. Carrera, How are you this evening?
Speaker 9 (30:08):
I'm doing great. I've got my evening voice on.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Even I love it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I could make the argument that as a kid born
in Honolulu, that is you, That is that Leelo and Stitch,
either version was a perfect fit for you as an actor.
But when you had dreams of being a singer, which
were temporarily set back after being eliminated on Star Search.
Did you have any idea that acting might be the
way forward?
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Well, it's funny.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
My musical partner Daniel Hoe that I got the Grammys with,
we were in the Talent contest when we're in grade school,
so that was already you know, bubbling along. But movies
are the things that really I've been making my living
at since day one. I was discovered in a grocery
store in wiki Ki, and that's how I got my
first movie, and that that has just been going on
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for the past forty one years. When I moved to
La I did Star Search like eighty four or whatever
it was, but it was for the acting competition. Strangely enough,
they didn't have enough space in the singing part.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
They didn't have it in.
Speaker 10 (31:13):
The Supermodel there's a Supermodel part where you were hosting
in between if you remember back in the day.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
It's funny.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
So I did the acting competition, which is so random,
because I mean, how would you judge acting? I mean,
who's better Paccino or de Niro, neither both all of
the above.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
You know, you can't really judge acting. The same way.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Since you mentioned acting, you've acted on soap operas, on
daytime TV, You've done movies, voiceover singer as well. As
we were just discussing, is there a discipline or format
that you enjoy more or less than others.
Speaker 9 (31:45):
I love both, I really do. I'm so grateful that
I get to do both.
Speaker 10 (31:50):
There's a feeling I get when I sing, and I
think it's the vibration in your chest and your body,
how it connects with the audience. I love the feeling
of singing live in the room and then sing people,
you know, especially when I sing Aloha Oi, the song
from Leelo and Stitch, and I'll see people they'll start crying.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
You know.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
It's not that statistic thing, but I just love that
it touches their heart. I'm sad that it makes them sad,
but it's something like you know they say when tears
like wash your soul, Yes, And you know they carry
a sadness in them and they're remembering somebody they lost,
and I think it's such a.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Beautiful moment to share.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
And I think music does that or can do that
with people in a way.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
It's so visceral, it's so real. You know other connection.
Speaker 11 (32:37):
Oh a lo.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I kill.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
Heally one fun.
Speaker 11 (33:00):
Way.
Speaker 9 (33:02):
Oh oh.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Untie me.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Fuckay, that's a nice transition. Let's get into that. There's
Lilo and Stitch two thousand and two, where you voice Nanni,
And there's Lilo and Stitch the live action twenty twenty
five rebake, which is available on Digital and Disney Plus
on September third, where you play social worker missus Kekoha.
What was it like revisiting the le Loo and Stitch franchise.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
Yeah, it's funny that, you know, with twenty three years later.
So I was that messy, out of control teenager that
couldn't get her act together, trying to keep her family together,
and now I'm the social worker that's poised to break
that family up, you know way, you know, But I
think it's beautiful how the character was created, and the
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point of view is like, Okay, so Dean Fleischer Camp,
the director of this live action film, his mom is
really a social worker, and so he wanted to have
more empathy.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
And you know, they're not all.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
Just like the big bad you know, people that are
going to take away the kid. Mine is more advocating,
trying to help her and mentor her to keep her
family together.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
So it's done with great empathy and I appreciate that.
Speaker 10 (34:17):
So I also had a backstory for myself that I said, Hey,
what if I actually went through the system. I'm a
child that went through the foster system and came out
the other end and got this profession that I can
help mentor. And he loved that, and so it really
colored my whole performance and the way that it was.
So I like that I can be somebody that's advocating
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and helping keep families together.
Speaker 11 (34:43):
Nanni, we both know this didn't go well today. I
can see you trying, but.
Speaker 9 (34:49):
You're too smart for me to beat around the bush here.
Speaker 10 (34:52):
I know it hasn't been that long since your parents
passed away, but my.
Speaker 11 (34:57):
Job is to make sure that Lilo is in a
stable environment. Man, I can't say that in good conscience
right now. Listen, I know this is a lot. You're
practically a kid yourself. Look, you seem like a goal
(35:19):
oriented person. We have a new director coming into town
next week, and I would really really love to tell
him that you girls have turned a corner.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
So why don't we come up with some goals to
achieve by them?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, yeah, I like the nuance of what I would
call the more serious and adult themes. You have children
who've lost their parents and they're trying to keep that
family together, as we were just discussing. But also it's
a coming of age and dealing with some uncertainty of
life and its twists and turns.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Would you agree with me.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
That the live action was a more appropriate format to
deal with some of these themes as opposed to animate it.
Speaker 10 (35:59):
Oh no, I think I think they're both fantastic and superlative.
I think the fact that this is live action made
it imperative to handle things in a very realistic manner.
So in the animated feature, it's a beautiful water color world,
and so you could go on this fantastical journey and
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it doesn't have to be literal. But because we're in
the real world now looking at real people, the steaks
have to be real world stakes, you know. And even
the resolution at the end that people are taking issue with,
I think it's accurate because we do have to go
and put our face mask on before we help each other,
you know, on the airplane. So she has to uplift
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herself to be able to help her family and to
help her community.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
And I don't want to give away the.
Speaker 10 (36:48):
Ending, but that's why I'm sort of speaking like in
those terms. I think it's a really beautifully nuanced, realistic
rendering of that watercolor world that we saw twenty three
years ago. And I'm very to see what Chris Anders
comes up with for the live action sequel, because you know,
he's from that previous world and now bringing it into
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this real, live world. It's going to be very interesting
to see the marriage between the two. It's it's going
to be exciting.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Have you changed the way that do you approach certain
projects like this because now you're a mother as opposed
to earlier in your career in which you weren't. Has
your growth in life changed how you approach these projects
which are more family oriented.
Speaker 9 (37:32):
Well, one hundred percent.
Speaker 10 (37:33):
I definitely dig deeper and think more deeply about how
to approach a character.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
There's there's no like one note. They're not just the villain,
they're not just the kid.
Speaker 10 (37:46):
And I think that's what people were responding to in
this movie is there's such a depth even to Nannie.
Like my character Nanni in the cartoon, she was like tough,
and you know kicking butt and frustrated with her sister.
