March 15, 2025 • 37 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look back at Mo’s humble beginnings in radio on the Jim Rome Show…PLUS – Details on all the ‘LA Marathon’ road-closures AND thoughts on Southwest Airlines’ horrendous week - KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's Friday, Glory. Hallelujer, hallelujer.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's Friday, Okay, if I aim at forty WeLive everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app, and we're going to get the
party started sooner then later. It's going to be a
party all night long. From seven to ten pm tonight.
It's Pie Day Friday, where everything's gonna be about pizza
in the studio and pizza and pies for name that
(00:47):
movie called Classic. We are giving away not one, not two,
not three, not five, but ten fifty dollars gift certificates
to Shakey's Pizza, ten of them. Oh yeah, and it's
also Ladies' Night, so fellas you were not gonna be
able to participate, you know, it's just the ladies before
(01:10):
you say bye bye. The Pie Day we're celebrating with
piping hot pizza pies at Shakey's Pizza Parlor. You can
choose from classic favorites, go for your own pie in
the Sky creation and don't forget the mojos, dine in
or get it to go at Shakey's dot com. We
have ten fifty dollars gift certificates and I just want
(01:32):
to let you know it's ladies' night and we're gonna
put the kids to bed early. The name that movie
called Classic Game Tonight. It's not for the kids. I'm
just letting you know, put the kids to bed early.
It's gonna be mo Kelly after dark. We have our
runner report. Mark Ronner is gonna be giving us the
latest of what he's saying now.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I saw.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I don't want to tip off what he wants to
talk about, but he'll tell us eventually.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Maybe.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Whatever you say, Mom, I'm following your lead out of
the abundance of respect I have for you.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I appreciate the cynicism in the sarcast in a conversation,
but that's not serious. Did you want to give a
preview of the Ronald Report? Whatever you say, we're going
to be talking about and we're off. Yeah, Yeah, we're off.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We're going to be talking about a really good new
documentary about the Manson killings on Netflix called Chaos.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Are you going to do anything else on anything else
you've seen?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh, he could if you want, because you give us
it in formal one and I don't know if you
wanted to do that one. In addition to yeah, we
just freestyle it I suffered through the electric state last night.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
And uh, that's on somebody. Yeah, it's also on Netflix.
Somebody needs to pay for this. That's by the Russo brothers. Right,
this is what I understand. I heard it had a
hefty budget. It left me with some hefty anger. Oh oh,
so we'll definitely talk about that. We have Nick Poliochinni
who is joining us. I think he's here already, but
he's supposedly bringing food to wall. It's supposed to be
(03:02):
ordering us food. I haven't seen any food yet. I know,
I'm very hungry. I don't know what the hold up is. Ah,
things are shaping up here. Everything's coming up Millhouse tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I know good.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And Stephan is supposed to be doing something. I have
no idea what he's supposed to do. What's your job tonight, Stefan,
I think to eat the food. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh I am.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We're going to have nothing but fun tonight. I got
an update on Southwest Airlines. We didn't have a chance
to talk about Southwest Airlines Airlines earlier in the week,
but they have not been having a good week. And
Nick Polochinni, what is it? You just came in and
just threw some food at me. Oh, some twigs cookies
and cream.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
The best part of that scenario is I heard it
and it's very snickers asque.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
If you're hungry, mo, I got you now.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'm gonna save this for dessert, because if you don't know,
Nick Polocchini has talked about it before. Anything that's cookies
and cream. I already like it and I'm going to
eat it. There's no such thing as bad. Well, I
take that back. We have something in the kitchen which
is some sort of dessert in there that they're selling.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That's cookies and cream. I tried it once. It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's the only thing I've ever tasted in my life
which is horrible. So I'm gonna try some twigs cookies
and cream tonight. The Hershey's Bars they have their cookies
and cream.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, those are really good. Yeah, they make really good smores.
Never thought of doing that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
There you go, Well, Nick joining us later on with
some food from where?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Now, don't go anywhere. You gotta tell them where you
got the food from.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I've got Lori's Pie Bar in Long Beach, who has
sent us some key lime pie shots and also has
sent along a Frankin pie, which is six different slices
of all the different pies that they have available.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I also have this.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Special edition Polly's Bakery pie that has the pie symbol
of the pie, you know, the three point one four yeah,
on the pie, so it's double. It's an apple pie
with double crust and you'll see all that on. So
it's like you're gonna say double on tentre, but you
wouldn't have been wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
But go ahead. It's a little early for that, thank you. Yeah,
I'm gonna say, we're just past seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So when we get a little closer to the nine
o'clock hour, I'm sure we'll get into that.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So much good stuff, And now Tila Sharp is joining
us in the studio.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Why are you carrying a bottle of wine? It's not my?
Why I don't drink?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I am actually getting Sharon's why. Okay, I was asking,
why are you carrying a bottle of wine? Since you
don't drink?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
This is not mine. It looks Snoop Dogg. Why yes,
Cali red, but he only wears blue.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I'm so confused. That is true, because I'm so confused.
Stupid is an about crypt?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Yes, he crypt walked at Super Bowl, but he's doing
Cali Red Look the Cats Living Together other Massio.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It's going to be one of them shows tonight, let
me tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Oh and by the way, if you should ever reach
out to me on Instagram or threads at mister mo
Kelly and you would like to discuss the show, please
actually make sure you listen to the show.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I'm not interested in debating stuff that.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You want to make up, stuff that you imagine you heard,
stuff that you wish that you heard, stuff that you
were just mad about having nothing to do with me,
and you didn't take it out on your wife or something,
so you're going to take it out of me. Look,
if you could see my inbox some nights, it is incredible.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I mean, I love the support. I appreciate that you
want to reach.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Out to me, but it's almost like we're talking about
two different shows.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I could say this confidently. I've never missed one of
my shows. Every show is that I have done that.
I've actually said something on the mic I was therefore,
so I'm pretty confident as to what I might have said.
And not only that, there's this thing called a podcast
where the audio stays there in perpetuity, and depending on
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the podcast app, they'll even give you a transcript as well,
so it's not really debatable what I did say or
what I didn't say. Listener Mike V, thank you for
your notes, even though you didn't have any idea of
what you were talking about and could not actually articulate
anything that I did say that you disagreed with, or
mention anything that I said that was incorrect or somehow wrong.
(07:06):
It was an interesting night, and Mike V was just
one of many listeners who wanted to reach out.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
They were upset that I was talking about the economy.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think, next to when you just told us to
start watching Paradise, that was probably one of the most
entertaining chet groups we've ever had.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I try to tell people I can't explain it to people.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I can only show it to them so they can
see the stuff that I get. It's like, what are
you angry about? What are you talking about? And who
the hell do you think you're talking to? Well, you
can't discount people's feelings.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Mo. The customer's always right, it's vibes that matter. We're
in a vibe era.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I know, and it's like someone who allegedly listens to
the show. Allegedly, you know, because there's no evidence to
support that. If you listen to the show and the
first thing out of your mouth is mo, you democrat,
you clearly don't listen to the show. Clearly, I'm not
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a Democrat, not even close to being a democrat. And
some people wrongly believe or conflate having not having my
tongue down Donald Trump's throat makes me a democrat.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And I was talking about the economy last night and
rubbed some people the wrong way, and I was just
giving facts and data.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The GDP is this, this is the definition of a recession.
