September 5, 2024 • 33 mins
Gary and Shannon are out and KFI’s own Neil Saavedra and Fox 11’s Marla Tellez fill in! What’s Happening. #StrangeScience.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app What's Happening?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Time for What's Happening?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Oh gosh, gosh. We start with this. We know the
heat is an issue. Well right now in ninety six
degree heat, firefighters are trying to rescue a trapped worker
in a trench and los feeless.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
That's gotta be rough. You know. We talk about, oh,
it's going to be hot out there and all that stuff,
and we play hot, Hot, hot and all those things,
but there are people that have to work in the
by definition, their work is going to call them to
horrible places in the heat and to see this as well.
In this back of a hillside home in Los Angeles neighborhood, there.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, inside of an eight foot deep trench. This the
alert came out of eleven fifteen this morning. And then
aeriel footage shows at least a dozen firefighters shoveling up
the dirt at this construction site trying to get to
this guy. They've managed to stabilize the trench's walls and
LAFD first responders specializing and working in confined spaces. They're
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there at the scene, so sounds like, you know, all
hands on deck. They have the best crews out there
to get this worker trapped in this eight foot deep
trench out of it. Okay, but yeah, they're doing it
under sweltering conditions.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
As more information comes out about the Appalachi High School
shooting in winder Georgia, it just gets sadder and sadder
we learn more about you know, two teachers and the
two students that were killed. Already say this, a fourteen
year old student opened fire there at the school, killing
those two fellow students, two teachers. The two kids were
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fourteen years of age. The first person killed was Mason.
They talk about him being fourteen, and I believe they
say he was autistic or on the spectrum of some kind.
And the reason why I mentioned that is that how
young these kids were and being in a place of
learning there at the beginning of their life. Really, and
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here's somebody that might have special needs of some kind
of may not have registered the situation the same way
someone else might have. Who knows if that plays a part.
But of course two of the you know, the adults
here were teachers as well.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But Yeah, the victims are fourteen to fifty three years old.
So one of the teachers thirty nine, the other one
fifty three, both students fourteen.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And that is how old the gunman is as well.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Colt Gray, he ended up surrendering and he will be
tried despite being just fourteen years old.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
He will be tried as an adult.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know, it's a couple of things that stood out.
And we did learn today that about a year ago,
the FBI had been called in and did a risk
assessment or what have you.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
All they received some anonymous online tips of that game
of It threats, and they went to the home. They
interviewed the suspect and his father, and the father mentioned, yeah,
we're a gun family, We're we are hunters. So now
a year later and this is what happened. The question
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is will will dad be charged in this at all?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It also stood out to me that he surrendered. You know,
I often we see that it's not you know, suicide
by copper something, and in a situation like this, they
expect to go out right, so they're going to you know,
this is the last ditch effort for whatever they're going
on in their life. I thought it was interesting that
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the individual laid down the gun pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I wonder if the fact that he is just fourteen
had anything to do with that. I mean, we've seen
the shooter or shirt, we've seen him at sixteen, seventeen
years old, but fourteen, that's shockingly so young.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Evacuation orders lifted, fire crews are gaining control of the
post fire. It was, you know, all vegetarians started near
city of Paris.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Vegetation not vegetarian. Oh sorry, well you're the fork reporter.
I was just hoping that vegetarians were out there burnt. No,
I'm that's a joke, a horrible, horrible joke. Can you're
allowed to say things like that on TV?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
They're like, pase, please, don't talk about burning vegetarians. So
that's no vegetation, I apologized. Fire started near the city
of Paris, and so one hundred and thirty acres containment and.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
There were some structures burned.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
We were over this last night and there were some
structure not sure if they were outbuildings or actual homes.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So good news.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So all those evacuation orders and warnings have since been lifted.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You know, there's some basic things that I think the
government should control potholes crime, and you're drinking water and
the city is investigating lead contamination in Watts drinking water.
And this story infuriates me that we're at a place
where people, no matter where they are in Los Angeles,
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have to worry about not only the quality of their water,
but poison in their water.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Any amount of lead is unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And several of these water samples came back with lead
in them.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Exceptionally high levels.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And of course now the study results have prompted Mayor
Karen Bass to call for more testing of the drinking
water and Watts, Sure, we can do more testing.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But we have to we have to clean it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
We have to get this lead out of the water
because the results, the consequences, I should say, are.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But to me, it's like, you know, what is it
about being pound fulish whatever Penny and Ben Franklin. I
don't know what it's with me and Ben Franklin clothes.
But we do things like, oh, if you're gonna paint
your old house, we got to come out, We got
to do permits, we got to make sure that there's
no lead paint. We gotta do all these things. And
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then and then you're feeding it to children in their water.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I'm looking up as I just said how the consequences
are terrible. I'm looking those up for lead exposure.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh and we you know this has been known for
some time as to how how it affects young people,
pregnant women and the like. And and that the basic
necessity of life water is contaminated with lead in one
of the largest cities on h in the country is
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beyond me. It's just I don't know, dumbfounding well.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And if you know, they're they're saying that they're providing
free home water testing for people live in Wants and
customers can also call a hotline to request this testing.
In young children most vulnerable, their nervous systems are still
developing and they absorb four to five times more than adults,
which can cause intellectual disability, underperforming at school, behavioral issues.
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In adults, you have a higher risk of heart disease
and stroke. And then it's certainly terrible for pregnant women
as well, so it can affect your brain, kidneys, liver, blood, reproductive.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
System, everything basically shut you down.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
We have not gone to the talkback.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
What did you want to well.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
If we're gonna solicit.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We have to.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I want to hear. Don't you want feedback?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm working too, I haven't had time to go listen
to talkbacks.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I don't know where to get the talk back.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
At the talkback store.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I will go through the talkbacks and we will have
them for the last segment.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Okay, we'll see you, look at you, ask and receive.
