February 27, 2025 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on LA, OC officials issuing a measles warning after a confirmed case of an in infant traveler arriving at LAX…PLUS – A look at a new study that reveals SoCal coyotes tend to avoid living in wealthy areas, and actually prefer living in more impoverished areas - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's later with Mokeli can if. I am six forty.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I feel
like it's ropper room. I see Stephan, I see Mark,
I see Twala, I see Stephan. And I didn't get
to see you yesterday, Stephan, And I hope all this well.
It's nice to have you back, sir. Good to be back, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The team, the band is all back together.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And I have to say, for as much as we
talk about the negative aspects of California, for as much
as we complain about the cost of living or the
natural disaster, the droughts, the rain, or the fires that
we complain about, I mean it's it's actually a luxury
to complain if you didn't lose everything like the fires.
(01:03):
But for as much as we complain, today really struck
me because driving in I was noticing we are in
the dead of winter, and to be anywhere, just about
anywhere else in the country, it'd be four degrees snow, sleet, wind, chill.
It's like maybe seventy five today, and if I'm not
(01:24):
mistaken listening to Mark Ronner, it's gonna be like eighty
degrees tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh premature with that today, Aren't you not at all?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm just saying we can talk about the weather and
the fact that it's going to be fantastic at least tomorrow. Yeah,
you said something about possibly rain on Friday moving into
the weekend, but as far as I can see, nothing
but blue skies.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I like your attitude. I mean, I don't share your attitude,
but I like it. What it wasn't a beautiful day. No,
today was nice. It's gonna be cloudy tomorrow, and then
we've got an increasing chance of some moisture starting on
Friday and lasting until at least Wednesday, as far as
I can see.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Okay, I would rather it be that than living in
some other quadrant of the country where it's four degrees.
And I took real notice of it today because driving
in we're at the end of February, it's the heart
of winter, whatever you want to call it. We're deep
in the season and it's a good seventy five degrees outside.
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And I remember, that's why I pay so much for
living here, Because it may be nice in Texas, but
it's also cold in Texas right about now. It may
be more inexpensive to live in Florida, but their wather's
not as good as ours, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's my understanding that the valleys were going to get
up around ninety issue today in February, and it totally did.
That's what it said in my thermometer. That's my point.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So if you have to be somewhere in the winter,
California is not a bad place to be. Yes, it's
fit of all the warts and all the other problems
that we may have to deal with. If we're going
to pay for the weather, at least let us get
our money's worth it. We're definitely getting our money's worth now. Yeah,
we'll get some rain next week, but we can always
use some rain. And you're saying like maybe through Wednesday, Okay,
(03:17):
I'll accept that. I'll accept that. If I had a
convertible I put the top down right about now. Is
it normal you've lived here your whole life.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I haven't. Is it normal for it to be ninety
in February on occasion?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay, yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's not, you know, every single winter, but it doesn't
strike me as strange.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
So, just to Mark's point, because I know definitely MOA's
experienced this, did you ever have Mark, did you ever
have a day on Christmas where it was like eighty.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Where? What like Seattle? Yeah? Where you? Yeah, I guess
that's what I meant. Seattle's pretty mild, but the climate's
definitely changing. When I first moved there and nobody owned
cars with air conditioners, but that that's all changed now
and I could go down the laundry list. So it's
not the same now as it was ten twenty thirty
years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It's actually surprising if it's not at least seventy five
on Christmas out here.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I was gonna say, that's like the standard here.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, okay, And this is what I enjoy most about
living in California. And I've lived here my whole life.
I had opportunities to live elsewhere, but I wouldn't, especially
at this age, I wouldn't move to a colder area
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You couldn't. You couldn't pay me enough money to move
to New York. You're gonna start walking around in a
cardigan in the summer while you're at it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Possibly I can do it because California summers are still mild. Okay,
But that's why you know, we'll always talk about Oh,
how horrible it is in California.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
No, not really, not really.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's expensive, no doubt, But then today reminds you of
some of that reason for those expenditures. Why, you know,
real estate is about location, location, location. California is a
lot better than other places. Most places do suck compared
to California.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh no, if I'm going to live in a place
where I can't afford a house, I'd like to live
in this city where I can't afford the house. But
there are some downsides, you know now that measles is here.
That's right. I tried to tell you, Tuala, didn't I
try to tell them. You just told them.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And now there's a child we'll tell you about next
segment who came into Lax of all places, Lax unvaccinated measles.
And now there's no telling where it could go because
the incubation period could be like up to twenty one days.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And that's saying nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Now we have a confirmed death of measles in Texas.
Going back to my speech about the communicable nature of measles,
how dangerous it can be for children and the elderly,
And Talla says he got some hate mail about that
directed to me.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Maybe it was people that I'd already blocked. But I'm
not making this up.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's a serious thing and we're gonna have another serious
conversation about it. And coyotes, they're very territorial, but not
in the way that you may think. They like to
live in the hood. It seems they don't want the
wealthy suburbs. They just want to hang around the hood.
Just my luck, because they're like three running through my
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backyard every damn night. It's not funny, Stepan. I was
not making a joke. I was making an observation, a
truthful one, just laughing at me. And the nice exercise
lady is back, Claudine Cooper.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
She's going to join us in the studio.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And talk to us about how colonoscopies can be helpful
or colon health more general can be helped with more
and more exercise.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Are you going to get one live in the studio? No,
that would be some good radio. Not really.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Look, I did talk about mine prior to and post.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You sure did? You are getting up in a so
it might be that time for you. Well, you're not
doing it, Just so you know. I have expressed no
desire to Okay, I just want to put all the
cards on the table. So what do you get yours? Mark?
I'm getting bagged about that at home too. Everybody is
really a little too focused on my ass lately, and
I just like.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
To move forward. This is just your internal health. It's
not your ass. So you don't move forward. You got
to back it up.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Thank you, give yourself a rim shot, fooshot shot.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But to be serious, as they say, the prep is
the worst part unless you wake up during the procedure.
And that was just my experience. It was, you know,
one in a hundred, they say. But don't let my
experience dissuade you.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It's done exactly that. In fact, no, no, Mark, bes's
best nap you will ever have in your life. You
will be like, can I get another after that nap?
I think not? I mean I you know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
You don't wake the absorb? What are you talking about?
