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