July 15, 2025 • 30 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the Weekend Boc Office AND “Superman’s” impact on the Box Office & the future of DC Studios…PLUS – Thoughts on Six Flags announcing the possible closure of its “California's Great America Park” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Let's get to it.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Superman has been a tremendous financial success. At least through
its first week, it brought in one hundred and twenty
five million dollars domestically two hundred and twenty million worldwide.
If you saw any of the comments from James Gunn,
its director, he says, quote, I'm incredibly grateful for your enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Close quote.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It is against the backdrop of the would be controversy
of its message of whether it was too political, It
didn't matter to audiences.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
If anything, If I say that the controversy.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Probably helped the movie because people were talking about it
in non entertainment outlets. If you have a fifteen minute
discussion of Superman on Fox News, that's a lot of
free advertisement.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, and clearly.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
People were tuning out, at least out of morbid curiosity
to see if there was something that was going to
make them angry. And yeah, James Gunn did not back down.
He did not care what critics had to say, and
at this point he's winning. Well, you saw for a
second time.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Line I did, and I think that He's winning in
a way that I don't think we've had any Superman
film really entraally in, not in a long time, any
superhero film period, not just Superman, but just superhero films
period wherein and this is a good and bad thing.
(01:37):
It is a good thing because James Gunn leaned wholeheartedly
into the pages of a comic book and brought that
to the big screen. This film is over the top.
It is full of unbelievable actions in a world that
could never ever exist, the laws of physics and everything.
Nothing exists that is real in this world. It is
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total comic book fantasy and unashamedly so. And I love
everything about that because for me, my foundation and my
love for Superman comes from comic books.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I think many going into this film may have come
up with the original films and any iteration there after
any of the television series. And that's fine because that
does give you a good televised look at Superman. But
the drawback is that it is so comic book that
I think many many individuals going into it looking for
(02:33):
some sense of like that Marvel cinematic universe reality within
a superhero film, they may have missed out on it,
but for comic book folks like myself, this was a
dream come true and actual comic book on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
You can also say that Superman has been consistent with
the rest of the box office. I'll say blockbusters this summer,
and it has been.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Just there's been a pattern.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Of movies doing well at least meeting expectations. Financially, Superman
did not disappoint. You're not having movies in the summer underperform.
Jurassic World Rebirth still is doing well. Came in at
number two this week, with another forty million in the
second week. That's nothing to take a stick at. It's
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already over half a billion two weeks to half a billion.
That says hello, because now you have multiple movies that
people are willing to see multiple times by tuala people
going to see during the summer, not just on Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
They might see it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, depending on
how their schedule works. Coming in number three this week
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is f one the movie. It's now at three hundred
and ninety three million worldwide. This is what just three weeks,
three weeks still top three. So the movie is people
are are it has legs as they say, how to
Train Your Dragon? And it's fifth week and it's still
in the top four. It is at five hundred and
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sixty one million, over a half a billion. When you
have multiple movies at least doing a half a billion
gross around the world, that means a lot. That really
means a lot for your neighborhood movie theater, of course,
to big chains, but it was also for me. I
was curious to see, at least with AMC, whether the
influx of the new commercials was going to have any
(04:25):
type of impact on how people were going to turn
out for the movies or not those commercials are real.
Saw Superman at MC.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
When me and Mark first went to go see it,
the listed showtime was twelve thirty I believe by the
time it started it was one am, and we were
sitting in there looking at each.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Other like, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
They threw in a commercial in between our trailers.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
This was insanity. Are you serious? Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yes, they showed a bunch of trailers and then out
of nowhere a truck commercial, and then they showed some
more trailers, and then they had the show the couple
who are saving some coca Cola fantasy, and then they
went into Nicole.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Kid I say, where's the colon there?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yes, And by the way, people weirdly applaud the Nicole
Kidman commercial. I don't know, always taking on a life
of its own. Yeah, it's a cult class. It might
be irony now it is it is.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's almost like it's a it's a caricature of itself.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Yeah, so it's not sincere applause. No, we hear people.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Uh like quoting in the end whatever that ending line
she says, is it's it's because here it's magic or whatever.
Your audience remember saying that. It's like, okay, all right,
we get it. We're all annoyed by it. I didn't
get the mockery of it.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
It sounded to me like people actually were happy to
see this ridiculous thing, or they're just stoked that, like,
thank the Lord that the movie's.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Right because they know that's the last. Maybe that's it too.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah, the extra commercials are so tacky and irritating. That
really is infuriating.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
As we talk about how this it's not a.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Record setting year big picture, but you can say there
are records being set that are indicative of this being
a very good year for movies. Imax has set it
for his best year on record. That's that's a big deal. Yes, okay.
That means people are willing to spend money for the
top ticket for the big movies.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You're not just going to see any movie on Imax.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That means they have event movies that people are willing
to spend money like Twala to see an Imax.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And just think every movie that's come out, all the
big ones that you've announced, they've all hit Imax simultaneously
within weeks of each other, from How to Take Your
Drag into f One to you Know now Superman. I
mean everything is going Imax and everything is shot in Imax,
and me going all the way back to Centers which
stayed in Imax for several weeks without being bumped out.
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This is a banner year for Imax because they are
really doing a big push for people to go see it.
