WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:02.960 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:07.240 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.880 What else is going on? Time for What's happening? 5 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:11.240 Wow? 6 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:20.000 Well, it appears confirmation that it was broken power lines 7 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:23.719 that caused the Maui wildfire. A report found that broken 8 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:26.679 power lines caused that fire from last year last. 9 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:29.160 August, I should say in August ago. 10 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:32.520 The wildfire killed one hundred and two people, destroyed more 11 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:37.479 than twenty two hundred structures about five billion dollars in damages. 12 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:41.039 This three hundred page report was released yesterday. Comes from 13 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:44.600 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which was working 14 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:47.560 with local officials like the County of Maui Department of 15 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:49.960 Fire and Public Safety to figure out the cause. It 16 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.759 was originally blamed on the combination of high winds in 17 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.719 dry weather, but the investigation found that the widespread destruction 18 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:00.600 was caused by a single fire that started by the 19 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:06.920 undetected re energies. Try it again, the undetected re energization 20 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:12.719 energization of broken utility lines that caused sparks that ignited 21 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:19.400 unmaintained vegetation investigation said that there was no definitive conclusion 22 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:22.239 about how the ignition started, but said that the fire 23 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:26.959 cause was accidental. According to the report, they even know 24 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:30.719 exactly where it was. The origin of the fire was 25 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:36.040 the overgrown vegetation at and surrounding utility pole number twenty 26 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:42.280 five off of lah Nah Lahaih Naluna Road. The cause 27 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:45.159 of the fire was the re energization of that line 28 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:48.200 caused sparks to fall at the base of pole twenty 29 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:52.319 five that ignited the unmaintained vegetation below, And in fact 30 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:56.519 they said it was one fire, not two as they 31 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:59.680 originally thought. Dozens more people have been killed in some 32 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:04.000 new Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon and Gaza, as some other 33 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:06.480 nations have ramped up their plans to get people out 34 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:10.319 of Lebanon. At least seven health and rescue workers were 35 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:13.159 apparently killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building 36 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:16.240 in Beirut overnight, the second air strike to hit Central 37 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:18.080 Bay Route this week and the second to hit the 38 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.520 Health Society in twenty four hours. The AP said there 39 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:25.319 was no Israeli warning issued to that area before the strike, 40 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:29.479 which is strange because Israel is very well known for 41 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:33.639 warning areas before they do hit residents reported as sulfur 42 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:38.319 like smell, and they now accuse Israel using phosphorus bombs 43 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:40.680 in the strike, which are prohibited by international law for 44 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:46.560 use near civilian populations. The Israeli military has said that, 45 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:50.319 of course, in response to Iran's missile attacks from Tuesday, 46 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:56.639 that they will determine the manner and timing of their response. 47 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.039 There was a report earlier today that suggested that some 48 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:05.360 Israeli officials had been quietly saying to Americans, we've proved 49 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:08.400 our point. We don't need to retaliate for those missile attacks. 50 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:12.159 Former First Lady Malania Trump is going to put out 51 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:14.120 a new memoir. It's coming out in a couple of weeks, 52 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:16.879 as a matter of fact, and she has been making 53 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:20.599 the rounds to pitch the movie, to pitch the book, 54 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.159 and one of the things that's coming out is that 55 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:31.319 she is criticizing restrictions on abortion. Her new memoir, she writes, 56 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:34.560 why should anyone other than the woman herself have the 57 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.000 power to determine what she does with her own body. 58 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:40.000 A woman's fundamental right of individual liberty to her own 59 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:44.199 life grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if 60 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:47.080 she wishes again that would be in the book. The 61 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:49.520 position is at odds with much of the Republican Party. 62 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:53.240 She argues that the decision to terminate a pregnancy would 63 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:55.120 be a decision left between a woman and her doctor 64 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:58.039 and said that that is a common sense approach. She 65 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:01.159 also talked in an interview that I I saw about 66 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:04.680 the divisiveness that she sees in American culture so far 67 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:07.280 in the last couple of years. 