October 24, 2024 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at LA Metro’s new high-tech weapons scanner AND the ‘rattiest cities’ in the US…PLUS – Thoughts on an Irvine boy falling victim to a coyote attack - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Six forty is later with moch Yeller. We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. There is so much going on
in LA as we get towards Friday, where there's some
seventy five different events happening within a three mile radius.
And if you want to drive anywhere in LA or
near downtown LA in Inglewood, just say no, don't even
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try to do it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But we have a metro update.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
They're going to try to scan your body to see
if you're carrying concealed weapons.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We'll see how that's going to work or not work.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And we have a list of the rattiest cities, the
cities with the most rats. And you know, so if
we're doing it, there is a California tie to that.
And you know how I feel about coyotes. Did you
hear the story about the Irvine boy who was bitten
on the way to school ten years old, bitten by
a coyote. But I'm the bad guy for wanting to
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run it down. I'm the bad guy. We'll talk about that,
but I want to start tonight where I began last night.
Last night we told you how the Los Angeles Times
had declined to endorse either presidential candidate, and there was
speculation that there was internal pressure or an internal decision
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forbidding the editorial staff the editorial board from making any
type of endorsement.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And I was talking to Mark Ronner.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
We knew about the owner of the Los Angeles Times,
and I was speculating, I'm not going to speak for Mark,
but I was speculating that there might have been some
sort of concern about maintaining or growing a relateationship with
Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I know that there were some tweets that were sent back.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And forth between the owner of the Los Angeles Times,
Patrick Soon Sheng, and also Elon Musk. I just put
this out there as just a coincidence. They're both from
South Africa. Patrick soon Sheng, he's a minority owner of
the Lakers. So it's very layered. There are a lot
of tentacles to the story. But the update today is
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Mary O Garza, the editorials editor for the Los Angeles Time,
is now the former editorials editor, as she resigned today.
And it's explicit now that the newspaper's owner had blocked
the editorial board's plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris
for president. Let me also say this before I read
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some of her letter. The board had intended to endorse Harris,
and Garza told other media outlets that she had drafted
the outline of a proposed editorial. She had hoped to
get feedback on the outline, and was taken aback upon
being told that the newspaper would not take a position.
Let's go into her resignation letter and what she was
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thinking about, and also let me before that, let me
tell you give me some history about the La Times
and their editorial endorsements. The Times historically, if people don't
know it was a Republican newspaper, it endorsed the GOP
nominee in every election from its founding in eighteen eighty
one all the way up through Nixon's re election campaign
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in nineteen seventy two. But then the demographics of southern
California changed, the ownership of the paper changed, and then
in two thousand and eight, which is relatively recent in
terms of larger history, the paper endorsed Barack Obama, the
first Democratic nominee for president to win its support in
its history, and since that time has gone on to
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endorse the Democratic nominee. In twenty twelve and twenty, and
here is a bit of the resignation letter from Mary
O Garza. Ever since doctor Sunsong vetoed the editorial Board's
plan to endorse Kamala Harris for president, I, as in Marl,
have been struggling with my feelings about the implications of
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our silence. I told myself that presidential endorsements don't really matter,
that California was not ever going to vote for Trump,
that no one would even notice that we had written
so many Trump is Unfit quote unquote editorials that it
was as if we had endorsed her. But the reality
hit me like cold water Tuesday, when the news rippled
out about the decision not to endorse without so much
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as a comment from La Times management and Donald Trump
turned it into an anti Harris rip. Of course, it
matters that the largest newspaper in the state and one
of the largest in the nations still declined to endorse
and erase this important and it matters that we won't
even be straight with people about it. It may makes
us look craven and hypocritical, maybe even a bit sexist
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and racist. How could we spend eight years railing against
Trump and the danger his leadership poses to the country
and then failed to endorse the perfectly decent Democrat challenger
who we previously endorsed for the US Senate.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It goes on and on and on, but she ends
with this.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
In these dangerous times, staying silent isn't just indifference, it
is complicity. I'm standing up by stepping down from the
editorial board. Please accept this as my formal resignation, effective immediately.
Mariel Garzon. This goes back to what we were saying yesterday, Mark,
and I'm going to bring you in. As someone who
has print media experience working for the Seattle Times, I
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have always been concerned about outside forces and influence on
print media making news and editorial decisions. We're not talking
about a cable channel, which is guided by different parameters
print news, broadcast news. They have different standard practices and
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different expectations, different guidelines.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
What say you?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It crosses a serious line when an owner interferes in
the day to day work of the journalists at the paper.
And I should clarify one thing. This issue is not
about who they support or who anybody supports. It's about
rich people and foreigners interfering with the free press. And
interfering with elections, and in this case rich foreigners. I
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don't know why we allow that.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, we allow it because we are not willing to
do anything about it. Not only is it it's not
just about the La Times. This is going on in
other broadcast stations and other print news media and other outlets.
This is just a glaring example of an owner whose
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personal politics have now been in on the outlet which
should have nothing to do with his personal politics. He's
the owner. He's not a part of the editorial board.
He is not a part of the new staff.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
There's a part Historically, there's always been a partition in
between the two.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, line of wall of separation. This is a major breach,
and good on this editor for doing it. I was
just reading CJR. The Columbia Journalism Review, which is kind
of the periodical bible of the industry, or at least
one of them. She says, I'm resigning because I want
to make it clear I'm not okay with us being
silent in dangerous times. Honest people need to stand up.
This is how I'm standing up. Good on her for that, because,
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like we talked about yesterday, the journalism industry is shrinking
like musical chairs. There's no extra jobs. There are fewer
jobs every year, every month. So this is an active
courage on her part, and good on her. I wonder
if this is not the death knell for the La Times.
