April 25, 2024 • 22 mins
Whatshappening: Protesters setting up shop in UCLA after the events in USC. Rumors of Beyoncé appearing at stage coach have been cycling around social media. Savvys Café owned by Savannah Bedjakian. Savvvys is a family-owned café offering elegant modern houseplant aesthetics. StrangeScience: Netherland scientist make a new organ discovery inside our head, behind our nose. Dying Grandma gets pig kidney replacement for her failing kidney. NASA's analysis of the Apollo seismic data indicated that the Moon possessed a solid, iron-rich inner core — with a radius of nearly 150 miles. Shark adapted to eating hard shells
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This is Gary and Shannon and you'relistening to KFI AM six forty, the
Gary and Shannon Show on demand onthe iHeartRadio app. I'm glad you brought
this up because there's pictures here.There's a little pictograms that tell me when
I might need hand warmers. Yeah. One is snowboarding, one is skiing,
one is fishing, one is camping, one is golfing, one is
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gardening, one is hiking. Noneof them is sitting in a forty two
degree office. So weird. Wereally need to talk to somebody about this
instead of bitching about it at everyturn, every day, every damn day.
What else is going on? Timefor what's happening? Wow? Investigators
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are downtown right now. A manwas shot at a park there about after
ten thirty am. This was onSixth Street. Taken to hospital. But
there's a lot of blood down therealongside a basketball court at Gladys Park.
So if you see any anybody overhead, it's probably the news. Cruise intersection
Stanford and sixth and San Pedro andFifth closed as police continued. Lovely area
(01:11):
of skid Row all right. ProPalestine protesters are setting up shop at UCLA
today. A day after the bigprotest on the campus of USC, we
saw about ninety three people arrested.Looked very peaceful. Cops handled it well.
So far, we've seen some videooverhead tense set up in front of
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Royce Hall at UCLA and Westwood UCLAsays free Palestine. One sign, another
one says blood on the UC hands. So I don't know if this gets
to the same point that the USCprotest died yesterday. I don't know if
it's different. One is a UCschool and one is a private school.
I feel like this day and agetwo, who has the focus and the
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tension span to sit and not justscroll on their screens for hours? That's
true, I know that's a goodquestion. The head of the La County
DA's office Ethics and Integrity Unit hasbeen charged with multiple felonies, saying that
Diana Turan unlawfully access confidential files thatcontain legally protected information about local cops.
(02:24):
If you want to hear more aboutit, and you didn't hear it earlier
on the show, go check outthe podcast, the Gary and shann Podcast.
We spoke to someone inside the DA'soffice about all the dirty details.
Yeah, but they didn't have tohide it. I mean, John McKinney
was. Now you almost make itsound like someone was in the corner,
like I could say, Diana turnright now. Well, some of these
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prosecutors can't talk about the things thatgo on, and some of them say,
effet, I'm going to expose thehell that gascon has brought upon us.
And thankfully John McKinney is one ofthose right. Lawmakers in California once
again introduced a universal health care bill. This one, formerly known as AB
twenty two hundred, would establish aframework for single pay or state run coverage
(03:07):
system called Calcare. Because we're doingso well as a state, the next
thing we need to do is pickup the tab for everybody's healthcare. Did
you let me try that? Beyonce? Stageco Queen Bae? Is that it?
Queen bee Bee? I don't know. I am not hip. Let's
just get that out there right now. My goodness, I didn't even know
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who Scary Spice was as opposed toPosh Spice, and that would have been
your wheelhouse the space there was likethree hit songs thirty years ago. Trust
me, you know a whole lotmore of those lyrics than anybody else.
I know every time they come up, you sing along? Yes? Absolutely.
How many times do the Spice Girlssongs come up? Not often,
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but when they do, I knowthe one. Okay, you don't because
I don't understand the lyric. Ifyou want to be my lover, you
gotta get with my friends. Thatdoesn't make any sense. That means you
got to be cool with him.Yeah, you gotta be nice and say
that, then you got to becool with my friends. Get with Have
you ever been to write a song? But get with sounds like I want
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you to hook up with my friends. If you want to hook up with
me, that sounds crazy. Theywere ahead of their time. I don't
know. Queen Bee might show upat stage Coach this week because I see,
I see, because the record.The internet is buzzing that she could
make a surprise appearance. The BigClue is a performer listed on the stage
Coach website named Joe Lene No DJBackwoods Barbie ah right right, although that
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doesn't necessarily mean anything. So BrandyCyrus, Miley Cyrus's sister, is set
to perform. Miley and Beyonce collaboratedon a song called uh on the on
the song the Backwards Barbie DJ,Backwoods Barbie. That's Dolly Parton. Are
you certain about that? Yeah,she calls herself backwards Barbie. But does
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she call herself a DJ? Nota DJ, but definitely a Backwoods Barbie.
