April 29, 2025 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the Weekend Box Office AND the role ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ played in keeping actor Sebastian Stan afloat before he landed the role as ‘Bucky Barnes’ in the MCU…PLUS – Thoughts on the 2025 Rock and Roll HoF inductees - 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
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
And also YouTube It's Later with Moe Kelly, We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. And then got to say,
I did not expect that Sinners would have as good
a second a weekend as it did the first weekend.
It only dropped four point eight percent from last week,
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which is the lowest drop from the first week to
the second week for a wide release movie in the
history of cinema. When I say that that's unheard of,
it is literally unheard of. No one has ever heard
of that happening, nor seen it happening. Sinners came in
number one. It's forty five point seven million. The week
(00:49):
previous it was forty eight million. Now it has a
worldwide growth of one hundred and sixty three million, and
it has an international take of forty million, and it
is growing. For what I mean by that is it
only had fifteen million international its first week and now
it has another twenty five million added onto it, meaning
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it's gaining momentum internationally. Domestically, it added another forty theaters.
That's unusual for a horror movie. Horror movies, especially if
they're rated R, are usually limited in their appeal to
movie theaters. One, not all theaters are going to show
rated R movies. It's definitely in our movie. And also
(01:35):
it's a mostly African American cast. Is probably not playing
in Idaho? Can we tell the truth? So the ceiling.
Most people thought work was on the movie for the
first week, But it's adding theaters, it's retaining its average
take per theater, something that we just haven't seen before.
And it remained obviously at number one in its second week.
(01:58):
Interestingly enough, did you see what came in second place
this week? Tuola? I did? I thought that was going
to do better. I well, put it this way, I
didn't know that there was such a market to see
the twentieth anniversary re release of Star Wars Episode three,
Revenge of the Sith first. It's hard to believe that
(02:20):
was twenty years ago. Yes, And Hayden Christian Heaton Christiansen,
he's not aging well.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay, okay, okay, okay. He has had a fantastic resurgence.
His appearance at the Star Wars Festival in Japan recently
literally tore the roof off his announcement that he's coming
back for the next season of Ahsoka, and there is
now till because there is such a fervor surrounding him.
(02:52):
There is actually talk of doing a live action series,
kind of like Clone Wars, where we're going to see
some other adventures and the Cain Obi Wan and soaking
all them as adults growing up live action. I'm like,
cuz he's popping right now. So yeah, the re release
did good.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Twenty five million, and that does go to the total
of Star Wars Episode three Revenge of the Sif they
don't separate it, it's just all put in one pot.
Coming in third this week is The Accountant two. I
rewatched The account at one last night so I could
get myself ready to see The Accountant two. Yes, I
went back to the theater. I tried to, you know,
(03:33):
forget what happened last time. I was a real big
fan of the first Accountant, Ben Affleck, JK. Simmons the
Accountant too. Let me just put it this way, see
the first one because there are a lot of threads
which are carried over to the second one. There are
plot lines, there are characters, there are storylines in character
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history which won't make any sense at all if you've
not seen the first one and seen it recently, to
refresh your memory so you know who this person is,
their backstory, because they're not going to introduce to people.
You're just gonna have to kind of know who they
are and importance to the overall story arc. Ben Affleck,
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I think is actually a pretty damn good actor. He
obviously plays an autistic savant killer. He is a killer,
but the way he processes information is different from the
rest of us, as we're called normies. It's a great
acting performance. It probably won't get to just do that.
(04:36):
I think it deserves. John Bernthall is hilarious in this.
He's actually playing a comedic brother killer he was in
the first one, but you get to see more of
his character's personality. It only when I say it only
brought in twenty four million, which is not bad. It
wasn't a huge release. It was only in thirty six
hundred theaters for an action movie. I'm expecting over four
(04:57):
thousand theaters.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It wasn't let's say that's not a film that's was
widely released the first time, true, and it's not a
film that has a huge following. I'd say almost now
it's grown more of a cult following because but I
talk about a lot of people are like, what is
the accountant?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Most people right the first movie, it's almost like either
you saw it or you didn't. You either liked it
or you didn't. But it wasn't one which generated a
lot of publicity. Now I liked it. So when and
I talked about this back in the end of twenty
twenty four, I was looking forward to this sequel, and
I'm glad they did it. I think it did the
first one pretty good. Justice. I enjoyed it. I understand
(05:33):
if other people don't necessarily care for it. But it
brought in thirty seven million worldwide. I don't think the
budget could have been too large on this one. Let
me look it up real quick. It's forty four million
and it brought in thirty seven million worldwide. Okay, this
first week they're doing Okay, you know what that means?
Mark number three? There you go, Yeah, because they're just
making money. Does the story call for a number for
(05:55):
a third time? Yes, it does. It does because this
is not get anything away there just a Ben Affleck's
character is was an accountant for the mob and he
was doing a lot of illegal stuff with a lot
of shady characters. He also has ties to the federal
government and JK. Simmons character was using the accountant to
(06:20):
help solve crimes in the first movie.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I didn't realize the first one made as much as
it did. I'm seeing one hundred and fifty five million bucks.
It's slow burn, Yeah, I guess so. And I didn't
realize people were clamoring for sequels to that. I kind
of enjoyed it, but I don't know if anyone was clamoring.
