August 16, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A conversation with the Actress/Singer Tia Carrere, who joins the program to preview Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” September 3rd debut on Disney+ … PLUS - Mark Rahner has a review of the HBO ‘Sex and the City’ sequel series finale of “And Just Like That” in ‘The Rahner Report’ - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
With Mo Kelly on k.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Six.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
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 5 (00:50):
MS. Carrera, how are you this evening?
Speaker 6 (00:53):
I'm doing great. I've got my evening voice on even.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I 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 6 (01:20):
Well, it's funny.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
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.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Was already you know, bubbling along.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
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 Waikiki and that's how I got
my first movie, and that has just been going on
for the past forty one years. When I moved to
La I did Star Search, like eighty four whatever it was,
but it was for the acting competition. Strangely enough, they
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didn't have enough space in the singing part.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
They didn't have it in.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
The Supermodel there's a Supermodel part where you were in
between if you remember back in the day.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
It's funny.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
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 aboves.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
You know, you can't really judge acting the same way.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
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 6 (02:29):
I love both, I really do. I'm so grateful that
I get to do both.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
There's a feeling I get when I sing, and I
think it's you know, the vibration in your in your
chest and your body, the how it connects with the audience.
I love the feeling of singing live in the room
and then seeing 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 6 (02:56):
You know.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
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 beautiful moment to share.
And I think music does that or can do that
with people in a way.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
It's so visceral, it's so real, you know that connection o.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
O lo.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
He kill.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Heically one fun way. Oh oh, Auntie, that's a nice transition.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Let's get into that.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
There's le Lolo and Stitch two thousand and two, where
you voice Nanny, 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 Lelo
and Stitch franchise.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Yeah, it's funny that, you know what, twenty three years later.
So I was that MESSI 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 in a way.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
You know.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
But I think it's beautiful how the character was created
and the 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 6 (04:48):
And you know, they're not all.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
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. So it's done with great empathy and I
appreciate that. So I also had a backstory for myself
that I said, Hey, what if I actually went through
the system. I am a child that went through the
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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.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
That it was.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
So I like that I can be somebody that's advocating
and helping keep families together.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
Nanni, we both know this didn't go well today. I
can see you trying, but you're too smart for me
to beat around the bush here. I know it hasn't
been that long since your parents passed away, but my
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
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practically a kid yourself. Look, you seem like a goal
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. So why
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don't we come up with some goals to achieve by them?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
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. Would you agree with me that
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the live action was a more appropriate format to deal
with some of these themes as opposed to animate it.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Oh No, 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 beautif full 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 that 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
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has to uplift herself to be able to help her
family and to help her community. And I don't want
to give away the 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 excited
to see what Chris Anders comes up with for the
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live action sequel, because you know, he's from that previous
world and now bringing it into this real, live world.
It's going to be very interesting to see the marriage
between the two. It's going to be exciting.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
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 approached these projects
which you're more family oriented.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Well, one percent.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
I definitely dig deeper and think more deeply about how
to approach a character.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
There's there's no like one note. They're not just the villain,
they're not just the kid.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
And I think that's what people were responding to in
this movie is there's such a depth even to Nannie.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Like my character Nanni in the cartoon, she.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Was like tough and you know, kicking butt and frustrated
with her sister, and it was very filmic because it
was an animated world. But in this movie you had
to see the subtlety in Sydney's eyes, who played Nanni.
You have to see subtlety of her being conflicted and
being scared that she's not going to be able to
pull it off and overwhelmed. And I love again how
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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 struggles I had as a young person,
and I can't believe how much it really affected me deeply,
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and that longing for their family.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
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 (09:30):
There if you just joined the show. 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, now available on digital and
it's streaming exclusively on Disney Plus.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Coming up on September third.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I will have more with Tia Carrera in just a
moment k IF I Am six forty were live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Jamfi mo Kelly.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
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, coming up on September third, and that's
a good place to pick up 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
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outlet called streaming where we could have the movie shortly
after 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 7 (10:42):
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. But I think once it's on
Disney Plus, unless they put out 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,
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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 do stuff, and funny
little little short videos that they did for marketing and stuff.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
But it's expensive to go see the movies, let's be honest.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
So maybe mommy and Daddy and a couple of the
older kids went that.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
You know, they say, okay, we'll spend on this. It's expensive.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
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 6 (11:50):
Now they can see it on TV sitting.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
There with you know, mommy and Daddy hugging them so
that they don't get scared.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
They're like, oh ha ha ha, you know, you can sort.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Of make it into more of a thing because there's
on 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 whole.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Family, Chris Career.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I have appreciated you spending this time with making two
more quick questions. Number one, I buried 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 5 (12:23):
What are you allowed to tell us?
Speaker 7 (12:25):
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. But that doesn't surprise us because
you know the first one did a billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Our little Blue friend is a billionaire.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Yes, so they had to they had to do a
sequel and We're all there for it.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
They did do a sequel of the first one.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
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 6 (13:17):
We well see, I have to watch this space.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
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 7 (13:40):
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 haven't updated it, but there's some dates
on there, like September twenty third till October eighteenth. I
think if you look on Tia care Doc but lately Okay,
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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 a chord.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
This is before it was like billion dollar movie. This
is like the.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
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.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
I'm like, this is going to be a huge movie.
