December 11, 2024 • 30 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the revelations from actor, singer, comedian Jamie Foxx regarding the ‘medical complication’ that landed him in the hospital in April of 2023 AND fans camping outside the Forum to score Billie Eilish tickets a week ahead of the convert…PLUS – Remembrances of renowned poet Nikki Giovanni, who has passed at the age of 81 - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
And as you know, I worked in an entertainment generally
for quite some time, as did producer T Walla Sharp.
We kind of know what happens behind the scenes in
a general sense when stories come out about very prominent
people within entertainment, especially urban entertainment, be it hip hop music,
(00:26):
R and V music, comedy, and you'd have someone like
Jamie Fox movies who kind of traverses all those worlds
and he moves in and out of those worlds, and
we kind of know what is being said behind the scenes.
When when you have like a news story like Diddy
or something, they're people that we can call directly. Who
(00:48):
are I would say he's one most people are a
one degree of separation from us. There's someone we can
call for just about any celebrity who can get in
touch with that person. Doesn't mean they're willing to come
up on the show, but we can get some very
very good information. And when Jamie FOXX Academy Award winner
had his health scare back in April, I almost immediately
(01:12):
knew this seems just like a stroke from what was
described about him having a headache. I'm talking about publicly
available information, not including me calling people information he.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Said that he had.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It was said that he had a headache, there was
an issue on set, and then you heard nothing after that.
He just completely disappeared from public view. The family wasn't
saying anything. Yes, there were rumors of everything from benign
to grave, and it seemed touching go from the people
that I talked to, and I said, why paraphrasing, why
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are they lying to us? Because he had his daughter
out front saying that, oh, no, he's fine, he just
came from the hospital. The media gets got it wrong.
They're trying to sensationalize it all the things. You know,
the media we with the BADT was like, no, oh,
we know that there was a serious, major health episode
and he was on the precipice of dying.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I knew that couldn't prove it, but I knew that.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
What I didn't like was while he was incognito, obviously recuperating,
maybe in the hospital or not. His daughter, Karin Fox,
released a press release in May about thirty days later,
saying that she and him were going to have a
game show in twenty twenty four, and that's what she was.
She was almost monetizing the medical scare. All this focus
(02:38):
on Jamie Fox and Karin Fox like a spokesman, spokesperson
for the family. So she talked about the game show.
That left a bad taste in my mouth. No, you
don't need to tell us what's going on with your family.
You don't need to, but you don't have to use
the increased media scrutiny to publicize and promote your game show.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I think the thing that I really got my dander
beyond that was the fact that she chose to admonish
the press for maligning the truth, not getting it right,
not knowing what's going on. And this show and every
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single show out there was only able to report what
little information that we were receiving, which may have led
to educated guesses, speculation, rumor and all of that. But
if the overall idea that was being floated by the
press was that the situation was much worse than it seemed,
(03:44):
it was much more complicated than was being reported. And
if you're in the public eye, if you're Jamie Fox,
guess what, every single thing you do is going to
get reported on.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
This is no different. We understand the privacy and respecting
the family. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Get all
that this is a major story. Jamie Fox was coming
back with Cameron Diaz that were doing an action thriller
and everyone was looking for it, and all of a
sudden boom, medical crisis. He disappears.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
If we're reporting on what information we get, then either
clear that information up or just let it go. But
when you come out and say press, you're once again
you're wrong. And this is why people don't trust the press.
She was going in on the on media and I'm
like this, this is a bad way to go.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And today the Jamie Fox special on Netflix dropped title
what it happened was? And after all that we were
one hundred percent right, it was a stroke. Here is
Jamie fox condensed version in his own words, a three
to eleven.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I was having a bad headache and I asked my
boy for a asking. And I realized quickly that when
you're in a medical emergency, your boys don't know what
to do. And I was like, damn, but I was
having such a bad headache. I asked my boy. I said, listen,
I need an aspir before I could get the aspir
(05:11):
I went out. I don't remember twenty days.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
So they tell me.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
My sister took me into the hospital and it's cool
white boy, doctor Shooty. Cool white boy, they say, had
on a Laker jersey. Just cool as shit, you know.
But he told my sister some horrible news about her
big brother.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
He said, he's having a brain bleed that's.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Led to a stroke. Damn me.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
When you dream about what you want to be in life,
you don't dream tragedy. You dream everything is good. I
got the life, I got the cars, I got all that.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
You don't dream. And something was going wrong.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
The doctor said, if I don't go in his head,
we're gonna lose him. And she fired back and said,
you can go on his head, but you're not gonna
find anything because I already talked to God. The cool
white doctor named doctor Shooty, shot right back and said,
I'm a religious man too, but I gotta do my job.
(06:21):
Your life doesn't flash before your face. It was kind
of oddly peaceful. I say this all the time. I
saw the tunnel. I didn't see the light.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That's the light.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I was in that tunnel, though it was.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Hot in that tunnel? Am I going to the wrong
place in this?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Because I looked at the end of the tunne, I
thought I saw the devil?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Like come on, was that puffy?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So after all that, all the admonitions that you talked about, Tuala,
it was what we thought it was. I am not
here to tell Jamie Foxx what to do with his career,
but I will say this that it leaves a little
of a bit of a bad taste in my mouth
where you don't tell the media anything, and when you
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do speak to the media through your daughter, it's an
admonition about you should have done this, You should have
gotten a story right when we had the story right
all along. And instead of telling us and getting the
story right and laying anyone's fears and clearing it up,
you save it for a good I don't know, seven months,
so you can monetize it in the form of a
(07:40):
Netflix special. That's your prerogative. Congratulations. I hope you have
a great second chance at life. I don't disbelieve that
he's very sincere about being very grateful for that second chance.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
But let's keep it in context.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I remember exactly how we got here, and it has
been used as a marketing campaign every step of the way.