And it was very film because it was an animated world.
But in this movie you had to see the subtlety
in Sydney's eyes, yes, who played Nanny. You have to
see subtlety of her being conflicted and being scared that
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she's not going to be able to pull it off
and overwhelmed. And I love again how this has touched
people's hearts. You know how grown women and men honestly
have come up to me and said, I can't believe
that I spent twenty minutes of this film just really weeping.
It's just brought up so much in me and the
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struggles I had as a young person, and I can't
believe how much it really affected me deeply, and that
longing for their family.
Speaker 9 (38:38):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 10 (38:39):
That's when you know that your art form has touched people,
that you know that you've made, you successfully created something special.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
There if you just joined the show.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I'm speaking with Tia Carrera, Yes, you know her from
Wayne's World, True Lies and so much more. But of
course we're talking about Lee, Lo and Stitch and it's
streaming exclusively on Disney Plus on September third, I will
have more with Tiya Carrera In just a moment.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
KFI mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Later with Mo Kelly, We're talking Lielo and Stitch with
Tia Carrara, which is now on digital. It's streaming exclusively
on Disney Plus September third, Tia, I wonder though since
now the business of making movies has changed. When you
and I were growing up, we didn't have this outlet
called streaming where we could have the movie shortly after
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it leaves theaters and see it again and again and
again for those who may watch it for the first time,
or maybe for the second or third time. But on
the digital format of Disney Plus, is there anything different
or in addition to what they may have seen in
the theaters.
Speaker 10 (39:48):
I think if you get the DVD, you get like,
I don't have the deleted scenes, director's commentary, you know,
stuff like that you'll get on the DVD that releases
on the twenty sixth.
Speaker 9 (39:58):
But I think one it's on Disney Plus. Unless they
put out.
Speaker 10 (40:03):
TV specials, they might be putting these little shorts in between,
you know how they do it's like because they interviewed
us on the set, and I've seen some of these
coming out here and there advertising the film. So I'm
sure that Disney Plus will release these little behind the
scenes that we did on set and explaining how they
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do stuff and funny little little short videos that they
did for marketing and stuff. But it's expensive to go
see the movies, let's be honest. So maybe mommy and
Daddy and a couple of the older kids went that,
you know, they said, okay, we'll spend on this.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
It's expensive.
Speaker 10 (40:39):
So now I love that it's on Disney Plus where
everybody can go. Grandma, grandpa, great grandma, great grandpa, and
the kids, the littles that maybe we're a little too
young to go to the theater to really absorb it,
and so they're like, you know, or maybe it'll be
a little too scary for them a few months ago.
Speaker 9 (40:56):
Now they can see it on TV.
Speaker 10 (40:58):
Sitting there with you know, mommy and dad hugging them
so that they don't get scared.
Speaker 9 (41:02):
They're like, oh ha ha ha.
Speaker 10 (41:03):
You know, you can sort of make it into more
of a thing because there's some like outer space stuff
and you know, some stuff where they're chasing and there's
real peril. So I think it'd be great to be
able to sit on the couch and watch it with
the family, the.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Whole family, MS career.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
I've appreciated you spending this time making two more quick questions.
Number One, I bury the leader. I should say we
buried the lead because you mentioned the apparent sequel that
is in the works for Lulo in Stitch.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
What are you allowed to tell us?
Speaker 10 (41:32):
All I can say is that we were at San
Diego Comic Con a couple of weeks ago, and Chris
Sanders and the original creator of the character Stitch, he
did it in art school when it was like I
don't know, twenty or something. Chris Anders, myself, Sidney who
plays Nanny, and Maya who plays Leel. We were all
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on the panel and the big announcement that they are
indeed doing a sequel.
Speaker 9 (41:57):
But that doesn't.
Speaker 10 (41:58):
Surprise us because you know, the first one did a
billion dollars.
Speaker 9 (42:02):
Our little Blue friend is a billionaire.
Speaker 10 (42:04):
Yes, so they had to do a sequel, and we're
all there for it.
Speaker 9 (42:09):
They did do a sequel of the first one.
Speaker 10 (42:12):
Stitch has a glitch, so what remains to be seen
is if they follow that storyline or use that as
a jumping off point, or if they don't do that
at all. I mean, that's really firmly in Chris Sanders' hands.
Speaker 9 (42:24):
Really well, see, I have to watch this space.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
I know that people are listening right now who have
loved your work over the period of many years, and people,
I guess find you at different points in your career
and our lives. So when people recognize you and they
come up to you, are they saying, oh, that's Tia
Carrera from Wayne's World or True Lies or Leelo is
Stitch or is it something else?
Speaker 10 (42:46):
Well, right now, I'm going back on tour September till October.
And I love when people respond to the music, you know,
because it's like again that feeling live in the room.
So I'm going to be going, like, you can check
my website. I have an updated but there's some dates
on there like September twenty third till October eighteenth, I
think if you look on tia career dot com. But
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lately Okay, so this is the funny thing. I went
to the Squid Games like premiere this last you know,
I don't know a few months ago and there's a
red carpet and all the stars from the you know,
the Squid Games are there, and all these people are
coming up to me taking pictures with me because they
recognized Missus Kakoha, and I was like, I was like, wow,
that is where I knew that this movie was hitting
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a chord.
Speaker 9 (43:30):
This is before it was like billion dollar movie.
Speaker 10 (43:32):
This is like the first week, and the amount of
people that had gone to see Lelo and Stitch in
the theaters was staggering just by the amount of people
that were recognizing me in that moment, and I just
had a feeling. I'm like, this is going to be
a huge movie if this is an indicator. Yeah, it
was very early, very early days.
Speaker 9 (43:52):
And this was already happening.
Speaker 10 (43:53):
So Missus Kakoa definitely because Missus Kaikoha doesn't have much hair.
Speaker 9 (43:57):
And makeup, you know, so she looked more like what
I look like in.
Speaker 4 (43:59):
Real and we love it.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Leelo and Stitch is now streaming exclusively on Disney Plus
starting September third, and there you can catch the wonderful,
the inivitable Tea Carrera. I appreciate you coming on the
show in such short notice. We celebrate your success. Thank
you so much, and we'll be looking out for the
sequel of Lelo and Stitch in the coming years.