I think this one was just done. I don't know
if anyone was, like, hey, you know, I think I
think there was more than just a little bit of
(06:43):
a push. When you talk about one hundred and fifty
five million for a more obscure Ben Affleck movie, which
has done better than a lot of his movies as
of late. There's enough of an audience where now I
know they wanted more than a twenty four million domestic
haul for its first week, but it's doing well enough
to justify a third movie.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
There's enough story to be told. The way they tell it,
it's almost episodic, where in this movie it's a very
specific story about helping a very specific family almost in
the in an equalizer sort of way. I don't want
to give that.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Was the first one when he was helping a girl,
right or was she just hard? Did she just get
caught up in the accounting? Yeah, she got caught up
in the first one. Talking about actress Anna Kendrick.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
She was a secondary character who was introduced midway and
because of what Ben Affleck's character and Anna Kendrick's character
revealed through their accounting, she all of a sudden was
in danger.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Did he help her file an extension?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Here we go? Damn it, here we go. No time
out for you. Guesser. What aust say is watch the
first movie. It prepares you for the second movie, because
otherwise you'll see these characters like why should I care
(08:07):
about them? Well, you need to see the first movie
to know why you should care about that. I saw
the first one maybe two years ago and right, and
you need to see it again just to get yourself
up to date. And it'll make the second movie make
all that much more sense. We have JK. Simmons in
the first movie. When you see him in a second movie,
you won't have any You will not be any way
(08:27):
unclear as far as what he's doing, why he's doing,
why he's there. What about the action?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We were talking about movies with satisfying action before we
got on the air. Is the violence in this satisfying?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Is it good? The violence in this is satisfying, But
there's not as much as the first one, the first one.
You see the first one. No, no, he is, he is,
but it's not on the site. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Maybe he needs to hold people to account. He does,
he does, This is gonna be a lower filing.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
No no, no, no, no no no no, he's going ten.
I promise you, I promise you. Okay, Okayn to follow
a schedule see on.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That ass my my biggest question because already West One
Call is just now available on streaming.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
A working man, Yeah, we're like, what the hell? How soon? Like?
How many weeks before I have to? Oh? I would
say three to four weeks if you're well enough. It's
first week they're going to keep it in theaters. Okay,
three to four weeks. We gotta go to break. But
I got to remind you. We're gonna give away another
pair of tickets to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair in Irwindale
(09:32):
later on tonight, so you gotta keep listening, you gotta
keep watching on a YouTube stream. And the tickets were
given out tonight are good through May eleven, so you
don't have to feel like you have to rush. But
highly recommend the Renaissance Pleasure Fair in Irwindale. That's coming
up soon. It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live on
YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Kay if I am sixty, I mean that's what I want.
I want to give them free Fenton All, I can't
understand what you're saying. You wanted to get with them?
What I want to give them all the fent and
all they want. It's Later with Mokelly. We're live everywhere
the iHeartRadio App. Let's talk about Sebastian's Stan real quick,
Sebastians Dan. You know that's the actor who plays Bucky Barnes,
(10:26):
the Winter Soldier in the MCU, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
I did not know Twala that he's actually Romanian, as
in born in Romania. Wait wait, what he's Romanian? The
Romanian born actor? I did not know that. Wow, I
didn't know that, and it probably explains Yes, I know
(10:49):
Romanians don't speak Russian, but I'm saying it probably explains
why his Russian pronunciation was so good. Yeah. Yeah, it's
much more believable. That mean, if you're from an Eastern
Bloc country, you probably heard some Russian. You know, he
probably can pronounce it better than most.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I always assumed that Stan was a shortened version of
some European name. Do you think so it's got a
ski at the end of it?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
For sure? Maybe I just thought it was a stage
name of some sort. But who knows with actors today,
But someone will look it up and tell me, like
Mark or it's not on Wikipedia. I don't know what
it is Stanlopolis. That would be greed. Yeah, keep trying, okay,
But anyhow, Sebastian Stan and I barely. I didn't remember
(11:32):
him from the movie Hot Tub Time Machine. Do you
I like that movie? I just don't remember him. I
remember William Zabka more than I do Sebastian Stan. Yeah,
I don't remember him in at all. I love that movie.
I did too. No, there was a lot wrong with it,
the fact that they had a brother with a high
top fade, and the movie was set in nineteen eighty six.
That was incorrect. They do not have the high top
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fade in nineteen eighty six. You got to hire a
consultant for that stuff. Well you should. I'm being serious
because people who lived through that time remember that time.
There are some things they just got wrong. But I
still think fondly about the movie. I mentioned Hot Tub
Time Machine because Sebastian Stan, who is in that twenty
ten movie, he credits that movie with keeping his career
(12:17):
alive and keeping him afloat personally. Quote. I was actually
struggling with work, and this is in a conversation with
Vanity Fair. I had just gotten off the phone with
my business manager, who told me I was saved by
sixty five thousand dollars that came in residuals from Hot
(12:38):
Tub Time Machine. I'm thinking, if not for Hot Tub
Time Machine, Sebastian Stan may have given up on acting.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
We wouldn't have the coolest Winter Soldier possible.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Absolutely, he may have gone on to do something else
in life. And people, I think forget how difficult it
is to make it in Hollywood as an actor. It's
not just you know, you do a movie and it's
rainbows and roses. After that, you have Sebastian Stan who
was working relatively consistently but could not stay afloat. He
(13:13):
was in a major motion picture, Hot Tough Time Machine.
He was able to bring in sixty five thousand residuals,
which meant that he at least had that much in
his actual appearance in Hot Tough Time Machine. So he
made a little money. But the money doesn't last forever.
You still have to keep working. And it wasn't if
this was twenty ten. The Winter Soldier came out in
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twenty fourteen, and I don't know if he had any
credits in between, but that's a long time in between.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I'm sure those Marvel movies have saved more than one career.