I'm glad that he's in a better place in a
health sense, but I do remember that this has always
been about marketing and promotion. It's Later with mo Kelly
caf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
(08:19):
And speaking of marketing and promotion, have you seen these
fans who are trying to camp out in Inglewood outside
the Kia Forum for the Billie Eilish concert? Have they
lost their mind? They're camping out a week in advance.
We'll tell you about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And Billie Eilish is not my cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I think she's talented, but I was talking with the
guys in the studio and I was just saying, like,
she may be talented, but every damn song she sings
is sad, even if the song has happy in the title,
it's just sad. She's upset about it everything, and I
can't listen to that. But you know, not for me.
(09:04):
I'm not her intended audience, but she has all boatload
of fans all around the world, especially here in Los Angeles,
and she's coming to the Kia Forum. And I did
not know that people were actually trying to camp out
full blown tents. I'm not talking about lawn chairs, and
they're holding the spot. No full blown tents on the sidewalk.
(09:26):
And let me say, since I live in that area,
if you're gonna put a tent on Prairie or Manchester,
you are taking chances with your life.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, homeless people, And I'm not being funny.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Homeless people have been killed for less and you're gonna
put yourself out there on Manchester and Prairie.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Listen to this, disappointed fans, Mac, what are they going
to do now? Docfo Is McCallum Media is live there now.
He talked with disappointed fans Mac, what are they going
to do now?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Well, this is not what fans were expecting. Take a
look at this.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
This was filled with tents about a dozen deep here
earlier today, just a few hours ago, with eager fans
hoping to be the first in line for the concert
on Thursday.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Well, the police here in Inglewood.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Says those tents had to go, and so most of
these people are now just waiting here without those tents.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
But it's not dampening their spirits.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
I love Billy so much.
Speaker 9 (10:27):
Ariana Jackson was the first person to pitch a tent
and wait for the December fifteenth show with the Four.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
She got here on December fifth.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
Last year.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
They started two weeks early, so this time we wanted
to be first in line.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Wait wait, wait, wait wait.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
She started camping out on the fifth for a concert
on the fifteenth.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Arianna Jackson was the first person to pitch a tent
and wait for the December fifteenth show with the Four.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
She got here on December fifth last year.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
They started two weeks early, so this time we wanted
to be first in line.
Speaker 9 (11:03):
She wasn't alone tent after tent popped up behind hers,
but unlike her tent and went home. Most were unoccupied
when we were there.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Because they killed everybody. That's why you don't pitch a
tint on prairie on Manchester. If I tell you not
to go to a gas station at night, that also
includes not pitching a tent on prairie at night.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
By the key of form.
Speaker 11 (11:28):
Are empty, I think so right now, I'm just watching.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
The Jackson says fellow fans. Keep an eye on each
other's tent, says some.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Go to work or school during the day.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Wait a minute, you pitched a tent and you're going
to work. You have school you got to go to.
You have a job you got to go to, and
you're living in a tent on a sidewalk for the
opportunity to purchase some Billie Eilish tickets to be first
or second in line. And you're asking miss Jackson, sorry
(12:03):
Miss Jackson, to watch your tent while you're gone to
work or to school.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
You're all some crazy fool.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Slow fans keeping eye on each other's tents as some
go to work or school during the day.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I work out a clothing store, so you got your
head out.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
And while we were there, parking enforcement warned that vacant
tents that blew onto the street because of the winds
could cause a driving hazard and would be removed. Then
police told fans the tents all had to go because
they were obstructing the sidewalk as well.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
And they came up to my tent and they were like, hey,
you guys have to leave your blocking the sidewalk. And
I was like, why, We've been here for like three.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Some fans who drove all the way from Pomona tried
to save what they had inside those twns.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Okay, you drove from Pomona. You pitched a tent on
prairie to purchase some tickets for a concert ten days out,
there's something wrong with you. In addition to all that
alliteration on prairie that was on the fly, Yeah, and
(13:10):
just write a sad song about it, be done with it. Well,
that's what Billy Eilish does, so I guess she fills
that need. Billie Eilish is nothing but sad songs. Yeah,
everybody wins.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I thought the comic Con people were bad with that
hall age camp out for like a day. I thought
that was ridiculous. The Rose Praiye people. I'm like, yeah,
it's a tradition, but I'm not really down with that.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Is it really camping out?
Speaker 10 (13:35):
Though?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
If you go to school, you go to work, and
you come back just to lay your head on prairie,
is that moving to the street and you're kind of
relocating to the street.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I guess you are. I mean they got hotels in
the area.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
If you're really committed, Nah, they would need to be
aligned though, that's the issue.
Speaker 12 (13:54):
Is there anything you guys would camp out overnight for?
Apart from saying new Liver, nothing I can say on
the radio. You'll just have to leave that to your imagination.
And it's almost like counterfeit too, because you're not it's
not someone holding your place. It's a it's an inanimate Yeah,
it's almost like you lolimit.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
If you leave the line to go to the bathroom,
you've lost your place.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Exactly. The same is true.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
If you leave the line to go to work for
eight hours, you've lost your place. I would write, I
would have walked up there and kicked their tent into
the street.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
They're not here, they lose their place.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
No, that's that's no, that's a line violation. Rose Parade,
Comic Con. Those people are out there in their lawn
chairs and their funky pits, smelling like sugar honey iced.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Tea, and it is.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
But they put in the time. They stayed. They didn't leave,
and you know that's horrible. That's true.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
They do stay.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But if you're leaving to go home or go to
work and take a shower and everything, is it, Is
it really camping out?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It seems like that's just honest, that's straight shooting.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Why we've been here for?
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Like gree sometimes who drove all the way.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
This is an imminent domain. This is like because you's
capped out for three days, you get to keep it.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Why we've been here for three days? What do you
mean we have to move? Why?
