July 22, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the Weekend Box Office AND a recent outbreak that spread amongst more than 140 people aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise…PLUS – Remembrances of actor, musician, poet and activist Malcolm Jamal Warner, who has tragically passed at the age of 54 - 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 Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We're live on social media and video podcasts and on
audio the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And the box office continues to be strong.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
There are a couple of missteps this week, but number
one again was Superman. It brought in another fifty eight
million domestically, it's worldwide haul after two weeks, it's four
hundred and nine million. It is tracking just slightly ahead
of Man of Steel. That's the previous iteration of Superman
by producer and director Zack Snyder, and I think that
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will be the comparison point. If this Superman does better
than that Superman, it stands Warner Brothers and DC Movies
in a good place if it can show improvement relative
to those properties and titles.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But we're still a few weeks out. We have the.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Fantastic Four First Steps dropping this weekend, which will probably
be the number one movie this next week, so that's
gonna cut into a lot of receipts of Superman.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So we're gonna see what happens there.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That will have some say as far as how long
the legs of Superman the movie will be a big picture.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well, but have to throw it out there because David Zavla,
David David David of Warner Brothers, and James Gunn have
actually overperformed what the president of the company was actually
looking for what their projections were. So for the company,
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this is a bonafide success because they were looking at
all of the negatives going into the film, the Snyder Bros.
All the hate, the fact that it's yet another reboot
of the Superman franchise. This film had more going against
it than it had for it. So for them, they're
opening weekend projections were far below what it actually hits.
(02:02):
So right now they're over there popping bottles like the
future of DC Studios is good.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, but I still have to put it in the
context of you might have lowered your expectations be given
the hate the headwinds against it, but still in terms
of real money, we're judging DC against DC Films, not
against Marvel Films.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
No, no, no judgment aside our own personal judgment. I'm
saying from the company. The company and their report says
this is a success. What they were looking for in
their metrics, not our metrics.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
As fans.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I'm just saying for the studio and the future and
them green lighting everything. They're like they've gone on and said,
James Gunn, here's a blank check.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You go. You did exactly what you said you were
going to do, and then some here's what I was
looking for.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I made mention of this last week and following up,
I was looking to see if they were going to
add any theaters. That added one hundred and forty theaters,
which is good, which means that you're not going to
add a movie and then get rid of it the
next week. That means just go to stay there for
good two to three weeks as well. Those are just
some of the things that I look for coming in.
Second Jurassic World Rebirth is still very strong and brought
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in twenty three million. It's now it's six hundred and
fifty million dollars worldwide, and interestingly enough, it has more
international take than domestic three hundred and seventy three million
international two seventy six domestic. Whereas we may be tired
of this dinosaur franchise, the rest of the world is not,
and languages aside dinosaurs translate much better.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Did you see it, Yes, I did.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Was there any international connection or any reason why you
could think it would do so good overseas besides dinosaurs
being universal.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yes, there is an international component as far as where
it's set. It talks about what else is going on
in the world versus VSV. Dinosaurs yet there And also,
it's not America focus like the first trilogy was. It's
not about John Hammond and his vision of an amusement park.
(04:03):
It wasn't about like the amusement park that finally opened.
I think in the second trilogy this is more of
an international feel to it, okay, which may be part
of it coming in third talking about some missteps. I
know what you did last summer that sequel Slash reboot
only brought in twelve point seven million. It did twenty
four million worldwide. I think expectations were a little higher
(04:24):
for that mark. Were you interested in it as a
slasher film?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
No, I can't stand that stuff that I had no
desire to see that, even to review it and possibly
dump on it. It just seemed like a complete waste
of everybody's time.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It seems that way, and for what I've heard and
seen with every review, anecdotal word of mouth, nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Positive to say about it now.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I haven't looked at Rotten Tomatoes since last week, but
it had something like a thirty eight percent going in.
I don't know what it is now.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Coming in fourth.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Nobody asked for a Smurf's movie, but they got one,
and they spent fifty eight million on it. That was
the budget. It only brought in well thirty three million
in this first week worldwide, twenty two million international, eleven
million domestic, which says it'll make its money back probably
by the third or fourth week. But it's not going
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to be a great money maker. I mean, who was
talking about the Smurk. Do they still have a cartoon
on anywhere? Do they have any type of merchandises?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
No, I don't know. I don't know what it was
a vehicle for. I think, isn't it a vehicle for Rihanna?
It is, Well, that's only our vehicle for Rihanna.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Explain she's the star, yeah, the film, she's smurfet I
have not sees the biggest reason why anyone would bother
going to go see this because it's Rihanna's first starring role.
She's starring, it's Murfette, and it's also kind of reached
another audience. I think, because has it really well, they're kids,
I mean, because they brought it back in the movies.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I mean which kids though, who want to see I.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Don't know what kids, but I mean because don't care
about Rihanna. You're not a kid. No, no, no, not not
those kids. But this is like the or fourth one
they've done. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't know if the younger, like if Tuala's daughter
or younger is going to see this movie.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I don't know who is for. I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
And I would agree if there was what MO was
asking for, some type of cartoon or some type of
something that was out there to make kids say, oh,
I want to see a film about the Smurts younger
kids advertised. So it's barely advertised and there is no
lead of cartoon for younger for the kids, same kids
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who went to go see uh and took not Mowana,
but the Leilan and Stich took that to a billion.
That that audience they don't know anything about, you know,
the Smurfs versus Leland Stisch. There's cartoons all the time
on Disney. Plus they show the movie NonStop, so there's
a level of familiarity with kids versus smurfs. It's like,
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what is what are these blue things that are talking?
What's happening?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Since you mentioned it, Lelo and Stitch came in seventh
this week, it's now across a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Didn't see that coming.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And again, this is another movie which is performing better
outside of the United States than inside. Five hundred and
ninety million of that billion international four hundred and eighteen domestics.
