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A long time ago, someone asked me, Moe, who would be your dream interview? And I had to rack my brain and I thought of about it for a while. Then I said, yeah, I'm pretty sure it would be Eddie Murphy. That's the one interview that I'd always like to have. And if you don't know the backstory, I have been trying for the told us of my radio career to get an interview with Eddie Murphy. I have been met with a brick wall by the name of
Arnold Robinson. I think we've met once in person. I'm not sure, maybe in passing, but Arnold Robinson is his personal publicist and he's a point person for everything that Eddie does in terms of media interviews, in such and such. And it got to be a joke where each time I've reached out to Arnold Robinson, he would just instantaneously respond or his assistant someone associated with them, and the
response would always be the same. Mister Murphy's not available, but if you saw the email that I would send to him, it doesn't have a specific time, specific day. It's just to start the conversation as to how we could come to some mutually agreeable day and time. I would move heaven and earth to accommodate mister Murphy's schedule, and each and every time he comes out with a new project, I probably against better judgment, still send Arnold
Robinson at Rogerson Cowan shout out an email requesting an interview. Tonight, there was a press release which came out Amazon MGM Studios and veils the premiere date. First looked stills for action comedy The Pickup starring Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Keky Palmer, and I think it also has Andrew Dice Clay if about Mistaken Wow, yeah yeah, and it's supposed to come out in August August.
Okay. Now, in this business, we have this thing called long.
Lead publicity, where you set up these interviews well in advance of the project, so you can start stringing together a media campaign even though it's in August. There are other entities I'm sure sending in requests for talent at this very second, trying to get people like a Keki Palmer, Pete Davidson, obviously, Eddie Murphy, Andrew Dice Clay and others in an interview.
So I scheduled an email.
For seven fifteen pm tonight which we'll go out to Arnold Robinson. The last contact I had is his assistant, an executive over at Amazon Prime Video Studios, Amazon MGM Studios. Who's that cat crying in here? And and I see seed everyone on staff, Mark Ronner, Twalla, Sharp Stefan, Okay, you will see it. In fact, I'm going to read to you the email that I'm sending to Arnold Robinson and his assistant right now.
Good afternoon, mister Robinson.
I wanted to see if we could begin a discussion as to setting up an interview with mister Murphy regarding his latest project. The pickup and each email each year is almost like we've never been introduced. But anyhow, delete the conversation would be for my evening show later with Mo Kelly on kf I AM six forty, the number one news talk station in American one stream station on the iHeartRadio app.
True.
My radio work is ten time award winning with the very best interviews in the business. Would be looking for seven to ten minutes via phone, or we could even do a special in studio broadcast which is simulcast on YouTube,
Facebook and Instagram. Here is a video podcast episode linked from last Night Show previous and I go on to list the previous guests, which include people we've had on the show, Don Cheetle, Alfrey Woodard, Cedric the Entertainer, Jane Lynch, Anthony Anderson, Courtney b Vance, Rob Schneider.
I'm throwing in comedians you know names.
Yep, Joe Morton, magician David Blaine, musician Danny Elfman, Actors Delroy Lindo, Sana Lathan. This is all true story, Gabrielle Union, film director Kenneth Browna Vincent, Dinafrio, John Ratzenberger, Elliott Gould, William Shatner.
You should lead with Shatner. Well, but I'm asking for a comedian. That's the thing. Okay, You're on your own.
Well, it didn't help any other times, so lots it gonna matter this time.
I don't make no mistake.
He stopped reading now, I mean, but you can't stop before you get to Paul Etta, Washington.
And Billy sane.
Yeah, this list is amazing and hundreds of others. I look forward to hearing back from you, and I'm thinking of my mind. Oh, I will hear back from you. Thank you for your time and consideration, and also put a link about if he needs more information about me.
And it's scheduled to send in four minutes. Now I already have it. Oh then it's already gone out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I as you are read, I'm reading along with you. Okay, I have it here. It showed up in my email.
Well you know what that means.
