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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. I was in the mood to
give away some tickets. Get it?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How about a pair of tickets to this weekend's Chargers
Titans game at SOFI Stadium. Fall means football at Sofi,
So you can join the celebration with the Chargers Salute
to Service this Sunday against the Titans. You could score
your seats at Chargers dot com slash tickets or b
caller number six at one eight hundred five two zero
one five three four eight hundred five too oho one
(00:33):
KFI Caller number six is going to pick up two
tickets to this weekend's game Chargers Titans. Who of course,
you can listen to all the games on all ninety
eight seven Go Bolts.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
What else is going on? Time four? What's happening? Well,
of course, what is happening is.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Wanter damage, fire damage, burglary called public adjuster abner gas
eight one eight nine one seven five two five six.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Hey, by the way, if tomorrow you do that, I
encourage everyone to raz.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You for a direction. I do it every day I know,
so why would tomorrow be any stupidly placed thing I've
ever heard in my life? Anyway, what's going on today
is this fire. It is a monster. It has exploded
to what'd you say, more than nineteen thousand acres what
cal fire says. Blake Trolley from KFI News is on
this and joins us now and Blake, it seems like
(01:25):
well Channel seven had at about eighty three homes lost
as of this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, there's no actual amount of homes loss, So I'm
guessing what these news companies, they've gone out and kind
of done their own surveys. We were just told in
our latest press briefing that officials are still collecting that information.
They're sending ten teams into these neighborhoods to look at
this damage, to assess this damage, and to come back
with a number. They say they want to be thorough
because they want to get this right the first time.
(01:52):
So I have seen some of those numbers. I've seen
numbers like fifty you just mentioned, more than eighty. My
guess is these are aerial surveys that the news come
copanies are doing. But keep in mind, the officials have
yet to put out a number on the number of
homes lost. What they have put a number out on
is the acreage. Now, some potentially decent news I guess
(02:12):
you could say with this fire is that the growth
of this fire. Keep in mind, it went from fourteen
hundred acres to fourteen thousand acres yesterday. That's a multiplication,
of course, of ten times its size. For us A journalists,
wo are bad at math. And you know last night
it only grew by a few hundred acres, So it
grew massively yesterday, but last night it only went from
(02:33):
about fourteen two hundred acres to about fourteen thousand, five
hundred acres.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And I'm guessing what that is.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
They didn't say this explicitly, but one of the things
that they highlighted in this news conference we just had
with officials is that they were able to run helicopters
all night. And this is usually an issue when you've
got these types of winds of wind events, these can
really impact those aircraft. And they say, last night, unusually
they were able to have a tankers doing drops all night,
(03:02):
and they said, this fire is responding to those and
really slowing down. As far as the fire's movement, goes.
This fire is moving to the northwest, with the community
of Santa Paula kind of being the most impacted right now.
As for how it's moving, we're told it's moving in
kind of a mixed topography, an area where there's a
lot of ranch style homes, a lot of hillside but
(03:23):
that it does have potential to slide into some areas
that are more populated.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What are we looking at, weather condition wise out there
right now. I mean, we had heard that the red
flag conditions are going to stick around through this evening,
but what does it feel like out there now exactly?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And one thing that we should note about those red
flag conditions that you're talking about there, Gary, is that
yesterday they said these were extreme red flag conditions and
they've been really lowered back down to more of a
typical red flag condition and those are supposed to stick
around with us till about six pm tomorrow. Then winds
are supposed to be relatively light throughout the weekend. But
you know, firefighters are going to really have a window
(04:00):
because they're eyeing potential more wind activity that could kick
up early next week. So they say they're trying to
get ahead of this. They're also trying to be prepared
for a potential other event or you know, any sort
of flare ups that could come early next week.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right, Blake trolley out there near the fire lines.
Thanks man. All right, guys.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The other big story nationally today is the Fed Reserve
approved its second consecutive interest rate cut.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Today.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
The FMC decided to take another step in reducing the
degree of policy restraint by lowering our policy interest rate
by a quarter percentage point.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
In quick trivia question, what does he mean when he
says the FOMC.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The Federal Open Market Committee lowered its benchmark overnight borrowing
rate by a quarter percentage point twenty five basis points
to a target range now of four and a half
to four and three quarter percent. This rate sets what
banks will charge each other for overnight lending, but can
influence other consumer debt things like mortgages, credit cards, auto
(04:59):
loans as well. If you missed it, man, you missed
a barn burner of a speech from Jerome Powell.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
In the near term, the election will have no effects
on our policy decisions. As you know, many many things
affect the economy, and anyone who writes down forecasts in
their job will tell you that the economy is quite
difficult the forecast looking out past the very near term.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But this was not an unexpected In fact, it was
a very expected move this quarter point, which telegraphed both
at the September meeting and in some of the follow
up remarks from policymakers that they've been talking since then.