It was already on thin eyes for financial reasons. It
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has long had a credibility problem saying nothing of this
recent incident or having anything to do with politics. The
La Times is a shadow of the paper that it
was when.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I was a child. They all are, though.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's hard to say because some papers continue to do
well and the last I've read, the smaller sort of
regional papers were doing okay, but others. I mean, you
mentioned that I used to work at the Seattle Times,
among others, and you know that's like a pamphlet. Now
there's just not much left to a lot of newspapers,
so moves like this just accelerate the extinction that's already
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going on.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Absolutely cannot disagree with any of that. It's Later with
mo Kelly. We have a metro update when we come back.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And of course we've had this ongoing conversation about violence
on the Metro.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
What can be done, What should be done.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Should it be more police officers, Should it be a
Metro transit police authority.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Should it be something else. Should it be a combination
of that.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
What are you gonna do about the homeless people, What
are you gonna do about the unsanitary conditions? All of
those things are connected. But you have to, at least
on some level, protect the passengers. You have to make
it safe for men, women and children. It can't be
something where you're rolling the dice and hoping to get
to your appointed destination, be at work or even back home,
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and not get stabbed, not get shot, not get attacked,
not get defecated on, not have to deal with a
lot of these issues which are just endemic. It happens
just about every single day. In fact, it probably does
happen every day. We're just not aware of it. I'm
sure that there are a lot of incidents which are
not reported after a certain point. I remember going on
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the subway and metro and there are things you've seen
and it's like you're not gonna report it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You just kind of keep on moving.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Where there was urine in one of the seats, or
there was a homeless person in one of the seats
just riding, and or you had kids jumping on and
off the train without paying. Not all that stuff is
going to be reported, but now it's to the point
where something needs to be done. We've had Mayor Karen
Bess saying that she wanted to have a car free Olympics.
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I don't know how feasible that is or realistic, but
Metro is trying to take one of these steps with
limiting the number of weapons which might make their way
onto one of the trains. And I say trains because
this is only for the trains at this point, let's
hear a little bit about it.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Taking a look at a couple of different types of
systems behind us, you can see one of them, and
it looks a lot like something you'd see maybe at
a Dodger game or a concert. Folks walk through and
any type of concealed weapon would hopefully signal the folks
who are monitoring and take a look. You can kind
of see how this works here. Now, this is one
of the systems they're testing, and they tell me that
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this week they will be using it.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Here.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Yesterday was day one, and they did pick up a
box cutter using this system.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Let's give you a question.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Look now, one box cutter caught one. All right, that's
the start already.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Box cutter using this system. Let's give you a closer
look now at the demonstration that they provided a little
bit earlier today. This is something that the Metro board
has been talking about putting into effect for a while.
They are expecting now to assess the technology through December
and to consider whether to expand the use of this
across other parts of the transits.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Wait, wait, they're going to assess it through December and
then decide whether it's going to be used elsewhere. So
if it fails the test between now and Christmas and
they got to start all the way over.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Is that what I'm being told. That's what it sounds
like I'm being told.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
December anti, Yeah, that's what they're saying. They are expecting
now to assess the technology through December and to consider
whether to expand the use of this across other parts
of the train.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Now, when they say expanded across other parts of the
transit system, right now, they're talking about unveiling it at
Union Station downtown. That's kind of the hub for all
the subway trains. That's fine, But if you've ever ridden
the subway, you know that there are a number of
stations which are above ground and they're just open.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
They're open air.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
There's nothing stopping people from walking up to a platform
or the pickup point. There's no place where you can
put one of these detectors. It's just completely open. If
they're only going to scan or screen at certain points
along the line and not every stop along the line,
then you're not really limiting the number of weapons which
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may get on the train. As soon as I know
that the scanner is only at Union Station, well what
does that tell everybody? Do not try to get on
the train with your weapon where at Union Station.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Outside of that, you can get on wherever you want,
carry whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And I know it can't be everywhere, but since I
am someone who's actually ridden the trains before, I know
a lot of it's weak points, it's exposure points. You
can get on the train just about anywhere and not
be inconvenienced by this technology.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Their hope is to have an efficient and non invasive
screening method which wouldn't hold up passengers. This comes, of course,
after a number of high profile violent attacks within the system.
And here's more of what we heard a little earlier
this morning.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And this is the deputy chief who you're getting ready
hear the Deputy Chief of security.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
We're really looking at for the impact on our passengers
and our stations, and also, you know, how do we
make sure that whatever we're bringing in augments what we're
already adoring on the system. So we're talking about this
particular pilot. The idea of being is layering in a
process and a protocol that makes sense for a system.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Okay, those the words out, But I guess they're saying
that this is going to be one of many points
of contact, many ways in which they're going to minimize
weapons and maximize safety. But we won't know if this
is actually going to be implemented transit wide until next year.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
So the freeway entry points where you can get on,
so there's nothing there. There's nothing on any of the
hubs along the route. But even if they were to
put this like at the Hollywood and the Highland stop,
the North Hollywood stop, even if you put it at
the major complexes where you have a lot of travel,
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what happens in between because most of these individuals who
will be getting on aren't going through those stations. Why
because that's where the most police are. That's where security
is getting on. Like I did in content, Yes, they're
getting on at a stop along the route. That is
where people are getting stabbed and beaten up stops along
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the route. There's rarely attacks at actual stations.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, to your point, that's where you will find the
most police, the most transit security, if you're at Metro
Center or Union Station or Universal City, those big hub
points where you might have more than one train intersecting.
So this is wishful think. Yeah, Look, it's well intentioned.
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I'm not going to put poo it for what it's
trying to do, what it's endeavoring to do. I'm just saying,
if you know how the transit system works, there are
too many holes.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's almost like you're trying to catch water with a colander.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
This is something I see benefiting us here, at least
in the south Land, maybe fifty years from now, when
you can really expand it and you can have detection
points at every entryway, at every little scan point that
you have to go in where you pay to get
in all that if it detects a weapon there and
it locks the gate, that may help.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I put it. I'd put it like this.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It's like you want to keep a burglar out of
your house, and you're just closing one window.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You're not going to You're not going to address any
of the doors.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
You're not going to address any of the other windows,
You're not going to address the garage what leads to
the house. You're just going to secure one window and say, well,
it's a start. Yet, it is a start, but it
doesn't really change anything. You're still susceptible, you're still vulnerable.
It's Later with mo Kelly k if I AM six
forty one, Live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. Let's talk about
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rats and cities and where California should fall on the
Rattiest cities list in the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's next.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And it's time
for Orcans annual survey, the twenty twenty four rankings of
the rattiest cities in the country. And if you're wondering, yes,
there is a California tie in. We don't need to
go too deep, but Orkan is putting this together relative
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to how many calls they get for rodent issues in
various locations around the country, coming in at number ten
of the rattiest cities in the country. Cleveland, Ohio. Yeah
that tracks. Yeah, Cleveland's just a dirty city. And I
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can say that because I've been there on multiple occasions.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Number nine Baltimore, Maryland. Yes, that is accurate as well.