So it's not like the US movie going market is
driving the success of a lot of these movies.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
But we always say Disney is not for the US
aha aha.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And they're making movies and TV shows for the world,
not just flyover America who may not like them. It's
later with Mo Kelly when we come back, We're gonna
go out in the open seas and tell you about
a Royal Caribbean vessel where one hundred and forty people
got sick. And it's the same vessel that both Tawala
and I were on on the same itinerary going to
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the same place in Mexico, so we have a little
bit of insider knowledge.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kfi AM six.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Forty KFIM six forty is later with mo Kelly everyone
in the iHeartRadio app Chateau le Mo. We had the
Fourth of July Spectacular and we had the live broadcasts
after the show was over, after we sent Jackie Ray
and their drunk ass home after Carnesia. It's doubled to
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the car. After all that, I was having a conversation
with my wife. We were thinking about what if we
did like a cruise and then we could open up
to listeners and they woul join us for like the
Fourth of July weekend. That would be something we could
think of doing. When I read this story, it's like
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Maybe not.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Because there was a gastro intestinal outbreak aboard a Royal
Caribbean cruise which sickened more than one hundred and forty
people over the fourth of July weekend, and it was
on the Navigator of the Seas, which had departed la
for a round ship cruise to ports in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It's the exact same ship that Twela.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
And I were on on the exact same itinerary.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So we know this ship from bow to stern.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
The report indicated that one hundred and thirty four of
the thirty nine hundred and fourteen passengers and seven of
twelve hundred and sixty six crew members.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's key.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
In other words, few of the crew so they kind
of know how to avoid some of this stuff, experience
symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal cramps at some point
during the cruise. And we're only talking about a three
day cruise. We're not talking about one of those seven
day crews. It could have been more if the cruise
lasted longer. As it turns out, quote, the health and
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safety of our guests, crew and the communities we visit
are our top priority.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Close quote.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
That's a spokesman for a Royal Caribbean and I say
this as someone who's getting ready to get on a
Royal Caribbean cruise next month, about a month away from
from today. To maintain an environment that supports the highest
levels of health and safety aboard our ships, we implement
rigorous cleaning procedures, many of which far eg seed public
health guidelines. Close quote Tawala, I'm not even gonna preface
(10:06):
this question. What do you remember about the rigorous demands
of cleanliness on the on the ship.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
It was non stop. It was literally nonstoff. I saw
people night and day, didn't matter what time I went out.
There was people riding on the elevators. There are people
on the stairs, spring and cleaning up and down every stair.
People at every single food area, walking around making sure
and not just making sure you wash your hands before
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you walk in. I'm talking people making sure you didn't
like like double dip of uten.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You care like no, like if you get a cup
of water, you cannot bring that same cup to get
more water at that what's the word for.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
It, you know, hit a new cup they have have
a new cup.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
They will not allow you into the food area without
you washing your hands.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
No, they will.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
They will keep you out, and they usually sing a song.
(11:19):
That's literally what they do. They have someone on a
guitar and someone else and they're singing to you, but
they're not actually singing to you. They're just watching to
make sure that they have these two lines or rows
of sinks. Before you get into what they call the
jazz the Windjammer dining hall like buffet style, you cannot
go in there without washing your hands.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
The washy washy line. It goes across, so you're not
gonna get around them, Nope, because there's someone saying, excuse me,
washy washy, and they're trying to tell you. Don't make
me come and get you without some washy washy. These numbers, though,
these numbers wouldn't stop me from getting on a cruise again,
because you said it's one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Forty out of like four thousand. Yes, that's what I'm
saying to me.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
That is a small number of probably filthy sobs that
were just actually acting a fool around there.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What did I tell you before you get on the ship,
the dues and don'ts.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Do not touch anything essentially, do not touch the rails, yep,
do not touch the buttons when you get on the elevator,
walk center line. Make sure you wash your hands even
when you go to your Even when I was going
to my room, I would still wipe off my damn
door handle.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's just things you do. I would go to make sure.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I would actually stand and wait till they put out
some fresh plates, like sh straight out the little steamer,
grab myself a couple of fresh plates, and go to
the food section. I wouldn't trail after any kids. There's
just some don't walk around without your shoes on or
your socks on. I think that because you know Mo
and you know this crew, the people who want to
hang out all night and have food near the hot tub,
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I think it's those people that got the gastrom testinal yuck.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I do not get in the hot tubs. I do
not get in the and they clean them every day.
But I said every day, there's like eighteen hours of
filth in between.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah. Yeah, and I've seen them.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I've seen them drain the hot tub, drain the pool,
they bleats the hell of that bad.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Why because those are the nasty mother fathers who don't
take a shower and they just use the pool of
the hot tub as their bathing apparatus.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yeah, those are the ones who got the bacterial funk yep.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Also, is it me or kind of like how it
was trendy to talk about all the different airplane crashes
or not crashes, but like all the different malfunctions. I
feel like I'm hearing a lot more of this type
of talk when it comes to cruises. Like I don't
know if it's just maybe because you guys talk about it,
or I think it's more it ebbs inence flows.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You know, you have some incidents with airplanes, you'll have
some incidents with with cruises. But it's night and day
better than when I first started cruising. You had to
take it upon yourself and I'm OCD. But my wife
is worse. I have a problem to this day. Have
you ever seen the movie As good as It gets?
(14:05):
Jack Nicholson, there's a scene where he goes into a
restaurant and he pulls out his own plastic where because
he doesn't want to eat with the silverware.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm kind of that guy, really.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Because whenever I go to a restaurant, I think about
the thousands of people who have used that same silverware.
And sometimes because my wife used to work for this
place called Eco Lab, not all restaurants are created the
same as far as their cleanliness and their hygiene. And
it's something at the back of my mind where I'd
rather have just a plastic forking spoon to eat with
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as opposed to the actual silverware that they give you. So, yeah,
it's sometimes you can know too much. And yeah, there
are some things which may happen on cruise ships because
there are people who don't wash their hands after go
into the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Let's be honest. I've seen it.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Yeah, I see them walk out the damn bathroom, cruse ship, drunk, nasty,
pull up their pants and just go pull up they pants,
meaning something horrible was happening in that skull.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
It happens here. Yeah, that's true. It does happening here.
It happens everywhere. Happens here.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But since you're on a ship in a relatively closed environment,
you have to take initiative as far as protecting yourself.