So this vote was hunanimous, hunanimous, unanimous, Unlike the previous
move that saw the first no vote from a FED
(05:42):
governor since two thousand and five. Michelle Bowman was the
one who voted no last time. She instead went along
with the decision today. So the statement came out and
reflected a few tweaks in how the FED views the economy,
as he was referring to there an altered view, and
how it assesses the effort to bring down while trying
to support the labor market.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Wasn't there a movie where a bunch of monkeys escaped?
Go on, I don't. I didn't see the movie, but
it sounds familiar. I'm sure you saw the movie. Did
the monkeys take us over?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
No, they just are infected with ebola? Oh and then
they kill all of us. Outbreak, outbreak. Dustin Hoffman Rene Russo,
Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, Kuba Gooding Junior, Kevin Spacey, Patrick Dempsey.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Quite a cast. What's the premise nineteen ninety five? Uh there,
let's what is it about.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
A virologist for the United States is investigating an outbreak
of motaba, the deadly fever in Zayere wiped out an
entire village.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This guy and his crew get information. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It turns out that one of the capuchin monkeys that
is to host the virus is smug into the country,
and a worker at a California animal lab is infected
when he steals the monkey. On and on and on.
I think it was, if I'm not mistaken, filmed up
in Ferndale, Ferndale along the coast northern California.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's basically, it's an ebola like thing that gets out
and the government has to swoop in and they may
drop a nuclear weapon on that little town to prevent
this thing from getting out of control.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So that's what they do, or we don't know. I
don't know. I never finished the movie.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well I did, of course, I know what happens. So
what happens I gotta tell you. Watch the movie I'm
not going to watch Outbreak from nineteen ninety five about
the monkeys.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
It's a good movie, Is it really Okay? Maybe I'll
watch it. A police search is underway right now in
real life. Forty monkeys have escaped from a research facility
in South Carolina last night. They escaped from Alpha Genesis,
a business that provides non human primate products and bio
(08:02):
research services. This sounds like when Ellwood's dog Bruiser wanted
to track down his mom and they found him in
a puppy research plant. Bruiser's mom was having experiments done
on her and they had to break out Bruiser's mom.
(08:24):
How do you do you know how they did it?
This isn't Legally Blonde two that I never saw you
did it? It's a great movie, sure it is. I'm
not going to tell you how it ends because I
don't want to spoil it. Is there a Thermo Barrack
bomb involved? Possibly? Is the government called in? Yes, yes,
I saw that coming, but I bet you didn't know
(08:48):
who a member of the government is John Voight. The
company works with monkeys to carry out clinical trials, including
on brain disease disorder treatments, has one of the most
one of the largest and most comprehensive non human primate facilities,
(09:08):
specifically for monkeys. I say yay to these monkeys. I
say yay to these monkeys. However, we don't know, unfortunately,
about the escaped monkeys. We don't know whether they were
exposed to any diseases. And alpha genesis is Mum's the word.
They're not talking to anybody about what these monkeys were.
(09:30):
You're making a joke. But these could be diseased monkeys.
I know that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
That's why I'm saying it. That should be a concern.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I hope they make their way here. I hope they
make their their way all the way across the great
Land and start to getting rid of some of these people.
Who who's on your list? Who's on my list? Don't
get me to incriminate myself and have a record of.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It, Jacob, we're rolling on this right. Go ahead, tell
us what's on your list? Also, have you ever go on,
go ahead? Have you ever heard that whole of the
old adage that a million monkeys typing on a million
typewriters for infinity would eventually come up with the complete
works of Shakespeare? No, you've never heard that, no, just
(10:19):
I guess it's a way to describe that at some
point chaos becomes the norm.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I don't know if that's even the right way to
put it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
But there was a research team to figure out could
a monkey eventually type out the works of Shakespeare if
they had an infinite amount of time. A researcher by
the name of Stephen Woodcock, Professor Stephen Woodcock and J.
Fletta from the University of Technology in Sydney set out
(10:47):
to mathematically examine the infinite monkey theorem.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Consists.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They said that considers the infinite limit whether an infinite
number of monkeys on an infinite time period of monkey labor.