And true indeed, both times I saw Superman was on Imax.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Also as we go to break because of Superman's success,
whether you like the movie or not, it is without
a doubt a smash hit. There's already an emerging James
Gunn Superman universe which is coming into view. We'll tell
you about at least two Superman TV spinoffs which may
be coming your way. It's Later with mo Kelly KFI
(07:26):
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Speaker 1 (07:30):
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Speaker 2 (07:38):
KIM six forty. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Let's continue our discussion of James Gunn, Superman, the DC universe,
and what TV shows might be coming our way. Now
that Superman financially seems to be a bona fide hit,
it opens the door for James Gunn to fulfill more
of his vision of the cinematic universe. And if you've
(08:03):
seen Superman, I don't want to give too much away.
If you've seen Superman, there are some characters who are
prominently featured. One of them is mister Terrific, And if
you know DC comics, mister Terrific is not necessarily the
A level character, but he's always been well received and
he's never been on the big screen before. But this
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has been an opportunity to expand that character. And it
seems that James Gunn is looking at a spinoff for
Mister Terrific and also Jimmy Olsen. This is after acknowledging
that Peacemaker Season two is going to be dropping on
August twenty first with John Cena and that if you
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haven't seen Peacemaker, it is a funny, funny, funny series.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I've heard nothing but good things about that show. No goodness.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You don't need to know anything about anything, Just watch
it for what it is. You don't need to know
anything about Peacemaker or any of the characters because you're
kind of the running joke is Peacemaker wants his respect.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
That's kind of why I've waded it because I'm like, well,
I'm really not well versed in that universe.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You don't have you don't need to know anything.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
You can just you know enough about today's pop culture
for you to be able to watch it because it's
it is literally a slapstick take what's happening on on
on social media and media period, just in the world
entertainment everything. He attacks everything, and it's profane pro fame
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love that. Okay, there's a there's a.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Oh, I can't even play some of the stuff, but
it is it is really okay. It is funny this
season two. But if you in the way that Marvel
was hoping that Iron Man was going to do well,
so maybe they could do something, this is something completely different.
DC was the whole future and fate of all things
(10:09):
DC was dependent on this. They knew going in that
this had to do well, that this had to be
an absolute success for any of these other projects to
come to fruition.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Yeah, Now do we finally get to hear why you
didn't care for Superman.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
No, we're going to keep moving on, Mark, let it go,
Let it go, Let it go, mar mar let it go, Mark,
let it go.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
We are glad you loved it.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Mark. Okay, I'll ask this, then, have you seen people
wearing jackets with fair play on them every place? Because
I think mister Terrific stole the show.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I promise you this, you We're going to see a
lot of mister Terrific this Halloween. A lot of mister
Terrific this Halloween.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Now, in the screening you and I were in, he
had one killer line that just busted everybody up in
the audience. And I won't spoil it, but but he
was the surprise of the movie for me.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
When I saw it again last night. The audience erupted
on that line erupted, I'm talking clapping. I was like, wow,
and I guess this is the first time audience because
they were in there and the theater was packed. I
went to man Chinese, Oh really, Okay, I've seen him
on a few occasions the character in animated form, but
(11:27):
I've never, obviously never seen him in live action.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And I had a vision of what he would sound like,
and now I can't think of anyone else other than
Ed Gasky.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, I think that that absolutely he
is forever attached to this role. And I think there
was a version of this character in the Arrow Verse.
I remember that's where they first introduced him in Errow,
and that left a lot of people yearning because they
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did not feel that that iteration lived up to his
prowess and who he is in the comic books, even
though he is. Yes, he is a character that's not
widely known outside of real comic book circles. But now
this is one of those like, Okay, so you're a
complete and total badass, all right, Yeah, yeah, we need more.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Of you, complete total can't wait to see that.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Also, DC plans it's hundredth anniversary in twenty thirty five.
But it's interesting because also they when I say may lose,
it probably won't happen. But that's when the rights expire
to Batman and Superman. If you're expecting something to happen
with those, like what happened with Winnie the Pooh, No,
(12:40):
it's not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
They're not going to allow it to happen. Now, wait, Mark,
what can happen with that? Exactly? Like when they lose
the actual rights to Superman and Batman, they go into
public domain. They can't go back and reget the rights, can.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
They No, But they've got an army of high paid lawyers,
so they're going to do everything they can to hang
on to the stuff. So what is it, I forget
what the rule is, something like eighty nine years?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, and then it goes into public domain?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah yeah, so yeah. Remember Superman came out in thirty eight.
Batman wasn't Batman thirty nine?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah? So yeah, I mean twenty thirty five. I mean
that's it.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
So once something goes public domain, it goes public domain.
