Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: People are gonna hear what they want to hear.
Speaker 3: No matter what I say, what you say, what Shannon says,
Speaker 3: what the guests say.
Speaker 2: People are gonna hear what they want to hear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you meaning Christina Pascucci. Yes, I'm in today. So
Speaker 1: people are gonna say, who's the boys?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: But I'm sorry, I got a little sidetracked because.
Speaker 1: You're thinking ahead to what's will to play.
Speaker 3: I welcome everybody's comments. Whatever, whatever you comment, you want
Speaker 3: to leave, it's fine, you can do so. On the
Speaker 3: talkback feature on the iHeart app. You hit that little
Speaker 3: microphone and we get it and we listened to them,
Speaker 3: or what you know, we can read them.
Speaker 2: They transcribe all that sort of stuff. Some just make me.
Speaker 2: I know you said you thrive on some of these
Speaker 2: negative comments.
Speaker 1: But it makes me want to be better.
Speaker 3: I just feel like, no matter what I say or do,
Speaker 3: people just hear it through their own filter.
Speaker 5: You're talking about the civil discord and way it's not
Speaker 5: the way it used to be. In what I was saying,
Speaker 5: is discourse it shows like yours you need to be
Speaker 5: it's so biased and so onsided, and there needs to
Speaker 5: being media that aren't biased anymore. You guys are so
Speaker 5: pro Trump that it's I can't even listen to it anymore.
Speaker 5: And it's not that I don't like that you support somebody,
Speaker 5: but the bias and the one side in mess is
Speaker 5: just too much for America anymore.
Speaker 3: Okay, clearly not listened because I've said repeatedly I don't
Speaker 3: support Trump, But even if I did, how could I
Speaker 3: not be biased? That doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 3: I mean, I understand that people want to have civil discourse.
Speaker 3: I try to keep it civil. I have said multiple
Speaker 3: times I'm open minded. I'll have the conversations. They may
Speaker 3: frustrate the hell out of me, but I'll have the conversations.
Speaker 3: And I have just as many people who would say
Speaker 3: the other way. They said that they know that I
Speaker 3: voted for Joe Biden, or they they know that I
Speaker 3: support this party or that party.
Speaker 1: That's going to happen no matter what. I remember. There
Speaker 1: was this story I was doing when I was at
Speaker 1: KTLA and someone commented on social media, you liberal hack
Speaker 1: and then someone commented in response to that, and they said,
Speaker 1: she is a hack, but she's not a liberal and
Speaker 1: she's a conservative hack. So people see things through their
Speaker 1: own lens. And it really, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you just got to do what you do and you're
Speaker 1: gonna get criticism regardless.
Speaker 3: And it doesn't I don't care. It's not like I
Speaker 3: take it home and then go to my wife and
Speaker 3: I say, you'll never guess what they said about me today.
Speaker 3: But it's one of those frustrating things like you can't
Speaker 3: complain about civil discourse not being civil. You can't complain
Speaker 3: about that and then not realize that what you're doing
Speaker 3: is painting everything with a political brush or whatever shade
Speaker 3: politics you want to put on it. That's how you're
Speaker 3: hearing it as well. You have to be open minded,
Speaker 3: be able to discern your own bias before you suggest
Speaker 3: that somebody else is being biased on some Yep, it's.
Speaker 1: A reality we're living in and I don't think we
Speaker 1: were prepared for the psychological impact that social media would
Speaker 1: have on all of us and how it's changed our
Speaker 1: perspective of the world. And I mean that was a
Speaker 1: prime example. I do give you credit for playing a
Speaker 1: critical message of you, though it kind of reminds me
Speaker 1: of who is that Jimmy's mean tweets, Jimmy Kimmel, the
Speaker 1: mean tweets.
Speaker 2: What else is going on? Time for what's happening?
Speaker 3: Well, really, the only thing that's been going on today
Speaker 3: is the cleanup after Hurricane Milton. Governor DeSantis is scheduled
Speaker 3: to have another news conference at some point. We heard
Speaker 3: from President Biden, who earlier suggested that FEMA is going
Speaker 3: to set up several different disaster recovery centers throughout the
Speaker 3: state of Florida, and that is, of course, on top
Speaker 3: of the ones that already exist after Hurricane Helene, not
Speaker 3: just in Florida, but in other states as well. There
Speaker 3: was a couple of side stories about the hurricane. We
Speaker 3: talked about Lieutenant Dan, Lieutenant Dan, homeless seafarer with one leg,
Speaker 3: who wrote out the storm last night on his little boat,
Speaker 3: on a sail boat.