And if we continue on this certain path and trajectory,
according to Wall Street, according to the Wall Street Journal,
according to Goldin Sachs, we have a fifteen to twenty
percent chance of a recession. And if we do hit
the recession, it'll be because of things which are happening
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right now.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh it's up to forty percent. Now well, well, okay,
all right, does that make me one too?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Oh? God, it's just straight it done.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's strange because people hear what they want to hear,
and I always ask people, let's talk about what I
actually said, not what you thought you heard, or not
your interpretation of it, because if we need, we need
to have and I think this is a problem with America.
Let me do this digression real quick. We want to
debate our feelings, not actual facts. And if we can't
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agree on a basic foundation of facts, sky's blue, you know,
water's wet, it makes it real difficult to go forward.
So that's why I always ask people if they have
an issue with something I said, please quote me, tell
me exactly what you're taking issue with, then we can
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go from there.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
In fact, I always give them a link. Here's a
link to the podcast. Give me a time.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Marker, just so I know what you're referring to, because
I can't. I can't go into a conversation with mo.
I hate your politics, you're a Trump hater. Well, okay,
can I go go back to what I was doing
in the bathroom, because that's more important.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You can multitask.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I can, but I'm not gonna multitask excuse me for
someone else's benefit. I know I had some stuff I
ate early today. It's just not sitting right with me.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know cookies and cream on a clear right, I
sure should so if you should hear some noises over
the course of the evening, let me just apologize in advance.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, just I'm sorry. You know they say don't ever
trust a fart after forty you never heard that.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Excuse me. Let me go to break That was a
wet one forty. We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
And if you are familiar with sports radio, that song
Iggy Pop lust for Life is also the opening intro
song for a show called The Jim Rome Show, and
it's been on at this point, I want to say
since the late ninetyes, so almost thirty years going on
thirty years, and Jim Rome the host. He was my
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first radio boss. I got my first radio job because
of him. It was in sports radio. A lot of
times people ask me, hey, Mo, how did you get
in the radio. Was it because you're working in the
music industry. It's like no, there is completely separate.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I knew a lot of people in radio because of
the music industry, but I did not get into radio
because of the music industry. It just happened to be
kind of like you right now, just listening to the radio.
I was working at the Grammys, So this is about
thirty years ago, mid to late nineties, and I was
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listening every day to this show called the Jim Rome Show.
They would have these two contests.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Every day.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
They'd have the Huge Caller, which is basically the best
sports sports trash talker car during the course of the show,
and they would have back then, which was called the
Huge Facts Contest the Best Facts. Yes, we actually used
a fax machine to fax in a paragraph or some
words or just like an editorial, some commentary for the show,
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and Jim would read like the best three facts is
back then, I think they even graduated to an email
contest as technology grew. The Huge Facts Contest was something
that I was winning just about every day. And what
I mean by every day is three and four times
a week. I wanted at least fifty times. After a
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certain point, I just stopped because it wasn't as fun anymore.
And I don't say that as a brag, but it
was something that helped me get ready, and I didn't
know it at the time. For my later radio career.
Around two thousand or so, Jim reached out to me
and said, hey, Mo, have you ever thought of doing
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what you do, but just on the other side, in
other words, professionally, maybe helped book some guests, do some
website maintenance, and do some writing for the website. I said,
wait a minute, I listened to the show every day.
Why not sure? And then I immediately left. And I
was working for Interscope Records at the time, and I
started then working for Jim Rome and Premiere Radio. And
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if you know the name of Craig Kitchen, he's one
of the biggest names on the corporate side in radio.
He has created some of the biggest names ever, from
Rush Limbaugh on down. He was the one who got
Jim Rome syndicated. And I had run into Jim Rome
over the years. First time I run into him, it
was like the NAB Convention National Association of Broadcasters. He
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had just been syndicated. That's why I tell you about
Craig Kitchen. And I had listened to the show for
a few years, and there's a point to all this.
And I walked up to him and I said, Jim,
did you have any idea that what you would start
so long ago would turn into this, and he said,
I always knew, He said something to the fact of
I always knew, I just had to convince other people.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And that always stuck with me.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
As far as if you know within yourself that what
you're doing is good enough, or you have that belief
in yourself, that's half the battle.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And I've always taken that with me.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And then when I work with Jim for a while,
he was a good teacher in the sense of there
were things that he would teach me explicitly as far
as how to conduct an interview. If you appreciate anything
about my interview style, a lot of that goes back
to Jim Rome, as far as really listening to the guests,
having done your research and knowing something and not asking
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the same questions that everyone else might have asked that
same guest they're tired of answering and really listening because
you can get some nuggets and then you can respond
to them. And if you know my history, like I
had that incident with Roger Stone, part of the reason why
a lot of people thought that I handled it well
comes directly from Jim Rome. He had a similar incident
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with the late NBA commissioner David Stern and David Stern,
and he got into it, long story short, and Jim
did not lose his composure and he handled the moment
very well. That goes back to Jim being a very
good teacher. Explicitly and implicitly. There are a lot of
things that you can learn from people, and I learned
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by just watching him and listening to him, and also
the things that he was telling me. And I had
no idea that I would one day be working behind
the mic, but Jim has always been kind to me,
and he would reach out to me on occasions and
get me just some words of support, and he's commented
about me on his show when I was faxing his
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show and writing into a show. I was first known
as Moe from the City of Palms. And if you
know the Jim Rome Show, the best callers and factors, emailers,
they become legends that they get their own name, legendary name.
Mine was Dark Gable. So if you ever hear of
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Dark Gable on the Jim Rome Show, they're referring to me.
I'm one of the old school legends. And I say
that without a hint of humility. I was a bad MF.
As it turned out, Jim was talking about some of
the old school callers and factors on a show the
other day, and people who listen to this show and
also Jim Rome's show, reached out to me and said, hey,
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Jim was talking about you again in a very kind way,
and I said, oh, let me go find it.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
J and La is an all time throwback. Alvi, do
you even know j and La?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
No?
Speaker 8 (16:52):
J and La is again when you talk about the
old school. I don't know what happened to Jay, but
Jay is as old school as any of the old
school guys. Bobby and Brooklyn was a legend. Dark Gable,
by the way, has had an incredible career. He has
a broadcast career. He's a very very When you talk
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about that Rome Tree, I'm as proud of dark Gable
as I am almost anybody in the Tree. Dark Gables
had a tremendous broadcast career and still has having a
great career.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Thank you for that, Jim when he talks about the
Rome Radio Tree. There are a number of people who
have worked on the show who started off as either
listeners or producers and have gone on to have their
own show. If you're familiar with JT The Bricks, he
used to host the show here in LA but right
now he hosts Brick at Night with JT The Brick
on Sirius XM, and a show on kr LV in
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Las Vegas, and various programs for the Las Vegas Raiders,
including the team's radio pregame show. He was the first
one to leave I'll say the Jim Rome Show, then
break out and do his own thing. Travis Rodgers, who's
a long time I'm executive producer for the Jim Rome Show.
He now co hosts Travis and DeMarco on ESPN seven
ten AM here in LA from nine to noon. There's
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Kyle Brandt, who is one of the previous executive producers.