I love Baltimore, but it's still nasty. Number eight Detroit, Michigan.
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Oh yeah, I haven't been to Detroit since two thousand
and three.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I can't tell you what it's like now.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Only reason I remember because that was when my mother's
mother passed and that was the last time that we
were in Detroit. So number seven of the rattiest cities
in the United States, according to Orcan the City of
brotherly Love Philadelphia sadly Yes, okay, you yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
But yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh. Number six This kind of surprised me. I've been
here before many times. Denver. It kind of surprises me
is that Denver is on the top ten rattiest cities.
Number five the nation's capital, Washington, d C. Yes, yes,
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I thought it would be higher than number five. In fact,
I thought that they had cleaned it up in recent years,
but clearly not number four. I left my hot in
San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Oh God, San Francisco. Number four.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
And if there's any through line, if there's any point
of comparison commonality, dense populations usually leads to.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Rats, also feces in the streets, and all types of
other filth in the streets. Like what I saw in
San Francisco absolutely leads to rats and whatever bubonic plague
is coming to that city.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
This is something that I realized when I was in
South Korea back in June. They only pick up the
trash once a day, but they do it like maybe
two three in the morning. There are almost no trash
cans anywhere, Like you will have to hunt to find
somewhere to deposit your soda can or something like that.
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Usually the business will just take it from you and
they'll put it in like bags and whatever. They put
out the trash at the end of the night, but
you don't see the vermin because they don't let trash
sit for days upon days. There is no such thing
as a dumpster. I didn't see a dumpster in the
whole country. And I went from the top to the bottom,
bottom to the top, from Poussan all the way to
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soul No alleys or dumpters. No, they don't have dumpsters.
They will put their trash out at the end of
each day and then they're like two in the morning,
it gets picked up. No, you don't have like a
You don't have like if you go out in the
street and you'll see this trash receptacle that they empty
once a week.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
None of that.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And also you don't see any vermin, you don't see
any rodents. You don't see any of that. And also
you don't have birds hovering and bird crap fall on
you because it's not like a constant food source that
they're utilizing. San Francisco's number four, coming in at number
three of the rattiest cities in the United States.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Start spread in the news.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I'm leaving today.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
New York, New York.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I actually thought New York would have been number one
because they have a legendary rat problem. And if you've
ever been to New York, especially in the summer, it
is one of the filthiest cities around. You combine the
filth with the humidity and the trash which is not
picked up every day, and you can see why rats
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would be everywhere in that city. Surprisingly enough, New York
has come in at number three of the rattiest cities
in the country, according to orcin I wonder what number
two is? Good old Los Angeles, California. Can La get
a break? Can't La catch a break? We have nothing
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but bad news?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I wonder if the rats might ride the metro too.
I think we need some weird number two T shirts. Well,
you know, this is one thing that Mississippi is not
going to be the worst at. We'll find out where,
like Jackson, Mississippi is coming in at number one of
the rattiest cities in the United States. And he guesses,
and he guesses. Stefan, I don't think you've seen the list.
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Oh have you mentioned Chicago yet? I have not mentioned
Chicago yet.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
That's my guess. Twala.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I did not look close to get the list.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
But because of the rat I saw last night when
I left the station, I'm gonna say, Burbank, Oh damn.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Wait, you didn't mention that you saw a rat going out?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Yeah, just it ran across the little uh sitting area
where you can go and sit and smoke. It ran
from the bushes on the side and ran around.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
He shows a rat, not a squirrel.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
At night, And I think there's something about Twala. He's
like the beast master of this area because none of
us ever seen those What.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Else is trying to run in front of the coyotes? Coyotes?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Those coyotes were murderous. The raccoon was deadly, and the
rat was just probably trying to get away. Are you
rubbing yourself with like meat, juice or anything. The rat
wasn't after me. It just I was probably startled because
the door locked. You have a piece of pizza on you. Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Was it running two Mortons or away from Morton's.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
It wasn't near Mortons at all, which was surprising because
I'm sure there's lots of rats over there.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I'm sure because it's a restaurant and depending on how
they disposed of their trash.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, but it wasn't trying to be funny.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
It was when you came in. Yeah, Yeah, that's Mortens.
That's stink.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Got it? Got it?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, here's number one, here's number one of the radiest
city in the United.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
States, and Mark was spot on.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
It is Chicago, Illinois, the radiest city in the United States.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
It's a pile of filth Just so you know.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Coming in number fifty of the top fifty cities was Greensboro,
South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Syracuse, New York was forty eight. I'm just jumping around.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Kansas City was forty five, Flint, Michigan, was forty two, Portland, Oregon,
was thirty eight, Nashville thirty six, Phoenix was thirty two,
Honolulu interestingly twenty nine, Houston twenty five, Miami twenty three,
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Dallas twenty two, Pittsburgh twenty one. As far as California's concerned,
Sacramento was number twenty. San Diego was number eighteen, Atlanta
was sixteen. I thought there'd be more rats in like Milwaukee,
in Atlanta, but I guess not.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Seattle was number fourteen, Mark, that makes perfect sense. Really,
it's sup port City, okay.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Boston was twelve, Minneapolis eleven, and you know the top
ten and.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Producer Lindsay number forty four.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Who was number forty four, Champagne Champagne Illinois.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You lived there for a while, I did. I live
there for a year. Were there a lot of rodents.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Oh yeah, so many. Okay, all right, my condolences. I
don't know why anyone would want to live in Champagne, Illinois,
but you know, life takes us places we have no control.
Sometimes Tualla ended up in Erie. I don't know if
he wanted to live there.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
They were escape.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
They escape, they're here now that they want. Rats in
the area though, No rats in area. No, surprisingly, no
rats in Erie. But on the drive to Cleveland, guys
to do weekly nothing of rats. Okay, yeah, and Stephan,
any rats where you are? I'm being honest. I haven't
seen rats.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Where I am. I'm being serious.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Yeah, I haven't. No, I haven't come across rats. We
have more of a cat problem, honestly. Yes, we have
cats and coyotes. Yeah, not rats.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And maybe because the coyotes and the cats are eating
the rats.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
How are cats a problem though they're they're cute. No,
not these cats. These are feral traits.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah yeah, not yeah even still, Oh gosh, KF I
am six forty. We're live everywhere. I'm on the iHeartRadio app.
