Friday Nights w/ Nautica & ‘The Rahner Report’

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Mo Kelly, Notica, Veela Cruise were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Nica First, It's great to see you. Marry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah. Exactly exact the minde. You might have heard our previous conversation talking about family traditions and how younger generations specifically is booping away from food traditions and other celebratory traditions.

Where do you come out on that?

You know what?

I have to agree with you. I'm kind of tired of the big meals and the dressing up. I just really want to be chill and I'm going to see my mom for the holidays.

And I told my mom nothing fancy. She's like, should I do a turkey? Mom?

I said, you know what, you could do rice with chicken and a platano And I am super happy. Nothing fancy, And I said, and also I said, can we make it to where we show up in sweats?

Yes?

And she was like, what, because my mom is the you got to dress up to the tea and put on your makeup and your mask.

No, you don't, you don't. You don't have to put on lashes. But no, and she was like, okay, I like that. I like that.

I said, Mom, don't put stress on yourself. Do not put stress on yourself.

Are there any foods that deep down they got to be there?

I love aroskuls. It's a Puerto Rican staple rice themales. But we make theamales out of o which are platain leaves in Mexican culture. That make them the mais, which are the quarantines.

Yes, we make them.

So you know, the where the bananas grow, the plantains grow, We take those leaves, we wash them real good, we soak them in.

Make sure you know, everything is clean.

And then that's where we put the you know, the the stuffing of the tamales and so la masa.

You yeah, and so.

I just look to dish like around our head.

And that is the process, like not only in arcoll And it's an all day thing because you have to cook the potatoes, you have to see them, the meat, you have to cook the meat.

You have to cook the.

Vegetables, and then you do the masa and then you do it all together and then you stuff them and then My job was sometimes either I stuffed or I tied them. But I didn't do a good job at tying them. And if you don't tie them right when you put them in the water to cook.

Yeah, so they took me off that job. I got fired.

The elders.

No, no, no.

But you know what's so funny is that I did this a lot, especially growing up in New York, because my grandma was My grandmother was the one that kind of had the whole table and she was the one that directed everybody, and she told us what our jobs were, and if we put too much meat in one, she'd be like, uh no, no, no no, and she'd shave.

It off because you have to extend these.

Themalas, and these are thumbalais that we would start from Thanksgiving all the way to the which is Day of the Kings.

I learned something today.

Yeah, I love it because you can freeze them. You can free them and you.

Oh, I know, because I'll be eating them for a while.

Those don't counters leftovers because they weren't originally put out.

The malis are one of those things that you could freeze and eat all year.

But it just it takes a lot of people, a lot of a lot of elbow grease, a lot of legwork, and and a lot of patients.

But when they're good, yes, yes, producer makes them fire.

Fire to my Quianna. Got to bring some more. Damn it. Your Tomali's are fire.

I just saw on Instagram before I came in here. She's making.

Can make that.

I don't know that, I know.

I don't, I do not, but I love I love all staple foods, and I am half Puerto Rican, half Colombian, so on my Colombian side, we do arepas.

We do.

Which are their corn like a It's kind of like aia, but it's a little thicker. We do sulao. Sulao is like a it's kind of like a wet, stewy chicken, and we eat that with rice. So we have a lot of great food around. I'm sorry I stepped on too much of your time.

It's okay.

Where did you venture to this week? Oh?

I went to the enchanted Forests of Light at Disconsol Gardens. I've never been to Thissconsol Gardens during the day, so I'm gonna have to rego because I went at night and they have the magical they have the light show, and it's actually really really nice. It's about a mile walk and visitors can stroll along a one mile path filled with creative lights display including vibrant tulip fields, sparkling forests, and an interactive art piece.

It really is extraordinarily beautiful.

Now the event is designed to captivate people of all ages, making it a perfect outing for families during the holiday season, since we were talking about the holidays and it's nice to get together with your families and to enjoy the activities. There's many light displays. Also, visitors are as to if they would like to engage in some of the fun

We'll have to ask morek about that.

But he's never right, right, but to make most of your visit, dress warmly since the event takes place outdoors, and visitors will also find Disconsole Gardens gift shops the end.

The gift shops have some nice little Christmas gifts that you might want to purchase, or maybe a stocking stuffer, so definitely check that out.

