September 2, 2025 • 30 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A recap of Mo’s vacation; first stopping in Rome before embarking on a 7-day Mediterranean cruise aboard the ‘Royal Caribbean: Odyssey of the Seas,’ taking in everything from Mykonos, Greece to Ephesus/Kusadasi, Turkey and MORE - 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 Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Let me tell you, I'm so happy to be back.
I was doing the pee wee Herman dance in the studio, Sam,
you saw me. It is good to be back with
you here on KFI. I had a wonderful vacation, absolutely wonderful.
I don't know if a lot of people can say that.
Sometimes we put so much weight and expectation and anticipation
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on a vacation, not trying to rhyme that it never
meets up to our expectations. There's always some level of disappointment.
I had a wonderful vacation. The worst part of it
was just travel. No shout out to United Airlines. You
can kiss my ass.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Wow, Okay. I was curious about.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
That because how long, okay, how long did it take
you to fly to.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Your first destination? First destination? We flew from LA to Washington, DC,
and then Washington, d C to Rome. When we flew American.
Last time we went to Europe, we were able to
do a direct flight. United not so much so. We
had five hours to DC. We only had like an
hour layover, So it's a relatively back to back flight.
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Then we flew eight hours to Rome. Coming back, we
were flying twelve hours from Rome to San Francisco, and
I forgot when we were flying to DC and then
to Rome.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Didn't have any internet, so that sucked. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
No, no, so all the movies you packed to watch?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, Well, yes, the ones I downloaded. I could watch, okay, okay, okayo,
but I couldn't do the normal internet stuff. I basically
just had a video player. Coming back, we had internet,
but it was just a cluster truck of other things
which were going on.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Almost missed our connection.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, we were on the tarmac for two freakin' hours
leaving Rome going to San Francisco for various and sundry reasons,
having nothing to do with any mechanical issues, thank goodness,
but still we almost missed our connection from San Francisco
to La long story short the travel day altogether. We
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got off the ship at seven am Rome time, Sunday, Yes, Sunday.
We had to wait an hour and a half for
our transfer car, which is going to take us directly
to the airport. So we left the port of seed
Seeda Vida Vecchia and we went to the port to
the airport. That was another hour transpo. Then we had
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to wait and we got there around nine o'clock. Then
our flight was not until three. We did not actually
get in the air until five forty pm because of
a two hours on the tarmac. Then we're running through
SFO when we got there, trying to meet our connection.
Long story short, when you're flying internationally, at least United
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back into the United States, you have to go through customs.
You have to get your bags and then re check
them on the domestic flight, So you're waiting for your bags.
You get your bags, and Lamuhir and I were running
through the airport. If you've ever been to SFO, the
terminals are not close. Yeah, no that It took us
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a good twenty thirty minutes to physically get from point
A to point B. We got on a flight about
five minutes before it was going to take off. Got
home safely. But we're not flying United again ever again.
If no, wow, No.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
At least United is consistent and its badness. The last
time I had to spend the night in an airport
was because of United, and I haven't flown them since then.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I think I swore awful.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
United my last time flying them as well, And I
think I flew United because I felt like, Okay, this
is the airline that's going to be really really on it.
If anyone tries to rush a cabin or anything like that,
I can relax.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
But the service.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
On that plane was horrific, Yes, horrific.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
The accommodation we're flying business lass that was fine. The
food was ah, the service less than anh. It's one
of those things where and I'm not going to spend
too much time on it. It's just that was the
only real drawback of the trip.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
But then when you got aboard your ship, which, let
me tell you, your room, I had straight envy that
room alone.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Damn the rest of the ship which was gorgeous, but
that room.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
We have a balcony, and that's one of the things
blah blo hair and I do. It's like what we're
going to get, and that's like a mid level room.
We have the balcony ocean view, as opposed to an
inside cabin where it's almost like a dorm room.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
You don't have any windows or anything.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I appreciate greatly being able to feel the ocean, hear
the ocean, at not. We usually sleep with the with
the balcony door open so you can just hear the waves.
It's very relaxing, very soothing. It's a reminder of just
being away from everything else. Now you'll appreciate this Twala
the Royal. We went Royal Caribbean. The accommodations as far
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as the shipboard activities, they were not as good.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
As when we went.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, they did not have the types of or quality
level of activities. And that's something that my wife and
I both noticed as opposed to any other time we've
been on Royal Caribbean. I believe it's a function of
trying to cut back on some of the shipboard expenses.
Maybe it's a post pandemic thing where they just they
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don't They don't offer the types of elaborate comedy shows
and the disco tech that karaoke, the karaoke. I think
I'm glad you said that I hadn't sung karaoke in
a number of years. I sang karaoke once when I
was on a ship. It was objectively horrible, But in
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my defense, I was objectively.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
There's a trade off there.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You can't hold how bad my performance was against me
not completely.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Okay, okay, So you had a balcony in your room. Yes.
Did you utilize the balcony, yes, my wife laid out,
you know, to get some sun. Did you christen it
that balcony? No, if only because it's not sound proof.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I see, and I think from what I've seen of
the balconies, if someone else has a balcony adjacent to yours,
they can just look over.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, they can. You can kind of look around the partition,
look around.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I'm thinking that doesn't stop everyone. No, no, no, it
probably doesn't. I'm just saying we did not do that.
I see the balcony, and you can see pictures just
in case you don't know what I'm talking about and
you want to see it specifically at mister mo' kelly
on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
You'll be able to find all the European pictures.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
But that cruise ship was, I mean literally just looking
at it was. It was one of the reasons why
I now appreciate cruising. I mean, when you think about
all the ships you've been on, where does this one rank?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I would say it's the second best ship.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It was odysty of the Seas, which is in their
Oasis class, which is the largest class. It's the fifth
largest cruise ship in the world. I believe, if I'm
not mistaken, if my research is correct, it was a
great time and you're not spending all your time on
the ship. There was a seven day cruise. I think
we hit five ports. We hit trying to think in order.