Do you think that it's going tobe Beyonce and Dolly Parton singing Joline
possible? Do we know where DollyParton's plane is? Well? At Thursdays,
at this time, we like togive a small business a special shout
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out here on the Gary and ShannonShow, and today we welcome in Savvy's
Art Espresso and Chill Savvy's Cafe.Savannah is the owner, daughter of a
coffee shop owner in his own right. But tell us how you get in
this obviously following the family footsteps.But why this why coffee? Yeah?
So growing up in the business andthe coffee shop business, specifically in Old
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Town Pasadena, my father was oneof the first coffee shops actually in Old
Town to where he introduced not onlylike a poetry night kind of vibe,
a late cafe. I was asa child, I was always there at
the caffee cafe, and that's whenI would play around with the baristas I
(06:09):
was running around, I was kindof always in that world of coffee,
and over time, due to thegrowing industry of Starbucks and coffee Bean and
things like that, my dad hadunfortunately had to then resort to a bar
to where it was fortunate because thenI was introduced to the more business aspect
(06:31):
of things when it comes to likethe counting of liquor, the community and
being introduced to the customer service realmgrowing up. So being in that environment,
I kind of missed the coffee shopand vibe that it had brought.
Sorry, it's okay, no,you know, I'm just thinking about how
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devastating that must have been to growup in the coffee shop environment and and
you know, you meet the regularcustomers and you're a little girl and the
whole bit, and then it changeslike that to something wildly different than that
coffee shop. Oh yeah, AndI definitely missed that because to me,
it was my childhood. It waswhat I grew up with. And so
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as I got older, I hadkind of worked with my dad in in
a way introducing that back to thecommunity of Old Town, because I do
feel like a lot of coffee shopsdo miss that community aspect where they have
live events, they have fundraisers,they have all these kind of things that
bring to you not just coffee.And so I had worked with my dad
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in order to create Savvy's, whichwas to bring that back to life into
old town Pasadena. And I hadalready been so familiar with coffee, with
ingredient making, with all of that, and I had even had experience with
other coffee shops through growing up andthen right now my adult life as well.
You do all of the things youdo. You do the coffee experimentation
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and the mixing, if you will, as well as the books and everything.
Yeah, so I do all thebooking, I do all the recipes.
I've tested all the coffee beans.Had a seven hour tasting of espresso.
That's a lot of espresso in sevenhours. Oh yeah, that was
a week. Oh I was upfor a month like at that point.
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But I've done all the test tastings, I've done all the recipe makings,
including all the events that happened atSavvy's. I organized all of that as
well. And yeah, all theinformation. By the way, Savvy's Cafe,
there's three v's in that right,Brev's, Savvy's cafe on Instagram and
then the website is Savvy'scafe dot com. So growing up in coffee, when
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did you have your first cup andyou thought this is good? As opposed
to the first cup, I willnever drink this hot, bitter drink again.
