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July 5, 2025 36 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – HOUR TWO of the 5th Annual Chateau Le Mo’ 4th of July LIVE Broadcast with guest contributors Tiffany Hobbs; Host of 'The Viral Load' & 'Saturdays with Tiffany,' ‘Beyond the Box Score’ Host Jackie Rae AND legendary “Bake Off” three time champion (and Mo’s sister) Marie O’Kelly Green - 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):
Happy Birthday, America, Happy Independence Day. We're live everywhere the
iHeartRadio app and on Instagram. If you want to check
out and see something of Chatel Limo and also the
party that's going on downstairs. They're gonna be partying all
night long. You can check us out on Instagram at
mister bo Kelly, m R M O K E L L. Y.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Joining us right now is the host.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
You know what, I'm gonna let you do this, Tiffany Hobbs,
because you deserve the floor.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
How do you want to be introduced?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Oh my goodness, the viral load with Tiffany Hobbs and
the host of.

Speaker 5 (00:37):
Saturdays with Tiffany right here on KFI.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Wow, Tiffany, it is great to be able to have
you here at check Olmo.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
This is your second year, Chris, this is my second year.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
I'm so upset. I didn't come to anything before. This
is like the it's the best party going.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Since it's the best party going, what have you partaken in?
Have you got to eat?

Speaker 5 (00:54):
Did you get any of the desserts?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
A lot of dessert A lot of different trying of libation.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
I've enjoyed my round at the alcohol table.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, there's an old table of it.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
There are a.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Few tables, and I think I found all of them.
But yeah, I've had everything. It's been wonderful, and there's
still plenty and there's more coming, like it's just never ending.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
The whole theme of tonight is food, family, fun.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
But also you have family, not necessarily biologically related, but
we would do anything.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
For each other.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
What does today You can hear the kids in the background,
what does today remind you of?

Speaker 5 (01:36):
Oh man, it reminds me of togetherness.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
You know, everything aside that could potentially taint what today
is about. It's at its core about being together and
being with people you enjoy. And I don't have any
biological family here, but everyone here is family. The people
I met today for the first time are now family.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
At least that's what it feels like.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
It's that kind of climate, and so being able to
take that feeling wherever you go on a day like
today is really important. Just feeling just accepted and loved
and having fun and.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
You're not thinking about anything else except that.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Growing up, I'm quite sure you have some I'll say
very particular Fourth of July memories. Yeah, you were kind
of telling me off air, what are your memories of
Fourth of July?

Speaker 5 (02:21):
I had a great Fourth of July.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
As a kid, we always bought the legal fireworks and
enjoyed the sparklers and all that type of stuff at
the fireworks stands. But in my adulthood, enjoying fireworks has
been a little different. It's been a little complicated. I
have my thoughts about pets and veterans and everything, and
so it does complicate the matter for me. But I
remember one time going to a Dodger game around Fourth

(02:43):
of July and they did the huge firework show and
I was looking up at.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
It because it was beautiful.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
And as I'm looking up, I see something coming right
towards me. You never think anything's going to hit you
from a fireworks show, but I got hit right in
my eye by debris from the fireworks show at Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
I should own Dodger Stadium. I didn't even sue I
know what I'm talking with you.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
This was like five years ago, a crown ass adult
who should have known better. But I just decided, you
know what, in that moment.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
I had a whole section of seats named after me.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Seriously, I think the statute of limitations is still good.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
I think I can still be able to pursue this.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
But I was literally temporarily blinded for about an hour
and I had to walk back to my car.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
That was the end of the game.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
So walking back to the car, and every everyone who's
been a Dodger stadium, you know that parking lot is
absolutely nuts. Walking far back to my car blinded me.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
You were parked out by the Union starts.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Out behind the cheap seats, absolutely so that was definitely
a memory for me in my adulthood.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Childhood was wonderful and I still do enjoy Fourth of July.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Okay, okay, your childhood, what was that like?