We should be getting a response from mister Robinson any moment now. In the past, I would get a response from him and like anywhere from twenty minutes to two or three hours, and they would always be the same, thank you for thanking mister Murphy. He's not available to participate. That's what it usually says. It's like, what I didn't tell you a day, I didn't tell you a time.
I mean, can we at least have a conversation, so maybe for the next project, you might be more serious in considering me to just say out the blue, he's not available. It's like, well, when is he going to be available? Is there a better time to call? Is there a better time to email? Do you need a picture of my family? Do you need like my photo of my drivers? What is it I need to do to get past this gatekeeper? What is it I need
to do to at least have legitimate consideration? That has always been the running joke in all of my radio career. I cannot even get past the front porch now I'm not even to the door. I'm talking about the steps walking up to the front door. Yeah, this would be the dream interview. It doesn't matter. It's one of those things where it doesn't matter the project that Eddie Murphy's going. You get a chance to talk to Eddie Murphy, it
doesn't matter. I don't care if he's talking about I don't know his new McDonald's that he opened and you know, in celebration of National Hamburger Day. It doesn't matter. It's Eddie Murphy. So once again we're gonna try and if we get a response during the show, we will read it to you. And if you know Arnold Robinson of Rogerson Cowen shout out reach out to Arnold and just
let him know that this is a safe space. We want to interview the Eddie Murphy, and he is, he does radio interviews, he does other media when he's promoting a project. I don't think it's personal because I've never really bad mouthed to him ever, not to my knowledge.
No, not not on this show. Maybe on social media you went on a tear.
I don't know. But now I'm being sure, no reason.
I'm serious, there's no reason why mister Murphy would not come on this program. And I will go even one step further because when that final Beverly Hills Cop came out, we tried to go through the film company to get him on and we're Jini, so it's not even just it's like Arma Robinson is saying through other outlets, no, he's not available.
I just sit down. Hey. And this was well before the movie Eve came out.
This is like two months before, like, hey, we would love to have mister Murphy on. We have been talking about this film for a while, we are big fans. We got a response back saying thank you, mister Murphy is not available at this time, and it's like, I'm like, this time, what type.
Of way to give you? This is two months, dude.
And then you will find mister Murphy was doing interviews in the lead up too, And I understand radio is not as sexy as let's say, if you went on with Jimmy Fallon or something.
I get that.
I just know that after a certain point, the gods of radio are going to shine down on me.
You know, just once, just once, just like the song just once.
Now see, now we've got a visual component with the magic of this YouTube simulcaz that may actually, you know, be more in line with what mister Murphy is used to.
I know, someone who listens to the show or now watches this show is one degree of separation or knows Eddie Murphy knows how to possibly put in a good word for us. Would it be something if we had Eddie Murphy ins studio. I would love to just call that, just just speak it into reality. I would love to just say, hey, we're gonna make it happen. And even though Mark Ronner is laughing at me, you can see
him he's incredulous. I just want you to be happy, you know, I would be happy with if we at least got passed the steps leading to the front door and Arnol Robbinson and say hey, I heard about all the things that you've been saying on your show, and I know that you have been consistent in your attempts to try to get my client, Eddie Murphy on Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to sit down with Eddie and go over his schedule and see if
there's a time which will work for him. It may be very early in the morning or very late at night. And I've done those interviews. I'm being very serious where you have to maybe go to his house or something, or go to wherever he is he might be on set or something, and then do an in person pre recorded interview will work? You know, I would like to have that conversation where they would at least give you a genuine look see and say, can't make any promises, but we'll see if he's open to it.
I would be satisfied with that. You're saying you'd suck it up and go to his house. Is that what I heard? Here's a true story.
I have a mutual friend, you know who it is, Mike Midcaiff who we did the Lady Car Cruise.
He put in Eddie Murphy's bowling alley in his house.
I've tried every avenue possible to get an end with with Eddie. So that means to your point, Mark, yes, I would go to his house if that meant that I would get let's say, ten to fifteen minutes with him to talk about the pickup.