Why are you avoiding this?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
There's a plus no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
No, But that is funny, but it's actually accurate. It's
not like you feel something in that way after you
wake up.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
How's your sleep right now? Not great? Well, but it's
never been great, and it's not because of not being
probe Like I'm a boardy ufo. Well you're not to
wait for the probate. Wait what you're gonna knock out
before that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Could? There must be other things we can talk about
we can't, but this is very important. Its health is
very important.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I surely want you to live to be one hundred
and seventy three. This has been a very touching and
heartwarming Colon intervention by the three of you.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Now let's move on KFI AM six forty. We live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And clearly, clearly America wants to give measles a chance.
As a kids say, let them live. Trying to let
measles live. There was a child who was sickened with beasles,
described as an infant, traveled to La via lax and
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then on to Orange County. According to public health agencies
in both La County and Orange County, the affected traveler
arrived at lax on February nineteenth on Korean Air leave
a list of flight anyone who is at Terminal B
of lax On February nineteenth, between one and four PM
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may be at risk of contracting measles due to exposure.
Passengers who were exposed on the flight were notified by
public health officials directly. And this is something that we've
been talking about. We don't really take diseases seriously anymore.
The measles vaccine was invented in nineteen sixty three. I'm
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quite sure it's been improved upon in the years since,
and measles had largely been eradicated in the United States
thanks specifically to the vaccine. Measles is so contagious that
nine out of ten unvaccinated people who come in contact
with each other. You remember the stats, or maybe you
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don't remember what I told you. The stats of nine
and ten are most likely going to contract measles if
you're unvaccinated. And if you think that it's not deadly, well,
a child just died in Texas because of measles. The
person who was hospitalized with measles has died in West Texas.
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This is the first death in this outbreak, which began
last month. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa
Whitfield confirmed the death today. It wasn't clear the age
of the patient, but the child died overnight.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
We do know as a child. And the measles.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to one hundred
and twenty four cases across nine counties, nine counties, the
state Health Department said, And there are also nine cases
in eastern New Mexico. And I said that, and I'll
say it again. These are only the known cases. We
don't know who else has been exposed. We don't know
who's asymptomatic or who is symptomatic, because it has an
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incubation period of up to twenty one days. I don't
even know where I was twenty one days ago. Being serious,
it's to twenty six today. I don't know where I
was on the fifth of February or who I came
in contact with. And that is probably true of most people,
and so something like this can get out of control
very quickly. And to revisit, measles is a respiratory virus
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that can survive in the air for up to two hours,
and up to nine out of ten people who are
susceptible as it unvacciinated, we'll get the virus if exposed.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I'm gonna say it again.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Up to nine out of ten people who are susceptible
will get the virus.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
If exposed.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Most kids will recover, but infect you can lead to
dangerous complications like deumonia, blindness, brain swelling, and in this
case death.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Now for the facts of this story. A child, an infant, unvaccinated,
came in to southern California by way of lax As.
I mean, this child was on a plane, right, a
tube of recycled air.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Correct for an entire flight. I don't care where you can.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Okay, you came from Vegas, correct, an entire flight came
to lax Past. That measles that to everyone on the plane,
So it's not just the infant because of the fact
that everyone's breathing that air. You may be vaccinated, but
can you not give that or pass that on? It
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exists in the air for up to two hours.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I don't know if someone can carry it as a
vaccinated person and then pass it on to someone who's unvaccinated.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I honestly don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
These are just the things I wondered because this scared
me because I said to myself, got it. If this
was a flight from Vegas, you know however long this
child was on this flight, it's more than a two
hour period inside of a sealed too.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
No, no, no, it was on a Korean Air flight. So
it was from Korea most likely or somewhere in Asia.
And I've flown Korea Air. It's a twelve hour flight.
It's a twelve hour flight. So let's just say the
last two hours of that flight.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Everyone that that baby called on the ride, they thought,
so you get off and go and get into an uber.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So boosh, has it? Now?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Now I've been I've been in that terminal. There are
hundreds and hundreds of people in a given day in
the international terminal kids of course, of course, so if
this child were to pass anyone who was unvaccinated for measles,
according to the science, there's a nine to ten chance
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that those individuals will also contract Beazels nine and ten.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I'm not fear mongering.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I'm just curious about why the potentiality of this spreading
in a state where now we are very anti vax.
Our liberal mindedness has made us very anti vax and
so trust me, I work in schools.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I work in the school system.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
I know about all of the parents and all the
people who say they sign waivers to not have their
child VACX because they don't believe in the vaccination.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
This, that, and the other.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I've seen it. So I'm just curious now what happens
if we have like a Texas outbreak in California.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
If if we have one confirmed case in a school,
it will shut down the school. We know that it'll
be for an inordinate amount of time because it has
to be at least shut down beyond the incubation period
to know that no one else has actually contracted the disease.
I have a question of we know that child was
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unvaccinated and got the disease, we don't know the status
of the parent or parents. It's not unbelievable to think
that both the child and parent were unvaccinated and also susceptible,
also carriers and also spreaders, because that's how kind of
airborne diseases, how they work. This is going to get
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worse before it gets better because we've let our politics.
In fact, if you will, our good sense, more people
are going to die, More children are going to die.
And I don't say that to pat myself on the back,
but I am going to say I told you so
I told you that this was going to happen, and
the child who died in Texas, I don't know anything
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about the child. I just do know that it was
one hundred percent avoidable. No child, or anybody for that matter,
has to die from measles.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
There is a litchorole.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Cure, or should say, a vaccine preemptive cure if you will,
to prevent contracting measles. No one has to die from
measles at all. In fact, we haven't had a death
from measles in more than a decade.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I think it was considered eradicated a full quarter century ago.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
In fact, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think by like two thousand.
Now it's twenty twenty five, and we have a multi
state outbreak disinformation kills.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You sometimes might wonder why I get so bent out
of shape about disinformation going out over the public's air waves.
It's exactly for reasons like this.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And we're going to have to report on this again
because they're going to be more people infected in Texas,
in southern California most likely, given what we know about
the spread of measles. Hopefully there won't be any more deaths. Hopefully,
but I can't guarantee that because we live in a
time and where people are choosing not to vaccinate their kids,
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and this is something that we will have earned, We
will have chosen this. It's not something that is just
happening to us because it's bad luck or twist of fate.
This is avoidable, this is preventable, and we're choosing instead
to endanger our children, your children, smallest children, my children,
and that's not even including the elderly. It's Later with
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mo Kelly KFI A six forty five everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app and we have a coyotes update. And this
is important because if you have small children, or if
you have small pets, depending on where you live, they
could be in danger because of these coyotes. And now
there's more information out as to why they choose to
live in certain neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And I've told you about my dislike, discussed and disdain
for coyotes. They are run rampant through my neighborhood and
I'm a little bit outside of Inglewood and you will
see them at night, definitely, you'll see them on my
security cameras. I've shown them, like to Tuala, running two
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and three at a time. Every once in a while
you'll see them in the daytime. They are not necessarily nocturnal.