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Like I said, the Sparklers.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
My mom would always buy like whatever was affordable at
the time, So maybe a twenty dollars fireworks set. You know,
prices back in the eighties were a little different, but
a twenty dollars firework set went far and you had
everything that you could do right in your front yard
or front pavement and just sitting out there, standing out
there with your hot dog or whatever it is, and
you're watching it. It felt magical.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
And then when The Sandlot came out, the movie The Sandlot,
absolutely that absolutely changed mind.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
The Dodger Way.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, it's just it really just amplified Fourth of July
for me, and it made it.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
It made it that.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Much more fund I just remember it being fun, fun
and safe.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
To be honest, there there's some close calls. You know,
you light it and you wait too long.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah, yeah, I've had some close cat I tail it
out of there.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
I am.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
I'm blessed to have all ten of my fingers same.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
But we definitely, like I said, got close to losing
a finger or two.

Speaker 5 (04:50):
Didn't happen.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
But that was all a part of the magic of
Fourth of July, the just the fun of it all.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
I don't want to tell all your business, but you're
here with someone special I am. And what is the
Fourth of July for him?

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Man?

Speaker 4 (05:05):
He and I've spoken about my fiance before, but he
has a sibling close in age. I'm an only child,
so mine was a little different. But for him, he
has a sibling one year younger than he, and so
he and his mother, father and this little brother younger
brother would do the same thing. They would buy the
firework set. They would have fun on their block. But
he always would tell me that his block was full

(05:25):
of kids. He had a very kind of picturesque neighborhood
and as far as you could see houses, rows of
houses and then kids everywhere.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
So you have kids pull up on their bicycles.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Everyone's out there and it was very Americana in that
way and a lot of fun. So he talks about
the neighborhood and community aspect of it being something that
he remembers. For me, it was a little bit smaller
because it's like my small family and like a small community.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
For him, it was the whole entire block.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's what it was. For me.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
We had block parties, and if you're not of a
certain age, you don't remember what a block party was.
Where they would actually block off the street so no
cars could drive, so all the kids could play in
the street. They may have a bounce house, depending on
the generation you grew up in, but you may have
a ban.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
But it was we had a greater sense.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Of community in a neighborhood since and I'm talking about
the late nineteen seventies early nineteen eighties.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Now you don't have that.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
You live in neighborhoods, you may not even know who
lives to your right, into your left.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
See kids outside anymore.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, And I don't know if that's a product of
the cost of living where it's very difficult for families
or younger families to buy a house. If you have
a kid, it's very difficult to buy a house. Then
you have these houses where these kids will grow up together.
You know, you see a lot of houses and they
don't have any kids, because it's almost like do you

(06:46):
want to have a house or do you want to
have a kid, because you can't have both.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Right, right, And you see people trying to create community
and a lot of people obviously live in shared communal housing, apartments,
condo communities, whatever it may be. And people are trying,
I think, to recapture what it is to have a
neighborhood because neighborhoods are so important and knowing your neighbors
and that's something that I grew up having and now
I'm trying to recreate it.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
Like I'm saying, it's hard, It is hard.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Oh, it's very difficult.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean, I like being able to walk out of
my house and I see a neighbor saying good morning hello.
How are you to be reciprocated? Yeah, you know, if
you just a lot of places you'd say hi. They
look at you like, why the hell are you speaking
to me?

Speaker 5 (07:22):
They do, they do.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
People are very isolationists, and so on a daylight today
when people like walking from the car parked parking for
your party here at Shouts Hill a mo we parked
across the street in a neighborhood and walking through the
neighborhood party after party after party, people outside on their lawns,
and it's just nice to see that sort of togetherness.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
It was nice to see you.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
It's nicest to me too.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Mo Kelly, host of the viral Load Wednesday nights here
on Lady with Mo Kelly and also Saturday night Saturday
Nights with House from five to seven pm.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
And I'll be on Sunday to filling in for Chris Merrill.
I don't leave the station. I'm at the station all
the time. Welcome to radio, well them to radio. See
but you managed to get away. I don't know how
is it you could get away and Mark Ronald couldn't
get away. Guys, I'm asking myself.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
The same thing. I feel like if he had put
in the effort, he would have been here for Oh hey, Mark,
are you listening?