Speaker 1: That may or may not belong to him.
Speaker 3: He's got to coordinate this month to determine if it's is.
Speaker 3: But there was also this one. Peter Dodge, a meteorologist,
Speaker 3: died last year at the age of seventy three, and
Speaker 3: he was one of those guys who worked for the
Speaker 3: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He had flown into the
Speaker 3: eye of three hundred and eighty six different storms, tropical storms, depressions, hurricanes,
Speaker 3: et cetera that spanned through his career that spanned more
Speaker 3: than four decades, and on Tuesday, the Hurricane Hunters from
Speaker 3: NAA released his ashes inside the eye wall of Hurricane Milton.
Speaker 2: Wait what was that?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's amazing. I just sorry. Did that sound
Speaker 1: that hit my heart?
Speaker 2: I couldn't tell what kind of sigh that was.
Speaker 1: Oh did I sound like? Yeah? No, I just how moving?
Speaker 1: How beautiful? Is it?
Speaker 2: Could have been a ah, that's glittering.
Speaker 1: I need to get used to this radio thing apparently.
Speaker 1: But no, it's beautiful. And those guys who fly into
Speaker 1: those hurricanes are bad.
Speaker 3: Sure, badass. Did it feel funny when you said it?
Speaker 4: It did?
Speaker 1: Are you allowed to stay it on radio?
Speaker 2: You know? But you can't. You get one free pass, okay,
Speaker 2: and you just used it.
Speaker 3: The ashes were wrapped in the state flag of Florida,
Speaker 3: along with his flight suits, name tag, and a patch
Speaker 3: that denoted his hundreds of eyewall flights. Close friend of
Speaker 3: his said releasing the ashes into Hurricane Milton was a
Speaker 3: total honor and a great tribute to Peter. The images
Speaker 3: from inside one of those Hurricane Hunter planes just from
Speaker 3: may have been yesterday or the day before. No, I
Speaker 3: don't do great with you. Flew, but it wasn't turbulent,
Speaker 3: it wasn't bouncing up and now I didn't ever feel
Speaker 3: but again, I didn't feel like that thing was going
Speaker 3: to fall out of the air. Yeah, it's that this
Speaker 3: when when you blow through the wall of the eye
Speaker 3: of the hurricane, it almost looks like that plane's going
Speaker 3: to break apart.
Speaker 1: It does. And even it was funny to watch that
Speaker 1: video I think you're referring to from a couple days back.
Speaker 1: If you google Hurricane Hunter and you know how the
Speaker 1: search results in the past week or twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: it should come up. But they the guy said hot
Speaker 1: damn or something like that at the end, and you know,
Speaker 1: for them to have any sort of emotional reaction, says
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 2: A lot of sing They've done dozens.
Speaker 1: It was a violent shake when you watch that video.
Speaker 3: Well, we like to point out so Calborn businesses Born
Speaker 3: and Bred and Kevin McCartney is the founder and owner
Speaker 3: of Paquito Moss.
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming in, Kevin, welcome, Thanks for having.
Speaker 1: Me, and thank you for bringing food. Most importantly, people
Speaker 1: in newsrooms they you should see him.
Speaker 2: They're like bull teaches. Yeah, we're awful.
Speaker 1: This is delicious.
Speaker 6: A lot of work. You know what, the thinking of
Speaker 6: talking getting ready for everyone. You're hungry.
Speaker 3: You don't have to say that. We're just We're just
Speaker 3: sitting here doing nothing for four hours.
Speaker 1: I'm just eating this burrito.
Speaker 3: Fortieth anniversary of Poquito Moss this month. Yes, tell us
Speaker 3: about how Poquito Moss came to be well.
Speaker 2: I was a culinary orphan.
Speaker 7: I grew up in sam Bordino, a lot of meatloaf,
Speaker 7: big family, spam, baloney, oatmeal. My mother really was wonderful person,
Speaker 7: nurse working six and seven days where she was a
Speaker 7: really hard worker. But my culinary challenge was that when
Speaker 7: I became eighteen, I was working at Grummag's Chinese and
Speaker 7: somebody needed a ride home at two o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 7: and I said, oh, I'll give you right So I
Speaker 7: give a right down stun set to Alvarado and she said, oh,
Speaker 7: stop right here, I'm going to buy you a taco.