That's why, like snow White could be done by anyone
who doest and White. We've had a whole bunch of
different iterations outside of Disney or whatever. So it's like
one of those like, yeah, if you have a super
popular character that goes into public domain, the rights to
that character stay in public domain. They don't revert back
(13:39):
to the company if you put up a whole bunch
of money. Right, But as I said, the people with
the deep pockets, they employ their lawyers to look for
every possible way they can to hang on to that
stuff because that's money.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You don't mess with people's money.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And there have been enough instances where people got caught
off guard where they're not going to let that happen
with these characters they're knocking.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I would be surprised and a shamed.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
In fact, we need to get Michael Uslin on the
Show's like, what are you doing to make sure you
don't lose Batman?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. I am
here from the Horse's mouth. I'm going to reach out
to you.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
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It's time for you to pay off that story about
when you were assaulted by I guess a family of raccoons.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Oh yeah, if we somehow the raccoon story came up.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, it did because we were talking about trash pickup
and it led to coyotes and a food source. Then
we talked about the rodents around here with the squirrels
that it led to.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
The coyotes around here.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, and then the raccoon, and I told him about
the time in which they.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Tried to jack you.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
No.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Look, I'm leaving out of here one night, and I
think I sent a picture of the raccoon as it
stood outside the door. I sent it to your socials,
Yes you did, and everyone all right. This raccoon was
outside the door, and I'm thinking to myself, Hey, you know,
just gonna go to the doors, gonna run away. I
go to the door and I like make to open
it up, and it starts charging at the door and
(16:05):
I'm like whoa, whoa, hey, Okay. I closed the door
and it's standing out there and it's looking at me,
and I'm like, I stopped my feet, like God, got
out of here, raccoon, And it got up on its
hinds and it started like gnashing his teeth and waving
his little raccoon arms at me. And I'm like what
I mean, Like, did I say something on the air.
You're waiting for me downstairs, Like what is this? Why
(16:25):
does this raccoon having an issue with me? So I
sat there for a minute, just sitting on the benches
downstairs looking at the door, and this thing was just
kind of circling around outside like waiting on you, Like, Oh,
he's gonna come outside, You're gonna answer for this. I'm like,
I don't know what's going on. Once I opened the
door be again and yelled at it, gays if it
understands me got here raccoon and I just heard thinking
(16:46):
all this weird raccoon noises, and I'm like, is this
thing rabbit?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
And I for a second it went away, and I'm like, okay,
I'm gonna come out. I opened the door and I
just hear this little and it comes running back. It's
like it's like it's not gonna let me leave. Like,
I don't know if I owe it a treat. I
don't know what's going on with this raccoon. Do you
have like an X in common or something. I don't
know what happened. I'm like, maybe I took its food source.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I really don't know what's happening with this raccoon. But
it was vicious, little devil eyes. I mean, look, I
don't know how to share it on my social media
exist from way back, but if you go to h later,
maybe you shared it this on the socials there.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I have to look for it.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yeah, look, this thing was actually vicious and it had
to captive for like thirty minutes and then okay, and
here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
It wasn't just that raccoon and I don't know, maybe
it was protecting its others. But in the bushes right
outside the door, right out there, little green eyes were
the bushes, little green.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Eyes, And I'm like, are these things possessed? Yeah? It
was crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I thought I was going to be villified and victimized,
trashed and eaten alive by raccoons. But you're here to
tell the story. Yes, you survived. Fortunately. Now the coyotes,
that's another story. Yeah, there is a coyotes inn around
here somewhere. Being very serious, there is one, because there
are way too many coyotes that I see a regular
(18:13):
basis in and around Whole Foods. I'm talking about the
ones that we see downstairs, what I'm saying, But I've
seen them running between here and Whole Foods.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I usually see them. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Sometimes when Mark leaves, he's like, hey, be careful when
you come down. Big coyotes down here, Big ass coyotes.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
When I was driving switching gears, when I was driving
back from Pleasanton, I was going to the World Keto
Summit and Pleasanton Martial Arts Summit. Coming back, I was
we were driving down the five and we passed Magic Mountain,
and maybe there were a lot of roller coasters under
construction or they were being fixed, but not a lot
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of them were operational. Traffic was moving very slow, so
we had a chance to really look and see for
a while what was going on at Magiamountain, and not
a lot of roller coasters were in service, so it
seemed I said some time ago, I wonder if amusement
parks as they're presently conceived are going to be with
(19:17):
us well into the future. The whole idea of these
physical roller coaster rides, whether they're going to go more
the route of what we have at Disneyland right now,
like the Rise of the Resistance or even Star Tours
back in the day, where you're on kind of like
a platform and it has more of a simulation feel
(19:38):
because it doesn't take up as much room, seemingly wouldn't
be as expensive. I wonder about those things when I
see stories like six Flags is revealing its plans to
close the Greater California Great America Park in Santa Clara
at the end of twenty twenty seven, quote and the
park's lease is coming to an end, and saying, quote,
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unless we decide to extend and exercise one of our
options to extend that lease. That park's last year without
that extension would be after the twenty seventh season, and
that's the CFO Brian Witrow told investors some months ago.