They're not afraid as people may think of people. They're
you know, they're they're definitely not domesticated, but they're not
afraid of people either. And I said, I will gladly
run down some coyotes gladly because they are a threat
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to my fur babies, and they're a threat to small children.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
No doubt that.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
There are times, and I know, Taualah, you've probably heard it.
You can hear them when they've attacked out animals and
pets and the fight, the yipping sound they make when
they're successful, and.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
All that kind of stuff. It's blood curdling. The sound
of an animal dying at the hands of a pack
of coyotes horrible.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
It's real. It's real.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
But there's this new study which found that coyotes, as
far as their choices, were less inclined to seek out
higher income areas within their roaming ranges and preferring to
stick to less wealthy parts.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
There's some reasons for it.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's not that coyotes are aware of zip codes, but
there's a difference in behavior of people who live within
certain zip codes and different viewpoints surrounding coyotes within zip codes.
According to this study, people in affluent neighborhoods have shown
heightened support for killing coyotes, which is and it's more
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common in wealthy areas. So the wealthier areas tend to
be less tolerant of coyotes, and they're more willing to
pay for coyote traps, they're more hostile to coyotes, and
coyotes tend to stay away. Conversely, according to the study,
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coyotes in lesser affluent neighborhoods find that the surrounding i'll
say area is more tolerant. I know in my neighborhood
people look at coyotes like, oh, they're so cute, like
there are pets or.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Something, and there are people who actually feed them.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
And also in less affluent communities, and this is something
I'm this is not in the study. I can see
this visually. You have more of a concentration of trash,
it could be homeless people, and there's a food source
more readily available for coyotes as opposed to the affluent areas.
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It's going to affluent areas is going to be much
more better taken care of, so you don't have that
standing food source or or you know, a tolerance of
coyotes that they would in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
See, I don't know if I like this. I don't.
I'm just reading with the studies, I know, but the
study is painting a very very odd picture to me.
You know that coyotes just they dig living in the hood,
because it's like the hood is just who cares in
the hood left the coyotes wrong?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Well that's part You and I are very much hood
to Jason. We're not down with the coyotes.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But I think we are the exceptions which prove the
rule because I know I can get onto the Facebook
group of I of Inglewood, where you have mostly Inglewood
residents commenting about what is going on in Inglewood, and
most of them are relatively okay with coyotes. They're more
amazed by them, but they're not they're not trying to
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say let's get rid of them. They're just sort of like, hey,
you know, you should just leave them alone. If you
leave them alone, they'll leave you alone. Let live let
the animals live.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
No, no, and see in Altadena, it is actually what
you see on the neighborhood chat more often than not,
the more affluent areas in Altadena, where people recognize that
they've built homes into the natural habitat of these coyotes,
that they're saying, Oh, it's our fault, we've built homes
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into their nesting areas.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
We must take care of the coyotes. That's why I feel.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Because they're defending their feeding of the coyotes.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Well, whatever they're doing, they will stay where they're wanted
and tolerated, And unfortunately, in my neighborhood they're tolerated in
ways which I think is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
It is not something that I would do.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But going back to the story, another study cited from
twenty twenty three, analyzing a decade of coyote reports in
San Francisco, found that higher median income was correlated with
negative opinions of coyotes. In other words, the high income folks,
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we're willing to pay for trapping, and that's expensive. You know,
my housing development has tried to pay for it, and
they won't pay for any length of time. They'll do
it for like a week, get rid of the coyotes
which happen to be there, and then and then the
coyotes will be back in two months. You know it's
it's another den say.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I don't like this article because this article is clearly
pointing out that individuals in more affluent neighborhoods have the
financial whereabouts to trap and remove coyotes and oftentimes relocate
them to the hills and areas where they can thrive,
while in our neighborhoods we are shunned and we are
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not allowed to kill the coyotes.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
They tell us. In fact, you cannot kill these coyotes.
Will put all that's that's true.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
You know, I know that you will not see a
pack of coyotes walking through Beverly Hills neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You won't. Neighborhoods are not going to tolerate that.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Not Now you see a pack of coyotes dead, a coyotes,
uh walking through inglewood. Are they going to allow that?
You bet your ass they're gonna allow that. You can
call animal services and but that's not going to do anything.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
They're just too many of them. They're everywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, I mean I've had animal services come out and
try to trap the coyotes and then two more will
come the next week. That there are They are that
plentiful in my neighborhood. They come by my house every
single night, have video of them on the ring device
every single night. Part of it is they probably smell
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either our dogs or the dog poo in the backyard.
They know that they're dogs in that particular vicinity. They
just don't know how to get to them. Yea, yeah,
because there's a we have a very very high gate.
You see the fence in the backyard. It's too high
for the jump.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, they have to be committed. They have to like
how hungry am I? Right? Right? And it's like ten
feet high.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
They're not jumping that high, but they're everywhere and there's
nothing we can do about it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
We've called and we can't kill them legally. Legally, but
if it comes.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Down to the coyote or my dogs, the coyotes going down,
I'm gonna run them over. I'll poison them, it doesn't matter.
And I have no problem saying that on the radio
because I mean it.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
If you're gonna come and get me for protecting my dogs.
So be it, so be it. But I understand why
the coyotes hang around because there is really no deterrent.
There's nothing pointing to them that it's dangerous for them,
that they shouldn't come around, because as far as they're concerned,
they're probably the apex predator. No one is messing with them,
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no one's bothering them, no one's hunting them, no one's
shooting them. At best, every two or three months, they
may try to relocate them, but there's no reason for
them to be afraid, and there's always a standing food
source somewhere, and I think that's part of the reason
why we see them in the daytime.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Because they can Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So yeah, this makes sense to me because they're not
tolerating this in bel Air. They're not tolerating this in
Newport Beach. I don't think there's a coyote in Newport Beach.
I might be wrong, but I don't think there is.
And if there were, I'm quite sure it's not going
to last for long. Someone's gonna remove it, someone's gonna
shoot it, but they're not gonna feed it. It's later
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with mo Kelly can if I am since forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app mark any coyotes in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
In fact, there are they walk around like they own
the place. There are some wiley coyotes, in fact. But recently,
I was sitting up late at night and I heard
these blood curdling animal shrieks, and I look out the
window and right in front of my place there are
what looked like two coyotes nipping and tormenting and apparently
trying to kill what. I couldn't if it was a
small dog or a smaller coyote or something, but it
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was just awful, and you could hear it through the
whole neighborhood. So of course, you know, I run out
there in my sweats and thinking that I'm going to
break this up, but they were already way way down
the block and away by the time I got out there.