Now.

I do want to say that tickets must be purchased in advance, online or by phone. They are not sold on site, so definitely check it out. It is a little on the priceier side. I'm sorry, you know I love free sky Free ninety nine. I try to get you free events. But it is beautiful and it is worth it. For the adults it's thirty five to forty five dollars and for children two to twelve it's twenty five to thirty.

Also, it is going to be here.

The Enchanted Forest of Lights runs until January fifth, twenty twenty five. I can't believe we're saying twenty twenty five already, and it's from five thirty pm to ten pm.

So once again, go check it out. It's beautiful.

Take the family. Disconsol Gardens located at one four one eighth Disconsole Drive in La Kanyata. And on another note about lights, Daisy emailed me and she was like, Nautica, you've been to a few light places like for the holidays. I was wondering if you had a holiday day list. So I do have a holiday list for here in Los Angeles. There's the Enchanted Forest of Lights and Disconsol Gardens. As I said, there's Candy Cane Lane and Woodland Hills.

Definitely.

There's the Holiday Road at the King Gillette Ranch, which I went to a few weeks ago, the La Zoo lights as well, the Venice Canals Holiday lights, the Marina del Rey Boat Parade, Sleepy Hollow Christmas Lights that's in the city of Torrance, and Christmas Tree Lane in Alta Dina. Those are some here and they're roughly here between. I think I checked online anywhere between the New Year's Eve and the first So those are some great places to take the family. And if you want that list, you

The way people wear pajamas now these days, they probably would. Anyhow, I was at getting some food and I just looked and it's like everyone.

Was wearing pajamas. It's like, what the hell is going on?

I don't know. I think after COVID, I think we lost fashion.

Maybe I have an important question.

Yes, if you wear pajamas to the store or out to someplace in public, do you wear those same pajamas back to bed without washing them first?

Oh?

I don't wear pajamas, so I'm not the person to answer that question me neither.

I don't.

Robin, do you wear pajamas?

I do wear pajamas, but.

I wouldn't wear them to bed if I wore them out in public. Okay, so they're public pajamas and under private pajamas. Throw them in an autoclave.

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AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. It's Friday Nights with Natica. It was only with Mo Kelly. Today's Hidden jem is David Afra. David Afra grew up in the vibrant streets of East Los Angeles, where life wasn't always easy, but the sense of community was strong.

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Worked tirelessly to provide for their family, always encourage him to focus on education. From a young age, David had a knack for numbers and enjoyed helping his dad balance the family's budget. That spark grew into a passion, and David set his sights on becoming an accountant. After graduating from high school, David enrolled into the local college to pursue his dream. While balancing part time jobs to pay for his classes, He gained valuable experiences by offering free

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You got to tell me how did this one come across your desk?

Actually, this one was sent to me by an email by LinkedIn and we were discussing like financial stuff. I'm also in the you know, other than broadcasting, I'm also in the finance world, and I've worked for two business

And I said, I don't think, so let me look them up.

And so I looked them up and so we had a nice little conversation and I was really intrigued because I think at a small age he was introduced to numbers, which kind of reminded me of my dad didn't.

Let me go outside to play enough.

I had to do multiplications in addition and subtractions before I wanted to gout to play.

He would give me about it. He would give me two.

I mean, but as a kid, you know, it's like, oh, boring, sure, but but it would always you know, it kind of got me into like what numbers was really about. And also he would give me play money and we would discuss transactions and he would and so when I was talking to David, he goes, oh, my dad would do the Monopoly money thing to me, and I'd go, oh, really,

And numbers at the same time.

And I think that we need to introduce that to the youth, because yes, I know in high school I took economics, but I don't think that's enough for the youth of today. And I see so many people that are struggling in debt, and they're just racking up their credit cards and getting all these loans and they don't know how to manage their finances.

I have been long, long, been a proponent of mandatory financial literacy classes as a requirement for high school graduation.

Oh yes, Oh definitely. And I want to add something because this kind of talking to David. You know, I sometimes when I talk to people, I just I do a little bit of research and then it gets your mind going.

And during that week I went, I went. I saw on Netflix.

I don't know if you've seen, but it's this documentary called By Now have.

You seen it?

I'm aware of it, but I haven't seen it.

Okay, Well, this has to do with financial financial freedom.