I don't go in the pool, don't go into jacuzzi's,
I don't touch anything, and you know I'm hyper vigilant.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
So I got Yeah, although one hundred and forty people
got sick, yes, another thirty nine hundred did not. And
part of that is because they were doing what they
were supposed to do and the ship was doing what
it was supposed to do. Because only seven crew members
got sick out of maybe like a twelve hundred or.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
So, that seems they probably caught this real quick and
shut it down.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, because you're only talk Let's say it takes twelve
thirteen hours for symptoms to manifest. We left on a Friday,
came back on a Sunday. If I'm not mistaken, yep,
so it didn't ruin the cruise. Let's say everyone got
sick on Friday, they probably didn't feel anything until Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah. No, look, I'm getting back on the cruise. This
does not deter me. Well, we work in radio. This
is talk about nasty people.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
We're using the same microphones, the same switches, the same computers.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You know. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
We've told you the stories of how some people look
work around right now.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I just went into that restaurant before coming in for
this segment, and the floor in the restroom has a
golden sheen right at the bottom of the urnal, as
if someone has just absolutely guys that there was a
bowl there to begin with, and just had to rush
in there yearning on the floor and then come right
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back in.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It's gross. Those jurnals are so horrible. It's like, did
any of it get in the bowl? It's any of it? Right?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I mean you get your your feet are spread so
wide because you don't want to step in it and
slip and bust your ass.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Weren't you guys telling me some time ago that somebody,
uh did a number two in the urine. Yes, did
a number two in the urinal, and that should be
a capital offense.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I want to know someone. I want revenge. And it
was someone I guess.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
They were not quite done and they tracked the number
two outside the stall and it was in the middle
of the floor and there forthy animals. It stayed there
for days and the cleaning crew didn't get it. Not
that of us were going to get it, but it's
just it's our bathrooms are really really bad janitors.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I wouldn't I wouldn't go near that either.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
In the female One time, my daughter had to go.
She was here with us one time and she had
to go in there and I heard her scream and
I bust in there and I'm like, think of the
movie someone there. I'm like, what she said, Daddy. Someone
just went to the bathroom all over the seat in
that stall and it looked like it looked like an outhouse,
not a porta potty, a straight outhouse where they just said,
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you know what, this is going to be the hole
and I'm just going all over the seat, all on
the damn floor.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Somebody here has a severe mental illness to it's more
than one somebody.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
There's a bunch of somebodies and it's both sexist.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
We need like a toilet Colombo to get to the
bottom of this.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
No, I don't really want to know, because the reason
is I may have to look them in the eye.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
They must be confronted.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Some of this. I do know who it is. I
it's better we just don't talk about it.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Well, tell me, tell me off the air, because I
justice must be dispensed.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
There was a host I'm not going to say who is,
and then we got to go to I've got to break.
There was a host who used to work here on
the weekends and he would usually show up barefoot.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh no, no, no, no no. And I can't say
wife beater, so it was a person beater shirt. No, no,
I think I know who you're Oh no, no.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Nice, nice, nice guy, nice Australian soup shirt.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
And you could not pay me money to walk in
that bathroom barefoot.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You could not pay me.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
He was free, willing. He didn't give two blanks about
walking around and that floor.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Like I feel skeevy just walking in with shoes.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Look, So that's why I take off my shoes when
I get home. It's like I'm not tracking that mat house.
I feel bad enough to just get in my.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Car, not to mention all the roaches. They're gone. We
haven't seen roaches in a minute. Are you sure? Because
I only see them after nine o'clock. Yeah, I haven't.
I have. I've been here pretty arly. I haven't seen it.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
They're the late night shit. Oh they were giants. Somebody
just threw a saddle on them and wrote them out
of Yeah, they were big.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
We'll be come back. We're gonna say goodbye to Malcolm
Jamal Warner.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
It's Later with mo Kelly if I have six forty
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Speaker 1 (19:36):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (20:03):
Haf I.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
It's Later with mo Kelly Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
And at the beginning of the show, we talked about
the passing of Malcolm Jamal Warner, someone I didn't know
real well, but I knew a little bit. There were
times that we hung out at events. We would say
hello to each other. I don't know if he would
remember me on any meaningful level. But when working in
(20:25):
the music industry or entertainment more generally, you would run
into Malcolm Jamal Warner because he had his hand in
so many things, from TV to music to spoken word.
He was doing a lot in the community and you
would see him. It's not any big secret, but there
was a consistency about him. He was someone who always
had time for you. He always had a kind word.
(20:47):
He was not a celebrity in the sense of stand
offish or someone who seemed to be high on his
own career or thought that he was anyone special. He
was very regular as far as stars go, extremely private.
Most people didn't even know until today that he was
married and he had a daughter, And I understand he
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he was one of those child stars who knew about
the dangers of Hollywood and how fame and celebrity had
unintended consequences for family members as well, and I appreciate
that about him and his respect for his family in
that regard. The best way to tell the story of
(21:30):
Malcolm Jamal Warner is someone who grew up in Hollywood.
I'm just going to let some of my favorite moments
of The Cosby Show. Actually just one favorite favorite moment
and this I put on my Instagram And this is
from the very first season, the very first episode of
The Cosby Show, where THEO sits down with Heathcliffe his father,
(21:55):
and his father explains basic economics to him.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Asked me to come up here and kill you. Hey,
I know you know what what.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
You're gonna say, and it's under control.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So no problem.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Right, How do you expect to get into college with
grades like this?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
No problem?
Speaker 8 (22:20):
See, I'm not going to college, damn right. I am
gonna get through high school and then get a job
like regular people.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Regular people, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
You know who work in the gas station, travel bus,
something like that.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
So what you're saying is your your mother and I
shouldn't care if you get these because you don't need
good grades to be regular people. Right, Okay, Oh, suppose
you graduate from high school. Let's say you just slide by.
(22:58):
All right, Now you gotta find a job. Now, what
kind of salary do you expect for a regular person?
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Two hundred and fifty dollars a week? Two hundred and
fifty dollars a week.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Yeah, sit down, I'm going to give you three hundred
dollars a week.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yes, indeed, three.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Hundred dollars a week, twelve hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
All right, great, I'll take you, Yes you will.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
And I will take three hundred and fifty dollars for taxes.
Whoa yeah, now now, because see the government comes for
the regular people first.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Now, now how much? How much does that leave you with?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Eight hundred and fifty dollars?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
All right?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Now, you've got to have an apartment because.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
You are not going to live here, so.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
And apart in Manhattan will run.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
You at least four hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
Wow, I'll live in New Jersey, all right.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Live in New Jersey. You've got to have a car.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I ride a motorbike.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
You need a helmet.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Figure one hundred a month for clothes, and shoot.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Figure two hundred. I want to look good, okay, So
so what's that? What does that leave you with?