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We hit Santorini in Greece, we hit Mikonos in Greece.
We hit Ephesus, which is in Turkey. That was the
lowest point because the port did not have a lot
to offer. I can say I've been to Turkey, but
you know, I ain't been to Turkey. It was fine,
and then we close out with Naples and the beauty
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of it. If you've ever been on a cruise, you
get to sample ports. You don't have to spend two
or three days there, but it gives you the opportunity,
at least intellectually, where well, okay, now I've seen a
little bit of Rome that the first time we went,
maybe that's the place you want to spend more time.
And so this time we spent three or four days
in Rome prior to the cruise, and we had a chance.
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If you see the pictures at mister mo Kelly on Instagram.
We had a chance to see Rome, tour Italy, go
to Pompeii, go to various places the Mouthfee coast, for example,
get to tour the Italian countryside. And I was in
contact but with Chef Bruno.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
He was saying, oh, you need to go here, you
need to go there.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Chef Bruno, bless his heart, recommended this five star Italian restaurant,
but you have to have reservations a month in advance.
I'm like, Chef Bruno, what am I supposed to do?
You have to you have to wear a dinner jacket
tie as optional. It's like, look, I don't have those
types of clothes in my suitcase.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I have a room.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I don't ever wear T shirts. But when I'm on vacation,
I wear nothing but T shirts. So I was like,
Chef Bruno, I love you, but that was a little
beyond our means on this occasion because you have to
make reservations a month in advance.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Okay, now before we get too deep, because I know
there's so much more to come. Yeah, We're gonna just
go with this for a while. How was the food
in Rome?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
It goes without saying, but I am going to say it,
if you haven't been to Italy, you haven't tasted Italian food.
And what I mean by that is Americanized Italian food.
I'll just pick on olive garden for example. That's American
Italian food. The seasoning, the sauces, the cheese, how they
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slather everything with cheese here in America. It's not like
that in Italy and obviously healthier ingredients. There's no comparison,
and you taste immediately like, oh my gosh. Now understand
what I've been missing for all my life the food.
And that's saying nothing of the gelato. Where you Gelatto,
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for people who don't know, is European ice cream. It's
not just ital and they having Greece as well, and
it's a creaminess to it, which is it's just unlike
anything other. And you can find gelatto every ten feet.
Did you get gelato every ten feet?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Just about just about. I'll get off eventually we got
to go to a break. But I'm talking about my
recent European vacation. Went to Italy, stops in Greece and Turkey. Yes,
I know that's the Middle East, and depending on where
you are in Turkey, that could be Asia as well,
but had a wonderful time.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I'm glad to be back here.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Glad to see you, Sam Zea on the Ones and twos,
Doctor Sam Mark Ronner not so much.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Good to see you.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We're back baby. Yeah, it's Later with mo Kelly. If
I am six forty five everyone, or in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six fortyfi.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Mister mo Kelly, It's Later with mo Kelly and we're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. The video simulcast will
return tomorrow, but I am back today. I've been telling
you about my European vacation, and I say to anyone
and everyone, if you get the opportunity travel, travel changes you.
Travel helps you grow as a world citizen. You will
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look at just the world and everything you see and
here in the world just differently. You'll have a very
different perspective. I personally believe you should travel to a
country where English is not the national language, is not
even maybe the secondary language, and you will look at
a different issue such as immigration, just differently. You will
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have a different level of empathy. You will know what
it's like to.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Struggle in a foreign country.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm in Italy and Greece, and I speak not a
lick of Italian or Greek. I would have I would
say the language skills of maybe of a seven eight
year old in Spanish, but knowing enough of that and
a Romance language and being in a region where people
routinely speak multiple languages and it helped me get by.
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And unless you're in one of the high tourist areas
in Italy like Rome, yet you'll find English. But if
you're in Naples, you probably won't find English, but you'll
find a lot of Spanish and something I didn't know.
Italy may have the national language of Italian, but Italian
has like twelve different versions depending on where you are
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in the country. Naples, Italian will be very different from Rome,
Italian and Venice and Sicily.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
All of that is just very different.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
When I was in Naples, you heard more Spanish, there
were more Spanish speaking people.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So I got around Naples no problem.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Like twallat when I was posting that video of that
comic book shop Star Comics in the hips center of Naples,
he didn't speaking the English, but.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
They spoke the hell out of Spanish, so we were fine. Also,
comics are the universal language. It is, and thank you
for my souvenir. It's magnificent. Love it your most welcome
Italian Daredevil graphic novel.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Ooh nice, nice, I got the Aliens?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
What If graphic novel? Oh, I gotta see that. It's amazing. Okay,
it was just a wonderful trip.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I enjoyed every minute of it, with the exception of
United Airlines.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Kiss my ass. Now, what was your favorite stop?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Because this time around you all tried different things, having
been in the area before saying oh, okay, this time around,
we're going to do different, different things. What was your
favorite stopping point, you know, getting off the ship.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Oh, Miconosconos.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
If you go to my instagram and a lot of
people have at mister mo' kelly had lunch.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I can't remember the name of it. I think it
was like the Lover Round or something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
We had lunch on the water with an elevated almost
like a banquet table, as if you're at a wedding
you have the wedding couples up high and you'll see it.
And my wife and I were having lunch overlooking I
think it's excuse me, because I'm not real good with geography.
I think it's like the a GNC and we're having
this lunch and it's just perfect weather. Waves are actually
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splashing into the restaurant area and no one is even
thinking twice about it.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It's something out of a magazine.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And I will say this, there are two things which
stood out to me as far as just being in
Europe in general. Smoking is still very much a thing everywhere.