If this is an indicator.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Yeah, it was very early, very early days, and this
was already happening. So Missus Kakoa definitely because Missus Kaikoha
doesn't have much hair and makeup, you know, so she
looked more like what I look like in real life.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
And we love it.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Lelo and Stitch is now on digital streaming exclusively on
Disney Plus starting September third, and there you can catch
the wonderful, the inivitable Tia 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 Leelo and Stitch in the coming years.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Next year, I think next year.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Well, wow, now you're just breaking news. Now.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Oh no, I don't know, No, no, I don't know.
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 7 (15:30):
It can't possibly be because they got visual effects and
stuff they got to do that takes.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Like a year.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I'll take it this way. We'll wait until after next
year so they can correct us. Yes, it's not a.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Lie yet, I'll prove that. I'll let them prove me wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
It's Later with Moke Kelly k if I AM six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Mark talks about pop culture, ron and Report with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
It's Later with Mo Kelly on kf I AM six
point forty Live Everywhere on the iHeart app. I'm Mark
Ronner and this is the runner Report. We're gonna switch
it up tonight because this is what people are talking about,
and we don't just talk about superhero movies or horror
flix here finger on the pulse. I'm sure all the
guys here made sure to watch the series finale of
and just like that last night, put on a comfy MUMU,
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make a Cosmo or Tualla's case a virgin Cosmo, and
settle in to watch Kerrie, Miranda, and Charlotte follow through
on their long standing murder suicide pact. Here's some of
the HBO promo for the finale.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
What is that tell me? Tomato? You don't have to
eat alone? Lunch with a side of shape our guest
less drop from thirteen to six. Now Joy isn't coming either.
She's just uncomfortable with families.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I may be alone for the rest of my life.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
There won't we a new man in your life?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
You set me up with Mark. He's smart and culture,
he's been married three times. I'm in love with a
man who will never get married.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
It's about their feelings, their disappointments.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Is it ever about us? What are we gonna do?
Speaker 7 (17:31):
We returned to something more wild free you are so fabulous?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Oh well that was never in question, or.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Maybe they didn't have a murder suicide packed. I didn't
really stick with the show very long after mister Big
cashed out after over exerting himself on a peloton and
then peloton stock took a dive, and then a couple
women accused Chris Notath, who played mister Big, of sexual
assaultant I just had to wash my hands of the
whole thing. Too messy. Also, the show wasn't good, but
look cards on the table here. When Sex and the
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City had its original run on HBO, it was some
water cooler TV. It was a little edgy and transgressive
from mainstream and American TV, even if it was on
pay cable. Four affluent women in New York and all
their romances and hookups with a sordid life and career stuffing,
and it was part of HBO's stable of cool, grown
up TV, along with The Wire Rome, which not enough
(18:24):
people have seen or remember. Oz the Sopranos, who was
part of that lineup. Don't pretend otherwise now, like you're ashamed,
like it gave you so you may want to disavow
it now, but we all watched it. Okay, try to
picture mow in to all of painting each other's toenails
on a Sunday night during each new episode.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
It was fun.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I even had a buddy in an episode and he
was proud of it. Sex and the City ran six seasons,
then it had a couple of movies, and then this
revival reunion whatever called, and just like that began in
twenty twenty one. Why not everyone likes nostalgia. Bring back
your old friends, like Cobra Kai, but with women in
their fifties who could probably still fight more believably than
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Cobra Kai. Sweep the leg spread the legs, do what
you're most skilled at, whatever your kung fu is.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Do that.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So I tuned in for the finale Last Night. Show
has been around for twenty seven years. Why not see
how they wrap it up and say goodbye. It's Thanksgiving.
Carrie's coming to terms with maybe or maybe not have
having someone to soak her teeth with and grow old
er with. Charlotte's married her husband has or has had
cancer and is unable to perform his husbandly duties. Miranda's
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son's obnoxious and has even more obnoxious friends who come
over for dinner. The actress who played the cool nun
Van Helsing in the recent Dracula mini series, Dolly Wells,
is now Miranda's girlfriend. Oh yeah, Miranda's into chicks now
which happens? And Samantha, who Kim Katrau played, is just
out of the picture. Sure it's some HBO money, but
she was the smart one, now, wasn't she? Girlfriend? This
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will go down in history as one of the worst
and least satisfying series finales of all time. A murder
suicide pact would have been so much better than what
we got. I'm not saying it was worse than the
one for Lost, but when I say this show is
a Code Brown this time, I mean it literally.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
The highlight.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
The highlight of this otherwise irritating, dull, anticlimactic episode with
characters written so they're impossible to like or care about,
is an overflowing toilet with lots of poop that we
get to see how edgy listen. I've never been big
on focus groups, but I'm just trying to imagine how
that one might have gone. What's the one thing you
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still haven't seen on Sex and the city that you'd
like to the one taboo that hasn't been explored, something
really naughty that no one else has had the nerve to,
you know, go there. Uh some number two? Do you
even care about spoilers? At this point, Victor Garber, who's
great and everything, plays an older guy interested in carry
and she's looking for ways to avoid going home with him.
