June 13, 2024 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – “Wellness Wednesdays” with wife, mother, fitness expert, masterful storyteller and regular guest contributor Claudine Cooper…PLUS – Thoughts on comedian/actor Rob Schneider revisiting the infamous “Oscar Slap” & sharing his thoughts regarding who actor Will Smith “really is” AND the legacy of NBA all-time great Jerry West dies, gone at age 86 - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appand let's go live and unfiltered with Claudine
Cooper, Who's going to join usfor our regular health and Wellness segment.
Claudine is good to talk to youthis evening. How are you, my
friend? It's good to be hereon Wellness Wednesday. What are we talking
about tonight? Mo? Well checkthis out. More than two thirds of
Americans share their parents' approach to wellness, according to new research. A survey
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of two thousand US adults revealed thatwhen they were growing up, their parents
use traditional approaches thirty nine percent,more so than alternative ones thirteen percent,
And these remedies weren't just decided overnight. Most respondents fifty five percent say their
parents got their approach to wellness fromtheir own parents. So I guess the
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takeaway is we are greatly influenced,but it's not determinative as far as how
we choose to maintain our health andwellness from generation to generation. Is there
any truth to that? From whereyou sit? Well, you know,
Mo, my grandmother and my mother, they both to this day still incorporate
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exercise into their daily routine. Butwhen it comes to more holistic approaches.
You know, I'm kind of alittle bit more woo woo than my forefathers
or four mothers, should we say. I took my cues from my father.
He would get up in the morning, he would go jogging, and
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he was a child of the joggingrevolution, and that was the extent of
his working out. My mother wasa full time teacher and she was a
homemaker. In other words, Godbless her. She'd go to work,
she'd come home and have dinner cookfor the family. She was traditional in
that regard, so working out ina traditional sense did not exist. But
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I look at this generation, whichis younger than me and my blended sons.
They look at it much through you. I guess your eyes and also
your children's eyes. As far asit's not just one thing, it's diet,
it's exercise, it's a holistic approach. It seems like we're moving away
from the idea of our parents determininghow we work out or how we exercise.
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There's two things happening here. Iwant to kind of touch on both.
So, yes, my children andyour children are going to grow up
with access to more information at theirfingertips, which means that they don't necessarily
have to do it exactly the wayeven we did it, and we don't
have to do it exactly the wayour parents did it. But the other
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thing that I want to talk aboutis unlearning certain habits. For example,
the very first thing my grandmother isgoing to do if she gets an a
an ache or a pain is goto the doctor. Always, every time,
call the doctor. So I thinkwhat we're learning is that there's ways
that we can take care of mybody and soul without having to first stop
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be the doctor or a prescription ora medication, but we can take care
of our overall health in hopes thatmaybe we will allow our body to do
the healing that it is naturally capableof doing. Do we have a generation
of kids who are just not exercisingbecause this seems like they're spending more time
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on their phones than anything else,or am I wrong? So? Look,
I do notice that my kids definitelyhave an attachment to the phone.
In fact, I say it's growingout of their hand right. But I
also notice that because they do haveaccess to information, they know about things
that I don't always know about.So so instead of me acting like I'm
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the be all to the end,all, the super knowledgeable one. I
oftentimes ask them, well, whenyou researched it, what did your research
come up with? Because that isone of the benefits. The phone's not
all bad mode, you know,it's not all bad. I mean,
look, yeah, well I wouldn'tsay the phone's all bad, but I
wonder, and I don't know this, but I get the sense that younger
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people today are more concerned with thevisual esthetics of working out and less so
about the health benefits long term.It's not like they're building habits from what
I see today, but when theydo get into their forties and fifties and
sixties, but they're more doing itfor the gram. Okay, whatever gets
them there. Look, if youget there, that's half the battle.
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That's what I tell people who cometo work out with me. Getting into
the building or getting into the workoutis half of the battle of working out.
Am I right? Mo, No, it's most of the battle.
If you can get me there,then I'll stay there. And I think
if the kids are motivated by postingabout their workouts, at least they're getting
in the building. And I wasat a seminar this weekend which was called
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the one hundred Healthy Women, andI was a panel speaker, and the
first thing I did was I toldthe audience to stand up, because when
you speak about too much screen time, too much phone consumption, the thing
that comes up for me is thatwe're living a more sedentary lifestyle because of
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it. So I made sure everybodystood up, kind of got their wiggles
out. That's what I used totell the kids to do, and that's
one of the ways that we cancombat this sedentary lifestyle. I also wonder
people who are in our general agegroup between thirty five and fifty five,
who are say more informed than ourparents. Do you find that there's this
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push pull as far as trying topull people in certain age group along to
what is the now and the happening. I have released myself from trying to
get people to do what I thinkthey should do for their health. And
I don't just mean for their physicalhealth. I'm talking about getting people up
and moving for their mental health.I'm talking about getting people in community for
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their spiritual and emotional health. Butpeople won't do unless they're motivated on their
own to do. Sometimes it's adiagnosis that motivates them to get moving.
Sometimes it's loneliness that motivates them toget in community. It's not often that
someone can just rattle your cage andyou're going to do what they say.
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Do you do what people say?Most? Uh? Put it this way,
No, No, I do whatpeople say when I know that they
are the expert. For example,I think I'm a pretty good student.
If I'm going to be in aclass and there's someone teaching, I listen
to the teacher. If there's someonewho's in a discipline or expertise that i'm
not now, and I will listento that expert. That means when I
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go to the doctor, I listento the doctor. It's when I get
in my alone time and I startcreating excuses for myself, like if the
doctor says, okay, I needyou to exercise more and maybe put down
the donuts and the pizza, andthen people start bringing pizza around me,
and then I'm fighting with myself.It's not that I don't believe my doctor
and I'm not listening to my doctor. It's just that the devil's working over
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time. It gets me sometimes.Does that make any sense? It means
you can't resist the pizza, andmost of us can, Let's be honest.
But you know, I was talkingto a friend. She got a
pre diabetic diagnosis. Pre diabetes justmeans that if you can turn this train
around, if you can eat right, if you can exercise, you can
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free yourself from being dependent upon insulinmedication for the full diabetes diagnosis. And
what they offered her was a nutritionclass where she could learn about how to
prepare foods that are Loglise Sea makethat will help her to stay off medication.
