June 4, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – ‘What’s Up’ with regular guest contributor Nick Pagliochini delving into everything the Southland has to offer; from the BET Experience coming to LA this Thursday through Sunday, and "...No one puts baby in the corner..." at "Late Night! at the Skirball in the Sepulveda; to what's coming up this month for LGBTQIA+ Pride Month including LA Pride in Hollywood this weekend and ‘Disneyland After Dark: Pride Nites’ later this month. Follow Nick's adventures on socials @NickPagliochini, @ThisWeekendWithNick, and if you're hungry, @15MinuteFoodie … PLUS – Thoughts on actor Mark Hamill officially walking away from the role of ‘Luke Skywalker’ and the ‘Star Wars’ franchise - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thanks Later with moo Kelly. We're live on YouTube, Instagram,
and the iHeartRadio app. And this is Tuesday evening at
nine o'clock. So you know what that means. That means
that Nick Polio Channy joins us in studio. You can
see him right now on our YouTube and Instagram lives.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
What the hell is up? How you being? Oh dude,
I've been amazing. It has been crazy.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
I had Savannah Bananas last week with Disney and so
much going on, and then here we are in Pride month.
As you can see if you're following us on YouTube,
mister Mokelly, I've got my Disney Pride gear on, and yes,
if you like it or not, you're gonna hear about
it all month long because there's stuff that's going on
all month. So but first of all, I want to
jump into what's going on, and this is specifically for
the Lovely Lady to my right, Hernsha, because this is
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something she's very excited about. But it's something that both
Mo and I have done in the past, but it's
been quite some time. The bet Experience is happening and
taking over downtown La Thursday through Sunday this week. So
if it's something that you're looking forward to, if there's
some show you enjoy on be Et, if there's a
personality from it, it's all going down. And the best
part is I'm starting out with something that's free ninety nine.
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All you have to do is log onto beet dot
com and look for the BET Experience link and then
you sign up and you're able to enjoy fan Fest
all well Thursday through Sunday, but specifically Saturday and Sunday
are gonna be the busiest time periods with the most
interactions with music, guests and TV shows and everything else.
So it's a lot of fun and it's something that
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is unique, and I love that it always seems to
come back to La year after year, so I think
that that's a big thing for me music wise, talent wise,
very much a big part of the Southland, So I
mean that's for me. I love it. I think it's
a good time. I think it's worth everybody going and
checking out. So we're gonna try to get Carnesia there.
I know that's I was literally walking her through all like,
(01:48):
here's the contacts, here's the media people.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We're gonna make this happen. I have no desire to
be there, but you know, knock yourself out there.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Well.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
And I also, yeah, I was gonna say, but I
would love if Carnesia became a junior you'r a field reporter,
and then she can roll along with me to some
of the events that I cant.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Take her under your I will.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I absolutely will, one hundred and ten percent. The problem
is I'm already spoken for this weekend or else I
would totally jump on it. But yeah, it's a good time.
I can't complain what else you got? I got the
Skirball Cultural Center. So if you're familiar with Skirball Cultural Center,
it's kind of in the akin to Getty Center and everything.
It's over on that side of town. But it's specifically
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beginning late night at the Skirballs. So nobody puts baby
in the corner. And their opening night event is happening
this Friday, and it's gonna be dirty dancing as the
featured film. But it's one of those moments where well
it says the Santa Monica Mountains transform into the cat skills,
So if you're familiar with dirty Dancing exactly, so nobody
puts baby in the corner, but everything is retro inspired
(02:46):
for this Friday night event starts at six o'clock till
ten thirty, and it is fifties and sixties. Resort ware
is encouraged, So if you need to do a little
bit of homework, check out Dirty Dancing on YouTube and
you too can live your Patrick Swayze dreams here in
Soel in southern California. Also, we've got in the Exhibition
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Park area so North National History Museum for La County.
If you've not been there, I've talked about it many
many times. This is where they have both the Butterfly Pavilion,
which then feeds the Spider Pavilion when we get a
little closer to my birthday for Halloween. But National History
Museum is really worthwhile. And then this is First Friday's
twenty twenty five amplified, so it's going to be live DJs.
(03:30):
The I'm not sure. I mean, I'm familiar with what
a sound bath is. I don't specifically know what this
one is, but that's usually when you would go in
and it's meditative and you've got music, and you've got
drums and bells and all the fun and gongs. But
the event theme is going to beat music and the mind.
What does listening to music do to your mind and
well being? What has changed in the way we listen
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to music, and what does it mean for society? And
what are the social and personal benefits of listening to music.
It is very music heavy and there will be all
sorts of DJs, cocktails, soundbads, you name it. All the
details can be found at NHM dot org, National History
Museum dot org, or you can check out the Lincoln
bio at Nick poulio'cheeo this weekend with Nick on social media.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
So, but the thing I.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Want to talk about and I'm going to do it
a little bit early because I want to encourage you,
and I've talked about this with all the Disneyland after
Dark events. So Disneyland after Dark this year is going
to be in the It's going to be odd, a
little bit odd because usually they do their after dark
events on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. For this one, it's
going to be a Monday and a Wednesday. So I'm
glad because normally I would have to have somebody sub
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in for me on a Tuesday, but I get to
be here with you, so that's always a good thing
we appreciate. So I'll actually be coming straight from that
event because I will be live at Disneyland after dark
Pride Nights both on Monday the sixteenth of June and
Wednesday to eighteenth of June. Now, whether you're part of
this community or not, I want you to go, and
this is why, because we've talked about it and we'll
(04:56):
talk about again. All the attractions are open, all the
walk all the wait times are walk on. So even
if you're not specifically there for the alphabet to be
a part of the Alphabet Mafia or a supporter of it,
you can go and really for one hundred and sixty
nine dollars, which is not cheap, but you can get
walk onto all the attraction. You really called it the
alphabet bomb. Oh yeah, Alphabet Mafia. LGBTQ I A plus no,
(05:19):
because that's the way, because it's always you know, you
want something. Everybody wants to have a cool name and
going through nine letters, get now, Stephan, I love you.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I thought no, I thought it was a real thing.
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I mean, it is a real thing, but it comes
from LGBTQ. I A plush, sweet, innocent boy. I know everybody,
how how pretty is Stefan?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
And I see a lot of people in the chat
right now that are talking about Magic key Holders. There
is actually special activations at the events any of the
Disneyland after Dark. If you're a Magic key Holder, which
is the title given to annual pass holders now at
the Disneyland Resort, you can get a lot of extra
swag and they usually have extra photo ops. You get
character interactions exclusively for you. So if that's something that
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you're into, definitely give or worth checking out. But I
will be there. And the thing I love it's parades,
it's music, it's community, it's camaraderie. But it's also seeing
Disney in a very different light. And I think it's
because there's a good amount of Alphabet Mafia members that
are cast members at the Disneyland Resort. So this is
something that has only been happening a last few years,
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and it's something that's brand new and was really earth changing,
earth shattering when it comes to the world of Disney.