I saw an interview with Paul Bettany talking about how
he was, oh yes, sitting on a curb thinking his
career was done before he got the part of the vision.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, don't forget about Robert Downe Jr. And there are
a lot of people who have been saved and resurrected
by Marvel.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Oh yeah, Sebastian's stands. According to research here, Sebastian Stan's
real name is indeed Sebastian stan middle name. As in Romania,
many individuals are born with no middle name.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
My wife doesn't have a middle name. Does that mean
she was born in Romania? It's probably that's the reason.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Probably, maybe there's some Romanian ancestry that's, you know, in her.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Lineas who knows, who knows? Now it makes me want
to see Hot Top time she But look at the
people who were in Hot Top Time to she. They
are all relatively known or working actors. You know, John Cusack,
Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, you would know at least by face.
But arguably Sebastian Stan is the most successful of all
(14:48):
of them. At this point, you think about his tree
Robinson he keeps the check going. No, he keeps a
check going. But Sebastian Stan was just recently nominated for
an Oscar. Oh yeah, there's levels for this. The kids say, yeah, yeah,
the junk everyone Come on now, come on now, I
like John Cusack, come on stop it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
He's good and he's leading. He is leading U the
Thunderbolt film. He is the sane person in that film.
Sebastian Stan is keeping a check mark don't forget Sunday thunderbolts.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That's Sunday. That's guy's afternoon. Out. Wait a second, what
time it's we're going to eat beforehand? During the day. Yes,
it's during the day. Yes, it's your morning hour dark.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
You have not forgotten, sir, I promise you you have
not forgotten.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh no, no, I have not forgotten about it. You
don't want that. We're going to be doing giving because
the movie.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
The movie is Sunday at four fifteen, so we can
have a nice lunch beforehand. Yes, wouldn't you rather eat
afterward in the evening? You could do both. I'm just
saying I'm treating beforehand.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I see. Okay, Now what you do at you know,
seven o'clock or whatever when the movie's over, that's on you.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I'm looking forward to this event that we have scheduled
in advance.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You just forgot, forgot, you're not doing anything else. Don't
even try. Okay, he's gonna he's gonna try to pull something,
coming down with something.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, he's gonna pull out or something like that. Come on, Mark,
you gotta stay in. I'll be there, you shot, I'll
be in.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, it's late with okey, we're gonna talk about Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. They're no longer nominees. The
inducted class has been announced. That's coming up, as well
as your chance to win a pair of tickets to
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we'll have them. We'll have them, wait right now? We
could do it later? Wait, which is right now? We'll
have wait? In the name of God? Which is it?
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We talked about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
the nominee class some months ago when it was just
announced you had first time nominees like Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker,
Bad Company. Well they are going to be inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Also Cindy Lopper
also and this is going to really piss off Mark Roner,
(19:01):
Rap Pioneers, Outcast, okay a yes, rock duo, the White
Stripes Yep, Yep, and grunge masters Sound Garden, Yes, yes,
I look, you could play black Hole Son at my funeral.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Well it's as well, Look it is a dir How
dare you stop using words we don't know the meanings
of You don't know the meaning of dirt? Well, it's
what they play at funerals. Okay, that does not qualify
so' supporting you?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I guess. So I just don't trust anything he says,
nor should you. Also, also, you know who was also inducted,
Salt and Pepper.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Congratulations to d D Roper. Uh Spinderella you know them?
You don't know them?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah, I've met them on a
couple occasions, but you know them?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Spin is my ace love Spinderella and uh that that
need nothing but joy for them to not only be
nominated and that they will be going in, but that
it seems to have healed old wounds and they are.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Coming together again as a group. There was a lot of.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Strife, acrimony, acrimony public, and they've all been very public
about it. So this isn't me spreading rumors. They've all
been very very public about it. But this has made
them look back and say, you know what, y'all, we
need to come together because we're better together than we
are a part. So I will absolutely be tuning in
to see them get their flowers.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
There are other folks, you know, Musical Influence Award and
Musical Excellence Award, but just talking about the main inductees,
I think they're all absolutely deserving. And I always have
to put this disclaimer out there because people don't know
what the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is. Yes,
it's not for the rock genre. It's just called the
(21:02):
rock and Roll Hall of Fame meaningless is what you're saying. No,
it's completely going through. Why do you hate music Hall
of Fame? Okay, they just call it the Rock Hall
of Fame, which is more about counter culture than it
is the music genre. The corporate success Hall of Fame. Okay, no,
(21:24):
it's definitely not corporate success because there are a lot
of people who are missing from this rock hall. Let
me tell you, but every single year I have someone
who will email me, tweet me when I was on Twitter,
hit me on Insta. I don't understand how you can
say that Salt Pepper deserves to be in a rock
and roll Hall of Fame. They do rap music. I know,
(21:46):
I know they and I always have the same answer,
why don't you go tell me who is on the
first inductee list, names like Ray Charles, Sam Cook, James Brown.
It's not rock and roll. It's counterculture. It's not a
rock genre. And I'll have to have this same freaking
(22:07):
conversation next year because people like Mark Runner over there
who are insistent on making this about the rock genre.
And I love me some rock music, but it doesn't
apply to the Hall of things. Look at this face.
It's inclusive of rock music and rock artists.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So I guess we can expect any sometime soon.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Huh. Maybe if they What are you doing? What are
you doing? What are you doing? A lot of more said,
I don't know. Yeah, well, Beach Boys it's some bing
Crosby maybe maybe, Yeah, I don't know. Beach Boys isn't in.
I don't know. I don't think they are. Let's look
it up.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
They absolutely desire I don't think they're in. Based on
the qualifications. The Beach Boys absolutely should be in. You know,
Beach Boys Rock Hall of Fame. How they were inducted
nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
What I'm talking? What about?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Whoever composed the music on the speakers at kmart? Is
he going to get inducted?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Uh? That could be under Musical Influence award? Okay, serious? Okay,
good damnit park, that's influence. Look, you'll never walk into
the kmart the same way if they were still open. Huh?