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After the dinner at Miranda's place for really irritating Thanksgiving dinner,
he goes in the bathroom to do a number one.
He flushes, and the worst thing in the world starts
to happen. The water starts rising and it keeps rising him. Listen,
I live in such an old house that when my
landlady took a shower at the time I usually do
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every single work day, by the way, so it's not
like anyway I had to come to work Monday feeling
like Andy Dufrayne after crawling through the Shawshank prison sewers.
Bad plumbing is one of my top top phobias. But
that's going to be your big moment in the farewell
episode of a beloved franchise that's been around twenty seven years.
That's going to be the most memorable thing in the
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last episode anyone sees after knowing these characters nearly three decades,
that's what you want to leave people with. Oh, Carrie
decides she's a strong woman on her own. Miranda's husband
experiences a miraculous wood incident and does his husbandly duty.
And boy did Kim Katrell make the right choice by
staying away? And she was in Porky's all right. Remember
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the one who howls like a dog tricks?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
You remember it? Yes, and everyone can hear it.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
And the coach in the gym laughs so hard he's
got to wrap himself in a pad hanging from a wall.
And she wanted nothing to do with this train wreck.
I'm trying to think of the worst series finales of
all time, and a lot of them are more recent
because TV has gotten more serialized in recent years. When
we were growing up, TV was so episodic it often
didn't even matter what order the episodes were shown. In
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the final episode of Star Trek was turnabout Intruder, where
we get to watch William Shatner act like a woman
in a man's body. And that's something, by the way,
let me just uh it just mutiney.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Deliberate, insane in his face, but mutiny is charged and
encouragement of it me beca ahead to Scott.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
You heard it, hang on, hang on, here you go,
go to your posts. Oh yeah, that's some good Shatner
right there. So worst series finales of all time? I
mentioned Lost Dexter was pretty bad. Game of Throne, universally hated,
and now we have and just like that or just
like splat Let me know, if you can think of
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worse ones, you know where to find me.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
This.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Well, that's a controversial one.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I go back and forth on that, and we could
spend a whole show debuting debating that. But I think
David Simon, no, no, not David Simon, David Chase came
out and admitted that Tony and the family get whacked
at the end of that. I can't get sidetracked on that.
This has been your run and report. Thank you for
your attention to this matter.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Mo Let me just say that I up until recently,
had seen every episode of Sex and the City and
just like that, Yeah, we all watched it. I gave
up in the second season of just like that. I
think that's when Big Died had his heart attacks.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I think he died like within the first couple episodes
of the series.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Okay, then I stop watching after that point. Now my
wife watched all the way through. It didn't have the
same magic. It was just it was boring to me.
I was rooting for Aiden and Carrie, and yes, I
know they tried one more time in this last season.
And you know, I'm I'm glad that Aiden took a
dump all over Carrie in this season.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
What what did that bastard do to her?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
No, no, he was the nice guy throughout the series that
Carrie should have been with, but she ended up with
Big We saw that turned out.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, well, his hats were annoying. And here's another thing
that I didn't mention. And you know, I'm a little
bit vain. I'm not crazy about admitting it. But that's
more or less our generation or we're in the ballpark.
So like when we heard this week about d from
What's Happening passing away or even Ozzie dying, that's all
stuff that makes people on the upper end of Gen
X well terrified. I yes, that's the word I was
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looking for. Terrified. The people our parents' age are all dying.
Some of the people our age are dying, and nostalgia
is really no comfort at all, actually, by way, and
this was meant to be comforting nostalgia. I mean, listen,
one day you're knocking back some cocktails talking to your
friends about butt stuff or how your boyfriend sits on
the upholstery naked, which is also technically butt stuff. And
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the next day you're reading about Jeff Bezos buying the
James Bond movie rights and wanting to put his fifty
five year old new wife in the Bond movie.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Where did the Time Go? Where did the Time Go?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Is Ernst stavro Blofeld trying to dominate the world through
cosmetic surgery? Now? And by the way, there's no specific
allegation in that sentence, and therefore I cannot be sued.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Because people can sue for any ridiculous reason. I am
not a ham sandwich. I will not be sued over then.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Okay, if you say so, well, thank you for doing that. Yeah,
because I was sneezing my head off as opposed to
laugh at my head off, I'm glad I could help. No,
but that was pretty funny with the car wash claps. Okay,
that was very funny. I'll give you that just for you.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
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I saw this story and I didn't know where Twalla
was going with this, and then I figured out.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Where he was going with this.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Playboy has moved its global headquarters out of California. I
didn't know that Playboy as an entity was still in business.
I didn't know what they were doing. I knew that
there was no more magazine, so as far as I
was concerned, there was no more Playboy. I don't know
if there was even a Playboy channel anymore. I remember
in the early nineteen seventies had the Playboy nightclubs, and
that was a big thing in the early nineteen seventies.