California's Great America was originally opened in nineteen seventy six
by the Marriott Corporation. Didn't know that and traded hands
(20:23):
multiple times before coming under ownership by Cedar Fair in
twenty two thousand and six. Cedar Fair and Six Flags
merged in twenty twenty four. We told you about two
parks which were closing in Maryland earlier this year. I
think I think it's fair to say that this might
be part of a larger trend, if only because amusement
(20:45):
parks as we presently conceived them probably are not as
financially successful as they were maybe fifteen twenty years ago,
I don't know, or at least the ride enthusiast roller
coaster parks.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah yeah, I mean, look my son, him and his crew,
they're like, you know, eighteen nineteen somethings, and they still
like going because they still like the thrill rides. But
it's not you know, even my daughter she's like going,
but She just like going for rides right now. She
likes going because her and her friends like, you know,
getting cute and going walking around the parking right eating
funnel cakes on them.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
There are other things to do. I mean for our generation, yeah,
it was the thing to do. Yeah, you could go
be girls, whatever, hangout. You have entertainment all day long,
well into the evening. I don't know if because this
is geared only for young folks, it's not like the
fifty year olds like me or want to go to
a six Flags.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Party now, I think forty year olds.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I mean, yeah, yeah, the six Flag is a thirty
and under means and no shade against it. I just
think that right now, if you're forty something, you're not
trying to actively go to six Flags right now. If
you're in your forty, chances are you've got a kid
or two for Disney or not yet. Yeah, and so
it's like a place like six Fags. It's like relying
(22:04):
on young people. I know they're going big with their
DC universe, and that's fine, but kids, young kids aren't
into comic books. They're not in and maybe James Gunn's
film will start bringing around my son.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
He's nineteen.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
He loved it, right, But I don't know if that's
going to translate to six Flags and that being a
draw or any of the real rides necessarily being a draw.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
He could go anywhere, you know. Yeah, there are other ways.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
We were talking about oh No earlier and how they're
doing activations and pop ups in Las Vegas and other cities.
There are other ways that you can monetize these brands
other than an amusement park ride roller coaster. It's a
little bit different with Disneyland. It's in house. You know,
those are properties which you're going to be living on
for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Now.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Think about we talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
Think about SeaWorld. Sea World is no longer their attraction,
it's attractions, no longer the animals. Right now they're trying
to sell their new roller coaster attractions, but their roller
coasters are even more virtual.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And the concerts.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yeah, so that's when I was like, going into SeaWorld
to see a concert.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It's weird, but you want whatever's going to put butts
in seats that people are willing to spend money, and
going to Santa Clair specifically for a roller coaster enthusiast
Park is probably not the draw today that it was
ten to fifteen years ago. I mean, let's be honest.
If it was, they would not hesitate to extend the lease.
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So it's not the same business business proposition that it
was years ago.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
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It's too bad. I don't drink coffee. It's one of
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I know Tuala, does I know Mark? Does step? And
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Here we go final thought.
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immigration enforcement debate, it's not just about finding and removing
those who are not in this country legally. It includes
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are thousands of things that you can't do, places you
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can't go, activities you can't participate in, et cetera. But
how we enforce the law always matters. Which laws we
choose to enforce and the ones we choose to overlook.
Let's say that also matters. The Fourth Amendment still matters,
even if you don't like who it may protect. If
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you're only looking for undocumented immigrants at places like farms
or home depots, you aren't really looking for undocumented immigrants.
There's a difference. You're just looking for Latinos who fit
the description. Can we tell the truth, and that's not
the same. If you're only scooping up the Latino undocumented
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immigrants on a farm for breaking the law air quote,
but not the farmers who employ them, who are also
breaking the law, then you're not really concerned with the law.
There's no moral or legal high ground to stand on
if you're worried about illegal immigration and this being a
law and order country. Here's something you may not know.
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According to the Public Policy Institute of California, forty nine
percent of immigrants are from Latin America, but forty one
percent are from Asia, nine percent Latin America, forty one
percent Asia. Drilled down even more, and among immigrants who
arrived here in California between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty three,
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forty six percent were born in Asia, while thirty eight
percent were born in Latin America. But if you just
watched TV or follow the news in chronicle the methods
and tactics employed, you'd rightfully think. You'd rightfully think, but
it'll be wrongly as far as facts, you'd wrongly and
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missed the point that ninety nine percent of immigrants documented
undocumented or Latino.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
You'd wrongly believe.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
That since California's on the national stage in this ice debate.
I think those numbers bear mentioning since the raids are
largely not happening anywhere else except Latino communities, those numbers
bear mentioning. Talking about immigrants who arrived here between twenty
fourteen and twenty twenty three, forty six percent were born
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in a thirty eight percent were born in Latin America.
It's like only looking for illegal drugs in the inner
city but not on college campuses, when we all know
there is extensive use in both places. I've lived at
inner city and I've lived on a college campus, and
I'm here to tell you there's an equal amount of
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drug use. Let me tell you, but there's not equal focus.
And that only says you're not really targeting the problem.
You're targeting people. The state with the largest undocumented population
in America is California. That can't be argued. But you
know who's number two and three, Texas and Florida. It's
fair to point out that no similar effort is underway
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in Texas or Florida. But hey, I'm sure it's just
a coincidence, and the National Guard will show up in
both states eventually. I mean, the National Guard didn't show
up to assist in the floods in Texas and save
actual lives. But who's nitpicking Illegal immigration in California is
more important than floods in Texas, right right, because I
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think you understand what I mean. Methods and tactics matter.
If you're not actually following the law all the time
and trying to get all the people breaking the law,
then you're not really interested in the law. You're just
targeting people for k IF. I am six forty, I'm
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Speaker 1 (30:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Let's get to it.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Superman has been a tremendous financial success. At least through
its first week, it brought in one hundred and twenty
five million dollars domestically two hundred and twenty million worldwide.