Because there's a lot of LGBTQIA plus representation behind the
scenes backstage, but this was able to bring them front
and center and really give them an opportunity to shine
and celebrate diversity and what makes those cast members and
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the Disneyland resort as part of the Walt Disney Company
so specifically unique. So if you got it, it's well
worth it to check it out. And if you go,
I definitely want you to find me and take some
pictures and snap that you can always find out my
location pretty quickly by following Nick pollio'channey this week of
a nick on social media, because I usually try my
best to keep up as quickly as I possibly can.
(07:07):
But it's a good time. It's well worth it. And
we're in June, which is Pride month, and it's crazy
to think that we're already halfway through the year already.
It's I mean, I hate to be that, like, sorry,
this year is already felt like forty five months, right,
That's what I'm saying. So that's for me because I
don't want to be the usual news anchor like, oh
my gosh, can you believe it's all wow? But really it,
like you said, it feels like we lived through forty
(07:29):
five years in six months, so it's both Wow it's
June and Wow it's June.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
It's June.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
But there's a lot going on this month and I've
got a lot more to fill you in on.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It's Later with mo Kelly. We have Nick Polliochani joining
us in studio. He's telling us what he's up to
these days and maybe you can join him. You can
find him this week at this weekend.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
This week, I'm a Nick on social media also Nick Pollio'channy.
One leads to the other, so you can't get the
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Can be experienced and hang out with the mo migos
in Motown.
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That to all the things, make sure you got them
all this weekend. This past weekend, if you were familiar,
it was West Hollywood Pride, so that means Santa Monka
Boulevard if you're heading through West Hollywood, that was shut
down and it was a new entity, if you will.
So I'm going to talk about what's coming up this weekend,
which is the fifty fifth annual LA Pride Parade and
(09:15):
Festival in Hollywood. West Hollywood a few years ago split
off and started doing their own thing when LA officially
moved their celebration with Christopher Tree West to Hollywood Boulevard.
So the reason that I bring this up, it's free
ninety nine is a great way to be out and
about in the community and the diversity that you experienced there,
whether you're a member of the Alphabet Mafia or supporter
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or whatever. There is a lot going on and especially
for the entire month, so I will be pomping in
and out of a lot of different events where these
will be happening. You can see that at Nick Polly
o'keanna this week of with Nick on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
But this weekend specifically, it's the fifty fifth.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Annual La Pride Parade, and it is such a unique experience.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I know that iHeartRadio will be there.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
I will not be because I will I'm not part
of the family anymore. But I did walk in the
parade last year with my husband and it was incredible.
But it's a really great time because Hollywood Boulevard, we
see it shut down in front of the TCL Chinese
Theater and also what is now Callavation Hollywood all the
time from premiers, where this is something that we're very,
very used to. This is one of the few times
(10:21):
that more than that from Highland to Kuwanga Boulevard are
shut down along Hollywood Bulevard. So starting at Hollywood Ovation
Hollywood and then continuing down Hollywood Bilevard heading east over
toward the one on one, it's shut down. And that
only happens at this point in time twice a year
for the Hollywood Christmas Parade and for La Pride. So
it's a very very interesting experience because Pride here in
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La while it may be associated with the Alphabet Mafia, is.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Very much La Pride.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Pride in the city of Los Angeles and the County
of Los Angeles and the diversity that we have. And
I think that's the biggest point for me to hit
is to kind of hit home for you is it's
worth getting out there. It's free ninety nine. It costs
you nothing but some of your time. But it's a
great time to get out there and experience your neighbors
and be able to meet people from different communities. Also,
(11:09):
there's so many additional things that are going on. I
will be at the Dodgers game on the thirteenth, Friday
the thirteenth, which is pretty wild because it's our only
Friday the thirteenth of the year. But I'll be well, yeah,
because you know, mister Halloween, I was like, thirty one
is my inverse for my birthday. So but yeah, so
I'll be at Dodger Stadium. I will also be at
(11:30):
Universal Studios because they have a couple of Pride events
that are going on. But I really want to encourage
you to find ways, especially since we're officially getting into summer.
I know I've had quite a few graduations that I've attended.
I've got a couple more that are still on the docket.
But there's so much going on in the Southland, and
I really really want to encourage you to get out
there and experience things that are going on in your backyard.
(11:51):
That's why I'm here, That's why I love coming in here.
That's where this weekend when it came from, back when
Later with Mo Kelly first had its inaugural season, the
inaugural year. But it really gives you an opportunity to
get out there and get to know your neighbors. And
it's not just the people that you live next door to,
not just the people that you you know, share a
(12:11):
wall or offence with, but people that are just in
the general community. Because it's wild to think how many
connections can be made when you're just getting out there
with it. And I think that's it. This is we
don't have. If you're part of a church community, it's incredible.
You have Fiesta's, you have you know, the church carnival, whatever.
But so much as you were talking about early in
the show, Mo, things have changed culturally how we interact
(12:31):
with people, and so having these large events where we're
able to get together, especially with no cover charge. I
mean people go to Coachella, people go to Stagecoach, they
drop one hundreds a lot. But that's what I'm saying,
like hundreds of thousands of dollars here. This past weekend,
West Hollywood Pride has become out Loud, which is a
music festival where they had many many name acts. Lizzo
(12:54):
anchored Saturday, and I forget who anchored Sunday, but and
then you also have music acts that will be performing
this week.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And it's a great way for you to get out.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
But you know, costs a lot less and that's my
biggest thing. You don't have that overhead, and so all
it does is cost time, and I think that's the
most important things. Going back to the National History Museum
for their first Friday, that does cost admission.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I think it's eighteen dollars to get in.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
But there's other times where you can support the Natural
History Museum, which is part of the Museum's down to
Exposition Park, and then you get to go for free,
so just and then you get a tax free free
ninety nine but no, you get a tax right off
as well.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
So I think that's the biggest thing. Summer is here.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Even though we had the weird torrential downpour today, June
gloom definitely made its you know self known, get out
try things. There's so much happening again, a great resource myself,
Nick poulio'channi this weeknd with Nick that Lincoln bio has
details for you, but just give it a quick Google
because even with CARNATIONI and I we were looking at
the beet experience stuff when we're on break and just
(13:51):
all the things that you can get into and enjoy
the experience.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Wow, that's great.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You can see my social media on at mister Mokelly
on YouTube right now. So if you don't know how
to spell Nick poliocha handsome dude, I was going to say,
I love this is this inception. If you go if
you know this way, that way, that way's point in
the other direction there you go like follow, subscribe, But anyway,
always a pleasure to be a part of Later with
(14:17):
mo Kelly and come in here because I don't know
beyond and especially with YouTube now with the chat room,
there's such a different level of interaction.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
This is that community on top of us.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You gotta go to the Motown chat hang out with
the momgos, for example, Nick Poliochitty, He's not going to
leave immediately.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
He would be able to hang out in the chat
with you.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So if you have questions you want to ask him,
you want to follow up with something he told you
about or shared, you can do that.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
You can't do that with other shows. That's why we're
here for you.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
There's a video interactive component to this, and we're building
our own community right here and everyone is welcome.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
And we love it.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
And because of that, this is definitely the place for
you to be Monday through Friday seven to ten pm, but.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Especially at nine o'clock on Tuesdays.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Because that's what I get it is that when you
come in, yeah something like that. Well, you know, if
you live your tune in tonight, you know I've been
running my mouth from a microphone and from the beginning,
if you don't mind just embodied voice, you know. I mean,
I wouldn't be upset if I became the voice of KFI.