(26:33):
The magazine obviously was big in the eighties and nineties,
but since then it's been just nothing but Playboy. It's
corporate headquarters.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Quote.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
We planned on building a content team in Miami with
moving the magazine. As we've relaunched the magazine and the
Playmate franchise, basing all of that in Miami, and then
we have a massive licensing business on global basis, and
we plan on building a significant licensing team in Miami
as well.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Close quote.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
And there's another reason they say it because of California
being anti business in Florida being pro business.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Yah yah yah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I don't think it's gonna make a whole lot of
difference because Playboy wasn't generating any business, because I would
know if they were, because I used to support them.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I think in the era where anybody can have access
to their darkest fantasies at the touch of a button
on their computer, airbrush nudes with a staple not a
big seller.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
We talk about businesses which should have seen the future,
I don't want to say coming, but the future that
was approaching. Playboy is another one of those companies like
couldn't you see where all this is going? I mean,
couldn't you see just in your old marketplace the use
of pornographic materials or videos?
Speaker 5 (27:47):
They should have been way ahead of that.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Well, the thing was, and I'm not blowing smoke here,
they packaged it all in a really high prestige magazine
with great journalism and great fiction and great interviews. But
people just wanted to getting naked women, I know, and
they use the other fake justifications. My favorite thing about
Playboy was a Playboy Mansion. And I can say this
with great confidence and very little regret. Some great times
(28:13):
I had at the Playboy Mansion. And you would go
and working in the music industry, someone was always having
some sort of event at the Playboy Mansion. And each
time you go there, you would see Hugh Hefner with
women all around. The playmates were walking all around the
grounds wearing just about nothing.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
The grotto is real. Okay, if you hear about the
grotto and stuff going on in the grotto, it is real.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Did you see the regulars you see like Robert Kulp,
Jimmy Kahn, all those guys who used to hang out there.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
I saw the generation after that.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The best time I had at the Playboy Mansion, and
there's a picture I have from that night. It was
it was an album released party for an artist. That
doesn't matter. Don't worry about that. The album bombed, but
it was a big deal at the time. And this
is I want to say, around two thousand or so
it was Whitney Houston was there Bobby Brown. During the
(29:08):
height of there whatever it was, they were both high
and drunk running around. Whitney was stoned out of her
mind singing gospel songs to nobody in particular. It was
really it's one of those things. Whitney and her drug
problem was an open secret. That's why people don't understand.
Like everyone knew. Everyone just enabled it. Paula Abdul was
(29:29):
there downtown, Julie Brown, Karmen Electra. Carmen Electra and I
spent most of the night trying to hit on Karmen
the lecture, No Lie and she was. She listened to me,
she heard me out, and I think that she realized
I was not one of the big ballers. We got
a picture up right now on the YouTube channel I was.
I was talking to Karmen e lecture. Then downtown Julie
(29:49):
Brown came up. I said, I got to get a
picture of this, and it is I was so close.
I really thought I could have closed the deal. You
stated your case though you oh no, And then she
realized it's like, Okay, You're not on the level of
the Lakers or Bobby Brown. You know, the real stars.
I was just someone who worked at Warner Brothers Records,
and I think she said, Okay, I'm moving on. But oh,
I was shooting my shot. And I look to my
(30:14):
dying day, I'll say I had an opportunity.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
You made your argument before the court, yes, And to
my dying day, I think I had.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Let me say happy belated birthday to Halle Berry, who
turned fifty nine yesterday.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
And I think that I had a chance with Halle
Berry for a moment. But you didn't. But I didn't.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
I didn't try to find out because at the time
she was married to one of my friends who was
an artist on Warner Brothers Records.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
So what you're saying it was generous of you to
back off.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yes it was. I was doing a friend thing. Now
put that picture back up, Daniel. That was taken. The
photo with me and Halle was taken out of her
house in her kitchen when she lived in the Hollywood Hills.
Look how she has her arm draped around me. She
was feeling me. I could tell I had some drinks.
She had some drinks, maybe under different circumstances. You know,
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we met a different time in life. Then she got
married again, and then again, and then again, and then
I got married. It just we just never connected at
the same time. It just life was not meant to
be for us. Two ships passing in the night. Yeah,
I got stories marked. Ooh, I got some stories, some
good ones too.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Yeah. And when I left that night, she even kissed
me on the lips. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
No, that's that's one hundred percent true. Did you film
this or their photos of this? Well, there's the photo
of the night. I didn't film the kiss. Okay, Well,
in that case it does not exist. I don't care
if it's the whole you gotta do it for the gram.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
You don at pictures of it? No, it didn't have it, No,
it happened. It happened.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Describe it then, why?
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Okay, that's enough. That's gross.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Look at that handsome mother father with his arm draped
around Carmen Electra and downtown Julie Brown at the same
time at the Playboy mansion.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Hugh Hefner wasn't too far from us. That is the
smile of a photo bomber who knows he's about.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
To get tossed.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
But I can die tomorrow knowing that I got to
put my arm around Carmen Lectra and downtown Julie Brown.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Whatever happened to downtown Julie Brown, I honestly don't know.
She kind of, you know, kind of dropped off the
face of the earth.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
She walking around saying wubbo whobba whobba. Everybody but her
actress excuse me. Her accent was very prominent. Okay, yeah,
cool people, cool people. I got stories Mark, a bunch
of them. Did you know I interviewed half. No, I
don't know if you told me or not, but I'm
not surprised. I think we can go toe to toe
on this, Okay, all right, or maybe a few other
body parts. No.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
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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 5 (00:50):
MS. Carrera, how are you this evening?