68 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:08.479 I should say, I think we. 69 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:11.120 Need to listen to each other. We need to respect 70 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:17.439 our freedom of the speech, because I think that we 71 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:21.600 could have innovation and success in this country. We are 72 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:26.160 canceling people that they don't agree on certain issues. 73 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:32.360 You may be eligible for a gas settlement payment if 74 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:36.800 you purchased gas anytime in Southern California between February of 75 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:41.240 twenty fifteen and November of twenty fifteen. You might want 76 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:43.519 to submit a claim for a payment under the state 77 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:47.920 settlement with gas trading firms for tampering with and manipulating 78 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:55.360 gas prices in the state. And it includes La San Diego, Orange, Riverside, 79 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:59.079 San Bernardino, kerne Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and 80 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.720 or in Aerial County during that time, you can go 81 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:09.240 to Calgas Litigation dot Com. State Assembly also proved a 82 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.000 bill just this week, backed by Governor Newsom, aimed at 83 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.319 preventing gas prices from spiking, particularly in late summer months 84 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:19.079 when the demand for that gas goes up. Southern California 85 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:23.399 customers of Ticketmaster have reported fraudulent transfers of concert tickets 86 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:26.600 to unknown accounts. A woman in San Diego, for example, 87 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:29.480 says the tickets that she bought through Ticketmaster for an 88 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:33.560 upcoming concert were fraudulently transferred to someone that she doesn't 89 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.319 even know. It's happened before, to a lot of different places. 90 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:39.480 She said, it's not about the money, it's just about 91 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:41.759 missing out on something that we were really excited for. 92 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.399 She was going to go see the band Corn, didn't 93 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:45.480 realize they were still together. 94 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:47.040 She said. 95 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:49.240 She found out the alleged fraud when she received an 96 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:51.839 email that her tickets had been transferred to another account, 97 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:57.399 which is crazy because she said that she already booked flights, hotels, 98 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.720 rental cars, all that stuff, along with of course the tickets. 99 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.639 Ticketmaster was the victim of a data breach several months ago, 100 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:07.720 and they said that information from several hundred customers had 101 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:11.600 been linked and it may looks like may have been hers. Okay, Richie, 102 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:13.000 you're gonna have to help me out with this one. 103 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:14.759 If you're a fan of mean Girls, you know the 104 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:17.639 date October third is more fetch than all the three 105 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:20.160 hundred and sixty four other days of the year because 106 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:23.920 it's October third, it is, which means what it means 107 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.160 that it's National Mean Girls Day. So this is a 108 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:30.639 scene where Lindsay asked Jonathan Bennett what day was and 109 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.279 he turned around over the shoulder and said it's October third. 110 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:38.800 And then she says, on October third, he asked me 111 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:39.519 what day it was? 112 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:47.800 Exactly happened National Day, October third, Richie, you are a 113 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:51.240 font of cultural knowledge and I appreciate that anytime. 114 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.600 The best part is he explained the same story to 115 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:57.160 Steve and Michelle Good that I'm not the only one. 116 00:06:57.480 --> 00:06:59.959 Yeah, check out the video I have on my instigra 117 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:04.560 story It's October third, Okay, and then it'll and they'll 118 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:05.680 again exactly. 119 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:11.600 Okay, great, all right, this immunity filing came out today, 120 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:13.920 came out yesterday. I should say, one hundred and sixty 121 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:17.519 five pages from special counsel Jack Smith outlining some of 122 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:22.920 the details of former President Trump's desperate efforts to overturn 123 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:25.560 the twenty twenty election loss and joining us to talk 124 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:28.839 more about this is ABC's legal analyst, Royal Oaks and 125 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:32.800 Royal Let's begin with the basic description of this one 126 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:37.360 hundred and sixty five page document. This was a requirement 127 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:43.560 that Jack Smith spell out some of the allegations against 128 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:46.160 him as a direct result of what we saw the 129 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:49.319 Supreme Court rule when it came to presidential immunity. 