We're going to talk about a coyote and the city
of Irvine. When we come back.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Cafi mo Kelly. I'm not a fan of coyotes. I
have too many Schnauzers. They mean the world to me,
they mean the world to my wife. They are family members.
And when I'm at work, and when my wife is
at work and there's no one watching the house, one
of our sons is not near, we worry about them
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because we have coyotes all through our neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I mean all through.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
You can look at our security videos and I show
them to Tuala and you'll see them. They will travel
in packs, three or four at a time. They are predators,
they are hunters. They will kill small animals and they
will attack small children. And one time I said, hey,
if I get the opportunity and there's a coyote in
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the road and maybe not paying attention, I will run
it dass down.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
And I receive such hate for us. How could you
do that, or one of God's creatures.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
How you're just an animal, You're a monster that you
would run down a coyote. Yes, I would run down
a coyote and back up over it so I could
hear the thump and thud again to make sure his
ass is dead, because that coyote could be the animal
which attacks my dogs and we can't have that.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And I got more hate for saying that.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'll probably get hate tonight for saying it, but I
mean every word. And then there is this story about
a ten year old boy who was riding his bike
on the way to school, which says to me, coyotes,
not necessarily nocturnal, not afraid of people, will come out
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to an area in which there are a lot of
small people, i ea.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
School, and also attack.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Now we can wait for something really bad to happen
to someone's child, and obviously you know the someone's pet,
or you can do something about it.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
In this instance, the child was not seriously harmed, but
it lets you know that coyotes are not afraid of people.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
But you're trying to locate a coyote that bit a
ten year old boy in Irvine yesterday morning, please say
it happened on a pathway near Portolo Springs Elementary School.
The boy was riding his bike to school when he
stopped to take off his jacket. That's when the coyote
bit him on the leg. Fortunately that child was not
seriously injured.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And let me just say this, it is really something.
I was listening to that audio over and over again,
and then I realized, Wow, kids still ride their bikes
to school unattended.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
When I was a kid, it wasn't a big deal.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
But in today's world, to be able to ride your
bike to school as a ten year old, you wouldn't
be doing that in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I can't speak for Mark's neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I can speak for Tawalla's neighborhood, and I can speak
for Stephen's neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
We would not let a ten year old ride their
bike to school. Now.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Nothing we did when we were kids would be permissible today, unthinkable.
It'd be child abuse and neglect. The whole idea of
a latchkey kid is neglect. Yeah, that you would have
a child unattended at home with keys to come and go,
no one watching over them.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Can't do that anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Got to have daycare, got to have some sort of
after school care, take them to the boys and girls clubs.
But you can't leave a child home unattended. Can't leave
him in the car. Might die in a hot car,
might run across a coyote. That too, Am I wrong
mark for wanting to run down a coyote if I
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see one?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yes, you're a sociopath. Okay, that's fine, and you know what,
claim it.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I'll claim it because I would rather kill a coyote
than that coyote kill Benson Or'reiley.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Is it one or the other?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Though?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Is it? It's a zero sum game. It's either them
or us, and I'm choosing us. I'm choosing my dogs,
I'm choosing my pets, my family members. The coyote doesn't
have any business being there. Okay.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Can't you just send the coyote on its way with
a box of acme dynamite and be done with it
or something? You have to be brutal about it, yes,
because just like while e, they can keep coming back
and they keep trying and eventually they'll get it right.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
They just don't get the message.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
They No, they don't, because honestly, once upon a time,
people would tell me that the coyotes were either nocturnal
so you don't have to worry about them in the daytime,
or they were afraid of people, you don't have to
worry about them bothering actual people. Or if you just
don't feed them, It'll be fine. All those things are untrue.
People feed them. They are not nocturnal anymore. They come
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out in the daytime and they're not afraid of people.
They will approach and attack people. They just stroll around
my neighborhood. They don't care broad daylight, don't they. Yeah,
they just walk around.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
And in fact, a couple of times I followed them
around in the car and filmed them, just so I
could go home and be like, can you believe this?
Look at this. They don't care. They're like celebrities with paparazzi.
They're used to it.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
The only things or people which or who care less
than the coyotes are our local governments who we complain to.
Because I've complained incessantly about the coyotes, and because of
this sort of order or that law, legally you can't
do anything to them. It would be against the law
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for me to run down a coyote. I see, well,
you buried the lead there. No, this is just about
your bloodlust now. Yes, I would go to jail for
my dogs. Yes I would. I would run down a
coyote in a heartbeat. I don't care if it ends
up on the podcast. I don't care what Peter has
to say.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
If it's me or the coyote, damn it, I'm choosing me.
You're bigger. Well, yeah, so's my car. Yeah. I think
it's a little bit of a mismatch, don't you.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Well it's a mismatch with coyote against my dog, and
the coyote is not gonna think twice about killing one
or both of my dogs.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Well, keep those MutS indoors. Come on, what kind of
a parent are you? Just let them go wandering around
where they could be attacked by wild non? No, no, no,
it doesn't work that way. Coyotes can jump like six
feet high.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
They can jump over and on top of fences. It's
not like it's not like I'm letting them just run
out in the front yard or anything.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
No, they can jump into your backyard. Yeah, because I wasn't.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Tommy Lee's wife got on the ring camera go save
her dog because it jumped like a super high walkers
and if she wasn't there, that coyote would have been
would have taken it.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
It's like they can jump almost like cats. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I don't know why that species can jump so high
or so well, but they can, and that's how they
usually get into backyards.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
That's impressive. I think the real question is what are
you dressing your dogs in? Maybe they were asking for it,
KF I am six forty. I'm not even going to nothing.
I'm not going to dignify that with a response. How
dare you got to be ashamed of yourself? Tough crowd
around here. We're lived everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
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of smart ears as well.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
KI and the kost HD two Los Angeles, Lange County
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Live everywhere on the radio.
