Ok, I am six forty, I'm back. It's a Lady with Mo Kelly Weill. I've everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We have a wonderful show this evening for you. In the first hour, we have the list of states with the most contaminated water and guess what, California made the list. And we're gonna talk about the California freeways with the most pothole claims and the ones which are never filled. So we have a bunch of potholes and they're
not getting filled and claims are not being filled. And e bike riders. Did you hear about this southern California, they've been tormenting beach crowds with fireworks. Yes, the Fourth of July is coming near. And let me just say this up front, Mark Runner, I hope you're paying attention. Of course, Stephan, I hope you're paying attention. I know to Walla's paying
attention because he always knows. Every single Fourth of July, we have Chateau Mola where we do the show live from Chateau lem And in the recent months Mark Runner has been complaining like you never invite me, you don't invite me. I invited Stephanie. He couldn't come because he was working or something like that, and we have to find someone to fill in for him so he can come to the house. So, Mark Runner, this is going to
be on the podcast. You are officially invited. You could even bring a guest to chateau as we do our annual Fourth of July party and also dessert bake off competition. I'm overwhelmed. I barely know what to say, and I talked for a living Well, you'll find some excuse not to show up. I'm sure you just wanted to be to say that I had never invited you. You didn't actually want to come. Well, that's not true at all. I mean, obviously I have all the normal concerns going into what
is it you're five of a worldwide pandemic. But if all the green lights are there, I'm excited to come. All right, we'll let you sit out in the backyard. We'll be inside the house and outside the house. I'll just sit out in the corner as far away from everybody as possible by myself. All right, But but we know that the invitation has gone out. Everyone has hurt it. He can't say, well, you never invite me. No, no, no, we know how it is. No
imagine my gratitude. No, this is this is great. I would have to imagine it because you aren't. There's no gratitude about anything. What there's no excitement? No, no, you would rather sit home and come plain. Oh not true at all. No all wear sure, so where I guess we call them tank tops now and not the WB word. It'll be fun. They are person beaters. That's a twenty twenty four version. Yeah, you can't. You can't single out wides. They are person You know,
it's a holiday, so it'll be casual address. I might even just show up in a speedo and let everybody suffer. Yeah, that's something to do. They don't mess around like it's a legit trophy. They have to do a legit presentation. I saw I can get to be there, obviously, but I saw it on the Live Man. You guys throw down like it is a serious thing. I have to remind Fork reporter. But last year in July, he said I will be your judge next year. I
haven't reconfirmed with him, but we should expect. I'm going to force him to keep his promise. Now we'll have Fork reporter in the house to judge the dessert bake off competition. Thank you very much. Okay, Now I got to tell you I have not really socialized with a lot of people at the station because everybody lives so far apart that it's not really convenient to do.
And just add that to the situation in the last four years. Who gets just out of control drunk at these things other than my wife, I'm blast. I hope she's listening to you. There's a true story behind that. I wouldn't say not a lot of people. See in previous years when I was doing the mo Kelly Show on Saturdays, it is from Saturday from six to eight. When I'm doing the show now from seven to ten, people are drinking earlier and then later into the evening. But also we do
go out as best we can. You know, I still got to finish the show and we watch the fireworks. We have a place where we can watch the fireworks up on high and see in a three sixty degree panoramic way all the fireworks shows which are going on in La Okay from San Pedro. And we'll talk about that how that got canceled all the way up to like Santa Clarita. I'm thinking, like maybe Angel Martinez would being out of control drunk. I he's listening, So I get a text like ten seconds from
now. I hope you guys are friends, because if you're not, you never will be if we kind of were. But I'm just throwing that out there and the real quick just because you talk about the fireworks. It was crazy how you could hear them through the mics. Yeah, when you got back, I thought someone was lighting them up, like outside in the driveway. You're like, no, there's that's a big one. Yeah, And it was like across two, you know, four to five houses over eighties.
Yeah, are ubiquitous. They are everywhere. You can hear them all the time. And my dogs are so numb to it. They don't even care. They've go out in the backyardist they just know they're going to hear fireworks. Not that they have any concept of the calendar, but the truth is they'll be hearing fireworks for a good three four months, from like April to August. I'm excited to meet the dogs. Animals and children love me.