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Two? So, no problem, there is a problem.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
You haven't eaten yet.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I can get by on maloney in cereal. So I
got everything I need plus.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Two live for the month. You planned to have a girlfriend,
for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And if you never.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Watched the Cosby Show, you you didn't notice that there
were a lot of a lot of stars who got
their start on the Cosby Show, someone like Adam Sandler.
His first gig was on The Cosby Show. And they
caught up to Adam Sandler. E Entertainment did on the
Red Carpet tonight and they asked him about the passing
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of Malcolm Jamal Warner.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I had to bring up the sad news. But news
did break today at the pass ilcol.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
And you got your start on the Cosby Show, Smitty,
Justine is gonna hate you for this fine because once
she spends in the evening in this limousine with us.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
The rest of our life is down hill.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
I was very very Malcolm was so nice to me
when I was on the show, and we had such
good time together. You know, I was probably eighteen and
Malcolm was probably seventeen sixteen, I don't know, Yeah, And
we would take walks together, all of us, and pick
up food, talk, played basketball, hung out on the weekends,
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went the parties together. He was so good to me
as a person and his his his mom was amazing too.
And I'm just sending my luck to the family. Malcolm
was a true great person, hilarious, smart kid and meant
a lot to.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
America and it was absolutely heartbreaking and only fifty.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
For Yeah, absolutely great man.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I'm so sorry to his wife and his child, So
thank you Fair Insight for sharing those memories with that.
It's Late with Mo Kelly. We'll catch up with George
nor in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I had my final thought in relation to the passing
of Malcolm Jamal Warner, who passed away today at the
age of fifty four.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
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how they changed one man's life.
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I was going to say, they changed my life, so
it's more than one man's life. Two oh and By
the way, we have your dream expert set up to
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You'll love him. Thank you so much. Okay, IM talk soon.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And before we go, I want to kind of finish
where I had begun, I said at the beginning of
the show. Be sure to check on your gen X friends.
We may not be doing all right. The sudden and
untimely passing of actor Malcolm Jamal Warner is probably hitting
harder than most. And there are a number of reasons why.
The Cosby Show was only on for eight years, eight seasons,
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but it dominated all of television for those eight years.
And let me give you some perspective. TV Guide listed
The Cosby Show as quote TV's biggest hit in the
nineteen eighties close quote, adding it quote almost single handedly
revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Close quote.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
You may not be old enough to remember how big
a deal the Cosby Show was. The Cosby Show also
spent five consecutive seasons as the number one rated show
on television, and along with All in the Family, if
you remember, that show is the only sitcom in the
history of the Nielsen ratings as the number one show
for five seasons. This in a world largely pre cable
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dominance and definitely decades before the word streaming passed anyone's lips.
The Cosby Show touched virtually everyone in America in a
TV sense during that era. Gen X may not be
all right tonight. That's because we collectively grew up with
The Cosby Show. Depending on your exact age, you felt
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some affinity to one or some of the Cosby kids.
Maybe you found yourself in similar straits as those fictitious
kids did, or you had a similar relationship with your
parents as they did. But the Cosby Show changed television,
and Malcolm Jamal Warner was right.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
At the center of it.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It defied stereotypes, and it raised the caliber of television sitcoms. Yet,
in this sordid circle of life, gen X, which includes me, now,
has somewhat gotten used to losing the TV dads and
moms of that era in the way most of us
have lost our real mothers and fathers. From the departure
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of All the Golden Girls to Alan Thick and Growing Pains,
Alice's Linda Lavin, to George and Weezy Jefferson, Tom and Helen, Willis,
Archie and Edith bunk Nell, Carter, Missus, Garrett and Romano,
mister Drummond, Uncle Phil all gone. But they were our
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TV parents. But now we're in the age of the
kids of those parents, leaving us our generation from Luke Perry,
Adam Rich, Gary Coleman. It's a long list, and now
we add Malcolm Jamal Warner to that list. But my
point is that life is catching up to gen X
in a real and undeniable way. TV was supposed to
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be our escape as children, and now it seemingly is
coming down and just crashing all around us.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It wasn't like Malcolm Jamal Warner was sick.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
It wasn't like he had a drug problem and was
in general declining health. We just woke up this morning
and he was gone. Just another reminder that death plays
no favorites. He was younger than me, think about that,
not by much, but he was younger than me. I
saw more life on this planet Earth than he did.
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I grew up seeing myself in the character Theo Huxtable.
There was nobody like him on TV that I could
personally identify with.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
That that matters to a kid.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I couldn't identify with either JJ or Michael Evans of
Good Times. Because I didn't grow up destitute in the projects.
I couldn't identify with Arnold or Willis Jackson because I
didn't grow up in a penthouse on Park Avenue with
a guy who adopted me and was president of a
transatlantic company.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
As different strokes if you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
And by extension, I didn't grow up with any silver
spoon in my mouth. So no, Ricky Schroeder was a
definite no for me. The Cosm Show told a story
that most mirrored my upbringing and was a staple in
my house. And to have had the opportunity to hang
out a few times with Malcolm Jamal Warner as an
adult was oftentimes surreal, like I'm kicking it with THEO.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It was weird.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
He was always in and around the music industry long
before he eventually won his Grammy in twenty fifteen. I
remember the first time I met him, and this is
just off the kuff. We spent like most of the
day together, me and some other friends from the music
industry were at the standard Hotel rooftop party, and he
was just as nice as he could be. But those
first impressions are the ones that will last forever for me.
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He was a spoken word in music, artist in his
own right, having nothing to do with his television notoriety,
and as.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Quiet as it's kept.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
He has worked the most of the original Cosby cast
since the Cosby Show Bill Cosby included. He was always
much more than THEO Huxtable or anything Cosby Show related,
an extremely private man who kept his wife and child
out of the public eye because he knew the perils
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of his celebrity and social media. We could all take
a page out of his book, but be sure to
check on your gen X friends and relatives. Real life
is life is life, and right now and we may
not be okay for kay.