But you know that's a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
So you were asked before you go, do you have Snapchat?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I do have Snapchat, Nick Poliochanni. Nick Pouliochanni on Snapchat,
I have TikTok as well Nick Poliochanni this week and
with Nick. Also if you're into food, fifteen minute Foody
is where all that content ends up. So all these
events that I go to, food events and activities I
talk about, even the things that we do here in studio.
So when we had our Pickle Fest a few weeks
back and all the different flavored pickled stuff from Popeyes.
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And then also you'll be able to check out's see TikTok, snapchat,
everything's there, slide to my dms. I'm available, and I
think that's a bigger thing that I talk about a
lot but don't get as much feedback, is if you
have someplace you want me to go check out, if
there's something in the community that's coming up. This is
a I've talked about it before, but that's how I
became involved with the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival was because
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they reached out and just said they wanted to have
people come. And that again has already passed. Was a
Momorial Day weekend, but it's a free ninety nine event.
So of course that's on the top of my list
of things that we want to do. But being able
to be out there and support, and I cover everything
from San Diego on the border all the way straight
up through Santa Barbara. So I mean, somebody wants to
invite me and pay for me to go out beyond that.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I'm kind of more than happy to into you know,
into the state as well of course east into the state.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
The Inland Empire always is. I mean, when you're born
and bred in the Inland Empire and you live a
mile from a liquor store, a metal lab, and a
drug dealer, what are you trying to say. I'm just
saying that's how I grew up Alta lom Ranch, Cucamonga,
that whole back in the day thing. But I'm just
saying that that is specific to if you were an
eighties and nineties kid, especially growing up out.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
That way before the migration exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
And then you know, once the movie Next Friday hit
and all those beautiful track homes came in, it was
a different ballgame.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
But I am well before all that.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
So if you're in the chat, you know exactly where
I'm from because I literally went through my entire resume
so huge and not to be from another show, but
a huge shout out to everybody in the chat because
I'm always available and I like to pop in here
during the week, and I think this is such a
cool and unique space to experience things, to learn things,
to hear things, but then to be able to observe
them that's even cooler. So I mean, we're bringing that
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whole new element to radio.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You want to hang around for bick, I would love
to talk about some Mark Hamill and his future or
lack thereof in Star Wars.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Yes, I already started this conversation in the chat, so yes,
I got I got your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's like with mo Kelly, we're still live on YouTube, Instagram,
and of course we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It's Later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on YouTube, instag,
the iHeartRadio app. And I was a kid who went
to see Star Wars in nineteen seventy seven. I think
it was like maybe in the first week or two.
I know, I wasn't waiting in one of those long lines,
but I went with my father, went with my mother's father,
maternal grandfather had a great time. It was a great
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bonding day. Three generations. I remember we went out to
eat saw. It was also some other friends of the
family and from then on, since nineteen seventy seven, I
have been a Star Wars fan. And if you've seen
episode what was later then called Episode four A New Hope,
it wasn't called that originally, it was just Star Wars.
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When it first came out, you saw that the star
of Star Wars was Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker.
I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but
that's how long Mark Hamill has been associated with all
things Star Wars since nineteen seventy seven, since the beginning.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
And there was a question of since they killed off.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Luke Skywalker, sorry spoiler in the movie The Last Jedi.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Thank you spoiler alert, Well it was. It was a
trash ass movie. It just was. In The Last Jedi.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
There has been this ongoing discussion as far as well
might you might you Mark not runner Mark Hamill play
a role in the next trilogy of Star Wars, which
has been announced.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
You think of me as a Jedi, don't you?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I think revealing no, I think of you used an
e Walk I think not, how Harry are you? Mark?
Not at all? Okay, but thanks for asking. You're welcome.
I know that I would like to know. So yeah,
Mark Runner has a okay, let's not get some.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
On topic to stay on target, get too close, stay
on target.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
That's a trump. Those are lines on Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Anyhow, the question was whether Mark Hamill had any future
with the franchise. Because there is another trilogy which is
going to be made, I can say firmly and confidently
I probably won't watch it. Something's going to have to
change for me to watch it, because episodes eight and nine, specifically,
I thought, were so bad and so divorced from everything
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which made Star Wars enjoyable. Not only did they miss
the opportunity to get the gang back together one last time.
The whole point of having these subsequent trilogies and you
bring back the legacy characters is you have them for
the nostalgia's sake, and people who were fans like me
since nineteen seventy seven can have one last hurrah. There
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was no reason why none of the principal characters ever
met each other or saw each other in the new trilogy.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Luke and Leah never saw each other.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
They communicated via the force, but they never were in
each other's presence. You didn't have of Lando, kyl Rissi
and Leah ever interact with each other. You didn't have
Lando interact with any of the original characters. Kill off
Han in episode seven and he didn't interact with anyone
except for Lea, and that was only in passing like
one scene.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Also, the worst death of any major character since maybe
Captain Kirk's crap death in that Next Generation movie.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Awful, awful and disappointing.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And I think the way they killed off all the
legacy characters, including Lea, was just so disrespectful. It's almost
like Ryan Johnson and then JJ Abrams in episode nine,
they did not care. They just want to hurry up
and get to the newer, younger characters. And the whole
point is you have to bring along the older generation
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with them, and instead they decided to just cut out
the old characters. And then they literally said in episode eight,
kill the past. And it's like, okay, we got it.
You're trying to move forward, but you also have to
hand a baton. You just don't just have them leave
the older characters, and they did not do them any justice. Now,
I say all that to say, I think that's part
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of the reason why Hamil made it very clear that
he does not see any future for himself in the
future Star Wars movies. Well, what if they killed him off?
How can he be in the future. Well, if you
know Star Wars, he could have been a forced ghost.
There are ways that he could have been part of
subsequent movies, but he made it very clear he's done
and this is not the Star Wars that he originally
was part of.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
What would you say?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
I know, I agree with you on all of that,
and I was going to say specifically, we're in such
a unique world where I would like him to be
a part of it, But then being a Disney person
and having that part of the whole canon, now you
literally had Luke show up at Galaxy's Edge, which didn't
do anything with the storyline.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Nope.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
But the bigger question was I have, specifically with Mark Hamill,
is so what does that mean for the future of
the franchise and in the world of AI and CGI.
I want him there, but do we need him there?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Well, there's a whole different question because in the way
that James Earl Jones signed off from the use of
his voice for future Star Wars property. I don't know
if there's any conversation which is being had with Mark
Hamill right now to use Luke Skywalker and his voice
from the previous movies as opposed to Sebastian stand sure
(23:12):
to keep Luke alive.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
In some form later one.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
That's where I'm coming from, is like, obviously, if it's
something we've seen historically, and how many in the newer films,
in the more recent films have they already gone back
to show those images. So that's fine, that is already
part of it. But what's happening moving forward is exactly
what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So I get the sense from what I know they're
trying to move beyond the Skywalker telling stories. That's fine,
but they had so many options and choices where they
could have gone on after the Skywalkers and the Legends
novels and what have you, that they just overlooked and
decided to go against. I don't know if I can
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trust Disney Slash Star Wars to tell a good, authentic
Star Wars story in the vein of what we've seen
in the Mandalorian right in the vein of what we've
seen in some of the good series but not in
the movies. I don't know how good Mandalorian and Grogu
is going to be as a movie.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Yeah, I was gonna say what that was? My next
question is what do you think about that?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Because these standalones have not been terrible per se, But
the problem.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Is they're still within the Skywalker time.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Exactly that and always going to say, And even when
I've talked about the new Projection show that's at Blackspier Outposts,
it's based on the Skywalker saga, so everything is tied
back into it, even in these physical representations of the properties,
it's all tied back into that specific timeline.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Still, and Grogu, if you know anything about the Mandalorian,
takes place in this very tiny period, and we know
that Grogu did not exist in the subsequent movies, So
his character and story has to end somehow, some way.