130 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:53.399 Exactly right. This is part of the January sixth election 131 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:56.240 interference case. Carse she need a scorecard to keep track 132 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:57.800 of all the cases. But it's one of the four 133 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:02.120 criminal cases against Trump, this one pending in Washington, DC. So, 134 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:05.199 in response to the case months and months ago, Donald 135 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:07.800 Trump foiled in motion to dismiss saying, hey, if president 136 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:10.920 is immune from prosecution, so get out of my face. 137 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.040 The trial court judge said, nice, try Donald, but there's 138 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:17.279 no immunity. The Court of Appeals said, nice, try, Donald, 139 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:20.279 no immunity. But then the US Supreme Court, as you know, 140 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.160 took up the case and in July, Supreme Court said, actually, 141 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:27.720 there is some immunity if a president is performing his 142 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:32.279 official constitutional duties. So the High Court sent it back 143 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.320 to the trial court for the judge there to sort 144 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:38.720 out which allegations against Trump were official duties and which 145 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.679 were just personal things. So to create two buckets and 146 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:44.840 you put all the thirty allegations against Trump, you know, 147 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:48.200 ten of them personal, twenty official whatever. That is the 148 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.360 background of yesterday's filing by Special Counsel Smith. His argument 149 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:55.679 was Donald Trump wasn't doing anything official, he was just 150 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:59.120 trying to overturn the election. And so yeah, now we're 151 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:00.919 going to hear Donald trump side of the story. 152 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.840 Why was this made public? Was that the judge's discretion. 153 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:09.840 Yeah, something like this, where you have sensitive material that 154 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:13.960 involves an investigations by the Department of Justice, it normally 155 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:17.360 is sealed, and it was. But then the defense or 156 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.200 the prosecution said, hey, your you know, acquiring minds, you 157 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:22.279 want to know, why don't we just reveal this. This 158 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:26.600 isn't too sensitive, and the judge recently said, yeah, let's 159 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.919 reveal it. And of course that led to some criticism because, 160 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:32.120 as you know, there's this sort of informal it's an 161 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:34.399 unwritten rule, but it's a sixty day rule. This is 162 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:37.600 the Department of Justice shall not do anything that might 163 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:40.759 interfere with an election. So you know, you're not supposed 164 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:43.000 to indict people within a couple of months of an election. 165 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:47.000 You're not supposed to take big investigative steps. So you 166 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:49.960 could argue this violates the rule, but it's a little squishy. 167 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:51.799 First of all, it's just an unwritten rule, and also 168 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.559 it doesn't really necessarily apply to stuff that goes on 169 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:58.639 after an indictment. Of course, here Trump was indicted long ago. 170 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:01.919 So yeah, there's contra he as to whether the unsealing 171 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:06.440 of this thirty four days over the election was brazenly political, 172 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:08.879 but you know, both sides will have their take on that. 173 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:11.759 We're talking with ABC's legal analyst Royal Oaks about this 174 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:15.480 new filing in the January sixth case against former President Trump. 175 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:19.519 Was there anything in here that you saw that surprised 176 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:22.720 you or was different than what we've already known about 177 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:23.200 this case. 178 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:27.679 Well, it sounds more inflammatory than what we knew before. 179 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:30.240 For example, it was a helicopter flight with Trump and 180 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.200 his family after the election, and an Oval Office aid 181 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:36.759 overheard Trump saying to his family, it doesn't matter if 182 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:38.919 you want or lost the election, You'll still have to 183 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:42.559 fight like hell. So Jacksmith points that out to show that, 184 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:44.960 you know, this isn't his official duties. He's just trying 185 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:48.279 to desperately claim to power. Plus, there was an aid 186 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:52.720 that told Donald Trump, hey, Vice President Mike Pence is 187 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:55.759 in peril with the rioting on Capitol Hill is escalated, 188 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:58.759 He's in danger. Allegedly, Donald Trump looked at him and said, 189 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:03.440 so what. So then there was a Trump's Twitter account 190 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:06.200 who was open and active the entire afternoon on January sixth. 191 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:09.159 People are storming in the Capitol and Trump allegedly did 192 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.120 nothing to try to stop them. So these are some 193 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:15.960 of the things that were in Smith's filing well. For example, 194 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:19.919 also Trump was mocking his own lawyers claims about election traud, 195 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:23.440 calling them crazy. So again, a lot of this sounds familiar, 196 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:26.440 sounds like what we heard before. But Smith is really 197 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:30.039 doing this in order to convince this judge to put 198 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:33.919 all this stuff in the personal bucket, not the official bucket. 