Six forty is later with moch Yeller. We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. There is so much going on
in LA as we get towards Friday, where there's some
seventy five different events happening within a three mile radius.
And if you want to drive anywhere in LA or
near downtown LA in Inglewood, just say no, don't even
(00:44):
try to do it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But we have a metro update.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
They're going to try to scan your body to see
if you're carrying concealed weapons.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We'll see how that's going to work or not work.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And we have a list of the rattiest cities, the
cities with the most rats. And you know, so if
we're doing it, there is a California tie to that.
And you know how I feel about coyotes. Did you
hear the story about the Irvine boy who was bitten
on the way to school ten years old, bitten by
a coyote. But I'm the bad guy for wanting to
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run it down. I'm the bad guy. We'll talk about that,
but I want to start tonight where I began last night.
Last night we told you how the Los Angeles Times
had declined to endorse either presidential candidate, and there was
speculation that there was internal pressure or an internal decision
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forbidding the editorial staff the editorial board from making any
type of endorsement.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And I was talking to Mark Ronner.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
We knew about the owner of the Los Angeles Times,
and I was speculating, I'm not going to speak for Mark,
but I was speculating that there might have been some
sort of concern about maintaining or growing a relateationship with
Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I know that there were some tweets that were sent back.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And forth between the owner of the Los Angeles Times,
Patrick Soon Sheng, and also Elon Musk. I just put
this out there as just a coincidence. They're both from
South Africa. Patrick soon Sheng, he's a minority owner of
the Lakers. So it's very layered. There are a lot
of tentacles to the story. But the update today is
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Mary O Garza, the editorials editor for the Los Angeles Time,
is now the former editorials editor, as she resigned today.
And it's explicit now that the newspaper's owner had blocked
the editorial board's plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris
for president. Let me also say this before I read
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some of her letter. The board had intended to endorse Harris,
and Garza told other media outlets that she had drafted
the outline of a proposed editorial. She had hoped to
get feedback on the outline, and was taken aback upon
being told that the newspaper would not take a position.
Let's go into her resignation letter and what she was
(03:14):
thinking about, and also let me before that, let me
tell you give me some history about the La Times
and their editorial endorsements. The Times historically, if people don't
know it was a Republican newspaper, it endorsed the GOP
nominee in every election from its founding in eighteen eighty
one all the way up through Nixon's re election campaign
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in nineteen seventy two. But then the demographics of southern
California changed, the ownership of the paper changed, and then
in two thousand and eight, which is relatively recent in
terms of larger history, the paper endorsed Barack Obama, the
first Democratic nominee for president to win its support in
its history, and since that time has gone on to
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endorse the Democratic nominee. In twenty twelve and twenty, and
here is a bit of the resignation letter from Mary
O Garza. Ever since doctor Sunsong vetoed the editorial Board's
plan to endorse Kamala Harris for president, I, as in Marl,
have been struggling with my feelings about the implications of
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our silence. I told myself that presidential endorsements don't really matter,
that California was not ever going to vote for Trump,
that no one would even notice that we had written
so many Trump is Unfit quote unquote editorials that it
was as if we had endorsed her. But the reality
hit me like cold water Tuesday, when the news rippled
out about the decision not to endorse without so much
(04:40):
as a comment from La Times management and Donald Trump
turned it into an anti Harris rip. Of course, it
matters that the largest newspaper in the state and one
of the largest in the nations still declined to endorse
and erase this important and it matters that we won't
even be straight with people about it. It may makes
us look craven and hypocritical, maybe even a bit sexist
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and racist. How could we spend eight years railing against
Trump and the danger his leadership poses to the country
and then failed to endorse the perfectly decent Democrat challenger
who we previously endorsed for the US Senate.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It goes on and on and on, but she ends
with this.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
In these dangerous times, staying silent isn't just indifference, it
is complicity. I'm standing up by stepping down from the
editorial board. Please accept this as my formal resignation, effective immediately.
Mariel Garzon. This goes back to what we were saying yesterday, Mark,
and I'm going to bring you in. As someone who
has print media experience working for the Seattle Times, I
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have always been concerned about outside forces and influence on
print media making news and editorial decisions. We're not talking
about a cable channel, which is guided by different parameters
print news, broadcast news. They have different standard practices and
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different expectations, different guidelines.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
What say you?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It crosses a serious line when an owner interferes in
the day to day work of the journalists at the paper.
And I should clarify one thing. This issue is not
about who they support or who anybody supports. It's about
rich people and foreigners interfering with the free press. And
interfering with elections, and in this case rich foreigners. I
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don't know why we allow that.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, we allow it because we are not willing to
do anything about it. Not only is it it's not
just about the La Times. This is going on in
other broadcast stations and other print news media and other outlets.
This is just a glaring example of an owner whose
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personal politics have now been in on the outlet which
should have nothing to do with his personal politics. He's
the owner. He's not a part of the editorial board.
He is not a part of the new staff.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
There's a part Historically, there's always been a partition in
between the two.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, line of wall of separation. This is a major breach,
and good on this editor for doing it. I was
just reading CJR. The Columbia Journalism Review, which is kind
of the periodical bible of the industry, or at least
one of them. She says, I'm resigning because I want
to make it clear I'm not okay with us being
silent in dangerous times. Honest people need to stand up.
This is how I'm standing up. Good on her for that, because,
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like we talked about yesterday, the journalism industry is shrinking
like musical chairs. There's no extra jobs. There are fewer
jobs every year, every month. So this is an active
courage on her part, and good on her. I wonder
if this is not the death knell for the La Times.