Any other smart ass for Mars?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
No, No, this makes perfect sense, and I'm glad you
brought it to my attention.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
All right, get tripping? Can we go to break?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Are you composed enough after making all of your jokes?
No jokes here?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
This is serious business and you're doing a valuable public service.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You want to let a laugh track to go along
with it? No? No, no, you sure you're positive? Give
give me another joke, Mark, before we go to Rick.
Who else is going to be on the list? Do
you think.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Len we get some yacht rock into the Hall of
Fame too, because I like that. Actually there is some
yacht raw. I just don't know all the artists.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Let me see right on man, Christopher Cross, Yes, rock
Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame. Well, he was looking
that up. The introduction.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Mark is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has
a significant criteria, including significant impact and influence on rock
and roll music, I e. All music. Oh yeah, you
know who's missing is New Shoes. They had that I
can't wait song that they shall meet.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, New Shoes don't doom Doom doom.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
We got to start a petition. Yeah, I put him
in one hit wonder you certainly would. How about Jane Child?
Do you remember her?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I do?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I always wanted to tug that chain from her nose
to her ear. You No, she was a prince fine
as a matter of fact, barely. Yeah, prince discovered her.
That explains yep. I don't want to fall in love
her only hit that explains her. It's a letter with
Moke Kelly. We gonna che with George Norri and also
I have my final thought. We're live everywhere on YouTube.
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We've got a classic Coast to Coast show tonight.
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I absolutely love it. I'll be listening on my way
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out of here and give you my final thought. I
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twenty thousand people each weekend. Now, the tickets we're given
out right now are good through May eleventh. So let's
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your caller number seven, you and a guest will be
going to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair. And let me get
to this final thought. And it's connected to a conversation
(26:30):
I had with Jackie Ray during Beyond the box Score,
and it's something we've touched upon before, but we have
to update it. I don't like when people want to
have it both ways. Supposedly you're about principle, you have
strong beliefs, but a lot of times you want it
both ways. You want you as they say, your cake
(26:52):
and eat it as well. I don't like when someone
wants to hold me to a standard that they themselves
can't meet or have no intentions of meeting. Super Bowl
MVP and Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts chose not to
(27:12):
go to the White House with the rest of his
team today as part of the White House celebration for champions.
The visit was announced earlier this month, but it was
never a foregone conclusion. I say that because the team
opted not to visit the White House when the organization
last won the Super Bowl in twenty eighteen. But today
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was the team celebration at the White House, and in
the weeks leading up to it, Jalen Hurts and others
were asked incessantly about whether they would attend. In fact,
we have video of it right now on our YouTube channel.
But this is not the players inviting the scrutiny. This
is the media asking them over and over again, are
you going to go? If not, why, what are the
(27:55):
reasons why you would or would not go? And that
has been flo was our expectations, both positive and negative.
But it's not something the players have encouraged. Not Jalen Hurts,
in fact, he's had no comment about it at any time.
There are some who continue to say that players have
a responsibility to show up, and they will say things
(28:18):
like it's about honoring the president. I've heard that again
and again. Honoring the president, respecting the president. Well, that's
weird because it actually isn't. It's about honoring the team.
The team won the championship, the team got the invite.
You're celebrating the team and it's a bit dishonest to
pay more attention to Jalen Hurts not attending, who said nothing,
(28:40):
as opposed to a player like Freddie Freeman for the Dodgers,
who also didn't show up supposedly because he was injured.
I think he played the next night, so I guess
he felt better. Are we supposed to believe the Freeman
injury excuse but not Jalen Hurts because in a media sense,
it was far more focused on Jalen Hurts for whatever reasons.
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But again, this is why we need to do away
with the tradition. I have been consistent do away with it.
It's not about sighting, it's about ending. It no longer
holds the same perception. Traditions do come and go. Just
this past weekend, for example, the White House correspondence dinner
went without a comedian. That broke tradition. That too, was
(29:23):
done because the politics of the day just couldn't be overcome.
It's just not the same anymore. And another tradition, the
president used to attend that event. Donald Trump broke that
tradition during his first term as president. My point is,
traditions come and they go. My point is it's been done.
(29:46):
Traditions are not forever. You don't have to continue traditions
which are either out of step with the times or
put those connected to the tradition in uncomfortable or impossible situations.
I do remember telling you about musicians and performers who
received considerable pushback for performing for the Trump inauguration, including
(30:07):
artists like Snoop Dogg. It wasn't always like this, but
it's like this now, like it or not. For as
much as we talk about free speech, and this goes
back to principles and having it both ways, we got
to be mindful that free speech. It's a conversation. It's
not just a monologue. You have your say, I have
(30:27):
my say, athletes have their say, the President has his say.
But like I said at the top, we can't have
it both ways. Sports has always included politics, always, from
Jesse Owens at the Olympics to Muhammad Ali to Tommy
Smith and John Carlos. Oh, you probably don't know who
that who they were? You better google them. To Jackie
(30:49):
Robinson to Billy Jean King and Bobby Riggs. The list
is endless. Regardless of decade, politics have been part of
the sports landscape. But we've never had a time in
which a president was so actively involved in political dialogue
surrounding sports in so many ways, it's just different now. Nonetheless,
(31:10):
we can't have it both ways. If the expectation and
I'm coming home, if the expectation is that athletes are
to all visit the White House when invited, then there
should be equal emphasis on the president staying out of
sports commentary, which would include trans people in sports you
thought I forgot. Can't have it both ways. Be angry
(31:31):
at both, or be angry at neither. But you gotta
make a choice. Otherwise principles don't matter. For k I
am six forty, I'm mo Kelly. If you missed it,
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Speaker 3 (31:45):
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And also YouTube It's Later with Moe Kelly, We're live
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I did not expect that Sinners would have as good
a second a weekend as it did the first weekend.
