August 5, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the dismal end to the Summer Weekend Box Office AND the latest advancements with AI & Robotics with Robo-trucks hauling cargo day and night along Texas highways, Chicago’s White Castle becoming the first franchise to adopt robotic delivery and more…PLUS – Remembrances of ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ actress Loni Anderson, who has passed at the age of 79 - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Late with Mo Kelly Live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
in the iHeartRadio app. And I have to say, the
box office had been going on a pretty good run
for a while, where you had movies overperforming expectations. You
had movies showing legs lasting performance in the box office
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in movie theaters, adding theaters. And then we had this
past weekend which was pretty much underwhelming, did not meet
most expectations. You had the Fantastic Four First Steps. I
loved the movie, Tawalla love the movie. Mark loved the movie.
But it had a sixty seven percent drop in its
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second week. It still came into number one, but when
I say it only with that caveat, it only grossed
thirty eight point.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Six million this week.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That was more than enough to be number one, but
the sixty seven percent drop off was concerning. It did
not add any theaters. It stayed at four one hundred
and twenty five. I mentioned that because when movies are
have a great deal of momentum, they usually pick up
theaters from week to week. They didn't gain any theaters,
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which means that movie theaters are not as high on
the movie as maybe I was or someone else The
Bad Guys too. It's first week brought in twenty two million.
The Naked Gun Mark saw it. Tawala refuses to see it.
I don't care to see it. It brought in sixteen
point eight million. It only had thirty three hundred theaters,
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so that's not really an expectation of it being a hit.
I don't know what the budget was, but sixteen point
eight million, I guess isn't bad. Probably weren't high expectations
for the movie.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The budget was forty two million, Okay, then it probably
needed to do better than sixteen millions first week. It's
gonna flop in it deserves to.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I wasn't exaggerating when I said last week I didn't
laugh once during the entire not once, not once.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, and it's gonna be a sliding scale for it.
If it brought in sixteen point eight million its first week,
it's best week for any any film. It may bring
in seven or eight million the next week.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
That.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, it's all downhill from here from that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But look on the bright side of this, this means
we probably won't get any more of them.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I wouldn't. Don't be so fast.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Their mouth is really bad, So getting even six million
next week is good as to hope.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Look from your lips to God's ears. I'm just saying
they didn't need to make this movie in the first place.
There was no financial reason or belief to think that
this movie was gonna do well, and they still made it.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So that doesn't mean that a sequel is out of
the question. Superman in its fourth week is.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Hanging around but still below its predecessor. I would say
its predecessor was Man of Steel, the last time that
Warner Brothers had tried to do Superman, and that movie
brought in almost seven hundred million dollars. This iteration of
Superman in its fourth week has only brought in five
hundred and fifty one million. Yes, that's more than half
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a billion. But as far as the expectations for the
Superman franchise, the it's questionable.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
I don't know, and I think that's the one of
the biggest arguments out there right now is one that Superman,
to everyone's surprise, everyone thought Superman Fantastic four, Superman is
outperforming Fantastic Four and the expectations again, the expectations going
into Superman. They did not put as much on it
(03:56):
because of all of one thes and this massive campaign,
this massive social media campaign to salt Superman. There was
a massive campaign of you got to think of if
you have one hundred Superman fans, half of them are
Snyder folks who are like, we refuse, We're gonna do
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everything we can to make this film flop. They Warner
Brothers said, look, dude, this is the unteenthed edition of Superman.
This is not a new story, a new film. It's
just James Gunn doing his thing. And there's literally there's
mild interest in James Gunn doing it. No one is
looking at James Gunn as arguably being able to do it.
(04:38):
They say, ya, your success is at Marvel. Can you
do it in DC right now? The DC heads, not
James Gunn and zaslav Or who are running DC Studios,
the Warner Brothers heads are like, damn, dude, we didn't
think another cracket Superman would cross a half of billion.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
We had no idea. We tried to say, like, look.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Man, maybe maybe it will, maybe won't, but this is
a success for them, and for them, they're kind of
low key popping bottles because of're like, man, we kind
of kicked Fantastic four as ass and no one thought
we would.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
My response to that is, dollars are dollars, and dollars
five hundred and fifty one million in twenty twenty four
is not the same as when did Man of Steel
come out ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yep, let's say twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Fourteen, and it's six hundred plus million. So it's still
a business built on dollars and cents. Yes, they can say, hey,
we're beating the movie that people didn't expect us to
beat in Fantastic four, but that's more like a problem
for Marvel more than anything than it is about the
success of Superman.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And there's one other thing. You know, when you have Superman.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
As a tent pool for your company and you're getting
beaten by Jurassic World Rebirth and at this point, you know,
f one, the movie.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Which is right now out and for this summer, that's everybody.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Yeah, So that that that's like any anything that we
would have thought would have been that big theater film,
and I'm talking even the theaters who thought, like, nah,
the superhero films are going to do it.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
They're like, damn man, Jurassic literally, the fifty eleventh Dinosaur
film and the Race Car film are the ones that
are doing it for us.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
That's crazy and just back to make a gun. To
Mark's chagrin, I was like, whant to see the reviews.
It's got a ninety percent from the critics. Yeah, I
meant to point that out. It's anything from the audience.
And are you saying they bought they bought the critics? No, no,
I'm saying critics are out of touch.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And I was. I'm one of my close friends is
an editor and Variety.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I was rasping her over the weekend about what does
your hack critic have to say about this movie? And
she's like, well, I didn't read it, That's what she
sounds like. By the way, I ain't read it like
well I did, and you might want to have a
talk about like his work with him. You get to
the point where two people can watch the same thing
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and if they disagree, one of them is insane. I
don't to understand how these people could watch this and
it has a ninety percent positive Unrotten Tomatoes. That's just nuts.