It was already on thin eyes for financial reasons. It
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has long had a credibility problem saying nothing of this
recent incident or having anything to do with politics. The
La Times is a shadow of the paper that it
was when.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I was a child. They all are, though.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's hard to say because some papers continue to do
well and the last I've read, the smaller sort of
regional papers were doing okay, but others. I mean, you
mentioned that I used to work at the Seattle Times,
among others, and you know that's like a pamphlet. Now
there's just not much left to a lot of newspapers,
so moves like this just accelerate the extinction that's already
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going on.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Absolutely cannot disagree with any of that. It's Later with
mo Kelly. We have a metro update when we come back.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And of course we've had this ongoing conversation about violence
on the Metro.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
What can be done, What should be done.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Should it be more police officers, Should it be a
Metro transit police authority.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Should it be something else. Should it be a combination
of that.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
What are you gonna do about the homeless people, What
are you gonna do about the unsanitary conditions? All of
those things are connected. But you have to, at least
on some level, protect the passengers. You have to make
it safe for men, women and children. It can't be
something where you're rolling the dice and hoping to get
to your appointed destination, be at work or even back home,
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and not get stabbed, not get shot, not get attacked,
not get defecated on, not have to deal with a
lot of these issues which are just endemic. It happens
just about every single day. In fact, it probably does
happen every day. We're just not aware of it. I'm
sure that there are a lot of incidents which are
not reported after a certain point. I remember going on
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the subway and metro and there are things you've seen
and it's like you're not gonna report it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You just kind of keep on moving.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Where there was urine in one of the seats, or
there was a homeless person in one of the seats
just riding, and or you had kids jumping on and
off the train without paying. Not all that stuff is
going to be reported, but now it's to the point
where something needs to be done. We've had Mayor Karen
Bess saying that she wanted to have a car free Olympics.
(10:16):
I don't know how feasible that is or realistic, but
Metro is trying to take one of these steps with
limiting the number of weapons which might make their way
onto one of the trains. And I say trains because
this is only for the trains at this point, let's
hear a little bit about it.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Taking a look at a couple of different types of
systems behind us, you can see one of them, and
it looks a lot like something you'd see maybe at
a Dodger game or a concert. Folks walk through and
any type of concealed weapon would hopefully signal the folks
who are monitoring and take a look. You can kind
of see how this works here. Now, this is one
of the systems they're testing, and they tell me that
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this week they will be using it.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Here.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Yesterday was day one, and they did pick up a
box cutter using this system.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Let's give you a question.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Look now, one box cutter caught one. All right, that's
the start already.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Box cutter using this system. Let's give you a closer
look now at the demonstration that they provided a little
bit earlier today. This is something that the Metro board
has been talking about putting into effect for a while.
They are expecting now to assess the technology through December
and to consider whether to expand the use of this
across other parts of the transits.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Wait, wait, they're going to assess it through December and
then decide whether it's going to be used elsewhere. So
if it fails the test between now and Christmas and
they got to start all the way over.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Is that what I'm being told. That's what it sounds
like I'm being told.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
December anti, Yeah, that's what they're saying. They are expecting
now to assess the technology through December and to consider
whether to expand the use of this across other parts
of the train.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Now, when they say expanded across other parts of the
transit system, right now, they're talking about unveiling it at
Union Station downtown. That's kind of the hub for all
the subway trains. That's fine, But if you've ever ridden
the subway, you know that there are a number of
stations which are above ground and they're just open.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
They're open air.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
There's nothing stopping people from walking up to a platform
or the pickup point. There's no place where you can
put one of these detectors. It's just completely open. If
they're only going to scan or screen at certain points
along the line and not every stop along the line,
then you're not really limiting the number of weapons which
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may get on the train. As soon as I know
that the scanner is only at Union Station, well what
does that tell everybody? Do not try to get on
the train with your weapon where at Union Station.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Outside of that, you can get on wherever you want,
carry whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And I know it can't be everywhere, but since I
am someone who's actually ridden the trains before, I know
a lot of it's weak points, it's exposure points. You
can get on the train just about anywhere and not
be inconvenienced by this technology.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Their hope is to have an efficient and non invasive
screening method which wouldn't hold up passengers. This comes, of course,
after a number of high profile violent attacks within the system.
And here's more of what we heard a little earlier
this morning.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And this is the deputy chief who you're getting ready
hear the Deputy Chief of security.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
We're really looking at for the impact on our passengers
and our stations, and also, you know, how do we
make sure that whatever we're bringing in augments what we're
already adoring on the system. So we're talking about this
particular pilot. The idea of being is layering in a
process and a protocol that makes sense for a system.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Okay, those the words out, But I guess they're saying
that this is going to be one of many points
of contact, many ways in which they're going to minimize
weapons and maximize safety. But we won't know if this
is actually going to be implemented transit wide until next year.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
So the freeway entry points where you can get on,
so there's nothing there. There's nothing on any of the
hubs along the route. But even if they were to
put this like at the Hollywood and the Highland stop,
the North Hollywood stop, even if you put it at
the major complexes where you have a lot of travel,
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what happens in between because most of these individuals who
will be getting on aren't going through those stations. Why
because that's where the most police are. That's where security
is getting on. Like I did in content, Yes, they're
getting on at a stop along the route. That is
where people are getting stabbed and beaten up stops along
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the route. There's rarely attacks at actual stations.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, to your point, that's where you will find the
most police, the most transit security, if you're at Metro
Center or Union Station or Universal City, those big hub
points where you might have more than one train intersecting.
So this is wishful think. Yeah, Look, it's well intentioned.
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I'm not going to put poo it for what it's
trying to do, what it's endeavoring to do. I'm just saying,
if you know how the transit system works, there are
too many holes.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's almost like you're trying to catch water with a colander.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
This is something I see benefiting us here, at least
in the south Land, maybe fifty years from now, when
you can really expand it and you can have detection
points at every entryway, at every little scan point that
you have to go in where you pay to get
in all that if it detects a weapon there and
it locks the gate, that may help.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I put it. I'd put it like this.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It's like you want to keep a burglar out of
your house, and you're just closing one window.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You're not going to You're not going to address any
of the doors.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
You're not going to address any of the other windows,
You're not going to address the garage what leads to
the house. You're just going to secure one window and say, well,
it's a start. Yet, it is a start, but it
doesn't really change anything. You're still susceptible, you're still vulnerable.
It's Later with mo Kelly k if I AM six
forty one, Live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. Let's talk about
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rats and cities and where California should fall on the
Rattiest cities list in the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's next.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And it's time
for Orcans annual survey, the twenty twenty four rankings of
the rattiest cities in the country. And if you're wondering, yes,
there is a California tie in. We don't need to
go too deep, but Orkan is putting this together relative
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to how many calls they get for rodent issues in
various locations around the country, coming in at number ten
of the rattiest cities in the country. Cleveland, Ohio. Yeah
that tracks. Yeah, Cleveland's just a dirty city. And I
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can say that because I've been there on multiple occasions.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Number nine Baltimore, Maryland. Yes, that is accurate as well.