When I say smoking, I'm talking about smoking cigarettes, I'm
talking about vaping, I'm talking about e cigarettes, tobacco and
all of that is so culturally ingrained in Europe even now,
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it would and of course that means.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
They're smoking in restaurants.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
They're smoking absolutely everywhere, And being from California, it may
be jarring.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
You may not be used to it.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I'm bouncing around, but as things come to me, I
was also taken aback by the amount of graffiti, and
I'm sensitive to it here in La It's something that's
very off putting for me. There was so much graffiti
in Italy. When I say Italy, I mean all around
the country.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Wait, graffiti like tagging or graffiti like art, graffiti, like tagging.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
The almost no graffiti like art.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And I couldn't tell you what the tagging was because
mostly it was in Italian I couldn't tell you, but
it was everywhere, and it was something that the locals
were telling me. Yes, we've been fighting with it, they've
had fines, but it is every single building, seemingly in Rome, everywhere,
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as far as the downtown main areas of Rome. Same
in Naples, the same. I'm trying to think of all
the places we were in Italy, even though Mouthey Coast.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It was everywhere.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
That is because it's like when my co parents sigh
happy Birthday, side happy happy Birthday when they were her
and my daughter, our daughter was in London or now London, Norway,
they have a lot of Banksy art everywhere. There's Banksy's
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on every building. There's even a Banksy museum. So they
have murals and graffiti art everywhere, but not the tagging. No,
this was this was not graffiti art.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
This was just straight up garden variety tagging disrespecting buildings.
It was about ten feet high, but on just about
every building. And just thinking about as I'm walking through
the city, you know, there are almost no SUVs and
everything is like a smart car or smaller if you
know smart cars and Mercedes and obviously Italian cars because
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in the region that's what you're going to see. But
it's a very much in scooters. I almost got hit
by a scooter at least eight or nine times. The
aggressiveness of people who are driving in Italy specifically more
so than Greece, but definitely in Italy. They will hit
you in a heartbeat and just keep a moving.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Was there any homelessness? I know you didn't. It's a
great point. You went to Asia. What about in Europe?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
A handful, not a lot. You know you were walking
through Italy. You will find it here or there, but
nothing like the United States, nothing like Los Angeles County.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
It was more the exception than the expectation.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Okay, this is something I've been itching to know and
I need to know if you saw one.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Were there any seven elevens?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I did not see one, and I was definitely looking
for one. Have been where I was, but I because
I had planned to find one and take a picture
at one. That's why I took a picture of the McDonald's.
We had the conversation with Nick Poliochini. That McDonald's that
you'll see on my instagram at mister mo Kelly was
the first McDonald's in Italy and we had talked about
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how the menus had differed.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
So they had like bacon cheese fries.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It's like, yes, wait what, yes, they have bacon cheese fries.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Did they have the shrimps? Sounds there? I didn't see it? Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I took a picture of the few menu items. It's like, Mo,
why did you go to Italy to eat McDonald's. No, no, no,
we went there just to see the differences. And when
we got to Turkey, they had a Popeye's chicken and
I was like, that's odd hop Eyes right, it was
completely random, and people said did you try and said, no,
I don't trust it, barely trust Popeyes in America.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Now you're gonna take me to Turkey? No, sir, no sir.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
But oh it was it was a it was a
wonderful time. It was eye opening, it was enlightening and
you see, oh and here's I will say this. When
people ask you where you're from, they always know Americans
because we as Americans, we say the city or state,
where are you from?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh, California. No, No, no, they mean what country.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
They also know where we're from because we're louder than
everybody else.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
We're louder than everyone else.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
We dress differently, we carry ourselves differently. And that someone
told me it's like your eyes are always up because
you're looking around, you're looking at sites. You're not looking
as if you know where you're going in eyes forward.
That's how they usually can determine whether you're a foreign
or not, because you're looking up at the big buildings, like.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
No, they're the same building if you would live there.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
They're the same buildings they were yesterday, but they seem
new to you and you're taking pictures.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So we stick out as foreigners.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But believe it or not, once they find out you're
from the United States and that has nothing to do
with California and New York, they just hear United S.
The first question, the most prominent question that I'm I
was asked.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
And I'm not making this up.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
It just was was what the hell is going on
in America or some form or fashion having to do
with Donald Trump? Because they only hear or see just
a few things. They're not immersed in the minutiae of
the politics. They just know that Donald Trump as president,
and they look at us as one unified group of
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people who all support him or all voted for him.
And this is whether you voted for him or not.
It's just how we're viewed as Americans from the outside
looking in. It doesn't make sense. It's atlantis. Yeah, they
look at it like is this real?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Yeah, because I'm just sure they just get like the
social media eclipse in just the random newsps. But those
all have to be insane, just the insane things he does.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And one thing that did come across to Europe one
of the big and part of the reason why they're asking,
because you know, one of the big stories was the
viral speculation about the president's health. Yes, and so there
was a point where, at least in Europe, we didn't
know which way the story was going to go. I
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actually reached out to people in DC, some people from
the first Trump administrations, like, Hey, what's going on with
the president's health? Because the rumor was that he had
a heart attack and died. I'm big serious, And so
I was just reaching out to people that I knew
who could offer some sort of clarity and they told me,
and of course I read and I actually posted on
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my personal Facebook page relate that information. I say that
to say only certain things slipped through to Europe because
we're not that freaking important to them. But what they
do know and what they hear, they don't understand, They
don't they don't understand.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Why or what was it? What what you know? Did
La burn down?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
La didn't burned down. But that's what they hear because
they're they're they're hearing bs. But this is this for me.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Your trip has just read invigorated my desire to travel,
and I thank you for sending out a message to
the crew to let us know that we are going
back out on the sea next year. What is it,
April and family crew? I cannot wait. It is going
to be on and popping.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Mark, let's go, Mark, come on, let's love Mark.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I'll send you off at the doc I'll throw confetti
or whatever whatever people do.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Mark, don't be a coward. Oh, it's time for the news.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oops.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
No, no, no, I got to go to the news.