199 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:36.480 And of course, as you know, Gary, it was controversial 200 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:38.840 for Chief Justice Roberts. He really kind of rammed this 201 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.600 through the court. He wrote the opinion. He was concerned 202 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:45.360 about the weaponization of the legal system, having biased prosecutors 203 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:48.320 and judges go after politicians, and a lot of people 204 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:51.559 are concerned about that. But in response, he carved out 205 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:54.159 this new immunity that we'd never seen before. So he 206 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:57.120 created a rule that a lot of people criticize. For example, 207 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:00.279 an official act in the constitution, you're totally immune if 208 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:03.159 you do an official act. Well, official act is pardoning 209 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:07.159 somebody or appointing an ambassador. What if you appoint an 210 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:10.799 ambassador or pardon somebody based on a bribe, Well, according 211 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:14.960 to Robert's opinion, you can't be prosecuted. Well, the answer is, well, 212 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:17.720 you could be impeached, or maybe we change the constitution 213 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:20.519 to say if you partner somebody based on a bribe, 214 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:23.080 then the partner is null and void. But it's a 215 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:26.360 messy situation when you try to carve out immunity for 216 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.000 something that most people would hear about and say that's 217 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:31.159 really bad. Maybe it should be a crime. 218 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:34.240 Does this thing ever go into a courtroom? 219 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:39.120 Well, in the time, and of course is so important, 220 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:42.200 and as you know, you followed this carefully. Four criminal 221 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:46.200 cases filed way back in the early twenty twenty three, 222 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:50.159 middle of twenty twenty only the Stormy Daniels one went 223 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:53.200 to trial. The others who'd just gotten bollocked up. The 224 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:55.840 judge in Florida dismissed it. So the bottom line is 225 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.639 that if Trump wins, of course the case, we'll keep 226 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.320 going until January twenty, at which point he will say 227 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:04.399 in his inaugural address, thanks for coming. By the way, 228 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.440 I'm dismissing those cases against me, and I'm barding myself 229 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:09.840 and all my friends. Now let's get into the you know, 230 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:12.440 ask not for what you can do through your country 231 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.720 and so on. If he loses, it's going to be 232 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:18.559 full steam ahead. You can bet that President Kamala Harris 233 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:21.200 is going to give her blessing to Jack Smith to 234 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:24.840 keep going full steam ahead, to try to pursue Donald 235 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:27.279 Trumbunnelly in the Washington DC case, but try to get 236 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:30.000 the appellate court to reinstate the Mano Lago case down 237 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:32.679 in Florida, which is, you know, the judge dumped because 238 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:34.759 she said Jack Smith was illegally appointed. 239 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:40.039 Right, all right, Well, I can't wait to go through 240 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:42.720 the other one hundred and five pages that I haven't 241 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:45.320 yet finished, So Royal, thank you appreciate it. 242 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:47.679 You bet, thanks Royal Oaks. 243 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:51.519 There, ABC News legal analysts, we come back Strange science. Oh, 244 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:53.440 and a couple more follow ups to the people who 245 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:56.720 have been tracking their own partners using their phones. 246 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:00.720 We were talking earlier. Oh, Jacob, this is half for 247 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.720 you and half for me. I think, hey, carry I 248 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:06.399 happen to love your bumper music. Thank you. 249 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:08.559 Maybe that's why the wife left. 250 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:11.480 You, because you have no taste in music. Have a 251 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:15.679 good day bye. I feel like there's some mixed signals 252 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:16.000 in there. 253 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:16.799 I don't know. 254 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.000 I think that's all you. You think that's just for me. 255 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:20.840 Remember you choose all the bumper music. 256 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:22.919 Ah, that is true. I do choose all the bumper 257 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:26.440 music every single day. And that's why my wife left me, apparently. 258 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:32.120 So we were discussing earlier about the dilemma maybe between 259 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:35.039 some couples about whether or not you want to track 260 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:38.240 each other's geographic location using your phone. 261 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:41.120 And you're talking about tracking your partners. We have been 262 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:45.120 together twenty four years and we finally decided to spend 263 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:47.639 some money on some iPhones. I asked my wife, whould 264 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:49.639 you like to track me? She started laughing at me 265 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:52.559 the day she said, the day I turned on her tracker, 266 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:53.519 she's going to divorce me. 267 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:57.960 My nephew put a checker on my sister's phone so 268 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:02.120 you would know when she was coming home, so he 269 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.679 and his girlfriend could stop doing whatever they are doing. 