I love Baltimore, but it's still nasty. Number eight Detroit, Michigan.
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Oh yeah, I haven't been to Detroit since two thousand
and three.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I can't tell you what it's like now.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Only reason I remember because that was when my mother's
mother passed and that was the last time that we
were in Detroit. So number seven of the rattiest cities
in the United States, according to Orcan the City of
brotherly Love Philadelphia sadly Yes, okay, you yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
But yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh. Number six This kind of surprised me. I've been
here before many times. Denver. It kind of surprises me
is that Denver is on the top ten rattiest cities.
Number five the nation's capital, Washington, d C. Yes, yes,
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I thought it would be higher than number five. In fact,
I thought that they had cleaned it up in recent years,
but clearly not number four. I left my hot in
San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Oh God, San Francisco. Number four.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
And if there's any through line, if there's any point
of comparison commonality, dense populations usually leads to.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Rats, also feces in the streets, and all types of
other filth in the streets. Like what I saw in
San Francisco absolutely leads to rats and whatever bubonic plague
is coming to that city.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
This is something that I realized when I was in
South Korea back in June. They only pick up the
trash once a day, but they do it like maybe
two three in the morning. There are almost no trash
cans anywhere, Like you will have to hunt to find
somewhere to deposit your soda can or something like that.
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Usually the business will just take it from you and
they'll put it in like bags and whatever. They put
out the trash at the end of the night, but
you don't see the vermin because they don't let trash
sit for days upon days. There is no such thing
as a dumpster. I didn't see a dumpster in the
whole country. And I went from the top to the bottom,
bottom to the top, from Poussan all the way to
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soul No alleys or dumpters. No, they don't have dumpsters.
They will put their trash out at the end of
each day and then they're like two in the morning,
it gets picked up. No, you don't have like a
You don't have like if you go out in the
street and you'll see this trash receptacle that they empty
once a week.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
None of that.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And also you don't see any vermin, you don't see
any rodents. You don't see any of that. And also
you don't have birds hovering and bird crap fall on
you because it's not like a constant food source that
they're utilizing. San Francisco's number four, coming in at number
three of the rattiest cities in the United States.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Start spread in the news.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I'm leaving today.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
New York, New York.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I actually thought New York would have been number one
because they have a legendary rat problem. And if you've
ever been to New York, especially in the summer, it
is one of the filthiest cities around. You combine the
filth with the humidity and the trash which is not
picked up every day, and you can see why rats
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would be everywhere in that city. Surprisingly enough, New York
has come in at number three of the rattiest cities
in the country, according to orcin I wonder what number
two is? Good old Los Angeles, California. Can La get
a break? Can't La catch a break? We have nothing
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but bad news?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I wonder if the rats might ride the metro too.
I think we need some weird number two T shirts. Well,
you know, this is one thing that Mississippi is not
going to be the worst at. We'll find out where,
like Jackson, Mississippi is coming in at number one of
the rattiest cities in the United States. And he guesses,
and he guesses. Stefan, I don't think you've seen the list.
(22:44):
Oh have you mentioned Chicago yet? I have not mentioned
Chicago yet.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
That's my guess. Twala.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I did not look close to get the list.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
But because of the rat I saw last night when
I left the station, I'm gonna say, Burbank, Oh damn.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Wait, you didn't mention that you saw a rat going out?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Yeah, just it ran across the little uh sitting area
where you can go and sit and smoke. It ran
from the bushes on the side and ran around.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
He shows a rat, not a squirrel.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
At night, And I think there's something about Twala. He's
like the beast master of this area because none of
us ever seen those What.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Else is trying to run in front of the coyotes? Coyotes?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Those coyotes were murderous. The raccoon was deadly, and the
rat was just probably trying to get away. Are you
rubbing yourself with like meat, juice or anything. The rat
wasn't after me. It just I was probably startled because
the door locked. You have a piece of pizza on you. Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Was it running two Mortons or away from Morton's.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
It wasn't near Mortons at all, which was surprising because
I'm sure there's lots of rats over there.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I'm sure because it's a restaurant and depending on how
they disposed of their trash.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, but it wasn't trying to be funny.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
It was when you came in. Yeah, Yeah, that's Mortens.
That's stink.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Got it? Got it?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, here's number one, here's number one of the radiest
city in the United.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
States, and Mark was spot on.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
It is Chicago, Illinois, the radiest city in the United States.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
It's a pile of filth Just so you know.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Coming in number fifty of the top fifty cities was Greensboro,
South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Syracuse, New York was forty eight. I'm just jumping around.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Kansas City was forty five, Flint, Michigan, was forty two, Portland, Oregon,
was thirty eight, Nashville thirty six, Phoenix was thirty two,
Honolulu interestingly twenty nine, Houston twenty five, Miami twenty three,
(24:53):
Dallas twenty two, Pittsburgh twenty one. As far as California's concerned,
Sacramento was number twenty. San Diego was number eighteen, Atlanta
was sixteen. I thought there'd be more rats in like Milwaukee,
in Atlanta, but I guess not.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Seattle was number fourteen, Mark, that makes perfect sense. Really,
it's sup port City, okay.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Boston was twelve, Minneapolis eleven, and you know the top
ten and.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Producer Lindsay number forty four.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Who was number forty four, Champagne Champagne Illinois.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You lived there for a while, I did. I live
there for a year. Were there a lot of rodents.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Oh yeah, so many. Okay, all right, my condolences. I
don't know why anyone would want to live in Champagne, Illinois,
but you know, life takes us places we have no control.
Sometimes Tualla ended up in Erie. I don't know if
he wanted to live there.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
They were escape.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
They escape, they're here now that they want. Rats in
the area though, No rats in area. No, surprisingly, no
rats in Erie. But on the drive to Cleveland, guys
to do weekly nothing of rats. Okay, yeah, and Stephan,
any rats where you are? I'm being honest. I haven't
seen rats.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Where I am. I'm being serious.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Yeah, I haven't. No, I haven't come across rats. We
have more of a cat problem, honestly. Yes, we have
cats and coyotes. Yeah, not rats.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And maybe because the coyotes and the cats are eating
the rats.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
How are cats a problem though they're they're cute. No,
not these cats. These are feral traits.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah yeah, not yeah even still, Oh gosh, KF I
am six forty. We're live everywhere. I'm on the iHeartRadio app.