Speaker 9 (44:22):
Next year, I think next year.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Well wow, now you're just breaking news.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Now.
Speaker 9 (44:26):
Oh no, I don't know. No, no, I don't know. No, No,
well you know what. Wait, no what I'm lying? I
just lied to you. I'm so sorry. Or so early
in our relationship, I'm already lying.
Speaker 10 (44:35):
It can't possibly be because they got visual effects and
stuff they got to do that takes like a year.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
I'll take it this way. We'll wait until after next
year so they can correct us.
Speaker 10 (44:44):
Yes, it's not a lie yet, I'll prove that.
Speaker 9 (44:47):
I'll let them prove me wrong.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
It's later with Moke Kelly care if I aim six forty.
We're live everywheing. iHeartRadio app as FI and kost HD
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Oh winmo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
One six.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and some wonders like, well,
how do you stay mo connected to the news, what's
going on locally when you're on vacation in Europe. Well,
I had to slowly ramp myself back up and get
into the swing of things. I think was maybe Friday
and Rome is nine hours or depending on if you're
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in Greece, ten hours ahead of this time zone, so
I want to say Friday, I'm on the ship, is
between the last stop in Greece and the last stop
in Rome. I'm starting to digest more Southern California news
and I'm trying to get myself back up to speed.
And one of the stories that I did see was
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this Lino's Law, as in Jay Lennel, which had been
trying to make its way through Sacramento. And this is
something that I'd followed from a distance, but now it's
back in the news because California State Assembly Appropriations Committee,
from what I read, has killed Leno's Law, which was
aimed to give classic car owners and I love classic cars.
(01:17):
It was aimed to give those owners a pass regarding
small requirements and Jay, if you happen to be listening
right now. Go ahead and give us a call on
the hotline. We'll put you right up because I know
this is something which is very important to you. In fact,
the last time he called in was when we were
talking about classic cars.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
He has called in out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And I understand, or at least from a distance, I
understand what Jay was trying to accomplish. If you have
a car that's let's say older than fifteen twenty years, yes,
you have to get it small check, I think, like
every other year, and it can be prohibitively expensive, dealing
with an agent, car, catalytic converters, all that kind of stuff.
(01:57):
And I understand why he would want to do it
try to do it, but I also understand that this
is California and the Democrats would never do it. It's
just something, you know, trying to be environmentally friendly quote
unquote that that's not going to make it through this.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, but this almost seems like this is picking on
a group for no reason. Because everyone doesn't have a
classic car.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
This is a small group, your car owner.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So I'm like, why are you picking on on the
small fries?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
You know?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
To me, that's one of the things. I'm like, you
could take this time to do more to build up
and enhance the infrastructure of California so we can have
more charging stations, more access for individuals with electronic cars,
increase the electronic car purchase rebates, things like that, if
(02:54):
you really want to do something and go in a
different direction. Because classic car owners that's a very small
group of Californians.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Wait, I just got hit by Jay's assistant, so he
might be able to get him on, so keep on
talking to Yah.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It's just I think that Jay Leno taking up this
fight is the absolute right move. And you know, of
course we absolutely support anything that Jay is doing. And
this to me as someone who is a fan of
classes are like right down the street from us at
the Bob's Big Boy. They still have the night where
they get together and they bring out those cars.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
But you know what, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Only like fifty people think about this. What did we
used to do each Labor Day? The Labor daya car cruise? Yes,
and we would go out. I think it was like
oc Fair and Vince Center. Ye, they'd have the crews
of these classic cars, many of them muscle cars. All
of those cars which would be impacted by Leno's law.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And guess what, there's only about two hundred at the
most cars on site. And of those cars, not every
one of them was driving. Some of them were just
there for show. So to me, this is one of
those things. It's like, come on, California, of all the
things that we could be targeting, you wanna you wanna
stop this one.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
This is I think a function of what I would
say governmental greed, where they would rather have the registration
fees and the small fees than just doing it's like
too much like right, you can't get about get out
of our own ways. To your point, it's a relatively
small segment, but also you could help enough Californians with this.
(04:39):
It's it's what I say, it's minor. I'm not I'm
not trying to criticize the law as of being unimportant,
but it's it's not impacting a major slice of Californians.
Where there's should there shouldn't have been any real obstacles
for this. This shouldn't be any real push.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, I got for me, I look at these cars
like their works of art.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
If you look at a painting It's like, are we
gonna take a painting off of the wall of the
Getty because it has lead based paint.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
That's a great point.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Wow, these are works of art and we should treat
them as such. If the people who own these cars
are upkeeping them with the original gear and everything inside,
then you shouldn't have They shouldn't be subjected to the
same laws because these aren't just the normal cars that
people are driving around. And these aren't the cars that
people are driving across town and sitting in two hours
of traffic. They're pulling out every day's hours once a week. Yeah,
(05:35):
to go to these car shows. They should be exempt
from these rules.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
It looks like it's for cars from nineteen seventy five
and earlier. So come on, this is really just petty.
That even makes it smaller. We're not even talking about
a nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
El Camino.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We're not talking about We're not talking about a good
portion of the classic muscle car.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Demographic.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, we're only talking about a relatively small number. Because
if you're growing up in the late nineteen sixties and
seventies like I was, it was a part of the
American identity. These cars you could turn on a show
like Starsky and Hutch or or I'm trying to think
(06:25):
we had night Rider night Rider, Yes, with the trans Am.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I mean all of classic cars. There's so many shows
that we used to watch that classic cars were part
of the show. I mean, hell, if you ever spent
any time watching Happy Days, you saw nothing but classic
muscle cars.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Well, in movie Vanishing Points, you got your two lane blacktop.
You're gonna tell Kowalski from Vanishing Point he's got to pass.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
An emissions test.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Are you gonna tell whoever the present owner of that
fastback Mustang from Bullet.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Don't just don't do I need to even say it?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Heresy. It's Later with mo Kelly. We'll see if we
can find out if Jay's available. His people just hit me,
so we'll see what happens. KFI AM six forty We're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Forty KFI It's mo Kelly Later with mo Kelly. We're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. I'm back from vacation
and I missed you guys. Well, not Mark Runner, but
everyone else.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
You brought something back from that filthy cruise ship and
it made me cough.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Okay, you're gonna be it's gonna be incubating in your
body and jes dating for the next I don't know,
a day or two, and then you'll have something blast
out of your chest.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
All those things are is just floating, Petrie dishes. Admit it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Goodness, We're gonna get you on the ship come April.