You're welcome keeekers to the resk. You to love bumps up.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
So what's happening?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Okay? Card skimmers? You know these things bug the cruff,
I mean that people do, and they're kind of ingenious.
This took place or had taken place in Orange County
there in Garden Grove, there's this h It was at
a gas pump and this particular they they do these overlays. Basically,
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what it is is the keypad that you used to
put in your information.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They make an overlay that's like a skin it's a
skin tight to it that it press this presses over
and then they insert little things into the card reader
and they're able to get all of your information. They're
pretty ingenious in the way they've been designed. And so
now the local authorities are saying, here's a couple of
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things to be on the lookout for, because they are
very hard to notice. One of the first things, and
probably best things, is don't use your debit card. Use
your credit card, because a credit card has better security.
If they do get the information, it's not your money
they're taking, which is harder to get back. But also
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it doesn't ask for a pin, so you don't give
the pin for that, but you would for your bank
account if you're using your debit.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You could also pay inside, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
You can go straight inside. One of the tips that's
similar to that is use the gas tank that is
or the pump that is closest to where the personnel
sense inside the store, because those are less apt to
be tampered with.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Because the scammers won't put the skimmers right in front.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
This reminds me of we did a.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Story recently about the QR code scams.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Oh yeah, on the you know the meters.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yes, and Redondo Beach as you would say in gene Yes, right,
and so they put their own QR code. So if
you've got a parking ticket or you know, when you
had to pay yeah, yeah, you just had to pay
for parking, say pay here.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, so you're like, why would you think twice?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Like I'm gonna do the QR code, Okay, I'm gonna
just pay this Okay, great and be on your way
for an hour and then come back and you've been scammed.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, now they have access because you voted something upsh
and you pay. I know they they anyway, there is
I often wonder why do you work so hard to
make money illegally?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Just get a job.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, yeah, Like why don't you use those abilities to
design those things? You know? Because they are pretty, they
fit over it, They're like a glove, they're they're very hard.
Now I give them yanks, or I reach in and
I pull certain parts of them, see if they lift up,
or any of those things.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Have you ever been a victim of a scam?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
No? Oh, scratch that. Oh this was inside a store.
The only time that someone got access was to a
debit card was when I went and bought something in
a convenience store. But I check my stuff all the time.
It's just habit. I just constantly am checking to see where,
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you know, money, and if there's any weird activity. And
I caught it within an hour and was like, this
is not real and called the bank and said this not.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We took care of it.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah that was that.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Okay, good?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, No, I mean I think it's helpful to check.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Popularly, Yeah, it could happen, but I try and check,
and I'll take my card and put it by the
finger keypad and try and see if their corner. The
actual buttons are separate, usually separate, meaning you can see
the button like a keyboard, it's separate from the If.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You're I mean this day and age, everyone's on the go,
you're not. You're not literally investigating the keypad. I'm kinda
well you should is I guess the.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
World story and we're all gonna that's what they fed on,
is that.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We're in a hurry, right, Okay. This was breaking news
last night on Fox eleven at both ten and eleven PM.
There was the search for a hit and run suspect
who caused a deadly accident yesterday in Fontana of.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
An innocent driver.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
So this was all during a police pursuit, if I'm
not mistaken, and in that we've seen this all too often,
where then the suspect crashes into an innocent driver and
then killed that innocent driver.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
What makes this worse is he was the individual who
did this, was put into the hospital, in custody in
that hospital, and now has escaped that hospital.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
So how he was able to escape custody at a hospital.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I was saying this last night on the air.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Chelsea Edwards was out there in Colton and it was
this is Arrowhead Regional Medical Center.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
And you know.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
We've reported on prison breaks, but hospital breaks.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well, that's got to be a consideration in circumstances just
like this where for whatever reason, during the act of
a crime, the perpetrator is hurt as well and they've
got to go to a hospital.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Right, But you would think that under heavy security, one
would one would think. So this guy no Noe, Ben
WELLOS thirty two out of Long Beach. He eluded officers
after escaping the hospital until about twelve thirty this morning.
So he was found at an abandoned golf course and
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he was still in his handcuffs and his hospital clothing
when he was taken into custody.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
That was twelve thirty this morning. So they did get
him eventually.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Good. Yeah for the good guys. Boo, bad guys. All right,
when we come back, we have stray science and it
is both very science y and very strange. I've noticed. Well, put,
all right, I guess it is time for some not
weird but strange science. Strange. It's like weird science but strange.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
All I know is there's a bunch of words in
here that I cannot even begin to pronounce.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Let's see words, words, words, words, words words. New species
of dinosaur been identified more than a decade after a
massive number of ancient skeletons were found in Spain. Spain,
the gift that keeps on given. But yeah, they're blah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
So this is a This is a site that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Was being excavated for the construction of a be trained
between Madrid and Valencia, and Cruise began digging up numerous
ancient skeletons of dinosaurs, crocodiles, and turtles.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
They spent the.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Next three months extracting several skeletons of dinosaurs, mostly soropods.
Herbivore characterized by having a very long neck, long tail,
large body, and small head.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
It's kind of me So this is a tautanosaur. Tautanosaur,
and like you said, that's basically the It likes to
eat herbs, likes to eat plants, no other you know,
it doesn't really look like a predator, so it's built
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like that. But they all have that kind of dinosaur
body with the long tail, the big it looks.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Like a dinosaur.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, yeah it does. Yeah, what does it look like
a dinosaurs? You know why it is not? Yeah, it's
kind of cute with its tiny little brain.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And this is a new species of the how did
you pronounce it, the titanosaur.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
How do you say it?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Titanosaur?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Isanosaur?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Okay, it's like titan with an Okay, So the new
species though, this is the Uh, I'm gonna give it
a go. The kun caussara painty keene e estra.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Better than I could do. I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's characterized by having a weird tale morphology un cassara causar.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, better than I could. So we've got a new one. Yay,
more dinosaurs, although kids are still going to go back
to the t rex, the velociraptor, the velociraptor, although what
we see in movies is not the real velociraptors, so
kids don't know the difference.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You mean Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, Now they're small much smaller, great movie, but they're
much smaller and they have feathers and much different. I
have a life size Velociraptor in the backyard by the pool.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You do, why am I?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
So you have a life size Stormtrooper and Darth Vader
and they're not.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
The backyard's crazy. But the dinos they're in the front yard,
no airness.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You should have them at your front door, just greeting people.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yes, your lack of packages is I find disturbing. Yeah,
that would go over great. You know, the thought of
asteroids hitting the Earth is a weird thought, especially when
they're three foot three feet in diameter. But another one
an asteroid was if they named twenty twenty four RW
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one burned up in Earth's atmosphere over the Philippines yesterday afternoon. Yeah,
it's just another day, and I thought, oh, that's pretty cool.