Speaker 6: And I said, okay.
Speaker 7: Now, until that time, my experience with tacos was not
Speaker 7: was more corporate tacos rather than anything else. So I
Speaker 7: had my first Carnitas blanchada taco at two o'clock in
Speaker 7: the morning in East La and I just couldn't believe
Speaker 7: flavor existed. I had no idea that there was flavor
Speaker 7: in the world, you know, from my palate. And it
Speaker 7: just it changed my life. I loved every bit of it.
Speaker 7: And so for the next decade I worked in the
Speaker 7: business and I looked at everything I could. Every vacation
Speaker 7: I went to Mexico. And then when I was just
Speaker 7: about to be thirty, I decided, you know what, I'm
Speaker 7: going to take a chance and try it on my own.
Speaker 1: That's amazing and very inspiring. So I feel like that's
Speaker 1: a scary thing to do, is start your own business.
Speaker 1: And this was nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2: Four, nineteen eighty four seven.
Speaker 1: Pikito mosses later, right, and you try to really source
Speaker 1: your ingredients with which I appreciate by finding the best
Speaker 1: there is. You go down to Mexico or how do
Speaker 1: you do that?
Speaker 7: You said, Actually, there's different regions of Mexico where you
Speaker 7: can get different spices, and so we.
Speaker 2: Control our own spice production.
Speaker 6: We have spices for all different things.
Speaker 7: We also have corn and flower tortillas that we make
Speaker 7: from scratch every day. All the flower tortillas for the
Speaker 7: Britos we make from scratch. We rolled ourselves. But then
Speaker 7: the real challenge was getting a corn tortilla that wasn't
Speaker 7: not at GMO. So we did a huge search for
Speaker 7: non GMO corn and about five six years ago we
Speaker 7: found a company that did organic masa flower massa, so
Speaker 7: we now only make our corn tortillas with organic corn massa.
Speaker 1: I love you guys even more. Gary and I have
Speaker 1: been talking about how broken our food system is, and
Speaker 1: for me in particular, I have eggs in mine. You
Speaker 1: see a lot more people with these autoimmune issues and
Speaker 1: skin issues, and I think it's linked to, you know,
Speaker 1: the flower that's being used and some of the glyci
Speaker 1: fate that's being sprayed onto these crops that then end
Speaker 1: up in our tortillas, or you know, so the factor
Speaker 1: you're using organic ones. I'm sure it makes a huge
Speaker 1: difference for someone like me who can't eat other stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my customers are extremely vocal, and I've been listening
Speaker 7: to them for forty years. So if they talk about something,
Speaker 7: they want something, we look at everything we can to
Speaker 7: try to match their appetite, to match their culinary needs.
Speaker 6: And I think we continue to do that, we always
Speaker 6: will do that.
Speaker 3: We're talking with Kevin McCarney, founder and owner of Pokito Moss.
Speaker 3: One of the things that you're doing, because this month
Speaker 3: is the fortieth anniversary of the opening of Poquito Moss,
Speaker 3: forty meals a month for the next twelve months to
Speaker 3: Home Again La.
Speaker 2: Why is this the thing that's going to be important
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 7: You know, because my mother was an amazing woman and
Speaker 7: she did the best she could.
Speaker 6: I empathize with.
Speaker 2: People that don't have enough food.
Speaker 7: When we were growing up, we gravitated to a different
Speaker 7: family that did have food as kids because there were
Speaker 7: seven of us.
Speaker 6: But my mom did great. And I think about that
Speaker 6: somebody being.
Speaker 7: Rehoused at Home Again La does a rehouse somebody who's
Speaker 7: been in a different situation, and I just want to
Speaker 7: make sure that they have a really good meal when
Speaker 7: they move into that new house. And I think that
Speaker 7: Home Again La does a fantastic job. I don't know
Speaker 7: how many people know about their organization. But they do
Speaker 7: a wonderful job. They really they make a difference in
Speaker 7: people's lives. It changes people's lives, it gives them a
Speaker 7: new start.
Speaker 3: How also did you handle COVID? I mean, we were
Speaker 3: the reason we even started this segment really was because
Speaker 3: we wanted to point out those businesses that were already
Speaker 3: it's hard to start a business in California, in southern California,
Speaker 3: it's hard to live through regulations, taxes, and then COVID hit,
Speaker 3: and it was hard to live through the Health Department
Speaker 3: rules and regulations of when you could open, what you
Speaker 3: could serve, how it was going to go, whether you
Speaker 3: had people in outside.