And she said that she went tothe class and she learned so much
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about different foods and how to preparethem, and what oils to use and
what not to use and all theseother things. And then she said when
she came home she wanted to implementit in the house with all of her
family, and they were like,girl, what. So I'm saying that
to say that when you make alifestyle change, when you make a shift
in your eating or in your exercising, it's almost like you feel so inspired
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you want to share it with otherpeople. But then from my experience,
you end up feeling disappointed when theydon't get on the vandwagon. With you
right, absolutely, But you cannotwant something more for people than what they
want for themselves. And although you'reteachable, and although you're coachable, a
lot of people just want to eatthe pizza and the donuts, and they
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want to do it in peace,and they don't want to worry about what
this is going to eventually lead to, because at the end of the day,
most of us have some unhealthy copingmechanisms. It could be food,
it could be sugar, it couldbe sex, it could be spending frivolously,
it could be drinking, drugs,whatever you name it. There's millions
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of different coping mechanisms. And whenyou start to tell people we're taking away
your coping mechanisms, that's when peopleget into this. I'm not doing it
rooting their feet into the ground aboutwhat they don't want to do. Well,
you just stepped on a lot oftoes. So I'm going to give
them the commercial break to get overthemselves. We'll let that marinate over the
commercial break. It's later with MeeKelly. I'll have more with Claudine Cooper
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in just a moment when we comeback to get into a professional business.
I'm not going to tell her whatI'm going to surprise her with something when
we come back. You're listening toLater with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty. We're live everywhereon the iHeartRadio app. I'm continuing my
conversation with Claudine Cooper. You canalways find her at Claudinecooper dot com and
you may know her from her timeon this show. She'll talk about her
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free community workouts both online and alsoin person Friday and Saturday, respectively.
And I said before the break Clouding, I was going to get into your
business, and part of your businessis I'll say, health and wellness within
the community. You do what youcan with what you have right where you
are. And at the beginning ofthis calendar year, we talked about the
evolution or the also the life cycleof someone working out to make the new
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year's resolution. The start off verydedicated, very hard, and then most
likely they will fall off. Manypeople do not everyone. My question to
you is now that we get tosummer, do you also lose people because
the whole idea of the summer beachbody may not be the important thing.
They may be going on vacation,they may be doing other things they're doing.
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The summer thing is this where youalso lose a lot of people.
You know, summer tends to bea time when people get active outdoors.
So, as you know, I'vebeen working in the gyms since I was
eighteen years old, this marks mythirty second year working in the gym.
Woo woooooo. I never thought whenI was working at the front desk of
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a gym I would be still doinggym work at almost fifty years old.
But I love the gym so muchbecause someone once said to me, a
gym is not full of fit people, It's full of people who are healing.
And that really resonated with me becausehonestly, fitness is a healing journey.
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And in the summer months, Isee people doing more exercise outdoors.
And so if you don't know,nature also has healing properties. Being outside
in the sun, being outside,breathing fresh air, being outside with your
family. There are ways that wecan connect with one another outdoors and be
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active at the same time. Sothat's really what I encourage people to do.
I yes, teach a free outdoorworkout, but I also work in
the too, so actually I havesmaller classes now that it is summertime.
But I also have shorter classes toencourage people to come in for maybe thirty
minutes or forty five minutes and justknock out a quick workout and get back
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outside. If that makes sense,It makes perfect sense. But I have
to ask you because people keep askingyou every single day, so you don't
have to answer people every single day. How far away might we be from
the opening of Iconics in Inglewood.So Iconics in Inglewood has been under construction
with many delays, but as weget closer to opening, I don't want
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to give you an exact date,but I want to tell you all of
our equipment is in. We aremaking major strides to open the doors,
and I'll tell you we have inspectionscoming up. So next week I might
have an update for it. Icannot wait. Let me ask you very
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quickly. Do you craft or changeyour community workouts with the seasons? Do
you see an influx of more peopleand that may make you tweak it?
Yes, yeah, you tweak ita little bit, especially as we hit
these hotter months. July tends tobe a warm month here in southern California,
and that's when I do less cardio, more strength training, more balanced
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training, more stability training to tryto keep people from overheating. I'm always
thinking about people that may not beat my fitness level, but maybe they're
at my grandmother's fitness level, andso I do my best to try to
alter it during hotter times. Butto be honest, we've been in June
gloom for a while. Mom.Have you noticed that? Oh? I
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have, and it affects my moodfrom day to day. Mine too,
And honestly, we had May grayand now we're just creeping around the corner
from having June gloom for the lastcouple of weeks. And I've noticed a
decline in the participants because when thesun is out, Surprisingly, I do
have more people attending the workouts.I'm not sure what the correlation is.
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They just want to get up andget out. I don't know. It
maybe affects their mood too, butdefinitely the overcast weather does have an effect
on my workouts. Before I letyou go, obviously this is the time
where I want you to do yourappeal for your Friday Online Free workouts and
your Saturday Community workouts go well.I first want to say I started teaching
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online workouts during the pandemic when therewere no gyms open. I had no
idea that four years and some monthslater I would still be offering an online
option. But what ended up happeningis people from all over the world,
everywhere from Switzerland to Egypt to policecome into this Zoom workout at nine am
on Fridays and we do thirty minutesof strength training. And it has been
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such a community that I can't letit go mo I'm still doing it.
So that's on Fridays, that's onz Zoom. My website has a request
to join on it. And thenon Saturday mornings, I'm back in the
neighborhood in Inglewood, right in theHollywood Park retail district, and I would
love to see anyone who has adesire to work out or connect with people
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more deeply. She is Clauding Cooper. You can find out all this information
and more how to follow her andlearn from her at Claudincooper dot com.
Claudine, thank you for doing this. As always, I am learning and
growing as well as I think ourlisteners are. Thank you once again for
coming on tonight. I appreciate you. Wellness, Wednesday with Mo Kelly,
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never disappoints, Have a great night. You are so kind. It's Later
with Mo Kelly can if I amsix forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. And when we comeback, I have a Bad Boys Ride
or Die review, And also somethoughts made by Rob Schneider actor Rob Schneider
about Will Smith. He's not afan. We'll talk about it next.