But that's that's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, I don't need to ask Stephan because we're basically
in the same neighborhood, and I know he's seen them.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I know they're everywhere.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
It's a trip to see signs that say be alert
for coyotes, because I used to think of that as
just only out here in the valley right over there
in the Englewood area.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I'm like, really, yeah, this is very urban, Okay, it's
not like you're up against the hillside or something. I
feel like they're getting bolder. Another night, a coyote was
howling in front of the house, and I go out,
and it was like it was trying to lead me someplace,
like it had babies that were in trouble someplace. Every
time I turned around to leave, it tried to get
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my attention to get me to follow it. I mean,
it could have been planning to eat me with some
of its friends. But they are getting more bold. I've
noticed that, kind of like you more bold, far more bold.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
You're listening too late with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app And before the
break we were talking about the study, actually multiple studies
in which coyotes had a preference for areas in which
they lived, and it seemed to correspond with the level
of affluency.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Excuse me, the.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Wealthier the neighborhood, the less inclined coyotes were to stay there.
I thought, I looked at it as a simple expression
of well there's probably a larger food source in the
less affluent neighborhood. Because trash is not picked up as frequently,
you have a larger homelessness population. There are probably places
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for coyotes to eat, and also less affluent populations.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
They're more accepting.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
This is anecdotal, but I'm seeing that more accepting of coyotes.
Where you see people feeding coyotes, you see people tolerating coyotes.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
And to Mark Roger's point, they are much more bold.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Now than in years past, and it's something that is observable.
You can go through my neighborhood and you should not
be surprised if you see a coyote running the street
in broad daylight, especially, and I've noticed this on trash days,
because they know those are the food sources and kind
of when it's going to be available to them.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
There's plenty in this neighborhood too. Have you ever left
the office at night and seen them just standing there
staring you down outside the front door.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I've only seen one, and it was running across the
street Olive. It's like going to Whole Foods or someth
because that's where it was running.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Well, there's a large vacant lot across the street from
Whole Foods and it's got some brush and I think
maybe some of them live there. I don't know. It
makes sense though, that they would.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, it would make sense. I'm just saying I've only
seen one. Twala's seen more than I have.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yeah, Twala when he send us that picture that he
saw like two of them just standing outside waiting, and
I was like, that's crazy. And then I left one
night and there was one that was where that little
statue thing is and the minute I open the door,
it just took off. But I was just like, wow,
they actually do come up right next to the door.
But it's at night though.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I haven't seen any in the daytime in this neighborhood,
and I would tend to think of Burbank as a
little more well to do than other areas, so I'm
actually more surprised to see them here than when I'm
driving home. I expect to see one every single day
in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
If there's some food waste, though, especially since we're close
to a Whole Foods and some restaurants and they're scavengers,
so that explains their presence here. But they're very bold
around here, the ones that I've seen in this neighborhood
when I'm leaving work at night. They do not scurry off. Now,
They'll stand there and play chicken with you. They don't
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view us as a threat for whatever reasons.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Not that they should think that we're going to just
pull out a gun and shoot them, but they don't
think as if they need to turn the tail just
because they see us. No, these things are full werewolf size.
They're not afraid of us. No, not at all, not
at all. I mean they're seeing like can I take them?
Just sizing you up, look looking at It's like, well,
that'd be a big dinner. But I don't know if
I could take them. You can see the wheels turning
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in their head. They're considering it.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, now that I think of it, going outside with
a broom and hoping to practice some broom fou on
the coyotes. I'm lucky that they didn't kill me and
just tear me to pieces.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Well, we have different night sticks around our house in
the event that a coyote should come around or try
to jump the fan. You know, there's certain things which
are placed that can be used immediately as a weapon
to fight them off if need be really Like, what
do you got?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I guess that night stick just just sticks. Well, there's
some I want a flame strower. Now, I want some
serious artillery against these things.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
No, look, I've considered some other things, but I'm not
gonna say. I'm on the radio, so I'm just gonna
leave it to night sticks because they wouldn't be considered
legal when I'm considering, Well, that's intriguing. Oh yeah, now
that they need to die. Okay, after this break, I'm
gonna come into the news booth and show you some.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Of the videos. They are ubiquitous.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
They are everywhere, and the last thing I want, since
they're getting more and more bold, is the prospect of
them possibly finding a way to come around, like to
the front of my house and then jump over the fence.
And I want them to keep a degree of fear
from my house.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I'm gonna start carrying around the lids to go and
an aerosol can of Harrisbury or something every place I
go for the improvised James Bond flamethrower.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
The only problem with that is they'll probably that would
probably set something on fire behind my house. We have
a kind of an open field area, which part of
the reason why they roam back there. But it's one
of those there's enough brush where I don't want to
accidentally burn down the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah, starting another wildfire is in the negative column at
this point where we do not want that. It would
not be good news at all.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But this is something that it's really serious for me,
and it's something I think about daily. It's something that
i've actually we talk about being involved in a civic sense,
going to city council meetings or going to Elli County
Board of Supervisor meetings. This is something that I have
been in constant communication with my Elle County Board of
Supervisor and also County Facilities Services to do more about.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Can't get them to do anything. You think they should
cough up some dough to hire a coyote mercenary to
roam the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
They need to do something because they are dangerous to
small pets and children.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Although just take your dog right out of the yard
if it's a smaller dog.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Absolutely, absolutely, And I don't want to wait until that
happens and it's too late, and then the county wants
to turn around and finally do something.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
This is something that should have been done a long
time ago.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It's the way that what we've been over backwards to
protect coyotes is confounding to me. Confounding. We're not. It's
not like we're trying to conserve nature, you know, or
animals like they're dangerous animals. They're legitimately dangerous. And I
know see our Madre deals with bears, and different places
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deal with mountain lions.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
But they're dangerous.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And I'm not going to wait for something to happen
to one of my pets before something is.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Going to be done. They're not even that cute. Oh
I thought you're talking about my dogs. They're very cute.
I'll have to take your word for that. You've been
invited to my house. I don't even start. Never comes over.