If you saw any of the comments from James Gunn,
its director, he says, quote, I'm incredibly grateful for your enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Close quote.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It is against the backdrop of the would be controversy
of its message of whether it was too political, It
didn't matter to audiences.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
If anything, If I say that the controversy.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Probably helped the movie because people were talking about it
in non entertainment outlets. If you have a fifteen minute
discussion of Superman on Fox News, that's a lot of
free advertisement.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, and clearly.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
People were tuning out, at least out of morbid curiosity
to see if there was something that was going to
make them angry. And yeah, James Gunn did not back down.
He did not care what critics had to say, and
at this point he's winning. Well, you saw for a
second time.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Line I did, and I think that He's winning in
a way that I don't think we've had any Superman
film really entraally in, not in a long time, any
superhero film period, not just Superman, but just superhero films
period wherein and this is a good and bad thing.
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It is a good thing because James Gunn leaned wholeheartedly
into the pages of a comic book and brought that
to the big screen. This film is over the top.
It is full of unbelievable actions in a world that
could never ever exist, the laws of physics and everything.
Nothing exists that is real in this world. It is
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total comic book fantasy and unashamedly so. And I love
everything about that because for me, my foundation and my
love for Superman comes from comic books.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I think many going into this film may have come
up with the original films and any iteration there after
any of the television series. And that's fine because that
does give you a good televised look at Superman. But
the drawback is that it is so comic book that
I think many many individuals going into it looking for
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some sense of like that Marvel cinematic universe reality within
a superhero film, they may have missed out on it,
but for comic book folks like myself, this was a
dream come true and actual comic book on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
You can also say that Superman has been consistent with
the rest of the box office. I'll say blockbusters this summer,
and it has been.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Just there's been a pattern.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Of movies doing well at least meeting expectations. Financially, Superman
did not disappoint. You're not having movies in the summer underperform.
Jurassic World Rebirth still is doing well. Came in at
number two this week, with another forty million in the
second week. That's nothing to take a stick at. It's
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already over half a billion two weeks to half a billion.
That says hello, because now you have multiple movies that
people are willing to see multiple times by tuala people
going to see during the summer, not just on Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
They might see it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, depending on
how their schedule works. Coming in number three this week
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is f one the movie. It's now at three hundred
and ninety three million worldwide. This is what just three weeks,
three weeks still top three. So the movie is people
are are it has legs as they say, how to
Train Your Dragon? And it's fifth week and it's still
in the top four. It is at five hundred and
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sixty one million, over a half a billion. When you
have multiple movies at least doing a half a billion
gross around the world, that means a lot. That really
means a lot for your neighborhood movie theater, of course,
to big chains, but it was also for me. I
was curious to see, at least with AMC, whether the
influx of the new commercials was going to have any
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type of impact on how people were going to turn
out for the movies or not those commercials are real.
Saw Superman at MC.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
When me and Mark first went to go see it,
the listed showtime was twelve thirty I believe by the
time it started it was one am, and we were
sitting in there looking at each.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Other like, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
They threw in a commercial in between our trailers.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
This was insanity. Are you serious? Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yes, they showed a bunch of trailers and then out
of nowhere a truck commercial, and then they showed some
more trailers, and then they had the show the couple
who are saving some coca Cola fantasy, and then they
went into Nicole.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Kid I say, where's the colon there?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yes, And by the way, people weirdly applaud the Nicole
Kidman commercial. I don't know, always taking on a life
of its own. Yeah, it's a cult class. It might
be irony now it is it is.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's almost like it's a it's a caricature of itself.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Yeah, so it's not sincere applause. No, we hear people.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Uh like quoting in the end whatever that ending line
she says, is it's it's because here it's magic or whatever.
Your audience remember saying that. It's like, okay, all right,
we get it. We're all annoyed by it. I didn't
get the mockery of it.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
It sounded to me like people actually were happy to
see this ridiculous thing, or they're just stoked that, like,
thank the Lord that the movie's.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Right because they know that's the last. Maybe that's it too.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah, the extra commercials are so tacky and irritating. That
really is infuriating.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
As we talk about how this it's not a.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Record setting year big picture, but you can say there
are records being set that are indicative of this being
a very good year for movies. Imax has set it
for his best year on record. That's that's a big deal. Yes, okay.
That means people are willing to spend money for the
top ticket for the big movies.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You're not just going to see any movie on Imax.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That means they have event movies that people are willing
to spend money like Twala to see an Imax.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And just think every movie that's come out, all the
big ones that you've announced, they've all hit Imax simultaneously
within weeks of each other, from How to Take Your
Drag into f One to you Know now Superman. I
mean everything is going Imax and everything is shot in Imax,
and me going all the way back to Centers which
stayed in Imax for several weeks without being bumped out.
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This is a banner year for Imax because they are
really doing a big push for people to go see it.
And true indeed, both times I saw Superman was on Imax.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Also as we go to break because of Superman's success,
whether you like the movie or not, it is without
a doubt a smash hit. There's already an emerging James
Gunn Superman universe which is coming into view. We'll tell
you about at least two Superman TV spinoffs which may
be coming your way. It's Later with mo Kelly KFI
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Speaker 1 (07:30):
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Speaker 2 (07:38):
KIM six forty. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Let's continue our discussion of James Gunn, Superman, the DC universe,
and what TV shows might be coming our way. Now
that Superman financially seems to be a bona fide hit,
it opens the door for James Gunn to fulfill more
of his vision of the cinematic universe. And if you've
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seen Superman, I don't want to give too much away.