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You're listening to Later with Mo Kellyon demand KFI AM six forty. Do
you both wake up in the morningcall each other up? Good morning Marcus,
Good morning Mike. How you doing? I so, how are we
gonna fuck up the Captain's life today? Gee? I don't know, I
don't know who. Look over there. Let's kill three fat people and leave
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them on the street. Hey,they were dead before we ran over all,
it doesn't matter whether they were deador not. Damn it. Every
time you leave a corpse on thestreets. I have to get these forensic
corner guys to come in to seewhat happened. Then I gotta get detectives
see the detective sep. Then Igotta get these forensic guys to stick them
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back in the fucking bag k F. I am six forty years later with
Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app. I had some time
earlier in the day. It's notoften that I have time to myself or
I'm not trying to do something forradio or TV or both. But I
had some time this morning, andI said, why don't I just go
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ahead and actually go to the movies. Usually I reserve the movies for at
night, maybe on a Saturday orSunday afternoon, when I'm less likely to
be interrupted by life in general.But I had some time today. The
point of this is I went tothe movies. I saw Bad Boys Ride
or Die. It was really,really good. And I say that knowing
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full of well. I've highly criticizedWill Smith for the Oscar slap. I
try to separate the art from theartist. The movie was very good.
There's a reason why I'm giving thismovie review because there's something connected to how
the general public is receiving it.It was really good, and I'm not
going to give away any spoilers,but it helps if you've seen the previous
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Bad Boy movies, because there area lot of callbacks. There are some
characters who return. I'm not goingto say more than that, but if
you've seen the previous movies and youknow them well, then the easter eggs
and the flashbacks and the callbacks willmean a hell of a lot more if
they're fresh in your mind. Soin that regard, it was really good.
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The story was much more believable thanunbelievable. There's a lot of action,
and yeah, there's some stunt doublesin CGI, but Will Smith and
Martin Lawrence's characters, Marcus Burnett andMike Lowry, they are self aware that
they're getting older and they're at adifferent place in life. I like that
they shouldn't be doing the same thingsor looking at life in their jobs the
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same way as they were in thevery first movie. And I asked to
Wala before I saw it, isit kind of lethal weapon issue? And
he said yes, And I agreeit is because if you watch the progression
of the lethal weapon movies, asthey got older, they became self aware
and realized that they couldn't be doingthe stuff they did originally when we first
met them, and they shouldn't bedoing the same stuff. They should have
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different focuses in life. They shouldbe looking more what's in front of them,
which is not a part their job, a part of their job as
opposed to looking behind them and allthe things that they used to do.
That said, the movie was reallyreally good, and I would want to
see another entry into the franchise ofBad Boys, and hopefully they'll end it.
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They only got one more left inthem, but they do have one
more. I bring that up becausewhen this movie first premiered, is premiering
all over the world. You mighthave seen the media coverage Will Smith,
Martin Lawrens. They really really wentabove and beyond in promotion of this.
They were showing up at various movietheaters and watching audiences take in the movie
and not announcing their presence, andpeople would come out of the theater and
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see them. They were showing upat these premiers, really interacting with the
fans. They were really trying torehabilitate Will Smith's career. I think that's
what it was. And then I'mreminded, you know, the world is
not about cancel culture. There's criticism, but it's more importantly capitalism and capitalism
decided that they are not done.We as a society are not done with
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Will Smith. But it doesn't meanthat everyone has either forgiven Will Smith or
is okay with what happened between WillSmith and Chris Rock. I would be
one of those people. Or itdoesn't mean that people don't have their own
stories regarding Will Smith. And likeI say, what do I always say,
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we don't know these people? AndI take everyone's I'll say accounting of
who a celebrity is with a grainof sault because we just don't know.
We all have our interactions with them. We may meet them on a given
day, or maybe they come intostudio for an interview and they're on their
best behavior. Doesn't mean I knowthat person. And I came across this
audio of actor Rob Schneider who wason this show, and he was sitting
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down as part of a radio interviewand they're asking him about Will Smith against
the backdrop of Bad Boys, AWriter Die being in theaters and how well
it was received. And Rob Schneidermade it clear and no uncertain terms,
that he is not a fan ofWill Smith. The person listen to this
Will Smith is a t on thinkhe Will Smith has been hiding the fact
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of who he really is. Andit was exposed that night and he's really
ashole. But I wasn't allowed tosay anything at that time because we were
part of the committee was supposed topunish him. Bill Smith is like for
me when I met him, right, I always say, nic yes,
wonderful. He's a liar, completeutter fraud. We can take it for
what it's worth. I don't know. I've only come across Will Smith the
person once, and it was arelatively quick interaction. It was when he
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first started dating Jada Pinkett. SmithJada Pikett back then because they weren't married
and we just happened to be atthe same party. That was it.
But I couldn't tell you if he'sa bad dude or not. Let's not
forget they are all professional pretenders.They are actors. Whether they stop acting
when the camera stops rolling, Idon't know. Some people are good at
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putting on these presentations. I callit. They're public representatives, where they
put this person out to speak,speak on their behalf. You know,
it's not actually who they are,it's just how they want to present themselves.
That's probably the case. I don'tknow Will Smith, but I'm quite
sure he can be an a holelike the rest of us. The question
is whether he is predominantly an ahole and he's only a decent individual a
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small amount of time. I don'tknow. I probably will never have the
opportunity to interview him or to spendany reasonable amount of time to come to
my own conclusion about who he isas a person. And this clip by
Rob Schneider has been picked up bymost media outlets and people are saying like,
oh my gosh, I can't believehe said that. No, I
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can believe that Rob Schneider said that. One because he's in the business.
He has a level of interaction withpeople who are quote unquote famous that you
and I don't not even me.He's around these these A list actors all
the time. He's had history withthem over the years. He's done movies
with them, he's done press chunkswith them, and you get a good
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sense of who someone is. RobSchneider says that Will Smith is basically faking
it. He's a phony. Idon't know, but it is in the
land of professional pretenders, and wecan take it for what it's worth.
I don't believe anyone in this businessis squeaky clean. There are very few
people. Let me let me rephrasethat. I think that there are very
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few people who are just great individuals, and you will rarely come across a
negative sentiment about him or her orthem. You know, the Keanu Reeves
of the world. They're very rare. They're few and far between. I
don't need great actors to be greatpeople because I don't have that expectation of
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them. I expect them to begreat in their talent. And I've never
been deluded into believing that because they'reso talented, because they're world renowned,
because everyone knows their name, andbecause they have fifteen to thirty million people
following them on Instagram, that thatmeans that they're somehow a good person.