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Why it's not there?
Speaker 10 (15:19):
Why we've been here?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Why?
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Why we've been here for?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Doesn't she sound very what you're like? Why can't believe this?
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Poor ka p K.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Why we've been here for?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Like gree some that's called trespass.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And so I was like, we've been squatting here for
two weeks. What do you mean we have to leave?
We've been here two weeks? Is it like possession nine
tenths of the law?
Speaker 10 (15:48):
Why?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Why?
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Why?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Why?
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Why we've been here for?
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Like gree sometimes who drove all the way from Pomona,
tried to save what they had inside those tents.
Speaker 11 (15:59):
I just got here and thank God that they took
myself out because it would have been trusted with our tents.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Hey, don't bring God into this. Don't bring God into this. Okay,
you chose to camp out and leave your tent to
go to work. God had nothing to do with that,
because if it had to do with God, you wouldn't
have been there in the first place. God would have
given you some damn sens and told you not to
camp out on the street.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
We gotta go to work.
Speaker 10 (16:23):
Why we've been here for like gree.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Some fans who drove all the way from Pomona tried
to save what they had inside those tents.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
I just got here and thank God that they took
myself out because it would have been trusted with our tents.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
Now the city says they can still stay here, just
no more tents, and a lot of fats say they'll
be out here in their lawn chairs waiting for that
concert on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Y'all have some dumb mother fathers. Let me tell you
you are dumb, dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Dumb, and you know what, I hope you don't get
to see the concert.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I think we should reward stupidity. If you're gonna drive.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
From Pomona to pitch a tent on Prairie for the
promise of buying some tickets to potentially see the concert.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
You better stay there the whole damn time, the whole time,
the whole time, the whole time, the whole time.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
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Speaker 12 (17:20):
You need another plus I was just saiding another P
word permanently with your pledge pin.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
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Speaker 1 (17:35):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (17:46):
KELLYM six.
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Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I would never
say that I was a big consumer of poetry and
I'm not someone who went to a lot of poetry slams.
But you couldn't talk about either and not talk about
the contributions and impact of the now late Nikki Giovanni,
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who was a poet and literary celebrity who passed away
yesterday at the age of eighty one. And this was
before they had literary, real celebrities, especially coming out of
the field of poetry. She would sell out venues of
more than four and five thousand people. She was a
subject of the prize winning twenty twenty three documentary Going
(18:35):
to Mars. She was an author of more than twenty
five books. She was oftentimes controversial. She was praised, she
was criticized, she was sometimes reviled. You would see her
on The Tonight Show you would see her at the
Lincoln Center, you would see her at poetry slams, you
would see her at small gatherings and lars. But she
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was beloved for the most part. And if you've never
heard her work, it was something beautiful. It was an experience.
Oftentimes it was put to music, oftentimes it was a performance.
It was something that you had to experience. I did
have the opportunity to meet and dialogue with her a
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few times over the years and the various jobs that
I had, And even though she was a tiny woman
as far as her physical stature, her presence was enormous.
She was very much connected to the civil rights movement
and adding her voice as a member of the movement.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
If you don't know the civil rights movement.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Women were not allowed to have any significant role out front.
So oftentimes women were working behind the scenes. They were
lending their time and talents and ways which were not
necessarily accepted by the men of the time. But it
had an immeasurable impact when you look in the long
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view of history with names like Angela Davis and a
Nikki Giovanni or a Ruby d and so forth. But
the best way to remember and understand Nikki Giovanni is
to hear some of her work. If there's any singular
piece that you should know here or learn connected to
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Niki Giovanni, there's one piece which is called Ego Tripping.
Sometimes it's been perform the music. I prefer it more
like an a cappella piece and just in its original
presentation with with no music. Nikki Giovanni gone at the
age of eighty one, but her poetry will live on forever.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I could not be the only one. I couldn't be
the only one was anyone like me. I would go
to Ikea just to walk through the whole damn store.
I would start at the top or wherever it was,
and they make you walk through the whole store before
you get to the cashier and check out. They want
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you to pass everything. They want you to think about
buying everything along the way. I actually kind of liked that,
and I never had a lot of money, so I'd
walk through. Because when I was buying stuff at Ikea,
it was usually for my early apartments when I was
in my twenties. That's all I could afford, and I
would spend all night trying to put that stuff together,
and iolaly have like seven pieces left over, and I
was praying that none of my stuff would fall apart.
(21:26):
I have like two different beds, a futon, two different
dressers that would just lean into the side. It's like
I didn't do something right. But Ikea was one of
those experiences. I enjoyed being in the store, but part
of the enjoyment was how large it was. And then
I get my sweetish meatballs at the end. Come and
find out. Ikea is going to open its first small
(21:50):
format store in La County this month.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Small Format Yeah aka Arcadia.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
A small format store will feature over one thousand products
that will be refreshed each season, allowing guests to shop
for the most popular items without navigating a giant warehouse.
See they're taking all the fun out of it. I
liked navigating that big warehouse. The smaller store is part
(22:19):
of what is an expansion of ikeia Arcadia Planning Studio,
where customers can get support for more complex purchases.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Our expansion goal is simple to be where people are
whenever and however they want to experience Ikea. The store
located in the Santa Anita Center in Arcadia, is now
open open on December ninth as of yesterday, and I
have absolutely no reason to go, but I have every
reason that I want to go, just to look at it,
(22:49):
just for the whole nostalgia portion of it. Think of
old apartments I used to have, Think of all the
women I used to date back then.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I can't say that. I can't say that dateson okay
ver date radio data. It's a euphemism.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, uh yeah, Stephan, did you ever go to Ika?
I should say, did you ever furnish your apartments with Ika?