You can't really build upon unless you're going to spin
him off into a different portion of the universe or something.
And he's completely disconnected from what we know as the
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if YEA and everything which happened after that.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I do have to say the only thing that I'm
genuinely in a I don't forget. I'm a big Disney fan,
but the only thing I'm genuinely concerned about is Disney
and a lot of major companies go through and change things.
So just like with your whole description there, who's to
say they're not going to put Grogu in the back
of some scene in one of the previous films retro
correctly correct. So that's I mean, And I only say
(25:23):
that because it is happened. It has happened enough that
it is concerning to me because I like things to
be left the way they are because I enjoy history.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
And then you have these new additions.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
So they have done it, and I'll give you a
very specific example of it being done before we go
to break in the movie The Phantom Menace, Yes, which
was the first prequel. It came out, it happened, and
then many years later they wreck cond a scene and
put a very popular Jedi Quinlan Vass.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
In a scene. Correct.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
They physically just put them in a scene that he
never was in, right, so they could spin off other
stories and pointed back to that moment.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Which never happened exactly. So I mean, that's a perfect example.
And I'm genuinely concerned because it's not just this franchise
that has seen this happen, but that's even you know,
if we want to go to the other major thing
that has been added to Disney Marvel, I guarantee something. Well,
we've already seen a couple of things happen down that
path on that side of the world. But yeah, specific
to it, I'm curious to see what happens. Can we
just clear one thing up? Did Luke die of some
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kind of force chronic fatigue syndrome?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, he had a four stroke. Yeah, that was the
lamest thing ever seen. He over exerted himself, right, and
then he just faded away. You rob the fans at
every opportunity. Not only did you rob, they set up
the Force Awakens where you had this ultimate evil or
semi ultimate evil with Snoke and you had the ultimate
good that the new Rebels were looking for and Luke,
(26:46):
he was somewhere around the galaxy and they never paid
it off. They killed off Snoke, they killed off Luke, and.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
The two never met. How is that even possible? Now,
Luke had long COVID or something, and you go through
this long montage.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
You'll bring him back into the forest and he doesn't
do anything except mentally psych.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Out Ben Solo. Oh, it's such a waste that all
three of those movies were huge disappointments to me. I mean,
there are good things in them, but not very much
fair enough. Yeah, good things in them, but as a
body of work.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
No, you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Before we get out of here.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Here is basically an addendum to a final thought I
had last week. Because there's now new information goes a
little something like this. It could be said that you
have fewer and fewer true friends as you age. I
can attest to this, but nonetheless there are limits to friendship.
Age and wisdom don't make you omniscient or knowledgeable about
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the sexual habits of your friends.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I know, crazy, right.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You don't know what goes on in anyone's bedroom, no
matter how long you might have been friends with them
or party with them.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
You don't know what they've done, what they're doing, knowing
what they're capable of doing.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Nick Poulio'chinni put it best to me off air tonight,
somebody's yuck is somebody else's young and vice versa something
like that, But you don't know what that is necessarily
for anyone, regardless of how long you may have been
friends with someone. In fact, it's not uncommon that couples
who have been married for decades are unaware of their
(28:22):
partner's secret lives, infidelity, or time spent outside their presence.
Actor leon Isaac Kennedy has come out in support a
friend of sixty years, Smokey Robinson, calling the allegations against
him preposterous. Leon Isaac Kennedy is best known for being
Jane Kennedy's husband, and also the actor in the Penitentiary
movies as the boxer Too Sweet.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I know it's a deep dive hold on to that
for a name that movie called classic, but I digress.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
In his forty three minute posted commentary today, Kennedy spoke
to the attorneys on both sides of the issue and
detailed his long and close relationship in history with smoke Robinson.
His friendship is admirable and his desire to serve as
a character witness understandable. But until and unless Kennedy can
offer direct testimony to contradict the allegations, against Robinson. Kennedy
(29:13):
is respectfully irrelevant. Unless Kennedy can attest that he was
a witness to one, some or any of the alleged
sexual assaults. He can't speak on anything other than that
he and smoking Robinson are close friends and nothing else.
But Kennedy used his forty three minutes to try to
deconstruct and delegitimize the accusations against Robinson.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Jane Doe was raped in this blue bedroom seven times.
Let me state that these women were not in the
house singularly working. There were usually two or three working simultaneously.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Obviously the women all worked together. Some of their shifts
did overlap, so there was always an overlap. So now,
if you were raped.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
In this blue bedroom one time, why would you go
upstairs and stay upstairs.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
And be alone with this man again? If you think
this is going to happen again, And you get the
general point.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yes, what has been alleged goes against what he believes
he knows about Robinson, it goes against his public image.
But the allegations are not subject to opinions of the
unrelated or popularity of the accused. Although Kennedy sought an
audience in the court of public opinion. You know, you, me,
everyone else. It is not the court which will ultimately
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decide Robinson's fate or whether law enforcement which will eventually
file criminal charges. Smokey Robinson is going to have to
ride this out all by himself in an actual court.
And I like to use Tawala as my foil, but
he gets wide. And although we've known each other for decades,
and I mean decades, I don't need or expect him
to produce a forty minute video responding to accusations or
(30:59):
alas about me. Heaven forbid, if it should ever happen,
he couldn't possibly speak to them.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I don't know why he's laughing out there in the hall,
but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
He doesn't know about the dirt I might have done,
or I wouldn't know about his unless we were in
the same room when it happened. And I don't mean
that in a whole Hamilton sense, in the room where
it happened, and that would make him an accomplice or
an accessory if it were true. The burden of proof
is on the accusers here, and I could absolutely respect
leon Isaac Kennedy's desire to speak up in support of
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his friend. I could even get his desire to try
to poke holes in the accusers' cases, but he's really
not helping. He's not privy to what Smoky Robinson did
or did not do in whatever room. There is no
talking Smoky out of this situation. What Kennedy is seemingly
forgetting is that there will be discovery, There will be
text messages, there will be revelations that not even leon
Isaac Kennedy will be able to defend, and he will
(31:52):
look foolish despite his best intentions. And that's the lesson
right here for you and me and the rest of us.