They said that they examined the probability of a given
string of letters being typed by a finite number of
monkeys within a finite time period consistent with the estimates
for the lifespan of the universe.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
The theorem can be generalized to state that any sequence
of events that has a non zero probability of happening
will almost certainly occur an infinite number of times given
an infinite amount of time or a universe that is
infinite in size.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
My head hurts, they said, the universe would long end
before any group of monkeys could bang out even one
Shakespearean play by accident.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
They said, consider the probability of typing the word banana
on a typewriter with fifty keys. Suppose that the keys
are pressed randomly and independently, meaning that each key has
an equal chance of being pressed, regardless of what keys
have been pressed previously. I call this my roulette theory.
I bet on thirty two, it hits. You know what
(12:05):
I bet on next time? Thirty two. It's got just
as much probability as the next time. That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Steven jobs his lottery numbers when when the California lottery.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Was run two three, four, five six exactly right, same probability,
they said.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
One chimp typing on a thirty key keyboard would have
a five percent chance of writing the word bananas within
their lifetime.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Pretty crazy, All right, this is crazy. This is crazy,
isn't it craz You've got to go into a meeting
right now? Who going to do? Fruitfly News and Orange County?
Oh strange, sad? Prof going on. We've got a new
record achieved from Mount Fuji, and I'll tell you why
that matters. Let's revisit our emperor penguin, shall we?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Let's do it? Oh so also also also also the
largest terror bird ever found.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Another chance for a couple of tickets to this weekend's
Chargers game.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
We'll tell you how you can win them. Did you
know that Jupiter has no surface? Your face has no surface?
Your face sucks strong? Comeback? All right, it's time for
strange science. Strange it's like weird science, but strange. Well,
(13:25):
let me start with the invasive fruit fly in Orange County.
Cities of Santa Anna and Garden Grove have been placed
under quarantine in light of the uninvited and unwelcome visitor,
the Oriental fruit fly. Well, that's racist, an invasive pest
that attacks over three hundred excuse me, two hundred and
(13:45):
thirty crops, including fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It feels like has this been a problem in California forever?
Because I feel like when I was a kid, I
remember hearing about fruit flies. Yeah, and fruitfl like quarantines
and signs and checkpoints and all of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So residents living in the quarantine zones can prevent the
spread by not moving those crops from their property. They
can consume or process their homegrown protuce if it hasn't
been contaminated. But if you want to dispose of it,
double bag it and place it into the regular trash,
not the green waste bin. The quarantine zone in Orange
(14:26):
County is eighty seven square miles, bordered on the north
by Anaheim, on the south by John Wayne, on the
west by Huntington Beach, and on the east by the fifty.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Five Quick technological question for you, Yeah, do you know
what most satellites are made of?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It's funny because you know, I'm really used to people
coming to me with tech questions, right, It's just I'm
like the go to for that that category of inquiry,
and i gotta say, I'm stumped on this one.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So satellite metallurgy is not your thing. No, not my wheelhouse.
Aluminum satellites are made with aluminum, which can be a
problem when they burn up in the atmosphere at the
end of their lives because they generate aluminum oxides that
can alter our thermal balance here on Earth and damage
the protective bozone layer.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
So that's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
A scientist at Kyoto University has developed the world's first
wooden satellite, which almost sounds like a steampunk case play thing,
but it was. They developed this Ligno sat with Sumitomo Forestry.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
All of this should be in Space Wars.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's going to be a board a SpaceX Dragon capsule
or is actually on his way now to the ISS.
It's about four inches on each side, little cube, but
it could end up having a big impact on spaceflight
and exploration down the road.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I've been meaning to tell you this. Did you hear
that a new Star Wars trilogy is in the works.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I'm not happy with any of the words you just spoke,
really why he likes Star Wars?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, but they did you want to hear the rest?
Lucasfilm has tapped Simon Kinberg to write and produce a
new saga of films. Kinberg co created the hit animated
series Star Wars Rebels and served as a consultant on
The Force Awakens. It comes as other Star Wars projects
(16:31):
remain in development from filmmakers including Donald Glover, Taiko Watiti,
and James Mangold. How much Star Wars do we need?
That's my point. It's like you're cheapening the original stuff, preach.