Speaker 10 (23:14):
My?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (23:15):
My parents tried to make a desk for for or
not make it, but put a desk together for me,
and and they got about halfway through. My dad's like
ask this, I'm gonna just go buy a regular one.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, And I guess you're supposed to save by putting
it together yourself. But they couldn't even put directions in
that you could actually read. They just gave pictures. I know,
it's like a Swedish company or something. I don't need
you to put it in English, but at least make
the two dimensional diagrams make sense, because they're that bad?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Are they read?
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Because it's yeah, because like what you were saying is okay,
let's just say it's like a corner of the desk.
You can only see it from one angle, so it
could be like three different spot or three different parts,
and you're just gonna mess it up at the end
if you don't get it just right. It's like a
brain teaser where you look at something and it's either
a horse or a lamp.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Because it's two dimensional, it could look like anything. It's like,
are these the legs going up? Are the legs going
down on the table? You just don't know. And we
would spend all night trying to put it together because
you wanted to save fifty dollars. So they handed into
you in this flattened box with all the plywood and
everything and fifty five dozen screws and one Allen wrench,
(24:28):
and you're supposed to put it all together. Rarely did
it come out the way that it was supposed to.
If you looked at it wrong or blue on it, it
probably fall over. But you're trying to save money. I
don't know of anyone who actually had money or was
that a point in their life where they didn't have
to scrap by where they bought their for real furniture
from Ikea.
Speaker 12 (24:49):
You're exactly right about that. The way you know you've
become successful is you don't have to assemble your own furniture.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Isn't there something intuitively wrong about putting your own furniture together?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I bought it from you.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I drove to you, I gave my money to you,
and you handed me an unbuilt bed.
Speaker 12 (25:07):
Also, curse them, damn them for making an Alan wrench
a part of my life.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I didn't need that.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I never saw an Alan wrench in my life until
I went to Ikea.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, the hell with them for that.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And they were always tiny, they were always impossible to use.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
They've never upgraded them.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
As far as I know, they're the same Alan rinches
as nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Oh yeah, that's for sure, because a couple of my
friends growing up years later, it looked exactly the same
as the one that I had when I was a
kid in the box.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Now, don't get me wrong, I love walking through the Ikea.
I loved the beautiful furniture when it was done, obviously
by professionals, it looked great.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I don't know how sturdy.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
It was because everything I got with Ikea it was
basically plywood drawers.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It would droop and fall apart after an amount of time.
Not built to last. No, no, no, no, no, not
at all.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
But if if you were a twenty something back in
the day, it was adequate.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
If you're trying to get a.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Bed, maybe some drawers and I don't know, maybe a
night's dead. They had the complete sets you could get
at a reasonable price. And if you're moving in a place,
it was perfect for that because you couldn't buy furniture
from like Macy's or some legitimate furniture store. Your only
real option for furnishing an apartment back then if you're
(26:27):
working for like an hourly wage was Ikea.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (26:30):
Are there people alive right now who don't remember how
hellish it was to furnish your on place before Ikea.
You had to really scrounge for stuff, look around at
second hand stuff. A normal person or you know, just
somebody on the low end of the income spectrum. That
was a challenge. It was a challenge.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I was going to garage sales people who are unloading furniture.
You might find the decent I'll say sofa or Barker
lounge or on the corner. Hopefully didn't have like excrement
in it or something as a bonus. I'm just saying.
I said, hopefully you just never know. Hopefully it was
just old and just put out there. But yeah, there
weren't places that you actually shot for furniture which were affordable,
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and Ikia owned that market.
Speaker 11 (27:09):
And my favorite is, like you said, you always have
at least I don't know, eight or nine pieces left over,
but it looked correct. You're like, okay, and then I
just didn't need them. And then you opened one part
of the drawer fall and you're like, yeah, oh, that's
what they were for.
Speaker 12 (27:25):
I never mind putting the furniture together, but I have
had to backtrack a couple of times while swearing like
a long shoreman, because you missed something and that ruins
everything down the line.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I always struggled with drawers because they had the wheels
and you had to put on the tracks.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
It was always where I stumbled. I stumbled.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The beds, for some reason, were easy. They were easy
as far as looking at the design. Oh, obviously this
is this piece of this is that piece that wasn't
difficult but the drawers, they always messed me up, and
they're always unstable and lean.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
They were very suspect.
Speaker 12 (28:02):
But didn't you get an enormous amount of pleasure when
you finally decided that the things lifespan was up, just
destroying it in a fit of violent rage.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Here was my metric. I'm glad you said that.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I moved a lot in my twenties, and it was
kind of understood if I was moving the Ikea furniture
was not it's a ritually, yeah, it was not going
to be able to stand the move once I put
it together. It was not supposed to be moved around
that bedroom, around the room, and it definitely wasn't going
to make it on a truck, on and off a truck,
up some stairs and into the next apartment.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
It never happened.
Speaker 12 (28:36):
Oh no, you got to do like the office space
guys and just stomp on it.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Oh we did some of them, and some of them
I kind of like put out on the curve for
someone else doing good and well that it wasn't going
to last for anyone else.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But you know, I have fond memories.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Ikea served his purpose, and yes, the nostalgia of being
able to walk through the big stores. Maybe no more,
if only because those big warehouses are far more expended
and far less necessary in this online world. I mean,
I've gone to Ikea online and I said, well, why
is anyone going back to the warehouse when you can
just kind of go.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Click click click click, click click click. It's not as fun,
It isn't as fun.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
But if I can save the time, you know, it's
it's it's nice to walk through the store, But I'm
not going to drive to like say Carson or the
one here in Burbank just to walk through the store.
If I'm trying to get night, I'm just gonna get
online and click click click click, click click click and
be done with it.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I like it.
Speaker 12 (29:28):
You get to see young couples in the bloom of
first love walking around arguing about what to get.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
The young married couples. You could always tell us all
that's so cute.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
They get in their first place together, their first yet just.