It's legitimately one of the worst of the year. It's
where I said Friday, we're in Golden Raspberry's territory with
this one.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No, you actually said it was rated two. It's a
code brown. Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Lelo and Stitch is number twelve this week. But just
want to reiterate, it's one point zero two billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Yeah, yeah, still and still for this summer. Still as
a company, Disney is winning with with Marvel, with as
the companies are and with their twenty first century Fox products.
They're like, we're good, We've actually made our budget for
the year.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We're straight overall, it's a better year for the movie
industry at this point this year than last year. I
don't know if there are any real big movies between
now and the end of the year year which could
be real breakout hits.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
When is the Avatar coming out? Is that is that December? No? Yeah,
this Mber?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Okay, so that's that's the last one. Then, yeah, we
have there's one more. There's one more.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Quote what is Tron coming out? That's this year too,
That's November. That's closer. That's in between our birthdays.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And both of those are quote unquote Disney properties. So
you know, Dizzey's looking looking their chops at this point
because they could not have been expecting Lelo and Stitch
to bring in a billion.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
There's no way, no way, there's no way, but the
international audience for Lelo's dish, which is why they're like,
you know what, you all can hate this film all
you want.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We did make this film for the US. There is a.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Polynesian, uh, you know, Eastern Island, Pacific audience around the
world that is going to eat this film up.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And that's a great point.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We talked about them, but that kind of embodies the
point that Disney is making properties for the world, not
to please just fly over America, not to please a
political persuasion here in just the United States. So we're
talking about some sixty countries. You look at the Disney
Plus subscriptions, it's there are more subscribers outside the US
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than there are inside the US. And so when they're
making their considerations about what is going to be a
hit and where it's going to be a hit, it's
not just red or blue in America. That is one consideration,
but it's definitely not the biggest consideration.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I think that had something to do with why Fantastic
Four and Superman aren't faring as well over internationally internationally
because both of those films are very isolated in the
stories that they're telling. They're not reaching out to the world.
They're telling stories about protecting their own little turf. And
that was kind of like it may not have hit this, like,
you know, if you're something that's like, great, he's protecting Metropolis.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Which just proxy from New York, and Fantastic Four they're
protecting quote unquote the world, but they're based in New York.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
They're based in New York. Yeah, protecting the world through
New York. Yeah, you know so yeah, And let's.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Be honest, it showed a New York of the nineteen sixties,
not a New York of the twenty twenties.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
No, there was not a lot of diversity. You saw,
you saw some sprinkles of color, but there was not
diversity throughout the film as far as involvement where someone
can go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this film is
for me too.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
No, No, I'm sorry it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's later with Mo Kelly Kfi I Am six forty
Live Everywhere, the iHeartRadio app. When we come back, we
have to talk about how robotics, robot robot trucks.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And delivery bots are taking over. And Mark is so
happy about all this. Maybe I could get a job
with him. Maybe unlikely. Keep going.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
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Speaker 2 (10:48):
Forty KFI AM six forty. It is Later with Mo
Kelly re live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And I'm been long of the opinion that some things
are inevitable.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
They may not be palatable, they may not be desirable,
but they are inevitable. Self driving automated cars and trucks
are here. And I'm not even a fan of self
driving taxis, but they are here. And I've also said
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that they're going to eradicate a lot of jobs, even though.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We may not want them to.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
There are robo trucks which are hauling cargo right now
along Texas highways. Self driving tractor trailers are rumbling down
Texas Highways to haul cargo at night, the autonomous eighteen wheelers,
and they may still have a driver just as a backup,
but they are making these four trips between Dallas and
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Houston to transport food and products daily. And this is
according to the Wall Street Journal Aurora Innovation, this startup
set it is able to achieve driverless trucking after dark
because of its light our system which casts laser beams.
Laser beams to see items in three D and measure
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the distance to those objects.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
This is the future.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
The future is now and you think about truckers have
they have to drive days at a time, sometimes without sleep.
They're going to be obsolete in the next five years.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
The passengers in these vehicles right now are just for
quality control and to take data and notes and report
back anything that they see as as someone who is
from the company. These aren't drivers who are just you know,
taking a ride and I will be no, no, no, no no.
These are people from the companies who are like, go
out there, quality control. You're going to You're going into
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conditions that normal truckers would have to pull over for
stuff like that. I know a guy who has a
rig in Atlanta. They fear these things like the plague.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
If you know a truck driver, you know that you
can make some real good money. As a truck driver
takes some real good money. You know of course of
two hundred thousand dollars depending on what you do, where
you go, howe off you drive.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Think about that in terms of who would be paying
the truck drivers, and you say, hey, hey, hey, for
two hundred thousand dollars, we could implement the system on
all your trucks and you would not have to pay
any driver ever again anything, and possibly greater reliability, quicker
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transit time because it can drive under more difficult conditions,
and it can drive for longer times not needing rests.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
All it needs to be is refueled. That it's it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
These things go twenty four hours a day. Look, I
love my truckers. This is not trying to tear my
truckers day. All the truckers listening to this show right now,
right now on the road, we love you. We are
just aware of what's coming your way and it's not
good speaking of something else coming our way, which is
(14:21):
already here. Coco Robotics this is a California based startup
and they've gone into Chicago with the fleet of autonomous
personal delivery carts and has also gotten one of their
first major customers in White Castle for their pilot program
using its mobile robots to make deliveries. Last week or
(14:42):
white Castle on Chicago's Near West Side became the chains
first to offer robotic delivery through the Uber Eats app.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
That's another set of jobs gone.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
You know.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
One of the things that White Castle and customers have
cited as one of the things they love about these
Coco bots. Quote another bonus for choosing Coco over human
delivery drivers. There's no tipping a robot. That is literally
quote that is literally what they say is one of
(15:15):
the issues that they have with having people versus robots.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
No tipping set.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Us the California company, but it's a Southern California tie
and it was launched in twenty twenty. Coco's hey Mark
AI driven delivery robot was developed by two former UCLA students,
Zach Rash and Brad Squisses.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I can't pronounce that right. Their degrees the degrees away.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
But the home market they started was here in LA
but they've added service in Miami, Helsinki, Finland, and Chicago.