I mean, when did it turnthe corner for you or you thought
of it as something that you wantedto get into, you wanted to drink
every day. So funny enough,I actually enjoyed coffee as a kid because
I am half Armenian, half Mexican, and an Armenian culture. A children,
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we typically make coffee for a familyor anybody that comes over, so
I would taste the coffee before givingsome to make sure that it was good,
because I was like, I'm notgiving anyone bad coffee. Even like
at the right age of like nine, I was like, nobody's getting bad
coffee under my name. I tookpride in it and I would make myself
like a little mini espresso and milkshot as well. But besides for that
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is when I'm in high school.Actually I was very interested in my local
coffee shops and I had already hada particular taste of knowing when the espresso
has been burnt, or when themilk has not been steam bright, or
things like that, due to mealready making it growing up. So that
was particularly what caught my and Ihad noticed. I was like, Oh,
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what would happen if I had mixedthis with let's say a Guatemalan espresso
medium roast. I think that everymorning, every single morning. I think
that. Yeah, but I kindof I grew my love originally from childhood,
but then had found passion in itin my teenage years. I can't
think of anything my parents would havehated worse than giving me a cup of
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coffee as a child. The threev's. Why the three v's so funny
enough? I just the two v'sto me were just never enough. I
don't know why. I found justan equal balance with three v's, with
having like the middle the middle guyright there. And not only that,
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I had originally got the name Savvy'sbecause I had traveled to Seattle and my
friend was actually like, oh,your name's way too long. That takes
too much time, say Savannah,And so they had told me your name
is Savvy. Oh. I likethat, And originally it's good to have
lazy friends. Oh, Yeah,it's really good, right, But they
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had messaged me and every time theyhad messed with me, Savvy, it
was also with three v's. Ohokay, So I've always held it since
then. That's cool. I noticedsome of the drinks that you talk about
in terms of the menu, yourcreativity and trying to experiment with new tastes
and new flavors and stuff. Butthe one that is on here is the
peach cobbler latte. Yes, whichsounds delightful, sounds really good. What
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goes in then? So the peachcobbler latte is gonna be a honey,
our homemade peach puree along with ourespresso and milk, and it could be
both hot or ice. And thenwe have this gram cracker crumble that we
put on top along with white powderedsugar. And it's basically, as said,
like a peach cobbler and a drink. Well, Savy's Cafe you can
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find them in Old Pasadena right thereon Colorado Boulevard thirty six West Colorado of
our their Savannah Savvy, thank youso much for joining us. Appreciate your
time and the best of luck toyou. You're very impressive that you're doing
it all. It's time for strangescience. It's like weird science, but
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strange. Did you know that youhave a new organ in your body?
I saw this the other day andI thought it was a very weird thing.
How could we not know that therewas an organ in our body?
Well? And the weird thing isis that the experts in the Netherlands were
studying prostate cancer when they found ascientific breakthrough at the other end of the
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body, up in our noses.Up in here. The Netherlands Cancer Institute
was carrying out a series of CTand PET scans on patients who had been
injected with radioactive glucose, and theyweren't doing it for no reason. The
glucosse would make tumors glow on theirscans and easily detectable. But the ps
M a protein is also very goodfor detecting saliva glands and lo and behold
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when you look at the results,they experts nosed a couple of spots inside
the head this part up here.They were supposed to be down here,
down here, down in the oldset. I don't have one on the
south. Do you have a prostateland? Yeah? No, right,
it's no or yes, it's ano. I don't study anatomy, this
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is it an I'm gonna bet onno, because guys, you have surprised
me with other things, so I'mjust gonna say. I'm just gonna say
I'm gonna bet on no. ButI wouldn't be surprised if I lost that
bet. How that they said thisled them to expect that salivary glands would
be contained within this organ, right, but it's believed that these particular glands
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are in place to lubricate your upperthroat, behind your nose and mouth.
They called this a to burial salivaryglands, cocaine gland. Sure, the
to burial salivary gland. They've said, well, maybe it could just be
this person, but they found everybodyelse had it, and they opened up
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a pair of cadavers and figured outthat same thing. And they said,
I guess that means we all Scott'sblood or tubulary salivary glands to burial salivary
glass brains are getting bigger, whichis excellent research road to becoming a big
dumb alien. Yeah, dumber,but maybe healthier. Researchers believe that they've
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got a study on their hands thatshow that brains get bigger over time,
and that the results could help reducethe risk of age related dementia. Scientists
at UC Davis revealed that brains frompeople born in the seventies had a six
point six percent higher volume in fifteenpercent greater surface area than brains from people
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born forty years before, among otherthings. One of the professors at UC
Davis that did this study said geneticsplay a major role, but findings indicate
their external influences health factors, socialfactors, cultural and educational factors can also
play a role in making your bigold brain even bigger. We know what's
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inside the moon, and we knowwhat's inside grandma pig parts. Do I
really need to see Grandma exposed likethis? I don't even know her at
lest you can't see her tubularry.What's that? That's just her back?
I assume why are we able toShe must not be from here. What
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does that mean, America? No, she is? Well, why are
we seeing these confidential pictures of her? She can give permission? Well,
this is a beautiful story about agrandmother who did not have long to live.