But this story is not about that, because you know,
asteroids this size apparently are estimated to hit the ear
every two weeks. But the story is about that this
is just the ninth asteroid that humankind has ever spotted
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before its impact. Wow, right, yeah, that's it nine that
we've seen coming because usually we see them as they
enter the atmosphere and they start to burn up and
it makes a large flash and it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
But maybe you've.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Seen it on social media, because of course the stargazers
who happen to be able to see this rarity, they
posted it on social and captured the spectacular fireball.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
How cool is that? I like space?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I like, well, really, what about the two astronauts that
are stuck.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
They like space a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
They love space. But do you think.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
If you're in that space world literally and then you're
there supposed to be there for eight days and you're
there for almost a year.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Thoughts, Well, it depends how home life was. Things like this.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I want to know the ot is on that.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, you know, that's a good point. Do they get paid?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I would hope?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
So is that hazard pay or is that over time?
I never thought about, Yeah, what would that?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I don't know. You know, what are they grade?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
They have to have a contingency of some kind on
their on these contracts that say hey, listen, defecation occurs,
and if it does, you know there you may be
up there many more weeks than have planned than eight days.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
So oceanographers have found underwater an underwater mountain that's bigger
than Mount Olympus.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, this is looking at an like scanner image of
some kind. Uh, it's you're looking at it from the top,
but to give you like the dimensions. What's the name
of that the skyscraper the world's tallest building there, Khalifa
is what comes to mind? That name, the other one
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I can't remember. And they say you could stack four
of those, the world's tallest building. You would stack four
of them on top of each other and that would
be the height of this new mountain that they found underwater.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Off the coast of Chile, Located in the Pacific Ocean,
nine hundred miles off the coast there of Chile. The
seamount is three thousand, one hundred and nine meters tall
and part of an underwater mountain range that is home
to sponge gardens, ancient corals, and rare marine species, including
a type of squid that was filmed for the very
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first time.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
New Kalamari come in your way.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
This is cool.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But yeah, the image is gorgeous in colors.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So they're calling it spaghetti monsters. I like that. I
think there is actually the rare squid. Yeah, so I
think there's a fake religion called spaghetti. It's something about
the spaghetti. Is it this spaghetti Strainer monster or something?
There's a group I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Not look at a fact or is this a fork reporter?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
This is Oh how dare you?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Because Spaghetti's involved?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yes, but I gave you a folk reporter fact all
of my fork reporters. Yes is fact. No, and I'm
trying to think of was Spaghetti Strainer the Church of
the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Yes, that's it. Just she is
so much look at that, pulled right out of myrs.
But yeah, so maybe this is it. The spaghetti monster
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now is a real thing, and maybe they're going to
start worshiping this thing recorded the first footage of a
live you you want to take a shot at that.
I don't know what that is. That word there and
it's never been captured before. So that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We have a new source of new discoveries, new dinosaurs,
new sea mountains.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I love it. But this one has to be the
cutest in the world.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
These monkeys have a soft spot from monkeys.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Oh, monkeys are great. Oh guess what I I just
purchased for the backyard.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
They look like little gizmos. These ones did what.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Okay, Well, I'm doing a I'm redoing a corner of
the backyard as a jungle cruise the Disney Jungle cruise
them and I got a monkey. It's hanging from behind. Anyways,
these monkeys use names to communicate with each other. They're
all Hi, Marla, They're marmosets, and they can communicate with
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each other by name and know when they are being addressed.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Is they're known as fee calls. What what known as
fee calls oh p h e e calls uh huh
to call each other, which scientists say is a high
cognitive behavior pattern only previously observed in humans, dolphins, and elephants.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
They are precious, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
And this is the first time that they've seen this
in non human primates.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
The tree we never like you'd imagine with apes, chimps
and the like, that they don't have names.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Apparently not.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm not buying that, Like, don't you think they have
names in that world? Something a sound that is fee
calls that they bad marketing, horrible marketing.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
There.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You can't come up with anything else, you know, because
let's face it, monkeys get a bad wrap around throwing
feces and now you've.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Got to Well, so these calls, uh, the fee calls,
which is described as a complex array of social calls.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Sure it is.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
They are generally used to communicate when they are out
of sight from each other.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So well, yeah, why would you call each other? I wonder.
I wonder if sometimes they eat a fermented fruit and
they do drunk fee calls and they're like, I just
thinking about you. They have some liquid courage, yeah, they're like,
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Or if they sit wrong and they do like a
butt fee call and they're like, sorry, I didn't mean
to butt fee call you. No, none of these are
working my best material.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Pretty creative, I'll give you that.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Some strange science. This sounds like a bad like nineteen
late nineteen eighties Channel four show or something like that.