Why Helsinki, Finland as odd as an outlier, but still
it's another city. There are about one thousand Cocoa units
on the road worldwide, and just know each unit probably
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means one less job.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
I cannot wait till they launch these things in LA
because next time we want to order something, I'm not
gonna have to go downstairs and do a Coyotes. It
will be right at the door, not gonna look around
for the damn delivery driver to be like, hey, Coco
robusts downstairs.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I wonder how, knowing the topography of our campus here,
how close it could.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Get easy because the front is open, it can access
the wheelchair ramp, and it can come up and just
come all the way around these They sure are guided
by AI, Google mapping and all that kind of.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Stuffy I'm mark right nowstairs, A.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I don't know why you think you're gonna make out
any better with this stuff than anybody else. Is this
is a pox on humanity.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Mark.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
It is a literal It is a literal cancer. What
mark right now?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
What this is is a warrant to everyone to start
looking into the buying Coco stock you can literally trust
once they're on the market.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm getting into Coco okay, and very quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Chinese shoppers in China's not here yet, but they can
rent a customized robot alongside their groceries and think of
it this way. If it's there, it will be here
soon enough.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Wait, what kind of robot?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
China's robotics industry has expanded rapidly in recent years, and
now they have these robots which are specifically for consumer
and service markets. This future era's store excuse me, store
offers leasing and customization services in addition to the traditional
retail staples of a showroom, sales, spell parts, and customer service.
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Customers can browse the mini models robots on display and
then choose to buy, rent, or even build their own
by selecting components.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, nobody wants a robot.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
This sounds like Star Wars everywhere. Now build their own
droid and have it come and help you. You can
have it inside of ten days. They're okay for movies.
But if you noticed in the movies they never work out.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
That's not true. See three great are to literally save
the galaxy. Yeah, the burden Ernie of Star Wars. Okay,
good luck. You know that that's fiction, right, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
How nine thousand doesn't exist? Yeah, but how nine thousand
is the way most of these are going to go?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
By the way.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I should point out to you that there's no concept
of enough with the people foisting this stuff on us.
They'll put as many people out of work as they
can if it'll put one more diamond into their pockets.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You are correct.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I have just described cancer to you. There's no enough,
there's no end point. That's true constant growth until it
destroys the whole deal.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You're making the moral argument. I'm just giving you the facts.
You can't isolate the moral argument from the whole situation. Yes,
you can't. I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
She can't.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
No, the fact is we live in a capitalistic society.
That's just a fact. I'm not making a value judgment.
That's something completely different.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I am.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I mean then we're literally talking about apples and more.
We're talking about what's happening. You're talking about how you
feel about it, the facts, and you're like, I don't like.
I don't like how that sounds fair My feelings.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
My feelings about it are based on observation and critical thinking.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
And it sucks. Okay, it may suck. No I'm saying
you're wrong. What we're saying is the robots here to
come up and clean up everything that's sucking for you.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
People can resist this. I mean, I don't tell anybody
else what to buy or watch or do, but I
boycott that stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I don't want to take it. Not exactly true. You
told a whole lot of people not to watch The
Naked Gun. Well, I mean that's kind of a whole
different ball of wax. A movie critics job is kind
of a case.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
So you want to move the goal, but you think
you just like scored some big point. No, you tell
people how to spend their money. I'm telling you that
the deal, and it's your choice. If you decide to
spend money on this Code Brown or not, that's up
to you. But you need to know what you're getting
going in. It's a consumer watchdog thing.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I hope you feel the same when the robot comes
and opens the door to vacuum while you're in.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
There, I'll take a robot right over on its metal
ass so violent when we come back.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well, remember Lonnie Anderson who passed away just days ago
at the age of seventy nine, and tomorrow would have
been her eightieth birthday.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
I'm a WKRP in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
KFI AM six forty. It's a later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
We're live on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and the iHeartRadio app.
And Lonnie Anderson, as we all know at this point,
passed away at the age of seventy nine. Her eightieth birthday,
what would have been her eightieth birthday is tomorrow. And
what I remember most about Lonnie Anderson. Yes, she was
quote unquote the blonde bombshell on WKRP in Cincinnati, but
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if you do a little bit more investigation into her
life and career, she always stood on business. She held
out during one of the seasons of WKRP in Cincinnati
because she thought that she deserved more pay And if
you know anything about the show, she was one of
the central attractions. And I don't mean that in a
physical sense. I'm saying her character was integral to everything
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which happened on the show. And if you followed her
career later on, there was a show in the early
nineties called Designing Women, very popular, and it starred Delta
Burke left and I think was actually fired, but then
Lonnie Anderson was thought to replace her, and Lonnie Anderson
said no because they were not willing to pay Lonnie
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Anderson her worth at the time, given that she was
already a star and was going to be bailing out
the show by taking over for Delta Burke. And if
you ever watched WKRP in Cincinnati during the time of
its show, it was always easier if you want to
compare it to a show like Three's Company, to have
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the ditsy blonde, the character who didn't really have any
command or didn't have any quote unquote value other than
her physicality and sexuality. But Lannie Anderson not only put
into her character a level of smartness and intelligence which
was unusual for the time, but she also used it
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against the men in her portrayal of her character. For example,
if you ever watched WKRP in Cincinnati, it was yes,
it was very politically incorrect by today's standards, and just
about all the men on the show were hitting on her.
But she was smarter than all the men, and she
knew how to outwit the characters in all the ways
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that she just demonstrated she was always smarter than them.
Here's an example of one of these interactions with both
herb and also less.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Have you seen the cat from outer space.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Yet I had him well Less art, and he said
it was real good, and I thought maybe you and
I could.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Herb, I'm not going to the movies with you.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Come on, it will be just us and a bunch
of kids, get it. We won't see anybody we know? No, No,
So how's it going?