She got a breakthrough pig kidney transplant. There was a lot going on
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with Grandma, very complex procedure.She had a bunch of health conditions heart
failure, diabetes, end stage kidneyfailure that was requiring ongoing dialogue. She
was just your age, okay,well, I mean your age, Jason.
I did notice that when just beforeshe said her husband they met in
high school in nineteen eighty five,and I thought, what kind of old
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Oh, now she's her team ofdoctors said that one of the things they
were going to do was combine surgeriesto not only give her a mechanical heart,
but also a new kidney from apig. The mechanical heart surgery implants
left ventricular assistant device into the chestin order to help it pump, and
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that surgery was followed about a weeklater using a genetically modified pig kidney to
replace her own failing kidney. It'spretty amazing considering the doctors are able to
address these two fatal, well potentiallyfatal conditions at the same time, and
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the procedure was also different because thepig kidney used only had a single genetic
modification. Since organ transplants began inthe fifties, the list has grown exponentially
for people who need them. Andthey're talking about these Zeno what's the word
that they used, Zeno transplants.They come from a xeno kidney, is
what they said. They see morethan one hundred thousand people currently on the
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waiting list for an organ. Seventeenpeople die every day, which is why
I think we should have a universalhave to opt out of being an organ
downer on your license instead of havingto opt in. Greatly increase the number
of organs available and do away withthose speed limitters on my two thousand and
three Ford Rangers, get some ofthem kidneys going. You know what's in
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the middle of the moon. Itis not green cheese. A thorough investigation
published last year found the inner coreof the Moon is a solid ball with
a density similar to that of iron. They said there's been a long debate
about whether the Moon's inner heart issolid or molten. I say solid,
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I say solid as well. Wehappen to have lunar seismic data. It
was collected by the Apollo mission,but they said the resolution was too low
to accurately determine the inner core's stateif it's fluid or solid. We know
that there is a fluid outer core, but what encompasses it encompasses remains under
debate. Models of a solid innercore and an entirely fluid core both work
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if you use just the Apollo data. So they looked at various lunar characteristics,
the degree of the deformation of thegravitational interaction with Earth, et cetera,
the variation of its distance from Earth, and its density, and they
said, there's a tiny little ballof iron right in the middle of You
know why we didn't get that lastconnections because because we don't have real jobs.
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That was something I looked at butI couldn't get there. Would not
have gotten, yeah, would nothave gotten That's funny. Complete fossils from
an enormous shark that lived alongside dinosaursreveals some information about this predator, including
that it was an ancient relative ofour our friendly, cute little great white
sharks that exist now. This sharkfrom the genus Ticketus first discussions my favorite
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genus in the mid eighteenth century,descriptions largely based on their teeth. They
said, these teeth in these sharkscould reach twenty two inches long eighteen inches.
Whoa, whoa, that's like thisbig yeah, and like this wide
right. They were adapted for crushingshells, but without the ability to examine
a fully intact specimen. Obviously,this is just a fossil, and researchers
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have debated what the shark's body shapemight look like. But now they have
a better idea because this fossil doesexist with at least the impression of the
body outline itself. How many teeththose do those guys pack in there?
I don't know if they also hadthe three the three rows of teeth.
They said this large predator belonged tothe mackerel shark group teeth, which includes
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great whites. Of course, themako shark. The salmon shark grew to
about thirty three feet long, knownfor the grinding teeth, like we said,
unlike those that we saw in sharkstoday. Most sharks have between five
to fifteen rows of teeth, andthe white shark has three thousand teeth in
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its mouth at one time. Wow. But because the teeth are not attached
to their gums on a root likeours, they lose around a tooth every
week. They said that this specifictychotis occupied a special ecological niche in the
Late Crustaceous seas. So if youflip back through your Late Crustaceous notebook,
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you'll see it was the only pelagicshark that was adapted to eating hard shelled
prey like a turtle. But thatwould explain why it died out about ten
million years ago before the extinction eventthat ended the Cretaceous period. Shark's mouths
are terrifying, aren't they. Uhyeah, I mean just teeth everywhere.
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Just they're coming out from all thedirections, everywhere. I was like my
daughter's teeth. She had to havebraces. I had braces twice twice.
Oh, you should have seen myteeth as a kid. They were really
I've seen kid pictures of you,and I know terrible. My two front
teeth were this far apart. No, they were not, they were.