If you've seen Superman, there are some characters who are
prominently featured. One of them is mister Terrific, And if
you know DC comics, mister Terrific is not necessarily the
A level character, but he's always been well received and
he's never been on the big screen before. But this
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has been an opportunity to expand that character. And it
seems that James Gunn is looking at a spinoff for
Mister Terrific and also Jimmy Olsen. This is after acknowledging
that Peacemaker Season two is going to be dropping on
August twenty first with John Cena and that if you
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haven't seen Peacemaker, it is a funny, funny, funny series.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I've heard nothing but good things about that show. No goodness.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You don't need to know anything about anything, Just watch
it for what it is. You don't need to know
anything about Peacemaker or any of the characters because you're
kind of the running joke is Peacemaker wants his respect.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
That's kind of why I've waded it because I'm like, well,
I'm really not well versed in that universe.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You don't have you don't need to know anything.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
You can just you know enough about today's pop culture
for you to be able to watch it because it's
it is literally a slapstick take what's happening on on
on social media and media period, just in the world
entertainment everything. He attacks everything, and it's profane pro fame
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love that. Okay, there's a there's a.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Oh, I can't even play some of the stuff, but
it is it is really okay. It is funny this
season two. But if you in the way that Marvel
was hoping that Iron Man was going to do well,
so maybe they could do something, this is something completely different.
DC was the whole future and fate of all things
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DC was dependent on this. They knew going in that
this had to do well, that this had to be
an absolute success for any of these other projects to
come to fruition.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Yeah, Now do we finally get to hear why you
didn't care for Superman.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
No, we're going to keep moving on, Mark, let it go,
Let it go, Let it go, mar mar let it go, Mark,
let it go.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
We are glad you loved it.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Mark. Okay, I'll ask this, then, have you seen people
wearing jackets with fair play on them every place? Because
I think mister Terrific stole the show.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I promise you this, you We're going to see a
lot of mister Terrific this Halloween. A lot of mister
Terrific this Halloween.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Now, in the screening you and I were in, he
had one killer line that just busted everybody up in
the audience. And I won't spoil it, but but he
was the surprise of the movie for me.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
When I saw it again last night. The audience erupted
on that line erupted, I'm talking clapping. I was like, wow,
and I guess this is the first time audience because
they were in there and the theater was packed. I
went to man Chinese, Oh really, Okay, I've seen him
on a few occasions the character in animated form, but
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I've never, obviously never seen him in live action.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And I had a vision of what he would sound like,
and now I can't think of anyone else other than
Ed Gasky.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, I think that that absolutely he
is forever attached to this role. And I think there
was a version of this character in the Arrow Verse.
I remember that's where they first introduced him in Errow,
and that left a lot of people yearning because they
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did not feel that that iteration lived up to his
prowess and who he is in the comic books, even
though he is. Yes, he is a character that's not
widely known outside of real comic book circles. But now
this is one of those like, Okay, so you're a
complete and total badass, all right, Yeah, yeah, we need more.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Of you, complete total can't wait to see that.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Also, DC plans it's hundredth anniversary in twenty thirty five.
But it's interesting because also they when I say may lose,
it probably won't happen. But that's when the rights expire
to Batman and Superman. If you're expecting something to happen
with those, like what happened with Winnie the Pooh, No,
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it's not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
They're not going to allow it to happen. Now, wait, Mark,
what can happen with that? Exactly? Like when they lose
the actual rights to Superman and Batman, they go into
public domain. They can't go back and reget the rights, can.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
They No, But they've got an army of high paid lawyers,
so they're going to do everything they can to hang
on to the stuff. So what is it, I forget
what the rule is, something like eighty nine years?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, and then it goes into public domain?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah yeah, so yeah. Remember Superman came out in thirty eight.
Batman wasn't Batman thirty nine?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah? So yeah, I mean twenty thirty five. I mean
that's it.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
So once something goes public domain, it goes public domain.
That's why, like snow White could be done by anyone
who doest and White. We've had a whole bunch of
different iterations outside of Disney or whatever. So it's like
one of those like, yeah, if you have a super
popular character that goes into public domain, the rights to
that character stay in public domain. They don't revert back
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to the company if you put up a whole bunch
of money. Right, But as I said, the people with
the deep pockets, they employ their lawyers to look for
every possible way they can to hang on to that
stuff because that's money.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You don't mess with people's money.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And there have been enough instances where people got caught
off guard where they're not going to let that happen
with these characters they're knocking.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I would be surprised and a shamed.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
In fact, we need to get Michael Uslin on the
Show's like, what are you doing to make sure you
don't lose Batman?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. I am
here from the Horse's mouth. I'm going to reach out
to you.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
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It's time for you to pay off that story about
when you were assaulted by I guess a family of raccoons.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Oh yeah, if we somehow the raccoon story came up.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, it did because we were talking about trash pickup
and it led to coyotes and a food source. Then
we talked about the rodents around here with the squirrels
that it led to.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
The coyotes around here.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, and then the raccoon, and I told him about
the time in which they.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Tried to jack you.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
No.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Look, I'm leaving out of here one night, and I
think I sent a picture of the raccoon as it
stood outside the door. I sent it to your socials,
Yes you did, and everyone all right. This raccoon was
outside the door, and I'm thinking to myself, Hey, you know,
just gonna go to the doors, gonna run away. I
go to the door and I like make to open
it up, and it starts charging at the door and
(16:05):
I'm like whoa, whoa, hey, Okay. I closed the door
and it's standing out there and it's looking at me,
and I'm like, I stopped my feet, like God, got
out of here, raccoon, And it got up on its
hinds and it started like gnashing his teeth and waving
his little raccoon arms at me. And I'm like what
I mean, Like, did I say something on the air.