It only dropped four point eight percent from last week,
(00:27):
which is the lowest drop from the first week to
the second week for a wide release movie in the
history of cinema. When I say that that's unheard of,
it is literally unheard of. No one has ever heard
of that happening, nor seen it happening. Sinners came in
number one. It's forty five point seven million. The week
(00:49):
previous it was forty eight million. Now it has a
worldwide growth of one hundred and sixty three million, and
it has an international take of forty million, and it
is growing. For what I mean by that is it
only had fifteen million international its first week and now
it has another twenty five million added onto it, meaning
(01:12):
it's gaining momentum internationally. Domestically, it added another forty theaters.
That's unusual for a horror movie. Horror movies, especially if
they're rated R, are usually limited in their appeal to
movie theaters. One, not all theaters are going to show
rated R movies. It's definitely in our movie. And also
(01:35):
it's a mostly African American cast. Is probably not playing
in Idaho? Can we tell the truth? So the ceiling.
Most people thought work was on the movie for the
first week, But it's adding theaters, it's retaining its average
take per theater, something that we just haven't seen before.
And it remained obviously at number one in its second week.
(01:58):
Interestingly enough, did you see what came in second place
this week? Tuola? I did? I thought that was going
to do better. I well, put it this way, I
didn't know that there was such a market to see
the twentieth anniversary re release of Star Wars Episode three,
Revenge of the Sith first. It's hard to believe that
(02:20):
was twenty years ago. Yes, And Hayden Christian Heaton Christiansen,
he's not aging well.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay, okay, okay, okay. He has had a fantastic resurgence.
His appearance at the Star Wars Festival in Japan recently
literally tore the roof off his announcement that he's coming
back for the next season of Ahsoka, and there is
now till because there is such a fervor surrounding him.
(02:52):
There is actually talk of doing a live action series,
kind of like Clone Wars, where we're going to see
some other adventures and the Cain Obi Wan and soaking
all them as adults growing up live action. I'm like,
cuz he's popping right now. So yeah, the re release
did good.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Twenty five million, and that does go to the total
of Star Wars Episode three Revenge of the Sif they
don't separate it, it's just all put in one pot.
Coming in third this week is The Accountant two. I
rewatched The account at one last night so I could
get myself ready to see The Accountant two. Yes, I
went back to the theater. I tried to, you know,
(03:33):
forget what happened last time. I was a real big
fan of the first Accountant, Ben Affleck, JK. Simmons the
Accountant too. Let me just put it this way, see
the first one because there are a lot of threads
which are carried over to the second one. There are
plot lines, there are characters, there are storylines in character
(03:54):
history which won't make any sense at all if you've
not seen the first one and seen it recently, to
refresh your memory so you know who this person is,
their backstory, because they're not going to introduce to people.
You're just gonna have to kind of know who they
are and importance to the overall story arc. Ben Affleck,
(04:15):
I think is actually a pretty damn good actor. He
obviously plays an autistic savant killer. He is a killer,
but the way he processes information is different from the
rest of us, as we're called normies. It's a great
acting performance. It probably won't get to just do that.
(04:36):
I think it deserves. John Bernthall is hilarious in this.
He's actually playing a comedic brother killer he was in
the first one, but you get to see more of
his character's personality. It only when I say it only
brought in twenty four million, which is not bad. It
wasn't a huge release. It was only in thirty six
hundred theaters for an action movie. I'm expecting over four
(04:57):
thousand theaters.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It wasn't let's say that's not a film that's was
widely released the first time, true, and it's not a
film that has a huge following. I'd say almost now
it's grown more of a cult following because but I
talk about a lot of people are like, what is
the accountant?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Most people right the first movie, it's almost like either
you saw it or you didn't. You either liked it
or you didn't. But it wasn't one which generated a
lot of publicity. Now I liked it. So when and
I talked about this back in the end of twenty
twenty four, I was looking forward to this sequel, and
I'm glad they did it. I think it did the
first one pretty good. Justice. I enjoyed it. I understand
(05:33):
if other people don't necessarily care for it. But it
brought in thirty seven million worldwide. I don't think the
budget could have been too large on this one. Let
me look it up real quick. It's forty four million
and it brought in thirty seven million worldwide. Okay, this
first week they're doing Okay, you know what that means?
Mark number three? There you go, Yeah, because they're just
making money. Does the story call for a number for
(05:55):
a third time? Yes, it does. It does because this
is not get anything away there just a Ben Affleck's
character is was an accountant for the mob and he
was doing a lot of illegal stuff with a lot
of shady characters. He also has ties to the federal
government and JK. Simmons character was using the accountant to
(06:20):
help solve crimes in the first movie.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I didn't realize the first one made as much as
it did. I'm seeing one hundred and fifty five million bucks.
It's slow burn, Yeah, I guess so. And I didn't
realize people were clamoring for sequels to that. I kind
of enjoyed it, but I don't know if anyone was clamoring.