I'll tell you when it's time to go to the news. Sam,
this is it time to go to the news.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Maybe Twill is it time to go to the news.
You know, I just got back in this chair.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Maybe I just want to spend a little more time
reminiscing about Italy and Greece and Turkey and Europe.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Oh well, by all means, help yourself.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on Demand from
kf I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Mister Kelly, Later with mo Kelly. Yes, I'm live, I'm
back on the air. I'm back in the United States.
A slew of new followers on Instagram, Matt, mister mo Kelly,
I appreciate you, seriously. It's not something that I strive
to do. I'm not here saying yeah, please follow me
on Instagram, Please follow me on it.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It's fine for other people.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I'm just saying that's just not who I am as
a person, and this business is something I have to do.
In other words, if I did not work in radio
or a public facing job, I would not be on
social media. So it's something that I do reluctantly and
I don't take it for granted for those people who
may follow me. The reason I mentioned that is because
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reviewing portions of my vacation with the help of Twalla Sharp,
who was asking me questions. There was so much which
transpired over the past twelve thirteen days. I don't immediately
remember all of it, and Twallaw was helping me recall
some of the highs and even the lows United Airlines
of the trip, so you can see some of the
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pictures and the stories at at mister mo Kelly m R.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
M O K E. L L. Y.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Got to see a lot of Italy and one of
my personal favorites was going to the Mouthfea coast. That
was something I'd heard about, I had seen, I had
read about, you know, Robin Leech, Lifestyles of the rich
and famous.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It's one of those things that it was very abstract
for me.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
But to actually go there and actually go to a
lemon cello factory and sample all the different types of
limon cello, it was just surreal for me personally. And
I do not say that as a brag or boast.
I'm saying that as someone who always wanted to travel
as a child, and I missed out on certain opportunities.
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For example, my mother was she still was us, but
when she was working at South Torrence High School as
a vocal music instructor, she took her her choirs to
France and they went to Luxembourg and I think Spain
and Sweden. It was a whole European tour. I was
too young ago my sister went. Older sister went, but
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I was too young. I think it was maybe in
six or seventh grade, so I couldn't go. When I
got to South Torrence High School, I was a senior,
and the next trip that my mother's was taken to
her class or her different choirs was to the Bahamas.
I caught chicken pox two days before we were supposed
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to leave, so I was quarantined and didn't get to
go to the Bahamas.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Oh Man. Fast forward a number of years.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I felt that I lost out on two opportunities to
travel to different portions of the world. The first trip
I took was by myself to the Bahamas, and it
was a cruise on Carnival Cruiser. So all this kind
of starts weaving together. The next trip that I took
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was solo. Where'd I go? Europe? I went to Spain
and spent about three weeks or so in Spain. Always
wanted to go to a Spanish speaking country, specifically Spain.
Fell in love with Barcelona. Also fell in love with
Europe and that kind of informed where I would travel
after that, fell in love with cruises. I say, travel
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see the world. You will see America differently, not necessarily
more negatively, but just differently, and you realize that there's
so much more world than just the United States. We
may think that we're the center of the universe, but
we're really not. We're really not. Not that what's going
on in your life is unimportant. I'm just saying that
the rest of the world does not obsess about all
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things politics like we do. For example, for as much
as people want to bash CNN, that's only one portion
of it. That's CNN Domestic. That's not CNN International. CNN
Domestic is when you have all the American political fights
and you have opinion, and you have people, you know,
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you have this side versus that side, and all they
do is fight back and forth. If you watch CNN
International or the non US channel, it's just news, just
talking about whatever's going on in the world. There's no slant,
there's no bias, there's no opinion. It's just this is
what's going on in the world. You just look at
things differently. So if you're in an airport, you will
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be most likely seeing CNN International. If you're in a
foreign country, most definitely it's CNN International.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
You're not going to find Fox News.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The closest thing you'll find is maybe Sky News and
I think they have a partnership. But it's not hyper
obsessed with American politics. It's a story, it's not even
the lead story. It's not important.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
During your travels this time around and thinking about the
US and where we are, do you see or did
you see any.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
How to say not, I don't want to say any.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Talk of or worry about society at Lars I did
did the people seem like they were just inundated with
with things that were happening within their country or was
everyone just as carefree as it seems in your pictures,
or did you catch a hold of conversations where people
were saying, oh, no, that's it. You know, I don't
know where I'm voting next time because things are just.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Terrible out here. Well, there's the localized issues. There are
European countries with dealing with their form of immigration issues
that from France Italy to a lesser standpoint, Italy seems
to be a much more homogenous society, so not as
much Greece. You gotta remember, when you're in those countries,
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you're very close to Africa and Asia for the most part,
or like in Turkey the Middle East, there is such
a diverse city in those countries. Immigration and diversity are
looked upon very differently because it's hard to explain, if
only because it's common that you'll see people from different
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places who speak multiple languages. If you're in Italy, yes
you're going to run into people from Spain, from Portugal,
from even Africa, because the African continent is right next door.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's a different understanding of people and where they're from.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And there is an appreciation for people who speak multiple languages.
Put it that way, that is a calling card of
someone who is respected, especially if you can speak the
native tongue. To go as an American and all you
can do is speak English is frowned upon.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
It's not like it's foreign for them to run into people.
It's like you only speak English.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
They still make people like you because you're in a
region where people well not only grow up speaking the
native tongue, but they're taught. It's mandatory for them to
learn one or possibly two other languages in school. So polyglots,
as they call them, it's common. What is uncommon is
only speaking English. So that's why I got around. And
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I don't want to say I was respected more, but
I didn't seem as American because I could handle myself
in Spanish. To only speak English is like you just
looked at huh tourists. You're from America. You haven't been
anywhere but America.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
It's just facts. That's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Let me tell you, I'm so happy to be back.