Speaker 6 (08:14):
Hey, Oh Budy at two from the Nice Load Lately, Ladies,
I can't believe this nice.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Load lady, but that just sounded so wrong. That's our moniker.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
We all love the viral load and the viral load lady.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
It's Later with.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Real Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and Instagram.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
We are still Instagram Live.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
You can see a lot of our guests and the
funderware having you can hear the kids in the background.
It's all about food, family and fun. On this Independence Day,
Happy Birthday America. We have Jackie Ray from Beyond the
box Score in just a moment when we come back.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
You better get on Instagram right now at this from
O Kelly R M O K E L L Y.
You might see some things and we're live on the
iHeartRadio app. And joining us right now is our regular
commentator Jackie Ray. You know her from Jackie Ray Beyond
the box Score. Every Monday night, we talk about sports
and the intersection with society.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Jackie Ray.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
They now call you Jackie Ray Daniels or is it
Jackie jack I love that.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
Praise God, Jackie Ray Daniels. Won't you do it? Won't
you do it? Amen?

Speaker 3 (09:27):
You've had one or two or eight?

Speaker 5 (09:29):
You know who's counting.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Okay, this is your first year at Chateau le Mo.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
It is and I'm having a fabulous time.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
What did you notice about the just the ambiyonce, the food,
the desserts. What jumped out at you?

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Listen?

Speaker 4 (09:42):
I feel like this is what Fourth of July is
supposed to be about. It's supposed to be about friends
becoming family, eating and enjoying, making friends, telling stories, planning ahead,
because in this time, I really feel like it's about
coming together, and this moment at Chateau mo has really
made a lot of us be able to come together.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
And so thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Colorado was where you're morning ready? What was Fourth of
July like for you growing up?

Speaker 4 (10:07):
I'm gonna tell you right now. We didn't celebrate Fourth
of July because we wasn't free on Fourth of July.
I'm a very pro black family, so we didn't celebrate.
We took the day off and we celebrated that we
had the day off and it was just more of
a family day. And that's what this day is for me.
It's more of a family day. We get to know
people that we might not have known before. It's just
a beautiful day to really kind of celebrate family and

(10:29):
heritage and growing up together.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
You got to see the dessert contest for the first
I did. What did you think?

Speaker 5 (10:35):
Listen? The woman that did not win, that was my
sister supposed to win.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Amen, Well, she's won the past two years.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
That's mine and I get this. Sometimes you gotta change
things up for the ambiance.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
But she won that. We had different judges Tuala's.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
You're not gonna get any sympathy from Tuala. He thought
he was robbed one year or two years.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Okay, that's fair. I couldn't. But I know what I tasted,
and I had a clear winner.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
I was.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
I was like, excuse me, excuse me, get out the way.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Let me ask you this before you got here. We're
in the world. We still acknowledge what's going on in
the world. Yes, I sent you a story. Every time
I see a story that applies to you, I send
it to you immediately. And there's another baseball player. We'll
talk about it on Monday. But who's being investigated for gambling?
Am I being hyperbolic if I were to say that

(11:27):
this could continue on a trajectory which could decimate professional sports,
especially baseball?

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yeah, I think that when you partner with a gambling
institution and you expect your players not to gamble, it's
insanity in a way. And so I think we've we've
talked about this several times. I think we talked about
the next big gambling scandal, and there's been three since
we've talked about that. So you know, Unfortunately, gambling is

(11:56):
a it's a big money market because people like to bet.
People like to see their favorite players do well. They
like to bet on their favorite players. And to expect
people that are in the league not to do the
same thing is asinine to me.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
What happens when it finally does get out of here?
And I have to believe at this point, look, for
everyone we know, this is the roach theory. For everyone
we know, they're two, three, four that we don't know. Amen,
And so if there are that many others out there,
if you're baseball, how do you bring this under control?

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Candy?