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Oh? The same old thing, answering the phone and biting
off Herb, herb ought to be ashamed of himself.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
You know, I'm really getting tired of it.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
He wants to take me to lunch, he wants to
take me to dinner, he wants to take me dancing,
and every time I say.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
No, he says, there's yes in my eyes. Do you
see yes in there anywhere? O? Jennifer, I think you
can help us out.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
But you let Less practice.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Onya for a minute?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Practice what? Well?
Speaker 9 (23:52):
He needs to get a date for the bank but
tomorrow night and he just needs a few pointers, that's all.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
What kind? I'm not sure about this, Herb? You sure
it's all right, Jennifer? Anything to help?
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Well?
Speaker 9 (24:04):
You see, there's this banquet tomorrow night and us Jenner's
is very special to me, and I was wondering if
you don't have anything else to do. Maybe you and I.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Maybe we could go together. I'd love to less look
Donnie's practice.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Now, come on, make it tough, you know, make it real.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
She said, yes, sir, And when they say yes, they
always me know.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
It works both ways, right, Jennifer, No, Oh, good god.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Donnie Anderson's gone at the age of seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
But most people do not know that she was nominated
for three Golden Globes and two Emmy Awards. She will
be missed. It's Later with mo Kelly. When we come back,
We'll check in with George Nori, and I'll have my
final thought.
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Great, my friend. I've worked Sunday, but I love the
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to talk about human potential and then later on a
little bit about it magic on coach to coache.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Oh, a little Schmorgesborg. I see you got it all right.
I'll be listening. See you so and before we get
out of here.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It was a very strange weekend for me because every
once in a while I was checking in on what
people were talking about, and I kept hearing about Charlemagne
the God and Laura Trump and what came out of
that interview on Friday, and I said, okay, okay, I've
had enough.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I got a way in.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Radio hosts Charlemagne the God of New York's The Breakfast
Club radio show. He was recently on Fox News's My View,
which is hosted by Laura Trump, of course, daughter in
law of the president. On that show, Charlemagne suggested that
he would be interested in a John Stuart presidential candidacy
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in twenty twenty eight, as in John Stewart of Comedy
Central's The Daily Show. You didn't get that, Let me
say it one more time, but slower for dramatic effect.
Charlemagne suggested that he would be interested in a president
did show candidacy of John Stewart, a nighttime talk show
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host on Comedy Centro. Because that's where we are in
this unserious America. Presently, just in case you didn't know,
we have a former game show slash reality TV host
in his second term as president. Also presently, there are
twenty three one time Fox News Channel employees, hosts, or
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contributors in the Trump administration, twenty three in the administration
right now. ESPN television personality Steven A. Smith has publicly
mused about running for president in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
We've discussed him here.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Tucker Carlson, former Fox News personality in his own right,
has mused about running for president in twenty twenty eight,
and now this to be fair, Stuart himself has said
nothing to indicate he would be interested in either the
job or entering the race. So this has less to
do with Stuart and more to do with us as
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a nation. There's no denying that there is a visual
element to the American presidency in the twenty first century.
You have to be an effective communicator, and you have
to be that effective communicator in a televised medium, social
media savvy, and be able to speak in terse sound bites.
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But none of that speaks to what is necessary to
do the actual job. I'm talking about domestic policy, foreign policy,
military strategy, slash commander in chief, molder of consensus on
Capitol Hill with Congress, setting economic policy, and managing our
national security, CEO of the federal government and oversee all
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of its agencies and two million full time federal employees.
It's actually a job that is too big for just
one person. But we're in America. Sodamn, lazy and Dare
I say stupid? Yes, I said lazy and stupid. We're
not looking for competence first and foremost, We're looking for
someone who can handle TV and TV interviews. We want
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someone who can own the libs. We want someone who
is funny, or at least we find funny on social media,
you know, nice clapback game.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
We've devalued the actual.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Importance of the presidency and the responsibilities the job holds.
We think that anyone and this is not even being political.
I'm just saying you have someone they throw on it
all sorts of weird to ask people who should be president.
We think that anyone can be president provided he and
I do mean he, because America is not remotely interested
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in a sheet. Let's be honest. Can I tell the
truth here? Provided he says some stuff we like and
can effectively communicate it in the televised medium, even have
to make sense. We just have to like what he says,
which is really odd when you consider that presidents and
presidential candidates don't write any of their speeches. We're one
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step removed from America's top model the Presidential Search Edition,
or Who Wants to be the President?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Or dancing with the president's Cabinet members.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I know, I know, we already have a reality show
called Big Brother, but I thought that would be two bit,
a little bit too much on the nose. The larger
point is we as an Americans, we want a TV host,
not an actual president, and it is damn depressing to me,
because you know what, I actually love this country, and
if you love this country, you probably want the best
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for this country. And the best is not a TV host,
not now, not ever. But let me get back to
Charlemagne and his presidential whistless wish list. I've never met
John Stewart. I think he's fabulous at what he does,
and that is political insight and commentary. I think what
Stuart done with the nine to eleven Survivors and Victims
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Fund is nothing less than admirable and remarkable. But under
no circumstances does that mean he is either suitable to
be leader of the free world or president.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We should have more respect for the office of the president.
We should.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I know that's a funny statement in and of itself,
because we don't have any respect for the office of
the president, not even a little bit zero respect for
the seriousness of the office and or its responsibilities. Not
a day goes by without our sitting president getting on
social media and starting Twitter fights with actors, singers, television hosts, athletes,
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and even radio hosts like Charlot mgne. We're not serious
about anything, least of all who should be leader of
the free world. There is something to be said for
actually having applicable experience working as a local elected official,
then state, then federal, serving on a congressional committee or too,
even working with classified intelligence and moving up that letter.