Speaker 6 (00:53):
I'm doing great. I've got my evening voice on even.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I 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 6 (01:20):
Well, it's funny.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
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.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Was already you know, bubbling along.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
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 Waikiki and that's how I got
my first movie, and that has just been going on
for the past forty one years. When I moved to
La I did Star Search, like eighty four whatever it was,
but it was for the acting competition. Strangely enough, they
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didn't have enough space in the singing part.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
They didn't have it in.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
The Supermodel there's a Supermodel part where you were in
between if you remember back in the day.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
It's funny.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
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 aboves.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
You know, you can't really judge acting the same way.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
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 6 (02:29):
I love both, I really do. I'm so grateful that
I get to do both.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
There's a feeling I get when I sing, and I
think it's you know, the vibration in your in your
chest and your body, the how it connects with the audience.
I love the feeling of singing live in the room
and then seeing 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 6 (02:56):
You know.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
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 beautiful moment to share.
And I think music does that or can do that
with people in a way.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
It's so visceral, it's so real, you know that connection o.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
O lo.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
He kill.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Heically one fun way. Oh oh, Auntie, that's a nice transition.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Let's get into that.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
There's le Lolo and Stitch two thousand and two, where
you voice Nanny, 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 Lelo
and Stitch franchise.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Yeah, it's funny that, you know what, twenty three years later.
So I was that MESSI 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 in a way.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
You know.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
But I think it's beautiful how the character was created
and the 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 6 (04:48):
And you know, they're not all.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
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. So it's done with great empathy and I
appreciate that. So I also had a backstory for myself
that I said, Hey, what if I actually went through
the system. I am a child that went through the
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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.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
That it was.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
So I like that I can be somebody that's advocating
and helping keep families together.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
Nanni, we both know this didn't go well today. I
can see you trying, but you're too smart for me
to beat around the bush here. I know it hasn't
been that long since your parents passed away, but my
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
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practically a kid yourself. Look, you seem like a goal
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. So why
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don't we come up with some goals to achieve by them?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
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. Would you agree with me that
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the live action was a more appropriate format to deal
with some of these themes as opposed to animate it.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Oh No, 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 beautif full 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 that 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
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has to uplift herself to be able to help her
family and to help her community. And I don't want
to give away the 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 excited
to see what Chris Anders comes up with for the
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live action sequel, because you know, he's from that previous
world and now bringing it into this real, live world.
It's going to be very interesting to see the marriage
between the two. It's going to be exciting.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
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 approached these projects
which you're more family oriented.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Well, one percent.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
I definitely dig deeper and think more deeply about how
to approach a character.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
There's there's no like one note. They're not just the villain,
they're not just the kid.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
And I think that's what people were responding to in
this movie is there's such a depth even to Nannie.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Like my character Nanni in the cartoon, she.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Was like tough and you know, kicking butt and frustrated
with her sister, and it was very filmic because it
was an animated world. But in this movie you had
to see the subtlety in Sydney's eyes, who played Nanni.
You have to see subtlety of her being conflicted and
being scared that she's not going to be able to
pull it off and overwhelmed. And I love again how
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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 struggles I had as a young person,
and I can't believe how much it really affected me deeply,
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and that longing for their family.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
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 (09:30):
There if you just joined the show. 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, now available on digital and
it's streaming exclusively on Disney Plus.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Coming up on September third.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I will have more with Tia Carrera in just a
moment k IF I Am six forty were live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Jamfi mo Kelly.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
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, coming up on September third, and that's
a good place to pick up 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
(10:24):
outlet called streaming where we could have the movie shortly
after 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 7 (10:42):
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. But I think once it's on
Disney Plus, unless they put out 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,
(11:03):
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 do stuff, and funny
little little short videos that they did for marketing and stuff.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
But it's expensive to go see the movies, let's be honest.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
So maybe mommy and Daddy and a couple of the
older kids went that.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
You know, they say, okay, we'll spend on this. It's expensive.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
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 6 (11:50):
Now they can see it on TV sitting.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
There with you know, mommy and Daddy hugging them so
that they don't get scared.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
They're like, oh ha ha ha, you know, you can sort.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Of make it into more of a thing because there's
on 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 whole.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Family, Chris Career.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I have appreciated you spending this time with making two
more quick questions. Number one, I buried 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 5 (12:23):
What are you allowed to tell us?
Speaker 7 (12:25):
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. But that doesn't surprise us because
you know the first one did a billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Our little Blue friend is a billionaire.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Yes, so they had to they had to do a
sequel and We're all there for it.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
They did do a sequel of the first one.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
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 6 (13:17):
We well see, I have to watch this space.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
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 7 (13:40):
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 haven't updated it, but there's some dates
on there, like September twenty third till October eighteenth. I
think if you look on Tia care Doc but lately Okay,
(14:02):
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 a chord.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
This is before it was like billion dollar movie. This
is like the.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
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.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
I'm like, this is going to be a huge movie.