It talks about your finances and how much you're spending and how we're just clicking to buy and consumerism and also I think another.

Thing you should definitely see this.

I don't want to give too much away, but it is a musty documentary for everyone. Of it talks about finances and how you just click and it gets to your door, and over consumerism and how we are messing up the the What should I say? I would say, how we're messing up the earth with all all the technology that we're throwing throwing away, but we're not really recycling that's the part that really just well made me irate. We are not really recycling even though we think that

You are overstressing yourself.

Oh, it can be very stressful.

And we live in a world where it's always talked to us to have more and not be more, not do more.

I want more in my bank account. I don't want more in my house.

I actually want less.

I want to have enough of my bank account where I don't have to stress, where I don't feel the need to worry about this, that or the other. I don't need to have billions of dollars. I really don't. That's never been my aspiration.

No mine, you know. I don't like to buy anything that's trendy. I see things that are on TikTok and on Instagram, and I go, oh, that's kind of cool, But do I need it?

You know?

And I live in a really small place, the square footage is really small. So I always think when I'm purchasing, I go, do I really need it?

Where am I gonna put it?

Yes?

Thank you? Thank you? Well we think you like Where am I gonna put it?

You know?

Now, if it's damaged or if it's ugly, I'll replace it if I really need it, But if I don't, I don't. And also another thing, and I want to talk about this in the new year, about upcycling and recycling. And you know, instead of maybe you don't want to drop it off to, I'll say one of those donation places. How about asking your friends about, Hey, do you need this? Facebook marketplace has a freebee section of a lot of people. I put stuff there for free too, like, you know,

Merry Christmas not occurred.

At least Merry Christmas, Mo and to everyone.

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Okay, if I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeart app, it's the Runner Report and I'm Mark Ronner. Two things up front. I am still pissed about how awful Dexter New Blood was a couple of years ago, especially the ending. And I'm going to give you a spoiler here. It's two years old. Dexter's own annoying son killed him at the end. Number two Young Sheldon, Young Indiana Jones, Young James Bond, Young Sherlock Holmes, young John Seaholmes.

I don't care about any of that.

Just the other day, Tula and I were still joking about the badness of the Young Hans Solo movie and how he got his name more like Hack Solo. These greedy dips into the well with characters we love usually suck, but at least they also diminish the characters. It's kind of like getting into a BodyCount discussion with somebody you've been dating. You may think you want to know it, but you don't usually feel great by the end of it. But Dexter Original Sin is mostly an exception to that. Rule,

It really is like they say, your life flashes before your eyes. Beginning there was blood. What a code I learned from my father, A code to make sure you are different from the people that you're killed. It was simple, kill the bad guys who escaped justice. Don't get caught myself.

If anyone knows how powerful lurgies can be, it's me.

Trust me, you stay, of course, you'll be fine.

All dex plemiside looks good on You couldn't agree more about this stuff. Where's my desk up?

Photograph the entire scene, spatter matters. It's starting to look like a serial killer art project up in here.

So I got myself a job.

Welcome to Miami Metro the first day of the rest of your life.

That seems like a good place to stop it now. When I first read that, after Dexter had died again by getting shot by his own annoying son, that they were going back to the well with a young Dexter. Origin series My reaction was something along the lines of you pieces of crap? Do you have to ring every last drop out of absolutely everything? Have you no decency?

We're gonna move on. Michael C.

Hall narrates the show, and the young version of him in the show is played by Patrick Gibson. He's an Irish actor I'd never seen before, and he absolutely nails the speech and mannerisms of Hall. It's great fun to watch all that, and all the actors doing impressions of the originals. Even the guy who plays young Masuka the office PERV. You heard it in the trailer. He's got the laugh down so well that it almost steals the show. The show's got a jaunty pace, which is what you

Now.

This was before the Dexter Try TV series ended, and I'm here to tell you that I wrote an ending with Baxter disappearing to the Pacific Northwest before the actual finale of the show that outraged everybody so badly, in which he moved to the Pacific Northwest. I don't know what they were thinking with the show. It just seemed like they were kicking over the card table. I was living in Seattle at the time, and my thought was, well, the Northwest has more than its fair share of serial killers.

No, I'm not sure not, but you're making me become one the way you describe it. No, because no, I never had any real interest in it. But if I should begin, I will start with this series and watch it in a more sequential way.