I mean, it was perfect the way it was, Why
add more to it? It's kind of like a wedding gown, right,
(16:53):
beautiful classic. Keana's wedding gown was perfect classic. If I took,
you know, a sequined shawl and put it over Keana's
wedding gown, her classic, beautiful wedding gown, it would cheapen
the whole look. And then if I threw on some
ruby slippers or something. That's what they're doing to Star Wars.
(17:13):
You're taking the Yeah, you're taking away by adding Wait,
I have a dark shirt. I was gonna wear it.
I think I'm nor my Luche door sweatshirt.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I don't have a Lucur sweatshirt, but I do have
a luchaor T shirt, so I think I'm gonna wear
that underneath.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Okay, we could have probably talked about that off the air.
You know. Tell me about these Tell me about the dogs.
One hundred over one hundred invasive lizards the size of
dogs have been reported throughout South Carolina and are destroying
the local ecosystem. Oh my gosh, They've got the monkeys
on the loose, forty of them, and now we've got
one hundred lizards the size of dogs. It's called the
(17:51):
Argentine black and white tagu. It's been causing havoc. The
lizard can grow up to four feet long, and it's
distinguished by its spotted scales and appetite, voracious appetite. It
eats about everything in sight, just like you, and it
(18:13):
needs me too. No, No, I eat everything instead. You do.
I get jokes. You do. I get jokes only because
you're not a waste.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Did you know that South Carolina has a state herpetologist, Oh,
Andrew Gross.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You know him. Yeah, I didn't realize that. He said.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There's so far no evidence that these lizards have been breeding.
They're primarily being kept as pets.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
They said.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
About seventy nine thousand of these things have been imported
to the United States in twenty the decade that ended
in twenty ten. Many of the ones originally spotted in
twenty twenty were either released or had escaped from their captivity,
so thirty two confirmed sightings around around seventeen different counties.
(18:58):
Twenty nine of these were the black and white Take you, yeah, Andrew.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Has been the herpetologist there since I think July of
twenty eighteen. Why do you know that? Well?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Are you related to the state herpetologist in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I just feel like it's kind of common knowledge. I
don't know why it wouldn't be in your purview.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
The planet Jupiter has no solid ground, no surface, no grass,
no dirt, nothing to walk on, no place to land,
to spaceship. But how does how how does it stay together?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Chemicals? Gas is.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Jupiter fife the largest planet in the Solar System, big
enough for more than one thousand earths to fit inside
room to spare.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
It's got a mostly hydrogen and helium atmosphere. Yeah, but
there's how do you get.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I guess As the layers of the gas above you
push down more and more.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
It's like being at the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Instead of water, though you're surrounded by gas, and the
pressure has becomes so in tense the human body would implode.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You would be squished.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I would like to go to Jupiter, go down a
thousand miles and the hot, dense gas begins to behave Strangely, eventually,
the gas turns into a form of liquid hydrogen, creating
what can be thought of as the largest ocean in
the Solar System, although it's an ocean without any water.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
New research shows that animals become less social as they age,
just like people. I could see that animal's nature is
to isolate as they age. You know. That's a Yeah,
that's a sad thing. It's a sad thing to watch
when pets start hiding because they're going to die soon. Yeah.
(20:41):
You know you've been kind of mia recently. You've isolated
yourself around here quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
From whom there's no one here to isolate myself from.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
That's true. I'm the one who sits. I sit out
there in the wide open room begging for people to
come by, Okay, and then oh no, not yet. No,
we need to talk about the penguin. How did the
penguin get from Antarctica to Australia.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Penguins can swim. They can't fly, No, but penguins can swim.
That's a long How far is that?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Actually? I have no idea all to google it. You're
just gonna leave me out here hanging in the wind.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, I'm waiting to see what's gonna happen. Is this
one of those things you're gonna have to find out
and then tell us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Australia is one of the countries that's closest to Antarctica. Okay,
so however our Gentina, Chile, and New Zealand are closer.
The actual distance is five ninety seven miles. There you go.
That's for a penguin to swim five thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Tomorrow, we're live luchad Or Brewing in Gino Hills, coming
out and say hi.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
We'll be there from nine am until one pm.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And among other things, giving away tickets to the Hops
in the Hills event which is coming up on Saturday.