Even the people you think you know, I don't know
on that level, and you never will. The accusers deserve
their day in court to tell their story, and Smokey
Robinson deserves his day to defend himself. Kennedy thinks he's helping,
but here's the point, he's not. This just might blow
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up in his face and it would have been completely avoidable,
even though he may have done it with the best
of intentions. Smokey Robinson will have to go through this
storm in a legal sense by himself. So let's let
the case play out. For KFI AM six forty I'm
mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thanks Later with moo Kelly. We're live on YouTube, Instagram,
and the iHeartRadio app. And this is Tuesday evening at
nine o'clock. So you know what that means. That means
that Nick Polio Channy joins us in studio. You can
see him right now on our YouTube and Instagram lives.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
What the hell is up? How you being? Oh dude,
I've been amazing. It has been crazy.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
I had Savannah Bananas last week with Disney and so
much going on, and then here we are in Pride month.
As you can see if you're following us on YouTube,
mister Mokelly, I've got my Disney Pride gear on, and yes,
if you like it or not, you're gonna hear about
it all month long because there's stuff that's going on
all month. So but first of all, I want to
jump into what's going on, and this is specifically for
the Lovely Lady to my right, Hernsha, because this is
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something she's very excited about. But it's something that both
Mo and I have done in the past, but it's
been quite some time. The bet Experience is happening and
taking over downtown La Thursday through Sunday this week. So
if it's something that you're looking forward to, if there's
some show you enjoy on be Et, if there's a
personality from it, it's all going down. And the best
part is I'm starting out with something that's free ninety nine.
(01:07):
All you have to do is log onto beet dot
com and look for the BET Experience link and then
you sign up and you're able to enjoy fan Fest
all well Thursday through Sunday, but specifically Saturday and Sunday
are gonna be the busiest time periods with the most
interactions with music, guests and TV shows and everything else.
So it's a lot of fun and it's something that
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is unique, and I love that it always seems to
come back to La year after year, so I think
that that's a big thing for me music wise, talent wise,
very much a big part of the Southland, So I
mean that's for me. I love it. I think it's
a good time. I think it's worth everybody going and
checking out. So we're gonna try to get Carnesia there.
I know that's I was literally walking her through all like,
(01:48):
here's the contacts, here's the media people.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We're gonna make this happen. I have no desire to
be there, but you know, knock yourself out there.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Well.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
And I also, yeah, I was gonna say, but I
would love if Carnesia became a junior you'r a field reporter,
and then she can roll along with me to some
of the events that I cant.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Take her under your I will.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I absolutely will, one hundred and ten percent. The problem
is I'm already spoken for this weekend or else I
would totally jump on it. But yeah, it's a good time.
I can't complain what else you got? I got the
Skirball Cultural Center. So if you're familiar with Skirball Cultural Center,
it's kind of in the akin to Getty Center and everything.
It's over on that side of town. But it's specifically
(02:26):
beginning late night at the Skirballs. So nobody puts baby
in the corner. And their opening night event is happening
this Friday, and it's gonna be dirty dancing as the
featured film. But it's one of those moments where well
it says the Santa Monica Mountains transform into the cat skills,
So if you're familiar with dirty Dancing exactly, so nobody
puts baby in the corner, but everything is retro inspired
(02:46):
for this Friday night event starts at six o'clock till
ten thirty, and it is fifties and sixties. Resort ware
is encouraged, So if you need to do a little
bit of homework, check out Dirty Dancing on YouTube and
you too can live your Patrick Swayze dreams here in
Soel in southern California. Also, we've got in the Exhibition
(03:06):
Park area so North National History Museum for La County.
If you've not been there, I've talked about it many
many times. This is where they have both the Butterfly Pavilion,
which then feeds the Spider Pavilion when we get a
little closer to my birthday for Halloween. But National History
Museum is really worthwhile. And then this is First Friday's
twenty twenty five amplified, so it's going to be live DJs.
(03:30):
The I'm not sure. I mean, I'm familiar with what
a sound bath is. I don't specifically know what this
one is, but that's usually when you would go in
and it's meditative and you've got music, and you've got
drums and bells and all the fun and gongs. But
the event theme is going to beat music and the mind.
What does listening to music do to your mind and
well being? What has changed in the way we listen
(03:52):
to music, and what does it mean for society? And
what are the social and personal benefits of listening to music.
It is very music heavy and there will be all
sorts of DJs, cocktails, soundbads, you name it. All the
details can be found at NHM dot org, National History
Museum dot org, or you can check out the Lincoln
bio at Nick poulio'cheeo this weekend with Nick on social media.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
So, but the thing I.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Want to talk about and I'm going to do it
a little bit early because I want to encourage you,
and I've talked about this with all the Disneyland after
Dark events. So Disneyland after Dark this year is going
to be in the It's going to be odd, a
little bit odd because usually they do their after dark
events on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. For this one, it's
going to be a Monday and a Wednesday. So I'm
glad because normally I would have to have somebody sub
(04:35):
in for me on a Tuesday, but I get to
be here with you, so that's always a good thing
we appreciate. So I'll actually be coming straight from that
event because I will be live at Disneyland after dark
Pride Nights both on Monday the sixteenth of June and
Wednesday to eighteenth of June. Now, whether you're part of
this community or not, I want you to go, and
this is why, because we've talked about it and we'll
(04:56):
talk about again. All the attractions are open, all the
walk all the wait times are walk on. So even
if you're not specifically there for the alphabet to be
a part of the Alphabet Mafia or a supporter of it,
you can go and really for one hundred and sixty
nine dollars, which is not cheap, but you can get
walk onto all the attraction. You really called it the
alphabet bomb. Oh yeah, Alphabet Mafia. LGBTQ I A plus no,
(05:19):
because that's the way, because it's always you know, you
want something. Everybody wants to have a cool name and
going through nine letters, get now, Stephan, I love you.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I thought no, I thought it was a real thing.
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I mean, it is a real thing, but it comes
from LGBTQ. I A plush, sweet, innocent boy. I know everybody,
how how pretty is Stefan?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
And I see a lot of people in the chat
right now that are talking about Magic key Holders. There
is actually special activations at the events any of the
Disneyland after Dark. If you're a Magic key Holder, which
is the title given to annual pass holders now at
the Disneyland Resort, you can get a lot of extra
swag and they usually have extra photo ops. You get
character interactions exclusively for you. So if that's something that
(06:04):
you're into, definitely give or worth checking out. But I
will be there. And the thing I love it's parades,
it's music, it's community, it's camaraderie. But it's also seeing
Disney in a very different light. And I think it's
because there's a good amount of Alphabet Mafia members that
are cast members at the Disneyland Resort. So this is
something that has only been happening a last few years,
(06:25):
and it's something that's brand new and was really earth changing,
earth shattering when it comes to the world of Disney.
Because there's a lot of LGBTQIA plus representation behind the
scenes backstage, but this was able to bring them front
and center and really give them an opportunity to shine
and celebrate diversity and what makes those cast members and
(06:45):
the Disneyland resort as part of the Walt Disney Company
so specifically unique. So if you got it, it's well
worth it to check it out. And if you go,
I definitely want you to find me and take some
pictures and snap that you can always find out my
location pretty quickly by following Nick pollio'channey this week of
a nick on social media, because I usually try my
best to keep up as quickly as I possibly can.
(07:07):
But it's a good time. It's well worth it. And
we're in June, which is Pride month, and it's crazy
to think that we're already halfway through the year already.