You're waiting for me downstairs, Like what is this? Why
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does this raccoon having an issue with me? So I
sat there for a minute, just sitting on the benches
downstairs looking at the door, and this thing was just
kind of circling around outside like waiting on you, Like, Oh,
he's gonna come outside, You're gonna answer for this. I'm like,
I don't know what's going on. Once I opened the
door be again and yelled at it, gays if it
understands me got here raccoon and I just heard thinking
(16:46):
all this weird raccoon noises, and I'm like, is this
thing rabbit?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
And I for a second it went away, and I'm like, okay,
I'm gonna come out. I opened the door and I
just hear this little and it comes running back. It's
like it's like it's not gonna let me leave. Like,
I don't know if I owe it a treat. I
don't know what's going on with this raccoon. Do you
have like an X in common or something. I don't
know what happened. I'm like, maybe I took its food source.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I really don't know what's happening with this raccoon. But
it was vicious, little devil eyes. I mean, look, I
don't know how to share it on my social media
exist from way back, but if you go to h later,
maybe you shared it this on the socials there.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I have to look for it.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yeah, look, this thing was actually vicious and it had
to captive for like thirty minutes and then okay, and
here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
It wasn't just that raccoon and I don't know, maybe
it was protecting its others. But in the bushes right
outside the door, right out there, little green eyes were
the bushes, little green.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Eyes, And I'm like, are these things possessed? Yeah? It
was crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I thought I was going to be villified and victimized,
trashed and eaten alive by raccoons. But you're here to
tell the story. Yes, you survived. Fortunately. Now the coyotes,
that's another story. Yeah, there is a coyotes inn around
here somewhere. Being very serious, there is one, because there
are way too many coyotes that I see a regular
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basis in and around Whole Foods. I'm talking about the
ones that we see downstairs, what I'm saying, But I've
seen them running between here and Whole Foods.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I usually see them. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Sometimes when Mark leaves, he's like, hey, be careful when
you come down. Big coyotes down here, Big ass coyotes.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
When I was driving switching gears, when I was driving
back from Pleasanton, I was going to the World Keto
Summit and Pleasanton Martial Arts Summit. Coming back, I was
we were driving down the five and we passed Magic Mountain,
and maybe there were a lot of roller coasters under
construction or they were being fixed, but not a lot
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of them were operational. Traffic was moving very slow, so
we had a chance to really look and see for
a while what was going on at Magiamountain, and not
a lot of roller coasters were in service, so it
seemed I said some time ago, I wonder if amusement
parks as they're presently conceived are going to be with
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us well into the future. The whole idea of these
physical roller coaster rides, whether they're going to go more
the route of what we have at Disneyland right now,
like the Rise of the Resistance or even Star Tours
back in the day, where you're on kind of like
a platform and it has more of a simulation feel
(19:38):
because it doesn't take up as much room, seemingly wouldn't
be as expensive. I wonder about those things when I
see stories like six Flags is revealing its plans to
close the Greater California Great America Park in Santa Clara
at the end of twenty twenty seven, quote and the
park's lease is coming to an end, and saying, quote,
(20:00):
unless we decide to extend and exercise one of our
options to extend that lease. That park's last year without
that extension would be after the twenty seventh season, and
that's the CFO Brian Witrow told investors some months ago.
California's Great America was originally opened in nineteen seventy six
by the Marriott Corporation. Didn't know that and traded hands
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multiple times before coming under ownership by Cedar Fair in
twenty two thousand and six. Cedar Fair and Six Flags
merged in twenty twenty four. We told you about two
parks which were closing in Maryland earlier this year. I
think I think it's fair to say that this might
be part of a larger trend, if only because amusement
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parks as we presently conceived them probably are not as
financially successful as they were maybe fifteen twenty years ago,
I don't know, or at least the ride enthusiast roller
coaster parks.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah yeah, I mean, look my son, him and his crew,
they're like, you know, eighteen nineteen somethings, and they still
like going because they still like the thrill rides. But
it's not you know, even my daughter she's like going,
but She just like going for rides right now. She
likes going because her and her friends like, you know,
getting cute and going walking around the parking right eating
funnel cakes on them.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
There are other things to do. I mean for our generation, yeah,
it was the thing to do. Yeah, you could go
be girls, whatever, hangout. You have entertainment all day long,
well into the evening. I don't know if because this
is geared only for young folks, it's not like the
fifty year olds like me or want to go to
a six Flags.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Party now, I think forty year olds.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I mean, yeah, yeah, the six Flag is a thirty
and under means and no shade against it. I just
think that right now, if you're forty something, you're not
trying to actively go to six Flags right now. If
you're in your forty, chances are you've got a kid
or two for Disney or not yet. Yeah, and so
it's like a place like six Fags. It's like relying
(22:04):
on young people. I know they're going big with their
DC universe, and that's fine, but kids, young kids aren't
into comic books. They're not in and maybe James Gunn's
film will start bringing around my son.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
He's nineteen.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
He loved it, right, But I don't know if that's
going to translate to six Flags and that being a
draw or any of the real rides necessarily being a draw.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
He could go anywhere, you know. Yeah, there are other ways.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
We were talking about oh No earlier and how they're
doing activations and pop ups in Las Vegas and other cities.
