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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 (00:08):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. Independence Day, Happy Birthday America.
As we continue our live broadcast from Chateau le mo
and everyone has left me at the studio by myself
as they've gone up to watch and listen to the fireworks.
And although it started off relatively slow where we are,
it's really picked up as I don't know if you
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can hear in the background, but there's a lot more
fireworks activity in this particular neighborhood. And Raoul, who's working
the show from the board end today, I didn't get
a chance to bring you in, and I definitely want
to bring you in as we celebrate America's birthday and
Independence Day. And I'm quite sure we all have very
different memories of what it was like growing up. I
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didn't get the opportunity to ask you what were your
Independence days like growing up?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, I grew up in Ontario, California. You know, the
fireworks weren't legal, you know, allegedly, but people still did
their thing. But I remember getting my fireworks taken away
by the fire department one year, so that was kind
of a bummer.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Was it like a community experience?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Was it just the kids out there playing with the
fireworks or was it know you heard that, or was
it more than that?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You know what, it was just backyards, everybody in their
backyards having barbecues. It wasn't so community, but you know
it was every house had their own little fireworks and
so you could see through the backyards that people were
doing their thing.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I know that you probably have some family stories or
memories connected to the Fourth of July, as we all do.
When I talk about the Fourth of July? Is there
a family member who comes to mind? Is there a
specific day or an event or an incident which comes
to mind?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh my god, it's funny that you asked that. The
one moment that stands out in my mind is getting
pulled over by the police with my stepdad who had
been drinking.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Oh my goodness, and they let him go. How old
were you?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I was probably like fourteen fifteen, and you know Marvin
Campbell Rest in peace, man, he was wild. The guy
was a wild man. So you know, it's just funny.
And I was like, wow, he didn't get a duy.
That's incredible to me, you know, But different times.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Right, we're not condoning it, We're just saying, you know
it happened.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
No, yeah, different times, you know, growing up, Like I'm
fifty two years old, so fourteen, you know, at fourteen
is a different world back then.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
But we're all around the same age, Mark Roner, if
you can hear me very quickly, were we your some
of your memories growing up about fourth of July Independence Day?
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Well, we just had like the most popular dad in
the neighborhood, my best friend's dad on the corner across
the street, who would set off the fireworks for the
whole neighborhood because he was the he was the alpha male,
so we weren't allowed to touch much, and we just
watched him go to town and hope that nobody's house
burned to the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
The people in the neighborhood, including my grandpa, would would
spend the afternoon hosing down the roof just in case.
But it was always it seems so prehistoric now because
the fireworks were all prehistoric. You had those pinwheel things
that we actually hammered to trees when they set off sparks,
and I have no idea how that didn't cause a
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massive fire in our neighborhood at the time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I remember getting burned by sparklers. You know, you think
that they're harmless enough.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Until they burn you.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I was burned multiple times by sparklers. I remember playing
with piccolo peats. They you know, the whistling sound.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Are those the most irritating firework of all time?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
If not? What is more irritating than a piccolo peak?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
What bothered me is I thought they're supposed to explode
at the end, and a lot of times they didn't.
It's like an anti climactic event. I needed something to
explode at the end, and it didn't happen.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Yeah, they just whistle and then they piccolo peter out.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
That was well done. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
You almost you almost deserve a shot for that. I
don't know if I don't know if Oliuel does the
rim shots right, Well he does. He did one earlier tonight.
Oh there we go.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
It's it's so insane that that we used to, uh,
just play with these dangerous explosives.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
When when we were children. It is mind bottling. Yeah,
we weren't.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
We weren't really trusted to handle anything more than like
those those little charcole things that expanded into what we're
supposed to be snails or snakes. Snakes, Yes, the dullest
firework of all time. But we couldn't touch the big ones.
But you mentioned sparklers. Those were weapons and little flaming
childhood's swords. We always use those two attack each other.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yes, and you think this is insane.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
How would you Why would you ever let a child
have something this dangerous every single year, multiple times? You know,
you might play with them for a good week or
two before the actual Fourth of July.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I mean, I guess we did pass the well did
you die?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Test, but I think some people probably did die.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
They probably did die.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And you know, we didn't have social media, but you
still had the news reports of kids losing their fingers
unfortunately appendage is being blown off or you know, ending
up in the hospital.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
People were getting hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
But we were in a time where they just let
us do whatever we wanted.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, I was. I was such a moron kid.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I once I had like a handful of little firecrackers
tucked between my fingers and I was gonna light them
off and throw them like I was Nick Fury in
the World War Two comics. And before I could get
the final one lit. The first one blew up in
my hand. I'm just lucky that I've got all my
stuff still attached to my God.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
We were so stupid back then.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It was, and they sold it to us. It was legal.