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When you do, you learn how agencies and departments work
and their purpose their importance. So you understand how the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example, actually works if you
know that it's not just one person making the stats,
so you know that it is a committee of people,
and you don't need to just fire one person, particularly
a woman, for no good damn reason.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
That's what happens when you're a TV.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Hosts, because being a TV host is not an applicable skill.
It's a deficiency and drawback, or at least it used
to be. It's actually a reason why you should absolutely
not ever be considered for President of the United States.
For kf I AM six forty, I'm O Kelly.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
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Speaker 3 (32:49):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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in the iHeartRadio app. And I have to say, the
box office had been going on a pretty good run
for a while, where you had movies overperforming expectations. You
had movies showing legs lasting performance in the box office
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in movie theaters, adding theaters. And then we had this
past weekend which was pretty much underwhelming, did not meet
most expectations. You had the Fantastic Four First Steps. I
loved the movie, Tawalla love the movie. Mark loved the movie.
But it had a sixty seven percent drop in its
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second week. It still came into number one, but when
I say it only with that caveat, it only grossed
thirty eight point.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Six million this week.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That was more than enough to be number one, but
the sixty seven percent drop off was concerning. It did
not add any theaters. It stayed at four one hundred
and twenty five. I mentioned that because when movies are
have a great deal of momentum, they usually pick up
theaters from week to week. They didn't gain any theaters,
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which means that movie theaters are not as high on
the movie as maybe I was or someone else The
Bad Guys too. It's first week brought in twenty two million.
The Naked Gun Mark saw it. Tawala refuses to see it.
I don't care to see it. It brought in sixteen
point eight million. It only had thirty three hundred theaters,
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so that's not really an expectation of it being a hit.
I don't know what the budget was, but sixteen point
eight million, I guess isn't bad. Probably weren't high expectations
for the movie.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The budget was forty two million, Okay, then it probably
needed to do better than sixteen millions first week. It's
gonna flop in it deserves to.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I wasn't exaggerating when I said last week I didn't
laugh once during the entire not once, not once.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, and it's gonna be a sliding scale for it.
If it brought in sixteen point eight million its first week,
it's best week for any any film. It may bring
in seven or eight million the next week.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
That.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, it's all downhill from here from that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But look on the bright side of this, this means
we probably won't get any more of them.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I wouldn't. Don't be so fast.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Their mouth is really bad, So getting even six million
next week is good as to hope.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Look from your lips to God's ears. I'm just saying
they didn't need to make this movie in the first place.
There was no financial reason or belief to think that
this movie was gonna do well, and they still made it.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So that doesn't mean that a sequel is out of
the question. Superman in its fourth week is.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Hanging around but still below its predecessor. I would say
its predecessor was Man of Steel, the last time that
Warner Brothers had tried to do Superman, and that movie
brought in almost seven hundred million dollars. This iteration of
Superman in its fourth week has only brought in five
hundred and fifty one million. Yes, that's more than half
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a billion. But as far as the expectations for the
Superman franchise, the it's questionable.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
I don't know, and I think that's the one of
the biggest arguments out there right now is one that Superman,
to everyone's surprise, everyone thought Superman Fantastic four, Superman is
outperforming Fantastic Four and the expectations again, the expectations going
into Superman. They did not put as much on it
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because of all of one thes and this massive campaign,
this massive social media campaign to salt Superman. There was
a massive campaign of you got to think of if
you have one hundred Superman fans, half of them are
Snyder folks who are like, we refuse, We're gonna do
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everything we can to make this film flop. They Warner
Brothers said, look, dude, this is the unteenthed edition of Superman.
This is not a new story, a new film. It's
just James Gunn doing his thing. And there's literally there's
mild interest in James Gunn doing it. No one is
looking at James Gunn as arguably being able to do it.
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They say, ya, your success is at Marvel. Can you
do it in DC right now? The DC heads, not
James Gunn and zaslav Or who are running DC Studios,
the Warner Brothers heads are like, damn, dude, we didn't
think another cracket Superman would cross a half of billion.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
We had no idea. We tried to say, like, look.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Man, maybe maybe it will, maybe won't, but this is
a success for them, and for them, they're kind of
low key popping bottles because of're like, man, we kind
of kicked Fantastic four as ass and no one thought
we would.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
My response to that is, dollars are dollars, and dollars
five hundred and fifty one million in twenty twenty four
is not the same as when did Man of Steel
come out ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yep, let's say twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Fourteen, and it's six hundred plus million. So it's still
a business built on dollars and cents. Yes, they can say, hey,
we're beating the movie that people didn't expect us to
beat in Fantastic four, but that's more like a problem
for Marvel more than anything than it is about the
success of Superman.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And there's one other thing. You know, when you have Superman.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
As a tent pool for your company and you're getting
beaten by Jurassic World Rebirth and at this point, you know,
f one, the movie.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Which is right now out and for this summer, that's everybody.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Yeah, So that that that's like any anything that we
would have thought would have been that big theater film,
and I'm talking even the theaters who thought, like, nah,
the superhero films are going to do it.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
They're like, damn man, Jurassic literally, the fifty eleventh Dinosaur
film and the Race Car film are the ones that
are doing it for us.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
That's crazy and just back to make a gun. To
Mark's chagrin, I was like, whant to see the reviews.
It's got a ninety percent from the critics. Yeah, I
meant to point that out. It's anything from the audience.
And are you saying they bought they bought the critics? No, no,
I'm saying critics are out of touch.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And I was. I'm one of my close friends is
an editor and Variety.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I was rasping her over the weekend about what does
your hack critic have to say about this movie? And
she's like, well, I didn't read it, That's what she
sounds like. By the way, I ain't read it like
well I did, and you might want to have a
talk about like his work with him. You get to
the point where two people can watch the same thing
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and if they disagree, one of them is insane. I
don't to understand how these people could watch this and
it has a ninety percent positive Unrotten Tomatoes. That's just nuts.