I was doing the pee wee Herman dance in the studio, Sam,
you saw me. It is good to be back with
you here on KFI. I had a wonderful vacation, absolutely wonderful.
I don't know if a lot of people can say that.
Sometimes we put so much weight and expectation and anticipation
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on a vacation, not trying to rhyme that it never
meets up to our expectations. There's always some level of disappointment.
I had a wonderful vacation. The worst part of it
was just travel. No shout out to United Airlines. You
can kiss my ass.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Wow, Okay. I was curious about.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
That because how long, okay, how long did it take
you to fly to.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Your first destination? First destination? We flew from LA to Washington, DC,
and then Washington, d C to Rome. When we flew American.
Last time we went to Europe, we were able to
do a direct flight. United not so much so. We
had five hours to DC. We only had like an
hour layover, So it's a relatively back to back flight.
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Then we flew eight hours to Rome. Coming back, we
were flying twelve hours from Rome to San Francisco, and
I forgot when we were flying to DC and then
to Rome.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Didn't have any internet, so that sucked. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
No, no, so all the movies you packed to watch?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, Well, yes, the ones I downloaded. I could watch, okay, okay, okayo,
but I couldn't do the normal internet stuff. I basically
just had a video player. Coming back, we had internet,
but it was just a cluster truck of other things
which were going on.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Almost missed our connection.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, we were on the tarmac for two freakin' hours
leaving Rome going to San Francisco for various and sundry reasons,
having nothing to do with any mechanical issues, thank goodness,
but still we almost missed our connection from San Francisco
to La long story short the travel day altogether. We
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got off the ship at seven am Rome time, Sunday, Yes, Sunday.
We had to wait an hour and a half for
our transfer car, which is going to take us directly
to the airport. So we left the port of seed
Seeda Vida Vecchia and we went to the port to
the airport. That was another hour transpo. Then we had
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to wait and we got there around nine o'clock. Then
our flight was not until three. We did not actually
get in the air until five forty pm because of
a two hours on the tarmac. Then we're running through
SFO when we got there, trying to meet our connection.
Long story short, when you're flying internationally, at least United
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back into the United States, you have to go through customs.
You have to get your bags and then re check
them on the domestic flight, So you're waiting for your bags.
You get your bags, and Lamuhir and I were running
through the airport. If you've ever been to SFO, the
terminals are not close. Yeah, no that It took us
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a good twenty thirty minutes to physically get from point
A to point B. We got on a flight about
five minutes before it was going to take off. Got
home safely. But we're not flying United again ever again.
If no, wow, No.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
At least United is consistent and its badness. The last
time I had to spend the night in an airport
was because of United, and I haven't flown them since then.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I think I swore awful.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
United my last time flying them as well, And I
think I flew United because I felt like, Okay, this
is the airline that's going to be really really on it.
If anyone tries to rush a cabin or anything like that,
I can relax.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
But the service.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
On that plane was horrific, Yes, horrific.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
The accommodation we're flying business lass that was fine. The
food was ah, the service less than anh. It's one
of those things where and I'm not going to spend
too much time on it. It's just that was the
only real drawback of the trip.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
But then when you got aboard your ship, which, let
me tell you, your room, I had straight envy that
room alone.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Damn the rest of the ship which was gorgeous, but
that room.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
We have a balcony, and that's one of the things
blah blo hair and I do. It's like what we're
going to get, and that's like a mid level room.
We have the balcony ocean view, as opposed to an
inside cabin where it's almost like a dorm room.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
You don't have any windows or anything.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I appreciate greatly being able to feel the ocean, hear
the ocean, at not. We usually sleep with the with
the balcony door open so you can just hear the waves.
It's very relaxing, very soothing. It's a reminder of just
being away from everything else. Now you'll appreciate this Twala
the Royal. We went Royal Caribbean. The accommodations as far
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as the shipboard activities, they were not as good.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
As when we went.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, they did not have the types of or quality
level of activities. And that's something that my wife and
I both noticed as opposed to any other time we've
been on Royal Caribbean. I believe it's a function of
trying to cut back on some of the shipboard expenses.
Maybe it's a post pandemic thing where they just they
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don't They don't offer the types of elaborate comedy shows
and the disco tech that karaoke, the karaoke. I think
I'm glad you said that I hadn't sung karaoke in
a number of years. I sang karaoke once when I
was on a ship. It was objectively horrible, But in
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my defense, I was objectively.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
There's a trade off there.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You can't hold how bad my performance was against me
not completely.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Okay, okay, So you had a balcony in your room. Yes.
Did you utilize the balcony, yes, my wife laid out,
you know, to get some sun. Did you christen it
that balcony? No, if only because it's not sound proof.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I see, and I think from what I've seen of
the balconies, if someone else has a balcony adjacent to yours,
they can just look over.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, they can. You can kind of look around the partition,
look around.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I'm thinking that doesn't stop everyone. No, no, no, it
probably doesn't. I'm just saying we did not do that.
I see the balcony, and you can see pictures just
in case you don't know what I'm talking about and
you want to see it specifically at mister mo' kelly
on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
You'll be able to find all the European pictures.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
But that cruise ship was, I mean literally just looking
at it was. It was one of the reasons why
I now appreciate cruising. I mean, when you think about
all the ships you've been on, where does this one rank?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I would say it's the second best ship.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It was odysty of the Seas, which is in their
Oasis class, which is the largest class. It's the fifth
largest cruise ship in the world. I believe, if I'm
not mistaken, if my research is correct, it was a
great time and you're not spending all your time on
the ship. There was a seven day cruise. I think
we hit five ports. We hit trying to think in order.
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We hit Santorini in Greece, we hit Mikonos in Greece.