Speaker 2: How did you get through that?
Speaker 7: Well, Lady Satan right next to me, Patty Ravellis, it
Speaker 7: was a tremendous reason we got through that the way
Speaker 7: we did, and it was it was pivoting every single
Speaker 7: every week. It was new rules, new regulations. I have
Speaker 7: a fantastic accountant to Richard Martin, and.
Speaker 6: He just because you need you don't believe the nightmare.
Speaker 7: Paperwork you had to do during COVID to comply with
Speaker 7: all the different regulations. And so what we did is
Speaker 7: we just we met, We meet still every single week,
Speaker 7: but we go through everything, what do we need to
Speaker 7: do today? It is all about that day because every
Speaker 7: day was different, and you know, we had to close
Speaker 7: the restaurant, close the dining room, we had to add
Speaker 7: Dutch doors to the outside of the restaurant. You know,
Speaker 7: order one side, pick up the other, and we just pivoted.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: The biggest challenge with delivery companies because they were charging
Speaker 7: so much, but they you know, also we were keeping
Speaker 7: people working because wo would be delivered. So it's not
Speaker 7: their fault, that's just their business model. And we've adjusted
Speaker 7: that since then. But it really was about us talking
Speaker 7: every single day and what do we need to do
Speaker 7: because we realized that we didn't We was supposed to
Speaker 7: be what three weeks, four weeks, six weeks initially, and then.
Speaker 6: When it went on and on and on and on,
Speaker 6: and you know, we.
Speaker 7: Just did whatever we could have, brought whatever we need
Speaker 7: to make sure everybody nobody lost their job with us.
Speaker 6: Nobody lost their job. We kept them all working.
Speaker 7: And I think that to me, that's why we still
Speaker 7: were not looking for people, because are still with us.
Speaker 6: I haven't.
Speaker 2: My first employee hired forty years ago, still with us.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, and that's pretty remarkable to be around for
Speaker 1: forty years. You know, as a smaller business, what do
Speaker 1: you attribute your longevity to? Is it the way you've
Speaker 1: treated your workers as families, your how particularly you are
Speaker 1: with your ingredients. What do you think he's pointing at Patty,
Speaker 1: who he has with him. Hit that little button on
Speaker 1: there's a button, right, You're good, Yeah, you got it, he.
Speaker 4: Said it exactly. We're all family there. We support each other.
Speaker 4: We I know everybody exactly, and I get to know them,
Speaker 4: they get to know us, and we just support each
Speaker 4: They help us and that's what kept us together.
Speaker 1: That we were a team.
Speaker 4: And Kevin did a wonderful job at keeping everybody with
Speaker 4: their you know, schedules because of the deliveries we had
Speaker 4: worked for them, and they appreciate that till this day.
Speaker 4: They always remember and say thank you for keeping us.
Speaker 4: A lot of people lost their jobs around the COVID
Speaker 4: and you know, we're always there for their showers, weddings,
Speaker 4: help and.
Speaker 1: I'm giving back in so many ways, which I love
Speaker 1: was speaking of. Which do you want to do this now?
Speaker 3: Oh well, we actually are going to give away, not yet,
Speaker 3: but we'll tell you how we're going to do it.
Speaker 3: Before the end of the show, giveaway to one of
Speaker 3: our listeners, a forty burrito party to celebrate the fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 2: Forty burrito to party.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 2: Forty? Try it again? Where did it go? Forty burrito
Speaker 2: to party? Moss, Yes, I say that right to.
Speaker 3: Any forty burritos, any forty plus chips and salts to
Speaker 3: the celebs.
Speaker 1: And there we have this spicy shrimp in here, the steak,
Speaker 1: the bean and cheese, and I'm trying all of them.
Speaker 2: And there, well, there's all right there and the pork that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a lot of eating to do in
Speaker 3: just a few minutes. Kevin, thanks for coming in, Thanks
Speaker 3: for bringing past. Thank you so much for having Hurricane Milton.