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Bring it under control because after a certain point, people
will lose confidence in the product that they're seeing.

Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah, I think you have to have no tolerance policy.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
So while we are having a lot of investigations, I
think the second you gamble.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
It's a full stop.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
There has to be a zero tolerance because if you're
trying to protect the integrity of the game. We hear fans,
we hear players talk about, oh, the refs felt some
sort of way about this game. They impacted the game
this way, And if you really want to protect the
integrity of the game, you have to have a no
tolerance policy.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
No nobody can gamble.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Ever, when you say nobody, it could, does that mean
just the players.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
I mean you have coaches, GM's, people who are taking trainers,
nobody who was involved with the league in anyway pr people.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
No one can because we writers, we have inside information.
Like for example, when I was a beat writer for
the Clippers, I often knew the injury status of players
before the general public did. I never used that in
the monetary since, but I would see how people could
use it right.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Same like, even though we can't go in the locker room,
now as I cover the LA Sparks, I can see
nuances can I knew Odyssey Simms was going to be
cut before she was cut because of the relationship between
her and the coaching staff. So when you're talking about
protecting the integrity of the game the game, it has
to be a no tolerance policy. Nobody can gamble ever,
and if you do, the consequences have to be swift

(13:57):
and severe.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
But let's say that's true. But and then you get
rid of someone five six players yep. And then you
come across a name which could be league defining And
I'm let me be clear, and I want to slow
down here. If hypothetically that it happened where it was
a very prominent baseball player, like a show Heyotani, hypothetically,

(14:21):
can we trust that Major League Baseball or any of
these leagues would actually do the right thing and work
counter to their financial interests.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
I don't think, so ask then answer.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
So I'm gonna do my best to tread lightly here,
But I think the show Heyo Tani situation is a
prime example of no, you cannot because like it or not,
there is no way an interpreter, someone who interprets language
for somebody is the scapegoat in a gambling situation, but
you make him escapegoat because you want to protect your asset.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Let me put in the form of a question, I
don't know how that third party had access because it
wasn't a financial manager, correct, it wasn't his accountant. I
don't know, and the question remains unanswered for me. So
I'll to you, I won't put you on the hot seat.
I don't know how that person had access to all
of his financials and would be able to move that

(15:15):
type of money under his own say so.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
And that's a question that has never been answered for me,
and I don't know if ever.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well, that's easy easy for me, like because if you're
my friend, you're somebody that I've known for a long time,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Know friend or not.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
When I call Bank of America and I want to
move a million dollars or however much, there usually needs
to be some sort of person who's also signing off
and verified.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
I just don't That's what I don't understand. I'm not accusing,
but I don't understand.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
I haven't moved millions of dollars, you know what I'm saying.
But I have moved large sums of money.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
And what Bank of America specifically since we're talking about that,
because I do bank with Bank of America. They require
your password some sort of form of identification. Usually that
means they have to text you a password, right, and
then you.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
Input that password.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
What can I do if I if I'm having an
ally standing next to me that I want to do
these bets for me, I'm going to get that pass
word and I'm going to pass it on. This is
a very easy thing to skirt around, which is why
I say it has to be a no tolerance policy.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
But and and I agree, but we were never told
the specifics of what information wasing.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
It never will because you have to protect the asset.
So Hao Tany is the asset, so you have to
protect him. But as people who have common sense and
intelligence just know that protecting the asset means that somebody
has to take the fall, all right.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
And that is just one story that we've covered right
in the past couple of years. Since then, I can
think of at least seven or eighth and one was
an umpire, one was two were in basketball, one person
was excommunicated for band for life, three in baseball in
the past three or four weeks.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
And that's just what we know of. It's not if.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
But when M and my thing is and I'm and
I'm going to fall back on this. I know I'm
beating a dead horse, But why put the temptation there?
When you partner with an organization that is about gambling
is and is about betting on specific players, and then
you look to the players and you say do as
I say, not as I do.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
That's asinine to me.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
It's the partnership that professional leagues are having with gambling
associations that makes no sense. You're asking for this to
happen because people are getting money. People are getting paid
off of endorsement deals. I've seen commercials from athletes about hey,
go to draft Kings and bet this draft.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
All that, bet that.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
And so when you when you put players in a
situation where they're not only getting paid from endorsement deals,
now the light bulb goes off. I can potentially get
paid off of bet as well. And it's to me,
the relationship make it's toxic. It makes no sense.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Jackie Rag, thanks for coming out.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
It's great to be here. Have a Jack Daniel shot
for me.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Everybody This later with mo Kelly ca If.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
I have six forty alive everywhere on Instagram and the
iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
We'll have more from Chateau Le Moo in just a moment.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
It's Later with mo Kelly. We are live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app. As we continue with the Birthday party,
Happy Birthday America on this Independence Day at Chateau Le
mo It's the fifth annual live broadcast and party.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
And right now I'm joined in the studio.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
By the winner of the presentation portion of the dessert
conference competition. And I happen to know her. Yeah, she's
my older sister, much much much older. Mario Kelly Green
lead into that, Mike.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Bringing in that. There you go.