He now hosts. He's one of the hosts of Good
Morning Football on the NFL Network. And Jason Stewart. If
you worked here, you probably worked with Jason Stewart. He's
a former producer of petrolsid Money on AM five seventy
LA Sports and he's the president producer of the Doug
Gottliebs Show on Fox Sports Radio. So if anything can
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be said about Jim Roman as Radio trees is that
he has his fingerprints on a lot of radio, especially
in sports, and I can say that I owe a
lot to him, if only because I never saw myself
in this business, and especially didn't see myself in a
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host capacity. But it's nice to be able to hear
something like that when someone that you looked up to
with someone reached out to you to give you your
first shot.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
In the business. Is listening to you right now.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
FORTYFIM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Just to put a period on what I was talking
about last segment about how I got into radio, and
I think there was something instructive, hopefully in telling that
story about how I ended up working for Jim Rome,
sports broadcaster and personality Radio personality and TV for that matter.
You never know who's listening, in the sense of when
you're in this chair, you never know who is listening
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and who can benefit from what you're doing, and you
never know how your talents, whatever they are, someone else
may be watching you and listening to you and may
be able to find a place for you.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I didn't plan to be in radio.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I just liked listening to radio. Someone saw something in
me and then it went from there. So you just
never know. Oh, Mark, I know you've heard me say it,
and I know Twalla's heard me say it a dozen times.
Whenever I talk about celebrities and stephan you've probably heard
me say it as well. You ever heard me say
we don't know these people?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Oftentimes when I'll talk about someone, maybe if I've interviewed
them or someone we think that they're great, we love
their talent, I'd say, hey, but we don't know these people.
Oh yeah, sure. And part of the reason is said that.
That comes directly from Jim.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
That's that's something he said specifically to me after we
had an interview and I said, what was it like
talking to so and so?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And he said, look, we do not know these people.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
You know, we don't get so close to them because
they're just as fallible as the rest of us. That's
directly from him. And something else that I adopted from him,
I like dark Gable. Yeah that Where did that come from?
I don't know where it came from. I think someone
see this is radio before the internet. And people. You
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didn't know what people look like for the for the
most part. And one thing about the Gym Rum show
that the talent per se. It was usually the callers
and the people who were faxing and emailing. We were
like a cast of characters if you will. Of course,
Jim is the star, but we would call in and
people get nicknames. I don't know where it came from.
I honestly don't. Oh I remember. I remember it was
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because it used to be a rule on the show
that you could not give yourself a nickname. And I
did it anyway, and I did it half jokingly. It's
like if and when I ever get to the point
where I've amassed a level of status where I could
should have a nickname, I vote myself to be dark Gable.
And so you made up Dark Gable. Yeah, but I
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mean it wasn't like I don't know how it stuck.
I think it was something like that, because this is
at least twenty five years ago. I always thought of
you more as a shrill Cosby.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Thank you, Cosby, Come on, food stump be so stingy.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Neither of us got one. You know, it does better.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I was going to ask did part of it come
from Gable House. No, because you were in that area. No,
it's just because I was a black man, Clark dark Gable. Oh,
scary Grant. Yeah, uh okay, you're getting soft in your
old age, Stephan. Let's talk about the marathon real quick.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
This is going to be somewhat of a party for
thousands of long distance runners. They've got dozens of designated
tear zones as well as live entertainment along the route,
and from newcomers to season marathoners and everything in between,
we're going to see them gathering here at Dodger Stadium
to kick off the marathon on Sunday. And this is
also where, as you mentioned, the lifestyle Expo gets underway
this morning, where participants have to pick up their running
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bibs those identifying numbers before the event.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And now take a look.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
The fortieth LA Marathon stretches twenty six point two miles.
It starts at the iconic Dodger Stadium and weaves through
the neighborhoods of Chinatown, Downtown, Echo Park, Hollywood, West Hollywood,
Beverly Hills, and Brentwood.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You know the only thing that could be worse than
driving through all those neighborhoods is running through them. It
takes two hours to drive and two hours to run.
I don't know which is worse.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
Before culminating in Century City, runners encountering historic and cultural
landmarks along the way like Olvera Street the Hollywood Walk
of Fame.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
That's not really an upside. If I'm running twenty six
point two miles, it doesn't matter what is around me.
It doesn't matter if it's so Fi Stadium, it doesn't
matter if it's the Washington Monument.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You're running twenty six point two miles. You're not sight.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Seeing historic and cultural landmarks along the way like Olvera Street,
the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Rodalo.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Are are people going to stop in the middle of
the race to look down and say, Oh, that's.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Bill Handle's star, Oh that's that's Rock Hudson Star.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Let me get back to the race. No A Fame
and Rodale Drive.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
This is known as the Stadium to the Stars course,
and whether it's their very first marathon or the fortieth,
organizers say more than twenty five thousand runners will be participating.
More than three thousand middle and high schoolers running the
marathon this year, along with ninety three legacy runners.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
See how would piss me off If I'm trying to
run twenty six point two miles and I see some
middle school or a high school or pass me up.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
That would just make me angry. It gets really demoralizing.
I've only done one marathon and it was just more
of a stunt that I didn't frame for because I
wrote a funny column about it afterward. But the people
who passed me on this day, like an old lady
who looked to the inner nineties pass me, somebody juggling
three basketballs founcing them past to me. I mean the
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people who passed me and made me feel like I
go home, never do this again. And you know, finishing
also made me feel that way. You did finish well.
I give you that credit.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I have never in my life had any desire to
enter a marathon, much less trained for one. When I
say marathon, not twenty six point two miles, not a
half marathon, not a ten k, not a five k,
I'm all about short sprints.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I am not into long distances. There's absolutely no good
reason to do it whatsoever. You have nothing to prove
to anybody.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I have a few marathon friends. One we've had on
the on the show, Lawrence Gilliam, And to hear the
stories of people and their bodies shutting down over the
course of a marathon. Oh yeah, oh yeah, and losing
control of your bowels and everything. Who the hell wants
to do that where you're gonna put your body through that?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Never mind the folks who've died in the course of
doing it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Oh there is that, yes, the death.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
But it is funny to watch people just forget that
they're in a society and just like pull off and
squat on the side of the road because they have
no choice. Yeah, yeah, we don't do that. I don't
want to see that.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Those who finished every marathon since the very first in
nineteen eighty six. Last year, top runner across the finish
line in two hours and eleven minutes. And while the
official marathon doesn't get underway until Sunday morning at seven o'clock,
the weekend starts with that two day lifestyle expo here
at Dodger Stadium, the LA five K and LA Kids
Run on Saturday, and the charity half marathon and full
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marathon again Sunday morning. Now a lifestyle expo opens here
at ten o'clock at Dodger Stadium. We're going to have
a preview a little later this morning. And some of
the impacts the road closures for mis year's marathon.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yep, they just mentioned road closures.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And I say no to twenty six point two miles,
to ten k, five k even running all the way
to my backyard.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Nope, nope, I'm walking. That's it. I'll walk briskly.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I'm not running. But if you've ever been in La
in this, I assume you have. If you've ever been
in La the weekend of an LA marathon, you have
to plan your weekend out in advance. It's almost like
get all the food that you need in advance, so
you don't have to go to the grocery store. Make
sure if you need money you get it from the
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ATM in advance. If you have to make sure that
your kids aren't out, keep them inside. It's almost like
you know Godzilla's coming to town or something, because you
won't be able to get to certain areas of the city.