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It took like equipment, like achain, like a you know, like
the kind of equipment your son workson on the hillside, a hitch in
a gidde up those things together.We'll see you tomorrow. Stay drive everybody,
blessings. You've been listening to theGary and Shannon Show. You can
always hear us live on KFI AMsix forty nine am to one pm every
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Monday through Friday, and anytime ondemand on the iHeartRadio ap
This is Gary and Shannon and you'relistening to KFI AM six forty, the
Gary and Shannon Show on demand onthe iHeartRadio app. I'm glad you brought
this up because there's pictures here.There's a little pictograms that tell me when
I might need hand warmers. Yeah. One is snowboarding, one is skiing,
one is fishing, one is camping, one is golfing, one is
(00:22):
gardening, one is hiking. Noneof them is sitting in a forty two
degree office. So weird. Wereally need to talk to somebody about this
instead of bitching about it at everyturn, every day, every damn day.
What else is going on? Timefor what's happening? Wow? Investigators
(00:45):
are downtown right now. A manwas shot at a park there about after
ten thirty am. This was onSixth Street. Taken to hospital. But
there's a lot of blood down therealongside a basketball court at Gladys Park.
So if you see any anybody overhead, it's probably the news. Cruise intersection
Stanford and sixth and San Pedro andFifth closed as police continued. Lovely area
(01:11):
of skid Row all right. ProPalestine protesters are setting up shop at UCLA
today. A day after the bigprotest on the campus of USC, we
saw about ninety three people arrested.Looked very peaceful. Cops handled it well.
So far, we've seen some videooverhead tense set up in front of
(01:32):
Royce Hall at UCLA and Westwood UCLAsays free Palestine. One sign, another
one says blood on the UC hands. So I don't know if this gets
to the same point that the USCprotest died yesterday. I don't know if
it's different. One is a UCschool and one is a private school.
I feel like this day and agetwo, who has the focus and the
(01:57):
tension span to sit and not justscroll on their screens for hours? That's
true, I know that's a goodquestion. The head of the La County
DA's office Ethics and Integrity Unit hasbeen charged with multiple felonies, saying that
Diana Turan unlawfully access confidential files thatcontain legally protected information about local cops.
(02:24):
If you want to hear more aboutit, and you didn't hear it earlier
on the show, go check outthe podcast, the Gary and shann Podcast.
We spoke to someone inside the DA'soffice about all the dirty details.
Yeah, but they didn't have tohide it. I mean, John McKinney
was. Now you almost make itsound like someone was in the corner,
like I could say, Diana turnright now. Well, some of these
(02:45):
prosecutors can't talk about the things thatgo on, and some of them say,
effet, I'm going to expose thehell that gascon has brought upon us.
And thankfully John McKinney is one ofthose right. Lawmakers in California once
again introduced a universal health care bill. This one, formerly known as AB
twenty two hundred, would establish aframework for single pay or state run coverage
(03:07):
system called Calcare. Because we're doingso well as a state, the next
thing we need to do is pickup the tab for everybody's healthcare. Did
you let me try that? Beyonce? Stageco Queen Bae? Is that it?
Queen bee Bee? I don't know. I am not hip. Let's
just get that out there right now. My goodness, I didn't even know
(03:29):
who Scary Spice was as opposed toPosh Spice, and that would have been
your wheelhouse the space there was likethree hit songs thirty years ago. Trust
me, you know a whole lotmore of those lyrics than anybody else.
I know every time they come up, you sing along? Yes? Absolutely.
How many times do the Spice Girlssongs come up? Not often,
(03:50):
but when they do, I knowthe one. Okay, you don't because
I don't understand the lyric. Ifyou want to be my lover, you
gotta get with my friends. Thatdoesn't make any sense. That means you
got to be cool with him.Yeah, you gotta be nice and say
that, then you got to becool with my friends. Get with Have
you ever been to write a song? But get with sounds like I want
(04:11):
you to hook up with my friends. If you want to hook up with
me, that sounds crazy. Theywere ahead of their time. I don't
know. Queen Bee might show upat stage Coach this week because I see,
I see, because the record.The internet is buzzing that she could
make a surprise appearance. The BigClue is a performer listed on the stage
Coach website named Joe Lene No DJBackwoods Barbie ah right right, although that
(04:42):
doesn't necessarily mean anything. So BrandyCyrus, Miley Cyrus's sister, is set
to perform. Miley and Beyonce collaboratedon a song called uh on the on
the song the Backwards Barbie DJ,Backwoods Barbie. That's Dolly Parton. Are
you certain about that? Yeah,she calls herself backwards Barbie. But does
(05:04):
she call herself a DJ? Nota DJ, but definitely a Backwoods Barbie.