We hit Ephesus, which is in Turkey. That was the
lowest point because the port did not have a lot
to offer. I can say I've been to Turkey, but
you know, I ain't been to Turkey. It was fine,
and then we close out with Naples and the beauty
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of it. If you've ever been on a cruise, you
get to sample ports. You don't have to spend two
or three days there, but it gives you the opportunity,
at least intellectually, where well, okay, now I've seen a
little bit of Rome that the first time we went,
maybe that's the place you want to spend more time.
And so this time we spent three or four days
in Rome prior to the cruise, and we had a chance.
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If you see the pictures at mister mo Kelly on Instagram.
We had a chance to see Rome, tour Italy, go
to Pompeii, go to various places the Mouthfee coast, for example,
get to tour the Italian countryside. And I was in
contact but with Chef Bruno.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
He was saying, oh, you need to go here, you
need to go there.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Chef Bruno, bless his heart, recommended this five star Italian restaurant,
but you have to have reservations a month in advance.
I'm like, Chef Bruno, what am I supposed to do?
You have to you have to wear a dinner jacket
tie as optional. It's like, look, I don't have those
types of clothes in my suitcase.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I have a room.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I don't ever wear T shirts. But when I'm on vacation,
I wear nothing but T shirts. So I was like,
Chef Bruno, I love you, but that was a little
beyond our means on this occasion because you have to
make reservations a month in advance.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Okay, now before we get too deep, because I know
there's so much more to come. Yeah, We're gonna just
go with this for a while. How was the food
in Rome?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
It goes without saying, but I am going to say it,
if you haven't been to Italy, you haven't tasted Italian food.
And what I mean by that is Americanized Italian food.
I'll just pick on olive garden for example. That's American
Italian food. The seasoning, the sauces, the cheese, how they
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slather everything with cheese here in America. It's not like
that in Italy and obviously healthier ingredients. There's no comparison,
and you taste immediately like, oh my gosh. Now understand
what I've been missing for all my life the food.
And that's saying nothing of the gelato. Where you Gelatto,
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for people who don't know, is European ice cream. It's
not just ital and they having Greece as well, and
it's a creaminess to it, which is it's just unlike
anything other. And you can find gelatto every ten feet.
Did you get gelato every ten feet?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Just about just about. I'll get off eventually we got
to go to a break. But I'm talking about my
recent European vacation. Went to Italy, stops in Greece and Turkey. Yes,
I know that's the Middle East, and depending on where
you are in Turkey, that could be Asia as well,
but had a wonderful time.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I'm glad to be back here.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Glad to see you, Sam Zea on the Ones and twos,
Doctor Sam Mark Ronner not so much.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Good to see you.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We're back baby. Yeah, it's Later with mo Kelly. If
I am six forty five everyone, or in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six fortyfi.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Mister mo Kelly, It's Later with mo Kelly and we're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. The video simulcast will
return tomorrow, but I am back today. I've been telling
you about my European vacation, and I say to anyone
and everyone, if you get the opportunity travel, travel changes you.
Travel helps you grow as a world citizen. You will
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look at just the world and everything you see and
here in the world just differently. You'll have a very
different perspective. I personally believe you should travel to a
country where English is not the national language, is not
even maybe the secondary language, and you will look at
a different issue such as immigration, just differently. You will
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have a different level of empathy. You will know what
it's like to.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Struggle in a foreign country.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm in Italy and Greece, and I speak not a
lick of Italian or Greek. I would have I would
say the language skills of maybe of a seven eight
year old in Spanish, but knowing enough of that and
a Romance language and being in a region where people
routinely speak multiple languages and it helped me get by.
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And unless you're in one of the high tourist areas
in Italy like Rome, yet you'll find English. But if
you're in Naples, you probably won't find English, but you'll
find a lot of Spanish and something I didn't know.
Italy may have the national language of Italian, but Italian
has like twelve different versions depending on where you are
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in the country. Naples, Italian will be very different from Rome,
Italian and Venice and Sicily.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
All of that is just very different.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
When I was in Naples, you heard more Spanish, there
were more Spanish speaking people.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So I got around Naples no problem.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Like twallat when I was posting that video of that
comic book shop Star Comics in the hips center of Naples,
he didn't speaking the English, but.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
They spoke the hell out of Spanish, so we were fine. Also,
comics are the universal language. It is, and thank you
for my souvenir. It's magnificent. Love it your most welcome
Italian Daredevil graphic novel.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Ooh nice, nice, I got the Aliens?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
What If graphic novel? Oh, I gotta see that. It's amazing. Okay,
it was just a wonderful trip.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I enjoyed every minute of it, with the exception of
United Airlines.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Kiss my ass. Now, what was your favorite stop?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Because this time around you all tried different things, having
been in the area before saying oh, okay, this time around,
we're going to do different, different things. What was your
favorite stopping point, you know, getting off the ship.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Oh, Miconosconos.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
If you go to my instagram and a lot of
people have at mister mo' kelly had lunch.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I can't remember the name of it. I think it
was like the Lover Round or something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
We had lunch on the water with an elevated almost
like a banquet table, as if you're at a wedding
you have the wedding couples up high and you'll see it.
And my wife and I were having lunch overlooking I
think it's excuse me, because I'm not real good with geography.
I think it's like the a GNC and we're having
this lunch and it's just perfect weather. Waves are actually
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splashing into the restaurant area and no one is even
thinking twice about it.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It's something out of a magazine.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And I will say this, there are two things which
stood out to me as far as just being in
Europe in general. Smoking is still very much a thing everywhere.