I think what you're gonna get is a restraining order. No it's not. No, it's different. Right. Hey, Hey, I'm outside, and.
I've said this before we have met in person. This was many, many years ago, when he was married to his wife Nicole. I was at Universal City, he and his family, they were watching a movie at Universal City City Walk. I was going into the theater. He and his stand would come out. It was a late night movie. I did not blow up his spot. It's like, it's Eddie freakin' Murphy. It's real easy to know who it is. And I very you know, I would say politely and quietly went up to introduced myself.
And this was before I was doing my own show.
So I'm just a producer at this point and we're trying to get him on the show I was working for. And he said, in his very any ways, I call Arnold Robinson. I thought, okay, I know who that is because there are other people that he represented, so I already had his contact information. We didn't get him on then, and that was the only time I met him, and very nice, got very polite. There's no reason for him to remember me from that meeting, but ever since then.
Brick Wall.
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Last second, we was talking about the quest to get Eddie Murphy on this show and all the history of the attempts and never getting even to the gate for consideration.
So we sent an email out to all.
The appropriate parties at the top of the show and if we get a response, because we usually get an immediate responsor of mister Murphy's not available to participate every single time. So we're going to see if we can buck that trend and hopefully get just a little more consideration. But there's something else we do need to talk about in the world of news. There is a heat wave which is on its way to California. We talked about how Analo Valley that is going to be in the
hundreds this weekend. But the heat forecast is going to be even worse north of there, in the other parts of the state, going towards the Central Valley. In fact, it's going to be over one hundred degrees in the Central Valley, the Sacramento Valley, the Sierra Foothills, and other inland areas. And I'm at this age now unfortunately, and especially YouTube Mark, you have to really concern yourself yourself.
It's true, tread Lightley.
You're on the wrong side of twenty five, okay, so we have to just come to grind. Yet I look younger than you somehow, some way, Okay, since we're past the age of twenty five, we have to be particularly careful when we go out during these very hot days if you should go out at all, Because a hundred degree heat when we were twenty five not a big deal. When you're Mark's age, it could be somewhat of an issue.
I'll come right in there. The camera will follow you, so why not.
You're welcome doors unlocked compage, all right, you asked for it.
But to be serious, it's like you have to This is for everyone.
You have to be mindful of making sure that you've taken in enough water that you're not outside in the sun for any extended period of time. And also if you happen to be a pet owner like I am, if it's one hundred degrees outside on that sidewalk, it could be even worse for pets who are not protected.
It's something that we have to talk about every single year, especially as we get towards the middle of summer, and we may not think anything of the weather, but next thing you know, you might have heat exhaustion and you're in the hospital and you definitely don't want to do that, and people die. We always talk about how people die
in the Midwest because of the extreme cold. The same is true when you have these type of heat advisories and you have these alerts about heat which is going to be over the extended period of days or possibly even close to a week. So we're looking at triple digit numbers in Antelope Valley and it's going to be rather mild in Los Angeles and Orange County. But of course, if you listen to KFI, we are heard up and
down the state. So with the Central Valley and Sacramento Valley, they're going to be getting triple digits as well this weekend and me, this is another thing where I really do appreciate California when they say it's a dry heat. Yes, it is a dry heat, and twala, you know as well as anyone. Ninety degrees in California is not like ninety degrees in the associated humidity in the on the East coast.
Now ninety degrees in area Pennsylvania, hok you to death. You'd just rather think you can literally put your walk as oude. You feel like you're pushing on the air. It's so thick you're not supposed to feel and touch the air as it's going by.
That's nasty.
It's great if you're on the East Coast or Cardishia, you would understand this.
Just being from New Orleans.
Let's say it could be ninety five degrees and hubid in the day, walk outside around nine ten pm at night, it is wonderful, just wonderful. But the other seventeen eighteen hours of the day, it's just horrible. But yeah, I would prefer the dry heat as they call it. But still it's a dangerous heat. It's something that we have to be mindful of for not only ourselves. You should if you have any elderly parents, or if you have pets, you have to be mindful of them in addition to
just yourself. So it's going to be hot this weekend generally, and it's gonna be hotter and hotter as we move into summer. It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. And when we come back, we have some real news to get to how the DOJ has announced an investigation into trans athletes, specifically at one school here in California. We have discussed this issue for quite some time, but now the Trump administration is getting involved here in California.