Do you think that it's going tobe Beyonce and Dolly Parton singing Joline
possible? Do we know where DollyParton's plane is? Well? At Thursdays,
at this time, we like togive a small business a special shout
(05:26):
out here on the Gary and ShannonShow, and today we welcome in Savvy's
Art Espresso and Chill Savvy's Cafe.Savannah is the owner, daughter of a
coffee shop owner in his own right. But tell us how you get in
this obviously following the family footsteps.But why this why coffee? Yeah?
So growing up in the business andthe coffee shop business, specifically in Old
(05:48):
Town Pasadena, my father was oneof the first coffee shops actually in Old
Town to where he introduced not onlylike a poetry night kind of vibe,
a late cafe. I was asa child, I was always there at
the caffee cafe, and that's whenI would play around with the baristas I
(06:09):
was running around, I was kindof always in that world of coffee,
and over time, due to thegrowing industry of Starbucks and coffee Bean and
things like that, my dad hadunfortunately had to then resort to a bar
to where it was fortunate because thenI was introduced to the more business aspect
(06:31):
of things when it comes to likethe counting of liquor, the community and
being introduced to the customer service realmgrowing up. So being in that environment,
I kind of missed the coffee shopand vibe that it had brought.
Sorry, it's okay, no,you know, I'm just thinking about how
(06:54):
devastating that must have been to growup in the coffee shop environment and and
you know, you meet the regularcustomers and you're a little girl and the
whole bit, and then it changeslike that to something wildly different than that
coffee shop. Oh yeah, AndI definitely missed that because to me,
it was my childhood. It waswhat I grew up with. And so
(07:15):
as I got older, I hadkind of worked with my dad in in
a way introducing that back to thecommunity of Old Town, because I do
feel like a lot of coffee shopsdo miss that community aspect where they have
live events, they have fundraisers,they have all these kind of things that
bring to you not just coffee.And so I had worked with my dad
(07:40):
in order to create Savvy's, whichwas to bring that back to life into
old town Pasadena. And I hadalready been so familiar with coffee, with
ingredient making, with all of that, and I had even had experience with
other coffee shops through growing up andthen right now my adult life as well.
You do all of the things youdo. You do the coffee experimentation
(08:03):
and the mixing, if you will, as well as the books and everything.
Yeah, so I do all thebooking, I do all the recipes.
I've tested all the coffee beans.Had a seven hour tasting of espresso.
That's a lot of espresso in sevenhours. Oh yeah, that was
a week. Oh I was upfor a month like at that point.
(08:26):
But I've done all the test tastings, I've done all the recipe makings,
including all the events that happened atSavvy's. I organized all of that as
well. And yeah, all theinformation. By the way, Savvy's Cafe,
there's three v's in that right,Brev's, Savvy's cafe on Instagram and
then the website is Savvy'scafe dot com. So growing up in coffee, when
(08:48):
did you have your first cup andyou thought this is good? As opposed
to the first cup, I willnever drink this hot, bitter drink again.