You could go down to the corner and buy them.
And it's unthinkable today. I mean for a good reason,
don't get me wrong. Well, not just that, not just that.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
But I don't know if they had this here, but
in the Pacific Northwest where I was a child, people
would buy boxes of this stuff at the Native American reservations,
and this stuff was some heavy ordnance too.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
We still have.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Some heavy ordinance.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
They have these M eighties, which I think is like
an eighth of a stick of dynamite.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
It's not legal, of course, but you'll hear.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It every once in a while and we'll shake the
cars and set off car alarms. And those are the
ones which are really really dangerous. But I haven't heard
as many of them this particular year.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, those M eighties. You can blow up a whole
toilet with those, or so I'm with toilets in my
old neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
This is like in my twenties, you could always tell
what we call the hood fireworks, the legal fireworks. We
would not we I shouldn't have said that someone would
bring out a toilet, an old toilet and put it
in the middle of the street because it was a
very very effective rocket launcher where it would prop up
the like the bottle rockets and everything, and you didn't
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have to get too close.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
We didn't have that. I Oh no, it was. It
was always an old toilet almost. It was almost like clockworks.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Someone got a new toilet and then the old toilet
was just put in the middle of the street and
that was used as a rocket launcher.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
No, lie, I think I know.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I have some pictures of it on my Instagram from
years back, but every single year seemingly.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
No, that's fancy, that's something that we didn't have back then.
I think we got rid of our old toilets. Oh no, no,
you use everything, use everything. Everything has a secondary use.
And toilet just got back in here from the fireworks.
Did you see anything up there? Oh it was major
up there. Okay, Oh, it's major. It is now you're
hearing it now they're out now. Oh no, no, it's
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on the popper right now.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
And as soon as I walked outside, I was met
with the sound of an m.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Ad going off boom.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
I had to dump for a quick second because I
thought they were shooting. It is absolutely amazing up there.
Everyone is enjoying the fireworks show. Oh they're just wowed
by the fact that once again, every angle three sixty
you will see something magical happening in the air.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
It sounds like you guys are reporting from Gaza. Oh
you're oh you can hear it.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, we can hear it. Now, we can hear it.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
They were holding back.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I guess they were saving their good stuff for nine
o'clock because they've let go.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
It's on and popping for real right about now. Yeah.
I love it. I absolutely love it. We'll have more
in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
CAFI AM six forty, it's Later with mo Kelly, Happy
Birthday America. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
On Independence Day, Happy Birthday America. And you can probably
hear in the background we have plenty fireworks. What we
did not have earlier in the day. They're making up
for them right now. I didn't have a chance to
run up to the park because there's just too much
going on. But Twala, you did have a chance to
get up there. What did you see?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
The park is full, lots of young people all about
wow by again, what is the most spectacular fireworks show?
When I went live, several people chimed in commenting on
how amazing the.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
View is up there, and it is, it really really is.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
And to see fireworks shows all around you going up,
some legal, some illegal, and I didn't see a single
drone in the sky.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
So the fireworks are free and flying right now.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, it almost seemed like there was a conscious decision
to wait, you know, let's as they say, keep her
powder dry and wait until nightfall and not bring undue
attention to yourself prior to Yeah, because as soon as
it hit like nine o'clock, they were letting them all
go where Most of the day you didn't hear anything.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
And what you hear in the background, I promise you
it's muted compared to what it sounds like when you're
actually out there. And I will go back out again,
so if you can find me actually on social media.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Mister Twaller Sharks see mister Twaller Shark at mister Twaller Shark.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
I felt like I need to do that. I did
it all night last night.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
I know your socials have not blown up.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I was hilarious.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Yes, smart, you did hit him like that. I'm like, yes,
absolutely like that. It was hilarious. I saved it to
my Fierius commentary. It was like, if you have any
problem with anything, I'm saying, you hit me directly at
mister mo' kelly on all socials.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Forethought malice. You did that. But it is amazing out there.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I think this is like the cherry on top of
one of the best family gatherings I have ever attend.