We'll tell you about it next.
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Mister Kelly, It's Later with Mo Kelly Live on YouTube, Instagram and the iHeartRadio App. Can we have a nuanced conversation, take as much of the emotion out of it as possible. Understand that some conversations are complex, multifaceted, and oftentimes aren't dependent on only your politics. We talk about trans athletes.
I think that that's how we should approach it. The DOJ has announced that the Title nine announced a Title nine investigation into trans athletes plural in California girls' sports.
Plural is important.
They're investigating athletes, supposedly, and the DOJ is going to see whether the federal law of Title nine that bans sex discrimination in schools or educational programs that receive funding from the US government is in conflict with California state
law which allows transgender girls to compete against biological girls. Tuesday, President Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from California over the matter after a transgender Rupa Valley team qualified for the state girls track and field finals.
A not plural that's important.
Junior Aby Hernandez will be the only openly transgender athlete competing at the cif state track and field meet on Friday and Saturday of Buchanan High School in Fresno County, the only one which goes back to the DOJ looking into trans athletes plural in California girls' sports, and at this time we're only talking about one. Here's the nuance in this conversation. And I was talking to some other
people in the office about this earlier. Whereas intellectually I agree that trans girls should not be competing against biological girls in sports. There's also a conversation to be had about is this the correct use of federal resources to remedy it, to address it. I come from a time in which the Department of Justice was not used as an arm of the presidency and the particular policy tics
of a sitting administration. There used to be a time in which there was a partition between anything the DOJ did and anything the president wanted. There used to be a time in which the president could not call for an investigation why because the DOJ, if need be, would investigate the president. There had to be that partition where the president did not guided investigations, call for investigations, interfere
and investigations. But unfortunately that time is no more. We should be able to understand the distinction between whether there is an issue with trans athletes girls competing in sports with biological girls, and that's separate and distinct whether this is a meaningful and a rational use and marshaling of
federal resources. Customarily, you would have a person an entity withstanding sue the CIF or State of California, and then you'd have a case go up the ranks and if need be, then you'd have the Supreme Court wagh in. And I'm not a lawyer, but I can look at this and say, if there are two laws which are in conflict, then you have the supremacy clause the federal law wins out. You don't need to call an investigation
to see if these laws actually conflict. All you need from where I sit is an actual law suit, and then you let the courts do what they're supposed to do.
But this, as I said, is an extension of the Trump administration and what the policies are of the administration and their priorities, not actually something which has gone in an organic way up through the courts and then possibly to the Supreme Court, because I said on Tuesday, as in yesterday, President Trump threat to withhold federal funding from California over this matter specifically. So this is a direct
result of what the President is asking for. And maybe you didn't know how it used to be where you didn't have a president involved in what the DOJ did. But it used to be like that. I don't know if it will ever be like that anymore, but it used to be like that. Think of it like this, how does Bill Clinton get investigated by the DOJ. If he's controlling the DOJ investigations, How does Joe Biden get investigated by the DOJ if he's controlling who the DOJ investigates.
How does Richard Nixon never resigns if he could control the DOJ investigations the Department of Justice. That's why there historically has been a partition in between the president and the Department of Justice. Yet the Attorney General is an appointee of the president, but the Department of Justice has always been separate and distinct from the president.
That's part of the reason why there are different branches of government.
There has to be some sort of separation for that reason, or otherwise the president is above the law.
Oh that's right, I forgot.