If this is an indicator.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Yeah, it was very early, very early days, and this
was already happening. So Missus Kakoa definitely because Missus Kaikoha
doesn't have much hair and makeup, you know, so she
looked more like what I look like in real life.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
And we love it.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Lelo and Stitch is now on digital streaming exclusively on
Disney Plus starting September third, and there you can catch
the wonderful, the inivitable Tia 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 Leelo and Stitch in the coming years.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Next year, I think next year.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Well, wow, now you're just breaking news. Now.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Oh no, I don't know, No, no, I don't know.
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 7 (15:30):
It can't possibly be because they got visual effects and
stuff they got to do that takes.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Like a year.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I'll take it this way. We'll wait until after next
year so they can correct us. Yes, it's not a.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Lie yet, I'll prove that. I'll let them prove me wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
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It's Later with Mo Kelly on kf I AM six
point forty Live Everywhere on the iHeart app. I'm Mark
Ronner and this is the runner Report. We're gonna switch
it up tonight because this is what people are talking about,
and we don't just talk about superhero movies or horror
flix here finger on the pulse. I'm sure all the
guys here made sure to watch the series finale of
and just like that last night, put on a comfy MUMU,
(16:40):
make a Cosmo or Tualla's case a virgin Cosmo, and
settle in to watch Kerrie, Miranda, and Charlotte follow through
on their long standing murder suicide pact. Here's some of
the HBO promo for the finale.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
What is that tell me? Tomato? You don't have to
eat alone? Lunch with a side of shape our guest
less drop from thirteen to six. Now Joy isn't coming either.
She's just uncomfortable with families.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I may be alone for the rest of my life.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
There won't we a new man in your life?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
You set me up with Mark. He's smart and culture,
he's been married three times. I'm in love with a
man who will never get married.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
It's about their feelings, their disappointments.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Is it ever about us? What are we gonna do?
Speaker 7 (17:31):
We returned to something more wild free you are so fabulous?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Oh well that was never in question, or.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Maybe they didn't have a murder suicide packed. I didn't
really stick with the show very long after mister Big
cashed out after over exerting himself on a peloton and
then peloton stock took a dive, and then a couple
women accused Chris Notath, who played mister Big, of sexual
assaultant I just had to wash my hands of the
whole thing. Too messy. Also, the show wasn't good, but
look cards on the table here. When Sex and the
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City had its original run on HBO, it was some
water cooler TV. It was a little edgy and transgressive
from mainstream and American TV, even if it was on
pay cable. Four affluent women in New York and all
their romances and hookups with a sordid life and career stuffing,
and it was part of HBO's stable of cool, grown
up TV, along with The Wire Rome, which not enough
(18:24):
people have seen or remember. Oz the Sopranos, who was
part of that lineup. Don't pretend otherwise now, like you're ashamed,
like it gave you so you may want to disavow
it now, but we all watched it. Okay, try to
picture mow in to all of painting each other's toenails
on a Sunday night during each new episode.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
It was fun.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I even had a buddy in an episode and he
was proud of it. Sex and the City ran six seasons,
then it had a couple of movies, and then this
revival reunion whatever called, and just like that began in
twenty twenty one. Why not everyone likes nostalgia. Bring back
your old friends, like Cobra Kai, but with women in
their fifties who could probably still fight more believably than
(19:05):
Cobra Kai. Sweep the leg spread the legs, do what
you're most skilled at, whatever your kung fu is.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Do that.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So I tuned in for the finale Last Night. Show
has been around for twenty seven years. Why not see
how they wrap it up and say goodbye. It's Thanksgiving.
Carrie's coming to terms with maybe or maybe not have
having someone to soak her teeth with and grow old
er with. Charlotte's married her husband has or has had
cancer and is unable to perform his husbandly duties. Miranda's
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son's obnoxious and has even more obnoxious friends who come
over for dinner. The actress who played the cool nun
Van Helsing in the recent Dracula mini series, Dolly Wells,
is now Miranda's girlfriend. Oh yeah, Miranda's into chicks now
which happens? And Samantha, who Kim Katrau played, is just
out of the picture. Sure it's some HBO money, but
she was the smart one, now, wasn't she? Girlfriend? This
(19:57):
will go down in history as one of the worst
and least satisfying series finales of all time. A murder
suicide pact would have been so much better than what
we got. I'm not saying it was worse than the
one for Lost, but when I say this show is
a Code Brown this time, I mean it literally.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
The highlight.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
The highlight of this otherwise irritating, dull, anticlimactic episode with
characters written so they're impossible to like or care about,
is an overflowing toilet with lots of poop that we
get to see how edgy listen. I've never been big
on focus groups, but I'm just trying to imagine how
that one might have gone. What's the one thing you
(20:35):
still haven't seen on Sex and the city that you'd
like to the one taboo that hasn't been explored, something
really naughty that no one else has had the nerve to,
you know, go there. Uh some number two? Do you
even care about spoilers? At this point, Victor Garber, who's
great and everything, plays an older guy interested in carry
and she's looking for ways to avoid going home with him.
(20:57):
After the dinner at Miranda's place for really irritating Thanksgiving dinner,
he goes in the bathroom to do a number one.