It's too bad the adults known. I'm happy with things the way they are, well oh, step is back, so is the rib shot. There we go, and also we got to talk about coyotes have been prowling around and terrorizing the southern California neighborhood. And I had talked about the coyotes in my neighborhood. I put them up on in our ha I put up videos on the ring device so people know there's a den of coyotes not too
far from my house and they're running around like three at a time. They are dangerous and like the storm I'm going to tell you about, the county won't do anything about them. And if you do something to the coyotes, you might get in trouble. We got to talk about that, but that's all later on Later with mo Kelly k if I AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. So what do you want first? The
bad news? The bad news? No, no, no, I'm serious. What do you want the bad news or the really bad news or the very very bad news? But I'm telling you I got bad news for you. Do you want pothole bad news? Or do you want contaminated drinking water. Bad news. Don't everyone speak up at once? Okay, we'll start
with potholes. According to cal Trans and this is a This is data obtained by CBS News California investigates, there were thirty thousand cal Trans damaged claims due to potholes, debris, or other dangers on state freeways between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty three. Thirty thousand damage claims. How many times have you and I had our car damaged on the freeway by debris or a pothole and not made a damaged claim? I would think probably ninety percent of the time.
Ninety people probably never make a claim. I've had a blowout because I hit a pothole, I didn't make a damaged claim. Have you ever rolled over? Oh, have you ever like rolled over a truck tire the remnants like a truck tad, a truck tread. Oh, it will mess up your car. It will really mess up your car, like the remnants of a tire. Yeah, you know what the eighteen wheelers they have these like retreaded tires. Yeah, so the tire tread will come off and it will just
be in the middle of the roadway. Oh, I know, okay now, and it will tear up your tires and tear up the bottom of your car. I've had a truck tire come off a truck and then bounce down the freeway and off my car. It's like a whip under the car. Yes, like it? Yeah, I know what you mean. And did I do a damage claim to cal Trans? No? You just kind of go on with your life. And for what I see here, Well, it wouldn't have made any difference. Back in twenty eighteen, Caltrans approved about
ten percent of damage claims one in ten. The number of approved claims dropped to just four percent through mid twenty twenty three. So even if I would have made a claim, it would not have made a difference. I wouldn't have received any money most likely, and it would have been just an It would have been a fool's errand to even try. Let's break it down though, as far as the worst freeways, the ones which you're most likely to either have an issue or damage to your car, from the top to the
bottom of the state. In Sacramento, US eighty tops the list of complaints, with nearly nine hundred claims between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty three, followed by Highway fifty and I five. Hold on to that I five. I'll be coming back to that in the moment. In the Bay Area, the one on one freeway, Yes, the same one O one freeway that's down here, goes all the way up to the Bay had the most incidents resulting in claims, with more than two thousand. Mind you, the most claims.
They probably were not reimbursed because I just gave you the data. At best, it was ten percent back in twenty eighteen and went down to four percent in the last year, So two thousand claims very likely few of them were actually approved. Let's go to southern California. The five Freeway. Told you I was coming back to the five. The five Freeway had the most incidents resulting in claims with problem areas in wait for it, Orange County,
between Laguna Hills and San Juan Capistrano. Let's say you're at the other end of the five, from San Fernando through Santa Clarita up to let me ask you this mark. I've lived here and I've heard thirty five different pronunciations of this city. Is it Castaic, cast steak? Castick. It's my After some trial and error, boy, was my learning curve steep. I was told it was casteak, as in like st e a k at casteak. See, I've always said casteak, and I know someone will correct me.
It looks like that. It looks like casteak. I did too. And then because you go by Chris Little, he said casteak. What has he ever been right about anything? Now? Only I always think of you and him when it comes to driver like drivers. Yes, and I said, now, just to make him mad, I'm just going to back right out of this, you dumb Mark. But I do trust him on place names because you know some some of those like what was the one that tripped me
up so badly out of flint Ridge? That's a good for a first time. Did you get l O S second word f E l I Z incorrect? No? I knew that one because I had a friend who lived there. But like I said, bad learning curve on on my part. It
took a while to get some of the names down. Did you have a problem with s E p U l V E d A No, but it is fun to hear people kind of take that one on that one it trips up everyone that doesn't look the one that trips people up, and I have to look at them carefully, like, did you say what I think you said? Los Sienica? Yeah, I think the long suffering ones parents referred to it as Trenega and I said, watching now carel Yeah, yeah,
they didn't. They didn't follow it up with the Please I see what you did there. Those are freeways. Those are freeways. Let's talk about contaminated water, because we know California hates to be left out of the worst list, all right. Newsweek analysis showed the states with the with the most water systems where drinking water has been registered as above the proposed limit for PFAS. I don't know what that means, but it's like human made forever chemicals.