I can't. And I'm beginning to think it's racial. Now,
how could it be since I'm half black. Let's go
to break can you'd be surprised. I'll tell you some
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stories about some folks I know. Okay, k if I
am six forty, we're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app
Ignorance is bliss. We have zero bliss, completely blissless k
Speaker 1 (35:22):
F i'm k O s t HD two Los Angeles,
Orange County live everywhere on the
It's later with Mokeli can if. I am six forty.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I feel
like it's ropper room. I see Stephan, I see Mark,
I see Twala, I see Stephan. And I didn't get
to see you yesterday, Stephan, And I hope all this well.
It's nice to have you back, sir. Good to be back, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The team, the band is all back together.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And I have to say, for as much as we
talk about the negative aspects of California, for as much
as we complain about the cost of living or the
natural disaster, the droughts, the rain, or the fires that
we complain about, I mean it's it's actually a luxury
to complain if you didn't lose everything like the fires.
(01:03):
But for as much as we complain, today really struck
me because driving in I was noticing we are in
the dead of winter, and to be anywhere, just about
anywhere else in the country, it'd be four degrees snow, sleet, wind, chill.
It's like maybe seventy five today, and if I'm not
(01:24):
mistaken listening to Mark Ronner, it's gonna be like eighty
degrees tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh premature with that today, Aren't you not at all?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm just saying we can talk about the weather and
the fact that it's going to be fantastic at least tomorrow. Yeah,
you said something about possibly rain on Friday moving into
the weekend, but as far as I can see, nothing
but blue skies.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I like your attitude. I mean, I don't share your attitude,
but I like it. What it wasn't a beautiful day. No,
today was nice. It's gonna be cloudy tomorrow, and then
we've got an increasing chance of some moisture starting on
Friday and lasting until at least Wednesday, as far as
I can see.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Okay, I would rather it be that than living in
some other quadrant of the country where it's four degrees.
And I took real notice of it today because driving
in we're at the end of February, it's the heart
of winter, whatever you want to call it. We're deep
in the season and it's a good seventy five degrees outside.
(02:29):
And I remember, that's why I pay so much for
living here, Because it may be nice in Texas, but
it's also cold in Texas right about now. It may
be more inexpensive to live in Florida, but their wather's
not as good as ours, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's my understanding that the valleys were going to get
up around ninety issue today in February, and it totally did.
That's what it said in my thermometer. That's my point.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So if you have to be somewhere in the winter,
California is not a bad place to be. Yes, it's
fit of all the warts and all the other problems
that we may have to deal with. If we're going
to pay for the weather, at least let us get
our money's worth it. We're definitely getting our money's worth now. Yeah,
we'll get some rain next week, but we can always
use some rain. And you're saying like maybe through Wednesday, Okay,
(03:17):
I'll accept that. I'll accept that. If I had a
convertible I put the top down right about now. Is
it normal you've lived here your whole life.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I haven't. Is it normal for it to be ninety
in February on occasion?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay, yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's not, you know, every single winter, but it doesn't
strike me as strange.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
So, just to Mark's point, because I know definitely MOA's
experienced this, did you ever have Mark, did you ever
have a day on Christmas where it was like eighty.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Where? What like Seattle? Yeah? Where you? Yeah, I guess
that's what I meant. Seattle's pretty mild, but the climate's
definitely changing. When I first moved there and nobody owned
cars with air conditioners, but that that's all changed now
and I could go down the laundry list. So it's
not the same now as it was ten twenty thirty
years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It's actually surprising if it's not at least seventy five
on Christmas out here.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I was gonna say, that's like the standard here.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, okay, And this is what I enjoy most about
living in California. And I've lived here my whole life.
I had opportunities to live elsewhere, but I wouldn't, especially
at this age, I wouldn't move to a colder area
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You couldn't. You couldn't pay me enough money to move
to New York. You're gonna start walking around in a
cardigan in the summer while you're at it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Possibly I can do it because California summers are still mild. Okay,
But that's why you know, we'll always talk about Oh,
how horrible it is in California.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
No, not really, not really.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's expensive, no doubt, But then today reminds you of
some of that reason for those expenditures. Why, you know,
real estate is about location, location, location. California is a
lot better than other places. Most places do suck compared
to California.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh no, if I'm going to live in a place
where I can't afford a house, I'd like to live
in this city where I can't afford the house. But
there are some downsides, you know now that measles is here.
That's right. I tried to tell you, Tuala, didn't I
try to tell them. You just told them.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And now there's a child we'll tell you about next
segment who came into Lax of all places, Lax unvaccinated measles.
And now there's no telling where it could go because
the incubation period could be like up to twenty one days.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And that's saying nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Now we have a confirmed death of measles in Texas.
Going back to my speech about the communicable nature of measles,
how dangerous it can be for children and the elderly,
And Talla says he got some hate mail about that
directed to me.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Maybe it was people that I'd already blocked. But I'm
not making this up.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's a serious thing and we're gonna have another serious
conversation about it. And coyotes, they're very territorial, but not
in the way that you may think. They like to
live in the hood. It seems they don't want the
wealthy suburbs. They just want to hang around the hood.
Just my luck, because they're like three running through my
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backyard every damn night. It's not funny, Stepan. I was
not making a joke. I was making an observation, a
truthful one, just laughing at me. And the nice exercise
lady is back, Claudine Cooper.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
She's going to join us in the studio.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And talk to us about how colonoscopies can be helpful
or colon health more general can be helped with more
and more exercise.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Are you going to get one live in the studio? No,
that would be some good radio. Not really.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Look, I did talk about mine prior to and post.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You sure did? You are getting up in a so
it might be that time for you. Well, you're not
doing it, Just so you know. I have expressed no
desire to Okay, I just want to put all the
cards on the table. So what do you get yours? Mark?
I'm getting bagged about that at home too. Everybody is
really a little too focused on my ass lately, and
I just like.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
To move forward. This is just your internal health. It's
not your ass. So you don't move forward. You got
to back it up.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Thank you, give yourself a rim shot, fooshot shot.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But to be serious, as they say, the prep is
the worst part unless you wake up during the procedure.
And that was just my experience. It was, you know,
one in a hundred, they say. But don't let my
experience dissuade you.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It's done exactly that. In fact, no, no, Mark, bes's
best nap you will ever have in your life. You
will be like, can I get another after that nap?
I think not? I mean I you know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
You don't wake the absorb? What are you talking about?
Why are you avoiding this?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
There's a plus no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
No, But that is funny, but it's actually accurate. It's
not like you feel something in that way after you
wake up.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
How's your sleep right now? Not great? Well, but it's
never been great, and it's not because of not being
probe Like I'm a boardy ufo. Well you're not to
wait for the probate. Wait what you're gonna knock out
before that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Could? There must be other things we can talk about
we can't, but this is very important. Its health is
very important.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I surely want you to live to be one hundred
and seventy three. This has been a very touching and
heartwarming Colon intervention by the three of you.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Now let's move on KFI AM six forty. We live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And clearly, clearly America wants to give measles a chance.