Part fungus, part machine. This is nuts. Imagine these robots
that are part well, part robot, but also in this
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case case part mushroom, a king oyster mushroom. So these
the king Oyster mushroom like these little veins or a
little I don't know, these little legs, and they are
tying them to electronics and other things because the biological
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part of this machine now interacts, in this case interacts
with light and it creates an electricity and they can
utilize that sensitivity to light to make it do things
and to respond on a very small level. Now, these
are only in the lab at this point. It's not
like we're going to see them in our homes or something.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It sounds like ais involved.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well you're gonna have. But this they're calling these biohybrid robotics,
and they seek to combine these little things could be
planted animal cells, insects with synthetic components and they will
be part living, partly engineered. The mycilliums these in this
particular case, this is like this root like mycilium. It
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produces these electrical signals and they can be connected to
electrodes and can be symbiotic. Kind of crazy, huh.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Especially because the team began growing these, as you said,
king oyster mushrooms in the lab from a simple kit
ordered online. And then the researcher shows the species of
mushroom because it grows easily and quickly.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Okay, so it's something like like a science kit for
kids or something. I guess they're like, now attach it
to a cricket. So you have this enthusiastic amateur who
is an amateur archaeologist and he's digging and doing some
things that you know you do when you're an archaeologist
and amateur archaeologist. And he found this pictish ring. It's
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got this it's beautiful, it's shaped like a kite. It
looks like it has some sort of precious stone in
the center. And it was discovered in Scotland. And you're
talking about, you know, a thousand years or so, a
religious sect that ties into the Celts and to paganism
and very caught up and focused on nature, as pagans
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are one to do. And it's a beautiful specimen. And
he found it.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, and been there for more than a thousand years,
they say, buried there for more than a thousand years.
You mentioned the stone in the middle, it's either you know,
a garnet or red glass center.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It is really really pretty. This was his third dig.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
At this site, and he says that he has a
knack for finding quote, shiny pebbles. I think that goes
this one goes above and beyond that. They're calling this
truly remarkable what he found and what he uncovered there.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That's kind of cool. I mean, there is some that
I know it's romanticized by you know, Indiana Jones. But
don't don't eat that. The overall not treasure hunting per se,
but the but finding pieces of history.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You know, our house, there's no there's no real monetary
vale value.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
It says, well, on something like this, it's look at me.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I'm all about the money. Yeah, you're like, how much
is this worth?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
But you know, I don't know what it was made
out to say, what kind of I mean, if the
stone's like a piece of glass and it's you know,
crap metal or something that really it's about the value
of you know, preserving history. Yeah. But when we moved
into our house, which was built in nineteen twelve, it
started going through the attic and things like that. We
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found really cool I mean artifacts, but not like this,
but in nineteen thirty two front page of the La Times.
We found in nineteen twenty two Journal of Sure Relatives
but for like a bank that doesn't exist anymore and
it was handwritten. Oh and things like that that I
found were very very cool because you know, it's been
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around for a long time and things build up. But
you know that's it seeks.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, Okay, so hailstones. I know, we're dealing with a
heat wave right now, but they may be getting bigger
as the climate warms, which would then bring higher insurance costs.
A lot of people can't even get home insurance these
days anyway in California.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Oh, it's good insurance as things change, especially with the weather.
These hailstones are massive. I mean they're fist size, and
in this particular case, looking at the damage cost this,
I'm trying to look where this took place. Gosh, this,
can you imagine She's in Nebraska and she's got this farmhouse,
(29:35):
she's got that tin roof. Start hearing that. Yeah, and
she thought it was gunshots at first, couldn't figure out
what it was. But it's not hurricane's floods are tornadoes
like you might think. That caused the highest damage costs
in the US, it is hail.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Hail accounts for roughly fifty to eighty percent of insured
claims filed from thunderstorm related losses, and so far this
year in the US, thunderstorms have been responsible for about
sixty one billion dollars in economic losses.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, I mean, you're gonna have to have a helmet
for your house. So have you ever seen some of
these protective devices for cars. There's designs. It's almost like
a blow up thing. You put it over your car
and you blow it up and it will defend against
these larger hails.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
That's something you have to think about when you live
in a part of the country that.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
But what does something that's blown up do when you
throw something at it, It tosses it back in a
different direction. Right, Yeah, I don't know they're going to
be like aids yet to absorb in somehow, but they do.
They have these things for your cars that will shelter
them or protect them during a hailstorm. And now they're
going to need to make one out of titanium or
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something as they're going to have to protect themselves from
these fist size hailstones.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
One fat bear eight one hundred and thirty five thousand
calories are looking at me in.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Ten hours and the bear's not done.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
No, that's that was a moose boosh.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
The moose boosh.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
That was his appetizer.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So this is in the is It Catmi National Park
and Preserve Good to Me in Alaska. It's an Alaskan
bear and one of the largest, most dominant bears.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Of this river.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
A salmon clogged region of the park that's live streamed
on explore dot org is Bear number thirty two. They've
named this bear Chunk Torsa as a gordo. As a
large dominant bear, he earns access to the most productive
fishing spots, allowing an already large bear to grow huge.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Have you been to Alaska? I have have you seen
I mean the salmon? Yes, and it's there so much yeah,
so yeah, and you're like, holy crap, Now, wonder bears
are they? I mean it literally is just grab boom
and pull it right.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Out well in one hundred thirty five thousand calories in
ten hours. I guess isn't that it'd be easy to
do if you're a bear. First of all, Chunk currently
weighs twelve hundred pounds.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
That's my boy, chump.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
He still has a strong salmon consuming mouth ahead. They
say a single sackeye salmon can pack about four thousand calories.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I love you chunes. Did anybody say where they could
do the truffle shuffle? No?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So they he ate forty five salmon in about ten
and a half hours of fishing.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
They literally monitor him.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
So on August twenty sixth this is when they say
chunk out did himself forty five salmon and ten and
a half hours.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
He got his omega. Three fatty asses didn't.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
And uh, well, salmon's on the fattier side of fish.
It's delicious, but lower and mercury. Yeah, absolutely, and it's
very good for you, but on the fat of your side.