He flushes, and the worst thing in the world starts
to happen. The water starts rising and it keeps rising him. Listen,
I live in such an old house that when my
landlady took a shower at the time I usually do
(21:18):
every single work day, by the way, so it's not
like anyway I had to come to work Monday feeling
like Andy Dufrayne after crawling through the Shawshank prison sewers.
Bad plumbing is one of my top top phobias. But
that's going to be your big moment in the farewell
episode of a beloved franchise that's been around twenty seven years.
That's going to be the most memorable thing in the
(21:38):
last episode anyone sees after knowing these characters nearly three decades,
that's what you want to leave people with. Oh, Carrie
decides she's a strong woman on her own. Miranda's husband
experiences a miraculous wood incident and does his husbandly duty.
And boy did Kim Katrell make the right choice by
staying away? And she was in Porky's all right. Remember
(21:59):
the one who howls like a dog tricks?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
You remember it? Yes, and everyone can hear it.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
And the coach in the gym laughs so hard he's
got to wrap himself in a pad hanging from a wall.
And she wanted nothing to do with this train wreck.
I'm trying to think of the worst series finales of
all time, and a lot of them are more recent
because TV has gotten more serialized in recent years. When
we were growing up, TV was so episodic it often
didn't even matter what order the episodes were shown. In
(22:26):
the final episode of Star Trek was turnabout Intruder, where
we get to watch William Shatner act like a woman
in a man's body. And that's something, by the way,
let me just uh it just mutiney.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Deliberate, insane in his face, but mutiny is charged and
encouragement of it me beca ahead to Scott.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
You heard it, hang on, hang on, here you go,
go to your posts. Oh yeah, that's some good Shatner
right there. So worst series finales of all time? I
mentioned Lost Dexter was pretty bad. Game of Throne, universally hated,
and now we have and just like that or just
like splat Let me know, if you can think of
(23:06):
worse ones, you know where to find me.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
This.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Well, that's a controversial one.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I go back and forth on that, and we could
spend a whole show debuting debating that. But I think
David Simon, no, no, not David Simon, David Chase came
out and admitted that Tony and the family get whacked
at the end of that. I can't get sidetracked on that.
This has been your run and report. Thank you for
your attention to this matter.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Mo Let me just say that I up until recently,
had seen every episode of Sex and the City and
just like that, Yeah, we all watched it. I gave
up in the second season of just like that. I
think that's when Big Died had his heart attacks.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I think he died like within the first couple episodes
of the series.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Okay, then I stop watching after that point. Now my
wife watched all the way through. It didn't have the
same magic. It was just it was boring to me.
I was rooting for Aiden and Carrie, and yes, I
know they tried one more time in this last season.
And you know, I'm I'm glad that Aiden took a
dump all over Carrie in this season.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
What what did that bastard do to her?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
No, no, he was the nice guy throughout the series that
Carrie should have been with, but she ended up with
Big We saw that turned out.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, well, his hats were annoying. And here's another thing
that I didn't mention. And you know, I'm a little
bit vain. I'm not crazy about admitting it. But that's
more or less our generation or we're in the ballpark.
So like when we heard this week about d from
What's Happening passing away or even Ozzie dying, that's all
stuff that makes people on the upper end of Gen
X well terrified. I yes, that's the word I was
(24:46):
looking for. Terrified. The people our parents' age are all dying.
Some of the people our age are dying, and nostalgia
is really no comfort at all, actually, by way, and
this was meant to be comforting nostalgia. I mean, listen,
one day you're knocking back some cocktails talking to your
friends about butt stuff or how your boyfriend sits on
the upholstery naked, which is also technically butt stuff. And
(25:07):
the next day you're reading about Jeff Bezos buying the
James Bond movie rights and wanting to put his fifty
five year old new wife in the Bond movie.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Where did the Time Go? Where did the Time Go?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Is Ernst stavro Blofeld trying to dominate the world through
cosmetic surgery? Now? And by the way, there's no specific
allegation in that sentence, and therefore I cannot be sued.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Because people can sue for any ridiculous reason. I am
not a ham sandwich. I will not be sued over then.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Okay, if you say so, well, thank you for doing that. Yeah,
because I was sneezing my head off as opposed to
laugh at my head off, I'm glad I could help. No,
but that was pretty funny with the car wash claps. Okay,
that was very funny. I'll give you that just for you.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
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Speaker 5 (25:58):
Six with Kelly.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
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I saw this story and I didn't know where Twalla
was going with this, and then I figured out.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Where he was going with this.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Playboy has moved its global headquarters out of California. I
didn't know that Playboy as an entity was still in business.
I didn't know what they were doing. I knew that
there was no more magazine, so as far as I
was concerned, there was no more Playboy. I don't know
if there was even a Playboy channel anymore. I remember
in the early nineteen seventies had the Playboy nightclubs, and
that was a big thing in the early nineteen seventies.