But right now, please be joined by none other than
the Jay Leno. As we talk about Leno's Law, Mister Lenno,
how you doing this evening?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Good God, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And when I saw this story about Leno's Law and
how it's aimed at easing classic car small requirements in California,
and also that at this point it has failed because
of our state legislature, of course I thought of you
and wanted to reach out to you. What was some
of the reasons why you wanted to pursue this and
(08:27):
where are we now?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Well?
Speaker 7 (08:29):
I mean in the same thing is if if you
have your grandfather's car for exactly you know, in other states,
like in Massachusetts where I grew up cars rusting out
after a couple of years. Here in California, cars last
a long long time, and you can drive an Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
The line dropped. We'll try to get it right back.
But I know the point that he was going to
make it. And Twalla, you understand this. If you're on
the East Coast and you have a car, due to rock,
salt and all the other elements, your car is going
to rust rather quickly.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Street conditions, all of that. Yeah, No cars burn out
quickly on the East Coast.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And to his point, if you have a car here
on the West Coast, it is not unusual that you
may have a car bequeathed to you, handed down to you,
and it's going to last. Like my last car prior
to this one, I had it for one hundred and
sixty thousand miles. The car before that was three hundred
thousand miles. So cars last longer.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
In general, we take care of our cars better here
in California.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
All right, And here is mister Leno calling right back.
We'll get him up in just a second. But there's
no one better that we can talk to.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Mister Leno. You there, I'm back.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
You know, Los Angeles like Guatemala. Now several day it's
sunny and the powers out. You know, you're welcome, Welcome
to the new Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You were saying that cars last longer here in California.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
Well, cars last longer here in California. It's just the
idea that you see up until nineteen ninety from nineteen
ninety six, and you had something called on board diagnostics,
which with a monocol, you drive in, you plug in,
and you know in ten seconds for your car pass
or fail. I mean it's real quick. It's forty five
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dollars or whatever it is. Right, older cars they have
to be driven in up on a roller like what
they call a rolling road. You know, you back your
back cars and you hold it just thirty miles an hour.
The cars shake and the floor shake it you know
kind of okay. First of all, not many service stations
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have that sort of small stations have that set of
equipment anymore. So you have to drive around to try
and find one that can even do a test on
your pre nineties car. So there's only two or three
in Los Angeles at this point, so it's it's hard
to find. So consequently, you wind up you wind up
making criminals a lot of people. You drive a car
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you've had for thirty years and it's always run fine. Obviously,
if your car is you know, belching, smoke and all
those kind of things, well, equal cars, you're going to
get nailed. But that's not the case here. So the
idea is just the cars are exempt in every other state,
why shouldn't they be here?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You know, what do you think is the reason behind
the pushback? I was speculating, Hey, California just wants to
have more registration fees, small fees.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's just about money. Is it about that or something else?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
No?
Speaker 8 (11:33):
I don't know. You know something I look, when I
came to California in the seventies, there was probably a
tensive the amount of cars that are now, and this
smog was unbelievable. There were days they were you know,
for like one hundred and fifteen days a year they'd
take them outside. Okay, now you have ten times as
many cars and the air is infinitely cleaner. So obviously
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they've done a very good job. But to me, it's
a bit like alcohol. You know, we tried banning alcohol,
how right, it didn't work, so we make it point
o eight. Okay, so you can get point a weight.
And it's kind of the same thing with smog. I mean,
you know, if you have an older car, obviously a
car from the seventies is not going to be its
efficient as a car from the current model the year.
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But it's also if you've been driving it for fifty years,
you've done less environmental damage than someone who buys a
new car for a couple of years, you know what
I'm saying. So, I mean, that's that's one reason I
don't think. I mean, obviously money and registration is part
of it, but I'm not that much of a cinic.
I think. You know, there are people in the air
resources board in these places that are very committed to
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cleaning up the air, and they get a bit overly
zellous about it. Gets to the point where it's like, really,
I have to this car has been run perfectly for
the last thirty five years, and I have to get
rid of it. And what are you doing to give it?
Will you sell it to somebody in Nevada? All right?
So now you've just moved it to another place. And
plus most of these old cars don't get riven them.
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You know, I have a car I bought brand new
in nineteen eighty nine. It's got twenty seven thousand miles
on it. That's less than one thousand miles a year. Okay,
and it passes mug. But it's harder and harder to
find a place to to do the rolling road and
get this contest.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You know, from a legislative standpoint, we're talking about Senate
Bill seven twelve, which was advanced first by Bakersfield Republican
Senator Shannon Grove. Now the what what is the next step?
Is there a next step? Can you modify the bill
in some way and resubmit it.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Well, that's what we did. We modified it and we
instead of making it it's going to be thirty five
years and old, and we moved it back another you know.
But you know, and then they see these things in
the middle of the night where they vote on something
and what what happened? Hey, my wallet's gone. You know,
it's those kind of you know, it's it's you know,
(13:59):
I thought show, but this is sneaky. Oh my god, politics,
it's much worse. I'm not not even in the same league.
And look, look we gave it a try. You know, Look,
we drove the movie industry out of California, and for
the longest time, hot rotting and car modifications and the
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car culture really start in Los Angeles and we've pretty
much driven that out too. You know, it's just to
get more and more businesses leaving California. You know, there
aren't enough old cars around. Really, It's like zero point
oh one percent of all the cars in the state
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that would be effective by it.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I don't want to connect dots that aren't there, so
correct me if I'm wrong. Is this do you think
connected to this whole ev green initiative that California and
Governor Newsom has been pushing, and so they want to
actually dis further discourage fossil fuel industry cars of that note.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
You know, I have no you know, I'm not good
at speaking on things I have no proof about. I mean,
we could speculate, and that would be an interesting reason.
I suppose, and I suppose there are people who do
believe that, you know. But yeah, but we gave it
a good shot. You know, we organized enough people, but
(15:24):
and it passed. It got further than any other bill
like this has gotten. We thought, oh, when September comes,
the governor just decide whether to veto it or but
it never even got that far. So yeah, that's that's
where we are. You know. It's uh, you know, I
never assume everybody's motives are evil or bad. I think
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people want to clean up the state, and they've done
a wonderful job of cleaning up the state. I mean,
the air is much cleaner in California and it's ever been,
wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I absolutely agree.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I remember those small days, and I'm a little bit
younger than you, and I say that with great respect.