It doesn't matter what your plans are, the marathon usually
messes them up. So I'm going to let you know
this in advance, so you can plan your route.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
These are some.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Of the major roads that will be affected by closures.
So this is inexact, but you should be mindful of it.
And the roads will be closed Sunday morning beginning at
four am, so you might as well call it Saturday night.
So Santa Monica Boulevard, I assume that's Little Santa Monica
and Maine Santa Monica, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Boulevard, Broadway which
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runs north south Grand Avenue, Supovita Boulevard. That's kind of
vague because Supovid is like one of the longest streets efforts.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It could be supposed of boulevard in the valley, it
could be Suppovita Boulevard in Torrents, it could be supposed
of boulevard by the airport lax who knows, and San Vicente.
But if your travel should take you across any of
those within the LA area, it probably would be in
your best interests to plan ahead or just avoid them
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all together for the day of Sunday or even Saturday night.
I since I've lived i'll say in the Torrents area,
Harbor City area, now in the Inglewood area, I haven't
had as much problem with this because I'm not trying
to go downtown or into the Hollywood area on that
Sunday of the marathon. But if you have no choice,
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and if you like live in that area, oh, by
all means, be sure to get everything you need and
just sort of just stay in. Think of it as
like a rainy day and you don't want to go
out in the rain. Get everything what you need, and
so you can just settle in. Maybe watch some of
the basketball games on Sunday. It should be in C
two a selection Sunday or this rivalry weekend should be
plenty of tournaments to watch.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You can curl up with a good book or maybe
a good movie. Just try to stay off the roads
and make it a whole lot easier. It's Later with
mo Kelly CAFI AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
We are alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and I'm
going to tell you about Southwest Airlines horrendous week when
we come back.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
But I was never a huge fan of Southwest Airlines.
If there's anything I did appreciate about Southwest. It flew
to places that I would often go to. If I
had to go to Dallas, that's where their headquarters is.
If I had to go to DC, they had a
lot of options in ways that I could get to
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Washington DC. That was the only reason I would choose
Southwest because outside of that, the experience was never all
that good. What I mean by that is I tried
to fly Southwest one time first class. One time. I said,
let me just go out and pay the money. Going
to DC. It was no different than economy class. I
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didn't get any extra special food, I didn't get anything.
I think I got free WiFi. Okay, the seats weren't
any larger. There was nothing that said I'm in first class.
Maybe I got some free WiFi. I'm not even sure
about that. I'm just gonna say it was. Oh, I
got to board earlier.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Because if you know anything about Southwest, the boarding pop
up process is crap.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
It always has been.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
If you're going to check in twenty four hours before
your flight, it does not matter if you are the
first person to check in, you still will not get
better than maybe SEC Group B, unless unless you're willing
to pay like another thirty dollars to be upgraded.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Why am I going to pay some thirty dollars just
so I can get on the plane a little bit earlier.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh, it is not, Basically it is definitely, it's definitely trash.
And the longer you fly southwest, and there's a point
to this, I promise you, the longer you fly southwest,
you realize that everybody gets on before you. Anyhow, let's
say unaccompanied minors, they get on. Then you have people
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who need a little extra assistance. And you have people
who are getting rolled up their wheelchairs. So like mother, father,
you can walk, get out that chair. You're not fooling anybody.
You're not even old. Lip your ass on the plane
like everyone else. And then they have then they'll have
servicemen and service women. Hey, I'm okay with that. Okay,
don't get me wrong. That's fine, all right. And if
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you're like in uniform, absolutely go on before me.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
But then you realize some seventy five people are already
on the plane before they've asked a section A one
through thirty boarding pass, you can get on the plane.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
So there was really no reason for me to fly southwest.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Then when they made the recent announcement that they're stopping
their two bags, fly bags, fly flee bags, fly free policy.
I said, well, there's really no reason to ever fly
Southwest again. I mean, because look, if you have to
put up with all that other stuff, it least you
are to take my bags and take them with a
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smile and take them for free.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Now you don't even have that.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
And then they let the intern get loose on social
media over to Dallas.
Speaker 10 (32:32):
Now Dallas based Southwest Airlines. They are trying to offload
some of the backlash it's gained from the decision to
end its two bags fly free policy. Yesterday's Southwest made
a post on Instagram throwing shade towards the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
See I saw this post.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
It says, it's not like we traded Luca, referring to
the viral and blockbuster NBA trade by the MAVs that
sent its star player to the Lakers. I saw that
and I thought, ouch.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Companies now want to have cooler social media presences.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I understand why they want to do it, and a
lot of times it can get you in the news,
but also get you in the news for the wrong reasons.
There's I think one company that consistently gets it right
when it comes to social media in a corporate brand sense,
and you can tell whoever's doing it is brilliant, and
that's Wendy's. Whatever they're doing or whoever's doing it, they
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completely get it. They understand how to do it, how
to be funny, how to be engaging, how to use
their social media accounts to get some positive press. They
will clap back on people, They'll clap back on other
Hamburger establishments and Burger joints. It's really really funny and
really well done. Southwest not so much. But they've given
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me a bunch of reasons now to not fly them anymore.
And I get it from a corporate standpoint. They just
laid off dozens and dozens of people maybe two three
weeks ago. The company had been struggling for quite some time.
They had some issues with computers and outages and delays.
They were always in the news for wrong reasons, and
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it's affected them financially. So they have to try to
do something to stop the bleeding and somehow turn the
company around financially. That meant laying off people. That meant
changing the bags policy. That means probably raising the prices,
because you know, yeah, it's nice to be able to
book a flight from here to Vegas for fifty nine
(34:36):
dollars one way, but you have to think that that's
not really realistic for major airlines anymore. So I really
don't have any reason to fly Southwest, Stephan. Do you
fly Southwest at all?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Actually? Does anybody?
Speaker 9 (34:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I've wn it, I think once, but I usually use Delta.
Delta's pretty good ronner.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Flying has gotten to be so unpleasant and costly and
time consuming, I'll do anything to avoid it the last
few years.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, it's an uncomfortable process all the way around, and
it's complicated because we live in a post nine to
eleven world.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
That's part of it.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
And the other part of it is airlines are trying
to charge you for every damn thing, with the exception
of maybe the air inside of the cabin, which isn't
even all that good. But they're charging for everything, and
it gets to the point where they're nickel and diming
you to death. Combine that with the unpleasant experience of
just air travel in general, and it's like, you got
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to give us something something you get on a plane,
they want to charge you eighteen dollars for wifis Are
you serious?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Is it eighteen?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
It depends on an airline, like I think Southwest it
might be nine dollars. And I don't think you can
stream with it on different airlines, Like if you want
to get the full Wi Fi experience where you can
stream movies and things like that, it gets more.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
But if you just want a text or whatever, oh yeah,
let you do that. What's a drink cost on a
flight these days? I don't know. I get drunk before
I get on a plane, had a boy.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I'm kidding, not really, but I'm saying I don't buy
drinks on the plane. I'm usually gonna get a drink
or two in the bar beforehand, and I say that
I'm never going to be the angry drunk running up
and down the aisle anything. No, no, no, I just don't
like flying and I like to, you know, just take.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
The edge off.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
So I'm guessing this is kind of how they corral
everyone when you do get a flight on Southwest, bring
me everyone, you mean everyone, every one. It's ladies night,
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Speaker 7 (37:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's Friday, Okay, if I aim at forty WeLive everywhere
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party started sooner then later. It's going to be a
party all night long. From seven to ten pm tonight.