Speaker 3: After it made landfall along the Gulf Coast as a
Speaker 3: Category three storm, it's now down to category one as
Speaker 3: it's made its way away from Florida on the East
Speaker 3: coast and it's now headed out towards the Atlantic. Had
Speaker 3: maximum sustained winds of a one hundred and twenty miles
Speaker 3: an hour when it came ashore in Siesta Key, which
Speaker 3: is south of Tampa. Storm surge was affecting a long
Speaker 3: stretch of the Florida Gulf Coast, densely populated areas like
Speaker 3: Saint Petersburg and Sarasota and Fort Myers. CNN reported that
Speaker 3: now the death tool is at nine and is expected
Speaker 3: to rise. Most of those believed to have been caused
Speaker 3: by the tornadoes that hit as a result of the
Speaker 3: storm before it came on shore. Internationally, Lebanese health authorities
Speaker 3: say that the Israeli air strikes on a couple of
Speaker 3: different neighborhoods in Central Bay Route have killed at least
Speaker 3: eighteen people. The Health ministry said the strikes damaged the
Speaker 3: residential building and caused another one to completely collapse. Israel
Speaker 3: has been broadening its campaign against Hesbelah militants and lesbianon
Speaker 3: at Lebanon.
Speaker 2: I keep screwing that up. You just say that Hesblah
Speaker 2: and Lebanon hesbelow Lebanon.
Speaker 3: That's why I can't keep saying Lesbonon launched ground invasion.
Speaker 3: Israeli strikes have been pretty common, far more common now
Speaker 3: in the last couple of days, pretty rare. If you
Speaker 3: get inside Beirut, there's dropping most of their bombs out
Speaker 3: in this suburbs.
Speaker 2: A reminder.
Speaker 3: We will be given away in a little bit one
Speaker 3: of our listeners a forty burrito party from Peqito Moss
Speaker 3: to celebrate their fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 2: So you want to pay attention to that.
Speaker 3: And then tonight baseball stuff, Well, Cleveland Detroit is going
Speaker 3: to be at three o'clock today in the Alds. Tigers
Speaker 3: lead that series two to one. Yankees Royals. Yankees lead
Speaker 3: the series two to one. There they play this evening.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow night is going to be Game five, the deciding
Speaker 3: game of the Padres Dodgers series, where they're tied at
Speaker 3: two thanks to the Dodgers winning eight to.
Speaker 1: Nights of monc I said victory. That was an exciting
Speaker 1: game I watched. It was part of the homework I
Speaker 1: listened to that. You gave me Yeah, And I must
Speaker 1: say I went down a show. Hey, o Tani rabbit hole.
Speaker 2: There's a lot there there is.
Speaker 1: Did you know that his mom was an accomplished Batmanton
Speaker 1: player and his first swings were mimicking his mom's Batmanton swing.
Speaker 2: She left handed too.
Speaker 1: I have no idea that I didn't go that deep.
Speaker 3: My wife is a star basketball player, or at least was.
Speaker 3: I don't know if she still plays.
Speaker 1: And his dad played amateur baseball for the company he
Speaker 1: was working for, and shohe actually was more of a
Speaker 1: swimmer as a young kid, and then you know he
Speaker 1: got into baseball and fell in love with that. He's
Speaker 1: the youngest of three kids.
Speaker 2: He's a tall guy too. Yeah, huge person.
Speaker 1: Born in Osho, Japan.
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't know that. Thursday Night football.
Speaker 3: Also, forty nine ers are in Seattle to take on
Speaker 3: the Seahawks, which may give you a clue as to
Speaker 3: where Shannon is today.
Speaker 2: But it's time for strength science. It's like weird science,
Speaker 2: but strange.
Speaker 3: To follow up on Hurricane Milton as it made its
Speaker 3: way through Florida. One of the things that happened was
Speaker 3: there was a negative storm surge in some parts of Tampa.
Speaker 3: It's called negative storm surge or reverse storm surge, and
Speaker 3: the hurricane itself kind of sucked the sea water out
Speaker 3: of the Tampa Bay. A flood gage near Tampa showed
Speaker 3: the water levels fluctuating as Milton got closer and then
Speaker 3: drop as the storm's eye passes just to the south.
Speaker 3: In fact, the water in Tampa Bay dropped three feet
Speaker 3: from where it was expected to be on a normal day.
Speaker 3: We saw that during Hurricane Ian in twenty two, Hurricane
Speaker 3: Irma in twenty seventeen. Usually only lasts a few hours.
Speaker 3: The outward flow, they said, is referred to this negative
Speaker 3: storm surge. In this case, the winds actually drain the
Speaker 3: bay instead of flooding the bay.