Speaker 12 (29:40):
Wade, do you want me to expose you to the
darkness now or do you want to discover it on
your own?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
And go to look at that young husband.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's like, oh, you're the one that's gonna have to
put it together so fast you'd be divorced by next week.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
And as you know, I worked in an entertainment generally
for quite some time, as did producer T Walla Sharp.
We kind of know what happens behind the scenes in
a general sense when stories come out about very prominent
people within entertainment, especially urban entertainment, be it hip hop music,
(00:26):
R and V music, comedy, and you'd have someone like
Jamie Fox movies who kind of traverses all those worlds
and he moves in and out of those worlds, and
we kind of know what is being said behind the scenes.
When when you have like a news story like Diddy
or something, they're people that we can call directly. Who
(00:48):
are I would say he's one most people are a
one degree of separation from us. There's someone we can
call for just about any celebrity who can get in
touch with that person. Doesn't mean they're willing to come
up on the show, but we can get some very
very good information. And when Jamie FOXX Academy Award winner
had his health scare back in April, I almost immediately
(01:12):
knew this seems just like a stroke from what was
described about him having a headache. I'm talking about publicly
available information, not including me calling people information he.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Said that he had.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It was said that he had a headache, there was
an issue on set, and then you heard nothing after that.
He just completely disappeared from public view. The family wasn't
saying anything. Yes, there were rumors of everything from benign
to grave, and it seemed touching go from the people
that I talked to, and I said, why paraphrasing, why
(01:48):
are they lying to us? Because he had his daughter
out front saying that, oh, no, he's fine, he just
came from the hospital. The media gets got it wrong.
They're trying to sensationalize it all the things. You know,
the media we with the BADT was like, no, oh,
we know that there was a serious, major health episode
and he was on the precipice of dying.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I knew that couldn't prove it, but I knew that.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
What I didn't like was while he was incognito, obviously recuperating,
maybe in the hospital or not. His daughter, Karin Fox,
released a press release in May about thirty days later,
saying that she and him were going to have a
game show in twenty twenty four, and that's what she was.
She was almost monetizing the medical scare. All this focus
(02:38):
on Jamie Fox and Karin Fox like a spokesman, spokesperson
for the family. So she talked about the game show.
That left a bad taste in my mouth. No, you
don't need to tell us what's going on with your family.
You don't need to, but you don't have to use
the increased media scrutiny to publicize and promote your game show.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I think the thing that I really got my dander
beyond that was the fact that she chose to admonish
the press for maligning the truth, not getting it right,
not knowing what's going on. And this show and every
(03:19):
single show out there was only able to report what
little information that we were receiving, which may have led
to educated guesses, speculation, rumor and all of that. But
if the overall idea that was being floated by the
press was that the situation was much worse than it seemed,
(03:44):
it was much more complicated than was being reported. And
if you're in the public eye, if you're Jamie Fox,
guess what, every single thing you do is going to
get reported on.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
This is no different. We understand the privacy and respecting
the family. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Get all
that this is a major story. Jamie Fox was coming
back with Cameron Diaz that were doing an action thriller
and everyone was looking for it, and all of a
sudden boom, medical crisis. He disappears.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
If we're reporting on what information we get, then either
clear that information up or just let it go. But
when you come out and say press, you're once again
you're wrong. And this is why people don't trust the press.
She was going in on the on media and I'm
like this, this is a bad way to go.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And today the Jamie Fox special on Netflix dropped title
what it happened was? And after all that we were
one hundred percent right, it was a stroke. Here is
Jamie fox condensed version in his own words, a three
to eleven.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I was having a bad headache and I asked my
boy for a asking. And I realized quickly that when
you're in a medical emergency, your boys don't know what
to do. And I was like, damn, but I was
having such a bad headache. I asked my boy. I said, listen,
I need an aspir before I could get the aspir
(05:11):
I went out. I don't remember twenty days.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
So they tell me.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
My sister took me into the hospital and it's cool
white boy, doctor Shooty. Cool white boy, they say, had
on a Laker jersey. Just cool as shit, you know.
But he told my sister some horrible news about her
big brother.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
He said, he's having a brain bleed that's.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Led to a stroke. Damn me.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
When you dream about what you want to be in life,
you don't dream tragedy. You dream everything is good. I
got the life, I got the cars, I got all that.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
You don't dream. And something was going wrong.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
The doctor said, if I don't go in his head,
we're gonna lose him. And she fired back and said,
you can go on his head, but you're not gonna
find anything because I already talked to God. The cool
white doctor named doctor Shooty, shot right back and said,
I'm a religious man too, but I gotta do my job.
(06:21):
Your life doesn't flash before your face. It was kind
of oddly peaceful. I say this all the time. I
saw the tunnel. I didn't see the light.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That's the light.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I was in that tunnel, though it was.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Hot in that tunnel? Am I going to the wrong
place in this?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Because I looked at the end of the tunne, I
thought I saw the devil?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Like come on, was that puffy?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So after all that, all the admonitions that you talked about, Tuala,
it was what we thought it was. I am not
here to tell Jamie Foxx what to do with his career,
but I will say this that it leaves a little
of a bit of a bad taste in my mouth
where you don't tell the media anything, and when you
(07:20):
do speak to the media through your daughter, it's an
admonition about you should have done this, You should have
gotten a story right when we had the story right
all along. And instead of telling us and getting the
story right and laying anyone's fears and clearing it up,
you save it for a good I don't know, seven months,
so you can monetize it in the form of a
(07:40):
Netflix special. That's your prerogative. Congratulations. I hope you have
a great second chance at life. I don't disbelieve that
he's very sincere about being very grateful for that second chance.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
But let's keep it in context.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I remember exactly how we got here, and it has
been used as a marketing campaign every step of the way.