It's Pie Day Friday, where everything's gonna be about pizza
in the studio and pizza and pies for name that
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not three, not five, but ten fifty dollars gift certificates
to Shakey's Pizza, ten of them. Oh yeah, and it's
also Ladies' Night, so fellas you were not gonna be
able to participate, you know, it's just the ladies before
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you say bye bye. The Pie Day we're celebrating with
piping hot pizza pies at Shakey's Pizza Parlor. You can
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have ten fifty dollars gift certificates and I just want
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to let you know it's ladies' night and we're gonna
put the kids to bed early. The name that movie
called Classic Game Tonight. It's not for the kids. I'm
just letting you know, put the kids to bed early.
It's gonna be mo Kelly after dark. We have our
runner report. Mark Ronner is gonna be giving us the
latest of what he's saying now.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I saw.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I don't want to tip off what he wants to
talk about, but he'll tell us eventually.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Maybe.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Whatever you say, Mom, I'm following your lead out of
the abundance of respect I have for you.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I appreciate the cynicism in the sarcast in a conversation,
but that's not serious. Did you want to give a
preview of the Ronald Report? Whatever you say, we're going
to be talking about and we're off. Yeah, Yeah, we're off.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We're going to be talking about a really good new
documentary about the Manson killings on Netflix called Chaos.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Are you going to do anything else on anything else
you've seen?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh, he could if you want, because you give us
it in formal one and I don't know if you
wanted to do that one. In addition to yeah, we
just freestyle it I suffered through the electric state last night.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
And uh, that's on somebody. Yeah, it's also on Netflix.
Somebody needs to pay for this. That's by the Russo brothers. Right,
this is what I understand. I heard it had a
hefty budget. It left me with some hefty anger. Oh oh,
so we'll definitely talk about that. We have Nick Poliochinni
who is joining us. I think he's here already, but
he's supposedly bringing food to wall. It's supposed to be
(03:02):
ordering us food. I haven't seen any food yet. I know,
I'm very hungry. I don't know what the hold up is. Ah,
things are shaping up here. Everything's coming up Millhouse tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I know good.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And Stephan is supposed to be doing something. I have
no idea what he's supposed to do. What's your job tonight, Stefan,
I think to eat the food. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh I am.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We're going to have nothing but fun tonight. I got
an update on Southwest Airlines. We didn't have a chance
to talk about Southwest Airlines Airlines earlier in the week,
but they have not been having a good week. And
Nick Polochinni, what is it? You just came in and
just threw some food at me. Oh, some twigs cookies
and cream.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
The best part of that scenario is I heard it
and it's very snickers asque.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
If you're hungry, mo, I got you now.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'm gonna save this for dessert, because if you don't know,
Nick Polocchini has talked about it before. Anything that's cookies
and cream. I already like it and I'm going to
eat it. There's no such thing as bad. Well, I
take that back. We have something in the kitchen which
is some sort of dessert in there that they're selling.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That's cookies and cream. I tried it once. It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's the only thing I've ever tasted in my life
which is horrible. So I'm gonna try some twigs cookies
and cream tonight. The Hershey's Bars they have their cookies
and cream.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, those are really good. Yeah, they make really good smores.
Never thought of doing that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
There you go, Well, Nick joining us later on with
some food from where?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Now, don't go anywhere. You gotta tell them where you
got the food from.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I've got Lori's Pie Bar in Long Beach, who has
sent us some key lime pie shots and also has
sent along a Frankin pie, which is six different slices
of all the different pies that they have available.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I also have this.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Special edition Polly's Bakery pie that has the pie symbol
of the pie, you know, the three point one four yeah,
on the pie, so it's double. It's an apple pie
with double crust and you'll see all that on. So
it's like you're gonna say double on tentre, but you
wouldn't have been wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
But go ahead. It's a little early for that, thank you. Yeah,
I'm gonna say, we're just past seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So when we get a little closer to the nine
o'clock hour, I'm sure we'll get into that.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So much good stuff, And now Tila Sharp is joining
us in the studio.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Why are you carrying a bottle of wine? It's not my?
Why I don't drink?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I am actually getting Sharon's why. Okay, I was asking,
why are you carrying a bottle of wine? Since you
don't drink?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
This is not mine. It looks Snoop Dogg. Why yes,
Cali red, but he only wears blue.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I'm so confused. That is true, because I'm so confused.
Stupid is an about crypt?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Yes, he crypt walked at Super Bowl, but he's doing
Cali Red Look the Cats Living Together other Massio.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It's going to be one of them shows tonight, let
me tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Oh and by the way, if you should ever reach
out to me on Instagram or threads at mister mo
Kelly and you would like to discuss the show, please
actually make sure you listen to the show.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I'm not interested in debating stuff that.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You want to make up, stuff that you imagine you heard,
stuff that you wish that you heard, stuff that you
were just mad about having nothing to do with me,
and you didn't take it out on your wife or something,
so you're going to take it out of me. Look,
if you could see my inbox some nights, it is incredible.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I mean, I love the support. I appreciate that you
want to reach.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Out to me, but it's almost like we're talking about
two different shows.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I could say this confidently. I've never missed one of
my shows. Every show is that I have done that.
I've actually said something on the mic I was therefore,
so I'm pretty confident as to what I might have said.
And not only that, there's this thing called a podcast
where the audio stays there in perpetuity, and depending on
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the podcast app, they'll even give you a transcript as well,
so it's not really debatable what I did say or
what I didn't say. Listener Mike V, thank you for
your notes, even though you didn't have any idea of
what you were talking about and could not actually articulate
anything that I did say that you disagreed with, or
mention anything that I said that was incorrect or somehow wrong.
(07:06):
It was an interesting night, and Mike V was just
one of many listeners who wanted to reach out.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
They were upset that I was talking about the economy.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think, next to when you just told us to
start watching Paradise, that was probably one of the most
entertaining chet groups we've ever had.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I try to tell people I can't explain it to people.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I can only show it to them so they can
see the stuff that I get. It's like, what are
you angry about? What are you talking about? And who
the hell do you think you're talking to? Well, you
can't discount people's feelings.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Mo. The customer's always right, it's vibes that matter. We're
in a vibe era.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I know, and it's like someone who allegedly listens to
the show. Allegedly, you know, because there's no evidence to
support that. If you listen to the show and the
first thing out of your mouth is mo, you democrat,
you clearly don't listen to the show. Clearly, I'm not
(08:05):
a Democrat, not even close to being a democrat. And
some people wrongly believe or conflate having not having my
tongue down Donald Trump's throat makes me a democrat.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And I was talking about the economy last night and
rubbed some people the wrong way, and I was just
giving facts and data.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The GDP is this, this is the definition of a recession.
And if we continue on this certain path and trajectory,
according to Wall Street, according to the Wall Street Journal,
according to Goldin Sachs, we have a fifteen to twenty
percent chance of a recession. And if we do hit
the recession, it'll be because of things which are happening
(08:51):
right now.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh it's up to forty percent. Now well, well, okay,
all right, does that make me one too?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Oh? God, it's just straight it done.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's strange because people hear what they want to hear,
and I always ask people, let's talk about what I
actually said, not what you thought you heard, or not
your interpretation of it, because if we need, we need
to have and I think this is a problem with America.