I mean, when did it turnthe corner for you or you thought
of it as something that you wantedto get into, you wanted to drink
every day. So funny enough,I actually enjoyed coffee as a kid because
I am half Armenian, half Mexican, and an Armenian culture. A children,
(09:11):
we typically make coffee for a familyor anybody that comes over, so
I would taste the coffee before givingsome to make sure that it was good,
because I was like, I'm notgiving anyone bad coffee. Even like
at the right age of like nine, I was like, nobody's getting bad
coffee under my name. I tookpride in it and I would make myself
like a little mini espresso and milkshot as well. But besides for that
(09:39):
is when I'm in high school.Actually I was very interested in my local
coffee shops and I had already hada particular taste of knowing when the espresso
has been burnt, or when themilk has not been steam bright, or
things like that, due to mealready making it growing up. So that
was particularly what caught my and Ihad noticed. I was like, Oh,
(10:01):
what would happen if I had mixedthis with let's say a Guatemalan espresso
medium roast. I think that everymorning, every single morning. I think
that. Yeah, but I kindof I grew my love originally from childhood,
but then had found passion in itin my teenage years. I can't
think of anything my parents would havehated worse than giving me a cup of
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coffee as a child. The threev's. Why the three v's so funny
enough? I just the two v'sto me were just never enough. I
don't know why. I found justan equal balance with three v's, with
having like the middle the middle guyright there. And not only that,
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I had originally got the name Savvy'sbecause I had traveled to Seattle and my
friend was actually like, oh,your name's way too long. That takes
too much time, say Savannah,And so they had told me your name
is Savvy. Oh. I likethat, And originally it's good to have
lazy friends. Oh, Yeah,it's really good, right, But they
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had messaged me and every time theyhad messed with me, Savvy, it
was also with three v's. Ohokay, So I've always held it since
then. That's cool. I noticedsome of the drinks that you talk about
in terms of the menu, yourcreativity and trying to experiment with new tastes
and new flavors and stuff. Butthe one that is on here is the
peach cobbler latte. Yes, whichsounds delightful, sounds really good. What
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goes in then? So the peachcobbler latte is gonna be a honey,
our homemade peach puree along with ourespresso and milk, and it could be
both hot or ice. And thenwe have this gram cracker crumble that we
put on top along with white powderedsugar. And it's basically, as said,
like a peach cobbler and a drink. Well, Savy's Cafe you can
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find them in Old Pasadena right thereon Colorado Boulevard thirty six West Colorado of
our their Savannah Savvy, thank youso much for joining us. Appreciate your
time and the best of luck toyou. You're very impressive that you're doing
it all. It's time for strangescience. It's like weird science, but
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strange. Did you know that youhave a new organ in your body?
I saw this the other day andI thought it was a very weird thing.
How could we not know that therewas an organ in our body?
Well? And the weird thing isis that the experts in the Netherlands were
studying prostate cancer when they found ascientific breakthrough at the other end of the
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body, up in our noses.Up in here. The Netherlands Cancer Institute
was carrying out a series of CTand PET scans on patients who had been
injected with radioactive glucose, and theyweren't doing it for no reason. The
glucosse would make tumors glow on theirscans and easily detectable. But the ps
M a protein is also very goodfor detecting saliva glands and lo and behold
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when you look at the results,they experts nosed a couple of spots inside
the head this part up here.They were supposed to be down here,
down here, down in the oldset. I don't have one on the
south. Do you have a prostateland? Yeah? No, right,
it's no or yes, it's ano. I don't study anatomy, this
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is it an I'm gonna bet onno, because guys, you have surprised
me with other things, so I'mjust gonna say. I'm just gonna say
I'm gonna bet on no. ButI wouldn't be surprised if I lost that
bet. How that they said thisled them to expect that salivary glands would
be contained within this organ, right, but it's believed that these particular glands
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are in place to lubricate your upperthroat, behind your nose and mouth.
They called this a to burial salivaryglands, cocaine gland. Sure, the
to burial salivary gland. They've said, well, maybe it could just be
this person, but they found everybodyelse had it, and they opened up
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a pair of cadavers and figured outthat same thing. And they said,
I guess that means we all Scott'sblood or tubulary salivary glands to burial salivary
glass brains are getting bigger, whichis excellent research road to becoming a big
dumb alien. Yeah, dumber,but maybe healthier. Researchers believe that they've
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got a study on their hands thatshow that brains get bigger over time,
and that the results could help reducethe risk of age related dementia. Scientists
at UC Davis revealed that brains frompeople born in the seventies had a six
point six percent higher volume in fifteenpercent greater surface area than brains from people
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born forty years before, among otherthings. One of the professors at UC
Davis that did this study said geneticsplay a major role, but findings indicate
their external influences health factors, socialfactors, cultural and educational factors can also
play a role in making your bigold brain even bigger. We know what's
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inside the moon, and we knowwhat's inside grandma pig parts. Do I
really need to see Grandma exposed likethis? I don't even know her at
lest you can't see her tubularry.What's that? That's just her back?
I assume why are we able toShe must not be from here. What
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does that mean, America? No, she is? Well, why are
we seeing these confidential pictures of her? She can give permission? Well,
this is a beautiful story about agrandmother who did not have long to live.
She got a breakthrough pig kidney transplant. There was a lot going on
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with Grandma, very complex procedure.She had a bunch of health conditions heart
failure, diabetes, end stage kidneyfailure that was requiring ongoing dialogue. She
was just your age, okay,well, I mean your age, Jason.
