Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. A state of emergency has been
Speaker 1: declared on Greece's island of Santorini. It was rattled by
Speaker 1: a pretty strong earthquake. This is after they've seen dozens
Speaker 1: of earthquakes over the last couple of days, much smaller ones.
Speaker 1: But this new one about a five point two they said,
Speaker 1: occurred at a depth of only three miles. We all
Speaker 1: know because we're earthquake experts. That's pretty shaky, they said.
Speaker 1: Thousands of people have been fleeing the island of Santorini
Speaker 1: and its neighbors there in the U, G and C
Speaker 1: because they are concerned that there is yet even bigger
Speaker 1: earthquakes on the horizon. There were a couple court things
Speaker 1: to tell you about when it comes to the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: A federal judge has temporary blocked the administration and Doge
Speaker 1: head Elon Musk from implementing the fork in the Road
Speaker 1: federal employee buyout offer at least until Monday. More than
Speaker 1: two million federal employees had a deadline of tonight to
Speaker 1: accept the administration's buyout offer about eight months salary and benefits,
Speaker 1: but again it's on hold. We do know that about
Speaker 1: forty thousand of them have already accepted the offer. Federal
Speaker 1: judge in Seattle also issued a nation wide preliminary injunction
Speaker 1: against the Executive Order on birthright citizenship, a day after
Speaker 1: a judge in Maryland also issued a temporary block on
Speaker 1: the order. Bottom of the hour, By the speaking of Trump,
Speaker 1: there's some strange science and Trump story that we'll get.
Speaker 2: To that's coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: What else is going on? Time for what's happening, Well, our.
Speaker 1: Second storm is making its way through southern California. You're
Speaker 1: going to notice the drizzle, obviously some very light rain
Speaker 1: over the course of the day today. By about six
Speaker 1: seven o'clock tonight is when we expect to see some
Speaker 1: of it coming in the form of actual rain, a
Speaker 1: little bit more steady, a little bit more water, but
Speaker 1: still less than an inch expected to fall in most areas.
Speaker 1: Some mountain foo hill locations could see two inches. But
Speaker 1: for the most part, you're just going to see a
Speaker 1: lot of localized flooding because that's what happens when it
Speaker 1: doesn't rain for a while, and it could potentially cause
Speaker 1: some problems as you're driving home from work tonight. The
Speaker 1: former interpreter who stole millions from Sho hey Otani is
Speaker 1: to be sentenced today federal charges that related to him
Speaker 1: stealing about seventeen million dollars from Shohyotani.
Speaker 2: Just a note, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1: Be nice to have so much money that seventeen million
Speaker 1: missing didn't really cause a blip. This guy, Epei Misuhara,
Speaker 1: admitted to transferring money from show Heyotani's account for more
Speaker 1: than two years to pay off his own gambling debts.
Speaker 1: He said he impersonated show Hey on a couple of
Speaker 1: dozen occasions and calls to the bank. Prosecutor said that
Speaker 1: this thing was deep and it was extensive fraud, and
Speaker 1: that Shoh was harmed substantially by Ipe Mizuhara's actions.
Speaker 2: Don't look now, but mortgage are going down. Mortgage.
Speaker 1: The average US rate on a thirty year mortgage fell
Speaker 1: to six point eight nine percent, the third straight weekly decline.
Speaker 1: If you were lucky enough to hit this thing at
Speaker 1: the bottom, you're still sitting on about a two point
Speaker 1: nine maybe a three point three percent mortgage rate. I
Speaker 1: don't know if we ever see that again, and mortgage
Speaker 1: rates are influenced by a lot of things, obviously how
Speaker 1: the bond market reacts to the Fed's interest rate policy decisions.