It's legitimately one of the worst of the year. It's
where I said Friday, we're in Golden Raspberry's territory with
this one.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No, you actually said it was rated two. It's a
code brown. Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Lelo and Stitch is number twelve this week. But just
want to reiterate, it's one point zero two billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Yeah, yeah, still and still for this summer. Still as
a company, Disney is winning with with Marvel, with as
the companies are and with their twenty first century Fox products.
They're like, we're good, We've actually made our budget for
the year.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We're straight overall, it's a better year for the movie
industry at this point this year than last year. I
don't know if there are any real big movies between
now and the end of the year year which could
be real breakout hits.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
When is the Avatar coming out? Is that is that December? No? Yeah,
this Mber?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Okay, so that's that's the last one. Then, yeah, we
have there's one more. There's one more.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Quote what is Tron coming out? That's this year too,
That's November. That's closer. That's in between our birthdays.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And both of those are quote unquote Disney properties. So
you know, Dizzey's looking looking their chops at this point
because they could not have been expecting Lelo and Stitch
to bring in a billion.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
There's no way, no way, there's no way, but the
international audience for Lelo's dish, which is why they're like,
you know what, you all can hate this film all
you want.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We did make this film for the US. There is a.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Polynesian, uh, you know, Eastern Island, Pacific audience around the
world that is going to eat this film up.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And that's a great point.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We talked about them, but that kind of embodies the
point that Disney is making properties for the world, not
to please just fly over America, not to please a
political persuasion here in just the United States. So we're
talking about some sixty countries. You look at the Disney
Plus subscriptions, it's there are more subscribers outside the US
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than there are inside the US. And so when they're
making their considerations about what is going to be a
hit and where it's going to be a hit, it's
not just red or blue in America. That is one consideration,
but it's definitely not the biggest consideration.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I think that had something to do with why Fantastic
Four and Superman aren't faring as well over internationally internationally
because both of those films are very isolated in the
stories that they're telling. They're not reaching out to the world.
They're telling stories about protecting their own little turf. And
that was kind of like it may not have hit this, like,
you know, if you're something that's like, great, he's protecting Metropolis.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Which just proxy from New York, and Fantastic Four they're
protecting quote unquote the world, but they're based in New York.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
They're based in New York. Yeah, protecting the world through
New York. Yeah, you know so yeah, And let's.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Be honest, it showed a New York of the nineteen sixties,
not a New York of the twenty twenties.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
No, there was not a lot of diversity. You saw,
you saw some sprinkles of color, but there was not
diversity throughout the film as far as involvement where someone
can go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this film is
for me too.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
No, No, I'm sorry it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's later with Mo Kelly Kfi I Am six forty
Live Everywhere, the iHeartRadio app. When we come back, we
have to talk about how robotics, robot robot trucks.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And delivery bots are taking over. And Mark is so
happy about all this. Maybe I could get a job
with him. Maybe unlikely. Keep going.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Forty KFI AM six forty. It is Later with Mo
Kelly re live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And I'm been long of the opinion that some things
are inevitable.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
They may not be palatable, they may not be desirable,
but they are inevitable. Self driving automated cars and trucks
are here. And I'm not even a fan of self
driving taxis, but they are here. And I've also said
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that they're going to eradicate a lot of jobs, even though.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We may not want them to.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
There are robo trucks which are hauling cargo right now
along Texas highways. Self driving tractor trailers are rumbling down
Texas Highways to haul cargo at night, the autonomous eighteen wheelers,
and they may still have a driver just as a backup,
but they are making these four trips between Dallas and
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Houston to transport food and products daily. And this is
according to the Wall Street Journal Aurora Innovation, this startup
set it is able to achieve driverless trucking after dark
because of its light our system which casts laser beams.
Laser beams to see items in three D and measure
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the distance to those objects.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
This is the future.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
The future is now and you think about truckers have
they have to drive days at a time, sometimes without sleep.
They're going to be obsolete in the next five years.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
The passengers in these vehicles right now are just for
quality control and to take data and notes and report
back anything that they see as as someone who is
from the company. These aren't drivers who are just you know,
taking a ride and I will be no, no, no, no no.
These are people from the companies who are like, go
out there, quality control. You're going to You're going into
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conditions that normal truckers would have to pull over for
stuff like that. I know a guy who has a
rig in Atlanta. They fear these things like the plague.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
If you know a truck driver, you know that you
can make some real good money. As a truck driver
takes some real good money. You know of course of
two hundred thousand dollars depending on what you do, where
you go, howe off you drive.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Think about that in terms of who would be paying
the truck drivers, and you say, hey, hey, hey, for
two hundred thousand dollars, we could implement the system on
all your trucks and you would not have to pay
any driver ever again anything, and possibly greater reliability, quicker
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transit time because it can drive under more difficult conditions,
and it can drive for longer times not needing rests.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
All it needs to be is refueled. That it's it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
These things go twenty four hours a day. Look, I
love my truckers. This is not trying to tear my
truckers day. All the truckers listening to this show right now,
right now on the road, we love you. We are
just aware of what's coming your way and it's not
good speaking of something else coming our way, which is
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already here. Coco Robotics this is a California based startup
and they've gone into Chicago with the fleet of autonomous
personal delivery carts and has also gotten one of their
first major customers in White Castle for their pilot program
using its mobile robots to make deliveries. Last week or
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white Castle on Chicago's Near West Side became the chains
first to offer robotic delivery through the Uber Eats app.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
That's another set of jobs gone.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
You know.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
One of the things that White Castle and customers have
cited as one of the things they love about these
Coco bots. Quote another bonus for choosing Coco over human
delivery drivers. There's no tipping a robot. That is literally
quote that is literally what they say is one of
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the issues that they have with having people versus robots.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
No tipping set.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Us the California company, but it's a Southern California tie
and it was launched in twenty twenty. Coco's hey Mark
AI driven delivery robot was developed by two former UCLA students,
Zach Rash and Brad Squisses.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I can't pronounce that right. Their degrees the degrees away.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
But the home market they started was here in LA
but they've added service in Miami, Helsinki, Finland, and Chicago.