Speaker 6 (18:59):
If we weren't live, well we are. So I was
the original Kelly. No no, you're Marie O Kelly. That's
not to be con spell Marie m O Kelly No, no,
no spell Marie.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Thank you very much. Anyhow, sibling rivalries aside. Tell us
about your presentation winning dessert.

Speaker 8 (19:27):
So you know this last year I did the whole
flag in the cake. This year I went international and
did if I can say it Gatteau in Visible, which
is very thinly sliced apples which caramelize themselves into a custard.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
And it is French.

Speaker 8 (19:51):
It's slightly sweet, served with homemade ice cream and a
caramel drizsele.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
Wasn't her life?

Speaker 8 (19:58):
Some Jack Daniels on their own with a Jack Canderes
put a little bit Jack canders.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
Not to give it a little little kick?

Speaker 2 (20:04):
How do you research a potential entry into the contest?
In other words, you sit down and just start scrolling
the internet. Or do you have an idea of a
type of dish that you would like to do?

Speaker 5 (20:15):
Don't have?

Speaker 8 (20:17):
You just sit down and try to find some inspiration
and so internet TikTok magazines. But I did note that
I wanted to do something with apples this year. I
had an apple thing. So I tried an upside down
apple cake. I tried this French apple dish. It was

(20:39):
going to be apples, for sure.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
But when you experiment, are you cooking a dish four
or five times to see it absolutely?

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (20:46):
Okay, that may be tough. So you cook it and
then and I call them focused groups. I have groups
that will test and you adjust the recipes, make a
little less sweet, a little more sweet, cook a little longer.
So yes, so I think this version was cooked at
least three times before we came.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
Up with the final the final recipe.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I'll ask you this because I don't know the exact answer.
I talked about it when our father passed. But our
father had this sweet potato pie recipe, yes, that he
refused to tell anyone. It was given to him by
his mother, and he said while he was living that
he would never give to anyone. He said literally that
he's going to take it to his grave with him.

(21:30):
But somewhere, somewhere along the way, you managed to cajole
him or convince him.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
But you haven't. I haven't.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
I say that as a lead in because I expected
one year that that was going to be one of
your entries.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Have you ever considered it?

Speaker 8 (21:46):
So, while you may have the recipe, there is a
technique when you when you season with your heart, when
you bake, not because because it says to bake it
for an hour because, but just because you know that
it's done.

Speaker 5 (22:04):
That part he left his earth with.

Speaker 8 (22:07):
And so I've tried it, but I have not been
able to duplicate the touch that he had on those
sweet potato pies.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
There's something about there's an oral tradition of many recipes,
especially in our family, and you have you have also
a banana pudding recipe that was passed down indirectly. I
say that it's like you found it, Yes, from our
mother's mother.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Tell the story behind that.