As a kids say, let them live. Trying to let
measles live. There was a child who was sickened with beasles,
described as an infant, traveled to La via lax and
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then on to Orange County. According to public health agencies
in both La County and Orange County, the affected traveler
arrived at lax on February nineteenth on Korean Air leave
a list of flight anyone who is at Terminal B
of lax On February nineteenth, between one and four PM
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may be at risk of contracting measles due to exposure.
Passengers who were exposed on the flight were notified by
public health officials directly. And this is something that we've
been talking about. We don't really take diseases seriously anymore.
The measles vaccine was invented in nineteen sixty three. I'm
(10:03):
quite sure it's been improved upon in the years since,
and measles had largely been eradicated in the United States
thanks specifically to the vaccine. Measles is so contagious that
nine out of ten unvaccinated people who come in contact
with each other. You remember the stats, or maybe you
(10:23):
don't remember what I told you. The stats of nine
and ten are most likely going to contract measles if
you're unvaccinated. And if you think that it's not deadly, well,
a child just died in Texas because of measles. The
person who was hospitalized with measles has died in West Texas.
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This is the first death in this outbreak, which began
last month. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa
Whitfield confirmed the death today. It wasn't clear the age
of the patient, but the child died overnight.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
We do know as a child. And the measles.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to one hundred
and twenty four cases across nine counties, nine counties, the
state Health Department said, And there are also nine cases
in eastern New Mexico. And I said that, and I'll
say it again. These are only the known cases. We
don't know who else has been exposed. We don't know
who's asymptomatic or who is symptomatic, because it has an
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incubation period of up to twenty one days. I don't
even know where I was twenty one days ago. Being serious,
it's to twenty six today. I don't know where I
was on the fifth of February or who I came
in contact with. And that is probably true of most people,
and so something like this can get out of control
very quickly. And to revisit, measles is a respiratory virus
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that can survive in the air for up to two hours,
and up to nine out of ten people who are
susceptible as it unvacciinated, we'll get the virus if exposed.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I'm gonna say it again.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Up to nine out of ten people who are susceptible
will get the virus.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
If exposed.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Most kids will recover, but infect you can lead to
dangerous complications like deumonia, blindness, brain swelling, and in this
case death.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Now for the facts of this story. A child, an infant, unvaccinated,
came in to southern California by way of lax As.
I mean, this child was on a plane, right, a
tube of recycled air.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Correct for an entire flight. I don't care where you can.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Okay, you came from Vegas, correct, an entire flight came
to lax Past. That measles that to everyone on the plane,
So it's not just the infant because of the fact
that everyone's breathing that air. You may be vaccinated, but
can you not give that or pass that on? It
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exists in the air for up to two hours.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I don't know if someone can carry it as a
vaccinated person and then pass it on to someone who's unvaccinated.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I honestly don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
These are just the things I wondered because this scared
me because I said to myself, got it. If this
was a flight from Vegas, you know however long this
child was on this flight, it's more than a two
hour period inside of a sealed too.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
No, no, no, it was on a Korean Air flight. So
it was from Korea most likely or somewhere in Asia.
And I've flown Korea Air. It's a twelve hour flight.
It's a twelve hour flight. So let's just say the
last two hours of that flight.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Everyone that that baby called on the ride, they thought,
so you get off and go and get into an uber.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So boosh, has it? Now?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Now I've been I've been in that terminal. There are
hundreds and hundreds of people in a given day in
the international terminal kids of course, of course, so if
this child were to pass anyone who was unvaccinated for measles,
according to the science, there's a nine to ten chance
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that those individuals will also contract Beazels nine and ten.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I'm not fear mongering.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I'm just curious about why the potentiality of this spreading
in a state where now we are very anti vax.
Our liberal mindedness has made us very anti vax and
so trust me, I work in schools.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I work in the school system.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
I know about all of the parents and all the
people who say they sign waivers to not have their
child VACX because they don't believe in the vaccination.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
This, that, and the other.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I've seen it. So I'm just curious now what happens
if we have like a Texas outbreak in California.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
If if we have one confirmed case in a school,
it will shut down the school. We know that it'll
be for an inordinate amount of time because it has
to be at least shut down beyond the incubation period
to know that no one else has actually contracted the disease.
I have a question of we know that child was
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unvaccinated and got the disease, we don't know the status
of the parent or parents. It's not unbelievable to think
that both the child and parent were unvaccinated and also susceptible,
also carriers and also spreaders, because that's how kind of
airborne diseases, how they work. This is going to get
(15:44):
worse before it gets better because we've let our politics.
In fact, if you will, our good sense, more people
are going to die, More children are going to die.
And I don't say that to pat myself on the back,
but I am going to say I told you so
I told you that this was going to happen, and
the child who died in Texas, I don't know anything
(16:06):
about the child. I just do know that it was
one hundred percent avoidable. No child, or anybody for that matter,
has to die from measles.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
There is a litchorole.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Cure, or should say, a vaccine preemptive cure if you will,
to prevent contracting measles. No one has to die from
measles at all. In fact, we haven't had a death
from measles in more than a decade.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I think it was considered eradicated a full quarter century ago.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
In fact, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think by like two thousand.
Now it's twenty twenty five, and we have a multi
state outbreak disinformation kills.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You sometimes might wonder why I get so bent out
of shape about disinformation going out over the public's air waves.
It's exactly for reasons like this.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And we're going to have to report on this again
because they're going to be more people infected in Texas,
in southern California most likely, given what we know about
the spread of measles. Hopefully there won't be any more deaths. Hopefully,
but I can't guarantee that because we live in a
time and where people are choosing not to vaccinate their kids,
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and this is something that we will have earned, We
will have chosen this. It's not something that is just
happening to us because it's bad luck or twist of fate.
This is avoidable, this is preventable, and we're choosing instead
to endanger our children, your children, smallest children, my children,
and that's not even including the elderly. It's Later with
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mo Kelly KFI A six forty five everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app and we have a coyotes update. And this
is important because if you have small children, or if
you have small pets, depending on where you live, they
could be in danger because of these coyotes. And now
there's more information out as to why they choose to
live in certain neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And I've told you about my dislike, discussed and disdain
for coyotes. They are run rampant through my neighborhood and
I'm a little bit outside of Inglewood and you will
see them at night, definitely, you'll see them on my
security cameras. I've shown them, like to Tuala, running two
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and three at a time. Every once in a while
you'll see them in the daytime. They are not necessarily nocturnal.