We're going to talk about a coyote and the city
of Irvine. When we come back.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Cafi mo Kelly. I'm not a fan of coyotes. I
have too many Schnauzers. They mean the world to me,
they mean the world to my wife. They are family members.
And when I'm at work, and when my wife is
at work and there's no one watching the house, one
of our sons is not near, we worry about them
(27:05):
because we have coyotes all through our neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I mean all through.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
You can look at our security videos and I show
them to Tuala and you'll see them. They will travel
in packs, three or four at a time. They are predators,
they are hunters. They will kill small animals and they
will attack small children. And one time I said, hey,
if I get the opportunity and there's a coyote in
(27:33):
the road and maybe not paying attention, I will run
it dass down.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
And I receive such hate for us. How could you
do that, or one of God's creatures.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
How you're just an animal, You're a monster that you
would run down a coyote. Yes, I would run down
a coyote and back up over it so I could
hear the thump and thud again to make sure his
ass is dead, because that coyote could be the animal
which attacks my dogs and we can't have that.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And I got more hate for saying that.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'll probably get hate tonight for saying it, but I
mean every word. And then there is this story about
a ten year old boy who was riding his bike
on the way to school, which says to me, coyotes,
not necessarily nocturnal, not afraid of people, will come out
(28:26):
to an area in which there are a lot of
small people, i ea.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
School, and also attack.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Now we can wait for something really bad to happen
to someone's child, and obviously you know the someone's pet,
or you can do something about it.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
In this instance, the child was not seriously harmed, but
it lets you know that coyotes are not afraid of people.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
But you're trying to locate a coyote that bit a
ten year old boy in Irvine yesterday morning, please say
it happened on a pathway near Portolo Springs Elementary School.
The boy was riding his bike to school when he
stopped to take off his jacket. That's when the coyote
bit him on the leg. Fortunately that child was not
seriously injured.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And let me just say this, it is really something.
I was listening to that audio over and over again,
and then I realized, Wow, kids still ride their bikes
to school unattended.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
When I was a kid, it wasn't a big deal.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
But in today's world, to be able to ride your
bike to school as a ten year old, you wouldn't
be doing that in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I can't speak for Mark's neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I can speak for Tawalla's neighborhood, and I can speak
for Stephen's neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
We would not let a ten year old ride their
bike to school. Now.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Nothing we did when we were kids would be permissible today, unthinkable.
It'd be child abuse and neglect. The whole idea of
a latchkey kid is neglect. Yeah, that you would have
a child unattended at home with keys to come and go,
no one watching over them.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Can't do that anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Got to have daycare, got to have some sort of
after school care, take them to the boys and girls clubs.
But you can't leave a child home unattended. Can't leave
him in the car. Might die in a hot car,
might run across a coyote. That too, Am I wrong
mark for wanting to run down a coyote if I
(30:25):
see one?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yes, you're a sociopath. Okay, that's fine, and you know what,
claim it.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I'll claim it because I would rather kill a coyote
than that coyote kill Benson Or'reiley.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Is it one or the other?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Though?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Is it? It's a zero sum game. It's either them
or us, and I'm choosing us. I'm choosing my dogs,
I'm choosing my pets, my family members. The coyote doesn't
have any business being there. Okay.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Can't you just send the coyote on its way with
a box of acme dynamite and be done with it
or something? You have to be brutal about it, yes,
because just like while e, they can keep coming back
and they keep trying and eventually they'll get it right.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
They just don't get the message.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
They No, they don't, because honestly, once upon a time,
people would tell me that the coyotes were either nocturnal
so you don't have to worry about them in the daytime,
or they were afraid of people, you don't have to
worry about them bothering actual people. Or if you just
don't feed them, It'll be fine. All those things are untrue.
People feed them. They are not nocturnal anymore. They come
(31:25):
out in the daytime and they're not afraid of people.
They will approach and attack people. They just stroll around
my neighborhood. They don't care broad daylight, don't they. Yeah,
they just walk around.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
And in fact, a couple of times I followed them
around in the car and filmed them, just so I
could go home and be like, can you believe this?
Look at this. They don't care. They're like celebrities with paparazzi.
They're used to it.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
The only things or people which or who care less
than the coyotes are our local governments who we complain to.
Because I've complained incessantly about the coyotes, and because of
this sort of order or that law, legally you can't
do anything to them. It would be against the law
(32:05):
for me to run down a coyote. I see, well,
you buried the lead there. No, this is just about
your bloodlust now. Yes, I would go to jail for
my dogs. Yes I would. I would run down a
coyote in a heartbeat. I don't care if it ends
up on the podcast. I don't care what Peter has
to say.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
If it's me or the coyote, damn it, I'm choosing me.
You're bigger. Well, yeah, so's my car. Yeah. I think
it's a little bit of a mismatch, don't you.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Well it's a mismatch with coyote against my dog, and
the coyote is not gonna think twice about killing one
or both of my dogs.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Well, keep those MutS indoors. Come on, what kind of
a parent are you? Just let them go wandering around
where they could be attacked by wild non? No, no, no,
it doesn't work that way. Coyotes can jump like six
feet high.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
They can jump over and on top of fences. It's
not like it's not like I'm letting them just run
out in the front yard or anything.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
No, they can jump into your backyard. Yeah, because I wasn't.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Tommy Lee's wife got on the ring camera go save
her dog because it jumped like a super high walkers
and if she wasn't there, that coyote would have been
would have taken it.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
It's like they can jump almost like cats. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I don't know why that species can jump so high
or so well, but they can, and that's how they
usually get into backyards.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
That's impressive. I think the real question is what are
you dressing your dogs in? Maybe they were asking for it,
KF I am six forty. I'm not even going to nothing.
I'm not going to dignify that with a response. How
dare you got to be ashamed of yourself? Tough crowd
around here. We're lived everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
We're not just in smart speakers, we're in a couple
of smart ears as well.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
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Speaker 2 (33:53):
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