But we have a bunch of Gary and Shannon Show
stuff that we're gonna be given away. They have breakfast burritos,
so you can come hungry and.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And thirsty if you will. Don't stay hungry places, stay
hungry before well for you know, fun and excitement. Yeah,
hungry for fun and an excitement. All right, Drive safe,
you drive safe.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show. You
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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. I was in the mood to
give away some tickets. Get it?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How about a pair of tickets to this weekend's Chargers
Titans game at SOFI Stadium. Fall means football at Sofi,
So you can join the celebration with the Chargers Salute
to Service this Sunday against the Titans. You could score
your seats at Chargers dot com slash tickets or b
caller number six at one eight hundred five two zero
one five three four eight hundred five too oho one
(00:33):
KFI Caller number six is going to pick up two
tickets to this weekend's game Chargers Titans. Who of course,
you can listen to all the games on all ninety
eight seven Go Bolts.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
What else is going on? Time four? What's happening? Well,
of course, what is happening is.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Wanter damage, fire damage, burglary called public adjuster abner gas
eight one eight nine one seven five two five six.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Hey, by the way, if tomorrow you do that, I
encourage everyone to raz.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You for a direction. I do it every day I know,
so why would tomorrow be any stupidly placed thing I've
ever heard in my life? Anyway, what's going on today
is this fire. It is a monster. It has exploded
to what'd you say, more than nineteen thousand acres what
cal fire says. Blake Trolley from KFI News is on
this and joins us now and Blake, it seems like
(01:25):
well Channel seven had at about eighty three homes lost
as of this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, there's no actual amount of homes loss, So I'm
guessing what these news companies, they've gone out and kind
of done their own surveys. We were just told in
our latest press briefing that officials are still collecting that information.
They're sending ten teams into these neighborhoods to look at
this damage, to assess this damage, and to come back
with a number. They say they want to be thorough
because they want to get this right the first time.
(01:52):
So I have seen some of those numbers. I've seen
numbers like fifty you just mentioned, more than eighty. My
guess is these are aerial surveys that the news come
copanies are doing. But keep in mind, the officials have
yet to put out a number on the number of
homes lost. What they have put a number out on
is the acreage. Now, some potentially decent news I guess
(02:12):
you could say with this fire is that the growth
of this fire. Keep in mind, it went from fourteen
hundred acres to fourteen thousand acres yesterday. That's a multiplication,
of course, of ten times its size. For us A journalists,
wo are bad at math. And you know last night
it only grew by a few hundred acres, So it
grew massively yesterday, but last night it only went from
(02:33):
about fourteen two hundred acres to about fourteen thousand, five
hundred acres.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And I'm guessing what that is.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
They didn't say this explicitly, but one of the things
that they highlighted in this news conference we just had
with officials is that they were able to run helicopters
all night. And this is usually an issue when you've
got these types of winds of wind events, these can
really impact those aircraft. And they say, last night, unusually
they were able to have a tankers doing drops all night,
(03:02):
and they said, this fire is responding to those and
really slowing down. As far as the fire's movement, goes.
This fire is moving to the northwest, with the community
of Santa Paula kind of being the most impacted right now.
As for how it's moving, we're told it's moving in
kind of a mixed topography, an area where there's a
lot of ranch style homes, a lot of hillside but
(03:23):
that it does have potential to slide into some areas
that are more populated.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What are we looking at, weather condition wise out there
right now. I mean, we had heard that the red
flag conditions are going to stick around through this evening,
but what does it feel like out there now exactly?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And one thing that we should note about those red
flag conditions that you're talking about there, Gary, is that
yesterday they said these were extreme red flag conditions and
they've been really lowered back down to more of a
typical red flag condition and those are supposed to stick
around with us till about six pm tomorrow. Then winds
are supposed to be relatively light throughout the weekend. But
you know, firefighters are going to really have a window
(04:00):
because they're eyeing potential more wind activity that could kick
up early next week. So they say they're trying to
get ahead of this. They're also trying to be prepared
for a potential other event or you know, any sort
of flare ups that could come early next week.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right, Blake trolley out there near the fire lines.
Thanks man. All right, guys.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The other big story nationally today is the Fed Reserve
approved its second consecutive interest rate cut.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Today.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
The FMC decided to take another step in reducing the
degree of policy restraint by lowering our policy interest rate
by a quarter percentage point.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
In quick trivia question, what does he mean when he
says the FOMC.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The Federal Open Market Committee lowered its benchmark overnight borrowing
rate by a quarter percentage point twenty five basis points
to a target range now of four and a half
to four and three quarter percent. This rate sets what
banks will charge each other for overnight lending, but can
influence other consumer debt things like mortgages, credit cards, auto
(04:59):
loans as well. If you missed it, man, you missed
a barn burner of a speech from Jerome Powell.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
In the near term, the election will have no effects
on our policy decisions. As you know, many many things
affect the economy, and anyone who writes down forecasts in
their job will tell you that the economy is quite
difficult the forecast looking out past the very near term.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But this was not an unexpected In fact, it was
a very expected move this quarter point, which telegraphed both
at the September meeting and in some of the follow
up remarks from policymakers that they've been talking since then.