Let me do this digression real quick. We want to
debate our feelings, not actual facts. And if we can't
(09:23):
agree on a basic foundation of facts, sky's blue, you know,
water's wet, it makes it real difficult to go forward.
So that's why I always ask people if they have
an issue with something I said, please quote me, tell
me exactly what you're taking issue with, then we can
(09:44):
go from there.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
In fact, I always give them a link. Here's a
link to the podcast. Give me a time.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Marker, just so I know what you're referring to, because
I can't. I can't go into a conversation with mo.
I hate your politics, you're a Trump hater. Well, okay,
can I go go back to what I was doing
in the bathroom, because that's more important.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You can multitask.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I can, but I'm not gonna multitask excuse me for
someone else's benefit. I know I had some stuff I
ate early today. It's just not sitting right with me.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know cookies and cream on a clear right, I
sure should so if you should hear some noises over
the course of the evening, let me just apologize in advance.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, just I'm sorry. You know they say don't ever
trust a fart after forty you never heard that.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Excuse me. Let me go to break That was a
wet one forty. We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
And if you are familiar with sports radio, that song
Iggy Pop lust for Life is also the opening intro
song for a show called The Jim Rome Show, and
it's been on at this point, I want to say
since the late ninetyes, so almost thirty years going on
thirty years, and Jim Rome the host. He was my
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first radio boss. I got my first radio job because
of him. It was in sports radio. A lot of
times people ask me, hey, Mo, how did you get
in the radio. Was it because you're working in the
music industry. It's like no, there is completely separate.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I knew a lot of people in radio because of
the music industry, but I did not get into radio
because of the music industry. It just happened to be
kind of like you right now, just listening to the radio.
I was working at the Grammys, So this is about
thirty years ago, mid to late nineties, and I was
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listening every day to this show called the Jim Rome Show.
They would have these two contests.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Every day.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
They'd have the Huge Caller, which is basically the best
sports sports trash talker car during the course of the show,
and they would have back then, which was called the
Huge Facts Contest the Best Facts. Yes, we actually used
a fax machine to fax in a paragraph or some
words or just like an editorial, some commentary for the show,
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and Jim would read like the best three facts is
back then, I think they even graduated to an email
contest as technology grew. The Huge Facts Contest was something
that I was winning just about every day. And what
I mean by every day is three and four times
a week. I wanted at least fifty times. After a
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certain point, I just stopped because it wasn't as fun anymore.
And I don't say that as a brag, but it
was something that helped me get ready, and I didn't
know it at the time. For my later radio career.
Around two thousand or so, Jim reached out to me
and said, hey, Mo, have you ever thought of doing
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what you do, but just on the other side, in
other words, professionally, maybe helped book some guests, do some
website maintenance, and do some writing for the website. I said,
wait a minute, I listened to the show every day.
Why not sure? And then I immediately left. And I
was working for Interscope Records at the time, and I
started then working for Jim Rome and Premiere Radio. And
(13:24):
if you know the name of Craig Kitchen, he's one
of the biggest names on the corporate side in radio.
He has created some of the biggest names ever, from
Rush Limbaugh on down. He was the one who got
Jim Rome syndicated. And I had run into Jim Rome
over the years. First time I run into him, it
was like the NAB Convention National Association of Broadcasters. He
(13:47):
had just been syndicated. That's why I tell you about
Craig Kitchen. And I had listened to the show for
a few years, and there's a point to all this.
And I walked up to him and I said, Jim,
did you have any idea that what you would start
so long ago would turn into this, and he said,
I always knew, He said something to the fact of
I always knew, I just had to convince other people.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And that always stuck with me.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
As far as if you know within yourself that what
you're doing is good enough, or you have that belief
in yourself, that's half the battle.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
And I've always taken that with me.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And then when I work with Jim for a while,
he was a good teacher in the sense of there
were things that he would teach me explicitly as far
as how to conduct an interview. If you appreciate anything
about my interview style, a lot of that goes back
to Jim Rome, as far as really listening to the guests,
having done your research and knowing something and not asking
(14:47):
the same questions that everyone else might have asked that
same guest they're tired of answering and really listening because
you can get some nuggets and then you can respond
to them. And if you know my history, like I
had that incident with Roger Stone, part of the reason why
a lot of people thought that I handled it well
comes directly from Jim Rome. He had a similar incident
(15:09):
with the late NBA commissioner David Stern and David Stern,
and he got into it, long story short, and Jim
did not lose his composure and he handled the moment
very well. That goes back to Jim being a very
good teacher. Explicitly and implicitly. There are a lot of
things that you can learn from people, and I learned
(15:31):
by just watching him and listening to him, and also
the things that he was telling me. And I had
no idea that I would one day be working behind
the mic, but Jim has always been kind to me,
and he would reach out to me on occasions and
get me just some words of support, and he's commented
about me on his show when I was faxing his
(15:53):
show and writing into a show. I was first known
as Moe from the City of Palms. And if you
know the Jim Rome Show, the best callers and factors, emailers,
they become legends that they get their own name, legendary name.
Mine was Dark Gable. So if you ever hear of
(16:13):
Dark Gable on the Jim Rome Show, they're referring to me.
I'm one of the old school legends. And I say
that without a hint of humility. I was a bad MF.
As it turned out, Jim was talking about some of
the old school callers and factors on a show the
other day, and people who listen to this show and
also Jim Rome's show, reached out to me and said, hey,
(16:38):
Jim was talking about you again in a very kind way,
and I said, oh, let me go find it.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
J and La is an all time throwback. Alvi, do
you even know j and La?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
No?
Speaker 8 (16:52):
J and La is again when you talk about the
old school. I don't know what happened to Jay, but
Jay is as old school as any of the old
school guys. Bobby and Brooklyn was a legend. Dark Gable,
by the way, has had an incredible career. He has
a broadcast career. He's a very very When you talk
(17:13):
about that Rome Tree, I'm as proud of dark Gable
as I am almost anybody in the Tree. Dark Gables
had a tremendous broadcast career and still has having a
great career.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Thank you for that, Jim when he talks about the
Rome Radio Tree. There are a number of people who
have worked on the show who started off as either
listeners or producers and have gone on to have their
own show. If you're familiar with JT The Bricks, he
used to host the show here in LA but right
now he hosts Brick at Night with JT The Brick
on Sirius XM, and a show on kr LV in
(17:46):
Las Vegas, and various programs for the Las Vegas Raiders,
including the team's radio pregame show. He was the first
one to leave I'll say the Jim Rome Show, then
break out and do his own thing. Travis Rodgers, who's
a long time I'm executive producer for the Jim Rome Show.
He now co hosts Travis and DeMarco on ESPN seven
ten AM here in LA from nine to noon. There's
(18:09):
Kyle Brandt, who is one of the previous executive producers.