I'm glad that he's in a better place in a
health sense, but I do remember that this has always
been about marketing and promotion. It's Later with mo Kelly
caf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
(08:19):
And speaking of marketing and promotion, have you seen these
fans who are trying to camp out in Inglewood outside
the Kia Forum for the Billie Eilish concert? Have they
lost their mind? They're camping out a week in advance.
We'll tell you about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And Billie Eilish is not my cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I think she's talented, but I was talking with the
guys in the studio and I was just saying, like,
she may be talented, but every damn song she sings
is sad, even if the song has happy in the title,
it's just sad. She's upset about it everything, and I
can't listen to that. But you know, not for me.
(09:04):
I'm not her intended audience, but she has all boatload
of fans all around the world, especially here in Los Angeles,
and she's coming to the Kia Forum. And I did
not know that people were actually trying to camp out
full blown tents. I'm not talking about lawn chairs, and
they're holding the spot. No full blown tents on the sidewalk.
(09:26):
And let me say, since I live in that area,
if you're gonna put a tent on Prairie or Manchester,
you are taking chances with your life.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, homeless people, And I'm not being funny.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Homeless people have been killed for less and you're gonna
put yourself out there on Manchester and Prairie.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Listen to this, disappointed fans, Mac, what are they going
to do now? Docfo Is McCallum Media is live there now.
He talked with disappointed fans Mac, what are they going
to do now?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Well, this is not what fans were expecting. Take a
look at this.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
This was filled with tents about a dozen deep here
earlier today, just a few hours ago, with eager fans
hoping to be the first in line for the concert
on Thursday.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Well, the police here in Inglewood.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Says those tents had to go, and so most of
these people are now just waiting here without those tents.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
But it's not dampening their spirits.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
I love Billy so much.
Speaker 9 (10:27):
Ariana Jackson was the first person to pitch a tent
and wait for the December fifteenth show with the Four.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
She got here on December fifth.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
Last year.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
They started two weeks early, so this time we wanted
to be first in line.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Wait wait, wait, wait wait.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
She started camping out on the fifth for a concert
on the fifteenth.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Arianna Jackson was the first person to pitch a tent
and wait for the December fifteenth show with the Four.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
She got here on December fifth last year.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
They started two weeks early, so this time we wanted
to be first in line.
Speaker 9 (11:03):
She wasn't alone tent after tent popped up behind hers,
but unlike her tent and went home. Most were unoccupied
when we were there.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Because they killed everybody. That's why you don't pitch a
tint on prairie on Manchester. If I tell you not
to go to a gas station at night, that also
includes not pitching a tent on prairie at night.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
By the key of form.
Speaker 11 (11:28):
Are empty, I think so right now, I'm just watching.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
The Jackson says fellow fans. Keep an eye on each
other's tent, says some.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Go to work or school during the day.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Wait a minute, you pitched a tent and you're going
to work. You have school you got to go to.
You have a job you got to go to, and
you're living in a tent on a sidewalk for the
opportunity to purchase some Billie Eilish tickets to be first
or second in line. And you're asking miss Jackson, sorry
(12:03):
Miss Jackson, to watch your tent while you're gone to
work or to school.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
You're all some crazy fool.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Slow fans keeping eye on each other's tents as some
go to work or school during the day.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I work out a clothing store, so you got your
head out.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
And while we were there, parking enforcement warned that vacant
tents that blew onto the street because of the winds
could cause a driving hazard and would be removed. Then
police told fans the tents all had to go because
they were obstructing the sidewalk as well.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
And they came up to my tent and they were like, hey,
you guys have to leave your blocking the sidewalk. And
I was like, why, We've been here for like three.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Some fans who drove all the way from Pomona tried
to save what they had inside those twns.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Okay, you drove from Pomona. You pitched a tent on
prairie to purchase some tickets for a concert ten days out,
there's something wrong with you. In addition to all that
alliteration on prairie that was on the fly, Yeah, and
(13:10):
just write a sad song about it, be done with it. Well,
that's what Billy Eilish does, so I guess she fills
that need. Billie Eilish is nothing but sad songs. Yeah,
everybody wins.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I thought the comic Con people were bad with that
hall age camp out for like a day. I thought
that was ridiculous. The Rose Praiye people. I'm like, yeah,
it's a tradition, but I'm not really down with that.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Is it really camping out?
Speaker 10 (13:35):
Though?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
If you go to school, you go to work, and
you come back just to lay your head on prairie,
is that moving to the street and you're kind of
relocating to the street.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I guess you are. I mean they got hotels in
the area.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
If you're really committed, Nah, they would need to be
aligned though, that's the issue.
Speaker 12 (13:54):
Is there anything you guys would camp out overnight for?
Apart from saying new Liver, nothing I can say on
the radio. You'll just have to leave that to your imagination.
And it's almost like counterfeit too, because you're not it's
not someone holding your place. It's a it's an inanimate Yeah,
it's almost like you lolimit.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
If you leave the line to go to the bathroom,
you've lost your place.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Exactly. The same is true.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
If you leave the line to go to work for
eight hours, you've lost your place. I would write, I
would have walked up there and kicked their tent into
the street.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
They're not here, they lose their place.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
No, that's that's no, that's a line violation. Rose Parade,
Comic Con. Those people are out there in their lawn
chairs and their funky pits, smelling like sugar honey iced.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Tea, and it is.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
But they put in the time. They stayed. They didn't leave,
and you know that's horrible. That's true.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
They do stay.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But if you're leaving to go home or go to
work and take a shower and everything, is it, Is
it really camping out?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It seems like that's just honest, that's straight shooting.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Why we've been here for?
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Like gree sometimes who drove all the way.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
This is an imminent domain. This is like because you's
capped out for three days, you get to keep it.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Why we've been here for three days? What do you
mean we have to move? Why?
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Why it's not there?
Speaker 10 (15:19):
Why we've been here?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Why?
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Why we've been here for?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Doesn't she sound very what you're like? Why can't believe this?