So this vote was hunanimous, hunanimous, unanimous, Unlike the previous
move that saw the first no vote from a FED
(05:42):
governor since two thousand and five. Michelle Bowman was the
one who voted no last time. She instead went along
with the decision today. So the statement came out and
reflected a few tweaks in how the FED views the economy,
as he was referring to there an altered view, and
how it assesses the effort to bring down while trying
to support the labor market.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Wasn't there a movie where a bunch of monkeys escaped?
Go on, I don't. I didn't see the movie, but
it sounds familiar. I'm sure you saw the movie. Did
the monkeys take us over?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
No, they just are infected with ebola? Oh and then
they kill all of us. Outbreak, outbreak. Dustin Hoffman Rene Russo,
Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, Kuba Gooding Junior, Kevin Spacey, Patrick Dempsey.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Quite a cast. What's the premise nineteen ninety five? Uh there,
let's what is it about.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
A virologist for the United States is investigating an outbreak
of motaba, the deadly fever in Zayere wiped out an
entire village.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This guy and his crew get information. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It turns out that one of the capuchin monkeys that
is to host the virus is smug into the country,
and a worker at a California animal lab is infected
when he steals the monkey. On and on and on.
I think it was, if I'm not mistaken, filmed up
in Ferndale, Ferndale along the coast northern California.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's basically, it's an ebola like thing that gets out
and the government has to swoop in and they may
drop a nuclear weapon on that little town to prevent
this thing from getting out of control.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So that's what they do, or we don't know. I
don't know. I never finished the movie.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well I did, of course, I know what happens. So
what happens I gotta tell you. Watch the movie I'm
not going to watch Outbreak from nineteen ninety five about
the monkeys.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
It's a good movie, Is it really Okay? Maybe I'll
watch it. A police search is underway right now in
real life. Forty monkeys have escaped from a research facility
in South Carolina last night. They escaped from Alpha Genesis,
a business that provides non human primate products and bio
(08:02):
research services. This sounds like when Ellwood's dog Bruiser wanted
to track down his mom and they found him in
a puppy research plant. Bruiser's mom was having experiments done
on her and they had to break out Bruiser's mom.
(08:24):
How do you do you know how they did it?
This isn't Legally Blonde two that I never saw you
did it? It's a great movie, sure it is. I'm
not going to tell you how it ends because I
don't want to spoil it. Is there a Thermo Barrack
bomb involved? Possibly? Is the government called in? Yes, yes,
I saw that coming, but I bet you didn't know
(08:48):
who a member of the government is John Voight. The
company works with monkeys to carry out clinical trials, including
on brain disease disorder treatments, has one of the most
one of the largest and most comprehensive non human primate facilities,
(09:08):
specifically for monkeys. I say yay to these monkeys. I
say yay to these monkeys. However, we don't know, unfortunately,
about the escaped monkeys. We don't know whether they were
exposed to any diseases. And alpha genesis is Mum's the word.
They're not talking to anybody about what these monkeys were.
(09:30):
You're making a joke. But these could be diseased monkeys.
I know that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
That's why I'm saying it. That should be a concern.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I hope they make their way here. I hope they
make their their way all the way across the great
Land and start to getting rid of some of these people.
Who who's on your list? Who's on my list? Don't
get me to incriminate myself and have a record of.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It, Jacob, we're rolling on this right. Go ahead, tell
us what's on your list? Also, have you ever go on,
go ahead? Have you ever heard that whole of the
old adage that a million monkeys typing on a million
typewriters for infinity would eventually come up with the complete
works of Shakespeare? No, you've never heard that, no, just
(10:19):
I guess it's a way to describe that at some
point chaos becomes the norm.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I don't know if that's even the right way to
put it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
But there was a research team to figure out could
a monkey eventually type out the works of Shakespeare if
they had an infinite amount of time. A researcher by
the name of Stephen Woodcock, Professor Stephen Woodcock and J.
Fletta from the University of Technology in Sydney set out
(10:47):
to mathematically examine the infinite monkey theorem.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Consists.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They said that considers the infinite limit whether an infinite
number of monkeys on an infinite time period of monkey labor.