It's Later with mo Kelly. Iam six forty. We're live everywhere on
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the iHeartRadio app and when we comeback, we have to say goodbye to
the legend Jerry West, who passedaway today at the age of eighty six.
And I'm just going to offer mythoughts of my personal memories of Jerry
West and how he will always bea legend and one of the greatest to
me. You're listening to Later withmo Kelly on Demand from KFI AM six
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forty, I pay you one thing. Greatest thing about being a logo you
get paid a lot of money forit. We made about two cents off
of it. Hypothetically, Adam Silvergave you the opportunity to pick who should
be the next logo. I wouldnever do that. It's disrespectful to other
players. Here's what my response tothat's mam, you have any idea what
the logo was about. It wasabout marketing. The league had started to
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grow and that's when they decided tostart trying to market. There were five
guys. No one knew who theywere, no one They were all silhouettes.
The guy who said it would fitbetter on the repairl and stuff,
that's who did it to me.You wish that no one knew who it
was. I've often thought, whatwould I like for people to think about
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me. He was a good guyand he cared that would be it nothing
more. IM six forty it's laterwith Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. And today wasa sad, sad day. Of course,
you know of the news of thepassing of the legendary Jerry West,
and I know news media has beentalking about his passing all day today.
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They've talked about his legacy as aplayer. They've talked about his legacy and
greatness as a player and also asan NBA executive. They talk about his
legacy as far as the being thearchitect of the Laker dynasties of the Showtime
era and also later when Kobe Bryantcame along. Because Jerry West was instrumental
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in the Lakers drafting Kobe Bryant,he had an aura which was unmatched in
the NBA. In fact, hewas known as the logo. Just in
case you didn't know. The NBAlogo is patterned after a Jerry West photo.
And all of that is accurate.All of that is true, but
it's not what I will remember mostabout him. I first became a fan
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of the Los Angeles Lakers when JerryWest was coach. I think was maybe
nineteen seventy seven or so, Butit was because my father would regale me
with stories of Jerry West and WiltChamberlain and how the Lakers were so great
if not for the Boston Celtics,who they kept losing to in the NBA
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Championship. That's how I learned aboutthe legacy of Jerry West, and so
when I started watching NBA basketball formyself and noticed that the guy on the
sidelines coaching the Lakers was the sameguy that my father was talking about,
I made the connection and then Isoon after became a died in the wool
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Laker fan. I had no ideathat I would eventually meet him later on
in life. I had no ideathat my life's work would be in media,
and along the way it would bein sports media. And I've told
some of this story before, butif I don't tell it again today,
then you know, what's the pointtoday? Is that day? But I
was working as a beat writer forthe La Clippers. This is maybe fifteen
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sixteen years ago or so, andbeing a beat writer, you go down
to the games, you have toget a quote from one or some of
the players, and then you haveto write up a story. And I
was at all the home games forthe Clippers, and Jerry West at the
time was an executive. But asfate would have it, on this particular
night, the Clippers were playing theLakers at Staples Center, and so I
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was down there and everyone was tryingto get quotes from Kobe Bryant and so
forth. It was a Clippers homegame, but the Lakers were there.
They were the bigger team, theywere the bigger draw, and so most
of the media was trying to getquotes from Kobe and other Lakers me as
well. But I was a newbie, and there's a hierarchy when you're in
that locker room. You have theTV people, they get to go first.
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When I say the TV people,you have the Lakers. If back
then it was Prime ticket, soPrime Ticket would get their questions in first,
and then you'd have the Lakers radiobroadcast, then they would get their
questions in, and then you'd havelocal legends like Jim Hill who was there
and he'd get his questions in,and folks like me who were nobody's didn't
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really know anyone. I was representinga small outlet. It was unlikely for
me to get a question in toget a quote, because you want to
have your own exclusive audio with someoneconnected to the game that night, and
I remember I was getting frustrated.It was maybe my third or fourth game
working as a beat writer, andI'm standing back from the gaggle of reporters
right outside the locker room, peoplewere huddled around Kobe Bryant. I remember
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this distinct thing, and coming overmy right shoulder was the Jerry West.
He was walking with Dennis Johnson ofthe Boston Celtics and also then the LA
Clippers. They were walking together havinga conversation, and for some reason Jerry
West took notice of me. Hecould see that I was struggling. Maybe
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it was on my face. Maybehe just had an idea that he had
never seen me before and knew thatI was new, and he knew how
the media game is supposed to go, and he came up to me unsolicited
and said something to the effective son, or are you having trouble? Are
you trying to get an interview withanyone in particular? And I remember I
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said something to the fact of Idon't know what is going on. I'm
just trying to get my quote,and he said, can I help you?
And then I said, well,can I speak to you, mister
West. It wasn't Jerry West,it wasn't the logo. It was mister
West. And he was kind enoughand said, yes, let's go over
here. We walked to the sideand he gave me like a five to
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six minute interview. I got allthe quotes, and people who did not
know. All the other people inpress gaggle did not know that Jerry West,
the Jerry West, was walking up, and so they turned around and
realized that this nobody meaning me,was getting this exclusive interview with the Jerry
West, and all of a sudden, people are looking at me, like,
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who is this guy? How didhe manage to get time. I
don't know if Jerry West never gaveother people time. I don't know if
he refused more times than not togive reporters an interview or a quote.
All I know is he gave meone. He gave me some time.
He realized somebody needed some help,and he offered some help. I don't
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know what type of father he was. I don't know what it was like
to work with him. I don'tknow anything about him the man, but
I do know he showed me kindness, and that will be my most enduring
memory of the Jerry West. Yeshe's one of the greatest players of all
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time. Yes he's one of thegreatest lakers of all time. Yes he's
one of the greatest NBA executives ofall time. He is all of those
things, and I'm not pushing anyof that aside, but when people watch
those things, they will not beable to recount something that I had.