He now hosts. He's one of the hosts of Good
Morning Football on the NFL Network. And Jason Stewart. If
you worked here, you probably worked with Jason Stewart. He's
a former producer of petrolsid Money on AM five seventy
LA Sports and he's the president producer of the Doug
Gottliebs Show on Fox Sports Radio. So if anything can
(18:32):
be said about Jim Roman as Radio trees is that
he has his fingerprints on a lot of radio, especially
in sports, and I can say that I owe a
lot to him, if only because I never saw myself
in this business, and especially didn't see myself in a
(18:52):
host capacity. But it's nice to be able to hear
something like that when someone that you looked up to
with someone reached out to you to give you your
first shot.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
In the business. Is listening to you right now.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
FORTYFIM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Just to put a period on what I was talking
about last segment about how I got into radio, and
I think there was something instructive, hopefully in telling that
story about how I ended up working for Jim Rome,
sports broadcaster and personality Radio personality and TV for that matter.
You never know who's listening, in the sense of when
you're in this chair, you never know who is listening
(19:39):
and who can benefit from what you're doing, and you
never know how your talents, whatever they are, someone else
may be watching you and listening to you and may
be able to find a place for you.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I didn't plan to be in radio.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I just liked listening to radio. Someone saw something in
me and then it went from there. So you just
never know. Oh, Mark, I know you've heard me say it,
and I know Twalla's heard me say it a dozen times.
Whenever I talk about celebrities and stephan you've probably heard
me say it as well. You ever heard me say
we don't know these people?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Oftentimes when I'll talk about someone, maybe if I've interviewed
them or someone we think that they're great, we love
their talent, I'd say, hey, but we don't know these people.
Oh yeah, sure. And part of the reason is said that.
That comes directly from Jim.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
That's that's something he said specifically to me after we
had an interview and I said, what was it like
talking to so and so?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And he said, look, we do not know these people.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
You know, we don't get so close to them because
they're just as fallible as the rest of us. That's
directly from him. And something else that I adopted from him,
I like dark Gable. Yeah that Where did that come from?
I don't know where it came from. I think someone
see this is radio before the internet. And people. You
(21:07):
didn't know what people look like for the for the
most part. And one thing about the Gym Rum show
that the talent per se. It was usually the callers
and the people who were faxing and emailing. We were
like a cast of characters if you will. Of course,
Jim is the star, but we would call in and
people get nicknames. I don't know where it came from.
I honestly don't. Oh I remember. I remember it was
(21:29):
because it used to be a rule on the show
that you could not give yourself a nickname. And I
did it anyway, and I did it half jokingly. It's
like if and when I ever get to the point
where I've amassed a level of status where I could
should have a nickname, I vote myself to be dark Gable.
And so you made up Dark Gable. Yeah, but I
(21:50):
mean it wasn't like I don't know how it stuck.
I think it was something like that, because this is
at least twenty five years ago. I always thought of
you more as a shrill Cosby.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Thank you, Cosby, Come on, food stump be so stingy.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Neither of us got one. You know, it does better.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I was going to ask did part of it come
from Gable House. No, because you were in that area. No,
it's just because I was a black man, Clark dark Gable. Oh,
scary Grant. Yeah, uh okay, you're getting soft in your
old age, Stephan. Let's talk about the marathon real quick.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
This is going to be somewhat of a party for
thousands of long distance runners. They've got dozens of designated
tear zones as well as live entertainment along the route,
and from newcomers to season marathoners and everything in between,
we're going to see them gathering here at Dodger Stadium
to kick off the marathon on Sunday. And this is
also where, as you mentioned, the lifestyle Expo gets underway
this morning, where participants have to pick up their running
(22:48):
bibs those identifying numbers before the event.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And now take a look.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
The fortieth LA Marathon stretches twenty six point two miles.
It starts at the iconic Dodger Stadium and weaves through
the neighborhoods of Chinatown, Downtown, Echo Park, Hollywood, West Hollywood,
Beverly Hills, and Brentwood.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You know the only thing that could be worse than
driving through all those neighborhoods is running through them. It
takes two hours to drive and two hours to run.
I don't know which is worse.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
Before culminating in Century City, runners encountering historic and cultural
landmarks along the way like Olvera Street the Hollywood Walk
of Fame.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
That's not really an upside. If I'm running twenty six
point two miles, it doesn't matter what is around me.
It doesn't matter if it's so Fi Stadium, it doesn't
matter if it's the Washington Monument.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You're running twenty six point two miles. You're not sight.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Seeing historic and cultural landmarks along the way like Olvera Street,
the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Rodalo.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Are are people going to stop in the middle of
the race to look down and say, Oh, that's.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Bill Handle's star, Oh that's that's Rock Hudson Star.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Let me get back to the race. No A Fame
and Rodale Drive.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
This is known as the Stadium to the Stars course,
and whether it's their very first marathon or the fortieth,
organizers say more than twenty five thousand runners will be participating.
More than three thousand middle and high schoolers running the
marathon this year, along with ninety three legacy runners.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
See how would piss me off If I'm trying to
run twenty six point two miles and I see some
middle school or a high school or pass me up.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
That would just make me angry. It gets really demoralizing.
I've only done one marathon and it was just more
of a stunt that I didn't frame for because I
wrote a funny column about it afterward. But the people
who passed me on this day, like an old lady
who looked to the inner nineties pass me, somebody juggling
three basketballs founcing them past to me. I mean the
(24:45):
people who passed me and made me feel like I
go home, never do this again. And you know, finishing
also made me feel that way. You did finish well.
I give you that credit.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I have never in my life had any desire to
enter a marathon, much less trained for one. When I
say marathon, not twenty six point two miles, not a
half marathon, not a ten k, not a five k,
I'm all about short sprints.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I am not into long distances. There's absolutely no good
reason to do it whatsoever. You have nothing to prove
to anybody.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I have a few marathon friends. One we've had on
the on the show, Lawrence Gilliam, And to hear the
stories of people and their bodies shutting down over the
course of a marathon. Oh yeah, oh yeah, and losing
control of your bowels and everything. Who the hell wants
to do that where you're gonna put your body through that?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Never mind the folks who've died in the course of
doing it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Oh there is that, yes, the death.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
But it is funny to watch people just forget that
they're in a society and just like pull off and
squat on the side of the road because they have
no choice. Yeah, yeah, we don't do that. I don't
want to see that.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Those who finished every marathon since the very first in
nineteen eighty six. Last year, top runner across the finish
line in two hours and eleven minutes. And while the
official marathon doesn't get underway until Sunday morning at seven o'clock,
the weekend starts with that two day lifestyle expo here
at Dodger Stadium, the LA five K and LA Kids
Run on Saturday, and the charity half marathon and full
(26:17):
marathon again Sunday morning. Now a lifestyle expo opens here
at ten o'clock at Dodger Stadium. We're going to have
a preview a little later this morning. And some of
the impacts the road closures for mis year's marathon.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yep, they just mentioned road closures.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And I say no to twenty six point two miles,
to ten k, five k even running all the way
to my backyard.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Nope, nope, I'm walking. That's it. I'll walk briskly.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I'm not running. But if you've ever been in La
in this, I assume you have. If you've ever been
in La the weekend of an LA marathon, you have
to plan your weekend out in advance. It's almost like
get all the food that you need in advance, so
you don't have to go to the grocery store. Make
sure if you need money you get it from the
(27:00):
ATM in advance. If you have to make sure that
your kids aren't out, keep them inside. It's almost like
you know Godzilla's coming to town or something, because you
won't be able to get to certain areas of the city.
It doesn't matter what your plans are, the marathon usually
messes them up. So I'm going to let you know
this in advance, so you can plan your route.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
These are some.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Of the major roads that will be affected by closures.