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Time for What's Happening?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Oh gosh, gosh. We start with this. We know the
heat is an issue. Well right now in ninety six
degree heat, firefighters are trying to rescue a trapped worker
in a trench and los feeless.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
That's gotta be rough. You know. We talk about, oh,
it's going to be hot out there and all that stuff,
and we play hot, Hot, hot and all those things,
but there are people that have to work in the
by definition, their work is going to call them to
horrible places in the heat and to see this as well.
In this back of a hillside home in Los Angeles neighborhood, there.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, inside of an eight foot deep trench. This the
alert came out of eleven fifteen this morning. And then
aeriel footage shows at least a dozen firefighters shoveling up
the dirt at this construction site trying to get to
this guy. They've managed to stabilize the trench's walls and
LAFD first responders specializing and working in confined spaces. They're
(01:14):
there at the scene, so sounds like, you know, all
hands on deck. They have the best crews out there
to get this worker trapped in this eight foot deep
trench out of it. Okay, but yeah, they're doing it
under sweltering conditions.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
As more information comes out about the Appalachi High School
shooting in winder Georgia, it just gets sadder and sadder
we learn more about you know, two teachers and the
two students that were killed. Already say this, a fourteen
year old student opened fire there at the school, killing
those two fellow students, two teachers. The two kids were
(01:50):
fourteen years of age. The first person killed was Mason.
They talk about him being fourteen, and I believe they
say he was autistic or on the spectrum of some kind.
And the reason why I mentioned that is that how
young these kids were and being in a place of
learning there at the beginning of their life. Really, and
(02:12):
here's somebody that might have special needs of some kind
of may not have registered the situation the same way
someone else might have. Who knows if that plays a part.
But of course two of the you know, the adults
here were teachers as well.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But Yeah, the victims are fourteen to fifty three years old.
So one of the teachers thirty nine, the other one
fifty three, both students fourteen.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And that is how old the gunman is as well.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Colt Gray, he ended up surrendering and he will be
tried despite being just fourteen years old.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
He will be tried as an adult.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know, it's a couple of things that stood out.
And we did learn today that about a year ago,
the FBI had been called in and did a risk
assessment or what have you.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
All they received some anonymous online tips of that game
of It threats, and they went to the home. They
interviewed the suspect and his father, and the father mentioned, yeah,
we're a gun family, We're we are hunters. So now
a year later and this is what happened. The question
(03:21):
is will will dad be charged in this at all?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It also stood out to me that he surrendered. You know,
I often we see that it's not you know, suicide
by copper something, and in a situation like this, they
expect to go out right, so they're going to you know,
this is the last ditch effort for whatever they're going
on in their life. I thought it was interesting that
(03:44):
the individual laid down the gun pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I wonder if the fact that he is just fourteen
had anything to do with that. I mean, we've seen
the shooter or shirt, we've seen him at sixteen, seventeen
years old, but fourteen, that's shockingly so young.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Evacuation orders lifted, fire crews are gaining control of the
post fire. It was, you know, all vegetarians started near
city of Paris.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Vegetation not vegetarian. Oh sorry, well you're the fork reporter.
I was just hoping that vegetarians were out there burnt. No,
I'm that's a joke, a horrible, horrible joke. Can you're
allowed to say things like that on TV?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
They're like, pase, please, don't talk about burning vegetarians. So
that's no vegetation, I apologized. Fire started near the city
of Paris, and so one hundred and thirty acres containment and.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
There were some structures burned.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
We were over this last night and there were some
structure not sure if they were outbuildings or actual homes.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So good news.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So all those evacuation orders and warnings have since been lifted.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You know, there's some basic things that I think the
government should control potholes crime, and you're drinking water and
the city is investigating lead contamination in Watts drinking water.
And this story infuriates me that we're at a place
where people, no matter where they are in Los Angeles,
(05:13):
have to worry about not only the quality of their water,
but poison in their water.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Any amount of lead is unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And several of these water samples came back with lead
in them.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Exceptionally high levels.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And of course now the study results have prompted Mayor
Karen Bass to call for more testing of the drinking
water and Watts, Sure, we can do more testing.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But we have to we have to clean it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
We have to get this lead out of the water
because the results, the consequences, I should say, are.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But to me, it's like, you know, what is it
about being pound fulish whatever Penny and Ben Franklin. I
don't know what it's with me and Ben Franklin clothes.
But we do things like, oh, if you're gonna paint
your old house, we got to come out, We got
to do permits, we got to make sure that there's
no lead paint. We gotta do all these things. And
(06:15):
then and then you're feeding it to children in their water.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I'm looking up as I just said how the consequences
are terrible. I'm looking those up for lead exposure.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh and we you know this has been known for
some time as to how how it affects young people,
pregnant women and the like. And and that the basic
necessity of life water is contaminated with lead in one
of the largest cities on h in the country is
(06:51):
beyond me. It's just I don't know, dumbfounding well.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And if you know, they're they're saying that they're providing
free home water testing for people live in Wants and
customers can also call a hotline to request this testing.
In young children most vulnerable, their nervous systems are still
developing and they absorb four to five times more than adults,
which can cause intellectual disability, underperforming at school, behavioral issues.
(07:19):
In adults, you have a higher risk of heart disease
and stroke. And then it's certainly terrible for pregnant women
as well, so it can affect your brain, kidneys, liver, blood, reproductive.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
System, everything basically shut you down.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
We have not gone to the talkback.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
What did you want to well.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
If we're gonna solicit.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We have to.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I want to hear. Don't you want feedback?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm working too, I haven't had time to go listen
to talkbacks.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I don't know where to get the talk back.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
At the talkback store.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I will go through the talkbacks and we will have
them for the last segment.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Okay, we'll see you, look at you, ask and receive.
You're welcome keeekers to the resk. You to love bumps up.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
So what's happening?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Okay? Card skimmers? You know these things bug the cruff,
I mean that people do, and they're kind of ingenious.