I mean, this is so much fun. This reminds me
of my childhood and just a real old school neighborhood
get together. And that's what this is to me. This
is this is what I believe America is striving for.
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I believe this is what we the people want, regardless
of what you know, any madness that's happening on cap Hell,
we the people want this. There were people from all ages,
all races here today, all coming together, breaking bread, sharing
good time, sharing a laugh, and enjoying the baking competition.
And now enjoying this firework finale to just remind us
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of greatness and how great a country this is to
be in right now, to be able to have a
moment like this. This is amazing because what we're hearing
right now, these are fireworks. This is not bombs dropping
and shells being fired as it is in the Middle East.
This is this is a gift to America that we
are able to celebrate like this and celebrate duly.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
So what makes me feel warm all over is the
fact that with all these young people here, they are
getting their own memories, their own experiences that they'll get
to tell.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Years from now.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
They get to they get to be the person on
the microphone or in the big easy chair with the
kids are all around them a generation from now and
talk about their experiences during the Fourth of July, hopefully
good experiences. And I can say that I helped facilitate
that on just a very small level, and the way
that I think about the Fourth of July parades that
I was in and got to partake in. They will
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have their own experiences that they can pass on or
their own traditions as well and start their.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Own Absolutely absolutely, this is a game changer, and you
know everyone here and you've only got a few people
on the mic to say thank you and li move
here for having this event, but we do thank you
for doing this, for opening up your house for all
of us to come together and enjoy this moment, because
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it's not something you have to do, something that you
choose to do. Is something that you choose to open
your house and your heart to and we are incredibly
grateful for you doing so.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
We appreciate that. And there are a few people who
did hit me on Facebook and I guess they couldn't
find the live and I don't know if it was
because you're on Facebook and Instagram, but the lives are
still there. We did a face excuse me, an Instagram
live of the dessert competition in Totality, so you'll be
able to see all the entrance and contestants and their dishes.
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You get to see that, and also you'll get to
see the first two hours of the show. We went
straight Instagram live for two hours at mister mo Kelly.
That should be uploaded and available on my page as well.
I'm pretty sure I did it right, so it should
be there. You can take a moment and see all
the festivities from basically inside the studio, not just listening
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to it on KFI. There's nothing wrong with that, but
you get a better sense of how we were working
and playing at the same time.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
And I have to be honest.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
This is when I tell people this is the best
job in the world. That's part of the reason. You know,
I'm at work, but I'm not at work, all right,
Let's be honest. Now, Okay, there are worse jobs to have.
There are worse things to do than celebrate America's birthday.
You know, you have food, family and fun and fireworks.
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Not a bad job.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Yeah, yeah, I really hope that you listening, you are
taking some time to enjoy this moment. I hope you
have been having a wonderful, wonderful forth yourself wherever you are.
I hope you are being safe. I hope that if
you have imbibed a little, that you take advantage of
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all the ways you can get home, be it uber
or lift where food shite out.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
We were checking all our folks making sure absolutely or
you can even get yourself away.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Mo You can't get yourself away, mo' if you're in
the in the area and you need to get home safely.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
They are available as well.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Now I have to say it now, Raoul, can you
still hear the fireworks? Yes, yes, because we always wonder
when we're doing the show. We hear it one way,
but we don't know how the all audience and how
you're in the studio are hearing it.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It sounds like a store. It sounds like it's like
right in the room next door.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Oh it's it's close.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, but it's actually up and down the street and
neighborhoods over and and you know, it wasn't. It's usually
like this every single year, but it's usually like this
all day long into the evening. It wasn't like that today,
But they've saved it all up for now. I'm suspecting
it's probably dying down as far as the main fireworks shows,
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because the professional shows usually started around nine o'clock and
in around nine fifteen. So everything you're hearing at this
point they're legal fireworks. Just you know, this is all
the hood. Yeah, this is all personal stash.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Like what you were seeing on my Instagram when I
went out there. That wasn't far far away. That was
like within you know, a few city blocks that you
were saying all that that that's not I'm not even
looking all the way down at some of the shows
that may be happen in downtown layer or nothing. Now, no, no,
we can see all the way down there. But now, man,
this is the hood.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, and they will probably go if past this prologue
and a predictor of the future, they will probably go
into at least three in the morning, at least.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Three in the morning like this. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, you'll hear it until about three in the morning,
and that you know, that's life, you know in this neighborhood. Oh,
that's wild, Yeah it is, that's wild.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
And they've been saving them up clearly because they weren't
using them earlier in the weeks and the months leading
up to now that I said earlier. They usually start
in April, no exaggeration. You'll hear the bottle rockets and
the firecrackers, and it's intermittent, and then it gets to
be a daily occurrence.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
It was a running joke.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I would talk with Stephan because we're basically in the
same neighborhood and you would hear it all day every day.