Speaker 1: And what's a little concerning about this is the fact
Speaker 1: that you know, onlookers they observe this happening. They shouldn't
Speaker 1: be out there anyway, they should have been evacuated. But
Speaker 1: the ones who are there, they might get curious, they
Speaker 1: might go look and see what's going on. But Offici'll
Speaker 1: say that's very dangerous because then the water returns. In
Speaker 1: some times it can rise quickly within just a matter
Speaker 1: of a few minutes.
Speaker 2: Wash out. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Speaking of storms, there is a severe solar storm headed
Speaker 3: to Earth.
Speaker 2: It could stress power grids. Today.
Speaker 3: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the severe geomagnetic storm
Speaker 3: watch for today and tomorrow. They said they saw an
Speaker 3: outburst from the sun detected earlier this week, and then
Speaker 3: it takes that long for it to get here. They
Speaker 3: also talked about an alert to FEMA about possible power disruptions.
Speaker 3: It can also affect radio signals, GPS signals, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Forecasters do not expect it to surpass the one that
Speaker 3: slammed into Earth back in May. That was the strongest
Speaker 3: one we saw in a couple decades. But they're not
Speaker 3: quite sure until they won't know until it's just a
Speaker 3: million miles.
Speaker 2: Away, right.
Speaker 1: They are more concerned, they said, about the effects of
Speaker 1: the power grids and areas that were slammed by Hurricane
Speaker 1: Hallen a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they're barely getting back some of the
Speaker 3: power in some of those areas, and some of them
Speaker 3: haven't seen power since Alene went through.
Speaker 1: And then something that onlookers could observe as storm could
Speaker 1: trigger northern lights as far south in the US as
Speaker 1: the lower Midwest, even northern California. We don't have the
Speaker 1: exact times of locations yet, but skygazers can use their
Speaker 1: smartphones point them upward for photos. And what's really cool,
Speaker 1: I actually did this when I went to Alaska to
Speaker 1: look at the northern lights. Your phone can capture them
Speaker 1: pretty well.
Speaker 3: Better than your eyes can, or they recognize them better
Speaker 3: than your eyes can.
Speaker 1: Very cool.
Speaker 3: We are near the eleven year peak of solar activity
Speaker 3: in the cycle.
Speaker 2: Which I didn't know there was.
Speaker 1: But there you go.
Speaker 3: All right, before we get back into stream science, why
Speaker 3: don't we give away that forty burrito party to celebrate
Speaker 3: the Pokito Moss fortieth anniversary. Any forty burritos your choice,
Speaker 3: chips and saltsa to celebrate whatever. Hey, maybe that's just
Speaker 3: lunch forty burritos. I'd give it a shot. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: get very deep into it, but maybe maybe it's lunch.
Speaker 1: No judgment, he imagine you're insights.
Speaker 3: So Collar number six is going to win this forty
Speaker 3: burrito party from Piquito Moss eight hundred five to two
Speaker 3: zero one five three four eight hundred five to two
Speaker 3: ozho one kfi. Again, Caller number six is going to
Speaker 3: win the forty burrito party from Piquito Moss. We're in
Speaker 3: the middle of strain science talking about some interesting things
Speaker 3: that are going on in that world. The average size
Speaker 3: of global wildlife populations has declined by seventy three percent
Speaker 3: over the last fifty years. It's a study called the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four Living Planet Report, and it monitored wildlife
Speaker 3: populations of almost fifty five hundred species amphibians, birds, fish, mammals,
Speaker 3: reptiles between nineteen seventy and twenty twenty, and they said
Speaker 3: that there were declines in every indicator that tracks the
Speaker 3: state of nature on a global scale.
Speaker 1: The study found freshwater population suffered the heaviest declines, falling
Speaker 1: by eighty five percent, and then terrestrial populations they call them,
Speaker 1: you know, land animals declined by sixty nine percent and
Speaker 1: marine population fifty six percent. I've heard a startling statistic
Speaker 1: that our big fish have gone down by like ninety
Speaker 1: something percent, and so that's why there's been a recent
Speaker 1: push to have these marine protected areas on our oceans.
Speaker 1: But very scary, I mean, very alarming to hear this.
Speaker 3: It would be one thing if we were also discovering
Speaker 3: thousands of new species of animals that we hadn't seen
Speaker 3: before that were either being that were sort of making
Speaker 3: their way genetically to replace these others that are lost.