And I had just one of thosespecial moments that said, to me,
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Jerry West was one of the greatestof all time, having nothing to do
with his on the court or hisexecutive exploits. He's one of the greatest
of all time because he did notview himself in that way, and I'll
never forget him for it. Restin peace, Jerry West. We will
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miss It's later with Mo Kelly Heyf I A M six forty, We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.What the hell is going on? Well,
we're about to tell a f IKOs T HD two Los Angeles,
Orange County, Live everywhere on theradio.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appand let's go live and unfiltered with Claudine
Cooper, Who's going to join usfor our regular health and Wellness segment.
Claudine is good to talk to youthis evening. How are you, my
friend? It's good to be hereon Wellness Wednesday. What are we talking
about tonight? Mo? Well checkthis out. More than two thirds of
Americans share their parents' approach to wellness, according to new research. A survey
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of two thousand US adults revealed thatwhen they were growing up, their parents
use traditional approaches thirty nine percent,more so than alternative ones thirteen percent,
And these remedies weren't just decided overnight. Most respondents fifty five percent say their
parents got their approach to wellness fromtheir own parents. So I guess the
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takeaway is we are greatly influenced,but it's not determinative as far as how
we choose to maintain our health andwellness from generation to generation. Is there
any truth to that? From whereyou sit? Well, you know,
Mo, my grandmother and my mother, they both to this day still incorporate
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exercise into their daily routine. Butwhen it comes to more holistic approaches.
You know, I'm kind of alittle bit more woo woo than my forefathers
or four mothers, should we say. I took my cues from my father.
He would get up in the morning, he would go jogging, and
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he was a child of the joggingrevolution, and that was the extent of
his working out. My mother wasa full time teacher and she was a
homemaker. In other words, Godbless her. She'd go to work,
she'd come home and have dinner cookfor the family. She was traditional in
that regard, so working out ina traditional sense did not exist. But
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I look at this generation, whichis younger than me and my blended sons.
They look at it much through you. I guess your eyes and also
your children's eyes. As far asit's not just one thing, it's diet,
it's exercise, it's a holistic approach. It seems like we're moving away
from the idea of our parents determininghow we work out or how we exercise.
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There's two things happening here. Iwant to kind of touch on both.
So, yes, my children andyour children are going to grow up
with access to more information at theirfingertips, which means that they don't necessarily
have to do it exactly the wayeven we did it, and we don't
have to do it exactly the wayour parents did it. But the other
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thing that I want to talk aboutis unlearning certain habits. For example,
the very first thing my grandmother isgoing to do if she gets an a
an ache or a pain is goto the doctor. Always, every time,
call the doctor. So I thinkwhat we're learning is that there's ways
that we can take care of mybody and soul without having to first stop
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be the doctor or a prescription ora medication, but we can take care
of our overall health in hopes thatmaybe we will allow our body to do
the healing that it is naturally capableof doing. Do we have a generation
of kids who are just not exercisingbecause this seems like they're spending more time
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on their phones than anything else,or am I wrong? So? Look,
I do notice that my kids definitelyhave an attachment to the phone.
In fact, I say it's growingout of their hand right. But I
also notice that because they do haveaccess to information, they know about things
that I don't always know about.So so instead of me acting like I'm
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the be all to the end,all, the super knowledgeable one. I
oftentimes ask them, well, whenyou researched it, what did your research
come up with? Because that isone of the benefits. The phone's not
all bad mode, you know,it's not all bad. I mean,
look, yeah, well I wouldn'tsay the phone's all bad, but I
wonder, and I don't know this, but I get the sense that younger
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people today are more concerned with thevisual esthetics of working out and less so
about the health benefits long term.It's not like they're building habits from what
I see today, but when theydo get into their forties and fifties and
sixties, but they're more doing itfor the gram. Okay, whatever gets
them there. Look, if youget there, that's half the battle.
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That's what I tell people who cometo work out with me. Getting into
the building or getting into the workoutis half of the battle of working out.
Am I right? Mo, No, it's most of the battle.
If you can get me there,then I'll stay there. And I think
if the kids are motivated by postingabout their workouts, at least they're getting
in the building. And I wasat a seminar this weekend which was called
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the one hundred Healthy Women, andI was a panel speaker, and the
first thing I did was I toldthe audience to stand up, because when
you speak about too much screen time, too much phone consumption, the thing
that comes up for me is thatwe're living a more sedentary lifestyle because of
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it. So I made sure everybodystood up, kind of got their wiggles
out. That's what I used totell the kids to do, and that's
one of the ways that we cancombat this sedentary lifestyle. I also wonder
people who are in our general agegroup between thirty five and fifty five,
who are say more informed than ourparents. Do you find that there's this
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push pull as far as trying topull people in certain age group along to
what is the now and the happening. I have released myself from trying to
get people to do what I thinkthey should do for their health. And
I don't just mean for their physicalhealth. I'm talking about getting people up
and moving for their mental health.I'm talking about getting people in community for
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their spiritual and emotional health. Butpeople won't do unless they're motivated on their
own to do. Sometimes it's adiagnosis that motivates them to get moving.
Sometimes it's loneliness that motivates them toget in community. It's not often that
someone can just rattle your cage andyou're going to do what they say.
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Do you do what people say?Most? Uh? Put it this way,
No, No, I do whatpeople say when I know that they
are the expert. For example,I think I'm a pretty good student.
If I'm going to be in aclass and there's someone teaching, I listen
to the teacher. If there's someonewho's in a discipline or expertise that i'm
not now, and I will listento that expert. That means when I
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go to the doctor, I listento the doctor. It's when I get
in my alone time and I startcreating excuses for myself, like if the
doctor says, okay, I needyou to exercise more and maybe put down
the donuts and the pizza, andthen people start bringing pizza around me,
and then I'm fighting with myself.It's not that I don't believe my doctor
and I'm not listening to my doctor. It's just that the devil's working over
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time. It gets me sometimes.Does that make any sense? It means
you can't resist the pizza, andmost of us can, Let's be honest.
But you know, I was talkingto a friend. She got a
pre diabetic diagnosis. Pre diabetes justmeans that if you can turn this train
around, if you can eat right, if you can exercise, you can
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free yourself from being dependent upon insulinmedication for the full diabetes diagnosis. And
what they offered her was a nutritionclass where she could learn about how to
prepare foods that are Loglise Sea makethat will help her to stay off medication.