It wasn't like that this year, and I have to
believe that it's somewhat connected to the drones and the
step up in patrolling and other things going on in
neighborhoods these days, which will probably discourage these open displays
of fireworks. But they're using them right now. They're definitely
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using them right now. They'll probably go all night into
the morning.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
So you hear that. We got two more segments.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
It's Later with Mo Kelly, Happy Birthday, America, Happy Independence Day.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Six forty is Later with Mo Kelly Live Everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app. I think at my house at Lisa
shout to Lemo, we moved to the party portion of
the evening. They're gonna pull out probably the karaoke machine
and do karaoke.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Into the wee hours of the morning.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I don't know if I'm gonna be participating in that,
but there are folks hanging around. They're done with the fireworks,
so I guess they're moving on to the party portion.
My son Miles, he's out doing something outside. I don't
know exactly what. He's serving as DJ tonight, and so
he's gonna be by neighbors on both sides of me.
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They're out for the e so and I told him
in advance we weren't going to have a DJ might be.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Noised, and said, oh no, we're not going to be here.
Do whatever you want, that's whole great.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
So it's gonna be going all night long and we
don't have and you know how my house is set up.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
There's no one behind us.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It's an open field, right, so I'm not really bothering anyone.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
And the people across the street from us, they're gone.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So it's it's it's good they're gonna you know, it's
gonna turn up.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Miles had a cracking, I would give to him. Miles
had the party gone.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
He has his own little DJ business now, so I'm
not mad at him.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Problem. Yeah, he's he's getting business.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I mean, he does enough events and he's learning how
to market himself.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You know, when you're in if you're doing a wedding,
make sure that everyone knows who the DJ is and
can contact the DJ. I don't care if it's a
QR code whatever, you just make sure because you want
to be top of mind the next time someone needs
a DJ. I did not know that he had start
his own business. Yes, now I can't teach him everything.
He should have had his ass up here. So he
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tell everyone about his DJ business. But he'll learn, he'll learn,
you know. He sometimes he a little short sighted.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
So look, you're at DJ at an event where there's
a live Brockett, right, take advantage of that.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Take advance.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Should have been the first one up here. But you know,
young folks, they know everything.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Now you have to finish off the story because I
was telling how your daughter and her friend had gone
up to the park and how they weren't going to
be cold.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Look they went up there and and act actually, okay,
I'll be fair. It's not as cold as I thought
because I went up there and I had my sweater
with me and didn't need it's it's not as cold
as I thought it would be up there, not really,
britt So. And and there's a lot of young people
up there, I know, are trying to be seen. A
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lot of young ladies up there trying to be seen, teenagers, teenagers,
a bunch of teenagers. There's a bunch of teenagers. You
see a couple of little couples up there, booed up
on some of the bitches looking at the fireworks. I
walk by one table and they're like, ooh, this is
so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
It is romantic up there. Yeah it is.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
It's very teenage romerca. There's a group of teens that
live somewhere and you're coming. There's a whole mob of
them heading up there right now. I know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
I know who it is.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
They're rolling deep up there, and they all just look
like they're coupled up, a whole little mossy of boys
and girls all up there having fun. So it is
a beautiful sight up there, really really is, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And I again I was saying that I want that
for them to have their own memories, especially with teenagers,
there are too many other things that they would rather
be doing, them hanging around with parents or old folks
like us. I'm actually, I actually impressed that they actually
wanted to spend any time around us.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yeah. No, I'm encouraged by it.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
I mean, when this is your first choice of things
you can do, especially for my daughter who really really
find herself like you know something, He's now got his
own crew, he's got his own folks. He wants to
hang out with it. He was like, Yo, I'm gonna
come through. He went to autome Con. So he went
and he was there all day and then he was
hitting me up and he was like, Holly, you're gonna
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be there.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
You talk about how you're gonna be there, like, you
know how long the show where U And he was like,
I'm trying to think about which one I'm gonna do.