Why Helsinki, Finland as odd as an outlier, but still
it's another city. There are about one thousand Cocoa units
on the road worldwide, and just know each unit probably
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means one less job.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
I cannot wait till they launch these things in LA
because next time we want to order something, I'm not
gonna have to go downstairs and do a Coyotes. It
will be right at the door, not gonna look around
for the damn delivery driver to be like, hey, Coco
robusts downstairs.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I wonder how, knowing the topography of our campus here,
how close it could.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Get easy because the front is open, it can access
the wheelchair ramp, and it can come up and just
come all the way around these They sure are guided
by AI, Google mapping and all that kind of.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Stuffy I'm mark right nowstairs, A.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I don't know why you think you're gonna make out
any better with this stuff than anybody else. Is this
is a pox on humanity.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Mark.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
It is a literal It is a literal cancer. What
mark right now?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
What this is is a warrant to everyone to start
looking into the buying Coco stock you can literally trust
once they're on the market.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm getting into Coco okay, and very quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Chinese shoppers in China's not here yet, but they can
rent a customized robot alongside their groceries and think of
it this way. If it's there, it will be here
soon enough.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Wait, what kind of robot?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
China's robotics industry has expanded rapidly in recent years, and
now they have these robots which are specifically for consumer
and service markets. This future era's store excuse me, store
offers leasing and customization services in addition to the traditional
retail staples of a showroom, sales, spell parts, and customer service.
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Customers can browse the mini models robots on display and
then choose to buy, rent, or even build their own
by selecting components.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, nobody wants a robot.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
This sounds like Star Wars everywhere. Now build their own
droid and have it come and help you. You can
have it inside of ten days. They're okay for movies.
But if you noticed in the movies they never work out.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
That's not true. See three great are to literally save
the galaxy. Yeah, the burden Ernie of Star Wars. Okay,
good luck. You know that that's fiction, right, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
How nine thousand doesn't exist? Yeah, but how nine thousand
is the way most of these are going to go?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
By the way.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I should point out to you that there's no concept
of enough with the people foisting this stuff on us.
They'll put as many people out of work as they
can if it'll put one more diamond into their pockets.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You are correct.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I have just described cancer to you. There's no enough,
there's no end point. That's true constant growth until it
destroys the whole deal.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You're making the moral argument. I'm just giving you the facts.
You can't isolate the moral argument from the whole situation. Yes,
you can't. I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
She can't.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
No, the fact is we live in a capitalistic society.
That's just a fact. I'm not making a value judgment.
That's something completely different.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I am.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I mean then we're literally talking about apples and more.
We're talking about what's happening. You're talking about how you
feel about it, the facts, and you're like, I don't like.
I don't like how that sounds fair My feelings.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
My feelings about it are based on observation and critical thinking.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
And it sucks. Okay, it may suck. No I'm saying
you're wrong. What we're saying is the robots here to
come up and clean up everything that's sucking for you.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
People can resist this. I mean, I don't tell anybody
else what to buy or watch or do, but I
boycott that stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I don't want to take it. Not exactly true. You
told a whole lot of people not to watch The
Naked Gun. Well, I mean that's kind of a whole
different ball of wax. A movie critics job is kind
of a case.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
So you want to move the goal, but you think
you just like scored some big point. No, you tell
people how to spend their money. I'm telling you that
the deal, and it's your choice. If you decide to
spend money on this Code Brown or not, that's up
to you. But you need to know what you're getting
going in. It's a consumer watchdog thing.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I hope you feel the same when the robot comes
and opens the door to vacuum while you're in.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
There, I'll take a robot right over on its metal
ass so violent when we come back.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well, remember Lonnie Anderson who passed away just days ago
at the age of seventy nine, and tomorrow would have
been her eightieth birthday.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
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I'm a WKRP in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
KFI AM six forty. It's a later with Mo Kelly.
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And Lonnie Anderson, as we all know at this point,
passed away at the age of seventy nine. Her eightieth birthday,
what would have been her eightieth birthday is tomorrow. And
what I remember most about Lonnie Anderson. Yes, she was
quote unquote the blonde bombshell on WKRP in Cincinnati, but
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if you do a little bit more investigation into her
life and career, she always stood on business. She held
out during one of the seasons of WKRP in Cincinnati
because she thought that she deserved more pay And if
you know anything about the show, she was one of
the central attractions. And I don't mean that in a
physical sense. I'm saying her character was integral to everything
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which happened on the show. And if you followed her
career later on, there was a show in the early
nineties called Designing Women, very popular, and it starred Delta
Burke left and I think was actually fired, but then
Lonnie Anderson was thought to replace her, and Lonnie Anderson
said no because they were not willing to pay Lonnie
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Anderson her worth at the time, given that she was
already a star and was going to be bailing out
the show by taking over for Delta Burke. And if
you ever watched WKRP in Cincinnati during the time of
its show, it was always easier if you want to
compare it to a show like Three's Company, to have
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the ditsy blonde, the character who didn't really have any
command or didn't have any quote unquote value other than
her physicality and sexuality. But Lannie Anderson not only put
into her character a level of smartness and intelligence which
was unusual for the time, but she also used it
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against the men in her portrayal of her character. For example,
if you ever watched WKRP in Cincinnati, it was yes,
it was very politically incorrect by today's standards, and just
about all the men on the show were hitting on her.
But she was smarter than all the men, and she
knew how to outwit the characters in all the ways
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that she just demonstrated she was always smarter than them.
Here's an example of one of these interactions with both
herb and also less.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Have you seen the cat from outer space.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Yet I had him well Less art, and he said
it was real good, and I thought maybe you and
I could.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Herb, I'm not going to the movies with you.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Come on, it will be just us and a bunch
of kids, get it. We won't see anybody we know? No, No,
So how's it going?