This took place or had taken place in Orange County
there in Garden Grove, there's this h It was at
a gas pump and this particular they they do these overlays. Basically,
(08:32):
what it is is the keypad that you used to
put in your information.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They make an overlay that's like a skin it's a
skin tight to it that it press this presses over
and then they insert little things into the card reader
and they're able to get all of your information. They're
pretty ingenious in the way they've been designed. And so
now the local authorities are saying, here's a couple of
(08:56):
things to be on the lookout for, because they are
very hard to notice. One of the first things, and
probably best things, is don't use your debit card. Use
your credit card, because a credit card has better security.
If they do get the information, it's not your money
they're taking, which is harder to get back. But also
(09:17):
it doesn't ask for a pin, so you don't give
the pin for that, but you would for your bank
account if you're using your debit.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You could also pay inside, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
You can go straight inside. One of the tips that's
similar to that is use the gas tank that is
or the pump that is closest to where the personnel
sense inside the store, because those are less apt to
be tampered with.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Because the scammers won't put the skimmers right in front.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
This reminds me of we did a.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Story recently about the QR code scams.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Oh yeah, on the you know the meters.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yes, and Redondo Beach as you would say in gene Yes, right,
and so they put their own QR code. So if
you've got a parking ticket or you know, when you
had to pay yeah, yeah, you just had to pay
for parking, say pay here.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, so you're like, why would you think twice?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Like I'm gonna do the QR code, Okay, I'm gonna
just pay this Okay, great and be on your way
for an hour and then come back and you've been scammed.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, now they have access because you voted something upsh
and you pay. I know they they anyway, there is
I often wonder why do you work so hard to
make money illegally?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Just get a job.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, yeah, Like why don't you use those abilities to
design those things? You know? Because they are pretty, they
fit over it, They're like a glove, they're they're very hard.
Now I give them yanks, or I reach in and
I pull certain parts of them, see if they lift up,
or any of those things.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Have you ever been a victim of a scam?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
No? Oh, scratch that. Oh this was inside a store.
The only time that someone got access was to a
debit card was when I went and bought something in
a convenience store. But I check my stuff all the time.
It's just habit. I just constantly am checking to see where,
(11:15):
you know, money, and if there's any weird activity. And
I caught it within an hour and was like, this
is not real and called the bank and said this not.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We took care of it.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah that was that.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Okay, good?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, No, I mean I think it's helpful to check.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Popularly, Yeah, it could happen, but I try and check,
and I'll take my card and put it by the
finger keypad and try and see if their corner. The
actual buttons are separate, usually separate, meaning you can see
the button like a keyboard, it's separate from the If.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You're I mean this day and age, everyone's on the go,
you're not. You're not literally investigating the keypad. I'm kinda
well you should is I guess the.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
World story and we're all gonna that's what they fed on,
is that.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We're in a hurry, right, Okay. This was breaking news
last night on Fox eleven at both ten and eleven PM.
There was the search for a hit and run suspect
who caused a deadly accident yesterday in Fontana of.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
An innocent driver.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
So this was all during a police pursuit, if I'm
not mistaken, and in that we've seen this all too often,
where then the suspect crashes into an innocent driver and
then killed that innocent driver.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
What makes this worse is he was the individual who
did this, was put into the hospital, in custody in
that hospital, and now has escaped that hospital.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
So how he was able to escape custody at a hospital.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I was saying this last night on the air.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Chelsea Edwards was out there in Colton and it was
this is Arrowhead Regional Medical Center.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
And you know.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
We've reported on prison breaks, but hospital breaks.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well, that's got to be a consideration in circumstances just
like this where for whatever reason, during the act of
a crime, the perpetrator is hurt as well and they've
got to go to a hospital.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Right, But you would think that under heavy security, one
would one would think. So this guy no Noe, Ben
WELLOS thirty two out of Long Beach. He eluded officers
after escaping the hospital until about twelve thirty this morning.
So he was found at an abandoned golf course and
(13:46):
he was still in his handcuffs and his hospital clothing
when he was taken into custody.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
That was twelve thirty this morning. So they did get
him eventually.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Good. Yeah for the good guys. Boo, bad guys. All right,
when we come back, we have stray science and it
is both very science y and very strange. I've noticed. Well, put,
all right, I guess it is time for some not
weird but strange science. Strange. It's like weird science but strange.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
All I know is there's a bunch of words in
here that I cannot even begin to pronounce.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Let's see words, words, words, words, words words. New species
of dinosaur been identified more than a decade after a
massive number of ancient skeletons were found in Spain. Spain,
the gift that keeps on given. But yeah, they're blah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
So this is a This is a site that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Was being excavated for the construction of a be trained
between Madrid and Valencia, and Cruise began digging up numerous
ancient skeletons of dinosaurs, crocodiles, and turtles.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
They spent the.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Next three months extracting several skeletons of dinosaurs, mostly soropods.
Herbivore characterized by having a very long neck, long tail,
large body, and small head.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
It's kind of me So this is a tautanosaur. Tautanosaur,
and like you said, that's basically the It likes to
eat herbs, likes to eat plants, no other you know,
it doesn't really look like a predator, so it's built
(15:44):
like that. But they all have that kind of dinosaur
body with the long tail, the big it looks.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Like a dinosaur.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, yeah it does. Yeah, what does it look like
a dinosaurs? You know why it is not? Yeah, it's
kind of cute with its tiny little brain.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And this is a new species of the how did
you pronounce it, the titanosaur.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
How do you say it?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Titanosaur?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Isanosaur?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Okay, it's like titan with an Okay, So the new
species though, this is the Uh, I'm gonna give it
a go. The kun caussara painty keene e estra.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Better than I could do. I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's characterized by having a weird tale morphology un cassara causar.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, better than I could. So we've got a new one. Yay,
more dinosaurs, although kids are still going to go back
to the t rex, the velociraptor, the velociraptor, although what
we see in movies is not the real velociraptors, so
kids don't know the difference.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You mean Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, Now they're small much smaller, great movie, but they're
much smaller and they have feathers and much different. I
have a life size Velociraptor in the backyard by the pool.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You do, why am I?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
So you have a life size Stormtrooper and Darth Vader
and they're not.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
The backyard's crazy. But the dinos they're in the front yard,
no airness.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You should have them at your front door, just greeting people.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yes, your lack of packages is I find disturbing. Yeah,
that would go over great. You know, the thought of
asteroids hitting the Earth is a weird thought, especially when
they're three foot three feet in diameter. But another one
an asteroid was if they named twenty twenty four RW
(17:45):
one burned up in Earth's atmosphere over the Philippines yesterday afternoon. Yeah,
it's just another day, and I thought, oh, that's pretty cool.