And she said that she went tothe class and she learned so much
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about different foods and how to preparethem, and what oils to use and
what not to use and all theseother things. And then she said when
she came home she wanted to implementit in the house with all of her
family, and they were like,girl, what. So I'm saying that
to say that when you make alifestyle change, when you make a shift
in your eating or in your exercising, it's almost like you feel so inspired
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you want to share it with otherpeople. But then from my experience,
you end up feeling disappointed when theydon't get on the vandwagon. With you
right, absolutely, But you cannotwant something more for people than what they
want for themselves. And although you'reteachable, and although you're coachable, a
lot of people just want to eatthe pizza and the donuts, and they
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want to do it in peace,and they don't want to worry about what
this is going to eventually lead to, because at the end of the day,
most of us have some unhealthy copingmechanisms. It could be food,
it could be sugar, it couldbe sex, it could be spending frivolously,
it could be drinking, drugs,whatever you name it. There's millions
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of different coping mechanisms. And whenyou start to tell people we're taking away
your coping mechanisms, that's when peopleget into this. I'm not doing it
rooting their feet into the ground aboutwhat they don't want to do. Well,
you just stepped on a lot oftoes. So I'm going to give
them the commercial break to get overthemselves. We'll let that marinate over the
commercial break. It's later with MeeKelly. I'll have more with Claudine Cooper
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in just a moment when we comeback to get into a professional business.
I'm not going to tell her whatI'm going to surprise her with something when
we come back. You're listening toLater with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty. We're live everywhereon the iHeartRadio app. I'm continuing my
conversation with Claudine Cooper. You canalways find her at Claudinecooper dot com and
you may know her from her timeon this show. She'll talk about her
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free community workouts both online and alsoin person Friday and Saturday, respectively.
And I said before the break Clouding, I was going to get into your
business, and part of your businessis I'll say, health and wellness within
the community. You do what youcan with what you have right where you
are. And at the beginning ofthis calendar year, we talked about the
evolution or the also the life cycleof someone working out to make the new
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year's resolution. The start off verydedicated, very hard, and then most
likely they will fall off. Manypeople do not everyone. My question to
you is now that we get tosummer, do you also lose people because
the whole idea of the summer beachbody may not be the important thing.
They may be going on vacation,they may be doing other things they're doing.
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The summer thing is this where youalso lose a lot of people.
You know, summer tends to bea time when people get active outdoors.
So, as you know, I'vebeen working in the gyms since I was
eighteen years old, this marks mythirty second year working in the gym.
Woo woooooo. I never thought whenI was working at the front desk of
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a gym I would be still doinggym work at almost fifty years old.
But I love the gym so muchbecause someone once said to me, a
gym is not full of fit people, It's full of people who are healing.
And that really resonated with me becausehonestly, fitness is a healing journey.
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And in the summer months, Isee people doing more exercise outdoors.
And so if you don't know,nature also has healing properties. Being outside
in the sun, being outside,breathing fresh air, being outside with your
family. There are ways that wecan connect with one another outdoors and be
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active at the same time. Sothat's really what I encourage people to do.
I yes, teach a free outdoorworkout, but I also work in
the too, so actually I havesmaller classes now that it is summertime.
But I also have shorter classes toencourage people to come in for maybe thirty
minutes or forty five minutes and justknock out a quick workout and get back
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outside. If that makes sense,It makes perfect sense. But I have
to ask you because people keep askingyou every single day, so you don't
have to answer people every single day. How far away might we be from
the opening of Iconics in Inglewood.So Iconics in Inglewood has been under construction
with many delays, but as weget closer to opening, I don't want
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to give you an exact date,but I want to tell you all of
our equipment is in. We aremaking major strides to open the doors,
and I'll tell you we have inspectionscoming up. So next week I might
have an update for it. Icannot wait. Let me ask you very
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quickly. Do you craft or changeyour community workouts with the seasons? Do
you see an influx of more peopleand that may make you tweak it?
Yes, yeah, you tweak ita little bit, especially as we hit
these hotter months. July tends tobe a warm month here in southern California,
and that's when I do less cardio, more strength training, more balanced
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training, more stability training to tryto keep people from overheating. I'm always
thinking about people that may not beat my fitness level, but maybe they're
at my grandmother's fitness level, andso I do my best to try to
alter it during hotter times. Butto be honest, we've been in June
gloom for a while. Mom.Have you noticed that? Oh? I
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have, and it affects my moodfrom day to day. Mine too,
And honestly, we had May grayand now we're just creeping around the corner
from having June gloom for the lastcouple of weeks. And I've noticed a
decline in the participants because when thesun is out, Surprisingly, I do
have more people attending the workouts.I'm not sure what the correlation is.
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They just want to get up andget out. I don't know. It
maybe affects their mood too, butdefinitely the overcast weather does have an effect
on my workouts. Before I letyou go, obviously this is the time
where I want you to do yourappeal for your Friday Online Free workouts and
your Saturday Community workouts go well.I first want to say I started teaching
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online workouts during the pandemic when therewere no gyms open. I had no
idea that four years and some monthslater I would still be offering an online
option. But what ended up happeningis people from all over the world,
everywhere from Switzerland to Egypt to policecome into this Zoom workout at nine am
on Fridays and we do thirty minutesof strength training. And it has been
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such a community that I can't letit go mo I'm still doing it.
So that's on Fridays, that's onz Zoom. My website has a request
to join on it. And thenon Saturday mornings, I'm back in the
neighborhood in Inglewood, right in theHollywood Park retail district, and I would
love to see anyone who has adesire to work out or connect with people
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more deeply. She is Clauding Cooper. You can find out all this information
and more how to follow her andlearn from her at Claudincooper dot com.
Claudine, thank you for doing this. As always, I am learning and
growing as well as I think ourlisteners are. Thank you once again for
coming on tonight. I appreciate you. Wellness, Wednesday with Mo Kelly,
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never disappoints, Have a great night. You are so kind. It's Later
with Mo Kelly can if I amsix forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. And when we comeback, I have a Bad Boys Ride
or Die review, And also somethoughts made by Rob Schneider actor Rob Schneider
about Will Smith. He's not afan. We'll talk about it next.