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And the box office continues to be strong.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
There are a couple of missteps this week, but number
one again was Superman. It brought in another fifty eight
million domestically, it's worldwide haul after two weeks, it's four
hundred and nine million. It is tracking just slightly ahead
of Man of Steel. That's the previous iteration of Superman
by producer and director Zack Snyder, and I think that
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will be the comparison point. If this Superman does better
than that Superman, it stands Warner Brothers and DC Movies
in a good place if it can show improvement relative
to those properties and titles.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But we're still a few weeks out. We have the.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Fantastic Four First Steps dropping this weekend, which will probably
be the number one movie this next week, so that's
gonna cut into a lot of receipts of Superman.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So we're gonna see what happens there.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That will have some say as far as how long
the legs of Superman the movie will be a big picture.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well, but have to throw it out there because David Zavla,
David David David of Warner Brothers, and James Gunn have
actually overperformed what the president of the company was actually
looking for what their projections were. So for the company,
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this is a bonafide success because they were looking at
all of the negatives going into the film, the Snyder Bros.
All the hate, the fact that it's yet another reboot
of the Superman franchise. This film had more going against
it than it had for it. So for them, they're
opening weekend projections were far below what it actually hits.
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So right now they're over there popping bottles like the
future of DC Studios is good.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, but I still have to put it in the
context of you might have lowered your expectations be given
the hate the headwinds against it, but still in terms
of real money, we're judging DC against DC Films, not
against Marvel Films.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
No, no, no judgment aside our own personal judgment. I'm
saying from the company. The company and their report says
this is a success. What they were looking for in
their metrics, not our metrics.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
As fans.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I'm just saying for the studio and the future and
them green lighting everything. They're like they've gone on and said,
James Gunn, here's a blank check.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You go. You did exactly what you said you were
going to do, and then some here's what I was
looking for.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I made mention of this last week and following up,
I was looking to see if they were going to
add any theaters. That added one hundred and forty theaters,
which is good, which means that you're not going to
add a movie and then get rid of it the
next week. That means just go to stay there for
good two to three weeks as well. Those are just
some of the things that I look for coming in.
Second Jurassic World Rebirth is still very strong and brought
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in twenty three million. It's now it's six hundred and
fifty million dollars worldwide, and interestingly enough, it has more
international take than domestic three hundred and seventy three million
international two seventy six domestic. Whereas we may be tired
of this dinosaur franchise, the rest of the world is not,
and languages aside dinosaurs translate much better.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Did you see it, Yes, I did.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Was there any international connection or any reason why you
could think it would do so good overseas besides dinosaurs
being universal.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yes, there is an international component as far as where
it's set. It talks about what else is going on
in the world versus VSV. Dinosaurs yet there And also,
it's not America focus like the first trilogy was. It's
not about John Hammond and his vision of an amusement park.
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It wasn't about like the amusement park that finally opened.
I think in the second trilogy this is more of
an international feel to it, okay, which may be part
of it coming in third talking about some missteps. I
know what you did last summer that sequel Slash reboot
only brought in twelve point seven million. It did twenty
four million worldwide. I think expectations were a little higher
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for that mark. Were you interested in it as a
slasher film?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
No, I can't stand that stuff that I had no
desire to see that, even to review it and possibly
dump on it. It just seemed like a complete waste
of everybody's time.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It seems that way, and for what I've heard and
seen with every review, anecdotal word of mouth, nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Positive to say about it now.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I haven't looked at Rotten Tomatoes since last week, but
it had something like a thirty eight percent going in.
I don't know what it is now.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Coming in fourth.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Nobody asked for a Smurf's movie, but they got one,
and they spent fifty eight million on it. That was
the budget. It only brought in well thirty three million
in this first week worldwide, twenty two million international, eleven
million domestic, which says it'll make its money back probably
by the third or fourth week. But it's not going
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to be a great money maker. I mean, who was
talking about the Smurk. Do they still have a cartoon
on anywhere? Do they have any type of merchandises?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
No, I don't know. I don't know what it was
a vehicle for. I think, isn't it a vehicle for Rihanna?
It is, Well, that's only our vehicle for Rihanna.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Explain she's the star, yeah, the film, she's smurfet I
have not sees the biggest reason why anyone would bother
going to go see this because it's Rihanna's first starring role.
She's starring, it's Murfette, and it's also kind of reached
another audience. I think, because has it really well, they're kids,
I mean, because they brought it back in the movies.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I mean which kids though, who want to see I.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Don't know what kids, but I mean because don't care
about Rihanna. You're not a kid. No, no, no, not not
those kids. But this is like the or fourth one
they've done. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't know if the younger, like if Tuala's daughter
or younger is going to see this movie.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I don't know who is for. I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
And I would agree if there was what MO was
asking for, some type of cartoon or some type of
something that was out there to make kids say, oh,
I want to see a film about the Smurts younger
kids advertised. So it's barely advertised and there is no
lead of cartoon for younger for the kids, same kids
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who went to go see uh and took not Mowana,
but the Leilan and Stich took that to a billion.
That that audience they don't know anything about, you know,
the Smurfs versus Leland Stisch. There's cartoons all the time
on Disney. Plus they show the movie NonStop, so there's
a level of familiarity with kids versus smurfs. It's like,
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what is what are these blue things that are talking?
What's happening?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Since you mentioned it, Lelo and Stitch came in seventh
this week, it's now across a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Didn't see that coming.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And again, this is another movie which is performing better
outside of the United States than inside. Five hundred and
ninety million of that billion international four hundred and eighteen domestics.