There are other ways that you can monetize these brands
other than an amusement park ride roller coaster. It's a
little bit different with Disneyland. It's in house. You know,
those are properties which you're going to be living on
for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Now.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Think about we talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
Think about SeaWorld. Sea World is no longer their attraction,
it's attractions, no longer the animals. Right now they're trying
to sell their new roller coaster attractions, but their roller
coasters are even more virtual.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And the concerts.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yeah, so that's when I was like, going into SeaWorld
to see a concert.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It's weird, but you want whatever's going to put butts
in seats that people are willing to spend money, and
going to Santa Clair specifically for a roller coaster enthusiast
Park is probably not the draw today that it was
ten to fifteen years ago. I mean, let's be honest.
If it was, they would not hesitate to extend the lease.
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So it's not the same business business proposition that it
was years ago.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
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Speaker 3 (23:42):
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Speaker 2 (25:04):
It's too bad. I don't drink coffee. It's one of
those things. I just never never developed the taste for it.
I know Tuala, does I know Mark? Does step? And
do you drink coffee? I do? Okay, yeah? Occasion bore
the callers again?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Five and seven all right, calling number five and seven
eight hundred and five two zero one five three four
and oh the phone line is just exploding. I guess
people drink coffee and want some coachell about it coffee.
Did your parents ever drink coffee?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yes, they swore by religiously every single day. It was folgers,
the little folgers and coffee maker. It was every single day.
They did not do anything in the morning before they
drank their coffee. It's just like I just never developed
an affinityfore, So I enjoy being able to give away
coffee because they could use it more than me.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Here we go final thought.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Methods and tactic matter because it's never just about the law.
It always includes methods and tactics. The ongoing deportation and
immigration enforcement debate, it's not just about finding and removing
those who are not in this country legally. It includes
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the methods and tactics employed. The question, and I think
the principal question is whether we are concerned about illegal
immigration generally or just Latinos illegally in America specifically. There
are thousands of things which are illegal in America. There
are thousands of things that you can't do, places you
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can't go, activities you can't participate in, et cetera. But
how we enforce the law always matters. Which laws we
choose to enforce and the ones we choose to overlook.
Let's say that also matters. The Fourth Amendment still matters,
even if you don't like who it may protect. If
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you're only looking for undocumented immigrants at places like farms
or home depots, you aren't really looking for undocumented immigrants.
There's a difference. You're just looking for Latinos who fit
the description. Can we tell the truth, and that's not
the same. If you're only scooping up the Latino undocumented
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immigrants on a farm for breaking the law air quote,
but not the farmers who employ them, who are also
breaking the law, then you're not really concerned with the law.
There's no moral or legal high ground to stand on
if you're worried about illegal immigration and this being a
law and order country. Here's something you may not know.
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According to the Public Policy Institute of California, forty nine
percent of immigrants are from Latin America, but forty one
percent are from Asia, nine percent Latin America, forty one
percent Asia. Drilled down even more, and among immigrants who
arrived here in California between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty three,
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forty six percent were born in Asia, while thirty eight
percent were born in Latin America. But if you just
watched TV or follow the news in chronicle the methods
and tactics employed, you'd rightfully think. You'd rightfully think, but
it'll be wrongly as far as facts, you'd wrongly and
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missed the point that ninety nine percent of immigrants documented
undocumented or Latino.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
You'd wrongly believe.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
That since California's on the national stage in this ice debate.
I think those numbers bear mentioning since the raids are
largely not happening anywhere else except Latino communities, those numbers
bear mentioning. Talking about immigrants who arrived here between twenty
fourteen and twenty twenty three, forty six percent were born
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in a thirty eight percent were born in Latin America.
It's like only looking for illegal drugs in the inner
city but not on college campuses, when we all know
there is extensive use in both places. I've lived at
inner city and I've lived on a college campus, and
I'm here to tell you there's an equal amount of
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drug use. Let me tell you, but there's not equal focus.
And that only says you're not really targeting the problem.
You're targeting people. The state with the largest undocumented population
in America is California. That can't be argued. But you
know who's number two and three, Texas and Florida. It's
fair to point out that no similar effort is underway
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in Texas or Florida. But hey, I'm sure it's just
a coincidence, and the National Guard will show up in
both states eventually. I mean, the National Guard didn't show
up to assist in the floods in Texas and save
actual lives. But who's nitpicking Illegal immigration in California is
more important than floods in Texas, right right, because I
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think you understand what I mean. Methods and tactics matter.
If you're not actually following the law all the time
and trying to get all the people breaking the law,
then you're not really interested in the law. You're just
targeting people for k IF. I am six forty, I'm
MO Kelly
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