The Supreme Court ruled that the president is above the law, so none of this matters anymore. But going back to trans athletes, I think we should be able to separate and at least have an emotional partition which says that, yeah, I can actually agree with the point that is being made that you should not have trans athletes competing with
biological girl athletes. I absolutely agree with that, but I also disagree with the means which are being employed to go about it, because there is already a process in place for this to be challenged, the state law to be challenged for let's say, the rights, if you will, of the biological girls who are competing, their rights to have their legal remedy as it were in a court of law. But that's not what's happening here. We have the DOJ quote unquote investigating, at the behest of the
president a state issue. You don't see like the contradiction there. The president, head of the federal government telling the DOJ, which is supposed to be separate and distinct and partationed off, telling the DOJ to investigate a state issue.
That's where it falls apart from me because intellectually I agree.
In fact, recently Governor Gavin Newsom he caught a lot of hell when he went on the podcast I think it was with Charlie Kirk and said that he agreed that we should not have trans girls competing against biological girls. I completely agree and understand that because we're talking about a level playing field, and you're not going to have a level playing field if you have someone who's biologically male compete with biologically female athletes.
Because going back to title nine.
Yes, is to ensure a level playing field and also sports set aside, specifically four girls on the high school level and the collegiate level. This story is just getting started, and if you look at the bigger picture of how the DOJ is being used on college campuses, you can see it's being used as an arm of the president to enact the will of an administration, whereas that has never been done before, and especially not to this degree.
It's one thing to say, hey, yeah, I agree on this issue, but you will eventually find that you won't agree on the issue, and then you have to remind yourself there's supposed to be a line of separation, demarcation and a partition between the White House and the Department of Justice, and when there isn't, you have these constitutional shoes happen. It's later with mo Kelly when we come back. We got to talk about National Hamburger Day. And yes, I had my hamburger for the day and it.
Was Oh, it was so good. It was in and out. Oh, or I should say it was just in. It was just in. Damn it.
Now I gotta get to the hold. Yes, that made nothing. Look, I'm not your friend. I don't even like you. It was all I could do not to have like two or three burgers. I went to the in and out. I'll tell you on the other side. But it was good. Oh it was got too much good stuff. I can't wait to hear about this. KFIM six forty we're live on YouTube, Instagram and the iHeartRadio app.
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KFI Later with mo Kelly Live on YouTube, Instagram, and the iHeartRadio app. It's National Hamburger Day and as I was driving into the studio, I made a detour. I said, you know what, I have not had any red meat this month. True story. Memorial Day, I was here working, didn't get the obligatory barbecue, didn't have any red meat.
So I said, I'm going to have me a double double today.
So I changed my route, went to the other side of Burbank to go to the in and out that I had never gone to before. It's a very small parking lot, and I have a general rule when I go to in and Out, I get out of the car, I park, get out of the car and walk into the restaurant. I usually get to order my food with
no waiting. This was no different. I walked straight in, walked straight up to the counter, no one in front of me, made my order, was out in like ten twelve minutes, and they were a good My number was fifty eight and they were all like number forty nine.
Was the drive through line long? It was about eight cars long, Okay, it was. It's hard to describe unless you've been to that in and out. It's tiny. It's in a corner. There's only one line of cars, so it was.
It was a very easy experience just getting out of the car, got my food a number double double, no onions, fries, no salt, pink lemonade, and I waited to get back here to eat it because I don't eat in my car usually.
It was heavenly marked runner. It was so good. Thank you.
It's great to hear about this thing that you enjoyed that we cannot enjoy it. No, you can't.
It's it's still there. It'll be open, I don't know, maybe one in the morning or something like that. It'll be there.
I mean, I wouldn't want you to, you know, maybe pick up any extra to bring in for your friends and coworkers.
Of all the times that I've already purchased dinner for you guys. Of all the times at the good point, my job is to buy it. You guys are supposed to make the arrangements to get it here.
Well, I'm not talking about anybody's job. I'm just talking about basic low level here, human decency. Here. Of all the times you want to taught us some more about how much you enjoyed it? Would that satisfy you?
Yes?
Was it really good? Did you? Did you? I savored every morse. Did he give you a little food baby?
Oh?
Did it?