Speaker 1: But the average rate on a thirty year mortgage did
Speaker 1: fall to a two year low just above six percent
Speaker 1: last September. It's mostly been going up since then, and
Speaker 1: that's the sharp rise that we've seen in the tenure
Speaker 1: treasury LEELD treasury yield, that is which lenders use as
Speaker 1: a guide for pricing some of those home loans. So
Speaker 1: again it looks like it's down for the third straight
Speaker 1: week to six point eight nine percent. We talked about
Speaker 1: this in the ten o'clock hour today, but it looks
Speaker 1: like firefighters who reported to show up to assist during
Speaker 1: the Palace sage and eating fires couldn't go because there
Speaker 1: were a bunch of fire equipment vehicles that were down
Speaker 1: for maintenance. KTLA has jumped on this story. The Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal had a version of it, but they looked
Speaker 1: inside the largest LA Fire Department maintenance yard in the
Speaker 1: Lincoln Heights area and they saw dozens and dozens of
Speaker 1: unserviced emergency vehicles. The union president said, I don't know
Speaker 1: exactly why each one of them is there, but I
Speaker 1: can tell you what has caused them to be there.
Speaker 1: The LAFD has not had the funding mechanism to supply
Speaker 1: enough mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair
Speaker 1: all of the engines and trucks and ambulances that are
Speaker 1: stuck in there. New video shows somebody detaining a fellow
Speaker 1: passenger on a Frontier Airlines flight. Why because the guy
Speaker 1: punched the window on a Frontier Airliness flight from Denver
Speaker 1: down to Houston.
Speaker 2: He punched the window.
Speaker 1: Now close to the window, the one that's next to you,
Speaker 1: the one that's immediately in the cabin, that's plexiglass, and
Speaker 1: you can actually see a little tiny vent hole in
Speaker 1: the bottom of it to prevent moisture. But he was
Speaker 1: able to crack the plexiglass window, which is still pretty thick.
Speaker 1: It's not the kind that you'd buy it at home
Speaker 1: depot or something like that, but he cracked that window,
Speaker 1: and that was enough to cause other passengers to determine
Speaker 1: that he was potentially a threat. So when the flight
Speaker 1: attendants asked to see if there was any cops on board.
Speaker 1: Tanner Phillips, a guy served in the army and several
Speaker 1: others stepped up, said Tanner said, he was very physical.
Speaker 1: I picked him up and put him on the ground,
Speaker 1: and it took a couple of guys to get his
Speaker 1: arms behind him and secured. So at that point, all
Speaker 1: they have to tie him up with a couple zip
Speaker 1: ties and a shoelace and that'll do it. That's what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to do. They were able to keep him
Speaker 1: restrained during the rest of the flight. That didn't help,
Speaker 1: of course, because people are looking at this cracked window
Speaker 1: and they think that that's going to be an issue.
Speaker 1: It's not, and then it looks like The Boy Scouts
Speaker 1: of America, a historic rebrand of the Boy Scouts of
Speaker 1: America has been followed by a little uptick in young
Speaker 1: people who want to join. They're now calling it Scouting America.
Speaker 1: They've been leaning into their message of inclusivity. They celebrate
Speaker 1: their one hundred and fifteenth birthday just a couple of
Speaker 1: days from now. The CEO and president of Scouting America
Speaker 1: says there's been some backlash to the rebrand after it
Speaker 1: was announced last year, but he said overall it's been
Speaker 1: a positive thing. The gain in membership is small. It's
Speaker 1: up less than two percent from the year before, but
Speaker 1: they'll take it. They have over about a million members
Speaker 1: in the United States right now. A couple stories we're
Speaker 1: following a second federal judge in a couple of days
Speaker 1: as black President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship for
Speaker 1: the kids of parents who are in the United States illegally.
Speaker 1: This district judge out of Seattle decried what he described
Speaker 1: does the administration's treatment of the Constitution and said that
Speaker 1: Trump was trying to change the Constitution by executive order. Now,
Speaker 1: this decision from today comes just after a day, sorry,
Speaker 1: just a day after a judge in Maryland issued a
Speaker 1: nationwide pause in a separate but similar case that involved
Speaker 1: some immigrant rights groups and some pregnant women who's soon
Speaker 1: to be born children would be affected by all of this.