It's I mean, I hate to be that, like, sorry,
this year is already felt like forty five months, right,
That's what I'm saying. So that's for me because I
don't want to be the usual news anchor like, oh
my gosh, can you believe it's all wow? But really it,
like you said, it feels like we lived through forty
(07:29):
five years in six months, so it's both Wow it's
June and Wow it's June.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
It's June.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
But there's a lot going on this month and I've
got a lot more to fill you in on.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It's Later with mo Kelly. We have Nick Polliochani joining
us in studio. He's telling us what he's up to
these days and maybe you can join him. You can
find him this week at this weekend.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
This week, I'm a Nick on social media also Nick Pollio'channy.
One leads to the other, so you can't get the
last name easily. If you aren't pulling it straight off
of the chat from YouTube, will shame on you because
you need to check out mister m Kelly and experience
YouTube and experience this show specifically like no other show
here on KFI.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Can be experienced and hang out with the mo migos
in Motown.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
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Don't forget to follow like and subscribe, follow like and subscribe.
That to all the things, make sure you got them
all this weekend. This past weekend, if you were familiar,
it was West Hollywood Pride, so that means Santa Monka
Boulevard if you're heading through West Hollywood, that was shut
down and it was a new entity, if you will.
So I'm going to talk about what's coming up this weekend,
which is the fifty fifth annual LA Pride Parade and
(09:15):
Festival in Hollywood. West Hollywood a few years ago split
off and started doing their own thing when LA officially
moved their celebration with Christopher Tree West to Hollywood Boulevard.
So the reason that I bring this up, it's free
ninety nine is a great way to be out and
about in the community and the diversity that you experienced there,
whether you're a member of the Alphabet Mafia or supporter
(09:36):
or whatever. There is a lot going on and especially
for the entire month, so I will be pomping in
and out of a lot of different events where these
will be happening. You can see that at Nick Polly
o'keanna this week of with Nick on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
But this weekend specifically, it's the fifty fifth.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Annual La Pride Parade, and it is such a unique experience.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I know that iHeartRadio will be there.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
I will not be because I will I'm not part
of the family anymore. But I did walk in the
parade last year with my husband and it was incredible.
But it's a really great time because Hollywood Boulevard, we
see it shut down in front of the TCL Chinese
Theater and also what is now Callavation Hollywood all the
time from premiers, where this is something that we're very,
very used to. This is one of the few times
(10:21):
that more than that from Highland to Kuwanga Boulevard are
shut down along Hollywood Bulevard. So starting at Hollywood Ovation
Hollywood and then continuing down Hollywood Bilevard heading east over
toward the one on one, it's shut down. And that
only happens at this point in time twice a year
for the Hollywood Christmas Parade and for La Pride. So
it's a very very interesting experience because Pride here in
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La while it may be associated with the Alphabet Mafia, is.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Very much La Pride.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Pride in the city of Los Angeles and the County
of Los Angeles and the diversity that we have. And
I think that's the biggest point for me to hit
is to kind of hit home for you is it's
worth getting out there. It's free ninety nine. It costs
you nothing but some of your time. But it's a
great time to get out there and experience your neighbors
and be able to meet people from different communities. Also,
(11:09):
there's so many additional things that are going on. I
will be at the Dodgers game on the thirteenth, Friday
the thirteenth, which is pretty wild because it's our only
Friday the thirteenth of the year. But I'll be well, yeah,
because you know, mister Halloween, I was like, thirty one
is my inverse for my birthday. So but yeah, so
I'll be at Dodger Stadium. I will also be at
(11:30):
Universal Studios because they have a couple of Pride events
that are going on. But I really want to encourage
you to find ways, especially since we're officially getting into summer.
I know I've had quite a few graduations that I've attended.
I've got a couple more that are still on the docket.
But there's so much going on in the Southland, and
I really really want to encourage you to get out
there and experience things that are going on in your backyard.
(11:51):
That's why I'm here, That's why I love coming in here.
That's where this weekend when it came from, back when
Later with Mo Kelly first had its inaugural season, the
inaugural year. But it really gives you an opportunity to
get out there and get to know your neighbors. And
it's not just the people that you live next door to,
not just the people that you you know, share a
(12:11):
wall or offence with, but people that are just in
the general community. Because it's wild to think how many
connections can be made when you're just getting out there
with it. And I think that's it. This is we
don't have. If you're part of a church community, it's incredible.
You have Fiesta's, you have you know, the church carnival, whatever.
But so much as you were talking about early in
the show, Mo, things have changed culturally how we interact
(12:31):
with people, and so having these large events where we're
able to get together, especially with no cover charge. I
mean people go to Coachella, people go to Stagecoach, they
drop one hundreds a lot. But that's what I'm saying,
like hundreds of thousands of dollars here. This past weekend,
West Hollywood Pride has become out Loud, which is a
music festival where they had many many name acts. Lizzo
(12:54):
anchored Saturday, and I forget who anchored Sunday, but and
then you also have music acts that will be performing
this week.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And it's a great way for you to get out.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
But you know, costs a lot less and that's my
biggest thing. You don't have that overhead, and so all
it does is cost time, and I think that's the
most important things. Going back to the National History Museum
for their first Friday, that does cost admission.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I think it's eighteen dollars to get in.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
But there's other times where you can support the Natural
History Museum, which is part of the Museum's down to
Exposition Park, and then you get to go for free,
so just and then you get a tax free free
ninety nine but no, you get a tax right off
as well.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
So I think that's the biggest thing. Summer is here.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Even though we had the weird torrential downpour today, June
gloom definitely made its you know self known, get out
try things. There's so much happening again, a great resource myself,
Nick poulio'channi this weeknd with Nick that Lincoln bio has
details for you, but just give it a quick Google
because even with CARNATIONI and I we were looking at
the beet experience stuff when we're on break and just
(13:51):
all the things that you can get into and enjoy
the experience.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Wow, that's great.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You can see my social media on at mister Mokelly
on YouTube right now. So if you don't know how
to spell Nick poliocha handsome dude, I was going to say,
I love this is this inception. If you go if
you know this way, that way, that way's point in
the other direction there you go like follow, subscribe, But anyway,
always a pleasure to be a part of Later with
(14:17):
mo Kelly and come in here because I don't know
beyond and especially with YouTube now with the chat room,
there's such a different level of interaction.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
This is that community on top of us.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You gotta go to the Motown chat hang out with
the momgos, for example, Nick Poliochitty, He's not going to
leave immediately.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
He would be able to hang out in the chat
with you.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So if you have questions you want to ask him,
you want to follow up with something he told you
about or shared, you can do that.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
You can't do that with other shows. That's why we're
here for you.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
There's a video interactive component to this, and we're building
our own community right here and everyone is welcome.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
And we love it.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
And because of that, this is definitely the place for
you to be Monday through Friday seven to ten pm, but.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Especially at nine o'clock on Tuesdays.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Because that's what I get it is that when you
come in, yeah something like that. Well, you know, if
you live your tune in tonight, you know I've been
running my mouth from a microphone and from the beginning,
if you don't mind just embodied voice, you know. I mean,
I wouldn't be upset if I became the voice of KFI.
But you know that's a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
So you were asked before you go, do you have Snapchat?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I do have Snapchat, Nick Poliochanni. Nick Pouliochanni on Snapchat,
I have TikTok as well Nick Poliochanni this week and
with Nick. Also if you're into food, fifteen minute Foody
is where all that content ends up. So all these
events that I go to, food events and activities I
talk about, even the things that we do here in studio.