270 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:10.320 Love the show, Like, alright, Gary, I'm not tracking my wife. 271 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:15.919 I'm tracking my wife's phone in case it gets stolen again. 272 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:17.919 Have a great day, goodbye. 273 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:21.600 I tracked myself to make sure that I'm on work 274 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:24.399 on time and at home on time. 275 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:26.639 I can know where I'm at at all the time. 276 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:31.240 It's very good. It's Thursday, and it's time for strange science. 277 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:40.279 Strange it's like weird science, but strange. 278 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:49.600 So in the natural world, there is something called diapause. 279 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:54.919 I think I'm saying that correctly. It's a biological tenacity, 280 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:59.759 ingenuity that's necessary for survival. It's not exclusive to to 281 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.960 the story of all of our life, all of life, 282 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.159 I should say, on our planet. But some individual species, 283 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:10.200 even individual organisms, have some adaptations that would allow them 284 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:16.080 to continue their genetic lineage despite natural hardships that occur. 285 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:20.759 Diapause is one way that that's described, and scientists would 286 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:26.000 tell you an example of it the delaying of pregnancy. 287 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:32.639 For example, sometimes creatures can delay a pregnancy until the 288 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:36.480 conditions are the best they can be to carry something 289 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:39.399 to full term and actually birthen offspring. So a fertilized 290 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:44.080 embryo would actually temporarily hold off implanting in the wall 291 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:46.720 of an animal's uterus until the conditions are just right. 292 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:51.120 And again that's called diapause, basically slowing down biological processes 293 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:56.399 until the conditions are better or best. A lot of 294 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:00.360 mammals can do this, and according to a new that 295 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:04.400 was published in the journal Cell, humans might be able 296 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:07.119 to do that with a little bit of help. Also, 297 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:09.599 according to this press release that came out, they said 298 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:14.079 human stem cells and stem cell based blastocyst models called 299 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:20.359 blastoids might be the key to that pause button. They 300 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:25.519 said if researchers inhibited a series of chemical reactions known 301 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:30.039 as the m tore signaling pathway, the stem cells and 302 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.279 blastoids would then go into a state with that was 303 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:37.000 extremely similar to diapause, and it would even would even 304 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:40.400 only work within a certain phase of development, just like 305 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:44.440 that diapause does. On top of it all, everything is reversible. 306 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:50.079 So if they were able to block those chemical reactions, 307 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:53.680 in there, the stem cells and blastoids go into diapause, 308 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:57.680 but once that pathway is uninhibited, they take it away. 309 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:02.039 Everything goes back to no normal and development proceeds as 310 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:05.400 if nothing had ever happened. So, according to this test, 311 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:09.319 human pregnancies could even enter that diapause like state if 312 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:14.519 it's properly introduced induced. I should say the potential could 313 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:16.839 be a vestige of the evolutionary process that we no 314 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.960 longer make use of. But they're talking about the potential 315 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:24.720 serious benefits. Could you imagine obviously reproductive health treatments IVF. 316 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:28.880 But on the other hand, could you could work on 317 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:32.759 different ways of healing specific parts of the body, overcoming 318 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:36.200 disease in different parts of the body simply by turning 319 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:40.759 off the ongoing mechanism. Just stop in the little pendulum 320 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:42.759 that goes on the Grandfather clock before you want to 321 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:47.680 start it again. Scientists have also, after a decade, been 322 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:53.400 unable to unveil a fly brain in stunning detail. Now previously, 323 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:57.720 a worm brain with just three hundred and eighty five 324 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:01.920 neurons was the only adult animal to have its brain 325 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:05.960 entirely reconstructed mapped out via computer. Three hundred and eighty 326 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:10.200 five neurons. A fruit fly brain has one hundred and 327 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:15.319 forty thousand neurons, and a human brain has about eighty 328 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:17.400 six billion, so we got a ways to go for 329 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:19.440 that one. But in this case, they say they have 330 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:26.000 mapped out the nervous system and brain of Drosophola mel gaster, which, 331 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:29.000 if you remember from science class, is the common fruit fly. 332 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:33.279 They started this more than ten years ago, and what 333 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:36.680 they did was they dunked the brain about the size 334 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.480 of a poppy seed by the way of an adult fly, 335 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:42.440 in a chemical bath, and it hardens it into a block. 