But we weren't allowed to go out for recess at
that time because we had the small alerts.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
Yeah, right right, and you know, and look I drive.
To me, the electric car is the great savior of
the gasoline car because to have some gasboarding cars sitting
in the four or five freeway to any I use
my electric car when I run back and forward and
go to the airport. And then on the weekends, I
use my cars the way people would use a snowmobile
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or any other recreational vehicle. I usually drive fifteen miles
to car show. It sits there all day with the
engine off. I tell lies to other car guys about
it and whatnot. And we all talk and then you
go home, you know. So it's not like these cars
are being driven hundreds of thousands of miles all the time.
It didn't seem like that big a thing to do
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because every other state, any car twenty five years over
is considered a classic and not have now have to
subject to all the rules regulating. We're the only one
that really does that, and I'm sorry it's that way.
But apparently it didn't pass. So it didn't pass, So
I mean, at some point, maybe we'll try again and
see what happened. Since yeah, that's where we are.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Well, mister Lenno, I appreciate you sharing just some time
with us. We reached out to you, like, I don't know,
fifteen minutes ago, so thank you for coming on under
short notice.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Let me ask you this before we go.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Yeah, go ahead. I was wondering ahead, well, since.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You brought it up.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
No seriously though it may have been no right now,
but now people, I believe more of the general public
know about this issue and more about this building ever before.
Do you think that with a groundswell of support from
people like me and others who may not have been
aware of it prior to may change the calculus.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Well that's possible, you know. I you know, I go
over to Clay Constence and try it again. You know.
I met with the Air Resources Board and I complimented
them on the great work they do. I think they
thought out I'm not an adversary. I mean, I like
classic cars, but I also liked them to be clean.
I like them to be infisient. And I liked them
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because people like them. I mean, if they're blowing smoke
and dirting up the environment, well then nobody wants that,
you know. So I when I met with them, I
thank them for the good job they've done it. Just
I thought, this one just goes too far. It just
seems to be you know, if I have a nineteen
eighty nine automobile, the fact that I to even find
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a small station that will give me a check even
though it passes, and then I can't find one, so
I don't pass it, and now I'm a criminal. Now
I'm driving an illegal car. Now you're breaking a lot.
You know, you're just kind of making criminals out of
innocent people. You know, the old thing when fifty hund
percent of people break the law, it's not a law anymore,
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you know what I mean. And that's where it is.
I know so many people that inherent did you know,
their grandfather's Cadillac or whatever it might be, and they
just want to take it to a car show on
Sunday and they can't, I mean, you know, having just
pay a little extra whatever it may be. That doesn't
seem unfair to be even put a Mileagelummit, you're limited
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to twenty five hundred miles a year. Okay, that's that
kind of thing. But to be able to force you
to take it off the road completely when you're just
usually going from point eight for point B on a
weekend for a car show, that doesn't seem like that
big a deal to me.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
You're making too much sense.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
As I was told long time ago, try to don't
try to make sense out of nonsense. Mister Jay Lenno,
thank you so much for coming on tonight under short notice,
and hopefully we'll have you.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
I'll be calling in on your guess the movie quiz.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well it won't be this Friday because we're preempted by
the chargers, but how about week after next call it?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, no, I enjoy that. That's good, good,
it's good. It's good. Sometimes the clues are just you
have one the add just it's just noise. Wait, that's
not fair. You have somebody speaking. I mean, who's pick
of the clues?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Ah is Mark Ronner, He's picking.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Hey, hey, hey, hey Jay Bullet or Vanishing Point car movies.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
Oh, Bullet the better one.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Okay, thank you, thank you for that.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Oh yeah, bullet Bullets it well, you know, you know
what's great about bullet is all the flaws. Like you see,
he's driving one hundred miles an hour through the streets
of Stansive, tearing around corners and the same Volkswang is
behind him three times.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I've never noticed that.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Yeah yeah, And then he goes around the corner. One
hub guy comes off, and then there's five hubcaps come off.
There's only four hub caps on the car, but five
come off. Yeah. Yeah, I mean there's all kinds of
there's all kinds of funny little mistake, you know, things
that you could never get away with the movies now
they just did then.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
You know, nobody noticed.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Back then, my friend, my friend Buddy Kens, he was
the guy who's slid the motorcycle. Remember the guy guy
goes buying a helmet and the bad guys cut him
off and he and he he lays a bike down
and slides across the highway. Yeah, yeah, that was that
was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I'm looking at a photo of him on a bike
right now. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
But that movie got more people to wear seatbelts because
the scene where the bad guys are being chased and
they see the guy reach down, he goes, he goes click,
you know, he clicks the seatbelt with a big loud clunk,
and he pulls it tight, you know, and then he
floores it and the two guys drive off.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Well, between that and the Adam West batman that did
the job on.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Seat belts, yeah, yeah, you know, you know, I knew Adam.
He was a great guy, a real he had a
real sense of humor. He didn't take himself seriously because
it's such a ridiculous batman thing. It was so it
was so dumb. He was he was a nice guy.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
See it was dumb. Mark told you it was magnificent,
is what it was.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Okay, mister Leno, thanks so much for coming on tonight.
It's later with Mo Kelly. I am six forty live. Everybody,
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Speaker 2 (22:09):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six fortyf.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I mister mo Kelly back from Europe, had a wonderful
vacation And to think, I walk back into the studio tonight,
there's a story regarding classic cars and Jay Leno and
he comes on just like that, Just like that. It
wasn't even we had the show had already started. We
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hadn't even reached out. It's like, hey, on a lark,
I'll just reach out to his people and Seev's available,
and he was nice enough and available to come on,
and he can tell his story better than anyone else
for guarding Leno's laws. So I got the sense that
it's not over. This is a setback, and who knows
what the future may hold. But I'm a kid who
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grew up loving They weren't called classic cars then, they
were just cars because they were the cars of the day.