When I say smoking, I'm talking about smoking cigarettes, I'm
talking about vaping, I'm talking about e cigarettes, tobacco and
all of that is so culturally ingrained in Europe even now,
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it would and of course that means.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
They're smoking in restaurants.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
They're smoking absolutely everywhere, And being from California, it may
be jarring.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
You may not be used to it.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I'm bouncing around, but as things come to me, I
was also taken aback by the amount of graffiti, and
I'm sensitive to it here in La It's something that's
very off putting for me. There was so much graffiti
in Italy. When I say Italy, I mean all around
the country.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Wait, graffiti like tagging or graffiti like art, graffiti, like tagging.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
The almost no graffiti like art.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And I couldn't tell you what the tagging was because
mostly it was in Italian I couldn't tell you, but
it was everywhere, and it was something that the locals
were telling me. Yes, we've been fighting with it, they've
had fines, but it is every single building, seemingly in Rome, everywhere,
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as far as the downtown main areas of Rome. Same
in Naples, the same. I'm trying to think of all
the places we were in Italy, even though Mouthey Coast.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It was everywhere.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
That is because it's like when my co parents sigh
happy Birthday, side happy happy Birthday when they were her
and my daughter, our daughter was in London or now London, Norway,
they have a lot of Banksy art everywhere. There's Banksy's
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on every building. There's even a Banksy museum. So they
have murals and graffiti art everywhere, but not the tagging. No,
this was this was not graffiti art.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
This was just straight up garden variety tagging disrespecting buildings.
It was about ten feet high, but on just about
every building. And just thinking about as I'm walking through
the city, you know, there are almost no SUVs and
everything is like a smart car or smaller if you
know smart cars and Mercedes and obviously Italian cars because
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in the region that's what you're going to see. But
it's a very much in scooters. I almost got hit
by a scooter at least eight or nine times. The
aggressiveness of people who are driving in Italy specifically more
so than Greece, but definitely in Italy. They will hit
you in a heartbeat and just keep a moving.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Was there any homelessness? I know you didn't. It's a
great point. You went to Asia. What about in Europe?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
A handful, not a lot. You know you were walking
through Italy. You will find it here or there, but
nothing like the United States, nothing like Los Angeles County.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
It was more the exception than the expectation.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Okay, this is something I've been itching to know and
I need to know if you saw one.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Were there any seven elevens?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I did not see one, and I was definitely looking
for one. Have been where I was, but I because
I had planned to find one and take a picture
at one. That's why I took a picture of the McDonald's.
We had the conversation with Nick Poliochini. That McDonald's that
you'll see on my instagram at mister mo Kelly was
the first McDonald's in Italy and we had talked about
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how the menus had differed.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
So they had like bacon cheese fries.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It's like, yes, wait what, yes, they have bacon cheese fries.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Did they have the shrimps? Sounds there? I didn't see it? Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I took a picture of the few menu items. It's like, Mo,
why did you go to Italy to eat McDonald's. No, no, no,
we went there just to see the differences. And when
we got to Turkey, they had a Popeye's chicken and
I was like, that's odd hop Eyes right, it was
completely random, and people said did you try and said, no,
I don't trust it, barely trust Popeyes in America.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Now you're gonna take me to Turkey? No, sir, no sir.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
But oh it was it was a it was a
wonderful time. It was eye opening, it was enlightening and
you see, oh and here's I will say this. When
people ask you where you're from, they always know Americans
because we as Americans, we say the city or state,
where are you from?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh, California. No, No, no, they mean what country.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
They also know where we're from because we're louder than
everybody else.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
We're louder than everyone else.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
We dress differently, we carry ourselves differently. And that someone
told me it's like your eyes are always up because
you're looking around, you're looking at sites. You're not looking
as if you know where you're going in eyes forward.
That's how they usually can determine whether you're a foreign
or not, because you're looking up at the big buildings, like.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
No, they're the same building if you would live there.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
They're the same buildings they were yesterday, but they seem
new to you and you're taking pictures.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So we stick out as foreigners.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But believe it or not, once they find out you're
from the United States and that has nothing to do
with California and New York, they just hear United S.
The first question, the most prominent question that I'm I
was asked.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
And I'm not making this up.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
It just was was what the hell is going on
in America or some form or fashion having to do
with Donald Trump? Because they only hear or see just
a few things. They're not immersed in the minutiae of
the politics. They just know that Donald Trump as president,
and they look at us as one unified group of
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people who all support him or all voted for him.
And this is whether you voted for him or not.
It's just how we're viewed as Americans from the outside
looking in. It doesn't make sense. It's atlantis. Yeah, they
look at it like is this real?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Yeah, because I'm just sure they just get like the
social media eclipse in just the random newsps. But those
all have to be insane, just the insane things he does.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And one thing that did come across to Europe one
of the big and part of the reason why they're asking,
because you know, one of the big stories was the
viral speculation about the president's health. Yes, and so there
was a point where, at least in Europe, we didn't
know which way the story was going to go. I
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actually reached out to people in DC, some people from
the first Trump administrations, like, Hey, what's going on with
the president's health? Because the rumor was that he had
a heart attack and died. I'm big serious, And so
I was just reaching out to people that I knew
who could offer some sort of clarity and they told me,
and of course I read and I actually posted on
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my personal Facebook page relate that information. I say that
to say only certain things slipped through to Europe because
we're not that freaking important to them. But what they
do know and what they hear, they don't understand, They
don't they don't understand.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Why or what was it? What what you know? Did
La burn down?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
La didn't burned down. But that's what they hear because
they're they're they're hearing bs. But this is this for me.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Your trip has just read invigorated my desire to travel,
and I thank you for sending out a message to
the crew to let us know that we are going
back out on the sea next year. What is it,
April and family crew? I cannot wait. It is going
to be on and popping.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Mark, let's go, Mark, come on, let's love Mark.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I'll send you off at the doc I'll throw confetti
or whatever whatever people do.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Mark, don't be a coward. Oh, it's time for the news.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oops.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
No, no, no, I got to go to the news.
I'll tell you when it's time to go to the news. Sam,
this is it time to go to the news.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Maybe Twill is it time to go to the news.