So it's not like the US movie going market is
driving the success of a lot of these movies.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
But we always say Disney is not for the US
aha aha.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And they're making movies and TV shows for the world,
not just flyover America who may not like them. It's
later with Mo Kelly when we come back, We're gonna
go out in the open seas and tell you about
a Royal Caribbean vessel where one hundred and forty people
got sick. And it's the same vessel that both Tawala
and I were on on the same itinerary going to
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the same place in Mexico, so we have a little
bit of insider knowledge.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
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Forty KFIM six forty is later with mo Kelly everyone
in the iHeartRadio app Chateau le Mo. We had the
Fourth of July Spectacular and we had the live broadcasts
after the show was over, after we sent Jackie Ray
and their drunk ass home after Carnesia. It's doubled to
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the car. After all that, I was having a conversation
with my wife. We were thinking about what if we
did like a cruise and then we could open up
to listeners and they woul join us for like the
Fourth of July weekend. That would be something we could
think of doing. When I read this story, it's like
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Maybe not.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Because there was a gastro intestinal outbreak aboard a Royal
Caribbean cruise which sickened more than one hundred and forty
people over the fourth of July weekend, and it was
on the Navigator of the Seas, which had departed la
for a round ship cruise to ports in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It's the exact same ship that Twela.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
And I were on on the exact same itinerary.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So we know this ship from bow to stern.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
The report indicated that one hundred and thirty four of
the thirty nine hundred and fourteen passengers and seven of
twelve hundred and sixty six crew members.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's key.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
In other words, few of the crew so they kind
of know how to avoid some of this stuff, experience
symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal cramps at some point
during the cruise. And we're only talking about a three
day cruise. We're not talking about one of those seven
day crews. It could have been more if the cruise
lasted longer. As it turns out, quote, the health and
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safety of our guests, crew and the communities we visit
are our top priority.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Close quote.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
That's a spokesman for a Royal Caribbean and I say
this as someone who's getting ready to get on a
Royal Caribbean cruise next month, about a month away from
from today. To maintain an environment that supports the highest
levels of health and safety aboard our ships, we implement
rigorous cleaning procedures, many of which far eg seed public
health guidelines. Close quote Tawala, I'm not even gonna preface
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this question. What do you remember about the rigorous demands
of cleanliness on the on the ship.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
It was non stop. It was literally nonstoff. I saw
people night and day, didn't matter what time I went out.
There was people riding on the elevators. There are people
on the stairs, spring and cleaning up and down every stair.
People at every single food area, walking around making sure
and not just making sure you wash your hands before
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you walk in. I'm talking people making sure you didn't
like like double dip of uten.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You care like no, like if you get a cup
of water, you cannot bring that same cup to get
more water at that what's the word for.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
It, you know, hit a new cup they have have
a new cup.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
They will not allow you into the food area without
you washing your hands.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
No, they will.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
They will keep you out, and they usually sing a song.
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That's literally what they do. They have someone on a
guitar and someone else and they're singing to you, but
they're not actually singing to you. They're just watching to
make sure that they have these two lines or rows
of sinks. Before you get into what they call the
jazz the Windjammer dining hall like buffet style, you cannot
go in there without washing your hands.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
The washy washy line. It goes across, so you're not
gonna get around them, Nope, because there's someone saying, excuse me,
washy washy, and they're trying to tell you. Don't make
me come and get you without some washy washy. These numbers, though,
these numbers wouldn't stop me from getting on a cruise again,
because you said it's one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Forty out of like four thousand. Yes, that's what I'm
saying to me.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
That is a small number of probably filthy sobs that
were just actually acting a fool around there.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What did I tell you before you get on the ship,
the dues and don'ts.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Do not touch anything essentially, do not touch the rails, yep,
do not touch the buttons when you get on the elevator,
walk center line. Make sure you wash your hands even
when you go to your Even when I was going
to my room, I would still wipe off my damn
door handle.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's just things you do. I would go to make sure.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I would actually stand and wait till they put out
some fresh plates, like sh straight out the little steamer,
grab myself a couple of fresh plates, and go to
the food section. I wouldn't trail after any kids. There's
just some don't walk around without your shoes on or
your socks on. I think that because you know Mo
and you know this crew, the people who want to
hang out all night and have food near the hot tub,
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I think it's those people that got the gastrom testinal yuck.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I do not get in the hot tubs. I do
not get in the and they clean them every day.
But I said every day, there's like eighteen hours of
filth in between.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah. Yeah, and I've seen them.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I've seen them drain the hot tub, drain the pool,
they bleats the hell of that bad.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Why because those are the nasty mother fathers who don't
take a shower and they just use the pool of
the hot tub as their bathing apparatus.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yeah, those are the ones who got the bacterial funk yep.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Also, is it me or kind of like how it
was trendy to talk about all the different airplane crashes
or not crashes, but like all the different malfunctions. I
feel like I'm hearing a lot more of this type
of talk when it comes to cruises. Like I don't
know if it's just maybe because you guys talk about it,
or I think it's more it ebbs inence flows.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You know, you have some incidents with airplanes, you'll have
some incidents with with cruises. But it's night and day
better than when I first started cruising. You had to
take it upon yourself and I'm OCD. But my wife
is worse. I have a problem to this day. Have
you ever seen the movie As good as It gets?
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Jack Nicholson, there's a scene where he goes into a
restaurant and he pulls out his own plastic where because
he doesn't want to eat with the silverware.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm kind of that guy, really.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Because whenever I go to a restaurant, I think about
the thousands of people who have used that same silverware.
And sometimes because my wife used to work for this
place called Eco Lab, not all restaurants are created the
same as far as their cleanliness and their hygiene. And
it's something at the back of my mind where I'd
rather have just a plastic forking spoon to eat with
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as opposed to the actual silverware that they give you. So, yeah,
it's sometimes you can know too much. And yeah, there
are some things which may happen on cruise ships because
there are people who don't wash their hands after go
into the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Let's be honest. I've seen it.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Yeah, I see them walk out the damn bathroom, cruse ship, drunk, nasty,
pull up their pants and just go pull up they pants,
meaning something horrible was happening in that skull.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
It happens here. Yeah, that's true. It does happening here.
It happens everywhere. Happens here.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But since you're on a ship in a relatively closed environment,
you have to take initiative as far as protecting yourself.