Whatever PFAS means, don't ask me. I'm just reading this story. Newsweek analysis that there are five states that are the worst offenders, and we're going to give them to you right now. Coming in at number five with the state with the most contaminated drinking water systems Pennsylvania with one hundred and twenty five. Number four New Hampshire with two hundred and two. And you would think
New Hampshire. It's a relatively small state. That's like, that's got to be all the whole state, right right, yeah, yeah, Well you gotta think in New Hampshire it's the old place. Probably old pipes. But I'm saying you have two hundred and two different water systems. Yeah, the state is not that big. It's it can only have like what two hundred and forty Yes, all of them got old, rusty pipes. That's why the water is so bad and contaminated. Probably lead pipes, all right,
all right, and coming in at number three, oh d California. At least we're not number one, but we're a top five. That's got to mean something. We're top five, but number three at California with two hundred and sixty three different water systems above safe contamination levels. Number two Massachusetts said nothing any bitty state, four hundred and thirty nine, four hundred and thirty nine different water systems contaminated water. I tell you those liberals, they don't
believe in clean water. Coming here number one, New Joys. That makes sense. With seven hundred excuse me, five hundred and fifty six contaminated water systems. You're talking to me, forget about five hundred and fifty six little states. Illinois wasn't on this list. We're not on top five, not top five. You could be number six for all I know. I only have to listen to that water. Well, you know, look about Michigan. Look, I only have the top five, really five, okay,
and that water's good bodies in that water. Yeah, well, there have been many court cases around Michigan's water, so yeah, come on, that should still be number one. That water hasn't been fixed yet, but it says water systems has a number of water systems not necessarily the worst case or incident of contaminat water. There's gonna be a separate list of like water you wouldn't drink on a dare from each state. Michigan would be at the top of that. Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's gotta be. But remember
remember remember when we were growing up, or at least I did. I drank tap water all the time. I drank water out of the hose. Oh yeah, hose. The hose water was It was tasty, It had its own flavor. As the kids say, it hit different, right, it did, it did different. On a hot day, Turn on that water to hose. Let you have to let it run for like six or seven seconds because I want to be hot. You get let it, gotta let it cool off. But then it tastes so good. It was like
its own flavor. What flavor you want? Do you want want cherry? You want grape? You want hose? Never mind that sounded wrong. Oh, look at the time. Look at the time. Let's talk fireworks when we come back. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. And speaking of fireworks, don't miss Born on the fourth of July the Broadway Music of George M. Cohen at Lamarada Theater for the Performing Arts. You can tap along with patriotic pride to mister Broadways flag waving
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comes to fireworks, But fireworks mean different things for different people. Now it seems like kids today use that as a way to torture other people, to create mischief. Did you hear about a group of e bike riders near Hermosa Beach Pier. They had people scrambling as they were launching fireworks into the crowds
of people. According to authorities at the Hermosa Beach Police Department, the incident happened around eight thirty last night, and the e bikers will come to a stop and form a small scrum before several of them break away and another tosses in a legal firework into the crowded seed. There are two things to this one. There is the issue of e bikes and I'm seeing them more and more, and I almost hit one the other day because they don't stop at
stop signs. They go from corner and cart and they just zoom straight through, assuming that you can see them and that you will stop for them. Now, we have a coyote story that we'll talk about next segment, and coyote I will hit. I don't want to hit a person. I don't I don't want to hit a person. But if you're riding an e bike, it's not as fast as a motorcycle, but it's definitely faster than someone just pedaling and they get up to a certain speed, and we understand this.