They're not afraid as people may think of people. They're
you know, they're they're definitely not domesticated, but they're not
afraid of people either. And I said, I will gladly
run down some coyotes gladly because they are a threat
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to my fur babies, and they're a threat to small children.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
No doubt that.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
There are times, and I know, Taualah, you've probably heard it.
You can hear them when they've attacked out animals and
pets and the fight, the yipping sound they make when
they're successful, and.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
All that kind of stuff. It's blood curdling. The sound
of an animal dying at the hands of a pack
of coyotes horrible.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
It's real. It's real.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
But there's this new study which found that coyotes, as
far as their choices, were less inclined to seek out
higher income areas within their roaming ranges and preferring to
stick to less wealthy parts.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
There's some reasons for it.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's not that coyotes are aware of zip codes, but
there's a difference in behavior of people who live within
certain zip codes and different viewpoints surrounding coyotes within zip codes.
According to this study, people in affluent neighborhoods have shown
heightened support for killing coyotes, which is and it's more
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common in wealthy areas. So the wealthier areas tend to
be less tolerant of coyotes, and they're more willing to
pay for coyote traps, they're more hostile to coyotes, and
coyotes tend to stay away. Conversely, according to the study,
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coyotes in lesser affluent neighborhoods find that the surrounding i'll
say area is more tolerant. I know in my neighborhood
people look at coyotes like, oh, they're so cute, like
there are pets or.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Something, and there are people who actually feed them.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
And also in less affluent communities, and this is something
I'm this is not in the study. I can see
this visually. You have more of a concentration of trash,
it could be homeless people, and there's a food source
more readily available for coyotes as opposed to the affluent areas.
(20:57):
It's going to affluent areas is going to be much
more better taken care of, so you don't have that
standing food source or or you know, a tolerance of
coyotes that they would in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
See, I don't know if I like this. I don't.
I'm just reading with the studies, I know, but the
study is painting a very very odd picture to me.
You know that coyotes just they dig living in the hood,
because it's like the hood is just who cares in
the hood left the coyotes wrong?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Well that's part You and I are very much hood
to Jason. We're not down with the coyotes.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But I think we are the exceptions which prove the
rule because I know I can get onto the Facebook
group of I of Inglewood, where you have mostly Inglewood
residents commenting about what is going on in Inglewood, and
most of them are relatively okay with coyotes. They're more
amazed by them, but they're not they're not trying to
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say let's get rid of them. They're just sort of like, hey,
you know, you should just leave them alone. If you
leave them alone, they'll leave you alone. Let live let
the animals live.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
No, no, and see in Altadena, it is actually what
you see on the neighborhood chat more often than not,
the more affluent areas in Altadena, where people recognize that
they've built homes into the natural habitat of these coyotes,
that they're saying, Oh, it's our fault, we've built homes
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into their nesting areas.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
We must take care of the coyotes. That's why I feel.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Because they're defending their feeding of the coyotes.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Well, whatever they're doing, they will stay where they're wanted
and tolerated, And unfortunately, in my neighborhood they're tolerated in
ways which I think is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
It is not something that I would do.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But going back to the story, another study cited from
twenty twenty three, analyzing a decade of coyote reports in
San Francisco, found that higher median income was correlated with
negative opinions of coyotes. In other words, the high income folks,
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we're willing to pay for trapping, and that's expensive. You know,
my housing development has tried to pay for it, and
they won't pay for any length of time. They'll do
it for like a week, get rid of the coyotes
which happen to be there, and then and then the
coyotes will be back in two months. You know it's
it's another den say.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I don't like this article because this article is clearly
pointing out that individuals in more affluent neighborhoods have the
financial whereabouts to trap and remove coyotes and oftentimes relocate
them to the hills and areas where they can thrive,
while in our neighborhoods we are shunned and we are
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not allowed to kill the coyotes.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
They tell us. In fact, you cannot kill these coyotes.
Will put all that's that's true.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
You know, I know that you will not see a
pack of coyotes walking through Beverly Hills neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You won't. Neighborhoods are not going to tolerate that.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Not Now you see a pack of coyotes dead, a coyotes,
uh walking through inglewood. Are they going to allow that?
You bet your ass they're gonna allow that. You can
call animal services and but that's not going to do anything.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
They're just too many of them. They're everywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, I mean I've had animal services come out and
try to trap the coyotes and then two more will
come the next week. That there are They are that
plentiful in my neighborhood. They come by my house every
single night, have video of them on the ring device
every single night. Part of it is they probably smell
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either our dogs or the dog poo in the backyard.
They know that they're dogs in that particular vicinity. They
just don't know how to get to them. Yea, yeah,
because there's a we have a very very high gate.
You see the fence in the backyard. It's too high
for the jump.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, they have to be committed. They have to like
how hungry am I? Right? Right? And it's like ten
feet high.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
They're not jumping that high, but they're everywhere and there's
nothing we can do about it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
We've called and we can't kill them legally. Legally, but
if it comes.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Down to the coyote or my dogs, the coyotes going down,
I'm gonna run them over. I'll poison them, it doesn't matter.
And I have no problem saying that on the radio
because I mean it.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
If you're gonna come and get me for protecting my dogs.
So be it, so be it. But I understand why
the coyotes hang around because there is really no deterrent.
There's nothing pointing to them that it's dangerous for them,
that they shouldn't come around, because as far as they're concerned,
they're probably the apex predator. No one is messing with them,
(25:43):
no one's bothering them, no one's hunting them, no one's
shooting them. At best, every two or three months, they
may try to relocate them, but there's no reason for
them to be afraid, and there's always a standing food
source somewhere, and I think that's part of the reason
why we see them in the daytime.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Because they can Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So yeah, this makes sense to me because they're not
tolerating this in bel Air. They're not tolerating this in
Newport Beach. I don't think there's a coyote in Newport Beach.
I might be wrong, but I don't think there is.
And if there were, I'm quite sure it's not going
to last for long. Someone's gonna remove it, someone's gonna
shoot it, but they're not gonna feed it. It's later
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with mo Kelly can if I am since forty live
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Speaker 2 (26:30):
In fact, there are they walk around like they own
the place. There are some wiley coyotes, in fact. But recently,
I was sitting up late at night and I heard
these blood curdling animal shrieks, and I look out the
window and right in front of my place there are
what looked like two coyotes nipping and tormenting and apparently
trying to kill what. I couldn't if it was a
small dog or a smaller coyote or something, but it
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was just awful, and you could hear it through the
whole neighborhood. So of course, you know, I run out
there in my sweats and thinking that I'm going to
break this up, but they were already way way down
the block and away by the time I got out there.