They said that they examined the probability of a given
string of letters being typed by a finite number of
monkeys within a finite time period consistent with the estimates
for the lifespan of the universe.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
The theorem can be generalized to state that any sequence
of events that has a non zero probability of happening
will almost certainly occur an infinite number of times given
an infinite amount of time or a universe that is
infinite in size.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
My head hurts, they said, the universe would long end
before any group of monkeys could bang out even one
Shakespearean play by accident.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
They said, consider the probability of typing the word banana
on a typewriter with fifty keys. Suppose that the keys
are pressed randomly and independently, meaning that each key has
an equal chance of being pressed, regardless of what keys
have been pressed previously. I call this my roulette theory.
I bet on thirty two, it hits. You know what
(12:05):
I bet on next time? Thirty two. It's got just
as much probability as the next time. That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Steven jobs his lottery numbers when when the California lottery.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Was run two three, four, five six exactly right, same probability,
they said.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
One chimp typing on a thirty key keyboard would have
a five percent chance of writing the word bananas within
their lifetime.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Pretty crazy, All right, this is crazy. This is crazy,
isn't it craz You've got to go into a meeting
right now? Who going to do? Fruitfly News and Orange County?
Oh strange, sad? Prof going on. We've got a new
record achieved from Mount Fuji, and I'll tell you why
that matters. Let's revisit our emperor penguin, shall we?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Let's do it? Oh so also also also also the
largest terror bird ever found.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Another chance for a couple of tickets to this weekend's
Chargers game.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
We'll tell you how you can win them. Did you
know that Jupiter has no surface? Your face has no surface?
Your face sucks strong? Comeback? All right, it's time for
strange science. Strange it's like weird science, but strange. Well,
(13:25):
let me start with the invasive fruit fly in Orange County.
Cities of Santa Anna and Garden Grove have been placed
under quarantine in light of the uninvited and unwelcome visitor,
the Oriental fruit fly. Well, that's racist, an invasive pest
that attacks over three hundred excuse me, two hundred and
(13:45):
thirty crops, including fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It feels like has this been a problem in California forever?
Because I feel like when I was a kid, I
remember hearing about fruit flies. Yeah, and fruitfl like quarantines
and signs and checkpoints and all of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So residents living in the quarantine zones can prevent the
spread by not moving those crops from their property. They
can consume or process their homegrown protuce if it hasn't
been contaminated. But if you want to dispose of it,
double bag it and place it into the regular trash,
not the green waste bin. The quarantine zone in Orange
(14:26):
County is eighty seven square miles, bordered on the north
by Anaheim, on the south by John Wayne, on the
west by Huntington Beach, and on the east by the fifty.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Five Quick technological question for you, Yeah, do you know
what most satellites are made of?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It's funny because you know, I'm really used to people
coming to me with tech questions, right, It's just I'm
like the go to for that that category of inquiry,
and i gotta say, I'm stumped on this one.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So satellite metallurgy is not your thing. No, not my wheelhouse.
Aluminum satellites are made with aluminum, which can be a
problem when they burn up in the atmosphere at the
end of their lives because they generate aluminum oxides that
can alter our thermal balance here on Earth and damage
the protective bozone layer.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
So that's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
A scientist at Kyoto University has developed the world's first
wooden satellite, which almost sounds like a steampunk case play thing,
but it was. They developed this Ligno sat with Sumitomo Forestry.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
All of this should be in Space Wars.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's going to be a board a SpaceX Dragon capsule
or is actually on his way now to the ISS.
It's about four inches on each side, little cube, but
it could end up having a big impact on spaceflight
and exploration down the road.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I've been meaning to tell you this. Did you hear
that a new Star Wars trilogy is in the works.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I'm not happy with any of the words you just spoke,
really why he likes Star Wars?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, but they did you want to hear the rest?
Lucasfilm has tapped Simon Kinberg to write and produce a
new saga of films. Kinberg co created the hit animated
series Star Wars Rebels and served as a consultant on
The Force Awakens. It comes as other Star Wars projects
(16:31):
remain in development from filmmakers including Donald Glover, Taiko Watiti,
and James Mangold. How much Star Wars do we need?
That's my point. It's like you're cheapening the original stuff, preach.