It's kind of an irresistible premise, which is a serial killer who's almost a superhero the way he has depicted. I mean, he's got a costume that he is standard for when he goes out to kill, and he's he only goes after bad guys. He's a killer who kills bad guys. It's in Michael C. Hall is terrific in it. The whole cast is tons of fun. And I'm not kidding you when I say watching all these young actors do their impressions, it could easily devolve into an SNL sketch,

It's usually hard for me to get into prequels because I like to see this story advanced, not go back to the beginning, because I know there's no stakes.

If someone was in the original.

Series or movie, well, I know in the prequel they can't die. Yeah, you know, there's certain there's limitations placed upon what the prequel can do and where it can go.

Yeah, you know Dexter survived well. He survives everything. He even survived getting shot by his annoying son.

He survives it all.

But it's a lot of fun because it's got the exact same look and feel and sound and rhythm of the original show. You have it on your shelf right along with the others if you still collect that kind of thing, and it won't feel like crappy fan.

Fiction like some of this stuff does.

I think you might have convinced me, just might have convinced me you're gonna owe me for another one. I wouldn't say that it's Later with mo Kelly, can't if I am six forty OnLive Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I have an addendum to the movie Red One, which was originally in theaters now it's available on Amazon Prime. I saw it and I want to update my review on it given that it's now on Amazon Prime.

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Earlier in the week, I made passing mention of the movie Red One, starring Dwayne the Rock Johnson and also Chris Evans, and I said something to the effect of it wasn't bad.

I didn't dislike it.

It was fine for an Amazon Prime. In fact, even though a lot of stuff on Amazon Prime, depending on your subscription, now has commercials, this presentation of Red one, and I let you know at the very beginning this, you know, this presentation of Red one is commercial free with exception of the commercial right at the beginning.

And it's by Capital One.

I mentioned that because that meant that Capital One paid a boatload of money for that spot.

When I go back and.

Look at the budget for Red One, it was two hundred and fifty men million dollars. That's more than Avengers Endgame. Okay, with all the stars in that, No movie which costs two hundred and fifty million dollars to make, and I'm assuming that's including marketing and promotion.

I don't know.

I'll just make that assumption. No movie costing two hundred and fifty million dollars starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans could ever make its money back on its own in the theater. It's just and that's not a diss of Dwayne Johnson, that's not a diss of Chris Evans.

It's just that.

Historically They don't do gangbuster box office like that.

Not even Dwayne Johnson.

Now he's had movies which have done well, but they were larger ensemble pieces. Same with Chris Evans, but they were the two principal actors in this movie. In a buddy cop style movie, you'd see the Rock and maybe Kevin Hart. It was along those lines. And let me

It seemed like it was more a kids movie. And it's caught somewhere in between.

I talk about all that, only to say this, it's another example of why streaming is so great for the consumer, but it's horrible for the movie theater. Red One is at the top of prime video streaming and it's doing numbers record I don't know how that works out financially for Amazon or even read One, but it doesn't do anything for the movie theater. And in the movie theaters that the movie didn't make over two hundred and fifty million.

I halfway enjoyed it.

I did the dishes, I was cleaning up I was working out on the treadmill. Is one of those halfway I pay attention movies. And I was satisfied.

You said it costs how much to make two fifty Ooh yikes? So far is worldwide? Total worldwide is one hundred and seventy six.

Okay, Yeah, they're not making no money back because they have to make at least four hundred million.

Yeah.

I made ninety three in the US eighty three and other territories.

I just don't know who said yes to this as far as that this movie, with these two stars, unfortunately neither of them are bankable, could justify a two hundred and fifty million dollars budget. And I'm saying I'm just assuming that's including marketing and promotion.

Now.

See, the thing is, it's weird because the Rock is also one of the co stars of Mowana Ti, which is doing Gangbusters, and that film is primarily the Rock and the female Ali who you don't know who that is. It's just she's the voice of Mowana. So it's basically a rock movie. He is the star, he is the focus and all of that it's about him, you redeeming himself again. So he is bankable in that that film is almost a billion or so.

I don't know if people want are going to see that movie because it's the Rock or they just want to see the story because yeah, I know he's a part of the movie. But I don't know if people

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