But that's that's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, I don't need to ask Stephan because we're basically
in the same neighborhood, and I know he's seen them.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I know they're everywhere.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
It's a trip to see signs that say be alert
for coyotes, because I used to think of that as
just only out here in the valley right over there
in the Englewood area.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I'm like, really, yeah, this is very urban, Okay, it's
not like you're up against the hillside or something. I
feel like they're getting bolder. Another night, a coyote was
howling in front of the house, and I go out,
and it was like it was trying to lead me someplace,
like it had babies that were in trouble someplace. Every
time I turned around to leave, it tried to get
(27:47):
my attention to get me to follow it. I mean,
it could have been planning to eat me with some
of its friends. But they are getting more bold. I've
noticed that, kind of like you more bold, far more bold.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
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Speaker 1 (28:19):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app And before the
break we were talking about the study, actually multiple studies
in which coyotes had a preference for areas in which
they lived, and it seemed to correspond with the level
of affluency.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Excuse me, the.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Wealthier the neighborhood, the less inclined coyotes were to stay there.
I thought, I looked at it as a simple expression
of well there's probably a larger food source in the
less affluent neighborhood. Because trash is not picked up as frequently,
you have a larger homelessness population. There are probably places
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for coyotes to eat, and also less affluent populations.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
They're more accepting.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
This is anecdotal, but I'm seeing that more accepting of coyotes.
Where you see people feeding coyotes, you see people tolerating coyotes.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
And to Mark Roger's point, they are much more bold.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Now than in years past, and it's something that is observable.
You can go through my neighborhood and you should not
be surprised if you see a coyote running the street
in broad daylight, especially, and I've noticed this on trash days,
because they know those are the food sources and kind
of when it's going to be available to them.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
There's plenty in this neighborhood too. Have you ever left
the office at night and seen them just standing there
staring you down outside the front door.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I've only seen one, and it was running across the
street Olive. It's like going to Whole Foods or someth
because that's where it was running.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Well, there's a large vacant lot across the street from
Whole Foods and it's got some brush and I think
maybe some of them live there. I don't know. It
makes sense though, that they would.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, it would make sense. I'm just saying I've only
seen one. Twala's seen more than I have.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yeah, Twala when he send us that picture that he
saw like two of them just standing outside waiting, and
I was like, that's crazy. And then I left one
night and there was one that was where that little
statue thing is and the minute I open the door,
it just took off. But I was just like, wow,
they actually do come up right next to the door.
But it's at night though.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I haven't seen any in the daytime in this neighborhood,
and I would tend to think of Burbank as a
little more well to do than other areas, so I'm
actually more surprised to see them here than when I'm
driving home. I expect to see one every single day
in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
If there's some food waste, though, especially since we're close
to a Whole Foods and some restaurants and they're scavengers,
so that explains their presence here. But they're very bold
around here, the ones that I've seen in this neighborhood
when I'm leaving work at night. They do not scurry off. Now,
They'll stand there and play chicken with you. They don't
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view us as a threat for whatever reasons.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Not that they should think that we're going to just
pull out a gun and shoot them, but they don't
think as if they need to turn the tail just
because they see us. No, these things are full werewolf size.
They're not afraid of us. No, not at all, not
at all. I mean they're seeing like can I take them?
Just sizing you up, look looking at It's like, well,
that'd be a big dinner. But I don't know if
I could take them. You can see the wheels turning
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in their head. They're considering it.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, now that I think of it, going outside with
a broom and hoping to practice some broom fou on
the coyotes. I'm lucky that they didn't kill me and
just tear me to pieces.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Well, we have different night sticks around our house in
the event that a coyote should come around or try
to jump the fan. You know, there's certain things which
are placed that can be used immediately as a weapon
to fight them off if need be really Like, what
do you got?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I guess that night stick just just sticks. Well, there's
some I want a flame strower. Now, I want some
serious artillery against these things.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
No, look, I've considered some other things, but I'm not
gonna say. I'm on the radio, so I'm just gonna
leave it to night sticks because they wouldn't be considered
legal when I'm considering, Well, that's intriguing. Oh yeah, now
that they need to die. Okay, after this break, I'm
gonna come into the news booth and show you some.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Of the videos. They are ubiquitous.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
They are everywhere, and the last thing I want, since
they're getting more and more bold, is the prospect of
them possibly finding a way to come around, like to
the front of my house and then jump over the fence.
And I want them to keep a degree of fear
from my house.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I'm gonna start carrying around the lids to go and
an aerosol can of Harrisbury or something every place I
go for the improvised James Bond flamethrower.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
The only problem with that is they'll probably that would
probably set something on fire behind my house. We have
a kind of an open field area, which part of
the reason why they roam back there. But it's one
of those there's enough brush where I don't want to
accidentally burn down the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah, starting another wildfire is in the negative column at
this point where we do not want that. It would
not be good news at all.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But this is something that it's really serious for me,
and it's something I think about daily. It's something that
i've actually we talk about being involved in a civic sense,
going to city council meetings or going to Elli County
Board of Supervisor meetings. This is something that I have
been in constant communication with my Elle County Board of
Supervisor and also County Facilities Services to do more about.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Can't get them to do anything. You think they should
cough up some dough to hire a coyote mercenary to
roam the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
They need to do something because they are dangerous to
small pets and children.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Although just take your dog right out of the yard
if it's a smaller dog.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Absolutely, absolutely, And I don't want to wait until that
happens and it's too late, and then the county wants
to turn around and finally do something.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
This is something that should have been done a long
time ago.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It's the way that what we've been over backwards to
protect coyotes is confounding to me. Confounding. We're not. It's
not like we're trying to conserve nature, you know, or
animals like they're dangerous animals. They're legitimately dangerous. And I
know see our Madre deals with bears, and different places
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deal with mountain lions.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
But they're dangerous.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And I'm not going to wait for something to happen
to one of my pets before something is.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Going to be done. They're not even that cute. Oh
I thought you're talking about my dogs. They're very cute.
I'll have to take your word for that. You've been
invited to my house. I don't even start. Never comes over.
I can't. And I'm beginning to think it's racial. Now,
how could it be since I'm half black. Let's go
to break can you'd be surprised. I'll tell you some
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stories about some folks I know. Okay, k if I
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