336 00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:46.839 And then they shave very very very thin layers of 337 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:50.160 that block and use a microscope to take pictures of it. 338 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:53.000 They shave another layer, they take a new picture, They 339 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:55.759 shave another layer, they take a new picture. They did 340 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:00.000 seven thousand sections of this brain, again about the size 341 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:03.440 of a poppy seed, seven thousand sections of it, came 342 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:07.640 up with twenty one million pictures, and then developed software 343 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.920 to interpret the images and recognize the cross sections of 344 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:13.799 neurons in each picture and then stack them into three 345 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:17.680 D shapes of cells. So they now have a three 346 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:21.599 D version specifically of that fly, of course, but of 347 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:25.160 one hundred and forty thousand neurons that are packed together 348 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:28.920 by more than four hundred and ninety feet of wiring, 349 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:33.920 all within that tiny little flies head out in space. 350 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:37.039 Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, but there are 351 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:39.519 others in our Solar System. And now they're saying that 352 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:45.440 Series appears to be rich in water because it has 353 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:53.000 plenty of ice. For years, Series confounded experts because it 354 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:55.480 had this cratered surface, and they said these pits were 355 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:59.599 too deep and too rigid to exist on a water world. 356 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:02.400 They think they may not be a contradiction after all, 357 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:06.880 because if they account for are a key ingredient, mud, 358 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:10.799 lots and lots of mud. And again Series happens to 359 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:14.240 be out in the main asteroid belt, although they call 360 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:17.119 it a dwarf planet and not an asteroid. They said 361 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:19.960 the previous thinking was that dwarf planets were icy, the 362 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:23.359 craters would deform easily like glaciers that flow on Earth 363 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:26.799 like gooey honey. But they said, in fact that this 364 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:29.640 thing is loaded with ice, as much as ninety percent 365 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:33.400 of it. Then they tested different crust scenarios and found 366 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:35.559 out that the dirty ice could keep the crust from 367 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:39.119 flowing over billions of years, and that it would gradually 368 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:43.400 get muddier with less frozen at lower depths. So we're 369 00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:46.400 in the middle of strange science and we're talking about 370 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:50.640 what's going on with the world of science. But first 371 00:21:50.680 --> 00:21:52.960 I want to get into this. I mentioned the toilet 372 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:55.839 paper shortages that have been rumored in certain places and 373 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:59.079 why they don't make any sense. We produce toilet paper 374 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:01.720 in the United States, the vast majority of it, so 375 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:04.000 it doesn't have to be shipped in so it's not 376 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:05.359 affected by the port striker. 377 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:08.759 Hey, Gary, I'm a warehouse broker out in the Inland Empire. 378 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:12.359 As to this toilet paper thing, there's about six hundred 379 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:16.440 thousand square feet of toilet paper manufacturing facilities in the 380 00:22:16.519 --> 00:22:17.400 Ontario area. 381 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:21.720 Just stop it, guys, Yeah, I agree, just stop it, 382 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:22.599 all right. 383 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:30.440 Some piracy gave Mount Everest a growth spurt recently. There's 384 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:33.640 a tributary of the Kosey River network, the Aurun River 385 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:36.920 flows right near Mount Everest. Thousands of years ago, they 386 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.400 said the theft of the urn led to geological changes 387 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:45.480 that boosted the height of Mount Everest. The thousands of 388 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.119 years ago, this river ate a smaller river and gave 389 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:51.000 an unexpected boost to the height of it. Right now, 390 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:55.079 we know eight eight hundred and forty eight point eighty 391 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:58.880 six meters, that's over twenty nine thousand feet above sea level. 392 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:01.799 Fifty million years ago, a couple of slabs of the 393 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:04.960 earth crusts come together in slow motion. That causes these 394 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:07.839 rocks to rise and we get a twenty nine thousand 395 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:12.480 foot high mountain. Everest is the highest of those mountains 396 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:16.920 by over eight hundred feet. The ancient collision is still 397 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:19.880 lifting the Himalayas, but they said GPS measurements showed that 398 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:23.759 Everest is growing at a rate of about two millimeters 399 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:29.440 per year rather than the expected one millimeter per year, 400 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:33.359 and that they blame about eighty nine thousand years ago 401 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:36.880