He was trying to think about which place he was
gonna come. It's like if he was going by uber,
he had fair enough to get to one place, so
he couldn't He's not driving it.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
This is one of those reason things where.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
He's like huh yeah, yeah, I'm starting to see this
whole driving thing in a different light. And he said
so he's like, you know, I can either come there,
I can go to the other place.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
And he's right now. So he was trying to weigh options.
As far as options.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I like, I mentioned your kids because they've grown up
in and around this show. Yes, And in the thirteen
years of Plucks that I've been on CAMFI, I've watched
your son become a man, and I'm watching your daughter
become a young woman. And they've been here for a
number of years of the later with Mo Kelly, mo
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Kelly show any type of event we've had here. Yes,
we've had non chat li mo events here. They've come through,
and I am proud and pleased that they found this
to be a positive experience and are willing to come back.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
It's a Friday night.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
The other things they can be doing, trust me, I remember, okay, yeah,
no being.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Being young and all the distractions and all the things
that can that can happen here. And I just love,
you know, when I see my daughter come in and
she's just personal and she's hanging out, and then with
all the little kids, some reason or another, they gravitate towards her.
So when I was downstairs for a little while wall
the party was going on, she was holding somebody's baby,
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babysitting down there and hanging out and just doing it.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
And she's just like just having them all.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
She is having fun, and that's hard to that's hard
to accomplish with young people nowadays.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
It's a lot.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Of times they're never satisfied something. One man they meant
the board, but when she comes to she's never like
I'm board. I want to go. How much longer are
we going to be?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
This is like, let's hang.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
This is what I noticed. She's not in her phone.
She's very present, and she's very comfortable in her skin.
You don't find that it shee's not. I don't remember
an awkward stage for her. She may have had one,
but I didn't see it. And she's very comfortable in
her own age group, and she's comfortable with kids, and
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she's comfortable around adults. There's an error of maturity in
her that I have to as soon comes from both
you and your co parent, your ex wife. But it's
nice to see because I've watched them grow up.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yes, yeah, yes you have, Yes you have.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
That's why I keep checking my phone because I'm like, okay, man,
any minute my sons can hit me and be like, hey,
can you come and get me? Or what's the address
on them? I'm trying to figure that out. I'm like,
where are you, young man?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Did your daughter find the little boys that she had
her eye on to the best of.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Your knowledge, you know, I honestly, honestly believe that even
if she did, she would not tell me.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
She would not because she she knows who you are.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I mean the kind of sort of cond of sort
of I keep trying to impress upon her that the
best thing that can be done is to tell me,
for us to talk to share, yeah what you say now,
to let you know, let it be known, you know,
because it's like, as a parent, I think that's the
thing I want the most, Like interesting store.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
The other day, I'm I'm at the school and I'm
in the breakroom and some of some of the young
people in the breakroom, Uh, she's going into tenth. Okay,
so she's going into tenth. But at the school that
I work at, my son works there too. Now, so
I'm in the breakroom and some of the young people
in there, they're like, uh, mister t what's up with Mason?
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And I'm like, well, what do you mean? Like we
all like we went to the beach and he literally
has on Jesus, Like he's like some wild New Yorker
at the beach with jeans and Timson in the sand.
We're like, what's up with you? And then he gets
in the water and he has on these big giant
shorts and I'm like, he got into the water and
they're like, yeah, he got to the water with these
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shorts on and they actually.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Got knocked off of him.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
A wave hit him and the shorts got yanked right
off of him. So he's in the in the water naked,
and we're like wait what. And I'm like, and I
told him before he went to the beach, I said, hey, hey,
don't get in the water. Stay out of the water.
And he's like, dah, I don't get into the water.
I don't you know, I don't get into water. And
then I couldn't find out he's in the water. So
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we're riding home the other I'm like, hey, man, why
did you lie about getting into the water. I look,
if I say don't get into the water, I'm telling
you that because there's raw poop in the water. It's filthy.
We've even today the reports came out about today. If
you're going to the Beast this weekend, don't get in
the water. Sit on the sand and enjoy a good
lunch with your family, but don't get in the water.
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So I'm like it's interesting because I'm like, hey man,
just just if I'm if I'm telling you something, I'm
trying to tell you for your own good you're like
you're you're now.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
I'm not going to scold you.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
I'm not You're not at that age where I can
really come down on you, you know, saying you're nineteen
years old, like you got to live your own life.