Yeah? My stomach was distended. Yeah, it still kind of isn't Yeah? Did it make you a little pear shaped? More pear shaped? Too much? It was wonderful.
It sounds like you really enjoyed it. I can only imagine how tasty that might have been.
It's not too late. National Hamburger Day is still going on. Yeah, if you go to Carls Junior, now just say it with me. All these deals and I'm getting ready to tell you are tied into their app Let's just get that out of the way. They want your data and I'm thinking they would probably be more attractive for consumers if you made it easier for people.
I know you want the information.
You want us to sign up for this, that and the other, so you can send us poopons and everything. But if you say, hey, come by Carls Junior today, get a free burger between three, I'm quite sure they have a line out the door, out the door, but instead. Rewards members who buy a famous star on the chain's app can get a second one for one cent.
Tonny hoops.
That doesn't sound too bad though, still doghouse, we have one down the street. Rewards members can get extra points for ordering a house burger or a smash burger from sister brand Big Belly Burger. Oh boy, see it's not gonna make anyone. Just run out and get it. It's like, I gotta get that deal. Island Restaurants Reward members can get Big Wave burgers with fresh cut fries for ten dollars.
You just get Jack in a box.
You can get a free Jumbo Jack with a five dollars minimum order on the chain's app.
Just today, get out.
Of here with that.
Norms Rewards members can buy one hamburger or cheeseburger can get a second one free between eleven am and nine pm time running out, and the offer is only for dine in only and excluse the value combo.
Is there any of these offers that come without just onerous conditions?
No, I'm being serious. Um, do you have Shakeshack in La or just like Vegas? Is there a shakeshack out here?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Oh there is.
Okay, they're giving away one free shack Burger with a ten dollars minimum purchase through the June first use the code Burger Month. Smash Burger. Single smash burgers go for five dollars in twenty eight cents as in May twenty eighth. Use the code just five to eight at smashburger dot com. The Habit Burger and Grill loyalty members can get two char burgers for the price of one through June first. Use the promo code two Chars Loyalty members. What you
have to get branded? What's a loyalty Well, clearly you have to sign up for something, That's all I can tell you. Wendy's app users can get a Junior Bacon cheeseburger for one penny with purchase through June second at Wendy's dot com.
Yeah, there you go.
I just went to in and out with no deal, no specific promo for National Hamburger Day, and I am very happy.
Listen, there is no Hamburger altruism. It doesn't exist. I do agree with you, Mark.
I think if there were fewer hoops to jump through, the deals would mean more.
I got a Taco Bell.
App on my phone because you're supposed to get some rewards, and I was in a pinch a couple nights late after work.
It's so irritating.
I'm getting rid of it because it's not worth the constant emails and all the other stuff.
And that's why I hate signing up anywhere, because I know I'm going to get more emails than actual value or.
Use out of it. Yeah.
Same with Domino's. I think I got weak, and this is what they do. They prey on you when you're weak. I try not to eat fast food, but if it's late and you just are out of options, sometimes you just have to make a rough choice. The Dominoes thing is so annoying. I don't need to get carpet bombed with emails. I'm aware that you exist, and I'm aware that you sell pizza.
I would rather you hit me just on my birthday or every once in a while as a post.
There's certain places.
I'm not gonna call them out by name, but there's certain places that will email you every single day. They have four or five different marketing lists that you're on, and if you unsubscribe to that one marketing list, if you're not paying attention, you'll still get emails from the other three marketing lists that you never signed up for either. All you did was just buy something on a given day, and they automatically populate you on.
All those lists. It's so obnoxious.
I'd rather pay the extra not to get pestered constantly, or just not go to them at all.
And that's not even including the whole thing. If you go to the website, you have to do the whole cookie and deny the marketing cookies and only the essential cookies. It's way too much involved, and it's almost like signing a contract that you never signed.
All cookies, no cream.
You can't even read an article without having to turn up for extra cookies. It's like I just clicked on a thing to read a small thing, and you want me to go through all this we need, we need some martial law.
People need to die for this.
The more you know, the easier it is to avoid the idiots around you.
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