Speaker 8 (22:36):
So, when my husband and I purchased a home that
we live in now, we were unpacking boxes and we
were going to host the family Thanksgiving dinner. And so
I was preparing for the family Thanksgiving dinner and in
the garage among all of these moving boxes was this
empty box with one piece of paper in it. And

(22:56):
that piece of paper was my grandmother's banana pudding recipe.
I took that as an absolute sign that this was
the recipe that I should make, and it is the
recipe that I have made for the past twenty years.
And so it wasn't passed down orally, but she definitely

(23:17):
from the heavens, made sure that I knew which banana
putting recipe I was to make.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
How often do you think of the people who might
have inspired those dishes the banana pudding?

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Do you think of Nana all.

Speaker 8 (23:31):
The time, all the time, I think of my maternal
grandmother because she was the collector of recipes. I think
of my paternal grandmother because she was in the lab,
as I say, with me, we would bake together, we
would make cakes together. She taught me how to make
chocolate icing from scratch with her hands, and so I

(23:56):
think of them often because I know that that's where
I get below of baking and then the love of
knowledge of baking.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Why is baking?

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, I should say, how did baking become so important
or such a joy?

Speaker 8 (24:11):
I don't know that I could pinpoint what it was
or when it was, but there is definitely, you know,
kind of a sense of being in the lab of enjoying,
mixing and matching and tasting and creating. Cooking and baking

(24:32):
are very creative pastimes. And as long as I don't
eat everything I bake, it's all good. But I think
that watching my father bake and cook, and watching my
grandparents bacon cook, I feel like it's in the blood.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
That's the point I was all leading to, because there's
something about paying an homage to the ancestors who may
not be physically here, but they're ever present.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Is that fair? Always?

Speaker 8 (25:03):
Yes, they're They're ever present in the in the traditions
we have, They're ever present in the.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Things that we eat, that we like to eat.

Speaker 8 (25:13):
And so I think it's always a great opportunity to
remember them when we gather, when we are taking little
bits of they're they're baking, they're cooking. When when you
pour a little bit of that Jack Daniels and the
caramel sauce, that is an homage, you know, to my father.

(25:34):
And so it is a chance to to remember them.
And and you know the I think it was the
movie Cocoa when they talked about require them and and
so yes, it's always a good opportunity to remember them
in in something as simple as a baked good, a
caramel sauce, a Fourth of July dish.

Speaker 5 (25:53):
Before I let you go. Fourth of July memories as
a child, the parade absolutely well.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
I talked about the parade.

Speaker 8 (26:01):
We also did a number Fourth of July is at
the Low Salamido's Joint Training Base. And so those are
always good memories if if and it's it's especially when
you have children, because it's a very safe atmosphere. The
kids could go and play and see the paratroopers and

(26:21):
you know, all of those kinds of fun things but safe,
even though it was a very large, a large event.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
But I'm a fireworks girl, right.

Speaker 8 (26:32):
So I love fireworks, yes, to see them throughout the city,
but I also love being in the midst of a
very well choreographed fireworks show. And for me, Vett's Stadium
in Long Beach had a phenomenal show that I miss
and so being able to go to Vet Stadium and

(26:53):
see that fireworks show presentation always made my heart flutter.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Maria Kelly Green.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Recently retired longtime civil servant with the LA Airports. I
talk about you all the time, and I always talk
about you this way. If y'all knew, if y'all knew
some of the stories that she would tell me about
flying in the give us one story or one truism
that people would not know about what goes on in

(27:23):
the airline industry.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
Flying is the safest way to tell I want to
hear that one.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
I don't want to hear that one.

Speaker 8 (27:29):
But I must tell you, for every bit of news
that you get, there are a thousand stories similar that
just don't make the headline. It depends on who's plucking
the news at that time.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Give me an example, obviously changing the names to protect
the guilty.

Speaker 8 (27:44):
So a little while back, there was an incursion. Two
planes were in the same space when they shouldn't have been,
and it made the news, and it made the news
because there were a number of incidents that were happening
in rapid succession. And I I think I shared with
you that's just Tuesday. It's just that Channel four didn't
pick it up. But it is still safe. And the

(28:09):
reason that it is an incursion and not an accident
is because people are doing their job. It doesn't mean
that there won't be things that don't go exactly as planned,
but the safe outcome is as a result of a
thousands of thousands and thousands of people doing.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
A great job every day.