I'm going to share some information for you, you know. But
and I SOA I tell him, and I say, hey,
look man, like you're at the age where you can
come to me.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Man the man.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
You don't have to worry about you being mad or
coming down and you getting in trouble if I tell
you not to do so. If I tell you that,
you know I'm telling you because you know I'm telling
you from a news perspective, not not because I'm your
parents trying trying to control you.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I'm not trying to control you, do.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I'm trying to tell you, messed out the watermanfore you
come down with something.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I just remember when I was nineteen to maybe twenty two,
twenty three, I can say with absolute certainty I was
the smartest person in the world, or at least that's
what I told myself.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I'm just being serious.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I saw no use for anything my parents or adults generally,
what they were trying to tell me.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I had no use. It did not mean anything.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
It's like, why are you trying to tell me not
to do something when I've already made up my mind
and I know it's okay to do that. You know,
if they and they would tell me, you know, nothing
good happens after two in the morning, well I beg
to differ. But two good things did happen after two
in the morning. But I was not old enough to
(27:17):
understand the wisdom and what they were saying. They weren't
talking about this party of that party. They were trying
to obviously tell me that I was broadening the likelihood of.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Something bad happening. Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Didn't understand that until something bad happened. And then you realize,
oh my gosh, my parents weren't idiots. They were actually
smarter than I thought they were. And then about maybe
twenty five twenty six, I realized I don't know every
damn thing. Yeah, and that's the you know, the circle
of life where you think you know everything until you
(27:51):
really learn that you don't know everything. But it's nice
to be able to see Mason and your daughter go
through these changes. Yeah, you know, but safely, you know,
we're not talking about making those big decisions which change
the trajectory of their lives.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
No, I'm glad that they are still young enough and
innocent enough where they've got the.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
World in front of them.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
And you know, as a parent, I think for me
on a night like this, you know, these are those
moments that we as parents fear when we have. You know,
my oldest child, he's out and about, he's hanging with
his friends. And even I was told me the other
day he got home from hanging out one night, you know,
like two three in the morning, and I'm like, hey, man,
look I get that you're hanging out. And I'm not
(28:39):
coming down on you because I know you're responsible. Your
friends are responsible. That's fine. Talking about the people that
are on the road that aren't. If you don't know
how many times you see stories of a group of
teens who were hit and killed by someone who was
driving drunk on this night especially, yes, this is the
(29:00):
night that you Friday night, fourth of job. This is
a recipe for drinking and driving. I hope the California
Higher Patrol, I really hope CESP is out there pulling
every single person who swerves or if they swerved, just
because they weren't paytation, pull them over, take their keys.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
See that's a perfect example when my parents were telling
me nothing good happens after two am. That's shorthand for
all these scenarios they couldn't possibly envision or explain in
a given moment, but it was easily it was better
distilled through the advice of nothing good happens after the
two am because they had enough worldly knowledge to understand
(29:40):
it was inclusivele of all that stuff that I had
not even considered because in my ignorance at that age,
I was only thinking about what I was going to do,
not what the world was going to do that I
had no control of. Yeah, wrong place, wrong time, you know,
wrong idiot, at the wrong moment.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
I saw.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
It takes sometime stint life change, it really really can.
So you know, look, my prayers for each and every
one of you out there. That's that's going to be
out tonight there. Some of you may be heading out
to a party right now. There's a Friday on the right. Now,
drive safely, keep your eyes on the road. If you
do imbibe, do not drive. Please, no truer words.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
It's later with mo Kelly, we have one more segment
as we continue to say Happy Birthday to America. On
this Independence Day, It's Chateau Lem the fifth annual live
broadcast k if I AM six forty were live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Forty cafiyes Later with Mo Kelly. Wait a minute, Raoul, Raoul,
what do you know about Frankie Beverly and Mays Man?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Come on, you know I worked at Hot ninety two jams.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
I just look.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Frankie Beverly and Mays is very specific. It's appropriate for
a Fourth of July party. I'm not I'm saying you're
on hit. I'm just saying, how do you know about
Frankie Beverly and.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I opened one time for earth Wind and Fire at
the Greek And I remember that so vividly and just
like playing the music and seeing everybody dancing, and like
that's it sticks out in my mind and it's just
the music always revert to when I'm like I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Oh look, you're You're not wrong. In fact, earth Wind
and Fires at the Hollywood Bowl time.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
No, I know, Wait a minute, you opened up, Let's
go back to that.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
We can't just get past the fact that you opened
up the shell for earth Wind and Fire Element, right.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
And then it's like it's like something that always just
sticks in my mind. On a celebration day that because
my boy Shaky was supposed to DJ. Jordan was supposed
to DJ, but he was late or something, and they're like,
who can DJ? And I was like, I I got it,
put me on and for the l Yeah, I mean
it was is there any Is there any video of that?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Man?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
You know it's back when there was no video. It's like,
I understand.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
That's why I got to ask the question.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I wish, I wish because I still I would love
to I don't even know what I played. I was like,
put on the spot and I just started playing. I
was just playing. You know the Hot ninety two jams.