The whole idea. Look, I didn't know. Mark Ronner will
probably agree with. Beyond this one, I mentioned Starsky and
Hutch Grand Tourno was my dream car.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
I had one of those. Was it styled the same way?
It wasn't colored like a tomato? No?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yes, look that racing stripe was to the thing back then.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Oh yeah, that it was an amazing car. Mine was.
I think it was repainted. It was like a powder
blue or something. But the engine in those you could
almost go up like a ninety degree hill.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Do you have a dream classic car that you would
want to own or dry?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Absolutely, it would be an old Jaguar, probably an E
type x K E.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
They're beautiful. You seem more like an Aston Martin.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Oh, those are beautiful too, but I mean those are
very specific to a a chance thing. Yeah, but I
think the big flared front on those old Jags, there's
nothing like them.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
They're just amazing about you. Oh minus the Grand Sino Sam,
What is yours?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
I mentioned it earlier Night Rider.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I want KIT.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
So you want like the eighty four version of the
trans am, not the whole smoking the bandit transam.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
No, I want the I want KIT. I want I
want the I want the interior. I want the voice
talking to me. I want all of them. We pretty
much have the voice talk. We have KIT today pretty much.
We do you know what I need to program? Does
ways have that on there?
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It's called Amy King.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Ah, that's right, she is but I need to get
Kit's voice on my phone.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, and then you could bluetooth it into your system.
Oh that would be so cool.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Twall you have a choice, I would re purchase a
seventy three Dodge dar my very very first car. The
first car that I bought with my own money was
a three Dodge Dart. I wanted because it's the same
year that I was born, and that car was amazing
(25:06):
To get up on that car was fantastic. But I
you know, I knew nothing about car and I got
it as it was a bucket. It was a bucket.
It was something for the summer, and I couldn't drive.
I didn't have a driver's license, I don't know how
to drive. But I still bought it, and me and
my friends still just drove all around all summer until
the thing fell apart.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
One of the groomsmen at my wedding who I grew
up with. We grew up on the same street. His father,
and I think he may still have it to this day,
had a seventy two Chevy Corvette.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Old will stop me, and.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
It was it was yellow, so it was it always
stood out and I hope he still has the car
off to reach out. It was one of those cars
that and he kept it in great condition. You could
hear it coming down the street. That's a car I
would have. An old school Corvette. I would have in
a heartbeat. And it's not something that you know. I
don't collect things. I collect more memories than actual physical things.
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I've never collected cars, but I've always been partial to
American muscle. Now there are other cars, classic cars that
the old school Mercedes Binz with the insignia, the hood
ornament which stuck up and they and the reason they
changed that because people were stealing them off of the
hoods of cars. Yeah, but the old classic Mercedes Benz
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definitely a Citron. I know Mark would know that old car,
the Citron. European cars, uh huh. Would would love to
have one of those. But as far as my personal preferences,
American muscle.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Oh, if I could get a Volkswagen like a seventy three,
like just a bug just to rebuild it.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
I see you living out of a Volkswagen Vannigan, I
would rock a van again. Did you know that those
are back now?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
They're nice, Yes, they're actually really nice.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
And I liked when they brought back the Volkswagen Bug.
It didn't have it turned Sorry, this is gonna sound sexist.
It turned into a woman's car. What are you talking about? Yeah,
when they brought back the Volkswagen Bug, dudes cannot drive
one of those.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
They put eyelashes on them. Is all freaking way would
I ever get one of those? Please? How insecure are
you guys?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Something that's going to disturb the entire neighborhood every time
I come.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Look, let's tell the truth. There are certain cars which
are more suited to be seen in as a woman
as opposed to a man.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
You're gonna answer perform or piz cars now, yes, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Look, if you're growing up and you were driving a
Volkswagen Golf or Volkswagen Fox Cabriole, it's not the dude's car.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Okay. The dude's car was a Schiroco. Oh that was
that was the lick? Actually what there was a Chiroco
and Dawn of the Dead. So you can you can
have points for the Shiroco. Great, that was my dream
car when I was fourteen. Volkswagen Chiroco.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Absolutely, I mean, I'll admit that the Subaru is specifically
for lesbians. But apart from that. From apart from that,
I think none of you have any idea which that one.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
That was Mark Ronner, that was Mark hate mail. That's
a controversial thing to say.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
No, No, SUBERU was one of the first people that
didn't check in on people's marriages. So if there were
gay lesbian couples, they were super was one of the
first companies I would lease cars to gays and lesbians.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Sam to say.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
The captain save the Mark with that one. I didn't
saving in the Pacific Northwest. If you are lesbian, you're
required to have a Super U. They'll stop you. Okay.
I don't think doctor Sam's going to co sign all that.
I don't need him for this one. I got this.
I speak the truth.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
You can try the parents into women and she drives
a super roof.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Oh gosh, what's going on with this show?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I love you for two weeks and all hell has
broken loose in the interim. Now we're talking about cars
and sexual preferences, so so politically incorrect.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
It's laid with mo Kelly.
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You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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Six.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
You may know the iconic Tia Carrera from Wayne's World
or even True Lies. Yes, she can even play a
good villain. Some may need to be reminded that Carrera
also is a two time Grammy Award winner. You may
know her across generations from her contributions to both the
animated original version of Leelo and Stitch and the recent
live action version of Leelo and Stitch, the highest grossing
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movie of twenty twenty five with more than a billion dollars.
Leelo and Stitch is now on digital streaming exclusively on
Disney Plus starting on September third. What a delight to
have the inimitable Tia Carrera here on Later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
MS. Carrera, How are you this evening?
Speaker 9 (30:08):
I'm doing great. I've got my evening voice on.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Even I love it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I could make the argument that as a kid born
in Honolulu, that is you, That is that Leelo and Stitch,
either version was a perfect fit for you as an actor.
But when you had dreams of being a singer, which
were temporarily set back after being eliminated on Star Search.
Did you have any idea that acting might be the
way forward?
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Well, it's funny.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
My musical partner Daniel Hoe that I got the Grammys with,
we were in the Talent contest when we're in grade school,
so that was already you know, bubbling along. But movies
are the things that really I've been making my living
at since day one. I was discovered in a grocery
store in wiki Ki, and that's how I got my
first movie, and that that has just been going on
(30:59):
for the past forty one years. When I moved to
La I did Star Search like eighty four or whatever
it was, but it was for the acting competition. Strangely enough,
they didn't have enough space in the singing part.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
They didn't have it in.