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Poor ka p K.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Why we've been here for?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Like gree some that's called trespass.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And so I was like, we've been squatting here for
two weeks. What do you mean we have to leave?
We've been here two weeks? Is it like possession nine
tenths of the law?
Speaker 10 (15:48):
Why?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Why?
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Why?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Why?
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Why we've been here for?
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Like gree sometimes who drove all the way from Pomona,
tried to save what they had inside those tents.
Speaker 11 (15:59):
I just got here and thank God that they took
myself out because it would have been trusted with our tents.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Hey, don't bring God into this. Don't bring God into this. Okay,
you chose to camp out and leave your tent to
go to work. God had nothing to do with that,
because if it had to do with God, you wouldn't
have been there in the first place. God would have
given you some damn sens and told you not to
camp out on the street.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
We gotta go to work.
Speaker 10 (16:23):
Why we've been here for like gree.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Some fans who drove all the way from Pomona tried
to save what they had inside those tents.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
I just got here and thank God that they took
myself out because it would have been trusted with our tents.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
Now the city says they can still stay here, just
no more tents, and a lot of fats say they'll
be out here in their lawn chairs waiting for that
concert on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Y'all have some dumb mother fathers. Let me tell you
you are dumb, dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Dumb, and you know what, I hope you don't get
to see the concert.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I think we should reward stupidity. If you're gonna drive.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
From Pomona to pitch a tent on Prairie for the
promise of buying some tickets to potentially see the concert.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
You better stay there the whole damn time, the whole time,
the whole time, the whole time, the whole time.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
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Speaker 12 (17:20):
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Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I would never
say that I was a big consumer of poetry and
I'm not someone who went to a lot of poetry slams.
But you couldn't talk about either and not talk about
the contributions and impact of the now late Nikki Giovanni,
(18:14):
who was a poet and literary celebrity who passed away
yesterday at the age of eighty one. And this was
before they had literary, real celebrities, especially coming out of
the field of poetry. She would sell out venues of
more than four and five thousand people. She was a
subject of the prize winning twenty twenty three documentary Going
(18:35):
to Mars. She was an author of more than twenty
five books. She was oftentimes controversial. She was praised, she
was criticized, she was sometimes reviled. You would see her
on The Tonight Show you would see her at the
Lincoln Center, you would see her at poetry slams, you
would see her at small gatherings and lars. But she
(18:55):
was beloved for the most part. And if you've never
heard her work, it was something beautiful. It was an experience.
Oftentimes it was put to music, oftentimes it was a performance.
It was something that you had to experience. I did
have the opportunity to meet and dialogue with her a
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few times over the years and the various jobs that
I had, And even though she was a tiny woman
as far as her physical stature, her presence was enormous.
She was very much connected to the civil rights movement
and adding her voice as a member of the movement.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
If you don't know the civil rights movement.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Women were not allowed to have any significant role out front.
So oftentimes women were working behind the scenes. They were
lending their time and talents and ways which were not
necessarily accepted by the men of the time. But it
had an immeasurable impact when you look in the long
(19:54):
view of history with names like Angela Davis and a
Nikki Giovanni or a Ruby d and so forth. But
the best way to remember and understand Nikki Giovanni is
to hear some of her work. If there's any singular
piece that you should know here or learn connected to
(20:15):
Niki Giovanni, there's one piece which is called Ego Tripping.
Sometimes it's been perform the music. I prefer it more
like an a cappella piece and just in its original
presentation with with no music. Nikki Giovanni gone at the
age of eighty one, but her poetry will live on forever.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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I could not be the only one. I couldn't be
the only one was anyone like me. I would go
to Ikea just to walk through the whole damn store.
I would start at the top or wherever it was,
and they make you walk through the whole store before
you get to the cashier and check out. They want
(21:04):
you to pass everything. They want you to think about
buying everything along the way. I actually kind of liked that,
and I never had a lot of money, so I'd
walk through. Because when I was buying stuff at Ikea,
it was usually for my early apartments when I was
in my twenties. That's all I could afford, and I
would spend all night trying to put that stuff together,
and iolaly have like seven pieces left over, and I
was praying that none of my stuff would fall apart.
(21:26):
I have like two different beds, a futon, two different
dressers that would just lean into the side. It's like
I didn't do something right. But Ikea was one of
those experiences. I enjoyed being in the store, but part
of the enjoyment was how large it was. And then
I get my sweetish meatballs at the end. Come and
find out. Ikea is going to open its first small
(21:50):
format store in La County this month.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Small Format Yeah aka Arcadia.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
A small format store will feature over one thousand products
that will be refreshed each season, allowing guests to shop
for the most popular items without navigating a giant warehouse.
See they're taking all the fun out of it. I
liked navigating that big warehouse. The smaller store is part
(22:19):
of what is an expansion of ikeia Arcadia Planning Studio,
where customers can get support for more complex purchases.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Our expansion goal is simple to be where people are
whenever and however they want to experience Ikea. The store
located in the Santa Anita Center in Arcadia, is now
open open on December ninth as of yesterday, and I
have absolutely no reason to go, but I have every
reason that I want to go, just to look at it,
(22:49):
just for the whole nostalgia portion of it. Think of
old apartments I used to have, Think of all the
women I used to date back then.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I can't say that. I can't say that dateson okay
ver date radio data. It's a euphemism.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, uh yeah, Stephan, did you ever go to Ika?
I should say, did you ever furnish your apartments with Ika?
Speaker 10 (23:14):
My?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (23:15):
My parents tried to make a desk for for or
not make it, but put a desk together for me,
and and they got about halfway through. My dad's like
ask this, I'm gonna just go buy a regular one.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, And I guess you're supposed to save by putting
it together yourself. But they couldn't even put directions in
that you could actually read. They just gave pictures. I know,
it's like a Swedish company or something. I don't need
you to put it in English, but at least make
the two dimensional diagrams make sense, because they're that bad?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Are they read?