But this story is not about that, because you know,
asteroids this size apparently are estimated to hit the ear
every two weeks. But the story is about that this
is just the ninth asteroid that humankind has ever spotted
(18:08):
before its impact. Wow, right, yeah, that's it nine that
we've seen coming because usually we see them as they
enter the atmosphere and they start to burn up and
it makes a large flash and it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
But maybe you've.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Seen it on social media, because of course the stargazers
who happen to be able to see this rarity, they
posted it on social and captured the spectacular fireball.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
How cool is that? I like space?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I like, well, really, what about the two astronauts that
are stuck.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
They like space a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
They love space. But do you think.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
If you're in that space world literally and then you're
there supposed to be there for eight days and you're
there for almost a year.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Thoughts, Well, it depends how home life was. Things like this.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I want to know the ot is on that.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, you know, that's a good point. Do they get paid?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I would hope?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
So is that hazard pay or is that over time?
I never thought about, Yeah, what would that?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I don't know. You know, what are they grade?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
They have to have a contingency of some kind on
their on these contracts that say hey, listen, defecation occurs,
and if it does, you know there you may be
up there many more weeks than have planned than eight days.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
So oceanographers have found underwater an underwater mountain that's bigger
than Mount Olympus.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, this is looking at an like scanner image of
some kind. Uh, it's you're looking at it from the top,
but to give you like the dimensions. What's the name
of that the skyscraper the world's tallest building there, Khalifa
is what comes to mind? That name, the other one
(20:02):
I can't remember. And they say you could stack four
of those, the world's tallest building. You would stack four
of them on top of each other and that would
be the height of this new mountain that they found underwater.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Off the coast of Chile, Located in the Pacific Ocean,
nine hundred miles off the coast there of Chile. The
seamount is three thousand, one hundred and nine meters tall
and part of an underwater mountain range that is home
to sponge gardens, ancient corals, and rare marine species, including
a type of squid that was filmed for the very
(20:39):
first time.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
New Kalamari come in your way.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
This is cool.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But yeah, the image is gorgeous in colors.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So they're calling it spaghetti monsters. I like that. I
think there is actually the rare squid. Yeah, so I
think there's a fake religion called spaghetti. It's something about
the spaghetti. Is it this spaghetti Strainer monster or something?
There's a group I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Not look at a fact or is this a fork reporter?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
This is Oh how dare you?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Because Spaghetti's involved?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yes, but I gave you a folk reporter fact all
of my fork reporters. Yes is fact. No, and I'm
trying to think of was Spaghetti Strainer the Church of
the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Yes, that's it. Just she is
so much look at that, pulled right out of myrs.
But yeah, so maybe this is it. The spaghetti monster
(21:34):
now is a real thing, and maybe they're going to
start worshiping this thing recorded the first footage of a
live you you want to take a shot at that.
I don't know what that is. That word there and
it's never been captured before. So that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We have a new source of new discoveries, new dinosaurs,
new sea mountains.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I love it. But this one has to be the
cutest in the world.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
These monkeys have a soft spot from monkeys.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Oh, monkeys are great. Oh guess what I I just
purchased for the backyard.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
They look like little gizmos. These ones did what.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Okay, Well, I'm doing a I'm redoing a corner of
the backyard as a jungle cruise the Disney Jungle cruise
them and I got a monkey. It's hanging from behind. Anyways,
these monkeys use names to communicate with each other. They're
all Hi, Marla, They're marmosets, and they can communicate with
(22:35):
each other by name and know when they are being addressed.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Is they're known as fee calls. What what known as
fee calls oh p h e e calls uh huh
to call each other, which scientists say is a high
cognitive behavior pattern only previously observed in humans, dolphins, and elephants.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
They are precious, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
And this is the first time that they've seen this
in non human primates.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
The tree we never like you'd imagine with apes, chimps
and the like, that they don't have names.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Apparently not.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm not buying that, Like, don't you think they have
names in that world? Something a sound that is fee
calls that they bad marketing, horrible marketing.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
There.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You can't come up with anything else, you know, because
let's face it, monkeys get a bad wrap around throwing
feces and now you've.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Got to Well, so these calls, uh, the fee calls,
which is described as a complex array of social calls.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Sure it is.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
They are generally used to communicate when they are out
of sight from each other.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So well, yeah, why would you call each other? I wonder.
I wonder if sometimes they eat a fermented fruit and
they do drunk fee calls and they're like, I just
thinking about you. They have some liquid courage, yeah, they're like,
(24:13):
Or if they sit wrong and they do like a
butt fee call and they're like, sorry, I didn't mean
to butt fee call you. No, none of these are
working my best material.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Pretty creative, I'll give you that.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Some strange science. This sounds like a bad like nineteen
late nineteen eighties Channel four show or something like that.