Speaker 1: Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of
Speaker 1: large numbers of Palestinians from the Gaza strip that would
Speaker 1: be in line with President Trump's plan to empty the
Speaker 1: territory of its population so that it could be rebuilt.
Speaker 2: And are you a napper?
Speaker 1: People who make a habit of sleeping on the job
Speaker 1: comprise a secret society of sorts within the labor force.
Speaker 1: They said, there's some famous power nappers, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein,
Speaker 1: for example. These committed nap takers will sneak in short
Speaker 1: rest breaks because they think the practice would improve their
Speaker 1: cognitive performance, but still carries a stigma, so they'll go
Speaker 1: down to their car in the parking garage or turned
Speaker 1: down a side street before the school run. They can
Speaker 1: rent nap pods in some areas by the hour. But
Speaker 1: there's also a story that suggests that a short nap
Speaker 1: no more than about thirty minutes could rejuvenate you for
Speaker 1: the afternoon without really disturbing all of your nighttime sleep.
Speaker 1: All right, we talked about this headline that's been making
Speaker 1: its way around. A second type of bird flu has
Speaker 1: been detected in US dairy cow specifically, a herd in
Speaker 1: Nevada infected with a new type of bird flu different
Speaker 1: from the version that spread in the US since last year.
Speaker 1: USDA says this tape type A H five N one
Speaker 1: spilled over from wild birds into cattle at least twice,
Speaker 1: and the concern is that it could be more than that.
Speaker 1: The B three one three was the version that was
Speaker 1: spreading late all of last year and into this year.
Speaker 1: This new version, known as D one one, was can
Speaker 1: firmed in the cattle in Nevada on Friday, was detected
Speaker 1: in milk that's collected as part of a surveillance program
Speaker 1: launched in December. We've talked about the impact that bird
Speaker 1: flu is having.
Speaker 2: Poultry prices have gone up.
Speaker 1: Egg prices have been skyrocking, and that's because we've had
Speaker 1: to kill or cull, if you like the better term,
Speaker 1: the more clean term. We've had to call millions and
Speaker 1: millions of birds so that bird flu doesn't spread. If
Speaker 1: you get a bird or two birds in a flock
Speaker 1: of thousands, they kill the entire flock because they know
Speaker 1: that it is potential, it has the potential to spread wide.
Speaker 1: So there was also something that happened back in nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty seven where we just barely dodged a bullet when
Speaker 1: it came to the bird flu. Maurice Hillerman Hilleman, sorry
Speaker 1: was an expert in the flu, and in nineteen fifty seven,
Speaker 1: this guy was also looking for cheap eggs, not because
Speaker 1: he wanted to them, because he needed fertilized eggs to
Speaker 1: make vaccines that would be key to stopping a flu epidemic,
Speaker 1: or a flu pandemic in that case. This guy was
Speaker 1: born just after the Spanish flu back in nineteen eighteen
Speaker 1: or whatever the politically correct term is now for the
Speaker 1: Spanish fluw and he started worrying about the egg supply
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty seven because scientists had a lot more
Speaker 1: sophisticated understanding about the flu than they had previously, and
Speaker 1: that knowledge led them to a fear that there would
Speaker 1: be another pandemic similar to the Spanish flu in nineteen eighteen,
Speaker 1: and they didn't want to see millions of people die again.
Speaker 1: So in April nineteen fifty seven, Maurice Hillman opens his
Speaker 1: newspaper and sees an article about glassy eyed patients that
Speaker 1: were overwhelming the clinics in Hong Kong. The article very short.
Speaker 1: It's an American newspaper. It's about a sickness in Hong Kong.
Speaker 1: It was an front page news. It was eight sentences long.
Speaker 1: But all he needed was the four words of the
Speaker 1: headline that to scare the living but Jesus out of them,
Speaker 1: which was Hong Kong battling influenza, and he was concerned.