So when we had our Pickle Fest a few weeks
back and all the different flavored pickled stuff from Popeyes.
(15:46):
And then also you'll be able to check out's see TikTok, snapchat,
everything's there, slide to my dms. I'm available, and I
think that's a bigger thing that I talk about a
lot but don't get as much feedback, is if you
have someplace you want me to go check out, if
there's something in the community that's coming up. This is
a I've talked about it before, but that's how I
became involved with the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival was because
(16:07):
they reached out and just said they wanted to have
people come. And that again has already passed. Was a
Momorial Day weekend, but it's a free ninety nine event.
So of course that's on the top of my list
of things that we want to do. But being able
to be out there and support, and I cover everything
from San Diego on the border all the way straight
up through Santa Barbara. So I mean, somebody wants to
invite me and pay for me to go out beyond that.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I'm kind of more than happy to into you know,
into the state as well of course east into the state.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
The Inland Empire always is. I mean, when you're born
and bred in the Inland Empire and you live a
mile from a liquor store, a metal lab, and a
drug dealer, what are you trying to say. I'm just
saying that's how I grew up Alta lom Ranch, Cucamonga,
that whole back in the day thing. But I'm just
saying that that is specific to if you were an
eighties and nineties kid, especially growing up out.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
That way before the migration exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
And then you know, once the movie Next Friday hit
and all those beautiful track homes came in, it was
a different ballgame.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
But I am well before all that.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
So if you're in the chat, you know exactly where
I'm from because I literally went through my entire resume
so huge and not to be from another show, but
a huge shout out to everybody in the chat because
I'm always available and I like to pop in here
during the week, and I think this is such a
cool and unique space to experience things, to learn things,
to hear things, but then to be able to observe
them that's even cooler. So I mean, we're bringing that
(17:21):
whole new element to radio.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You want to hang around for bick, I would love
to talk about some Mark Hamill and his future or
lack thereof in Star Wars.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Yes, I already started this conversation in the chat, so yes,
I got I got your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's like with mo Kelly, we're still live on YouTube, Instagram,
and of course we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It's Later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on YouTube, instag,
the iHeartRadio app. And I was a kid who went
to see Star Wars in nineteen seventy seven. I think
it was like maybe in the first week or two.
I know, I wasn't waiting in one of those long lines,
but I went with my father, went with my mother's father,
maternal grandfather had a great time. It was a great
(18:20):
bonding day. Three generations. I remember we went out to
eat saw. It was also some other friends of the
family and from then on, since nineteen seventy seven, I
have been a Star Wars fan. And if you've seen
episode what was later then called Episode four A New Hope,
it wasn't called that originally, it was just Star Wars.
(18:41):
When it first came out, you saw that the star
of Star Wars was Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker.
I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but
that's how long Mark Hamill has been associated with all
things Star Wars since nineteen seventy seven, since the beginning.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
And there was a question of since they killed off.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Luke Skywalker, sorry spoiler in the movie The Last Jedi.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Thank you spoiler alert, Well it was. It was a
trash ass movie. It just was. In The Last Jedi.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
There has been this ongoing discussion as far as well
might you might you Mark not runner Mark Hamill play
a role in the next trilogy of Star Wars, which
has been announced.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
You think of me as a Jedi, don't you?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I think revealing no, I think of you used an
e Walk I think not, how Harry are you? Mark?
Not at all? Okay, but thanks for asking. You're welcome.
I know that I would like to know. So yeah,
Mark Runner has a okay, let's not get some.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
On topic to stay on target, get too close, stay
on target.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
That's a trump. Those are lines on Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Anyhow, the question was whether Mark Hamill had any future
with the franchise. Because there is another trilogy which is
going to be made, I can say firmly and confidently
I probably won't watch it. Something's going to have to
change for me to watch it, because episodes eight and nine, specifically,
I thought, were so bad and so divorced from everything
(20:19):
which made Star Wars enjoyable. Not only did they miss
the opportunity to get the gang back together one last time.
The whole point of having these subsequent trilogies and you
bring back the legacy characters is you have them for
the nostalgia's sake, and people who were fans like me
since nineteen seventy seven can have one last hurrah. There
(20:40):
was no reason why none of the principal characters ever
met each other or saw each other in the new trilogy.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Luke and Leah never saw each other.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
They communicated via the force, but they never were in
each other's presence. You didn't have of Lando, kyl Rissi
and Leah ever interact with each other. You didn't have
Lando interact with any of the original characters. Kill off
Han in episode seven and he didn't interact with anyone
except for Lea, and that was only in passing like
one scene.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Also, the worst death of any major character since maybe
Captain Kirk's crap death in that Next Generation movie.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Awful, awful and disappointing.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And I think the way they killed off all the
legacy characters, including Lea, was just so disrespectful. It's almost
like Ryan Johnson and then JJ Abrams in episode nine,
they did not care. They just want to hurry up
and get to the newer, younger characters. And the whole
point is you have to bring along the older generation
(21:37):
with them, and instead they decided to just cut out
the old characters. And then they literally said in episode eight,
kill the past. And it's like, okay, we got it.
You're trying to move forward, but you also have to
hand a baton. You just don't just have them leave
the older characters, and they did not do them any justice. Now,
I say all that to say, I think that's part
(21:59):
of the reason why Hamil made it very clear that
he does not see any future for himself in the
future Star Wars movies. Well, what if they killed him off?
How can he be in the future. Well, if you
know Star Wars, he could have been a forced ghost.
There are ways that he could have been part of
subsequent movies, but he made it very clear he's done
and this is not the Star Wars that he originally
was part of.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
What would you say?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
I know, I agree with you on all of that,
and I was going to say specifically, we're in such
a unique world where I would like him to be
a part of it, But then being a Disney person
and having that part of the whole canon, now you
literally had Luke show up at Galaxy's Edge, which didn't
do anything with the storyline.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Nope.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
But the bigger question was I have, specifically with Mark Hamill,
is so what does that mean for the future of
the franchise and in the world of AI and CGI.
I want him there, but do we need him there?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Well, there's a whole different question because in the way
that James Earl Jones signed off from the use of
his voice for future Star Wars property. I don't know
if there's any conversation which is being had with Mark
Hamill right now to use Luke Skywalker and his voice
from the previous movies as opposed to Sebastian stand sure
(23:12):
to keep Luke alive.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
In some form later one.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
That's where I'm coming from, is like, obviously, if it's
something we've seen historically, and how many in the newer films,
in the more recent films have they already gone back
to show those images. So that's fine, that is already
part of it. But what's happening moving forward is exactly
what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So I get the sense from what I know they're
trying to move beyond the Skywalker telling stories. That's fine,
but they had so many options and choices where they
could have gone on after the Skywalkers and the Legends
novels and what have you, that they just overlooked and
decided to go against. I don't know if I can
(23:52):
trust Disney Slash Star Wars to tell a good, authentic
Star Wars story in the vein of what we've seen
in the Mandalorian right in the vein of what we've
seen in some of the good series but not in
the movies. I don't know how good Mandalorian and Grogu
is going to be as a movie.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Yeah, I was gonna say what that was? My next
question is what do you think about that?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Because these standalones have not been terrible per se, But
the problem.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Is they're still within the Skywalker time.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Exactly that and always going to say, And even when
I've talked about the new Projection show that's at Blackspier Outposts,
it's based on the Skywalker saga, so everything is tied
back into it, even in these physical representations of the properties,
it's all tied back into that specific timeline.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Still, and Grogu, if you know anything about the Mandalorian,
takes place in this very tiny period, and we know
that Grogu did not exist in the subsequent movies, So
his character and story has to end somehow, some way.