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Oh? The same old thing, answering the phone and biting
off Herb, herb ought to be ashamed of himself.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
You know, I'm really getting tired of it.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
He wants to take me to lunch, he wants to
take me to dinner, he wants to take me dancing,
and every time I say.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
No, he says, there's yes in my eyes. Do you
see yes in there anywhere? O? Jennifer, I think you
can help us out.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
But you let Less practice.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Onya for a minute?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Practice what? Well?
Speaker 9 (23:52):
He needs to get a date for the bank but
tomorrow night and he just needs a few pointers, that's all.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
What kind? I'm not sure about this, Herb? You sure
it's all right, Jennifer? Anything to help?
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Well?
Speaker 9 (24:04):
You see, there's this banquet tomorrow night and us Jenner's
is very special to me, and I was wondering if
you don't have anything else to do. Maybe you and I.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Maybe we could go together. I'd love to less look
Donnie's practice.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Now, come on, make it tough, you know, make it real.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
She said, yes, sir, And when they say yes, they
always me know.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
It works both ways, right, Jennifer, No, Oh, good god.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Donnie Anderson's gone at the age of seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
But most people do not know that she was nominated
for three Golden Globes and two Emmy Awards. She will
be missed. It's Later with mo Kelly. When we come back,
We'll check in with George Nori, and I'll have my
final thought.
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It was a very strange weekend for me because every
once in a while I was checking in on what
people were talking about, and I kept hearing about Charlemagne
the God and Laura Trump and what came out of
that interview on Friday, and I said, okay, okay, I've
had enough.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I got a way in.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Radio hosts Charlemagne the God of New York's The Breakfast
Club radio show. He was recently on Fox News's My View,
which is hosted by Laura Trump, of course, daughter in
law of the president. On that show, Charlemagne suggested that
he would be interested in a John Stuart presidential candidacy
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in twenty twenty eight, as in John Stewart of Comedy
Central's The Daily Show. You didn't get that, Let me
say it one more time, but slower for dramatic effect.
Charlemagne suggested that he would be interested in a president
did show candidacy of John Stewart, a nighttime talk show
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host on Comedy Centro. Because that's where we are in
this unserious America. Presently, just in case you didn't know,
we have a former game show slash reality TV host
in his second term as president. Also presently, there are
twenty three one time Fox News Channel employees, hosts, or
(27:28):
contributors in the Trump administration, twenty three in the administration
right now. ESPN television personality Steven A. Smith has publicly
mused about running for president in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
We've discussed him here.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Tucker Carlson, former Fox News personality in his own right,
has mused about running for president in twenty twenty eight,
and now this to be fair, Stuart himself has said
nothing to indicate he would be interested in either the
job or entering the race. So this has less to
do with Stuart and more to do with us as
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a nation. There's no denying that there is a visual
element to the American presidency in the twenty first century.
You have to be an effective communicator, and you have
to be that effective communicator in a televised medium, social
media savvy, and be able to speak in terse sound bites.
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But none of that speaks to what is necessary to
do the actual job. I'm talking about domestic policy, foreign policy,
military strategy, slash commander in chief, molder of consensus on
Capitol Hill with Congress, setting economic policy, and managing our
national security, CEO of the federal government and oversee all
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of its agencies and two million full time federal employees.
It's actually a job that is too big for just
one person. But we're in America. Sodamn, lazy and Dare
I say stupid? Yes, I said lazy and stupid. We're
not looking for competence first and foremost, We're looking for
someone who can handle TV and TV interviews. We want
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someone who can own the libs. We want someone who
is funny, or at least we find funny on social media,
you know, nice clapback game.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
We've devalued the actual.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Importance of the presidency and the responsibilities the job holds.
We think that anyone and this is not even being political.
I'm just saying you have someone they throw on it
all sorts of weird to ask people who should be president.
We think that anyone can be president provided he and
I do mean he, because America is not remotely interested
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in a sheet. Let's be honest. Can I tell the
truth here? Provided he says some stuff we like and
can effectively communicate it in the televised medium, even have
to make sense. We just have to like what he says,
which is really odd when you consider that presidents and
presidential candidates don't write any of their speeches. We're one
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step removed from America's top model the Presidential Search Edition,
or Who Wants to be the President?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Or dancing with the president's Cabinet members.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I know, I know, we already have a reality show
called Big Brother, but I thought that would be two bit,
a little bit too much on the nose. The larger
point is we as an Americans, we want a TV host,
not an actual president, and it is damn depressing to me,
because you know what, I actually love this country, and
if you love this country, you probably want the best
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for this country. And the best is not a TV host,
not now, not ever. But let me get back to
Charlemagne and his presidential whistless wish list. I've never met
John Stewart. I think he's fabulous at what he does,
and that is political insight and commentary. I think what
Stuart done with the nine to eleven Survivors and Victims
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Fund is nothing less than admirable and remarkable. But under
no circumstances does that mean he is either suitable to
be leader of the free world or president.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We should have more respect for the office of the president.
We should.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I know that's a funny statement in and of itself,
because we don't have any respect for the office of
the president, not even a little bit zero respect for
the seriousness of the office and or its responsibilities. Not
a day goes by without our sitting president getting on
social media and starting Twitter fights with actors, singers, television hosts, athletes,
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and even radio hosts like Charlot mgne. We're not serious
about anything, least of all who should be leader of
the free world. There is something to be said for
actually having applicable experience working as a local elected official,
then state, then federal, serving on a congressional committee or too,
even working with classified intelligence and moving up that letter.
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When you do, you learn how agencies and departments work
and their purpose their importance. So you understand how the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example, actually works if you
know that it's not just one person making the stats,
so you know that it is a committee of people,
and you don't need to just fire one person, particularly
a woman, for no good damn reason.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
That's what happens when you're a TV.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Hosts, because being a TV host is not an applicable skill.
It's a deficiency and drawback, or at least it used
to be. It's actually a reason why you should absolutely
not ever be considered for President of the United States.
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