I don't go in the pool, don't go into jacuzzi's,
I don't touch anything, and you know I'm hyper vigilant.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
So I got Yeah, although one hundred and forty people
got sick, yes, another thirty nine hundred did not. And
part of that is because they were doing what they
were supposed to do and the ship was doing what
it was supposed to do. Because only seven crew members
got sick out of maybe like a twelve hundred or.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
So, that seems they probably caught this real quick and
shut it down.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, because you're only talk Let's say it takes twelve
thirteen hours for symptoms to manifest. We left on a Friday,
came back on a Sunday. If I'm not mistaken, yep,
so it didn't ruin the cruise. Let's say everyone got
sick on Friday, they probably didn't feel anything until Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah. No, look, I'm getting back on the cruise. This
does not deter me. Well, we work in radio. This
is talk about nasty people.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
We're using the same microphones, the same switches, the same computers.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You know. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
We've told you the stories of how some people look
work around right now.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I just went into that restaurant before coming in for
this segment, and the floor in the restroom has a
golden sheen right at the bottom of the urnal, as
if someone has just absolutely guys that there was a
bowl there to begin with, and just had to rush
in there yearning on the floor and then come right
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back in.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It's gross. Those jurnals are so horrible. It's like, did
any of it get in the bowl? It's any of it? Right?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I mean you get your your feet are spread so
wide because you don't want to step in it and
slip and bust your ass.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Weren't you guys telling me some time ago that somebody,
uh did a number two in the urine. Yes, did
a number two in the urinal, and that should be
a capital offense.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I want to know someone. I want revenge. And it
was someone I guess.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
They were not quite done and they tracked the number
two outside the stall and it was in the middle
of the floor and there forthy animals. It stayed there
for days and the cleaning crew didn't get it. Not
that of us were going to get it, but it's
just it's our bathrooms are really really bad janitors.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I wouldn't I wouldn't go near that either.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
In the female One time, my daughter had to go.
She was here with us one time and she had
to go in there and I heard her scream and
I bust in there and I'm like, think of the
movie someone there. I'm like, what she said, Daddy. Someone
just went to the bathroom all over the seat in
that stall and it looked like it looked like an outhouse,
not a porta potty, a straight outhouse where they just said,
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you know what, this is going to be the hole
and I'm just going all over the seat, all on
the damn floor.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Somebody here has a severe mental illness to it's more
than one somebody.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
There's a bunch of somebodies and it's both sexist.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
We need like a toilet Colombo to get to the
bottom of this.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
No, I don't really want to know, because the reason
is I may have to look them in the eye.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
They must be confronted.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Some of this. I do know who it is. I
it's better we just don't talk about it.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Well, tell me, tell me off the air, because I
justice must be dispensed.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
There was a host I'm not going to say who is,
and then we got to go to I've got to break.
There was a host who used to work here on
the weekends and he would usually show up barefoot.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh no, no, no, no no. And I can't say
wife beater, so it was a person beater shirt. No, no,
I think I know who you're Oh no, no.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Nice, nice, nice guy, nice Australian soup shirt.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
And you could not pay me money to walk in
that bathroom barefoot.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You could not pay me.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
He was free, willing. He didn't give two blanks about
walking around and that floor.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Like I feel skeevy just walking in with shoes.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Look, So that's why I take off my shoes when
I get home. It's like I'm not tracking that mat house.
I feel bad enough to just get in my.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Car, not to mention all the roaches. They're gone. We
haven't seen roaches in a minute. Are you sure? Because
I only see them after nine o'clock. Yeah, I haven't.
I have. I've been here pretty arly. I haven't seen it.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
They're the late night shit. Oh they were giants. Somebody
just threw a saddle on them and wrote them out
of Yeah, they were big.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
We'll be come back. We're gonna say goodbye to Malcolm
Jamal Warner.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
It's Later with mo Kelly if I have six forty
Life everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, and we're still live
on YouTube as well.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Haf I.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
It's Later with mo Kelly Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
And at the beginning of the show, we talked about
the passing of Malcolm Jamal Warner, someone I didn't know
real well, but I knew a little bit. There were
times that we hung out at events. We would say
hello to each other. I don't know if he would
remember me on any meaningful level. But when working in
(20:25):
the music industry or entertainment more generally, you would run
into Malcolm Jamal Warner because he had his hand in
so many things, from TV to music to spoken word.
He was doing a lot in the community and you
would see him. It's not any big secret, but there
was a consistency about him. He was someone who always
had time for you. He always had a kind word.
(20:47):
He was not a celebrity in the sense of stand
offish or someone who seemed to be high on his
own career or thought that he was anyone special. He
was very regular as far as stars go, extremely private.
Most people didn't even know until today that he was
married and he had a daughter, And I understand he
(21:10):
he was one of those child stars who knew about
the dangers of Hollywood and how fame and celebrity had
unintended consequences for family members as well, and I appreciate
that about him and his respect for his family in
that regard. The best way to tell the story of
(21:30):
Malcolm Jamal Warner is someone who grew up in Hollywood.
I'm just going to let some of my favorite moments
of The Cosby Show. Actually just one favorite favorite moment
and this I put on my Instagram And this is
from the very first season, the very first episode of
The Cosby Show, where THEO sits down with Heathcliffe his father,
(21:55):
and his father explains basic economics to him.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Asked me to come up here and kill you. Hey,
I know you know what what.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
You're gonna say, and it's under control.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So no problem.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Right, How do you expect to get into college with
grades like this?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
No problem?
Speaker 8 (22:20):
See, I'm not going to college, damn right. I am
gonna get through high school and then get a job
like regular people.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Regular people, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
You know who work in the gas station, travel bus,
something like that.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
So what you're saying is your your mother and I
shouldn't care if you get these because you don't need
good grades to be regular people. Right, Okay, Oh, suppose
you graduate from high school. Let's say you just slide by.
(22:58):
All right, Now you gotta find a job. Now, what
kind of salary do you expect for a regular person?
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Two hundred and fifty dollars a week? Two hundred and
fifty dollars a week.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Yeah, sit down, I'm going to give you three hundred
dollars a week.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yes, indeed, three.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Hundred dollars a week, twelve hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
All right, great, I'll take you, Yes you will.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
And I will take three hundred and fifty dollars for taxes.
Whoa yeah, now now, because see the government comes for
the regular people first.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Now, now how much? How much does that leave you with?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Eight hundred and fifty dollars?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
All right?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Now, you've got to have an apartment because.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
You are not going to live here, so.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
And apart in Manhattan will run.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
You at least four hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
Wow, I'll live in New Jersey, all right.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Live in New Jersey. You've got to have a car.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I ride a motorbike.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
You need a helmet.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Figure one hundred a month for clothes, and shoot.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Figure two hundred. I want to look good, okay, So
so what's that? What does that leave you with?
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Two? So, no problem, there is a problem.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
You haven't eaten yet.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I can get by on maloney in cereal. So I
got everything I need plus.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Two live for the month. You planned to have a girlfriend,
for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And if you never.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Watched the Cosby Show, you you didn't notice that there
were a lot of a lot of stars who got
their start on the Cosby Show, someone like Adam Sandler.