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You're listening to Later with Mo Kellyon demand KFI AM six forty. Do
you both wake up in the morningcall each other up? Good morning Marcus,
Good morning Mike. How you doing? I so, how are we
gonna fuck up the Captain's life today? Gee? I don't know, I
don't know who. Look over there. Let's kill three fat people and leave
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them on the street. Hey,they were dead before we ran over all,
it doesn't matter whether they were deador not. Damn it. Every
time you leave a corpse on thestreets. I have to get these forensic
corner guys to come in to seewhat happened. Then I gotta get detectives
see the detective sep. Then Igotta get these forensic guys to stick them
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back in the fucking bag k F. I am six forty years later with
Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app. I had some time
earlier in the day. It's notoften that I have time to myself or
I'm not trying to do something forradio or TV or both. But I
had some time this morning, andI said, why don't I just go
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ahead and actually go to the movies. Usually I reserve the movies for at
night, maybe on a Saturday orSunday afternoon, when I'm less likely to
be interrupted by life in general.But I had some time today. The
point of this is I went tothe movies. I saw Bad Boys Ride
or Die. It was really,really good. And I say that knowing
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full of well. I've highly criticizedWill Smith for the Oscar slap. I
try to separate the art from theartist. The movie was very good.
There's a reason why I'm giving thismovie review because there's something connected to how
the general public is receiving it.It was really good, and I'm not
going to give away any spoilers,but it helps if you've seen the previous
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Bad Boy movies, because there area lot of callbacks. There are some
characters who return. I'm not goingto say more than that, but if
you've seen the previous movies and youknow them well, then the easter eggs
and the flashbacks and the callbacks willmean a hell of a lot more if
they're fresh in your mind. Soin that regard, it was really good.
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The story was much more believable thanunbelievable. There's a lot of action,
and yeah, there's some stunt doublesin CGI, but Will Smith and
Martin Lawrence's characters, Marcus Burnett andMike Lowry, they are self aware that
they're getting older and they're at adifferent place in life. I like that
they shouldn't be doing the same thingsor looking at life in their jobs the
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same way as they were in thevery first movie. And I asked to
Wala before I saw it, isit kind of lethal weapon issue? And
he said yes, And I agreeit is because if you watch the progression
of the lethal weapon movies, asthey got older, they became self aware
and realized that they couldn't be doingthe stuff they did originally when we first
met them, and they shouldn't bedoing the same stuff. They should have
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different focuses in life. They shouldbe looking more what's in front of them,
which is not a part their job, a part of their job as
opposed to looking behind them and allthe things that they used to do.
That said, the movie was reallyreally good, and I would want to
see another entry into the franchise ofBad Boys, and hopefully they'll end it.
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They only got one more left inthem, but they do have one
more. I bring that up becausewhen this movie first premiered, is premiering
all over the world. You mighthave seen the media coverage Will Smith,
Martin Lawrens. They really really wentabove and beyond in promotion of this.
They were showing up at various movietheaters and watching audiences take in the movie
and not announcing their presence, andpeople would come out of the theater and
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see them. They were showing upat these premiers, really interacting with the
fans. They were really trying torehabilitate Will Smith's career. I think that's
what it was. And then I'mreminded, you know, the world is
not about cancel culture. There's criticism, but it's more importantly capitalism and capitalism
decided that they are not done.We as a society are not done with
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Will Smith. But it doesn't meanthat everyone has either forgiven Will Smith or
is okay with what happened between WillSmith and Chris Rock. I would be
one of those people. Or itdoesn't mean that people don't have their own
stories regarding Will Smith. And likeI say, what do I always say,
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we don't know these people? AndI take everyone's I'll say accounting of
who a celebrity is with a grainof sault because we just don't know.
We all have our interactions with them. We may meet them on a given
day, or maybe they come intostudio for an interview and they're on their
best behavior. Doesn't mean I knowthat person. And I came across this
audio of actor Rob Schneider who wason this show, and he was sitting
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down as part of a radio interviewand they're asking him about Will Smith against
the backdrop of Bad Boys, AWriter Die being in theaters and how well
it was received. And Rob Schneidermade it clear and no uncertain terms,
that he is not a fan ofWill Smith. The person listen to this
Will Smith is a t on thinkhe Will Smith has been hiding the fact
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of who he really is. Andit was exposed that night and he's really
ashole. But I wasn't allowed tosay anything at that time because we were
part of the committee was supposed topunish him. Bill Smith is like for
me when I met him, right, I always say, nic yes,
wonderful. He's a liar, completeutter fraud. We can take it for
what it's worth. I don't know. I've only come across Will Smith the
person once, and it was arelatively quick interaction. It was when he
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first started dating Jada Pinkett. SmithJada Pikett back then because they weren't married
and we just happened to be atthe same party. That was it.
But I couldn't tell you if he'sa bad dude or not. Let's not
forget they are all professional pretenders.They are actors. Whether they stop acting
when the camera stops rolling, Idon't know. Some people are good at
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putting on these presentations. I callit. They're public representatives, where they
put this person out to speak,speak on their behalf. You know,
it's not actually who they are,it's just how they want to present themselves.
That's probably the case. I don'tknow Will Smith, but I'm quite
sure he can be an a holelike the rest of us. The question
is whether he is predominantly an ahole and he's only a decent individual a
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small amount of time. I don'tknow. I probably will never have the
opportunity to interview him or to spendany reasonable amount of time to come to
my own conclusion about who he isas a person. And this clip by
Rob Schneider has been picked up bymost media outlets and people are saying like,
oh my gosh, I can't believehe said that. No, I
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can believe that Rob Schneider said that. One because he's in the business.
He has a level of interaction withpeople who are quote unquote famous that you
and I don't not even me.He's around these these A list actors all
the time. He's had history withthem over the years. He's done movies
with them, he's done press chunkswith them, and you get a good
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sense of who someone is. RobSchneider says that Will Smith is basically faking
it. He's a phony. Idon't know, but it is in the
land of professional pretenders, and wecan take it for what it's worth.
I don't believe anyone in this businessis squeaky clean. There are very few
people. Let me let me rephrasethat. I think that there are very
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few people who are just great individuals, and you will rarely come across a
negative sentiment about him or her orthem. You know, the Keanu Reeves
of the world. They're very rare. They're few and far between. I
don't need great actors to be greatpeople because I don't have that expectation of
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them. I expect them to begreat in their talent. And I've never
been deluded into believing that because they'reso talented, because they're world renowned,
because everyone knows their name, andbecause they have fifteen to thirty million people
following them on Instagram, that thatmeans that they're somehow a good person.