We understand this as drivers when when someone is moving fast outside your periphery, when someone is like on the sidewalk, A lot of times they're riding them on the sidewalk and they're coming to to what you may think is a stop sign and they are just barreling through. Oh, it's something else that you have to worry about that you shouldn't have to worry about. And now
they're throwing fireworks at people. According to the Instagram account South Dot Bay Dot Responders, the fireworks were ignited right off the patio of Sharky's Bar, I know where that is, and promoting patrons to evacuate. The account also allege that one woman was hit in the face by a firework and the window of
Baked Bear Restaurant was hit as well. I've had a firework go off in my hand because someone had long story short, someone had taken out the fuse and the firework out of this firework and he just had like the string and the the incendiary on the other end. And I was about maybe I was sixth seventh grade. This kid, I remember, his name is Mike Mattani. He's probably listening right now. I haven't forgotten Mike Mattani. And he said, you want to have a tug of war with this thing and out
and he gave me the course, the firework end of it. I didn't know. I thought he was my friend. He was not my friend, clearly. And so it blows up in my hand and my hand is on fire, third degree burns. I'll never forget it. And that changed my whole perception of fireworks as far as how dangerous they are. I wasn't a kid who was doing all the crazy things with fireworks. And I still that's
seriously burned by fireworks. When I read a story like this to Walla, it gets me real, real angry, because I know, when you're throwing these fireworks in the crowd someone, you can really hurt someone severely. Yeah, and then you throw in the whole e bye thing. I'm not saying I want something bad to happen to him. I just want something not good to happen to me. Now, okay, that's not good. I have to admit that this is something that my friends back in the day of e
bikes were a thing. This is something that me and my crew potentially would have done. I found funny. I don't find it funny anymore. I lag my finger angrily at these kids. But when I first I said to myself, Yeah, that's the type of mischief I got into. Yeah, my mischief was just different. It was just really different. There's some things that were really over the line. I know the statue of limitations has expired, but I wasn't trying to hurt anyone or do something that I thought someone
would get harmed. That was my line. Okay, yeah, you know, I'm the ketchup mustard guy at Disneyland. No one's gonna get harmed. They're gonna get mad, but they're not gonna get harmed. I was the guy who would string up fishing line from light pole to light pole, and back in the day when cars had actual antennae, you know, they drive through and the fishing line would rip off the antenna of the car. That's
my type of mischief, you know, I thought of you Mo. There's been a It was a while ago now, but there was kind of like a viral trend, as they say, where it would be two people on either side of the road and they just pretend that they had like a sheet, didn't have anything, but they just would pull and the cars all stopped and they would like roll through and it just like like an invisible line.
Yeah, like they had like saran wrappers on it, and they all slowed down in between it and you see them all honking and then they just like like they pretend to let go and then they chary through. There's nothing there. But see, the thing is, in today's world, you had these idiots out there who would do something like that. You have to assume that they are serious with that. Yeah, you have to. I would slow down because why am I just gonna barrel through when you have kids on e
bikes riding around throwing fireworks and people. Yeah, that's plausible. I believe that, And that brings me to this. Fireworks shows are becoming fewer and fewer. You had the fireworks show in Long Beach and San Pedro canceled ahead of Independence Day. Those are big shows. Long Beach is big Bang on the Bay. I've seen that a bunch of times, which took place every July third over Alamedo's Bay and San Pedro's Fireworks at Carell Beach have been canceled
due to permit issues. The Long Beat show was canceled since organizers didn't submit an application to the California Coastal Commission in time. I know there was one person and that person had one job, just one job on the show is every single year the same day. They need a permit every single year at the same time, and you couldn't get the one permit application signed and delivered.
But you know, there are actually more shows that are that I'm reading about that are opting to do drone shows and do away with fireworks altogether. I look, I would appreciate a drone show. You can be far more creative. It may be more expensive, probably probably, I'm just guessing. I don't know, but it looks like given the sophistication of technology, it would be more expensive. But it's a better show. You can do more things with it, you can change it from year to year. I'm all
for that. I think that's going to be the natural evolution. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that thing. Fireworks are now becoming a things for vandals and hooligans and people who want to set off neighborhood fireworks, but no one is trying to go to the big show as loud. Kids oftentimes are more frightened than they are amused. And you can see the big show from anywhere the most part. You've been to my house. We can see all the big shows from my house. Yeah, seriously, I'd rather drowne
show. Yeah. And you also have the idiots out there who are shooting up in the air. Shot in the air. Yes, maybe not in your neighborhood, but in my neighborhood most definitely. You just have to worry about falling bullets. And that's just for like hitting the lotto. You can't you can't worry about it. You just know that, you know, if you're unlucky, you're unlucky. True story. When we come back, we'll talk about coyotes in southern California, amongst other things. I have to worry
about my neighborhood. You got the falling bullets, you got the metro, you got the coyotes, death and destruction everywhere you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AMC. It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. There are a lot of coyotes in my area, and I'm just outside of Inglewood. To give you some perspective of where
I live. There are coyotes which will run in pacts. For the most part, they are nocturnal, but there's some you'll see in the daytime. They're not pets, they're not domesticated, but people sometimes feed them. You'll see the most on trash day because they know that's where the food source is. People sometimes wrongly believe that they're not dangerous. They are dangerous. They're especially dangerous to the small children, small pets, and they will attack.