Speaker 10 (31:13):
The Supermodel there's a Supermodel part where you were hosting
in between if you remember back in the day.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
It's funny.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
So I did the acting competition, which is so random,
because I mean, how would you judge acting? I mean,
who's better Paccino or de Niro, neither both all of
the above.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
You know, you can't really judge acting. The same way.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Since you mentioned acting, you've acted on soap operas, on
daytime TV, You've done movies, voiceover singer as well. As
we were just discussing, is there a discipline or format
that you enjoy more or less than others.
Speaker 9 (31:45):
I love both, I really do. I'm so grateful that
I get to do both.
Speaker 10 (31:50):
There's a feeling I get when I sing, and I
think it's the vibration in your chest and your body,
how it connects with the audience. I love the feeling
of singing live in the room and then sing people,
you know, especially when I sing Aloha Oi, the song
from Leelo and Stitch, and I'll see people they'll start crying.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
You know.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
It's not that statistic thing, but I just love that
it touches their heart. I'm sad that it makes them sad,
but it's something like you know they say when tears
like wash your soul, Yes, And you know they carry
a sadness in them and they're remembering somebody they lost,
and I think it's such a.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Beautiful moment to share.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
And I think music does that or can do that
with people in a way.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
It's so visceral, it's so real. You know other connection.
Speaker 11 (32:37):
Oh a lo.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I kill.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
Heally one fun.
Speaker 11 (33:00):
Way.
Speaker 9 (33:02):
Oh oh.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Untie me.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Fuckay, that's a nice transition. Let's get into that. There's
Lilo and Stitch two thousand and two, where you voice Nanni,
And there's Lilo and Stitch the live action twenty twenty
five rebake, which is available on Digital and Disney Plus
on September third, where you play social worker missus Kekoha.
What was it like revisiting the le Loo and Stitch franchise.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
Yeah, it's funny that, you know, with twenty three years later.
So I was that messy, out of control teenager that
couldn't get her act together, trying to keep her family together,
and now I'm the social worker that's poised to break
that family up, you know way, you know, But I
think it's beautiful how the character was created, and the
(33:54):
point of view is like, Okay, so Dean Fleischer Camp,
the director of this live action film, his mom is
really a social worker, and so he wanted to have
more empathy.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
And you know, they're not all.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
Just like the big bad you know, people that are
going to take away the kid. Mine is more advocating,
trying to help her and mentor her to keep her
family together.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
So it's done with great empathy and I appreciate that.
Speaker 10 (34:17):
So I also had a backstory for myself that I said, Hey,
what if I actually went through the system. I'm a
child that went through the foster system and came out
the other end and got this profession that I can
help mentor. And he loved that, and so it really
colored my whole performance and the way that it was.
So I like that I can be somebody that's advocating
(34:40):
and helping keep families together.
Speaker 11 (34:43):
Nanni, we both know this didn't go well today. I
can see you trying, but.
Speaker 9 (34:49):
You're too smart for me to beat around the bush here.
Speaker 10 (34:52):
I know it hasn't been that long since your parents
passed away, but my.
Speaker 11 (34:57):
Job is to make sure that Lilo is in a
stable environment. Man, I can't say that in good conscience
right now. Listen, I know this is a lot. You're
practically a kid yourself. Look, you seem like a goal
(35:19):
oriented person. We have a new director coming into town
next week, and I would really really love to tell
him that you girls have turned a corner.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
So why don't we come up with some goals to
achieve by them?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, yeah, I like the nuance of what I would
call the more serious and adult themes. You have children
who've lost their parents and they're trying to keep that
family together, as we were just discussing. But also it's
a coming of age and dealing with some uncertainty of
life and its twists and turns.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Would you agree with me.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
That the live action was a more appropriate format to
deal with some of these themes as opposed to animate it.
Speaker 10 (35:59):
Oh no, I think I think they're both fantastic and superlative.
I think the fact that this is live action made
it imperative to handle things in a very realistic manner.
So in the animated feature, it's a beautiful water color world,
and so you could go on this fantastical journey and
(36:20):
it doesn't have to be literal. But because we're in
the real world now looking at real people, the steaks
have to be real world stakes, you know. And even
the resolution at the end that people are taking issue with,
I think it's accurate because we do have to go
and put our face mask on before we help each other,
you know, on the airplane. So she has to uplift
(36:43):
herself to be able to help her family and to
help her community.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
And I don't want to give away the.
Speaker 10 (36:48):
Ending, but that's why I'm sort of speaking like in
those terms. I think it's a really beautifully nuanced, realistic
rendering of that watercolor world that we saw twenty three
years ago. And I'm very to see what Chris Anders
comes up with for the live action sequel, because you know,
he's from that previous world and now bringing it into
(37:09):
this real, live world. It's going to be very interesting
to see the marriage between the two. It's it's going
to be exciting.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Have you changed the way that do you approach certain
projects like this because now you're a mother as opposed
to earlier in your career in which you weren't. Has
your growth in life changed how you approach these projects
which are more family oriented.
Speaker 9 (37:32):
Well, one hundred percent.
Speaker 10 (37:33):
I definitely dig deeper and think more deeply about how
to approach a character.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
There's there's no like one note. They're not just the villain,
they're not just the kid.
Speaker 10 (37:46):
And I think that's what people were responding to in
this movie is there's such a depth even to Nannie.
Like my character Nanni in the cartoon, she was like tough,
and you know kicking butt and frustrated with her sister.
And it was very film because it was an animated world.
But in this movie you had to see the subtlety
in Sydney's eyes, yes, who played Nanny. You have to
see subtlety of her being conflicted and being scared that
(38:10):
she's not going to be able to pull it off
and overwhelmed. And I love again how this has touched
people's hearts. You know how grown women and men honestly
have come up to me and said, I can't believe
that I spent twenty minutes of this film just really weeping.
It's just brought up so much in me and the
(38:30):
struggles I had as a young person, and I can't
believe how much it really affected me deeply, and that
longing for their family.