You remember we used to like good stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
One of our close friends who unfortunately is no longer
with us, Hotepha Salinas, was an error personality with Hot
ninety two jams. So yes, absolutely, but you know I
can only imagine what that was like. Did you at
least not make the mistake of playing any of earth
Winding Fires hits.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Well, it was earth Wind and Chicago and of course,
now I just I just went with the you know,
crowd pleasing. All you're doing is trying to please it,
you know, and people were walking in, so you don't
want to go too hard. You gotta you know, you
were talking about your son DJing. You know, you gotta learn.
You got to learn how to work the crowd and
not go too hard yet, you gotta ease in, get
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people warmed up, and then you know the rest.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Did you say it was that the Greek, Yeah, it
was the Greek. Yes, that's a great venue, right, yea,
the great view. I remember seeing Tina Turner at the Greek.
There are moments where you see great artists at great venues,
and the Greek is one of them. Hollywood Bowl, of course,
is one of them. But yeah, those one of those
stories that you get to tell your grandkids. And it's like, yes,
(33:22):
when I open for the Elements.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Yes exactly, I love it.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
As we come down to the end of this birthday
celebration for America, this fifth annual celebration of Chateau le
Mo on Independence Day, I have to say again, it's
the best job in the world because we get to
do this under the pretense of work, but it's not work.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I love what I do.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I love talking to you each and every night, Monday
through Friday from seven to ten pm. And it's I
appreciate the opportunity to bring you in my world, which
may be a little bit different from many people's world.
You get to see my life beyond just talking on
the radio from seven to ten. I think that's very important.
(34:09):
It's one thing when we have social media and you
post a cool picture there and you have a filter
and you edit it and you clean it up. But
when you get to see life as it happens. We
had live Instagram tonight. You get to see inside my house,
family members, friends, people who are commentators on the show
get to see just a different aspect of my life.
(34:31):
And even though I'm broadcasting from my home studio right now,
I drive in every single day to the studio with
exception of today, because there's a different energy by doing
it in the studios in Burbank. And that's why I
brave the traffic each and every day because I believe
it's my responsibility to earn your time every single night,
(34:56):
because you could be doing anything.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
You could be listening to a different host on a
different station.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
You'd be watching TV, watching a movie, you'll be playing
on social media, not doing anything. But right now you're
spending time here with Later with Mo. Kelly and I
don't take it for granted. And that's why we make
it a point to not have a pre recorded show,
not a best of show. And that's not too slighter
shame anyone else. I'm just saying that's talking about our
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dedication to you as a listener. We want to make
sure that you know that you may not be out
at a party, or you may be at a party,
but we're here for you.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
We are available for you.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
And we want to make sure we give you the
best show possible each and every night. AA Man and
programming note. I will be in for Gary and Shannon
on Wednesday. I believe that's the ninth Wednesday, obviously from
nine am to one pm, So you'll get me Tuesday
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night and then Gary and Shannon Wednesday morning in their slot.
And that's always fun because you get to do different stories,
you get to have a different energy. The things that
we talk about during Later with Mo Kelly from seven
to ten is very different from what we would talk
about from nine to one pm.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
There's are certain things we're just not going to do
in the morning. It's not appropriate.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
But I want to say thank you to you Raoul
for handling the bumpers and the music selections. It was
spot on. It was perfect for this birthday celebration of America.
I want to say thank you to Mark Ronner. Wish
you were here, my brother. We really need you here
in the future.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
Can't wait for next year.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
By the way, never get out of the boat and
give my best to Colonel Kurtz.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Mark, it's the gunfire. No, it's no, it's serious. I
know you can still hear it in the background. It's
definitely no joke. But it's a great show and it
will go on until like three in the morning. No exaggeration,
coming up next to coming up next to coast to coast, am.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
No, that's all right.
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me one more time. I was waiting for you to
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