You can't really build upon unless you're going to spin
him off into a different portion of the universe or something.
And he's completely disconnected from what we know as the
(25:00):
if YEA and everything which happened after that.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I do have to say the only thing that I'm
genuinely in a I don't forget. I'm a big Disney fan,
but the only thing I'm genuinely concerned about is Disney
and a lot of major companies go through and change things.
So just like with your whole description there, who's to
say they're not going to put Grogu in the back
of some scene in one of the previous films retro
correctly correct. So that's I mean, And I only say
(25:23):
that because it is happened. It has happened enough that
it is concerning to me because I like things to
be left the way they are because I enjoy history.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
And then you have these new additions.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
So they have done it, and I'll give you a
very specific example of it being done before we go
to break in the movie The Phantom Menace, Yes, which
was the first prequel. It came out, it happened, and
then many years later they wreck cond a scene and
put a very popular Jedi Quinlan Vass.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
In a scene. Correct.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
They physically just put them in a scene that he
never was in, right, so they could spin off other
stories and pointed back to that moment.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Which never happened exactly. So I mean, that's a perfect example.
And I'm genuinely concerned because it's not just this franchise
that has seen this happen, but that's even you know,
if we want to go to the other major thing
that has been added to Disney Marvel, I guarantee something. Well,
we've already seen a couple of things happen down that
path on that side of the world. But yeah, specific
to it, I'm curious to see what happens. Can we
just clear one thing up? Did Luke die of some
(26:22):
kind of force chronic fatigue syndrome?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, he had a four stroke. Yeah, that was the
lamest thing ever seen. He over exerted himself, right, and
then he just faded away. You rob the fans at
every opportunity. Not only did you rob, they set up
the Force Awakens where you had this ultimate evil or
semi ultimate evil with Snoke and you had the ultimate
good that the new Rebels were looking for and Luke,
(26:46):
he was somewhere around the galaxy and they never paid
it off. They killed off Snoke, they killed off Luke, and.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
The two never met. How is that even possible? Now,
Luke had long COVID or something, and you go through
this long montage.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
You'll bring him back into the forest and he doesn't
do anything except mentally psych.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Out Ben Solo. Oh, it's such a waste that all
three of those movies were huge disappointments to me. I mean,
there are good things in them, but not very much
fair enough. Yeah, good things in them, but as a
body of work.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
No, you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Before we get out of here.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Here is basically an addendum to a final thought I
had last week. Because there's now new information goes a
little something like this. It could be said that you
have fewer and fewer true friends as you age. I
can attest to this, but nonetheless there are limits to friendship.
Age and wisdom don't make you omniscient or knowledgeable about
(27:47):
the sexual habits of your friends.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I know, crazy, right.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You don't know what goes on in anyone's bedroom, no
matter how long you might have been friends with them
or party with them.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
You don't know what they've done, what they're doing, knowing
what they're capable of doing.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Nick Poulio'chinni put it best to me off air tonight,
somebody's yuck is somebody else's young and vice versa something
like that, But you don't know what that is necessarily
for anyone, regardless of how long you may have been
friends with someone. In fact, it's not uncommon that couples
who have been married for decades are unaware of their
(28:22):
partner's secret lives, infidelity, or time spent outside their presence.
Actor leon Isaac Kennedy has come out in support a
friend of sixty years, Smokey Robinson, calling the allegations against
him preposterous. Leon Isaac Kennedy is best known for being
Jane Kennedy's husband, and also the actor in the Penitentiary
movies as the boxer Too Sweet.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I know it's a deep dive hold on to that
for a name that movie called classic, but I digress.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
In his forty three minute posted commentary today, Kennedy spoke
to the attorneys on both sides of the issue and
detailed his long and close relationship in history with smoke Robinson.
His friendship is admirable and his desire to serve as
a character witness understandable. But until and unless Kennedy can
offer direct testimony to contradict the allegations, against Robinson. Kennedy
(29:13):
is respectfully irrelevant. Unless Kennedy can attest that he was
a witness to one, some or any of the alleged
sexual assaults. He can't speak on anything other than that
he and smoking Robinson are close friends and nothing else.
But Kennedy used his forty three minutes to try to
deconstruct and delegitimize the accusations against Robinson.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Jane Doe was raped in this blue bedroom seven times.
Let me state that these women were not in the
house singularly working. There were usually two or three working simultaneously.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Obviously the women all worked together. Some of their shifts
did overlap, so there was always an overlap. So now,
if you were raped.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
In this blue bedroom one time, why would you go
upstairs and stay upstairs.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
And be alone with this man again? If you think
this is going to happen again, And you get the
general point.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yes, what has been alleged goes against what he believes
he knows about Robinson, it goes against his public image.
But the allegations are not subject to opinions of the
unrelated or popularity of the accused. Although Kennedy sought an
audience in the court of public opinion. You know, you, me,
everyone else. It is not the court which will ultimately
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decide Robinson's fate or whether law enforcement which will eventually
file criminal charges. Smokey Robinson is going to have to
ride this out all by himself in an actual court.
And I like to use Tawala as my foil, but
he gets wide. And although we've known each other for decades,
and I mean decades, I don't need or expect him
to produce a forty minute video responding to accusations or
(30:59):
alas about me. Heaven forbid, if it should ever happen,
he couldn't possibly speak to them.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I don't know why he's laughing out there in the hall,
but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
He doesn't know about the dirt I might have done,
or I wouldn't know about his unless we were in
the same room when it happened. And I don't mean
that in a whole Hamilton sense, in the room where
it happened, and that would make him an accomplice or
an accessory if it were true. The burden of proof
is on the accusers here, and I could absolutely respect
leon Isaac Kennedy's desire to speak up in support of
(31:29):
his friend. I could even get his desire to try
to poke holes in the accusers' cases, but he's really
not helping. He's not privy to what Smoky Robinson did
or did not do in whatever room. There is no
talking Smoky out of this situation. What Kennedy is seemingly
forgetting is that there will be discovery, There will be
text messages, there will be revelations that not even leon
Isaac Kennedy will be able to defend, and he will
(31:52):
look foolish despite his best intentions. And that's the lesson
right here for you and me and the rest of us.
Even the people you think you know, I don't know
on that level, and you never will. The accusers deserve
their day in court to tell their story, and Smokey
Robinson deserves his day to defend himself. Kennedy thinks he's helping,
but here's the point, he's not. This just might blow
(32:15):
up in his face and it would have been completely avoidable,
even though he may have done it with the best
of intentions. Smokey Robinson will have to go through this
storm in a legal sense by himself. So let's let
the case play out. For KFI AM six forty I'm
mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
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