Speaker 8 (28:26):
And if I can, since you let me in a
shout out to civil servants. This is a very difficult
time for people who have given their careers to public service,
whether it's in the military, whether it's local government, whether
it's federal employees. And so I would be remiss if
I did not thank all of my fellow civil servants

(28:49):
for the work that they do still do, even with
they don't know if they're going to have a job tomorrow,
even if they don't know whether or not their programs
may be cut due to a new budget and so,
but those people are showing up every day. They are
cleaning those runways at the airport so there's no debris.
They are in the air traffic control towers making sure
that planes land safely. So shout out to people who

(29:12):
are public servants. You are appreciated, even if somebody doesn't
tell you that every day.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Mario Kelly Green, some might call her my older sister.
I just call her Peaches. KFI AM six forty WeLive
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (29:30):
Live from Chataelmo. Happy Birthday, America Independence Day, fourth of July,
fifth annual Chateaumo Live Broadcast. And the kids are running wild.
I don't know what happened in the last segment. All
I know is that Kyne, one of my younger cousins,
got hold of the Instagram live phone and was running
around the house. We have no idea what she don't shoot.

(29:52):
I don't know what you're shooting. I don't know what
she said. I don't know what people saw. Let me
just say I'm sorry. Whatever she did, I'm sorry. They're
kind of like, what's up with Daniels?

Speaker 5 (30:03):
He's wrong?

Speaker 9 (30:04):
Why is so low to the crown?

Speaker 3 (30:05):
What is going on?

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Is this six year old's voice?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
And I won't go back and watch the live tomorrow
and see what actually happened, but let me just apologize
in advance.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
I love my little cousin, but she's a terror.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
She's she's a she's a spawn of She's probably named
Damien somewhere else. Lord, she might have like this insignia
in her head, like six sixty six.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
I love her, but you know, oh, she's a lot,
She's a lot. I love it.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
Well.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Speaking of kids, swallow, I gotta tell this story because
your daughter and her best friend a little bit older
but still not grown. Yeah, they were going to go
up and see the fireworks, which starts around nine o'clock. Yes, sir,
And each year you've been here, you know it gets
cold up there, very cold, okay. And your daughter's wearing
a little half shirt and her friend is wearing some

(30:55):
like little Daisy Dukes, and you know, yeah, it's going.

Speaker 9 (30:58):
To be cold.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Very You recommended that they get a jacket or several
times get a sweater, get a jacket.

Speaker 9 (31:07):
None, And I kept saying, no, no, no, no, no, it's going
to be really, really cold. It's not gonna be a
little bit cold. It's going to be very cold. They
both looked at me, stone cold.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
We'll be all right.

Speaker 9 (31:17):
I'm like, okay, okay, another lesson learned. That's what's about
to happen. That's what's about to go down.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Because they're too concerned. We're trying to be cute. Yeah,
you know, because they may see a boy or something.
They don't want to mess up the fit.

Speaker 9 (31:27):
They're trying to be up there and be seen with
the fireworks.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
I get it because if you obviously haven't been to
my house, but we have a park area where everyone
and it's elevated, so everyone goes up there and watch
the fireworks. It's a three hundred and sixty degree panoramic
view and you can see the fireworks all going around
southern California, in the south South Bay area, as far
south as San Pedro's, far north as like Glendale, Pasadena.
You can see it all. So it's a good vantage point.

(31:54):
But they're i'll say dozens and dozens of people up there.

Speaker 9 (31:58):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of people. It's a nice vibe
up there. We're seeing more and more young people gathering
up there. It's becomes a little hot spot, a little
lookout mountain if you will. And yeah, you know, young
people want to be seen. You know, they didn't. They
didn't dress up to cover that up with blankets and such.