So this is inexact, but you should be mindful of it.
And the roads will be closed Sunday morning beginning at
four am, so you might as well call it Saturday night.
So Santa Monica Boulevard, I assume that's Little Santa Monica
and Maine Santa Monica, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Boulevard, Broadway which
(27:49):
runs north south Grand Avenue, Supovita Boulevard. That's kind of
vague because Supovid is like one of the longest streets efforts.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It could be supposed of boulevard in the valley, it
could be Suppovita Boulevard in Torrents, it could be supposed
of boulevard by the airport lax who knows, and San Vicente.
But if your travel should take you across any of
those within the LA area, it probably would be in
your best interests to plan ahead or just avoid them
(28:21):
all together for the day of Sunday or even Saturday night.
I since I've lived i'll say in the Torrents area,
Harbor City area, now in the Inglewood area, I haven't
had as much problem with this because I'm not trying
to go downtown or into the Hollywood area on that
Sunday of the marathon. But if you have no choice,
(28:44):
and if you like live in that area, oh, by
all means, be sure to get everything you need and
just sort of just stay in. Think of it as
like a rainy day and you don't want to go
out in the rain. Get everything what you need, and
so you can just settle in. Maybe watch some of
the basketball games on Sunday. It should be in C
two a selection Sunday or this rivalry weekend should be
plenty of tournaments to watch.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You can curl up with a good book or maybe
a good movie. Just try to stay off the roads
and make it a whole lot easier. It's Later with
mo Kelly CAFI AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
We are alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and I'm
going to tell you about Southwest Airlines horrendous week when
we come back.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
But I was never a huge fan of Southwest Airlines.
If there's anything I did appreciate about Southwest. It flew
to places that I would often go to. If I
had to go to Dallas, that's where their headquarters is.
If I had to go to DC, they had a
lot of options in ways that I could get to
(29:49):
Washington DC. That was the only reason I would choose
Southwest because outside of that, the experience was never all
that good. What I mean by that is I tried
to fly Southwest one time first class. One time. I said,
let me just go out and pay the money. Going
to DC. It was no different than economy class. I
(30:12):
didn't get any extra special food, I didn't get anything.
I think I got free WiFi. Okay, the seats weren't
any larger. There was nothing that said I'm in first class.
Maybe I got some free WiFi. I'm not even sure
about that. I'm just gonna say it was. Oh, I
got to board earlier.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Because if you know anything about Southwest, the boarding pop
up process is crap.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
It always has been.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
If you're going to check in twenty four hours before
your flight, it does not matter if you are the
first person to check in, you still will not get
better than maybe SEC Group B, unless unless you're willing
to pay like another thirty dollars to be upgraded.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Why am I going to pay some thirty dollars just
so I can get on the plane a little bit earlier.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh, it is not, Basically it is definitely, it's definitely trash.
And the longer you fly southwest, and there's a point
to this, I promise you, the longer you fly southwest,
you realize that everybody gets on before you. Anyhow, let's
say unaccompanied minors, they get on. Then you have people
(31:23):
who need a little extra assistance. And you have people
who are getting rolled up their wheelchairs. So like mother, father,
you can walk, get out that chair. You're not fooling anybody.
You're not even old. Lip your ass on the plane
like everyone else. And then they have then they'll have
servicemen and service women. Hey, I'm okay with that. Okay,
don't get me wrong. That's fine, all right. And if
(31:44):
you're like in uniform, absolutely go on before me.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
But then you realize some seventy five people are already
on the plane before they've asked a section A one
through thirty boarding pass, you can get on the plane.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
So there was really no reason for me to fly southwest.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Then when they made the recent announcement that they're stopping
their two bags, fly bags, fly flee bags, fly free policy.
I said, well, there's really no reason to ever fly
Southwest again. I mean, because look, if you have to
put up with all that other stuff, it least you
are to take my bags and take them with a
(32:22):
smile and take them for free.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Now you don't even have that.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
And then they let the intern get loose on social
media over to Dallas.
Speaker 10 (32:32):
Now Dallas based Southwest Airlines. They are trying to offload
some of the backlash it's gained from the decision to
end its two bags fly free policy. Yesterday's Southwest made
a post on Instagram throwing shade towards the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
See I saw this post.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
It says, it's not like we traded Luca, referring to
the viral and blockbuster NBA trade by the MAVs that
sent its star player to the Lakers. I saw that
and I thought, ouch.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Companies now want to have cooler social media presences.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I understand why they want to do it, and a
lot of times it can get you in the news,
but also get you in the news for the wrong reasons.
There's I think one company that consistently gets it right
when it comes to social media in a corporate brand sense,
and you can tell whoever's doing it is brilliant, and
that's Wendy's. Whatever they're doing or whoever's doing it, they
(33:30):
completely get it. They understand how to do it, how
to be funny, how to be engaging, how to use
their social media accounts to get some positive press. They
will clap back on people, They'll clap back on other
Hamburger establishments and Burger joints. It's really really funny and
really well done. Southwest not so much. But they've given
(33:54):
me a bunch of reasons now to not fly them anymore.
And I get it from a corporate standpoint. They just
laid off dozens and dozens of people maybe two three
weeks ago. The company had been struggling for quite some time.
They had some issues with computers and outages and delays.
They were always in the news for wrong reasons, and
(34:15):
it's affected them financially. So they have to try to
do something to stop the bleeding and somehow turn the
company around financially. That meant laying off people. That meant
changing the bags policy. That means probably raising the prices,
because you know, yeah, it's nice to be able to
book a flight from here to Vegas for fifty nine
(34:36):
dollars one way, but you have to think that that's
not really realistic for major airlines anymore. So I really
don't have any reason to fly Southwest, Stephan. Do you
fly Southwest at all?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Actually? Does anybody?
Speaker 9 (34:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I've wn it, I think once, but I usually use Delta.
Delta's pretty good ronner.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Flying has gotten to be so unpleasant and costly and
time consuming, I'll do anything to avoid it the last
few years.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, it's an uncomfortable process all the way around, and
it's complicated because we live in a post nine to
eleven world.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
That's part of it.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
And the other part of it is airlines are trying
to charge you for every damn thing, with the exception
of maybe the air inside of the cabin, which isn't
even all that good. But they're charging for everything, and
it gets to the point where they're nickel and diming
you to death. Combine that with the unpleasant experience of
just air travel in general, and it's like, you got
(35:36):
to give us something something you get on a plane,
they want to charge you eighteen dollars for wifis Are
you serious?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Is it eighteen?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
It depends on an airline, like I think Southwest it
might be nine dollars. And I don't think you can
stream with it on different airlines, Like if you want
to get the full Wi Fi experience where you can
stream movies and things like that, it gets more.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
But if you just want a text or whatever, oh yeah,
let you do that. What's a drink cost on a
flight these days? I don't know. I get drunk before
I get on a plane, had a boy.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I'm kidding, not really, but I'm saying I don't buy
drinks on the plane. I'm usually gonna get a drink
or two in the bar beforehand, and I say that
I'm never going to be the angry drunk running up
and down the aisle anything. No, no, no, I just don't
like flying and I like to, you know, just take.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
The edge off.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
So I'm guessing this is kind of how they corral
everyone when you do get a flight on Southwest, bring
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