Speaker 1: Within about a month of this. He had requested, obtained,
Speaker 1: and tested a sample of the virus from his colleagues
Speaker 1: in Asia, and by May he and his colleagues knew
Speaker 1: that Americans did not have immunity against this new version
Speaker 1: of the flu, and he was worried that there would
Speaker 1: be a pandemic. So in the spring of fifty seven,
Speaker 1: the government calls for vaccine manufacturers to accelerate the production
Speaker 1: of this new flu vaccine for all Americans because of
Speaker 1: the one that was appearing in Asia. Now, traditionally, farmers
Speaker 1: have been called on to kill off roosters and any
Speaker 1: unwonted chickens to keep their costs low, but in this case,
Speaker 1: Maurice Hillman asked, farmers, don't kill your roosters. I need
Speaker 1: a huge supply of fertilized eggs to produce the vaccine
Speaker 1: before this thing hits the United States. In early June,
Speaker 1: it did come to the United States. The good news
Speaker 1: was the new virus was not the killer that the
Speaker 1: Spanish flu was about forty years before that. The surge
Speaker 1: in general at the time, he didn't want to alert
Speaker 1: the public. He wanted to alert them, I should say
Speaker 1: he didn't want to alarm them big difference, and they
Speaker 1: talked about flu and the need for vaccination in a
Speaker 1: widely distributed television show, and the government also created a
Speaker 1: bunch of PSAs, and they worked with local health organizations
Speaker 1: to encourage people to get the flu vaccine. Vaccines were
Speaker 1: actually not that popular. They said, the vaccine rate was moderate,
Speaker 1: not because we were concerned about vaccines or that it
Speaker 1: was problematic in the fifties, but they didn't see the
Speaker 1: flu as a threat. Forty years after the Spanish flu,
Speaker 1: people forgot what the pandemic was. People forgot that there
Speaker 1: was a possibility that this thing was going to kill
Speaker 1: millions of people. And antibiotics had been produced lessened the
Speaker 1: threat that pneumonia was going to kill you if you
Speaker 1: did get the flu. But it was basically luck that
Speaker 1: stopped that pandemic. It was luck that he saw that article,
Speaker 1: that very very short article about flu in Hong Kong.
Speaker 1: It was luck that he made that early call to
Speaker 1: increase production of fertilized egg so that they could use
Speaker 1: him for the vaccine production. And it was luck, sheer
Speaker 1: luck that that flu in nineteen fifty seven was not
Speaker 1: the same as the flu back in nineteen eighteen. All Right,
Speaker 1: we get into some strange science stuff here. In a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes, we're going to start with science funding,
Speaker 1: and there's a new order from President Trump and some
Speaker 1: keywords that are being used to look specifically at what
Speaker 1: we the United States fund when it comes to science research.
Speaker 1: So cal Edison says its equipment may have sparked a
Speaker 1: smaller wildfire in LA that broke out the same day
Speaker 1: as the Palisades and Eaten fires. This statement today by
Speaker 1: SoCal Edison says it's possible that it had a role
Speaker 1: in the Hearst fire came from a required filing with
Speaker 1: the state utility regulators. In a second filing, they said
Speaker 1: they're still looking into whether an idle transmission line may
Speaker 1: have sparked the Eton fire up near Altadena, but it
Speaker 1: says there is no current evidence evidence that its equipment
Speaker 1: was responsible for starting that fire. Bunch of stories from
Speaker 1: DC that we have been following include the federal judge
Speaker 1: the temporary blocked the DOGE workers from obtaining access to
Speaker 1: certain Treasury Department payment records. Treasury officials will not provide
Speaker 1: access to any payment record or payment system of records
Speaker 1: maintained within the Treasury Bureau of fiscal service that was
Speaker 1: from Judge call Colleen Caller Katli. In this temporary restraining order, also,
Speaker 1: a judge temporarily blocked the implementation of the federal employee
Speaker 1: buyout offer at least until Monday afternoon. There are a
Speaker 1: few federal employee unions that are suing because of that.