I think this one was just done. I don't know
if anyone was, like, hey, you know, I think I
think there was more than just a little bit of
(06:43):
a push. When you talk about one hundred and fifty
five million for a more obscure Ben Affleck movie, which
has done better than a lot of his movies as
of late. There's enough of an audience where now I
know they wanted more than a twenty four million domestic
haul for its first week, but it's doing well enough
to justify a third movie.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
There's enough story to be told. The way they tell it,
it's almost episodic, where in this movie it's a very
specific story about helping a very specific family almost in
the in an equalizer sort of way. I don't want
to give that.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Was the first one when he was helping a girl,
right or was she just hard? Did she just get
caught up in the accounting? Yeah, she got caught up
in the first one. Talking about actress Anna Kendrick.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
She was a secondary character who was introduced midway and
because of what Ben Affleck's character and Anna Kendrick's character
revealed through their accounting, she all of a sudden was
in danger.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Did he help her file an extension?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Here we go? Damn it, here we go. No time
out for you. Guesser. What aust say is watch the
first movie. It prepares you for the second movie, because
otherwise you'll see these characters like why should I care
(08:07):
about them? Well, you need to see the first movie
to know why you should care about that. I saw
the first one maybe two years ago and right, and
you need to see it again just to get yourself
up to date. And it'll make the second movie make
all that much more sense. We have JK. Simmons in
the first movie. When you see him in a second movie,
you won't have any You will not be any way
(08:27):
unclear as far as what he's doing, why he's doing,
why he's there. What about the action?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We were talking about movies with satisfying action before we
got on the air. Is the violence in this satisfying?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Is it good? The violence in this is satisfying, But
there's not as much as the first one, the first one.
You see the first one. No, no, he is, he is,
but it's not on the site. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Maybe he needs to hold people to account. He does,
he does, This is gonna be a lower filing.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
No no, no, no, no no no no, he's going ten.
I promise you, I promise you. Okay, Okayn to follow
a schedule see on.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That ass my my biggest question because already West One
Call is just now available on streaming.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
A working man, Yeah, we're like, what the hell? How soon? Like?
How many weeks before I have to? Oh? I would
say three to four weeks if you're well enough. It's
first week they're going to keep it in theaters. Okay,
three to four weeks. We gotta go to break. But
I got to remind you. We're gonna give away another
pair of tickets to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair in Irwindale
(09:32):
later on tonight, so you gotta keep listening, you gotta
keep watching on a YouTube stream. And the tickets were
given out tonight are good through May eleven, so you
don't have to feel like you have to rush. But
highly recommend the Renaissance Pleasure Fair in Irwindale. That's coming
up soon. It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live on
YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (10:02):
Kay if I am sixty, I mean that's what I want.
I want to give them free Fenton All, I can't
understand what you're saying. You wanted to get with them?
What I want to give them all the fent and
all they want. It's Later with Mokelly. We're live everywhere
the iHeartRadio App. Let's talk about Sebastian's Stan real quick,
Sebastians Dan. You know that's the actor who plays Bucky Barnes,
(10:26):
the Winter Soldier in the MCU, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
I did not know Twala that he's actually Romanian, as
in born in Romania. Wait wait, what he's Romanian? The
Romanian born actor? I did not know that. Wow, I
didn't know that, and it probably explains Yes, I know
(10:49):
Romanians don't speak Russian, but I'm saying it probably explains
why his Russian pronunciation was so good. Yeah. Yeah, it's
much more believable. That mean, if you're from an Eastern
Bloc country, you probably heard some Russian. You know, he
probably can pronounce it better than most.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I always assumed that Stan was a shortened version of
some European name. Do you think so it's got a
ski at the end of it?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
For sure? Maybe I just thought it was a stage
name of some sort. But who knows with actors today,
But someone will look it up and tell me, like
Mark or it's not on Wikipedia. I don't know what
it is Stanlopolis. That would be greed. Yeah, keep trying, okay,
But anyhow, Sebastian Stan and I barely. I didn't remember
(11:32):
him from the movie Hot Tub Time Machine. Do you
I like that movie? I just don't remember him. I
remember William Zabka more than I do Sebastian Stan. Yeah,
I don't remember him in at all. I love that movie.
I did too. No, there was a lot wrong with it,
the fact that they had a brother with a high
top fade, and the movie was set in nineteen eighty six.
That was incorrect. They do not have the high top
(11:53):
fade in nineteen eighty six. You got to hire a
consultant for that stuff. Well you should. I'm being serious
because people who lived through that time remember that time.
There are some things they just got wrong. But I
still think fondly about the movie. I mentioned Hot Tub
Time Machine because Sebastian Stan, who is in that twenty
ten movie, he credits that movie with keeping his career
(12:17):
alive and keeping him afloat personally. Quote. I was actually
struggling with work, and this is in a conversation with
Vanity Fair. I had just gotten off the phone with
my business manager, who told me I was saved by
sixty five thousand dollars that came in residuals from Hot
(12:38):
Tub Time Machine. I'm thinking, if not for Hot Tub
Time Machine, Sebastian Stan may have given up on acting.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
We wouldn't have the coolest Winter Soldier possible.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Absolutely, he may have gone on to do something else
in life. And people, I think forget how difficult it
is to make it in Hollywood as an actor. It's
not just you know, you do a movie and it's
rainbows and roses. After that, you have Sebastian Stan who
was working relatively consistently but could not stay afloat. He
(13:13):
was in a major motion picture, Hot Tough Time Machine.
He was able to bring in sixty five thousand residuals,
which meant that he at least had that much in
his actual appearance in Hot Tough Time Machine. So he
made a little money. But the money doesn't last forever.
You still have to keep working. And it wasn't if
this was twenty ten. The Winter Soldier came out in
(13:36):
twenty fourteen, and I don't know if he had any
credits in between, but that's a long time in between.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I'm sure those Marvel movies have saved more than one career.