It's Later with mo Kelly. Iam six forty. We're live everywhere on
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the iHeartRadio app and when we comeback, we have to say goodbye to
the legend Jerry West, who passedaway today at the age of eighty six.
And I'm just going to offer mythoughts of my personal memories of Jerry
West and how he will always bea legend and one of the greatest to
me. You're listening to Later withmo Kelly on Demand from KFI AM six
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forty, I pay you one thing. Greatest thing about being a logo you
get paid a lot of money forit. We made about two cents off
of it. Hypothetically, Adam Silvergave you the opportunity to pick who should
be the next logo. I wouldnever do that. It's disrespectful to other
players. Here's what my response tothat's mam, you have any idea what
the logo was about. It wasabout marketing. The league had started to
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grow and that's when they decided tostart trying to market. There were five
guys. No one knew who theywere, no one They were all silhouettes.
The guy who said it would fitbetter on the repairl and stuff,
that's who did it to me.You wish that no one knew who it
was. I've often thought, whatwould I like for people to think about
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me. He was a good guyand he cared that would be it nothing
more. IM six forty it's laterwith Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. And today wasa sad, sad day. Of course,
you know of the news of thepassing of the legendary Jerry West,
and I know news media has beentalking about his passing all day today.
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They've talked about his legacy as aplayer. They've talked about his legacy and
greatness as a player and also asan NBA executive. They talk about his
legacy as far as the being thearchitect of the Laker dynasties of the Showtime
era and also later when Kobe Bryantcame along. Because Jerry West was instrumental
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in the Lakers drafting Kobe Bryant,he had an aura which was unmatched in
the NBA. In fact, hewas known as the logo. Just in
case you didn't know. The NBAlogo is patterned after a Jerry West photo.
And all of that is accurate.All of that is true, but
it's not what I will remember mostabout him. I first became a fan
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of the Los Angeles Lakers when JerryWest was coach. I think was maybe
nineteen seventy seven or so, Butit was because my father would regale me
with stories of Jerry West and WiltChamberlain and how the Lakers were so great
if not for the Boston Celtics,who they kept losing to in the NBA
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Championship. That's how I learned aboutthe legacy of Jerry West, and so
when I started watching NBA basketball formyself and noticed that the guy on the
sidelines coaching the Lakers was the sameguy that my father was talking about,
I made the connection and then Isoon after became a died in the wool
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Laker fan. I had no ideathat I would eventually meet him later on
in life. I had no ideathat my life's work would be in media,
and along the way it would bein sports media. And I've told
some of this story before, butif I don't tell it again today,
then you know, what's the pointtoday? Is that day? But I
was working as a beat writer forthe La Clippers. This is maybe fifteen
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sixteen years ago or so, andbeing a beat writer, you go down
to the games, you have toget a quote from one or some of
the players, and then you haveto write up a story. And I
was at all the home games forthe Clippers, and Jerry West at the
time was an executive. But asfate would have it, on this particular
night, the Clippers were playing theLakers at Staples Center, and so I
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was down there and everyone was tryingto get quotes from Kobe Bryant and so
forth. It was a Clippers homegame, but the Lakers were there.
They were the bigger team, theywere the bigger draw, and so most
of the media was trying to getquotes from Kobe and other Lakers me as
well. But I was a newbie, and there's a hierarchy when you're in
that locker room. You have theTV people, they get to go first.
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When I say the TV people,you have the Lakers. If back
then it was Prime ticket, soPrime Ticket would get their questions in first,
and then you'd have the Lakers radiobroadcast, then they would get their
questions in, and then you'd havelocal legends like Jim Hill who was there
and he'd get his questions in,and folks like me who were nobody's didn't
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really know anyone. I was representinga small outlet. It was unlikely for
me to get a question in toget a quote, because you want to
have your own exclusive audio with someoneconnected to the game that night, and
I remember I was getting frustrated.It was maybe my third or fourth game
working as a beat writer, andI'm standing back from the gaggle of reporters
right outside the locker room, peoplewere huddled around Kobe Bryant. I remember
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this distinct thing, and coming overmy right shoulder was the Jerry West.
He was walking with Dennis Johnson ofthe Boston Celtics and also then the LA
Clippers. They were walking together havinga conversation, and for some reason Jerry
West took notice of me. Hecould see that I was struggling. Maybe
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it was on my face. Maybehe just had an idea that he had
never seen me before and knew thatI was new, and he knew how
the media game is supposed to go, and he came up to me unsolicited
and said something to the effective son, or are you having trouble? Are
you trying to get an interview withanyone in particular? And I remember I
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said something to the fact of Idon't know what is going on. I'm
just trying to get my quote,and he said, can I help you?
And then I said, well,can I speak to you, mister
West. It wasn't Jerry West,it wasn't the logo. It was mister
West. And he was kind enoughand said, yes, let's go over
here. We walked to the sideand he gave me like a five to
(30:15):
six minute interview. I got allthe quotes, and people who did not
know. All the other people inpress gaggle did not know that Jerry West,
the Jerry West, was walking up, and so they turned around and
realized that this nobody meaning me,was getting this exclusive interview with the Jerry
West, and all of a sudden, people are looking at me, like,
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who is this guy? How didhe manage to get time. I
don't know if Jerry West never gaveother people time. I don't know if
he refused more times than not togive reporters an interview or a quote.
All I know is he gave meone. He gave me some time.
He realized somebody needed some help,and he offered some help. I don't
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know what type of father he was. I don't know what it was like
to work with him. I don'tknow anything about him the man, but
I do know he showed me kindness, and that will be my most enduring
memory of the Jerry West. Yeshe's one of the greatest players of all
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time. Yes he's one of thegreatest lakers of all time. Yes he's
one of the greatest NBA executives ofall time. He is all of those
things, and I'm not pushing anyof that aside, but when people watch
those things, they will not beable to recount something that I had.
And I had just one of thosespecial moments that said, to me,
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Jerry West was one of the greatestof all time, having nothing to do
with his on the court or hisexecutive exploits. He's one of the greatest
of all time because he did notview himself in that way, and I'll
never forget him for it. Restin peace, Jerry West. We will
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