I did notice that when just beforeshe said her husband they met in
high school in nineteen eighty five,and I thought, what kind of old
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Oh, now she's her team ofdoctors said that one of the things they
were going to do was combine surgeriesto not only give her a mechanical heart,
but also a new kidney from apig. The mechanical heart surgery implants
left ventricular assistant device into the chestin order to help it pump, and
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that surgery was followed about a weeklater using a genetically modified pig kidney to
replace her own failing kidney. It'spretty amazing considering the doctors are able to
address these two fatal, well potentiallyfatal conditions at the same time, and
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the procedure was also different because thepig kidney used only had a single genetic
modification. Since organ transplants began inthe fifties, the list has grown exponentially
for people who need them. Andthey're talking about these Zeno what's the word
that they used, Zeno transplants.They come from a xeno kidney, is
what they said. They see morethan one hundred thousand people currently on the
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waiting list for an organ. Seventeenpeople die every day, which is why
I think we should have a universalhave to opt out of being an organ
downer on your license instead of havingto opt in. Greatly increase the number
of organs available and do away withthose speed limitters on my two thousand and
three Ford Rangers, get some ofthem kidneys going. You know what's in
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the middle of the moon. Itis not green cheese. A thorough investigation
published last year found the inner coreof the Moon is a solid ball with
a density similar to that of iron. They said there's been a long debate
about whether the Moon's inner heart issolid or molten. I say solid,
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I say solid as well. Wehappen to have lunar seismic data. It
was collected by the Apollo mission,but they said the resolution was too low
to accurately determine the inner core's stateif it's fluid or solid. We know
that there is a fluid outer core, but what encompasses it encompasses remains under
debate. Models of a solid innercore and an entirely fluid core both work
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if you use just the Apollo data. So they looked at various lunar characteristics,
the degree of the deformation of thegravitational interaction with Earth, et cetera,
the variation of its distance from Earth, and its density, and they
said, there's a tiny little ballof iron right in the middle of You
know why we didn't get that lastconnections because because we don't have real jobs.
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That was something I looked at butI couldn't get there. Would not
have gotten, yeah, would nothave gotten That's funny. Complete fossils from
an enormous shark that lived alongside dinosaursreveals some information about this predator, including
that it was an ancient relative ofour our friendly, cute little great white
sharks that exist now. This sharkfrom the genus Ticketus first discussions my favorite
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genus in the mid eighteenth century,descriptions largely based on their teeth. They
said, these teeth in these sharkscould reach twenty two inches long eighteen inches.
Whoa, whoa, that's like thisbig yeah, and like this wide
right. They were adapted for crushingshells, but without the ability to examine
a fully intact specimen. Obviously,this is just a fossil, and researchers
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have debated what the shark's body shapemight look like. But now they have
a better idea because this fossil doesexist with at least the impression of the
body outline itself. How many teeththose do those guys pack in there?
I don't know if they also hadthe three the three rows of teeth.
They said this large predator belonged tothe mackerel shark group teeth, which includes
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great whites. Of course, themako shark. The salmon shark grew to
about thirty three feet long, knownfor the grinding teeth, like we said,
unlike those that we saw in sharkstoday. Most sharks have between five
to fifteen rows of teeth, andthe white shark has three thousand teeth in
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its mouth at one time. Wow. But because the teeth are not attached
to their gums on a root likeours, they lose around a tooth every
week. They said that this specifictychotis occupied a special ecological niche in the
Late Crustaceous seas. So if youflip back through your Late Crustaceous notebook,
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you'll see it was the only pelagicshark that was adapted to eating hard shelled
prey like a turtle. But thatwould explain why it died out about ten
million years ago before the extinction eventthat ended the Cretaceous period. Shark's mouths
are terrifying, aren't they. Uhyeah, I mean just teeth everywhere.
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Just they're coming out from all thedirections, everywhere. I was like my
daughter's teeth. She had to havebraces. I had braces twice twice.
Oh, you should have seen myteeth as a kid. They were really
I've seen kid pictures of you,and I know terrible. My two front
teeth were this far apart. No, they were not, they were.
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It took like equipment, like achain, like a you know, like
the kind of equipment your son workson on the hillside, a hitch in
a gidde up those things together.We'll see you tomorrow. Stay drive everybody,
blessings. You've been listening to theGary and Shannon Show. You can
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