Speaker 1: And in terms of doge in Elon Musk, the share
Speaker 1: of Republicans who say they want Elon Musk to have
Speaker 1: significant influence in the administration has fallen pretty substantially since November.
Speaker 1: The economist Yugov had a poll that was taken in
Speaker 1: the days just after the election, and they said forty
Speaker 1: seven percent of Republicans surveyed said they wanted Musk to
Speaker 1: have a lot of influence in the Trump administration. In
Speaker 1: a poll that was released yesterday that went down to
Speaker 1: twenty six percent. From forty seven percent down to twenty
Speaker 1: six percent. Amazon passed Walmart a long time ago in
Speaker 1: terms of overall market cap, but now they're saying that
Speaker 1: Amazon is probably going to leapfrog Walmart by another key
Speaker 1: metric revenue, just straight revenue. For the last dozen years,
Speaker 1: Walmart's been the top It in fact, eclipsed Exon mobile
Speaker 1: back in twenty twelve and has been on top since then.
Speaker 1: When it comes to revenue, but Amazon is going to
Speaker 1: release earnings today at the close of trading, it's probably
Speaker 1: going to be about one hundred and eighty seven billion.
Speaker 1: Walmart comes out in a couple of weeks and their
Speaker 1: projected sales would be about one hundred and eighty billion.
Speaker 1: There is a story also floating around DC about Politico.
Speaker 2: You may have seen this.
Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt said that the federal
Speaker 1: government's going to cancel eight million dollars worth of subscri
Speaker 1: of subscriptions to Politico, and there is a theory going
Speaker 1: around that these very high end Politico pro plus subscriptions,
Speaker 1: which are thousands of dollars a year, I mean somewhere.
Speaker 1: It's hard to nail it down. The Political website doesn't
Speaker 1: advertise it very well what the final cost is, but
Speaker 1: it's somewhere between seven and fifteen thousand. That was the
Speaker 1: range that I saw for these different subscriptions to Politico.
Speaker 1: Because it's beyond just what you get on their website.
Speaker 1: They do a lot of in depth information about about
Speaker 1: legislation that is pending, about legislation that's being worked on
Speaker 1: about legislation that was denied. She Caroline Levitt said that
Speaker 1: Politico and the Associated Press had been receiving millions of
Speaker 1: dollars from USAID, which we've talked about. The Agency for
Speaker 1: International Developments been targeted as one of the huge wastes
Speaker 1: of money by DOGE. And the Politico people put out
Speaker 1: a press release just a short time ago and it
Speaker 1: said that Politico is a privately owned company. We've never
Speaker 1: received any government funding, no subsidies, no grantsout, no handouts,
Speaker 1: not one dime ever in eighteen years. And they said
Speaker 1: Politico Pro is a professional subscription service used by companies, organizations,
Speaker 1: and some government agencies, and they subscribe because it makes
Speaker 1: them better at their jobs. Again, this is what Politico says,
Speaker 1: helping them track policy, legislation, regulations in real time with
Speaker 1: news intelligence and a suite of datat products and listen.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, fine, If these are individual government
Speaker 1: workers or even government agencies that need to have that information, fine,
Speaker 1: but use the power of the government to go in
Speaker 1: and at least negotiate a better deal than eight million
Speaker 1: dollars for Politico. National Science Foundation has been combing through
Speaker 1: thousands of active science research projects alongside a list of
Speaker 1: keywords to figure out if they include any activities that
Speaker 1: would violate President Trump's executive orders. Right now, they have
Speaker 1: a list of keywords, and this doesn't mean that they're
Speaker 1: canceling active research for those types of projects that are
Speaker 1: currently being worked on. They just want to double check them.