Part fungus, part machine. This is nuts. Imagine these robots
that are part well, part robot, but also in this
(24:51):
case case part mushroom, a king oyster mushroom. So these
the king Oyster mushroom like these little veins or a
little I don't know, these little legs, and they are
tying them to electronics and other things because the biological
(25:12):
part of this machine now interacts, in this case interacts
with light and it creates an electricity and they can
utilize that sensitivity to light to make it do things
and to respond on a very small level. Now, these
are only in the lab at this point. It's not
like we're going to see them in our homes or something.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It sounds like ais involved.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well you're gonna have. But this they're calling these biohybrid robotics,
and they seek to combine these little things could be
planted animal cells, insects with synthetic components and they will
be part living, partly engineered. The mycilliums these in this
particular case, this is like this root like mycilium. It
(25:59):
produces these electrical signals and they can be connected to
electrodes and can be symbiotic. Kind of crazy, huh.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Especially because the team began growing these, as you said,
king oyster mushrooms in the lab from a simple kit
ordered online. And then the researcher shows the species of
mushroom because it grows easily and quickly.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Okay, so it's something like like a science kit for
kids or something. I guess they're like, now attach it
to a cricket. So you have this enthusiastic amateur who
is an amateur archaeologist and he's digging and doing some
things that you know you do when you're an archaeologist
and amateur archaeologist. And he found this pictish ring. It's
(26:43):
got this it's beautiful, it's shaped like a kite. It
looks like it has some sort of precious stone in
the center. And it was discovered in Scotland. And you're
talking about, you know, a thousand years or so, a
religious sect that ties into the Celts and to paganism
and very caught up and focused on nature, as pagans
(27:07):
are one to do. And it's a beautiful specimen. And
he found it.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, and been there for more than a thousand years,
they say, buried there for more than a thousand years.
You mentioned the stone in the middle, it's either you know,
a garnet or red glass center.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It is really really pretty. This was his third dig.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
At this site, and he says that he has a
knack for finding quote, shiny pebbles. I think that goes
this one goes above and beyond that. They're calling this
truly remarkable what he found and what he uncovered there.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That's kind of cool. I mean, there is some that
I know it's romanticized by you know, Indiana Jones. But
don't don't eat that. The overall not treasure hunting per se,
but the but finding pieces of history.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You know, our house, there's no there's no real monetary
vale value.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
It says, well, on something like this, it's look at me.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I'm all about the money. Yeah, you're like, how much
is this worth?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
But you know, I don't know what it was made
out to say, what kind of I mean, if the
stone's like a piece of glass and it's you know,
crap metal or something that really it's about the value
of you know, preserving history. Yeah. But when we moved
into our house, which was built in nineteen twelve, it
started going through the attic and things like that. We
(28:30):
found really cool I mean artifacts, but not like this,
but in nineteen thirty two front page of the La Times.
We found in nineteen twenty two Journal of Sure Relatives
but for like a bank that doesn't exist anymore and
it was handwritten. Oh and things like that that I
found were very very cool because you know, it's been
(28:52):
around for a long time and things build up. But
you know that's it seeks.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, Okay, so hailstones. I know, we're dealing with a
heat wave right now, but they may be getting bigger
as the climate warms, which would then bring higher insurance costs.
A lot of people can't even get home insurance these
days anyway in California.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Oh, it's good insurance as things change, especially with the weather.
These hailstones are massive. I mean they're fist size, and
in this particular case, looking at the damage cost this,
I'm trying to look where this took place. Gosh, this,
can you imagine She's in Nebraska and she's got this farmhouse,
(29:35):
she's got that tin roof. Start hearing that. Yeah, and
she thought it was gunshots at first, couldn't figure out
what it was. But it's not hurricane's floods are tornadoes
like you might think. That caused the highest damage costs
in the US, it is hail.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Hail accounts for roughly fifty to eighty percent of insured
claims filed from thunderstorm related losses, and so far this
year in the US, thunderstorms have been responsible for about
sixty one billion dollars in economic losses.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, I mean, you're gonna have to have a helmet
for your house. So have you ever seen some of
these protective devices for cars. There's designs. It's almost like
a blow up thing. You put it over your car
and you blow it up and it will defend against
these larger hails.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
That's something you have to think about when you live
in a part of the country that.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
But what does something that's blown up do when you
throw something at it, It tosses it back in a
different direction. Right, Yeah, I don't know they're going to
be like aids yet to absorb in somehow, but they do.
They have these things for your cars that will shelter
them or protect them during a hailstorm. And now they're
going to need to make one out of titanium or
(30:50):
something as they're going to have to protect themselves from
these fist size hailstones.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
One fat bear eight one hundred and thirty five thousand
calories are looking at me in.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Ten hours and the bear's not done.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
No, that's that was a moose boosh.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
The moose boosh.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
That was his appetizer.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So this is in the is It Catmi National Park
and Preserve Good to Me in Alaska. It's an Alaskan
bear and one of the largest, most dominant bears.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Of this river.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
A salmon clogged region of the park that's live streamed
on explore dot org is Bear number thirty two. They've
named this bear Chunk Torsa as a gordo. As a
large dominant bear, he earns access to the most productive
fishing spots, allowing an already large bear to grow huge.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Have you been to Alaska? I have have you seen
I mean the salmon? Yes, and it's there so much yeah,
so yeah, and you're like, holy crap, Now, wonder bears
are they? I mean it literally is just grab boom
and pull it right.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Out well in one hundred thirty five thousand calories in
ten hours. I guess isn't that it'd be easy to
do if you're a bear. First of all, Chunk currently
weighs twelve hundred pounds.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
That's my boy, chump.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
He still has a strong salmon consuming mouth ahead. They
say a single sackeye salmon can pack about four thousand calories.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I love you chunes. Did anybody say where they could
do the truffle shuffle? No?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So they he ate forty five salmon in about ten
and a half hours of fishing.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
They literally monitor him.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
So on August twenty sixth this is when they say
chunk out did himself forty five salmon and ten and
a half hours.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
He got his omega. Three fatty asses didn't.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
And uh, well, salmon's on the fattier side of fish.
It's delicious, but lower and mercury. Yeah, absolutely, and it's
very good for you, but on the fat of your side.
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