(26:33):
The magazine obviously was big in the eighties and nineties,
but since then it's been just nothing but Playboy. It's
corporate headquarters.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Quote.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
We planned on building a content team in Miami with
moving the magazine. As we've relaunched the magazine and the
Playmate franchise, basing all of that in Miami, and then
we have a massive licensing business on global basis, and
we plan on building a significant licensing team in Miami
as well.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Close quote.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
And there's another reason they say it because of California
being anti business in Florida being pro business.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Yah yah yah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I don't think it's gonna make a whole lot of
difference because Playboy wasn't generating any business, because I would
know if they were, because I used to support them.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I think in the era where anybody can have access
to their darkest fantasies at the touch of a button
on their computer, airbrush nudes with a staple not a
big seller.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
We talk about businesses which should have seen the future,
I don't want to say coming, but the future that
was approaching. Playboy is another one of those companies like
couldn't you see where all this is going? I mean,
couldn't you see just in your old marketplace the use
of pornographic materials or videos?
Speaker 5 (27:47):
They should have been way ahead of that.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Well, the thing was, and I'm not blowing smoke here,
they packaged it all in a really high prestige magazine
with great journalism and great fiction and great interviews. But
people just wanted to getting naked women, I know, and
they use the other fake justifications. My favorite thing about
Playboy was a Playboy Mansion. And I can say this
with great confidence and very little regret. Some great times
(28:13):
I had at the Playboy Mansion. And you would go
and working in the music industry, someone was always having
some sort of event at the Playboy Mansion. And each
time you go there, you would see Hugh Hefner with
women all around. The playmates were walking all around the
grounds wearing just about nothing.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
The grotto is real. Okay, if you hear about the
grotto and stuff going on in the grotto, it is real.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Did you see the regulars you see like Robert Kulp,
Jimmy Kahn, all those guys who used to hang out there.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
I saw the generation after that.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The best time I had at the Playboy Mansion, and
there's a picture I have from that night. It was
it was an album released party for an artist. That
doesn't matter. Don't worry about that. The album bombed, but
it was a big deal at the time. And this
is I want to say, around two thousand or so
it was Whitney Houston was there Bobby Brown. During the
(29:08):
height of there whatever it was, they were both high
and drunk running around. Whitney was stoned out of her
mind singing gospel songs to nobody in particular. It was
really it's one of those things. Whitney and her drug
problem was an open secret. That's why people don't understand.
Like everyone knew. Everyone just enabled it. Paula Abdul was
(29:29):
there downtown, Julie Brown, Karmen Electra. Carmen Electra and I
spent most of the night trying to hit on Karmen
the lecture, No Lie and she was. She listened to me,
she heard me out, and I think that she realized
I was not one of the big ballers. We got
a picture up right now on the YouTube channel I was.
I was talking to Karmen e lecture. Then downtown Julie
(29:49):
Brown came up. I said, I got to get a
picture of this, and it is I was so close.
I really thought I could have closed the deal. You
stated your case though you oh no, And then she
realized it's like, Okay, You're not on the level of
the Lakers or Bobby Brown. You know, the real stars.
I was just someone who worked at Warner Brothers Records,
and I think she said, Okay, I'm moving on. But oh,
I was shooting my shot. And I look to my
(30:14):
dying day, I'll say I had an opportunity.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
You made your argument before the court, yes, And to
my dying day, I think I had.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Let me say happy belated birthday to Halle Berry, who
turned fifty nine yesterday.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
And I think that I had a chance with Halle
Berry for a moment. But you didn't. But I didn't.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
I didn't try to find out because at the time
she was married to one of my friends who was
an artist on Warner Brothers Records.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
So what you're saying it was generous of you to
back off.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yes it was. I was doing a friend thing. Now
put that picture back up, Daniel. That was taken. The
photo with me and Halle was taken out of her
house in her kitchen when she lived in the Hollywood Hills.
Look how she has her arm draped around me. She
was feeling me. I could tell I had some drinks.
She had some drinks, maybe under different circumstances. You know,
(31:04):
we met a different time in life. Then she got
married again, and then again, and then again, and then
I got married. It just we just never connected at
the same time. It just life was not meant to
be for us. Two ships passing in the night. Yeah,
I got stories marked. Ooh, I got some stories, some
good ones too.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Yeah. And when I left that night, she even kissed
me on the lips. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
No, that's that's one hundred percent true. Did you film
this or their photos of this? Well, there's the photo
of the night. I didn't film the kiss. Okay, Well,
in that case it does not exist. I don't care
if it's the whole you gotta do it for the gram.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
You don at pictures of it? No, it didn't have it, No,
it happened. It happened.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Describe it then, why?
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Okay, that's enough. That's gross.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Look at that handsome mother father with his arm draped
around Carmen Electra and downtown Julie Brown at the same
time at the Playboy mansion.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Hugh Hefner wasn't too far from us. That is the
smile of a photo bomber who knows he's about.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
To get tossed.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
But I can die tomorrow knowing that I got to
put my arm around Carmen Lectra and downtown Julie Brown.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Whatever happened to downtown Julie Brown, I honestly don't know.
She kind of, you know, kind of dropped off the
face of the earth.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
She walking around saying wubbo whobba whobba. Everybody but her
actress excuse me. Her accent was very prominent. Okay, yeah,
cool people, cool people. I got stories Mark, a bunch
of them. Did you know I interviewed half. No, I
don't know if you told me or not, but I'm
not surprised. I think we can go toe to toe
on this, Okay, all right, or maybe a few other
body parts. No.
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