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Because it's yeah, because like what you were saying is okay,
let's just say it's like a corner of the desk.
You can only see it from one angle, so it
could be like three different spot or three different parts,
and you're just gonna mess it up at the end
if you don't get it just right. It's like a
brain teaser where you look at something and it's either
a horse or a lamp.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Because it's two dimensional, it could look like anything. It's like,
are these the legs going up? Are the legs going
down on the table? You just don't know. And we
would spend all night trying to put it together because
you wanted to save fifty dollars. So they handed into
you in this flattened box with all the plywood and
everything and fifty five dozen screws and one Allen wrench,
(24:28):
and you're supposed to put it all together. Rarely did
it come out the way that it was supposed to.
If you looked at it wrong or blue on it, it
probably fall over. But you're trying to save money. I
don't know of anyone who actually had money or was
that a point in their life where they didn't have
to scrap by where they bought their for real furniture
from Ikea.
Speaker 12 (24:49):
You're exactly right about that. The way you know you've
become successful is you don't have to assemble your own furniture.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Isn't there something intuitively wrong about putting your own furniture together?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I bought it from you.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I drove to you, I gave my money to you,
and you handed me an unbuilt bed.
Speaker 12 (25:07):
Also, curse them, damn them for making an Alan wrench
a part of my life.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I didn't need that.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I never saw an Alan wrench in my life until
I went to Ikea.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, the hell with them for that.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And they were always tiny, they were always impossible to use.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
They've never upgraded them.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
As far as I know, they're the same Alan rinches
as nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Oh yeah, that's for sure, because a couple of my
friends growing up years later, it looked exactly the same
as the one that I had when I was a
kid in the box.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Now, don't get me wrong, I love walking through the Ikea.
I loved the beautiful furniture when it was done, obviously
by professionals, it looked great.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I don't know how sturdy.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
It was because everything I got with Ikea it was
basically plywood drawers.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It would droop and fall apart after an amount of time.
Not built to last. No, no, no, no, no, not
at all.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
But if if you were a twenty something back in
the day, it was adequate.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
If you're trying to get a.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Bed, maybe some drawers and I don't know, maybe a
night's dead. They had the complete sets you could get
at a reasonable price. And if you're moving in a place,
it was perfect for that because you couldn't buy furniture
from like Macy's or some legitimate furniture store. Your only
real option for furnishing an apartment back then if you're
(26:27):
working for like an hourly wage was Ikea.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (26:30):
Are there people alive right now who don't remember how
hellish it was to furnish your on place before Ikea.
You had to really scrounge for stuff, look around at
second hand stuff. A normal person or you know, just
somebody on the low end of the income spectrum. That
was a challenge. It was a challenge.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I was going to garage sales people who are unloading furniture.
You might find the decent I'll say sofa or Barker
lounge or on the corner. Hopefully didn't have like excrement
in it or something as a bonus. I'm just saying.
I said, hopefully you just never know. Hopefully it was
just old and just put out there. But yeah, there
weren't places that you actually shot for furniture which were affordable,
(27:06):
and Ikia owned that market.
Speaker 11 (27:09):
And my favorite is, like you said, you always have
at least I don't know, eight or nine pieces left over,
but it looked correct. You're like, okay, and then I
just didn't need them. And then you opened one part
of the drawer fall and you're like, yeah, oh, that's
what they were for.
Speaker 12 (27:25):
I never mind putting the furniture together, but I have
had to backtrack a couple of times while swearing like
a long shoreman, because you missed something and that ruins
everything down the line.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I always struggled with drawers because they had the wheels
and you had to put on the tracks.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
It was always where I stumbled. I stumbled.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The beds, for some reason, were easy. They were easy
as far as looking at the design. Oh, obviously this
is this piece of this is that piece that wasn't
difficult but the drawers, they always messed me up, and
they're always unstable and lean.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
They were very suspect.
Speaker 12 (28:02):
But didn't you get an enormous amount of pleasure when
you finally decided that the things lifespan was up, just
destroying it in a fit of violent rage.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Here was my metric. I'm glad you said that.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I moved a lot in my twenties, and it was
kind of understood if I was moving the Ikea furniture
was not it's a ritually, yeah, it was not going
to be able to stand the move once I put
it together. It was not supposed to be moved around
that bedroom, around the room, and it definitely wasn't going
to make it on a truck, on and off a truck,
up some stairs and into the next apartment.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
It never happened.
Speaker 12 (28:36):
Oh no, you got to do like the office space
guys and just stomp on it.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Oh we did some of them, and some of them
I kind of like put out on the curve for
someone else doing good and well that it wasn't going
to last for anyone else.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But you know, I have fond memories.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Ikea served his purpose, and yes, the nostalgia of being
able to walk through the big stores. Maybe no more,
if only because those big warehouses are far more expended
and far less necessary in this online world. I mean,
I've gone to Ikea online and I said, well, why
is anyone going back to the warehouse when you can
just kind of go.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Click click click click, click click click. It's not as fun,
It isn't as fun.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
But if I can save the time, you know, it's
it's it's nice to walk through the store, But I'm
not going to drive to like say Carson or the
one here in Burbank just to walk through the store.
If I'm trying to get night, I'm just gonna get
online and click click click click, click click click and
be done with it.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I like it.
Speaker 12 (29:28):
You get to see young couples in the bloom of
first love walking around arguing about what to get.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
The young married couples. You could always tell us all
that's so cute.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
They get in their first place together, their first yet just.
Speaker 12 (29:40):
Wade, do you want me to expose you to the
darkness now or do you want to discover it on
your own?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
And go to look at that young husband.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's like, oh, you're the one that's gonna have to
put it together so fast you'd be divorced by next week.
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