Speaker 9 (38:38):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 10 (38:39):
That's when you know that your art form has touched people,
that you know that you've made, you successfully created something special.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
There if you just joined the show.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I'm speaking with Tia Carrera, Yes, you know her from
Wayne's World, True Lies and so much more. But of
course we're talking about Lee, Lo and Stitch and it's
streaming exclusively on Disney Plus on September third, I will
have more with Tiya Carrera In just a moment.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
KFI mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Later with Mo Kelly, We're talking Lielo and Stitch with
Tia Carrara, which is now on digital. It's streaming exclusively
on Disney Plus September third, Tia, I wonder though since
now the business of making movies has changed. When you
and I were growing up, we didn't have this outlet
called streaming where we could have the movie shortly after
(39:34):
it leaves theaters and see it again and again and
again for those who may watch it for the first time,
or maybe for the second or third time. But on
the digital format of Disney Plus, is there anything different
or in addition to what they may have seen in
the theaters.
Speaker 10 (39:48):
I think if you get the DVD, you get like,
I don't have the deleted scenes, director's commentary, you know,
stuff like that you'll get on the DVD that releases
on the twenty sixth.
Speaker 9 (39:58):
But I think one it's on Disney Plus. Unless they
put out.
Speaker 10 (40:03):
TV specials, they might be putting these little shorts in between,
you know how they do it's like because they interviewed
us on the set, and I've seen some of these
coming out here and there advertising the film. So I'm
sure that Disney Plus will release these little behind the
scenes that we did on set and explaining how they
(40:23):
do stuff and funny little little short videos that they
did for marketing and stuff. But it's expensive to go
see the movies, let's be honest. So maybe mommy and
Daddy and a couple of the older kids went that,
you know, they said, okay, we'll spend on this.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
It's expensive.
Speaker 10 (40:39):
So now I love that it's on Disney Plus where
everybody can go. Grandma, grandpa, great grandma, great grandpa, and
the kids, the littles that maybe we're a little too
young to go to the theater to really absorb it,
and so they're like, you know, or maybe it'll be
a little too scary for them a few months ago.
Speaker 9 (40:56):
Now they can see it on TV.
Speaker 10 (40:58):
Sitting there with you know, mommy and dad hugging them
so that they don't get scared.
Speaker 9 (41:02):
They're like, oh ha ha ha.
Speaker 10 (41:03):
You know, you can sort of make it into more
of a thing because there's some like outer space stuff
and you know, some stuff where they're chasing and there's
real peril. So I think it'd be great to be
able to sit on the couch and watch it with
the family, the.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Whole family, MS career.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
I've appreciated you spending this time making two more quick questions.
Number One, I bury the leader. I should say we
buried the lead because you mentioned the apparent sequel that
is in the works for Lulo in Stitch.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
What are you allowed to tell us?
Speaker 10 (41:32):
All I can say is that we were at San
Diego Comic Con a couple of weeks ago, and Chris
Sanders and the original creator of the character Stitch, he
did it in art school when it was like I
don't know, twenty or something. Chris Anders, myself, Sidney who
plays Nanny, and Maya who plays Leel. We were all
(41:53):
on the panel and the big announcement that they are
indeed doing a sequel.
Speaker 9 (41:57):
But that doesn't.
Speaker 10 (41:58):
Surprise us because you know, the first one did a
billion dollars.
Speaker 9 (42:02):
Our little Blue friend is a billionaire.
Speaker 10 (42:04):
Yes, so they had to do a sequel, and we're
all there for it.
Speaker 9 (42:09):
They did do a sequel of the first one.
Speaker 10 (42:12):
Stitch has a glitch, so what remains to be seen
is if they follow that storyline or use that as
a jumping off point, or if they don't do that
at all. I mean, that's really firmly in Chris Sanders' hands.
Speaker 9 (42:24):
Really well, see, I have to watch this space.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
I know that people are listening right now who have
loved your work over the period of many years, and people,
I guess find you at different points in your career
and our lives. So when people recognize you and they
come up to you, are they saying, oh, that's Tia
Carrera from Wayne's World or True Lies or Leelo is
Stitch or is it something else?
Speaker 10 (42:46):
Well, right now, I'm going back on tour September till October.
And I love when people respond to the music, you know,
because it's like again that feeling live in the room.
So I'm going to be going, like, you can check
my website. I have an updated but there's some dates
on there like September twenty third till October eighteenth, I
think if you look on tia career dot com. But
(43:07):
lately Okay, so this is the funny thing. I went
to the Squid Games like premiere this last you know,
I don't know a few months ago and there's a
red carpet and all the stars from the you know,
the Squid Games are there, and all these people are
coming up to me taking pictures with me because they
recognized Missus Kakoha, and I was like, I was like, wow,
that is where I knew that this movie was hitting
(43:29):
a chord.
Speaker 9 (43:30):
This is before it was like billion dollar movie.
Speaker 10 (43:32):
This is like the first week, and the amount of
people that had gone to see Lelo and Stitch in
the theaters was staggering just by the amount of people
that were recognizing me in that moment, and I just
had a feeling. I'm like, this is going to be
a huge movie if this is an indicator. Yeah, it
was very early, very early days.
Speaker 9 (43:52):
And this was already happening.
Speaker 10 (43:53):
So Missus Kakoa definitely because Missus Kaikoha doesn't have much hair.
Speaker 9 (43:57):
And makeup, you know, so she looked more like what
I look like in.
Speaker 4 (43:59):
Real and we love it.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Leelo and Stitch is now streaming exclusively on Disney Plus
starting September third, and there you can catch the wonderful,
the inivitable Tea Carrera. I appreciate you coming on the
show in such short notice. We celebrate your success. Thank
you so much, and we'll be looking out for the
sequel of Lelo and Stitch in the coming years.
Speaker 9 (44:22):
Next year, I think next year.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Well wow, now you're just breaking news.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Now.
Speaker 9 (44:26):
Oh no, I don't know. No, no, I don't know. No, No,
well you know what. Wait, no what I'm lying? I
just lied to you. I'm so sorry. Or so early
in our relationship, I'm already lying.
Speaker 10 (44:35):
It can't possibly be because they got visual effects and
stuff they got to do that takes like a year.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
I'll take it this way. We'll wait until after next
year so they can correct us.
Speaker 10 (44:44):
Yes, it's not a lie yet, I'll prove that.
Speaker 9 (44:47):
I'll let them prove me wrong.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
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