I saw an interview with Paul Bettany talking about how
he was, oh yes, sitting on a curb thinking his
career was done before he got the part of the vision.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, don't forget about Robert Downe Jr. And there are
a lot of people who have been saved and resurrected
by Marvel.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Oh yeah, Sebastian's stands. According to research here, Sebastian Stan's
real name is indeed Sebastian stan middle name. As in Romania,
many individuals are born with no middle name.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
My wife doesn't have a middle name. Does that mean
she was born in Romania? It's probably that's the reason.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Probably, maybe there's some Romanian ancestry that's, you know, in her.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Lineas who knows, who knows? Now it makes me want
to see Hot Top time she But look at the
people who were in Hot Top Time to she. They
are all relatively known or working actors. You know, John Cusack,
Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, you would know at least by face.
But arguably Sebastian Stan is the most successful of all
(14:48):
of them. At this point, you think about his tree
Robinson he keeps the check going. No, he keeps a
check going. But Sebastian Stan was just recently nominated for
an Oscar. Oh yeah, there's levels for this. The kids say, yeah, yeah,
the junk everyone Come on now, come on now, I
like John Cusack, come on stop it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
He's good and he's leading. He is leading U the
Thunderbolt film. He is the sane person in that film.
Sebastian Stan is keeping a check mark don't forget Sunday thunderbolts.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That's Sunday. That's guy's afternoon. Out. Wait a second, what
time it's we're going to eat beforehand? During the day. Yes,
it's during the day. Yes, it's your morning hour dark.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
You have not forgotten, sir, I promise you you have
not forgotten.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh no, no, I have not forgotten about it. You
don't want that. We're going to be doing giving because
the movie.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
The movie is Sunday at four fifteen, so we can
have a nice lunch beforehand. Yes, wouldn't you rather eat
afterward in the evening? You could do both. I'm just
saying I'm treating beforehand.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I see. Okay, Now what you do at you know,
seven o'clock or whatever when the movie's over, that's on you.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I'm looking forward to this event that we have scheduled
in advance.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You just forgot, forgot, you're not doing anything else. Don't
even try. Okay, he's gonna he's gonna try to pull something,
coming down with something.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, he's gonna pull out or something like that. Come on, Mark,
you gotta stay in. I'll be there, you shot, I'll
be in.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, it's late with okey, we're gonna talk about Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. They're no longer nominees. The
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We talked about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
the nominee class some months ago when it was just
announced you had first time nominees like Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker,
Bad Company. Well they are going to be inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Also Cindy Lopper
also and this is going to really piss off Mark Roner,
(19:01):
Rap Pioneers, Outcast, okay a yes, rock duo, the White
Stripes Yep, Yep, and grunge masters Sound Garden, Yes, yes,
I look, you could play black Hole Son at my funeral.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Well it's as well, Look it is a dir How
dare you stop using words we don't know the meanings
of You don't know the meaning of dirt? Well, it's
what they play at funerals. Okay, that does not qualify
so' supporting you?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I guess. So I just don't trust anything he says,
nor should you. Also, also, you know who was also inducted,
Salt and Pepper.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Congratulations to d D Roper. Uh Spinderella you know them?
You don't know them?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah, I've met them on a
couple occasions, but you know them?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Spin is my ace love Spinderella and uh that that
need nothing but joy for them to not only be
nominated and that they will be going in, but that
it seems to have healed old wounds and they are.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Coming together again as a group. There was a lot of.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Strife, acrimony, acrimony public, and they've all been very public
about it. So this isn't me spreading rumors. They've all
been very very public about it. But this has made
them look back and say, you know what, y'all, we
need to come together because we're better together than we
are a part. So I will absolutely be tuning in
to see them get their flowers.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
There are other folks, you know, Musical Influence Award and
Musical Excellence Award, but just talking about the main inductees,
I think they're all absolutely deserving. And I always have
to put this disclaimer out there because people don't know
what the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is. Yes,
it's not for the rock genre. It's just called the
(21:02):
rock and Roll Hall of Fame meaningless is what you're saying. No,
it's completely going through. Why do you hate music Hall
of Fame? Okay, they just call it the Rock Hall
of Fame, which is more about counter culture than it
is the music genre. The corporate success Hall of Fame. Okay, no,
(21:24):
it's definitely not corporate success because there are a lot
of people who are missing from this rock hall. Let
me tell you, but every single year I have someone
who will email me, tweet me when I was on Twitter,
hit me on Insta. I don't understand how you can
say that Salt Pepper deserves to be in a rock
and roll Hall of Fame. They do rap music. I know,
(21:46):
I know they and I always have the same answer,
why don't you go tell me who is on the
first inductee list, names like Ray Charles, Sam Cook, James Brown.
It's not rock and roll. It's counterculture. It's not a
rock genre. And I'll have to have this same freaking
(22:07):
conversation next year because people like Mark Runner over there
who are insistent on making this about the rock genre.
And I love me some rock music, but it doesn't
apply to the Hall of things. Look at this face.
It's inclusive of rock music and rock artists.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So I guess we can expect any sometime soon.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Huh. Maybe if they What are you doing? What are
you doing? What are you doing? A lot of more said,
I don't know. Yeah, well, Beach Boys it's some bing
Crosby maybe maybe, Yeah, I don't know. Beach Boys isn't in.
I don't know. I don't think they are. Let's look
it up.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
They absolutely desire I don't think they're in. Based on
the qualifications. The Beach Boys absolutely should be in. You know,
Beach Boys Rock Hall of Fame. How they were inducted
nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
What I'm talking? What about?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Whoever composed the music on the speakers at kmart? Is
he going to get inducted?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Uh? That could be under Musical Influence award? Okay, serious? Okay,
good damnit park, that's influence. Look, you'll never walk into
the kmart the same way if they were still open. Huh?