Speaker 3: But they do say that most of the loss of
Speaker 3: species is driven by human related strains. Habitat degradation and
Speaker 3: loss found to be the biggest driver of population loss
Speaker 3: in every region of the world. And then over exploitation,
Speaker 3: which can be over farming or harvesting or whatever it is,
Speaker 3: and then invasive species and disease that count for some
Speaker 3: of the decline as.
Speaker 1: Well, and the changing climate was also listed on there,
Speaker 1: and global tipping points are highly likely if current trends continue.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think the bottom line is nature
Speaker 1: is what helps us, I mean, come back to ourselves,
Speaker 1: helps us thrive. We need to take care of our planet.
Speaker 1: Bottom line.
Speaker 2: This is one species I'm glad did not.
Speaker 3: Make it any farther than it did. The six and
Speaker 3: a half foot long millipede.
Speaker 1: The picture of this just makes me I don't even know.
Speaker 3: This is the size of a small car, a millipede
Speaker 3: like creature. They said it's the largest arthropod ever to live.
Speaker 1: Six and a half feet long. No, that's just the head.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's.
Speaker 2: The arthropod our throw player. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Lived in the forest near the equator between three hundred
Speaker 3: and forty six and two hundred and ninety million years ago,
Speaker 3: which wait a minute, means that this thing was alive
Speaker 3: for one hundred and no, well, let's see forty five.
Speaker 3: That's fifty six million years. That seems like a pretty
Speaker 3: good run for something that's six and a half feet long.
Speaker 2: The head of the boy.
Speaker 3: They said it was known they've known that this thing
Speaker 3: existed since about the eighteenth century, but they had not
Speaker 3: found a complete head. Oh, this is making me give
Speaker 3: me the absolute queebies. Now the completed head, you can
Speaker 3: see the mandibles, the eyes, and these characteristics help them
Speaker 3: understand the position of the creature when it comes to evolution.
Speaker 1: Thinking of prehistoric creatures just takes me down a whole
Speaker 1: other rabbit hold so fascinating a random factoid that this
Speaker 1: makes me think of. Do you know that there is
Speaker 1: an animal living today that is estimated to have been
Speaker 1: alive for five hundred years? Do you have any guesses
Speaker 1: what it is?
Speaker 2: Horseshoe crab.
Speaker 1: A shark the Greenland shark scientists discovered and they said
Speaker 1: they estimated it to be over five hundred years old.
Speaker 1: Its depths of the ocean. This type of shark tends
Speaker 1: to have a very long life, probably because it's far
Speaker 1: away from the impact of humanity. Crazy, huh, I've never
Speaker 1: heard of that before. Google it or aschat, gipt or something.
Speaker 3: NASA says they have received a laser signal from a
Speaker 3: spacecraft that's two hundred and ninety miles away the Psyche
Speaker 3: spacecraft launched in October of last year. The main mission
Speaker 3: was to study an asteroid with that name, but it's
Speaker 3: also carrying an experiment to test laser communication with space,
Speaker 3: which is pretty fantastic because if we can do that,
Speaker 3: lasers can actually send data at rates up to one
Speaker 3: hundred times that of radio frequencies. And then how about
Speaker 3: we end with this something fun. Dolphin, my favorite, smile
Speaker 3: at each other when they play to avoid misunderstandings. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're just like us, civil discourse. Yeah, it's all we want.
Speaker 2: Even the dolphins have it and we can't do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we could learn a lot from them.
Speaker 3: They said that they smiled almost always when they were
Speaker 3: in their playmate's field of view, and that their playmate
Speaker 3: would smile back one third of the time, suggesting some
Speaker 3: form of communication, hypothesizing that by smiling, and they use
Speaker 3: quotes there at each other, the dolphins could stop their
Speaker 3: games from descending into a real fight because of any
Speaker 3: sort of miscommunication.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the one scientist does caution against extrapolating. Is
Speaker 1: that how you say that way?
Speaker 2: Extrapolating?
Speaker 1: Extrapolating? Oh, lord lord, helmey, it's been a long day,
Speaker 1: and she said, I do think the Dolphins engage in
Speaker 1: an open mouth response during play situations. I'm not comfortable
Speaker 1: calling it a smile because they also use the open
Speaker 1: mouth displays in other contexts. So there you have it.
Speaker 2: Well, why does it have to be so technical about it.
Speaker 2: Just let the Dolphins smile.
Speaker 6: I know sound.
Speaker 1: Just give us the smile we need it.
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