You know, I just got back in this chair.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Maybe I just want to spend a little more time
reminiscing about Italy and Greece and Turkey and Europe.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Oh well, by all means, help yourself.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on Demand from
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Speaker 2 (22:57):
Mister Kelly, Later with mo Kelly. Yes, I'm live, I'm
back on the air. I'm back in the United States.
A slew of new followers on Instagram, Matt, mister mo Kelly,
I appreciate you, seriously. It's not something that I strive
to do. I'm not here saying yeah, please follow me
on Instagram, Please follow me on it.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It's fine for other people.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I'm just saying that's just not who I am as
a person, and this business is something I have to do.
In other words, if I did not work in radio
or a public facing job, I would not be on
social media. So it's something that I do reluctantly and
I don't take it for granted for those people who
may follow me. The reason I mentioned that is because
(23:37):
reviewing portions of my vacation with the help of Twalla Sharp,
who was asking me questions. There was so much which
transpired over the past twelve thirteen days. I don't immediately
remember all of it, and Twallaw was helping me recall
some of the highs and even the lows United Airlines
of the trip, so you can see some of the
(23:57):
pictures and the stories at at mister mo Kelly m R.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
M O K E. L L. Y.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Got to see a lot of Italy and one of
my personal favorites was going to the Mouthfea coast. That
was something I'd heard about, I had seen, I had
read about, you know, Robin Leech, Lifestyles of the rich
and famous.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It's one of those things that it was very abstract
for me.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
But to actually go there and actually go to a
lemon cello factory and sample all the different types of
limon cello, it was just surreal for me personally. And
I do not say that as a brag or boast.
I'm saying that as someone who always wanted to travel
as a child, and I missed out on certain opportunities.
(24:41):
For example, my mother was she still was us, but
when she was working at South Torrence High School as
a vocal music instructor, she took her her choirs to
France and they went to Luxembourg and I think Spain
and Sweden. It was a whole European tour. I was
too young ago my sister went. Older sister went, but
(25:04):
I was too young. I think it was maybe in
six or seventh grade, so I couldn't go. When I
got to South Torrence High School, I was a senior,
and the next trip that my mother's was taken to
her class or her different choirs was to the Bahamas.
I caught chicken pox two days before we were supposed
(25:25):
to leave, so I was quarantined and didn't get to
go to the Bahamas.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Oh Man. Fast forward a number of years.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I felt that I lost out on two opportunities to
travel to different portions of the world. The first trip
I took was by myself to the Bahamas, and it
was a cruise on Carnival Cruiser. So all this kind
of starts weaving together. The next trip that I took
(25:54):
was solo. Where'd I go? Europe? I went to Spain
and spent about three weeks or so in Spain. Always
wanted to go to a Spanish speaking country, specifically Spain.
Fell in love with Barcelona. Also fell in love with
Europe and that kind of informed where I would travel
after that, fell in love with cruises. I say, travel
(26:18):
see the world. You will see America differently, not necessarily
more negatively, but just differently, and you realize that there's
so much more world than just the United States. We
may think that we're the center of the universe, but
we're really not. We're really not. Not that what's going
on in your life is unimportant. I'm just saying that
the rest of the world does not obsess about all
(26:41):
things politics like we do. For example, for as much
as people want to bash CNN, that's only one portion
of it. That's CNN Domestic. That's not CNN International. CNN
Domestic is when you have all the American political fights
and you have opinion, and you have people, you know,
(27:01):
you have this side versus that side, and all they
do is fight back and forth. If you watch CNN
International or the non US channel, it's just news, just
talking about whatever's going on in the world. There's no slant,
there's no bias, there's no opinion. It's just this is
what's going on in the world. You just look at
things differently. So if you're in an airport, you will
(27:23):
be most likely seeing CNN International. If you're in a
foreign country, most definitely it's CNN International.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
You're not going to find Fox News.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The closest thing you'll find is maybe Sky News and
I think they have a partnership. But it's not hyper
obsessed with American politics. It's a story, it's not even
the lead story. It's not important.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
During your travels this time around and thinking about the
US and where we are, do you see or did
you see any.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
How to say not, I don't want to say any.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Talk of or worry about society at Lars I did
did the people seem like they were just inundated with
with things that were happening within their country or was
everyone just as carefree as it seems in your pictures,
or did you catch a hold of conversations where people
were saying, oh, no, that's it. You know, I don't
know where I'm voting next time because things are just.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Terrible out here. Well, there's the localized issues. There are
European countries with dealing with their form of immigration issues
that from France Italy to a lesser standpoint, Italy seems
to be a much more homogenous society, so not as
much Greece. You gotta remember, when you're in those countries,
(28:51):
you're very close to Africa and Asia for the most part,
or like in Turkey the Middle East, there is such
a diverse city in those countries. Immigration and diversity are
looked upon very differently because it's hard to explain, if
only because it's common that you'll see people from different
(29:14):
places who speak multiple languages. If you're in Italy, yes
you're going to run into people from Spain, from Portugal,
from even Africa, because the African continent is right next door.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's a different understanding of people and where they're from.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And there is an appreciation for people who speak multiple languages.
Put it that way, that is a calling card of
someone who is respected, especially if you can speak the
native tongue. To go as an American and all you
can do is speak English is frowned upon.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
It's not like it's foreign for them to run into people.
It's like you only speak English.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
They still make people like you because you're in a
region where people well not only grow up speaking the
native tongue, but they're taught. It's mandatory for them to
learn one or possibly two other languages in school. So polyglots,
as they call them, it's common. What is uncommon is
only speaking English. So that's why I got around. And
(30:18):
I don't want to say I was respected more, but
I didn't seem as American because I could handle myself
in Spanish. To only speak English is like you just
looked at huh tourists. You're from America. You haven't been
anywhere but America.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
It's just facts. That's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
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