Any other smart ass for Mars?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
No, No, this makes perfect sense, and I'm glad you
brought it to my attention.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
All right, get tripping? Can we go to break?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Are you composed enough after making all of your jokes?
No jokes here?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
This is serious business and you're doing a valuable public service.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You want to let a laugh track to go along
with it? No? No, no, you sure you're positive? Give
give me another joke, Mark, before we go to Rick.
Who else is going to be on the list? Do
you think.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Len we get some yacht rock into the Hall of
Fame too, because I like that. Actually there is some
yacht raw. I just don't know all the artists.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Let me see right on man, Christopher Cross, Yes, rock
Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame. Well, he was looking
that up. The introduction.
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Mark is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has
a significant criteria, including significant impact and influence on rock
and roll music, I e. All music. Oh yeah, you
know who's missing is New Shoes. They had that I
can't wait song that they shall meet.
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Yeah, New Shoes don't doom Doom doom.
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We got to start a petition. Yeah, I put him
in one hit wonder you certainly would. How about Jane Child?
Do you remember her?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I do?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I always wanted to tug that chain from her nose
to her ear. You No, she was a prince fine
as a matter of fact, barely. Yeah, prince discovered her.
That explains yep. I don't want to fall in love
her only hit that explains her. It's a letter with
Moke Kelly. We gonna che with George Norri and also
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Tribulation, ancient mysteries.
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I absolutely love it. I'll be listening on my way
home and speaking of my way home. Before I get
out of here and give you my final thought. I
still got to give you away this last pair of
tickets to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair, which will be in
Irwindale's going on right now through May eighteenth, and since
its inception, more than five million people from around the
world have visited Southern California's Renaissance Pleasure Fair, averaging approximately
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twenty thousand people each weekend. Now, the tickets we're given
out right now are good through May eleventh. So let's
open up the phones and call her number seven. If
your caller number seven, you and a guest will be
going to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair. And let me get
to this final thought. And it's connected to a conversation
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I had with Jackie Ray during Beyond the box Score,
and it's something we've touched upon before, but we have
to update it. I don't like when people want to
have it both ways. Supposedly you're about principle, you have
strong beliefs, but a lot of times you want it
both ways. You want you as they say, your cake
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and eat it as well. I don't like when someone
wants to hold me to a standard that they themselves
can't meet or have no intentions of meeting. Super Bowl
MVP and Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts chose not to
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go to the White House with the rest of his
team today as part of the White House celebration for champions.
The visit was announced earlier this month, but it was
never a foregone conclusion. I say that because the team
opted not to visit the White House when the organization
last won the Super Bowl in twenty eighteen. But today
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was the team celebration at the White House, and in
the weeks leading up to it, Jalen Hurts and others
were asked incessantly about whether they would attend. In fact,
we have video of it right now on our YouTube channel.
But this is not the players inviting the scrutiny. This
is the media asking them over and over again, are
you going to go? If not, why, what are the
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reasons why you would or would not go? And that
has been flo was our expectations, both positive and negative.
But it's not something the players have encouraged. Not Jalen Hurts,
in fact, he's had no comment about it at any time.
There are some who continue to say that players have
a responsibility to show up, and they will say things
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like it's about honoring the president. I've heard that again
and again. Honoring the president, respecting the president. Well, that's
weird because it actually isn't. It's about honoring the team.
The team won the championship, the team got the invite.
You're celebrating the team and it's a bit dishonest to
pay more attention to Jalen Hurts not attending, who said nothing,
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as opposed to a player like Freddie Freeman for the Dodgers,
who also didn't show up supposedly because he was injured.
I think he played the next night, so I guess
he felt better. Are we supposed to believe the Freeman
injury excuse but not Jalen Hurts because in a media sense,
it was far more focused on Jalen Hurts for whatever reasons.
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But again, this is why we need to do away
with the tradition. I have been consistent do away with it.
It's not about sighting, it's about ending. It no longer
holds the same perception. Traditions do come and go. Just
this past weekend, for example, the White House correspondence dinner
went without a comedian. That broke tradition. That too, was
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done because the politics of the day just couldn't be overcome.
It's just not the same anymore. And another tradition, the
president used to attend that event. Donald Trump broke that
tradition during his first term as president. My point is,
traditions come and they go. My point is it's been done.
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Traditions are not forever. You don't have to continue traditions
which are either out of step with the times or
put those connected to the tradition in uncomfortable or impossible situations.
I do remember telling you about musicians and performers who
received considerable pushback for performing for the Trump inauguration, including
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artists like Snoop Dogg. It wasn't always like this, but
it's like this now, like it or not. For as
much as we talk about free speech, and this goes
back to principles and having it both ways, we got
to be mindful that free speech. It's a conversation. It's
not just a monologue. You have your say, I have
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my say, athletes have their say, the President has his say.
But like I said at the top, we can't have
it both ways. Sports has always included politics, always, from
Jesse Owens at the Olympics to Muhammad Ali to Tommy
Smith and John Carlos. Oh, you probably don't know who
that who they were? You better google them. To Jackie
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Robinson to Billy Jean King and Bobby Riggs. The list
is endless. Regardless of decade, politics have been part of
the sports landscape. But we've never had a time in
which a president was so actively involved in political dialogue
surrounding sports in so many ways, it's just different now. Nonetheless,
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we can't have it both ways. If the expectation and
I'm coming home, if the expectation is that athletes are
to all visit the White House when invited, then there
should be equal emphasis on the president staying out of
sports commentary, which would include trans people in sports you
thought I forgot. Can't have it both ways. Be angry
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at both, or be angry at neither. But you gotta
make a choice. Otherwise principles don't matter. For k I
am six forty, I'm mo Kelly. If you missed it,
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