Speaker 1: And this is kind of a to me, it's a
Speaker 1: funny list. So the sample of keywords that are now
Speaker 1: being looked for in these active science research projects at
Speaker 1: the National Science Foundation advocacy, anti racist barrier, biases, cultural relevance, disability,
Speaker 1: diverse backgrounds, diversity, diversified as nity, ethnicity, excluded, exclusion, equity,
Speaker 1: female gender, hate speech, historically implicit bias, inclusion inclusive, inequity,
Speaker 1: institutional intersectional, male dominated, marginalized, minority, multicultural. And again, these
Speaker 1: are not saying that if those words appear in research
Speaker 1: projects that they're denied. It's just they're going to flag
Speaker 1: those and go through and see what they're actually studying. Oppression, polarization,
Speaker 1: racially segregation, socioeconomics, systemic trauma, underrepresented underserved victims, and the
Speaker 1: keyword women scientists who get funding from the National Science
Speaker 1: Foundation have already been put on notice that if they
Speaker 1: are working on something that does not comply with these
Speaker 1: executive orders that have been coming hot and heavy out
Speaker 1: of the Oval Office, than they could lose their funding.
Speaker 2: It's time for strange science, strange sience. It's like weird science,
Speaker 2: but strange.
Speaker 1: I referred to bonobos as a monkey. They are an
Speaker 1: ape and there is a difference. But this is the
Speaker 1: fun story. So a few captive bonobos seen have faced
Speaker 1: this task locate this tasty little snack hidden under one
Speaker 1: of three cups.
Speaker 2: It's the shell game.
Speaker 1: Because they are brainiacs, they should have no problem finding
Speaker 1: the sweet treat, right. But here's the wrinkle. They were
Speaker 1: relying on a human being, not a member of their
Speaker 1: own species, to flip over the correct cup. And what's
Speaker 1: even worse is the human being sometimes did see where
Speaker 1: the food was, so the bonobos had to somehow communicate
Speaker 1: to the human being where the correct what cup was
Speaker 1: with the little sweet treat underneath it. Christopher Krupenny is
Speaker 1: an evolutionary cognitive scientist.
Speaker 2: JOHNS.
Speaker 1: Hopkins helped run this experiment and said the bonobos knew
Speaker 1: when their partner was ignorant, and they communicated proactively to
Speaker 1: make sure that their ignorant partner still made the correct choice.
Speaker 1: They described the bonobos behavior in a paper that came
Speaker 1: out Proceedings of the National Academy of Science as USA,
Speaker 1: and it says it provides compelling evidence that apes like
Speaker 1: the bonobos can infer someone's ignorance and then also act
Speaker 1: to help clear up the confusion. They refer to this
Speaker 1: the ability to infer someone else's mental state is referred
Speaker 1: to as theory of mind, and we talk about it.
Speaker 1: We humans use it to communicate and coordinate with other people,
Speaker 1: like if if I figure out that you don't have
Speaker 1: the kind of information that you need, it helps me
Speaker 1: determine when and how to share specific information with you
Speaker 1: to give you that information that you would need. And
Speaker 1: they have proposed that chimpanzees and bonobos apes may possess
Speaker 1: theory of mind, but few of them have actually figured
Speaker 1: out this idea. In a controlled experiment, they took three
Speaker 1: male bonobos living at Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative, which
Speaker 1: is in Des Moines, Isle, and during the experiment, one
Speaker 1: of them would sit across from one of the researchers
Speaker 1: as a treat like a grape or a peanut or
Speaker 1: something like that was put under one of the three cups,
Speaker 1: and if he flipped over the correct cup, then the
Speaker 1: bonobol would be would get the reward get the little treat.
Speaker 1: In some of the trials, the researcher could see the
Speaker 1: treat put under the cup. In others, he didn't know
Speaker 1: which cup it was put under, and then he would
Speaker 1: wait ten seconds before he flipped over the cup. The
Speaker 1: bonobos appeared to know when he had his eye on
Speaker 1: the correct cup, and in the trials where he had
Speaker 1: observed the placement, they just waited for him to flip
Speaker 1: over the right cup. But when they knew that his
Speaker 1: view was blocked, they would try to point towards the
Speaker 1: correct cup in an effort to give him that information
Speaker 1: that he didn't already have, to fill him in on
Speaker 1: what he had missed. What he had missed, and the
Speaker 1: researcher said that they immediately understood the game that was
Speaker 1: being played and immediately knew where to point. And somewhat interestingly,
Speaker 1: they said the oldest of these apes, named Kanzie, was
Speaker 1: particularly demonstrative in his gestures, would point aggressively at the
Speaker 1: cup that had the treat under it. He's forty four
Speaker 1: years old now, and he said he's always on the
Speaker 1: lookout for a tasty treat. Repeatedly would point and tap
Speaker 1: to get the human's attention.