I mean, it was perfect the way it was, Why
add more to it? It's kind of like a wedding gown, right,
(16:53):
beautiful classic. Keana's wedding gown was perfect classic. If I took,
you know, a sequined shawl and put it over Keana's
wedding gown, her classic, beautiful wedding gown, it would cheapen
the whole look. And then if I threw on some
ruby slippers or something. That's what they're doing to Star Wars.
(17:13):
You're taking the Yeah, you're taking away by adding Wait,
I have a dark shirt. I was gonna wear it.
I think I'm nor my Luche door sweatshirt.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I don't have a Lucur sweatshirt, but I do have
a luchaor T shirt, so I think I'm gonna wear
that underneath.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Okay, we could have probably talked about that off the air.
You know. Tell me about these Tell me about the dogs.
One hundred over one hundred invasive lizards the size of
dogs have been reported throughout South Carolina and are destroying
the local ecosystem. Oh my gosh, They've got the monkeys
on the loose, forty of them, and now we've got
one hundred lizards the size of dogs. It's called the
(17:51):
Argentine black and white tagu. It's been causing havoc. The
lizard can grow up to four feet long, and it's
distinguished by its spotted scales and appetite, voracious appetite. It
eats about everything in sight, just like you, and it
(18:13):
needs me too. No, No, I eat everything instead. You do.
I get jokes. You do. I get jokes only because
you're not a waste.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Did you know that South Carolina has a state herpetologist, Oh,
Andrew Gross.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You know him. Yeah, I didn't realize that. He said.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There's so far no evidence that these lizards have been breeding.
They're primarily being kept as pets.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
They said.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
About seventy nine thousand of these things have been imported
to the United States in twenty the decade that ended
in twenty ten. Many of the ones originally spotted in
twenty twenty were either released or had escaped from their captivity,
so thirty two confirmed sightings around around seventeen different counties.
(18:58):
Twenty nine of these were the black and white Take you, yeah, Andrew.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Has been the herpetologist there since I think July of
twenty eighteen. Why do you know that? Well?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Are you related to the state herpetologist in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I just feel like it's kind of common knowledge. I
don't know why it wouldn't be in your purview.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
The planet Jupiter has no solid ground, no surface, no grass,
no dirt, nothing to walk on, no place to land,
to spaceship. But how does how how does it stay together?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Chemicals? Gas is.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Jupiter fife the largest planet in the Solar System, big
enough for more than one thousand earths to fit inside
room to spare.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
It's got a mostly hydrogen and helium atmosphere. Yeah, but
there's how do you get.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I guess As the layers of the gas above you
push down more and more.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
It's like being at the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Instead of water, though you're surrounded by gas, and the
pressure has becomes so in tense the human body would implode.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You would be squished.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I would like to go to Jupiter, go down a
thousand miles and the hot, dense gas begins to behave Strangely, eventually,
the gas turns into a form of liquid hydrogen, creating
what can be thought of as the largest ocean in
the Solar System, although it's an ocean without any water.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
New research shows that animals become less social as they age,
just like people. I could see that animal's nature is
to isolate as they age. You know. That's a Yeah,
that's a sad thing. It's a sad thing to watch
when pets start hiding because they're going to die soon. Yeah.
(20:41):
You know you've been kind of mia recently. You've isolated
yourself around here quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
From whom there's no one here to isolate myself from.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
That's true. I'm the one who sits. I sit out
there in the wide open room begging for people to
come by, Okay, and then oh no, not yet. No,
we need to talk about the penguin. How did the
penguin get from Antarctica to Australia.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Penguins can swim. They can't fly, No, but penguins can swim.
That's a long How far is that?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Actually? I have no idea all to google it. You're
just gonna leave me out here hanging in the wind.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, I'm waiting to see what's gonna happen. Is this
one of those things you're gonna have to find out
and then tell us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Australia is one of the countries that's closest to Antarctica. Okay,
so however our Gentina, Chile, and New Zealand are closer.
The actual distance is five ninety seven miles. There you go.
That's for a penguin to swim five thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Tomorrow, we're live luchad Or Brewing in Gino Hills, coming
out and say hi.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
We'll be there from nine am until one pm.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And among other things, giving away tickets to the Hops
in the Hills event which is coming up on Saturday.
But we have a bunch of Gary and Shannon Show
stuff that we're gonna be given away. They have breakfast burritos,
so you can come hungry and.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And thirsty if you will. Don't stay hungry places, stay
hungry before well for you know, fun and excitement. Yeah,
hungry for fun and an excitement. All right, Drive safe,
you drive safe.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
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