His first gig was on The Cosby Show. And they
caught up to Adam Sandler. E Entertainment did on the
Red Carpet tonight and they asked him about the passing
(25:35):
of Malcolm Jamal Warner.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I had to bring up the sad news. But news
did break today at the pass ilcol.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
And you got your start on the Cosby Show, Smitty,
Justine is gonna hate you for this fine because once
she spends in the evening in this limousine with us.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
The rest of our life is down hill.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
I was very very Malcolm was so nice to me
when I was on the show, and we had such
good time together. You know, I was probably eighteen and
Malcolm was probably seventeen sixteen, I don't know, Yeah, And
we would take walks together, all of us, and pick
up food, talk, played basketball, hung out on the weekends,
(26:19):
went the parties together. He was so good to me
as a person and his his his mom was amazing too.
And I'm just sending my luck to the family. Malcolm
was a true great person, hilarious, smart kid and meant
a lot to.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
America and it was absolutely heartbreaking and only fifty.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
For Yeah, absolutely great man.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I'm so sorry to his wife and his child, So
thank you Fair Insight for sharing those memories with that.
It's Late with Mo Kelly. We'll catch up with George
nor in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I had my final thought in relation to the passing
of Malcolm Jamal Warner, who passed away today at the
age of fifty four.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
A six forty.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
It's Later with Moe Kelly KF I am six forty.
We're live on social media and the iHeartRadio app. Coming
up in just moments will be Coast to Coast am
with George Nori and I always look forward to my
conversations with him.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
As he joins me, George, how you doing, sir, great Mo.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
It's good talking to you, my friend. We're going to
be talking about an astrologer from the fifteen hundreds noster
domis for an expert, and then later on UFOs and
how they changed one man's life.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
They like you.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I was going to say, they changed my life, so
it's more than one man's life. Two oh and By
the way, we have your dream expert set up to
come on this week.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You'll love him. Thank you so much. Okay, IM talk soon.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And before we go, I want to kind of finish
where I had begun, I said at the beginning of
the show. Be sure to check on your gen X friends.
We may not be doing all right. The sudden and
untimely passing of actor Malcolm Jamal Warner is probably hitting
harder than most. And there are a number of reasons why.
The Cosby Show was only on for eight years, eight seasons,
(28:04):
but it dominated all of television for those eight years.
And let me give you some perspective. TV Guide listed
The Cosby Show as quote TV's biggest hit in the
nineteen eighties close quote, adding it quote almost single handedly
revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Close quote.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
You may not be old enough to remember how big
a deal the Cosby Show was. The Cosby Show also
spent five consecutive seasons as the number one rated show
on television, and along with All in the Family, if
you remember, that show is the only sitcom in the
history of the Nielsen ratings as the number one show
for five seasons. This in a world largely pre cable
(28:49):
dominance and definitely decades before the word streaming passed anyone's lips.
The Cosby Show touched virtually everyone in America in a
TV sense during that era. Gen X may not be
all right tonight. That's because we collectively grew up with
The Cosby Show. Depending on your exact age, you felt
(29:09):
some affinity to one or some of the Cosby kids.
Maybe you found yourself in similar straits as those fictitious
kids did, or you had a similar relationship with your
parents as they did. But the Cosby Show changed television,
and Malcolm Jamal Warner was right.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
At the center of it.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It defied stereotypes, and it raised the caliber of television sitcoms. Yet,
in this sordid circle of life, gen X, which includes me, now,
has somewhat gotten used to losing the TV dads and
moms of that era in the way most of us
have lost our real mothers and fathers. From the departure
(29:47):
of All the Golden Girls to Alan Thick and Growing Pains,
Alice's Linda Lavin, to George and Weezy Jefferson, Tom and Helen, Willis,
Archie and Edith bunk Nell, Carter, Missus, Garrett and Romano,
mister Drummond, Uncle Phil all gone. But they were our
(30:10):
TV parents. But now we're in the age of the
kids of those parents, leaving us our generation from Luke Perry,
Adam Rich, Gary Coleman. It's a long list, and now
we add Malcolm Jamal Warner to that list. But my
point is that life is catching up to gen X
in a real and undeniable way. TV was supposed to
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be our escape as children, and now it seemingly is
coming down and just crashing all around us.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It wasn't like Malcolm Jamal Warner was sick.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
It wasn't like he had a drug problem and was
in general declining health. We just woke up this morning
and he was gone. Just another reminder that death plays
no favorites. He was younger than me, think about that,
not by much, but he was younger than me. I
saw more life on this planet Earth than he did.
(31:03):
I grew up seeing myself in the character Theo Huxtable.
There was nobody like him on TV that I could
personally identify with.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
That that matters to a kid.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I couldn't identify with either JJ or Michael Evans of
Good Times. Because I didn't grow up destitute in the projects.
I couldn't identify with Arnold or Willis Jackson because I
didn't grow up in a penthouse on Park Avenue with
a guy who adopted me and was president of a
transatlantic company.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
As different strokes if you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
And by extension, I didn't grow up with any silver
spoon in my mouth. So no, Ricky Schroeder was a
definite no for me. The Cosm Show told a story
that most mirrored my upbringing and was a staple in
my house. And to have had the opportunity to hang
out a few times with Malcolm Jamal Warner as an
adult was oftentimes surreal, like I'm kicking it with THEO.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It was weird.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
He was always in and around the music industry long
before he eventually won his Grammy in twenty fifteen. I
remember the first time I met him, and this is
just off the kuff. We spent like most of the
day together, me and some other friends from the music
industry were at the standard Hotel rooftop party, and he
was just as nice as he could be. But those
first impressions are the ones that will last forever for me.
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He was a spoken word in music, artist in his
own right, having nothing to do with his television notoriety,
and as.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Quiet as it's kept.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
He has worked the most of the original Cosby cast
since the Cosby Show Bill Cosby included. He was always
much more than THEO Huxtable or anything Cosby Show related,
an extremely private man who kept his wife and child
out of the public eye because he knew the perils
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of his celebrity and social media. We could all take
a page out of his book, but be sure to
check on your gen X friends and relatives. Real life
is life is life, and right now and we may
not be okay for kay.
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