Speaker 2: And secure that treat. It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: There is a heart pump that has been developed that
Speaker 1: is no larger than a fountain pen, just approved by
Speaker 1: the FDA for use in children. It's already been saving
Speaker 1: adults lives in this red of revolutionary way. Cardiologists said
Speaker 1: they don't even need to open the chest cavity to
Speaker 1: install this heart pump. It's called Impella five point five.
Speaker 1: The world's smallest heart pump can keep a heart going
Speaker 1: during critical moments of heart failure or cardiogenic shock. Twenty
Speaker 1: one year old Katrina Penny, for example, born with congenital
Speaker 1: heart defects, but the transplant she got when she was
Speaker 1: nineteen also failed. For five weeks, she was using this
Speaker 1: artificial heart pump, again as small as a fountain pen,
Speaker 1: to keep the failed heart pumping while a second heart
Speaker 1: transplant was secured. She said, it did save my life.
Speaker 1: It's very useful. According to one of the doctors, it's
Speaker 1: very useful in the sense that it can actually be
Speaker 1: implantable without cracking open the chest, and they're very excited.
Speaker 1: Doctors referred to this as a game changer. The pump
Speaker 1: component on the impella only consists of the very tip
Speaker 1: of this thing, so it's the size of about a fingertip,
Speaker 1: which of course makes the whole thing seem pretty futuristic.
Speaker 1: And then we talked I talked earlier about this whole
Speaker 1: bird flu thing and price of chickens, you know, is
Speaker 1: going to be going up, Eggs is already up.
Speaker 2: What do we do?
Speaker 1: Is there a way to get our chicken without you know,
Speaker 1: actual chicken? And here's a new development. Lab grown chicken
Speaker 1: meat is now on store shelves in the UK. They
Speaker 1: said it's a the world's first. They said it's an
Speaker 1: innovative product. It's produced without traditional farming, without animal slaughter obviously,
Speaker 1: and they say it tastes exactly like chicken. But it's
Speaker 1: not currently available. It's only a limited addition, a limited location.
Speaker 2: I should say. It's called chick Bites.
Speaker 1: The product was recently introduced as at a Pets at
Speaker 1: Home store in London. Plant based ingredients cultivated chicken grown
Speaker 1: in a laboratory setting. Here's how they do it. They
Speaker 1: take a single egg.
Speaker 2: One egg.
Speaker 1: Meatly Is, the company that's behind this thing, emphasizes the
Speaker 1: health benefits of their product. It contains all the essential
Speaker 1: amino acids, the fatty acids, the vitamins and minerals found
Speaker 1: in traditional chicken, without the environmental impact or ethical concerns.
Speaker 1: One of the CEOs, or Thus CEO, said, just two
Speaker 1: years ago it felt like a moonshot, and to today
Speaker 1: we take off with a giant leap forward toward a
Speaker 1: significant market for which meat is healthy, sustainable and kind
Speaker 1: to our planet. Europe has approached this old lab grown
Speaker 1: meat with some caution, but other nations have shown greater
Speaker 1: enthusiasm for this. The first fully cultivated hamburger was developed
Speaker 1: almost eleven years twelve years ago, and since then an
Speaker 1: Israeli company has pioneered by opening multiple lab to fork restaurants,
Speaker 1: which sounds disgusting offering consumers. They said, the first hand
Speaker 1: experience of this innovative food solution.
Speaker 2: Ooh, not ready for lab grown meats. Not ready for it.
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