(32:21):
They're not grown enough to know. Like his sister said,
if I had my other car with me, I'd have
a blanket on top of a sweater and a jacket.

Speaker 7 (32:30):
I know better than to go up there the way
they were dressed. Because no, I can't say I was
any better. I can't say I was any smarter, not
that you know. It's just one of those things that
you know everything at that age.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
There's nobody can tell you nothing, okay, And then you
get up there and realize, oh, it is kind of
cold over there, but you're not gonna admit that. You're
not gonna admit that, you know, and they're gonna come
back to the house and they'll say, no, we're fine, No,
it's cold as hell up there.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
It is, you know.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
I know it's the summer, but it gets cold at
nine o'clock with the wind, but were of like maybe
eight miles from dark Waller Beach. Okay, that breeze that
you feel out there is from the ocean water.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Oh yeah, it's gonna be cold.

Speaker 9 (33:05):
They're gonna look though though, regret it, but it will
be a memory. And this is my daughter first time
bringing a friend with her here, and they both shows coming.
They were like, you know, all the things that they
had on their on their list, this was the most
fun option that they had. So they said, we got
to come here, got to do this. And my daughter

(33:26):
was telling her friend like, you've got to see. You've
never seen a fireworks show like this, Ture, this is
absolutely crazy. I promise you you're not gonna regret it.
This is going to be amazing. They've they've been having
like the time of their life here so far. Like
they gravitate to all the kids downstairs. They have a
lot of kids this year, a lot of kid Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
And when I'm saying kids, we're talking like between three
and eight.

Speaker 9 (33:47):
Yes, yeah, a lot of little kids showing up and
they're gonna have a fun time to everyone that gets
to go up there is going to have a ball.
I cannot wait to see what we do get to see.
One thing that I'm really tripp and I was talking
about this last night as I filled in for you
that being out here the last time we're here, it
was second only to a war zone in terms of

(34:11):
the ordinance. Not firecrackers, yes, actual ordinance.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
We're here again, stick of dying to monitains, carlarms ring.

Speaker 9 (34:18):
I've only heard, like the occasional boom at a distance.
I have not heard nearly an ounce of what I'm
used to. I'm like, are there drones out there? Are
police patrolling the area? Did all of the threats from
the various organization's work.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Don't know, but there's been a decided difference as far
as the amount of fireworks that I've heard and seen,
and not only that, the duration.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Usually living in this area, they would start off in April, yeah, no.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Exaggeration, and they would go to August, sometimes September. You
would hear it, especially the bottle rockets. You don't hear
that this year. I don't know if there's a causal
relationship with what's been going on in the news on
a lot of levels, but it's it's very different, and
a few people get hurt. I'm good with it. I
don't need all of that bombardment. I own a barrage fireworks.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
I don't need that.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
But it's a noticeable difference, and maybe in the coming
days of weeks we'll get a better sense of the
why for the difference.

Speaker 9 (35:13):
Hopefully so hopefully so. I'm not mad at it, and
I was praying for a calm Fourth of July. And
they're being less destructive fireworks out and about. I mean,
just yesterday, they're still cleaning up the madness from that
firework factory that exploded. They're still searching for people and
victims and all that. So this is a good sign,

(35:34):
and hopefully everyone will start investing in drone fireworks shows.
I highly encourage anyone who is doing a live fireworks show,
any city who's doing the show, invest in drone fireworks.
Much safer for the community, for pets, insurance, insure everything.
It's got to be cheaper, and you can do that

(35:55):
year after year, reprogrammed the drones. Every city in southern
California invest in drone fireworks shows. Please.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
In the meantime, since we don't have a drone show
to look at right now, we're gonna have to look
at the conventional fireworks, so we're gonna take a quick
break and end this hour. We're gonna end the Instagram Live.
We haven't seen it. It will still be there for
you to catch up on. Right now, I'm gonna run
up the hill real quick, check out some fireworks, and
we'll be right back in about six seven minutes or so.
It's later with Mo Kelly, Happy Birthday America. K if
I am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio

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