And I didn't know how well that they could jump, but they can jump census which are six seven feet high. Do you see any of the coyotes carrying, say, anvils or acme. No, not these coyotes. And I haven't seen any road runners around either. Okay, no, no, But but they're actually on the same level of intelligence. They're not. They're not super bright. They're they're easy to scare. Because I've been walking my
dog. You see a coyote. If you make a sound or they coyotes think that there's going to be a fight, then most likely they'll run away. So when you say they're not super bright, what you're implying is they could possibly be fooled by painting a tunnel on the wall of place. Yes, they could do that, Okay, yeah, yeah, they could be fooled. Mark Roger. The reason I'm bringing up this story is because some residents in the west Side west Side neighborhood of mar Vista, and I know
exactly who that is if you're over there close to Culver City. Their residents are are fed up with this what they turned as an out of control coyote population and say the city and county officials are telling them that they need to live to learn to live with it. I know this story well because I have been complaining not only to my HOA, but my accounting supervisor as far as the coyotes. Because legally, from what I understand, we really can't
do anything to them. It would be illegal for me to go back in my backyard and start sniping them. I can show you my ring device. There is a veritable coyote den behind my backyard. So it's something that I'm
concerned about all the time. Yeah, we got those too. Also, those are some good eating mark Mark Mark home surveillance cameras captured this pack of six wild coyotes stirring along a back patio fence, and even caught one of the coyotes stalking a man while he was walking his dog on the neighborhood street. Yeah, been there, I know what that's like. In another video, the pack can be heard howling extremely loudly. Yeah, you can hear
them. Just a week ago, as a matter of fact, my wife had awakened me because she could hear the coyote mauling someone's dog within a two block radius. Don't know where it was. You hear them. They make these sounds like and it's unmistakable. And then you can hear them when they're attacking pets. They sound like curly from the three steps. Actually they do. They make this They make this whooping sound. I can't duplicate it. Yeah, and it is very eerie. And when the mauling starts, you
hear whatever they're they're attacking dying. It's a very unsettling sound. Oh yeah, we hear some cats getting mauled in our neighborhood every now and then, and it's blood curdling, and I'm actually surprised, if only because the cats I think would be quicker, more agile than the coyote. I know, but I'm saying that's the thing. And the mar Vista residents are complaining that it's getting progressively worse, and a band of neighbors have come together to demand
action following a scare with these coyotes and pets in the neighborhood. Quote, my dogs were outside in the backyard going to the bathroom, and all of a sudden, a coyote approached my fourteen year old senior dog and tried to attack it. Luckily, my younger dog saw what was going on and he chased it off. Yes, they can be chased off, but they think
they have an advantage they will pounce. The young resident goes on. We've reached out to animal services, and everyone seems to point at someone else that is responsible. That's Shelley bergenhell marph Vista resident, and I sympathize and empathize. I go through this as well. I'm always concerned about whether a coyote is going to figure out how to get into my backyard. And you've seen
my backyard, there's a high back fence. But you know if you go around to the front of the house and jump all the fences, yeah, it's not as high. And I remember I got some hate mail the first time I talked about this, and I said, if I saw a coyote in the street, I'd run it down. I wasn't joking. I mean, look, I've gone through the correct pathway. It's like, I'm asking
the city and county, can you do something about the coyotes. They sent out someone from Animal Control and they had this humane catch and release program where they had this cage where if you walk in one side, the door closes behind the coyote. And they caught like five of them. And it was still more so to aught to tell you how many were in my neighborhood. And they catch them and I think they released them out in the desert land.
No, No, they released them in Altadena. I was going to guess it was like, it's probably in that area where they would release them. But what I was saying modes it is crazy how growing up when I remember hearing about the coyote warnings was always into walls area. Now I'm driving, you know, because I'm in Hawthorne, you're in England. We're seeing the same one can see the same. There's signs and warnings in the city. Yeah, it's crazy. The only thing worst would have like if there
was a bear, Like they hadn't see a mad right now. I don't know what I would do with that if a bear climbed in my backyard. Honey, we're moving at that. I swear so nice. I see these coyotes and this is almost on the nightly basis. Sometimes if I'm heading home early enough, I'll, like you call mom, say hey, don't take the dog out, because there's a pack running around. But I leave them alone now because they have already threatened me enough times to know not to mess
with them. They've left dead chicken parts, dead cat parts, this dead animal parts in the front yard, not in anyone else's yard as a message. That's like as a message, like a horse head in your bed. Yeah, just like hey, we know you chase you know, little little
Wilie, and you're gonna learn. Look, it's gonna get worse before it gets better than Unfortunately, something bad has to happen to someone's pet who's influential, or even worse, someone's child before they realize how dangerous these coyotes are. It's later with Mo Kelly caf I AM six forty. We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. If it doesn't affect you, were not interested, k I KOST HD two as Orange County everywhere on the Youngart Radio app.